St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 30, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 February 1892 — Page 2

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p| itlL^ (W [copyrighted BY the Amn ” UE author, 18C0.J CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.

^tuan^be^called nOt what Co,lld snce m- earliest ^^‘iops, yet had opinions that ditto c ^ t On I have 'si’M religious doewn ° DI the ac ' opidions (or beliefs) n‘! VS 'r and SU( 'h upon as suDerstltious ar< if °^ en Jooked ridiculous and not tn not wb dlly Jut no one deliberatnlv b cons| dered. । his own belief— that i® y ma nufactures . which he i.J, ov or trol than ho has over th* ? ™ oro co ”- of his "body or the coor nt°i glnal form 1 o n » for, like these it i« h,s com P’exforporate self He ’ r * a P ar £ of his

or Biint his face but w. , bls bod will resume their * alone, the color—the same with h™belief ever, one’s spm„j „ - . oei,er - How times compiUv^- rh pa ^ aro some pressive accident” » f d by SOnie im ' teaching; but this eh™or Is not wrought bv hie you see, Influences that ^5 u Wn wiH ’ b «t by Um The lne„ D p"°s‘,M .teor hensib’c destiny i H ,wen ' Ucompre-1 thought but to tol'oi' the’dlreS'^ 11 ' Promptings thereof. TIR odnnntt *

. J-t ? e c ~ n mind; dined.” tWiR ls be nt the tree’s i c - «wWoX”±„"' e or k-o» that «" 1 pressions of ehiMb i , ” aia —the im- i ‘ PrevaJ^Vno^ ? ung ]ik * * of my exPsie^ '\ whole Period comedy or romance " wh‘VWM been fortunate or unfortun^^ 1 iavc to partial ate, I h a ate enough back to the d» wn ; a . b en rest ned I history. -dawning of my personal a ”»"S ' Shifting scones. d Perpetually ,

‘XS 6 ?“ k wLe " 1 listed tumbled amd o'vnL^ ■ caUr :ls it ^o r s*es ^nd t}‘ 1 * ~ .'aifco 1 ft swept among the^-l the wiud J were mywv^ ^ llls and crag^T T I ■■hl / I - I ■

I it presented were earnestly ^studied. I bad ho steady place of habitation, but was taken in and taken care of, after a manner, by this person and by that, for awhile -for Iwas continually estray, and no one took the pains to hunt me up. Thus my infancy and childhood passed Into youth, when childhood’s dreamy life ended, and then my living came by an arduous strife with adversity. What information I possess was picked up of my own accord, regardless of schools or the pedagogue’s art. I had an early liking for letters, and explored enterprisingly the realm of knowledge, although nothing like system or order ever accompanied mv efforts. I was drilled to no particular trade, so my occupation, was necessarily various, and, aside from the fact that it maintained me reasonably well, was of a sort that bore as its fruit more experience than wealth. The course of my career finally settled in the channel of itinerant journa ism, and later into that of literature, as best becoming a person of haphazard accomplishments and roving disposition. All these circumstances, being of an exceedingly miscellaneous and uncommon character, may have combined to divert my thoughts out of any of the approved groves of religious theory, and to cause the opinions now dominant within my mind to fasten themselves upon me; but 1 credit my belief to other causes. When I was a little 'hild I held enm-

* uu tv iiuuiv ULU ± lItHU Ct) III’ ■ m union with shadowy forms that told me by myriad signs that they were relatives of mine; souls of my p op e who had shaken off the toils of material life and assumed Immortal existence in the Spiritual world. Long before I knew / that they were ghosts I followed them —about'in the gloom of night and felt perfectly at horn; in their company. I often followed these specters to the graveyards to witness hosts of dim forms march and stalk about among the white tomb'; this, too, at times when other chi dren were coddled up in their trundle ’ beds at home, dreaming things not half so wild as I was looking at with open eyes and the full possession of mv | 4 waking sense t J esidoe the aforesaid, o'ten is my 7 later life has it been fully proven to me that there is but the vail of a breath between the mater a and the spiritual life, that some of us are granted the privilege of communing with the people of the phantasmal world. I mention these few details of my past life, not for the purpose of expounding a ■ theory, nor of ; roseytinz for a new faith, but because I wish to introduce K- mysef, my views and the circumstances by which I have b en surrounded, in ■K such a manner as to prepare you to unI . derstand the full meaning an 1 purport of the story I am about to relate. This story is the veritable history or a certain » experience in my life—no dream, no hallucination.

