Bloomington Courier, Volume 13, Number 25, Bloomington, Monroe County, 23 April 1887 — Page 2

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BY H. J. FELTTTS.

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The majority against prohibition in Michigan is close to 3,500.

HuMORSof war are again rife in Europe,

Bad the "tension between Paris and Ber

lin continues." So, so.

Few cities under existing reckless and dishonest municipal , management can

make as good a cash showing as St. J os-

eph, Mo., which has $40,000 in its treas-

Bry, - - - - - ;

Got. Hn.i last week vetoed the high

license bill passed by the New York Legislature. He says it is special leg

islation, applying only to New York and

Brooklyn, and that portions of it are un

constitutional.

Don't believe all the stories you hear

ol land speculations. Natural gas may

have doubtless has greatly enhanced

the value of real .estate, but all tne gas

in the "gas belt" doesn't come from the Trenton rock. It was "struck" above

ground years ago and is just? now being

developed. -

The Home-role demonstration m

Hyde Park, London, last week, was a

tremendous affair m all 'respects, it is

estimated that half a million people joined in or watched and cheered the procession. Five thousand policeman

were detailed to preserve order, bu

there was no disturbance. G-ood nature

was the order of the day. Mr. and Mrs

Gladstone sat on a balcony in. the vicin

ity of the nark and were cheered for

hours by the crowd. At the platform

where the largest crowd had assembled

the . American flag was fly ing. . There

were not less than one hundred bands

in the procession, and among other popular airs played was our American tune, "Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marchinsr." A ooliceman said: "I've

lived in London, boy and man, for fifty years, but this is the largest meeting I

ever saw read about or heard of."

PUBLIC OPINION.

DSjlLMMSSElO!

Secret Societies Good or Bad Accord

ing to Their Varied Teachings.

Alleged Interview in If. X Herald.

"I said to the President: "Mr. Cleve

land, there seems to be a good deal o

interest in this land question just now?'7

"Yea," was his quick answer, "and

verv nronerly. I think. It is one of the

live questions of the day, and certainly

one of the most important."

4The railroad corporations appear to

be somewhat greedy," I suggested.

w eu, ne said,, "a railroad corporation should have its legal rights no more, no less. But the people should

have their rights, also. When a rea settler I don't mean a mere land speculator, but a farmer who builds his lit-' tie house and sets about the improvement of the acres on which he has settled when such a man has legally taken possession of his 160 acres, he ought to feel that the government is behind him. He has a right to feel that way, andso far as this . administration is concerned it is clearly the friend of the people. While as a matter of course the adininistratien will protect the lawful rights of a corporation as well as those of the people still. I think it should be specially jealous of the rights of the formers and the working classes. I will go even further than that and say that if, by any construction of the law, a seining injustice is done- to the humblest farmer in the furthest corner f the land, then the law ought to be changed, and changed at once. I am of the people; I believe in the people, and I stand by them and with them

first, last -and .all the time."

I can't understand hew it is that everyone speaks of the long looked for

conflict betweenJGermany and France as

though it was going to be a walk-over for the Germans. Bismarck is credited with having arranged his terms in advance so that when Paris is in ruins he

can produce his treaty reacly engrossed.

Fw not going to tay that the Germans

will have no show, but how about the JFrench? Their soldiers have always

fought well, and they only got knocked out in 1870 because they were, supplied with paper boots, empty cartridge belts,

Dad lood and useless weapons. In 1870 nothing was ready; now eveiything is

ready.; Of course, Germany is a great

aoihtary power and has a grand army. But all that being allowed, I am of the opinion that all this sympathy with France is decidedly "previous." France

under a Republic will prove a very dif

ferent power to contend against from France under a decaying monarchy.

Congratulations may be more appropriate than synnpathy. Juflge Iandley, of

bt. JLOUUC' ...

