Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1890 — Page 3

WATERS OF MEROM.

1 JTHE FIELD WHERE JOBHUA TRIUMPHED. San Bklti at Noon la the Career of the 'Wicked. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn and New York Sunday and Sunday Text: Joshua ii, 5. He said: j We are encamped to-night in Palestine by the waters of JMerom. After a long march we hare found our tents pitched, our fires kindled, and, though |far away from civilization, a variety ■of food that would not compromise a first-class American hotel, for the most k»f our caravan starts an hour and a half earlier in the morning. We detain only two mules, carrying so much tof our baggage as we might accident* ally need and a tent for the noonday luncheon. r The malarias around this lake Merom are so poisonous that at any other season of the year encampment here is perilous; but this winter night the air is tonio and healthful. In this neighborhood Joshua fought his last gqpat battle, The nations had banded themselves together to crush this Joshua, but along the banks of these waters Joshua left their carcasses. Indeed, It is time that we more minutely examine this Joshua, of whom we have In these discourses caught only a momentary glimpse, although he crossed and recrossed Palestine, and, next to Jesus, is the most Btirring and mighty character whose foot ever touched the Holy Land. The snows of Mount Lebanon had just been melting and they poured down into the valley, and the whole valley was a raging torrent. So the Canaanites stand on one bank and they look across and see Joshua and the Israelites, and they laugh and say: “Aha! Aha! they cannot disturb us in time, until the freshets fall;-it is impossible for them to reach usT” BuF after a while they look across the water and see a movement in the army of Joshua. They say, ‘‘What’s the matter now? Why, there must be a panic among these troops and they are going to fly, or perhaps they are going to try to cross the river Jordan. Joshua is a lunatic.” But Joshua the chieftan looks at his army and cries: “Forward march!” and they stirt for the bank of the Jordan, One mile ahead go two priests carrying a glittering box four feet long and two feet wide. It is the ark of tho covenant. And they come down, and no sooner do they just touch the rim of the water with their feet than by an almighty flat Jordan parts. The army of Joshua marches right on without getting their . loet wet over the bottom of the river, a path of chalk and broken shells and pebbles, until they get to the other, bank. Then they lay hold of the oleanders and tamarasks and willows and (>ull themselves up a bank thirty or orty feet high, and they clap their shields and their cymbals and sing the praises of the God of Joshua. But no sooner have they reached the bank Ihrn the waters begin to dash and rear, and with a terrific rush they break loose from their strange anchorage. ■, Dut yonder they have stopped, thirty tniles of distance they have halted, On this side the waters roll off toward ihe salt sea. But as the hand of the Lord God is taken away from the uplifted waters, perhaps uplifted half a mile, those waters rush down, and some Of the Israelites say: “Alas! alas! what a misfortune! Why could those waters not have stayed parted, because perhaps we may want to go back. Oh, Lord! we are engaged in a risky business. Those Canaanites may eat us up. How if we want to go back? Would’t it have been a greater miracle If the Lord had parted the waters to let us come through, and kept them open to let us go back if we are defeated?” My friends, God makes no provisions for a Christian’s retreat. He blears the piath all The way to danaari- To go back is to die. The same gatekeepers that swing back the amethystine and crystalline gate of the lordan to lot Israel pass through now Swing shut the amethystine and crystalline gate of the Jordan to keep the Israelites from going back. I declare It iu your hearing to-day: victory ahead, water thirty feet deep in the rear. Triumph ahead, Canaan ahead; behind you death and darkness and woo.and hell. But you say: “Why didn’t those Canaanites, when they had such a splendid chance—standing an the top of the bank thirty or forty feet high, completely demolish the poor Israelites down in the river?” I will tell you why, God had made a promise, and he was going to keep it I‘Tnere shall not be any man able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.”

