Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1889 — Page 2

ALLAN QUATERMAIN.

A Record of Remarkable Advent- < ures and Discoveries.-

BY H. RIDER HAGGARD.

————■ CHAPTER Vll.— Continued. Presently, do as we would, the beam of the balance began to rise against us. We had not more than fifteen or sixteen effectives left now, and tho Masai had at least fifty. Of course if they had kept their heads, and shaken themselves together, they could soon have made an eud of the matter; but that is just what they did not do, not having yet recovered from their start, and some of them having actually fled from their sleeping-places without their weapons. Still by now many individuals were fighting with their normal courage and discretion, and this alone was sufficient to defeat us. To make matters worse, just then, when Mackenzie’s rifle was empty, a brawny savage armed with a •■sime” or sword, made a rush for him. The clergyman flung down his gun, and drawing his huge oarver from his elastic belt (his revolver had dropped out in the fight), they closed in desperate struggle. It really was a sight to see that good but angular man go in—coat-tails, broadbrimmed hat, carving-knife • and all. They say that nobody is so bitter as an apostate, so, on the same principle, for fighting purposes at a pinch commend me to a man of peace. At any rate, Mackenzie’s play with the carv-ing-knife was something beautiful, though I fear the Society of Friends would not have approved of this way of ‘♦converting the heathen.” Presently, locked in a close embrace, missionary and Masai rolled on to the ground behind the wall, and for some time I, being amply occupied with my own affairs, and in keeping my skin from being pricked, remained in ignorance of his fate or how the duel had ended.

To and fro surged the fight, slowly turning round like the vortex of a human whirlpool, and things began to look very bad for us. Just then, however, a fortunate thing happened. Umslopogaas, either by accident or design, broke out of the ring and engaged a warrior at some few paces from it. As he did so, another man ran up and struck him with all his force between the shoulders with his great spear, which, falling on the tough shield shirt, failed to pierce it, and rebounded. For a moment the man stared aghast—protective armor being unknown among these tribes—and then he yelled out at the top of his voice—- “ They are devils—bewitched, bewitched!” And seized by a sudden panic, he threw down his spear, and began to fly. I cut short his career with a bullet, and Umslopogaas brained his man, and then the panic spread to the others. “Bewitched, bewitched!” they cried, and tried to escape in every direction, utterly demoralized and broken-spirit-ed, for the most part even throwing down their shields and spears. On the last scene of that dreadful fight I need not dwell. It was a slaughter great and grim, in which no quarter was asked nor given. One incident, however, is worth detailing. Just as I was hoping that it was all done with, suddenly from under a heap of slain where he had been hiding, an unwounded warrior sprang up, and. clearing the piles of dying and dead like an antelope, sped like the wind up the kraal toward the spot where I was standing at the moment But he was not alone, for Umslopogaas came gliding on his tracks with the peculiar swallow-like mo don for which he was noted, and as they neared me. I recognized in the Masai the herald of the previous hight Finding that, run as he would, his pursuer was gaining on him, the man halted and turned round ~to give battle. Umslopogaas also pulled np. “Ah, ah,” he cried, in mookery, to the Elmoran, *ut is thou whom I talked with last night—the Lygonani, the Hcndd, the capturer of little girls —he would kill a little girl, And thou didst hope to stand man to man and face to face with an induna of the tribe of of the people of the Amazula? Behold, tby prayer is granted! And 1 did swear to hew thee limb from limb, thou insolent dog. Behold, 1 will do it even now!” The Masai ground his teeth with fury, and charged at the Zulu with his spear. As he came, Umslopogaas deftly stepped aside, an swinging Inkosiflcaas high above his head with both hands, brought the broad blade down withsueh tearful force from behind upon the Masai's shoulder just where the nook is set into the frame, that its razor edge shore right through the bone and flesh and muscle, almost severing the head and one arm from the bedy. * "Ou!" ej&oulalated Umslopogaas, contemplating the corpse of his foe; “I have kept my word. It was a good stroke." CHAPTER VIIL ALPHONSE EXPLAINS. And bo the fight was ended. On horning from this shocking scene it Mddenly struck me that I had seen nothing of Alphonse since the moment, some twenty minutes before- -for though this fight has taken a long while to describe, it did not take long in reality—when I had been forced to hit him In the wind with the result of nearly getting myself shot. Fearing that the poor little man had perished in the battle I began to hunt about among the dead for his body, but, not being able either to see or hear anything of it, I concluded that he must have survived, and walked down the side of the kraal where we had first taken our ttand, calling him by name. Now ■ some fifteen panes back from the kraal