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CHAPTER 11. ON THE BAFOU. • and the S red ^noon^w® 1 ’ d ® a ? of n teht, mantles of light n^^ ra P ped in filmy low down behind the^tnii ® ° Ud ’ fioa tcd ? n the right, everti n n C ° ttonwoo(ls few slight beams nor n casting a of a small st amboat tVt 0 b ' ack deck up one of those numot» * 1 was bea ded w hL h flooded the sonnf murk y bayous ‘teSU.o»r£ o “l’^ POM on of Ugger, "'Sita'S “““on n) y companion and nSf^T^ 1 ' 3 ^ looked upon bv tho “^lf'Who were handset h® by the o( hcors and deek

/ ages. We hadl comeo ”7 Ste ^°’' s Pcrson- ' and were well bundled board after dark, }I so undoubtedly JoS P ! n great coats ’ 1 srlm 1„ the X |“^ s d ’.“!£«»•«“ and terns hung about ° Iti, the Smok y laning to the haunted v^u S de8 ’ Wo were goi ish plantation up the th ° ° ,d s P an ' i rumor had it, had for v wh ich, as ited by none but ghosHy S bee “ Unhand which was snnnn S Z a ? parit, o n s, under the banorn^i?, 0 bo resting I able curse. eirlble and inexor“i'cs^andon^u^wlTi WaS l° me twcnt y ' the ton dent- upwo had stood on

J r h»T.’S 4 T!f % ing but seldom thought aild s ^- touc hed my armband C th m t t ° nff and 5 J panion, and by the lm h s ot m y co m- '• looked earnestly i tn d, 0 { his lantern r being asked °w y he^id^hi^^ 3 - Upoa J , “^cg your pardon mf‘m ’ i. Pepl,ed : o the men doubt as hn " tOrS ’ but> so ’no ' blood, y e look so . h *’ y ° are d! ‘sh an’ They hearn »“J'v“. r and ghostly like. 1 H 6B */ little skeery No^' n ’’ an ’ are pared to tackle that Jr Lu msnhM “’dnight afore fur UD ards ? at ^ at ■ K'OH t z- IP a ras o ton vna».

■L«ai.mean to offonH rear, .•twas.me w „ it ... /G misters, but es WUfee,. p”“ f ‘“k tte folks al Ih „ h ‘.'J, HIW.M «.

i;«3^ usc -” I then oM°£jg deld? lat n ' gbt ’ or tbo shaded? thSXont^oi was l bl th° d n, ” ht ’ <”• accomna ll vi„t 1 11 ? S b °st of m v . the bayous and over tho'f d J ancy aio ”o urn. Louisiana 9 tb fie ds of South---““ored ln । and held m vstic — 1 saw spirits of the dead. w“ s j n '° n wfth tbG beginning of ^ a a - ain » at tho ning of life „ od ’ as at the begin- , companions? * ommUQe with zephyry J v And Burton Aro’d! . I ।

him as a boon cornu™ X had 1 takc « as the dead X? , man who natural were his wavs a J lfe ’ 80 Un ' natural were his thou^h^ and ^ S 0 su P er ' • eam» about’ l„t° h TX d in the swamps of Hor a, y ’ d bad been curious insects fol A hunt f °r tomologist- and n u a ^un^hern en--break-bone fere/.?*the bination of tvnhnm a # terr ' b;e com-

OWe ^ W was Burton ne > and he told me how it all came about. How he came to find out I do not know, for none of the hospital peop e had ever seen him until he was found at my bedside, and none had troubled themselves to learn his name or to give him any information concerning me. He seemed to take a great interest in me, and attended me during my whole illness with the constancy and tenderness of a firm and devoted friend. His so.icitous care had the effect upon my recovering faculties of winning my unconditional gratitude, for I found out that the hospital attendants were like a set of machinery, moving here and there in nice order, managed by master heads, but having little more sympathy for a sick person than one would commonly have for a plaster manikin, so accustomed were they to scenes of sickbed and deathbed sufferings His conversation also charmed me, so ineffably eccentric, buoyant, and beautiful it was. M hen we weqp alone in the dark, weary watches of the night, hour after hour, never seeming sleep;-, neve'r tired, did he hold me in trances of delight by the ecstasy of his discourseand the wild Hights of fancy, the weird imaginings with which he would occasionally burst forth when in conversation with nip, wrought an agreeable accompaniment to the drowsy fervor and dreamy ideality that settled down upon me after the delirium of the fever. I was natura.ly disposed to be abstruse and speculative, and the daydreams, the ever changing phantasmagoria of imaginative objects that floated । through my m nd continually during my convalescence, without system or order, w. re from day to day made brighter, the

