The National Banner, Volume 13, Number 39, Ligonier, Noble County, 16 January 1879 — Page 1

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{ ——— . . 5 I STRAUS BROS., ; Transact a general banking business on ! faﬁor,b(e ferms., : 7 Farmers' & Commercial paper disconnted * -at reasonable rates. : Buy and s:ll Real Estate; and all those wishing large or small tracts will do well to see us before purchasing. Negotiable J.oans, from one to five years’ time, secured by first mortgage on improved farms, Agents for first-class Fire and Life Insurance Conwa?i('s v Dealers in S g Grain; Seeds, Wool, &c.

, ‘‘Special Notice to Farmers.’’ i __Grain placed in our pame in L. 8. & M.'S. R. ; | A }t:ntors;h at owner’s risk in case of fire, if ') met mctuilly sold to us, When requested, we will snsaresame in firsteclass Companies. . Ligonier, Ing_l., May 31, 1578.-27-1 y S BANKING HOUSE : i Kl. i : 2 i m A Blee i : SOL.. MIERP A Cenrad’sNew Brick Biock, LIGONIER, IND’NA. ‘Money l‘oa_ned"oh !dn?g_a;d,shorttin;é. o Notes discounted at reasonable rates. , Monies received on depositandintereetallowed on specified time, - B Exchange bought and sold, and Foreign Drafte drawn on principalcities of Europe, ‘B-2 . - TO THE FARMERS: Y_OU will please take notice that I am stillengaged in huying wheat, for which I pay tie r.gighest market price. . A I you do mot find me on the street, call before éenigg, at iny Banking Office, in Conrad’s Brick Blogk.. ! i SOL. MIER. - Ligomnier,lndiana, May 3,1877.—1{f ; - - ”"_—“'—'—V—_——_—_—_—_——_ O, A. LINVILLE, " ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ligonier, : : : ; Indiana, - Ofice with Esq. Banta, over Jacohs & Goldsmith’s .dry goods store. 13-30 e e e D. W. GREER.| 5 ‘B, P. BOTHWELL, - GREEN & BOT]I\VELL, " LIGONIER, : : : INDIANA.® | Office in Landon’s Block, over Scott & Sandrock’s Dryg Store, ; i s . vl3-n3l-tf,

+<SONN L. GALLUP, i ‘Manufacturer of the : ° - I.X.L.Drain Tile ‘And Red, Common and Pressed Brick. Hard wood, Basswood and Poplar Lumber and Dimen--4 > b oston Stuffy | S KEENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. 5 Mill and Yara three miles northeast of the city. Orders promptly filled and satisfaction .gnaranteed. T 18-16-1 y ANDREW JACKSON, - JUSTICE of the PEACK, o Ligonier, ludiana, L Special aftention given Lo collectiond and convey ancing. Office with D. C, Vancamp, over Beazels Harpess shop. : : 13-2° \[o NEY TO LOAN, in smzﬂl or large 4 amounts, on long or short time. God ISAAC E. KNISELY, . Attorney at Law, Ligonier, Indiana.

Br. J. I'. GARD, _Physician and Surgeon. Prompt attentign to calls day and night., Oflice on East-third street, Ligonier Ind . I‘2 . .C. VANCAM P, o ATFTORNEY AT LAW, ¢ : Ligomnier, 3 : : Indiana, Special attention given o collectionsand-convey-ancing, and the writing of deeds, mortgages, anc contracts. Legal business promptly attended to. «Diffice over Beazel’s Harness establisbmeut. 9-5( . ALBERT BANTA, . Justiceof the Peace & Conveyancer. LIGONIER, INDIANA, : Specialattention giyen toconveyancin andcol: sections. Deeds, Bonds and Mortgages gﬁ-nwn up and all legal business attended to prompily and accurately. - . May 156187315-8-8 ~ 5 | . WAKEMAN, nsuranceAq't &Justice of the Peace . - KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. =~ Ofice with A. A. Chapin, Mitchell Block. wind ~ receive subscriptions to Tue NATIONAL BANNER., _ i) &, W. CARR, ; Physician and Surgeon, LIGONIER, - - “iml Sl (END, Willpromptlyatiend d 1) callg intrustedtohim, Oftice and residence on 4th Street,

J. M. TEAL, * | ! ' DENRE L ST, Rooms over L. E. Pike’s Grocery, mCom’er of Main und Mitchell Streets, : opposise the Post Offlce, Kendall{ville, Ind. GPXH work warranted. <@ { i Kendallville, May 1,1874. : AR LAI 2! 5 84 \))\ LYor THEP PAINLESS BXTRACTION . . "f",‘ | -_§oF__, S\ TEETH = ‘ Lok N |\ I Canty Offce, N> /) Dr. Gants'Offce : 3 Filling Teetha Specialty ' Ligonier, Ind., Nov, 11, 1875, gl

