Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — Page 6

THE FAMILY STORY

A MAN’S VENGEANCE.

ftt T was a stiff climb from Pcngelly i 1 and the basket of fish Isaac Hocken -4» carried was heavy. At the top of ittae hill he was fain to Stretch himself ion the £rirf and rest his bent old track Against the low stone wall whieh intelosed John Tregon’s field. J “No use going up to the house: John f s mt market and the misses'll be turning •the place topsy-turvey,” he reflected. l“Wbat with spring eleanin’s all the [year round and the drivln’, Bertha has {had a terrible hard time. And they do jmy in the village—Well, well,” ho (muttered, checking himself, “it wasn’t [to be expected with her pretty face that uun’s her first sweetheart. Apd If Will jCorter deceived her, mebbe she'll think [the more of him. Jim. just dotes on her. plore fule. he! Bad wives are of no Account whativer, and supposin’ you tdo hap oh a good woman and it pleases [the Lord to take her, the year won’t (fill the emptiness in you she leaves beIhlnd. I ought to know,” and Isaac (heaved a mighty sigh. “I’ve burled fwives of both sorts—three of ’em.” Not a breeze stirred the lifeless calm; kind the midday sun poured fiercely down. Presently he sought the shade of n spreading tree which overhung .the wail a few paces from him. But (he was no longer solitary. Voices fell «n his ear—Bertha Tregon’s and that ,«f the man who report said had jilted her. “My poor Bertha! You've no cause to 'fear me. I know exactly how it was you forsook me for James Hocken. But X wrote whenever I had the chance.” “Not a single letter reached me.” “Because your mother waylaid the postman.” Despite the heat. Isaac ' shivered. Will’s insight was making clear much that had puzzled him. “Perhaps.j* What matters now?” 'asked Bertha in forlorn tones. “You • should have kept away. It would .have been kinder.’’ “And let you continue to think that I was false., Lookee here, Bertha, yon promised to be my wife-Jaefore’ ever Hocken courted you. And now you know* I’\e been faithful to you ” “I durstn’t break with Jim. Mother te set on him. Oh, why did you come? You'll get a fresh sweetheart, but Jim won’t. I feel he won’t. And I shall keep my promise to him.” But Bertha's love was unchanged, and to the breathless listener on the |thitiier side of the wall. Will's tender pleadings were the knell of his sou's

hopes. What girl who loved him could resist handsome Will Carter? * Gauut and grizzled, with weatherbeaten, strongly marked features, lie; /_had always known that Jim wasn’t one that a girl would fancy. And Bertha had only accepted him at her mother’s “ bidding, beiieying that Will was untrue to her. It was all so plain to him now. Poor Jim! Even a flower that Bertha had plucked was preeious to him. Hadn't he found a rose withered and dead in his pocket? And all liis love in rain! Isaac whipped out his handkerchief and mopped his face. Yet, if Will hadn’t returned But, contrary to his expectations, the girl was firm in her resolve, i “I won't listen to you,” she said -it last, roused by Will's upbraidings. “Jim isn't to blame—lie knew nothing of our sweethearting—nor am I. It didn’t enter my mind that mother might *ve got your letters. How should it? As if you alone suffered!” she faltered. “Let us part friends.” “Sweethearts or nothing,” said Will*, gruffly.

