Ligonier Banner., Volume 32, Number 23, Ligonier, Noble County, 9 September 1897 — Page 6

MANY ARE KILLED.

Deadly EXplc‘éi‘o'nsfla;t Broad Ripple,

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former, Caused by Natural Gas, Kills Six and Injures Many—Boiler Explodes 2t Latter Place, Killing Two Little Girls—Four Huart.

Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 6.—DBroad Ripple, a suburb of Indianapolis, ten miles from the city perer, was Saturday morning the scene of one of the most terrible disasters that has ever visited the state. Six persons were burned to death and many people are lying in the homes of neighbors burned, scarrzd and racked with pain from broken bones. Four buildings occupying a block of the town are in ruins. Of the six dead nothing but charred and blackened bones with hanging strips of foulsmelling flesh remain. The Victims,

. Following is a list of the dead and injured: % Killed.—Jacob Darling, painter, crushed vy falling wall. : Henry Ernest, laborer, ; Pius Gresh, grocer, aged 19, burned to death. ; Albert Heyworth, huckster, Westfield. . John Porter, farmer. Charles Yount, single, 35, crushed to death. : Injured.—Harry Bolton, Oakland, cut gcross knee. | Charles Culbertson, cut by flying glass, leg hurt. ’ : Jacob Cruse, four ribs broken. John Doaks, 'back broken, will probably die. : Amos Day, cut in face by glass. _Jesse Day, blown out of second-story window and badly hurt. Frank Featherstone, arm cut. ‘ Orville Heady, street car conductor, intured internally, will probably die. F. W. Heaton, bruised. Emuley Johnson. ; Thomas Jones, cut about head. Charles Jones, cut about face and arms. James Mitchell, New Augusta, legs broken. : Ed Morris, shoulder dislocated, compound fracture right arm and burned. —— Norvill, Indianapolis, fingers torn oft and head cut. ; Will E. Privette, deep cut across face. Charles Roberts, cut over eye. Vinton Record, leg cut, injured about the Xead. Frank E. Watts, burned and bruised. Edgar Watts, burned and bruised. J. B. Watts, burned. | Joseph Wambaugh, injured about the Yody. : Clare Whittaker, Oakland, ankle broken. Oliver Wright, bruised and cut. . The First Explosion.

At ten o’clock a foul odor was noticed in the drug store of J. M. Watts, and a Jamp in a dark room used for amateur photography went out. It was lighted, and as the burning match was thrown 10 the floor streaks of flame of a bluish tint .ran along the joints between the boards, showing the presence of escaping natural gas, and then up the walls, The next instant the exposion came. The walls were hurled in every direction and the top of the building fell with a erunching, grinding sound, covering all. The ruins were burning immediately and shrieks could be heard from those buried beneath. : ‘ Of the seven persons in the building three were burned alive. The rest are still alive and may recover. The Second Exploulofi.

A hundred persons were at work on the ruins and trying to save Gresh’s grocery, adjoining, pulling at the ruins 1o save those buried beneath. ‘While thus engaged and 20 minutes after the first explosion when the second came from beneath the grocery it was with a mighty roar and-hurled the building to atoms. Forty people were knocked senseless, were strewn in all directions with broken bones and burned bodies, while many more escaped.with small oruises. This shock mage the whole town quiver. Beneath these ruins Pius Gresh, the groceryman, was caught and crushed to death. His body was recovered before it was entirely burned. The ruins were added to those of the building adjoining, demolished by the first explosion, and the whole mass, together with an adjoining frame cottage an'd a livery stable, was burned to ashes, snly the bucket brigade being on hand in time to do any good, and it is probable only prolonged the agony of the victims who were burned. ‘ The money loss will likely not amount 1o more than $lO,OOO. All of the buildings destroyed were wooden ones. TWO GIRLS KILLED. Awful Result of o Boiler Explosion at : - Morton, 111. ‘ Peoria, 111., Sept. 6.—Morton, Tazewell county, ten miles from Peoria, was the scene of a terrible explosion Sunday afternoon. Tillie and Emma Beyer were killed outright, and Albert Beyer, Frank Beyer, Cassie White and Mrs. Louis Moschel were badly injured. The Deyer boys will probably die. The boilers in a brick building used as a will, electric light power house and yumping station exploded, demolishing the building and damaging the water tower, 150 feet distant. Houses for blocks ‘were also damaged. Fireman George Grimm entered the builing a few minutes before five o’clock, started the fires in the boiler and then went home for supper. ‘He says there was 25 pounds of steam and cannot explain what caused the explosion, The Beyer children were playing in the yard next 10 the mill and were unable to get away. The boiler caught oné of the little girls and carried her 150 feet, she landing on the top of a barn. She was erushed 1o pieces. Flying iron erushed the skull of her sister, killing her outright.

