St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 13, Number 16, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 October 1887 — Page 1

VOLUME XIII.

* FAIRYLAND. BY 808 rOUP. Avar, fir away from tho heat of the day, V h re unknown is tho turmoil of traffic and strife, And the burdens and can 3 of a work-a-uai life ; Where soft sighing zephyrs kiss roses so Lrr. And waft their sweet j erfume bioadcast 0.1 the air; Whoie from fairy-like grotto, and cool, shady nook Come the silvery echoes of babbling brook, Liies a queer littl 1 elf, with a score like himself, And the flutterin’ moth or sweet singing bird, Will pan)e, as- his gurgling laughter is heard. Now sporting in stream, or in ling'riug sunbeam, Snuggled deep in the freehand dew-sprinkled IDOSB, J, augh» loudly at time, nor reckons its loss In that queer little realm, always bright, over gay, Where day is as night, and night is as day And the broad spreading fern forms a canopy fair, ’Neath which strange little people hold carnival rare, And tiny bells jingle, as fairy forms mingle there. 'Tis a gay little kingdom, this kingdom of sprites. Where fair little ladies and daintiest knights, And the wisest and weest of mmatuie sa .es, Unseen by the world, have held court for nges You may look high and low, and search to and fro, And gaze in each sweet scented flower. And tho’ keen be your eye, not an elf you'll espy, Nor o'er hud a wee fairy bower; But they're th'ere just the same, ami they laugh in high glee, As, peering about, we mortals they see. THE LILIES. BY A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD POET. Where the breezes wave the grasses, Where the stately rushes bow, There tho win I as it passes Kisses tho water-lilies’ brow. There they bloom in matchless beauty, Spotless, Pure and white ns si; There, in ponds, in child-like 1 ur ty F.ovely water lilies blow. Lol the lilies of the field, Pure without and pure within. We would be, if we would yi dd, Like the lilies, free from sin. Tav by day they teach unto us, That our Savior did this way ; And in spir t will renew us To be gentle ev'ry day. They toil not, neither spinning. Yet these lovely lit le flow or ; Keep their petals free fr mi sinning, Mak.ng sweet our summer hours. Children, you may-bo like flowers, Be lovin’, kind to rich an I poor Tho', not like the summ r bowers, Your ilitiuence must emiure. Olive M. Bennett, Richland, Mich. A MODERN MAGDALEN. BY M. C. FARLEY. CHAPTER V. MISS LAFARGE ■■Wild VNy j ' I AX Y of the passengers v^',/ are killed out right. Few C zVi/11 escape without Lrnise or injury of some kind. \ ji I Many are boras a wav —j I from the scene of the ■ disaster, on'y to d e of their wounds later on. .mong the latter number-was Miss Lafarge. She and her tra - eling companion are rescued, both in an unconscious coadition^and are conveyed to a neighbor-’ ing farmhouse. They are disrobe I and put to bed, I and medical help summoned. Miss Lafarge is by far the greater sufferer of the two. Site is burned shockingly, and perhaps fatally. Her head and neck present a frightful ap- I pearance, and she is unconscious and s remains so. Her companion has escaped with a i comparatively light injury, which eon- i sists in a broken right arm. I resently I the surgeons and physicians arrive. They consult each other; they argue; they disagree. In the midst of their arguments my . lady struggles back to consciousness I She realizes vaguely that she is no , longer a “lady in black,” but that, at- I tired in a long white gown, with her ' arm tiglitly bandaged and held in a i sling, she occupies a narrow cot in : close proximity to another cot, upon : which lies a long, still olre t, covered over with a sheet. Arorfnd this < ot. and bending over the still object, which my lady feels intuitively is Miss Lafarge, the physicians are gathered. She catches the y import of their words I dimly, and shb shudders all ove ’. She j gf/zr Ji q® Her eyes shine with a wicked triumph. Wonders if it is really so horrible as those doctors say. Will Miss Lafarge die? The thought Waralyzes my lady for a moment. Her brain whirls. How solemn the doctors look.- She wonders vaguely if she is going to die, too Then the room dances about in a curio ;c fashion; the windows fly up to the ceiling, and tho csiL

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ing seems to sink down to the floor, j Then, nothing! \\ hen she opens her ■ eyes again the doctors are all gone. A [ motherly old woman sits at. her side with a camphor bottle in her hand, and l two men are carrying out something | , long and white on a board, and tho 1 other 9ot is empty. “Poor dear, I’m afraid the shock was too much for you,” the motherly woman is saying, and she knows now, with- , out being told, what has happened to her late traveling companion. “She was a baby any way, that Lai large,” is the first thought that comes to her, after the momentary horror ■ passes away; “inane little thing, sho ought to have died. ” , The night settles down upon the scene. Morning dawns And with the 1 morning comes returning strength and , a clear brain. My lady insists upon sitting up and being clothed, and asks for her gown Much against her will, the “motherly woman” fetches in a quan- • tity of garments, and with great per--1 turbatio । spreads them out before her guest f< r inspection. [ “You ladies were brought in here at the s ime time, and those who disrobed | i you not beiug here now, I am unable I to say which one’of the gowns belongs to you. 