Ligonier Banner., Volume 29, Number 27, Ligonier, Noble County, 11 October 1894 — Page 2

THEY MAY STRIKE. Employes Have a Legal Right to | - Quit Work. The Famous Northern Pacific Injunction Issued by Judge Jenkins Is in Part Overruled by Jus- . " tice Harlan, ) GIST OF THE OPINION. CricAGO, Oct. 3. — Judge Jenkins’ famous strike Injunction has been overruled by the United States circuit eourt of appeals and the cause was remanded with directions to strike out from the restraining order of the court the clanse which aroused the country when the order wus issued and which resulted in the Boatner investigating committee of congress. Their Legal Right. The intervenors, representing the leading labor organizations of the country, asked that two sections of the injunction be eliminated. The court of appeals decided that no court could compel a man or a body of men from - quitting individually or in a body the service of an employer. The court said that Judge Jenkins had exceeded his powers when he enjoined the employes of the receivers of the Northern Pacific Railroad company ‘‘from quitting the service of said receivers, with or without notice, so as to cripple the property or prevent or hinder the ‘operation of said railroad.” : )

Jenkins in Part Upheld.

It, however, held that the section should stand in which the men were prohibited ‘‘from combining and conspiring to quit, with or without notice,

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the service of said receivers, with the | object and intent of crippling the | property in their custody, or embar- | rassing the operation of said railroad.” An Important Decision. ‘ The decision was considered by the | lawyers who packed the courtroom as | one of the most important opinions | delivered in the United States in a decade. It defines the status before the law of labor organizations in their l sonduct ot strikes, and. affirms the powers of courts of equity to interfere by injunction when there is reason to believe that the law will be violated. |lt i holds that the men may withdraw in a body from the service of an employer, using, however, mneither force, threats, persecution nor intimidation toward employes who do mnot join I them, nor must they use any ‘‘device” to molest, hinder, alarm, or interfere ‘ with others who desire to take their places. - o REVIEW OF TRADE. Wheat and Co\‘,tn'rrnw;.é~ Bedrock Prices—- ) The Industries Picking Up. New YORK, Oect. 8. —Dun’s weekly review of trade says: “With the chief money crops of the west; and south sinking in value it is not strange that purchases of manufactured products are smaller than was expe. ted. Wheat has touched ‘the lowest point ever known for options and cotton the lowest ever known in any form with the present classification, and the accumulation of stocks in both products is discouraging to purchasers for. an advance. I Produecers are compelled to sell at prices below the ordinary cost of raising crops, and in some western states there is also a lamentable failure of the eorn crop. Under the circumstances it would be very strange if the de- | mand for manufactured - products should be | quite as large as in other years. “Wheat suffers-most from the accumulation of stotcks in sight, which are far beyond what is usually expected for the season, and the exports for September were unusually small The price for cash wheat is a small fraction higher for the week. Corn receipts at the west have been only a third as large as they were last year, with exports amounting to nothing, but the price has not further declined after the heavy fall during the previous fortnight. Pork products are weak in tone, though only lard is quotably lower. Cotton is one-eighth lower, the case price being the lowest known for forty-five' " years, and considering the difference in classification it is perhaps lower than at any time ‘ in 1810, anl estimates that the crop is more than 10.000,00 bules are more commonly cred- 1 ited now than estima:tes of 8,500,000 were two months ago. With favorable weather the! yield seems likely to be the largest ever known. | “The condition of the industries is in some | respects more satisfactory. Evidently there ig a larger demand for iron products than ~ there was a month ago, though the increase in output has been somewhat greater than the. increase in the demand, so that prices steadily tend downward. The structural market is © fairly active in the west, without change at the east, and while the coke output has become the heaviest ever known, 149,776 tons for the weel, the price is declining, and steps are being t:ken to limit the supply. % ~“The boot and shoe trade continues to deliver more goods than in any previous year, a 8 ‘it did 1n September, and most of the works still have orders for one or two months ahead, . although mainly for low and medium-priced goods. There is a little better demand this weel: for goods of higher quality, however, and the demand for leather lis still reducing the reserve. ; ¢ : “The failures for »thg last week have been 219 iz the United 3tates. agninst 320 last year, and 89 in Canada, cgainst 45 last year.” L Vietion of Heart Disease, . Qmicago, Oct. 3.—A coroner's jury found th wa@bwof Miss Belle White, - who expired in a complexion specialjst’s office. was caused by heart disense.: e e 5o e

