Ligonier Banner., Volume 24, Number 25, Ligonier, Noble County, 3 October 1889 — Page 2

THE CLEARING-UP SHOWER.

When the skies, low and ashen, are riven with

rain, ‘ % TRORIR S Ao And thro’ the wet woods the shrill east winds complain: | : ; ( When day after day, storm-tattered and chiil, The dull vapors mantle dim' valley and hill— How wistfully — watching the gray heavens

. lower— R & i ‘We waif for some sign of the clearing-up shower,

4 When life means but weariness, struggle and pain, . S And earth’s joys are empty, and fleeting as vain; ‘When the burden of heart-ache and trouble and . care : Seems more than the overtaxed spirit can bear—- . "Mid the t%mou and gloom of that crucial hour, O, let us remember tlie clearing-up shower, _ There are dark disappointments that meet us each day, : e And bitter surprises that lurk by the way; : There are stormy encounters, inglorious retreats, Y : ; ‘ And wounds, and betrayals, and crushing de- ’ ) featss. Farion : : But lo! when disasters our courage o’erpower, ‘'With sunburst and song comes the clea_ring-up : shower. ; : g N When the dreary December of life is at hand, And we’journey down hill thro’sa desolate land, And swifter the mile-stones flit by one by one In the gray after-glow of & day that is done, " And the night cometh down, with the windi riven rain, ! ! ¢ O, let us remember the olden refrain, . Past the darkness there dawneth the glad morning hour, . : = A And this—thank God !—this.is the clearing-up "~ shower! s : s ~—Emma Alice Brown, in N, Y. Ledger. el P s eospae ~ SIGNALING AT SEA. ° How Modern Mariners Manage to Exchange Messages.

The Bits of Bunting Displayed From the Mastheuds of ' Vessels Convey the Same Meaning to All Nations . alities—The Lookout Man. 3

Tetegraph operator William de la Motte, stationed at the Sandy Hook

‘station of the Western Union Telegraph Company, was watching for incoming vessels on®a bright Monday ‘morning’ some few weeks ago. His eyrie at the top of the eighty-foot tower, supplied with the necessary. paraphernalia for observation, such as telescopes, night glasses, rockets and flash lights, was cool and comfortable. Below him was the sea, ruffied by a ‘smart breeze from the southwest. Out. of the haze beyond emerged a fullrigged ship, with every inch of canvas spread. On seeing the ship de la Motte took up his telescope. As he turned the glass on the ship he gave & low whistle of astonishment. He left the glass for a moment, took up abook, the leaves of swhich he turned over rapidly. - On finding the information he desired heclosed the volume, threw it on a chair, and, with his telescope in one hand, sent a message ticking 6ver the telegraph wires to this city. This duty ovér-he once more took up his survey of the vessel. The cause of his excitement was the sighting of three small flags fluttering - from the vessel’s mainmast. They were flying from the ‘same ‘halvard, one abbve the other.’ The upper one was a blue pennant, with a white ball in the center; the second a square flag, half yellow -and blue, the colors running horizontally, and the third a red flag, with a yellow cross. They formed an ominous signal. According to the international code of signals the B&entence represented by those three pieces of colored bunting was: ‘‘Mutiny on board.” The telegram sent to this eity by de la Motte was to the effect that the ship —— had passed the Hook fiying the signal of mutiny. On its receipt the police department was informed of the message, and shortly afterward’ Captain Smith, attached to the police boat Patrol, had his steamer's nose pointed down the bay to meet the incoming vessel. “The system of signaling at sea is one which remuins a mystery to theßreater majcrity of landsmen.- The average citizen reads in his newspaper that the steamer So-and-So was sighted: by another steamer and ‘reported sickness aboard, but did not want assistance. He dismisses all thought of the article from his mind, or if he givesit asecond thought he concludes that these two vessels passed near enougl to each othier for their commanders to hold a conversation with one another. ; As a matter of fact the vessels may have been - ten miles apart' at the time ‘of meeting, their conversation being car« ried on by means of the code signals. There are but eighteen flags iised by scamen for their talks with: one another at long range. They répresent all the letters of the alphabet, with the exception of the and vowels *“x" and “2." A combination of theseletters form the various sentences found in the code, and by this means skippers can. exchange information with comparative little difficulty. = Another advantage is that the commander of an English vessel speaking no other language than his own, can hold a conversation with ] the captain of a Rutzsian, Daniéh,?f‘ French or Norwegian vessel. The code is an international one, and the system is used by all maritime nations. - ' The first flag composing this maritime alphabet is & red burgee. It represents the letter B. The letter C is repitesented by a white pennant with a red ball in the center; D, by a white ball in the center of a blue pennant. A red pennant with/white ball represents the letter F, and a yellow and blue pennant the letter G. The remaining letters are shown by means of square flags. H, is a white and red flag, colors running horizontally with the white nearest the halyard; J, a blue, white and blue flag; K, a yellow anfl blue; L, a! yellow flag with a blue cross and blue. band running diagonally from corner to corner; M;a blue flag with white design of 'a checkerboard; P. a white/ flag with. ‘blue square in the dedter; @, a yelloy Wflwfiwflm pasiace 1. tho contar, 1n the middle of bk ;@m&@mm%%mwm&? W Oet it G e #afigfwwas“fizé:mi”“‘mww’*@LW T N RIPLATER BT RS R OB b D v k,h'gf%J i’ T

