Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1887 — Page 2

The SlcpnbUcini. Geo. E. Makhuam., Publisher. RENSSELAER. IN DIANA

Over 600 hills and petitions were introduced in the Renate on the first real working dayol the session. Good. Now how shall we prevent the passage of a tenth of them? Thi Ihlianapoiis Journal has named the following as a desirable Republican ticket for tndianians: For President, Gen. Ben- Harrison; for ▼ice-President, Gen. Hawley; of-Connecticut; for Governor, Albert G. Portei; for Lieutenant Governor, Col. Robertson. ImniAN-APOLis has bad an experience in new newspaper enterprises during the year, all of which went, up the flume. If the government wants to get rid of the •mrplns why not start a daily paper in Indianapolis. So far such ventures have required more “surplus ’ than was at eeaamand.^_^_______^_ Rwti.iTan, the slugger, Is a bigger man . than “old” Buffalo Bi.l. The Prince of Wales will soon present the slugger a gold watch, and all England bows down and worships him. On this side of the water Sullivan is not regarded as a model sailing for adulation, notwithstanding his capacity to strike from the shoulder.

Dr. Talmage and the Gas.

Braaklya F-agi*. I began the ministry by writing ou| my sermons with great care and taking my manuscript into the pulpit and eonfining myself strictly to it. But coming out of a theological seminary with bat little preparation in the way •f sermon material, I found the preparation of two sermons and a lecture a week a complete physical exhaustion, so I retracted from that habit and used no Botes at all. My first experience in this asw departure was marked, and unusual. It was in my village church at Belleville, N. J. Finding that I must stop the exhaustive work of preparation I resolved on a certain Sunday night to extemporise. The church had ordinarily been lighted by lamps, as there was uogasinthe village, but the trustees had built a gas-house in the rear of the church, and the new mode of lighting* the edifice was to be tested the very Bight I had decided to begin my extemporaneous speaking. The chnrchwas thronged wit» people who had some to see the new mode of lighting. I had about ten minutes of inv sermon in manuscript and put it down on the Bible, intending when the manuscript gave out to launch out on the great sea es externporaneousness. Although it was a cool night it was a very hot one lor me, and the thermometer seemed to be about up to ISO degrees. At a yery slow rate I went on with my sermon, Employers are quietly suggesting aasong themselves the possibility of a reduction in the price of labor next fSpring. The influences which favor this possibility are not very apparent, and yet there is a feeling that organised labor may find it more difficult to keep the high stapdard next year than they have this year. Much incompetent or inferior labor has been paid the highest wages this year, and this evil has been borne with as much grace as possible.

Boys Publicly floggod for theft.

In the town of ..Washington, fifty miles west of St. Louis, three boys, John Divoriik and Gus Sol oangArt were arrested, a few <ury£ago, for pe'it larceny. They were lound guilty but th* parents of the boys pleaded hard lar them, and the Judge finally ordered a nominal fine imposed, provided the families of the boys would publiely flog the boys in the court-house square. The fathers agreed, and on Friday about one thousand persons assembled on the square and bew the fathers flog, the boys soundly. All the schools took a recess and the children were invited to be present and profit by the moral example. The children were marshaled "by their teachers. One of the\culprits stood the drubbing without a murmur, but the yells of the other pair could be heard two blocks away/ ~-

Busbyhead on the War-Path.

A. special from Vtnita, lad. T., save: *’Ex-Chief D. W. Bushy head, who was ousted from the executive mansion of the Cherokee government at TahUqnab, la't week, has issued a call to his ollowetß to meet him in council at Campbell's store, about thirty miles from Tinita, oa Monday. The call is for SXI men to seek redraws for the wrong done the Boahyhead party, and also to gain control of the government, which is now in the hands oi the Downing party. The latter are prepared for arid expest an ttaek from the Nationals.

Striving to Please.

Old Lady (sharply, to boy in drug o ßtote)—l' ve been waitin’ for some time tp be waited on, bov. Boy (meekly.)—Yes’um; wot kin I do fer youT Old Lady—l want"a two-cent stamp. ’ Boy (anxious to please)—Yse’nm. Will you have it licked? , :

He Had the Rewhide.

