Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1890 — Page 3

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The foot-ball craze has reached Fort Wayne. vA rabid dog was killed at Noblesville Thursday. A part of the Martinsville schools are closed because of la grippe. Wabash county Prohibitionists have nominated a county ticket. Cold weather has killed the wheat blades in many parts of the state. The Pan Handle freight and passenger depot at Marion was partially destroyed by fire Tuesday. $2,000 loss. Nat Heaton, of near Russiarille, was disemboweled on the 30th, by the accidental discharge of his gun. The semi-annual State Convention of the Indiana Christian Missionary Society will meet at Crawfordsville, February 25. The contract has been awarded Jor double tracking the Lake Shore Railway from Elkhart to Chicago during the coming season. Tad Gallagher, an employe of the wire nail works at Anderson, was terribly burned by a red hot wire breaking and boiling about his face and neck. A small child of Fred Wamhoff, residing

near Huntingburg, was instantly killed Tuesday by a post thirty feet high falling on him and crushing his head,to a pulp. Patrick Flyne, a farmer near YVoodville, Porter county, nearly killed himself by drinking horse liniment. Despondency from sickness was-the eauseof-the attempt. Dr. Swartz, of Fort Wayne, gave his two-year old son a dose of corrosive sublimate through mistake, the druggist having put up a wrong prescription. The child died soon after taking a dose. Fred, aged thirteen, son of Charles Bal schmiter, of Laporte, while attempting to rescue a companion who had broken through the ice on Cellar Lake, Wednesday, fell in and was drowned. Whitley county has a farmer in has luck. He sent a shipment of butter to Ft. Wayne, but was only offered 7 cents a pound for it. He took it home in anger and threw it £o hi 3 hogs. It proved fatal to two of them. Dr. Thomas K. Plummer, formerly a prominent physician and wealthy farmer of Daviess county, has been convicted of horse stealing, i the penalty five years 1 imprisonment. Dr. Plummer is aged nearly 60 years. _j- • r/ .• Mrs. Emma Toomy, a deaf and dumb lady, living at Dunfee, was run over and instantly killed Tuesday by a train on the Nickel-plate railroad. The woman was walking on the track and did not notice the approaching train.

Miss Rosa Daskum, one of Elkhart’s prominently known youngladies, has lately so devoted herself to Christian science circles and their practices that she has developed into a raving maniac and will have to be sent to an asylum at once. Jacob Adeli, of Fairmount, aged fortythree, during the absence of his family Wednesday noon, poured coal oil over his head and shoulders and applied a lighted match, burning himself to death before help could be summoned. He was suffering with la grippe at the time. The Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company has paid Wm. DeLorenzo, the uncle and guardian of little Dora Payne, $7,500 for the loss of her mother and step father in the Rose Hill railroad accident, near Chicago, recently. The money was paid without a suit. ~~7 r ' Andrew J. Hugman,of Lapelle, of whom it was said he had shipped a car load of hogs to Pittsburg, which -were—afflicted with rabies, communicated tef the press that he made no such shipment, and that there is no hydrophobia among the stock in his neighborhood. There are in Wabash county 259,364 acres of land valued of taxation at $5,080,000; the improvements on the same are valued at $1,610,066. The -personal property of the

county is valued at $4,056,155, and this with the lots and lands and improvements makes a total of $11,365,495. William Smith, of Newburg, served in the Sixtieth Indiana during the war, and he returned home slightly demented. Afterward he disappeared. His family have just discovered that for the past eighteen years he has been working on the Hummellfarm, near Madison. Monday night the police raided a gambling room at Crawfordsville, and arrested eight young men, all but two of whom were under seventeen years of age. The proprietor of the layout has himself not yet attained his majority. In the police court the boys were fined S3O each. Indiana Patents—Frank O. Climer, Indianapolis, portable copying press; Joseph F. Gent, Columbus, pneumatic separator and grader; Eli Keith, Hagerstown, wash ing machine; Henry Plough and E. N. Giles, Indianapolis, portable hot air radiator; Joseph G. Whitier, Attica, door check. Robins continue to congregate by the many thousands near Bradford, and are slain in great numbers, people visiting the roosts after nightfall provided with a lantern and a long pole, and knocking them from their perches. The killing is contrar to law, but it is continued without interference on the part of the officials of Harrison county.