operator could see that there was something decidedly wrong with her. When her signals had become plain the most dreaded of signals was made out. The letters N M were displayed. They represented the terrible sentence: | *I am on fire.” As in the case of the other vessel the steamer was met long before she reached quarantine, by the fire-boats and the police-boat.” -Bulb it is on the high seas that the display of the blue and white checker-board fag and the blue bunting with white cross excites dread in the seaman’s heart. Nearly all of the two flag signals are ominous ones. :

. When two vessels meet at sea and each is anxious to know who the other is, the letters BN W are hoisted. Cl?his‘ signal is equivalent to the question: ““Where are you from?’ The other ship answers, and then up go she signals BP F, ‘“Where are you bound?” If the answer is satisfactory to the first, in nine cases out of ten the signal B S K, “I have a letter for you,” is run up. As soon as the letters are made out, the vessel signaled to answers B S M, “Send your letters.” ¢ Boats are lowered and away they go, bobbing over the billows toward the boat. ' i

Signals most dreaded by the health officers of our port are the letters » T M, “Yellow/fever.” The flying of this signal soon sends Health Officer Smith down the bay on the tug Preston. When he has reached the vessel’s side the yellow ensign soon replaces the D T M. Equally dreaded by the heglth people is the combination D T 'Q, "“Small-pox,” or D T R, “Cholera.” Other contagious diseases are on board when the flags DTS are displayed. These letters, however, :do not cause any special uneasiness to the Health Officer, as it may only be a c?’ase of mumps. ; ~ Skippers are stirred into activity when they sight a sail from whose masthead fly the letters J TK, “Dying from want of water.”” Their energles are also put forward when the signals J V H, “Want food"—can |be made out through their glass. No matter of what natfonality, these colors have the same import to the seaman who reads them, the blue, white &nd blue parallel stripes of the J, the red X across the white flag representing the V, and the white and red H stand for the same combination of letters in the Italian .tong& ag in the Russian, German or English. .

Medical aid is often asked for by dne ship of another. The flags F B'W represent the sentence *‘l want a doctor or surgeon.” F B V calls for ‘surgeouns,”” F B F for a “nurse” and ¥ B R for a ‘“clergyman.” If the ocall F B W is answered by one surgeon and he finds that he wants aid, whether from his ship or from the shore, the flags ¥ C M indicate to the watchers that ‘‘surgeon wants assistance.” |

- Vessels have left this port in apparently good condition, and when out a | few hours, or mayhap a day at sea, ‘they spring a leak. If not too far from the Hook they usually run under the shadow of the operator's tower, showing the signals B J W, ¢“leak.” When they have become satisfied that the signals have been seen, the flags are taken down and the letters H V B run out. These call for ‘‘assistance.” Before the latter arrives the skipper may have to resort to another change. of signals.! They are B K M, ¢‘leak increased,” or one ‘which gladdens the owners as well as the seamen aboard, BK N, ¢leak stopped.” ~ S . . . The sight of a dismantled hulk ris- ‘ ing and falling on the swells is always one that makes the ocean traveler be- ’ come philosophic. Rigged from a jury ‘mast, he may see three colored flags Mlying, which to him mean nothing, but to the captain signify a great deal, and causes that functionary to issue orders which'soon sends one or more boats skimming toward the wreck. Tha flags which the captain has sighted ara the letters B K R, ‘I am waterlogged; take people off.” A signal fraught with as much meaning is the one B L D, I am a compiete wreck.” . If there ; has been any trouble about the/ reading of the flags, the letters C W F indicate {Signal not understood,” or C W J, “You have misunderstood signals.” ' As signal flags can only be depended upon when their colors are distinctly visible, an important opportunity for communicating at sea is often lost because dictance or haze prevents the signals from being made out. A coda of distant signals has therefore #been introduced into use with a view to supply what is obviously a defect in existing codes. This code is merely a combination of a black ball and flags of the same color. The senténces are madgq up in the same 'way as thosa with colored flags, the relative positions of the ball and flags indicating the signal intended, Here are four of these signals: The ball hoisted ‘above a black pennant indicates that the vessel signaled to is “running into danger.”” The ball hoisted above a square flag indicates the sentence, “Fire or leak; want assistance.” The ball below the pennant indicates that the signaler ‘is “short of provisions;’ starving.” A square flag abové the ball indicates that *‘l am aground; want ~assistance.” An endless combination of these represent all that men at sea desire to say to one another. . f ~_ All sorts of business transactions are ‘also carried on by means of the flags. ‘Steamers have come to Sandy H@k laden with coffee. The owners know- | ‘ing that they could get, & higher price. for! the vessel's cargo in Europe, tele-, graphod. the Western Union operator at Sandy Hook to hold the vessel for. ordors, This was dono by means of flags. At the end of the day thesignal m%m the tm"m'l3l;;%'?E %"Ehéhq . Queenstown.” And once more the -vessel's prow is turned toward the open | sea. Before. going sho would. display % gignals P D MW sort me fo Lloyds.” ifls'n#mm "%&mg@m ?-:g" statonsios i R Ripte regenving ner name. KEverv-vessel a b i B L R T B e L Lot e ‘other vessel fiying that government *? B b e t6ts. As 8 penclt, whon a vossal onters AR e R e L R