Bu«U» Courier. '■ '' ' “Did have m rawhide she assaulted you?” asked his honor *o! a meek gentleman who accused his wife of aasault with intent to kill. “No, your honor,” said the poor man, feeling of himself tepderly, “I’m the one that had the rawhide; in fact, your honor, I have still.” "

RECREATION.

Innocent Atklbttc . Amusement* Should Not be Discouraged. Mirth and MaaU Ou*bt to AhonaU~Tu Every Heme-dUany WaJ» of Kokin* the DomriMe t'■«s•<• Happy—Christian CharHy Shoald Hover o*er All. l Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Subjects, "Recreations, Good and Bad.” Texts, i. Corinthians, ch. 7, v. 3i: “They that use this world, are not abnsingit;” and Judges, ch. 1«; v. 2§: “And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said: Call for Samson that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson otit of the prisoners: and he made them sport.” Dr. Talmage said: We are entering upon the gayest season of the year The winier opens before us the gates of a thousand amusements, some of them good and some bad. One of my texts will show you that amusements may be destructive; my o'her text will show you that amusements may be under the Divine blessing and direction. " ... ' This morning, in the name of the King of heaven and earth, I serve a writ of ejectment upon all the sinful and polluted who have squatted on the domain of earthly pleasure as though it belonged to them, while I claim in behalf of the good and the pare and the true, the eternal inheritance which God has given them. Hitherto, Christian philanthropists, clerical and lay, have busied themselves in denouncing sinful recreations; but I feel wi have no right to Btand before men and women in whose hearts there is a desire for recreation amounting to a positive neceseitv, denouncing this and that and the other thing, when we do not propose to give them something better. Cod helping me this morning, and with reference to my last account, I shall enter upon a sphere no usual in sermon!*mg,but a subject which I think ought to be presented at this time. I propose now to lav before you some of the recreations which are not only innocent! but positively helpful and advantageous. In the first placo, I commend, among indoor recreations, music, vocal and instrumental. Among the first thing* created was the bird, so that the earth might have music at the start. This world, which began with so sweet a serenade, is finally to be demolished amid the ringing blast of the archangel's trumpet, so that, ns there was music at the start there shall be music at the close- While this art heavenly has as often been dragged into the uses of superstition and dissipa tiony we all know it mav lie the means of high moral culture. Oh, it is a grand thing to have our children brought up amid the sound of cultured voices and amid the sound of musical instruments. There is in this art an indescribable fascination for the household. Let all those families who have the means to afford it have flute or harp or piano or organ. As soon as the hand is large enough to compass the keys, teach it how to pick out the melody. Let all our young men try this heavenly art upon their nature. Those who have gone into it fully have fofind in it illimitable recreation and amusement- Dark days, stormy nights, seasons of sickness, business disasters will do little toward depressing the soul which can gallop on over musical keys or soar in jubilant lay. It will cure pain. It will rest fatigue. It will quell passion. It will revive health. It will reclaim dissipation. It will strengthen the immortal soul. I am glad to know that in our great cities there is hardly a night in which there are not concerts where, with the best musical instruments, and the sweetest voices, people nay find entertainment.. Patronize sue i entertainments when they are affottied yon. Buy • season tickets, if you can, for the Philharmonic and the Handel and Hayden societies. Feel that the $1.50 or $2 that you spend for the purpose of bearing an ,artigt play or sintr is a profitable invest ment. Let your B:einway Halls and your Academies of Music, roar with the acclamation of appreciative audiences assembled at the concert or the oratorio. Still further: I commend, as worthy of their support, the gymnasium. This institution is gaining, in favor every year, and I know of nothing more free from dissipation, or more calculated to recuperate the physical and mental energies. While ther.e are a good many people who have employed this institution, there is a vast number who’ are ignorant of its excellences. There are men witji cramped cheats and weak sides and despondent spirits, who,, through thg gymnasium, might be' roused up to exuberance and exhilaration of life. There are many: Cnristian -people depondent from year to y'earwho might tnrough such an institution, be benefit ted in their spiritual reia>ioi:B. Tnere are Uim-t .n people who seem to think th,,t it Is good sign to be poorly; and became Richard Baxter and Robert Hall were invabdvthey think thatby. tr-e same sickliness they may come to the san.e crandeur of character. I want to tell the (hristian people of my congregation that God wid bold you responsible tor your invalidism if it is your fault, and when through right txercise end pru dence von might be athletic and well: The effect of the body upon the so pi y n acknowledge. Rut g. mart of mi d disco sition upon the animal diet of which the Indian partake*; and in a little while his blood will change its chemical pro portions. It will become like unto the blood ot the lion or tiger, or the bear, while his disposition will change and become fierce, cruel and unrelenting. The body has a powerful effect upon the soul. Physical development which merely shows itself in fabulous lifting, or in perilous rope-walking, or in in pngilißlic encounter, excites only our constempt; but we corneas to great admiration for the man who has a great soul in an athletic body, every merve, .muscle and hone» f wnich is consecrated to right uses. Oh, it seems to me outrageous that m-n, through neg*fc r , , Ehould atiow their physical health to go down beyond repair. Slid further I commend to yon a large claes of parlor games and recreations. There » a wav of making our homes a hundred-fold: raore attractive than they are now. Tboee parent® can not expect to keep their children away from outside dissipations unless they make the

