Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1888 — Page 6

skc ftepuMitau. . IMl'I ■ 'I 6»o. E. Marshall, Publisher. RENSSELAER. - INDIANA

Empkror William will make a visit to the C*ar, and will be accompanied by the man of iron. May they have a pleasant visit. Tub alleged plot of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers to-destroy with dynamite the property of the C., B. A Q. railroad ought not to be believed. Railroad engineers are not that kind of people, as their past record fully proves. If there is a plot it is by a few individuals, not by the Brotherhood. JvnoK Binm.K, of Philadelphia, while charging a jury recently, said that at the present day then* were two classed who favored lotteries—very religious people and very bad people. The first class wish the exclusive right to have rattles and modified lotteries, in order to make money for the church and serve God. The other class also finds it an easy way to make money. But the Judge added that he had far more difficulty with the religious people. In Puritan times nothing was more common than a lottery to pay a church debt, or for town purjKJses, such as building bridges, seminaries of learning, and for governmental purposes. Harvard College had more than one turn at the wheel. This a hint to impecunious churches and colleges of the present day. Portlaxd, Me., reports a very wonderful phosphorescent illumination over the city one night recently. The streets were brightened, and the people all set to wondering at the cause. But the solution came to those who climbed to the roofs, for it was found that a huge swarm of lightning bugs was flying toward the north. The effect was surpassingly beautiful. Migrations of animals and insects are difficult to understand, but they occur in the case of all living creatures, man included. In this way a creature that has been a pest for years suddenly, by a spontaneous movement, starts off and is seen no more. The same is true, untortunately, of our friends, also. No danger stops them, land or water all the same, on they march, often perishing by the million. The marvel is in the unanimity andjapparent spontaneity of the movement.

Brigham Young’s Ready Wit.

It is believed that the following anecdote of Brighairt Young has never before been published. The high priest of the Mormons often had to exert the whole of his wonderfully quick wit in order to preserve the faith that his followers had in him. A certain elder, while chopping wood, had Cut his leg so badly that it had to be amputated. As soon as he was able he came to Young and stated his case to him somewhat as follows; “I have always been a good Mormon, I have several wives and a good many children and in my present, maimed condition I do not know how 1 am to provide for them. I believe truly that you are Christ’s representative on earth, and that you have all the power that he had. If you like, you can work miracles; if you like, you can give me a new leg, and now I ask you to do it." Young assented to all the flattering propositions as they were laid down, and when the elder had finished speaking he said: “I can give you a new leg, and I will, but I want you to think a little about it first. When the day of judgment comes, wherever you are buried your old leg will find you out and join itself to you, but if I give you a new one, that will rise with you, too, and th question is, whether you would rathe suffer the inconvenience of getting along with one for a few years here or go through all eternity w T ith three legs,” The Choice was quickly made, and Brigham Young’s reputation as a miracle worker was saved.

From Speculation to Hard Work.

New York Commercial Advertiser. The ups and downs of life are well illustrated in the case of a former AVallstreet broker, who is now the driver of a Sixth avenue surface car. A year ago the man was prominent in and about the consolidated board, but being caught in a break in the market he was compelled to leave the street. .He wore at that time a full beard. He Avas very fond of New York, so he resolved to remain here. Accordingly, being unable to find anything else to do, he removed his beard and secured the position of driver. He was recognized the other day by an old acquaintance but denied his identity for a time. His friend was so confident however, that the dri\ T er finally acknowledged who he was. “I lost everything I had on ‘street,’ so I came here,” explained the former broker, as he yelled to a small boy who was trying to steal a ride on the car.

At the Sea-Beat Shore.

Cbi-*go Tribune. “Put on some more clothes, Handy!” shrieked the elderly aunt at the water-ing-place; “folks’ll see you!” she added, horror-struck. “Aunt Julia,” replied Amanda, as she went oat among the waves with all the trustful innocence of a Texas statesman, ~ WelmefST* ~ A powder factory nearly erected at Tien-Tgin, China, is one of the largest in Hpe ——

CONTENTMENT.