With the swish, swish of feet through the long grass, crawling to his knees. »l(i^lsaac peered cautiously over the wall. Bertha was running toward the bouse and Will Carter, with his head tiirown back, striding in an opposite direction.. "Bless thoJittie maid!” he ejaculated, ‘'tine time 1 was afeared for Jim. Slit she's got a good grip o’ things. Yes, plenty more sweethearts for Will.” ho chuckled, observant of the pose of his head. "And there’s but one in the world for my lad—Bertha Tregon. May my tongue be slit if I let out to him.” Rising, Isaac shouldered his basket and proceeded on his round. The old fisherman had been somewhat rash, however, in his conclusions. By her own admission, Bertha’s derision had been prompted solely by fear of her mother and consideration for James Hoeken. But if on reflection she were still willing to sacrifice her happiness, Will Carter certainly had'no intention of yielding to her weakness, j A flue seaman, of whom Pengelly was ‘ proud, for the last year Will had been »n I ward a yacht cruising in the Mediterranean. But for reasons best known to herself. Mrs. Tregon had discountenanced his suit, and, although he had every confidence in her, Bertha’s silence had inspired misgivings not easy to allay. Once more free, he had returned at the earliest date to England, •nd at Plymouth, where he landed, had Met a friend, who, among other items •f Pengelly news, informed him of her desertion, adding: “And she’ll be Mrs. Hoeken in a fortnight.” Determined to demand a full explanation from Bertha herself, Will made bo comment, bat his laugh was unmtrthful. And with rage in his heart lie liad hailed a passing cab, driven to the railway station ana taken the tram lor Wadebrldge. Thence he could walk to the Tregons’, But the house In view, in crossing the ’ Held, Will bad eapled Bertha lu the garden and, with a muffled ahoy! sped" to the tree that sheltered old Isaac. She bad swiftly joined him. Nevertheless, the shock of bta return was visible in ther white face, and her trembling Hits •would frame no welcome. Looking at Him imploringly, her blue eyes filled. And, long+ftg to clasp her In bis arms, the reassuring words which, whilst enllgliieiiing him, had chilled Jim’s father, did duty d»r the reproaches In? had Mine primed with.

But WilJj had taken Bertha by surprise, and between her dread of him and terror of her mother, who ruled the Tregon household with a rod of iron, lie rightly divined that she had caught at the readiest moans of escape which in her distraction had presented itself to her. Yet liis faith in her firmness was limited) the revival of fond memories would tents to lessen her mother's influence. And cunningly calculating that apparent indifference would further incline her to lie guided by his counsels later, he devoted a week to his friends and generally enjoying himself. His disappointment treated thus lightly, he succeeded iu deluding everybody, including Bertha, who shed bitter tears in secret that he snould be so easily consoled for her loss. The bare sight of Janies Hocken almost maddened her, and she had to hide her aversion to him and listen evening after evening to his dull talk. And iu another week she would be ills wife. The tree beneath Which she and Will had parted became her favorite resort. Here she could indulge in the luxury of a “good cry” unrebuked, and. grown desperate with the nearer approach of the wedding day, sitting on the gnarled roots one afternoon, she burst into a very passionate grief. " A face—Will's—appeared above the wall. ~

, "Ahay! Whativer’s the matter, Miss Tregon?” lie gravely inquired. **“Sliall I fetch Mr. Hocken to ’ee?” “1 hate him! I hate him!” she sobbed hysterically. “That’s bad,” said Will, sympathizingly. “Wliat’s he been up to?” “Up to! Isn't he old, isn’t he ugly, isn’t lie stupid? And—and—l liate him. Mother may storm, but I don’t care.” Will vaulted over the wall. *.*• * • * • On the day appointed for James Hockeu's nuptials the whole village flocked betimes to the church. /But neither bridegroom nor bride put fn an appearance, and by and by itvwas known that Will Carter and Bertha Tregon were missing, and that there would be no wedding at f’engelly that day. Weeks and months rolled by. and no tidings could lie gleaned of the graceless couple. They had clean vanished, leaving no clew to their whereabouts. Mrs. Tregon’s tongue sharpened to a dounble-edged sword, ready to slay friend and foe alike who alluded u> her daughter. And the dumb misery in Jim’s plain face was pitiful to see. Old j Isaac's heart ached for his spn. If he had only prepared him for the blow! To have him so imposed on! And with hjs expedience of womankind. ___ Curiosity was at length appeased. An acquaintance* of the runaways visited London and returned with a woeful story. She /had seen Bertha, who had confided to her that after being mar'ried at a .'registry office Will and she had decided to go to America, but while 7 looking in a shop window he had been robbed of ills savings, and that subsequently they were reduced to great straits. Then he had brought her the welcome news that he had obtained a berth on a steam launch, and the next morning bade her good-by to go aboard, since when she had never clapped her eyes on him. Mrs. Pegg also said that Bertha had refused to give her address. But Jim ascertained that she had met her at Rotlierhithe, and that was enough for him. “I’m off to London,” he announced when he came downstairs, after pacing tiie floor the livelong night. “I shall never rest until. Carter ans* me are face to face.”

