Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1894 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. Gbore E. Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER - INDIANA

‘‘A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. He soweth discord. Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.” • The foreign exhibits in bond at Jackson Park during the World’s Fair arc being slowly released and removed. Only cne-thinNof this class of exhibits as yet has been taken away, and It is estimated that all can not, at the present rate of release, be removed before May 1. Archibald Arrington Henderson Williams represents a North Carolina district in the Fifty-third Congress. Mr. Williams so far has not come to the front with any measures of national importance, but a man with a name like that does not need to exert himself to achieve distinction. The manufacture of smokeless powder has created a demand for camphor that has don bled the price of the drug. Women adicted to fainting will find their pet calamity more expensive in the future, and now have an additional incentive to test the reviving virtues of a cold water douche.

A widowers’ Association has been organized at Dresden on the general plan of a mutual insurance company, the object being to pay funeral expenses of deceased wives and to provide means for caring for their children when it becomes necessary. The society also extends to a bereaved husband sympathy and entertainment.

Editor Stead, now in Chicago “reforming” things, dressed himself in rags and applied, as a man-out-of work, for a job. He was given a ihovel and worked three hours on the street for his supper and bed. He has written an account of his experience with many valuable suggestions to the chairman of the Chicago relief committee. Queen Victoria is under five feet in height and almost as broad as she is long. In spite of the disadvantages of her awkward figure it is said that she is extremely agile and graceful in all her movements, pnd the courtesys that this great-grand-mother is in the habit of making on great occaslons”are-models that would be creditable in a maiden of sixteen. 1 Armour, of Chicago, makes and sells pepsin for the millions of dyspeptics in this cruel world, but has dyspepsia himself in such an aggravated form that he can eat no solid food. The great capitalist and philanthropist would doubtless be glad to exchange some of his millions for an appetitite like that which gives the average laboring man so much trouble to satisfy.

The complications resulting from the Chinese exclusion act, which have never been fully fettled, have had the effect of inciting our naval authorities to an activity never before considered necessary or practical in Chinese waters. The AriierIcan squadron in that part of the world is to be strengthened, and tho Baltimore, one of our best ships, is to be the flag ship of the fleet.

A French professor of gymnastics has perfected a device for teaching novices to swim without going into the water, thus making it possible to fulfill the conditions imposed by the old lady upon her daughter, “once upon a time.” The pupn is perched face downwards upon a sort of “shaving horse,” with supports for the limbs that make it possible to acquire a correct stroke. The machine will be adopted by the French •rmy. David, the sweet singer of Israel, got in a great hurry one day, and remarked that, to the best of his knowledge and belief, all men were prevaricators from away back. The immediate occasion of David’s wrath has not been handed down from the “dim and distant past," but the probability is that the Slayer of Goliath had just returned from a tour of the Jew clothing stores of Jerusalem during a January cut rate sale. ’Tis then the liar’s at his best and weary buyers pine for rest

Toe battleship “Illinois” will be moved from its location off Jackson Park to the lake front between Van Buren and Washington streets, Chicago, having been transferred by the United States government to the Illinois Naval Reserve. Flags, ensigns, and other paraphernalia, Hotchkiss guns and other arms, also

were a part of the gift and the organization expects to enjoy excepttional facilities for naval training when the ship is transferred to its new foundations. A suit for SIO,OOO has been brought by Mr. Smith, of Kirklin, against Liveryman Wells, of the same village. Smith alleges that Wells hired a wild and vicious horse to him, and that the animal ran away, throwing him from the buggy and breaking his leg. The result of the suit will be awaited with interest by people generally. There is no question but what liverymen should be held responsible to a certain degree for thq character of the animals furnished by them for public-use.

There is a skunk farm near Hackettstown, N. J., where a herd of two hundred of the odoriferous animals flourish and taint the atmosphere for revenue only. Skunk pelts have of late years become valuable and the bodies also are boiled down for the grease which affords an additional revenue of about fifty cents for each animal. The two acre plot where the “critters” are now confined is surrounded by a wire netting sunk to a depth of three feet and a board fence fojir feet high surrounded by an oblique board projecting inward to prevent their escape. Black skunk pelts bring the highest prices.