The official call has been issued for the annual convention of the Indiana Tariff Reform League, to be held in Indianapolis, beginning at 7:50 p. m., March 4. The headquarters of the League will be at the Grand Hotel, where delegates will report upon their arriyaUn that city. Arrangements have been made with tbe railroads to carry all persons desiring to attend this convention for one and one-third fare for the round trip. All tariff reformers in Indiana are invited to be present, whether delegates or not. The Republican State Central Committee met at Indianapolis, Thursday night, and elected the following offioers: Chairman—Louis T. Michener, Indianapolis; Vice-chairman—M. R. Sulzer, Madison; Secretary—P. M. Millikan, New Castle; Treasurer—Horace McKay, Indianapolis. Executive Committee—S. J. Peelle Indianapolis, J. K. Gowdy, Rushville; E. :H. Nebeker, Covington; J. B. Homan, inanaillftj W. N. Hardlrig, j, I A resolution was adopted endorsing the administration. Jacob Adell, who committed suicide ana

Fairmount by burning himself to death with coal oil, was crazed with religious excitement, having been a recent convert to a band of faith carers. The wife of Adeli, who holds the religious convictions entertained by her husband, when notified of the manner of his death, assumed a pleased expression, and exclaimed, “Thank the Lord, O my soul.” While upon the witness stand her manner was perfectly composed, and the horrible manner of her husband’s taking off appeared to have made no impression on her.

BANK PRESIDENT ASSAULTED.

Charred with Fraud by Infuriated Laborers and Beaten into Insensibility. President Armstrong, of the Conway Savings Bank, Conway Springs, Kan., was assaulted by a mob of infuriated laborers Thursday, and beaten so severely that the attending physicians hold out only slight hopes of his recovery. President Armstrong is also the chief of the company operating a sugar manufacturing plant and employing about one hundred men, with whom a new agreement had recently been made. The employes insisted that under the new scale they were being defrauded of a portion of their wages, and Wednesday afternoon about seventy-five of them entered the office of President Armstrong, at the bank. Before the conference had proceeded very far, Mr. Armstrong grew furious, and ordered the men from the office and the bank. The maddened laborbore him to the street and beat him almost to insensibility. The Sheriff was a witness to the scene, but was powerless to in terfere. No arrests were made. Mr. Armstrong was taken to his home. The attending physicians report that he is very seriously hurt internally, and that his in juries will no doubt prof e fatal.

MR. LAMPSON UNSEATED.

The Ohio Senate Thursday took final action in the Lieutenant Governorship contest. The summarized evidence in -the case; as prepared by the majority of the committee on elections, was adopted with a resolution unseating Lampson, Republican, who was elected by twenty-three votes on the face of the returns, and the Office given to William V. Marquis, Democrat, whom the committee fqund to be eleoted by some five hundred votes. The vote stood on unseating Lampson and seating Marquis—yeas, 18, nays, 16—Senator Massie, Republican, being sick and absent Mr. Lampson was given an opportunity to speak, and said be was duly elected last fall as Lieutenant Governor,and notwithstanding the vote just taken he would continue to act and fill the office.

OIL WORKS BLAZE.

About 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon a still exploded in the Standard oil works, at Hunter’s Point. The flames communicated to the other stills and the entire works were threatened. The fire continued to burn a'l night. At 9 p. m. another still exploded, and burning oil was thrown hundreds of feet into the air. Several spectators had their olothing set on fire by the falling of the burning fluid. Roofs of neighboring buildings were also set on fire, but the flames were speedily extinguished. A number of firemen were obliged to jump from a structure when the second explosion occurred, and six of them were slightly injured. The total loss will exceed $200,000.

ARRESTED FOR ROBBING THE MAILS.

Mrs. Mary Boganze and son, postmistress and assistant at Partlow, Mo., were arrested Tuesday by Postofflce Inspector McClure for robbing the mails. A quantity of money and two decoy letters, were found in their possession. They confessed that they had assisted Postmaster Boganze in robbing the mails before his death, and since that time have continued the practice. The amount of money and valuables stolen is large. s

Drops of Humor.

Kind words are like bald heads—they can never dye. The Governor of lowa has a daughter and two eons, and they are all Boies. The prize-fighter Is not only the leader of the ring, but grand lamer to boot. This may not be exactly a glacial period, but it seems to be a full stop to ice. . „ The liquor war in Bangor is assuming a lively phase. It is a kind of Bangorilla warfare, so to speak.