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PHILIP A. CARR,

&x S | AUCTIONEER., Ofershisservices to the publicingeneral, Terms moderate. Ordersmay be left at the shoestoreof ~ Sisjerhen,, % : 1 Jigmier.anurys, "33 ¢ 3 3 ! CONOORD & GATAW;B?A WINE, We keep constantly on hand and sell in large orsmall gutnmm. to suit castomers, ) WinzofOur Own Manufacture, Pure— Nothing but the Juiceof the Graspe. : i 1 _ - BACK BROTHERS, - . Ligonier,July 8 "71.~tf : s SACK BROTHERS Bakers & Grocers, j CavinStreet,Ligonier,lndiay’ ' Fresh Bread, Ples, Cakes,&c. Choiee &gcuuuh, ?&?‘-”?&"}a ’fmut Notions & the ; cash p paia for coun uce, . laﬁi,ms-w g s A ~'-‘ﬂk€g%o'l : ‘B W@9 WA basiness you can engagein. 5§ B Bs Q B ‘v 320 per day made by m;g‘ T :«*r J?'. ree. 111 roye you bl "“?:’”E;:% # W»ﬂ:j;wf i “’{,‘(;9‘,*\ e :'&M"i‘ i e A ; ;uﬁ.ﬁ‘@m%{ o B Ary grder.Ont: = B s L ey RERRRRE e Rt

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'LIGONIER, NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA, THUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1879.

. DO WE WELL TO MOURN? Yes, grieve! it can be no oﬂ’ence.lﬁ; Him Who made us sengitive our loss to know; e The hand that takes the cup filled to the brim May well with trembling make it overflow. Who sends us sorrow means it shou'd be felt ; ‘Who gaye us téars would surely have them shed; And metal that the ‘‘furnace” doth not melt, May yet be hardened all the more ingtead. Where love abounded will the gr#ef abound? To check our grief is but to chide our love; With withered leaves the more bestrewed the . ground, : o The fuller that_the rose hath ploomed above! lj'gs, grieve! ’tis nature’s—that is, God’s—behest, If what is nature called is will divine: Who fain wonld grieve not cannot krow how 7 blest j It is to sorrow, and yet not repine. ;

- Caught in His Own Toils, The ringing sound that came from a blackened smithy told that the steel was smithening steel. The smith who swung the ponderons hammer was a man of no common musele. t He was young and remarﬁably handsome; but there was an evil'}urking in his cold black eyes which ‘wo’d have repulsed the close observer. The light of his forge fire rendered ghostly the objects in the remote corners of the shop; byt it fell brightly upon the strange-looking piece of steel he was hammering. : It resembled the jaws of some immense trap, strong enough to hold a bear, aud the wonder was that the strength. of man could prepare it for its Frey. e e If any man in Middletown could control such a trap, it was the man \ﬂxose hands were fashioning it. - For a long time David Thrall had been working of nights, with his shop barred to visitors, and the clang—clang—clang of his hammer had sounded in the furthest corner of the growing village. . . " He was a man of strong passions, the first to resent an insult to afriend, and the last to give up an argument when ‘he found sound logic against him. s

No person had bothered him while he swung the hammer over the terrible steel trap which he was manufacturing. . i It is true that a few boys looked in at the window at the inauguration of the work, but his maddening thfeats against them had kept the prying urehins away. : e “I told her that sheshould never laugh at my love and live to boast: of it to andéther man!” David Thrall said aloud, one night as he paused to wipe great drops of perspiration from his brow. . “She laughed then, and told memot to let anger get the better of me, and thought perhaps 1 would forget it. Forget? Never!” and the hammer came down wrathfully upon the glowing steely: i “I am making this trap because you rejected my love, Agnes Temple. But ‘it shall not tear your pretty skin. No, no! I would not injure one of your golden hairs; but I am going to teach vou that there is one in Middletown whose heart cannot -bs trifled with at all.” D Thus he talked to hiniself, while he stcod over his anvil and swung his hammer, whose every blow told on his horrible mechanism, _ahd hurried it towards completion. That night he finished it. - .- i : : IHe Hheld it in the light of his coal fire, and pronounced it perfect; smiled/upon it with pride, showed that he had strength enbugh to master its jaws. G _

- “Now, my boys, we’ll try it.” David Thrall put his trap into a sack, smothered the ﬁrq, and left .the smithy. He walked rapidly to the outskirts of the village seen by no one, for the night was dark and the wind high. g It was in the autumn of the year, and the yellow leaves of the trees fell around him in golden showers. But he did not notice them:any more than to brush an occasional one from his beard, begrimed like his face with the soot of his shop. : - He did not come to a halt antil he reached the iron track that ran over the road he was traversing. Middletown had not been honored by the steam cars. which, asif to taunt the place, left it half a mile to the west. i

