St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 13, Number 31, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 January 1888 — Page 1

VOLUME XIII.

SAMBO’S WOOING. Come, all s’o darkies, brack an’ yaller t ■ ; Come listen to my song; I’se gwine to tell ye ’bout a feller. His name am Sambo Long. “Dinah, de moon am brightly shinin’ Down by de sycamore tree ; Dinah, love, I’se long been pinin’. Oh 1 come down dere with me 1” Oh! Dinab, heah her sigh, Heah Sambo's heart beat high ; Oh I dem darkies was a singin'. An' dat banjo was a ringin', An’ dat happy, happy day am long gone by! "Come, let dem darks be singin’, dancin', L • Come leave de barbecue ; I se gwine to 'scuss important things Consarnin’ me an’ you. De way through life am long an’ dusty, Kivered with ruts and stone — A right smart ways to Canaan's land, For to hoof it all alone. Oh! Dinah,’ heah her sigh, Heah Sambo s heart beat high. Oh ! dem darkies was a singin’, An’ dat banjo was a ringin’, • An’ dat happy, happy day am long gone by! “Ole Brudder Jones he’ll jine our hands, Dis chile no longer pines. Togedder on life's way we tramps. While love's star brightly shines, An’ when we reach ole Jordan’s banks An jine de white-robed throng, Sweet Bounds the Glory Hallelujah! Ob Dinah an’ Sam Long. Oh 1 dere will be no sigh. Our hearts will beat with joy. Heah all dem darkies singin’, Heah dem harps an' banjos ringin’. Oh! dat happy, happy day cannot go by. ” NIGHT. BY JEFFIE FORBUSH HANAFORD. Aurora fair is vanished now, It is no longer day, Darkness has settled over all, Nocturna has her sway. Most glorious night, to you I pay A tribute of this verse. And gaze in raptured wonder At the beauty you rehearse. All the world seems cast in gloom, Hut when I glance on high A thousand little twinkling stars Shine in the cloudless sky. The moon, in all its brilliancy, Will soon appear in sight. ’Tis then 111 gaze in rapture on— Nocturna—queen of night. iggoW ppie * 1 CHAPTER XIL * .. j j a HEN Jim Gregory < m > told Skete that Inf \ dians hated “nigW ' gers, ” tie told the / truth for once in his * V-u ’ /4t L* life at least. W (^l7 Poor old Skete, wear i e( l with his tramp and hungry -.R from insufficient food, fully realized ,i\ 'W* d an gei’ and horror of his posi- _ tion. “Beckon dey’ll burn me at de stake. Lor’ don’t I wish I done gone staid back dar in ole Virginny! But den I couldn’t leab Massa Fairleigh an’ dear Miss Nora, that is, ’less I done as ole Miss Grant —she runned away ’cause ob dese yer Indians. Golly!' wonder what dey will do wid ole Skete? ' But he was rudely pushed into a tent where an old squaw was cooking a mess of herbs, and no further attention was paid to him. The stars came out. Oh, how brightly they twinkled among the whiteCapped mountains! There was only a mere patch of sky visible through the tent. The scene was altogether diSerent from the level, far-reaching prairies that Skete had been accustomed to of late years. “Wonder if dey will give dis yer darky any supper? Lor’, but I be hungry! Done 1 wish I was back in de ole ranch helpin’ Miss Nora cook. Golly, I’d Uy round! But de ole ranch is gone, and Massa l airleigh’s gone, and by an’ by ole Skete he’ll be gone, too. I do wish ’fore de Lor’ Miss Nora had dese yer papers, or I knowed some one as would take ’em to her. If I don’t beliebe here come my supper! ” Skete was right. The old squaw entered with a bowl of some kind of a mess and set it before him with a grunt, and to Skete the odd, dirty mixture was delicious. While the braves were consulting together what was best to do with their black captive, whether to let him run the gauntlet or to burn him at the stake, and many other horrible measures, Skete settled it himself. Perhaps it was the supper, perhaps the friendly stretch of the majestic mountains heavenward that recalled the old home in Virginia and the old plantation days and" their songs, for as old memories crowded upon him Skete forgot the danger surrounding him, his cruel red foes, and began to sing, low at first, in a soft, crowing way, but louder and stronger until the old plantation songs and queer hymns rang out and echoed through the canyons. The Indian, to whose ear the slightest’sound is distinguishable, to the call of birds attuned, even the rustle of a leaf or the footfall of the panther conscious, could not fail to appreciate ‘ the natural sweetness and melody of Skete’s voice. Only a very few knew the meaning of the words, but every one, little and big, understood perfectly the music. Skete had been the boss singer in the old plantation days; many a spellbound audience he had held, but 'he J never sang to so vast a crowd or so appreciating a crowd before. The children and squaws first began to draw near, and then the braves. Skete at last became conscious of his surroundings and his audience, and with a new indescribable hope in his heart, he fairly outdid himself. At last, when all the old plantation songs had been sung, he took up the hymns his young mistress used to sing to her father, and when they were exhausted he began to whistle the waltzes and instrumental pieces she played on the piano. But even they had an end, and Skete paused at last. A satisfied grunt or two was the only applause he received,