wall stood a very ancient tree of th< banyan species. So ancient was it that alTthe* inside had in the course o ages decayed away, leaving nothing but a shell of bark; “Alphonse,” I called, as I walkec down the wall, “.Alphonse!” “Oui, monsieur,” answered a voice. “Here am I.” I looked round but could see nobody. “Where?" I cried ■ “Here am I, monsieur, in the tree.” I looked, and there, peering out of a hole in the trunk of the banyan about five feet from the ground, I saw a pale face and a pair of large mustaches, one clipped short and the other lamentably out of curl as the tail of a newly whipped pug. Then, for the first time, I realized what I had suspected before—namely, that Alphonse was an arrant coward. I walked up to him. * ‘Come out of that hole, ” I I said. “Is it. finished, monsieur?” he asked, anxiously; “quite finished? Ah, the horrors I have undergone, and the prayers I have uttered!” ‘ ‘Come out, you little skunk, ” I said, for I did not feel amiable; * ‘it is all over.” “So, mdnsieur, then my prayers have prevailed? I emerge, ” and he did so. As we were walking down together to join the others, who were gathered in a group by the wide entrance to the kraal, which now resembled a veritable charnel house, a Masai, who had escaped so far and been hiding under a bush, suddenly sprung up and charged furiously at us. Off went Alphonse with a howl of terror, and after him flew the Masai, bent upon doing some execution before he died. He soon overtook the poor little Frenchman and would have finished him then and there had I not, just as Alphonse made a last agonized double in the vain hope of avoiding the yard of steel that was flashing in his immediate rear, managed to plant a bullet between the Eimoran’s broad shoulders, which brought matters to a satisfactory conclusion so far as the Frenchman was concerned. But just then he tripped and fell flat, and the body of the Masai fell right on top of him, moving convulsively in the death struggle: Thereupon there arose such a series of piercing howls that I concluded that before he died the savage must have managed to skewer poor Alphonse. I ran up in a hurry, and pulled the Masai off, and there beneath him lay Alphonse covered with blood and jerking himself about like a galvanized frog. Poor fellow! thought 1, he is done for, and kneeling down by him I began to search for his wound as well as his struggles would allow. “Oh. the hole in my back!” he yelled. “I am murdered. lam dead. Oh, Annette!" I searched again, but could see no wound. Then the truth dawned on me—the man was frightened, not hurt. “Get up,” I shouted, “get up. Aren’t you ashamed of yourself? You era not touched." Thereupon he rose, not a penny the worse. “But, monsieur, I thought I was,” he said, apologetically; “I did not know that I had conquered.” Then, giving the body of the Masai a kick, he ejaculated triumphantly, “Ah, dog of a black savage, thou art dead; what victory!” Thoroughly disgusted, I left Alphonse to look after himself, which he did by following me like a shadow, and proceeded to join the others by the large entrance. The first thing that I saw was Mackenzie, seated on a stone with a handkerchief twisted around his thigh, from which he was bleeding freely, having, indeed, received a spear-thrust that passed right through it, and still holding in his hand his favorite carving-knife now covered with blood and bent nearly double, from which I gathered that he had been successful in his rough and tumble with the Elmoran. “Ah, Quatermain!” he sung out in a trembling, excited voice, ‘ ‘so we have conquered; but it is a sorry sight, a sorry sight;” and then breaking into broad Scotch and glancing at the bent knife in his hand, “It grieves me sair to hae bent my best carver on the breast-bane of a savage" and he laughed hysterically. Poor fellow, what between his w-qpnd and the killing excitement he had undergone his nerves were much shaken, and no wonder! It is hard upon a man of peace and kindly heart to be called upon to join in such a gruesome business. But, then, fate puts us sometimes into very ironical positions! At the kraal entrance the scene was a strange one. The slaughter was over by now, and the wounded men had been put out of their pain, for no quarter had been given. The bushclosed entrance had been trampled flat, and place of the bushes were the bodies of dead men. Dead men, everywhere dead men—they lay about in knots, they were flung by ones and twos in every position upon the open spaces, for all the world like the people on the grass in one of the London parks on a particularly hot Sunday in August. In front of this entrance, on a space which had been cleared of dead and of the shields and spears which were scattered in all directions as they had fallen or been thrown from the hands of their owners, stood and lay the survivors of the awful struggle, aud at their feet were four wounded men. We had gone into the fight thirty strong, and of the thirty but fifteen remained alive, and five of them (including Mr. Mackenzie) were wounded, two mortally. Of those who held the entrance, Curtis and the Zulu alone remained- Good had lost five men killed, I had lost two killed, and Mackenzie no less than five out of the six with him. As for the survivors they were, with the exception of myself, who had never come to close quarters, red from head to foot—Sir Henry’s armor * might have been painted that color—-