Embezziement Ciuvrgo(l. el West Superior, Wis., Sept. 6.—A criminal warrant charging the embezzlement of $7,000 of the funds of the town of Superior was sworn out Saturday afternoon before Judge Parker and will ve placed at once in the hands of the sheriff and that official ordered to arrest Charles H. Gill, ex-town treasurer. The ease has been hanging fire ever since the last election, when Gill was suceeeded in office by Jacob Erickson. The books were in bad shape at that time sud Gill was given an opportunity to set matters right. He has failed to do 0. Hence the warrant for his arrest. ~ Heavy Death Rate. ‘Havana, Sept. 6.—During the month of August 500 persons died in Guines irom epidemic discases. All of the vic--lims, with one exception, were Cubans. The rate of mortality among the refugees is very great and the same is true regarding the troops. 'The mortality due to yellow fever, malaria and dysentery is excessive. Itisestimated that 37 sut of every 1,000 sick soldiers in the hospitals throughout the Island die. It - s stated that from 20 to 26 deaths occur : ig,gggh of the steamers which carry AL S X e SRI e iR e : ; w&fi n@}fuum& roops from Cuba to i’-‘?‘fi-ém k gu’h:‘-"‘ifi“d‘ eS s T e O S T S T

LETTERS OF LOVE.

They Are Turnéd Into Damaging Testimony Against Luetgert.

Chicago, Sept. 6.—The strongest blow of the week was given the defense in the Luetgert trial Saturday. Mrs. Christine Feldt, in whom the state presents the motive for the alleged crime, took the stand for the prosecution and furnished the most sensational episode of the hearing. She related declarations made by the defendant which tended strongly to show that he purposed doing violence to his wife as soon as his business troubles were over and gettled. She produced letters which he had written to her while in jail. They contained expressions of love, devotion

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Gottlieba Schimpke, 14 years of age, testified that on the night of the disappearance of Mrs. Luetgert she saw at about 11 o’clock, as she was returning from a dance, the defendant and his wife enter the factory This was at a time when the watchman was absent, Luetgert having sent him on an errand to a drug store. On cross-examination the girl broke down badly, and denied several things she had previously said. She was given time to compose herself, and took the chair again. She broke down a second time, and then the court took matters into his own hands, and asked her if she saw Mrs. Luetgert enter the factory that night in company with her husband. She was very positive that she had seen them. Cotton Burned. New York, Sept. 6.—Twelve hundred and eighty-nine bales of compressed cotton, which arrived from the south by the Morgan line and were to have been shipped east by the City of Fall River, were burned Saturday on the lighter Mystic alongside the Fall River line pier on the North river front. Loss, $25,000. : :

Horrible Mode of Suicide., Detroit, Mich., Sept. 6.—A special to the Free Press from Owosso, Mich., says: Miss Millie Comstock, a music teacher, died Sunday from the effects of being burned by her placing a blanket saturated with oil around herself and setting fire to it. She had been in poor health for some time and preparations were being made to remove her to the Pontiac asylum. American Killed by Turks. ¢ London, Sept. 6.—A special from Canea, lsland of Crete, says an American named Cyrus Thorpe has been killed by Turks near Hierapetra. Fatally Shot. 5 Richland Center, Wis., Sept. 6.—At Buck Creek, eight miles north of this city Saturday, Deck Thompson was fatally shot by Jeromie Frye. Both had attended & stock sale at neighboring farmers and became engaged in a quarrel which terminated in the shooting. Frye gave himseli up and claims the shooting was in self-defense. e Jumped from a Train, Lexington, 111., Sept. 6.—Benjamin Arnold, aged 20, a farmer of Blue Mcund, jumped from a fast freight at the depot here. Both of his legs were erushed and he died in a few minutes.

SCORE THE COURTS.

The Labor Conference at St. Louis— Another Convention Called.

St. Louis, Sept. I.,—The conference of labor leaders.of the country, which has been in session here two days, finished its work Tuesday evening. : A resolution introduced by Mr, Mahon, of. Detroit, calling upon all miners now at work to desert their posts, and terming them enemies of human liberty so long as they remained on duty, was adopted. The convention also ordered its chairman, Mr. Pomeroy, of the International Typographical union, to request President McKinley, in the name of the convention, to call a special gession of congress for the purpose of “defining the authority of judgesin the matter of injunctions.” oo The platform adopted is, in part, as follows: ‘““The fear of the more watchful fathers of the republic has been justified. The judiciary has become supreme. Wie witness a political phenomenon absolutely new ‘in the history of the world; a republic prostrate at the feet of judges dppointed to administer its laws. . .