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but it was the best night's singing Skete ever did, for by it he was permitted to retain his woolly scalp and preserve a whoh skin. When the morning broke Skete 9^7 IM iA j The young Indian listens in delight. opened his sleepy eyes, and, through the opening in the tent, beheld the blue skies and smiling landscape. How strange it all was; what funny sounds. Just then a young Indian boy thrust his head in the tent and regarded Skete’s black face curiously. “Got me any breakfust, my boy?” exclaimed Skete, smiling until he displayed his handsome white teeth. But, from the blank face of the youth, he knew he was not understood. Skete was a modern old Uncle Tom for trinkets and his liking for children, so he fished down deep in his pockets and drew forth a small whistle, on which he managed to play a tune, by chance selecting “Yankee Doodle.” The young Indian listened a moment in delight, and stretched forth h s hand for the whistle. “You go bring me some breakfust, honey, an I gib you de whistle.” And at the same time Skete began to work his jaws and make funny motions. The eyes of the boy twinkled understandingly, and he disappeared to return in a short time with the old squaw who brought a piece of broiled meat well covered in ashes. Skete at once placed the whistle in the boy’s hand, and smiled on him so genially that they were from that minute ever after friends. * Thus it happened that Skete was permitted to become an inhabitant of their village, and in a few days wandered at will among them, doing many odd jobs, and making himself generally useful, and every night entertaining them with his songs. The Indians evidently thought it impossible for him to return to his heme, and that he would not attempt an escape. Gradually he began to understand a few of their words and signs, and became more and more a friend by his many kindnesses. Once, when a little child fell ill, Skete watched over it with tenderest care, and the mother really thought he saved its life. Again, when a young lad fell into a deep and dangerous pond, striking his head against a rock, Skete sprang after him and fished him out. But it was his songs and droll antics that were the true cause of their wonderful and unusual favor. If the noble red men didn’t laugh over some of his funny dances and songs, they enjoyed them all the same, as any one could tell who watched their eyes twinkle. But all this time Skete was th nking and wondering how he was ever to get. away and go back over all those miles and miles that separated him from his loved mistress. “Done reckon as 1 could find my way back ober all dem mountains. Golly, what a long ways dey did fetch me! ’Fore de Lor, I ’clare I dunno what eber will become ob Miss Nora. De ran^h burned, massa gone, ole Skete gone, an’—an’dese yer papers gone! Bedskins been pretty good to me, sure. La! didn’t I jes expee dey would skin dis yar darkey alibe. Golly, I was in luck for once, sure, But Ido wonder what dey would da wid me if I jes got on one ob dem yar ponies an’—an’ rode off home. Better not try it yit a while, dough. Massa Fairleigh say nebber trust red man. Golly, what’s dat rumpus ober now?” Well might Skete ask himself that question; for such an uproar in the Indian camp he had never heard before. What it all meant he could not imagine, but he crept nearer the howling, wailing beings, and began to realize that there had been a fight, and that they were carrying home their dead. The wails of the widows rose above it all. Skete trembled for his own safety, and crept back out of sight as much as possible. “ ’Fore de I.or’, but ain’t dey hoppin’ mad! Dis yar darky better keep close.” Preparations were at once begun to send out a large war party; every brave, excepting the very aged and verv young, joined them. Skete expected to be compelled to be one among them, but was delighted to find himself entirely left out. “Now’s my time,” he thought, “when all dem redskins git off; den I watch ’round an’ watch ’round, steal out pony an’ make dust fly toward Miss Nora an’ de ole home. Den, oh den I gib her dese yar papers, an’ den we go back to ole Virginny, where Skete see ole friends a many-many, an’ dar Skete lib till he die.” The war partv was some time getting off, and Skete was much alarmed until he saw the last of them disappear down the mountain trail. He looked about him eagerly; the day had reached noon, the village had once more resumed its quiet, the herds were grazing in the valley, and among , them was one pony that for a long time Skete had had an eye on. A little chestnut fellow he was, strong and young, very swift and surefooted. Skete was a good judge of a horse, and he felt that once mounted on that sturdy pony’s back he would be almost sure of reaching home. But how to get off? Ah ! that was the question, and where was he to secure any arms? He needed a rille and a revolver, because there were dangerous animals in the mountains who, no doubt, would make no dillerence whatever between a white man and a black one. All the afternoon he skulked around, pretending to help at many trilling