“Thee be g fule, Jim,” his father, who bad been disturbed by his monotonous tread overhead, said peevishly. “If you must stir in ‘this business, find Bertha. It’d be a charity. For all her sharp temper, her mother's frettiu’ herself into the grave*. Take what money you want out o’ ray leather bag: only promise, lad,” noting the sullen fire in his deep-set eyes, “not to meddle wt’ Will.” “Trust me to find Bertha! But she would be destitute,” he said hoarsely. “And she may have become a shame to her kith and kin. And in that case no promise would bind me. father. I'd’ve his life if I swung for it.” But Pengelly was convinced that Will had betaken himself to “foreign parts.” And, rwalling this, old Isaac was encouraged to hope that Jim would be denied the opportunity of vengeance. Jim had been three months; his quest had been unsuccessful:, yet lie continued to hunt the principal thoroughfares, tramping north, south, east and west in turn. Big Ben had struck one; he was recrossing Westminster bridge to his lodgings when a woman crouching by a lamp post ahead of him fell forward in a.heap hastening his steps„-he endeavored to raise her. But. with the light falling on the pallid, hunger-pinch-ed face, a groan escaped hlqj,- Hi* quest for Bertha Carter had ended. At that moment a policeman came up. “Poor s&un she’s dead,” he said at a glance. "Better so than the leap into the water she was bent on. I’ve had my eye on her since She seemed dazed.” The body was conveyed to the mortuary and the verdict at the inquest was in accordance with the medical testimony, that death was dub' to starvation. Outwardly calm, his sole thought to avenge Bertha. Jim staggered out of the court. His inquiries for the mna who had robbed him of the one jewel he coveted, to cast It from him, at length elicited that a seaman answering to his description of Carter was homeward bound from Slnga(>ore. Thenceforth, knowing neither hunger nor weariness, he wgs watchful of hew arrivals at tlie docks. His desire for revenge was by now a monomania. And to-day 'he had a strange prescience that Will and he were soon to meet Self-absorbed, in

crossing the street, he wfls knocked down by a dray, and, stunned, conveyed to the hospital. On recovering Consciousness, his first request was for liis discharge. / “Not yet awhile,” said the nurse. “Bn? - you won't be dull. That poor chap yonder.” indicating a bandaged object iii a distant bed, “has been asking for you. You don't recognize-hijn? No wonder! He was brought in months ago—after t’ho fire in St. Thomas street. He was looking on. and a woman and some children appeared at a top window. The firemen were beaten back by the blaze below, and poor Will—he won't tell us his surname—couldn't withstand their cries, and hp climbed up the waterspout on to the roof with a rope, arid threw one end Jo them, and had actually lowered two of the children in safety when the walls collapsed. He was picked up so terribly injured that we had little hope of him. But lie lias done splendidly. If you—” But Jim was midway across the ward. Oli, heaven, to think that this poor mangled wretch was “handsome Will!” And so sorely misjudged! Leaning over the bravC fellow. Hoc-ken's emotion was'hard to restrain. “Don't give ’em my name,” whispered Will. “I'm maimed for life. And wouldn’t ’ve my poor little Bertha saddled with a helpless husband —not likely. To,. hnve happened just when the tide had turned!” he groaned. "Where Is she?” “She lias reached port before us.” said Jim, in a smothered voice. “Don’t 'ee take on, Will.” His own tears were coursing down liis rugged checks. “We’ll go Wflck to Pcngelly. I can work for both.” “You work for me? You ” “We both loved her,” Jim reminded hinw “If so be you’ll trust yourself to me. You will lie doing rue a favor." Feebly pressing the hand that gripped his. Will mumbled indistinctly; and hastily covered liis face.—Household Words.

CHEYENNE SADDLES.

The Delight of the Cowbqy .and Unite*? States Cavalry. '' All over North America for many years Cheyenne saddles have been famous, and every equestrian outside the United States cavalry and of the Northwest Mounted Police of Canada has either had ills horse tricked out with Cheyenne leather or wished lie had. The fancy work on saddles, holsters and stirrup hoods that once made Mexican saddlery famous and expcnsive long ago was copied by the Cheyenne makers, who kept up the fame and beauty of American horse trappings, but made them so cheap as to lie within the means of most horsemen. In the old days when Western cattle’ ranged all over the plains and the cowboy was iu his glory, that queer citizen would rather have a Cheyenne saddle than a best girl. In fact, to be without a Cheyenne saddle and a lirst-claSs revolver was to be no better than the sheep herder' of tliat era.

