Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1889 — Page 2

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Wi note with some surprise that our friend, the Gazeta Polsda W Nebrasce takes thia view: “Takze zwyezajem jest katolikow a Bseaegoineunas Palakow zyozyedrugimeszcxesciai blogoalawiepstwa Boskiego, tak tea i my aycaymy nie tylko nazaym abonentom, ale i wazystkiem Pelakom Boskiego; a ceaatem idzie, kaady sic demysii?’ Scarcely any opinion is so eccentric » as to find itself without sympathy, but, on the whole, we think the seu'timent of this country is against o«r esteemed ' contemporary of the State of Nebraska' "NfW Year's greetings are invariably of a sort that betoken good will and fraternity. The French-Canadians are more formal than we, and say: “We wish you a prosperous and happy New Year, and may you see heaven after your death,” In all cases even the poorer classes offer refreshments, and it is not considered courteous to refuse to partake. Some of those who ding to old-time politeness still carry their hats under their arms, on their calls, that fill up the day. From early morning till late at night is given up to festivity and friendliness. Even Santa Claus in Canada makes his rounds on New Year’s Eve. The day, with its slightly lengthening sunsh ne, is recognised as truly the beginning of the year.

The New Year opens with the old men still at the front in Europe. Gladstone is solid and gaining ground with the English people. John Bright is not sound, but he is lively. Tennyson, who was given up by the doctors, is renewing kus youth. Cardinal Newman fs by no means in need of the services of priest and sexton. Bismarck is yet full of iron, if not of blood. The only notable retirement because of age during 1888 has been that of Von Moltke. It is the old men’s regime in Europe and they rule like bbys. The day is passed, probably forever, when the world’s affairs will be mainly-in the hands of young men. The average lengthening of life leaves a man at 69 about where a man of 40 used to be. while the work of men of 5 J of a hundred years ago is done now by men of 70 and 80.

Th khz is nothing in the funny episode in the Supreme Court that is very encouraging and pleasant to think of. The Supreme Court is supposed to be our last resort of dignity. The Senate has pertainy deteriorated enormously in that respect. And now the Chief Justice gets anfazingly tickled over areference, not any way delicate, to the crotch in men’s drawers, and the whole bench of Judges falls into convulsions. An allusionto card playing was also received with decided hilarity. If the Supreme Court has resolved itself into a barroom group it may be quite as able to decide great legal questions, but it will not command the respect of the people, as it did in the days of Justices Waite and Chase. No man could unbend better than Marshall when off the bench, but no man was more dignified in his judicial office.

Tag eminent jurist, TheodoSfe Dwight, has discussed in Political Science Quarterly the legality of trusts. The argument is complete and exhausting. No man living is more capable of handling this questi n which now agitates the Country. He concludes that “trusts” are lawful, as legitimate modes whereby producers may regulate prices, and that neither States nor Congress can legislate to suppress a partnership having no illegal purpose. The close of his argument rises to the height of eloquence, illumined with his remarkable ■tore of knowledge. Conspiracy against the world is impossible. Trusts, as a rule, are not dangerous. The right of association is the child of freedom of trade. We have been engaged for a hundred years noth in abrogating restrictive laws and in overcoming obstacles to trade. Legislation in the opposite direction ’frill be supremely misapplied. Such is his view.

Their Views on Religion.

Frances Willard is a strictly loyal Methodist Martha J. Lamb is a member of the : Presbyterian Church. Margaret J. Preston is a stanch Scotch Presbyterian and her father was a pillifrof the church. Amelie Rives-Chanler is a member of the Episcopal Church and does not trouble herself about, esoteric philoso- , pfcyOlive Thorne Miller confessed to an inclination to mysticism, and Pays she has yet to find the creed that is broad enough for her. Rose Elizabeth Cleveland believes in a religion that does more practical work towards the uplifting of humanity and less preaching.. •L* Ilian Whiting believes in the Apostles’ Creed and the ability of all human beings to attain the state of holiness more or less perfect. It’s their own fault if they do not. ~ *;!'* Rose Hartwick Thorpe thinks that churches and creeds have their place only in the education of the mind ai d parly formation of character, but acknowledges /a belief in the Supreme

DOES RELIGION PAY?