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things, but in reality endeavoring to get hold of fire-arms. Only a few really good pieces had been left in the camp, but one of these, the rifle, was in the tent of an old invalid brave, but whose eyes were still sharp. Skete was not discouraged, though, at the difficulties before him, and resolved to make the attempt. Just at nightfall, he crept around to where the rifle rested, and, by cutting a hole in the tent, managed to abstract it, along with the accouterments. “I reckon I’ll have to leab the revolver, ’cause I can’t find none nowhere. Now, I’m must see about de pony; golly! if dey catch me, dey’ll burn me sure, if dey don’t shoot me fust. ” But so carefully and cautiously he worked, he did succeed in getting off without arousing the least suspicion, and as night set in chill and dark, Skete struck ^ut over the mountain trail bravely, going in what he supposed to be an easterly direction. CHAPTER XIII. KETE had not started u P on his long and peril'SL 01,8 j° urne y wholly unprepared. He possessed 11 a splendid rille, a keen knife, and a bag of ' cooked meat, for he knew , XU kqY lie would not dare risk kindling a fire for per- 1 haps many days. f 5 ^ omo points along the UnW way he had noticed parKwwlyWlV ticularly, as his journey JaiNwC the Indian village hail plbeen made on foot. Pl The pony, too, seemed M v> to take naturally to the trail, and the new moon high in the heavens permitted them to continue it the entire night. At break of day Skete prudently drew rein, and, finding a sheltered nook near a watercourse, he dismounted, and, tethering his pony securely, ate a slight breakfast, and as on that former occasion, crawled in under some bushes and went to sleep; but luckily for him no hostile Indians bivouacked near him, and no dangerous rattlesnake appeared upon the scene. When he awoke he found his pony still quietly grazing, and the suu high in the heavens. “What am best to do now, I wonder,” mused Skete. “If I start again long ob de trail, I ’most certain sure to run ober some Indian. I guess I’ll jes’ stay right here till dark comes. I'd j rather risk it by de moonlight.” And 8 kete, who liked to sleep much better than he did to work, quietly j dozed off again. When ho awoke again his pony had eaten all the grass within his reach, ’ and was regarding him with earnest, re- । proachful gaze. “Golly, what a good sleep dat was! Yes, my fine fellow, you've eaten enough for present needs, and now it’s ’bout time we was movin’ on.” But before starting Skete cautiously crept from their sheltered vale and gazed down the trail as far as he could ; see. He was about to return to resume I his journey when he fancied he saw an j object moving very far down the path. I Seizing his rifle firmly, he secreted j himself and awaited its approach. It seemed a long time before it came near enough for Skete to know what it was, but at last, when he did realize ! what was actually before him, his heart seemed to stand still, and his knees coaid scarcely bear his weight. “Golly, it's—it’s a b’ar!” Sure enough, it was a bear, and a \ '4 V/“Golly! it’s —it’s a b’ar!” very large and fierce-looking one at • that. Skete only clutched his rifle closer and crept back behind a tree, hoping > that Bruin would pass him by without noticing him. ’ Just what might have taken place । was hard to tell, for as Skete secreted himself he was astonished to hear the > sharp report of a rifle below him, and r to see the bear start and roll over as if [ shot. Scarcely had the report died away ; than two Indians leaped forth, and with E long knives soon finished the work the rifle had hardly done. i Skete beheld them dress the bear in i most approved style, and trembled as r he saw them making preparations to ’ build a fire and cook a portion of it. r “ ’Fore de Lor’ if I don’t beliebe dey > be goin’ to git supper. Golly, now, if j dat ar pony done keep still!” j Then Skete lowered himself to his hands and knees and began slowly to r back himself out of the dangerous 10-1 1 ■ cality. i The Indians were so intent on their work they noticed nothing amiss, and a in less than hour had departed, carryi ing a large portion of the bear’s meat 3 with them. r A nice bed of coals remained, and 3 Skete crept out and, slicing off a few pieces from the portion remaining, , broiled them and added them to his - rapidly decreasing stock. Then he led a, his pony back to the trail, mounted it, 1 and hastened from the spot. 3 [TO BE CONTINUED ] s A citizen of Davenport, la., whose - J garden is situated about lUO feet from I an electric light tower, has remarked - that his lilies close at sunset, but open o again a few minutes after the arc lamps - have been lighted. It has been obs served at Detroit, too, that the foliage of the trees exposed to the rays of the . electric light is much more luxuriant g than that of such trees as are not

CONGRESSIONAL. Work of the Senate and the Houae of Representatives. Mr. Hawley, of Connecticut, offered a resolution in the Senate on tbo l‘Jth inst., which was adopted, directing the Secretary of the Interior to report a plan of legislation thought by him to be needed for the disposition of the public timber lands so as to secure the preservation of the national forest lands at the headwaters of navigable rivers, and to put within tbo rights of Bottlers legal means of providing themselves with timber for building their homos. Adopted. Senator Stockbridge introduced a bill appropriating SIOO.COO for a public building at Grand Haven, Mich. Bills authorizing the construction of bridges at Lexington, Mo., and Burlington, lowa, wore reported to the Senate and placed on the calendar. The Senate adopted Mr. Manderson s resolution calling on the Secretary of War for information regarding the construction of a bridge at Omaha. The Senate spent most of the day in secret session at work on its calendar of treaties. Those of chief consequence are the British, Russian, and Dutch extradition treaties. - It is understood that the treaty with the Netherlands was ratified. Another unsuccessful eCort was made in the House to consider tbo Wilkins banking bill, and after half an hour's filibustering tue matter went over. The Committee on Appropriations reported the