Bloomington Courier, Volume 10, Number 4, Bloomington, Monroe County, 24 November 1883 — Page 3

NTUTING-TIMEi

B,'

mr Ofltobst. the froasts had come

down,

The -woodlands were scarlet and yellow and

..... brown;

The harreais were gathere:l,thenight8 had grown

ehttL -

Bat warm was the day on tfca souths the hilt

,Twb8 there with our bags and our basket we

' went, And Marching the dry leaves we busily bent;

The jheatnute wese big and theheech-nntes were

smalt,' Bat both sorts are welcome to boys in the fall. And when, in the ashes beneath the bright flame Oxreres of November, with laughter and game, The swef tmwts are roasted we i ecollecfc aill How ftaewas fcbe day on the south of the hill. St. Nicholas for November.

JUST HIS XUCK. BY FBANK H. OOHVEBSB. r ttAH ready for'ardr aAye,ayef sirr 'ffjetgor" ; Following the heavy splash of the anchor came the swift rush of chain through the hawse-pipe, and the schooner Joris swung at her mooriogs,under the shadow of the densely wooded poini which marks the outer limit of Guyacml Gulf, on the eoaut of Ecuador. 'Pears to me T heard yon say here's where yon laid whilst you were on the pearl-nehin' trip four years ago, Cap'n?" remarked Mr. Adams, interrogatively. The deaks had been cleared np, and the mate a tall, spare personage, from the sand hills of Cape God was lingering on the quarter, with his pipe in hi? month. His remark was addressed to Captain Charley Bay, the youngest shipmaster who sailed from Bconeportj where the Doris was bnilt and; owned. Captain Charley, whose eyes were fixed on the steely-blue of the Pacific, across which streamed a glory of crimson and gold from, the setting son, started from a reverie. Ye;" he answftred,fllow!y,ss he looked abont him. "We lay at this very spot, if I remember riflrht; and here it was, one sight, that we had to slip our cable and run to sea in abont as heavy a blow as I ever canpht here off the coast fLost'Vonr anchor,of conree?" inquired heroate. with launr?d ou riositv. Yes," xtrsj the irritable answer: "for -when it moderated down, so we could work buck here, the natives aloncr shore

had stolen the buoy warp- and we only had the small kedge left. The whole voyage was a failure from beginning . to end just as this one has been," Captain Charley continued, beginning to pace the quarter with short, nervous strides. "The profits of the pearl fishing didn't hardly pay the Government's share. Host two men by coast-fever, ran short of prov ions, and finally had to come buck to Bdoneport, with nothing to show for our eight months' absence, and the schooner is debt at that It's just my confounded luekr" said Captain Charley, in "the Bggrioveo tone that we are ant tc use when we think; we have been hardly handled by Mr. . ' J. ' .... r There was pome little escnee for -Captain Charleys irritation, for he was in loya with pretty Pearl ChelftV, whose fader was owner of one half of the Doris, while nil of Captain Charley's savings had ben invested in the other half. -Mske one vyge that'll net us twentyfive hundred apiece. Cap'n Chnrley;" old John Chellis bed said, when four years previous the young man, then only eighteen years old, had taken a command of the staunch, handsome schooner, "an' Pearl shall marry you any day you shall set." . .. .... v.. ; And in far-away voyages to GuyaQuil Gulf for pearls, to the Cape of Good Hope with a dozen passengers for the diamond fields, and one or two trading pieces in the South Pacific Captain Charley had soufhfc to accumulate this comparatively small sum; yet by- some strange fatality ill-luck had seemed to follow him. The market was always in a depressed condition whenever he arrived at his port of destination, or he had an extra long voyage, with a continuation of bad weather, or he was dismasted; or anyway there was generally a something that brought the vessel in debt at the debt at tr e end of the voyage, instead of placing s sum of money to her credit I "Old mn CheBis 's gettin' kind of cranky 'bout his share of the Doris, ain't h Cap'n?" presently ventured Mr. Adams, who was not troubled with any Jfelse notions of delicacy on the subject of gratifying a rather inquisitive nature. He had heard the story of Captain Charley's continued ill luck from the

steward, who himself was a Booneport man, and also that Mr. Chellis had made sundry unpleasant intimations in relation tr breaking off the ennagement between pretty Pearl and Captain Charley. " "Mr; Chellis is rather dissatisfied yes,'' answered Captain Charley, shortly, sb, stopping in his restless pacing to and fro, 1) glanced shoreward, where, far f ar-aw, the peaks of the snow-capped Andes were touched with a dull red glow from the evert burning volcanic cone of Perqnetal. . fe But Captain Charley was not thinking ; of the strange and lurid beauty of the cane, or of the soft tropic twilight stealing over it like s dusky veD. His heart was full of despondency. This very voyage had proved as unsuccessful as any previous one more so, in fact They had sailed on a trading voy age to the Sandwich Islands a few months previous, and caught a gale off the Horn,

lost the foremast, and finally succeeded

in working into Yalparaiso under a jury

mast, leaking some thousand strokes an

3 hour. ... ( General cargo ne irly ruined, vessel on

i the dry-dock to be discharged, caulked, etct, p meet the expenses of which it was

imperative to oraw on Mr. Ubellis for no i email amount And that gentleman had

3 written anything but a pleasant letter to

y poor Captain Charley.

"Bring the vessel back to Booneporfc.

You're fhe onluckiest shipmaster ever

seen, was the ungra t matical and pithy

r burden of the 1 tter, and Captain Charley

3 knew pretty well that Mr. Chellis would

S now never give him the Pearlhe so cov-

eted.