more delightful, the more pleasantly in- ■ fatuating by his fervid, passionate but almost divine genius of eloquence and 1 poetica'l fancy. I bagan to love him as a brother and to feel a considerable admiration for him, and he seemed to reciprocate the attachment. When I became well again, he proposed that I should accompany him into Louisiana on a visit to the house that had been the home of his sweetheart, who had died some years befor -. It was a haunted house, he said, but from what he had heard me say when I was ill he guessed that I was not afraid of hav ng a friendly visit with spirits that were kindly disposed. I asked no questions, but promised to go; and thus 1 eventually found myself on board the small steamboat with Burton Arold at my elbow, both of us listen ng to the sounds that came out of the darkness, and waiting for the boat to carry us to the landing opposite the haunted villa; and as we came around a bend in the bavou and the moon went down below the .horizon, leaving all in sulien darkness, ti e boat swung against the bank The pilot did not dare to b ow the whistle or ring the bell. The reason: It was midnight and the dreadful haunted house was just over the brow of a small hill. We stepped on shore and parted from the boat’s Pondering crew. That gloomy craft swung out into the bayou and plied iti way onward We turned up the hill and walked briskly toward | our destination, he leading the way.

«»*> “ms IS NOT IN IT. tion of the vflla ^wht’i fr ° m <ho direc ff - the summit of tL mf\ Upon Nainim* to see Kl°L t ?v b ; , ’ I Iwa« 1 wa « surprise^ NOT A PRESlDENdanceison,X%mlK^ . “ThlL CANDIDATE. swer to mv exc ain - cd Burton, in anW - e r

I CHAPTERIIX. Bws Out of the Race. I THE spiritual revelry. ■ not a candidate for the Tres- ’• 1 flood nfS ed house was deluged in »e has ma^e this official an--1 "wellerf-0 ^®° ~ ighL Melodfous musiSt in the following letter to 1 halls and ch-imbir^ ?. choed among itg clarkßo ^’. of the Bcpublican and. pleaXX^ 1 ^Wasu^tox, D. C. there, wrestling in asß c mb *O | frlarksa/. Chairman of the Kestramed delight. f)' as L Gs .°^ unieWN} a tj a jkl Committee. princely banquet wac । > diui ng hall ALI a ji not a candidate for the nights refreshment ~ a id rca dy for th®, amimy name will not go Icgallant cavalier- J ' air maids amWcpubican National Convention noble elder 0 ’natrons an*minw’o<>. 1 make this announce‘telr te- »o nee to every nook and i” ^i 11 pre® owc sincere thanks, and am most north room svhdhuh n Ud 1,1 th e greaß°2'feir confidence.

forms glided through J lgU T es and fair^ill.f am sure, make earnest effort qents of Quaint rtlJ 17 e dr oamy move»prdiehins content, which is renga loped with nrL°» Spanish reels, o|fP^ all y important by reason of , attitude through the and hap P-C. . I “orc g. y a„ d ";“ *; i' s X± n! ^i z iit was a night of red..,, 1 g0 ’ 'adeea f The motherly lady whoTa^ 307 ’ f the threshold usheimd „ o h ? d mot us on f / V reception-room and h ft l3 lnbo a s malk^ / < ‘»8 who^kV <‘«ry S'i/P ' chair, speakin- in bl ind ° ak ar “' i I \ j ' ' uer, to a group of fr. ; . P f asa:,t luan ' J iWQ * '</ Hurl n ioup or friends . / I ? W <'- ■ ¥?