THE GREAT LUXURY TO MAN.KIND IS HEALTH. It Biter Thill Than Wealth With In.llßotl n and Otnbbadnir*-.—A Heart llisht to <i»d and Ran U Alway* Happy-r-Weal h I. Not Always Snt ifying, Nor !• Fover.y Aiwa)* Keßretful. The Itev. Dr. Talmage took for his subject. Sunday, “In Good Humor Wit£ Our Circumstances.” Hebrews xiii., o: “Be content with sucl*, .things as ye have.” lie said: If I should ask some one, “Where is .Brooklyn to-day?,’ he would say, “At Brighton Beach, or East Hampton, or Shelter Island.” “Where is New York to-dav?” “At Long Branch,” Where is Philadelphia?” “Cape May.” "Where is. Boston?” “At. Martha’s Vineyard.” “Where is Virginia?” “Atthe Sulphur Springs." “Where the great multitude from ail parts of the lard?” At Saratoga,” tlie modern Bethesda, where the angel of health* is ever stirring the waters. But, my friends, the largest multitude are at home, detained by business or circumstances. Among them the newspaper men, the hardest-worked and the least-compensated; city railroad employes, and ferry masters, and the police, and the tens of thousands of clerks and merchants waiting for their turn of absence; and households with an invalid who cannot be moved, and others hindered by stringent circumstances, and the great multitude of well-to-do people who stay at home because they like home better than any other place, refusing to go away simply because it is the fashion to go. When the express wagon, with its mountain of trunks directed to the Catskills or Niagara, goes through the street we stand at our window envious and im-patient,-and wonder why we cannot go as well as others. Foolb that we are, as though one could not be as happy at home as anywhere else! Our grandfathers and grandmothers had as good a time as we have long before the -first spring was bored at Saratoga or the first deer shot in the Adirondacks. They made their wedding tour to the next farm-house, or, living in New York, they celebrated the event toy an extra walk on the “Battery.”

Now, the genuine American is not happy until he is going somewhere, and the passion is so great that there are Christian people with their families detained in tne city, who do not come to the house of God, trying to give people the idea that they are out of town, leaving the door-plate unscoured for the same reason, and for two months keeping the front shutters closed while they sit in the hack part of the house, the thormometer at ninety! My friends, if it is best for us to stay’ at home, let us stay at home and be happy. There is a great deal of good common sense in Paul’s advice to the Hebrews: “Be content with such things as ye have.” To be content is to he in good humor with our circumstances, not picking a quarrel with our obscurity, or with our poverty, or our social position. There are four or five grand reasons why we should be cohtent with such things as we have. The first reason that 1 mention as leading to this spirit advised in the text, is the consideration that the poorest of us have ail that is indispensable! in life. We make a great ado about our hardships, but how little we talk of our blessings. Health of body, which is given in largest quantity to those who have never been petted, and fondled, and spoiled by fortune, we take as a matter of course. Rather have this luxury, and have it alone, than, without it, look out of a palace window upon parks of deer stalking between fountains and statuarv.

The dinner of herbs tastes better to the appetite sharpened on a woodman’s ax or reaper's scythe than wealthy indigestion experiences seated at a table covered with partridge and venison and pineapple. The grandest luxury God ever gave a man is health. He who trades that off for all the palaces of the earth is infinitely cheated. We look bayk at the glorv of the last Napoleon, but who would have taken his Versailles and his Tuilleries if with them we had been obliged to take his gout! What is a sunset on a wall compared with a sunset hung in Joops of fire on the heavens? What is a cascade silent on canvas compared with a cascade that makes the mountain-tremble, its spray ascending like the departed spirit of the water slam on the rocks? Oh! there is a great deal of hollow affectation about the fondness for pictures on the part of those who never appreciate the original from which the pictures are taken. As though a parent should have no regard for his child, but go into ecstasies over its photograph. Bless the Lord to-dav, 0, man! 0. woman!, that though you may be shut out from the works of a Church, a Bierstadt, a Ruebehs, and a Raphel, you will have free access to a gallery grander than the Lottvre, or the Luxemburg, or the Vatican—the Royal gallery of the noonday heavens, the King’s gallery of the midnight sky.

