Ligonier Banner., Volume 24, Number 15, Ligonier, Noble County, 25 July 1889 — Page 6

A LIFE'S TWILIGHTS.

‘When the lihgering hours were laden With the spoils of a summer day, g And a wreck of light and peauty’ = ! 7 +©n the far horizon lay; , ‘When the sky grew soft with twilight, ~ '

" Ere the stars begin to throng, ~BBhe passed me lightly humming

A snatch of a school day song; And the dream 3 ill moves my fancy. That I dreamed with a heart aglow, As shetripped away to the sunset, To the sunset long ago. :

.AAs lovers part we parted, : . ‘Where the winding paths divide, 3 "When the evening clouds were golden And the dav grew dreamy-eyed, 5 “Her face was bright with blushes, ‘ And her eyes with smiles and tears, While the sunlight falls around us . Like a dream of coming years, -Aind the air seemed hushed with music That whispered soft and low,. -As she tripped away to the sunset, To the sunset long ago.

There's a spot where silent shadows, When the sun is brightest, lie; "Fhere's a grave beneath the maples, ‘"Where the wild winds sink and sigh, - And there I often wander, : With a saddened heart, alone, ; ‘When the dewy night-wind murmurs Of the noisy day that's flown, : And recall the dreams I cherished Ere the world grew dark with woe, When they bore her away to the sunset To the sunset long ago.

' *There are shadows falling ‘round me And the darkness soon will close, For my star is swittly sinking To the night from which it rose, . And I often hear the whispers “Of hovering spirit bands And the weird and airy;music That floats from spirit lands. Yet each dream in my fancy lingers, That I dreamed so long ago, A% I move away to the sunset, * To the sunset’s dying giow. ~J. McArthur, in Detroit ¥ree Press,

TOVING THE DEAD.

“The Queer Experience of a San Francisco Undertaker.

4 Fascinating Occupation—Singular Infatuation of a Young Girl Who Falls in Love With a Corpse.

Qune of the oldest undertakers in San Francisco recently told an Examiner reporter that he would not exchange occupations with any man in the State. gaid he: - :

«I tell you there is a singular fascination in ministering to the.wants of the dead, in placing over them - garlands of flowers, nicely arranging their white faces, and laying their pale Bodies in the last casket.” '

- The old veteran went on portraying the pleasures of his pursuit, and as he gave the details of his weird vocation he grew into an ecstacy not unlike the reveries of ‘an opium-eater. Continuing, the undertaker said: ol “Experience has taught me that familiarity with the dead takes the sting from the grave. My business puts death in a less terrifying Hght ‘than the pictures which the imagin--ation daaws where the actualis seldom witnessed. I have put so many in ‘their last homes that I no longer look :upon death with the old fear. lagree with the man who said: “Tired of the ‘heat and glamour of the day we hear with joy the rustling garments of the night.” I look upon every new face that comes into my quiet sleeping apartments over there as one more lucky traveler who has reached at last his Jjourney’s end. @ S o 4

“Does it not pain you when the body of a life-long friend is brought to your parlors?”’ S

“Q), my boy,” said the veteran, with the grewsome manner of the grave-diggers that prate over Yorick’s | skull in “Hamlet,”’ ‘I see that you do not understand what I have been telling you. Well, it does not surprise ame, for nobody but an undertaker can have any idea of an undertaker's pleasures. Of course, I do not like to Have my friends suffer, nor do I enjoy having them die. 1t makes the world lonely and makes tombstones out .of life-long comrades, but when a friend is dead it pleases me very much to give ‘bim every attention. He becomes my guest, and it pains me if any of my -servants neglect him or do any thing o mar hig visit. There is, after all, a -guiet pleasure to know that your best ‘friends do not have to die, that aching hearts are forever at rest in the everJasting sleep.” ; : “Do you ever have favorites among ‘those whom yofl did not know during dife?" ; i : ““Very often, indeed. I have had people come here and I felt from the first glance that T would love them for their winning ways,” © ° . “Look here! What do you mean by ®speaking of the winning ways of the dead?” i e o <“Well, sir, I like modest people with frank countenances, whether in life or ‘death. Some corpses have mean coun-. tenances. I would: have declined an introduction in life, and so I donot cultivate their society in death. Some seem to stare at me, while others look like sneaks. A dead man’s face is a good photograph of what he was in life, and it has the advantage that no trick of an assumed expression can de--ceive the eye of the observer. - “There are lovely men and women ‘who come here, ard when they leave us we miss them and we feel lonely. It .gives me great pleasure to pin a little ‘bougquet upon their garments, or to adjust their heads upon their pillows. "They often reed these little attentions, -and they seem pleased when we are kind to them. Of course they never speak, but there is.golden eloquence in ‘#heir silence. Different positions of “€heir quief ‘faces give a language to ‘them, and’ah;lﬁ?lr't""chqnge in attitudes makes the contour and whole effect o e S R e [ “Let me tell you about a young m who used to assist me where 1 formerly lived. She made h‘!“'%' M and' garlands during her lei~sure, and she also kept the entry books. P isscißy on the Subinet o Hieath. Bie ;%mwmf# i ; drEne e R i gy T T #M 5W,e 2e 0 ’3”5& .4¢ fiamn ¢ TR e e e G s R R e T s e wﬂ@",m‘?ﬂ'&* e AR I R e O e

