Ligonier Banner., Volume 37, Number 45, Ligonier, Noble County, 5 February 1903 — Page 2

INDIANAPOLIS LETTER Oath of Office Taken by David E. Sherrick as Stare Audiror. There Appears to Be Dissatisfaction Among Members of the Judiciary | Committee With Senator ‘ ' Wood’s Garnishee Bills. : : ¢ Indianapolis, Jan. 29. The oath of office was administered to David E. Sherrick, of Noblesville, who succeeds W. H., Hart as auditor of state, by Robert A. Brown, clerk of the supreme court. Mr. Brown also administered the oath to John Billheimer, of Washington, who succeeded Frank Martin as chief deputy. Cyrus Neal, ‘inSurance/clerk; George Bingham, expert accountant, and J. A. McEwen, actuary of the insurance de‘partment under Mr. Hart, were re. tained. Johmn Reed, of -Muncie, succeeded| Oliver Parker as settlement clerk; D. J. Mendenhall succeeded L. G. Rothschild as clerk of the land department. Miss Cliffie B. Manlove has been. appointed assistant clerk of the! insurance department. E. M. Hinshaw succeeds Thomas B. Millikan as state bank examiner. &

It is safe to report that there is much dissatisfaction among members of the judiciary committee with Senator Wood’s garnishee bills notwithstanding the amendment prepared by Senators Wood and Thompson, which is intended to remove all possibility of hurting honest debtors who may fall into airears through illness or for some. other cause ‘“over which they have no control.” The committee met and discussed the bills at length, but apparently without coming any nearer an agreement. It is known that some of the members will oppose the bills no matter what amendments are offered. - These members insisted “the amendment has not changed the bills materially and that they are still too strong. o

An amendment was drafted to Senator Johmson's “criminal assault Nll changing the wording of the bill to re move all doubt as to the definiteness of the period for.which an offender may be sentenced. As thus changed the bill will be reported back to the senate. :

It now appears that a divided report will be presented by the committee on education on the bill offered by Senator Burns to-allow South Bend to issue bonds to secure funds with which to" build additional school buildings. There is a warm fight in that city over the proposition to issue bonds for this purpose and the struggle has extended to Indianapolis. The majority will report in favor, of the bill while a minority report against it will also be submitted, it is understood. Several amendments to the bill suggested by Senator Burns will be recommended. One ‘of the changes. proposes to limit the total amount of the bond issue to $60.,000, also providing that the bonds may be redeemed at any time after five vears. '. T

" The effort of Representative Stechhan to cut off the legislative mileage graft In the general assembly i 8 not destined to be effective, T am told. The bill- provided for cutting the mileage allowance down from 20 cents a mile to 5 cents. It went to the conimittee on mileage and accounts, and that committee sent it back to the house with a recommendation for indefinite postponement. It is said to be a moral certainiy that no member will dispute this ‘action on the floor of the house, especially since there will be no minority report in the bill’s favor, and the measure may, therefore, be treated as practically dead.

Your correspondent learns that there will be a warm contest in the senate over a bill introduced by Senator Hendee. It authorizes the attorney general to file information in the supreme court against officers who are charged with bhaving usurped their positions, and corporations that are said to have violated their charter rights. This is the bill under which it is designed ‘o bring proceedings against Sheriff Dulley, of Sullivan county. If the bill becomes a law it .would also be possible, it is said, to start a real investigation into the causes of the coal famine to discover whether - there has been a criminal -conspiracy to deprive the people of coal and to hoist prices.

Ex-Representative Geo. W. Burkhardt, of Cass county, is in the city; He comes, I am informed, to\represent the organized labor unions of Logensport and to look after their interest in -the legislature. He said the other day that there were nearly 3,000 union labor men in Logansport and they selected him to come here and keep tab on legislation for them. He added: “The laboring men comprise so. larze an element in Indiana to-day that they are entitled to sericus consideration at the hands of the assembly, and I want to help them get it.” -

The commitiee on libraries will re. commend the passage of Senator Newhouse’s bill abolishing the state library commission and also Senator Milburn’s bill to send 100 copies of the supreme and appellate court reports annually to the law library of the state university. An effort will be made to amend the garnishee bills so as to provide that they- shall apply only to ‘“dead beats.” The senate judiciary committee met the other day to consider the matter again and the members expressed the belief that the bills might be be so changed that they could not be resorted to as a weapon against men who really try to pay their debts but who, throngh some misfortune, fall behind. : ' The Pigeon Roost bill, which has 30 many times faced Indiana legislatures asking an appropriation for the erection of a monument to the memory of the victims of the Indian massacre at Pigeon Roost early in the days of the state, was passed by the senate without a dissentiing vote. The ‘bill has been introduced many times but always met signal defeat. The last senate passed the® bill but it

was kiiled in the house by Speaker Artman. g ¢ Two bills in the interest of the township trustces were introduced recently by Senator Wood. One repeals the law forbidding them to hold office a second term. The other bill provides for increasing the salaries of the trustees in townships of less than 25,000 population from $2.50 to $3 a day when actually engaged in the business of their office. .