When the writer was in Cheyenne recently the first places lie looked for were the saddle-makers’ shops. He was surprised to find only one showy, first-class store of that kind, and, instead of there being a crowd in front of If,‘there was no sign of-nnore business than was going on at the druggist's near by, or the stationer's over the way, The goods displayed in -the windows were beautiul and extraordinary. There were the glorious, heavy, hand-strap-ped saddles; there were the huge, cumbrous tapnderos; there Were the lariats or ropes; the magnificent lilts that looked like Moorish art outdone; and there were mule skinners and the fanciful spurs; and, in short, the windows formed a museum of things that a cowboy would have pawned his soul to own. The metal work was all such as a cavalryman once declared it, “the most elegant horse jewelry in creation.” Englishmen arid Germans now buy the fanciest and best trimmings to send abroad to their homes. Hand-strapped saddles cost from sl3 to SBS. but $35 buys as good a one as a modest man who knows a good thing will care to use. Cowgirl saddles were on viewseven of them - .with rigging for side seats and with stirrups made in slipper shapes. It is'not that there nre really half a dozen cowgirls in the world, or half a dozen women like the Colorado cattle queen or the lady horse breeder of Wyoming, but there arc Western girls who have to ride a great deal, and they had fond fathers and brothers, and still fonder lovers: hence the mauu-* facture of magnificent side-saddles, all decked with hand-strapped patterns, and*l Poking as rich as the richest Bedouin ever dreamed of horsegear lieing made. There is still a good trade in eowljpy outfits that are ordered from Montana, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Colorado and Texas, and similar goods go to the horse ranches of Nevada,, Idaho and Oregon. Moreover, as long as men ride horses there will be a trade in fancy outfits for them.—Denver Field and Farm.

Pathos of Presidential Conventions.

No one rapt examine the records of Presidential conventions, with their personal successes and failures, and easily escape the conviction that there is far more of tragedy than comedy in our national polities. There are touches of humor here and there, but the dominant note is that olf pathos. Behind every great success there is to be seen the somber sliaijpw of bitter disappointment, of wrecked ambition, of lifelong hopes in ruins. As one pursues through biography, autoblgraphy, nnd memoir, the personal history of the chief figures in the conventions that have been held during the sixty years which have passed since that method of nominating Presidential candidates came into use, he finds it almost invnriably ending in sadness arid gloom. Not one of those seeking the Presidency with most persistence has succeeded Jfn getting possession^of that great oftice, and few of them.' when final failure hasVomr, have shown thpruselves able to bear the blow with fortitude.—Century.

First American Railway.

The first American railroad was laid in 1836. It was three miles long, from the granite quarries of Quincy, Mass., to Neponset River. You have probably remarked how soon you get over being in love. Well, people who are la love with you aru just as bad.

WOMEN HOME

LADY BEATRICE BUTLER. Lady Beatrice francis Elizabeth Butler is not only one of tiie most beautiful girls iu Grfcit Britain, but iu the matter of ancestors she can make pretty nearly any boast she likes and back it up with the’ records in Burke's peerage. Lady Beatrice is just passing out of her teens. She was bom on March 25, 1870: ner father is Marquis of Oriiionde, Earl of Ormonde and Ossory and Viscount Thurlcs of Th ml os in the County Tipperary. Her mother was Lady Elizabeth Harriet Grovosnor. eldest daughter of the Duke of Westminster. The house of Butler of Ormonde is one of the noblest in Ireland-and the oldest in Irish history. The Butlers apd Geraldines, rivals in power and equals in

LADY BEATRICE BUTLER.

renown, have been at the head, of the fine nobility of ’lreland ever since the Anglo-Norman infusion. The first of the family to arrive on Irish soil and set up a castle was old Theobald FitzWalter in the reign of Henry 11. He was chief butler of Ireland, whence the surname. His father was Hervey Walter, who married in 115<i. That seems to have been tiie foundation of tiie house and the descent has b“en pretty clear since then. Little Lady Beatrice may, therefore, be truly said to be tiie daughter of a hundred earls, but she is one that may be admired. She has a

MRS. BRYAN AT HOME IN THE WATER.