David Thrall threw his burden down, and a sigh of relief escaped him. Then he struck a match and looked &t his wateh. ‘o : “He passes about nine,” he muttered. “The passenger goes by at 10, then the lightening express.” : He spoke with a fiendishness almost foreign to the human heart and sat to work fastening the strong chain attached to his infernal trap to the rails. - . He had’ evidently studied his. part of his infernal work, for he performed it in the darkness and then he took a good long rest. DBut the end was not yet. ; A ’ Throwing himself upon the spring, he set the trap, and the terrible jaws were ready to close upon their vietim. The wind threw leaves upon the trap, as if intent on aiding the jealous blacksmith, and as the clouds scurried westward, he saw the star gleams fall upon the leaves that covered it. It was a pictnresque place which Dayid Thrall had thus selected for the deed upon which he had set his heart, : ; ; v The road was narrow—indeed not more than a path—that led to Middletown, and the home of Miss Agnes Temple. - ‘ ¥ £ :

He knew the man he hated would traverse it before dawn, and he knew too that his trap-would hold him te the iron track. . : : It was a revenge almost too terrible to be recorded. : ! “There!” exclaimed the smithy, as he stepped away a pace, and triumphantly surveyed the result of his even- ’ ing’s toil in the sooty shop, “now let the prey come! The trap is ready. I wish you a pleasant time of it, John \&j‘ngfold'. To.be plain, I should like toknow how a man would feel between twe such jaws.” e Then he picked up the sack and started back to Middletown. But he h(a;d not gone ten yards before he halted., ¢ L : “The trap might have been set a little easier,” he said to himself. “It has not been worked much and the easier it is set, the surer I ghall be of my prey.” e “ - Intent upon readjusting the devilish invention, t.%g ‘blacksmith letraced his steps, and for the second time in that lonely and beautiful spot he bent over the cross ties. SR . Te placed Lis knee upon the spring %ﬁpmﬂéwfhe Jjaws from closing and, e ?%m i ﬁ;ﬁgz mi:tar while he tamjpered'with the trigger. . mgie% im@%mmmoum work, Mﬁ%&mm&" e e

when, from some unaccountable cause, his knee slipped from the spring, and —oh, horror! the mighty jaws closed on his wrists!

With a cry,indescribably full of agony, the entrapped man tried to spring to his-feet, but the trap, fastened as it was to the iron rails, held him securely down. , . The sharp teeth seemed to cut into the marroew of his bones, and he was experiencing the horror of a human being caught in a trap. 5 He tried to crush the spring, but it would not yield to the power which he had lately owned, and then he tried to tear himself loose. . e But the pain occasioned by its efforts was so great that he was forced to desist lest he should faint, and in that condition would be caught by the train. Pl % ¢ “If 1t had egught my leg,” he cried, “I could tear it loose, but oh! these precious arms of mine.” -~ - It was a terrible moment for the entrapped man. e * . All at once, in that bour of terror, he thought of the man for whom he had prepared the jaws of unyielding steel. He would doubtless reach the crossing and release him before the train was.due, for John Wingford was not a vengeful rival. = : All thoughts of revenge against the beautiful Agnés Temple had left his mind; he looked up at the stars, and they seemed to mock his misery; he cried for help from the terror-stricken depths of his heart. But no footsteps sounded upon his ears. ' -Heaven and man seemed to have left the hater to his fate. Suddenly David Thrall started, and a cry of despair welled from his throat. ‘

The shriek of the engine told him that the one dread hour of his captivity had passed away, and the end of all was near at hand. ~

“Heaven. have mercy!” he cried. “Do not unto me as I have done unto another!” & s But no deliverance came, and the sound of the whistle died away avith a mocking echo. : Within five minutes the iron monster would be upon him, and the most terrible drama ever enacted in that lovely country would have reached its tragie finale. He heard the roar. of the train, which, seemed to approach on the very wings of the wind. He raved, he eursed, and tried to wrench his: wrists from the jaws of steel, and tried to break them off, and bear life and bleeding stumps away, but. in vain. With the tenacity of death itself the trap held him tightly down. ‘The engine shrieked again, and David Thrall paused and looked over his shoulder. ' . He saw the head-light now ; it dazed his eyes, and he could not shade the precious orbs with his hands. Then he shrieked at the top of his voice; but the cars came on, ; “No deliverance! Oh, heaven!” he exelaimied, sinking in the few seconds he had yet to live., “I have merited this. What a terrible thing retribution is! He will be happy and she will smile upon him with all her Gazd zling beauty. But I—-I--oh, heaven pity me! Chained to the track—caught in the trap made by my own hands for a fellow being. = It is just. Heaven forgive me, and comfort my poor-— | - Lniie

Therumbling of the train had scarcely died away in the di4tance when John Wingford; returding from the home of Miss Agnes Temple crossed the track. : .