‘A fine live rooster was 'sent from New Richmond to Representative Kirkpatrick, whose “chicken bill” ‘was killed by a house commistee. During a lull in the proceedings, a day or two ago, an express - package containing chanticleer wasbroughtto hisdesk. The gentleman arose to express his thanks and _attempted to shift his present over to the democratic members as a party symbol. But the minority woull have none of it, so it finally fell to the colored bootblack in the anteroom, who smilingly took the rooster home. %

Representative Schreeder’s bill to make the carrying of burglars’ tools a felony had a short lease of life. It was introduced in the house at ‘1! o'clock and within four hours afterward it had been put on the blacklist in the rooms of the rights and privileges committee: -

The different traction companies of the state may ask for legislation giving a broader scope to the law allowing them to condemn property for their use. Such a move may result from the present difficulty between the Indianapolis- Terminal & Traction company and the estate of Pleasant Grffiths to which belongs the property at Illinois and Wabash streets, which the traction company seeks to purchase for a terminal station. Tile representatives of the campany have failed to agree thus far upon the purchasa price of the property.

Senator Wood has received a bill from a constituent which he may not introduce. It provides that no divorced person shall be eligible to remarriage within twe years after such divorce, and it shall be unlawful during those two years for such persons to “spark, flirt, mash, or by words, signs or gestures, attempt to attract the attention of a member of the opposite sex to the style, shape, form or size of such person, of either sex emploving such words, signs, or gestures.” All women holdingz certificates of divorce during the two years following such divorces shall wear sunbonnets on their heads whenever appearing in public places, and in winter they shall wear arctic shoes of ample size on their feet. Men holding such -certificates shall shave themselves and cut their own halr, and it shall be unlawful for them to bathe oftener than once every eight months during such restriction against re-marriage. 5

Representative Stechan, caused a flutter in the House by introducing a bill reducing the milage from 20 cents to 5 cents per mile, thereby cutting off one of the best grafts in the reach of the average legislator. Mr. Stechan denounced the present milage system as a relic of the old horseback days established long before railroads began penetrating the staté and at a time when travel. was slow and difficult, and when the twenty-cent-figure was probably justifiable.- Now the price was without reason. His bill was incited by the recent report of the Committee on Milage.

The house bill authorizing the increase in.the Indianapolis school tax levy was called up by Senator Matson and passed to engrossment. Senator Matson’s bill to authorize the state to buy in the Vandalia road in case it is sold and to pay the state’s claim against it and permitting the state board of audit to sell bonds for the purpose has been advanced to engrossment and Senator Kittinger's bill allowing circuit and superior judges, in divorce suits to send children to or phans’ homes, where it is evident they will be 'better cared for there, waa passed. : =

The following bills have been recommended for indefinite postponement by the house commitee: The .Schermerhorn bill for the appointment of the county councils, the Sherman bill against loaning money at more than 8 per cent. interest on chattel mortgage or salary; H. B. 67, Van Fleet; H. B. 115, to authorize county commissioners to establish market houses.

A deélegation of the Chain Workers’ union- from Grant county, headed by, the national organizer was im the city to protest against the proposed extension of the contract labor system ‘in the Indiana state prisons to 1910. They are especially interested in the chain working contracts in the reformatory. They claim that the instution makes a . fifth of all the chain work used in the state, and it is done by prisoners who were let out on contract at 30 cents a day. They went before the legislative committeeg that are considering the bills already in.

Senator Goodwine’'s bill contemplates the sale of all the state land in the eastern part of this city. This includes the ground on which the deaf and dumb institute and woman’s prison are located, and the large vacant tract lying between the two institutions. This means the removal of the two institutions form their present sites and probably from this city, and Senator Goodwine’s ®ill will provide for the appointment of a commission of probably five or seven members to be named by the governor to have charge of the selection of the new sites. ;

The bhill for the creation of the office of stats fire marshal was discussed warmly in the meeting of the insurance committee of the house. The committee finally split on the bill and returned it to the house with a majority report, the latter recommending indefinite postponement of the bill. The same committee reported against Denbo’s ‘“cradle insurance” bill, and also against Robertson’s bill to provide that the amount of the face of an insurance policy shall be taken as prima facie evidence of the value of the property insured. . e Rivarpo, .