3 Yet at the same time he had received a little letter from Pearl herself, tull Gf

Oori and sympathy. Better still, it

inclosed the photograph of a little girl

with soft, dusky hair, growing low oyer a white forehead, andIarge, dark, serious Hn hich were reflected the love which shone bom his own whenever he gazed into their depths. And on the back Pearl had sketched, with pen and ink, an outlined pictnre of Hope leaning , on theanctor "Hope on, hpp$ eyes?' being written naderneath.

WelL the Doris had sailed for home-!

and the cheerful discovery having been made off the Ecuadorian coast that the rats had gnawed holes in every water cask between decks, their contents being

thereby lost, the Doris was headed in

shore there, at the most available place,

to take in a supply or mat usenu ana

cooling beverage.

"More delay i" grumbled Captain Charley, as he paced the deck, and wished im

patiently for the dawn of the morrow, so

that they might begin filling their casks at the mountain stream, which emptied itself into the surf a cable's length dis

tant from their anchorage, where four

years before he had dene the same thing.

With the first glimmer of morning the

casks were rafted to shore under the di

rection of Mr. Biggs, the second mate,

uantam uuaney ana mr. Andrews ac

companying them; to see if at the little

collection of Indian huts near the shore

some fruits could not he secured.

The most of the dusky natives were off

in the boats pearl fishing. A few sleepy

mestizos ere lounging about the rude

sheds, while piled on the sands, exposed to the rays of the blazing sun, were im

mense piles of pearl oysters.?

"If we had money enough we might in

vest in a couple of hundred of them;

maybe we'd make a lucky hit, and find a lot of pearls eh, cap'n? ' suggested Mr.

Adams, holding his nose by his Angers.

For the smell of decomposing oysters

was not at all nice; and the shells, which may or may not contain pearls, must, all be washed out by hand in the intense heat

Captain Charley was heard to mutter

that he hadn't any money to spare, and it he had but of his concluding remarks only the words ''confounded luck!" were

intelligible.

And so Mr. Adams, holding his peace

and his noseeturned with Captain Char

ley to the vessel, after securing a scanty

supply of yams and bitter oranges.

It did not take long to fill the water

casks and hoist them on board. The long-boat was taken up to the f tern-da

vits, and by 2 o'clock, p.. el, everything was in readiness for getting away again.

"Man the windlass?' All hands six men including Mr. Ad

ams and Mr. Biggs went forward. The

anchor was hove short, the slack chain

coming in with the greatest ease, as is usual in smooth water where there is no

perceptible tide. Foresail and mainsail were then hoisted, and the perspiring crew returned to the windlass brakes. "Heave and break him out,boys P Well, they did heave; but, as Mr. Jerry JFlynn remarked, in an undertone of rich Connaught brogue, "Sure, one 'ad be thinkin' the whole bottom of the gulf was hangin' to the anchor flukeP "I suppose the confounded thing is caught in the-crevice of a coral reef, and TO lose at other anchor here," grumbled Captain Charley. "It would be just my" v "Jhain's coming in sir," respectfully interrupted Mr. Bigg3, who was peering oyer the how. Andrew, indeed, it seemed to come, thoughinch by inch it crept' through the hause-pipe, as their utmost exertions were used to move the windlass brakes up and down. However, nothing is impossible to him who wills, and particularly is this the case on shipboard. So, little by little the chain came home till finally the anchor stock with its coating of mud and sand, appeared m sight. The jib wan hoisted and held to windward, till the Doris' head, falling slowly on" before the gentle land breeze, was once more pointed toward her deslination. The booms swung over with a rattle of heavy blocks; the steward temporarily took the wheel, and the anchor was hove up high enough to admit of taking in over the raO. "Guess your luck's turnin', . cap'n," remarked Mr. Adams, who was looking earnestly over the rail; "for, jest as sure's yon live, we've hauled up that air anchor you was fellin' of hayin' lost, when you laid here, pearl ,istrin,, four year ago True enough, so it was. The fluke of the one anchor had hooked itself under the arm of the lost one.elose to the shank, and together, strangely enough, the two had been raised from their miry bed. Captain Charley shrugged bis shoulders, as he stcod watching the men taking the anchors on board. 'Tm afraid there's no turnin my luck," he answered bitterly.

For his successive reverses, and the al

most certainty of eventually losing his

lady love, had transformed the once

hopeful, light-hearted young man into an

almost despondent fatalist.

He stood idly hy, as by the dint of

much heavy pulling at tackles, and the usual amount of shouting, the heavy

masses of iron were finally taken in on deck.

"Well, I can have oysters for supper,"

muttered Captain Charley, as his eye fell upon the rusted shank of the anchor, so

strangely recovered, encrusted as it was with irregularly-shaped bunches of the bivalves.

Borrowing a sheath-knife from one of

the men who was helping put the chain below while the decks were being cleared

up, Captain Charley proceeded to disen

gage one of the largest of the shell-fish, which, with some difiiculty, he managed to opon. "One or two like this, on the half-shell, is regular treat, after some weeks of saltbeef and" he began, smacking his lip like a gourmand. But something between the shells something roun-1, and smooth, and glossy brought both his action and speech to a sudden close. "Well, I am blessedf

jrrecuuarijy spearang, newas. J? or m his onen nalm lay three pearls, of such

size, nuritv and milky lustre, that Mr.