Another consideration leading" us to a spirit of contentment is the fact that our happiness is not dependent"upon outward circumstances. You see people happy and miserable amid all circumstances. In a family whete the last loaf is on the table, and the last stick of wood on the fire, you sometimes find a cheerful confidence in God, while in a \-ery fine place you will see and hear discord sounding her Avar-whoop, and hospitality freezing to death'in a cheerless parlor. I stopped one day on BroadAA-ay at the head of Wall street, at the foot of Trinity Church, to see who seemed the happiest people passing. I judged from their looks the happiest people were not those who went down into Wall 6treet,. for they had on .their brow the anxiety of the dollar they expected to make; nor the people who came out of Wall street, for they had on their brow the anxiety of the "dollar they had lost, nor the people who swept by in splendid equipage, for they met a "carriage that was finer than theirs. The happiest person in all that crowd, judging from the countenance, was the woman who sat at the applestand knitting. I belie A’e real happiness oftener looks out of the window of an humble home, than through the opera-glass of the gilded box of a theater. I find Nero growling on a throne. I find Paul singing in a dungeon. I find King Ahab going to bed at noon through melancholy, Avhile near by is Nabath contented in the possession of a vineyard. Hainan, Prime Minister of Persia, frets himself almost to death

and Ahithophel, one of the greatest lawyers of Bible times, through fear of dying, hangs himself. The wealthiest man, forty years ago, in New York, when congratulated over his large estate, replied: “Ah! you don’t know how much trouble 1 have In taking ' care of it” Byron declared in his last hours that he had HteVer seen more than twelve happy days ii» his life. Ido not believe he bad seen twelve minutes of thorough satisfaction. Napoleon I. said: “I turn with disgust from the cowardice and selfishness of mart. I hold life a horror; death a repose. What I have suffered the last twenty-four days is beyond human comprehepsion.” The heart right towarcPGod and man, we are are happy; the heart wrong toward God and man, we are unhappy. Another reason why we should come to this spirit inculcated in the text is the fact that all the differences >of earthly condition are transitory. The houses you build, the land you culture, the places in'which you barter, are soon to go into other hands. However hard you mav have it now, if you are a Christian the scene will soon end. Pain, trial, persecution never knock at the door of the grave. A coffin made out of pine boards is just as good a resting-place as one made out of silver-mounted mahoganv or rosewood. Go down among the resting-places of the dead and you find that though people there had a great difference of worldly circumstances, now they are all alike unconscious. The hand that greeted the Senator and the President and the King is still as the hand that hardened on the mechanic’s hammer or the manufacturer’s w heel. It does not make any difference now whether there is a plain stone above them, from" which, the traveler pulls aside the weeds to read the name, or a tall shaft springing into the heavens as though to tell their virtues to the skies.

In that silent land there are no titles for grea r men. and there are no rumblings of chariot wheels, and there is never heard the foot of the dance. The Egyptian guano which is thrown on the fields in the East for the enrichment of the soil is the dust raked out from the sepulchers of Kings and Lords and mighty men. 0! the chagrin of those men if they had ever known that in the after ages of the world they would have been called Egyptian guano. Of how much worth now is the crown of Cuesar? Who bids for it? Who cares now any thing about the Amphictyonic Council or the laws of Lveurgus? Who trembles now because Xerxes crossed the Hellespont on a bridge of boats? Who fears because Nebuchadnezzar thundersat the gates of Jerusalem? Who cares now whether or not Cleopatra marries Antony? Who crouches before Ferdinand, or Boniface, or Aleric? Can Cromwell dissolve the English Parliament now? Is William, Prince of Orange, King of the Netherlands? No; no! However much Elizabeth may love the Russian crown she must pass it to Peter, and Peter to Catherine, and Catherine, to Paul, anil Paul to Alexander, and Alexander to Nicholas. Leopold puts the German scepter into the hand of Joseph, and Philip comes down off the Spanish throne to let Ferdinand go on. House of Aragon, house of Hapsburg, house of Stuart, house of Bourbon, quarreling about everything else, hut agreeing in this: “The fashion of the world passeth away.” But have all the dignitaries gone? * Can they not be called back? I have been in assemblages where I have heard the .roll called and many distinguished men have answered. If I should call the roll to-day of some of those mighty ones who have gone, I wonder if they would nos answer. I will call the roll of the Kings first: Alfred thg Great! William the Conqueror! Frederick II.! Louis XVI.! No answer. I will eall the roll of the i>oets: Robert Southey! Thomas Campbell! John Keats! George Crabbe! Robert Burns! No answer. I call the roll of artists: Michael Angelo! Paul Veronese! William Turner! Christopher Wren! No answer. Eyes closed. Ears deaf. Lips silent. Hands palsied. Scepter, pencil, pen, sword, put down forever. Why should we struggle for such baubles?