2T Y e - o DELAY THEIR REPLY. Minister Bowen Not Officially Notified of Allies’ Decision. Still Hopeful That His Proposal Will Be Accepted—What May Resnlt in Case They Decide Upon Refusal, Washington, Jan. 31.—The European -allies have not yet answered Minister Bowen’s proposition, made several days ago, that there shall be no preferénce of claims of Great Britain, Germany and Italy against Venezuela over those of other nations against the South American country. Minister Bowen thinks the delay should be construed in a hopeful light, on the ground that the delay in the answer of the powers indicates that they realize the impo:tance of his position in the matter and are giving the subject careful consideration. He still expects a favorable reply to his contention and believes that the questions at issue will be settled at Washington between himself, acting for the government of Venezuela, and the representatives of the powers.

It became kunown that Mr. Bowen had addressed to the representatives of the allies what in a measure might be regarded as an ultimatum as defining his position. Mr. Bowen declines absolutely to discuss the question, but it is known that he said to the allies that if they persisted in their determination to receive preferential treatment in the matter of the settlement of the claims., he would call together the other creditor nations having claims against Venezuela with a view to their making a formal protest against the demands of those who participated in the blackade. The effect of this would be that the other seven creditor nationhs would be lined up against the three allied powers, with the result that the settlement of the whole matter in all probability might go to The Hague, if it is to be settled at all. This note is believed to be having its effect in staying the final determination of the question by the allied governments. = France Astonished. Paris, Jan. 31.—The foreign office here received lengthy ofiicial advices giving details of the rejection by the allies of :(}h; proposal that France and other countries receive equal treatment in the Venezuelan settlement. The French officials had not doubted that equal treatment would be recognized, and this unexpected turn of events has caused much surprise and concern. :

For the present it does not assume an imperative position, but rather sets forth what they regard as the manifest equities of the French position, with the view. to induce its further - consideration ‘and acceptance. After conferring with those in chief authority, an official said that the French position is based on two essential principles. The first is that a pacific settlement between two sovereign nations is entitled- at least to equal treatment with a . war settlement. 1f not a precedent would be established, the officials say, which would be an incentive to war, as countries first adopting force in the collection of claims would have superior rights to those observing the usual pacific means of settlement. Dangerous Precedent.

The view is strongly held here that the United States, France and Belgium are in effect pacific allies, as they did not resort to force against Venezuela. It is insisted that the present attitude of the allies tends not only .to prejudice the rights of the pacific allies, but also establishes the dangerous prineiple that a resort to war is preferable to efforts to maintain peace. : ] International Recognition. The second principle of the French position is that the TFranco-Vene-zuelan:settlement is in the form of a treaty which entitles it to international recognition. This was formally executed prior to the adoption of force by the allies and while Venezuela retained full independence in the exercise of her sovereign right to make a treaty. Therefore, it is maintained that this antedates rights arising from a resort to force. : It is not insisted, however, that this prior treaty settlement entitles France to priority in the division of the customs receipts, as the officials hold that all the powers having claims should receive equal treatmerit. :

Germany Must Not Blufr. Washington, Jan. 30.—The Venezuelan situation. especially the attitude of Germany, was discussed by the senate committee on military affairs Thursday. - v The discussion was general and earnest, and the conclusion reached, as stated by a member of the committee, was that the :United States make it plain that the honorand dignity of the country would be maintained and that Germany should not Le allowed to “bluff” the government by any attitude she might assume, Coal Fre_e‘_(;t_‘l)__—u_t—y. Honolulu, Jan. 31.—The treasury department at Washington hascabled instructions to Collector of Port Stackable to admit coal at this port free of duty, in.compliance with the recen. congressional act removing the duty on foreign coal at all American ports and receiving centers. ] Died in C;zllfornln. -Santa Monica, Cal,, Jan. 31.—Maj. A. E. Bovay, aged 85, a long-time resident of Ripon, Wis., died here. He is said to have been first in framing the earliest organization of what has been known as the republican party. Killed at a Crossing. Crawfordsville, Ind., Jan. 30.--A Vandalia special train ran down a buggy at a crossing near Darlington, instantly killing Benjamin Gillon and Thomas Grisman, both prominent business men of this place. The victims were en route to a funeral. A Sad End. Chicago, Jan. 30.—Mrs. Mary S Jones, secretary of the Monitor Building and I.oan association, committed suicide at the grave of hex two daughtets in Forest Home cemetery by drinking acid. Grief over their death is blamed. , o