“ round. Knnn t ,''“y o gatnereA : 't welcomed us warmi b ° arose and j -(Shaking hands w' \ Burton - afte? J passed into another ^ oral Present, / 1 ie . f t me alone X apartme «t and/ whereupon the host h ? tran ßers, | and suavely said- “Sn urned to me night's ride you must fee) 0 ^ aftCr your If extent, the inr2 y^^rtainF i cloth is laid and Sad/ ^ Gr - The Then stepping io th« dZ ble feast. ”i/ room heXckoned to » ° f th ° ^tb K and was immediately XTu 0 ' 10 Within I J y J'oung lady of L J ned by a ^ueen- I and charming mann >r w O ) 33 ® 33 } 1 ^ heauty f cd to me as aX X be pre3 ent< l Montinni. wh« ~5 lter > theSenorital

5 tbGb ouse\^ honor” , Pleasant information tn ! gave 1110 0 ”ly strasX that as 1 was honor of leadin</rh° ng tbo guest s, Per fell to “ me \ r n ° rita in s vailing tendency o f £ Dg that tho p time was to ward th, n g - ® Sts ’ by 1 deling the faZ 'eno .^ a on my arm l-,..®, ? 1 5 hand alrea '[tei:^^ ftawwsw common to earth k -JL d ° r ^’’aht welled from every djsn^i fra Sranc Propert es of everv^m’rU d th ® pa,a tahl of a culinary art dPTeS f ® r ® thores ul I was acquaint^! ~AH _ nt , from a ”y tha

or r^r^^ ‘■os and unprecedented lov’r" 0 *" varic out their dainty P° ur e , decorated the room tlw e + U K>° n tho ai) I the ladies’ corsage’ I n ^ bie ’ ador »o the lapels of and , b!oome d up Ol Laughter, gay eon^^ 2“’? coati enthusiasm weht and gent «d the whole coX„X”? , Uw b ""> 1 »"l The feast, the fe^ stin^’ ’J gay s P'rit.l were a d,’.. ,2 uSt ng ’ aud the feasted MHMBMMg|||kM^aliment, radi,— ^4 paired tn the

1I niuova O'A __ 'altogether. This senorita was just as beautiful as the Montinni. ! She noticed my surprise and said: > “Senor must dance with us all, so his ■i partners must change often.” Sheintrounced herself as a daughter of Senor I ; El Muza, wno had been a partner with > Montinni. She was a fascinating conI x ersationalist, but of a mysterious strain, mo^t^^, and alluded several times ■ in a vague way to a mission in connection with the vil a and its nr Stic people which she said Irate had appointed me to work out. I A dozen t mes within the next hour . and a half were my partners re.ieved by new ones. Each was as beautiful as the rest, and as charming and as pleasant. They all bade mo welcome to the house, and alluded to the same mysterious mission spoken of by the Senorita El Muza. The mystery of the mission perplexed me not a little, but the infatuating revj elry of the dance, and the wild, sweet j music that accompanied it, dgd not suffer me to.think seriously on the matter- : so on we whined beneath the radiant i lights, guided by the wild notes of the I harp, the guitar and the violoncello the company fading and reappearing l like people in a dream as they glided’ through the quaint figures of fandangos, l wait es and reels. Two hours after supper my last nart-i ner said to me: “The dance is done; I I must bid xou good-nuht ” lied her to 1 the door of the ladies’room, where I left j । her, and upon turning around met our [ gray haired host, -who greeted me and ’ said: “You will see no more of us till i to-morrow night; make yourself per- I fectly easy and at home. ” With these words he glded out, and upon his disappearance the music ’ stopped, the revelry ceased, the lights

x r- •> a j ucu.'U'J, LUU . j went out, the company faded from view, I. t and, speechless with amazement, I I I found myself alone in the haunted , > house, in the chill air and gray dawn of i . | morning, wondering if I was asleep or \ . . awake, in my right senses or stark mad. [to be continue*. | 1 i t > Hugest Game Ever Killed with Kifles. * John R. Davis, whose reputation for j truth and veracity has hitherto been be- j . yond question, writes the 101 l wing from ' ' Shelton: “I awoke this morning about 5 o’clock, j and, looking out on the Big Skookum , i Bay, I saw five large whales swimming I j ।up the bay toward Shelton. I ran into t j the house and got my rifle, which is a ■ 45-Winchester. I fired on the head I f whale. I saw the water splash, and knew I had missed him. Then I ran ' to a stump near the beach. I fired again. I and this time the leviathan splashed the ' water with his tail, and I knew i had hit him. Then the whole school dived. I then ran down to the leach and jumped i int imy b at and started after them. I i think they were badly frightened and ' lost their course, for they ran ash< re on ' tp the beach opposite Shelton. When they I ran a-h >re I fired again. They all got \ off the beach but one This, I think, is ' the one I first shot at. Mr. Munson 1 came out, and we shot him several times with our big guns and killed him. Ue is &ty feet long and eight feet high Mr. I Johnson says he is a finback.’’-—Seattle ri I Post-Intelligence. i

f 'A JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE.

