Ligonier Banner., Volume 23, Number 50, Ligonier, Noble County, 28 March 1889 — Page 2

THE RING MY MOTHER WORE. . Jtis not set with precious gem, ° ; ‘ Tis but a quaint and simple thing, ; . ¥Yet more than jeweled diadem " Iprize this dear old-fashioned ring. . - She laid it in my trembling hand i And bade me wear it evermore; There's magic in its narrow band, : ‘The wedding ring my mother wore. *'ﬁwo names in letters old and dim, ' ' That time and use have wornaway, A graven on its narrow rim, PR - 'The records of a vanished day. ‘ Those names are writ on marble now, i The parted twain have met once more, “This ring records each solemn vow—- | The wedding ring my mother wore. : Dear patient.ha.nd that lies at rest! Dear ring that binds my soul to her! Be this my future holy quest. To see in it God’s messenger, ' My passport to the city fair, - When this fantastic scene is o'er. Dear emblem of our circle there, The wedding ring my mother wore. ~«Mrs. M. L. Pavne, in Detroit Free Press, - et ey » B , SIR PIGGY. Wotwithstanding His Lowly Sta- . tion He Has a History. ©arious Facts and Fancies About the Humble Porker—The Important Figure ; ‘He Cuts in Legendary and His- ’ | toric Tradition, ; We hear much in folk-lore and mythology about the dog, the horse, the cat .and the bull, but the despised and unromantic pig also comes in for a share in the curious notions current among ancients and modern folk. -

It almost caused a war in Caledonia, where Meleager surrendered to the fair Atalante the head and hide of the immense boar killed by him—a . deed which cost him his lite at the hands of the jealous chieftains. Another boar, the| Erymanthian, became celebrated from its capture, having been one of the tasks of Hercules. In fact, the pig was evidently in great esteem in Greece and Rome, being thought as fit food for the gods. The boar was sacred to Artewmis, the serv to Gaea and Demeter. In Egypt, however, the pig was always dia‘bolical. On the monuments he is never figured except in company with the goul in its final boat-voyage to the shadowy land. The.boar was honored by being selected as the form in which Brahma appeared on earth in one of his ten Avators. This latter word, it is said, means ‘‘out of the boar,”’ and the boar is, moreover, said by Faber to represent Noah and the Ark. In the Welsh Triads there is a wonderful story of the son of Dallueir, named Heueven, which burrowed through Wales, leaving here a hen, there seed, here a pig, there a stand of bees. Here again mythologists tell us the ship is meant and' the pig, is therefore fully installed as an ancient mariner. In our day he crosses the wide ocean, but mostly in bulk. _ '

~ In the North of Europe the pig has -also a place in mythology and legendary lore. Freyr, the great god of peace and plenty, rode in a chariot drawn by Gullin Bursti, a boar whose ‘‘shining bristles’ lighted up his way, and until recently a ‘hog of propitiation” ,was frequently offert!d to Freyr on Christ‘mas Eve, being finally replaced by a -cake in the form of a pig. Part of this was pulverized and mixed with the seed-grain, whicli was then fed to the horses and even to the plowman, to insure a good crop. In Denmark roast pork was usually eaten for dinner on Christmas.

An old legend says the hog Saehrimnir is boiled erery day in Valhaela to feed the heroes, but he comes to life again each evening, ready for the sacrifice. . ;

Tacitus says the Estigi, a German

tribe, worshiped the boar. The Slavs are said also to have adored a porcine » deity. The Chinese name one of the ~ signs of the zodiac after the pig. : But the animal is in other localities in great disfavor. The Jews and Mohammedans, as is well known, abhor ‘the flpsh of the unclean animal. There are other religious . gects that follow their example. The wise Sir Thomas Browne tells us this dislike is all owing “ to the fact that thehog is an emblem of ~ impurity. Folk lore gives a more fanciful reason. A German tradition relates that a band of Jews approached Jesus one day to test His powers. One of their number was put under a tub, ~ and Christ was to guess what was there. He said it was a pig. The Jews langhed at Him, but was astonished when, upon lifting the tub, a pig

ran out and joined a herd near by. . From that time they will not touch | pork, for fear of devouring their friend and associate. T

~ The boar was in ancient Germany a diabolical animal. People still call the whirlwind sauzagl (sow’s tail). In ‘a folk-lore tale the devil appears as a grunting sow. Freyr's hog is recalled by one made by Broch, a dwarf, out of gold, that could travel faster than any horse by day or night, by sea or land, and whose bristles shone like fire. Welsh traditions assert that fairies have herds of swine that have been seen to spring into the air and fly about. In other accounts, these uncanny folk appear as swine. When Jesus cast the devil out of “the demoniac, he is said to have en“tered into a herd of swine, that forthwith ran into the sea, where ¢Old Nick” still abides, but he must have freed the swine from their watery im‘prisonment: When the foreleg of a pig is carefully shaved a small hole and six smmll rings are seen in the leg. ‘Tradition says the rings were made by Satan’s claws when he entered the - herd of swine, and the hole was the “means of his exit from their bodies. -

The well-known sacrifice of the boar .at the Christmas feast is but the survival of the ancient Scandinavian sac‘rifice to Freyr at Yule tide. In Sweden one of the dancers in the Christmas mummeries puts-a wisp of straw in his {‘'mouth to represent the porker thus 1 Jilled of yore. - - s by - Pigs werealso sacrificed in Germany. JAn ordinance of 1589 required every “farmer 10 bring a hog to the count of “the manor as a sacrifice, a white one ~being preferred. There is an old tradi- [ tion in Grimsby, Eng., that each eiti“zen who claimed his free rights must “lgm Mayor each year aboar’s manor kept a number of these animals it s s ot

the churchyard as an offering to death. The phantom ceach, seen in many places in England, is sometimes drawn by six black boars. 4 ; In Denmark the specter of a sow, called the ‘‘grawve sow,”’ is frequently seen, and always some disaster fol« lows. Iln Thuringia it is said that any one who abstains from food on Christe mas Eve until supper time will see a young golden pig—an omen of good fortune.