Adams who had just come forward in time to hear the exclamation, could do nothing but whistle andstare,and scratch his head, as he stood gazing at Captain Charley's outstretched palm. On the arrival of the Boris in Booneport, some weeks later, an interview jWas held with Mr. Chellis, which proved eminently satisfactory to all concerned, pr rticnlarly to Captain Charley and Pearl, who, I need hardly remarjr, were immediately married, and lived happily ever

afterward, the sale of the pearls to a Hew York jeweler producing a sum eseeedmg their wildest dreams And-smce the memorable voyage, Captain Charley neveror hardly ever-has been heard to say: "Just my J lack!"

SENSIBLE ADVICE.

The

Business

Correct Plan to Place

Before the Public. A late number of an Eastern journal has a very excellent article of advice to business men, in reference to the proper manner pf advertising. Business is now opening for the fall trade, and merchants are considering how they can best renew

their acquaintance with their old custom

ers and introduce themselves to new ones, There are several modes of advertising.

Some merchants who stick to tbe old ways, put some dry goods esses on the sidewalk to remind the passers by that at

some time these boxes came full of new

goods, and that the goods may yet be found within. Another will cover the

whole sidewalk with samples of goods exposed to full view. These men are certain that the public will sea them and come in and buy. Another will put a big placard on a wagon, and have it driven through the streets; and still another will hang a placard by a strap around a man's neck and start him off upon his journey in search of customers. None of these modes of advertising are sensible. They are mere make-shifts. The

class of customers they attract never return a second time. They are merely

birds of passage who respond to such solicitations. The most successful mer

chants are those who communicate with

the public through the columns of the

newspapers, jno man wiu go to tue expense of advertising in the newspapers

unless he has the articles to sell fand of the best quality. He tells the public about the quality of his goods, and the

prices, perhaps, and he invites all the world to come and see them. His invitation does not come at the street corner

amid the hurry of business, nor on the

sidewalk, when the coveted oustomer is cursing the cupidity and parsimony of

those who encumber the sidewalk with dry

goods boxes and piles of dusty goods.

The newspaper comes to the

house every week when a

man surrounded by his family is enjoying

the good things of this life. - When the lady prepares for a shopping excursion

she first of all studies the advertising col

umns of the newspaper. She knows ex

actly what she wants, and she looks until

she finds where it can be purchased. She

need not hunt from store to store along

the streets until she is weary, but she can

go direct to the store, for has she not

readitinthe advertisment? The merchant who is wise and who advertises judiciously will be able fo reach a great mimAp ftf rAndprs AVfvrv wPAk. and mnnv

nftWwillfid.rivwavfn h? atom wa8r 18 "

He tells them what he hns sotto eell anfl j raisiQ8 Whfer the aotion of the enn's

where he can be found.

a bov on the corner to solicit business by

on a scale ol' quality and profit equaling

other countries.

At the Bio Gran de plantation the cost

of preparing the s round, planting the

seed, cultivating, cutting, and transporting the cane to the mill is paid for by the

seed alone, either sold or fed to hoes for

market. It costs le3a than one and

Quarter cents ver pound to produce the

77 - - sugar after that, thus leaving n proQ which must be highly satisfactory.

Vhafc has been ascertained conce?niug

the value of sorghum seed has put an en

tirely new face ou the whols question.

lirown for Mie so 2a aiono sorer aum is

equal to corn for its fatbMiin ? qualities, and for nny of the uses to wh'ioh corn can

be nut. Were wo to be deprived of corn,

we would have in sorghum its perfeot

substitute, to say nothing of the sugar it

will produce. Sorghum will grow wher

ever corn will, its cultivation costs no

moift It is not yet settled that sorghum will not beat corn, acre for acre, when the

weight find value of the seed come to be consid'red. It is at this point and precisely in this light that Congress will have to consider the question whDn if comes $0 act, as it will be compelled to do at. the coming session. GENERAI MISCELLANY. Nickels are so scarce in Sau ITrnnoieeo

that they command a premium.

Out of over 180,000 vies polled in

Philadelphia the Prohibition tiokst re

ceived abont 280.

The first colored man who ever passed

an examination in tb.3 Judicial Depart

ment in New York was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of that state last wek.

Saturn's ringe are so widely open now

that a small telescop will show them, and in a goad telescope th great planet looks like an exquisitely carved ball of

ivory, shaded with delicate tints, and surrounded bv a double rinsr of gold

even more beautifully ornamented. A large item in the expense of muinmining a sleeping caT is the washing bill. The Pullman Company's entire outfit includes 50,000 sheets, 46,000 pillow slips, 13,000 blankets, 16,000 hand towels and 6000 roller towels, A car is entirely emptied and cleaned as soon as it reaches its destination, and the linen is sent straight to the laundry A French inventor, who hvs patented a machine for the use of concentrated solar rays as a general motive power, has set up three of his machines in Algeria for thfc French government. Ha is now carrying on experiments at h Island of Porqnerolles, near Hytres, in France,

Hedoee notont

my" and "old hulk of a navy forpet that there are 50,000,000 people behiv.d them.

the homo ! nc am cm ove iaT fi&S hom

He seats I 0 p e auouui puoj, ur iwm He even 5 803316 Pea 011 Rocky Mountains, and

penetrates to the boudoir. He is taken j 14 "UK1 . "!uu aAili'& 7 T "

member of 1 ln lroe mc 1)UUyuu men wouitt answer ! t i it tt i a r . l 1 Mj3

that eiluy. uuuic ouoi i uui n, uujr, tuu

don t you forget it. The indignation of Southern people has been aroused fay the peraistanca and audacity of tbe bands of Mormon mia sionnries invading that section. Public sentiment favors asolnto prohibition of

thrusting a crumpled paper in the hands

of the nassors-by, but he goes by means

of that every welcome guest,

paper, into the family circle.

himself at the breakfast table.

penetrates to .the bou

into the confidence of every

he household by the magic power

introduces him; the ubiquituous power

of the family newspaper; the one author

ity that is consulted on almost every

question. The fashions are described in. one column, all about what is worn in nnnfViAr. nric in ntill an other. "whr all

these fabries nre to bo pnrohsssd. The i'BS"Jlli, !.". yyssecret, of the success of those who j is- ol the state legislatures, ddvertise in the newapapeH lies in ( it is espeoted, will take np the quesfaon

tha fact that thev do advertise. luW ffIUK,; b--

There is no better investment than that

Our Portrait Gallery.