'I he other lady being dead, poor dear—and laid out in the west chamber there—can’t tell me which is hers, So you will have to do it for her. ” My lady is a lady of fertile brain, and a mind that is quick to perceive an opportunity, and here is an opportunity. Will she use it? The lady closes her handsome eyes. She hesitates; and as is proverbially I the c iso, “the woman who hesitates is lost. ” It is very evident the opportunity will not be lost, for presently she opens wide her hand-ome eyes, snaps her litt’e white teeth, and says vivaciously - lying like a lord—or a lady, may bo: “'I be gray things are mine, please The black gown belongs to my poor friend. If you will be so ki id as to assist me a little, 11l put ray gown on now ” She rises, and with tho assistance of tho “motherly woman,” attires herself in the gray go-wn that had been worn by Miss Lafarge "l.e rot est mart, l ire le roi," she mutters, her white teeth gleaming as i tho garment fails about her graceful I figure "Lafarge is dead I ong live ; I afarge.” And then she laughs softly, ' and strokes the back of her velvety > hands together, although the action ; gives her pain, and brings tho tears to I her handsome eyes. When all is done i to her satisfaction, she asks her willing | attendant very prettily to add one more kindness to the many she has rendered, and bring pen, ink and paper. This is done. And now she sits down to her task, | sorta-k it is to one in her condition, I and grasping the pen firmly in her left | i han 1, she tries to scrawl, and does I I scrawl the following: Diol, May 1, Judith Donithorne, of East i Portland, from injuries received in tho Lite j X Y Z Railway diiastir. This finished, she scrutinizes it care- | j fully, nods her head with satisfaction, j I folds it as w-ell as she is able, and takes ' up her pen again. This time the scrawl is only a matter of two lines, and is directed to Miss Elizabeth Chidley, Stubblefi -I I. And it merely announces the fact ( that Miss Chidley's long-expected cousin and guest, Marion. Lafarge, will arrive at Stubblefield by the afternoon train on the following day. These messages written, they are at ; once dispatched to the telegraph office, I I for my lady, having once decided upon | I a course of action, loses no time in i the execution of tho same. 1 hen she sits very quietly and meditates for a little time; but not for long. The next thing she does is to send for the nearest undertaker. And when I I this gentleman arrives, she is quite pre- I pared with her little tale of woo. And ' ; she tells him of her poor friend who died so dreadfully the day previous, and who~was friendless and poor. And who had better be—all things con- : sidered —buried quietly near the spot i where she had met her death. Then sho displays a comfortably filled ! purse, which she has discovered in the I j pocket of the gray gown, and she says, . i pretti y and pathetically, that she will | I herself pay the funeral expenses. And I that, as she is obliged to resume her I journey at the earliest possible mo- ' I meat, ere she sets forth upon her way, 1 she particularly desires to have the mel- ' aneboly pleasure of following the remains.of her late friend to the silent j tomb. My lady looks sb pretty arid so very ; sad, and her words tall so plaintively I upon the undertaker’s ears, that the sympathies of the worthy man are at once enlisted. Tho result being that, at ten o'clock on the ensuing morning, the poor, charred remains of the real Marion Lalarge are interred in the rustic burial : ground close at hand, with my lady, in 1 a hired carriage, acting tho part of j chief mourner for the loss of one whom l she had known less than four-and-twehty hours. But all this has taken time. During the thirty-six hours that have elapsed s nee the disaster the railway company have been busy. The wreck of the train has been cleared away. A temporary bridge has been thrown across the chasm, and traffic is at once resumed. The pseudo-Lafarge hastens to claim the dead girl’s luggage—which sho accomplishes by means of the brass checks found in the pocket-book along with the dead girl’s money. My lady pays her reckoning with the undertaker, makes a neat little speech, accompanied by a neat little gift to the “motherly woman,” and then flits away. As the train goes screeching off with her at last, she leans her blonde head, in' its neat cottage bonnet, back against the cushions of her seat, and smiles a smile of deen and unalloyed satisfaction. And by and by, as time hangs a little heavily upon her hands, my lady amuses herself in a desultory fashion 1 by making little left-hand drawings on . a scrap of blank paper which she pres- । ently discovers in her traveling bag, i Ths cnrimiß thing is that i