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, Jan. 27,1889. OKAIH. Wheat Cora. Oats, j Bye. Indianapolis.. 2 r’d 77 lwU 2 w 24% 8 r’d 75 2ye2B Chicago. ....... 2 r’d .5% 29 20% Cincinnati 2 r’d 77% 82 25 52% at. Louis 2 r’d 77 28% 20 42 Hew Y0rk...... 2 r’d 82 87% 30 68 Baltimore . 60% 86% SO 58 Philadelphia. 2 r’d 80 38 29% Clover" Toledo •••»•••••j » SO% 22% 860 Detroit Iwh 78 80% 25 Minneapolis : ..... .. Louisville ™77 30 21 uvm stock. * Cattli -Export grades 84.20^4.60 Good to choice shippers 3.60^10 Common to medium shippers.... 3.50<c03.75 Stockers,sootoßso lb •.... 2.00(g3.00 Good to choice heifers 2.60^3.10 Common to medium heifers Ls9<jsi.2K Good to choice cows 2.35^2.75 Fair to medium oows 1.75 ®2.10 Hoos—Heavy 3.80(^3.67 Light. 3.75083.85 Mixed [email protected] Heavy roughs [email protected] Shbep -Good'to choice 4.75. 0i5.35 Far to medium 3.75tj§4.35 HISCBLLANBOnS. Eggs 12c. HuttWC.Creamary 2a««>a4; Oatry 12, Good Country 10c. Feathers, -t«; B «*swax, 18@20; Wool 88@35, bn wash d 25; Poultry, Hens Bc. Turkeys IUo risers 30. Clover seed 3.8d(^..>.j.. ( ’■_

ANOTHER MONON WRECK.

81* Pass infer* Kit.il and Twcnty-fivs Another appalling calamity occurred on the Monon road one-half mile north oi Carmel in Hamilton county, Ind., at 7:30 a m. on the 27th. There is a long trestle over Wilkinson’s Creek at that point. The truck of the engine jumped the track before the bride was reached. The engine and baggage car cleared the trestle in safety, but the remaining cars went over it intd the creek and took fire. A scene of fright-, ful disorder ensued. The concussion killed and injured many persons and the flames added their horrors. The work of rescue was begun with all possible dispatch. Charred bodies were carried out to the bank of the streamrecalling the awful wreck at Broad Ripple on the same road, four years ago, when the bridge over White River gave way, and the train was thrown to the bod of the stream and burned, together with many persons. The passengers killed or burned to death were Mrs. Nellie Eubank, Broad Ripple; C. O. Deming, Frankfort; two daughters of Mrs. Oldham, Sheridan; Miss Mary Hoover, Horton, Ind., and one unknown. The injured number at least twenty-five, some of whom will die. Otto Gresham, son of Judge Walter Q. Gresham, was among the slightly injured. “It was an awful wreck,” he said te a News reporter on the way down on the train, “and Ido not see how any of us escaped alive. I was in my berth in t-lie sleeper when the accident occurred-; - The porter had Just tapped me on the shoulder to awake me, and I was turning over when the oar went off the track. We lunged forward and then went over on the side. 1 managed to get out. Ido not know ho w, with only a bruised body and a sprained arm. In a moment the ladies’ car took fire, and was soon destroyed. The cries es the tw* children and one woman pinioned in the ruins were heart-rending, but We could d« nothing toward rescuing them then. I Looked for Abe Angle, the conductor, and tound him walking round and round i n a field near the wreck. The blood was streaming down over his face, and he seems to have lost his mind entirely for the time being. As soon as he came to his senses he per. aisted in trying to save the lives of the injured, though he was so weak he could hardly stand. As soon as I could find Dis trict Passenger Agent Baldwin, who vvaa on the ill-fated train, we ran to the tele graph office at Carmel and sent in a report of the accident. I talked with the engineer, and he told me that the accident was caused by the front wheels of the trucks spreading. The jar broke the air brake, and the engine was unable to stop the train in time to save it.” Henry Blusber, another passenger, as great tears rolled down his cheeks, recit ed, in broken sentences, what he saw. “I was in the car,” said he, “and when the crash came two women were thrown eve* against me. They were caught near tme by some broken timbers, and two little children were pinioned to the floor just across the aisle from me. The car at once took fire and 1 was barely able to get out in time to save my life. Oh I the cries ol those women and little children, fastened to the floor within my reach, and yet 1 was unable to render any assistance. J tried tj> unloose them, but I couldn’t do it, and had to leave them to their fate.” An Indianapolis News reporter was sent out to the scene of the disaster. There h< found an appauling condition of affairs The trestle, about 100 feet long and twen ty feet high, is a mass of ruined timbers, and many of them seem to be unsound. The dead lay about on the banks from morning until 3 o’clock. Crowds of pea pie swarm about discussing the matter. The disaster occurred this way: The en gine L baggage car and smoker passed ovei