He stepped where the instrument of death had been placed, and passed on without neticing its handiwork. If he had but glanced down he might have seen the two battered steel jaws, clasped now upon the lifeless hands, only, of his rival, David Thrall, the blacksmith. The remains were discovered on the following day, and the presence of the trap told the awful story. - David Thrall’s widowed mother soon followed him to the grave. ! The little smithy still stands in Middletown, and the superstitious say that at night- David Thrall can be heard .beating steel before his sooty forge. o : John Wingford is a happy husband and father now, but he never thinks of that one night’s walk without a feeling of thankfulness as well as of horror.

bt il A Why 1t Pays to Read. One’s physical frame—his body, his muscles, his feet, his hands—is only a living-machine. It is the mind, controlling and directing that machine, that gives it power and efficacy. The. successful use of the body depends: wholly upon the mind—upon its abil- . ity to direct the will. If one ties his arm in a sling, it becomes weak, and finally powerless. Keep it in active exercise, and it acquires vigor and strength; "and is disciplined te use this strength as desired; just as one’s mind, by active exercise in thinking, reasoning, planning, studying, observing, acquires viger, strength, power of concentration and direction. " Plainly, then, the man who exercises his mind in reading and thinking, gives it increased power and efliciency, and greater ability to direct the‘ efforts of his physical frame—his work—to better resuits than he-can who merely or mainly uses his muscles. If a man reads a book or paper, even one he knows to be erroneous, it helps him by the effort to combat the errors. The combat invigorates his mind. S

Of ail men, the farmer -the cultivator, needs te read more to strengthen his reasoning powers, so that they may help out and make more effective, more profitable, his hard toil. There can be no doubt that the farmer who supplies himself with the most reading—the most of other men’s thoughts and experienees—-will in the end, if not at once, be the most stccessful. “" Lo Lt > DM Valuable and Timely Advice. : The following sound advice frem that popular sporting journal, Forest and . Stream, is Particularly yaluable at this time, and it is printed for the benefit of careless gunners and amateur sportsmen: “Don’t poin{ your gun at yourself, Don’t point it at any one else. Don’t carry your gun so that its. range includes all your hunting companions, Don’t try to find out ‘whether your gun is loaded or not by shutting one eye and looking down the barrel with the other, . Don’t use your gun for a walking stick. Den’t climb over a-fence and pull your gun through with the muzzle foremost: Don’t throw yotur gun into a hoat so that the trigger will catch in the seat and the charge will be deposited i,n your stomach. Don’t be a fool, Dont. gouforges il . - o 0

! Tilden and the Presidency. : 2 LaPorte Argus. : Montgomery Blair has recently written a letter in ‘'which he claims that Tilden is decidedly the strongest candidate that the democratie party can run for President in 1880. He thinks ‘the defeat of the Demecrats at the November elections was largely attributable to the attempt made by so many men of the party to throw Tilden overi board. There is no doubt that Mr. Tilden is a very able man and the greatest political organizer in the democratic party, and there is equally as little doubt that he is a political reformer ‘Whose rule would be a blessing to the entire nation. Toseethat he is great1y feared by the Republicans it is only necessary to note their united and per/ sistent efforts to prejudice the country against him, and they resort to every possible species of lying to accomplish their ends. They realize that with every possible effort they could .make, he beat them in 1876, and it is wofnatural that they should dread another trial with him. Many Democrats are dissatisfied becausethey have a vague idea that Mr. Tilden ought to | have done something to get possession ~of the office after he was fairly elected, ' but what he could have done to accompiish the desired end none of the faultfinders have been able to designate. It is now pretty generally known that if Mr. Tilden had “asserted himself,” as -many Democrats insist that he should have done, it would have made a bad matter worse. It should be remembered that the managing Republicans had clearly entered into a deliberate eonspiracy to thwart the will of the people and place Hayes in the Presidential chair. Grant had assembled a considerable force of the army in Washington, and undoubtedly would have used it to carry into effect the déetermination of the President of the Senate to count Hayes in. ITad Mr. Tilden * asserted himself” he would have been arrested on the charge of treason, his followers would have been falsely placed in the light of ‘traitors, conspiring against the authorized gov-’ ernment, and the whole power of the government would have been arrayed against them. It probably would have resulted in general anarchy and bloodshed, with Grant as Dictator. In view of the overwhelming probability of these events, we think Mr. Tilden is entitled to much credit for not “asserting himself.” But all these facts have given him a strong hold on the hearts of all honest, patriotic and fair minded people. No man of average intelligence can doubt that Mr. Tilden was fairly elected President and that he was cheated out of the office. Theinnate desire to see justice prevail, would within itself, make Tilden a powerful candidate in 1880, and unless the cipher dispatches have seriously and unjustly injured him, he probably would poll more votes than any other man in the party. There are not a few of the very best and wisest men of the democratic party who believe the ticket in 1880 should be Tilden & Hendrjcks: they believe the contest should be fought over again, that justice may prevail. The Argus has a persotial preference for Governor Hen dricks for President, but it does not blind us to the fact that Mr. Tilden is eminently worthy of the highest respect and consideration at the hands of the party. It certainly is not the part of -wisdom for any Democrat to tall readily into the abuse of Mr. Tilden because he happens to prefer some other man as a candidate for President. This is too frequently the case with Democrats. The monopoly of abusing good and able Democrats should be enjoyed exclusively by Republicans. .