Another reason why we should culture this spirit of cheerfulness is the fact that God knows what is best for His creatures. You know what is best for your child. He t hinks you are not as liberal with him as you ought to be. He criticises your discipline, but you look over the whole field, and you, loving that child, do what, in your deliberate judgment, is best for him. Now, God is the best of fathers. Sometimes His children think that He is hard on them, and that He is not as liberal with them as He might be. But children do not know as much as a father. I can tell you why you are not largely affluent, and why you have not been grandly successful. It is because you can not stand the temptation. If your path had been smooth you would have depended upon your own surefootedness; but God roughened that path, sovou have to take hold of His' hand. If the weather had been mild you would have lingered along the wa-ter-courses; but at the first howl of the storm you quickened your pace heavenward, and wrapped around you the warm robe of a Savior s righteousness.

Another consideration leading ustd the spirit of the text is the assurance that the Lord will provide somehow. Will He who holds the Avater in the hollow of His hand allow His children to die of thirst? Will He Avho owns the cattle on a thousand hills, and all the earth's luxuriance of grain anti fruit, allow His children to starve? Go out tomorrow morning at five o’clock into the Avoods and hear the birds chant. They have had no breakfast: they know not where they will dine; thev nave no idea Avbere thev will sup; but hear the birds chant at five o’clock in the morning; “Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them. Are you not much better than they?” Seven thousand people, in Christ’s time, Avent into the desert. Thev were the most improvident people I ever heard of. They deserved to stance. They might-faaA'e taken . food enough to last them until they got back. Nothing did they take. A lad, who had more wit than all of them put togetheV, asked his mother that morning for some loaves of bread and some fishes. They Avere put into his sachel. He went out into the desert . From this provision the seven thousand were fed, amt the more' they ate the larger the loaves grew, until the provision that the boy brought in one satchel was —multiplied —so that he could not have carried the fragments home in six satchels. “Oh!” you say, ‘‘times have changed, and the day of miracles has gone.” I reply that,what

God did then by He does now By some other way, and by natural laws. Yet, my friends, notwithstanding all these inducements to a spirit of contentment, I have to tell you this morning the human race js uivided into two classes, those who scold and those who gfet scolded. The carpenter wants to be any thing hut a carpenter, and the mason any thing but a mason, aRd the hanker any thing but a banker, and the lawyer ahy thing hut,a lawyer, and the ministerlany thing but a minister, and every Wily would be happy if lie were only* somebody else. The anemone wants to be a sunflower, and the apple orchards throw down their blossoms because they are not tall cedars, and the scow wantH to be a seventy-four pounder, and parents have the worst children that ever were, and every body has the greatest misfortune, and every thing is upside down, or going to be. Ah! my friends, you never make any advance through such a spirit as that. You can not fret yourself up; you may fret yourself ilhwn. Amid all this grating of tone I strike this string of the gospel harp: “Godliness with contentment is great gain. We brought nothing into the world, and it is very certain that we can carry nothing out; having food and raiment, let us therewith be content.”

How to Get Into the Naval Academy.