Very pretty little sister, Coustance Mary, who is just 10. Get Tlieir Shoes Blackened. The spectacle of a woman availing herself <’ f tiie services of a bootblack on the streets has become so common as to attract no more attention than that of a woman reading a daily newspaper in a street car or “L” train, says the Chicago Chronicle. It was not so long ago that a woman with a newspaper was considered to be doing something very “mannish," and she was stared at in consequence. Women, have dared to brave public inspection by sitting in the chair of the street corner bootblack and reading a paper yvlple the industrious bootblack gives them a “patent leather” or a “russet polish." yV’oriien require the cleaning of their shoes as often and with as much reason as men do theirs, and the "ladies’ bootblaeking parlors” that have been opened in tiie shopping districts have proved decided successes. It is next to impossible to polish a rus-

WOMEN HAVE BECOME PATRONS.

set shoe unless the foot is in it. as the friction of the cloths must be violent. •It was because of this that the young women mustered up courage to put their dainty feet upon the box. Rc*lilt« of Open Air I.ife. Women will have to organize a now crusade against wrinkles and the loatherlike, growing-old sort of look of the skin if they persist in following up all the open-air pursuits which belong to man's kingdom. Freeh air in alhkinds of weather may lie conducive to health, but It is very trying to delicate skins. Women who row and ride bicycles should substitute oatmeal or boiled bread and milk for soap. The dry skin is especially sensitlvo-to the effects of smi and air and needs all the precautions It is possible to find to keep it smooth nnd white. Potatoes lioiled In milk are said to he very effective in whitening and softening the skjn, and olinond meal should be on every toilet , table. The Demands of Society. Society demands that you should look well. Not that you should be a beauty,'but that you should, on occasion. put on your l>est bib anil tucker and help up the picture that, all in all, constitutes society. You .speak of the social world os selfish; so it is. for It demands from all its votaries absolute unselfishness. You must learn to have

,no ill-feeling toward anybodyV If a chatterbox tells ( you that Madame Malice has made you the subject of her ridicule you must make yourself smile: go forward and meet Madame Malice with a pleasant word, a courteous bow, and you must entirely forget that she has iigyer said anything but that which was pleasftnt. Society ceases to be good when malicious sayings are recognized.— Iluth Ashmore, in Ladies’ Home Journal. Quaker City Jealousies. There is no Tovc- lost between the Philadelphia members of tile Society of Colonial Dairies of America and the members of the organization called the Daughters of the Revolution. The dairies are credited with a novel scheme for venting their spite upon the daughters. The story is that the former have unearthed a mimlHir of people eligible for admission to the/rival organization and are scheming to have them proposed for membership. One of these is the woman who keeps an apple stand in front of the old ({lrani Hank Building oh 3d street, She can prove her ancestry. Another is an eminently respectable woman who makes skirrs at the uniform price of 49^ cents per dozen delivered, . Still another is tlie daughter of a man whose employer hires teams to tlie present members of the organization, and one other •'eligible" is a trusted employe of a liquor house. • Mrs. Hryap an Expert Swimmer. Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, wife of tlie Democratic presidential candi-. date, is up to date in many ways. For one thing she is a firm believer in the wheel, although as yet she is not an expert rider. Being comparatively a novice, she lias not yet reached the stage of wearing a short skirt, bur freely acknowledges the advantages of such a garment to the fast-riding bicyclienne. She is also a splendid swimmer and rather prides herself on her natatorial ability. She is also proud of her membership in the Sorosis of Lincoln, Neb. It does not belong to the federation of clubs, but is in tlie Nebraska State Federation. The Lincoln Sorosis lias a membership of twonfy-flvp, to which number it is strictly or four names are always on the waiting list. No one is admitted who has not some claim to membership through interest in current events or some special excellence in other directions. Mrs.