- Death of Caleb Cushing. Caleb Cushing, one of the most distinguished of American politicians, jurists and scholars, died at his home in Newburyport, Mass., on the night of the 2d inst., aged 79 years. He was a graduate of Harvard, and a Cambridgeé law studenf.. He served his native State, Massachusetts, from 1826 to 1829 ; was in congress for four terms, from 1835 .to 1843, acting with the Whigs until 1841, when he Tylerized. In 1843, Tyler appointed him Secretary of the Treasury but he was not confirmed. +ln 1844 he went to China and negotiated the first treaty with that country. He served in the Mexican war as Colonel and Brigadier General. During. that war he was run as the democratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, but was defeated. In 1852 he was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of his State, and served in Pierce’s Cabinet as AttorneyGeneral. During-a part ot Grant’s administration he was Minister to Spain. His last public work was in connection with the Geneva award.

A Righteous Decision. South Bend Tribune, ‘ The man who drives and so manages that whoever is behind him cannot either drive as fast as they wish or go arotnd him may be interested‘ in knowing that such actions make him amenable to the law. Just such a case came up in lowa recently and the eourt decided that drivers are under legal obligations to treat people’ decently whe desire to pass them on the public road. A Mr. Norris tho’t to play smart with Mr. Boles, an able lawyer of Waterloo. Boles was behind Norris, but, desiring to go faster, undertook to goby. Norristhen whipped up and prevented it, but when Boles fell in behind slacked his speed, to Boles’ hindrance and’ annoyance.— Boles sued for damages and won his case. e

. Prof. Knapp’s Terrible Prediction. East Florida Banner, _ In fact that so, many fish are dying off the coast of Flerdia call to mind the awful prediction of Prof, Knapp. From the juxtaposition of certain planets to our earth, he predicts that one half of the population of the world, including man and all kinds of animals, and even vegetable life, will perish before or during the year 1880, In a;lecture delivered several years ago, he said that this desolation wo’d commence by the fishes of the sea dying, and pestilence and famine occurring in more Southern latitudes. The famine in China, and the yellow fever scourge in the South, and now the fearful pestilence among the fishes inSouthern waters, are so many stepsin fulfilment of Prof. Knapp’s prophesies,

} el e — ‘ Death of Hon. Morton M’Michael. PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 6.—~Hen. Morton M’Michael, senior editor of the North American, and ex-mayor of this city, died to.day of heart disease after a brief illness. e 4 e The most, plgﬁsantand prompt cough remedy is Dr. Marshall’s Lang Syrup. “Children ery for it. Call on yousdeu gist and tey u bottle of it; pfice only 25 cents. §oxgw 1l draggists,

Liabilities of Partners After DissoluP tion of a Firm, - e (SUPREME COURT DECISION.) ' Carlos Dickson et. al. vs. the Indiai napolis Cotton Manufacturing Cempa- - ny. Marion Superior Court. Reversed. Worden, J.—The Indianapolis Cotton Manufacturing Company sued the appellants for goods gold and delivered. In the third paragraph of their answer appellants set upa contract, -alleging that the plaintiff agreed to give the defendants, who signed the contract, the exclusive sale for five years of the warps manufactured by the plaintiff, for the sale of which the defendants were to receive commissions, deductions from prices, ete.; that the defendants’ were to use due diligence in making sales, and were to pay for all-warps furnished them during any month within sixty-ve days from the 15th day of the succeeding month, and represent the plaintiff as her agent for the sale of warps, etc.— Defendants allege a breach of contract on the part of plaintiff, and claim damages. To this paragraph of answer plaintiff replied that after the execution of said written agreement the “said firm of Dickson & Ce., composed of the defendants, ceased to exist, and 8o defendants abandoned the said- contract. ~The defendants ' demurred to this paragraph of reply, and the demurrer was overruled. ‘ . Held, The contract executed by the defendants, as partners, became the joint contract of all the defendants.— (37 Ind., 264.) They were jointly - bound, to the same extent as if they had each signed the contract in their '}ndividual name. The fact the deendants were partners was of no special importance in any aspect of the case, except that they might sign the contract in the firm name, by one of the members of the firm. The continuance or discontinuance of the partnership between the defenﬂants, did not affect in any way their obligations to the plaintiff, or the plaintiff’s obligations to them. The cessation.of the partnership, therefore, was mnot an abandonment of the contract on che part of the defendants, nor did it authorize the plaintiff to treat the contract as rescinded. (6° Hurl. and N, 537; Parsons on Part., 394; Coll. on Part.; 6 Ed., by Wood, 804, 546; 1 Hoff,, 524, 528.) '

