Bloomington Courier, Volume 13, Number 24, Bloomington, Monroe County, 16 April 1887 — Page 2
BY H. J. FBLTTTS.
BLOOMING TON ,
INDIANA
Cholera continues to rage in South America and to cause grave anxiety in several localities. Tho disease was brought into Brazil and the Argentine Republic by Italian immigrants. In several cases their baggage was so filthy that it was burned before it had time to do much harm, but in some instances ' the custom officers were less vigilant, with the disastrous results alluded to. Extra care is being taken to prevent the introduction of the disease into this country, and it is impossible to take too many precautions.
This Czar of Russia declines to allow any of his subjects to take any part in the promotion of the great exhibition to be held in Paris in 1889. - He does so on the ground that the exhibition is the "outcome of a gigantic re volution,'' As his power is absolute, he can, of course, exercise it how he likes, but when he condemns an enterprise simply because the Government organizing it is Republican, he shows that the fear of dvnam-
ite has driven out of his imperial head what small amount of sense it ever contained;
INDIANA. STATE NE WS.
The Cincinnati Labor party spared no pains last week to show that they were neither socialists nor anarchists. "No red flag fo American workingmen" was their motto; and they openly disavowed any allianee with or sympathy for lawlessness.- 'In' Chicago the workingmen, socialists, anarchists and knownothingists worked hand and glove. In Cincinnati the labor vote was a factor in the election; in Chicago it was little more than a cipher. The contrast merely confirms a thoroughly ascertained fact; when the honest workingman wants to make his influence felt he has to keep the idle, dissatisfied and lawless section of the community at arm's length. - - ----- - - - MB. GTEllSD FACTOTUM.
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Boston Transcript. The "Lamonts," as the private secretary and his wife are often termed, are very near the family or home Sife of the President. Their two little girls are the only youngsters who have, from time to time, made children's racket in the White House during the administration. Col. and Mrs. Lamont's first stay in Washington was at the Arlington. A ftw months later, when Miss Cleveland went to New York for a visit, the President had his private secretary and family to keep him company. It was his - wish that the children should1 be at the table. No doubt they diverted and amused him. But their mother, probably knowing too well the antics of little
people, after a few days decided they should be left to the care of their nurse. One day 'she went into the state diningroom, hearing their voices there, and fonnd them seated at the table eating
their dinner, and as much at home as if
nsed tothesolemn,f 6rmalroom,and not in
the least abashed by its lonesome grand
eur; The President enjoyed.it, and declared the children should go on taking
their meals at the state board as long as
they wanted to, and in this way the
state dining-room was first opened by
President Cleveland, the little Lamont
girls being the first guests. Col. Lamont
has a house on I street, at the west end,
where Gen. Townsend, Gen. Rusker.
and other army families reside. I think
-it is a furnished house, but there is much
of their own brie-a-brac, making it very attractive. Crayon portraits of the President and Mrs. Cleveland have
conspicuous places on easels in the draw
ing-room. It is said the President
doubled the salary of his private secretary
the original pay being $3,5C0, and, of course, paid by the government; If this , be true Col. Lamont receives $7,000 a
year; half of it from the President's own purse, and the highest salary ever paid to private secretary in the White
House. Asms duties are quite double those of former secretaries there is no reason to doubt that Col. Lamont's sal
ary is now but 11,000 short of a cabinet officer's salary. It would not be a diffithingtofill the vacancy if a cabinet officer resigned. There are plenty of
men put of the cabinet quite as able and faithful as the men in it But the Presi
dent might scour the country over and
not find another Col. Lamont.
The private secretary's duties extend to the private part of the White House,
auu wueu it wouiu oe naru to say say just where they begin and where
they end. It is Col. Lamont who writes
letters for the President and attends to his correspondence. In this he does the
work of the private secretary . But it is
j6L Lamont also who receives crowds
of people mostly office-seekers talks
witn tnem anci disposes of them, thus relieving the President of half the worry andnagging inflicted by the hundreds
who are bent on serving their country in some position or other. It is Col.
Lamont who is daily, hourly interview
ed by the press of the land and' not the President. It need hardly be added
that the press in the President's hands
would not always come out bo smiling
and self-satisfied, for it is Col. Lamont, who is perfect in the art of giving infor
mation, but who never in any- possible instance "gives himself away." At tho Cabinent Meeting:. , . Secretary Bayard talks a good deal at long intervals, but it takes considerable time to get him started. ' Secretary Endicott usuallv has verv
little to say, but where it is necesary to express an opinion he talks . 'briefly and to the point. . Secretary; Whitney does most of the talkine? nsuallv. and he and' Postmaster
General Vilas are about thef? only ones ; who make things at all lively. Attorney-General Garland is content
to let the younger members J la ve things their own wav as a rule, and he seldom
interrupts their proceedings with sug
gestions or arguments. ; Mr. Fairchild, who, for a; long time, occupied Secretary Manning's seat at the table, and who is now --in the old place,is judicial in his manner. He is a good listener, a laconic talker, and is said to be as combative as John L. Sullivan when thoroughly aroufied. In his new house at Kensington the poet Browning will have Henry James, Jr. , fr his nearest neighbor. '.XT . " - - - " " s j - . 1
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Kokomo decided Friday to have waterworks by a very large majority. Latest gas towns Jonesboro, Grant county; El wood, Madison county. Indiana is a great State. Governor Gray has re-appointed Enos B. Reed State fish Commissioner, and Andrew Hagen inspector of oils. The well on the Denny farm near Portland was drilled in Friday and shows two hundred feet of oil in the well. The Wabash Flaindoaler and Courier have been consolidated. Leo Linn, editor of the Courier, will remove to Texas. Major Doxey has purchased a large majority of the stock of the Anderson Natural Gas Company, ami now controls it. A little daughter of F. F. Rankin, of Richmond, was choked to death by a grain of corn which lodged in her windpipe. ... A. H, Bailey, of Sullivan, has been arrested at Effingham, 111., charged with moving mortgaged property out of the State.