STARTS BIG FIRE. S £ Lightaing Cripples Niagara Falls " 'Power Plant and Concerns - Dependent Upon It. Niagara Falls, N. Y., Jan. 31.—At 6:39 o'clock Iriday night the temporary repairs at the ITiagara Falls Power & Conduit company's ' plant were completed, and the electrical famine along the Niagara frontier due to the early morning fire which was started by a flash of lightning was practically at an end. Power was sent out from the plant an hour before' that time, but it was not permanent owing to a short circuit which occurred in the power house shortly thereafter, and which seriously burned three men, one of whom may die. The short circuit and the injury of the three men came as a climax to disconcerting incidents which had marked the day.

~ E. B. Rankin, vice president of the company, said Friday evening: *The cause of the fire was a bolt of lightning. which entered the transformer room and set-fire to one of the eables, The flames communicated to other cables, and in a short time the roof of the transformer house was ablaze. The cables were destroyed in a short time and it was necessary to shut down power house No. 1. Operations in power house No. 2 were not interfered with. There was no damage to machinery in either power house. In all, about 7,000 feet of cable were destroved. There was a supply of cable on hand and sufficient to replace it.”’. The loss by fire is estimated at $50.000. ' Never before since the establishment of Niagara Falls power has there been a delay of such magnitude. It was felt directly Wy thouwinds of people in- Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Lockport and the Tonawandas and intermediate points. Hundreds of factories were shut down for the day and the street car service was dgmoralized. Thousands of workmen employed in the factories along the river were temporarily thrown out of employment. The officials of the power company state, however,. that the seriousness of the situation was not so great as was-‘t first-thought possible. As a matter of fact, the electrical famine lasted 19 hours. The worst of it is over.

EMPEROR OUR FRIEND. Baron Von Sternberg Reaches Ameriea from Germany with Mes~ . sage of Good Will. Washington, Jan. 31.—Baron Speck von Sternburg, the German minister to ‘the United States, arrived in Washington at a late hour Friday night. "He was accompanied by the Baroness Speck von Sternburg. They were met at the station by one of the German attaches and went at once to the embassy Tesidence. The baron will not be able to take up the Venezuelan negotiations with Minister Bowen until he has presented his letters of credence to President Roosevelt. It is expected he will do this to-dav.

In an interview in- New York the baron said he had been sent to pick up the threads of the Venezuelan matter where his predecessor left them. He continued: *“Concerning the kaiser's attitude toward the maio question and the Monroe doctrine T can speak with perfect assurance and emphasis. The emperor has been much 'misunderstood. He has no ulterior motive whatever. It is as absurd to think-that he wishes to seize territory in Venezuela as that he wishes to colonize the moon. ' The moment he grabbed land his trade would be lost. The situation would be the same as if he grabbed a province of China. Commerce would be destroyed and colonization without commerce means bankruptey for the nation attempting it. :

“The emperor is anxious, mos} anxious, that the best of understanding shall exist between the two coun tries. The days of the old diplomacy are past, I think. I consider myself as much a representative of your country as 1 do of the emperor. Questions of this sort should be discussed frankly. Lln such ways is the best understanding maintained and encouraged.” :

Primary Bill Accepted. . Madison. Wis., Jan. 31.—The assembly committee on privileges and elections unanimously reported a substitute primary election bill providing that all candidates for elective offices, including candidates for United States senator, shall be nominated at a primary election to be held the first Tuesday in September, 1904, and biennially thereafter, excepting candidates for school offices and justices of the peace. Duelist Sentenced. Berlin. Jan. 31.—First Lieut. Werne: von Grawert, son of the lieutenant general of that name, who shot Dr. Aye, a lawyer of Fiensburg, through the neck, cutting the spinal cord and causing instant death, in a duel fought in the Grunewald forest, January 16, has been sentenced by a military court to two years’ imprisonment in a fortress. The trial was conducted behind closed doors. :

Big Shortage. ‘Des Moines, la., Jan. 31.—The examination by accounts of the affairs of the defunct bank of Otoe, owned by Cutting and Willett, has disclosed a shortage of $214,491, instead of ¥34,833, as at first reported. Speculation on the board of trade is the only explanation offered for the shortage. : Pid Not Found Rome. j Rome, Jan, 31.—Itisclaimed that the excavations that Prof. Airoli is carrying outin the Forum have conclusively proved that Romulus did not found Rome, but that the city existed long previous to his appearance.’ Will. Accept Judgeship. ‘Albany, N. Y., Jan: 31.—Jehn 'T. MecDoneugh, of this city, former secretaty of state, announced that he will accept the appointment as justice of the supreme court of the Philippine islands which was tendered him several days‘ago by President Roosevelt. Big Lumber Deal. Seattle, Wash,, Jan. 31.—The big lumber mills at Port Blakely, together with 50,000 acres of timber lands in Mazon and Kitsap counties, have been sold for $3,000,000 to a syndicate of Michigan lumbermen. : :