~ MORAL SUASION. Ao TELLye, parson, ef a NG o 5 7 man won’t walk Pi 7 e, (HABRIIBRI" straight fur the love T gfitiiell o goodnessan’ m'ralA, ‘!W ity, all yer preachin’ iz~ }X tiliyf won’t do him ary bit gl 1“; I o’ good, now that’s a il [ fact.” S =] ‘EWF “A fact that needs fi1 ‘ : lis,lhl demonstration, how=N WA FEG| ever,” smiled the S :%;Sfl ) m} b= parson. ‘“‘Actual exS i MMW perience does not : : sustain' your position, my friend.”’ He was a thin-faced, light-built fellow, whose nervous energy constantly preyed upon his physical development. . Some men can engage in the responsible business of saving souls and make ‘an easygoing routine of it which adds flesh to their bones every day, while another dedicates every nerve and muscle to his work, his mind actually burning away every ounce of surplus flesh. So it was with Parson Esmond, and here in the lumber regions he saw before him such a wideé field of labor that his one sickle of truth seemed so utterly inadequate to do the harvesting he had set his heart upon that his faith almost failed him at times. : He found here all kinds of beliefs and unbeliefs, while the practice amounted to very | much the same thing, with the difference that some plunged into all sorts of wickedness to drown the voice of conscience, while others had none to drown.

It was apparently a hopeless task to present such a crowd with the truths which were so directly antagonistic to their daily practice, but he had done it, fearlessly and without fayor, and to their credit they had listened with pespect, if they had not acted upon his teachings. et “Now, pa’son, I'll show ye by oc’lar deminstration thet I'm. k'’rect. Ther’s a job o’ lumberin’ up 'n the gulch twenty miles from here, an’ I'm goin’ ter take twenty o’ our fellers up there an’ ther wont be nary a Bible ner a minister the hull winter. Ye know I don’t b’lieve this ere life hez anything ter do with the next, if there be a next, an’ I'll show ye that I kin take them boys up thar an’ preach vartue fur vartue’s sake alone, an’ they’ll come out jest ez pious an’ moral ez ef ye kep’ harpin’ on jedgment to come all the time. Bet ye my hat on’t, pa'son.” “I’m not a betting man, you know, Cyrus,” the parson smiled again—he had found that smiles and. gentle treatment went further with these rough spirits than argument or harsh words—*‘but I’'m afraid your i:'xperiment. will prove a failure. The 1 has no terrors to any but those who are disposed to break it, still the fact that one .is beyond the pale of law, that there is no legal or moral réstraint upon his actions, is calculated to bring out the worst forces of man’s nature. It is justas much a part of his make-up to need the restraints of civilization, of law and religion, as it is of the planets to need the law of gravitation to keep them in their orbits.” ¢‘Oh, come now, pa’son, you're a talkin' booklarnin’, an’ you know I bean’t edicated: but puttin’ my hoss sense agin your book larnin’, we'll see which’ll come out ahead.” “All right, Cyrus; but had’nt you better take a Bible along, so that 1n case you should need to administer a little judgmen® to come, as you call it, that you would have a foundation to work from?’’ ‘“Nary Bible. I'll start straight an’ nc favors. When Cyrus Gregg starts a bargain he makes a clean start, an’ don’t ye forgit A : . :

It wasa rough-looking set which started out a few days later to the lumber camp; jugs of whisky, or the ‘‘indispensable,’ as it was called, were freely displayed in stock, tobacco in quantity, and newspapers of the lowest grades formed no small part of the outiit.

They would be gone about three months, and quite a concourse gathered to see them off, among them the minister.