regular annual pension bill to the House. The bill appropriates S&O,275,500. The Thoebe-Carlislo contested election case came uj> in the House of Kepresontatives Jan. 20. Mr. Crisp of Georgia opened the debate by reviewing the proceedings before the Commitj tee on Elections. He justified the majority of । the committee in deciding that the case should ! not be reopened. Mr. Lyman tlowaj knew of no ' reason why the House should not reopen the | case. Grave charges had been made by the i contestant in affidavits —ex-parto affidavits, it ; Was true—and they had been answered by I othei ex-parte affidavits. Strong efforts had j been made to prevent an inves gation of these ; charges. Were the contestee and nis friends i afraid of the truth, Mr. Cooper (u.) spoke in support of the majority report. It had been charged that there was a conspiracy immediately after the olsction between Mr. Carlisle and his friends ' for the purpose of fixing up the matter for Carlisle—a charge that was proved to bo wholly unfoun led and based merely on the idle chat! whicn was frequently found floating around in the atmosphere after an i election. Mr. Howell of Illinois took the same view. Mr. Lodge of Massachusetts spoke in support of the minority. The pending case, life said, was too important to be settled by affidavit. On motion of Mr. Crisp, Thoebe, the contestant, was granted an hour in which to present an argument in his own behalf. Mr. Lyman of lowa offered a resolution providing for a full investigation of the case, nut it was defeated by a vote of 125 to 132, seven Democrats voting in the affirmative. On the majority report, refusing an investigation, Republicans retrained from voting, and the matter wont over. Tbcro was an exciting scene in the House. In the debate over tne Melbourne Exposition bill Judge Kelley intimated that Mr. Sgi nger of Illinois sought a fee for his services in securing a decision in the Supremo* Court against the Philadclnhia Centennial. Mr. (springer got up and vehomontly denied the insinuation Mr. Kelley tue i reiterated the charge, amid great excitement. There was an evident misunderstanding, and a good many hard w. rds apokon before it was cleared up. Mu. Crisp, of Georgia, oa lied up the Thoebe case in the House of Representative on the 21st of January, the pending question being on the : resolution of the majority of the Cowmittoe on Elections confirming Mr. Carlisle's title to bis i seat. The vote resulted, yeas lie, nays b; no quorum. Mr. Crisp, stating that the vote had disclosed the fact that tuere was no quorum ! present, moved that the House adjourn, which was agreed to; yeas 13', nays 123— a strict party vote. The motion ♦ 1 refer to the Committee on Ei^anee the I’rasideut’s annual message wu called up tn the Senate by Mr. 1 rye on Jan. 23, and the Senator from Maine made a vigorous attack on the administration and its tax-reduc-tion policy. Mr. Chandler introduced a bill to i regulate elections for members of Congress A 1 bill was introduced by Mr. Stewart providing i that the legislative power in Utah shall bo vested in the Governor and a legisi lative assembly of twelve citizens of the i Territory, to be appointed by the President. !In t.’o House of l.epresentativos Mr. Anderson (lowa introduced a resolution to auI th >rize the institution of judicial proceedings | against the various Pacific Railroad Companies. The Thoebe-Carlislo case was called up, and I the Hous-’ proc e led to vote । n the majority resolution - ontlrming Carlisle b title to th * seat. I The resolution was adopted—yeas, 121 ; nays, 7. Messrs. Cannon, Cooper. Davenport, McKenna, Post, and Steel", Kep iblicans, voted in the affirmn.*ive, and Messis Baker 111.-, Brewer, Buchan m, Cheadle, Hovey, Kqrr, and Laidlaw, Republicans, in the nege'ivo. Mr. Palmer addressed the Senate Jan. 24 on the subject of the bill introduced by him to regulate immigration. Mr. Hoar called up Mr. Gorman's motion to reconsider the vote referring the President’s message on the Pacific reports to a special committee of five Senators. After consiaeraole discussion a motion to refer the matter to the Railroads Committee, made by Mr. Davis, was rejected. The original resolution was modified by increasing the membership of the select committee to seven —and it was then adopted—yeas, .j 4 ; nays, 15. Among the bills introduced in the Senate were the following : By Senator Plumb, lor the extension of the southern and western boundaries of Kansas so as to include the public land strip; by Senator Wilson of lowa, to amend the postofiice appropriation act of March 3,187 V, bo as to provide that publications of the second class may be transmitted through the mails tree of charge to subscribers who live in another county but r. ceive their mail in the county in which the publication is issued ; by Mr. Hoar, to change the time of meeting of the long session of Congress to the first Monday in October, and of the short session to the second Monday in November; by Mr. Voorhees, for the formation and admission of the State of Montana. A bill was passed authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi river at or noar Burlington, Jowa. In the Horse of Representatives Mr. Breckinridge of Arkansas introduced a bill authorizing the President to discontinue any customs district where the revenues arc not equal to the expenses and appoint deputy collectors at subpo.ts when necessary. The House passed bills authorizing the consttuction of a bridge across the Missouri River nt Lexington, Missouri; conferring civil jurisdiction