Cut this is no plaoe for the host to stop. Joshua gives the command, “Fo/ward, march!" In the distance th-re Is a long grove of trees, and at Ihe end of the grove there is a city. It is a city of arbors, a city with walls seeming to reach to the heavens, to buttress the very sky. It is the great metupolia that commands th 3 mountain pass. It is Jericho. There shall be no swords.no shields, no battering rams. There shall be only one weapon of war, and that a! ram's horn. The horn of the slain i ram was sometimes taken and holes j were puncturod in it. and then the musician would put the instrument to his lips, and he would run his fingers over this rude musical instrument and make a groat deal of sweet harmony for the ! people. That was the only kind of| weapon. Seven priests were to take’ these rude, rustic musical instruments and they wore to go around the city ' evo-y day for six days—once a! day for ■ six days; and then on tha seventh day they wore to go around blowing these ! rude uuieical instruments seven times. ! and thear at the close of the seventh blowing O' the rams’ horns on the seventh day the peroration of the

whole scene was to be a shout, at which those great walls should tumble from capstone to base. The seven priests with the rude musical instruments pass all around the city walls bn the first day, and a failure. Not so tnaehas a piece of plaster broke loose from the wall—not so much as a loosened rock, not so much as a piece of mortar lost from its place. “There,” say the unbelieving Israelites, “didn’t I tell you so? Why, those ministers are fools. The idea of going around the city with those musical instrumeats and expecting in that way to destroy it! Joshua has been spoiled; he thinks because be has overthrown and destroyed the spring freshet he can overthrow the stone wail. Why, it is not philosophic. Don’t yop sec there is ( norelation betweentheblowing of these musical instruments and the knocking down of the wall? It Isn’t philosophy.” The second day the priests blowing the musical instruments go around the city, and a failure. Third day, and a failure; fourth day, and a failure; fifth day, and a failure; sixth day, and a failure, The seventh day comes, the climacteric day. Joshua is up early in the morning and examines the troops, walks all around about, looks at the city wall. The priests start to make the circuit of the city. They go all around once, all around twice, three times, four times, five, six times, and a failure.

There is only one more thing to do, and that is to utter a great shout. I see the Israelitish army straightening themselves up, filling their lungs for a vociferation such as was never heard before and never heard after. Joshua feels that the hour has come, and he cries out to his host; “Shout; for the Lord hath given you the city!" All the people begin to cry: “Down, Jeriicho! Down. Jericho!” and the long line of solid masonry begins to quiver and to move aQd to rock. Stand from under! She falls! Crash go the walls. the temples, the towers, the palaces; the air blackened with the dust.

But Joshua’s troops may not halt hero. The command is. ’'Forward, inarch!” There is the city of Ai: it must be taken. How shall it be taken? A scouting party comes back and says: ♦•Joshua we can do that without you; it is going to be a very easy job; you just stay hero while we go and capture it.” They march with a small regiment in front of that city. The men of Ai look at them and give one yell, and the Israelites run like reindeer. The Northern troops at Bull Run did not make such rapid time as these Israelites with the Canaanites after them. They never cut such a sorry figure as when they were on the retreat, Anybody that goes out in the battles of God with only half a force, instead of your taking the men of Ai. the men of Ai will take you. Look at the Church of God on the retreat. Theßorneslan cannibals ate up Munson, the missionary. “Fall back!” said a great many Christian people. “Fall back, O Church of God! Borneo will never be taken. Don’t you see the Bomesian cannibals have eaten up Munson, the missionary?” Joshua falls on his face and begins to whine, and he says, “Oh, Lord God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us? Would to God we had been contont and dwelt on the other side of Jordan! For tbe Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round and cut off our name from the earth.” God comes and rouses him. How does ho rouse him? By complimentary apostrophe? No. He says. “Get the up. Wherefore liest thou upon thy face?” Joshua rises, and I warrant you with a mortified look. But his old courage comes back. The fact was, that was not his battle. If he had been in it he would have gone on to viotory, and says: “Now let us go up and capture the city of Ai: let us go up right away.” They march on. He puts the majority Of the troops behind a ledge of rocks in the night, and then he sends eomparatively small regiments up in front of the city. The men of Ai come out with a shout. The small regiments of Israelites in stratagem fall baok and fall back, and when all the men of Ai have left the city and are in pursuit of these scattered, or seemingly scattered regiments, Joshua stands on a rock—l see his locks flying in the wind as he points his spear toward the (doomed city, and that is the signal. The men rush out from behind the rocks and take the city, and it Is put to the torch, and then these Israelites return, and between these two waves of Israelitish prowess men of Ai are destroyed and the Israelites gain the victory. But this is no place for tho host of Joshua to stop. “Forward march!” cries Joshua to the troops. There is the city of Gibou. On the morning of the third dav he is before tbe enemy. There are two long lines of battle. The battle opens with groat slaughter, but tbe Canaanites soon disoover something. They say: “That is Joshua: that is tbe man who conquered the spring freshet, and knocked down the stone wall and destroyed sia city of Ai. There is no use fighting.” And they sound a retreat, and as they begin to retreat Joshua and his host spring upon them like a panther, pursuing them Over the rocks, and as these Canaanites, with sprained ankles and gashed foreheads, retreat, the catapults of tho Bky pour a volley of haii-stones L into the valley and all the artillery of the heavens with bullets of iron pound the Canaanites against the ledges of Beth-horon. • •Oh!” says Joshua, “thisis surely a “But do you not see the sun going down? Those Amorites are going to get away after all, and then they will come up some other time and