‘““We have met to counsel together, and have come to the following conclusions that: : ‘“Whereas, the present strike of the coal miners has ‘again demonstrated the fact that our so-called liberty is not freedom, but is a stupendous sham, under which millions are degenerating, while. hundreds of thousands. of men, women and children. are starving in hovels on the public highways; { “Whereas, this condition has become permanent for a large and ever increasing number of our population, as long as we permit a comparatively small class of legalized exploiters to monopolize the means of production and distribution. for their private benefit—a fact again obvious in the case of the miners;

‘““Whereas, appeals to congress and the courts for relief are fruitless since the legislative as well as the executive and judicial powers are under the control of the capitalistic class, so that it has come to pass .in this “free country’ that while cattle and swine have a right to the public highways, America’s so-called freemen have not;

‘“Whereas, our capitalistic class, as it again shows in the present strike, is armed, not only by policemen, marshals, sheriffs and deputies, but also by a regular army and militia, in order to enforce government by injunction, suppressing lawful assemblage, free speech and the right to the public highway, while on the other hand, the laboring men of the country are unarmed and defenseless, contrary to the word and spirit of the constitution of the United States. Therefore, be it “Resolved, No. I.—That we hereby set apart Friday, the third day of September, 1897, as ‘Good Friday,’ for the cause of suffering labor in America, and contribute the earnings of that day to the support of our struggling brothers, the miners, and appeal to every union man and every friend of labor throughout the country to do likewise. : ‘“‘Resolved, No.2.—That if the strike of the miners is not settled by the 20th day of September, 1897, and announcement made to that effect by the president of the United Mine Workers, a general convention be held at Chicago, on Monday, September 27, by the representatives of the unions, sections, branches, lodges, and kindred organizations of laboringsmen and friends of their cause, for the purpose of considering further measures in the interests of the striking miners and labor in general. “Resolved, No. 3.—That we consider the use of the ballot as the best and safest means for the amelioration of the hardships under which the laboring class suffers.

‘“Resolved, No. 4.~That the pubilc ownershfp of railroads and telegraphs is one of the most necessary reforms for our bady politic. ‘“‘Resolved, No. s.—That we most emphatically protest against government by injunction, which plays havoc with even such political liberties' as workingmen have saved from the steady encroachments of capitalism, and be it finally : ““Resolved, No. 6.—That no mnation In which the people are totally disarmed can long remain a free nation, and therefore, we urge upon all liberty-loving citizens to remember and obey article two of the constitution of the United States, which reads as follows: “ ‘The right of the people to keep ana .bear arms shall not be infringed.’ ” Shortly after the conference had assembled for the afternoon session, there was a spontaneous call for KEugene Debs, and the famous Indianian rose from his seat and camgslowly to the platform. When the ¢heering ceased Mr. Debs began a speech, which was interrupted at the end of nearly every sentence by cheering and hand-clap-ping. He said: : T believe the gravity of the industrial situation in this country is well understood. It is quite evident the delegates to the convention are cognizant of the fact that civil liberty is dead in America. I have said, and say again, for the last time, I have a{)pealed to the.courts for justice, and shall appeal to them no more. The A. R. U. expended $45.000 to have the questlon of civil rights tested in the supreme court of the United States, only to be told that we have no rights that capital was bound to respect. Shall we appeal to the supreme court again? No. We appeal to this convention and to the country for the uprislni-of all the common {)eople in every walk of life to beat back he courts and reenthrone the rights. of the American people. labor day is near. What shall we do? I predict, my friends, that we will see the extraordinary spectacle of enslaved labor rattling its chains and dancing to the music. Labor is the cheapest commodity on God’'s earth, and yvet there are those who would have it at a lower price. From justice of the peace to justice of the supreme court of the United States all the judicial powers of the United States are directed against labor. = All the organized sources of society are against labor, and if labor expects to emancipate itself labor itself must do it “I hope in the march of common intelligence we will reach a point where we will e able to settle these questions without appealing to the sword or bullet. I cannot tell. Certain it is there are thousands of our fellow citizens suffering, and certain it is this cannot last. The time will come to incite the populace. When this time comes you can depend on me. I will not stand in the rear and ask you to go ahead. I will be in front and say to you: ‘Come on.’” I shrink from that bloodshed,” and Mr. Debs paused impressively, ‘“but if this is necessary to preserve liberty and our rights—in that event I ‘will shed the lasit drep of blood that courses through my veins.’” : As Mr. Debs finished the delegates rose to their feet, jumped in the air, threw their hats in the air and crowded forward to greet the speaker. Chairman Pomeroy pounded vigorously for order, but it was fully five minutes before the convention recovered from the spell which Mr. Debs’ oratory had cast about them.” Michael Breaks Another Record. Detroit, Mich., Sept. 3.—Jimmy Michael broke the American hour paced record Thursday afternoon on the Detroit Cycle association track. The broken record was 31 miles, 1020 yards and 10 inches and was made by Lesna at the Charles River park track at Bos-' ton. Michael was paced by a sextet, two quads and a triplet. His fastest mile was made in 1:48. At the end of the hour he had covered 32 miles and 1,920 yards. ‘ Fails for Over $3,000,000. San Francisco, Sept. 2—Private advices have been received here to the effect that Enrico Mathou, the wellknown banker and promoter of several gigantic schemes in Central America, has failed for over $3,000,000. The cause assigned for the failure is-the heavy depreciation of silver and the collapse of the real estate boom inaugurated by President Barrios several years ago. ‘ Handsome 'Mlnlonary Gifts. . Boston, Sept. 4.—J. D. Rockefeller has sent to the American Baptist Missionary union and the American Baptist Home Missionary society his ¢heck for the balance of the $250,000 promised by him upon the condition that the two societies would raise $236,000.