" In the middle ages, the boar hunter was esteemed a 8 a rare sport of chivalry, and the destruction of a wild boar was accounted abrave deed. There are many traditions concerning such knightly achievements. One of thae Lords of Cheturde in Buckinghamshire, Eng., killed a wild boar which devastated the country, and was granted therefor a yearly tax on all cattle found within his manor from October 30 to November 7. The Poland boar traditionally haunted the north of England. It slew several knights, but was finally killed by a Polander. The Gordons had the boar as a cognizance on their coat of arms, one of their ancestors having slain a celebrated one in 1098. Guillame Compte de la Mardrey was nicknamed ‘The Boar of Ardennes,”’ because he was as furious as the animal he delighted to hunt. Richard lIL of, England was called the boar, because his arms were illuminated with that animal as a cognizance. Gray sings of him: ,

The bristled boar In infant gore Wallows beneath the thorny shade.

The same monarch was popularly called the Hog, and a couplet ran thus: The Cat, the Rat, and Lovell the Dog, | Rule all England under the Hog. Catesby was the cat, and Ratcliffe the rat. There are other curious stories about the pig and sundry superstitions connected with it. There is a popnlar superstition current in parts of Germany, Great Britian, and in our own country, that pigs should be killed at full moon. When this is done the meat swells in the pot; otherwise, if killed during the waning moon, it will shrink, and is; therefore, unsound. : Omens are frequently drawn from this most unimpressionable animal. It was long ago considered an unfortunate thing if a sow should cross in front of any one setting forth on a journey. Grose, an old English writer, says some accident is sure to befall unless you kept the animal from crossing until you had passed. A sow and a litter of pigs was, however, a good omen. It is in Scotland thought unlucky to meet a sow the first thing in the morning. In Germany, if you meet a pig when setting out, you will be unwelcome wherever you are going, and it is also a bad omen to meet a herd of swine. Hollanders also dislike to meet a pig while out walking. Fishermen in many parts of England, Scotland and Ireland abhor the pig. To meet one is so unlucky that they will frequently return for the day. A pig was secretly home introduced into a fishing boat, but was immediately thrown overboard when discovered. It must not even be named when out fishing. : In Brandenburg, if, when a pig is killed, the splecn is found to be turned over, itis said to foretell a death in the family that year. It is said in North Germany that if a single man will, on Walpurgis night, ride on a broomstick to the stable, knock three times, and then go the pigsty and listen until a pig grunts, he may know whether he" will marry a young or old wife, according to the age of the first grunter. e _Hogs are also weather-wise. Two English sayings are recorded as signs of coming storm: : ~ “How restless are the snorting swine,

- Their litter is not tossed by sows' unclean." In the ¢Husbandman’s Practice” (1864) we are told: ‘‘When swine carry bottles of hay or straw to hide them, rain is at hand.” Our. own games say the same, when the pigs hide in the straw. In other places it is said to be a sign of cold weather when they are seen to pile and store straws, leaves, etc., and especially fortells a cold winter when seen in the fall. In Texas, a “norther’” is expected when they go about with sticks in their mouths. :

Another old work, “The Cabinet of Nature’’ (1657) tells us: “When hogs run grunting home, a storm inpends.’’ Cold is in this country predicted when they are uneasy and huddled together. 1f they rub the side of the pen in win- ‘ ter a thaw is coming. Some farmers say the winter will be colder during the first months if the forward end of a pig’s melt is the thickest, but if the other end is thickest the final months will bring the most cold. In Westphalia, pigs are thought to see the wind coming. ‘ - There are & number of sayings connected with pigs, some of which are well known, others more or less ob—‘ gcure. A ‘“‘hog in armor” is really Hodge in armor. ‘Please the pigs,” is please pigu (Anglo-Saxon for the Vir- ( gin). ‘“You have the wrong sow by the ear'’'is said to the pickler or ‘‘souser’’ when he takes the ear of the wrong sow or tub.. ‘““To buy a pig in a poke’’ is in French “‘acheter chateu poche,”’ the cat being let out of the bag. after the trick. To ¢‘go the whole hog'’ isto go full lengths. ‘‘Some men there are who love not a gaping pig” —-a certain Marshal D’ Albert is said ta have always fainted at the sight of a pig. *“You can’t make a whistle out of a pig’s tail’’ is no longer true. I is sometimes said, if the youngest of two sisters or brothers gets married first, the elder ‘‘will dance in the pig's trough.” To conclude, there is a saying, ‘“the Latins call me ‘porcus,” said in rebuke to a boaster. A fable ‘says that a wolf was about to devour a pig when the latter animal reminded ‘him that it ‘was Friday, and no good Catholic would eat flesh. The wolf ‘acquiesed in this, but as they trotted along said: *‘They.seem to call you t?*’yl:many names.” " *Yes, I am called swine, grunter, hog, and I know not poreus.” Z‘Po us, eh!” said the ol atentionuly mixondersinnding: i gﬁﬁwg{i et i ). T Beles e | —doken about sow ki sacqes ate %‘”ﬂ"“?f%’*f”“?fw“?ﬁﬂx@ e