bother, us, and perhaps destroy us." See the sun is going down. Oh for a longer day than has ever been seen in this climate! Wh&t is the matter with Joshua? Has he fallen in an apoplectic fit? No. He Is in prayer. Lookout when a good man makes the Lord his ally. Joshua raises his face. Radiant with prayer, and looks at the deoending sun over Gibeon and at the faint orescent of the moon, for yoq know the queen of the night sometimes wiH linger around the palaces of the day. Pointing one hand at the descending sun and the other hand at the faint crescent of the moon, in the name of that. God who shaped the worlds and moves the worlds,he cries: ‘‘Sun stand thou still upon Gibeon and thou moon, in the valley of Ajalon.” They halted it wa9 by refraction of the sun’s rays, or by the stopping of the whole planetary system, I do not know, and Ido not care. 1 leave it to the Christian Scientists and the infidel Sciences to settle that question. Massillon preached the funeral sermon over Louis XVI. Who will preaehed the funeral sermon of those five dead kings, King of Jerusalem, King of Hebron,' King of Jarmutk, King of Lachish, King of Eglon? Let it be by Joshua. What shall be the epitaph put on the door of tho tomb? “There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.”

But before you fasten up the door I want five more kings beheaded and thrust in—King Alcohol, King Fraud, King Lust, King Superstition, King Infidelity. Let them be beheaded and hurl them in. Then fasten up the door forever. What shall the inscription and what shall the epitaph be? For all Christian philanthropists of all ages are going to come and look at it. What shall the incription be? “There shall not any man be able to stand Before thee all the days of thy lifer.” . But it is time for Joshua.to go h ome. He is 110 years old. Washington went down the Potomac and at Mt. Vernon closed his days. Wellington died peacefully at Apsley House. Now, where shall Joshua rest? Why. he is to have his greatest battle now. After 110 years he has to meet a King who has more subjects than all the present population of the earth, his throne a pyramid of skulls, bis parterre the the grave-yards and the cemeteries of the world, his chariot the world’s hearse--the king of terrors. But if this is Joshua’s greatest battle, it is going to bo J oshua’s greatest) victory. He gathers his friends around him and gives his valedictory and it is full of reminiscence. Young men tell what they are going to do; old men tell what they have done. And yefc you have heard a grandfather or greatgrandfather, seated by the evening fire, tell of Monmouth or Yorkstown, and then lift the crutch or staff as though it were a musket, to fight and show how the old battles were won, so Joshua gathered his friends around his dying couch, and he tells them the story of oyhat he has been through, and as he lies there, his white locks snowing down on his wrinkled forehead, I wonder if God has kept His promise all the way through. As he lies there he tells the story one, two or three times, you have heard old people tell a story two or three times over, and he answers: “I go the way of all the earth, andnot one WQrdofthe promise has failed, riot one word thereof has failed.” And he turns to his family, as a dying parent will, and says: “Choose now whom ye will serve, the God of Israel, or the God of the Amorites. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” A dying man can not be reckless or thoughtless in regard to his ohildren. Consent to part with them at the door of the tomb we can not. By the cradle in which their infancy was rocked, by the hQaomuQnjgJbifihJjmY.Jk.6t lay, by the blood of the covenant, by the Cod of Joshua, it shall not be. We will not part. Jehovah Jireh. we take thee at thy promise. “I will be a God to thee and thy seed after thee.” Dead, tho old chief t ain must be laic out. Handle him very gently. That sacred body is over 110 years of age. Lay him out—stretch out those feet that walked dry-shod the parted Jordan. Close those lips which helped blow the blast at which the walls of Jorieho fell. Fold the arm that lifted the spear toward the doomed oity of Ai. Fold it right over the heart that exulted when the five kings fell. But where shall we get the burnished granite for the headstone and the footstone? 1 bethink myself now. I imagine that for the head it shall bo the sun that stood still upon Gibeon, aod for the foot, the moon that stood still in the Valley of Ajalon.