in the Indian Territory on United States Courts having criminal jurisdiction; granting to iho Duluth, Rainy Lake River & Southwestern railroad company right of way through certain Indian lands in Minnesota. The House adopted a resi'lution. r ] Oitird from the Committee on Printing, calling on the Public Printer for info.nnation as to whether be has recently discharged or furloughed any of his force, and if so, for what reason, at a time when the printing ordered by the House is largely in arrears. Also, whether in making such discharges regard lias been had to the statute giving preference in employment to honorably discharged soldiers. One day a young clerk who was ambitious for a large fortune determined to visit Commodore Vanderbilt and learn from him the secret of accumulating wealth. He entered the magnificent apartments of the millionare, with whom he was somewhat acquainted, stating his errand, and asked him on what mysterious principle he conducted his business with such unexampled success. Mr. Vanderbilt eyed him a moment to sound his motives and then slowly replied: “By working hard and saying nothing about it.”— Dry Goods Chronicle. | Pomona, Fla., has a genuine curiosity in the form of a double-headed 1 snake. It is evidently only a few days old, is about eight inches in length and the thickness of a lead pencil. It has two perfectly formed heads, the junction being at the neck, making two prongs about three-quarters of an inch in length. It tales its meals from ; either orifice with equal relish. ■ j The reason that codfish are found in i ' great abundance on the coast of NewI foundland is because in that region i there exist vast submarine mountains on • which crustaeeous and molluscous ani- ; । mals are abundant, and these consti- ! tute the natural food of the cod.

INTEREST IN BASE-BALL Beginning to Manifest Itself as the League Season of 1888 Approaches. Sprinter Sunday, of the Chicago Club, Is Signed by Pittsburgh. [CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.] Although the toboggan slides of the Northeast and Northwest are groaning under the weight of thousands of merry coasters; although the snow-covered boulevards of our great cities throughout the North are thronged with sleighloads o£ merry people, whose laughter mingles with the joyous jingle of the bells; and notwithstanding that the eyes of every lover of winter festivities in no less than a dozen of the most populous States of the Union are turned toward St. Paul in anticipation of the coming carnival of the Ice King and his subjects in that city, the columns of the great daily papers iff the country are beginning to till up with gossip—speculative and newsy—as to the probabilities of the coming season in connection with the great national game of the Americans —base-ball. This year as in years past the teams of the National League located at Chicago, Detroit. Indianapolis, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Washington. Boston and New York will, judging from their complexion at the present time, give to Americans tne closest contest and the most finished exhibition of the beauties of the game. Last year three or four very weak | teams left the race almost absolutely in the ! hands of four clubs, New York, Philadel- I phia, Chicago, and Detroit. This year, I however, the condition of things will be refreshingly different. Pittsburg has not I been idle since the season of 1887 closed. I With commendable enterprise its team j managers have been keeping their' eyes open for everything in the j way of playing talent that promised ' to strengthen its ranks, with the result that ' they have secured four or five new men | who will surely add very greatly to the ; playing strength of the team next summer. ; The latest capture of this club is that of Billy Sunday, the promising outfielder and sprinter of the Chicago Club. Chicago people are by no means pleased over Sunday's release, as he bad many frier ds in this city who think that the management of the t hicago Club has made a mi-take in letting the player go. President Spalding ! says, in explanation of his action: “Sunday was released to Pittsburg ; against my judgment a d against that of j Captain Anson, but under the circum- [ stances I could not do other than I did. That we let him go is due to the continued { harsh criticisms of one or two of the Chi- ! engo papera. The result was that wo took | Sunday ort the field, because wo found that the more the papers said the more it unfit- , ed him for work, and the more errors ha ' made. He simply could not stand news- j paper ciiticism. There was but one thing { left for me to do, and that was to release hint to some club that could offer him opportunities that’he could not get in Chicago. He wanted to go to Pittsburg, and I let him go there. If the Pittsburg club ' bandies the boy in the right way he will j prove a valuable num to it next season. Ho । is as honest as a Quaker, and a ball player i from his feet up. I never knew any man j to do belter work in the field than Sunday j at times did for us. He is sensitive, how- i ever, and does not stand newspaper criti- i cism well.” The Indianapolis seems to be bracing up, ; I and, in addition to Paul Hines, says that it I will secure two or three other players next season that will enable it to play ball along with the rest of them. Detroit will have about the same old team next year. Philadelphia will have practically the same team, with the addition of two or three promising new men. Chicago and New York have strengthened