BLAINE'S BAD RECORD. ' His Appointment to a mgh Office an Impugnment of National Honesty. After Mr. James G. Blaine had been 80 sun-struck as to stop the investiga~ tion of his methods of securing money while Speaker of the House of Representatives, he retired to Augusta, and when an attempt was made to resume the investigation, his physician, Dr. H. H. Hill, telegraphed: “‘What he needs is absolute rest.” ’ To that opinion we hold now. With no malice toward Mr. Blaine, we must tell the truth about him as long as he insists on taking public office for which he is unfit. He needs .absolute rest—and repentance. -~ Mr. Blaine’s record is too long for review here. 1t fills many pages that shame the Amierican people with indisputable evidence of the venality of a man trusted in many high trusts and false to them all. Though we can not review the record in a single article, it is our duty when he is given the helm of a National administration by the party of which he is representative to revert briefly in protest to some of the more salient points of his career. Initially we extract the following from the New York Tribune, in which it appeared editorially on September 28, 1872: :

If Speaker Blaine thinks he has effectually “squelched"”’ the Credit Mobilier scandal by his pompous denial he may find new exercise for his peculiar talents in that direction in the story which we print to-day. In the course of railway litigation, proofs of Mr. Blaine’s opera~ tiors in railway .siocks have come out and are now in possession of lawyers in this city,. We publish as much of this business as Mr. Blaine will find time to attend to at.once. By these documents the Speakeris proved to havereceived 82,500 of assessable stock of the Union Pacific railway, E. D., and 2,000 unass:ssable shares of the same. Why was the Speaker of the Illouse dadbling in this business? Why receiving stock? The entries show that*it was assigned to him, among others, to secure the ratification of the Delaware and Pottawatomie treaties and the passage of a bill in Congress. ' Mr. Blaine’s record in regard to railway matters grows darker as it is examined. He has never yet given any explanation of his conduct in peddling stock in the Fort Smith & Little Rock railroad among his neighbors in Maine. He has now an opportunity to rise to an explanation of his extensive operations in Union Pacific, E. D., stock. It may be nobody's business how he has become a millionaire on a Congressman’s pay, but it is the business of his consiituents and of the country to know how the Speaker of the House of R<presentatives came into this rich railway speculation. £

Why Mr. Blaine was receiving ‘‘33,500 of assessable stock of the Union Pacific railway, E. D., and 2,000 unassessable shares of the same’’ appeared later on in evidence in similar connections, leaving no one room to doubt that he became ‘‘a millionaire on a Congressman’s pay’’ by selling himself —taking bribes, betraying his trust, perjuring himself.

The Blaine whom Harrison has called to the highest office in his gift is the person referred to by the Tribune in the above extract; the person who used his public trust for blackmail; who as Speaker of the House of Representatives torced the Union Pacific and other railroads interested in pending legislation to bribe him by buying from him at high prices the almost valueless securities of the Little Rock and Fort Smith.

It is as a detected thief and as a convicted liar that Mr. Blaine is called to the premiership of the Harrison Administration and of the Republican party. The following is from the testimony of Mr. James Mulligan, confidential secretary, of Mr. Blaine’s friend, Mr. Warren Fisher, Jr.:

Mr. Blaine said if I should publish them they would ruin him forlife;, * * * gnd wanted to know if I would surrender them. Itold him no, and that I would not give them to the committee unless it would turn out it was necessary. Affer my examination here yesterday Mr. Blaine came up to the hotel, and there had a conference with Mr. Adkins, Mr. Fisher and myself. He wanted tosee the letters I had, I declined ‘to let him see them. He prayed and almost went on his knees—l would say on his knees—and implored me to think of his six children and his wife, and that if the committee should get hold of this communication it would sink him immediately and ruin him forever. k& * * T retired to my room and he followed me up, and went over the same history about his family and children, and implored me to give them up to him, and even contemplated suicide. |

On April 16, 1872, Fisher wrote Blaine: | I have placed you in positions where you have received large sums of money without a dollar of expense to you, and you ought not to forget the act on my part. Of all the parties connected with the Little Rock & Fort Smith railroad, no one has been so fortunate as yourself in obtaining money out of it. You obtained subscriptions from your friends in Maine for the building of the Little Rock & Fort Smith railroad. Out of their subscriptions you obtained a large amount both of bonds and money free of cost to you. I have your own figures and know the amounts. Owing to your political position you were able to work off all your bonds at a very high price.

To this Blaine replied on April 18, 1872: : MY DEAR FISHER—I answered yours very hastily last evening as you said you wished an immediate reply. * * * The demand you make on me now is one I am entirely unable to comply with. Ican not doit. Itis notin my power. You say that necessity knows no law. That applies to me as well as to you, and when I have reached the point I am now at, I simply fall back on ‘that law. * * * With very kind regards to Mrs. Fisher, I am yours truly. - )

Was there ever in the world a more pitiable spectacle than of this Plumed Knight of the Highway, when, after consorting with sharpers and co-oper-ating with them in their plans of swindling, he found himself in their ;’)lwer? That under Harrison such a nan should take the place just vacated under Cleveland by a Bayard is a reproach to the civilization of thé United States—an impugnment of the honesty of the American people.—St. Louis Republic. ‘ ;

Wanamaker’s Philanthropy.