COST OF THE STRIKE.

It Is Estimated That the Miners Have ~ Lost 10,500,000,

Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 6.—lt is safe to say that the miners’ strike will end within a week. 1t is undegstood here that the national officials of the miners’ union are willing to accept the operators’ offer of a compromise at 65 cents, an advance of 11 cents, although the strikers wanted 69 cents. The Pittsburgh miners, or a majority of. them, are still' insisting upon the 69-cent rate, but as their'delegates-to the Columbus convention will go uninstructed it is probable they will be persuaded to vote tor the compromise. The battle has been a costly one for the strikers, according to estimates made by their own officials. Itishoped work will be resumed by Friday next, just ten weeks since the strike ordered went into effect, and in that time the strikers have lost in wages $10,500,000. It is estimated that in the bituminous coal districts of the country, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, lowa and other states, 12,000 men were idle. The average earnings of the men is put at $1.40 a day. If the compromise is accepted it will take two years of steady work for the strikers to recover what they have lost. Although the strikers are by far the heaviest losers, the operators claim that they too have. lost, or rather will lose, $1,000,000. The operators say that up to date they have lost no money, because they have been able to sell at fancy prices immense piles of slack and mine refuse that is ordinarily worth nothing. DBut the advance of 11 cents proposed will result in their filling a number of large contracts at a loss, and for this there is no remedy until new contracts are made. The operators say there is but 1,000,000 tons yet to be shipped to the lakes under contract, but they are afraid they will not be able to get it out in time, because there will be a shortage of cars just as soon as the miners resume work.

ITS BUSINESS PARALYZED.

Norton’s Defaleations at Durand May

Amount to $lOO,OOO.

Rockford, lII.{ Sept. 6.—There are no startlingly new' developments in the Durand bank case. Young Norton’s father and Blake, his father-in-law, have now turned over to the creditors of the bank every scrap of property they have on earth. Mr. Blake told a friend that he would not be surprised if the loss resulting from the debts of his son-in-law footed up ' $lOO,OOO, although those who have studied the matter say it will not exceed $50,000. The bank still remains unopened. Much of Nortor’s property has been attached several times over by the depositors in the hcpe of realizing something ¢n it. Business in the town has been paralyzed by the failure, small merchants and working people having all their funds tied up in the bank. Nothing has yet been learned of Norton’s whereabouts. KILLS HIS FATHER. Michael Meyer Shot by His Son Robert in St. Louis. St. Louis, Sept. 6.—Robert Meyer is in jail and Michael Meyer, his father, is dead at the morgue. When the boy returned to his home from work the father was smashing the furniture preperatory to deserting it. He attacked the son and was shot dead by the boy in sight of the family. The younger members of ‘the family were fond of playing on musical instruments, which the old man detested. The wife was fond of society and the husband proclaimed her untrue and their children iliegitimate. The dead man is said to have been a- heavy drinker since he began to draw a pension of $l2 a month as an old soldier. Strange to say, none of the family has visited the parricide in prison. VAGRANTS BURNED TO DEATH; Set Fire to a North Dakota Jail and Three Perish in the Flames. Fargo, N. D., Sept. 6.—Tramps began to rob and pillage stores at Conway, a small town in western Walsh county, Saturday afternoon. The city marshal and a posse captured three of the ringleaders after a hard fight and placed them in the city jail. At one o’clock Sunday morning the jail was discovered on fire and before the flames could be extinguished one of the vagrants was cremated and the other two have since died of frightful burns. It is supposed the men tried to burn a hole through which they could escape and the blaze got beyond their control. ; Germans Celebrate.