engaged to a young lawyer—came-ia-to chat with her a few moments. He was & bright young fellow, and they were to be married in the fall. He had been coaxing her to leave the business, but she would not do it. Well, this was a delightful June day, and as he left she pinned a neat little bouquet upon the lapel of his coat. Not noticing my presence he lightly kissed her on the brow and departed. This did not seem ‘to trouble her, although I noticed that she blushed as her sweetheart departed. Ido not know whether that kiss offended her, butl do know that she seemed troubled for several days, and after Lawyer Ralfe left her the next Friday I noticed that her eyes were moist. I believed that they had gone through a little lover’s quarrel, and I thought no more about it. At least I did not have the slightest suspicion of the wonderful alienations of her affections that was then taking place in her mind. o ’

~“The next day the body of one of the handsomest young men I ever saw was brought into our parlors. He was unknown, but from papers found among his effects it was ascertained that his family lived in Londoh, England. He had been out hunting, and getting separated from his companions the gun was_discharged, the charge entering his thigh. He soon bled to death. Of course you know he would be very pale. :

. “Two efficient aids in my establishment helped me to prepare the corpse for the coffin. We dressed him nicely, combed his beautiful hair, arranged his very handsome mustache, gave his cheeks a few touches of ‘eolor with the blendeér, and left instructions for our young lady assistant to have a floral tribute made for the Elks, who were to manage the funeral. I then went home to dinner, and I 'was_gone several hours. When I returned the girl was working over the face. She made a handsome wreath and placed it over his brow. Then she fairly raved about his beauty. When I came back in about fifteen minutes, she was still there, and she seemed to be talking to him. I heard her ask him if he still loved her. It was with delay that she heeded my request to come away and attend to some other work. The next day it was the same, and when I stopped by the corpse a moment she said she could marry a man that handsome. She seemed to blush and laugh a little, but I thought nothing of it. Toward evening the Elks and their band came after the corpse. = Will you believe me when I.tell you that my pretty girl kissed that cold face and burst into hysterics so that we could not calm her when it was removed. That was twenty-five years ago, and she was then about eighteen years old.” ol

“And where is she now?”’ asked the reporter. - L I saw her when I was home two years ago. She looked welland hearty, and's'fe was really handsome, although her hair was a little gray. She told me she had been married many years, and then she talked and laughed with her husband, but he made no reply, for he was buried by the Elks many years ‘before: You don’t understand? Listen!

“When I left her, gentle attendants led her away from the gaslit parlor into that part of the great insane asylum where, for a quarter of a century, she has lived and loved that young Englishman, whose body has rested beneath the mossy marbles since we buried him there away back in the sixties. Asl stole away I could hear her voice echoing through the great corridors, for she was laughing and talking with her husband, the bodiless creation of ecstacy. Her eye was bent on vacancy, yet she was happy.’—San Franeisco Examiner. = i

INFLUENCE OF CICERO. A Man Whose Art Was Natural Even When 4 It Appeared Consummate. ! It is a notable fact that no biographer of Cicero, I might almost say no stu- ; dent of his epoch, has|ever yet suc-} ceeded in remaining indifferent to the man, Over and above the homage due to his transcendent gifts, his name has always retained 'the power of stirring emotion, of provoking partisanship, of moving to enthusiasm or anger, as though that brilliant, lovable, fallible human creature’ were still alive, and eloquent, and moving “‘in his habit as he lived”’ among men. What contradictory judgments have been passed on his course as a statesman, on the disinterestedness or the mere blind obstinacy of his adhesion to the republic! In how many ways, almost ludicroushy diverse, has his character been conceived and illustrated, from the devout, point of view of the ‘quattro-centro humanist to the grotesque point of view of the nineteenth-century imperialist! This he owes in part, I think, to his own grand carelessness of consistency; to that very loyalty to the impulses of a rich and versatile nature which the Delphian god had the insight t 0 erjoin upon him at the cutset of his political career. His art- itself was natural, even when it appeared most consummate; for *‘art’'s highest ' works,” as Goethe says, ‘‘are also the highest of nature, being produced by man ' in accordance with true and natural laws:”’ I shall not therefore ad- | vance any theory or attempt any analy--sis of my own, but leave the unguarded correspondent of Atticus to spedak for himself to others, as he has very intelligibly spoken to me.: 1 will quote, however, since it seems to me in, its ‘own way conclusive, the briefest: summary of his case on record; the late and perhaps remorseful admission of the man who might havesaved him, ‘but whose court we are glad, upon the ‘whole; that he did not live to adorn. Plutarch tells us that & grandson of theEmperor Augustus was one day diso soA Y S S e e v o o 9 *’U'ﬁsﬁ’ OpaiibA 16 sl Do Wi AT BRRALN et ol R B R leo M R

MICROBES AND DIARRHCEA. How to Kill the Bacteria Contained in ! Milk and Other Fluids, We shall confine ourselves in this paper to the diarrhcea of infants. Microbes abound 'almost ' everywhere. Several . different kinds have their habitat in the secretions of the mouth and throat. @Most kinds are harmless, while others are the cause of various infectious diseases. Among the diseases caused by them are cholera infantum and other forms of infantile diarrhoea.