Wanamaker is a patriotic protector of American labor, and as aliberal contributor to Republican campaign funds gets a first-class advertisement in the New York World’'s Berlin letter describing the foreign cloak manufactory in which our new Postmaster-General has for years past employed about one hundred and twenty of the pauper girls of Berlin at starvation wages. He pays 60 cents apiece for making cloaks thatsell for $2O in Philadelphia, and between him and the girls there are contractors who ‘‘sweat’’ the wages down so low that the girls can not eke out even the most miserable existence without assistance from their families, or from what they call a “bridegroom.”’ This is the kind of protection tc labor which many American millionaircs are practiging when they preach high wages, just as they preach pure elections while they raise enormous campaign funds for bribers to spend, and then go to church and pray without inquiring what is dons with the ‘monay.—Bt. Louls Post-Dispatch. e S e U e s TR e SR e

~ PROSPERI AND WAR. ' The Unsound Doctrine Preached by a Bombastic Naval Officer. Admiral Porter,| of the American navy, is thirsting| for blood. He is quoted by the Washington Star as saying: : ** We are always prosperous in war.” If this is true, of| course, the more war the more prosperity, and the old Admiral is right in his demand for a war with Germany about Samoa. War means death and destruction; if not of our own men and property, at least of the men and property of Germany. We do notsee how any nation ever can prosper by destroying men and property. ermany conquered France, but she had to pay dearly for it. The North conquered the South, but certainly from 1860 to 1879 wera not prosperous times in any sense. War is destructipn, not prosperity. It destroys the very foundation of prosperity. It distugbs all industry. It interrupts commnierce. It diverts men and money and energy from productive to unproductive employments. War is a costly privilege, or pleasure, or duty, as occasions arise. There are times when only war will settle a dispute, and then war must come, cost what it may. : Admiral Porter| seems to have imbibed the theory of the protectionists that the fewer goods we have the better off we are. Wiealth consists not in scarcity, but in abundance. Secarcity advances prices, ypt it is a sign not of prosperity, but of poverty. If half the wool in the world | were destroyed tomorrow, the price might advance to twice what it is to-day, but the world would be poorer, not richer. To show just how war would o;)er-' ate to interfere with, if not destroy our prosperity, we may quote from the interview with Admiral Porter: ‘ “As the country knows, I have been urging in letters and reports| the importance of building up a powerful navy. We have the wealth and resources to lead|the world in a navy. But, taking matters as thepy are, the Government should go to England and France, both countries being ahead of Germany in modern naval vessels and guns, and buy all the rifled guns we can find and bring|them here. We will very soon make use of them., Here is alist of the entire strength of the German navy. Itis more than we have. but we have the money and eould easily spend $250,000,000 in ships and appliances of war.” - That $250,000,000 represents fully one year’s export/of cotton. We now export it for. the comforts and conveniences of lite; for those things that add to the prosperity of the people; for raw materials to employ our mill hands, etc., etc. That is right and proper. But Admiral Porter’s scheme of prosperity would force us to exchange it for guns and ships of war and force us to do without other things. These guns and ships would not add any thing to the wealth of America by destrpying the property of Germany. When America has to go to war, she will prosecute it with Sherman’s idea that ‘‘war is hell;”’ so it is. Admiral Porter’s idea, that war is prosperity, is a delusion, fit only for consideration by the Ways and Means Committee of the next Republican "Congress. | It is contrary to human reason and to universal experience, but it accords entirely with the theory of political economy upon which the Republican party is acting. —Louisville Courier-J ournas

CURRENT, COMMENTS. ——The Buffalp Courier is responsible for the following: ¢‘ln religion Wanamaker is a Presbyterian, but in politics he is a Quayker.”” ——DBlaine to Harrison: ¢I accept this trust, with the understanding, you know, that trusts are largely private affairs.”’ —Buffalo Courier. : ——<“Whenever there exists a struggle for freer government and for man’s enfranchisement there will be found the aid dßnd sympathy of the people of the United States.”’—Grover Cleveland to the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. ——When Abraham Lincoln was struggling with the office-seekers Artemus Ward g)ﬁered to take his “Great Moral Show” to the White House and turn| the anaconda loose. General Ha,rriso%m would give any thing just now for the| presence of the genial Artemus. -‘—Atlaita Constitution. ——A new trust has been formed. The manufacturers of ¢ Binder Twine”’ have combined, and propose to tax farmers all that the traffic will bear. Well, the farmers voted at the recent election thjt taxation was a blessing, and they have no right to complain at the increase of their blessings.—Chicago Leader. i ——We do not believe in protection as it is practiced by the Republican party of to-day, but it is an infinitely less mischievous thing at its worst than the narrow, greedy, hypocritical Southern policy which Chandler and men of his stamp would wish to make the chief end of Republicanism.—N. Y. Times. : ——Mrs. Platt, who is a skillful amateur photographer, has several pictures of her husband, the ex-Sena-tor, taken by the instantaneous process. One of them shows him throwing stones from his garden walk into a wheelbarrow.| It is apprehended in. some quarters |[that a picture to be taken about three years hence may show him throwing stones into President Harrison’s| back yard.—Chicago ;,Trlbune. 4 . ——Ex-President Cleveland may be i?s-ure that he carries with him into private life an earnest assurance of public respect for the honesty of his pur)‘poses, for the patriotism of his impulses and for the cleanliness of his administration. It would be unjust in this hour to depy that his record as President has been courageous, self- | respecting and possessed of a%nm* beyond the level of his party. Hail and dnrewell to you, Mr. Cleveland. —Ehik adelphia Press|(Rep.). | ——Mr. Albert G. Porter, ex-Gov-‘ornor of Tndiana, has beon appointed. Minister of the United States to Italy. The job is rather &mms"%%ﬁ 3w byt 24 b et i who thought | himself an avallable | candidate fo ﬁ%géﬁ“@%w bt e B 0 S SRR R S a m’?"‘?«s%@%%g"@g s bbb s Bl