J domestic circle brighte r than any thing they can find outside of it. D > not,then, sit in your home surly add ttusympß- ! thetic, and with a haif-c<>n<k-amatory I look because of thespOrtfulnCMt of your children. You. were young pheo yonir- . sell; let your children lie young. Because your eyrw ore dim *nd Venr ank- > lea are stiff no not dnuotuioa sportful nets in those upon whose eyes there is the first luster and in whose foot there is the bounding joy of robust health. I thank God that in oar drawing-rooms and in our -parlors there are innumerable games and Bports w hich have not npon them the least taint of iniquity. Light up all your homes with innocent hilarities. Do not set down with the rheumatism, wondering how the children can go on so, Rather thank God that their Hearts are so light, and their laughter iB so free, and that their cheeks are so ruddy, and that their expectations are so radiant. Carry, then, into your homes, not only the innocent sports and games wnich are the inventions of our own day, but the games which come down with the sportfulness' of all the past ages—chess and charades and tableaux and battledore, saliethenics and lawn-tennis, and all those amusements which the young pecple of our homes know so well how to contrive. Then there will be the parlor socialties —groups of people assembled in your homes, with wit and mimicry and joviality, tilling the room with joy from the door to the mantel, and from the carpet to the ceiling. Oh, is there any exhilaration like a score of genial souls in one room, each one adding a contribution of his own individual merriment to the aggregation of general hilarity? I rejoice in the popularization of outdoor sports. I hail the croquet ground and the fisherman’s rod and the sportsman’s gun. In our cities life is so unhealthy and nnnatnral that when the census-taker represents a city as having four hundred thousands inhabitants, there are only two hundred thousand, since it takes at least two men to amount to one man, so depleting and unnerving and exhausting is this metropolitan life. We .want more fresh air, more sunlight, more of the abandon of field sports.X-X cry out for it in behalf of the Church of God as well as in behalf of secular interests. I wish that this winter our ponds and our rivers and our Capitolme Grounds might be all aquake with the heel and the shout of the swift skater. I wish that when the warm weather comes the . graceful oar might dip the stream, and the evening-tide be resonant with the boatman’s song, the bright prow splitting the crystalline billow. We shall have the smooth and .grassy lawn, and we will call out people of. all occupations and professions and ask them to join in the bail-player’s pport. You will come back from these outdoor exercises and recreations, with strength in your arm and color in your cheek, and a-tiash in your eye and courage in your heart. Yon go out to-morrow morning and you see a case of real destitution by the wayside. You give him two cents. The blind man hears the pennies rattle in his hat and he says. “Thank you, sir; God bless you!” You pass down the street, trying to look indifferent, but yon feel from the very depth of your soul a profound satiefaciion that you made that man happy. You go on still further and find a poor hoy with a wheelbarrow, trying to get it up on the curbstone. He fails in the attempt. You sav, “Stand back, my lad; let me try.” You push it up on the curbstone for him and pass on. He wonders who that well-dressed man was that helped him. Yon did a Kindness to the bo , but you did a great joy to your own soul. You will not get over it all the week. On the street to-morrow morning you will see a sick man passing along. * Ah,” you say, “what can I do to make this man happy? He certainly does not want money; he is not poor, but he is sick.” Give him one of those twentyfive hundred cheerful looks that yen 'have gathered up for the whole year. Look joy and hopefulness into his soul. It will thrill him through and there will he a reaction upon your own soul. Was it all -sacrifice when the missionaries wanted to.bring the Gospel to the negroes at the Barbadoes, and, being denied the privilege, sold themselves into slavery, standing side by side, and lying side by side down in the very ditch of suffering, in order that, they might bring those men up to life and God and heaven? Oh, there is a thrill in the joy of doing good! It is the most magnificent recreation to which a mail ever putß his hand or his head or his heart. But our hour for adjourning has already come, and the last hour of onr life will soon be here, and from that hour we will review this day’s proceedings,- It will be a solemn hour. If from our death pillow we have to look back and see a life spent in sinful amusement, there will be a dart that will strike through onr soul sharper than the d.<ggerwith which “Virginius” slew his child. The memory of the past will make us quake like “Macbeth.” The iniquities and rioting through which we have passed will come upon us. weird snd pt eletcuv as “Meg Merrilies ” Death, :he • Rhylock.” will deuiaud and take I I he remaining pound, o.f flesh and the ' niainlng drop of Wood; aad upon our | last opportunity - for repentance and onr last chance for heave i the curtain will j forever drop. The Goose. . .Ti-lmaie e Bars position. Gooses are tne biggest birds known to me human eye, an! the he one is a gander: The gander is the monark of the air, but the rooster can lick him’ co* the rooster be is.bravfe like General Solmon, but the gander isn’t fighty, more like preachers. The goos is a sailor, but not a wicked one like Jake Brily, wich chews tobako, and swears, and evry thing,- and it has got Tethers between its toes for to wolk the wotter liek a thing of life. Ducks thay are sailors too, but the swon has got a long neck like a giraft, and wen it baa got a sore throtq it is mighty sick. The little gooses is goßlums and is green. My sister, she see a goilum and she ast Uncle Ned wot made it green, and he said,- Uacle Neddid, that it was co* it wasent ripe. Then Billy, he spoke up and said wen it was ripe it would be picked. And I will tell you a story. There are twenty-seven red-headed men in the new Congress.