HON. JOHN A. LOGAN, United States Senator from Illinois-.

tion can be enacted as will brive out the

made in judicious advertising. The re

turn will be a hundred fold, xne mer-

Mormon eiders and keep them out. At the opening of the Metropolitan

dence of intending

thinks his wares Are worthy of the means of communicating with his rons.

besfc

pat-

5 r .. Trr . vt it i- - ., .

chant who advertises will get the confi- I WW www w

. 5 c lnrnnnria r.iiA nnriiefA m t.flO valTlA fir t

buyers because a 3 rr.r" ,,

I at least uwyjuu. in ere was one may alorewho hadnenrly 10,000 worth on I her person She wore a black velvet cor j sage, cut low, and along its upper edge i had as many as thirty-five pieces of jew eiry, Mrs. Vanderbilt wore on that oc

casion a lace pin nearly sis inches long,

Sorghum Sugar. There are a number of places in this country where sorghum sugar making has been prosecuted iqr years, and where the results differ very widely from thase of the department's endeavors. Not to refer to a number in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Michigan, Kansas and. other States in the West, the Rio Grande plantation in New Jersey presents conclusive tests. It consists of about. 2,000 acres, to which considerable addition is to be made the coming year. It is conducted on business principles, with the intention to give sorghum the benefit of an intelligent and honest handling at every stage. The manufacture oC sugar from sorghum has some time since passed beyond the domain of experiment at the Bio Orande plantation, and is now prosecuted on purely business principles, and with a success in the highest degree assuring. The works are equip oed with all the

necessary machiBery,mcludinfir the latest,

for sugar makiug on an extensive scaK

and is producing: at the rate of l,00Uf

The estimated ex tent of the coal fields

of Texas is 20.OC0 tiQuare miles.

3T"V

pounds of sugar per acre. The sugar sells readily alongside of the best specimens of Louisiana, or imported sucrar of

the same grade. The outcome per acre at Rio Grande, m weight and money value, s about equal iq the averago of the Southern sugar plantations. What has basn stated of the RioGraudL plantation, interesting and important a3 the facts are, they are not the mo3t so of those to be mentioned, Tao saod of sor ghum, when analyzed, is fount to bo identical with Indiau corn. In Ohina sorerhum is grown exclusively for the seed as breadstuff. Not in China alone is this the case, but in other parts of the world. It is probable that the reader would not be prepared to accept as true the ascertained facta as to what is the proportion of the human family who s principle subsistence for bread is sorghum seed- It exceeds that of wheat, corn and rice combined. The identity of sorghum seed and Indian corn, and therefore of their bread makim? qualities became

known in this country only quite recent

ly. J.t is a singular fact t:iac wime m China they grow sorghum for bread, its sugar producing qualities are unknown . For two thousand years they have lived in ignorance of this great fact, and are now learning it from us. Last week the Chinese Minister and a company belonging to that legation, with a number of interested citizens, paid n visit to the Rio Grande plantation, It was a notable event, especially so for old China taking her first lessons in sorghum sugar making f rom young America. While China has grown a great many varieties of sor ghum she has been ignorant of the sugar sorghum variety that we have. China knows of it now.or will as soon, as the intelligent and enterprising Minister she keeps in this country makes his report. It will not be long before China becomes a sugar producing country from sorghum

set with huge diamonds and large sapphires. It must have been worth at least $20,000. It is said there" aie 200 New York ladies who have each $15,000 worth of ners'o mil jewel ry. Ten have diamonds

( whose val ue ex seeds $200,000 each. More j than forty can each lay claim to 50,000 worth, of jewelry, and plenty of them have $25,000 invested.

. While at Indianapolis the other day General Sheridan said that the famous black horse which ho rode to the Winchester fight died five years ago. Said the General: "I rode him all through the

1 war, in every battle that I was in except j Missionary Ridge. I loved him almost j as my life, aud when he died I had a notj ed taxidermist to mount him iu GovernI or?s Island. New York. I wish now 1

I hadn't done ifc. The horse looks somej what natural, but his jiair has lost iia blackness and is almost brown. He doesj n't lopfc like my old charger as I knew j him." ' j In 1866, in the reorganization of the army, Col. Frederick W. Benteen refused

a majorship in the 9th cavalry, because it was a colored regiment, deciding to wait for a vacancy. The vacancy has come at last, and it is the majorEhip of the 9th cavalry, Ihe one he refused seventeen years ago.and for declining which he has lost $8,500, the difference in the salaries of n eapfr iin and a major. Several cases of a contagious disease known mi "swell head' have developed among the cattle at the stockyards iu Chicago. The first scientific examination o: this disease in this country was made last week under the direotirn of the U. 8. Treasury Cattle OomraiBsion, It was decided the disease wa3 the result of the ledgmeot of microscopic pleats in the teeth. When the disease extendi to the jaws it nearly always proves fatal, and can be eornmunie-ited to mau. The Washington monument has reached a height of 881 feet and cost, tlaus far,

pmOXVM foltJw3: JStpenled by the monument assosiation upon the old shaft, $210,000; expended by CoJ. Casey, $710,000; leaving a balance on hand of 190,000 from the appropriation by Congress of 9. 0,000. A reporter who ascended to the fcrjp last week found men shifting the massive machinery and making ready to lay bha 886th course. The workmen, he saya, ran around the edges of the walls with the agility of flies, and trusted their lives to the safety netting that surrounds the top. It will be completed in 188B.