i and utterly exhausted, except Umsiopogaas, who, aa he stood on a little mound above a heap of dead, leaning as usual upon his ax, did not seem particularly distressed, although the skin over the hole in his head palpitated violently. “Ah, Macumazahn!” he s&id to me as I limped up, feeling very sick, “I told thee that it would be a good fight, -and it has. Never have I seen a better, or one more bravely fought. As for this iron shirt, surely it is ‘tagati’ [bewitched]; nothing could pierce it. Had it not been for the garment I should have been there,” and he nodded toward the great pile of dead men beneath him. “I give it thee; thou art a gallant man,” said Sir Henry, briefly. “Koos!” answered the Zulu, deeply pleased both at the gift and the compliment. “Thou; too, Incubu, didst bear thyself as a man, but I must give thee some lessons with the ax; thou dost waste thy strength.” Just then Mackenzie asked about Flossie, and we were all greatly relieved when one of the men said he had seen her flying toward the house with the nurse. Then bearing such of the wounded as could be moved at the moment .with us, we slowly made ; our way toward the Mission-house, spent with toil and bloodshed, but with the glorious sense of victory against overwhelming odds glowing in our hearts. We had saved the life of the little maid, and taught the Masai of those parts a lesson that they will not forget for ten years—but at what a cost! • - - ~

Painfully we made our way up the hill which, but a little more than an hour before, we had descended under such different circumstances. At the gate of the wall stood Mrs. Mackenzie waiting for us. When her eyes fell upon us, however, she shrieked out, and covered her face with her hands, crying, “Horrible, horrible!” Nor were her fears allayed when she discovered her worthy husband being borne upon an improvised stretcher; but her doubts as to the nature of his injury were soon set at rest. Then when in a few brief words I had told her the upshot of the struggle (nf which Flossie, who had arrived in safety, had been able to explain something) she came up to me and solemnly kissed me on the forehead. “God, bless you all, Mr. Quatermain; you have saved my child’s life,” she said simply. Then we went in and got pur clothes off and doctored our wounds; I am glad •pressive manner. It was melancholy in the extreme, but, as Good said, it might have been worse, for we might have had “to bury ourselves.” I pointed out that this would have been a difficult feat, but I knew what he meant.~ ' " Next we set to work to load an oxwagon which had been brought round from the Mission, with the dead bodies of the Masai, having first collected the spears, shields, and other arms. We loaded the wagon five about fifty bodies to the load, and it into the Tana. From this itwas evident that very few of the Masai could have escaped. The crocodiles must have been well fed that night. One of the last bodies we picked up was that of the sentry at the upper end. to say I had none, and Sir Henry’s and Good’s were, thanks to those invaluable chain shirts, of a comparatively harmless nature, and to be dealt with by . means of a few stitches and sticking plaster. Mackenzie’s, however, was serious, through fortunately the spear had not severed any large artery. After that we had a bath, and oh, what a luxury it was! and having clad ourslves in ordinary clothes, proceeded to the dining-room, where breakfast was set as usual. It was curious sitting down there, drinking tea and eating toast in an ordinary nineteenth-century v ßort of a way just as though we had - not employed the early hours in a regular primitive hand-to-hand middle-ages kind of struggle. As Good said, the whole thing seemed more as though one had had a bad nightmare just before being called, than as & deed done. When we were finishing our breakfast the door opened, and in came little Flossie, very pale and tottery, but quite unhurt. She kissed us all and thanked us. I congratulated her on the presence of mind she had shown in shooting the Masai with her Derringer pistol, and thereby saving her own life. To be Continued.