STATE NEWS ITEMS. - Legislative Proceedings. - CornuMBUS, March. 15.—-SENATE.—BiIIs pass--8d: Authorizing the State Board of Agriculture to issue bonds to the amount of $50,000 to pay indebtedness of the Centennial Commission; to protect travelers on streets and highways beneath rairoad bridges; authorizing township trustees to take charge of abandoned church property; requiring railroad companies to pay one dollar per mile into the State treasory; authorizing boards of education to furnish school books free or at cost; prescribing a mode of procedure against habitual criminals. Bills introduced: Allowing guardians to distribute funds arising from sale of real estate in the same line of descent; placing the public works of the State in the hands of the entire board. . HOUSE.—The following bills were passed: Providing that when streets are closed nd unused for twenty-one years, the use of the same for public purposes is barred in cities of twenty thousand inhabitants; changing the time for holding election for the State Board of Equalization from October to November; authorizing the printing of additional copies of the report of the Gettysburg Memorial Association; tocompel railroad companies to keep their right-of-way free from all combustible material, and to use diligence in preoventing fires. Mr. Hartpence’s bill regulating the practices of medicine and surgery was lost on passage. Mr. McGregor’s bill to provide for separate schools for colored children was lost on passage. A bill authorizing the Commissioner of Brown County to constructa turnpike, was passed. A number of local bills were passed. CoLuMBUS, March 16.—SENATE.—Not,.in session.

HOUSE.—Bills introduced: Amending the lien’ act so as to include machinery belonging to the construction of a building; allowing appeals in road cases to be carried to probate courts; providing for filing chattel mortgages; regulating the sale of narcotics; allowing quail to be killed until December 31; providing that school orders shall draw interest; increasing peddlers’ license; prohibiting the printing of obscene pictures. ; COLUMBUS, March 18. —SENATE.—Mr. Alexander introduced a bill making it a two-years’ penitentiary offense and a fine of $l,OOO to give any money, property or reward of any kind to influence any person for or against a candidate. The law is also made to apply to delegates, and one-half of the penalty is to be paid to the informer. A number of local bills were introduced, and some passed. : HOUSE.—A scare was given the members Saturday by the announcement that the Speaker would hereafter enforce the law docking every member .§5 per day for the time absent. As a result the first thing when the House went into session this afternoon was to grant leave of absence to several who asked for iton good grounds. A large number of local bills were introduced. ; COLUMBUS, March 19.—SENATE-Bills introduced: Requiring preference to ex-Union soldiers in appointments by the State; prescribing a form of application for civil and other societies for |articles of incorporation; exempting building and loan association shares from taxation; offering a reward for capturing horsethieves. Bills passed: Requiring auditors of Hamilton and Cuyahoga Counties to make reports of semi-annual settlements; for better protection against fire in Cincinnati; requiring boards of education to purchase school books of publishers at cost. HOUSE—BIIIs introduced: Amending the act relative to the appointment of road viewers; concerning the right of dower of the wife of an insane person; increasing the pay of members of the Legislature to $1,5600 per year; providing the manner and time 'of paying unclaimed costs and moneys into the county treasury; closing barber-shops on Sunday. Bill passed: Requiring assessors to have persons listing property for taxation to make oath to the same., A large number of local bills were also passed. COLUMBUS, March 20.—SENATE—BIlls passed: Empowering municipalities to proceed with improvements by giving bond to parties bringing suit to prevent the improvement; to license and regulate the sale of produce from canalboats; requiring the division of precincts having 750 voters. A jointresolution was adopted, authorizing the Canal Commissioners to secure the release of abandoned and neglected water leases along the canal. A number of local bills were passed. Bills introduced: Abolishing the general term of the Superior Court in Cincinnati; exempting Seneca County from the prohibition against filshing with hook and line between May 1 and June 15; substitute for the Australian election . system bill; authorizing Columbus to provide against the obstruction ot highways. HOUSE—BIIIs passed: Dividing Truro, Township, Franklin County, into two election precincts; authorizing Niles, Trumbull County, to levy an additional tax; authorizing Tuscarawas Township, Coshocton County, to transfer funds; authorizing Navarre, Stark County, to transfer funds; to pay liabilities ; authorizing the sale of public lands in Jefferson, Ashtabula County; providing that oleomargarine shall be sold as such, and not palmed off as butter, was passed. Mr. Bramann's bill, to tax the commissions of State, county and township officers, was defeated. :

