Ligonier Banner., Volume 25, Number 37, Ligonier, Noble County, 25 December 1890 — Page 2

MY DREAM AND ITS MEANING. I had a dream ono night that seemed so queer I laughed until I wept, and waked my spouse, Who was thereat so fliled with sudden fear ‘That she in turn awakened all the house. The dream was thig: I thought I lived in Spain With all my ancestors, from now to Shem, And some likewise back there before the rain That fell for forty days, destroying them. The house we lived in had a single room, And one small bed therein, in which we all, When night had steeped the valley in its gloom, . i Would=every one of us—contented crawl; And there we'd sleep, with Adam on one side, And I, the youngest of the line, on t'other. And here’s the fun whereat I laughed and cried Untilmy wife and family thoughtl'd smother: I pushed my father 'gainst my grandad: he ‘Pushed up against his father, with a snore; And so it went up through my ancestry ¢ Until old Adam fell out on the floor. This roused his anger, and he turned about And soundly spanked his baby for the trick, Who thereat on kis own son took it out By giving him a most tremendous kick. The kick was passed along from dad to son, And gathered force as nearer me it came. A spank ancestral down the ages spun 5 I feared would be so forceful as to maim. ) And so, poor coward that I am, I slipt . Out on the floor; then speedily awoke Just as my poor grandad was soundly clipt, And left my father victim of my joke. My wife, when she had heard the fearsome tale ‘Was sure some horrid omen she could trace Therein, and pleaded with me not to fail To have some doctor diagnose the case. And so I sought the doctor, and he said, “The dream is fraught with portent in my sight. : i “It means,” he then observed, with shaking head, “That you must give up lobsterlate at night.” . —Carlyle Smith, in Harper's Bazar. . BY NEW METHODS. How Electricity Can Make Life : ‘Worth the Living. : P WEARY New O B (61 ¥ York clerk may : mmn,;&l@ 8 lay down his ~ NR’.‘?_’l/.;&‘;};{ E electric pen, G B GT i take an electric A 'é{;;j:'i.f;;v"'( M bath, board a W ("/'% "I-q’ - Madison avenue ; ‘\“‘“\‘, m*‘i‘\. ' street-¢car run R a“\ RevRAEM I by electricity Sl b P AMERY B and ride home OWP A R 48R through strects ok oy ePR lighted by elecb :;' 0l u]""LU"‘.&& tricity, f'ing an - l;' ”n[ﬂ;},m" electric door- ] P bell, enter a < fj-‘i’, . % ; i room illuminated by a soft electric light and made cool by an electric fan, read a message from China sent by an electric wire, and take a moonlight ride on the Harlem in an electric boat before going to bed, says the New York Journal. If he is a member of an electrical club he may have his boots polished, his hair combed and his coat brushed by electricity. : Electricity is the great new force that modern intelligence has tamed and harnessed for the sons ot Adam. The Leyden jar may ultimately take the place of the coal mine as the source of the force which moves the machinery of the world. So manifold are the uses of electricity, small wonder is it that SO, many ingenious electrical contrivances have already been invented. It may surprise the reader to learn that rats are pat to death painlessly by electrical execution. The new electric rat-trap wastinventod after much study by an ambitious young electrician of Omaha, Neb. It resembles the ordinary rat-trap, which is hardly more or less than the quiet restaurant where the experienced old rat eats his meals. - He drops in three times a day for a cheese sandwich, nibbles it like a gourmand, for he is a connoisseur in old cheese, and saunters out of the little inn, leaving the door open behind-him. He knows that the landlord will be around on the morrow and replenish the cheese. He regards himself as a steady boarder, who may breakfast or dine wheneyer he likes, and has never a bill to pay. Sometimes when he has dined heartily he takes a quiet and serene after-dinner nap in the cage. - Then he rises, yawns, rubs his eyes and starts out to attend a congress of rats that are planning to raid a pantry. j L The new cage is a most attractive little restaurant for a rat to look upon from the outside. The cheese is fresh and fragrant. The service seems to be the best. The floor is so bright that it shines. The bon vivant rat saunters in

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touched the wire. The moment he did 80 he completed the circuit between the wire and the zine floor. Fifty volts of & continuous current went dary;ing through him at the rate of a thousand miles a second. i

His toes turned up. His tail waved in the air and twisted itself into fortyseven inexplicable knots. He dropped down as dead as a door nail—and the

cheese still hung on the nail. The restaurant was still open for business as ysual. ’ b

;R rat who had come along like a depufy coroner, just in time to sce the close of the tragedy, said: ‘“What a Aebetudinous crank that rat was! The old restaurant is good enough for me. 1 don’t believe in the Kemmler sort of execution.” :

It is averred by an amateur naturalist that the rats of New York have recently held a large convention and protested against electrical execution. All