REPUBLICAN MEETING.

R«pre|H>ut ■*!**» ol lb» tUpubllctß Clubs ot the Coauirj Meet. Id Jt«w York—fU»otutfAxA Adopted anil the Busliie** - Tran-mated.. J : j - 7Defrgatesto the number 1,500 representing the various Republican clubs of the country, met in Chickering hall, New York, Thursday and Friday,together with hundreds of prominent men of the party. Daniel I. Regan, of Ohio, was made temporary chairman and Hon. Wm. M. Evarts peimanent chairman. At the reading of the names of the different clubs pretense was found for cheering their names when suggestive. There club names to read, and the cheering was almost continuous as the following name| were repeated: John Sherman, U. 8. Grant, Charles Sumner, John A. Logan, Ben Wade, Abraham Lincoln and James G. Blaine. The last name was greeted with tremendous cheering, but it was noticed that some delegates did not j oin in it. The Ohio delegation was silent and motionless. Senator Evarts, on taking the chair, congratulated the convention on its organization, and said that its work would not interfere with any of the established organizations of the party. It would, like the “grand old party,” never acknowledge that there could be chosen ?a candidate greater than the party. The. Democrats always pride themselves that they nominate men greater than their party, but that illusion has about oeen dispelled. The e’ection of the man who at present fills the chief executive office of the Nation has causad this, and the Democratic soothing syrup has Bhown that it is totally devoid of any medical properties. The Republican party never has had any candidate with principles hostile io the country’s best interests. Those deluded citizens who think so, mistake our principles and their duty. The clubs or leagues that will be organized now will prove the organs, agents and channels for enforcing the sound political purposes from which the Republican party never shrinks or fears. Thus the suffrage of this country will be formed and permeated with Republican principles! The speaker than referred to the suppression of the negro vote in the South. Mr. Evarts then went into the message ot Cleveland. He thought that the Democrats might try to explain it away if possible later on, and when they can not do that will retract. But we mußt hold them to it. We have the right to that message. The laboring class who reads that message will see through the phrases in which it disguished their real position toward them. Some people think that the Republican lenate will prevent the President from doing wrong. A nice way, that, for people to elect a President,-believing that the opposite party will keep him straight. A draft for a constitution for a National organization toJae known as the ‘ Republican League of the United States” was presented. A President, three TicePresidentsand a Secretary and Treasurer are to be the officers. A draft for a constitution for a State League was also presented. The latter are to hold annual conventions, but are not to express any preference for any candidate before any political convention. Any club having twenty members, and duly organised, is entitled to membership in Slate L“agues. A convention of the League during the year 1888 is alto provided for. The