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GOOD HAZING STORY. Night Expedition of Sophomores Had" a Blessed Purpose and Is With- " out a Parallel. ; The best hazing story of recent years is now going the rounds of the press, credited to Frank Hinkey, Yale, ’94, the famous left end of Gia Eli’s football team of that year. “It happened,” he remarked, “in 1892. Some sophomores noticed that two poor country boys had begun their housekeeping in a room on the ground floor of one of the college halls, with a miserable apology for a bed, no carpet, no table, and only two chairs as the sum total of their outfit. They proposed to board themselves, but had only a few dollars for their food during the term. They expected hazing and were not disappointed. “One night, the trembling youths were summoned: by a sophomore, who was not overcourteous, to go to a room upstairs. They obeyed, pale with fear. They were detained about an hour, but were only quizzed by the circle of students in the room.} They then were released. Entering their own apartment, they were daz zled by a new carpet, a tasteful bedstead, fully equipped, a study table, easy chairs, a handsome drop lamp, a bookcase partly filled with books, a stove, pictures on the walls, rugs, ete., while in a closet were enough provisions to last a week. “That,” declared Hinkey. in closing, “was hazing to a blessed purpose, but, alas! I fear it has no parallel.”

WRITE YOUR OPINION. A New Winter Evening Game for Girls Which Affords Bushels of Fun, If Properly Conducted. New games are things that every boy and girl is looking for, and not only games that you have never played yourself, but games that not many other people have played, either. Here is one that ought to suit a good'many of you. It is played something the way “consequences” is played—that is, with paper and pencil. Each person is given a piece of paper and a pencil, and is told to write her opinion of somebody; one whom every one who is playing the game knows, if possible. This opinion need not be elaborate or long. You need only say: “The person I am telling my opinion of is”—and then just put down a few adjectives, such as jolly, pretty, witty, lazy, inventive, and so z & \\;.: (-/"'l & o A i) ! .i;l ?r‘;'/ : ._ N “,'E,"VVI'” 7 A" - d fi -%Ws \f’ ANy . 00 S EIAL ‘ N 7 S —= N\ \\\\\ o b \ WO 2 ! \\\\ \77 gooo i) -y ; \\ N L 2 o—:q% & 2 N \ W »" /D 77,, oty vy //" ! H ' WRITE YOUR OPINIONS, on, making them as long as you please. You must have at least three descriptive adjectives. Do not put either your name or that of the person you are writing about on the paper, but when you have finished fold your paper so that what you have written cannot be seen, and pass it to your left-hand neighbor, who in turn passes hers on. On the new paper you have had passed you, without looking at what is written, write the name of the person you think that your right-hand neighbor would have been most likely to describe, and then when every one has done this put all the slips of paper in a pile in the center and in turn :ach draw one out, saying: “This is thought to 'be the opinion of,” and then read the name on the paper. Open it and read the opinion. If it happens to be the opinion you wrote put it back without reading aloud and take another. When you have read it you have the privilege of making ons guess as to whom the opinion 1s really intended for, and if you guess right the one who wrote it must acknowledge it and say whether right or wrong, and if right pay a forfeit. Each one reads one of the opinions and has the privilege of one guess. After that is over you can redeem the forfeit.—Prairie Farmer. Danger for Deep-Sea Fish. It is dangerous for a fish whose natural home is at great depths to get out of its stratum. Should it get out of its depth there would be a sudden upward suction and-the fish woald be drawn to the surface and explode. The interior y+essure of the body counteracts the outward pressure under normal conditions, ai:d when the. latier is removed there is trouble. o Proof of It. : “At any rute,” he said, as he mailed a chieck to a San Francisco creditor, “it can’t be dented that I am able to make & little mouney go a long way.”—Chicago Post, o

PINKY’S PREFERENCE. The Story of a Pet Possum Whlc‘ Refused to Stay in the Woods When Taken There. Most wild animals stoutly resist all of our well-intentioned efforts to bring them up in'door-yard ways, and take to the woods again with the first opportunity. I have tamed many squirrels, but, sooner or later, every one’ of them has escaped to the wilds. 1 have never known but one wild animal that wanted to be domesticated, that refused to stay in the woods when taken there; and this ‘was a little possum, named, from the color of his long nose, “Pinky.” He was one of a family of nine that I caught, several springs ago, and carried home. In the course of a few weeks his brothers and sisters were adopted by admiring friends; but Pinky, because he was the “runt,” and looked very sorry and forlorn, was not chosen. He was left with me. I kept him, for his mother was dead, and fed him on milk until ne caught up to the size of the biggest mother-fed possum of his age in the woods. Then I took him down to the old stump in the brier-patch where he was born, and left him to shift for himself.