The hanging of the American citizen of African descent at Bardstown, Ky., January 5, was a festive occasion, but incipient symptoms of a row of large dimensions developed early in the day because of a lack of unanimity that prevailed as to the proper hour for the stage performance to take place. Admission being free, the populace of the surrounding country turned out eu masse. The country people got in early and demanded that the suspension take place at 10 a. m. so they could go home for dinner. The town people demurred, as they were determined that the people should patronize the restaurants, and the stores incidentally, and thus help business—“ Killing two birds with one stone,” so to speak. Mr. Evans, the party most interested, was not consulted, so that the hanging took place at the noon hour, and the people who were so desirous to get home in time for dinner were compelled to partake of a late repast or part with some of their cash for Bardstown refreshments. “Vanity, thy name is woman,” is a proverb the truth of which is often illustrated. Few members’ of the fair sex would care, however, to go to the extremes in pursuit of appearances that Miss Thornton, a California actress, did recently in New York, in search of a “pretty” nose. The facial protuberance that Miss Thornton had been compelled to follow through life was a veritable “thorn” in the flesh that made life a burden and fame a delusion and a snare. It was of the Roman type, not at all exaggerated, and no one would have considered it a deformity. But the ambitious actress thought otherwise, and accordingly went to the Robsevelt Hospital and gave the attendingsurgeonsa“carte blanche” to make a symmetrical’ proboscis out of the abundance of material on hand —or rather “on face.” The deed was done without serious consequences, by a skillful removal of a small portion of the bone, and the harmony of the actress’s features was fully restored, to her own satisfaction and the enrichment of the sawbones staff of the institution.

Value of New York Bank Shares.

New York Press. >» . While the Chemical National is undoubtedly the richest of New York banks, to be a stockholder in which is to have financial standing at few of the city banks that pay any dividends at all pay so little on the market price of the stock. The book value is $2,540 a share (par $100), but the last sale was at54,452J, and even though the bank pays 150 per cent, per annum in bi-monthly dividends, that amounts to only a trifle more than 3 per cent, upon the market value of the stock. The Fifth National, which has the next highest value per share among all New York banks, pays over 4 per cent. The last sale of stock was at $540 for SIOO shares, and $2,000 is now bid. Upon the investment the Fifth Avenue pays best of all, for the rate is 80 per cent, per annum, the last sale being at 625, with 2,000 now bid, amounting to 12 per cent, on the price. A flaxseed lemonade is excellent for a cold. Try a small quantity at first. To do this take a pint of water and add two small tablespoonfuls of the seed, the juice of two lemons, not using the rind, and sweeten to taste. When too pasty the mixture may be diluted with water. Always ice for drinking.

DIDN'T HALF TRY.

“The Bare Arm of God” as a Type of Omnipotent An Ua«y Tawk to Make the World but a , a Stupendous Undertaking to Reform It—Dr. Talmage's Sermon. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn, last Sunday, from the text: Isaiah iii, 10 “The Lord hath made bare His holy arm.” He said: It almost takes our breath away to read some of the Bible imagery. There is such boldness of metaphor in my text that I have -been for some time getting my courage up to preach from it. Isaiah, the evangelist prophet, is sounding the jubilate of our planet redeemed and cries cut, “The Lord hath made bare His holy arm. ” What overwhelming suggestiveness in that figure of speech, “The bare arm of God!” The people of Palestine to this day wear much hindering appareL and wheri they want to run a special race, or lift a special burden, or fight a special battle, they put off the outside apparel, as in our land when a man proposes a special exertion he puts off his coat and rolls up his sleeves. Walk through our foundries, our machine shops, our mines, our factcries, and you wilLflnd that most of the toilers have their coats off and their sleeves rolled up. Isaiah saw that there must be a tremendous amount of work done before this world becomes what it ought to be, and he foresees it all accomplished, and accomplished by the Almighty, not as we ordinarily think of Him, but by the Almighty, with the sleeve of his robe rolled back to his shoulder. “The 'Lord hath made bare His holy arms.” Nothiug more impresses me in the Bibje than the ease with which God does most things. There is such a reserve of power. He has more thunderbolts than He has ever flung, more light than He has ever distributed, more blue than that with which He has overreached the skv, more green than that with which He has emeralded the grass, more crimson than that with which He has burnished the sunsets. I say it with reverence, from all I can see, God has never half tried.