committee on permanent organ ia>ition reported a Vice-President for each State and nine secretaries. Hor". A. G. Porter was the Vice-President for Indiana, J. L. Wheat for Kentucky, W. W. Tracy for Illinois, and N. M. Lyan for Ohio. a . The committee on resolutions submitted a very. lengthy report. We give the resolutions helo a: Firit—We •rrplmttMllV refute t# afcenrian the policy of home piotevtii.a, on which our unexampled national progreei and prosperity are founded. Second—The effect of the Demoeratie poliay would • e disastrous by trau-iferriug many of O’ r industries to England, and robbing our working P*"P> of the r employment and wftgee for the benefit of Briti-h niana'acturerg, by exhtutting ouraeeumulated capital in the payment of foreign debts incurred tor imported meri kand *e. and by dama imr the entire system es m-, dustrial and eommerc al intereourte. We prelect against it iuTlie name of all America* labor. and.of all Ameriean enWrprite. Third—We reeogui*e in the murage of the head ot the Demoer»tie patty a. tender to o*r country of the ehoiee between supporting tb# laliorers and the iudu-trio* of Srtat Britain and Buropf seueral’y. on he ene ha.n l, and, on the other, the support of the laboring. men and industrial enterrr -es of Atneriea. We respectfaliy deeiine the former, which he recommend*, Miifwid stand by onr peeple when we eltet a V resident. 1 - Foprih -T! e principle of protection is not '-lunded upon the int rest of any one section or ; mv one ela-s of individuals, bnt upon the inter- : eats of the entire country. Its supreme objeet is i to render .Vnierh a independ nt of Europe, to render the Uuited itatee entirety'self-siistai* ug-f tok-epour money at home and give employment to our own workine pe pie, 10 substit*te home competition for foreign, to build up towns and villages, to encourage agriculture and enhance ihe value of hums, io provide home markets so the farmer, to adapt our manufactures to our domes! ic wants to promote the ruvning of rapid and cheap oommunicatiom between the States and Territ lies, to open mines and d ve op nil the vaat resources of our eounfrv so richly blessed of God in all i hat is needtdso make a pepple great, comented and happy. WFifth—While the Republican party has, since tbe war. r- pea ted ly cut down taxation and has , uniformly when in power.kept the surplus within safe limits, the Democraey have shown them selves incompetent for eiiherduiy. and by persisientlv refusine any re fiction of taxes unless coupled with a dealrucilve assault on American industries are responsible for the accumulation of the existing surplus and all the dangers it involves. We believe that only the restoration of BepubUean«suprt macy gives as-uraneeof uniting reduced taxes, a n vised tariff and limited surplus, with the preservation of the policy wbi h alone saves us from becoming the commercial slaves of Europe. Sixth-The cootimn d refusal of the Demoerat- ! ic Hou-e of Representatives to admit Territories having a population of high character and intelligence, exceeding in number that of several States of the Union, old end new. should arouse the indignation of all true A mermans whobeHave in home tule and constitutional rights. Seventh—Wo condemn Urn hostility of the