Cincinnati, Sept. 6.—The anniversary of the first settlement of the Germans in America, at Germantown, Pa., was celebrated here Sunday with the largest demonstration of the kind ever known in this city. ‘Over 160 German societies participated. Adl the railways brought excursions. There were parades in the morning and over 40,000 people assembled in the Zoological gardens in the afternoon. Carl Schurz was the orator of the day. :

Fatal Railway Wreck. Waterville, Me., Sept. 6.—An excursion train on the Maine Central railroad was wrecked Sunday morning two miles west of Etna station. One person was killed and 32 wounded. The train was carrying excursionists from Dover and Foxcraft to the Etna camp meeting. The breaking of a flange derailed and overturned a car containing 65 passengers, / Yellow Fever at the Gulf. Mobile, Ala., Sept. 6.—State Health Officer Saunders, having reported the result of the examination of the fever which had been prevailing for some weeks at Ocean Springs, Miss., on the Bay of Biloxi or Gulf of Mexico, 56 miles from Mabile and 84 miles from New Orleans, the disease being pronounced yellow fever, the Mobile board of health has declared a rigid quarantine against Ocean Springs. ‘ » liod By aowit. Hartford, Wis., Sept. 6.—George Schumacher was killed by a bull. Mr. Schumacher was 75 years of age. : Brotherm. : Stevens Point, Wis., Sept. 6.—Two little sons of Adam Majewski, Mike and August, aged seven and five respectively, were drowned while playing on the banks of the Wisconsin river Saturday. It is not known exactly how the accident happened. The bodies were recovered. Captured. ' Washington, Sept. 6.—A dispatch was received by the chief of police from Torontoofficialssaying that V.Hawkins, an employe of the district tax office, who robbed tlhe safe of $9,000 and fled, has been cavtured in that ecity. =

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

International Lesson for September 12, 1897—Chirstian Living—Romans 12: 9-21. [Arranged from Peloubet’s Notes.] GOLDEN TEXT.—Be not overcome of fzvilz,l but overcome evil with good.—Rom.

LESSON NOTES.

I. Sincere Love.—Vs. 9, 10. 9. “Let love:” Love to God and love to man. “Be without ' dissimulation:” R. V., hypocrisy. Not a mere form, not an outward politeness, but a real, sincere love.

11. Abhorrence of Evil,—V. 9. “Abhor that which is evil:” Not merely kcep from doing wrong, but hate sin with the whole soul, for all sin is mean as well as wicked. We are not complete1y good till all evil, even of thought, is loathsome and repulsive to us, as a discord is to a musician, ITI. Attracted by the Good.—V. 9. “Cleave to that which is good:” The Greek word for ‘“cleave” means to glue, or cement. -~ Be glued, be cemented, to whatever is good, so that nething can separate you from it. IV. In Honor Preferring One Another.—V. 10. Or, more exactly, “preceding one another,” “going before one another in giving honqr.f,’-—Am. Com. Be ready to do the work, be foremost in undertaking the lowly and unrecognized duties, but when it comes to the honor that men bestow{, be glad to bestow it upom others; seek the usefulness, not the honor. | V. Energy in the Lord’s Service.—V. 11. “Not slothful in business:” Better as in R. V., In diligence not slothful, not delaying. “Whatso‘;tver thy hands find to do, do it with all thy might.” Some are diligent in business, but not in religion; some in réligion‘and not in business. Both ar4 wrong. “Feivent (boiling) in spirit:” The reverse of the previous exhortation, both of which apply to “serving the Lord:” in whatever you do, in play, in work, in re~ ligion. | VI. Joy.—V. 12. *“Rejoicing in hope:” Because the Christian hope is so glorious. If we have a clear, definite Christian hope, we cannot help rejoicing. A dim hope clouds the joy. :