. “Now, pard, I’ll preach m’rality while you whale away on futur punishment ter them thets left, an’ see how we come out,” whispered Cyrus as the cavalcade was about to start. ] : f

The minister nodded goed naturedly. There was something wholesome about this rough Cyrus which had made an impression upon the young man, and he liked him in spite of ris rough notions and rougher { ) !< P A | r-:‘\ NN ®or e A P AR e Ao\ NN 7N\ [ g = /./-’/ ‘! ] ’,/l i Q\ s —] ///{ Mg e\ ik Il%é’ A ¥ e \\@ : /.T‘L ; A/ : & == —_— "b‘—'—"’“ i i ‘NOW, PARSON, I'LL SHOW YOU.” ways. Given an education and a position in refined society, and he might have been an ornament to it, but as it was he would probably remain.a rough diamond for life. ' The young minister kept on his way after the departure of the lumbermen, preaching to the remainder, making earnest efforts to help them, and raise both souls and bodies t 0 a higher level. Many of them had been well educated and trained by ecareful parents, but in coming away from civilization and its restraining influences they had left their characters behind them and entered into the rough life of the lumber camp asif to the manner born, and Mr. Esmond saw with unspeakable regret men who were capable of better things going ou the tide of profanity and wild dissipation and leaving their better nature uncultivated. . There were but few women in the camp, and these were not of a class to elevate or soften their associates, with one exception, and that was the minister's wife, gentle Mary Esmond, and she strove in every way to uplift and bring to her own level those poor souls who were so miserably drifting into coarseness and sin. $

Mr. Esmond did not preach a harsh gospel, and carried out to the letter Paul’s idea and became all things to all men, hop: ing that by those means he might be ablé to reach some, and his gentle wife supple. mented his preaching with her sympathy and influence. v

. Sometimes he was almost disheartened and felt that he was spending his time and talent for naught, but it was rarely that he fell into a desponding mood that something did not occur to show him that however ~slow the seed that he was sowing might be togerminate, that it was still there, the germ unimpaired and ready to spring forth into living activity under favorable circumstances. _ When he looked back and reviewed the field, he could see that there had really been much accéomplished. There had been practically no Sabbath before he came, now nearly every man made a toilet, more or less meager, according to taste and circumstances, and attended ‘‘preachin’,” and the fighting and noisy carousal on that day was sensibly diminished, and in other ways,. more indeed than he knew, his influence -was feit for the better. BE e Just at the present time, some twomonths after the departure of the gulch party, there ‘Was a deeper interest, an increasing attention to the words of the young preacher which was very encourdging to him in--1o was siting in’ the le room whioh served as & spare bed-room and study comg Mffifim%

disguise for the moment as he shambled ‘into the room and sat down upon the chairMr. Esmond placed for him. *“Why, Cyrus,” cried the minister, in surprise, “you’re the last man I was expecting to see., Have you filled your contract al ready?? : v “Wall, no, pardner.” He took off his hat and sat twisting it nervously around by its battered brim, his face meantime wearing o sheepish look of embarrassment. ‘Ter tell th’ truth, pa’son; I come down arter you.”’ 2 “Afterme.” Mr. Esmond’s tone betrayed his surprise. : ‘Ye remember our bargain?’ The minister nodded. : S

‘““Well, sir, 1 tuk them fellers up thar, an’ I did my level best on ’em. I talked about Heaven a blamed sight more'n I believed in myself, an’ I preached about livin’ a vartuous life—'n short, pa’son, I give 'em a o = i | . 1 ; | e =7, Y 4; | 0y . wA i A 2 Wy i 4 eA ' ‘)) \fi ,’, i’\w:' 7i. v //////// y v.."‘(‘” {)m ‘vfi 1 S\ BN Y ; i A 2V 20 i {8 ZGH= (| % I / ol Y | / 5 l': l. =77 JW AN | 'E = "—;";;, : :\3 == l —Z 0% )/ Egy, HE WAS TALL AND LANK. doctrine o’ love, -pure an’ biled down, an' blame the critters, they’ve got tocuttin ug so rough thet I can’t stand it no longer, an! 1! want you ter come up an’ preach hell-fire to ’em, darn ’em, an’ preach 1t strong. Don’t stop ter mince matters, but gin it to ’em an® bring along yer Bible to back ye up. I'l own up, mister, thet I got hold of the wrong eend of th’ argyment, an’ thet law an’ gospel is good fur a man in this life, whether it makes ary difference in the next one er not. Why, sir, them fellers don’t think no more o’ killin’ a man than they dc o’ eatin’ ther dinner, an’ th’ quarrelin’ an’ carousin’ is enough to make yer hair stan’ on eend.” G © “Then you admit that moral suasion isn’t sufficient of itself to convert a man,” said Mr. Esmond. : “Moral suasion be darned, pa’son. What them fellers needs is the ten commandments, rubbed in, an’ emphysized by the thunders of Sinai. Will ye come?”? ; Mgs. . M. HOWARD. NASAL HEADACHES.

Some of Their Causes and Remedies.

Headaches are caused by morbid conditions more commonly elsewhere than in the brain. Permanent relief is to be obtained in such cases not by application to the head or by the use of drugs that blunt the sense of pain, but by removal of the cause.