COLUMBUS, March 21, — SENATE. — Bills passed: Requiring life insurance companies to report dividends to all shareholders; extending the force of liens on buildings -and improvements to the advantage of material and laboring men; providing for the return of released cordvicts to the counties where convicted; providing for taxation of telegraph and express companies;: increasing the number of Judges of the Supreme Court to eight; to complete the Cincinnati City Hall. Bills introduced: Making the law to attach property for a debt before due apply in cases of absconding debtors; p;oviding for the removal of railroads from canal property where consent has not been given. House.—Bills passed: Requiring that marshals of hamlets, acting as supervisors, shall be paid out of the hamlet fund; relating to the distribution of receipts from ministerial land. Resolution adopted: Proposing an amendment to the constitution providing for single legislative districts. The bill to abollsh the board of aldermen of Cleveland, was lost on passage. The greater part of the afternoon was spent in discussing Mr. Bramm's bill providing for the inspection of beef cattle. A number of local bills were introduced and passed. ;

OrrA B. DoweLi, aged eleven years, fell off a bridge over the Miami river, north of Bellefontaine, striking his head on some saw-logs, receiving injuries from which he died in six hours. :

THE firm of H. J. Reedy & Co., of Cincinnati, has been awarded the contract for an elevator for the public building at Toledo. ) e o

SAMUEL Lurz, of Pickaway County,celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of his birth on the 13th inst. .

MarigETTA will have the electric light in operation in that city within a month or 80, ;i ) Ty ;

A rirTLE daughter of John D. Axline, near Newark, ate a piece of poisoned meat, prepared for the extermination of rats, and died a few minutes afterward. :

AT Springfield, Wm. Green and Richard Hayes, who recently burglarized the Coleman residence, were sentenced to four years in the psnitentiary. ; THE Ohio Legislature will adjourn about the first week in April. WaiLe Will J. Fisher was standing under a gaslight on a street in Lima, a piece of glass fell and struck him in the eys, destroying the sight. :

A BEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD boy named Hartmann accidentally shot himself af ‘Mansfield, while trying to extract empty shells from a revolver with a knife.

Mosserove’s United States Hotel, at Steubenville, was completely gutted by fire the other morning. Loss, $15,060. A YoUNG Men’s Christian Association was organized at Findlay, with nearly four hundred members. Over s4,ooohas been donated by business men of the city to start on. i, v ATt a special election at Bellefontaine, the city voted to go dry by a majority of 183 . ' S A ngw National bank has been organ\ized at Dayton. .o W - Naruran gas is to be piped to ColumVK e . THERE is a small-pox exocitement at Ceflasvitle - T g L 0 ¥ e s G I SR R S S S

QUARTERLY REVIEW. International Sunday-School Lesson fos : March 31, 1889. : [Specially arranged from S. S, Quarterly.] . LEssoN TexT—lsaiah 35:1-10. : GoLDEN TrxTt—The desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.—lsa. 35:1. CENTRAL TrßuTH—Jesus Christ has come to transform this world into the Kingdom of God. QUESTIONS OF THE QUARTER. I. The Book WeStudy—Which bookof the Bible have we been studying this last quarter? Who wrote it? How many chapters has it? Whatelse can you tell about it? 11. The Land—What country was the scene of Christ’s labors? Into what three great divisions was it divided? In which of these three did most of our lessons take place? Name the chief river; the chief lake; the principal cities where Christ worked miracles and taught. : lIL The Forerunner (Less. L)—Give the leading facts about John the Baptist. Where did he preach? How did he prepare the way for Jesus? 5 IV. The Facts of Christ’s Life—Where was Jesus born? When? In what place was most of his early life spent? How long was his ministry? What was his age af the time of our lesson? ’ MiracLEs—How many miracles are described in the lessons of tHis quarter? Why did Jesus work miracles? How would they show His character and His love for men? ‘What miracle was wrought for an Apostle’s family? (Less. II.) Describe the leper’s cure. (Less. III.) How was the paralytic restored? (Less. IV.) Give an account of the demoniac’s salvation. (Less. VI). What woman obtained a great blessing through faith? (Less. VIL) Describe the cure of Bartimeus. (Less. XII.) TeAscHlNGS—What do the miracles teach us about faith? What do they teach us about the character of Christ? Whatis the first recorded parable of Jesus? (Less. V.) What did it teach? What did Jesus teach by means of little children? (Less. X., XI.) REVIEW TEACHING HINTS. - Of all the lessons of the quarter, the review requires more preparation than any other; and this whether the teacher reviews his class, or the superintendent reviews the school as a whole. Negligence in preparation wili simply insure failure. At suitable times let individuals be called on to state in one minute the practical application of each lesson. Select persons with clear voices and minds to do this, so as to help the school by their incisive way of speaking. Of course, they should be spoken to beforehand, so that they may render their parts well. As a rule, the school will be more benefited by a platform review than by class reviews, because many teachers in every school are really not able to rightly handle twelve lessons in the timé allotted. TEMPERANCE. LessoN TExT—Eph. 5:15-21. o

HELPS OVER HARD Praces—l. TrE EvilL (v. 18 Wine, wherein is excess: the nature of all intoxicating drinks is to lead to excess; the appetite for wine increases; it excites all passions, all the bad feelings, and leads to actions which would not otherwise be performed. Riot, dissoluteness, anger, hate, intemperanee, vite, murder, all lie in the bottom of the wine cup. Mark the various evils that come from drinking. Ruin of the body. Destruction of the mind. Weakening of the will. Dulling the moral sense. Poverty. Crime. Injury to others. Hell. ,