What She Said.

He was a San Franciscan In th« played-out city of London, says th< Fan Francisco Chronicle. He came from the west, where he had developed that Independence and self-reliance which, combined with good looks and S2O gold pieces'mado a man superior to all Europe. He strolled with graceful dignity into a gilded bar, over wnich preBided a divinity of superb physical form, but still a woman, with that air which only an English barmaid can possibly put on—an air of mingledponceit, pride, coquetry, and iiumility. She awaited his order. He was dressed in the latest fashion. He threw the lapel of hiß coat bick with a proud gesture, and fixing his fascinating evt on the bar beauty he said: “Tell me, my pretty maid, what car, you suggest for a man who ate a Welch rabbit last night and does pot fee! well this morning?” She did not smile; she did not ap p©ar to be affected by the appearand of his swelling dhfest or wicked, eye she simply said: “Why didn’t you heat two Welot ribbits. and let *em chase head: , bother?” . ■

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

Many railroads in Scotland are tiod up because of a strike of employes. Masked men robbed the conductor of a freight train on the P., D. & E. railroad near Quincy, IIL “Bee” Eubanks, wbo, with his father, at Mitchell, murdered bis sister, was sentenced to the penitentiary, on the 23d, for life on a plea of guilty. The publio schools of Laporte were closed, Monday, by order of the Board of Health, owing to the poor sanitary ’ condl tioos of the buildings. A suit for SIO,OOO has been entered b Thoa. T. Ward against the MOnon railway because the train would not stop in order to let him off at Raub’s station, and he, in Jumping off, received injuries that will cripple him for life. There has been a great hustle to get land In the newly-opened publio strip. The most valuable claim of all has 2,000,000 feet of standing pine upon it. It was entered by Louis Goth, the first man in line, and is worth from ten to fifteen thousand dollars. The vote of the Methodist churches in the Northwest Indiana Conference on the question of admitting women to the General Conference has been summarized. Out of a membership of 31,032, only 5,400 votes were cast. Of these, 4,037 favored the proposition, while 3,674 were in the negative. Benjamin Shaffer started to transfer * load of new furniture to Sellersburg on the 20th, and while driving along he at • tempted to light his pipe. The ignited top of the match broke off and communicated fire to the furniture, and before Shaffer could release the horses they were badly burned, and his own beard and eyebrows were singed. The wagon and furniture were a complete loss. The consolidation of zylonite and celluloid companies has finally been effected and Monday the Celluloid Company, embracing all the zylonite works of the country, was organized with a capital of $6,000,000 in the town of Zylonite. This is a big trust, it is claimed, and may lead to the shutting down of the Pittsfield factories. The officers of the company, most of them New Jeasey "capitalists, are: President, Marshall C. Leffert; Vice President, John A. Brarstow; Secretary, J. M. Cooke; Treasurer, F. R. Leffert.

ON THE FRONTIER.