-s ^fjidustrial and financial policies of tlie tl frnnient being at stake. The popular I 'l®^ion on these issues is of great moment thefi w m p e of far-reaching consequences. tliOfy sincerely yours, James G. Bi.aine. ’ iP’fn speaking of his withdrawal Mr. q^'iine said: “I don’t suppose any man ns |o has once sought th- office can lnd truthfully say he doesn’t idyy <are for it. I confess I md; H l ***^^ would like to be Presiird L, dent, but I will never re| again risk my health J IGQI o w and life in seeking it. !a f The office of Secretary ° State is a bread p-enough field for me durii A I big far rest of mv pub- ' \ V/\ lie career.” 'j Democrats agree with r w. b. aii. s< * practical unanimity that Blaine not being in it, nothing can prevent President Harrison’s renomination, and republican t’ongressmen are mostly of the same opinion. Members of the administration naturally will not discuss the situation for publication. favohite sons to the front. While no one in Washington, writes our correspondent, questions that the ultimat e effect of Mr. Blaine’s declination will be the re1 i oll , o * L r ~-~

»|^&iiT7 z r 'Tn v<>riSe Ei candidacies. Sj «o « maloT (' u 1 tun i iTWion’ of a delegation from Illiiiois, with some sup- Jpiu port from the new hi a States in the North - ff/y west, has already been set forth, and\. it is said the Illinois

Senator will now s. m. ccllom. start in as an avowed candidate and will have his name presented to the Minneapolis convention. Senator Allison has ’ not got to this point yet, but in the end ; he will probably give the lowa delegation l permission to name him. Gen. Alger, in ! spite of Michigan’s divided electoral vote, i is a full-fledged candi late. He may try j । to rally all the disaffected anti-Harrieon j ; elements around h m, and look for votes j in New York and the East as well as in | the South. It is more than probable I that ex-Speaker Reed will take advant- i age of Mr. Blaine’s declination to seek a New England delegation for himself. j Mr. Reed really has the Presidential I ambition and wants to I get j n training for a i nomination. The only possible candidacy that excites much attention ’tV 'if is John Sherman’s. Mr. Sherman himself is a st an ch. suppo rt e r of I President Harrison’s ' / administ ration. But I M-l / Senator Sherman’s col- ' 7 / leagues say he has a no- ! i joun sherman. tion that the course of : legislation on ^lver and the tariff may 1 make him an available candidate. ’ Some be Ohio politicians of the Repub- 1 liean faith who have been here during 1 the last week have in common with * everybody else been discussing the J

~ J UOOHI^ I 11C question as to whether or not Mr. Blaine would withdraw. The nomi- / jjNw nation of Mr. Sherman at Columbus in January left some ill-feeling on SSi the part of the Foraker JT people to the administration, and it was erally supposed that a gr at and interesting / 3 fight between Foraker // and Sherman for the J - B - foraker. delegation to Minneapolis would be inevitable, with McKinley only second rily in the race. The opinion lately expressed by th.' Ohioans shows that the bitterness between the factions has been decreasing. The Foraker men, who have been quietly organizing since the recent Senatorial contest to control the Ohio \ delegation to Min1 neapolis, are badb' broken up over anno unceW l , Hient. They are , 7, knocked out of i - vkw' date. The Foraker I following unques- \ O' iff tionably had a s VWnV their object the \ nomination of Blaine or anyjebemiah rusk. body to beat Harison, and the effect of the withdrawal it this time may allay the bitter con-

test promised over the election of > dele-II gates. Blaine’s withdrawal is exciting politicians all over the country, and both Democrats and Republicans are expressing themselves freely as to the outdbme. A prominent Minnesota Republican says: “It is difficult to foretell what the Republicans of the State will d o und e r the cha ng e d condition / wrought by the publication of Mr. Blaine’s rS letter, but Mr. Blaine’s withdrawal will proba- Api bly add quite a number to those who favor the renomination of the 'z President. Judge Gres- w gresh.-.m ham has always been very favorably regarded by the Minnesota Republicans, and it would not be surprising should a very large proper- । tion, if not a majority of them, transfer their allegiance to the distinguished jurist, now that Blaine is no longer a possibility. ” As to Senator Allison, a Des Mo’nes correspondent sends a telegram, saying: “There is no one here who is in position to speak for Sen itor Allison, but it is known that when he was in lowa during the campaign he spoke in terms of high praise of the administration of President Harrison, and expressed himself as favoring his renominat on. His friends I in this city say they think that there is I scarcely any question that Senator Alli- I son will give Harrison cordial suj port for the nomination, and that lowa will :