Democratic party in the House of Represents-* tivee to all means for the advancement of broad popular education, and. denounce its arbitrary conduct In"thwarting every effort to consider anv meat, ure (or this purpose. Eighth-Reviving no past Issue, we Insbt, as a living question and an indispensable bulwark of national security, upon a free, bomst ballot and a fe|r count, in all me States of tbe Union. '- Niiuh—We'charge the Democratic party with failing to provide, out of the abundant resources of tbe Nation, for tbe upbuilding of a more eflieieut navy for tbe protection of our defenseless ten coast, lor the restoration of our commercial marine. »o essential to the training of American teamen, and to the Vxtentitm now of American trade, and we urge the necessity of prompt and energetic measures for these importsn^obiects. Tenth —We charge the Democratic administration with culpable weakness in guarding Ammerican industries apd individual rights on the high seas and in loreign lands, while the vessels and property of our,citizens have been seized and sacrificed in foreign ports, and information of 'what they were justly entitled to under our treaties withheld from them or made dependent on foreign interpretations, and we demand a more vigorous assertion of American statemanship, which shall restore the respect once accorded to the just demand of our Republic. Eleventh—We charge the Democratic party with being recreant to the Republic and the of the President pr< stituUug tbe civil sendee to parlban purposes. We hold that these professed friends of civil service reform who accept and follow this falthl ss action in preference to the party which placed the civil service law on the statute books are themselves untrue to their professions. We condemn any backwaid step in tfiis reform agd alj.hypociisy.in its administration. Twelfth—We charge the Democratic adminstra tion with trampling upon the just claims of the soldiers of the Republic and of reopening the accepted settlements of deplorable sectional strife by ordering the removal of the emblems of such strife from the place where they quietly reposed in the achives of .he Nation.- and yielding only after the indignant protests of the American people. Thirteenth—Upon this history and these declarations we confidently summon to our aid not only the patriotism of the country, but its iapor, its industry, its commerce and its statesmanship. A mass-meeting under the auspices of the Republican clubs was held in Chickering Hall Friday night. Col. John Atkinson, of Michigan, presided. In opening the meeting he said the Republican party would again secure dominion on the seas, and it would send a navy to protect the marine trade, it would*have the Nation support the 8,000 soldiers being now cared for in pauper institutions. Those now in authority say there are too many of these, but there were not too many of them in 1863-’<J4-’fls. Hon. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennaylvana, discussed the tariff issue, and then Hon. Roswell G. Horr, of Michigan, was introduced to talk on temperance. He said that the Republican party had never been on the wrong side in any question, and it was not so on the liquor question. He believed in local option “If a man believes in temperance, it might be asked, why does he not join the third party? I will tell you why. First, I would not join the Prohibition party because every vote Wotild simply be helping the Democracy. For another reason, i wouldn’t join that party because the Democrats want me to. What they want done should be avoided by those who desire temperance. The Republican party relies upon its homes for its strerg.h. The Democratic strength is measured by the number of saloons. The President, in his message, has given the next platform of his party. The difficulty has heretofore been that~w<r never knew when we had a Democra; oa a question.” The speaker said the mugwumps had given up their time to accusing the Republicans and excusing the Democrats, chiefly the latter, and were idiots enough to think that a round block iike Higgins can be put into a square civil service hole. He was against any legislation of the Democrats on general principles, and he vat against any favored by Great Britain in this country.

Federation of Laboy.

The second annual souventios of the National Federation of Labor . met at Baltimore on the 13th. The tomniittee on sredentials reported in favor of seating all delegates who had arrived, except delegates Aster and Harvey, of the District of Columbia, who were declared enemies to the cause of united labor, and, after a heated discussicih, they were refused the right to sit in the coaven ion. Among those admitted were representatives of the Philadelphia Central Labor. Union, the International Bootmen’s Union, of New York; Journeymen Shoemaker’s Protective Union, New York; Central Labor Union, St. Louis; Ohio Miners’ Amalgamated Association; New York State Federarion of International Furniture-workers’ Union; Ger-man-Araerican Typographical Union, Bakers’Union, Waiters’ Union, Cigarmakers’ Union, Journeymen Barbers’ National Union—all of New York; Typographical Union, Indianapolis; the Amalgamated iron and Steel workers’ Association of Pennsylvania; the Glass-workers’ Uniox, Pittsburg, and many other labor organ!aations. President Gompers presented his annual report, in which he spoke of the neaessity of legislation for the regulation of employment of women and children, of the heavy disp’acement of labor by machinery in the last few years, and its unflunenee on industrial depression; the necessity of regulating hours of labor, and the urgent need of organised efforts to improve the condition of the laboring classes. He touched on the jealousy that existed between the Federation and the Knights of Labor, and said there was no necessity for it; disclaimed all sympathy or love for anarchy, its methods or teachings; explained his letter to Governor .Oglesby asking executive clemency for the condemned Anarchists by the assertion that not to hang the men was to deprive anarchy of the food npon which all spasmodic movements exist —martyrdom. His reading was frequently interrupted by applause.

Alarming Contortions.

Passenger (on street car alarmed)— If adam, do yon feel a fit coming on? Madam (haughtily)—No, sir; I am trying to find my Docket.