Coal Oil and Petroleum may be very nice for illuminating or lubricating purposes, but surely it is not the pioper thing to cure a cough with. Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup is looked upon as the standard Cough remedy.

The sorghum sugar awi turning out a fine without trouble.

works iu Kanas quality of sugar,

Farm and Garden. Don't spare the whitewash or paint. Save all the roots for feeding stock. The Texas pecan crop is a large one. Rhode Island has a large grape crop. Great progress anion gMissouri farmers. Are your tools end implements housed? Rye sown in the fall will make early

iipring pasture.

Late turnips make ihe pasturage for

sheep in the South.

Wool washing is gradually going out

of favor in thin country.

The wheat crop of Minnesota is esti

mated at 40,000,000 bushels.

The drouth seriously affected the

cranberry crop of the country.

The Sta'e of Iowa claims a million

more hogs than any ether State,

Now is the time to crowd the feed if

you are fattening swine, beef or poultry.

Where sawdust is used for bedding,

the manure is considered as very good for celery.

The cranberry interest in the State of

Wisconsin is estimated at about $1,500,-

000.

An interesting prevalence of disease

among stock is reported from England.

Upwards of 500 stfillions are imported

annually from France to the United

States.

A light sprinkling of lime upon pota

toes when stored is an excellent proven

tivo ef rot

At the Illinois state fair the. Herefords

took the sweepstakes prize of 500 as the

Liest breed.

It is bad policy to allow trees to

grow at random for a number of years

and then give them a. severe pruning,

Many ranchmen are practicing the

plan of breeding their cattle in Texas and feeding the steers in the more northern states.

Jersey cattle at a recent sale in New York brought high prices, The cow Saragossa sold for $4,800., and the cow Withersea for $2,500. Shipments of comb honey have been successfully made to Europe, and it is expected tbat this feet will open up a now and remunerative market for this product. E. L, Stnrtevant sivys the great drawback fe obtaining satisfactory yields of corn comes from slovenly culture, not only in operations in the field but from careless planning by the farmer. Several New York farmers speak very highly of the value of sweet corn as a fattening food for swine, saying as much to the acre can be raised as of any other variety, and that the stalks can be turned to profitable account. An Italian named Gazziotti claims to have discovered an infallible remedy for mildew in grape vines. He drenches the foliage with a solution of soda, which causes the filaments of the fungus to shrivel, while the leaves remain unhurt. A correspondent of the Country Gen' tlcmen informs na tl.at last season he used plaster saturated with kerosene to keep at a distance insects affecting wa termelons, cantaloupes and cucumbers. He applies a handful to each hill several imee during tbe season. The Farm and Garden reminds hose who are allowing themselves to be carried away by enthusiasm on the poultry subject that because a man keeps twelve hens a year and make!? a profit of $12, it by no means follows that ho can keep 1,200 hens the sarau time and clear 81,200. With large Hooks comes almost

invariably the crowding of them into clcse quarters and the consequent development of disease. Why the Bad Boy's PaCou dnt Gt Home. "Oh, people are not as good as you and I are," said the grocery mau, as he watched the boy making a sneak on a bunch of grapes. "But did you gc to the circus.' "Circus? Well, I ishouid assimilate. And it is a wonder I am not there yet. But, whatever yon do, don't ask pa if he wa'3 at the circus, 'cans-? he will kill yon. You see pu and I drove up to t he race track, where the circus was, in the eve? ning, and after the circus was out we waited to see the men take the tents down, and after they had gone we started to drive home. It was darker than a squaw's

pocket, and I drove out on the race-track and the old horse used to be a racer and he pricked up hia ears. Pa took the lines and said he would drive, cause we were out prettv late and ma would be nervous.

I told pa that I didn't believe that he was on the right road, but he said that he guessed nobody could fool him about the road to town, and blesB me if he didn't drive around that traok about eight times. Every time we passed the grand stand which pu couldn't see on account of his eyes, 1 laffed; but I thought if he knew the road so confounded well I could ride as long as heoonld. After we had gone iround the track about eight miles, and I was getting sleepy, I mildly suggested that we had btter stop at a house find inquire the way to town, and pa got mad and asked me if I took him for a fooL Then he drove around a couple of times more,and the man that keeps the track he came out with a lantern ad said 'Hello! Pa stopped and asked him what; he wanted, and he said, 'O, nothin',' and pa drove on and told him to mind his business. We went around the traek again, rind when we got to the same plac the num. was there, and