A sixty-pound tumor was removed from the, abdomen of Mrs. Howe, of Michigan City. She is in a fair way to
recover. ...
It is reported from Indianapolis that Contractor Howard has concluded to
complete the State House, and it will be
finished within ninety days. A son of John Harris fell from a wagon, Monday, at Seymour, and his left ear was' cut off close" to the ; head as smooth asif done with a sharp knife. A New Albany dog aroused the family just in time for them to escape from their burning house, but in his zeal to make sure that all were saved, perished himself. A sixteen year old son of John Richey, near Seottsburg, committed suicide Monday by shooting himself through the head. Disappointment in love is as signed as the cause. Mrs. Anthony Emly, of Clear Creek township, Huntington county, has received information that she is the heir to an estate of 198 acres of land located within six miles of Cincinnati. Burglars forced and entrance into the residence of Mr. Moses Ferris, North Vernon, and stole 280. The money was secreted under the pillow of the bed in which Mr. Ferris was sleeping. The large barn of Mr. Henry Persinger of Jackson county, was burned Friday morning, together with one pair of largo mules, two head of horses, one cow, corn, wheat, hay, etc. Last fall John R. Huff aaan, the out
going treasurer of Blackford county, was Tftnorted a defaulter. Experts were se-
cured to investigate the records of the county for ten years back, and Huffman comes out $291 ahead. Angus Dean and Hon. J. H. Stotsenberg, who own about 50,000 peach trees near the boundary line between Clark and Jefferson counties, report the buds
all safe so far, and tho prospects good
for an abundant yield of tho fruit next summer. A measles epidemic prevails at Wash
ington. Over a dozen deaths nave oc-
curred from this cause within two weeks. One of the city schools have been closed on account of nearly all the pupils having the disease. Spotted fever also prevails to some extent.' Daniel Coleman was tried, Wednesday, in the Jasper Circuit Court on the charge of attempting to commit a criminal assault upon Ida M. Reams last November in Remington. The jury brought in a verdict ot gnilty-and his punishment imprisonment for two years. Much excitement has been caused
among the male and female students at
the Indiana State university, at Blopmington, by the action of professor Jordan
in dismissing six female students for
cheating at examinations. It is said that several others are under suspicion. The citizens of Warren, who last week had their hopes exalted by the discovery of oil, are greavously dissa pointed in the result of shooting the well. It was expected that this operation would insure a liberal flow of oil, but though a heavy charge of dynamite was exploded there was no increase in the supply of oil. The well will at once be driven deeper, Sandy Toe, a prominent farmer and well known horse man at Wabash, was arrested recently for drunkenness. He insisted at the time that he was sick,and demanded a trial, attempting to prove
-that he was ill. He was fined for drunk
enness, ana since nas necoine a raving
maniac. Foe iB the owner of a number
of very fast horses.
xne co-operative store tnat nas ex
isted m Huntington lor some years
has failed. The original stock consisted
of $15,000. Its liabilities are $9,000 and the value of the represented stock is
about $11,000. The goods are beins
sold at auction. The loss: involved effects the farmers generally. Thursday night two children of Henry
Meyer, of Terre Haute, died of scarlet
fever, and Wednesday morning two
others of the same disease. The four
children lay in coffins in the same room, and were buried together. The
father and mother are the only surviving
members of the family.
In answer to an inquiry from the
Treasurer of State. Attorney General
Michener holds that, although the gen
eral assembly failed to pass a law for a tax levy for State purposes, the old levy
continues, under the act of March 3,
1887. It fixes the levy at 12 cents on the
$100 and the poll tax at 50 cent.
George Marion,a farmer of Rensselaer,
found his dog barking at a snake near a hole in the ground. He dug down and
found bushels of snakes, stiff with cold.
When ail were killed and classified, it was found that there were 140 in all, 113
of which were blue racers and 27 were bull snakes. No other kind of serpents were found in the den. Soon after another nest of sixty-seven snakes was found.
The State, officers have appointed the
following gentlemen to constitute the
Soldiers' Monument Commission: Gen.
Lew. Wallace, Crawfordsville; George
J. Langsdale, Greencastle; Dan. M. Ransdell, Indianapolis; all of whom are
Republicans, and Hugh . Dougherty,
Bluffton and S. B. Voyles, Salem, Dem
ocrats.
A thirteen-year-old son of John John
son, of Decatur, while trying to put a
belt on the. pulley, of a grindstone in his
father's planing-mill was caught by the
driving-belt of the mill and carried to the
line shafting: and whirled round and
round until every bone in his body was
broken. One of his arms was torn from his body at the shoulders. Hjs death
was almost instantaneous.
Last Thursday, Jonas Bennett and Jennie Kilmer of Richmond, who had long been lovers, were married. Early Sunday morning she arose, and went to the bridge across White river, where she leaped about seventy feet?, and broke her neck in striking tho water. where she was subsequently found by herhusbsnd, who became alarmed at her prolonged absence and instituted search. She was crazed by tho death of her mother, about five years ago. A contractor on the levee at Jeflorsonyiile, named John Roll, ha s a curious and rather embarrassing pet. About
three months ago a large, tamo goose began to follow hi in, and since that time has become his constant companion, manifesting a strong affection, for him. It follows him wherever he goes, unless forcibly restrained. When Roll enters a store or a bar-room it runs up between his legs,and there remains, maintaining its position stubbornly and regardless of surroundings. Mr. Wra. Gorham, who has been v a guard at the State Prison South for
twenty-eight years, and during that
time filled temporarily all the official positions in that institution, and recog
nised as one of the most competent and faithful employes, was asked to resign,
Wednesday morning. It is probable
that all the employes under the Howard administration will be set aside.
The investigation of the charges
brought against the matron of the Rush
county orphans' home by the grand jury
is now in progress before the county commissioners. Very damaging testi-
mnnv bninfir. brought out. The COok of
the home testified that the children had
meat once a week, and for breakfast had
water, bread and molasses, and sometimns butter. For dinner, boiled cab
bage or potatoes, one slice of bread, and
water, and one-sixth of a pie for supper.