DISSOLUTION THREATENED. Invading Foes and Rebellious Subjects . Rode 11l for China. g 7 LoNDoN, Oct. B.—China is threatened from within and without. The walled empire, with its 400,000,000 people and its history of thousands of years, seems in the throes of dissolution. The empire is ~ threatened within by intrigues against the present Tartar dynasty, by plots to depose the emperor and place Prince Kung’s son on the throne and by rebellions in the provinces. From without comes invading Japan, with an army of 80,000 in the province of Manchuria advancing on the capital, Moukden, and another army of 40,000 being convoyed across the gulf of Pechili to form a junction at Moukden with the other branch, and move on Pekin, the capital of the Chinese empire. Japan is bent on’conquest and partition and Great Britain and Russia are seeking an international council to decide the fate of China. )

Lo~DoN, Oct. B.—A dispatch received here from Berlin says that it has been learned on high authority that. the meeting of the British cabinet was called to discuss a proposal for combined action on the part of the powers tointerfere and prevent the overthrow of the Chinese dynasty, which, it is claimed, would result in anarchy in the empire and the massacre of Europeans. One power, it is said, favored a compulsory settlement of the Chinese-Japanese dispute. Thedispatch adds that Sir William Vernon Harcourt, chancellor of the exchequer, supported this view of the action to be taken, but Prime Minister Rosebery and a majority of the cabinet believed that active interference would be more

dangerous than non-intervention, and it was decided that Great Britain should not interfere.

W ASHINGTON, Oct. 6. Secretary Herbert has been forehanded in taking steps for the protection of the lives and property of American residents in China, believed now to be endangered by rebellious and unrestrained troops. Three weeks ago the secretary suggestedt miral Carpenter to confer with the gommanders of the foreign ships in Chinese waters and arrange to cooperate (with them, if possible, in a plan to hive one or two ships at each of the treaty\ports and other coast towns where/ foreigners reside, to give protection to the citizens or subjects of the nation’s party to the agreement. In this way the eight United States vessels assigned to the station would be equirvalent to many more for protection purposes.‘ The Charleston has arrived at Yokohama. There are now five United states warships in the east—the Charleston, Baltimore, Monocacy, Concord and Petrel—and this force will be increased to eight vessels by the addition of the Detroit, Machias and Yorktown as soon as they can be made ready. :

' RUIN IN LITTLE ROCK. A Cyclone Raises Havoc in the Capital . of Arkansas. LitTLE Rock, Ark., Oct. 4.—A terrible cyclone swept over the business portion of this eity at 7:40 Tuesday night, carrying death and destruction in its path. Shortly after dark a heavy storm came from the west, accompanied by vivid flashes of . lightning and heavy peals of thunder. The skies suddenly cleared away and the storm was thought to be over, when suddenly a heavy gale from the southwest appeared, and for three minutes the city was in the throes of death and destruction.

The wind was terrific in the extreme. 'l'rees, telegraph, telephone and electric light poles were uprooted and carried a distance of 200 yards. The roofs of thirty of the largest buildings in the city were torn off and hurled against buildings on the' opposite side. of = the street, leaving the occupants within to the mercy of the drenching rain, which began to fall in torrents shortly afterwards. 3

" When ghe cyclone had ceased it was discovered the resident portion of the city had entirely escaped, but Main street to Third, Markham from Center to Cumberland, and Second from Center to Cumberland were almost total wrecks. 'The territory covers the principal business portion of the town.

Burglars Rob an lowa Bank.

BrookLYN, la., Oct. 6.—The First national bank was robbed Thursday night. 'Tools were taken from a neighboring blacksmith shop and left behind. Vault doors were drilled and blown open, but the time-lock safe, containing $B,OOO or $lO,OOO, bafiled the efforts of the burglars to open. Two strangers who have been about town for several days are supposed to be the guilty parties, and are thought to be ‘the thieves who operated at Vietor last Monday night. .

THE PAGE IS CLOSED. 3 3 b 3 s 3 “Finis” Is Written in the Life His- : tory of a Sage. Death at Boston of Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Poet, Philosopher and Humorist—Sketch of His Career. : - DR. HOLMES IS DEAD. "BosToN, Oct. B.—Oliver Wendell Holmes, the famous poet, essayist, novelist, philosopher and scientist, died at hisresidence, 2906 Beacon street, shortly before 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. He passed peacefully away, after an illness of short duration, the immediate cause of death being heart failure, the result of extreme old I age. His son, Judge Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., the judge’s wife and Dr. Charles P. Putnam, the family physician, were at the bedside. Dr. Holmes’ death was not unlooked for, as he had been ailing for about ten days, or since he returned from Beverly, where his summer residence is located. The funeral will probably take place Wednesday from King’s chapel. It will be -private.

Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in Cambridge, Mass., August 29, 1809. His father was the celebrated Yale tutor, Rev. Abiel Holmes. He first enjoyed the common school advantages of New England boys, having as his companions in Cambridge Margaret Fuller, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and others who attained eminence in letters. Entering Phillips academy, Andover, he prepared himself to enter Harvard college, distinguishing himself for his metrical rendition of the first book of the Aneid. In college he was associated with William H: Chandler, James Freeman Clarke and others who afterward became famous. He was graduated in 1829. During his collegiate career he was known for his literary abilities, contributed liberally to the college publications and wrote poems for college events. In 1830, when it was proposed to destroy the old frigate Constitution, Hoimes wrote his poem beginning: ‘“‘Aye, tear her tattered ensign down,” which immediately gave him great reputation as a poet.

He studied law in Cambridge and produced a number of humorous poems, which contributed to his celebrity. Being attached to his profession of medicine, he spent several years in Paris, and in 1836 received his decree. 1n 1839 he was chosen for professer of anatomy and physiology at Dartmouth college and the next year married Amelia Lee, daughter of Justice Charles Jackson, of the supreme court of Massachusetts Relinquishing his professorshipat Dartmouth he began the practice of medicine in Boston. In 1847 he succeeded Dr. John C. Warren in the Harvard medical school and became a lyceum lecturer. His first book of poems was published in Boston in 1836, It contained forty-five pieces, including some of those which established his fame as a humorist’and reenforced his reputation as a popular poet. = Soon after his accession to the Harvard professorship he published a volume of medical essays, including three which had won for him the Boylston prizes, and his position as a scientitio writer was assured. Between 1838 and 1883 he successively added valuaile essays and monegraphs to his scientific productions, and many of them have taken their places as classics in medicalliterature. The establish= ment of ‘the Atlantic Monthly in 1857 afforded & medium for the work wupon which the literary fame of Dr. Holmes was securely founded— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table,” conversational papers, including some of the noblest poems and finess wisdom and humor of the author. “The Professor of the Breakfast Table’ next appeared, followed in course by ‘“The Poet at the Breakfast Table.” In 1861 “Elsie Venner,” the first of Dr. Holmes’ ventures into the realm of fiction, appeared., and in 1868 ‘‘The Guardian Angel.” His works of a biograpical nature were the memoirs of John Lothrop Motley and of Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1879 and in 1884. Of his poems ‘“The Chambered Nautilus” was his own favorite, and by general . consent one of the consummate lyrics of the language. Of his satirical poems “‘The Moral Bully” and of the humorous pieces ‘The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay’" are classics. His fame as a ‘‘poet of occasions’ is world -wide, and almost every poem produced for a special function has taken rank with his more studied works. In 1886 Dr. Holmes went to Europe to be received with the utmost enthusism and hospitality everywhere. His son, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., became a professor in the Harvard law school, a judge on the supreme bench of Massachusetts and a writer on jurisprudence famed on both sides of the Atlantio ocean.

Dr. Holmes’ lecture career from 1852 to 1858 was phenomenally successful from an artistio view point. The vast sphere of his personal influence is indicated by the fact that when he resigned 1n.1882 he had continuously for thirty-five years held his Harsard professorship and exerted his best energies to the training of the young men whom he met in his. lecture-room. Dr. Holmes' performance of the difficult duties of this post are matters of history; he was a model teacher, communicating to the students his own zeal for knowl= edge, and imparting an amount of information as well as' a mental discipline which were of the highest value. -

FATAL WRECK.

One Killed and Several Injured in a Street Car Smash-Up.