11. Tee Cure. Filling the soul with good (vs. 15-21). First. WrrH Wispom (v. 15). Walk cir cumspectly: with accuracy, strictness, looking on every side to see that the right path is taken. Not as fools: who go carelessly through life, running into temptations and dangers, visiting saloons and places of evil, going with bad companions, not intending to go far astray, but just to sail into the edge of the maelstrom of sin, to see how it looks. Such are fools. But as wise: keeping in the right wWly; avoiding temptations; looking carefwlly for the ways that lead to the right ends. e ; SeEcoNDp. WiTH EARNEST ACTIVITY (V. 16). Redeeming the time: redeem means to buy up, to get possession of; time here means opportunity, the right or fitting time. The words therefore mean, improve every opportunity; use your time tothe ‘best advantage; make every opportunity yield its utmost of good. ‘ Because the days are evil: because there are many temptations and dangers, hidden currents, secret pitfalls, enemies on every side. . THIRD. WITH THE STUDY OF GoD’S WORD (v. 17). Understanding . . . the will of the Lord: by studying God’s Word, and His works of nature, and His book of Providence. Learn what the Bible says of intemperance. Write on each scholar’s memory indelibly some of the Scripture warnings against intemperance. : FourTE. WiTHE THE Hory SPIRIT (V. 18). Bible verses about the Holy Spirit and His influences to guard the soul against sin. The soul full of the Holy Spirit is best guarded against temptation to intemperance.

Frrra. WITH THE SPIRIT OF WORSHIP AND RELIGION (vs. 19, 20). Religious life, expressed in religious worship, is one of the greatest of all aids to a temperate life. Let this fill the life before intemperance has a chance to assail it. Social religious life guards against the gocial temptations of strong drink. , ' - Sixre. Wrenx MeevAn Heue. Submitting yoursclyes one te aneother: not seeking to rule, but to help each other. We mustlose our own life in the larger life of the church, the society, the organization. Still it must be in the fear of God, only in those things which are right, Jolning.a temperance society has greaut vanie in keeping us from intemperance. See thateachscholar is a member of some temperance organization.

He who would go Heavenward, or Christward, tan net go with the crowd; for the crowd s not going in that direction. And this is one of the sorest trials of the Christian life. It separates the Chrisian disciple from many a companionship which would otherwise be delightful to him. But the choice must be made between conformity to the world and consecration to Christ.—B. 8. Times. 4 3 *

To MARE assurance of personal salvation essential to faith i 8 contrary to Scripture and to the expezievnoe of God’s people. The Bible speaks of a weak faith. It abounds with consolations intended for the doubting and the desponding. God aecepts those who can only say: “Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.”—Dr. C. Hodge. / ;

LITERARY LITTER; . Mzs. BURNETTE took a week /to decide upon the name ‘‘Fauntleroy’ for her story. A NEw magazine for the blind, in raised Braille type, is about to be started in London. Politics will be excluded, but it will contain literary material of the highest quality. ’ ; TrE young Princess of Wales, Princess Christian and Princess Louise, are frequent contributors: of magazines, but the best literary work, says an English journal, - is done by the Princess Christian. 3 To A correspondent who wrote to Whittier asking lif the words often attributed to him, *ldentify yourself in youth with gome righteous, unpopular cause,” were | quoted correctly, he replied: *1 am not sure whether the quotation is among mywritings, but I fully indorse it. The truth I ' know by my own experience and thal ¢t my early friends. We have all had reason to thanlk God for the privilege of advocating ‘unpopular truth.”” i el S . Itis.a curious faet that no complete edition of Shakespeare’s works has ever been printed and published in any of the | many dialects of Hindustan. This became : khomthbtgmgrmmﬂw& o juence of an ' appeal by the librarian of the Shakespeare. Memonil oy st Hiratordow Ao to the Government of Ind %m oy chensy S g 8 ) e e oty ‘5,'4?-_—'[“' " S s ot *:.\

~ TALK ABOUT PEOPLE. Mrs. ‘HuMPHREY WARD has received ten thousand dollars so far from *‘‘Robert Elsmere.” I e : ' OLivErR WEeNDELL HorMmEs has his walks and his haunts like other men. The book stores and large publishing houses are his resorts, : Pror. ProoTOR'S widow, who will continue her residence in Florida, is to receive a pension of five hundred dollars & year from the British Government. Dr. TANNER, the faster, maintains that the growing use of opium and its compounds frequently produces syncope nowa~ days, which leads to interment before actual death. SENATOR VANCE, of North Carolina, is & profound student of the Bible, and his knowledge of the Scriptures shows itself in his speeches, many phrases of which are in Biblical language. : JAMES RussELL LOWELL says that he receives scores of letters from the younger sons of wealthy and titled Englishmen asking about the avenues of employment in the United States. . GrorGeE KENNAN, the Siberian traveler, is said to be the only known American who ever completely mastered the Russian language, except Caleb Cushing, formerly Minister #o Bt. Petersburg. :

MRrs. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT will erecta monument over the grave of General Francis Marion. The grave is on an old plantation near Charleston. Mrs. Vanderbilt finds she is descended from the Marions.