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He took'his saucer of milk under the stove as if nothing had hdppened. We had had a good many -possus, crows, lizards, and the like, so, in spite .of this winsome show of confidence and affection, Pinky was borne away once more to the briers, He did not creep in by the pump-boxz trough that night. Nothing was seer of him, and he passed quickly out of our minds. Two or three days after this 1 was crossing the back yard, ‘and stopped to pick up a big cala-bash-gourd that had been on the woodpile. I had cut a round hole, somewhat larger than a silver dol lar, in the gourd. intending to fasten it up for the bluebirds to nest in. It ought to have been as light as so much air, almost, but instead it was heavy—the children had filled it with sand, no doubt. T turned it over and peeked into the hole, and lo! there was Pinky.

How he -ever managed to squeeze through that opening I don’t know, but there he was, sleeping away as soundly as ever. But that’s just like him—always a puzzle. He is most stupidly wise or most wisely stupid. And what became of him then? My heart smites me whenever I think of it. I took him back again to the woods the third time, and again he returned, but blundered into a neighbor’s yard, and-—and 4 little later he was drawn up in a bucket of water from the bottom of that neighbor's well, still asleep, only—they could not wake him up.—Dallas Lore Sharp, in St. Nicholas. Athlete Fighte Huge Lion. Archie B. Lueder, a well-known athlete of the class of '99 at Cornell, and who is now stationed in equatorial Africa- near St. Joro. recently had a hand-to-hand battle with a huge African lion, in which some of the things Lueder learned on the Cornell gridiron came into play. Lueder and a man named Smith were out surveying, \\'fi%% unexpectedly a big lion sprang from the jungle. The rifles which they carried were of small caliber and the lion paid no heed to the shots fired at him. Finally, the beast sprang upon Lueder, who thrust the muzzle of the rifle in the lion’s mouth, while his companion was able to dispatch the lion by shooting the animal through the heart. Lueder was terribly lacerated by the lion’s claws and has jus,.&.‘ gathered strength to write his brother, C. A. Lueder, now also a Cornell football player. : ;

Lamps That Talk or- Sing, : Electric lampssean not only be made g talk, but alwfl sing. An ordinary are light can bé made to produce sound by placing the arc in the circuit of a telephone instead of the ordinary receiver or instead of the dr"dina"ry transmitter. In either of these positions it will ;&Mfiounce words, which can be heard distinetly at a considerable distance. 1t naturally follows, also, that the el€ctric are ran be utilized as the receiver and ualso as the transmitter of the telephone.

- Remarkable Plant. Growth. Some tropical plants cea rgllly be seen to grow. An eminssg tist, who has been makingiéa@ements in the botanical gardy Buitenzorg, Java, records a kin a bamboo of 17 inches i¥ day. Another bamboo was oh to adi cight inches to its heig ily for 58 days, while two others gPew four inches stecaily for 60 days.

& ""\ ' : - Ca TIANS, e : B : No B @ KI A <8 C"‘ ? T g (X g = @'RMP fryEßt fi‘ ; A #A 3N \ o = XN ol LN fy o 0 ’ 'it‘.f“,"hj) L) 7 T NN & 802 - SR EES o 5 b RN [ 1 s fi&!fi’ z S - TR NNy ) o 7~ KEENAN'S CHARGE. Oh, tell not df Leonidas and the pass he guarded well, Where with his brave three- hundred so long ago he fell; i Why search through misty ages for deeds of daring . high? 2 The men who charged with Keenan have faught us how to die. Through every vein the life-blood pulsed with rytkmic ebb and flow. Before them stretched the happy vears, illumined by hope’s bright glow, Yet, with one breath. life’s noonday sun was stricken from their sky— Think you they hear@ unmoved the word which doomed them then to die?