the trestle in safety although the hind trucks of the tender had jumped the tract before the trestle was reached. The Road master of the Monon says this derailed truck was the cause of the disaster. Wher the ladies’ day coach reached the center oi the bridge it fell through with a crash t« the depths below. The wreck thus created took fire from the stove and that cai was entirely consumed. It was in this csaoh that all the casualties occurred. Three were burned to death; the others were killed by the fall or crushed in the wreck. The sleeper (hind car) also fell from the bridge into the creek, but fortun ately did not take fire. After the engine and first two cars had passed over, these cars left the track and rolled down the twenty foot embankment. The engine staid on the rails, and its front wheels alone of the whole train remained on the track. The injury to the express and baggage train men occurred on the far side of the death chasm. There was not oaly prevalent adverse criticism of the condition of the bridge, but of the failure for hours of the railroad company to do anything in caring for the filled. Of the corpses lying on the bank, the two once beautiful twin daughters of Mrs. Oldham were charred and unrecognizable masses. Anothe passenger gave the following experience: “A jewelry man from Indi anapolis sat in front of me, and across the aisle from him were two men who fell on him as the car went over. I tell you 1 never was happier in my life than when ] found I was able to stand up. It washor rible to hear the screams for help in the car next to ours. I have heard of Buck things, but I never saw anything like if before. The car was burning and we knew the two little children were in the flames. Oh, it is awful 1 awful! A woman with nei head crushed in was dragged from the car, and rising to her feet, started toward a wheat field screaming for her children. 1 don’t know whether she died or not. It was notiong until the neighboring fanners were at the scene and did everything in their power to suocor the wounded and dying. The sleeping car porters threw out blanket* and bedding for the injured. I don’t know how many were injured, but I think there were more than twenty.” J. T. Altizen, of Chicago, made this state ment: “Near me were three women piled ill a heap, one almost doubled up, another pariMly uhdei-aseat “TKTSr IwTfuST of dirt, gravel and smoke. I dragged thr woman that was on top of the heap, to tb« other odoCthe psefaed my way out

aide, and carrying her to the bank IsKTher flown. I ran back to the car and was foined by a brave fellow , whose name X don’t know. I caught up another woman and carried her out and started back after the other. I found the conductor about midway the car under a seat and dragged him out. But ! could do no more. The car was on fire. The little children, who five minutes before had laughed so gleefully, were held down by the roof and the Upturned stove roasted them to death. I' Suppose the woman I left in the car was turned to death. It was the most horri-, le thing I ever witnessed, and I was theonly one in the front end of the car who escaped.

SMELL IN HORSES.

Examples to Prove that the Sense Is Extremely Keen. The horse will leave musty hay untouched in his bin no matter how hungry, says the Horse and Stable. He will not drink of water objectionable to his questioning sniffs, or from a bucket which some other odor makes offensive, however thirsty. His intelligent nostril will widen, quiver and jquery over the daintiest bit offered by the fairest of hands. A mare is never satisfied by either sight or whinny that jhqp colt is really hers until she has certified the fact by means of her nose. Blind horses, as a rule, will gallop wildly about a pasture without striking the surrounding fence. The sense of smell informs thorn of its proximity. Others will, when loosened from the stable, go directly to the gate or bars opening to their accustomed feedinggrounds, and when desiring to return, ■after hours of careless wandering, will distinguish the one outlet and patiently await its opening. The odor ■of that particular part of the fence is {their guide to it The horse in brow - ttng, or while gathering herbage with mis lip, is guided in its choice of proper food entirely by its nostrils. Blind horses do not make mistakes in their diet In the temple of Olympus a bronze horse was exhibited, at the sight of which six real horses experienced the most violent emotions. riSlian judiciously observed that tha most perfect art could not imitate nature sufficiently well to produce so perfect an illusion. Like Pliny and Pausanias, he consequently affirms that “in casting the statue a magician had thrown hippomanes upon it,” which, by the odor of the plant deceived the horses, and therein we have the secret of the miracle. The. scent alone of a buffalo robe will cause many horses to evince lively terror, and the floating scent of a railway train will frighten some long after the locomotive is out of sight and hearing.