Bryan lays no great stress on her admission to the bar. Site regards is as an ordinary matter in view of the large number of women now practicing law. There is no dress reform in her creed, only an idea that sensible attention to the first laws of health should be considered; also that dress should be distinctly feminine, not extravagant, but as becoming as possible and suitable to the occasion She wears evening dress when the event requires it. but not decollete gowns. Evidently superstition doesn’t count with her, for on the finger with the gold wedding baud she wears a large opal. Useless Kric-a-Brac. The folly of excessive accumulation iu the way of bric-a-brac, ornaments and the thousand and one trifles scattered through the modern home is never more forcibly impressed than when packing away household goods and gods, previous to the summer exodus. Each article has some association that renders it in a degree precious, and yet half .of them disfigure rathe? than adorn the apartment to which they belong. How much wiser is the mistress of the Japanese home, who, while keeping it exquisitely 1 heat, never cumbers and litters it with cheap or excessive ornamentation. She understands the rest to eye and brain in frequent change of surroundings. Today she hangs up a piece of rare embroidery, and in front of it places a little table, with some one choice vase holding a few carefully arranged flower sprays. Across the .corner a screen with richly painted or embroidered panels is set, and everywhere the eye looks upon some object worthy of study and admiration, and so few are they ns to admit of genuine enjoyment and appreciation. After a few weeks a complete change is made, one set of art treasures removed and another put In their place. By this method a succession of charming Interiors are secured far more educating and refining In influence than the crowded tables, cabinets and mantels found iu the American drawing-room.

Announcing the Baby’a Birth. Iu sending announcement cards of a busy’s birth the baby's name is printed iu full on a small card which is iuclosed with the parents’ card. If desired it may be attached to the larger card by a bow of very nnrrcw white satin ribbon, or silver cord. The date qjfdfirth is added, but not the weight of the baby, nor any other particulars of any Sort wua’eycf.—Ladles’ Home Journal

When Frogs Are Best.

Frogs are best for the table In the* autumn. They are then fat and sleek, and there is a peculjgr and desirable flavor about them at that season not l>ossessed at any other. At that season they are quite desirable, and form a v ery ( lever side dish at any meal. A map feels drowsy after a hearty dinner? because a large part of the bk>od Lu the system gqes to the stomach to aid In digestion, and leaven the brain poorly supplied.

NEW TARTY FORMED

GOLD STANDARD DEMOCRATS ORGANIZE. ’ Thirty-three States Represented ai Indianapolis—lt Is Decided to Hold a Convention in September and to Name a National Ticket. Palmer the Leader. Under the name of the National Demoeriitie party of the United Statea the gold standard Democrats will hold a national convention in; Indianapolis Wednesday, Sept. 2, and nominate candidates for President and Vice President. This was decided upon at the meeting of tha committee in the Indiana capital. Senator John M. Palmer, of IHinois, was made the chairman of t.he permanent national committee, and to him will be left tha selection of the Executive Committee which is to perfect the details of the Convention. Thirty-t hroe States were personally; represented when the permanent commit-, tee of the sound money Democrats was organized, but three more States were added to the roll because they had alftady appointed committeemen, who.

JOHN M. PALMER.