Breast-milk is wholly free from bacteria, therefore it is, chiefly bottle-fed babies who have choléra infantum, and such patients are readily cured, if not already too far gone, by being transferred to a healthy wet-nurse. Breastmilk does not curdle and form hard, cheesy lumps, which keep up a constant irritation of the bowels, as aow'‘s milk does. This curdling is due to microbes which the milk absorbs from the air. . Another kind of microbe effects still more dangerous changes in the milk, producing the violent poison, now known as tyrotoxicon, which has so often proved fatal to eaters of ice-cream and milk pies. This same microbe is believed by some investigators to be the cause of cholera infantum.

Experts are assiduously searching for some effective means of destroying the noxious mierobes after their invasion of the digestive tract. Meanwhile the great aim should be prevention. This may be attained by “‘sterilizing the milk;"” that is, by killing the microbes contained in it. Sterilizing is best done by steaming the milk in bottles. Soxhlet, of Germany, contrived an apparatus for the purpose, which is now extensively used in that country. Dr. T. M. Roteh, of Boston, has prepared an improved apparatus and tested it in the wards of the Infant Hospital. Dr. John A. Jeffries, of Boston, who has made a special study of the subject, declares that no expensive and complex process is needed. Take the flask from which the child is to be fed —a mere medicine bottle will do upon a pinch—put in a stopper of cottonwool, and heat the bottle and the stopper in an oven for thirty minutes at a mild baking-heat, or until the cotton becomes brown. Then pour the milk into the flask, put in the same stopper and heat in a steamer for fifteen minutes. When the milk is to be used, take out the cotton plug, and put on a short rubber nipple, without any tube. Milk thus prepared will last a long time. A number of "bottles may be ‘prepared at once, enough for a journey ‘of several days, or for a. voyage across ithe Atlantic. If it is desired to sweeten ‘the milk, the sugar—milk sugar is preferable—should be put in before the ‘milk is steamed. Of course, overfeeding is always to be guarded against, ‘especially during the heated term.— Youth’s Companion. ] |

: BLANKER’S MISTAKE. He Acts as Chief Mourner at the Wrong L Man’s Funeral. A week or more ago a gentleman whom we will call Mr. Blank died, and the time and place of-his funeral were announced in the papers. Another gentleman, whom we will call Blanker, saw the notice and said to himsslf: . “Dear, dear,” my old friend and benefactor is dead. I knew he wasin Washington and intended to call .on him, but now it is too late.” And he censured himself for his neglect of the man who had been his friend when he sorely needed a friend. - Tortured by his conseience he sought to make up as best he could for his fault. He sent the most magnificent floral piece heé could buy and, on the day of the funeral, was one of the most demonstrattve of the mourners. After the casket had been lowered into the grave and the ceremonies were. at an end the repentant Mr. Blanker turned with tears streaming from his eyes and said to a gentleman walking beside him toward the carriage: | I am almost heartbroken at the loss of my gear old friend.” “Washe a relative?’ asked the other compassionately. - - ; ~ “No, but we went all through the war together and he was my best friend and benefactor afterward.”’

. “There must be some mistake,’’ said the gentleman. ‘Mr. Blank was not in the army. He has been in this country only a few years.”’ . ““The duece you say!’ said Blanker, forgetting his grief; ‘“then, by thunder, I've been chief mourner at the wrong man'’s funeral.” .And he straightway looked up his-old ,friend," who was in excellent health. It cost Blanker a good deal for. flowers, but that isn’t a circumstance to what it has since cost him for wine.—Washington Post.

' SECRETARY WINDOM. His Experience with a Treasury Watch= man Who Didn’t Know Him, ‘Secretary Windom, though giving up so much of his time to Treasury appointments, is unknown even by sight to a great many of his subordinates in Washington. The other day, returning to the Treasury building after lunch, he met some newspaper correspondents in the street, and stopped to chat with them until after two o’elock, the hour at which the Department is closed to the general _public. The party applied for entrance .at a side door, where the new watchman recognized the journalists and passed them in withoutchallenge. The ‘Secretary attempted to follow, but found the wire gate closed in his face. ! ¢lt is after hours, sir; you will have to ;s go away,” said the man. “Don't you know who I am?'’ Mr. Windom began. “I am sorry, sir,” interrupted the ~other, ‘but no matter who you are, my. ~orders are imperative, and I must keep you out unless you have a pass.” I am the Secretary,” pleaded Mr. Win-: ‘dom. The watchman only shrugged hig-shoulders incredulously and smiled. Ho was going back to his seat, when the correspondents, laughing, came to the rescue, and succeeded in convincing bim that he had made & bad blunder, He was profuse with lg:lomeland‘ ‘he had ouly done his duty, and that he i o i e