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| logs, erode as they necessarily are, yet display a marked likeness to Bywater ' Park and the country surrounding it. And, as if to accentuate tho resemblance still farther, my lady finally I traces, in curious, scrawling letters, the name of Bywater Park itself. What does she mean? CHAPTER YL AT HTOBBI,EFIELD. ''f° ur °’ c i° c k V' B in the afternoon. nV ' a Rcene, a light, B two-wheeled carriage at a dead stand-still in the middle of a country road, and Elizabeth Chidley, spinster, round, roly-poly and rubicund, licit upright in the carriage, and glaring alternately first at the bi ack imp perched up behind her on the driver’s box, and then at the two : b’ack, balky ponies in front of her. Either way she looks, the picture of an ebony inn ge of insubordination confronts her. “Do you mean to toll me that you will not obey my orders?” shouts the angry spinster. “Now, look a here, mistiss,” returns Obe, argumentatively, “de good Lawd knows I’so willin’ nusf —’taint that. I nt I done tole yer when yer bo’t dem Ingin bosses how’t would end. What kin a pore brack boy do agin t wo brack Ingin debbils, when dey make up der mm’s to be contra ry? Es dey done I feel like goin’, den dey’ll go an’ yer . kain’t stop ’em. But of dey done stop, do Lawd hisself kain’t start ’em to go nga’n ’less de notion is in cm. Shore’s yo’s bawn, mistiss.” The attitude and appearance of the ponies themselves test ified to tho truthfulness of Obe’s statement. They were | evidently in a state of rebellion, and | stood firmly braced on their short legs, I stubbornly resisting every inducement i to proceed that had, so far, been । brought to bear upon them. Miss Chidley grew purple from indignation. “Obe, take this whip and give them I a few cuts acrosw their backs. They 1 will come to tlnir senses then, I'il warrant. ” ..tlliis, tLo ponies, a pair of well- | I matched black beasts, whoso diminu- | tive size and shaggy heads betrayed | their origin—turned tin ir pointed ears j backward as if they ton understood the | spinster's command and resented it. “ 1 his is enough to provoke a saint,” : I screams Miss Chidley, as tho black I boy makes no effort toward obeying. : “Obe, give me that whip. I'll start I them or know the reason why. See if । I don't.” “Better not,” returns Obe cautiously, keeping a wary eye upon the willful horses. “Better not. I done tolo yer ’bout dese yer Ingins when yer got ’em — tricky as Satan hisself. Guess yer’d best sit down, mistiss. Es dey done । start on a sudden, yo’ll be mighty apt to feel oncomfurtable ” It seemed as if the horses had made ' up their minds to “start on a sudden;” for. sure enough, they now lift their heels in the air, and the next moment, with a snort of disdain, dash forward and go tearing down the road like veri- > । table demons of evil. (>be grits his teeth and grasps tho I I lines tightly, as tho light carriage plunges from side to side, in danger of upsetting every moment, and Miss Chidley, collapsed and angrier than I ever, flops down to the bottom of the vehicle a red and tumbled heap of womanhood. “Brace yo’self, mistiss,” cries Obe, 1 i “brace yo’self. We’re off now fo’ shuah! | ' Horay fo’ dese Ingin debbils. I done I : tole yer dey were tricky.” Miss Chidley, quite as obstinate in I I her way, as the horses were in their ■ । way, or as Obe was in his way, shut her I lips tightly as her head bumped against the sides of the carriage. “Never mind, Obe,” she manages to scream up at the black imp of a driver. “They don’t know any better. Have patience. Time and kindness will tame theni.” “Dar’s time 'nuff—'taint dat ar’,” says Obe dryly. “Es on’y de dratted harnesses hold iogedder—which kaint be reckoned on—wid sech warmints in ’em.” Away the ponies go, plunging up tho little hill, snorting down the long level stretch of shaded road toward ihe river, Obe sawing away at the lines, and his mistress bobbing about the bottom of the carriage. “Don’t let them run into tho river,” cries Miss Chidley, as this possibility suddenly pops across her mental vision, and tho river itself spreads out broad and shining in the immediate foreground. “I don’t care to be drowned.” “Nebber mind de ribber,” is Obe’s consoling reply, as the willful beasts make straight for the banks, “nebber mind ’bout de ribber mistiss. Yon’s a Babtis’ anyway, an’ water ’grees wit’ de Baptists.” [TO BE CONTINUED.] Blizzard Philosophy. A fellar had better conquer the devil than to conquer man. Hits a blamed sight better to git beat with a full hand than to win on a pair of jacks. “Tho pen is mightier than tho sword,” perviding hits not in thefistof a fool.— II astern Blizzard. Nobody Worships Them, However. Visiting Hindoo—And you really have no idols in this country? American Citizen —ldles? I should 1 say we have. There is a perfect army ■ of tramps here.- fltts^irg Chronicler ’ Telegraph,

POWDERLY’S MESSAGED t The General Master Workman’s Annual Report to the Knights of Labor. He Fully Explains His Position on the Anarchist, Denver, and Other Questions. Following is an abstract of the address of General Master Workman Powderly to ; the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor, recently in session at Minneapolis: “The highest tribunal known to the laws and ' regulations, us well us to the true and loyal ' members of tho < rdor of the Anights of Lubor, is convened for tho eleventh time in regular session. I am to make to tlx* representative assembly report for the eighth iime. 1 ask that it will receive that consideration at your hands whi h its merits deserve, and that such recommendations us 1 may make will be received and acted on according to their importance and necessity. Wo adjourned a jjfoTir ano with aissensiou in our own ranks ; that dissension was enlarged upon and scattered to tho world by enemies from within and from without. The news of discord reached the ears of the employers of labor, and they in many instances took advantage of what they mistook for our weak ' Hess and rushed into conflict with our members in various parts of the country.’’ 