Says Doctor Roe, of Rochester, N. Y., to whom we are indebted in the preparation ot this article: “Thereis no affection that has so many different types, nor one which is caused by so great a variety of bodily conditions.”” According to Doctor Day, of England, there is none which more severely taxes the experience of the physician. It is only recently that a knowledge of the abundant nervous connection of the nose with:the other parts of the system, and . the nearness of its chambers to the brain, led the medical profession to suspect the nasal drigin of ma.;ry headaches. . This origin 1s generdlly in some abnormal pressure on the nerve filaments in the nasal chambers, in consequence of a congestion of their walls, or a morbid growth of bone, ox a deflection, or bend of the nasal partition. When it results from an engorgement of the passages a simple puncture will generally relieve the headache. A pressure from abnormal bony growth causes a more constant pain. Dr. Roe adduces many cases of headaches from this source which have readily yielded to .treatment. We have room for only three, and these we give only in meager outline. :

‘Mr. A. K—, fifty years old, had had headache, incréasing in severity, for fourteen years. The pain had become so persistent, and his mind was so affected, that he feared softening of the brain. Examination showed pressure from an abnormal bony ridge. An operation immediately relieved the headache and restored him to full health.

Mr. E. R— had for a year and a half suffered somewhat similarly, and was forced to give up work. In his case, also, there was pressure caused by a bony ridge and marked hypertrophy of the turbinated bones. His whole condition was much reduced. An operation quite relieved the pain, and rapidly improved his condition. He has had no trouble since.

Mrs. J. K— had had frequent and severe headaches for four' years, and hayfever every summer. She had ringing in the ears also, and became unable to use her eyes to read or sew. The cause was hypertrophy of the turbinated bones. An operation removed all her trouble, and restored: her general health, which had become seriously affected. For the last five years she has had no return of the headache or of the hay-fever.—Youth’s Companion. ¢ A French View of American Microscope Objectives. M. Pelletan, the learned and impartial editor of the Journal de Micrographie, taking as a text the statement of Dr. Detmers, ‘professor veterinary medicine and surgery of the Ohio State University, that “‘the best German are in no way superior to the best American objectives,’” declares the same to be absolutely true, and adds that heregarded the late R. B. Tolles, “so unhappy in his all-too-short life, so long misunderstood in his own country and ignored in Europe,” to have been the greatest optician in the world. In th 2 course of the same article, Dr. Pelletan pays a very high compliment to the last volume of proceedings of the American Society of Microscopists, finding it superb, not only in the mechanical execution—printing, paper and en-’ graving—but in the scientific quality of the papers. He is especially complimentary, and justly so, in his notes on the papers of Dr. Kellicott and Prof. Burrill. :

‘ - He Couldn’t Move On. An Austrian Lieutenant came upon two private seldiers, one of whom was lying dead drunk upon the ground, while his comrade was standing mear the inebriate apparently in a quandary as to what to do. ¢ls the man unconscious?”’ asked the Lieutenant. : . The soldier saluted and replied: “No, Lieutenant, he has only been drinking a little too much.” *‘Then, why don’t you make him move on?”’ : {ii “Beg pardon, nobody can move on who is as drunk as he is. You couldn’t move on, Lieutenant, if you were; neither could a Major if he was that far gone. I really don’t believe, Lieutenant, thac the Colonecl of the regiment himself could get up if he " had as bfg.a load as that private soldier has 1 on board.”’—Texas Siftings. 0 3 A e 4 Fae i ‘Treatment of Patients Under Chloroform. . In Fyance, when a patient is under chlo- { “roform, o the slightest symptom of apparent mfigum of the heart, theyturn him near- 4 ly upside down, that is, with his head down~ward and his heels in the air. This, they say, always restores him; and such is their Aaithin m:‘fieng%mflmamme; mhada 80 4t in an_ instant ey can bo eloi patien ip % y position’ resembling that

STATE INYELLIGENCE,

. Two new gas wells have been struck in the vicinity of Montpelier. LAWYERS of Greencastle are complaining of a dearth of litigation, only one jury ftrial having been held in four weeks. ;

PRESIDENT FISHER has concluded a contract with a Cleveland firm for the building of a new observatory and telesoope for Hanover College. : LIGHTNING-ROD swindlers fleeced Wm. Walkup, of Allen County, out of $l4O by inducing him to sign a note, under the supposition that he was making a contract for repairs. - i

THE large saw-mill of the Ohio Falls Car Company, of Jeffersonville, was burned to the ground this morning, entailing a loss of $35,000. Two cottages were also burned. Salem Fugit, aged twenty-two, while working on the roof of his father’s house, fell through into the burning building and was most frightfully burned. He also inhaled the flames and can not live. :

Exocr WARD, a prominent farmer of Deercreek Township, Cass County, was found dead in his field recently. » HovUsEY JoHNSON, of she Nickel-Plate Coal Company, and one of his managers were attackeM indignant wives of the striking miners near Perth the other day. They were struck several times by flying missiles, but'escaped without any serious damage. The women are wives of the more ignorant class of foreigners.