The court erred in overruling the demurrer to the reply. Judgment reversed, ;

e A Clean Newspaper. Bostoa Herald. There is a growing feeling in every healthy community against journals which make it their special object to minister to a perverted taste by seeking out and serving up in a seductive form disgusting and licentious revelations. There is reason to believe that the clean newspaper is more highly prized to-day than it was'four or five years ago. It is also safe to predict that as people in all ranks of life, who protect their own at least from contamination become more conscious of the pernicious influence of a certain class of journals, called enterprising because they are ambitious to serve up dirty scandals, they will be careful to see thatithe journals they permit to be read in the family circle are of the class that never forget the proprigties of life. Already men and women of refinement and healthy inorals have had their attention called to the pernicious influence of bad literature, and have made commendable efforts to counteract the same by causing sound literature to be published and sold at popular prices. These efforts are working a silent but sure revolution. The best authors are more generally read to-day than at any previous date. The sickly sentimental story paper, and the wild ranger and pirate story book are slowly but sure yielding the field to worthier claimants. To the praise of the decent newspaper, it may be said that where it has a place in the family and has been read for years by young as well as old, it has developed such a healthy one, and such discriminating taste, that the literature of the slums has no admirers. Fortunately, the number of such families is increasing in the land, and, as they increase, the journal that devotes itself to sickening revelations of immorality will be compelled to find its supporters solely among those classes who practice vice and crime or are ambitious to learn to follow such ways. 5

Mind Your Own Business.

. There are very few people so smart that they can attend to their own business, and at the same time look after other people’s affairs. And yet there are many who attempt such a task.— You can attend to your own business better than somebody else can attend to their own and yours too, if you will only give'it your attention. If you can make your life a success by minding your own affairs with onethird of your time employed in looking affer other people’s, how much more successful you could make it by devoting your whole time to your own concerns. Try it, and see how it works. Let Bob Jones do any reekless thing he may see proper to do, but heed him not until he gouges square info your own -business. If Pete takes to inveterate smoking and extravagant ways, that’s his business. If John puts on style and struts and parts his hair'in the middle and wears fine clothes and a tube-rose, why just let him. If it does Sarah Jane any good to “put on the agony” and drag nineteen yards of dress goeds in the dust, keep your eye on your own business, and let heralone. Ifsheisable to pay for her style, that’s her business, not yours. llf her father (or husband) isn’t able to keep up such extravagance, that’s his business. If Samantha wants to flirt, er walk, or talk with the fellow with a waxed mustache, bless her, it is her born right, and your talking about it don’t help the matter one bit. Don’t always be putting “this and that togeth--er” to assist your imaginationin guessing at something. 1f you will just keep a careful eye on your own business, and give it proper jattention, you won’t have much time to. look after outside affairs. Jf you have no business to look after, make it a business to let other people’s business alome. ' Feels Young Again.

“My mother was afflicted a long time with Neuralgia and a dull, heavy, inactive condition ef the whole system; ‘headache, nervous prostration, and was almest hepeless. No physician or medicines did me any good, Three months ago she began to use Hop Bitters, with such good effect that ghe seems and feels go_u% again, although over 70 years old. ,Wethink there is ‘ne..other medicine fit to e#ne in the family”—Axlady, Providence, Rhode 2 Iﬁ!ﬂnd‘ : 3?‘ . 4 37‘ wal v’)

~.An Allegory. L A great king, desiring to teach his son a practical lesson, ordered a long table to be prepared in one of the galleries of his palace, set out with all manner of toys, fruits and other things which he thought would please the little boy. Taking him to a‘door at one end of the room, he said to him: “My son, pass down this hall, and whatever you are pleased with you may take for your ‘own on one condition—youn are nof:.to turn back. When you have made your decision go out at the other door, and bring me what you have chosen.” . e