4 = 48 ¥ ,! -l v !:.;'l" A : 2\ ! | B ¥/ ke R R 8/ Gl o, L e 4 . .?."/‘HI e : B T U\ EraniiaeT R el FerE TG Q) e T . Se |N2 e llﬁl\\\\\“ * : 1 B ',‘"',lﬁi\‘.i\\\“‘ i e|/ : 1A ,fw,,@/ﬂm//'nw i ((: i : «‘,"ézﬂ'"ﬂ"lm i & "’”I/l:’l'ﬂif,"" ;‘, 1 //,' I o 8 lnimu”lll!!»- // //% o - PN Lt = —— e _as— | S Yichall, THE KEY-HOLE MISSING. declared that if thdy must die they pvl'eferred to be killed in the good oldfashioned way by cats. The new Omaha rat-trap is merely the electirical moae of execution applied to rats. Each rat that wanders in and nibbles the cheese becomes a link 1n the electric circuit and dies in the same way that Kemmler died. .The principle being a simple one and easy of application, it may ultimately be applied in the killing of cattle and pigs in the stock yards. A four hun-dred-pound pig may walk into a zine pen, start to eat an ear of corn which hides an electric wire, drop down, curl up his tajl and die. ' : © Another useful invention is the electric cane. Young men who have gone home in an exhilarated condition and found the key-hole missing, or so elusive that a man couldn’t have hunted it down with forty night keys, will hizhly appreciate th new invention. It is a stylish cane which would give distinetion to a young clerk taking his usual Sunday wallk on Fifth avenue. There is a miniature electric battery hidden in the end of the cane, and an electric light concealed under the top of the cane.

When, after pursuing a zig-zag course, the lucky owner of one of these canes arrives at his lodgings and finds that the key-hole has gone around the bléck, he unscrews the top of the cane. Then bbe touches a little button in the cane and instantly an electric flame glows and throws a flood 8f light on the keyhgle. The young man walks upstairs %cl goes to bed by the light of his electric cane. It is pleasanter than falling over the porch, ringing up the house and carrying the stairs up to bed with you. :

. If the young man drops his last onecent piece at the Bridge entrance, he may light his electric cane zad look for it. 1f he drops his pocket-book he may find it by t'Je aid of this ingenious invention. He may pick his way through the little side streets on a dark night by following this luminous cane. If he should encounter a highwayman, the terrified footpad would throw up his hands and run as soon as he saw the electric light glittering and flashing from the head of the electric walking stick. The modern Dick Turpins would suppose that it was an enchanted cane, and that the fortunate possessor of it was not a real person, but some weird avenging spirit. i ‘ Every one knows that ome of the greatest objects of dread in life is to get up out of bed on a cold winter morning and kindle a fire. Thisisc’ viated now by the electric fire-kindler. All the head of the family has to do now is to turn over on his pillow and touch an electric button. The fire lights in the kitchen stove, the pot boils, the kettle sings. It is a great im{t):;/ement over the old way. When fthis comes into general use such wives as “Poor Pearl” will be unknown, and our readers will not be called on o decide whether wife or husband should build the six o’clock a. m. fire. Science will be Cupid’s handmaid. ¢

A CURE FOR LAZINESS. ‘How Droeuish People Are Treated in Holland. During a morning walk a merchant who was detained by business in Amsterdam came to a group of men who were standing round a well, into which a strongly built man had just been let down. A pipe, whose mouth was at the top of the well, had been opened and a stream of water from it was flowing down into the well and beginning gradually to fill »it. The fellow had quite enough to do, if he did not want to be drowned, to keep the water out by means of a pump which was at the bottom of the well. The merchant, pitying the man, asked for an explanation of what seemed a heartless, cruel joke. “Bir,” replied an old man standing near, “that man is healthy and strong; I have myself offered him work twenty times, nevertheless he always allows laziness to get the better of him, and will make any excuse to beg his bread from door to door; he might easily earn it himself by work if he liked. We are now trying to make him feel that he can work. If he uses the strength which is in his arms he will be saved, if he let them hang idle he will be drowned. But look,” continued the old Dutchman, as he went to the edge of the well, ‘*‘the fellow finds out that he has got muscles; in an hour we. shall ‘let him out with better resolutions for the future.” Such was the case and the cure was effectual. —Farm, Field and Stockman. ;

o Ups and Downs, ~ ““How is this? You haven’t put up ‘my order.” ' “Sorry, sir; but that’s because you told me to put it down!”—Puck.