Tacoma, Wash., Oct. B.—A shocking street-car accident occurred about midnight Saturday in which- George C. Chandler, general agent of the Northern Pacific in this city, was killed and several other passengers injured. The car was returning from:* the interstate fair grounds and was crowded with passengers. Chandler and other gentlemen were standing on the .front. platform behind the motorman. As the wheels struck the crossing of North Second street the axle on the front truck broke near the right wheel. The car left the track, plunged along at an acute angle to the right of the rails for '-a rod and then fell on its left side. Mr. Chandler, who was then on the steps, fell underneath the car. The heavy wood and iron work struck his face, killing him instantly aud crushing hisbshead tc a shapeless mass. James F. O’Brien, another passenger, was forced down by the struggling mass of passengers. The iron roof of the car fell upon his right leg, pinioning him to the ground. The others were injured either by falling from the platform or by being thrown violently against the breaking glass of the windows, T Had Squandered a Fortune. Str. Louls, Oct. B.—Jossell Meyer Bushong, aged 68, died at the city hospital, a friendless old man, and was buried in potters’ field. More than forty years ago, when Bushong came of age in New York city, he found himself in possession of an estate worth nearly $500,000. He spent money recklessly about New York and Philadelphia, and when it was exhausted he went to the far west, drifting aimlessly from one camp to another. Last "June he arrived here with one of the commonweal detachments,; and was 'sent to the city hospital aq@le | consumptive. l Buried City Discovered. PANAMA, Oct. B.—Word comes from Bogota that the remains of a prehistoric eity have been discovered near the crater of the voleano of Purace, in the Andes mountains. The buried ¢ity covers hundreds of acres and contains the ruins of great buildings with immense granite columns. Remains of an aqueduct in a most perfect state of preservation have also been found. Liberty of Worship in Hungary. Buparest, Oct, B.~The upper Hun‘garjan diet has adopted, by a majority “of three, the bill granting Mberty of worship to all religious b_ef:g,

FALLS FROM THE ’CLOU‘DS.W ] Miss V(:n‘jdecessden Loses Her Hold on a | Ballooh 1,600 Feet from Earth. 3 BurFALo, N. Y., Oct. B.—Miss Vandecessden was killed here Saturday in making a balloon ascension. In preparing to descend she lost her balance and fell to the ground. Great interest was taken in the ascension because Miss Vandecessden was a native of the town. In recent years, however, her home had been in Frankfort, Ky. She had been a professional areonaut forthree years, and in that time had made twenty ascensions.. She had just passed her.l7th birthday and was pretty and vivacious. The ascension was arranged for Friday, but on account of the rain was put over until Saturday. When the hour arrived the wind was blowing rather strong, and Miss Vandecessden was advised not to make the ascension. Her father and mother, who were present, tried to dissuade her, but she declared she would not disappoint her hundreds of old friends and the balloon ‘was released from its moorings. It went up all right, somewhat more rapidly than usual. At a height of about "1.600 feet the crowd below observed that Miss Vandecessden was preparing to make her parachute jump. She appeared at the side of the basket trying to unfasten the parachute, which was attached to the balloon. 1n some way she lost her hold and came whirling to the ground. The body struck within the fair grounds and was imbedded mnearly a foot in the ground. The girl was dead when the people reached her, and all her bones were broken. Her father and mother were among the first to reach the body, and their demonstrations of grief were terrible. Miss Vandecessden was to have been married next week, and she hadagreed with her betrothed, who was present, that this would be her last ascension. She had never met with a mishap before. The accident broke up the fair.

KILLED IN A RACE FIGHT. Seven Negroes Reported Dead as the Result of a Kentucky Affray. HAWESVILLE, Ky., Oct. 8. —As the excursion train from the' Owensboro fair arrived at Powers station, a few miles west of this city, at 6 o’clock Sunday night a terrible race fight occurred between thirty drunken negroes and a few white men, as a result of which seven mnegroes are said to have been' killed. 1t seems the negroes became angered because they were forced to ride in the colored apartment and as they neared their home station they made a rush to get into the coach for white people.. This frightened the women and timid men. who ran through the train. At this Deputy United States Marshal Mosés Bullington, who had his family on the train, met the negroes and attempted to quiet them. The negroes then began shooting as they got off the trair. Deputy Bullington and Squire Aldridge, both of this city, and Marshal Jones and Col. John Patterson, of Lewisport, and half a dozen men named Atkins from this county then began firing into the negroes. As the train pulled out the negroes shot all the windows out of one coach and the white men emptied all their guns into the negroes who were bunched on the platform. No one on the train was hurt, but it is thought that at least seven negroes are dead and as many more injured. One white man on the train used his knife, which was covered with blood when he came in. These statements are from the lips of United States Marshal Bullington.

OVER A TRESTLE.

Accident to a ‘Train in Georgia—A Number of Passengers Hurt.

ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. B.—Passenger train No. 85 of the Atlanta & West Point road, which left Atlanta at 5:25 o’clock Sunday morning, tumbled from the high trestle over Osanappa creek, a few miles beyond West Point, and seven persons were badly injured. A special train with surgeons was sent from here to the scene of the wreck. The track was not cleared until late at night. None of the persons were killed outright, but one or two may die. The injured are:

R. J. Vaughn, conductor on a construction | train, who was a passenger on No. 35, badly cut and bruised: W. B. Kennan, Charlotte, N. l C., traveling man, cut over left eye and leg | hurt: D. Cunningham, New Orleans, hip hurt } and right hand injured; unknown white man, who cannot tell who he is, fatally injured. ‘ Several others were more or less hurt. Itwas reported that Hull Ware, ] of East Point, who is well known in | Atlanta, was dangerously hurt in the | wreck. This could not be verified. .~ JAPS ADVANCE. Cautious Approach of the Mikado’s Army ' to Moukden. { LoNDON, Oct. B.—A dispatch to the | Times from Tien Tsin dated Saturday | says that the Japanese are advancing | cautiously toward Moukden and avoid- | ing any dashing enterprises. Their | cruisers are closely watching the Chinese fleet in the gulf of Pe Chi Li. | The Japanese government has instructed Field Marshal Yamaga to inform the diplomats at Seoul that he will not allow the Japanese army to plunder. Pekin in case that city is taken. This assurance will probably induce the diplomats to stay in Pekin even should the emperor leave the capital. They will, at any rate; attempt to negotiate a peace by asking Japan to be moderate in her demands. The emperor’s palace in Pekin is now guarded by Mantchu troops only. - Death of a Noted Samoan. . WASHINGTON, Oct. B.—Mamea, high chief of Lefage, and a celebrated character in Samoan history, is dead. ‘He was the Samoa plenipotentiary to Washington in 1878 when he concluded with Secretary Evarts the treaty of friendship and commerce between the United States and Samoa, under which the right of the United States to the harbor of Pago Pago was guaranteed and secured. Date Set for a Great Race, = BostoN, Oct. B.—Directumh and Alix will trot at Mystic park October 20 for - $2,500 a side and a purse of $6,000. ' Foster to Make a Settlement. FosTORIA, 0.. Oct. s.—The long-de-layed settlement with the creditors of ex-Gov. FKoster and his partner, Mr. Davis, has at length come ahout. . The. assignee has announced that he would beable to pay forty cents on the dollar, and the claims amount to $213,000. The settlement with creditors will cominence at once. ‘ [ : For Another Term. ‘ Bosrtoxn, Oct. B.—Massachusetts republicans held th:-ir state convention here Saturday and renominated Governot Greenhalge and Lieutenant Governor Welcott. ‘ o

gl IS NO MORE. Death Comes to Prof. Swing, Chicago’s ° . . ¢ FEloguent Divine. A CHICAGO, OQot. s.—Prof. David Swing, the eminent theologian and preacher, passed away Wednesday afternoon at 5:05 o’clock. His death was painless, and those who stood at his bedside watching and waiting hardly knew whether it was sleep or death until the physician looked up with the story in his face. Prof. Swing was taken sick at 9 oclock a week ago last Saturday. While ?valkmg =\ : out during the : e § morning he suf- : k\ \{\ fered with a L \\\\§‘\\ sudden chill, (G ‘)‘\,\N‘\‘\ which was "jfil/fl/‘ quickly succeed- = Y™ ) ed by perspira- - % tion. A few . ol hours later ' jaundice’ made. , \ its appearance; h{f’;}q 4 but owing to Iy (i the fact that : Prof. Swing was RO SNING. subject to similar attacks little attention was paid to it. On Monday afternoon, however, he was taken with another chill and grew suddenly worse. Dj’l Davis was immediately called. fter Dbeing treated’ the patient feemed to grow much better, but on Monday there was a relapse, and Dr. Isham and Dr. Fenger were called in to hold a consultation. In spite of all they could do, however, Prof. Swing grew steadily worse until Wednesday night. He was unconscious most of the time during the last three days of his illness, and his death was without pain. : :

What the future of the Central church will be is unknown, but some of its members do not hesitate to say it will probably be disbanded. It has always been founded entirely on Prof. Swing’s personality. It had no motive but to keep him in the pulpit and to preserve his preathing and influenee to the city and to the world while he lived. With his removal, it is thought by some members of the congregation, there will be no objeet in continuing suchan independent movement. ; MOONSHINERS CAPTURED. Government Officers Break Up Illicit ; Traflic 1n Kentucky. LouisviLLE, Ky., Oct. 4. — United States Marshal Greer, aided by a score of deputies, has arrived here in charge of a band of moonshiners captured in the .Big Sandy valley. The present work of "extermination of stills and the illicit traffic of the upper Big Sandy valley began about six months ago, but the arrests began three months later. The intervening time was spent by Greer and his detectives in the location of the stills and the identification of their operators.