Very Sharp Pointe.

If your coffee is a little roily fte cable dispatches will explain it. Let this little Brazilian game go on, and may Uncle Sam get tne rubber. | Pulling the wool over a man’s eyes naturally gives him a sleepiah appearance. The woman who wants to be called pet names gets mad when you call her a little tart The man who combs his hair in the middle considers his part in life of some importance. The man who rode a bicycle has a lame excuse for not attending to his daily Albert Durer gave the world a prophecy of future wood engraving in ■ 2715. As a rule it Is not wise to tell all one knows, though it is always highly ex t pedieut to know all one tells. The storm cloud should have a skyblue color. Poets are born. Only waiter girls are made to orderA rooster is like an auctioneer. He makes a big noise to attract fair. bids. The recent excitement in corn circles has not brought any increased business to the chiropodist* ••The bustle is a thing of the past,” says a fashiou exchange. It always a little behind. i f

HABITS OF THE COON.

There is Only One Way to Trap the Wild Sinless Yon Understand How to Do It, He Will Be Too Smart for You Every TimsAn Old Hunter Gives the Result of His Observations. “Did you ever hear any one say he had trapped a coon?" said a Pittsburg--3r who has been spending a few days an Lake Kenka, to a New Ycrk Sun reporter, and who says that if there is anything he knows all about it’s coons. “If any one ever told you he trapped i coon in the woods he told you what tiever happened. Coons can’t be trapped except in one way, and I never found a coon hunter yet who knew how it was done. The old coon hunters of western Pennsylvania put me up to trying to trap a coon, and I tried it for pears before I discovered the only way it could be done. “The coon leaves the coldest scent behind it of any animal that lives, nut it carries the keenest in front of it of any animal. You may place your trap in front of the hole and disguise it as you may. cover it with leaves a' foot deep if you like, but that coon will never leaye that hole as long as that trap is there. He will starve to j death first, as I have proved on more than one occasion. He can the 1 iron of that trap, and he seems to I know the danger it threatens him 1 with. He knows it will be death to leave the hole, .- nd he prefers death by starvation to being trapped. I have tried iron traps and sn.ires and all sorts of devices, but could not succeed in fooling one of the wise little animals into getting caught by me until orte day a new idea struck me. It isn’t often you see a coon in the daytime i unless you know where to look for them. If there is a creek in your! vicinity in which crawfish are plenti- j ful you will be likely to discover some epicurean coon fishing for them if you hide at the side of the creek and keep very quiet.

“The coon is particularly fond of crawfish. The way he fishes forthem is to wade in the creek, generally going down-stream. The crawfish live under the stones on the bottom. The coon feels under each stone he comes to with his fore paws, thrusting one under one side and the other on the other side. It is a comical sight to see a coon fishing for crawfish. He keeps his head high in the air, moving it up and down and to and fro, his eyes evidently gazing at nothing, every sense seeming to be concentrated on the business beneath the water. He draws the crawfish out of the water, and, standing on his hind feet, rolls it smartly between his paws. This crushes the shell and claws of the crawfish and makes the sweet meat more accessible. The poon eats his capture with great relish and then begins the search for another one. “While watching a coon fishing in this way one day I got the new idea of trapping for coons. I thought that by placing a steel trap udder the water in the creek where coons did their fishing they could be deceived and more th in likely caught. I tried the experiment I sank two traps at different places on a favorite crawfishing route for coons, and the same afternoon found p coon in each trap. And that is the pnly way you can trap a coon. “I often hear hunters talk about smoking coons out of hollow trees where they have been located. If they say they have done the smoking by burning straw or leaves or substances j of that kind, 1 don’t believe them. Coou ' I hunters in western Pennsylvania know i by long experience that there is only pne thing the smoke of which will! force a eoon to boat a retreat from his hollow tree. You* may burn leaves or straw till the cows come home, but .you won’t get your coon. 1 You can hear him sneezing every little I while like a man with the bay fever, > but that is all the effect the smoke will have on him. If you want to get your coon by smoking him out of the tree, , you must take what we call a sulphur match over in western Pennsylvania. The coon-hunting sulphur match is made by melting down a quantity of sulphur in a saucer and saturating a strip of muslin a few inches long and an inch or two wide in it When you run your coon into a hollow tree all you’ve got to do is to put your sujphur match at the bottom of the hole and light it It won’t be burning tea seconds before Mr. Coon will pop out' pf bis hollow as if he’d been shot from a catapult, and thea if you don’t get him it’s your fault

The Parlor Doomed to Extinetion.