GOOLINESSIB PROFITABLE UNTO < ALL THINGS. It Softens the Temper, Protects the Health, Induces Industry—Fßs a Man for Business, Soothes His Stay on Earth and Giv,es Him Promise of Eternal Life. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Subject: “Does Religion Pay?.” Text, Timothy iy., 8. He said: A happy New-Year to one and all! There is a gloomy and passive way of waiting for the events of the opening year to come upon us, and there is a heroic way of going out to meet them", strong in God and fearing nothing. When the body of Catiline was found on the battle-field it was found far in advance of all his troops, and among the enemy; arid the best way is not for us to lie down and let the events of life trampl e over us, but to go forth in a Christian spirit determined to conquer. Now, in the first place, I remark that God iness is good for a man’s>physical health. Ido not mean to say that it will restore a broken-down constitution or drive rheumatism from the limbs, or neuralgia from the temples, or pleurisy froin the side; but I da mean to say that it givesone such habits and put one in such condition as is most favorable for physical health. That I believe, and that I avow. Everybody knows that buoyancy of spirit is good physical advantage. Gloom, unrest, are at war with every pulsation of the heart and with every respiration of the lungs. It lowers the vitality, it slackens the circulation, while exhilaration of spirit pours the vary balm of Heaven through all the currents of life. The sense of insecurity which sometimes hovers oyer an unregenerate man, or pounces upon himwith the blast of ten thousand trumpets of terror, is most depleting and most exhausting, while the feeling that all things are working together for my good now, and for my everlasting welfare, is conducive to physical health. You will observe that Godliness induces industry’, which is the foundation of good health. \There is no law of hygiene that will keep a lazy man well. Pleurisy will stab him, erysipelas will burn him, jaundice will discolor him, gout will crippie him, and the intelligent physician will not prescribe antiseptic or febrifuge, or anodyne, but saws and hammers and yardsticks and crowbars and pickaxes. There is no such things as good physical condition without positive work of some kind, although you should sleep on dowri of swan, or ride in carriage of softest upholstery, or have on your table all the luxuries that were poured from the wine vats of Ispahan and Shiraz.

Oh, how important in this day, when so much is said about anatomy and physiology and thereapeutics and some new style of medicine is ever and anon springing upon the world, that you should understand that the highest school of medicine is the school of Christ, which declares that Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is as well as of tnat which is to come.” So if you start out two men in the world with equal physical health, and then one of them shall get the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ in his heart, and the o’her shall not get it, the one who becomes a son of the Lord Almighty will live the longer. Again I remark that Godliness is good for the intellect. I know some have supposed that just as soon as a man enters into the Christian life his intellect goes into a bedwarting process.. So far from that, religion will give new brilliancy to the intellect, new strength to the imagination, new force to the will, and wider swing to all the intellectual faculties. Christianity is the great central fire at which Philosophy has lighted its brightest torch. The religion of the Lord Jesus Christ is the fountain out of which Learning has dipped its clearest draught The Helicon poured for|h no such inspiring waters as those which flow from under the throne of God clear as crystal. Religion has given new energy to Poesy, weeping in Dr. Young’s “Night Thoughts,” teaching in Cowper’s “Task,” flaming in Charles Wesley’s hymns, and rushing with archangelic splendor through Milton’s “Paradise Lost” The. religion of Jesus Christ has hung in studio and in gallery of art and in Vatican the best pictures.’ has made the best music of the. world.. It is possible that a religion which builds such indestructible monuments, and which lifts its ensign on the highest promontories of worldly power, can have any effect upon a man’s intellect but elevation ana enlargement? Now, I commend Godliness as the best mental discipline—better than belleslettres to purify the taste, better than mathematics to harness the mind to all intricacy and elaboration, better than logic to marshal the intellectual forces for onset and. victory. It. will go with Hugh Miller and show him the footprints of the Creator in the red sandstone. It will go with the botanist and show him celestial glories encamped under the curtain of a water-lily. It will go with the astonomer on the great heights where God shepherds the great flock of worlds, that wander on the hills of heaven, answering His voice as He calls them all by their names. Again I remark that Godliness is profitable for our„, disposition. ‘Lord Ashley before he went into a great battle, was heard to offer this prayer: “0 Lord, I shall be very busy to-day. If I forget Thee, forget me not.’ ’ With such a Christian disposition as that, a man is independent of all circumstances. Our piety will have a tihge of our natural temperament. Jf-a / man be cross and sour and fretful naturally, after he becomes a Christian he will always have to be armed against the rebellion of those evil inclinations; but religion has tamed the wildest nature; it has turned fretfulness into gratitude, despondency into good cheer, and those who were hard and ungovernable and uncompromising have been made pliable and conciliatory. Good resolution, reformatory effort, wjll not effect the change. It takes a mightier arm and a mightier hand to bend evil habits than the Land that bent the bow of Ulyrtes, and it takes a stronger lasso than ever held, the buffalo on the prairie. A man can not go forth with any humaq weapons and contend successfully against these Titans armed with uptorn mountains. But you have known men into whose spirit the influence of the Gospel