In the past six months Greer and his deputies have destroyed thirty-seven separate stills and thousands of gallons of their product, commonly designated ‘‘moonshine.” They have arrested about 125 offenders and spotted numerous others who will be taken as soon as the opportunity offers. In the capture of the various gangs some thrilling work has been done and some narrow escapes experienced. Seven of Greer's officers are now laid up for repairs at different towns in Floyd and Johnson counties, while about twenty ot the moongshiners are also regaining their ‘strength in various up-Sandy jails. These latter will follow their more fortunate fellows to Louisville and to the penitentiary as soon as their condition will admit of the change of quarters. : 1n the gang brought here were 100 offenders. Their ages ranged from 15 to 50, and in the degree of their crime there was an equal variance. Some of the men had grown old.and gray in the business, some had followed it but a short while, others had retailed the spirits for the makers, and others had boldly labeled it sorghumand brought it out by the barrel in push boats The boys were usually the sons of the old operators, who were forced into the work from childhood and literally knew nothing else.. Several women were also among the lot. - -

SIX ARE DEAD.

¥atal Result of a Detroit I;‘ii'é — Nine Others Injured,

DeTRrOIT, Mich., Oct. B.—Six dead and nine injured is the record of the ! fire which destroyed the furniture | store of Keenan & Jahn at 7:30 a. m. Friday. The fire was disecovered in the shipping room in the basement at the back of the store. An alarm was promptly turned in,7 but by the time the engines arrived the fire had gained considerable headway, having run wup the elevator shaft, and the entire upper floor was a mass of flame aud smoke when the first stream was thrown. There were sixty employes in the building 'and most of them had great difficulty in escaping. The. building, an old - five-story structure, was soon gutted and the stock ruined. At 9o’clock the front wall of the building tumbled into Woodward avenue. It cgme in the shape of a collapse, and the mass of debris did not spread beyond the curb. The firemen working in front of the building were warned and retreated as rapidly as possible. - Some got out from under, but a dozen ‘or more werg unable to‘'do so on account of the piles of brick, glass and burnt timbers. : ' ' STOLE A BIG SUM. Safe Blowers Rifle O. W. Sliryer’s Bank ~ at Bloemfield, Ind. 1 Terrße HAvuTk, Ind., Octi 6.—Professional safe blowers robbed O. W. Shryer's bank at Bloomfield, Ind., of $5.500 Wednesday night. The local police department was notified of the job and given a description of tlie burglars. ‘ INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 6 —A bloody | fight took place Thursday evening in | Greene county between a possee of 100 1 armed men and a trio of bank robbers who robbed the safe of the Bloomfield ‘ bank Wednesday night, blowing the vault to smithereens with a heavy charge of dynamite and wrecking the bank office. = The men secured $5,500 in cash and fled to the ‘hill country west of Bloomfield, where they were overtaken Thursday ‘evening by Sheriff Johnson’s posse, guided by bloodhounds. A desperate fight was kept up, with the roobers retreating. One of thé trio was so badly wounded he fell behind and attempted to hide in the brush. The bloodhounds nosed him out and his capture was easily effected 5 &

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. TWENTY TIMES A DAY. Twenty times a day, dear, Tweuty times a day, : Your mother thinks about you, ! At school, or elso 2t play. She’s busy in the kitchen. : Orshe's busy up the stair, Lo But like a song her heart within ; Her love for you is there. ‘ ' -There’s just a little thing, dear, - She wishes you to do. I'll whisper, 'tis a secret, - Now mind, I tell it you. = / : Twenty times a day, dear, : i And more, I've heard you says . I’m coming in a minute,"” , When you should at once obey. - Atonce, as soldiers, instait, . At the motion of command; g " At once, as sailors, seeing . . The captain’'s warning hand. - You could make the mother happy By minding in this way, i Twenty times a day, dear, . - . Twenty times a day. v - —Congregationalist.. WEDDED AT TEN YEARS. The Little King of Nepaul and His Bride of Five Years. ; : Everywhere in the east, and especially in Hindustan and Nepaul, marriages are made at a very early age. = Parents contract for the wedding of their children while they are yet but little boys and girls, and neither the boy nor the girl has any voice in the matter. They are simply coupled with all the ceremony and extravagant display that the parents on both sides can afford, and then the poor little things go back to their homes, to be nursed and petted and trained until they are old enough to have a home of their own. Thus this little king of Nepaul, the eighth royal Ghoorka who had come to the throne, was married when he was ten, vears old to a baby eprincess half his age, chosen for him from one of the royal families of northern India. Nor did it ever occur to the prime minister, or the priests, or the astrolegers, or the match-makers, that either the bridegroom or the/vride had anything whatever to do with the business. . But the wedding was ‘perfectly splendid.” A picturesque concourse of Asiat'c guests, with a_ sprinkling of European strangers, was gathered in the pavilions and rotundas of the. palace; and there was profuse distribution of pretty souvenirs and gifts among them. Everyone received something—a nosegay of rare eastern flowers emblematic of happiness and joy. a miniature phial of attar of roses, a little silver flask of delicate perfume, a dainty scarf or handkerchief sprinkled with rose ; water, a curious fan, a fantastic toy of ivory, a lacquer box. And then came the little king—alone of course, for an oriental bride must not be exposed to the public gaze—borne ona silver litter curtained in orange and purple satin, embroidered with gold, and hung with massive bullion #inge. Seated o%) a great cushion of cloth of gold filed with shawls of cashmere and canton, he was borne around the rotunda, a luminous vision of flashing jewels, and a musical murmur of tiny bells, from his plumed helmet to his slippers. : b, And when he had made his royal salaam. or salutation, to the guests and