-~ AFGHANISTAN'S BORDER. ' Sights and Scens on the Route from Lu. . | ettato Lahki-Larwan., - The contempt of the traveler for wild beasts and his craven fear of the dog, the friend of man, were exemplified recently. Sir Robert Sanderman and I passed close toa wolf, of whom we naturally took no notice, while he slunk away as fast as his legs would carry him without attracting too-much observation; but a few minutes afterwards we had an engagement with shepherd dogs which .constituted a more serious encounter. A sca.rcer“ sight was that of the woodcock, which | the sportsman of the party missed, for it is no joke to tear along roads on horseback and dismount to shoot. Surgeon Major Taylor shot four rock part- ‘ ridges. The country was full of grave- | yards, but controversy rages among travelers as to whether, in the dry district which lies between the Euphrates, the Caspian, and Thibet, enormous graveyards in an almost unhabited district imply that once it contained a far larger population. Perhaps they do mean this; but on the other hand it must be remembered that nomadic tribes wander in great numbers for ‘enormous distances in this part of the world, and that they may have their favorite burying places. Then, even a small population here. makes a large graveyard, because the graves are kept up from time immemorial. They are merely heaps of stones, and passers-by fling stones on to each cairn, and it may be said that no grave once made is' ever lost. These grave-yards: may have seen the passage of Alexander, for the rainfall is never sufficiently heavy to disturb the stoues. A sign of the passage of many people is to be found in the enormous number of rags which decorate large trees where they exist. At our breakfast place, close to a stream swollen by the night’s rain, which we had to ford, there was a great tamarisk tree, which was sacred because some holy man had been buried near it, and rags—chiefly red, but not all red—were tied to every bough. The custom of tying red rags to trees to indicate peculiar sanctity is one which is met with in parts of the world as distant from one affother as the county. of Galway, New Zealand, Lithuania, Siberia and Thibet. In the little fortified villages of the valley I was shown the ‘‘miniature mosques,” which are put up outside the fortified enclosures. They consist of a flat stone, about the size of an English gravestone, with a headstone;’ and the villagers go out to pray upon them one at a time. In the whole of the long distance from Quetto to the shrine of Sakhi-Sorwar I did not see a single real ecclesiastical building except those of our own Moslem soldiers. 1t is said that the Baluchis are such bad Mohamme=2ans that they used not to. pray at all until we came, and thdt it was the example of our more religious native soldiers which has induced them to begin. But I think that there is some exaggeration in this stetement, although it is eertain that at Khur they have lately built a praying enclosure, like a parish pound, not having had any place of worship until iaast year.—Fortnightly Review.

A STRANGE COMBAT. How an American Boy Resented a Royal Jap’s Impertinence. When he was only seven years old Prince Haru had an unexpected wrestling match with a small American boy of his own age. It was at a school entertainment in Tokio, and it began by Prince Haru’s noticing that the young American kept on his Tam o’ Shanter ¢ap in the princely presence. *‘Go and tell that boy to take off his hat!”’ ordered the small prince to his aide-de-camp. 1 Before the officer could reach the offender, the insulted princeling slipped from his chair, strode down and knocked off the hat with his own hand. Young America never stopped to think who the aggressor was, but struck back, and in a few minutes the future Emperor and one of our future Presidents had clinched, and were slapping and pounding each other in the most democratic manner. The horrified nobles of the Prince’s suite and the frightened parents of the young American separated them, and led them apart, neither combatant feeling any regret for what he had done. *“That boy slapped me first, when I wasn’t doing any thing to him!” persisted the young American, whose parents were almost expecting to be arrested or beheaded' for .the unprecedented treatment of such a sacred being as the Imperial Crown Prince.

“I have punished that boy for his impoliteness in wearing his hat in my presence,” said the pompous princeling, frowning at his suite, tightening his little sword-belt and strutting up and down like a young game-cock.. . The tableaux and exercises went on quietly after that prelude, and when supper-time came, Prince Haru was seen eating pink and white ice cream elbow to elbow with his late opponent, and gallantly feeding his own spongecake and eclairs to the opponent's pretty little yellow-haired sister.— Elliza. Ruhamah Scidmore, in St. Nicholas. }

Wisdom from a Child.

In Stamford, Conn., two children attended service at the church of which Rev. Mr. Vail is pastor. Mr. Vail repeated the words: *There is nowhere, no place, that God is not.” In an audible whisper Pauline said to her brother: “Hedon’t know about it, does heP But I'll tell him after chureh.” Just as the preacher descended the pulpit steps:a breathless little figure caught hold of him and said, pantingly: ‘“You don’t know about God, Mr. Vail, an’ 1 must tell you. He isn’t everywhere like you think He is, 'cause the Bible says: ‘God isnot in the thoughts of the wicked." That's why He don't always get into me, but I'm going to try t 0 be very good this week, so. He'll come,” And as Mr. Vail took the bright-eyed little | one into his arms she added, naively: “You don't know every thing, do you, Mr. Vailt"-—Kingston (N. Y.) Reome, o s b . —ltis hard to believe o pen 4 AT e G w 6 night/—Atchifon Globe, . b e il Riße B B ve A LT e R

- STATE INTELLIGENCE.