of Christ came, until their disposition was entirely changed. J Again I remark that religion is good for a man’s worldly business. I know the general theory is, the more business the less religion, the more religion the less business. Not so, thought Dr. Haqa, in this “Biography of a Christian Merchant,” when he saya “He grew in grace the last six years of his life more than at any time in his life; during those six years he had more business crowding riis life than at any other time.” In other words, the more worldly business a man has, the more opportunity to serve God. Does religion exhilarate or retard worldly business? is the practical question for you to discuss. Does it hang like a mortgage over the farm? Is it a bad debt on the ledger? Is it a lien against the estate. Does it crowd the door through which customers come for broadcloths and silks? Now religion will hinder your business if it be a bad business or if it be a good business wrongly conducted. If you tell lies- behind the counter, if you use false weights and measures, if you put j band in the sugar and beet-juice in your vinegar, and lard in your butter, and shll for one thing that which is another thing, then religion will interfere with that business; but a lawful business lawfully conducted, will find the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ its mightest auxiliary. Religion will give an equipoise of spirit, it will keep you from ebulitions of temper—-it will keep you from worriment about frequent loss, it will keep you industrious and prompt, it will keep you back from squandering and from dissipation, it will give you a kindness of spirit which will be easily distinguished from that mere store courtesy which shakes hands violently with you, asking about the health of your family when their is no anxiety to know whether your child is well or sick; but the anxiety is to know how many dozen camoric pocket-handkerchiefs you will take and pay cash down. It will prepare you for the practical duties of every day life. Ido not mean to say that religion will make us financially rich, but Ido say that it will give us, it will asure us of a comfortable sustenance at the start, a comfortable subsistence all the way through, and it will help us to direct the bank, to manage the traffic, to conduct airbar business matters, ami to make the most insignificant affair of our 1 life a matter of vast, importance glorified by Christian princples. How can you get along without this religion? Is your physical health so good you do not want this divine tonic? Is your mind so clear, so vast, so com prehensive, that you do not want this divine inspiration? Is your worldly business so thoroughly established that you have not upe for that religion which has been the help and deliverance of tens of thousands of men in crises of worldly trouble? And, if what I have said this njorning is true, then you see what a fatal blunder it is when a man adjourns to life’s expiration the uses of religion. A man who postpones religion to sixtv years of age gets religion fifty years too late. He may get into the kingdom of God by final repentance; but what can compensate him for a whole lifetime unallevjated and uncomforted? You want religion to-day in the training of that child. You will want religion to-morrow in dealing with that Western customer. You wanted religion yesterday to curb your temper. Is your arm strong enough to beat your way through the floods? Can you, without being encased in the mail of God’s eternal help, go forth amid the assault of all hell’s sharp-shooters? Can you vifalk alone across these crumbling graves and amid these gaping earthquakes? Can you, water-logged and mast shivered, outlive the gale? Ob, how many there have been who, postponing the religion of Jesus Christ,have plunged into mistakes they never could correct although they lived eighty years after, and like serpents crushed unde? cart-wheels, dragging their maimed bodies under the rocks to die.