Slight Skirmish*'* Only Slake Vp the Pres «nt Indian War, A special from Hart’s ranch, near the Bad Lands, says: Monday night news was brought in that the grangers on the coal draw, near Battle Creek, killed an Indian as he with others was trying to set lire to a ranch belonging to a man named Ibotnp. son. This report was verified Tuesday morning. About one hundred and seventy | Indians from the Cheyenne agency are ' known to be coming to Short Bull and Kicking Bear’s people in the Bad Lands. Gen. Carr’s, Col. Sumner’s ind other large forces are now out to intercept them before they reach the Bad Lands, and a report of their cap. ture is momentarily expected. Should they make any resistance a sigh will take place. It is reported that there are about 500 Indians nearing the hostile camp who are going to make a strong effort to bring them in, but do success is expected from this move. Hump and Big Foot, of the Cheyenne river Indians, are gone into their agency, so as no assistance can be expected from them. Should these Indians from the north succeed in slipping through the cordon established around the hostiles and go into the Bad Lands, an effort will be made to keep them there. It is certain that there are now enough troops around the Indians to compel their absolute surrender. Two companies of the Seventeenth lufantry, comprising over one hundred men, reported to Gen. Carr on also forty-six Cheyenne In’ dian scouts reported, which now brings the strength of thi3 command up to over seven hundred men. A (decisive movement 6f some kind or another, with a skirmish with these Indians, is momentarily bx pec ted. Dispatches to Gen. Miles from Col. Sumner show that nearly all of Sitting Bull’s followers, together with Big Foot’s band, have surrendered to him. Col. Sumner in a dispatch says this disposes of all the Indians along the Cheyenne river, and if there are any more of Sitting Bull’s people out, he does not know where they can be. Gen. Brooke reports the arrival of friendly Indians at the Bad Lands camp and says tbe capture of Sitting Bull's people and Big Foot’s forces will aid the efforts of the friendlies to bring in" the bostiles. An Indian scout reports to GenBrooke that Short Bull’s followers are anxious to come ;n, but are withheld by the threats of Kicking Bear, one of Sitting Bull’s agents. The scout thinks, however, that the friendlies will at last succeed in briugingout Short Bull’s followers.

A NEW PARTY.

Kansas Knights of Iteßtproclty Are Organ ring. The new secret political organization recently referred toby the press at largo, known as the “Knights of Reciprocity," is about to form a State body by organizing a grand lodge for the State of Kansas. Numbers of prominent members of the order are now at Garden City in obedience to an order promulgated by the Supreme Judge of the Supreme Lodge of the United States and founder of the new order, who called a meeting of tho chief justices of subordinate lodges of the State to meet there Monday, for 'the purpose of establishing a State lodge. A sufficient number of chief justices are present, representing subordinate lodges recently organized m tho State. All the preliminaries of the meeting have been arranged for and the session will be brief. The meeting is strictly secret and no details will be given out for publication. Numerous applications are being leceived by the Supreme officers for dispensations to organize new lodges throughout the United States, and all indications point to a rapid growth of the order.

A HIGH OLD IRISH TIME.

Irishmen ▼«, Irishmen—Parnell Blinded— Dante ;lnjared. The Parnellites and anti-Parnellites both held meetings at Ballinakill on the 16th, and it was not a very quiet affair. There were elubs and bricks freely used. Davitt was injured, and many followers of both ‘factions carried off broken heads. The attempts to speak were almost futile, the bearers preferring to exercise muscular force. After the Ballinakill meeting Mr. Parnell and his friends drove to Castle Comer, Mr. Davitt and Dr. Tanner following in their wake. At Castle Comer Messrs. Davitt and Tanner addressed an open air assemblage, dilating upon the incidents at Ballinakill, and asserting that Mr. Parnell brought a hired mob there to attack them. Just then the carriages containing the Parnellites passed through the crowu, which hooted and pelted them with mud and stones. Wm. Redmond appearing on the edge of the crowd. Mr. Davitt sent him a message saying that if Parnell would agree to stand beside him and deliver a speech Mr. Davitt would reply to it and would guarantee Parnell a quiet hearing. Redmond bore the Message to Parnell, who instantly replied: “I am not in a position to treat, lam only in spo sitionto fight.” The Parnelli tes cheered their approval. 1 Mr, Purnell afterward spoke to a small meeting. He said he valued them not by their numbers, but by their quality. He jvas not accustomed to face a crowd o f ignoraut fools; he preferred a crowd of patriotic Irishmen. He was not afraid of being in the minority, but he knew that when the voice of Kilkenny spoke he would not be in the minority. He did not wish to assail men that had stood by his side many a long day, but he was not going to ask permission to speak fram a cocksparrow like Tanner or a jackdaw like Davitt. While other Parnellites were addressing the crowd a number of Davitt’s followers got together and began hooting at the speakers. The Parnellites closed around the vehicle from which their orators were" addressing the people, and the police appeared and tried to divide the factions. The meeting ended in a scene of wild confusion, and Parnell and his friends drove off amid a shower of stones and mud. Frequent attempts to assail members of the party were made, and several bags filled with lime were thrown at them. Mr, Harrington’s shoulders were covered with lime, and a mass of lime struck Mr. Parnell full in the face, completely blinding him. This insult infuriated Mr. Parnell’s friend’s. Mr. Harrington turned, and advancing toward Father Downey, who was at the head of Mr. Parnell’s opponents, shouted: “Coward, you are a disgrace to your church.”