go to Minneapolis ready to vote for him ; for renomination.” Henry C. Payne, Chairman of the Wisconsin Republican State Central Committee, said that if a new man is to be nominated it may be Secretary Rusk. Since it became generally understood that Blaine was to decline, Rusk’s name, he says, has been very prominently mentioned in the East, and now with Blaine’s possitive withdrawal many of Blaine’s

strongest supporters, he thinks, will j favor Rusk. Some of Senator Cullom’s friends on being interviewed expressed themselves • as being confident that the Illinois Senator would receive the solid Ir acking of his State at Minneapolis, and would Le ' the leading* andidatebefore the lonven- ■ tion. One of the Senator’s supporters i offered to bet SSOO against S2OO that ! Senator Cullom would be nominated at Minneapolis and $250 more that he would win ids bet. Senator McMillan, of Michigan, said: । “General Alger is now a candidate for the Republican nomination and will go into the contest with the solid delegation from his own State, with support from many other States and with a stronger following than many people , and better chance' of success than m >st j people think for.” It is the unanimous opinion among Republicans at Indianapolis that the letter takes Blaine entirely out of the question as a Presidential quantity and leaves the President with a practically clear Held for the party nomination. Minor Medical Ment ion. Db. Hammond reports that during the past ten years seventy men have died suddenly' from the strain of running after street ears. Atlanta, Ga., claims to have the most interesting natural curiosity in a man 122 years of age. Hiram Lester was 7 years old when this country was

^WFnperatlon by which ho brought a livin ,r child into the world. This exhibition o7 presence of mind and expertness, resulting in the saving of one life was, however, contrary to man-made law. So the priest had to be arrested and convicted for illegal practice and was fined fifteen francs. Ihe States of this I nion are already loaded down with just such legislation, and the only reason why it is not regarded as a general nuisance is because it is not as punctiliously enforced as in France. French physicians report a curious and almost unexampled disorder in a | woman only 21 years of age. She looks [ as though she were 70. She is said to have "a decrepitude of the cutaneous system.” In other respects she is doing quite well. The wrinkling of the skin and aging of her countenance began soon after she received a great fright, and would therefore seem to be due to a sort of paralysis of nerve centers which control the nutrition of the skin of the ' face. No treatment thus far tried has been of any service to improve her appearance, and her mental condition > is suffering from worriment over it. Mr. Kennan, who braved indescribable hardships of all sorts in his travels all over Russia, says: “The vilest stuff I ex er tasted was a stew offered me by 1 rince Djordjadzi while I was his guest ' in the Caucasian Mountains. It was made from the feet of cattle, including the hoofs. The taste and smell of the stable pervaded the dish.” Mr. Kennan says that reindeer moss is very nutritious, but too hard of digestion' for the ' human stomach. The Koraks feed it to ! the reindeer, and after he has partly di- ! gested it they kill the animal and take it for their own food. It tastes slimv 1 and clayey, but it is heartily relished bv i *

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those who like it. Tests of human endurance, which have rather more of sensational than practical and useful influence, continue to be made—doubtless because somebody finds it possible to make something out of it. In London a fasting match was won by Mr. Jacques, who lived without food for fifty days thus breaking the record. He lived on air and eleven gallons of water. In Detroit hall a dozen men tried to go a week without sleep. Only one of them sueAnother five days, and half of them three <lays. It is imported that they were not apparently harmed oy the experiment. In New York three men did over 1,400 miles on bicycles in six days the first covering 1,468 miles with only twelve hours’ sleep Dr Foote’s Health Monthly. An Effectual Keinedy. i here is a certain young lady deeply interested in me. and while 1 like her, you know, still I never could love her. I want to put an end to it without breaking the poorgirl’s heart. Gan you suggest any plan?” She—“Do you call there often?” lie—“ No. indeed. Not any oftener than I can ] ossibly help.” She—“ Call oftener.”—New York Truth. The old-fashioned "Talma” is being revived. It is a long and deep cape, fitted over the shoulders and cut on the bias, and nearly five yards aiound at the bottom.