WHEN SILENCE FELL.

A Shark Story Which Tested the Patience of the Construction Lang. Philadelphia Times. -■ ■ , ——g — As it began to look like rain, the gang knocked off work and the foreman begged a pipeful of tobacco and started in yarning. “I’ve told you of the trip I made to Borneo as second mate of the Lydia Greening,” said he. “Well, perhaps I’ve told you, too, that there was the lady aboard thut trip the brig was named for—the old man’s niece, poor thing. She was a widow and had been advised to go a sea voyage to .pick up her health. But deceased/ was always on her mind. She’d slip up to the'taffrail at eight bells and stand there watching the sunset day after flay, thinking of him and twisting -her wedding ring about on her finger. The old man would nod toward her as I came up to take my trick at the wheel, and kind of chew at his goatee, and every night he said the same thing to me. ‘Gideon,’ says he, 'blum a woman aboard ship, but I’m glad for once’t I brought Sal.’ Till one evening just as the sou’easter began to freshen we heard a cry, and there was Mrs. Greening sobbing and wringing her hands about like to die. Of course, she’d dropped the ring overboard, and the time we had to get her quiet—well. She wanted us to go back and dive for it

“Well, sir the next three days our port rail was under water all the time. When she moderated we were blown clean out of reckoning. Mrs. Greening kind of crawled up on deck and watched us binding on a new fore tops’l—old one torn to lint. AU at once she called out *t therd was a shark following us. She jumped up x her face white as the canvas, and what d’you suppose that woman’s idea was? That the shark had swallowed her husband’s ring and couldn’t rest tili it was given back. “The old man looked over the rail. There was a shark, sure enough. He ran and got his harpoon; pretty harpooner, he was; nailed him first shot and we hauled him aboard. In three minutes we had him cut open, and. boys, what do you suppose we found?*’ “The ring!” shouted the gang. ; “Nothing,” said the foreman.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Anderson wants fire escapes. Terre Haute will use electric light Lagrange county wheat looks well. Peru is abundantly supplied with gas. Goshen will have free mail delivery Feb. 1. * Jeffersonville will soon have a street railway. Shelbyville glories in an abundance of natural gas. , ' ' , Monticello will probably pipe gas from Francesville. A car manufacturing company- is being organized at Peru. Shelbyville’s streets will probably be lighted with natural gas. A double secret wedding is exciting the gossips "Of Charlestown. Judges Niblack, Howk and ZoUars retired from the Supreme Court Bench, Saturday. David Fowler, of Jonesboro, was fatally injured by the accidental discharge of a target gun. Jack Fnllorn,an operator, was drowned in Lake Manitou on the 2d by breaking through the ice. Shelby Stagier killed George Jones at Knights ville, on the 2d, with an “unloaded” revolver. Three hundred young men are included in the membership of the Fort Wayne Y. M. C. A, A railroad accident occurred at Goshen, on the 2d, caused by a boxcar jumping the track. One man was killed and seven injured. The Jeffersonville Shoe Co. will abandon convict labor April 1. They claim it does not pay to use convict labor in that business. A ghost—a white shadow in human shape —is troubling the vicinity of Lexington, Scott county. Shotguns have been fired at it, but without effect. Maurice Thompson, State Geologist, resigned, on the 2d, on accoutft of ill health. Sylvester S. Gorby, his assistant, was appointed to succeed him. Eli Talley, a huckster of eeymour, drove over a bluff, by which he was fatally injured, his horses were tilled, and his wagon was broken to pieces. Marcus Horney, of Montgomery county, husked and cribbed 2,328 bushels of corn in twenty-six days, an average of eighty-nine bushels daily. A Washington special of the sth says that ex-Senator McDonald is willing and is probably laying his plans to succeed Senator Voorhees in the United States Senate. C. H. Forbes, of Michigan City, has an amulet and dagger bearing the date 1001, being 888 years old. They were dug up at Westminster Abbey many years ago. Lewis Daily, aged eighty, and Miss Artimacy ‘Clarke, aged sixty-three, of Bippus, have been united in marriage, and it is said to hpve been a case