‘' Diversity. , “All men don’t think alike.” : . “Why, of course not; some ‘guess, others ‘reckon,’ and still others ‘fancy.’’ ~Puck, ' g éﬁn‘f fasE e ’A’ - ' ;;{ij}g}%?i};

THE PARTY OF EXTRAVAGANC_E, Moves Which Have Plunged the Na;tloh Into Expense. :

The Republican party, true to the tradition of its ancestor, the Whig party, has never shown a tendency toward economy and retrenchment when in power. The party is so permeated with that reckless spirit, inherited from the Whig organization, and became so calloused to public opinion during the recomnstruction period, that Republican rule and extravagance are to-day almost synonymous from. the National Congress down to the most insignificant municipal corporation. A Repubffcan Congress was never known to abolish a useless office or to reduce the salary of an officer whose duties had been lessened by the creation of new = places. In 1874 the tidal wave which swept the Republicans out of the popular end of the Capitol was not caused by the McKinley bill, but was a popular condemnation of Republican corruption and reckless expenditure of public funds. Since that “‘tidal wave” the House, which originates all revenue and appropriation bills, has been intrusted, to the Republiean party but-twice. {l'he Forty-seventh Congress was so notorious for corruption and extravagance that ten weeks after the first session had adjourned a Democratic House was returned by seventyfive majority. Two years ago the Republicans carried the House by ten majority, and three weeks ago the people again showed their want of confidence in the Republican party so emphatically that, had not the party leaders taken the precaution to steal the Montana Senators and create States out of mining camps, the party of spoils would have been annihilated. :

The appropriations made by the last session of Congress are so enormous that if levied directly upon the people eight dollars would be required from every person. enumerated® in the last census to raise the money to carry them out. Although the service in several bureaus of the Government is decreasing—for instance, in the general land office, the bureau of Indidn affairs, the military service and the internal revenue department—l,l6l new offices were created and $1,235,000 appropriated for their support. The appropriation fo\r old offices was increased $135,000. When the surplushad been exhausted and a pension deficiency of $75,000,000 saddled on the next. session, the Republicans during the last days of the long session authorized contracts to be made for the manufacture of heavy ordnance to the amount of $3,775,000 and also authorized the construction of heavy war vessels which, with armament, will cost $24,225,000. Of this amount only $5,475,000 was appropriated and the remainder was saddled on the next Congress. Public buildings were authorized to be erected which will cost $7,116,639.54 when completed, but only $2,375,000 was directly appropriated. Besides appropriating $22,000,000 for river and harbor improvements, the Secretary of Wir was authorized to contract for othey works amounting to $14,922,970, of which only $2,000,000 was directly appropripted. ; The fallacy off protection has had much to do with Inoculating the Republican party with shis mania for extravagance. The leaders, having taught the rank and file that the consumer does not pay the tariff, naturally regard the millions stored i\ the Treasury vaults, derived from tax n imports 4nd internal revenue, f4s so much plunder from importers fand foreign manufacturers, and use them accordingly. A ‘high tariff and extravagant appropriations go hand in hand. The Republican party, as at present composed, has been taught to look upon the money which finds its way into the public Treasury as not derived © from the pockets of . the people. Being imbued with such ideas, it is not strange that when it controls a Legislature the State treasury is treated as if it was a Washington surplus. The rebukes which the Republicans receive after every trial given them by the people do not seem to teach them a lesson. A few:days ago the leaters of the party were assembled at the Denison from all parts of the State to ascertain what was ﬁrpng with their organization and hat remedy should be applied. They resolved after a long session to “make mare jplaces for the workers” and to silence a free-trade paper by buying it out and running it as a spoils organ. To ‘‘make places for the workers” means the creation of new offices, and it is fortunate for the tax-payers of Indiana that the Legislature is not Republican, for the Statehouse would not be large enough to shelter all the ‘‘workers” whom the Legislature would have made places for. It is only necessary to refer to the Republican House of 1887 for an example of what would have taken place in the legislative halls of the State this winter had a Republican Legislature been elected.—lndianapolis Sentinel.

DOCTORING THE LOCAL VOTE.

The System of Local Self-Government as Viewed by Mr. Harrison.

The people of a State elect their Governor and Secretary of State by majoriy vote, and the officials thus chosen act as their representativesin certifying their choice of representatives in Congress. If this is wrong the entire system of local self-government is wrong and the ballot is a blunder; for, certainly if the people of a State or “locality” can not be trusted to manage their own elections and certify their will, as declared by their votes, they are unfit to cast the votes in the first place. In his message Mr. Harrison openly takes the ground that ‘‘the local authorities” must not be trusted with ‘‘certification.” He is willing to let the local voters vote, but on condition that the “‘certification” should be done by the agents of the District of Columbia office-holders, whom the people are likely to wish to vote against. Mr. Harrison argues that if these local voters certify their local vote through their ‘‘local authorities” it gives the person whom they have locally chosen their representative in Congress ‘‘a prima facie right” to take his seat. :

This, in' Mr. Harrison’s view, is the flaw in the American system, and he insists that it must be mended by the force bill at once. His way of mending it is to take from the local voters the power to certify their vote through their ‘“local authorities,” so that it may be vested in District of Oolumbia returning boards, whose “certification” woulh give this prima facie right to their choice to take his seat as a representative of the local voters. ; _ln stating his case Mr. Harrisonavoids o divect issue against local voting by making the istue on local certification. It is the “‘local authorities” he professes to distrust most. It is these he con.