How to Avoid Dyspepsia.

All dyspeptics should avoid anything which they (not others) cannot digest There are so many causes for and forms of dyspepsia that it is impossible to perscribe one and the same diet for aIL Nothing is more disagreeable or useless than to be cautioned against eating this and that because your neighbor “so-and-so” cannot eat such things. If we would all study the nature and digestion ol food, and remember that air and exercise are as essential as food in promoting good health, we could easily decide upon the diet best suited to our individual needs. The diabetic should abstain from sugar and anything that is converted into sugar in digestion, such as all starchy foodß, sweet omelets, custards, jellies, sweet sauces, starchy nuts, wine and liquors. The corpulent should abstain from fat a 3 well as sugar and starch. A diet of whole wheat, milk, vegetables, ruita and lean meat will produce only a normal amount of fatness, wnile an excess of acids, sweets, spices, and shortening keeps the system in atr healthful condition. Those who can digest fine flour, pastry, sugar and fats become loaded with fat, but are neither strong nor vigorous. Thin people with weak digestion should also avoid such food; for thin people are often kept thin by the same food which makes ‘Albers f at jf th e y cannot digest the smirch, butter and flue flour, the system is kept in a feverish, dyspeptic state; they become nervous or go into consumption for no other reason than that the life is burned out by a diet which only feeds the fire and does not renew the tissues. Men die their graves with their teeth; not only by drinking whisky and using tobacco, but bv % eating food loaded down with inflammatory materials.— N. Y. Ledger.

A Nest of Alligator Eggs.

I was walking through some thick paimettoes bordering a Cyprus swamp, and came across a curious, conical pile of earth and sticks; it was about 3 feet in height and the same in diameter at its base. I dug into it at once, believing it to be an alligator's nest, and unearthed twenty eggs. They were pure white, and about the sizeol goose eggs, but somewhat different in shape, both ends being rounded alike. Wishing to see if they would hatch out I carried them home and pluced them in a pile of earth and sticks resembling the genuine nest Around it I built a pen of boards, so tbe young could not get away should the eggs hatch. Inside the pen a trough containing water was placed, sunk level with the ground. One morning, about three weeks after, I visited the nest and was pleased to hear a number of small voices; there on the top of the nest and in the trough of water, were several little ’gators, not over 5 inches in length. Nearly all the eggs were finally hatched out I kept tbe little fellows about a year, and became quite attached to them. 1 could take them in my hands and caress them without any resistance on thoir part; in fact they seemed to like it When I went out to see them after being absent some time, they would come crawling up tc . the side of tbe pen at my oalL 1 never knew them to eat a particle of. any* thing during tbe tine that I kepi them. I finally put them in a swamp tn shift fny thomaftlVftft. ' ■---* -V ,- - I

H THE THREE LESSONS. - .... ' • ' Have Hope. Though clouds environ now, And gladness hides her face in soorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow— No night but hath its morn. Have Faith. Where’er thy bark in driven— The calm’s disport, the tempest’s mirth— Know this ;; -God rules the host of heaven, The inhabitants of earth. Have Love. Not alone for one, But man as man thy brother call. And scatter like the circling sun Thy charities on all.

THE QUEEN WINS.