How many bare arms of human toil—and some of those hare arms are very tired—in the creation of light and its apparatus, and after all the work, the greater part of the continents and hemispheres at night have no light at all, except perhaps the fireflies flashing their small lanterns across the . swamp. But see how easy God made the light! He did not make bare His arm; He difl not even put forth His robed arm; He did not lift so much as a finger. The flint out of which He struck the noonday sun was the word ‘‘Light.” “Let there be light!” Adam did not see the sun until the fourth day, for, though the sun. was created on the first day, it took its rays from the first to the fourth day to work through the dense mass of fluids by which this earth was Compassed. Did you ever hear of anything so easy as that? So unique? Out of a word came the blazing sun, the father of flowers and warmth and light. Out of a word building a fireplace for all nations of the earth to warm themselves by! “But,” savs some one, “do you not think —that in making the machinery of the universe, of which our solar system is comparatively a small wheel working into mightier wheels, it must have caused God some exertion—-the upheaval of an arm. either robed or an arm made bare?” No. We are distinctly told otherwise. The machinery of a uni verse God made simply with His fingers. David, Insnired in a night song, says so--“ When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers.” My text makes it pla ; n that the rectification of this world is a tremendous undertaking. It takes more power to make this world over again than it took to make it at first. A word was only necessary for the first creation, but for the new creation the unsleeved and unhindered forearm of the Almighty. The reason of that 1 can understand. In the shipyards at Liverpool or New York or Glasgow a great vessel is constructed. The architect draws out the plan, the length of the beam, the capacity of tonnage, the rotation of wheel or screw, the masts, the cabins and all the anpointments of this great palace of the deep. The architect finishes his wprk without any perplexity, and the carpenters and artizans toil on the craft so many hours a day, each one doing his part, until with flags flying and thousands of people huzzaing on the docks the vessel is launched. But out on the sea that steamer breaks her shaft and is limping slowly along toward harbor, when Caribbean whirlwinds, those mighty hunters of the deep, looking out for prey of ships, surround that vessel and pitch it on a rocky coast, and she lifts and falls in the breakers until every joint is loose and every spar is down, and every wave swpeps over the hurricane deck as■ she parts amidships. Would it not require more skill and -power to get that splintered vessel off the rocks and reconstruct it than it required originally to build her? Aye! Our world that God built so beautiful and which started out with all the flash of Edenic foliage and with the chaniof paradisaical bowers. has been sgsty centuries pounding in the skerries of sin, and to get her out, and to get her off, and to

get her on the right way again will require more of omnipotence than it required to build her and launch her. So I am not surprised that though in the drydbek of one word our world was made it will take the unseeved arm of God 4o lift her from the rocks and put her on the right course again. Now, just look at the enthroned difficulties in the way, the removal of which, the overthrow of which, seems to require the bare right arm of omnipotence. There stands heathenism with its 860,000,000 victims. Ido not cai e whether you call them Brahmans or Buddhists, Confucians or fetich idolators. At the World's Fair in Chicago, last summer, those monstrosities of religion tried to make themselves respectable, but the long hair and baggy trousers and trinketed robes of their representatives cannot hide from the world the fact that those religions are the authors of funeral pyre, and juggernaut crushin g. and Ganges infanticide, arid Chinese shoe torture, and the aggregated massacre of many centuries. There, too, stands Mohammedism, with its 176,000,000 victims. Its bible is the Koran, a book not quite as large as our new testament, which was revealed to Mohammed when in epileptjc fits,and resuscitated from these fits he dictated it to scribes. Yet it is read to-day by mor; people than any other book ever written. Mohammed, the founder of that religion, a polygamist, .with superfluity of wives, the first step of his religion on the body, mind and soul of woman, and no wonder that the heaven of the Koran is an everlasting Sodom, an infinite seraglio, about which Mohammed promises that each follower shall have in that place seventy-two wives in addition to all the wives he had on earth, but that no old woman shall even enter heaven. There stands, also, the arch demon of alcoholism. Its throne is white and made of bleached human skulls. On ore side of that throne of skulls kneels in obeisance and worship democracy, and on tne other side republicanism, and the one that kisses the cancerous and'gangrened foot of this despot the oftenest gets the most benedictions. There is a Hudson river, an Ohio, a Mississippi of strong drink rolling through this nation, but as the rivers from which I take my figure of speech empty into the Atlantic or the gulf, this mightier flood of sickness and insanity and domestic ruin and crime and bankruptcy and woe empties into the hearts, and the homes, and the churches, and the time and the eternity of a multitude beyond all statistics to number or describe. All nations are mauled and sacrificed with baleful stimulus or killing narcotic. The pulque of Mexico, the cashew of Brazil, the hasheesh of Persia, theopium of China, the guavo of Honduras, the wedro of Russia, the soma of India, the aguardiente of Morocco, the arak of Arabia, the mastic of Syria, the raki of Turkey, the beer of Germany, the whisky of Sc itland, the ale of England, the all drinks of America, are doing theirbest to stupefy, inflame, dement, impoverish, brutalize and slay the human race. Human power, unless reinforced from the heavens, can never extirpate the evils I mention. Much good has been accomplished by the heroism and fidelity of Christian reformers, but the fact remains that there are more splendid men and magnificent women this moment going over the Niagara abysm of inelirlety than at any time since the first grape was turned into wine and the first head of rye began to soak in a brewery. When people touch this subject, they are apt to give statisticts as to how many millions are in drunkard’s graves or with quick tread marching on toward them. The land is full of talk of high tariff and low tariff, but what about the highest of all tariffs in this country, the tariff of $300,000,000 which rum put upon the United States in 1891, for that is what it cost us?