A KANsAs admirer of Mrs. Harrison has presented her with a magnificent broom, made of (the best straw which Kansas can produce! The handle is covered with straw and silver wire representing maple leaves, flags and the signature of Mrs. Harrison. BrL NYE says the New York World paid ‘him $6,000 the first year of his engagement with it. After that, in lieu of inérease, ha took the profits resulting from the sale of his articles to a newspaper syndicate, and, as he says, is making nearly three times his original salary. ConNarEssMAN W. L. Scorrt, of Erie, Pa.,is worth probakly $15,000,000, but he is one of the least ostentatious men in Congress. His face is sallow and he is rather thin and round-shouldered, with sparse sandy hair. He represents, either as president or director, 22,000 miles of railroad. { THE chair in which President Cleveland ‘has sat for four years is one that he had made to order and paid for himself. It is made of light oak, to mabch the desk made from the timber of the Resolute and sent to the White House by Queen Victoria. Itis a great, wide-spreading, revolving chair, with a seat and back of split cane and a heavy frame tastefully carved. SENATOR ALLISON is a great worker. He retires'early and rises early, eats a simple breakfast, reaches the Capitol long before his colleagues, and pegs away at committee work until noon. He always stays through the session of the Senate and watches every move until adjournment. He then returns to committee work until dinner time. He is systematic in his habits, and is thus enabled to.accomplish a vast amount of work. He takes plenty of exercise and seldem indulges in the dissipations of society. o

THE house which Mr. Blaine has rented for the next four years at Washihgton is thehistorical brick mansion where Philip Barton Key died, and where the assassin Payne tried to kill Secretary. Seward. Belknap lived there in Grant’s time and Mrs. Belknap died there. Ithas been in turn a family residence, a boarding-house, a club house, the social headquarters of two administrations, a Government office and a vacant building shunned by house-hunters on;account of its reputation.

‘A MATRIMONIAL MIXTURE.

Tee wife of Jeremy Taylor, the great English divine, was the natural daughter of Charles 1. v

M. pE Lesseps married, at the age of sixe ty-two, Mlle. de Braga, who was ‘not quite nineteen years of age. MirtoN married unfortunatey, and his wife’s temper was not like that of Mrs. Wesley’s, the wife of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. ° \

- SHAKESPEARE'S marriage to Anne Hathaway was an example of inequality, both in age and intellect. He was eighteen and she twenty-five when they were married. JorN HowaArp, the philanthropist, married, out of gratitude, a lady twenty years his senior. She died in a few years, and he married a gain, this time for love. LApy BEACONSFIELD was thirty years older than Disraeli, but the great Premier did not realize any difference in age, so re=markably suited were they to each other. TEE poet Browning has recently stated the fact that Elizabeth Barrett was six years older than himself at-the time of their marriage, she being forty, he thirty-four years, : ‘

SAMUEL JORNSON at twenty-one married a woman of forty-eight. They lived together twenty-two years, and when she died Johnson refused to be consoled. He never married again. ° - e A MOST unequal marriage which turned out happily was that of Charles, second Duke of Richmond, and Sarah Cadogan, which was a bargain to cancel a gambling debt between their parents, Lady Sarah being a co-heiress. The Duke was eighteen, the brride thirteen. BARONESS BUrRDETT-Coutrs forfeited her interest in Contts’ Bank by marrying Willfam Ashmead Bartlett. He is an American by birth and at the time of his marriage was thirty-one years of age and his bride was sixty-seven, .and the richest woman in the world.

Old Hutch's Secret. |

B. P. Hutchison, better known as Old Hutch, astonished the world by the manner in which he-manipulated the Chicago wheat market—making, ’tis said, theenormous sum of $5,000,000, on his wheat deals, in less than a month. Eccentric; possessed of little education, his success seemed marvelous. 3 ‘His friends and those who know him best were not surprised. : : A prominent resident broker of Chicago, who knows him well, tersely sums up Hutchison inthese words: ‘*“What he knows, he knows well, and that’s Old Hutch’s secret.” e T :

We once heard a prominent stock operator, speaking of Jay Gould, remark: ‘“‘He knew & year ago what the balance of us are just finding out. Gould knows his business thoroughlyand we don’t, else we, too, would be Goulds.”

A noted manufacturer of certain medicinal remedies has achieved a world-wide reputation simply because he possesses a thorough knowledge of his business. Enterprising and progressive, he was not disposed to rest content with the introduction of the only genuine remedy for the prevention and cure of all kidney and liver disorders, the name and character of Warner's Safe Cure being familiarly known in every household throughout the entire civilized world—but he cnncluded to further benefit the world and revive some old-fash-ioned remedies which have, for a period, been lost. : - Re-fliscovered, they are the oldest, the -pewest and the best. ! i . Used when the Pilgrim Fathers landed, they have been much improved upon and are now known as “Warner’s Log Cabin Remedies.” Chief among them being “Log Cabin Sarsaparilla,” tortheblood,‘,ang “Log Cabin Hops and Buchu Remedy,” a tonic ‘sod stomuch remedy, 1 sl G . Old Huteh's secret is worth its miliions of dollars to him, and millions of peopie in the Umtedsmm%vmm&%mmm e now enabled to secure the best of thoss old-time ‘which our grandparents attained and en-. loyed rugged, heaithy old age. | W lﬂﬂ’%ﬁc e o praa st Sadina it Bl AR Y ‘é‘%wfwguzmﬁa 4by plunging themintoapailofwates, = =