I guess pa thought it wsis time to inquire the way, bo he pulled up and asked the man what he was doing there, and the man said be was minding his own business. Pa aeked him if be were ont he

rignt road to town, and the man aaid if we wasn't in a hurry he would like to have us drive on tho track all night, as it was a little heavy, and he wanted to get it in u condition to speed the eo'ts the next day, but it wo had to go wo could drive out of the gate and take the first-left-hand road. trWell, pa was mad, and he wanted to know why I didrf"t toll him we were on the track, but I told him he seemed to know ifc all, and it was dangerous to advise a man who knew it a 1. He didn't

speak all tho way to town, but when 1 put up thehxrse ho said, 'Hennery, - it this thing gets out your pa will have the reputation of being drunk. If you tell of it yon are no friend of mine.' So I shall not say anything about it, cause it is a bad boy that will go back on hia pa.' WASHINGTON NOTES. It is plain that the whisky distillers bave not lost hope. They have pooled, a big sum, hired an able lobby, and will make an attack nest winter in Congress. There was a large attendance in the Criminal Court room to hear the verdict

in the ca-e of Hallet Kilbourn against

John G. Thompson, ex-Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives, for

3350,000 damages by reason of arrest and

imprisonment, which had been on trial

over a week. The verdict was read by Judge Cox, who announced that the jury

had found for the plaintiff, assessing the

damages at S60.00C,

Colonel Brooks, the shrewd and experi

enced head of the Secret Service Bureau,

of the Treasury Department, says that the public will be surprised when it learns the result of the present inquiry regard

ing the amount of counterfeit money held

by the National Banks. He thinks there is much less amount of counterfeit money afloat than is generally supposed. He

says that the business of counterfeiting

does not pay in any sense The counterfeiter is always just going to make a for

tune. It is such a promising enterprise

yon know. It looks as though there

could not be a possibility of failure to get rich at it, unless the man is detected, and

of couruie he .toes not expect to be. But

they never get rich at it. "No, sir, it does

not pay," said the Colonel. ...

The report of Second Auditor Ferris and its consideration by Attornev-General Brewster led to another branch of in veatiga'dons connected with the swindling oil so idiers by claim agents. The District Attorney has discovered tbat a number of firms here issued circulars soliciting claims for additional bounty, and asking fees in advance foe pretended prosecution of this clas3 of claims. The fraud arisea from the fact that the time for riling these claims expired under law June 30, 3880. Since that time the Second Auditor has not received them. The practice of firms now found to be engaged in this business has been to accept these cases, take a fee and stack the ap plications away in their offices. If those who have placed claims for additional bounty in the hands of any claim agent since July 1, 1880, will eend the particulars and the amounts paid in foes to District Attorney Corkhill at Washington, it will materially assist in pending legal investigation. General Phil Sheridan, the new commande?inohieof the American array, is an Irishman, and a truer patriot or more gallant soldier does not liver It is a proud compliment to "Little Phil," but one he has richly earned. But it is especially important in that it shows to what distinction the oitiaaus o! thfa country can attain, by meritorious cor duct, no matter what their previous condition may have been . In his younger drtys.thc days of his boyhood, General Sheridan drove a water cart in Zaneaville, Ohio, while his fatber drove a dray. Talk about the civil rights bill, and all that, why they might be plastered over a man as thick is they could stick and backed up by all cue powers of-government, if a man is without tin ; j-oper merit it wouldn't help him a straw" i worth. All that is needed is to give la: ) an equal ohance with tbe rest, and if lo has the right metal about him he will come to the front if noi as a general or statesmen, it will be a6 a prosperous and useful citizen. It seems that the very atmosphere of this conn try appeals to the better qualities of a man's nature, anc invites him to come up higher, and it is only those wJao willfully stand iu their own light that find reason to complain 'of want of proper treatment, or lack for opportunity to improve their condition, iu this greatest country on earth. It is a curious fact that nobody knows much about the President's plans, even in the most ordinary affairs of life. He is so very peculiar in ihafc regard, that he keeps hie own counsel, in almost, everything. He is simple and plain in his pergonal habits, notwithstanding the reputation that has keen given him of being a high liver. He does not rise ordinarily before 5:30 or 10 o'olock. Ho then has a enp of coffee and a roll in his room. His

breakfast is taken at no regular hour. It is ordered when the President happens to feel hungry. Sometimes he will work along until 1 o'clock before his breakfast is served. Then again ifc will be 4 o'clock in the afternoon Ordinarily it is served in the neighborhood of 12 o'clock. But the President ie always at work after he leaves his bedroom. His breakfast really ie a. midday meal. He eats no meat at

the breakfast. His bill of fare rarely includes anything beyond fruit, oat meal and fish. At dinner, when he ia alone,he is vary simply served. When the President giYes a dinner he ievery lavish in his ideas of how his guests sball be treated. A1 tar his dinner he always works late in the night. Senators begin to be seen on the avenue, This is a sight that, like the bird in February, points to a speedily coming season Why it happens that the first sign of th3 new session is the strolling Senator, or the Senator in his barouche, is hard to tell. Representatives keep away until a few days before the session pens. Many of the Senators come a month ahead of time. The new Senate will be a body of very rich men. There were many wealthy members iu the last Congress, but a majority of the new Senators are very rich. Some of them intend to makeja great show this winter. Palmer, the successor of Fei ry, has taken Windom's honee. Palmer ciMftts his riches by millions. Sabin, who beat Windom, was wise enough to mafee himself a millionaire before he came to the Senate. Bo wen, of Colorado, who succeeded the ephemeral Tabor, is very rich, and may hear any day that his mines have produced a bonanza; Oolquit, of Georgia, is almost as rich as his colleague, Joe Brown. K&udftll Gibson, of -Louisiana, inherited