The police here again Interfered, and Mr. Parnell’s party, who had left their car, again took their S9ata and finally got away on to the road. Mr. Parnell’s eyes, which were quite closed, were intensely painful. He was soon obliged to stop his carriage, wbieb be left and entered a laborer’s cabin in a fainting condition. A local doctor attended him. The lime had become caked beneath his eyelids, and the doctor was only able to remove some of it by using a silk handkerchief and some hair which he found in the cabin. Mr. Parnell was finally advised by the doctor to drive immediately to Kilkenny, so the latter again entered his carriage and proceeded on his journey. But the pain again became so intense that a second halt was ordered, this time at a roadside public house, where the doctor made further efforts to relieve the terrible pain which Mr. Parnell was suffering. The doctor was able at this place to procure a quantity of castor oil, which he poured freely into Mr. Parnell’s eyes. He then tried to scrape off some more of the lime, using for this purpose the point of an ordinary lead pencil. The lime, however, had become incrusted inside the eye-lids and the doctor, with the crude implements at hand, was only able to remove the torturing substance slowly and with much difficulty. The doctor apologized to Mr. Parnell for causine him so much pain, but said it-was unavoidable, Mr. Parnell replied: “Never mind the Do your best: don’t let me loose my sight.” The doctor poured more oil into Mr. Parnell’s eyes and said he hoped that the case was not as bad as that. Finding that he was unable to remove all the lime tho doctor urged Mr, Parnell to drive with all speed to the town and this was done. Arriving at the Victoria hotel Mr. Parnell had to be led from the wagonette to his room. He reclined in an arm-chair, apparently sightless, and suffering the most intense agony. He still remains in the hands of his doctor. Surgeon Hackett, who attended Mr. Parnell along the road, stated at a late hour Tuesday night that all the lime had been removed, but that the patient was still suffering intensely. He did not anticipate from present appearances permanent injury to Mr. Parnell’s sight.

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, December 81 1890. ohain. j Wheat. Corn. Oats. Kyeindw»"f * ;;j » {»“ »•« Chicago 2 r ’d ul 62 42 —£j— Cincinnati j 2 r’d 97 52 *7 8t.L0ui5...—...' 2 r ’d 95% 49 43 New York 2 r'dlol>J «3 49% Baltimore— 94% 58, 53 Philadelphia. 2 r’d 98 51 50}. Clover^ T01ed0.... 51% 47 407 Detroit •. Iwh 98 ,52 45 ........... Minneapolis : 94 ..... — Louisville...... LIVE STOCK Cattle— Export grades..., $1.40 £4.75 Good to Choice shippers 4.U),tj4..0 Common to medium shippers btoexers. aOO to 850 lb ’.... 1.7.Kaj2.40 Good to choice heifers a.tsoris3.of> Common to medium heifers.;... Good to choice c0w5............. 3.-0 h air to medium cows 1.50(32.4)0 Hoes— Heavy 3. C(g ~u Light •••••• 3.0> (a/3, !.> Mixed .a ?• i’(s 5 Heavy roughs ....... :,5 (<s . uKan up -Good to choice 4. » ; v4.») JPairto medium.................. 3. .a• ='■* ' i&A >%.: ..ys-saafet &

LIFE IN KAINTUCK.