“The parlor has gone. Oh, you may admire my pretty room,” said a bright hostess, the other day to a N. Y. Sua reporter, “but you must not call U a 1 parlor. That breaks my heart Wo don’t have parlors any more, you know. Hotels have parlors, millers do, and barbers, nd 1 believe, chiropodists, but not we. Oh, no, indeed. In this modest flat this is just my room where 1 see my friends. In a house it would be a reception room, and the other larger apartment would 'be a salon or drawing room in addition, and a white room, a Jap mese room, a green room, and so on. but never a i parlor among them aIL We have to keep clear of the maddning crowd, you know, and ‘parlors’ are dreadfully common.”

The Opponax Tree.

The npoponax tree is not only a very pleasant - but a profitable one to the ladies of Charleston, 8. C. The Cour- | der remarks: “There are a score or more of ladies in Charieston who actu-1 ally get all their winter dresses from ' the opoponax trees io their gardens. A young lady who has a tree in her; Srden has already realized <23 from . e sale of the flowers, and her neigh-1 bor. who has a younsrer tree, has - bought a handsome winter nloak from i the proceeds of her tree. The flowers are made up in tiny buttonhole bou'quete and are given to lhe cook’s son to sell. Ha sells them at 6 cento a bouquet, and has no trouble in disposing of them to northei-n tourists whe pans through the oily."

WINGED MISSILES.