however, had been unable to get to the in time. The movement for a third ticket was considered national and the decisive step in the warfare against free silver was taken. The national committee of the new party will exert its influence to have every State send delegates to the convention. States will be asked to join the movement with the understanding-that it will not be obligatory for them to put electoral tickets in the field unless they deem it wise. It is the intention of the national com'mitteo to send speakers of national reputation into every doubtful State as soon as’ the nominations have been made. The committee to prepare the .call reported tlie fo'wwmg: Cull for the Convention. “To the Democrats of the United States: A political party has alwnys been defined to be an association of voters to promote the success of political principles held in common. The Democratic party, during its Whole history, has been pledged to promote the liberty of the individual, the security of private rights and property, ami the supremacy of the law. It has alwnys insisted upon a safe and stable money for the people’s use. It has insisted upon the maintenance of the financial honor of the nation, ns well as upon the preservation inviolate of the institutions established by the Constitution. “These, its principles, were-abandoned by the supposed representatives of the party at a national convention recent I v assembled at Chicago. The Democratic" party will therefore caese to exist unless it be by the voluntary action of such of its members ns still adhere to tlie fundamental principles. No majority of the members of that convention, however large, had any right or power to surrender those principles. When they undertook to do so that assemblage ceased to ho a Democratic convention. “The action taken, the irregular proceedings and the platform enunciated by that body were and are so utterly and indefensibly.revolutionary and constitute such radical departures from the principles of true democracy, which should c!iaraeterizo*h sound and patriotic administration of our country’s affairs, that its results are not entitled to the confidence or support of true Democrats. “For the first time since national parties were formed there is not before the American people a platform declaring the principles of the Democratic party as recognized ami most courageously and consistently administered by Jefferson, Jackson, and Cleveland, nor are there nominees for the offices of President and Vice President of the United States pledged to carry those principles into practical effect. Tlie faithful and true Democrats of tlie United States are determined that their principles shall not be ruthlessly surrendered, nor the people lie deprived of an opportunity to vote for candidates in accord therewith. “Therefore the National Democratic party of the United Slates, through its regularly constituted committee, hereby calls a national convention of that party for the announcement of its platform and the nomination of candidates for the of ticca of President and Vice President of the United States and the transaction of such business as is incidental thereto, to be held Ut Indianapolis, Wednesday, the 2d day of September, 1890, at noon, and hereby requests thaLthe members of the party in the several States who believe in sound mopey and the preservation of law and order and who are unalterably opposed to the platform adopted and candidates nominated at Chicago, will select in such manner ns to them shall seem best a number of delegates to the same equal to twice the number of electoral votes to which such States ure respectively entitled. “Such delegates shall he duly accredited according to the usages of the Democratic party. Their credentials shall be forwarded or delivered to the secretary of thl9 eonimittep with all convenient speed, and this committee will make up and announce the roll of the delegates entitled to participate in the preliminary organization of the convention.”

Telegraphic Brevities.

H. B. Bartholomew, of Philadelphia, dropped dead o'n the street at Los Angeles, Cal. Both tests of the compressed air motor for street cars made at New York were believed to have l>een wholly successful. The tomb of M. Stambuloff. the expremier of Bulgaria, who was assttssinat* od in the streets of Sofia iu July last year, has boon seriously injured with a dynamite bomb. Wong €hee, the most prominent Chinaman In southern California, who, was shot ’by highbinders, died at Los Angeles. Before his death he identified his mur; derers, who are in jail. IVtrio# Hoyle, 00 years old, was killed at New Madison, Pa., by his non Walter, who but for the intervention of a priest would have been lynched. 3iagulaeljr enough, the prieafs name waa Father Lqr ndh. -

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY - '' w TOLD. t Indiana Man Enlisting Colored Troopa to Aid Cuban I astir gents-Ex pfiftid Suddenly at a Spiritualistic Meeting . —Fight Over a Love Affair. Will Take Negroes to Cuba. Trujm-an Stewart, of Mancie, Will sail in Oetober from Key West. Fla., for Cuba with oyer 1,000 colored recruits for the Cuban army from the. States of Georgia and Florida. Mr. Stewart has personally interested himself in the cause of the Cuban insurgents, and lm.s made all necessary arrangements for transportation of his soldiers to that island, and spent a great deal of time in the South the past winter and spring perfecting his plans. For the benefit of his cause he will have a.grand Cuban festival nnd, band concert at Selma Aug. 22. Charles L. Henry, Major C. T. Doxey, Theodore Shockney, Joseph G. Leffler and Ezra N. Cranor will address the meeting. \ * Use Pistol and Brickbats. -John Krupp and Charles Halfonberger, two well-known south side youug men of Indianapolis, have been enemies for several months past, owing, it is Claimed, to rivalry in a love affair. Sunday > afternoon Halfonberger was passing along the street when Krupp applied several epithets to him and when Halfonberger did not respond Krupp called him a thief. * A tight ensued, in which both of the young men were more Or less bruised with fists and brickbats. Hulfenbcrger went home, but soon returned, and the tight was rer nowed. After passing a few rocks at each other, Halfonberger drew a pistol and fired at Ivrupp, the ball taking effect in the right shoulder and ranging downward and producing a dangerous wound. Halfonberger was struck in the head with a brick and sustained a fracture Of the skull. •* Professor Davis Kails Dead, A gloom was cost Sunday on the Indiana spiritualists' State camp meeting at Anderson by tlie death of Prof- F.' M. Davis of New York, one of the host known spiritualist workers and musical directors in the cause. His death was tragic. He had just closed liis day's, work asnl gone to his cottage. The friend staying with him followed, and saw him fall across the bed dead. Heart failure was the cause. Prof. Davis was well known among all spiritualists. He was at the time of his death,making a'circnit of the different State meetings, doing the work to which he had been assigned. His people in New York were notified and came to take charge of the body.