of love at first sight. Seventeen fatal accidents occurred in Indiana coal mines in 1888, and twentyone which were not fatal. In the State there are 217 mines giving employment to 7,404 men. The Murphy meetings at Connersville were a great success, many hundreds signing the pledge. Francis Murphy is now at Terre Haute, and Thomas E., his son, at Goshen. Three hundred men and boys took part in a wolf_hunt near Monticello, and one gaunt wolf and one fox was killed, besides several rabbits. Seventyfive shots were fired at the wolf before it succumbed. A dog at Versailles went mad and bit a number of other dogs before being killed. The town Trustees ordered that all dogs be chained up for sixty days, and that the Marshal shoot everyone found running at large. Madison county Republicans profess indignation because 150 representatives were selected in Marion county to arrange for Governor Hovey’s inaugural ball, and other counties were also drawn upon, but Madison was entirely ignored. The two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross, of Morrelville, is afflicted with “hydrocaphalus,” or water on the brain. The head is now thirty-six inches in circumference,and constantly increasing, and the weight is so great that the little one can not stand. The State Statistican finds that in 1887 the donat ons to railroads in Indiana amounted to $548,255 and stock was taken to the amount of $146,252, while in 1882 the donations aggrega’ed $293,741 and stock taken $8,200. The townships voting aid numbered 460. \ The revenues from the Indianapolis postoffice during tjhe last quarter were $50,000 —10 per cent, of an increase over the last quarter of ’B7. This office after paying all expenses, yields Uncle Sam $120,0 0 per annum, net. The government can afford to put some of it back into needed buildings and improvements. At Marion Saturdav afternoon the jury in the case of Edwin Matchett against the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan railway, brought in a verdict awarding the plaintiff $4,000 damages. About a year ago, at Anderson, the plaintiff, while employed as a brakeman, fell from a car and sustained injuries that crippled him for life. He sued, for $20,000. Patents have been granted to the following Indiana inventors: Hears Cooprider, jr., Clay City, traction-tongue for threshing machines; George L. Elder, Wilmington, chart for educational purposes; Edwin H. Ford, Hartford City, automatic gas regular, and cut-off; Christian M. Kirkpatrick, Indianapolis, automatic cut-off for gas; David M. and T. H. Perry Indianapolis, two-wheeled vehicle, Frederick Rupp, Milford, twowheeled vehicle; John Swaim, Newbern car-brake and starter. There have been two elopements at Crawfordsville, within the pa t week. The first was Wallie Peterman, a married man, and Miss Pearl Freeman, his sister-in-law. The second case was last Tuesday night. A. M. Stearns, aged about forty, and supposed to be married, eloped with Miss Minnie Cavenaugh, a girl about fifteen years old. They went to Indianapolis. Stearns was a peddler of lamp wicks, and when he first arrived in Crawfordsville hesaid he had a wife and child living in Missouri. ' Charles Allen, a farmer near the Shelby and Johnson county line, was bitten by a mad dog, a few days ago, and he relieved his apprehension by applying a madstone. Several head of stock be-

longing to him were also bitten, and also a horse belonging to Edward Tucker. This horse showed systems of hydrophobia, Thursday, and bit several hogs and sheep before being secured. Stock belonging to other farmers have also been bitten, and there is great apprehension in the Allen neighborhood. Mondav morning Mayor Russell fined 8. M. Coffman, proprietor of the Crawfordsville Daily Argus-News, $lO, with costs of $26, for publishing the Louisiana lottery advertisement in a certain issue of the paper last May. Cofl man at once gave his check for $36. Within two hourt another like charge had been entered against Mr. Coffman, before Judge Chumeiaso, and after trial, Wednesday, the Judge took the matter under advisement, From the present cutlook it seems that a case is to be filed for every issue of the paper containing said advertisement. If such proves to be the case, and each fine and costs averages $36, the total sum will be about $3,000. The advertisement has appeared twice a week for about seven months.