CURING INTEMPERANCE. DR. BORTON^S GREAT WORK AT WARSAW, IND. An Unbroken Record of Cures-^-A Remedy for tire Drinking Habit that Is Effectual in all Stages of Disease—Plain Story of a Heaven-sent Remedy that Is Restoring fallen Alen to Usefulness. Plymouth Institute Sights. Ho who changes a confirmed inebriate into a reputable, rational, sell-respect-ing member ot society is worthy to take rank among the greatest benefactors of mankind. For his srood work not only restores to usefulness a man whose time, energy and opportunities have been worse than mis-spent, but he confers the boon of peace to many homes, the harbinger of joy to many bruised hearts. Just su'ch a benefactor appears to be Ijr. T. A. Borton of Warsaw, Ind., and in the work of redeeming fallen men he has earned a heavenly crown of glory. Os scores of suffering persons, who have sought him out, not one has failed to find complete and permanent relief, not one has relapsed into the drinking habit, an unbroken record of cures that has nowhere been. equalled. The "Borton Cure,” as it is becoming I to be widely known, depends entirely for [ its reputation upon the unsought and ’ willing testimony.of those who have ex- ; perienced the treatment. No attempt ; has been made to acquaint the public i with its merits, and it might almost en- : tirely have failed to attract the attention of newspaper readers but for the fact that certain clergymen, who visited the doctor at his office, felt impelled to send ! to the Chicago Interior and other religious papers some accounts of the astonishing things they had witnessed.

T. A. BORTON, M. D. Dr. Borton says of the cure that its discovery is the result of a long and patient study of the phenomena presented by the drinking habit, made for no other purpose than to find relief for certain noble and afflicted fellow-citizens of Plymouth, Ind., where he had practiced hi" profession for thirty-two years before reuoying to Warsaw. Among the earliest treated was a Plymouth butcher, whose shop was in a basement under a saloon. This man is a jolly German who drank fo^ocial^^

irsiia put mah’ently cured to the astonishment and delight of his family and friends. A brilliant telegraph operator had lost bis place through drinking and had become almost a tramp. He was cured and last week he visited Warsaw with his happy bride, proud to show to her the man who had redeemed him. These cases had been multiplied into scores before Dr. Borton was willing to permit the use of his name in connection with the cure. He wanted first to satisfy himself that he could, with an abiding confidence, announce to fallen men that there was relief at last at hand that would be effectual in all stages of the drinking habit. His general practice was large and very renumerative but victims of intemperance soon presented themselves in such number that he could not fail to extend to them all the Christian sympathy and medical aid that would surely lift them out of bondage into a life of hope and joy. The story is almost told. S^nce the beginning of the present yea'r he has consented to devote all of his time, all of his skill, all of his effort to this* heartwork of rescuing fallen men. What will be his reward he cannot say, but if the abandonment of his general practice will enable him to enlarge the usefulness of his cure, if many more shall be led from paths that take hold on death to take tli^ir places again among their fellow men, their appetite for liquor gone and full of the ambition of their youth, an ample reward will come in the blessings of redeemed men, in the joy of families restored to happiness and in the love of children whose fathers have been newborn into lives of affection. No man’s monument will be higher, none more enduring.

The citizens of At arsaw have known of Dr. Borton and his work f»r a long time, and they are in hearty sympathy , with him. The best homes in the city I are thrown open for the reception of his pati< ts and every effort is made to surround them with influences of tire riglH sort. They come to him in various conditions and if they are nervous he supplies them with pure Bourbon whisky ■ without the least fear of prolonging their.sprees, for the appetite for liquor I nfeyer outlasts the second or third day of I treatment. It yields and for the first time • in years the drinking man finds, to his great joy, that he cares for liquor no more. Aftei that his stay at Warsaw beeo’mes a pleasant relaxation from business pres. He presents himself to Dr. Borton .our times a day for treatment and spends the rest of his time in the charming parks, on the beaut ful streets or on the three lakes which almost touch the city. In summer he is welcomed in the pretty cottages by the lakes, he may skim over the waters in one of the graceful steamers, bend his back in rowing or while away the lazy hours in fishing. In whatever relaxation he may engage he is sure to go to his home with pleasant memories of the pretty, hospitable lakecity, and of the Christian gentleman who presides at the Plymouth Institute, as Dr. Borton calls his sanitarium. It should be added that Warsaw is situated at the crossing of the Pittsburgh, Fort payne and Chicago railway, and the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan railroad. It is 108 nfiles east of Chicago, forty miles west of Fort Wayne, and 12a miles north of Indianapolis.