Theirs not the hope even valor craves—to win hard-fought fray; Knowing their graves before them yawned, they sped along the way: S No faltering han@ a charger checked, although full well they knew, - With every step their life's short span of ‘seconds shorter grew. = ;

Sleep sweetly, O, yve heroes! When 'English bards shall tell How Nolan and his seldiers at-Balaklava fell ) - . We'll show them where you charged alone, an army om its way, S And say: ‘‘Here died their brothers—as true, as brave as they.” . —Ninette M. Lowater, in American Tribune. _ ‘ . .A GALLANT DEED’S RETURN. An Act of Splendid Courage Amply Rewarded and the Life-Long Friendship It Made. = . In the movement of Stoneman's cavalry in the fall campaign o_t"Ls‘G.*:, the advance was led by Lieut. Paine of the First Maine cavalry. = S Being separated by a considerable distance from the main body, Paine’s command unexpectedly encdountered a vastly superior force of the southern troops, and his whole party were taken prisoners. - They were hprried oft as rapidly as possible, to get them out of the way of the advancing union forces, and in crossing a deep - and rapid stream, Capt. Henry, ‘commanding the confederate guards, was swept off his horse, and being unable to swim, sank at once, relates the American Tribune. R His own men were so bewildered that they did not make a move to save him, But Lieut. Paine showed +that misfortune had neither deprived him of courage nor of preésence of mind. Quick as a flash, he threw off his coat, plunged into the current, and, seizing the drowning man, he swam with him to the shore, and thus literally captured his captor. ) P

Paine was sent to Richmond with the rest of the prisoners, and the facts being made known to ‘Gen. FitzHugh Lee, he wrote a statement of them to Gen. Winder, then provost marshal at the confederate capital. Winder ordered the instant release of LLieut. Payne, without even parole, promise or condition.. The Tieutenant’s sword was eveh returned to him, and a guard of honor, with a flag of truce, gave him safe conduet to the lines of his friends. i Men capable of such splendid conduct should never have had cause to fight each other; but the strangest part of ,//;{—;/g = 2 e ' 4 z,:,",/ o ) W ///*2/2//{ o >—" 114 -\ 1 .«//;l‘f:‘v'i 4'.;1; y{//‘/ /f ~.»v--" i ¢ 7}/ Ly PR ) B 2 et L ‘//;'//(v';l"/ékfifi;'}’.’![l‘v 74 - .’. f l:;{. = \ ‘l,/.‘ Pt gflg ® S e ——— s Tl ol e T FEmeslcL o= = m’\ ot ppons: T\ —=— gt e 2R . . W:—*_———-:__—__*—-f 2 i CAPTURED HIS CAPTOR., this remarkable story is yet to be told. A few months after this Lieut. Paine was in Washingon, wheré he learned that the officer whose life he had so gallantly saved had been taken prisoner by the union forces and was.then confined in the Old Capitol prison. Paine visited his friendly foeat once, and supplied all his wants, éxcept his want of liberty. The gallant Maine cavalryman visited Gen. Martindale, then in command of Washington, and, telling his story, interested him at once in the prisoner. " The eonsequence was that Capt. Henry was paroled and allowed to return to the south. v N These gallant young soldiers foug on opposite sides till the war was ¢ 1d ed, when they sought each other ‘gut; and since then their relationship has been that of brothers between whom no sign of strife has ever passed. § LW A Close Shave. & - ] A physician tells the following: remember one day in making my hospita’tfirlx:‘%nds a patient, just arrive presenfed’me an amputated forearr_gl

and in deoing so, could scarcely refrain from a broad laugh; the titter ? stantly on his face. “What is the matter? This does not &trike me as a subject of laughter ¥’ FTY ‘ “If is not, doctor;-but excuse me. I lost my arm in so funny-a way that I still laugh when I look at it.. Our first sergeant wanted shaving badly, and got me to attend to it, as I am corporal. We went together in front of his tent. I had lathered him, took him by the nose, and was applying the razor, when a cannon ball came, and that was the last I saw .of either his head or my arm. Excusene, doctor, for laughing as I do, but I’ll be especially blasted if ever I saw such a bully thing.”—American Tribune, s A Secret.—-‘— ‘ “ oo Father—What did I tell you I was going to do to you if I caught you smoking again? : A Johnnie—lf you don’t remember it, pa, you needn’t think I'm going fo tell you!—Woman's Home Companion. e

- FACING TO THE FRONT. - Men Who Had Learned the Lessom of War and Stood Their Ground - Under FKFire. “We had an explosion near our scheol building the other day,” said the professor, according to the Chicago Inter QOcean, “and I was greatly interested in the bearing of children under the unusual excitement. Of a group of boys nearest the scené of trouble all scurried away except two. One of these faced, in adazed, mechanical way, toward the smoke, brought his heels together and stood in the position of a soldier, straight and stolid, awaiting developments. The other boy threw himself flat on the ground, and with head slightly raised, watched excitedly the turmeil about the scene of the explosion. _ :