Robert Miller,deputy marshal of Peru, instantly killed Charles Emerick, an at
torney and proprietor oi the opera
house, Tuesday. Emerick, while under
the influence of liquor, Monday night,
made statements reflecting on tho good
character of Mrs. Miller. Miller, meet
ing him Tuesday morning, struek him in the face, knocking him down, and then kicked him, breaking his neck,
from which he died instantlv. Miller is
under arrest.
A heavy freight train was pulling up
tho steen incline of the Henderson
. . . . . . bridge from the Indiana shore, when a
coupling broke and ten or twelve heav
ily-laden cars started on the back track.
The passenger train was close behind,
but the engineer, seeing something was
the matter with the freight, reversed
his engine and succeeded in backing ou
with sufficient rapidity to avoid a colli-
tion. For several mi es. ana until a
level was reached, the race was an ex
citing one, both trains flying at lightning
speed. .
The celebrated Lieutenant Governor
case bobbed up in the Indianapolis
courts again Monday morning. At the time Green Smith asked an injunction
against Colonel Robertson to preven
him from asserting his rights as Lieu
tenant Governor, John J. Cooper ant
Joseph B. Black put their names to the undertaking necessary to be tiled. No
amount wTas specified in tho bond, it being of a general character. On the 12 th of January Judge Ay res granted the injunction and tho events following have passed into history. Monday morning Harrison. Miller & Elam filed in the Marion Superior Court a suit against Green Smith and Messrs. Cooper and Black, asking, in behalf of Colonel Robertson, judgment for $3,000 on their bond. The proceedings in court, the complaint, bonds and entries are set out at length in tho complaint. The amount of Colonel Robertson's demend is to cover damages and costs incurred by reason of the injunction and the proceedings necessary to obtaining it This action of the circuit court was reversed by the supreme court February 26, and the injunction annulled. The complaint avers that the reversal of the judgment was a breach of the undertaking upon which the injunction was granted. For attorney's fees $2,500 were expended by Colonel Robertson, not considering the expenses of traveling and printing briefs. Men Who Have Achieved Fortunes, New York Letter to Philadelphia Press. In a little wooden f ram over a clerk's desk in a railroad office down town
there hangs a photograph of a group o men who have played a great part in the politics and finances of the country, but who have not yet climbed to the topmost round of their ladder of fame and fortune. The artist has reproduced m remarkable likeness the striking lines of these men's features and the-peculiar countenances which denote tho strong attributes of their characters. There are five men in this interesting group. They all began life at the bottom and are now millionaires. One of them may some day be the richest man in this country. In the centre of this picture stands James G. Blaine. About him are ex-Senator Henry G. Davis, of West
Virginiafex-SenatofWi ndom , of Minne
sota; Stephen B. HI kins, of this city, and John A. Hambleton, a leading banker of Baltimore. The search for wealth
brought these five together. They are the directors of a little railroad built out in West Virginia to develop some enormous coal properties in which they are jointly interested. Mr. i)avis, now worth $20,000,000, was a brakeman on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad just before the war broke out. James G. Blaine was a school teacher for many years after that and so was Senator Windom. Stephen B. Elkins was a clerk for some years after he attained his majority, and John A. Hambleton began bis career a3 the office boy for a Baltimore firm of brokers. Senator Windom went .west in early life to reap his harvest. Mr. Blaine quit Pennsylvania and Kentucky for Maine, but the other three grew up in the States they wero born in. Gold has since brought them together in a common purpose. Yet with all their successes thus far in life every one of thorn has. yet to achieve
he crowning glory of his ambition.
BILL 8 YE AN i) IUU H ATS.
I3itinr tho Grass.
Texas Sittings.
GilhoolyrDid you read about that
Chinese junk sinking with 000 pas
sengers?
Gus Be Smith Yes, every mother's
son of them had to bi to the grass, "But how is that possible at sea?" "Humph! They could bite sea grass, couldn't they?"
Ho Adds His Anathema to tho Gen
eral Chorus in tho Back How. Tho late William Shakespeare once
wrote in an autograph album these words:
"AH tho world's a stflge, "Sincerely your friend, . YM. Shakespeare." Perhaps he meant that there were lies on it but we will not undertake o enter this field of thought. Howevur,
to speak in a more serious voiu,and treat
ing the subject in a more dignified way,
I will state that after a number of year's
scrutiny of the world I am convinced
that the great bard used this expression
in a litruraiivo sense oniv, uoiiiu ne
pick up his pen to-day he would either
erase the above line or add to it so that
it would read:
"All tho world's n stago, and nobody font the
woman in the high hat can see what is going, on
ujhh it. Yours bitterly, Biu. "
It is not a new field, perhaps, this
discussion of the tall hat, but I desire in
my poor, weak way, to add my testimo
ny to tho testimony of those who have
sat down on mid hat. I feel of a truth
occasionally that this high hat is
making an old man of me and drawing
lines of care hero and there over my fair
young face. Here, at a time of life, when
I ought to be in the full flush and pride of manhood, I find myself no longer able to build the fire in tho morning, and my breath, which was once as robust
as that of the upas tree, now comei:. in short pants. The tall hat with a wad of timothy or a five pound pompon at the apex thereof has brought this about. How would a man look who might sit in the baldheaded row wearing a joint of stovepipe on his head trimmed with hay? Has it not been tho custom for years to place bald headed men on the front row, because they offered no obstruction to the vision? And now, what do wo see? We do not see anything! I will leave it to any disinterested per
son to say whether I do not love and admire woman, whether aggregated or segregated, but she does do some things which as her friend and admirer I deeply regret. Not long ago I had the pleasure of attending one of Mr. Booth's performances, in which he took tho part of Hamlet with great credit to himself, as I afterward learned from a member of the orchestra who saw the whole performance. If I had not promised a former wife of mine that I would never touch liquor I would have been amply justified thatevening in saturating myself with bay mm or some other seductive beverage. I paid a targe price a week beforehand for a seat at the Hamlet performance, because I had met Mr. Booth once in the Rocky Mountains and had made a deep impression on him. I had also told him that if he ever happened to be in a town where I was lecturing I would dismiss my audience to come and hear him,and he might do as bethought best about shutting up on the following night to come and hear me. Well, I noticed at first, when I went in, that the row before me was unoccupied, and I gathered myself up in a strong, manly embrace and hugged myself with joy. The curtain humped itself, and the first act was about in the act of producing itself, when a meek little gentleman, with an air of conscious guilt, came down the aisle iu advance of a woman's excursion, consisting of four female members of his family, I judged. He looked about over the house, timidly took off his coat and seemed to be preparing himself for the vigiiance committee. Then he sat down to sea whether executive -clemency could do anything for him. The first woman of the four was probably over forty, and yet with her almost beardless faceshe looked scarcely thirtyeight. She wore a tall, erect hat, with a sort of plume to it, made by -pulling a paint brush tail out of an iron grey mule and dying it a deep crimson. She wore other clothing, but that did not incense me so much as thi hat, which I had to examine critically all the evening. She moved her head, also, and kept
time to the music, and breathed hard
in places, and shuddered once or twice.