But I have no time to specify the manifold evils that' challenged Christianity. And I think I have seen in some Christians, and read in some newspapers, and hoard from some pulpits a dishearteniiient, as though Christianity were so worsted that it is hardly worth while to attempt to win this world for God.and that all Christian work would collapse,and that it is no use for you to teach a Sabbath class or distribute tracts or exhort in prayer meetings or preach in a pulpit, as Satan is gaining ground. To rebuke that pessimism, the gospel of smashup, I preach this sermon, showing that you are on the winning side. Go ahead! Fight on! Who can doubt the result when, according to my text. Jehovah docs His best, when the last reserve force of omnipotence takes the field, when the last sword of eternal might leaps from its scabbard? Do you know what decided the battle of Sedan? The hills ■ a thousand feet high. Eleven hundred cannon on the hills. Artillerv on the heights of Givonm and twelve German batteries on the heights of La Moncello. The Crown Prince of Saxony watched the scene from the heights of Mairv. Between a quarter to G o’clock in the morning and 1 o’clock in the afternoon of September 2, 1870. the hills dropped the shells that shattered the French host in the valley. The French Emperor and the Bfi,ooo of his army captured by the hills. So in this conflict between holiness and sin “our eyes are unto the hills.” Down here ip the valleys of earth we must be valiant soldiers of the cross, but the Commander of our hosts walks the bights and views the scene far better than

we can in the valleys, and at the right day and the right hour all heaven will open its batteries on our side, and the commander of the hosts of unrighteousness, with all his followers, will surrender, and it will take eternity to, fully celebrate the universal victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. “Our eyes are unto the—hills.” Look! Those continents without a pang! Behold! Those hemispheres without a sin! Why those deserts —Arabian desert. American desert and Great Sahara desert—are all irrigated into gardens where God walks in the cool of the day. The atmosphere that encircles our globe floating not one groan. All the rivers and lakes and oceans dimpled with not one falling tear. The climates of the earth have cropped out of them the rigors of the cold and the blasts of the heat, and it is universal spring. Let us change the old world’s name. Let it no more be called the earth, as when . it was reeking with every thing pestiferous and malevolent, scarleted with battlefields and gashed with graves, but now so changed, so aromatic with gardens and so resonant with song and so rubescent with beauty, let us call it Immanual's land or Beulah or millenial gardens or paradise regained or heaven! And to God, the only wise, the only good, the only great, be glory forever. Amen!

FRONTIER MEXICO.