demns as unfit to be trusted by the people who select them. If tke authorities are ‘‘local,” unless they are located in the District of Columbia: unless the office-holder is in some way dependent on the District of Columbia and in so much independent of .the locality and the local voters, Mr. Harrison takes i for granted that their intentions are criminal and their acts far more liable to be fraudulent than the acts of Distyjct of Columbia politicians. If this is true, we might as well stop pretending that we are fit to be free, and, in order that virtue may be forced on us from superior natures, make the Presidency and all other offices - hereditary. That and that alone will eradicate the local habit of acting through local "authority without the consent of the District of Columbia politicians. Mr. Harrison’s plan of returning boards ‘‘stops just short of effectiveness.” No doubt one election might be stolen with it as was done in 1876, but when the attempt was made the second time the local voters might emphasize their local authority by a convincing protest against the District of Columbia returning boards. ’

In theory the returning board system makes an easy way for the District of Columbia tax-consumers to perpetuate themselves in office, regardless of the local voters, but these same local voters have a will of their own, and a way of showing it, regardless of what a returning board certifies. So the only logical method through which Mr. Harrison can enforce his views is through a system under which when a man once gets office in the District of Columbia he can hold it during his lifetime and leave it to his son and his grandson after him.— St. Louis Republic. SRR i D e ;

OPTIMISTIC PRETENSIONS.

Points on Which the Chief Executive Is : Badly Off.

_The President asserts in his message that the ‘“‘general trade and industrial conditions throughout the country during the year have improved.”

The President is either unfamiliar with the condition of the country or he has injected a bit of stump-speech buncombe into his message. The message ‘was prepared when the outloolk in the money market was of the gloomiest description; when the merchants and manufacturers were anticipating that worse was to follow; when thousands of men who work for stated wages were compelled to face the possibility of losing their place through the failure of their employers. It is not true, as Mr. Harrison says, that the ‘legislation of the last session of Congress promises ‘larger and better markets for our breadstuffs and provisions both at home-and abroad, more constant employment and better wages for our working peopic.” The farmers and the working people zave their opinion on that point at thc recont election, and that opinion was not ia agreement with Mr. Harrison’s optimistic pretensions. There is no record of the advancement of wages in consequence of that legislation, nor any thing in the law to constrain the payment of higher wages. On the contrary, there are abundant instances of the reduction of wages and of the closing up of factories.

When the framers of the constitution provided that the President should give ““to the Congress information of the state of the Union” they intended that the information should be truthful. ‘Mr. Harrison’s message, therefore, violates the spirit of the constitution.—N. Y. World.

REPUBLICAN LOSSES.

The Democratic Gains in the Northern States in the Late Election.

The most impressive aspect of the. Democratic victory in the next House of Representatives is/the fact that the party has a clear majority of members elected in the Northern States, and does not need a single seat from the South in order to outvote the Republicans. Moreover, the Democrats have a majority of the members elect-in each section of the North. In New England the Democrats have elected thirteen Representatives, against only twelve Republicans, and their total would already be fourteen, except that one candidate in Rhode Island, who had a good plurality, lacked a clean majority at the last election, and must run a second time, when a plurality will suffice. In the old ‘“Middle States” of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the Democrats have elected thirty-nine, against only thirty for the Republicans. In the West, taking in the whole region from the Alleghanies to the Pacific, the Democrats and their allies among the farmers have seventy-five, against only forty-two for Republicans. If we consider what iscommonly called ‘‘the West”— including only the_ older States from Pennsylvania to Colorado—the opposition have seventy-four members against only twenty-seven Republicans. In other words, alike in New England, in the old Middle States, and in the great States of the West, the Republican party has become the minority party on the Congressional issue. Its losses have been heaviest in the States, like Massachusetts in the East and lowa, Minnesota and Kansas at the West, which have been its strongholds.—N..Y. Evening Post.

CURRENT OPINION.

——The New York Tribune in enumerating the ‘‘saints” of to-day that are known to students of sacred literature forgot to mention St. McKinley of the Republican party who is now dead. -—Chicago Globe. ——The alarm of the Republican press of the country over the pension situation is manifest. That is something that may be almost as serious for the Republicans as the tariff when the country wakes up to the facts.—N. Y. Post,. :

——The Republican party is now in the condition of the man who was compelled to make a choice between his Satanic Majesty and salt water. Ithas run upon the force bill snag. Its financial ballast is out of order. Its crew of pensioners is clamoring for more pay, and the waves from the tariff ocean are beating its sides to pieces. It is time to lower ' the boats and leave the wormeaten old craft to its fate.—Louisville Courier-Journal.