wonderfully, and will doubtless make a tight race for the pennant. “New York will have a great team in the field next season,” said Capt. Anson, the other day, “but none of you want to fail to keep your eye on ( hicago. Chicago will win. the pennant of 1888 dead sure, or I shall be a very badly iooled man.” The American Association has finally filled in its circuit by appointing Kansas City as the eighth club in its circuit. Jim ’ Whitfield, who was connected with the League club of 188 G in that city, went to Cincinnati, and was present at last week’s meeting in that city to represent, as he said, Kansas City capitalists, who were willing to establish a club there. So Kansas City was finallj* admitted to the circuit. Now, it happens that the new Western Association, composed of Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Omaha, and Des Moines, has a club in Kansas City, and President Sam Morton, of the Western Associatiou, is naturally very sore at the prospect of the Association locating an opposition club there. Last month the new Western Association was admitted to the protection of the national agreement, under which no association can establish a club in a city already occupied by another association, without the latter association’s consent. When asked what he, as the President of the Western Association, would do in the matter. Sam Morton said: “I should not be forced to take any steps in that direction myself. The protection afforded us as the result of our recent meeting with the Arbitration Committee at Cincinnati should alone prove a preventive to any other organization entering Western Association territory. If Western Association clubs cannot get protection that far, what good is the National Agreement to them?” “Suppose they go ahead and loeate a club there any way, in violation of your agreement, what would your people do?” he was asked. “Simply frame articles of agreement to govern the minor leagues of the country. Our principal safeguard would be a rule to permanently blacklist from all leagues and associations under our agreement any player who leaves a minor league club to accept a position in auy National League or Association club, without first having secured • his release from the minor league club with which lie is playing at the time. I think such an agreement would give us all the protection we wanted, for I tell you a young player would think twice before unceremoniously jumping a minor league for a National League club when he knew that such action upon his part would forever . debar him from playing in any minor league club in case he proved a failure , with the big clubs.” DIAMOND GOSSIP. । Late advices from San Francisco are that from a financial standpoint New York has not done much better than the other teams, * the weather having seriously interfered 1 with the games ami attendance. t Kelly is credited with carrying back more money than any one else as the result of his season’s work, and is said to Lave i put away about $U0l). Hart is closing up his contracts to take i take care of tbo Milwaukee team, and will i go East the latter part of February. Van Haltren, of Chicago, has improved ■ in his work in the box, and will be in good trim for the coming season.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL hlotes on the Lesson for Jan- . n?ry 29—“ Peter Confessing Christ.” " I [From the Chicago Standard.] The lesson for the above date may be found ! in the sixteenth chapter of Matthew, from the thirteenth to the twenty-eighth verses. DAILY READINGS. M.—The Connection. Matt 15: 32. 10: 12. T.—The Lesson. W.—The Sou Revealed. Matt. 11: 25-30. 'T.—The Ignorant World. John 17: 25, 26. F.—Confessing the Son. Luke 12: 8-12. S.—Saving Confession. Rom. 10: 6-11. S.—Luke’s Story. Luke 0: 18-21. BREAKFAST VERSES. M.—“ Jesus Christ the Same.” Heb. 13: 3 ’L—“With You Always.” Matt 18:20. W.—“l and my Father.” John lu; 30. T.—“ Equal with God.” Philippians 2: 6. K—“ First-born.” Psalm 89: 27 S.—“ That Coufessoth not.” 1 J<iin4: 3. S.—“ The Decree. ” Psalm 2: 7. INTRODUCTORY. In the far northern part of Palestine is a little village called Barnas. It is the relic ol once proud Ciusarea Philippi Even history would have well-nigh forgoitm the place but for the fact that once, eighteen hundred years ago, a Master and Ins group of peripatetic students made a sortie to its borders, and there, in one of its shady restingrplaces, held a quiet but significant conversation. It is not tho only Roman city which is beholden to the ' sacred narrative tor its lasting remembrance, 1 the other city of this name on the coast being chiefly familiar to us to-day as the place of Paul’s incarceration. The inland city of Ctesarea is notable as tho scene of the great confession. '1 he disciples were here brought face to face with Jesus and with the pointed j and personal query, “Whom say ye that lam*?” Let every Sunday-school come near enough to | the “coasts of Ctesarea Philippi” to-day to heat j that soul’s inquiry and listen to the soul’s re- । spouse as well. WHAT THE BESSON TEACHES. JTAat do men say that I the Son of man am! I He was the Sou of man. That, in j sense, ] covered it all. But men had their varying opinions as to tho character of this noble per- । sonage. All seemed to know of him, buttheir ! ideas of his person and purpose greatly difi sered. So to-day, how many there are" who know of him, how few who really know tho j Son of man in his real and divine personality! j How much more talk about Christ than exper- | fence of his power! And they