Difficulties of Travel in the Land of the ‘"Greasers.” Harper's Magazine. The hacienda San Jose deßavicora lies northwest from Chihuahua 225 of the longest miles on the map. The miles run up long hills and dive into rocky canons; they stretch over never ending burnt plains, and across the beds of tortuous rivers thick with scorching sand. And there are three ways to make this travel. Some go on foot—which is best, if one has time—like the Tahuramaras; others take it ponyback, after the Mexican manner; and persons with no time and a great deal of money go in a coach. At first thought this last would seem to be the best, but the Guerrero stage has never failed to tip over, and the company make you sign away your natural rights, and almost your immortal soul, before they will allow you to embark. So it is not the best way at all, if I may judge from my own experience. We had a coach which seemed to choose the steepest hill on the route, where it then struck a stone, which heaved the coach, pulled out the king-pin, and what I remember of the occurrence is full of sprains and aches and general gloom. Guerrero, too is only three fourths of the way to Bavicora, and you can only go there if Don Gilberto, the patron of the hacienda —or, if y >u know him well enough, “Jack” —will take you in the ranch coach.

Afterburn ping over th e stones all day for five days, through a blinding dust, we were glad enough when we suddenly came o~t of the timber in the mountain pass and espied the great yellow plain of Bavicora stretching to the blue hills of the Sierra. In an hour’s ride ngore through a chill wind, we were at the ranch. We pulled up at the entrance, which was garnished by a bunch of cow punchers, who regarded us curiously as we pulled our aching bodies and bandaged limbs from the Concord and limped into the patio. To us was assigned the room of honor, and after shaking ourselves down on a good bed, with mattress and sheeting, we recovered our cheerfulness. A hot toddy, a roaring fireplace, completed the effect The floor was strewed with bear and wolf skin rugs; it had pictures and draperies on the walls, and in a corner a wash basin and pitcher—so rare in these parts —was set on a stand, grandly suggestive of the refinements of luxury we had attained to. Idonotjvish to convey the impression that Mexicans do not wash, because there are brooks enough in Mexico if they want to use them; but wash-basins are the advance guards of progress, and we had been on the outposts since leaving Chihuahua.

Stanislaus county, California, will soon have the highest overflow dam in the world. It is called the La Grange dam and is being constructed for the Modesto and Turleck irrigation districts. Its location is three miles from the town of La Grange. Work on the project was commenced in June, 1891, and has been prosecuted continuously ever since. A force of 200 men has been employed on the work, the total cost of which will be $600,000. Nathan Parker, president of the Manchester, N, H., National Bank, the oldest bank officer in active service in the United States, celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday last week, by giving a dinner to the employes of the bank.. Van Roberts, of Rich Hill, Mo., has been rewarded for an act of bravery performed twenty years ago. About 1873 he saved John Bennet from drowning, and the latter, who died recently at Las Vegas, N. M., willed him, it is said, $600,000. A New Yorker has patented a scheme to throw sunlight into dark rooms, cellars and other apartments where the light of day never reaches. The apparatus first condenses the beams of light, then carries them to the desired locality aud diffuse* them by a peculiar arrangement of mirrors, operated by clockwork.

EASTERN BANDITS.

A Pitched Battle at Danville, Pennsylvania. The Fire Maekcd Robbers Escape— *■ OB* eer Killed—Two Bandita Wonndcd. “Five” masked outlaws made a raM oa the postoffice at Danville. Pa., at an early hour, Wednesday morning. A policeman skwa masked man Crouching in the doorway and drew a revolver, but before he could fire the stranger stepped around the corner. The policeman rushed to ' the homes of Officers Dave Rissel and John Van Gilger and gave the alarm. In a few minutes the three men ran to the postoffice in time to meet "the mysterious stranger emerging from the door, followed by a companion. They commenced tiring at the policeman, who dodged behind the lamp-posts and returned the fire. Ten shots were exchanged when the robbers were reinforced by three more men. Every one was well armed and a continuous round of firing commenced. The bandits formed a square and hugged-the stone steps leading to the massive building, where they were able to escape the policemen's bullets. Numerous citizens appeared armed with weapons of every description, —The firing became so warm that the robbers concluded to retreat to the river bank. They discharged three volleys atoexcited townsmen and ran eastward, each side exchanging shots. Vari Gilger, who led the pursuers, suddenly threw up hie hands and fell shot through the lungs. About the same time two of the robbers Tell. Their comrades, grabbed them. and during the momentary halt of the pursuers managed to reach the Susquehanna river. A row boat was secured, and three outlaws, after laying their wounded companions at the bottom of the boat, commenced sculling in the direction of the Northumberland side. The pursuers.now a force of 100 infuriated men, secured as many boats as possible, and unexciting chase ensued, revolvers and rifles cracking at every turn, but no one was hit. Owing to their good start, the outlaws succeeded in reaching tho opposite side before the foremost boat, containing tho police was half way across, and when the pursuers touched land the daring men were in the mountains, which are being scoured on all sides by the sheriff's posse.