——There is one thing Czar Reed ought to do before his czarship runs out. He should discipline the Portland Press, the leading Republican paper in his distriet, for advertising that ‘“on account of the McKinley bill the leading cigar manufacturers advance their prices from five dollars to ten .dollars per thousand.” And just when the organs are crying out that the Democratic lies about increased prices have been thoroughly exposed. The friends of the new tariff are praying earnestly for cold weather in the belief that it will reduce the price of ice. They want something to come down.—Detroit Free Press. :

MISCELLANEOUS. = ' —There are 208,749 railroad bridges in tbe United States, spanning 3,213 miles. . —A Coatesville, Pa., farmer raised a pumpkin that is so big he can not get i$ into his cellar. ' . —Chatterton—*‘‘Don’t you think it is a shame the way Impecune gets everybody to trust him?”’ Gohard—‘‘To the contrary, I think it's greatly 1o his credit!”—Clothier and Furnisher. —A Connecticut boy is famous just now because he hasa tin whistle one and a half inches in diameter and several inches long in his stomach. He swallowed'the toy while playing on it. —Depositor — ‘‘ls the cashier in?. President—‘‘N-o0; he has gone away.” Dépositor—*‘Ah! Gone for a rest, I presume.” - President (sadly) — ‘N-o0; to avoid arrest.”—N. Y. Weokly. —There are few such common-sense proverbs 48 ‘‘every man is the architect of his own fortune.” Appius Cladius, a Roman censor, used it in a speech delivered. by him 450 years before the Christian era. : ° —*l wan’t to get insured.” ‘‘What kind, please—fire, old age, life?” ‘No; you seé I am a hotel-keeper, and I want to be insured against people who go off, leaving their bills unpaid?’—Flliegende Blatter. — Wigger—*‘Did you know that Scrimper has gone on a vacation? He said he heeded change badly.” Haggard—*l hope he will get all he wants of it, and not apply to me for any more.”’—Dßoston Herald., @ ==

—Mrs. X, (at a fancy -ball)—*“What a magnificent costume Mrs. Z has on! I wonder what it represents?’ Mr. X (who knows the Z family)—*‘‘lt represents housework, which you hire somebody else to do.”—N. Y. Weekly. —A Chance for Promotion.—Office Manager—‘‘Johnny, if you don’t get a move on you I’ll kick you through the: skylight.” Office Boy—*“Kick away. This is the first chance to rise I’ve seen since I came here.”—Jeweler’s Weekly. —First Sweet Girl—‘'Did you see the skeleton dude at the museum?’ Second Sweet Girl—''Yes, 1 saw him.” First Sweet Girl—‘‘What did he. look like?” Second Sweet Girl—*‘O, just like any other dude.’-—Good News. —The introduction of the custom of blessing water before the principal mass on Sunday and sprinkling the people with it is commonly attributed to Pope St. Leo IV. (847-855); but there are learned writers who trace it to a far more remote antiquity, and regard the words of that pontiff as referring to an existing custom. —Railroad statistics show that no one car on a train is safer than another. Sometimes the last car is the only one to drop through a bridge, and again the first coach climbs on top of the baggagecar. Pay your fare, have faith, and take your chances. Of the forty-two men hung last year none were ever hurt in a railroad accidemt. — Detroit Free Press. f

—*‘“See here, I thought you said this horse you sold me last week was fearless of locomotives!” ©“Well, isn’t he?” “‘No. When I was out riding yesterday afternoon he began to cut up when he saw a locomotive approaching and tried to dash right into it.” “Waell, if a horse was afraid of a locomotive he wouldn’t want to run into it, would he? He’d try to run away from it.” — Norristown Herald. {

—Green City Folks.—Mrs. Hayseed—- “ Yes, I had some city boarders durin’ th’ summer, but I didn’t interdooce ’em around much ’cause I saw they wasn’t fust-class folks what goes out of the city every summer.” Neighbor—*‘Oh! They showed they’d never been’in the country before, did they?” Mrs. Hayseed—‘‘Yes, indeed. @Why,’ the very fust meal they ask for cream.”—N. Y. Weekly. . : —A 'London periodical says: We are within measurable distance of the time when the United States, hitherto the haven of the landless, will cease to offer what has been the great attraction to the mewcomers. Only 30,000,000 of population are nesded. Mr. Giffen calculates, to settle, from the agriculturist point of view, the whole of the United States; and at the present rate all the gountry practically worth occupying will be under cultivation in twenty-five years. / —Ruff Lester comes to the front with the smartest dog named—one that can eount. It has been the custom with the cook for the family to make old Wade (that’s the dog’s name) catch the chickens—three in number—each day for the table. The other day it was decided that two chickens would be sufficient for that day, and when the dog had caught that number the cook took them in. When she reached the kitchen Wade was not far behind her - with another fowl in his mouth, making the number that he had been accustomed to catch each day. And so it is that Ruff claims that his dog can count.—Oglethorpe (Ga.) Echo. : —The camera is becoming, as no doubt the phonograph will soon become, a recognized accessory of any historic scene. The crowning incident of the Moltke celebration was a presentation to him by the empeyror, standing amidst a galaxy of fellow-sovereigns, generals and statesmen. The emperorconcluded by asking the count to accept a new marshal’s baton of silver magnificently inlaid with stars and crowns of rubies and diamonds. Count Molkte could only find a few brief and incoherent words of reply, but he took the emperor’s hand and imprinted on it a long and fervent kiss. @ A photographer in attendance seized the moment, and the negative will be developed by Professor von Werner’sbrush into a grand historic picture. ! —Another of the idols of the past has been shattered. J. Guthrie Watson, an Englisnman, denies the beauty of Circassian women. They have long been traditionally the most beautiful women of the world, but their beauty, he declares, from long acquaintance with their land, to be only for the native eye. What are called Circassian beauties are to be found not far from Batoum, in the small towns and villages and in the north of the Caucasus, but they are not beauties at all, and nine men out of ten would travel through those districts without noticing them. They are most1y poor peasant girls. They have lovely eyes, but without expression. Up to the age of fourteen they have nice features but after that age they become very coarse looking.