The bastille had not yet fallen. The thoughtless youth of the French aristocracy still danced through the saloons of the royal castles. Maurepas still reigned prime minister —that same ririend of humanity who made the compassionate decision concerning the people’s welfare: “Why build hospitals. Can not people die on the roads if they like?” This evening Maurepas had the honor of being permitted to lead the beautiful Marie Antoinette to the cardtable, but, complaining of a severe headache as they passed through the saloon, the good queen excused him from further attendance that the pain might not be increased. As he was hastening back through the antechamber to the dancing ball, where the king wSs taking his coffee, be perceived beneath the gobelin tapestry of theiamous Louvois. window a man in citizens’ dress, who regarded him expectantly and bowed low before him. “It is all right, DumoneL” whispered the asthmatic old man; "this evening his majesty will taste of it.” And he forthwith thrilled out one of his hundred madrigals, which, in truth, were tame enough, but which his flatterers found very witty. In the royal apartment he saw just then Louis XVI. take from a sugar basin two delicately broken lumps of sugar and sweeten his coffee with them. As the king took a mouthful of the coffee the ministerial friend of the people approached and asked respectfully: “How does your majesty find the coffee this evening?” *

“As usual, excellent.” “The best mocha is always upon your majesty’s table; but does the sugar sufficiently moderate the bitterness of the coffee?” Louis XYI. was sensitive to mockery and and irony even to timidity; therefore he said inquiringly: “What do you mean by that." Maurepas laughed. “Your majesty, permit me one question. How much, sire, do you think these two pieces of sugar cost?” The king looked uneasy. “Do you wish to test my mathematical ability?” Maurepas continued to laugh. “Well, then, I will answer your problem: Sugar costs the people about 80 sous a pound. If I reckon eighty pieces to the pound it makes a sou for each piece; but since to me as king everything is quadrupled, I have this evening consumed 8 sous’ worth of sugar.” “This sugar is the gift of one of your subjects, who counts himself happy that it is considered worthy of a place on your majesty’s table; therefore it costs you nothing, sire, but the giver values every piece at a full Louis d’or.” “You are beside yourself M. de Maurepas. Eighty Louis d’ or for a pound of sugar! At that rate I should be' compelled to sell Rambouillet to supply my brother with sugar for a year, for you know he takes a handful to every cup. But explain to me your jesL” “In a moment, your majesty.” And he took the sugar-basin and emptied the contents upon the marble table and counted the pieces. “Forty-three, with the ones used forty-five, worth 1,080 francs;'but look, your majesty, what dazzling whiteness and how light ritrbrgnd how sWeeL witfaout anjrbitter after-t ste.” said Louis, interrupting his babble, “is sugar ever bitter?” “And your majesty will never guess from what this sugar is made.” The king was not without some knowledge of chemistry, therefore he answered hesitatingly: “Naturally from the sugarcane.” “Pardon me. your majesty, it is beet-root sugar.” “Beet-root! What is beet-root?” The duchess of Chartreuse, who was listening, drew near and said: “Beets, sire, are little red leaves, of which my servants make salad.”

M. de Maurepas cut off her explanation with a malicious laugh. “Beets are edible roots, which people a 3 well as cattle find palatable, and now they h;ive been found to yield sugar.” Respect kept the brilliant company out of hearing distance, "and they watched eagerly the strange proceedings. All this examining, weighing, and counting of the sugar tossed up the court gossip among them like a bright soap-bubble. Who first whispered it: "The king has been poisoned by a cup of coffee?” “Heaven forbid! And we have drunk the same coffee!” “No, not the coffee—it was the sugar.” “Some one go tell the queen !” So whispered, murmured, and chattered the excluded circle. Marie Antoinette sat with the duchess of Polignac, her tenderly loved friend, at cards. "What ails you. Agatha?” asked she kindly, as the favorite sighed. Agniha de Polignac raised her roguish brown head and said, saucily. “Three millions, my, adored queen!” “Sigh not, my angel; I will beg Louis to grant them to you. We owe it to.tbe great families.” Tbe designing princess,, lifted the queen’s lace sleeve to her red lips, whispered gratefully, “Oh. that I might be permitted to die (or my beloved queen!” "Live for me. you dear child, and, my word for it. I will provide the 3,000,000. for which you will be willing to live” At this moment a courtier approached and broke to them the dreadful tidings: “His majesty has been poisoned by Mr dv-MBurepss with 'Hagan* 1 ""*•s*™" A moment later the queen, white to the very lips, stood beside ber husband. .. . **For heaven's sake, Louis!” cried