1 Mr. Powderly gtivom complete history of tho famous Chicago strike of last year. ' All the correspondence, both telegraphic and written, between Mr. Powderly and Messrs. T. B. Barrv and Carlton, who were in charge of the strike in Chicago, is quoted in full and rea-ons given lor each step taken. Mr. Powderly then continued : “The relation of the order to anarchy has taken up so much , space in the public press and him been the subject of so much discussion iti the assemblies of some large eit.es, that it is proper to speak of 1 it hero and rojiort to jou my doings m eouneetion therewith. Let n>e say lure that I have , never, ns has been sv much asHeried in the press of the land, confounded socialism with anarchy. 1 draw a wide lint*.of distinction between tiie two, as every rending, thinking num iimst. I will nsk of the (lenernl Assemoly to doline tho position of the order on the attempts that have been made to prostitute it to s :ch 1 base uses ns the anarchists would put it. I have never publicly uttered a sentiment regarding the course of the seven men who are condemned to death in Chicago this is wr.tts n Sept, lu, iso,- I will now give my opinion. If these men did not have a fair trial, such as is ' guarantee.l < v rv man in the Unit, d Stetes, then they should bo granted a new trial. Il they have not been found cuiltv of murder, they should not be hanged. If they nre to bo hanged foi the actions of others, it is not just Ihe man who threw the bomb in Chicago j -h eild be hanged and his nccompliees should roe 1 i vo the punislmient allotted tosuch ofleuses , by tho laws of the State of Illinois." All letters ri Inting to the anarchy subject were quoted nt length. Ihe Denver question was given in full, and of the matter Air. I’owderly said "I regarded the Whole atlair as mi outrage and the questions as being jmpi rUnent, rascally, anil prompte I by malice or revenge. The resolution which Hbould pass is one to deimiud that every avowed anarchist should bo obliged to withdraw from tho order or be ex- ■ polled. Mohavi nothing to fear from the tra ic- , union, but evervthmg to fear from tho cont.mij muting inthionco of tho m«n who preach deI struction in the nemo of our order, and who at । the eauio time assort tlint Um v are soc alists, i while giving the He to over, principle of soeial- ; ism when they a Locate v iolon e of nnv kind. ' As to tho Homo Club 1 believe that tills repoit , would not be complete without an explanation 1 of my knowledge of tb<> Homo Club of New | V. rk mid th" abuse and ridicule which have 1 been heaped upon me for the hist two years In conseum neo . t my supp. sod cvime< tion witli it. Now. I intend to speak plainly and candidly." Mr. I orderly quoted voluminous correspondenco and related iueidonbillj the facts a , known to him cd the attempt nm le t > take his life in j 1883. Mr. Powderly continued. For a long time after the adjournment of tb< last Leneial As-| si inbli th re we; 110 act.on taken by the General Fxecutivo Board on the resolution of expulsion of the ciiinnmikors. From a great many places n demand was ma le to have the resolution Carrie out, and the board was finally obliged t . lake m tieu I did not favor that rests hition nt Riehmotid and do not favor it now. I believe that it was wrong afid in violation of the laws of tho order. Soon after it was promulgated by tho board I prepared ailceisiou regarding it and intended t in., it befi re the laiard. , I did not present tno decis.vn to the board, and I kept it until now. I present it lor the considerj ation of the General Assembly." The decision is carefully pieparcd mid ex- ; pusses Mr. Powderly s belief that the res dn- । tion is unconstitutional and of no binding efTeet except as a warning. After completing Uis defense Mr. Powderly 1 said: T now desire to make some recommendations to the General Assembly, and I do most respectfully nsk that mure eoußidemtion be given to them than has been given to ethers that I made to past general sessions. I believe ‘ the day has come to ask at the hands of Coni gresa die passage of a law creating n Depurt ment of Labor at the seat of the National Government. AVc have to-day it Department ot A\ ar; we do not need it at all in compuris 11 to a Department of Labor. The prosperity of the whole country rests on the broad shoulders of labor, and there is nothing now so prominently I I before the nation and the world ns the ques- j ! ti< 11 of labor. Nearly every action taken now j ! i>y the Executive or his tnbinet deals in one 1 way or another with the question of labor; its ‘ ramifications extend every who re. its power is felt everywhere, and its üb< fulness is now ■ recognized everywhere. i believe that the i Government of the United States should operate its own lines of telegraph ’’ "I believe that it is absolutely necessary for I the welfare and prosperity of tiie country that tho Government establish a telegrayii sysI tem to be used in the interest of the people. 