Miss ADAMWYANT has obtained judgment, in the Madison County circuit court, for $2,370, against the Bee-line road, for injuries received in a runaway accident two years ago. Her horse had become frightened at the cars.* :

Mzs. A. F. SMiTH, living south of Lebanon, gave birth to twins the other day. She is only thirty-five years of age, and is the mother of sixteen children. This i 8 the third time she has given birth to twins, and she has twice giyen birth to triplets. : 'PATER FLYNN has brought suit against John Wampler and Jim MeGilliard, of Crawfordsville, for $l,OOO danrages, resulting from the defendant selling him a loaded cigar. His eyes were badly injured, and he can not work, though he has a family dependent upon him for support. : Two more great gas wells have been struck near Winchester,one by the electric light company, of that city, and the other by a company of ten citizens. Dgr. J. G. CALDWELL, of Jeffersonville, has in his possession the log book of the steamer General Clark for her third trip from Louisville to New Orleans, during the winter of 1820 and 1821.

A COLORED couple entered the office of a justice of the peace, at Jeffersonville, and asked how much it would cost to be made one. When informed that the fee was $2 they left, saying that they had been told they could get married for ten cents in Indiana. -

- WHILE all of John Miller’s family was away from home the other evening, except two small children—a boy of fourteen and a girl of twelve—two thieves came to the front door and tried to get in. The. boy, hearing the noise, raised a-window up stairs, and seeing the men, went down to get a pistol in his father’s room. One of the thieves, seeing him, pulled his pistol on the boy, when he ran up stairs and yelled so lustily that one of the neighbors came over. The thieves escaped. THE seventh annual® reunion of the Thirty-fourth Regiment Indiana Volunteers occurred at Hartford City, a few days ago. T MRgs. JouN DoNOVAN, of Wabash, died from the effects of an overdose of chloral. She had been using the drug regularly to allay nervousness. She was about fifty years of age, and leaves a husband and one child. :

JOHNNIE WIANT, the ten-year-old son of Israel Wiant, of Marion, who was abducted by a mesmerist and snakecharmer, was recovered on the 27th at Plymouth by a Chicago detective. A BoGasTOWN, Johnson County, farmer has a bantam hen that has adopted a litter of kittens, which she cares for with unremitting solicitude. THE people of Vernon are very much, elated over the discovery of natural gas there in quantities enough to‘suppiy the demand of home consumers. The well just completed proves to be considerable of a gusher, showing a pressure of fifteen pounds to the square inch. ' TaE public schools at Marion were closed for a week on account of the prevalence of diphtheria. About a dozen deaths have occurred. : GEORGE GEPHART, of Sweetser, a PanHandle brakeman, was cut to pieces, a few days ago, at Ridgeville by the cars. : : e

At Jeffersonville, Bud Whitesides, while in a stall with a mule, the other evening, was kicked so badly that he will, die. ¢

‘A MEETING has been called at Seymour, October 10, to form a non-par-tisan press association for Southern Indiana. ‘

AT Marion, the breach of promise case of Rachel McGill Cox against Micajaé Chambers was concluded a few days ago, with a verdict of $2,000 for plaintiff. DußriyG an altercation at Hillham the other day, Joseph Walls, a prominent citizen of Martin County, was fatally cut by Ora Mitchell, of thatcity. Mitchell has fled..

THE two-year-old daughter of John Mooney, of Ft. Wayne, swallowed the contents of a bottle of liniment, containing chloroform and laudanum, and died from effects of the poison. A PETITION, signed by nearly one thousand citizens of Columbus, was pregented at the last meeting of the common couneil there, asking that body to take some action looking to the removal of the J. M. and I. railroad yards from the heart of the city. i At Evansville, Jefferson Irwin, a carpenter, lost his hammer in the vault of a rear outhouse. In trying to recover it he was overcome by the poisonous va---por, and when found was past recovery. Tug Indiana State Fair opened on the /24th with the finest display of stock and machinery ever, exhibited on the grounds. The Exposition Building was already crowded. . = oo Scort BARrLOw, aged nineteen, was found dead in bed at his brother’s house in Kokomo, the other day. Itis thought } _his death is the result of too much - Tanp election at Madison resulted infavor of the appropriation for the L, G, &D. railroad by a big majority. . 'TuE Ohio and Mississippi railway hasbeen sued in the eirouit court of Jen-. R L i W B s 2 Dok www?wé&wfiw@gfi*x

THE ARIZONA KICKER. Every-Day Hlppen-l;:i ‘of Editorial Life ; in the Far West. ; The last issue of the Arizona Kicker contains the following: = - PrEAse ExXcUseE.—ln explanation of the absence of our agricultural department this week, we desire to state that the literary genius who has been presiding over that department for the last six .weeks is .off on a drunk this week. | It is the prerogative of every man in this country to get drunk. It is a privilege which can’t be denied them with safety. This chap agreed nottogoonas oftener than once a fortnight, by& has been swizzled half his time. It is our third attempt to run an agricultural department, and it will be the last. The space will hereafter be occupied with recipes for baldness, remedies for bow-leggedness, and short talks on the diseases of mules and how to cure them. We can steal this stuff from our exchanges and have nothing to burden our mind.