great wealth and was fortunate enough to save a good deal of it from the wreckage of t he Confederacy . The richest man in the Senate is Fair, o? Nevada, and probably Philatus Sawyer, a comical yet hard-headed statesman, stands next. Sawyer can draw his check for a great deal of mout y, yet he is so timid that he is afi aid of the sound cf his own voice on the floor of the Senate. Dolph, the Oregon Lawyer, is wealthy in prospects if not in property just yet. It is a mistake,however to suppose that the rich men simply come to the Senate to show olf. The lazi

est man in that body is one of the poorest

and another wh depends entirely on his salary for hia support, occupies his whole time in writing long and absurd constitutional speeches. Some of the hardest workingmen in the Senate are wealthy. Secretary Folger is credited with very decided views relative to the compulsory coinage of the silver dollar. He thinks it is a mistake, and the public appears to hold the same opinion. The least that should be done is to suspend the operation of the Coinage Act for a few years. The estimate made by the Commissioner of Pensions for an appropriation to pay pensions for the year 1885 of $40,000,000, is but one item of the whole estimate1, and does not represent the amount which ifc is probable will be required to pay pensions foi that year. There is now avai lable, since July 1, 1882, for this present fiscal year, $124000,COO,and the Commissioner stares in his annual report that if the unexpended balance of the same at the end of the year be made available for the next year, an appropriation by Congress of $40,000,000 will besuflicient. His calculations, as he sets them forth in detail, are based upon the settlement of two years, this and the one following, and gives an average of $82,000,000 per year. The claims of those filed since the arrears limitation, have, to the number of more than 100,000,received the action of the office in calls for testimony. Out of this number over 4,000 have been admitted, notwithstanding the fact that 124,926 claims of those entitled to arrears and filed prior to July 1, 1881, were awaiting response from claimants to the requirements made for evidence. The substitution, of board instead of single surgeon examinations has secured a more just and uniform rating, removing the examination from the neighborhood surgeon, whose judgment was too frequently influenced by social or other considerations, to tbe judgment of three carefully selected surgeons. These causes operate very largely in a reduction of annual payment as compared with the estimates made ome two years ago, although the number of cases settkd has not varied mute ria!ly from that estimated.---Editorial Courtesies. Oh, yes, my child, The mighty press. Doth civilize the nation; In accents mild It doth address - The f ofic-a of every station The Princeton, (Minn.) Union says: "Did it ever occur lo the sizale-souId investigating whiffet who edits the Duluth News that he isfan egregious ass,"

It counsels peace Seed will to men. Condemns each petty quarrel, Bids all to cease Base strife, and 1hen It points a touching moral , The Prairie Oity(Mo.) Becord remarks; 1 We suggest to the old blatherskite who scidbbles for Boucher's bloody-shirt organ that he mind his own business." With gentle hand -It leads the world To brotherly affection. Its banner (rrand Is aye umurled, .1 qnoto in this connection . What the Odebolt (Iowa) Observer says: "Ever since the present editor's connection frith the Observer, a miserable scavenger at Sao Oiky, named James N. Miller, a fellow who runs a county-fat newspaper, which is not worth one-tenth of its subscription price, has used that paper to attack us personally. He is not a decent journalist. He uses his mangy sheet to assault private character. He sells his influence to politicians." A Smuggling Story. ,-, In the days whaa high-heeled French boot were the pride of fashion there was a ahosm ker in Iioudon who made a fortune by the sale of the best Paris boots at a price which all his fellow-tradesmen declared ruinous. He understood the trade and obtained troops of customers. These boots must have been stolen, said bin rivals; but there was no evidence that they were. Certainly they were . not smuggled boots, for anyone could satisfy himself that the full duty was paid upon them at the custom-house. The shoemaker retired from business with a fortune. Af terward his secret was accidentally discovered. Although he had paid duty on the bo ts, he had not paid for everything that was in the m. There was a htavy duly payable ou foreign watches, aud every boot consigned to him from Paris had contained in its high heel acavity large enough to hold a watch. The groat proftts obtained by the trade in smuggled watches made git possible for this tradesman, when he had filled up their heels, to sell the boots under prime cost. This was worth while, again, because of course by tho extension of his boot trade he increased his power of importing watches duty free.

A Wonderful Feat

Last week Jim IiawRon,of Oarro lltown Mo., invited fifty neighbors to see him beat his own time of two years ago, when hie wife baked bread in eight and a quarter minutes after the wheat was standing iu the field. At six minutes and ten seconds after 4 the Buckeye reaper stood at the corner of the growing wheat. Men were stationed every few feet along the line of grain ready to seize an armful as it fell from the reaper and rush with it to the thrasher oloae by. The mill was just sixteen rods distant. At the drop of the hat the mules sprang to work, and in a minute and a half a peck of wheat was iu the sack and cn a horse that began a race for the mill A minute and seventeen seconds later tbe flour was delivered to Mrs. Lawson, and in three minutes and two seconds from the starting of the reaper the first griddle cake was eaten, ln four minutes and thirty seconds from the starting of the reaper a . pan of biscuits was passed to the spectators. A civil engineer who recently surveyed 170 miles of railway in Arkansas, reported that the citizens strenuously opposed the construe tion of the road on the ground that it would scare all the game out of the country.