A GOOD INVESTMENT

If You Have Ready Cash to Spare. Secretary Carlisle's Order Asking tor Bld* on Government Bonds. Secretary of the Treasury John G. Carlisle, Wednesday, afternoon, issued th® following circular; Treasury Department. Office o' the Sooretary, Wash.ngtou, D. C.. Jan 17,18 4. By virtue jf the authority contained in the act approved Jan. 14, 1375, the Secretary of the Treasury hereby offers for public subscription an issue of bonds of the United Stau s to the amount of *50,OCO 090 in either'registcred or coupon form, , jndenominations of *SO and upward, redeemablc in cofn &t the pleasure of the government after ten years from thedate of their issue, and bearing interest, payable quarterly in coin, at thp rate of 5 per, cent, per annum. • Proposals for the whole or any part of these bonds; will bo received at the Treusury Department, office of the Secretary, at 13 o’clock noon on the Ist day of Feb-/ ruary, 1894. Proposals should state the amount of bonds desired, whether registered or coupon, and the premium which the subscriber ptopo: es to pay, and the jffice, whether that of the Treasurer of the United states or an Assistant Treasurer of the United States where it will be most con ven ieut for the subscriber to deposit the amountof his subscription. Failure to specify particulars may cause the proposal to be rejected. As soon as j ractlcable after the Ist day of February. 1894. the allotment of bonds will be made to the highest bidders therefor. but no proposal will be considered at a lower price than 117.223. which is the equivalent of a 3 per cent, bond at par.and the right to reject any and all proposals is hereby expressly reserved. In case the bids entitled to allotment exceed the bonds to be issued, they will be allotted pro rata. Notice of the date of delivery of ths bondswill be sent to the subscribers to whom allotments are made as soon as practicable, and within ten days from th® date of such notice subscriptions must be paid in United States gold coin to the Treasurer, or such Assistant Treasurer of the United States as such subscriber has designated, and if not so paid the proposal may be rejected. The bonds will be dated Feb. 1,1894, and when payment is made therefor as above accrued interest on both principal and premium from Feb. 1.1894. to date of payment, at the rate of Interest realized to the subscriber on his investment will be added. All proposals should be addressed to tho Secretary of the Treasury. Washington. D. C., and should be distinctly marked: “Proposals for subscriptions to 5 per cent, bonds.”

J. G. CARLISLE, Secretary.

SAID TO BE HUSTLERS.

The New Republican State Central Committee. The Republicans of each Congressional district of Indiana held a lovo feast, Thursday. The attendance upon the organization conventions was unprecedented and the party showed itself in good trim. Following is the personnel of the new < committee by districts: First—W. C. Mason, Rockport. Second—Thomas J. Brooks, Bedford. Third—E. H. Tripp, North Vernon. i Fourth—A. E. Nowlin, Lawrenceburg. Fisth —W. W. Lambert. Columbus. Sixth —George W. Cromer. Muncie. Seventh—J. W. Fesler, Indianapolis. Eighth—N. Filbeck. Terre Haute? Ninth —C. C. Shirley, Kokomo. Tenth—Charles Harley, Delphi. Eleventh—George A. Osborn, Marion. Twelfth—S. A. Wood, Angola. Thirteenth—R. B. Ogiesboe. Plymouth. The committee contains five old members and eight new ones, the new members without exception being young mon. It is said to bo the strongest and most active committee the party has had la , Indiana in y< an. As George Bateman and Charles Bechlel. of Lawrenceburg, w. n driving tn the vicinity of that city, there was a runaway accident. in which both gentleman were thrown out of the vehicle. Bateman walked to Newton in a semi-dazed condition, and he died on the fallowing day of concussion of the bruin. Mr. Bechtel wnt considerably bruised, hut he escaped lerious *