said, some say. They are quick to respond, and they have a glib answer to give. Some say this, some that, “John tho Baptist,” “Elias,” “Jeremiah,” or some other one oft he prophets. They know the popular mind quite well. Do they know as well the mind of the Fai h or? H7io»n say ye that I am? Two questions ’ really, according as wo place tho emphasis. I Whom say yt? Who am I? Tho first inquiry | concerns our personal relationship. “What : think ye of Christ’?” Wo know other men’s views. What are our own’? Wo have our I lessons in church history learned, what of ■ personal Christian experience’? Christology i is one thing. Christ in tho lieart is another, j Read again, “Who am I?” ho says. It is the voice of an intimate. Put guesses aside; as though knowest me, who am I? Does not this question come straight and strong to many a | student, many a. teacher, many a pioacher of i Christ to-day[ “Whom say ye that I am - ?” Thou art the Christ the Son of the Living I Cod. Confession is better than conjecture. It is easy to utter the latter. There nave been an abundance of pretty compliments paid to tho Christ by men who denied His divinity. “Ilie highest model of life,” said I Strauss; “will luever be surpassed,” said I Renan Words, words only. Here put beI side all such as thus \ Peters plain and poI tent confession, “lh u art Chnst, tho Son of ! .lie living God.” Ah. this signifies. My Father which is in heaven. Learn I here tho genesis of the doctrine of the person of Christ It is not man-guessed. It is j heaven-revealed. Flesh and blood would i have conceived something entirely different । Rousseau well said in effect, “The inventor i of such a life as Jesus would be greater than 1 the hero himself.” Why did he not go on to I accept of the heavenly revelation’? Upon this rock. 'line is controversial soil. The ground all about is strewn with the rocks and cudgels of debate. Wo do not well. There is hero much stimulus for tho Christian life. Lot us rescue this passage to its true uses of comfort and consolation. It is m reality a revival doctrine, and should oftenor bo chosen as an awakening text. Out of such as thou art, Peter, weakly, strong, waveringly, stumblingly loyal, half-instruct-ed, but possessed now of tins one great fruitful thought, God-imparted, that Jesus is tho Christ of the liviug God; oven of such | as thee, O Peter, with that one great truth on : the tongue, in the heart, in tho life, I will | build my spiritual house Beautiful. Is not I that enough to melt the proudest, to stir the . weakest, to enhearten and rejoice us all. Bound in heaven. Thore are not two codes j of legislation. Thore are not two Scriptures, dhe doctrines of Christianity are the evorlastI mg truth of God The prohibitions and sancI tions, which, led by tho Spirit within us, and the Book and tho Life before us, we are prompted to regard, are not passing and temporary. They are a part of God. They are of the godlike in us, and are a pledge and prophecy of tho celestial. Tell no man. A momentary withholding. Tho resurrection loosed their tongues. Straightway Christ had appeared unto them, risen from the dead, they wont forth with a new voice sounding in their ears: “Go yo into all tho world and preach.” Do you wonder that the evangelists lay such stress upon tho resurrection’? Did their Manter do otnerwise*? Get thee behind me. It is our Lord’s way of meeting temptation; there is no wavering, no dallying. So did he meet the testings of j the wilderness. So doos ho teach us to resist intimations of evil to-day. An offence unto me. So soon after his great confession an offence to his Master. Tho rock of strength has become a stone of stumbling. Yes, Peter has the primacy both in faith aud unfaith, aud we daro not put the burden of his succession all upon the Pone. Ho is the herald aud harbinger of us all. Let • it not elate us; let it make us very humble, l For my sake. Tho life that is lived for Christ’s sake is everlastingly kept The life -I of dependence upon Christ —is not that tho ' I literal sense of the original’?—is never lost, j It is linked with tho living God. Its anchor is cast within tho veil In exchange for his soul. 1 hat is, to repurchase it. Do wo orr ia suggesting this 1 meaning'? Who can- set a price upon the soul’? What can be rendered as au exchange i for it? When sacrificed what can replace it? Think of it. Accorditig to his works. Entrance is to faith: the reward is according to works. Let us work while tho day lasts, for the night cometh when no man can work. I BRIEF HINTS. ■ Notice as suggested in those verses: The , limits of Christ’s earthly pilgrimage. Tho Socratic and Christly methods of instrue- [ tion. The scriptural designations of Christ The publicity of Christ’s mission. Its privacies. Tho spirit of true confession. ■ The blessedness of faith. Faith by grace. 1 The church and its foundations. The 1 church and tho under-world. Christian authorlt.y. Personal responsibility. Tho i steadfast face. Tho cross before the crucit fixion. A life-saving service. The com- . ing of the kingdom. j Next lesson: “Tho Transfiguration.”— ' Matt. 17: 1-13. To remove warts from tho hand with little or no pain, get a piece of sal ’ ammoniac about the size of a walnut, ' moisten the warts a<d rub the sal ammoniac well on them every night and : morning for a fortnight. t The slang expression, “It’s a cold day tor them,” was used by John ) Bunvan in an essay against the Boman I Catholic clergy 200 years ago. One-man power—the fond and foolish dream of a very young husband. — Cleveland Sun.