1 j recommend that stops be taken to have the I next Congress acton a bill to establish a gov- . ernmental telegraph, to be run in connection j with the postal service, I believe that we I should go before the next Congress asking for I the passage of bit one or two measures. They) * should be important ones, and the full strength lof the orgauiztit.on should be behind those who i make the demand. I believe, however, that nothing can be more important than the passage of laws creating a governmental telegraph and a National Department of Labor. “ To deal knowingly and intelligently with the questions in our declaration of principles we should have a journal published under the control of the order which would reach every member. It should have a department especially devoted to the discussion of these very questions. It must make a radical change in the methods of educating cur members. In the Journal of Sept. 10 I published an outline sketch of a plan for ths rc ,nlation of State, Territorial, mixed, and trade assemblieH. i will do no more at this time than to draw the attention of the General Assembly to tho matter, and ask either that or a, better plan be adopted for tho regulation of the order. Ono thing that draws our members away from us is the facilities afforded them to secure assistance of a pecuniary nature in other organizations, s< mo of whom are not in sympathy with our order; and if our members could but receive the relief in the order which is guaranteed to them outside of it we would have them with ub all tho time. 1 recoin mend tho adoption of a universal benefit plan. “Tho question of my being a member of tho Socialist orgnni/.ution lias been made the subject o so much comment of late tunt I believe it but fair to this General Assembly to ma o known my connection with socialism, or rather with the men vv ho in former years were at the head of the Socialistic Labor party, in 188 C Philip Ann Patten, the Nat onal Secretary of the Socialistic Ln or party, was a member of the General Executive Board of tho Knights of Labor. I became very intimate with him, and wo frequently discussi d the various mea uret of reform which all men in the movement regarded as of import once. Ue iont me a red card of member-hip some time abouttlie month of August, 1880 The card was paid up by him for three months. I regarded it as a complimoutary act on the part pf Brother Van Patton I saw, however, that tho declaration of principles of tho Knights of Labor cont lined nil of socialism that 1 cured to advocate, and I no - er took any’ action on tho card, except to keep it as a memento of tho days when wo were associated uh officers of this association. I never cast a vot.s for the candidates of that party, was never a member of any of hb sections, and had no connection with it except in the manner relAto.l above. Tho use of firearms or dynamite is n< t advocated by the socialists ; the confiscation of 1 roperty or too distribution of wealth, or, in fact, the bestowing of wealth or menns on those who have not worked or earned it, is not focialisni; it is robbery; it is rapine, and no sane man can advocate such a doctrine. If bolieving in tho declaration of all the principles of this order makes me a socialist, then I have no denials to make ; but that I am a member of any other society’ in w iden questions of reform 1 arc discussed 1 do deny. "I cannot sp< ak too highly of the energy and 1 ability’ displayed by t|p> general investigator. From the places she has Investigated I hearths 1 most fluttering report) pi her management, and < tLa dlsvl£»Hure» that been to her ar® ; of « Mfiirti as r<> strsug^how J»y 1

that the office should bo made permanent and the sphere of usefulness of the department increased, ” A NEW APOSTLE. Train Makes the Chicago Anarchists Happy—His Utterances Loudly Cheered. [Chicago special.] George Francis Train opened his campaign in Chicago at the Princess Theater Sunday afternoon before a highly appreciative audience of about six hundred. Nearly all ti e leading socialists and anarchists were present and greeted the celebrated crank with a cheer. His speech was a curious mixture of bombast, eloquence, rhetoric, history, fiction, anecdote, and "insanity. He caught the audience from tho first word spoken and retained their strictest attention until the close of his talk. Said he: I have come to Chicago for the purpose of starting the I)aily Anarchist. 1 crammed Herr Most down tho throat of the New York labor people. AVhen I started there Herr Most tin uppermost among tho Socialists there. Aft w I bad spoken his talk seemed tame and iusip d. I told them, and I tel! vou, that if these seven Socialists i ang, I will load 20,000,(DO workingmen against Chicago and cut the throats of the mou who bo foully murdered them. (Long continued applause. ( The police hive now made a startling discovery. They havo found wome bombs. All those in favor of bombs Buy aye. It is carried. Wild applause and laughter, j I will leave it to th-* reporters if I haven’t talked long enough. All in favor of coining again to-night say aye. Tho meeting broke up amid wild applause and cheers for Train. Several hundred crowded around the speaker and tried to shake hands with him. He refused to shake hands with anyone, claiming that it would deprive him of his psychological powers. Nina Van Zandt came forward and was recognized by Train, who mounted a tabie and said: Gem i.umi n : Allow me to introduce to you Mrs. Nimi Spies, All those who, in case tho Supreme Court refuses to liberate her husband. August Spies, will follow me to the County Jail and help to liberate him will signify by saying A wild anarchist yell, such as has not been heard in Chicago for a year, was the answer given the daring or crazy orator. I’ho crowd gave cheer after cheer for Train, Spies, l’arsons, and other anarchists. I rain was surrounded by the crowd, who tacitly crowned him the King of the Anarchists. \ dozen or more detectives and officers in citizen's clothes made no move, mid si emed dazed at the recklessness of the mm who had thrown down tho gauntlet to the police force