Joyfully the little boy started, enchanted with the prospect; he ate and drank, and gathered his hands and his arms full of treasures, and -presently tiring of what he had, he threw them away to make room.for some more glittering toy whicu attracted his attention farther on, but. which when secured somehow did not please nor satisfy him as much as he had expected, and he was constantly looking back regretfully to what he had left behind, or he saw semething still farther on which he thought more desirable. | - Now, instead of being happy in hay-ing-his choice of all these good things, the little boy grew irritable and dissatisfied. At length he appeared before the king with 8 sorrowful countenance, and in his hands were a few broken toys. “l}s this all, my son, that you have brought me out of the infinite variety from whieh you had’to chcose?” *“Yes, father,” sobbed the weeping boy, “that which pleased me first seemed so poor and inferior, when I had them to that which 1 saw farther on, that I could not be content, and always hoping to secure something to please me better, I could not make my choice, and now these are all I have. Obh, if 1 might go back once more!” “Not so, my son,” said the king, “that cannot be; but let this lesson sink deep in your heart. - As you go through life, enjoy each day’ all there is in it of pleasure and happiness; do not look back with vain regrets, nor live in anticipation of future joys oblivious of those which are within your reach. I.eteachday bring you its measure of comfort and cheer. The present is all you are ever sure of ; by wisely improving it your memories of the past will be pleasant and your future happiness will be assured.”

State Teachers’ Association, The Indiana State Teachers’ Asso‘ciation, whieh met at Fort Wayne on December 31, adjourned Friday night, January 3. Friday’s exercises were all of interest. A resolution: to memorialize the Legislature to appoint a commission of three to investigate the question of spelling.reform was defeated. Resolutions were adopted in~ dorsing the present schopl system as the bes§ that could be devised, and deprecating any experiments with. it; urging the maintenance of the public library in each school corporation, and advising all educators to devote more attention to educational matters. The most important were the following: “How can public schools in all theit grades best be made the means of culture for pupils?” by Superintendent George P. Brown, of Toledo. “How .can country schools be graded to the best advantage of the pupils?” by J. C. McPherson, of Richmend; and “To what extent can industrial technology be. taught in our schools?” by President White, of Purdue University.— The election of officers resulted as follows: President, J. T. Merrill, of Lafayette; Vice-Presidents, D. T. Delly, of Evansville; Miss Laura Agan, of Rosetown; T. J. Caldwell, of Seymour; Professor Dunde, of North Vernon; W. A. Ireland, of Burnettsville; Miss Jessie Stitt, of Wabash; Professor W. F. Yocum, of Fort Wayne; executive committee, I, B. Jacobs, of New Albany; T. R. Hull, of Cambridge City; T. N. Study, .of Anderson; Professor. Tarbell, of Indianapolis; S. S.Parr, of Terre Haute; E. E. Smith, of Lafayette; F. D. Crain, of Lagrange; Secretary, Miss Annie Lemon. :

A Difference in Men.

A writer, evidently a close observer of human nature, gives the following picture of the right sort of man: That man who is scrupulously polite and respectful to all women in public, but habitually saves coarse manners and vulgar language for his wife and daughters, is ;no gentleman. He -is only an imposter, The young man who oils his hair, puts sweet odors on his pocket handkerchief, and bows with charming elegance to Miss Arabella Spriggins and her lady friends, and goes home to sneer at his mother, disobey her wishes, and treat her with familiar discourtesy, isonly a pinchback imitation of the real gentleman. Genuine good manners and gentle breeding should begin at home. Asa rule the men in a community who are the most trusted are.the best men-at home. When a man opens his front gate, only to meet hig wife’s face at the door, radiant with pieasure, and hears the sheut from the eager children, “Papa is ecoming,” it is safe, as a rule, to lend that man money. He is honest and will repay if hecan. @ .

Re-Apportionment Demanded. : - [Rochester Sentinel.] £t A few papers are advocating a poliey of allowing the tongressional districts of the State to remain as they are until the census of 1880 -is taken. Such a proposition must not be entertained by the Legislature. The main fight in the last campaign was upon the selection of a United States Senator, and a reapportionment of the State tor legislative purposes. The present disgraceful gerrymander must not stand until 1880. - . S

- One Advantage of Resumption. [Cincinnati Enquirer.} ‘ Resumption has its advantages, af-: ter all. ‘The gold dollar will be quietly dropped into the contribution boxon Sundays under the impression that it is a five-cent piece of the .old style,. ‘and, consequently, too small to be paraded in the eyes of the congregation. Thus will the coffers of the church be swelled, while the donors faney they are observing the ecemomy enforced byithe hard times. - ' - e 4 e . {1" % : . ¢ Would it bo Best? . 4 - G [Davicss County Democrat. :g b - The county sehool superifitendents ~of Indiana cost the State $lOO,OOO annually, This is teo mucli. The office should either be abolished and bhgfbjfd, or the salary of superinténdents she'd be feduoed. & .oE e &Ge e e - Don’t Expose the Calves. B xfh w:g Abla RN Yo s M can: walk 5,000 uiles 1n 3,000