tone aj so spoue to tne miseranie man
who brought her. Her voice was a rich baritone, with a low xylophone -action,
and she breathed like the passionate ex
haust of an overworked freight -engine.
When she spoke to her escort I noticed
that he shortened up about four inches
ana seemea to wisii tnat no naq never
entered society.
The other three women had: broad
hats with domes to them, and the one who sat on my right also sat on her foot. This gave her a line opportunity to look out through the skylight of the opera house now and then. The next one to her wore a deceased Plymouth Rock rooster in her hat. The fourth one sat in front of an oldish gentleman who went oat between tho acts and came in with a pickled olive in his mouth each time. He could not see anything on the stage, but he crawled up under the brim of this woman's hat, with his nose in the meshes of her hair, and his hot,local option breath in her neck, patiently trying to see whether tho slender legs in the long, black hose, belonged to Mr. Booth, ppollinarus or the ballet. If you will continue in your excellent paper to sit down on the tall hato, I will get you otiite a number of subscribers here. Bill Nye.
Ho even says that he experiences a cer
tain pleasure in feeling the fish grow.
A huge devil-fish was captured in Vic-
DR. TALMAGE
toria harbor a week ago by three adven
turous fishermen. Tho monster weighed
o ver a hundred pounds and measured several feet across tho back. It was
taken alive and pulled into the boat, where it promptly took hold of seats,
oars and everything else that was mova
ble with its innumareble suckers. The men were forced into the very stem and atern of tho boat, but there was a vital
spot between the great fish's eyes, and
a boat hook soon found it. Many curious fish have been brought to light by the artesian, wells which are being sunk from time to time in various parts of Florida. At the Ponce do Leon well star fish of an unknown species were found at a depth of 1 ,000 feet, and from a well near Broolcs Springs several
small fish with variegated colors and fins covered with a shaggy coat of hair wero thrown up. At other places fish that wero totally blind wero met with at a depth of from 600 to 1,500 feet. The rapid growth and breeding qualities of tho German carp, which is now the favorite fish for stocking ponds in western States, are a matter of astonishment to fishermen. Atypical instance of its fecundity is that related by a
farmer near Fairfield, la. Four ago ho started a pond with three carp, and this year he reports his
at 12,000. In the mean time he has sold
hundreds for stocking ponds in various parts of the State. Tho fish have attained a great size and are said to be very tame. Their flesh is somewhat like the buffalo fish and is rather coarse-grained for the table. Prof. Baird says there is nothing to prevent a fish f rom living an incredible number of years and growing to an enormous size, and cites in proof the statement of an immense pike living in Russia whoso age dates back from the fifteenth century. Apropos of this, a well-known Canadian artist, now in New
York, says that , while travelling in Brit
ish uoiumma a tew montns ago ne was shown a gigantic; sturgeon which was declared by the people to have lived in
the waters of the Frasar river, to their
certain knowledge, lime out of mind,
and whichjSince its capture more than a
year ago, had furnished food for several families. The fish was tied with stout ropes to a tree on the bank of the river, and whenever a resident wanted
some fish he simply went to tl
pulled in the captive, cut a steakof the
size needed, and allowed the great fish to float back into the stream. The sturgeon was still alive when the artist left.
and was estimated to have enough meat
Christ Will
Swallow Up Victory.
Death in
Knstor tho Queen Sublmlh of tl.o Toar All Kniuro Suggest the Kwtimrettiou of tho I)eal, Even as Out of the Darkest Night Shine tholSi ightoftfc Iay.
years small stock
Tazzling Fish Yarns A traveler who has recently returned from 'a trip through British Columbia says that one day last November it was possible to lay boards on top of the fish in a small stream which empties into the Fraser ana pass over, as if on a living pontoon bridge, to the onnosito bank. The fish had been
driven into the stream by tbo backwater of tho Frasor and were packed together like sardines in a can. William Sykes, a Mississippi planter,
went Ashing near Leota Landing recently, and while ho was Irving to impale a minnow on his hook the diminutive fish wriggled out of his fingers : nto his mouth atid slipped down his throat. He went homo and swallowed an emetic,
but it haci no effect, and although this took elTeet some time ago, tho fi h still remains i n his stomach. Sykes hasn't worried much about, the matter and tells his friends that he feels no unpleasant effects from his abdominal visor.
Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, Easter Sunday, from the text Isaiah 25, li. Subject, "The Overthrow of the Monster." He said: About eighteen hundred and fiftythree Kaster mornings have wakened the earth. In France, for three centuries the almanacs made the year begin at Easter, until Charles IX. made the year begin at January ast. In the Tower of London there is a pay roll of
li award I., on which there is an entry
of eighteen pence for four hmdred col
ored and pictured Easter eecs. with
which the people sported. In Russia, slaves were ted and alms were distrib
uted on Easter. Ecclesiastical councils
met at Pontus, at Gaul, at Rome, at
Achala, to decide the particular day .and. I
alter a controversy more animated than gracious, decided it, and now through
all Christendom m some w.ay the hrst
Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after March 21st is
tilled with Easter rejoicing.
The Royal Court of the Sabbaths is made up of fifty-two. Fifty-one are princes in the royal household, but kaster is queen. She wears a richer uiadem, and sways a more jeweled scepter, and in her smiles nations are irradiated. Unusually welcome this year because of the harsh winter and late spring, she seems to step out of the snow bank rather than the conservator v.
cono out of the North instead of the South, out of the Arctic ranher than the tropics, dismounting from the icy equinox; but welcome this queenly day, holding high up in her right hand the wrenched ofT bolt of Christ's sepulcher, and holding high up in her left nand the key to all the cemeteries in Christendom. b. It is an exciting thing to see an army routed and flying. They ran each other down. They scatter everything valuable in the track. Unwhee led artillery. Hoof of horse on breast of wounded and dying man. You have read of the
French falling back from Sedan, or Napoleon's track of. ninety thousand corpses in the snow banks of Russia, or of the retreat of our own armies from Manassag, or of the five Kings tumbling over the rocks of Bethoran with their armies while the hail storms of heaven and. the swords of Joshua's hosts struck them with their fury. In my text is a worse discomfiture, It seems th at a black giant proposed to conquer tho earth. He -gathered for his host all tie aches and pains and malarias and cancers and distempers of the ages. He marched them down, drilling them in the north-east wind and amid the slush of tempests. He, threw up barricades of gravel-
mound. He pitched tent of charnelhouse. Some of the troops marched
with elow tread commg.nded bv
best spirits have gone through this process. Thousands and tens of thousands of God's children have been cremated P. P. Bliss and wife, the evangelistic singers, cremated by accident at Ashtabula Bridge; John Rogers, cremated by
persecution; Latimer and Ridley, cremated at Oxford; Pothinus and Bfandina, a slave, and Alexander, a physician,and their comrades, cremated at the order of Marcus Anrelius at . least a h undred thousand of Christ's deoi pies crematedand there can be no doubt about the resurrection of their bodies. If the world lasts as much longer as it has T already been built, there perhaps may be no room for the large acreage set apart for the resting places, but that time has not come. Plenty of room yet, and the race need not pass the bridge of fire un til it comes to it. The most of us prefer the old way. But whether out of natural disintegration or cremation, we shall get that luminous, buoyant, gladsome, transcendant, magnificent, inex
plicable structure called the resurrection body, you will have it, I will have it:
I say to you to-day, . as St. rani said to Agrippa: "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that.. God should raise the dead?" The far-up cloud -higher that the hawk flies, higher than the eagle flies what is it madeof? Drops
of water from the Hue son, other drops from Ef st river, other drops from a stag
nant pool out oniNewanc r ials upyon-
t irely reconstructed front cellar t6 .... ait tic, and every nerve, xnujcle anc. bone and tissue and artery mast, be hauled over, and the old structure will be bur-v nished and adorned and raisttd andcu poJaed and en large d, and all I t ie imP
provement of Heaven introduced and'
you will move into it on resur-. rection day. "For? we know that it our earth ly ; house of y this , tabors nacle were dissolved; we ?aave a building of God, a house not:
maim , wiui jijiua, "tc - the heavens. O. what ft dav whim hodv . i
and soul meet again! They ire very iondt
of each other. Hid your boay ever have pain and your soul not pity it?t Or youi body have a joy and your soul not reecho it? or changiiiir the question, did
your soul ever have ?,ny I rouble and your;? body not sympathiw) with it in rowing M
wan and weak undid tho depres ng -mg, Mi flueltce? Or did yovir soul ever have &tM4
ffladness .that vou-r bodv celebrated it
j.cu Aiuuivu cyo a ixvx . vucc& uv vinous fltem? Snrplv ilnd it'AVAr.Vinfonrftrl- twfiv
such good friends to be very long scnaratMlgF
ed. And so when the world's- lasr5 -
UiUI II&UK BU.nH CUJUO M3 B'SIU WI ,
and the body will ascend, sayingf ;i Wberf :$
is my soul r; and the Lord of the resurrection will bring ibem together, and' it-f will hft a YiArfpftt: Rm.il in ti nprWt; heavATl-
Viefcnrv! J)n vnn icnnder that to-rfav weS
swathe this house with garland? po-you-wonder-we celebraue it with tier mostconsecrated voice of song that we can' , invite, and with the deftest fi igers on orgsin and cornet, and" with doxologies
that beat these arches with the billows
of sound as the sea. smites tluy basalt fc ftrntifr'a Ojiiiwwa Onlv tha had dfe '(:svr :
approve or the resurrection.. k - A. cruel . heathen warrior he ard Mr;
to lec-Oxford
to be
con-
on its bones to supply the village for j-anmptions, some in donbleuick cornseveral months to come. !