GoNE HoME.—During the. past week Major O’Connor, Judge Pegram and Hon. Tacony Jones, shining lights 'of this neighborhood and leading members of society, have been called for by Eastern detectives and returnéd t 8 their several homes towards sunrise to be tried for various crimes. While we are sorry to see our population thus deplete‘diwe know that justice must be done. The only wonder is that so few were called for. We are certain that at least twenty-five of our leading citizens break into a cold sweat every time a stranger strikes the town. : He Gor.—We were deputized at a meeting held in this office last Wednesday night t 0 wait on Turkey Bill and offer him one hour to leave the town. T'urkey is a little too previous for this community in his way of handling a gun, and it was deemed best to give him a gentle hint. We found him in the Gem saloon, offered him his choice between the highway to Tuscon and a hangman’s rope, and he took the highway. He didn't take the hour. but started as soon as he could get a glass of whisky and a cold rabbit sandwich.

No REBATE.—We desireé to state in the most explicit manner that no rebate will be allowed to any of our subscribers who may be obliged to leave town for the benefit of the community, or who may be hung and buried for the same reason. In several late instances friends of such subscribers have called on us and asked to cash up for the unexpired term, but we have invariably refused. Subscriptions to the Kicker run for one year. We contract to deliver the paper for that time. If the subscriber is arrested, driven off or hung it is no fault of ours. Please bear this in mind and save yourselves trouble. :

HE MissEp.—Our esteemed contemporary down the avenue didn’t like the way we showed him up last week, and on Monday he borrowed a revolver from Sam Adams as long as his leg and lay in ambush for us at the corner of Apache and Cactus avenues. As we appeared, on our way to the post-office, he opened fire, and six shots were fired at us at.a distance of no more than ten feet. Not oneof them came within a foot of us, but the shooter did manage to wound a $2OO mule Dbelonging to Lew Baker, and to kill a $5O dog belonging to Judge Stoker. When he was through shooting we knocked him down and hammered him until he hollered. We understand that he has settled with the others for $l5O and that he thinks 6f leaving town. He'd better. If he ever had any standing here he's lost it now for .sure. A man who holds a gun in both hands -and shuts his eyes to shoot is of no account in this district. The coyotes wouldn’t even bark at him.—Detroit Free Press.. WE HAVE THE MEN. And They Are Good Ones, Even If Their Arms Be Not the Best. This question of arms is a live one in Europe, where fighting may be expected at any time; but we, the very warlike and extremely unmilitary sovereign people of the United States, can afford to view it with indifference. We know that we have millions of fighting men ready to spring to arms at their country’s call. The arms they would spring to may not be of the best, but the men are splendid. : We have Springfield rifles for a few t)’;{ousa,nds of the millions, and have provided by the law of the land, in force in the year of grace 1889, that' each man of all the rest shall have ‘‘a good musket or firelock, two spare flints, a sufficient bayonet,” and other warlike gear, except in the'ease of officers each of whom must have ‘‘a spon-. toon, and a sword or hanger,” as he may elect. e ;

Our criterion of military. excellence is very different from that of Europe. There it is thé capability of men to get into position to' shoot, and to shoot straight and quick; here it is the prettiness with which soldiers, under _police escort, can march up the main street of a great town. ; We consider it the part of wisdom to prepare for more peace in time of peace; butshould aforeign foe suddenly attack us the pulse of the patriot would thrill at the spectacle presented by our armies springing to their arms and marching down Broadway—under. the protection of the Broadway squad ~each man of the rank and file bravely ‘bearing along his firelock, his two spare flints, and his sufficient bayonet, and every officer gallantly brandishing his hanger and flourishing his spontoon, while the cowering and cowardly enemy was pitching 2,000 pounder shells among them from a safe position off Coney Island..—Scribner’s Magazine. - R e

. —There is a story told of Webster which shows how mountains and men may alike become impressive. Webster and other statesmen from Washington were spending & few daysin the White' Mountains; Webster had set, out from the inn afoot before his com_panions, that he might meditate alone ‘in the presence of all this grandeur. Thinking they had lost the great. e e e ‘he had gesn Mr. Webstor pass that way. " Ho ropliod: _+l know nob I s namo is Wobster, ‘but therd went by o A s ? hfl{* ?afifi;fi%&% _mighty as any ot sbtsehilis® 2

PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

-—Many a man could buy his wife a pony phaeton with the mcney he spends for pony brandy.—Texas Siftings. ey i , —An Uncertainty. — Husband — “What kind of cake is this, wife?” Wife—¢“Why, my dear, can’t you tell marble cake?’ Husbgod—*l thought it was either marble or granite, I wasn’t suge which.” —Omaha World. - —Daughter — *“I don’t intend to marry. I intend tostudy.” Mother—- “ That’s absurd. The men will think the less of you in the end if you know much.” Daughter—‘O, mamma! Xou always expect other men to be like papa.”’—Time. e ] —Father—*William, you are running up enormous debts around town. You must remember your unclé is not dead yet.” His Uncle’s Heir— ‘Yes, but he has discharged his doctors and is undergoing treatment by a Christian Scientist.”—Life, i Tl —*lt's always a relief to me when it comes time to pay off Bridget,” said Mrs. lousekeep. “Why?” inquired her husband. ¢Because, that is the only time ‘when 1 feel positive that she doesn’t employ me.” — Washington Capital. : ~ ; o —*“Aw, Miss Belle,” said Gus de Jay, “Do you know I've been thinking?” “Indeed?” ‘‘Ya-a-s;thinking of doing some work.”” *Then you better hurry up, or you will be so tired thinking that you wen't have any strength left to work with.”—Merchant Traveler. —Two brothers named Hart were arrested for buncoing 2 farmer. As the judge sentenced them to.five years apiece he said it called to his mind that touching passage, ‘“Two souls with but a single thought; two Harts that beat as one.” —Judge. —*“Why are the stars hung so high?” asked Rollo,.looking out of the window upon the star gemmed canopy of heaven. ‘‘So that the class of ’89,” said his Uncle George, who graduated in’'73, ‘‘can walk around at night without knocking off its hats.”’—Brooklyn Eagle. fa 2% —Mr. Algernon Nibbs—¢Miss Grace, I have something very important to say to you, if your mind is wholly unpreoccupied and receptive.”” Miss Grace—:*‘l assure ‘you it is, Mr. Nibbs. I have just been reading your article on ‘The Elements of Culture,” and there isn’t a single idea in my head.” —Miss Yellowleaf—*‘l can not understand why you call Mr. Sheighman bashful. I talked with him over an hour last evening and he seemed perfectly at ease.”” Miss Flyppe—*‘l'm sure:l never said he was bashful. In fact I have often heard that in the society of old ladigs he was a most charming talker.’’—Terre Haute Express. ‘ .

. —Brown—“l am glad to see you ‘have recovered from your recent attack of typhoid fever.” Smythe—*‘Thanks, old man. You're very kind.”” Brown —*“What has been the worst thing you ‘had to contend with in connection with your illness?”’ Smythe— “The stories I had to listen to from people who have had typhoid so much worse than L"— America. Do

How Hair-Cloth Is Made.

Many people understand, of course, how hair-cloth is made, but for the edification of those who do not we will explain the process. ln the first place, horse-hair can not be dyed. It repels coloring matter, so to make black cloth it is necessary to secure natural black “hair. The horses, in many cases absélutely wild, unrestrained, gre regularly coralled and shorn. Of course, black hair is preferable, but sometimes gray stock is utilized. Not only the tails but also the manes are cut; the hair is bunchéd. These bunches seldom contain hairs of less length than two feet; some are even three and one-half feet, and the thickest of the bunches is usually two or three inches. The hair cioth looms are provided with what we may call a nipper, in place of shuttle, and the nipper is so flnely actuated that it travels across the warp and seizes from the bunches one hair only, the jaws of the nipper being too fine to grasp more than one, and carries it across the weft threads, dropping it into its exact place. The action of the loom mechanically forces the hair next to its predecessor, the warp crosses upon it, snugly holds it in its place, the nipper travels back and seizes another, and so on and on. Thedelicacy and almost human accuracy with which each separate hair is placed between the warp threads is really incredible. ~—Upholsterer. ~

The Shah and His Dentist.

. One of the most honored of the Shah’s suite is the imperial dentist; and M. Hybennet has probably seen more of English high lifé than any person of his calling, except, of course, Mr. Evans. In his second diary his Majesty frequently alludes to the Psrsian dentist-in-chief, who is, I believe, a Swede. One characteristic passage runs thus: M. Chretien, also a dentist, who was known to me through having on my former voyage amused himself with my teeth, came some days ago with Dr. Tholozan. Hybennet had filled a hollow tooth of my left upper jaw, . but the filling had become loose, and Hybennet could not get it out; but when Chretien had worked at it for some days it finally came out. 'I was very glad, and am going to have the tooth filled anew.” This was in 1878, but Hybennet has still charge of the imperial teeth.—London World. . e

ORI (SRR TIOO ru ey oy FAIT: R it 47 £ W A Leaky Stable Floor. We suspect it is true that a farmer can better afford to have a leaky roof on his barn than a leaky stable floor. A ton of the solid excrements of the horse is worth, for the nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash in them, $1.35 per ton, while the liquids are worth $8.63 per ton. In ecattle the solids are worth eighty-six cents per ton and the commercial value of nitrogen, . ‘phosphoric acid and potash in themars ket. Notwithstanding #bese truths, flwflmém“‘w%*&%% liquid—thoy even contrivo tho easiost Way to whste it—but sweat profusely . AST R e TR