GRIM COW-BUY HUMOR.

Stories of “Wild Jack,” Wire Was Fond ofa Joke. " . t* Kansas Cfty 3 utr. - ■■ “You fellows have all heard of ‘Wild Jack’ Booth, one of the best cowpunchers that ever slept out doois. Jack has peculiar ideas of fun. “One day Jack lassoed a big leaver wolf and started ms pony on a dead ran toward camp. One al the boys saw the procession approaching, and, thinking something was wrong, started out with a Winchester. The. reinforcement gnta wrong impression of the situation, and casting his gun to tiie ground started toward camp with a wild yell of terror. He thought the wolf was chasing Jaek having overlooked the lariat Jaek caught onto the mistake* at once and turned his pony toward the fleeing cowboy. When the pony came np alongside Jack yelled: “ ‘Run, yer son of a gun. De wolf’s a-gainin’.” •, “Then the pony darted ahead and Jack brought the dead wolf close to| ths scudding cow-puncher, who by this time had seen the lariat, and dropped to the ground in sheer exhaustion, tos weak, even, to pull his six shooter and get even with Jack,who was rolling over the prairie a few yards away convulsed with laughter. . “One time, down in Texas, Jim Cushing and a companion threw a lasso around a wild-cat, took a turn around a wild p.um tree, and proceeded to make the animal a close captive. The two forced the cat into one of Jim’s leather leggins and tied it securely fore and aft. Camp was twenty miles away, bat the boys, confident of plenty of fu», lugged it clear in. After supper every man in camp, about thirty in all, took his six-shooter and formed a dottbls line. The cat was released from ths leather prison and started down ths line. It struck a dog trot aud showed no inclination whatever to hurry. Thrss minutes later a more disgusted band sf cow-boys could not be found in all ths Southwest, for the cat? had not been hit, and before he disappeared in the underbrusn turned around and showed his teeth to the bad marksmen in a sarsasticsnarl.” : ; ~ V;:

Rubber Goods.

Indianapolis Journal interview, “The entire rubber clothing trade in this country has passed into the control of two trusts which were organized last summer. jOne of them controls heavy goods amrfhe other gossamers. They have made three or four raises already, and the price is now advanced about fl# per cent, over the figures when the trust was organized. They claim that there is an increase in the quality of the goods, but lam unable to detect it. 01 course, it is difficult to tell much about the quality of rubber goods, but a' man, after some years of practice, can deteet defects with comparative ease. We sent baek 700 garments this summer to a reliable house that would never knowingly send out bad goods. I understand that fully 50,000 were returned to the same house from various parts of the country.” “What do they do with them—make them over?” “No. They can’t. People have queer ideas ;b mt rubber goods. Very often they come in and want us to put a new coating of rubber on their waterproofs. Attaching rubber to clolh is not a simple thing. They have to take the rubber in its raw state, just as it is imported, and soften it in water; then they roll it between heated cylinders, one of which moves faster than the other, until it is like putty; then thev put in the sulphur—all manufactured rubber contains more or less sulphur—and then it is calendered on to the clolh by running them through rollers. At least,, heavy goods are made that way. Gossamer goods have the rubber put on in wsemiiquid shape by a knife process that has to be repeated fifteen or twenty times. The sulphur is put on them afterwards and then they are spread in the sun to cure. Some factories have acres of ground that are used only for exposing light rhbber goods to the sun. After rubber cloth is made up it cannot he put through these processes.” “But you mend rubber goods?” “Yes. That is done with rubber eement. It is a preparation of rubber im soluiion and in compoai.ion with other articles.”

Prohibition Dacisions.

The Supreme Court of K»»eae, Wedneday, handed down an opinio* in whieh they decided that any person the lawful and bona fide possessor of intoxicating liquor may use it as he sees fit; he can drink it himseif or give it away, but he cannot, by any shift or device in selling or giving away, lawfully evade the provisions of the statute -prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor.

Eight Men Killed.

An engine and a snow-plow on the Caraqnet Railway, New Brunswick, carving thirteen men, got off the bridge, Saturday, and went over into a river carrying the men with them. Eight of the men were pinned down by the wreck and were drowned. The others escaped by swimming ashore. Can e drunken man hanging on a lamp-post for a short period be said to have come to a full stop? Many an old book has to be bound over to keep the piece.