I knew both boys well, and their fathers before them. Going out from Nashville ‘along the Murfreesboro pike on the 26th of December, 1862, our brigade, part of Résecrans’army, mova

25 ] ) . o ,/7' %/’ : 4 /,.\.’%;’{».‘: WA /f?" AP R 2 [ R '/(/”{,::4/,;‘,,’@5,;!/ A/ A TAN TRt ) At flol !"“""50‘42}?(';';‘-','-/{/ 7 B i .\\g‘,\ ,'.. l/ ‘.‘ (O )‘/ AV OVED) ; 1 "\ \ \\\| ' ol ( { '\' ~ - } \ =T, S ez_/.—’.a P 72 =2\ N XA 3 = 4 ;\\ - 7 NOT A MAN MOVED, ing on Stone river, came suddenly on the rear guard of the enemy. Ourcompany was marching at the time in twwo ranks in the midde of the white road, while other companies and battalionsg were in order of battle on either side 2 ‘of the road. As the advance, we were pressing forward, not anticipating any serious resistance, when we saw on a rise in front of us,-and beyond our skirmishers and videttes, the flash of brass field guns, going into position. A minute later three cannon balls struck in quick succession on the road not three feet to the left of the center of our company as it halted in tworank formation, extending back along the pike. Everyone was taken by surprise by the suddennessand the viciousness of the attack. but not a man moved. The man nearest the spot where the shot struck the hard, macadamized road, and whose. faee and and clothes: were covered with the 'dust and gravel thrown up, looked neither to the right nor the left, but, straightening his figure, stood at attention, facing squarely to the front. The next shot might strike him, and it might ¢ome in an instant, but instinctively he faced the danger, what-ever-it was.

- ""The colonel, not 20 feet away:noticed the bearing of the men with a gleam of pride in bhis eyes, and then said, in a. matter-of—cm\x}se way: ‘They have your range, men. Move off the road before they fire again.’ The men moved deliberately to -the line of fence on the roadside, and a minute later three more cannon balls

were planted just where the company had stood, and again my stolid man faced to the front, and said, unexcitedly: ‘There they go. They have skedaddled.” Four days later I saw this same man in the panic hour of a day’s battle and in the midst of the terror and cohfusion_ he stood, stolidly faeing the front, and other men fleeing from crumbling lines, aligned themselves upon him. =

*“So it happened that he becqme the center of a new line, of desperate fighters looking for something to raliy upon, for something to cling to in the storm of battle, for somebody who would stand against the pursuing enemy. He stood and they stood, and later it became a habit with all of thent when confronted by danger to face as he faced that day, and to confidently wait developments. The boy who faced the smoke on the day of our small explosion was the youngest son of my stolid soldier friend, and my theory i$ that he did as he did because it was in his blood. to do it, and that the instinct of facing to the frontin time of danger will go down-to his sons and grandSONnSs. .

CHARGED WITH SELFISHNESS. Stepped Aside for a Moment and Let the Man Behind Him Get Shot. % “Do you see that man over there?” said the old veteran, pointing out am elderly man who, relates the New York Tribune, was resplendent in a frock coat and a silk hat. gl e quite occupies the foreground,” ¢ his - friend; “I don’t see how L. il help seeing him.” @il he is the most selfish man ew"’ that a rather harsh charge P’ said the friend again. “I've fi®ome pretty selfish men in my | jand so have you. He looks most renerous.” Wait until I tell you what he did ®e " me,” said the old veteran. “We "Were in the civil war, same regiment, §4le company. He was in the front T I in the rear. At the battle of "Mfnassas we were standing in rank waiting for orders. That distin‘guished looking individual over there s fjustiin front of me. He stepped ° ine for a minute—why, the m’y knows. Anyway, a Johnny &eb bullet came along and plowed through my cheek. You see the sear. ‘He’s a selfish man, and no mistake.”

An Irish Town. . -Out_of a population of 60,000 in Waterbury, Conn., from 27,000 to 30,000 are Irish or.of Irish descent. They predominate in municipal affairs, and their societies are the strongest in the city. It is one of the few cities in the eountry where Gaelic is taught in ni*schools.—N. Y. Sun. ‘ " New Iron Disease. . A white rust is an unexplained “disease” qof English and German galvanized iron that has developed within & year or two.—N. Y, Sun,