The annual apportionment of Indiana’s School Fund has been completed by State Superintendent The per capita apportionment remains as it was last year, $1.14. The number of school children in the State is, according to the enumeration reported by the County Superintendents, 757,071, and the excess of apportionment over taxes paid into the fund, proves that the population of children is proportionately largest in the counties where there is the least wealth. It was this fact caused the enactment of the law so as to require the men who accumulate more wealth than family to contribute to the education of his poor fellowcitizens’ children, but State officers and others who have investigated the system find that there are abuses in the method of apportionment that it may be necessary to bring under more rigid legislative restriction, although the principle is all right and necessarily must continue to prevail. Some of the counties, it is asserted, persistenly report a greater school population than they really have, for the purpose of getting a larger apportionment of funds, but the State officers have no power to correct such frauds.

Chairman Fairbanks, of the Indiana Committee on Arrangements for the inaugural, has returned from Washington. Track room for sleepers is still being promised, and it is said that all freight cars will be moved from the side tracks in and near Washington for a few days before the inauguration, and temporary switches will be provided. Persons who desire to make arrangements for the trip may find it to their advantage to communicate with General J. R. Carnanan. Quarters will be secured for all applicants. The committee has arranged for a convenient stand from which Indianians can witness the parade on Pennsylvania avenue. Letters have been received from ninety of the survivors of the Seventieth Rigiment who have decided to go to Washington to act as the guard of honer of the President-elect. The regiment will leave Ihdianapolis on Friday, March 1, at two o’clock p. m., and will arrive in Washington on the second. Colonel Merrill will be in command. No military uniforms will be worn, but a light brown overaoat and derby hat of uniform style. General Harrison will leave Indianapolis ten days before the fourth of March.

FROM ACROSS THE SEA.

There has been a recent rise in price averaging about 12 per cent.on the principal building materials in England. Upon the menu of the Lord Mayor’s dinner, at which the Premier always speaks there was printed “After Salisbury, dancing.” The salary of ihe English Attorney General is £7,(KO, with £5,000 perquisites. The Solicitor General’s stipend is £6,000 and £3,000 perquisites. The new Italian penal code provides that such an assertion as that the Pope has a right to Rome as his seat of government is punishable as a crime. ——— The French have a custom of visiting the graveyards wherein their relatives are buried on the Ist of November. Last year there were 270,000 visitors there and this year there were 190.000 in the face of a most terrific downfall or rain. It has hitherto been thought that Buenos Ayres was One of the most expensive cities to live in, a medium sized house renting there for $2,500 a year. It is learned, though, that an eight-room house in the outskirts of Sydney brings $2,750 a year. The result of a meeting of 400 teachers, in Eisleben, in Saxony, for the purpose of discussing the use of the Bible in schools, may be summed up thus: Arguments against the use in schools of the whole Bible or the introduction of a school Bible: (a) The Bible contains more matter than can be gone through at school; (b) it contains much; that is not fit for children, because (1) they cannot understand it, (2) it is without educational value for Children, and (3) it stands in the way of their moral and religious development; (e; the Holy Scriptures were not intended as a school book; (d) the use of the Bible as a school jbook detracts from the veneration in which it should be held by children and by the people. Arguments against a special school Bible: (a) In order to impart as muclTßiblical knowledge as possible, the unrestricted use of the Bible is necessary; (b) a familiar knowledge of the Scriptures, can only be obtained by their constant use; (c) to banish the Bible from the schools would diminish its value in the eyes of the pupils; (d) extracts from the Bible would be the work of man, whereas tho Bible is God’s work, (e)'the introduction of a special school Bible would have many practical difficulties; (f) it would lead to schism and foster distrust of the school and the Church. . “ A sold watch taken from Thomas Allerton, of Plainfield, N. J-, ’ over twenty years ago, was returned to him last week with his name and the date of the theft engraved dn the inside of the back case.

THE WESTERN EDITOR.