Why He Looked Thin.

Wiggins — You’re looking poorly, Jack—really miserable. S

Jack Hardup—No wonder, when you consider the diet I'vo been living on for the past month. = ' Wiggins—Boarding house? v Jack Hardup—Naw—'uncle!” Tl've been eating up my summer clothes.— Life. Lt

’ -WAR SURE TO COME. General Miles Thinks It Xs Inevitable—He. Assumes Personal Charge of the Indian Campalgn—Sensational Rumors Unconfirmed—How Sitting Bull Was Killed. WasHINGTON, Dec. 18.—General Schofield has received a telegram from General Miles; dated Long Pine, Neb., Decemper 18, as follows: . « = . - ‘‘General Brooke reports that Two Strike and_ 184 lodges of about )0 Indians are now camped at Pine Ridge agency.and these, with the other Indians at Pine Ridge and Rosebud, are] all ‘that can be drawn out of the -disaffected camp. The others are defiant and hostile and are determined to go to war; he has no hope that any other effort at pacification would be successful. He estimates the pumber of men in the hostile camp in the Bad Liands at 250. General Ruger’s estimate represents that 200 men on ’the Cheyenne river and 300 in Standing Rock reservation who would have been liable to. leave before the death of Sitting Bull, making in all 750 men. Every possible means have Dbeen exhausted to retain and restrain the friendly Indians. now on reservations, The 16,000 Sioux who have becn restrained and professed loyalty should: have positive assurances with the least possible delay that the Government will perform and fulfill its treaty obligations.” ~ No information has been received at the War Department in regard to the reported fight in which two officers’and fitty men are said to have been killed. ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 18.—General Ruger has received telegrams from Fort Yates and Rapid City onthe Indian troubles. The former stated that all was quiet at the Standing Rock agency, and that about 100 of Sitting Bull’s friends were still out. The other was to the effect that one Indian who had been caught stealing on Cole's ranch, southeast of Rapid City, had been shot. There fvas firing heard forty-five miles from Rapid City on Phinney’s ranch, Indians and ranchmen exchanging shots, but no one was hurt. These tquiittle ‘brushes reported from Rapid City @re probably ‘all there ~was to the report of many killed there. - Advices from New England City say the regulars are moving slowly, as there is constant danger’ of being cut to pieces by the red devils. All companies have been ordered to move with the. greatest caution to avoid bloodshed. Rarip CiTYy, S. D., Dec. 18.—General Miles arrived here Wednesday morning and assumed charge. He is in communication with ‘General Carr by couriers:. He knows nothing of the reported engagement at Daly’s ranch, and thinks the report untrue. General Carr is encamped at the junction of Rapid and Cheyenne rivers, on the west border.of the reservation, forty miles east of this place, with three battalions of the Sixth Cavalry—over 400 men. Indians in the vicinity have been stealing horses - from ranchmen. Some skirmishing has occurred between the Indians and ranch- | men, in which one Indian iS known to. have been killed. | L . STANDING ROCE AGENCY, via Courier to Bismarck, Deec. 18.—The following are the actual details of the fight in which . Sitting Bull was killed: . The police under Bull Head, lieutenant of police, and Shave Head, first sergeant, went into camp near Sitting Bull’s village on the night of the 14th, and the ‘next morning went into Bull’s camp and made the arrest. Sitting Bull expressed his’ willingness to go with them but wanted to make some preparations for the ride and ordered his horse to be got ready. While Bull Head and Shave Head were on the shack where ‘the old chief was g*etting ready, two bucks enveloped in blankets entered the shack, and throwing ¢off their blankets opened fire on the police. Sitting Bull’s wife had gone out and set up a- howl, which seems to have been the signal for the assault. - . ;