- At Lebanon John Glenn, a twelve-year-old boy playfully pointed a shotgun at Lewis Smith, single, aged 22, thinking it was not loaded. The gun exploded. It had been loaded with buckshot. The charge entered Smith’s abdomen, fatally injuring him. !

~ ANTON ARENS, tifty years of age, committed suicide at Fort Wayne, the other day, by hanging in his barn; caused by inability to get employment. He leaves a large family. -

AT the meeting of a committee of members composed of the 115th, 116th, 117th and 118th Indiana Regiments at Greencastle, the other day,: it was decided to hold the next reunion of the brigade there.on October 2. THE contract for “six bafracks at the Marion Soldiers’ Home has been awarded to Wm. Saint, of Dayton, 0., for $117,712.07. GAS has been found at Balbec. . THE board of equalization of Bartholomew County, has thus far raised the assessment in that county over $200,000. THE Wabash Railroad Car Shops at Butler, were destroyed by fire-on the 17th inst. Loss about $lOO,OOO. MosEs LEEMAN. colored, who escaped from jail at Warsaw, some weeks ago, has been captured. He is wanted for shooting a man in a quarrel about a woman.

RusHVILLE is to have natural gas. At New Albany, Mrs. Wm. T. Merker met with a very serious accident the other day. She had prepared concentrated lye to clean a sink, and sat it on the window ledge. Subsequently in raising the window she upset the lye, which splashed into her face, completely destroying the sight of both eyes. THE Muncie Gun Club held a shooting match the other afternoon, in which there were thirty contestants, for a gold badge worth $6O. The badge was won by Eli Gough, he breaking twenty-seven standard birds out of thirty.

A VEST-POCKET edition of the horse has been foaled in Hartford City. The mother is a two-year-old Shetland pony owned by Harry B. Smith, president of the Exchange Bank. The colt is nine inches along the (back, stands six hands in height, and is Mjvely as a cricket. It is doubtless the smallest horse in the State. :

Wins Low, LANIER & Coo., have telegraphed that they had sold the remainder of the School Fund bonds (851,055,000) ata premium of 1!§ cents on the dollar. This $1,055,000 is 27 per cent. of the entire loan, the remaining 73 per cent. having been distributed to the counties throughout the State. .

WORKMEN engaged in making an excavation at Indianapolis unearthed the bones of a child. .

EuGENE McMAHON, an employe of the Clover Leaf Manufacturing Company, Marion, fell into a vat of scalding water, and was fatally scalded: Hox. L. T. MICHENER has been chosen Chairman of the Indiana State Republican Committee. 5

GoSHEN is shippingmud turtles to the Eastern markets. S

LoGANSPORT’s street-car company has been sold to a New York syndicate. STUEBEN COUNTY propose a soldiers’ monument for the public square at Albion. : :

Most of the cases brought by Mrs. Leeds against Michigan City saloonkeepers were quashed by the mayor.

Woßrk has been commenced on the Bimel wheel and bending works 4t Balbee., The buildings are of brick. The works will employ 100 men. Six aged men of New Albany, none less than seventy-five years of age, will attend the old settlers’ meeting at Charleston on the Ist prox. The pioneers will go in greatstyle, ina handsome sixseated carriage. o : Goops in the possession of 'ljhomas Huffman, arrested at Peru with a kit of burglar’s tools in his possession, have been identified as those stolen from a store at Cutler. .

THE cow ordinance having come to stay at Greencastle, the fences around the university parks will be removed. RHODE WEIMAR, a young man of Shelbyville, caught a three-pound bass near there the other day, in which was found a silver quarter when it was being cleaned.

DorRA CHRISTMAN, of Laporte, has commenced suit against Peter Grebner for breach of promise. She wants $15,000. Grebner isa -young man engaged in business in Chicago. : THE other evening fire broke out in Centilivre Brewery,F't. Wayne, supposed to have been caused bya a cigar thrown on the floor of the bottling works. The plant was an extensive one, and an agent of an English syndicate was in the city, and tendered the owners an offer of $400,000 for the works, which was under consideration. The plant was entirely destroyed, and the loss will reach $350,000 with an insurance of only $20,000. The employes were making an effort to save the books of the concern, when the ammonia tank exploded, seriously injuring three men, one of whom may die. , LoGANSPORT is considering a’project of water supply from Lake Maxinkuckee. AMoNG the recent d”eaths are those of Richard Arnold, of Stilesville, aged ninety-one; Philip Koch, sr., of Evansville, aged eighty-four, and John H. Crow, of Farmers. i) tA. E. REYyNoLDS, of Crawfordsville, paid one dollar per bushel for the first load of new wheat that was brought to the city. The wheat was graded No. e ‘