Harper's Monthly, The of this national college are called officially “naval cadets on probation,” the traditional title of midshipman having been changed first to cadet midshipman, and subsequently—so the engineer pupils might be included —to that now employed. Their number is limited by law to one cadet for every member or delegate of the House of Representatives, and to eleven others —ten at large and one from the District of Columbia—appointed by the Presid nt. As the age of admission falls between the limits of fourteen and eighteen, and the course extends six years, it follows, unfortunately, that in certain districts appointments may not he open more than once in that period, thus making one-third of its boys unavailable by reason of age. The remedy proposed for this is only one of sissy good reasons why the course should be reduced from six to four years.

To pass successfully the candidate must be physically sound and of robust constitution, have a sufficiently thorough knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geography, English grammar, United States history, reading, writing, and spelling and when appointed, be ready to take an oath to serve eight years, including the probationary period. When a vacancy is likely to occur in any district, the Secretary of the Navy must notify its Congressional Representative as soon as possible after the sth of . March in each year, and if by the Ist of the following July no action has been taken, the privilege lapses, and the Secretary is empowered to make the nomination. As this system .permits the choice of a candidate to be deferred until “the May examination is really over, or as in a majority of cases, until the academic year is about to open, it would seem to be infinitely better if a candidate and an alternate were named at least one year previous to the May examination. This would enable the applicant to pursue a .course .spedally fitted as a direct preparation for his professional studies, and if successful, to go at once upon a cruise, which would teach him definitely his immediate aptitude for a sea-life. On the other hand, should the principal fail, an alternate stood ready to face the same ordeal.

The low standard of admission is based upon the theory that the possibilities of the academy must be open so freely to boys of every condition as to make it —what it is undoubtedly—the most democratic government school in the world. Practically this very just theory impairs the efficiency of the academy, as it pins the qualifications at a point which rigorously prohibits the energies of the teachers and of the average scholars being directed to the branches of education connected with the naval profession. Entrance examinations are held In May and September.

SPRECKLES’S BIG DEAL.

When Claus Spreckles announced that he Avould fight the great sugar trust single-handed, every; one prophesied he" would come-togriefFin spite of his millions. Now the first victory for Spreckles in the fight must be recorded. When the trust was formed a few months ago the officers began not only to corner refined sugars, but to include in the squeeze the raw product'. They, of course, pinched the producer as well as the consumer. The result of this Avas that they boomed the raw article, but caused hand to mouth buying of the refined product. Claus Spreckles saAv through this little game, and, quietly capitalizing his resources, bought all the raAv sugar he could secure. Now ihe refiners find that they have largely oversold refined sugars, that the raw product is beyond their reach, and they are obliged to send to Europe for raw materiaL Some time ago. Mr, Spreckles contracted for 50,000 tons of toav sugar from Manila, and on this transaction alone at the present rates he can realize $lO per ton, or $5,000,000 in the aggregate. A dispatch said Claus Spreckles had Joined the Sugar Trust, but his son denies it, and says Spreckles is just getting into good fighting trim.

What a Nice Umbrella Costs.

Brown —That’s a handsome umbrella you’ve got there, Robinson. Rohmson—Yes. " ; ““ Brown —About what does it cost to carry an umbrella like that? —Rnbirnmn—Eternal vigilance

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Gas has been struck at Francesville. Mad dogs are being killed at Jeffersonville. ’ A ghost walks the night at Jefferson-, ville. Goshen rejoiced in 193 cases of measles last month. A scarcity of logs is reported by Madison lumbermen. At Scatterville lives a man whe will vote for, Belva Lockwood. Elkhart county wheat will probably pan out better this year than last. Horace G. Hamlin was struck by a falling tree at Wolcottville and killed. Blackberries so big they have to be sliced for the table are grown in Floyd county. •. Lew Bowers cleaned out a drug store at Dnndee while under sprituous influences.