An effective medicine for kidney disea3 ow fevers and nervous prostration, and

well worthy of a trial, is Brown's Jrqn Bittera,

A HUMAN FIRE,

The Phenomenon of a Burning Mine Repeated in the Physical System. I J? A few years ago one of the meet important coal mines in Pennsylvania caught fire. It started slowl but soon obtained such headway that it spread through the . greater portion of the entire mine. To flood ifc with water would extinguish the fire but well nigh ruin the mine; mid still tho flames continued to iu rease. At that juncture a young man .stepped forward and suggested that all the entrances and vent holes of the mine be covered and se

cured, thus shutting off the supply of air. His advice was followed and the flames were finally subdued. .'' To compare the condition cf this mine: w'th many phases of the human system? is most natural and appropriate. "Fire -in the bipod" is not a mere expression, it is a most serious fact. How it originates it may be impossible to say; but that it burns and rages with an increasing fury the one who is the victim only tooTpainfully knows. The blood is tne life. It w deeigned by nature to purify, strengthen and sustain the system. It is too often made the channel through which poison and death are transported. Poisonous -acids coming through the veins and arteries inflame and cause a fire just as real a6 the one that existed in the mine. They burn and irritate, causing jthe brain to become weak and the nerves unsfauag; they carry pains to the muscles and leave agonies in the joints; they bring destruction instead of strength; they devastate" the very portions of the body that most' require help, and they hasten "' the approach of death in its most horrible form.

These things -have been felt by innumer

able people who liave been the victims of

rheumatic disorders, and the agonies .

they have endured confirm thia descrip

tion. ' .

There ia but one way by which this fire ? in the blood can be extmguiehetl, and that is by shutting off the supply of these

poisonous acids. The lactic, lithic and

uric acids come ante the blood through

the liver and kidneys, and they remain in

solution in the Wood producing inttam?

matory rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, t neuralgia, gout and all rheumatic fevers and affections. When they are deposited as gritty crystals in and near the joints, heyoause articular rheumatism; when in the muscles, muscular rheumatism and lumbago; when in the tissues coTering. the nerves, sciatica; when in tbe face, , head and nerves generally, neuralgia. In every case they are painful; in most in

stances, dangerous. Inflammatory rleu-

matis'u is likely to locate in some joint

and become chronic, or . suddenly attack the brain or heart, causing apoplexy or heart disease. The fire in the blood must

be extinguished the supply must be

shut off. This can only be done by guard

ing the portals to the blood the kidneys

and liver; and' no means has ever been found for accomplishing this which can

equal Warner's Safe Rheumatic Ours, it ,

acts direotlv upon the seat of the disor-

order; it extinguishes the fire by control

ling the supply and removing the pause. The well known standing of.H. H.War-

ner A Co., of "Rochester, N. Y., the re

markable success wjhich Warner's Safe

Cure has achieved, being endorsed by no less a peronagc;thanDr. Robert A. Gunn, Dean of the United States Medical college, New York, and the fidelity with which thay have carried out'their promisees to the public, should be a . sufficient

warrant that the above statements are

true. They, however, "guarantee to cure

ninety five per cent, of all rheomatio.

troubles, especially acute, knowing folL well the demonstrated power of the rem-

edv iustifies them in so doing Nothing

can bo fairer than this, and those who suffer in the future from rheumatism with such an offer before them, do so at their own responsibilily and can blame no one if living pam and untimely death

are the results-

They Sold Him a Hole.-

Wail Street Nww. ...... .. .V.. . He was telling the story in the billiard , room of a Denver hotel. Said be: "There was three of us, you see, and . Nevada was a cold climate for us. were dead-broke, half starved, ami olea? ,: discouraged, when along came a New"-' Yorker. He wouldn't plav oarde, wouldn't be robbed, and we couldn't stick bun with forged laud patents ot obgu pre J emptions. Oe day we trailed put and? dug a hole into a hill and salted it abit and rushed bnok and offered the New Yorker the big discovery for $8,000 casM -down." : ? And hebitr , ,,..,t, x ( "Took right hold like a pair of pmcers." Why, he never even stopped to beat us? down. We got a cool thousand apiece"? and made for 'Frisco." ;: ''Pu'rty cool thaJ was.; ; i ' "Well, I dunno. If timre was anytbing i cool in that transaction it was the wey that New Yorker bunted up a pard, eet miners to work, bought m aobinery, and ; took out over S750,000 out o? that ar hole inside of eight nonth! Mavbe , we've got over feeling fia bulk Ir guess, V not. , .' A German, writing in one of the . fier-" j ' lin papers of hm campaigns, gives the -followinginteresting item: "In this bat tie we lost the brave OanfeiinSchule. A t cannon ball took off his head. His . last ; words were: Bary me on the spot i here I fell ; ' V -

The testimony of many who long sufered from ill health, caused by an imr pure state of the bloo , goes to prove that the best remedy for making- tiie blood rich, red and pure, for beautifying; the complexion, for ouring sores, pimples, and other skin diseases, for vemoving aches, pains, stiff joints, rheumatisneto., for increasing the power of endurance, for giving health and strength to every weak portion of the body,is Dr. Guysott a

pleases the user iu every; instance, other remedy equals ifc -

No

Rheums There has never been a medicine for rheumatism introduced in Indiana than has giving such universal satisfaction at Durang'a RheumaUo Remedy. It stands mt alone as the one gieai remedy thait actually cures this dread sease. It is taken internally and newr bps and never can fail to cure the worst case iu the sho rest 'time. It has the indorsement and rcoommendation of many leading physicians in this State' and elsewhere. It is sold by every druggist at L Write Iree 40 page pamphlet tot EL K; HEIiPHKN8flNE1Druggi8t,Waflhington, D.a - j . iB-n 'j "-nTf'i RusmoA O. Div.A.Tage says1: t

hav nrflsnribpd Brown's IrOU Bitters in

several instance?, and ecji oaen fained good reto s . ;'

phi