some by one stroke of the battle ax of casual tv. With bony hand be pounded at the aoov of nospitals arid sick rooms, and won all the victories i n all the great battle fields ot all tbe five continents. Forward march, the conqueror of conquerors, and all the Generals and :Cotn manders in Chief, and all the Presidents and Kings and Sultans and Czars drop u?ider the feet of his war charger. But one Christmas night Uis antagonist. was born. As most of the phgues and sicknesses and despotisms come out of the East, it was appropriate" that the new conqueror should come out of the same quartei. Power is given him to awaken ail the fallen of all the centuries and of all lands and marshal them against the black : giant. Fields have . already . lieen won but the last day of the world's existence will see the decisive battle. When Christ shall lead forth his two brigades, the brigade of the risen and the brigade oi the celestial host, the black giant will fall back, and the brigade of the risen sepulchers will take Him from beneath and the brigade of immortals will take Him above, and death : shall be swallowed up in victory. The old braggart that threatened the conquest and demolition of tbe planet has lost his throne, has lost his scepter, has lost his palace, has lost his prestige, and the one word written over all the gates of mausoleum and catacomb necropolis, on cenotaph and sarcophagus, on tho lonely khan j of the Arctic explorer, and oh the catafalque of great cathedral, written in capitals of azalea calla lily, written in a musical cadence, written in doxology of great assemblage, written on the sculptured door of the family vault is , "victory." Coronal word, embannered word, apocalyptic word, chief word of the triumphal "arch under which con querers return. Victory? Word shouted at Culloden and Baiaklava and Blenheim, at Megiddo and Solferino, at Marathon, where the Athenians drove back the Medes; at Poic tiers, where Charles Martel broke the ranks of the Saracens; Salami, where Themistoceles in the great sea-fight confounded theBPersians, and at the door of the eastern cavern of : chiseled rock, where Christ came out through a recess and throttled the King of Terrors, and put him back in the niche from which the celestial conquerer had just emerged. Aha! When the jaws of the eastern mausoleum took down the black giant
"death was swallowed up in victory." I proclaim the abolition of . death. The
old antagonist is driven back into myth
ology with all the lore . about Stygian
Jerry and Charon with oar and boat.
Melrose Abbey and Henil worth castle are no more in ruins than is the sepulcher. We shall have no more to do with death than we have with the cloak-room at a Governor's or President's
levee. Wo stop at such cloak-room and leave in charge.of a servant our overcoat, our -overahoesf-rour outward ap
parel, tnat we may not bo impeded m the brilliant rouud of the drawing-room.
well, my friends, when we go out of
this world we are going to a king's banquet, and to a reception of monarchs, and at the door of the tomb we leave the cloak of flesh and wrappings with which we meet the storms of mis world. At the close of an earthly reception, under the brush and broom of the porter the coat or hat may be handed to us better than when we resigned it, and the. cloak of humanitv will finally be returned to us improved and brightened and purified and glorified. You and I do not want our bodies returned as they are now., We want to get rid of all their weaknesses and all t heir susceptibilities of fatigue and their slowness of locomotion. They will be put through a chemistry of soil and neat and cold and changing seasons, out of which God will reconstruct them as much better than they are now as the body of the rosiest and healthiest child that bounds over the lawn at Prospect
pars is better than the sickest patient in .Bellevue hospital. But as to our soul,
we will cross right over, not waiting for
obsequies, independe nt of obituary, into a state in every wav better, with 'wider
room and velocities : beyond computation; tho dullest of us into companionship with the very best spirits in their very best mood, in the very parlor of the universe, tho four walls burnished and paneled and piclured and glorified with all the splendors that the infinite God in all the ajes has been able to invent. Victory!
Men of tho Day. James Russel Lowell is going ture on Shakespeare before au
audience very soon. Comedian W. J. Florence is going London soon and while there will
the guest of Henry Irving. It is said that a p hysician always sits at the bedside oi: jBmperor William watching the monarch while ho sleeps. It is whispered that ex-Senator Warner Miller has on foot one of the biggest wood pulp schemes ever dreamed of. George W. Child of Philadelphia is going to present a life-sized portrait of Gen. Grant, painted by Mrs. Helen Dor rah, to the West Point Millitary Acadr envy. Thirty years ago Henry M. Majilton was the wonder of . circus-goers. He is still living in Philadelphia, but has been paralyzed since his fall from a trapeze in London in 186 L Captain Moore of Winsted, Ct,, is making a baloon which will hold 18,000 feet of gas and carry twelve persons. It is to be used in Government experiments at Chicago. Friar Andcrledy, the successor of Friar Reckx as Superior General of the Society of Jesuits, is famous as a linguist. He can speak and write every important language in the world. Lord Frederick Hamilton of England, who has been making a visit in Baltimore, has come to the conclusion that the reputation, of that city for "pretty women and ducks" has not been exaggerated. Nine tigers, three bears, six rhinoceroses, fourteen buffaloes, thirty-two stags and five wild hogs comprise the game bagged in a single- hunting excursion recently arranged by the Rajah of Beherr in honor of hi s guest, Prince Edward of Saxe- Weimar.
Salt, Good Housekeeping. .
A morning hand bath in cold salt
water is delightfully invigorating. Warm salt water inhaled through the nostrils will cure cold and catarrh,
A pinch of salt i&ken frequently will
stop a cough or throat irritation. A glass of salt water, warm or cold,
aken on rising in the morning will enre
constipation.
Bathing the eyes when tired or weak
in warm salt wider" will Soothe and strengthen them.
arv: "Win mv let ner rise w tne i
day ?" "Yes said the mi ssionary "Then," said the w arriory 'iefe one hear
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be no rpfturp.ntion ' T1 havA slfiin tliotfc
ami uo xix uniuci :f,iii lucv nc .h.
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than those.want c see whfjse crimes hav
never been repented of. But for . alii trotters who allow Christ to be theiii
t . 'ill i. j. r ,.: C - " ti
The thunders or she last day will' be tho salvo that greet 6 you int .V harbor-
The lightnings ml be only tl e torches '$
nf t.rini-nminl nroip?M3trtn mnrh mi? uoWlft.
to escort you nomtu J ;nc ourm og woria
rocKeLS ceieuraiiDc voar core !iaiiou ; via rses
forever, and forever Where is death? , What have we to do' with d eatht As x
your reunited oouy and soul swing o S M
irom una DianeL on xnac last us v vuu --m
sop 4?opn cflslipa nil nn anft1 down .