NUMBER 31.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. । —The Secretary of War has re com* mended to Congress an appropriation of $17,500 to complete improvements of White River, from its mouth to the railroad bridge above Hazleton, Ind. During tho last fiscal year there was expended in this work $07,559, with a view to obtaining a depth of three and one-half feet at low water. This has been ,to some extent, the Secretary of War reports, obtained by means of dykes, by a cut in the rock bottom at Kelly’s Ripple, and by the removal of snags in the channel. The bad location of the draw in the railroad bridge above Hazleton prevents any navigation at lower water, and precludes the advisability of any improvement above that point for the present. —The Twelfth Annual Exhibition of the Northern Indiana Poultry Association will be held at Fort Wayne, February 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 1888. Entries close February 6, at 6 o’clock p. m. The past exhibitions of this association have been a success, both financially and otherwise, and all premiums have been promptly paid in full. The associatiou offers this year an additional special sweapstakes cash premium of SSO for the six highest-scoring pens of six different varieties owned by one exhibitor, each pen to consist of six birds, composed of either males or females, or both. Any bird scoring less than ninety points debars the pen, —Patents have been issued to the following Indiana inventors: Dille, Henry H., and E. M. McGuire, assignors, Richmond, apparatus for measuring and cutting fabrics; Fauber, W. IL, Marshfield, attachment for fence machines; Gronert, Wm. J., and C. G. Ccnn, Elkhart, music folio; Kit, Edward, Pittsburgh, differential gear for traction engines; Leach, Joseph, Indianapolis, assignor of one-half to C. G. Udell, North Indianapolis, hoop for coopers’ ware; Meek, Adam W., assignor of one-half to D. E. Meek, Hudson,, sliding gate. Redecap, George W., Middletown, tricycle; Slack, Fred, Sugar Branch, fence—The first ton shipment of silver bullion from Haysville, Dubois County, created quite a sensation. Over 5,000 people witnessed it. The last three weeks’ run of the Hartsfeld smelter poured out 1,500 pounds of bullion per day, and 300 tons of ore now at the smelting works averages, according to the United States mint reports, fifty-eight ounces in silver and four and one-tenth ounces in gold per ton, with 5,000 tons of ore in sight. Excitement is running high in this new mining camp, and real estate has jumped up fully 50 per cent, in the last mouth, and everybody feels happy. —Marshall, Carlton, and Boyer, three noted thieves waiting to be taken to the Southern Prison, to serve a term of eight years for burglarizing Osborn's store, at Paoli, attempted to break jail while Sheriff Pierce was giving them supper, Boyer struck Pierce on the head with a stick of wood, aud was giving him considerable trouble, when the Sheriff’s wife appeared at this moment with a revolver aud fired one shot at Boyer, but not taking effect. Boyer retreated. —Morris Hughes, who in former years was a wealthy, extensive, and prosperous business man of Montezuma, became insane about one year ago aud upon legal examination was so decided. The authorities at the Indianapolis asylum refused to receive him on account of over age, as he is now about 70 years old. As his family couid not control him he was taken to the County Infirmary, there to remain. —The Sugar Grove Mission Church, near New London, Howard County, has been burned, causing a loss of $3,000; no insurance. The Methodists were holding revival services in the church over a protest from one of the denominations that worshiped there. Bad blood was rife, which is believed to have led to the destruction of the church. —The famous Indian Springs, at Shoals, have been sold for $13,000, James W. Kennedy being the purchaser. The resort will be improved by the new proprietor, who anticipates a larger business this season than the place has ever enjoyed. The property has been in litigation for some time, and was sold at a remarkably low figure. —At a meeting of the stockholders of the Harrison County Agricultural Society the following officers were elected; President, James A. Harbison,; Vice President, James McKinster; Secretary, J. W. H. Littell; Treasurer, Amos Lemmon. —Elisha Hobbs, aged 83, died at Monrovia. He was one of the old residents of the State, being well known in Washington, Henry, Rush, Hendricks, and Morgan counties. He was the oldest brother of Hon. Barnabas C. Hobbs. —Prominent members of the Straw Board Trust met the Board of Trade of Anderson and signed articles of agreement to build the largest factories in the country. It is calculated the enterprise will employ at least 300 men. —A Mr. Cox and George Thompson were killed by a premature explosion in one of the Parke County coal mines, and a few hours later another employe named Alerton fell ninety feet down a shaft and was horribly mangled. —A son of William Oakum, living just south of Manilla, while playing ball, was accidentally struck on the head with a bat by Casper Craig, causing fracture of the skull. It will probably prove fatal. Near Valparaiso a snow-plow swept away an obstruction intended to wreck the east-bound Chicago and Grand Trunk passenger train. It is supposed that tho object of the wreckers was robbery. —Henry McCabe has been convicted of killing Lawyer Howard at Valparaiso, and sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary. The coroner’s jury nt Brazil has fixed the blame of the boiler explosion at the Cenual Rolling-mill on the defective machinery, and negligence and carep sness on tho part of employes or agents —A farmer named Nagle, while going to a neighborhood north of Terre Haute, broke through tho ice in the river bottoms and was drowned. His body was found frozen stiff. Mr. James Roberts, of Ladoga, was found dead in his bed. His son slept with him, and on awakening found his father WAart disease is the supposed cause.