In the ficht which followed Red Tomahawk killed Sitting Bull. Ten or more of Sitting Bull’'s followers ‘were killed. Seven police were killed, and Bull Head and Shave Head were desperately wounded. The police were now surrounded, but at ‘this juncture Captain Fechet, with his Gatling gun and a Hotchkiss, reached the scene and attacked the Indians, who, after an hour and a half of hot skirmishing, took to flight and disappeared into the timber. <

The camp with the dead and wounded was taken at once. Occasional shots were exchanged between the troops and ambushed ' hostiles during the day. The officers and men under the gallant Fechet, who is a man of experience and unquestioned bravery, acted with courage and good judgment. The casu-~ alties were as follows: el A Police killed: Little Eagle, Afraid-of Soldiers, Hawk Man, Broken Arm, Bull Head, Badly wounded; Shave Head, mortally wounded (since died); Alex Middle. wounded in the leg. Hostiles killed: Sitting Bull, Crow Foot (Sitting Bull’s son), Brave Thunder and his son, Catch-the-Bear, Black Bear, Little Assinaboine, Spotted Horn Bull. ? . '

PIERRE, S. D., Dec. 18.—White Buffalo Man, son of Sitting Bull, who lives on Bad river, west of here, came into town Wednesday. He cays the killing of Sitting Bull is right, and that the Bad river Indians are all glad. But White Buffalo Man says a messenger from Sitting Bull's camp will no doubt visit the Bad Lands hostiles, and when they hear of Sitting Bull’s death they will kill every white man they sée. He says the Government must now capture and disarm them or great trouble will follow.

White Buffalo on Wednesday first heard of his father’s death. He is an intelligent Indian and has taken no part in the Messiah business. An interpreter learned from him that he had long expected his father to be killed, and he had no sympathy with the course he had always pursued. He said Sitting Bull had always been cruel to his children, which was the cause of White Buffalo leaving and going to live among a more civilized tribe. L

TO BE READ BEFORE MEALS. Doxn’r find fault and pick about your food. - : . DoN’t talk with your mouth filled with food. : : DoN’T commence eating as soon as you are seated. : - DoN’t soil the table-cloth with bones, parings, ete. : Dox'f laugh loudly, or talk boisterously, at the table. & Dox’t detail all the slanders you can think of at the table. ‘ Dox’t take bones up in your fingers to eat the meat from them. : DoN’t call attention to any little mistake which may have occurred. Dox’r make yourself and your own affairs the chief topic of conversation. DoN’r také another mouthful, while any of the previous one remains in the mouth. o : DoN'T reach across the table for.any thing; but wait until it is passed to you, or ask for it. iy - DoN’r put your elbows'pn the table, nor lounge about; if not able to sit erect, asle to bo excused i i Dox'r frown or look cross at the ‘well as that of those eating with you. e ﬁiﬁ;ﬁwi‘“‘t* on e oLR B e

PARNELL'S SIGHT.

His Physicians Have Hopes of Saving [t : The Lime-Throwers Denounced. ) DueLiN, Dec. 18.—Mr. Parnell has issued - a ' strong appeal to the Hillside men, calling on them not to submit to English dictation. : . Though Mr. Parnell’ suffered intense pain he was able at midnight to address from a window of the Victoria Hotel at Kilkenny a large crowd that had gath-ered-about the hotel when-the misfortuue ‘that had befallen him became generally known. During the address his face was. covered with bandages. He detailed the events of the day, and the crowd became exasperated at the manner in which he had been treated, and many threats of vengeance were made. ; - ) Mr. Parnell's breakfast was served to him in bed. A" closg examination of his eyes revealed the fact that his sight is not injured. ' The surgeon in attendance upon him declares, however, that inflammation may set in. He has ordered that Mr. Parnell keep his eyes closed, and that hot water fomerts be. constantly applied to them. It is not likely that he will be allowed to leave kis room for a-day or so. 4 The cowardly assault of the limethrowers has created a tremendous reaction in Parnell’s favor. The news spread like wildfire through Ireland and the excitement is at fever heat. Immense crowds surround the Victoria Hotel in Kilkenny tvhere Parnell is stopping, and their anger at the fiendish-as-. sault is expressed in fierce threats of retaliation. - The anti-Parnellites had not a word -to say and many among the ctowd had been opposed to Parnell until they heard of. the attempt to blind him. *“Down with the lime throwers,” was frequentlygghouted. It is the new battle cry of ﬁ’amellites and will be heard in many an excited meeting before the bifter contest is over. :

- The latest information regarding the assault on Mr. Parnell issthat a’ supply of lime had been prepared beforehand and placed.in small bags, loosely tied up, so that they could be thrown easily and would break when they struck. The preparations showed great deliberation. The bag of lime which was thrown at Mr. Parnell was well aimed and struck him right in the. eyes. It was a vicious blow. The Parnellites charge that a number of priests, led by Father Downey, incited the anti-Par- -~ nellite mob to assault Mr. Parnell, and say the resort to violence is the best proof that the priests feel they are playing a losing game. : e All the papers join in denouncing the outrage upon Mr. Parnell, which nearly resulted in permanently ruining his sight. The use of such methods of political warfare, they say, will, if persisted in, seriously injure the cause of the anti-Parnellite party. i _ : NEw Yorg, Dec. 18.—Messrs. Dillon and O’Connor sent the following cable to Justin McCarthy Wednesday: :

“Have learned with the deepest pain of the injury to Mr, Parnell. Language and acts of violence on both sides will ruin the Irish cause in the eyes of Americans and fill the Irish people with despair. Save the cause. Use influence with our friends and abstain from ‘all personal insults and violenee, no matter how great the provocation, and appeal to Mr. Parnell’s supporters to abstain from attacking meetings.” i .