and authorities. Socialists and anarchists who have not smiled for months went out of the hall with a new light in their eyes and congratulated each other Hint a new apostle had arisen. LI XI KY ON WHEELS. Tho Saloon nnd I lining-Koon) of the I’res iilfiit’s Car. President Cleveland, says the Chicago Xi irs, does not accept any favors from the railroad companies, but pays out of his own pocket for the best conveniences and comfort that modern railroad enterprise can Slw'W DINING SIXTY MILES AN HOUR. afford. The saloon of the President’s car is furnished with all the comforts and attractions that brighten the elegant modern parlor, and his bedroom is furnished as choicely as the upholsterer's art can sugnil i r । d j ! ~ _Jd THE CAR SLEEPING ROOM. gest. As Mr. Cleveland pays in full for al ho gets as he goes, thero is no danger of the railroads that carry him coming into any conflict with the Interstate Commerce Commission. KAILROAD CONSTKIT TION. The Engineering News Gives a Summary of the Work in the West. (New York telegram.] The Engineering News for this week publishes a map showing new railroads completed, building, under survey, and projected on what is deemed tb be a reasonably solid basis in the region east of Chicago and north of Norfolk, Va., with a tabulation of the same details by companies and States. Following is a condensed summary: ■■ Canada (including all provinces east of Manitoba) —Track laid, 313 miles; under construction, 1182 miles; surveys, G 57 miles; projected, 880 miles. New England Track laid, 317 miles; under construction, 251 miles; surveys, 535 miles; projected, (185 miles. New Y'ork, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania Trak laid, 118 miles; under construction, 7i>ti miles; surveys, 611 miles; projected, 406 miles. Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan south of Mackinaw Straits- Track laid, 212 miles ; under construction. 501 miles; surveys, 1,011 miles; projected, 1,123 miles. A irginia, V ast Virginia, and Kentucky no th of the latitude of Norfolk—Track btid, thirteen miles; under construction, SCO miles; surveys, 6JI miles; projected, 1,017 miles. Total for the whole area east pf Chicago a.pd north of Nqipiik Track lajd, 713' miles; under oopstructipi), 3,‘03 inlles ; sufveys, 3,342 mih.*; projected, with h .mo fair ghurjie of gunntntc Uqd, gules

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. otes on the Lesson for October 16—“ Power to Forgive Sins.” 'From the Chicago Standard. By Rev. J. M. Coon. 1 ♦ 1 ho subject for this lesson may be found in ■ the first eight verses of tho ninth chapter of ' Matthew. Time, summer of A. D. 2& Place, ! < apernaum, after crossing the sea from the I Gadarenes. SPECIAL MENTION. The palsy. Many infirmities were included ! mi ler tho general name of palsy in the New Testament. 1. Tho paralytic shock, affecting ho whole body. 2. The hemiplegy, affecting * n y one side of the body; the most frequent lorm of the disease. 3. The paraplegy, af- । ctmg all the system below the neck, i Ihe catalepsy. This is caused by a contraction of the muscles in tho whom or a part of Un body, and is very dangerous. The effects are very violent and fatal. For instance, if, when a person is struck, he happens to have h s hand extended, ho is unable to draw it nick; if not extended, he is unable to stretch if out It gradually becomes diminished in > z?, and dried up in appearance. Hence it w.is called tho withered baud (Matt 12: 10-13). A. Jho cramp. This, in Eastern countries, in a fearful malady, and by no means unfreqnent It originates from chills in the night 1 he limbs when seized by it remain unmovable, and the person afflicted with it resembles one undergoing a torture. This was probably the disease of the servant of the centurion (Matt. 8: 6; Luke 7: 2). Death follows from the disease in a few days. (Barnes.) The Oriental lied. —This was simply a mat or blanket which could be carried in tho hands. 'The poor sometimes had no other lied than the outer garment. The wealthier people in the East have quilts or mattresses tilled with cotton, which are spread on the floor or on the divan. In the text the paralytic, being healed, was told to take up his bed and go home. All he had to do was to roll up his blanket and depart A similar incident tool: place at the pool of Bethesda (see John 8,9, 11, 12). On such simple “beds” the sick were easily carried. Thisjs referred to 1:1 .Matt 9: 2; Mark 2: 3,4; L^e 5: 18; Acts 5: 15. Eastern Houses.—Thore was such a dense crowd around our Lord that tho four men c mid not force their way through it, and therefore they went to the roof of tho house, broke up part of it, and let down the sick niau from above. The following considerations may make this act intelligible. We must banish from our minds every form of European or American houses. Those of Capernaum, a~i is evident from the ruins, were, like those of modern villages in th s same region, low, very low, with flat roofs, reached by a stairway from the yard or court Jesus probably sto >d 111 tho open lowan, and the crowd were around and in front of nun. Those who carried tho paralytic not being able “to come at him for the press,” ascended to the roof, removed so much of it as was necessary, and let d*>wn their patient through the ajxorture. Examine one of these houses, and you see at one.