: The consumption of horseflesh in Berlin is increasing. Geneva is said to be the cheapest city in Europe for a permanent residence. Chinese matches are competing sharply with the Swedish product in Europe. The United States bought over $2,000,000 worth of eggs from Canada last year. Boston educators are taking great interest & a proposed manual training school. I The production of Brazilian coffee has Jeen doubled within' the last ten years. j Seeeral calculating machines received he gold medal at the Paris exposition. | According to the propaganda in Rome, hero are 248,000,000 catholics in the world. i The youngest officer in her majesty’s setrice is a second lieutenant of exactly eighteen. I it is believed that silos are going out of Aavbr in Europe, though there are still nany in use. George VV. Cable will write a book on ‘The Silent South.” He takes up the muse erf the negro. Harvard Annex is to add a course in jhotography. The girts always did have a loudness for photographs. France is not the chief duel country. Hungary takes the lead. “More light” is ivhat these countries need. I Mrs.: Southworth, who shot and killed ?ettus, has been indicted for murder. Kentucky will stand by her. I Mark Twain’s wife has written a book mder s fictitious name. The critics will be aying Mark had a hand in it — An official of the Michigan Central Railvay figures out that the steam whistles , tost the company SIB,OOO a year. Florence Marryat, the novelist, is short, thoughtful looking and impetuous manner;d. Her novels are mild mannered. B annibal Hamlin is the only living exrice president. Thurman and English, who ;ricd for the place and lost it, are still on »arth. I Tennyson has read allot Rider Haggard’s stories. That may help to account for the decline in quality of the Laureate’s ooetry. The proprietors of the Hotel Brunswick n New York have found out that gas can »e cheaply and satisfactorily utilized for the most delicate kinds of cooking. In all European countries it is common for laborers to stay ail their lives, even for veral generations, on oue farm; in many nstances they are pensioned when aged. About everything in agricultural machinery in all Europe is clumsy, heavy, roughly finished. Their grain harvesters are eviiently patterned after ours of years ago. In England there are a few high-toned land owners’ clubs, but very little if any >rganization among common farmers, nor io they support farm papers to any extent. A well-known London journalist, realizing the fact that the ordinary professions In England are greatly overcrowded is saving his eldest son educated to be a cook. A woman in Maine is defendant in a $2,XX) suit for locking up her weak-minded orcther in a dog kennel. This seems to ihow that the big sister is not always to be relied upen. Stories of Mme. Christine Nilason’s hopeless ill health have been current of late, but ;hey arc vigorously denied by her nephew, Mr. Bjorksten, who declares that her health is excellent The Chicago Tribune says the water at 5t Louis Is so bad that nothing but catfish can live In it Those wno live in glass houses should not throw stones. Even catfish can not live in the Chicago river. George Coulter, of Charleston, W. Va., while sound asleep, got out of bed at night, and swam across the river ana back again. He was carried home by some gentlemen who had seen him perform this remarkable feat Bret Harte’s son is doing fairly well financially for a young man. He draws a salary as secretary of the Dion Boucicault School of Acting and is living with anoth-I sr man's wife who has Un income of $5,000 a year. New York usually gets her hand into other people's pockots. But on the memorial arch question it seems to be ioing something on its own accounL. lt has raised about SOO,OOO. The Grant monument , fund is stationary. I ‘"’” The man in Philadelphia who has not read “Guida’s” novels and a “Life of William Penn” is not eligible for office, and the woman there who has neglected thia part of her culture is not regarded as “fit for good society.” The classic lands will never get done digging up statues. Tho most ancient statue yet discovered in Greece has been found at Tripolitza. It represents a god, seated, and resembles antique Egyptian sculpture. Recent widespread failures in the tea trade iu China have had a curious effect on ruined merchants. Five of them have taken refuge in a monastery in preference to meeting their creditors. One committed , suicide and many have disappeared. The Archduke John of Austria, desiring to earn his own living, has finally, after a very protracted and difficult effort, re i oeiv«d nertuission from the emperor to bear henceforth Cne name of John Orth. He has gone to work in an English ship yard. An Ohio paper prints the following notice under the heading “Obituaries:” “AllHam Jones, of Malta township, aged eightytoise, passed peacefully away on Tuesday last from single blessedness to matrimonial bliss, after a short, but sudden attack by Alice Blossom, a blooming widow of thirty-five.” j A syndicate of Now York capitalists have purchased the Dismal Swamp Canal in V.rginia aud North Carolina for $75,0X1 The new owners intend to rebuild the ocks ind widen and deepen the canal f-.r vessels or the largest draught, and make this route the connectine ling fro-u Chesapeake Bay with the great inland waterway of tho i Atlantic cost. A large tract of swamp land on the line of the Jacksonville Southeastern Rail- i ro.ul, ne w Manito, 111, has been recently drained. The result of the til.ng has been peculiar. In oom- I placer the roadbed of Is Lob th east-J era sunk four feet, and the ro&J was com- ; pelled to spend a large amount of mom. r in making necessary repairs. j Heavy watch ohainr, stobt enough to hang an ox w.th, are very much out of fashion and are looked x>n as vulgar, •ihe latest jewelers? edict siys: “Men's witch guards are out very Yon should have only enough length to ?o »otween Ute butlonho.e the pewse* These < tufas are, -a a -file, very l<hweighing from tan to twel.o’penayweighta.’*