I 111- j-ii'l .11 ll.-..J.U t' VmmllAno' ''.''.
nms. aeentraautfH an turuui'iu v.ic,
and they will be the emptied g raves., theyr. ti?ilJ ha tha nh?inrlnAfl ftrlllherS.v with-
rftiK'h irrnnnfl tossed on either , side of "M,
them, and slabs will he nnevJh on the yWM
hinnnlrfl nd t.ber will be fallen montt-r " M
merits and cenotenhs. and then for ther
Rwst hmn tinn will u rtrirAni ATA t hR.mll ex- S;
un' n"'V jvm. IT ww- - . ."O
hilnmtimr nf r.h 'texiL' lle VK 11 SWaUOW. S
up death in victory."
iter af :
Lucca's father a hearty olil gentlemaa
of eighty-six, livta with ujiw and treats her like a baby. -
Queen Victoria does hot accept jubilee g
presents irom private itoitom;."-
whom she, is not personally acquaintecL .
iiUiu wnuams, a cnuu oiei;yeu j; wo, is an applicant for a: divpce in -an
Omaha court on tho ground of, cruelty
and failure t o support. ;
Mrs. Isabella Ileecher Hooler carries; theidea of female emanoipatioii, flb -far
as to demand tlmt half the pUce,iorce
in large cities consist of wontoh.
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TIII3 BtBRVISH.
Unto Prince AMolnsi oimo one day A Den'isb, snying, ul baTC lasted still For six long years on bread and water, till My flesh is sore, yet God seems far away." The Prince, made answer: 'Tasting
may'st faro -jtalf way to 6od? Ills threshold reach, prayer.
thon
by
and
"By
The Derrish went his way and in six years Again. Mime hack. "I prayed both day night, At Mecca aud Medina, and in sight Of every mosque of sanctity : with tears Have I made p iigrimages to each spot Of holy fame; but God I found him noL" The Prince then kindly answered him:
prayer .. . The threshold of great Allah do we win, But 'tis almsgiving that doth lead us in
To stand before his glorious presence there.
Go forth; give alms: thou findest Allah when Thou findest thy poor suffering Jellowmcn." The Dervish heard the word and turned to go. Perplexed and grieved he toiled along the road. "Thin one coarse loat: that charity bestowed To me is all that I have to bestow.
Will the great Allah deign a thought to take On such mean offerings given tor his sake?" Within an hour a oripptad beggar came And reached his hand a charity to crave; Kindly his coarse br:wn loaf the Dervish gave, ,4T!b all I have, friend ;tekc it in God's name." Then suddenly arouncl about him there A mightly splendor -busied all the air. The Dervish bowed hU bead. A light divine Did overflow him from a heavenly place. He knew it was the light of Allah's face "Now ncel I seek no pilgrimage nor shrine, Wherever one poor oul asks alms of me, 1 know, O God , even there I eau find Thee." Harper's Magazine
birthday n
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This view, of conrst, makes it of but little importance whether we are cremated or sepulturcd. If tbo latter is dust to dust, the former is ashes to ashes. If any prefer incineration let them have it without caricature. The world may become bo crowded that cremation maybe adopted by law as Well ns by general consent. Many of the mightiest and
ler. there, embodied in a cloud, and the
sun kindles it. If God can make such, a lustrous cloud out of water drops, many of them soiled and impure ana fetched from miles away, can He not transport the fragments of a human, body from the earth and out of them build a radiant body? Can not God, who owns all the material out of ,, which bones and muscle and flesh are made, set them up again if they have fallen? If a manufacturer of telescopes drop a telescope on the floor and it breaks, can he not mend it again so you can see through it? And if God drops the human eye into the
dust, the eye which he originally fashioned, can He not restore ii? Aye, ii the manufacturer of the telescope by a change of the glass and a change of focus, can make a better glass than that which was originally constructed, and improve it. do vou not think the fashioner of tho
human eye may improve its .sight '.and multiply the natural eye by the thousandfold additional Jorces of the resurrection eye? . , "Why should it be thought with you an incrrfdible thing that God should raise the dead?" Things all around us suggest it. Out of what grew all these flowers? Out of the mold and the. earth.
Resurrected! Resurrected! The rati tant butterfly, where did it come from? The loathsome caterpillar. That albatross that smites the. tempest with its wing, where did it come from?. A senseless shell. Near Bereerac, France, in a
Oelic tomb under a block were found flower-seed that had been buried two thousand years. , , The explorer took the flower seed and planted it, and it came up; it blcomedin bluebeli and heliotrope. Two thousand years ago buried, yet' resurrected. A. traveler says he found in a mummyrpit in Egypt garden peas that had been buriecl three thousand years ago. He brought them out, and on the; 4th of June, 1844, he planted them, and in thirty days they sprang up. ; Buried three thousand years, yet resurrected. "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise Lhe dead?" , . ... ... v Where dd all ihis come from the silk that adorns your persons and your homes? In the hollow of a staff a Greek missionary brought from China to, Europe the progenitors of those worms that now supply the silk markets of many nations. The pageantry of bannered hosts and the IjixnrionsV articles of commercial emporium blazing out from the silk worms. A nd who shall be surprised if out of this insignificant earthly body, this insignificant earthly life, our bodies unfold into something worthy of the coming eternities?. Put silver into diluted niter and it dissolves. Is the silver gone forever? No. Put in some pieces of copper and the silver re? appears. If one force dissolves another force organizes. . ,. , "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?" The insects flew-and the worms crawled last autumn feebler aud feebler, aud then stopped. They have taken no food; they want ,j none. They lay dormant and insensible, but soon the Bouth wind will blow the resurrection trumpet, and the air and the earth will be full of them. Bo you not think that God can do as much for our bodies as He does for the wasp and the spiders and the snails? This morning at half-past four o'clock there " was a resurrection. Out of the night the day. In a few weeks there will be a a resurrection in all our gardens. Why not some day a resurrection amid all the graves? ....... ..... . . ;.v Ever and anon there are instances of men and women entranced. A trance in death followed by resurrection after a few days; total suspension oE mental power and voluntary action. Rev. William Tennent great evangelist of the last generation, of whom Dr. A rchibald A lescand er, a man far from being sentimental, wrote in most eulogistic terms Rev. "William Tennent seemed tordie. "His spirit departed. People came in day after day and said: ' He i dead, he is dead." But the soul that fled returned, and AVilliam Tennent lived to write out the experience of what he had seen while his so ul was goo e. It may be . found some time that what is calle'd suspended animation or comatose state is brief death, giving the soul an excursion into the next world from which it comes back, a f urlough of a few hours granted from the conflict of life to which it... must . return. Do not this waking up of men from trance, and this wakine up of in
sects from winter lifelessness, and this waking up of grains buried three thou
sand .years agOj mane iz easier tor you to believe that your body and mine after the vacation of the grave shall rouse and rally, though there be three th ousand years be tween our 1 ast breath and the sounding of the archangelic reveille? Physiologists tell us that while the most of our bodies" are built wiH such wonderful economy that we can spare nothing, and the loss ot a finger is a hinderment, and the injury of a toejoint makes us lame, still that we have t wo or th ree useless physical apparatl, and no anatomist or physiologist has ever been able to tell what they are good for. They are, no doubt, the foundation of the resurection body, worft nothing to us. in this stivto, to.be indispensibly vaiuablo inw he next state. The Jewish rabbis had only a hint of this sugjrestion when they said that in the human frame thero was a small bono which they said was to bo the basis of the resurrection body. Perhaps that may have been a delusion. But this thing is certain, the Christian scientists
of our day have found out that there are two or three superfluities of body that are something gloriously suggestive
of another state.