* VII. Patience.—*‘Patience in tribulation:” This word, tribulation, both the English and the Latin equivalent of the Greek, is derived from the Latin “tribulum,* which was the threshing instrument or roller whereby the Roman husbandman separated the corn from the husks; and ‘“tribulatic” in its primary significance was the act of this separation. But sorrow, distress and adversity being the appointed means for the separating in men of their chaff from their wheat, of whatever in them was light and trivial, and poor, from the solid and true; therefore their sorrows were called ‘“tribulations,” threshings, i. e., of the inner spiritual man, without which there could be no fitting him for the Heavenly garner.—R. C. Trench. ' VIII.. The School of Prayer.—*“Continuing constant:” Urgent, pressing, persevering in prayer, as the means of communication with God, the source of all spiritual supply. X _ IX. Generosity.—V. 13. ‘“Distributing:” The Greek word is from a word meaning “having things in common.” X. Given to Hospitality. — Literally “Pursuing hospitality,” the same word in. the Greek ‘‘persecute” in the next verse; going after it, seeking earnestly the opportunities for it. .

XI. The True Attitude Toward Persecutors.—V. 1. “Bless them which persecute you:” This is a quotation from the Sermon on the Mount. Paul well knew what he was advising, for he had had many an opportunity of practicing his own precept. XII. Sympathy.—V. 15. “Rejoice with them that do rejoice,” etc: Sympathize with others, both in joy and in sorrow. Sympathy means ‘“suffering with,” so entering into another’s feelings that you suffer or joy with them. : XIII. Humility.—V. 16. “Be of the soame mind:”’ Actuated by a common and well-understood feeling of mutual aliowance and kindness.””— Alford. “Mind not high things:” Such as thoug‘hts of personal vanity, social, or, perhaps also, spiritual pride. “Condescend to men’s low estate:” The noun may be either masculine or neuter, lowly men or lowly things. XIV. High-Toned Dealings.—V. 17. “Provide:” i. e., take thought in advance,care for beforehand; ‘‘thingshonesl:” honorable, “in the sight of all men:” We are not to be merely honest, strictly just, in our dealings; be honorable in the highest degree, above everything mean or selfish.

XV. “Peaceableness.” V. 18. “If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, be ay peace with all men:” To be at peace signifies the disposition of the mind. The qualifications are important; it is. not always possible:to be at peace with others; first pure, then peaceable (Jas. 3:17), is the universal law of Christian character: and conduct, but gll . youxn: part..is . to = be..af peace; whether you actually live peaceably or not will depend, then, solely on how others behave toward you. - XVI. Overcoming Evil with Good.— Vs. 19-21. 19. “Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves:” Many will hate you and wrong you for Christ’s sake. But you are not to return evil for their evil. “But rather give place unto wrath:” Give room or place to the wrath of God. Let God’s wrath punish. “Forvengeance is mine:” Vengeance here is not revenge, but vindictiveness, but “the full meting out of -justice to all parties.”

THE DINING TABLE.

Triple-handed glass loving cups or bowls are now used to hold flowers for the center of the dining table; they come in cut glass, plain and clear green glass. '

Both red and buff tablecloths are pretty for the luncheon table, and look remarkably picturesque when the china is of the pretty Nankin blue and white coloring. :

Very few p§eces for the purpose are more decorative for furnishing the table than one of those two-tiered cut glass epergmes that were so much admired some years ago. One may still find them. in large china and glass furnishing establishments. - Blue and white china has a cool and pleasing appearance on a white tablecloth, especially when there is a pretty bowl of greenery or flowers standing on an embroidered piece in the middle of the table—~Ladies’ World.

Marie Studholme will be minus a husband when she next visits America, as she and Mr, Porteous have separated. He is very much attached to his pretty wife, but could not stand her mother, Wwho is constantly with her daughter.