STATE TEMPERANCE MEETING

Three hundred delegates attended >■ toiiiperanCe -.fon at Indlauapoli.® Wednesday aud Thursday. Committeefl| Pres J dent, D. C. Woolport, Warsaw; secretar T. A. Goodwin, Indianapolis; assistaqHj secretary, H. M Middleton, Crawford®! ville; vice presidents, Frank de Souchet« the Rev. Mr. Van Dyke. C. E. Line, R. Em Whiteman, Josenh A’len, John Morris, £■ F. Ritter, Allen’ Lewis, L. M. Crist, J. AW Maxwell, T. M. McWhinney, Leslie jfl Naftzger, Ncah Harper. The call state the object of the meeting to be to consuLW as to the best method of procuiS ing prohibition, State and national, an« pending the success of this movement how® best to secure and enforce such laws asß shall tend to the closing of Che saloon, buM in no case to form, or aid, or assail any poH litical party as such. Gen. Sam F. Carey fl of Ohio, delivered an address Wednesdafl evening. I Tharaday’s session opened with devoß tional exercises. Dr. Goodwin read itfl majority report on the plan of organizafl tion, in substance, as follows: I 1. The basis of organization should nofl be the extreme view of any man or set ofl men. Radical views should be abanfl doned. United work is necessary. ■ 3. Anything to meet the exigencies of ■ the case must contemplate permanency fl The liquor traffic will be hard to kill. fl 3. The organization must have moneyfl at its command, if it overcomes the millfl ions at the comand of the saloons. s 4. The organization must not only con-fl template the enactment of better laws, fl but the enforcement of them. . ---fl 5. This fight must be carried into poli-fl tics, but need not ally itself with any par-fl ticular party. The liquor interests knowfl no especial party. This organization mustfl meet tho enemy wherever it works, andfl its influence must be upon men, not parties, fl 6. Compact organization is necessary, fl A handful of people by that now carry the fl State for the liquor interests, ; fl 7. Children must be educated, and the fl people as well, by means of speeches and fl literature. One essential is a good weekly fl paper which is neither too liberal noifl fanatical. John T. Woodward,of Parke county,read ■ the report of the minority of the committee, fl It is said that as there are already sever- ■ al temperance organizations in the State, ■ it would be unwise to form another, but a that this convention should only pledge its ■ support to societies already existing,name- ■ ly.-the Indiana Phohibitlon League, the ■ State Temperance Christian Union and I the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, I A long, heated discussion here ensued, and I it was decided to hear the Committee on.| Resolutions before tackling the two reports-3 read. Dr. M. M. Parkhurst, of Greencas- 1 tie, was chairman of tho Resolution Cbm-■ mittee, and before reading he announced 1 the report had been prayerfully prepared I and was unanimous. (Vociferous ap- I plause.) The article set out with the usual praam. I ble, and the resolutions in substance wertf I that the members of the convention would I use their moral power and authority against I the saloon; that they would renounce all I all allegiance to organizations which | countenance saloons; that pending the I coming of prohibition such laws as are or I may be made should have their support I and that the gospel temperance phase of I the question should be pressed upon the I people. At first a flood of sentiment in favor I es the resolutions swept over the audience There was an enthusiasm which could only find expression in hand shaking and a hymn. Dr. Goodwin said he regarded tho report as grand and almost inspired.* When the confusion had subsideda few men began to analyze the resolutions and to think may be they were not quite what^ been. John T. Woodward, the Quaker temperannee mani from Bloomingdale, said he wanted to see. some such resolution as, “We are unalterably and always opposed to licensing an-, loons.” He was not willing to go beferei his God and his people with thia compromise with the saloons resting upon him. Captain E. F. Ritter said the resolutions, were all that God or man would ask. Ha helped compose them and ought to now.! The committees, he said, had been oareful to introduce nothing that could cause friction. Dr. Ryland T. Brown stood up and* refused to be suppressed by overwhelmingcries of “question) question I” When al faint semblance of order was restored, he| intimated that the resolutions were spine-! less, and missed the points which they! should have made strongest. J. G. Kings-! bury offered an amendment pledging toe members of the convention to support no man or party not openly and boldly in favor of State and National Prohibition, but he couldn’t get it adopted and it was. referred to the Committee en Resolutions. Tho report was finally adopted as first read. The two reports on the plan es organize * tion, after a long, heated and at times acrimonious debate were re tarred back to tor committee to be harmonized. The convention then adjenrned to meet at some future time. Many were the oxpresflons of dissatisfaction and disgust which were heard as tho crowd want out. The third party Prohibitionists were freely charged with having packed the con ven tion to obstruct its action, and toe general sentiment teemed to be that the meeting had failed in seme of the principal objects for which it was called together. The belief that the committee will fail to agree and that the convention will novar be called together again was not without fre quent expression. The joint committee met immediately and adopted the following resolutions : Resolved, That the organization shall bo called toe Christian Temperance Alliance of Indiana. Resolved, That toe following members of this committee, living in Indianapolis,* shall constitute a lecture bureau, whose Indorsement, as to fitness ami abUlly shall be necessary to the employment of any one as lecturer or organizer under this organization: Eli F- Ritter, T. A. Goodwin, W. J. Beckett, A. Jones, J. A. Roadtoaler and C. A. Van Anda.' Resolved. That each member of the joint oommittoo be constituted an organiser ofi alliances in his coagresaional district, and t..at he shall seek to organize an alliance, on the basis of the r esoiutn»us adopted by toe convention, in every county in the district. 1 Resolved, That the lecture bureau bo requested to formulate the work tar tee organization of oounty alliances. I Resolved, That the executive semmittes shall consist es the lecture bureau aad the president of tee joint committee, and U shall have power to call a meeting of ths jointoommittee whenever, la Ito yietT-r the exlgenchss damaiA —