INCREASED ITS SIZE. The House Passes the Bill Making Its Membership 356—-How the States Will Be Represented Under the New Measure.: WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—After a longdebate Wednesday the House passed the apportionment bill without amend‘ment—yeas, 137; nays, 82. The bill gives Congressmen to the different States as follows: Algbama. . . .rocoe, MOUaNA. . citaiis io 1 ATEanSas. .. . .o o|NebEaska. Lo,oo 6 California.<.: ... bis {lNevada, coei oo 0.1 C010rad0..... ~.. «c... 2|New Hampshire..... 2 Conneoticut. ... ..... 4|New Jer5ey.......... 8 Delaware 00l g HiNew Yok (oio .o dd Floridas.i.:ili...... . 2|Norih Garolina. i.... 9 Georgla...o. coiai a 1 Notth Dakota, o, .. 1 Idako. 00l S raa G HIORNGE & sl s oiC R Hlinois::.: ovcn .0 2Rjoregen .. U it 2 1ndiana............... 1 |Pennsylvania.. ......30 JOWR . iiasiiiiansa 0 canll|Rhode IStand.. cico.cc 2 Kansag.:i. ..e. ......v B{South Car01ina....... 7 Kentucky.... .... ...11|South Dak0ta........ 2 Lioudsland:. . ... 6l Tennessen s dos oo s 10 Maine ui:ccail i diTexas s it calic 18 Maryland.. ;... .s—.. 6] Vermontiii.... oo ooi 2 Massachusetts...,/...18| Virginia...... ......... 10 Michigan.:.......j... 12| Washington.,.; .... .. 2 Minnesota..... ... ... 7/West Varginia....... 4 Mississippi.. ... 0 TfWisceonsmiid 00, .10 Mi550uri..............15|Wy0ming............. i The following States gain Representatives: Alabama, oo HMNEnnesotai sl S - Arkansas. a.. 00l o 1 INHSSOURL o it ol California ........ ....I‘Nebmska...... gle o 8 C010rad0..... i, oo liNew dersey. - oics. oo 1 Georgia. . oilie s HOTegon G il saea vey ik ININOIS v iveseds .-~ 2|Pennsylvania ..... ....2 Kansas:, . s Texgsi ii o 13 Magsachusetts........ ll|Washington..... ......1 Michigan i ioin ol Wiséonsine s acicai il The House then adjourned. The bill is based on a representation in the: House of 356 members, the number first proposed by Congressman Frank (Mo.). L EREI s - DRIVEN INTO TEXAS. United States Troops Ejecting Cattle from N * _ the Indian Nation. GAINESVILLE, Tex., Dec. 18.—News has reached here that the United States troops have begun to move all cattle belonging to non-citizens on leased pasturage on the Comanche and Kiowa na- - tions. This ejectment is in compliance with the President’s proclamation some time since. Over 100,000 cattle ° are on these reservations,. and this ; influx into Texas is creating much .. alarm among the Texas cattlemen, as it means ‘that it will only be a short time Dbefore the entire pasturage is consumed, thus leaving the herds destitute ffor the remainder of the winter. Wichifa, ‘Greer and Wilbarger counties are most affected. The ‘owners of the ejected stock will sue the Government for any loss they may sustain. ‘ it S e S ' SENATOR GORMAN’S LOSS. 'l'hé Marylmid Statesman Loses His House by Fire, and His Wife ard Daughter Narrowly Escape an Awful Death. ; BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 18.—A special to the Sun from Laurel, Md., says: At about 2 o’clock a. m., fire broke out in Senator Gorman’s residence and it was not discovered until the whole building was enveloped in flames. The in- - mates narrowly escap>d with their lives. The house and contents were nearly totally destroyed. His wife and daughter escaped in their night clothes, and did not save any thing. The Senator was not at home at the time. - BROKE THROUGH THE ICE. - Two Sisters Drowned at Aurora, o, ', .- Wnhile Skating. _ AURORA, Tll,, Dec. 18.—The mozt des plorable catastrophe of the year in Am about 4 o'clock in the drowning of two young ladies, daughters of Mrs, Kate Melchert, who were skating on the river near New York s ioe gus, of il Sen oA TeR% weik Y the serenia Bt Tha ablsie L S