At the Lakes, five miles west of Montpelier, Nathan Lewis, an old soldier, was seated under a wire clothes line with his granddaughter on his knee when he was struck by a bolt of light~ ning and killed. The child escaped injury. ; ‘ ,

. THE other morning about 2 o’clock a body of ‘masked men stoned a house owned by a notorious character named Nance Vincent, at Montpelier. They broke every window in the house, broke all her furniture and then gave her a coat of tar. ;

. NEw ALBANY’s fruit shipment, thus far foot up in excess of $165,000. - . SIxTY saloon-keepers were arrested at Michigan City by Pinkerton detectives, ‘who have been ferreting out alleged violations of the liquor laws. Mrs. W. 0. Leeds, the wife of a wealthy man,'is pushing thé prosecutions. . . A NAXED tramp, with a story of being robbed, starved, etc., was relieved at Ligonier, and now it appears that he is | working the nude scheme regularly, a ‘confederate ’?oll‘dwing with clothing to ‘be used whennot at work. = - Jamrs' McBRIDE fell from a hay mow ~and broke his neck, dying instantly, He was & farmer living near Claypool, and. was thirty-two yoars of age. | b 0 el Sh siLA s

THE MISSING AIR-SHIP.

Strong Evidence That the Big Campbel Balloon Has Been Lost at Sea, and with It Prof, Hogan, the Noted Michigan _ Aeronaut. |- . NEw Yorkx, July 19.—A pilot reports having on Tuesday afternoon sighted a balloon dragging its car along the surface of the ocean. He gave chase, but it sank beforehe could reach it. The inference is that it was the Campbell air-ship, in which the aeronaut Hogan made an ascent Tuesday morning, and which lost its steering apparatus and was swept out to sea. Captain Phelan, of the Caprice, the pilot mentioned, says:

*“At about 7 o’clock, one hourand a half after we had first sighted the balloon, when we were about 100 yards from it, the balloon ' parted from some hsavy object in the water which it had been dragging along and fleww up into the air. When several hundred feet above the sur face of the sea it was caught in the north northwest wind and went before it east southeast at the rate of about twenty-tive miles an hour. When we first sighted the balloon and drew close enough to make her out she was egg-shaped and tugging hard at what must have been the. car. About five ropes held her to the car, which was buried several feet under water. The balloon was assuming all kinds of shapes, inflating ard collapsing. At the last try it collapsed at the end, and, assuming the shape of a pumpkin, arose inthe air. There was nothing hanging to the ropes of the balloon. ’ g © *lf Prof. Hogan was in the balloon when we came up with her then he was drowned. We cruised over the spot in which the balloon and its car parted. There were no signs of life, no evidence that a human being had found his death in the water. There were no floating objects, every thing was quiet and as calm as a mill-pond.” °

ProvibENCcE, R. L, July 19.—At about 7 o'clock Tuesday evening a big balloen passed over this city heading in a dipection that would have brought it up over Buzzard’s bay or Vineyard sound in an hour or two. A great many people here believe that the balloon was the missing Cambell air-ship, as no ascensions are known to have been made hereabouts. [Hogan was born at Ann Arbor thirty-four Yyears ago. He made his first trip in a hot-air balloon, when he was 17, at a circus. In Jacd'zson he worked in a planing-mill fourteen years to get money enough to start, He was always determined to be an aeronaut and is totally devoid of fear and a splendid athlete. In 1881 he made his first regular ascension in a balloon made by himself, paying the gas company $lOO to inflate it. He was up twe hours, landing at Stockbridge, twenty-three miles north of Jackson. During the next six years he made many ascensions and was remarkably successful. He has had several accidents, but always esca}ped. being cool and fearless. At Greenville, Mich., four years ago his hot-air balloon burst when half a mile up, but he climbed into the netting, inverted it, making & parachute, and descended safely. There he ' conceived the parachute idea which he has so successfully worked during the last two years. It was Hogan who sent Bartholomew around the world with the Chicago ball team, He has made several parachute jumps this season, and in answer to numerous requests by Prof. Campbell, he went to New York two weeks ago to navigate the air ship. He has a wife, mother and three brothers in Jackson, and they all profess faith that “Ed” will come out all right from this great and last trip.] ‘

SOME HOPE OF SETTLEMENT.

The Grand Army and the Railroads May Yet Harmonize Their Differencesl

CHICAGO, July 19.—There is a faint ray of hope of a change in the situation of affairs between the Grand Army coemmanders and the railroad companies which will make the encampment at Milwaukee something of a success. The department commanders have not in the least receded from their positions. On the contrary, officials at headquarters here are in receipt of circulars sent by Department - Commanders Barjo of Minnesota, and Smith of lowa, Travis of Indiana, and Brown of Michigan, all requesting comrades to remain away unless the terms asked for are granted. None of the commanders in their official papersgive any encouragement that the one-cent fare will |be obtained. But it is known that some negotiations are pending, which, if succesﬁl, will result in satisfactory terms over roads in the Western departments, Officers of roads in Illinois are said to be inclined to make the rate if assured of a large attendance from long distances. The trouble in effecting an arrangement comes from the fact that all roads are afraid to take the initiative in the face of the action of the Traffic Association. It is believed, however, that if a break can be made all of the railroads would be glad to meet the rate and comspete for the travel.