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. ' HOME MEASUREMENTS. Bister measured my grin one day; Took the ruler and me; Counted the inches all the way—- "~ One and two aud three. ‘“Oh, you're a Cheshire cat,” said she. Father said: “That’s no sin.” : Then he nodded and smiled at me— . . Smiled at my three-inch grin. 5 Brother suggested I ought to begin Trying to trim it down. : ‘Mother said: ‘““Better a three-inch grin : Than a little half-inch frown.” —Nell Kimberly McElhone, in St. Nicholas. ! THE CHESAPEAKE MILL. Building Made from the Timbers of a Famous Battle Ship. ‘ In St. Nicholas there is an grticle on “The Chesapeake Mill,” by. William Abbatt, accompanied by a picture of the interesting old building, probably the first one ever printed. Mr. Abbatt says: L If there is a naval fight in our history about which every schoolboy ought to know—to use an expression of which historians are rather fond—it is the sea fight between the man of war Chesapeake and the DBritish Shannon, "o’{f Boston harbor, on the Ist of June, 1813. It has been so often told that I will not tell it over again except in the briefest way. The Chesapeake tvas captured, chiefly or altogether through the mutinous conduct of part of her crew, who refused to work the cannon on her lower deck at all. Capt. Lawrence and Lieut. Ludlow were killed, or, to be exact, the c@{::in died of his wounds four days after®he loss of his ship, and the Shannon took her prize into the harbor of Halifax, where her arrival caused the greatest rejoicing. The dying words of Lawrence, as he was é&{ried from the deck, “Don’t give up the 3hip!” have been familiar to our boys and girls for more than 80 years. It is these words that make the combat most memorable. They are a good motto in every trouble of life. ‘Don’t give up the ship—don’t despair, lose heart, surrender, but take courage, and, like Gen. Grant, “Fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.”

With the Chesapeake’s entrance into Halifax harbor all trace of her disappears from our smaller histories. Some years after the war of 1812 was over, the English naval authorities decided that the Shannon was useless, and had her broken up. I think, if they realized

= -3 D A ARy ,411'-;1»" ' '7\\, ~:: ‘. Een _::-/ - - NG g ,';jf“' 7 BN SRR IR —— o 2 e A i- = B O o 2N oW Z A >~ TR - @ 5 /f,’%: 0= =;} fi 5, LA = B T s R= T = Neml S T e f‘.'fé’—?.-,i:; Bl = R .-—-"’:_,_\. A'H..‘“ nAn ‘ B 2 i o = ”} |ll i | = e fllfl] Dl — X. T — OLD CHESAPEAKE MILL. how much I'onxallée was in after years to attach to the story of the fight, they might have kept the old ship in repair, as Admiral Nelson’s old Victory has been preserved. The Chesapeake was sent to England, where she must have been the object of great interest; but in 1820 she, too, was taken to pieces. This was probably done in the harbor of Southampton, for her tjm—6 bers were sold to one John Prior, the owner of a flour mill in the little town of Wickham, near Southampton. He pulled down his mill, and used the great beams of the American frigate inbuilding a new one. The great deck timbers, 32 feet long and 18 inches square, served for floor beams in the mill, and the smaller ones for uprights, all without being cut or altered in any way. Of course many of them were full of the shot fired by the Shannon in the fight, and the shot are there still.

THE SNAIL’S TONGUE.

It Is One of the Most Wonderful

Things of Nature.

A snail’s tongue is really one of the most wonderful things in nature, and if larger animals were endowed with as destructive an apparatus in the way of a tongue, in comparison to their size, it would be a dreadful thing. A snail’s tongue is literally a saw, and a handsaw at that. Itislong adnd covered over the entire surface with teeth so minute that 30,000 of -them ' have been counted on a tongue. The tongue is kept coiled up and only about- a sixth of the length used at a . time. When the teeth of this section become dull another section is uncoiled and used. This is kept up until the entire tongue.has been used, when it is coiled up again, and a fresh start made, for the teeth on the unused part have in the meantime grown to be as sharp as ever. - : : :

The rcof of the mouth is as-hard as a bone, and any substance that is to be cut is drawn betweén the tongue and this hard roof and literally sawed or rasped off. : A man with a _knife could hardly trim off a leaf and leave a cleaner or straighter edge than the snail leaves, and there is nothing of ‘the proverbial slowness of the snail in its work.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. ‘ A Neat Little Experiment. If one wishes by mecans of a simple optical illusion to obtain an almost perfect imitation of the wonders of radiography he may take a small turkey feather, and, holding it close to the eye, look through the radiating® ribs at the end of the feather at the ends of the fingers of his hand, held against the window. The flesh will appear to be transparent, with the opaque bone running down in the center, as shown by‘ true radiography. If gas light is used, a piece of ground glass must be held before the flame, to diffuse the light.— Chicago Inter Ocean. - The Strength of Shellfish, Ifthe human being possessed strength as great in proportion as that of shellfish the average man would ve able to lift the enormous weight of 2,976,000 pounds, pulling in the same degre.e as a limpet; and if the man pulled in the same proportionate degree as the cockle ‘he would sustain a weight of no less than 5,106,500 pounds, =