. # ::y \i : . 8 5 LR Ao PNy © P LIPS AP A Y Wa ". ) ~\? NEGs W/ v Y \sy\\\l\ A Al &kfl L ¥ W s § Q\\ . evA¢ N s b e W 0 ¥}‘ ' B \‘} S ‘&\’\/ s\ :fi § L 4 &4 ‘ o THE BOY KING RIDING HIS PET PONY. departed, the tamasha began—that is, the grand show and the glorious fun; the nautch ‘maidens, or dancing girls, the musicians and jugglers, the glass eaters and sword-swallowers, the Nutt gypsies, who are wonderful gymnasts and = acrobats, and; the Bhootiyan wrestlers from the mountains.—St. Nicholas. : ! ; Monkey and Goose Contests. Combats between animals of different species are a source of great amusement among the Javanese. One of the most popular contests is that between monkey and goose. The monkey is tied to one of the goose’s legs, by means of a cord, and both animals are set down near the bank of a river, or pond. The goose, standing in dread of the monkey, seeks for safety in the water, and the monkey, afraid of the water, exerts himself to the uttermost not to be drawn into it. As a rule, the goose draws the monkey into the water, and then the cunning simian sits astride the goose, in equestrian fashion. The goose ‘then tries to dive, and the monkey prevents her if he can; and so the fight goes on until the spectators tire, and the animals are released from an uncongenial companionship. .

Wonderful Philadelphia Girl.

' Though only five and a half years old, Edna Grace Hain, of¥ Philadelphia, with her tiny fingers can bring thirty different airs out of a piane. She has learned them all in the last month. If a key, invisible to her, be struck she can immediately sound the corresponding key of another piano. Let the entire keyboard be covered with cloth—not too heavy to mufile the sound—and she still makes good music by striking keys which she cannot see, Her first stroke on the unseen ivory may be a mistake, but in a moment she hits the right key, and then goesahead without making an error. She cannot read music or words, but thoroughly understands the scale, quickly distinguishes half-notes and keeps good time. If she hears a strange air two or three times she can make her piano reproduce it. -

Grasshoppers and Ants,

“An account of a delightful game for. children’s parties is given by the New York Advertiser:’ One of the playersis chosen grasshopper, by drawing lots, the others are ants. The grasshopper writes the name of some edible grain on a bit of paper, holds it in the hand, and says to one ant: ‘“My good friend, I am | hungry. What will you give me to cat?” The ant names a grain. If itis | not the same as that on the paper the grasshopper asks the next ant, then ‘ the ncxt. If any ant gives the nameon the paper the grasshopper shows the paper, hands it to the one thus caught, and joins the ants, while the ants be- | come grasshoppers. . S e