A SAD AFFAIR. An Ohio Mother Drowns Herself and Two Children While Apparently Suffering from Temporary Insanity. : [ YounagsTown, 0., July 19.—The bodies of Mrs. William Gilchrist and, her two daughters, aged 2 and 5 years, were found Thursday in a small stream six miles north of this ¢ity. Mr. Gilchrist, a stone contractor in this city, kissed his family good-bye Ilast Tuesday morning, his wife saying they would go on a short visit to relatives in Sharfm, Pa. Mrs. Gilehrist took with her $550, 'saying she would depositit in bank before she left; butthe deposit was not made. She wasseen with the ‘children at 8 o’clock Wednesday night near where the bodies were found, walking about in an aimless manner, avoiding any persons who might approach. It is supposed the unfortunate woman lost the money and become crazed. '

PORT AU PRINCE.

The Haytian Capital in Imminent Danger _ of Falling Into the Hands of Hippolyte . —Her Outworks Assaulted—Villages and Farm-Houses Burned by the Invaders.

NEw Yorg, July 19.—A letter to the Times from Port au Prince dated July 7 says: Port au Prince within the last few dayshas been in a state bordering on frenzy. Hippolyte has assaulted the extreme outworks. He is being held in eheck at the present writing., . : 3 Legitime is impressing into the ranks every man capable of carrying a rifle. The people have been delirious with excitement. The Minister of War has executed some of the prisoners with his own hands. Hippolyte is burning farm-houses and villages in the very sight .of -the city. AH foreigners have been threatened with extermination, but the United States’ maval force on hand is prepared to take the city if necessary. : : 7

A PIPE LINE TO DETROIT.

DEerrolT, Mich., July 19.—J. M. Clark, of Toledo, the natural-gas man, who repregents the Standard Oil Company, is in the city. He says the contracts ave all let for the pipe line to Detroit. The Northwestern Gas Company, which is the Standard Oil- Company, is to bring the line to the Southern Michigan State line, and the Michigan Gas Company will meet it there, The total cost of the pipe-line will be about $4,000,000, and it is expected to have the plant and 100 miles of distributing pipe laid in this city before nexs spring at a cost of abous 1,000,000 or more,

Ex-Secretary Colman Hoenored. - Bt. Louvis, July 19.—Norman J. Colman, ox-Secretary of Agriculture, the well-knewn editer of Colman’s Rural World, has acs cepted the appointment as agricultural representative of the Scripp’s league to the Paris exposition. Franece has just conferred the title of officer du merite agricoté upon MiOolman and he has been decorated as such ' Shortage in Dakota’s Wheat Crop. - — LAKQTA\ D‘ T‘.’ July 19""““@ i" &"hm agée in the wheat crop of Dakota of from 20,000,000 to 80,000,000 bushels; and in many counties there has been an almost total ‘Thuraday to devise means to provide for pliensedy, o e R

ALL LOOK TO AMERICA. England, France and Italy Must Depend on This Country for Their Bread:-RRe-cent Roports from Bombay Show That the Wheat Crop in India Is Almost a Failure, o Ll S 7 LonpoN, July 17.—Monday’s weekly report from Bombay by cable settles the fact that the Indian wheat crop will be no factor at allin the question of the world's food supply this year. And there is a sudden and anxious ‘effort now being made to get at the facts upon which to base an estimate of ‘what the world’s crop will really be like. A number of the best informed Engiisi specialists have been seen and they believe that the situation, a few menths hence, will be fully as bad as it was last year. One or two say they expect it to be worse. Of course the state of European crops is still susceptible to certain fluctuations, and can not be accurately mapped out until the annual seed fair at Vienna, which, owing to the general anxiety this year, has been ad--vanced to August 24. But while climatic contingencies may injure good crops, they will be able to do little to improve these already doomed, and the condition in October is more likely to be worse than better. o g The demand for wheat in the big purchasing countries of Europe bids fair to be smaller than usual. England and France promise harvests considerably better than last year. As the fields and stocks now stand the yield of these two countries is expected to be 40,000,000 bushels in excess of that of last year. Spain will also be above the average and Italy only a'trifie under. Germany, east of the tenth parallel, is almost as good—perhaps the present weather will' make her quite as good—as last year. But there the favorable picture abruptly stops. i Two great exporting countries, Russia ‘and Austro-Hungary, will this year find it difficult to feed themselves. Russia, which had big harvests the last two years, and ¢;orced” the market to get rid of all its grain in order to float loans, the last of whigh was concluded the other day, now confronts a rather serious situation. Iler big granaries, like those of Odessa, have never before been so empty of wheat, and the present crop in many large districts is a complete failure, : The long drouth and then the cyclonic storms which destroyed the wheat and oat prospect in Russia have done the same tor wheat; rye and barley in Austro-Hungary, Roumania and Eastern Germany. In shorg, though crops west of the tenth parallel are quite definitely better than in 1888 this is more than balanced by the failure in the far more important grain fields east of that line. : England, France and Italy must always buy so much grain that the question exactly how much they need is not specially important, but the failure of big exporting countries is serious, considering the co!l--lapse of India and the very deficient crops of Australia. / It isnow estimated here by experts that the eastern hemisphere, as a whole, is worse off than it was a year ago at this time. - There is, therefore, almost tearful interest in what the American crop will be like, The shortage over here will be so great that the market will be more at the mercy of the United States than ever before, and the mnext report from the Washington bureau is eagerly wateched for as an indication of how severe a squeeze may he expected. ‘During the last few days Russian wheat has been going up here and a panie is only prevented by the fact that every body in America seems so confident