LETTER FROM ORRIS BENSON. Hosy a Boy Who Is Blind and Deaf Amuses Himself in Summer. The most remarkable student ever known at the New York Institition for the Imstruction of the Deaf and Dumb is Orris Benson. He is 15 years old, tall and strong, but is quite blind and deaf. Until he went to the institution he was dumb also; in fact his mind was wholly undeveloped. Now he has learned to talk, although he can hear nothing; he knows arithmetic and history, and can write little tales and very intelligent letters upon a typewriter, which he uses with great skill. Dr. Enoeh L. Fancher, president of the institution, says that Orris has a brain development equal to Helen Keller’s, and that with equal chances he would rival her as a wonderful case. But he

Ufi ) d,c;mkbmg 4 FAC-SIMILE OF ORRIS BENSON'S . LETTER. cannot have the undivided time of a special teacher, as Helen has had. Orris is at present enjoying his vacation at his parents’ home in Grahamsville, N. Y. The following letter, descriptive of his vacation pursuits there, was recently received in New York, and is pripted exactly as it was written: “Grahamsville (Sullivan Co.), July 6, 1887. “My dear friend: It is a nice place. I have a nice mill in the river here. I will write some things on my mill. I like it. my pug dog is nice. dandy is his name. he plays ‘with me. he can play with a ball and other things. he plays ) bite me, but he do not bite hard. I like the dog. he follows me. I have jumping jack on mill. it is dancing. , “Your loving friend “ORRIS BENSON."” This letter is really one cf the most remarkable of Orris’ achievements, as it was written with a pencil on ordinary note paper, withoug any frame such as blind persons use to guide their hands when writing. With a frame, putting a letter in the right place is comparatively easy. In this note some of the letters are placed on top of each other, and._the'dots of the small ““i's” are often far from the right place; but many of the letters.are well formed. Let the reader try his own hand at it with his eyes shut, and see if he can do as well. For that matter, a blind boy who can rig up a play mill with a jumping jack geared to it can do almost anything.

BURIED THE SNAKE.

IHHow Prairie Dogs Disposed of an Evil-Disposed Reptile, )

~ Inconversation witha gentleman who has -just made a trip through western Indian territory I picked up something new and interesting to me in regard to the habits of the prairie dog and rattlesnake. ‘This party said thata few weeks ago, while resting under a smali tree in the territory where there was a dog town, he noticed a commotion among some dogs ncar him; they would run up to a place and peep at something and then scamper off. Looking to see what was the matter, he saw that there werz about 15 to 20 dogs around a rattlesnake, which at length went into cne of the dog holes. As scon as he.had disappeared the little fellows began to push in dirt, evidently to fill the hole ap, but-about the time they got encugh dirt to cover the entrance the snalke stuck his head up through the dirt and every dog scampered off to a safe distance, -all the time keeping up an in--cessant barking. The snake slowly crawled to another hole about a rod distant and went in, and then up came the dogs again and went to work to push the dirt up before them to the hole. This time they suceeeded in their entesprise and coinpletely covered the entrance to*the hole, and then went to work, using their noses to tamp with and pounding the dirt down hard, after which they went away. My friend went to the place and said he was surprised to find they had packed the dirt in solid with their noses, having sealed¢ the snake well to the ground.—Forest and Stream. * - -

’ BRIGHT - CHICAGO BOYS. They Have Discovered n New Way to * % Kly Their Kites. " Several North side boys have discovered a great scheme for flying their kites, Instead of running with a string and getting all out of breath one of the boys starts the kite and then hands the string to a companion who is mounted on a bicycle. He pedals off at a good. speed, and up goes the %kite, twice as fast as it would ordinarily. Another boy has designed a simple little reel for

- :‘ ¢ n o 300 .‘ Oty LAt N ot ' Il\ e ‘—' 2 R 7\ - :o'_ l‘: 5] N J‘h' ‘ -.- 3 )it —iy @ "I"'_'_____ N A : '-? o B> : \G 5 i ?’MP e ' : NEW WAY TO FLY KITES. the: handle bar of his bicyecle. On this he winds the kite string and pays it out over his shoulder while his wheel is in motion. He has been experimenting with this new device, and he thinks he has made a valuable discovery. Let .some of our other boys_try this method of kite flying and report how it works. —Chicago Record. Fun at a Ball Game. John Lakey laughed so hard at a ball game near Carlisle, Pa.,, when the ball struck another spectator’s head and bounded high in the air that he couldn’t close his mouth again, and had to be carried 115, miles toa surgeon. . A medical student uses a great deal more Latin than any old doctor,