e e . GREAT MEN AT PLAY. Abraham Lincoln Took Great Delight im_ .Studying a Dictionary. The majority of the world’s great men have been very healthy boys, who loved boyish sports and wholesome exercise, and yet by no means were their ideas of pleasure bounded by a day’s fishing, game of football or holidays; as, for example, Abraham Lincoln, who bears as great a reputation for physical strength as tall, broad-shouldered George Washington. ‘ Lincoln, when a:boy, cordially hated the farm work, and yet faithfully accomplished his share of it, looking forward every day to a twilight hour with his books. When the last of.the rough, tiresome chores were done, tall AbraA ' : J 7 Aot //» ’///if' : 7 = /}{'&- i 7 -- :""llm ;:" : “ E,,-,._g—_e,—_-.: ffi. 8.~ - i ..' = el ] — HE NP ||~ 17 e — « yfllf]’” 7 %% 1«.% Te. R XN 3 : \ ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S AMUSEMENT. ham would drag hischair into the dooryard, and, tipping it back by propping his feet against the side of the house, forget his labor in reading the dictionary. His ogly other books were the Bible, ‘*‘Aesopls Fables,” ‘Robinson Crusoe,” *‘Pilgrim’s Progress,” a life of Washington and a history of the United States. When these lost inter“est he would walk to the nearest town, ‘and on precious bits of paper copy down such extracts as he could make from pondei‘ous law books in the .constable’s office, in order to have fresh reading material. Even his dictionary studies had to be given up in" winter, when there was no twilight and no candles; so on the back of the wooden fire shovel, with a piece of charcoal, he would amuse himself by working out mathematical problems dnd writing' essays, that.could be shaved off, leaving him a fresh surface. Another of his favorite amusements was making speeches to men workingin hisfather’s ficlds. ,

Sir Rowland Hill, perhaps most American boys and girls do not know, was the man who, in the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, reorganized the postal serviee of Great Britain, from which gqursis adopted, and made it possible to send a letter for a few cents to any part of the country. He was, the son of a school-teacher, but go delicate he was not permitted to study with his brothers. He suffered from loneliness a great deal, yet found perfect contentment in lying flat on his stomach on the hearth.rug adding up tremendous columns of figures. Later in life he was celebrated for his knowledge of matherhatics, and held important posts under. the government, for which he was knighted. Mr. Gladstone, when he went to Eton, was considered the prettiest little boy in the school, but he was not very rpopular, as he caredvery little for outdoor games. His companions rarely ever saw him run, and a boat he had for sculling on the river he invariably locked up and rarely loaned it to other boys when he was not using it. What he dearly loved, however, was to make long addresses on most serious subjects in the school club of which he was & member. Then for amusement he helped to edit an Eton magazine, for which he wrote @ great number of poems, editorials, translations and essays. ’ ’ Thomas Jefferson as a boy rode well and played the violin, but he most sincerely loved to study. When very young he went to college and gave fifteen hours a day to his books, and for exercise at twilight would run fora mile out of the college grounds and back again. > . g Cuvier, the great naturalist, used to make for his schoolfellows the tiniest but most perfect® maps of bits of colored cloth or paper pasted on a sheet and then drawn over with dots and lines to represent mountains, rivers, towns, ete. ;

A water elock and a sun dial, this last marked out on the side of his landlady’s house when he went to boarding school, were made by Sif Isaac Newton, who. as a little boy, was forever inventing something. He contrived a curious little mill, the arms of which were made to move by a pair of mice, imprisoned in the mill's tower. Though for a time at school he. was rather a lazy boy, when, later, he went to live on his mother’s farm, he shirked his daily' duties often to stop and build wonderful little water wheels by the brook’s side, or lie under z shady hedge and study out long ‘mathematical problems. - : 3

‘Louis Agassiz was so expert a fisherman when a little boy he could catch them in his hands fasc¢inating them first by strange motions of his fingers. He kept a number of pet fish in a stone basin behind his father’s house, and was clever at taming field mice and all sorts of little animals and insects. He was an expert little cobbler and cooper, could make water-tight barrels as well as a man, and manufactured pretty shoes for his sister’s dolls. Perhaps of all things Daniel Webster when a boy loved best was to read alout. He never remembered when he first began to read, but asa very tiny boy he read the nesvspaper regularly to an old British soldier, who used to carry him about on his shoulder. One day his schoolmaster offered a prize of a jackknife to the boy who could learn the greatest number of Bible verses, wheretipn the next morning Daniel got up and rapidly spoke off so many verses that the master had to beg him to stop, and promptly presented . the knife.—St. Louis Republie. . |

Ote’s ¢ Thauthage.”

Ote, a wee boy of four years, lived ‘ next door to his Aunt Hennie, who was very fond of him. He was in the habit of taking her passbook to the grocery, and being fond of sausage himself, he always asked her if he could buy ‘‘thauthage.”. The first time she took him to Sunday schoel the teacher lined " the verses, ‘There will be errands in Heaven for children to do.” - Aunty sat some distance from the class, and was astonished to h‘ea.ruglt: ca.lung ' _at the top of his voice: ! ; Aunt Hennio, Pll-fuy‘“yam-“t%:fithw —lnter Ocean. S B L