All Over the State. The Howe Pump and Engine Company of Indianapolis made, an assignment for the benefit of creditors. The company ■builds water works ana takes city bonds, ■whicli it sells til rough a Chicago agency. The agency notified tlie company that it could.not dispose of its bonds and the assignment followed. The indebtedness is placed at $(‘>0,000 and the assets at SIOO,000. At Franklin, Wednesday morning the yotiutj son of John Walters fell from a stable loft, in which he whs playing and reeeived fatal injuries. The father of tlie child was working near by, nnd in his hurry to get a physician he became overheated from exertion An capturing a horse and riding to the city, and his recovery is impossible. The injured boy was 2 years old. The horse Walters rode dropI>od dead in'liTs tracks; —h—~ Thfi preliminary trial of Jap Williams on a charge of attempted murder, set for 'Saturday in .1 ustieoTbe's court at’ RuStS~ ville, did not materialize. Williams escaped through a hole in the stone floor of the jail and is still at largo. The hole was chiseled out by another prisoner, who escaped two months ago, hut the county commissioners, for the sake of economy, did not repair the break, as they will begin work on a new jail next week. Prof. Arthur Jaillet, until recently connected with the Indianapolis schools, and a well-known instructor in French, was publicly eowhided by Mrs. Olive Headhunt, -a neighbor, who claimed that the professor had spoken in a derogatory manner of her and had attempted to influence her husband against hoi» v Prof. Jaillet had difficulty in escaping, hut ho sought safety ill flight, and Tuesday caused the lady to be prosecuted. Stic was asHr-ssed a small fine, protesting against the payment because she claimed that the assault was justifiable. ‘

Boy Bannister, a youth living near Greensburg, drove bis grandfather’s horse the other day, and when the old gentleman went to the stable next morning the-animal gave evidence of very hard usage. The beast was a favorite with Mr. Bannister, who threatened not to loan the horse to Itoy aga»|. The boy answered in nil impertinent tone and the old gentleman replied with some heat. Before he was aware of the boy's purpose the latter drew a poeketkaife, and, advancing upon him. struck him a vicious blow, the blade entering just below the heart atld producing what is believed to tie a fatal wound. Mr, Bannister is 74 years old and his granuson 17. Just as the Joel Menefee thrashing crew was finishing thrashing on the farm of William Wynnnt, near Anderson, Wednesday night, the traction eugine was completely wrecked by tpe boiler exploding/ David Wynant was kflled outright, and others, whose orames cajinotlig learned, were injured. The njjhngjjri'reports indicate that two of the ca«s' will he fatal. It seems that the enginS-Jwld been considered unsafe for several The old engineer ggve up -his position two weeks ago on account of the boiler beiifg frail. He* wamesF Menefee them about continuing wirjhdt, Young Wynant had taken his place. He did not give it close' enough attention, and the steam got too illicit. j **. „ The Andefron ’"tc veiling Telegram, started as ft’co-operative coupon by the Typographical Union twd'Veafs- ago. bns suspended. It was placed in the hands of ft receiver two weeks ago. Ho will sell it.

Miss Mamie Murphy, aged 20. went from her homo In Hpringport to Muneio, purchaoeda quantity-of -laudanum, went two miles into tip* country and drunk it. The girl was taken to a near by residence and died. Hhe had qunrreled with her sister-in-law as to how some green corn should be cooked, wlietlier on the cob or off. A petition was presented to the Rochester Council asking that a special license of $l5O tie charged proprietors of "quart shops” and dealers in cigarettes. A large number of/towns in Indinua hnve ordinances of this’kind in force, receiving authority from "the public welfare act.” The corner stone of the $12,000 school bouse being erocteu in Lowq.ll was laid Saturday. The beautiful and impressive ceremony attending this memorial occasion was under the ritualistic work of the Colfax Masonic lodge, assisted by slater lodges from Hobart, Rensselaer, Crown Point, Hammond and Hebron. The ceremony was witnessed, It is'estimated, by between 2,000 and 3,000 people