I called at my friend's house one sum
mer dav. I found the yard all oiled up
with the rubbish oi carpenter and mas
on's Work. The door was off. The i i i x . ii. - a . mu-
roof was being raised in cupola. All the .yuie aopuL iwu weefcu; since. vuq ot pictures were gone, and the paper-hang- ! them gained the opposite bi ink in safety
but the other drowned. w plan' foiv . . lecovering theead $bdy ' . rather novel onei Aru old darjse took a busidlo o-: fodder and plagj itn the'"- river
where the dwiib'jpo first sank, '
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Mass., celebrated her JOOth farr flowa arm ShAirilP.P.ivftd
guests and displayed rare soci d- owerev Mrs. Cleveland's- French dnstraetor says she is making astomshiigiy rapd pr6grs and that she wiU aIe to, converse fluentlv iDeforovtheijiextif4atf 1 opens. . .. . '; 'v. . Vt-? ''SPi - Mrs. Hoy t, the Presidents sister, wto has just become a guest at f .White. House, is the wife Of a bank casWefri Fayetteviliei Nl Y. She;drib 'a couiely, appnjachabie Uttl d woinaBfe: The Queen pi Rumania spresenjted Emperor William with a jpeni:i ' own composition on &e e?enteoi hip life, written in heiso wn?fianjc.. -or) whHe parchinent, the margin hw aig vg ; with pressed coiiiflowers. : ; ' .
Mrs, Glevelaad's portmit is "now :;W, exhibitioxi in the! picture st res of lionr don and Paris, ahda WasiiiE gfeni phota & 9 grapher recivo'Lan offer umav
for one dozen portraits of tlivlady;to,
out bonnet or Bearf on her h dadyT There has been srceh a rnii upon
... ""-ri
dictionaries at the British . Museum by
the latlie8 engaged in word inifteitns
tnat the libraiian has had to
readers to consult dittionaries'ai
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shelves, and not. to take Vthean ;to their ownfieatB. xi When Frederick Wiim, Powbl Prince of Oerraanyj was u ried.4,to the Prmpwi Roval if Euelahd 1.858V Leo?
pold , King of G5rmanyseat te;bridfe?a; dress wbichcost, $10,000 and woisneh delicate texture that it cohl, be enclos?
ed- iri a small ivory box. only
enough to hold a pack of caids.
Gioleemocrat. : W :&J:" lfim The barber business in 3enany -for different from ,what'isit;;i' ' ixt 'the - 1
Apnm fmnnlTV. Tnere evTY? vone.
does hot go the; Earlier shoj:-wnetfh4 ; wants to be shaved; Theiesfc barhers v have of courseia regular cusJtoni at ' tho ; shops, but they also- have tb ree pr ' -f our . ' employes whos) businesslt3 isito attend, V to the outsider tiacie; -tha is itheg around fromv house to house and attend .
to the wants of certain eustc mers Thm, ,
class ox custoinera r.ave tnen' own; veups and razors andare waited on; atsuidi r; times as best suite teir twovenience ; They are th aristocrats ui -would not ttrnk of Roinitin sii takin chair iii aj -barber shop anijwting Uuir turn they would offl)lakinj3: theirown shoest" These men genepiUy pay fram $S tO;$Mfc,,
per vear for th service- ren deret then! . M How Pltic a Bjid Bdd. V .f'-M
Hawktmville, Ga r ispateh. .: , ., ., ,yT.
We learned that two .(-neil-itH;i;:'jB
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clothing to the backs of their necks hj attemoted to av?im: mewrer n'jybew-v
era were doing their -work. AU the mod
ern improvements were being introduced into thatdwelling. There wasnotaioora in the house tit le live in at that time, although a month before when t visited that house every thing was so beautiful I could not have suggested an improve ment. My friend had gone with his fam i lv to the Holy 1 .aud, expecting.: to come back at tVmexui of six months, when the building was to be done. And, oh, what was Ins joy when t. the end. of six months he returned! and the old houfie was enlarged and improved anil glorified! That U our body. It looks wt li now, all the rooms fitted with health, and we
coma iiuKtiy. jhwilu a. etucetiuji. ,xWi after a while your soul .will go to the Holy Land, and while you are gone the old house of your tabornaclo will be en-
when in floated 4oHyh abdiVJ fifty
and suddenly stopped and commenced to whirl slowly tho old negrofdived down and secured the body? He claims to Mve recovered four or fiveothpr lost bodies by this
means in hisi experience, arid declares it
:to be ah infollible guide.'
. Information' of -th0
train-
wisdom
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