Dunrelth has a gusher which burns twenty-five feet highland the town will be piped. ■ The collection of 150 fine fish, kept in a pond by Phil May, at Terre Haute,was poisoned by some miscreant. 0. D. Able, of Elkhart, swallowed a tack the other day and is getting along first rate. Physicians administered acids to dissolve the bit of metal. While on a somnambulistic stroll in her father’s hotel at Brownstown, a child of Henry Scott fell from a second story window, sustaining serious if not fatal injuries. Evansville’s cotton-mill is being enlarged. Out of the establishment’s 400 employes 300 are women, and the payroll is somewhfere between SB,OOO and SIO,OOO per month. Henry Lehrman, an employe of the gas works at Fort Wayne, while eating dinner, was choked to death by a piece of bread lodging in his windpipe. He leaves a large family. Maxie Wilson, a twelve-year-old boy was fined sl3 in Justice Keigmin’s Court at Jeffersonville, for assaulting Ruth, the ten-year-old daughter of Col. J. B. Merri wether, with a knife. Monday night, the corpse of man, and Tuesday night that of a woman, were found in the river near Louisville. Both were murdered and weighted down with rock. Suspicion points to parties twenty miles above Jeffersonville. ■ H Elder John Brazleton, a member of the Christian Church at North Vernon and a leader of the Prohibition party, was stoned while making ah address at Butlerville, Jennings county. A bowlder struck him on the head, inflicting a serious injury. Farmers in Sothwestem Indiana are interested in what their friends over in Illinois are doing ip regard to the chinch hug pest. A meeting was held at Robinson, Crawford- counfy, Illinois, Saturday, attended by some Indianians, at which the subject was scientifically discussed. The disease that has been raging among the cattle of Howard county, thought to have been Texas fever, lias abated. It created considerable alarm, and was confined to milch cows exclusively, the total number reported to have died being twenty-five. The report that the disease was spreading in Tipton county was without foundation. Julius Grevelet, of Tarentum, Pa., overhauled his wife, who eloped with Peter La Matrie three months ago, at New Albany, Tuesday. The injured husband had. an interview with the woman, and she consented to return with her husband. She brought away with her $350 of of her husband’s money which she had kept, and turned over to him.

Benjamin F. Landis has begun an action in the Fulton Circuit Court Lawson Wager, editor of the Akron Echo, charging him wtth publishing an article defamatory to the character of the plaintiff. The article charged that Landis possesses* vicious, cowardly disposition, and that he has made indirect attempts to injure the personal property of some of his neighbors. The plaintiff asks for $5,000 damages. M The following patents were issued to Indiana inventors, Tuesdsy: Jas. B. Alfee, Indianapolis, assignor of one-half to R. Shriner and H. Swartzwelder, Cumberland, Md., dust collecting machine; Wm. M. Augustine, South Bend, wire tension device; Geo. H. Branson, Michigan City, fire wood drag-saw; Thomas Hibbert, Cochran, weather strip; Albert N. Norris, assignor to Star Drill Company; Rushville, seeding machine.

Considerable excitement prevailed in Francesville, Thursday night. A number of masked men went to the residence of G. W. Dowell,an insurance agent and a man of means, and fired about thirty shots into his house, demolishing one door and a window. Mr. Dowell left for parts unknown. He had been ordered tn leave the town, the time expiringron Wednesday, July 11. Mr. Dowell is Charged with insulting married Avomen throughout the county, James Petru, of Bartholomew county, aged thiry-five .years, riding by a field where John Brotherton was plowing, got off and cruelly beat Brotherton, who is seventy-five years old, till he will die. Both are prominent and wealthy farmers. Petru was once arrested and tried for attempting to commit a rape onBrotherton’s daughter. A large damage suitr resulted,- -out oi which he came clear after long litigaton and spending several thousand dollars. H. A. Huston, director of the Indiana