Slightly Mixed Character of His Labors in the Literary Line. * “As we pen these lines,” wrote the able editor, “our eyes are rivers of tears, and our soul is fraught with poignant woe. A gentle, star that shone more lustrous than all the stars about her, has died out, and is dead forever. Gladys Swivelhurst—Gladys, the beautiful, the young; is dead.” At this juncture the foreman entered the able editor’s room and informed him that a short item was necessary to fill the last column on the second page, and the editor wrote this: “We must have mbhey to carry on our business. Several hundreds of dollars are due us, and if they are not forthcoming immediately the accounts will be placed in the hands of a collector.” Having dashed this off lie continued the article about the dead one: “Her life and death reminds me of the short but beautiful existence of the flower; born under smiling skies, nourished by gentle breezes, only to be cut off by the pitiless wind from the north. It seems like an unhallowed dream—that Gladys is dead, but she is doubly dead, in that, she died so young.” Here he was called to the telephone, and was instructed by the manager of the Brokeslate Coal company to write and print a short reading rfotice for that corporation, and he at once compiled this: “Every man’s house should be his palace, and a palace would be very unaomfortable without warmth. The prudent man will order his coal from Brokeslate Coal company. This cdal is free from dirt, dust, and clinkers. It burns freely and gives great heat. Purchasers will always receive full weight, and having used this coal once will buy no other.” Then the death notice was continued: “It was in the morning of the wedding day;the golden glow of the sunlight, streaming into her chamber, seemed a promise of a life of happiness to come; but ere the shadows of the evening had fallen upon the brown earth the deeper and colder shadows of death dimmed those tender eyes, the damp upon her beautiful brow, and all was over.” Here a messenger boy handed him a note. He read it, and taking another sheet of paper soon sent the following to the printers: “Jatoes Cobbleton tells a good joke on Andy Shellhorn. For several nights the latter had been annoyed by cattie which broke into his yard, causing general havoc. At last, enraged beyond endurance, he bought a gun; and, hearing the* racket in the garden about midnight, he opened the window of his room and blazed away. In the morning he found that he had shot one of his own cows, which had broken from the stable and u andered into the yard. Tho laugh is on Andy.” He again resumed the obituary: “We have watched this young girl grow from childhood to young and glorious w omanhood. We have watched her when she went by like a sunbeam and marveled at her beauty, and to-day we see the bridal robes substituted by the clinging cerements of death and our tears seem drops of blood ebbing from a crushed and anguished heart.” When this was written a repoiter entered the room and handed him a marked copy of a local contemporary, after reading which he rapidly penned -the following: “The scurrilous dish-rag which is published in an obscure alley of this town by a lop-eared leper who spends his evenings trying to wash the tar off his body with benzine says that we received SSO for supporting Gen. Strutover for the office of constable. It is scarcely worth while for us to brand this as an infamous lie, which would make Ananias green with envy, were it not for the fact that there are people who do not know the true character of the moral and physical wreck making the charge. We do brand it as a lie, and therefore as a lie we will cram it down the craven throat of the degenerate coward who uttered it.” The obituary was taken up again: “In this, the dark hour of our sorrow we have the sweet consolation of knowing that the gentle Gladys, too lovely for the harsh blasts and tempests of earth, is n‘ow where the tears never fall, where the sigh is never heard, where the footfalls of death never echo on the jasper streets. We can only hope that in the uncertain future whence, too, have crossed the waters of the river of death, we can meet her there -there where the chorus swells forever and snowy pinions fan the perfumed air.” Another telephone message, and the editor, taking a fresh slip of paper, scribbled this: “Genial Tom Breighton is going about town to-day with a broad smile on account of a handsome boy baby who has taken up his abode at the house. Tom has the congratulations of ye editor.” ~ ' * Then he wrote the final sentences of the death notice: “This is indeed a sweet thought, yet we are stricken with sorrow that in all the weary years to come we can hear her voice no more. But what avail words? We can not speak the thoughts that surge through opr brai.; the tears fall from our eyes on the paper before US and the pen drops from our trembling band. Peace, eternal peace, to the ashed of her who is gone.”