An Artist Runs Against Some Interesting People. The longer I stay in this country the better I like it, says a Clear Creek Springs, (Ky.) letter to the Washington CapitaL Sunday I was out on the Cumber lain taking pictures and I turned my Kodak on a mountaineer in a boat. “Here, mister,” he called out, don’t turn your old Gatlin’ gun on me er I’ll throw a chunk of lead at you.” Not live minutes before that I’d been talking with a gentleman wbo has killed four or five men in his efforts to maintain a livelihood on the mountains, and I turned my Gatling gun oat to grass. Speaking of the men who did the killing their invariable answer when called on for a reason is simply, “I had to do it” That means that so met body had to die. 1 was talking the other day about a fine cow he had on his farm. “She’s the milkinest critter I ever seed milked,” he said, and. I accepted the superlative expression. I met a country school-teacher recently and he was telling me about Jiimself. “I taken a first-class certificate and thar an’t no school in this county I can’t teach,” he remarked proudly. In an examining court some time ago a young man was before the judge for stealing an ox, and a colored man, charged with assault, was next on the docket. When the first case was disposed of the judge tilted back in his chair and, waving his hand triumphantly, said to the jailer: “Remove the gentleman charged with stealing a steer and fetch in that nigger.” I had a seat within the bar at the time on fk hickory-bottomed chair, and I rather think his honor wanted to impress me. Whether he did or not, he did just the same. I have just heard an old story on the famous orator and wit, Tom Marshall, which I think will bear repeating, although it may be a chestnut During one of Tom’s campaigns he was opposed by a man whose father was a « cooper, and the man was making all of the capital out of it possible to offset the aristocratic Marshall. They spoke from the same platform one day—the cooper’s son making the first speech, and harping as usual on the same old subject When he had finished Tom got up. “Ladies and gentlemen, fellow-citizens.” he said, “my opponent’s father was, as he says, a cooper, and he was a good cooper, fori knew him; but ladies and gentlemen,” he continued, pointing to his opponent, “he put a mighty poor head in that keg there.” As might have been expected the cooper’s son was bunged up completely.

A Novel and Cheap Elevator.

A Berlin inventor has devised a «lnypie and inexpensive elevator for private dwelling's, in place of the ordinary staircase, which may suggest to some inventor a better means of accomplishing tne same object. The Berlin invention is on the same principle of the inclined railway, and the motivq power is the city water which is applied in the cellar; each flight, has its separate chair, so that for example, one can ascend from the first to the second story while another is on his way from the second to the third, or still another is descending from the fifth to the fourth. 'I he chair being only of the width of the human body, leaves a free passage for any one who wishes to walk up or down instead of riding. It is set in motion by a simple pressure of one of its arms, and after it has been used it slides back to the bottom step, its descent being regulated in such a manner that the passenger is carried with entire safety. The motive power is, of course, more or less expensive, according to the cost of water, this being, it is stated, at the rate of a little more than one-tenth of a cent puly for each trip.—Scientific American.

In a Texas School.

Yaleßeeord. Small Boy (holding up his band) — What's B. C. hitched onter them dates in Greek history mean? Teacher (a trifle confused)—Well-er-Samie, you see them old Greeks* were queer kind of creeters, so whin, they didn’t know a date for sart’.n, they put B. C., “bout correct,” a* ter the numbers. In a lecture delivered the ether day by H. H. Johnston, in Engl.-ud, on his recent trip to Africa, he threw on * re screen a photograph of Mrs. Liviujston's grave, embowered *n a mass of beautiful foliage. He made the rloture during his recent trip on the Zambesi. The remains of this fatuous woman. one of the few white ladies whese bodies now rest in savage Africa, are in a grave which is most conspicuous from the Zambesi, because it is shader-, by a very large and stately tree. Soma natives who live near tlio place keep the grave in good order, for which* they are rewarded now aud ihoa by white travelers who coot* list way. Mrs. Livirgktow died while mg her great ’>u.bat*l on tion du'fog vkich he tewwwod hoko Nyassa. One of the three daughters of «w*n D. Rockereller, while a student at vksar, bad a handsome allowance in the way of money from home. Instead of spending this on rich gowns and apartments she paid for two years the tuition and expenses of a girl from thu country who was not able to pay for them herself. A bashful young man of Wellavflle, N. Y. f offers ass silk umbrella to the young lady sending the best proposal of marriage. Points to be considered are composition, spelling, writing, brevity, and reasons for wishing to be married. Maiden ladies over 75 end ■ barred out.