* that the thing is natuial, and*easily accomplished. Tho roof is only a few feetliigh, and by stooping down, and holding the corners of the couch—merely 11 thickly padded quilt, as at present in this region—they could 1 -t down the sick man without any apparatus *>f ropes or cords to assist them. And thus, I >ii) ] 0.-ie, they did. The whole affair was the extemporaneous device of plain ^eaagnts, acriiH oniud to opeh their roofs and lot down grain, straw and other articles, as they still do m tins quiiutry. (Thomson). t.’erycsa (also called Gadara). There is not much doubt about Gergesa. It is coming to be regarded as identical with Chersa or Gersa, on tho eastern shore of the sea, and on the border of the district or province which took its name from Gadara, one of the chief cities of Decapolis, if ark and Luke say Oadarenes, and some manuscripts have that word iu Matthew. 'The variations in the manuscripts of the three evangelists are numerous. The city referred to, it is thought by many, could hardly havo been Gadara, which was three hours to the south of the southern shore of the sea. But Dr. William Thompson discovered a Chersa or Gergesa within a few rods of the eastern shore of the sea. A mountain rises immediately above it, so near the shore that the swine, rushing madly down, would be inevitably driven into the water. The ruins, of ancient tombs are still found in this moun-tain-side, and Capernaum is in full view on the other side, “over against it.” (Luke 8: 26.) TOPIC AND OUTLINE. The lesson presents Christ 111 his different treatment of individuals, aud their different attitudes toward him. AVosee (1) some rejecting him, and those ho abandons (v. 1); (2) some seek him, and these he welcomes (v. 2); (3) some trust him, and these ho blesses (v. 2); (4) some criticise and cavil, and these ho seeks to persuade and convince (vs. 2-6); some reverently worship him, aud to these he reveals himselt more and more. In this lesson upon the forgiveness of sin, xvo may well emphasize the importance of faith as the preceding condition to blessing. “Seeing their faith;” probably referring to the faith of the whole five. The four have faith to bring the paralytic, an 1 tho paralytic has faith to be brought. Possibly tho sufferer prevailed on his friends to bring him to Jesus. Christ seems to grant the forgiveness before faith makes the request, but he knew the faith was there. He knows, too, how to develop faith in each case. Here he encourages, entices the faith by throwing out the blessing. In the case of the Syro-Phoenician woman ho provoked the faith by a temporary withholding of the blessing. We may be sure Jesus saw the germ of a true and strong faith in this paralytic, who thereby was ready to receive and understand this message of forgivenoss. But the first verses of this chapter, do they not give us a picture of earnest persevering fa th? Nothing baffles or defeats it, but it develops (true to its nature) in inventiveness, in resources, in power, as the difficulties multiply. To secure forgiveness we must find Christ; to find Christ we must have faith. True faith (1) seeks Christ, (2) scorns difficulties, (3) waits Christ’s name, (4) promptly obeys Christ’s command, (5) submits entirely to Christ’s method. While thus emphasizing the necessity of faith, and affirming its power, we need constantly to remember that it is but the channel through which forgiveness flows. It is the condition of forgiveness, bi it is only the condition. Tho place of faith as related to the salvation of others is suggested by this lesson. It is one form of effort on behalf of others. Indeed it is f undamental, for if that bo lacking all other work is vain. In some way the believer’s faith is effective to tho salvation of others. Th 1 conduct, of these four bearing the paralytic, and of Matthew inviting his friends where they may meet Jesus, teach a lesson tho Christian world needs to be constantly learning. They who are the called of God are to bo also callers to and for God-SEED-TRUTHS AND GERM-THpUGHTS. 1. Christ will not remain with those xvho deliberately and persistently reject him (v. 1). 2. If wo choose demons and swine wo will not desire Christ (v. 1). 3. Faith will find its way to Christ (v. 2). 4. True faith fs rewarded beyond its own expectation (v. 2). , _ . 5. Only God can forgive sins; Jesus forgives sins; therefore Jesus is God (v, 2). 6. Tho best work and worker will always bo criticised and censured (v. 3). 7. Christ’s gracious condescension in furnishing his objectors overwhelming proof of his authority (vs. 4-6). 8. Our duty to tho weak and unfortunate (v. 2). 9. Sin is mighty, but Christ is mightier (v. 6). 10. Christ is equally able and anxious to forgive sin to-day, and wants to bo gracious to all. 11. Our faith may bd a moans to the salva. tion of others (v. 2). ; 12. All Things are equally easy to omnipotence (v. 5). 13, Tho convincing logie pf practical godlijiossj (v. 8). Subjeot cf tho cusop f w . Oct. 93, *Thr#«