HEAVY FAILURE.

John E. Burton, the Gogebic Iron King, Forced by Importunate Creditors to Make an Assignment — His Liabilities Over $BOO,OOO. ¢

MILWAUKEE, July 17.—A special from Elkhorn announces that John E. Burton, known as the .Gogebic Iron King during the mining craze two years ago, has made an assignment. Gage E. Tarbell,of Milwaukee, is assignee. The liabilities of Mr. Burton are stated to be about $825,000, and the Central Trast Company of New York, whose claim is $350,000, is the largest creditor. The sui involving the legality and justice of this - claim, which is disputed, is now pending before the Supreme Court. The second claim against Mr. Burton amounts to about $600,000, and there is no prospect that there will be any thing left to pay the unsedured claims, the assets being stated to <be about $701,000, including $600,000 in real estate and $lOO,OOO in personal ' property. The real estate consists of property in Lake Geneva valued at $300,000, a business block in Chicago valued at $200,000 and property in Hurley and other places valued atsloo,ooo. Besides this there is stated to be $lOO,OOO personal property, consisting of mortgages; notes, stocks, etc, There are no preterred creditors. T

Mr. Burton says that he has been so harassed by creditors that he was forced to assign. He said: ‘Nearly 100 suits have been brought against me in eighteen months and my credit ruined and my property depreciated and slaughtered from $2,200,000 to less than $1,000,000, and in nearly all cases it was almost unnecessary.”

SIXTEEN LOST.

Only Three of the Crew of a Boston Fishing Schooner Return to the Hub Alive —The Rest Thought to Have Been Drowned. ! :

BosTox, July 17.—The fishing schooner Edith Emery, Captain Sullivan, arrived Tuesday with only three of her crew of nineteen men, the other sikxteen having been lost from the vessel in a fog while out in dories Sunday, seventy miles off Highland light. The captain hopes the men may have been picked up by some passing vessel or got ashore somewhere, as the weather - was favorable. He cruised around after them until Monday afternoon, keeping the fog-horn blowing, but could get no trace of them. All but two of the missing men are married and have large rfamilies. j

Will Finish the Canal.

NEw Yorg, July 17.—Contractor Slavin, who did a good-deal of the dredging for the Panama Canal Company, says he bes lieves the American Contracting & Dredg ing Company, of which he is president, wilj soon complete arrangements to finish the canal. His company is ba.ked by enormous . capital, and is favorably regarded by the French people. Mr. Slavin sails for Paris to-day to take part in the final conferences on the subject. He says the canal can be completed by his company in four years,

Tosk All But the Safe. Bt. Lovuis, July 17.—Two brothers named& Heller, doing business as foreign bankera and steamship agents at 1015 Franklin avenue, are missing and have left nothing behind them but an iron safe in their office.. - It is chargedo that from $15,000 to - $20,000, deposited chiefly by poor Russians and BScandinavians for transmission to relatives abroad, went with the Hellers, and that the money was con‘'veyed to Canada and there divided. The Hellers have been operating here six months. A letter addressed to one of the brothers by the other, recently found, contained congratulations on the fact that suckers were prolific, and the suggestion of a trip to Canada. S e : Killed at a Race. ; PHILADELPHIA, July 17.—At Bridgetonm, N. J.. Tuesday, during a trotting race one g::ha. horses swerved into a crowd m ng near the finishing poi &% m mwthhnths@my:ﬁ; a ho hoad, crashing clea through his skull. g IR T S B e o ‘iww e e Gordon and Mmyr 0 WAL c;:",'«a‘ AEl] age ‘ﬁ ‘%’@’g“%"’r{%”“%@%%“ f’” 2 Ww‘kessim e ~?‘fﬁ\~f§§wfw}‘ iﬁ“\*ﬁ‘m‘ﬁww’%ﬁ" »» - “73‘“‘3;*‘;”"”‘*"&)"?: Gt ,;"’ e e LERmaaE e e