- General ltems. it SR . As the body is purified by water 50 - is the soul purigeq by truth. Bl ~ Out of 38 Governors the Democrats now have 24—a majority of 14. Not bad for a “dead party.” © General Sigel is lecturing in some of the western towns and cities. His - subject is the German revolution of A Missouri man dreamed that money was hidden in a certain place in éhe country. He dug and found some $9,008.7 - ‘ i

~ Gov. Wade Hampton is gradually recovering his health and will beable to take his seat in the next session of Congress as Senator from South Carolina. 2 ;

This year ought tobe a very healthy one, if-all the signs don’t fail. We had a very white Christmas and New Years.. Health and prosperity seems . to be in prospeet. =~ ', . Boonesboro, Ky., men say that the best twenty-acre field of corn raised this year in the State was on the land cleared 110 years ago by Daniel Boone. It averaged more than a barrel to the shoek. ‘

A woman got drunk while cooking at Portsmouth, Va,, and fell head foremost into a tub of water near the stove. Her head was drowned and the remainder of her body burned to death, her clothes taking fire, - :

.- The business failures in Great Britain and Secotland during 1878 were 15,059, of which 2,634 were in financial and wholesaleand manufacturingbranches of trade. The inerease is 4.037 failures last year over the preceding year. & : The cold weather has extended far down into the south, the thermometer, at Jacksonville falling to 30; at New Orleans, to 29; at Memphis, to 16,and at Vicksburg, to 22. The yellow fever killer is doing a good work down there. - ot

" The Irish people have shown good sense in not going'wild and crazy at the fact of General Grant visiting their country. The citizens of Cork; the other day, refused to give him the freedom of the city, and treated him like any other traveler. v ‘

An American egg preserving company has been established at Shanghai for some time. = The object is to preserve eggs in such a manner that they ‘will be useful for cooking at any time and in any climate. The business is entirely export, chiefly to England. .On Monday of last week commenced the biggest Sheriff Sale ever held in Philadelphia, the sales filling -fortyeight columns of the daily Record.— Most of these sales were for taxes. That’s what the loyal city of Philadel-. phia is coming to under radical rule.

Maine pays her women teachers smaller salaries than any other of the States. They receive only $17.04 a month, against $35.45 of the. male teachers. Most of the Soufhern States give male and female teachers exactly the same salaries, as do also all the Indiana schools in the different territories. it : : ik

Miss: Susan King, of Harlem, recently saw the following advertisement in a country newspaper: “How to get rich—araresecret. Send twen-ty-five cents to George Fullerton, box 413, Portland, Me.” She forwarded ' the money, and received the following reply: ' “Work like the devil and never spend a cent.” . A druggist“in Norwich, Conn., seld - brandy prescribed by a physician for the purpose of saving the lives of two child®n poisoned by aconite. 'Now the story is that the ultra-temperance men of Norwich intend to-prosecute the druggist for selling liquor without license. Some might call this fanatical, but that would be rather a mild word for it. - ‘ _Cornelius J, Vanderbilt has filed a petition in the Surrogate’s Court at New York, charging his brother William H., with indulging’ in wild and ruinous speculations in which he has already lost 'seVeﬁl millions, and that he is in a fair way to leose about eighteen milliens more. Those who are in a condition to know something of the disposition of William H., are not inclined to belieye that he is that | kind of a chap. s

- An-Ohio believer in modern miracles' made preparations te cut off his | right hand, being convinced that, in - | answer to his-prayers, a new one ‘' would grow in its place—a hand that | would be holy and all-powerful to heal the sick. He had censtructed a machine like a guillotine to perform the amputation, and was| taken into custody on the morning of the day that he had appointed for the act. He ought to be permittell to try the experiment on his head. : _

What Might Have Been. : * Bryan Democrat. ¢ '~ Why could not the government have received legal-tenders for customs-du-ties ten years ago as well as now-? Why could not bendholders have received greenbacks in payment; of in‘terest on their bonds ten years ago as well as. now? Are depreciated real estate, silent factories, enforced idle- . ness and ‘innumerable bankruptcies and business failures essentials to the establishiment of confidence in the redeemable qualities of “irredeemable shinplasters;” and are the people any ‘better prepared, because of theirde: . preciated farms, silent factories and business bankruptcies, to pay the national debt than they were ten years ‘ago, when money was plenty, trade thriving and produce and labor in active demand ? Has the national debt decreased in the same ratio with the . depreciation of lands and labor ?—on the contrary is it not true that the burden of debt is greater because of the great depreciation of lands and ]abor. Gold, silver and greenbacks, now at par, have.appreciatéd.in proportion W" business and lab6Fhaye de‘preciated—the rich have become Fieb= -erand the poor become poorer. Had ‘the manipulators of governmental financial affairs honestly endeavored - ‘to conserve the interests of the people by receiving and paying out legal- - tenders at par ten years ago and sines.: as they have since resy financial disastersy tration, thab ' ‘ ‘not have 1

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