Weather Service, in his crop bulletin for the week ending July, 14, shows that the growth of all crops has been favorable, as the heavy rains, free from violent disturbances, the cool temperature and sufficient sunshine were beneficial. Oats alone, perhaps, got less benefit than any of the crops. Wheat is in shock and is being threshed in all parts of the State. Corn is unusually promising and is in excellent condition, while the melon crop is immense. A novel riiiit has been instituted at Leavenworth, in which Peter Grant is the plaintiff and Harve Goodshn ' the defendant. Goodson was engaged to he married to Grant’s daughter, and at Goodson’s request Grant had prepared a “big” dinner and invited the whole neighborhood to the marriage feast. The guests assembled at the appointed time, but Goodson did not put in an appearance, and up to this time has not been heard from. He has fled the country, but left behind a yoke of oxen, tdrich have been levied upon by Grant for the expense of the dinner, which is placed at S4O. For Indiana there are six hills on the calendar in the House to be passed. One is for a hundred-thousand-dollar building at Evansville, one for a $40,000 building at Madison one for a fifty-thousand-dollar building at Logansport and one for a sixtv-thoußand-dollar building at Richmond. The committee has yet four bills for Indiana which have not been reported. One is for a fifty-thousand-dollar building at Jeffersonville, and - three others for Vincennes, Lafayette and South Bend, each providing for the erection of seventy-five-thousand-dollar buildings! ***=* The C., W. & M. trestle spanning Eel river at North Manchester gave way under an engine and five freight cars Saturday night. The train was precipitated into the stream twenty feet below. Ben Rodabaugh, engineer, David Garretson, fireman, and Dave Stone, brakeman, were pinned in the cab and went down in the wreck. Rodabaugh was the only one severely hurt. Stone, lime, cement and oil were on the cars, and the wreck took fire, the oil tanks bursting and scattering the fluid over the debris. It will require a week to make a temporary structure, and in the meantime trains will use the Chicago & Atlantic and Wabash & Western tracks to get around the gap.

QUEER VERDICTS.

The duties of those who serve on coroners’ juries do not ordinarily suggest anything very funny, and yet some laughable results come from their work, particularly if they do not exactly understand what is expected of them. An amusing story is told of a verdict brought in by a Western jury impaneled to inquire into, the cause of the death of a man supposed to have committed suicide. The verdict was brief and to the point, the foreman saying simply: “We, the jury, find the deceased guilty as charged.” Another jujy examined a great many witnesses in the ease of a man run over by a railroad engine. The verdict was: J ‘We find him to have come to his death by being cut in two by a railraod engine, whereby he could not breathe, hence he choked to death.” A coroner’s jury in the backwoods of Missouri heard all the evidence in the case of rs map killed by a runaway team, and brought in the following verdict: “The jury finds the dead deceased to have come to his death at the hands of a runaway team, the horses thereof being blameless, they being frightened by a dog.” ‘ It is told of an old German that he sat stolidly and stupidly on a coroner’s jury and listened to all the evidence, after which he walked over tow'ard the corpe with some degree of curiosity. Lifting the cloth he started back, turned to the other jurymen in amazement and affright, and cried out: “Mine Gott, shentlemen, dot man ish dead.” A jury in a Missouri rural community deliberated threfe hoors over the corpse of a woman burned by the explosion of a kerosene lamp. The following verdict was then announced^in writing: “Resolved, That the diszeased was burnt to deth. The joory.” A man, supposed to be a tramp, was found dead in the woods, out West. A jury inquired into the cause of his death, and reported as follows: “The jury does not find that the dead man has been foully dealt with, and is of the opinion that he died simply because his time had come and there was no getting out oHfc”

THE “Q” CONSPIRACY.

Bowles and Gooding, arrested in connection with the alleged dvnamite plot to destroy the property of the C. B. & Q. railroad, have made a confession of the whole affair, it is claimed—such as will surety convict Chairman Hoge tmd others. Hoge is the man the “Q” is really after, not only as a blow to the Brotherhood, but because the “Q” officials dislike him personally.

Got Left on Cake.

Time. Minister—Did you enjoy the Sunday school picnic, Bobby? B»V>by—Well, I didn’t like the cake. Minister—Why, yeur mamma makes spleadid.cake,Bq.bby? __— Bobby—l know she does. But the loaf she gaA-e me to take was eaten by the Superintendent and the teachers.