NUMBER 16.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. —The following patents havo been issued to Indiana inventors: William P. Bollenbacher, Bloomington, cigar box: Thomas B. Carroll, Indianapolis, apparatus for regulating pressure; John P. Dodds and E. Daxvson, assignors to L. Shultz, Terre Haute, piston or valve rod packing; John A. Evans and L. A. Teagle, Richmond, । sash operator for green-houses; Rufus R. । Gillespie, Fort Wayne, garment adjuster; I George W. Hays, Goshen, back rest; AnI drew E. Hoffman, Fort Wayne, feed | mechanism for saw-mill carriage; Lewis । McNutt, Brazil, shade exhibitor; Ora M. | Miller, Greensburg, extensible seat; Lu- | cian R, Oakes, Valparaiso, milk cooler; George W. Smith, assignor of one-half to C. H. CadwalladeF, Union City, box; Levi Sutherland, Indianapolis, thill coupling; John A. Witmer, Wakarusa, road cart; Theophilus A. and S. B. Wylie, Bloomington, instrument for describing circles; Harvey B. Yaryan, assignor of two-thirds to J. 11. Watson and C. N. Vancleave, Crawfordsville, reach coupling. —One evening recently, as Wilber Hadley, the son of a prominent farmer living seven miles north of Plainfield, returned home from school, he found all the members of the family away, from home. Entering the house quietly, he was startled by a burglar rushing past him. He had barely recovered from his astonishment when a second thief appeared at the head of the stairs. Wilbur produced a revolver and commanded the burglar to surrender, when the thief bounded down the stairway and attempted to escape. At this moment Wilbur fired, the ball taking effect in the burglar’s thigh, but only disabled him for a second, when ho continued his way. Several minor articles were found missing by the young man, who then proceeded to track the thieves. Following the blood drops a short distance, the burglar was found -ying in some high weeds. He was taken in charge, and is unknown. —The dreaded hog cholera appears to be spreading in the north part of Wabash County. A gentleman from a point five miles northwest of Wabash states that during the past three weeks fully 400 hogs have died in his neighborhood alone, the value of the animals being from $7 to $8 each. The finest and healthiest hogs seem to be attacked first, those from seven to eight months old and weighing about 150 pounds being most susceptible to the malady. The symptoms are drowsiness, blooding at the nose and a deaf and dumb condition. If the scourge continues, very little pork will be marketed from the noith part of the county. Nothing has been found to check the cholera. —The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Kokomo District, North Indiana Conference M. E. Church, have elected the following officers: President, Mrs. J. E. Ervin, of Kokomo; Recording Secretary, Mrs. W. 11. 1). Daniels, of Logansport; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. C. G. Milter, of Peru; Treasurer, Mrs. W. E. Mowbray, of Peru. Mrs. J. E. Ervin, (t this city, was chosen a delegate to ti e annual convention of the northwest branch of the W. F. M. S., which convenes in Milwaukee Oct. 12. Tho next district annual meeting will be held at Peru in September, Lsss. — The telephone crisis at Logansport has at last come. All contracts which the telephone company made with its subscribers when it introduced its extortionate toll-system some three months ago has ex--1 ired, and w.th their expiration a large number abandoned its service. At one time therv aas about 200 instruments in use in the city, while at present thero are only about one-fourth that number. The indictment and arrest of Manager Dunseth will unquestionably be the means of a similar move being inaugurated throughout the State. - A fine-blooded bull, belonging to Mr, Couden, a farmer of Cass County, was bitten by a dog. A few days ago it became suddenly mad, and tearing across the field, gored about a dozen fine heifers, valued at over 52,500. It then jumped a high fence and started for Logansport. Two of Conden’s hired hands, who witnessed the unusual actions of the animal, mounted horses and pursued him to within a mile of the city, when they shot him, just as he was making for a party’ of children who were out nutting. —Shortly after the war a wagon loaded with barreled cement was upset on the levee, at Jeffersonville, and a greater portion cf the load rolled into the river. Recently, while a number of men were at work repairing the wharf-lost^, the contents of one barrel was found lying in ihe water. The cooperage bad long since rotted away, but the cement had remained together ana had become as hard as stone. — The lifeless body of Michael Ryan was found by the side of the Panhandle track, a mile and a half east of Upland. Ryan was a farm hand employed by James Palmer. The day previous heliadgone on a big spree, and when he started home was scarcely able to walk. It is presumed he lay down on the track and was killed by -the cars. He Was 45 years old; and so far as known has no living relatives. —Tho I’andolph'County Board of Education has resolved upofi measures to have representative work of the schools of tho county exhibited at the nbxt county’ institute, an 1 also at the county fair. At least 150 of the teachers of the county will take up the reading-circle work. The average length of school terms in the county will be six months. —A hired man, working for Joseph Dant, a farmer near -Vincennes, after cleaning a revolver, Iftid it down on a table. Mr. Dant’s B^year-old daughter picked it up and it went off, wounding the • child— probably 'fatally. — The. Randolph County Agricultural Society has elected tho following officers: ■ Directors, John Frazer, Albert Canfield, A. J. Cranor, James Adkins, Frank Judge, Lewis N. Chok, and George Hiatt; Presid nt, N. T. Butts; Vice 1 resident, Abraham Sheeley; Secretary, Hon. J. W. Macey; Treasurer, Frank Moorman. —Gas has been struck at Atlanta at a depth of 976 foot, and eighteen inches in - the Trenton rack. It carries a flame from a giv.inch pipe to a height of eight or ten ‘ f ( . 1, nnd when fully developed is expected 1 ip became i> pusher.