she in her distress, unmindful of all ceremony. “What is the matter, my queen asked Louis in the gentle way which he had never abandoned toward his beloved wife. “What brought you to me? You are very pale.” He seized a glass of ■ water, poured some of the newly discovered 9iigar In It, and handed her the glass.” “Drink. It is too warm in the saloon and the company is too exciting. This sugar water will refresh you.” . The queen cast a penetrating glance at Maurepas. who now fully understood what he had only half heard. With a quick movement he took the glass from the king's hand and drained it at a draught Red with auger the king demanded an explanation of this insolence, but Marie Antoinette offered the minister her hand aqd was about to explain to the king when suddenly the broad leaves of the great door flew open and the palaoe guard led in a man quite up to the feet of the king. Tne terrified appearance of the prisoner, his coarse coat, the brown waist-coat and pantaloons, the broad, clumsy shoes with leaden buckles, contrasted strangely with the gay silken attire, the gilded hangings, the laces and diamonds of the surroundings. “What does this mean?” asked the king astonished. “Permit me. your majesty, to bring this man before you, who understands how to make sugar out of vegetables. Dumoret is trying to ruin our colonies and make them -useless to us. This is the discoverer of beet sugar. “Discoverer? No, that honor does not belong to me,” exclaimed the Chemist DumoneL “It was a learned Maj. Serre, who, during the regency, deceived by the beautiful red color the beet gives out in cookiog, fancied he could make red wine out of it. Instead of the desired wine he found the bottom of his retort covered with fine sugar. At that time France was nch in colonies on the Mississippi, therefore no one paid any heed to the discovery. Ndr was it fully developed. I learned abroad in Prussia, new improvements, expended my small possessions to test it, atid I hope I have succeeded.” “It is not a poison, then?” cried Marie Antoinette, meaningly. The king for the first time understood what had preceded, and discovered also that the chemist was bound. At a sign the bond was cut and the guard left the room without DumoneL Meanwhile the queen bravely took a piece of sugar in her lovely mouth. That was a signal for the young courtiers to rush upon the before distrusted sugar, vieing with each other to exhibit their courage, their devotion through this harmless poison. “Gently, my ladies, my lords,” cried Maurepas, “every little piece of that sugar cost a golden louis.” “But the sugar is not one bit better than our ordinary sugar,” remonstrated the queen, “and it is only a curiosity leading to ruin.” Dumonet dropped bn one knee. 1 “Your majesty is in a measure correcL Experimenting in small way, at the same expense as a great trade, naturally makes this sample excessively dear; but if your majesty will advance me two millions for the development of larger facilities for manufacture I shall be able to furnish a pound of sug r for 10 sons instead of 4 francs.” The king recoiled in voluntarily, and Marie Antoinette grasped her famousnecklace, which had co3t two millions,, as if the plain man before her had been a robber. Her disapproving glance gave direction to the king’s answer. “Dr. Dumonet, I honor enterprise;accept this snuff-box as a recognitionof it. But two millions the state can not possibly lend you. That is too much money for the exhausted exchequer.” Dumonet received the gift respectJuily. "Sire, sooner or later my enterprise will find the money.” The whole shalloy, subservient swarm of courtierlings cried out an excited echo to the royal words: “Two millions for sugar! Two millions! The man should be in a mad-house! How can any one be so shameless? Just as if it were not all the same whether one pay 10 sous or 4 francs for a pound of sugar: And if any can’t pay it let him take his food unsweetened. What has the government to do with that?” And so Dumonet was dismissed. He had only need 1,000,000; the second was the price demanded by the minister for the introduction. This evening Maurepas composed the only good verse of his life, which, translated, runs somewhat thus: “Altho’ bis life to sweeten Is all bis royal care, Two million francs for sngar The king finds rather dear.”The furor which his wit created at the court consoled him somewhat for the lost 1,000,000, and wa* it not all the same whether at his death there should be a deficit of one paltry million more or less? He lefL In facL a round 10,000,000 in debts. It was a noble sum; nine would not have sounded so impressive. > Dumonet migrated to Belgium, where he found more appreciation, and lived, safe and respected, while the revolution storm swept over his unhappy fatherlaod. “Who laughs last,” etc. • * * * • * • "And my queen would have died with meT' asked Louis, as he accompanied her to their chamber that night* She wfw so beautiful, so dainty: In her wonderful eyes Beamed tiff reflection of loving tears. The nexl morning the king granted 3.500,00( out of the state coffers to the “unfortunate” duchess of Polignac.—From the French.

A Practical Illustration.

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