. Until master workmen and walking

delegates cease to exist as idle absorbers of the wages of workingmen, strikes and lockouts will continue to occur with greater or less frequency? for neither of these classes of labor parasites can exist unless they foment trouble between employers and employed. That is all the real work they do, and unless they do that their occupation will be gone. Philadelphia Inquirer,

, And now we have turned oui into the Atlantic ocean 35,000,000 codfish of our own raising brought up on the bottle, as it were and when, in four or five years, we want to catch them again, though they be our very own personal codfish, the Canadians may get up some dispute with us about them. New York Mail and Express. The Indian severalty act goes into operation first on the; Warm Spring Reservation in Oregon; At the same time Rev; Br. McGlynn is beginning his crusade against the white severalty

in the East. These two things do not coincide. Springfield Republican. : "Iana Is a Fraud. The following acrostic appeared in the New York Sun Tuesday, and is clever enough to win forgiveness for itseli: "Delighted are they who at the end of the day . Are blessed with the Evening Sun, Sun, Snn, Kb paper on earth can equal its worth, And yet it Is only begun, gun, gun. Wa newsy and bright and al io to fight, So that it will never get left; left, left ; And every line will sparkle and shine

From pencils remarkably deft, deft, deft. "Read always, you know, by a million or so, AdvertfsmentH in it will pay, pay, pay : Unrivaled by all, it being so small, Dfatihctly each ad will display, play, play." Bead initMl letters of each line downward.

The Home Should Not he 8a?rlltced to Club

Xnaueucca, No? fteligioua Obligations

WeakOtted Trades Organ ixations Necessary to Chec.lt the Crush of.Monopoly. The suoject of Dr. Talmage's sermon

last Sunday was, "What is the Moral Ef

fect of Free Masonry, Odd Fellowship,

Knights of Labor, Greok Alphabet and Other Societiesf Text, Proverbs xx v.,

9: "Discover not a secret to anothor.

I)r. Talmagesahl: '

It appears that in Solomon's time, as

in all subsequent periods of the world,

there were people too much disposed to

tell all they knew. It was blab, blab,

blab; physicians revealing the case of

their patients; lawyers exposing the private affairs of their clients; neighbors

advertising the faults of their next door

resident; pretended mends betraying confidences. One-half of the trouble of

every community conies from the fact hatsoroahy people have not tho capacity to keep their mouths shut. ..v When I hear something disparaging of you my. first duty is not to tell you. But if I "tell you what somebody has said against you and then go out and tell everybody else what I told you, and they go out and tell others what I told them that I told you, and-we all go onfc, some to hunt up the originator of tho story, and others to hunt it down, we shall get the whole community talking about what you did do and what you did not do, and .... there will he as many scalps taken as though a band of Modocs had swept upon a hel pless village. We have two ears but only one tongue a plwsiological suggestion that we ought to hear a good deal more than we tell. Let us join a conspirac)' that wo will tell each other all the good and nothing of the ill, and then there will not be such awful need of sermons on Solomon's words. Solomon had a very large domestic circle. In his earlier days he had very confused notions about monogamy and polygamy, and his multitudinous associates in " the matrimonial state kept him too well informed as to what was . going on in Jerusalem, They gathered up all the privacies of the Gity and poured them into his ear, and his family be came a Sorosis, or female debating society, of seven hundred members, discussing day after day all the difficulties between; husbands and wives, between employers and employes, between rulers and subjects, until Solomon, in my. text, deplores volubility abeut affairs that do not belong to us and extols the virtues of secretiveness. . . .. . By the power of a secret divulged families, churches, neighborhoods, nations fly apart. By the power of a secret kept great charities, social and reformatory movements and Christian enterprises may he advanced. Men are gregariousTTcattle in herds, fish in schools, birds in flocks, men in social circles. You may by the discharge of a gun scatter a flock of quails, or by the plunge of the anchor send apart the denizens of the sea, hut they will gather themselves together again. If you, by some new power, could break the associations J in which men now stand thoy would again adhere. God meant it so. He has gathered all the flowers and shrubs into associations. You may plant one forgetmenot or heartsease alone away off upon the hillside, but it will soon hunt up some other forgetmenot or heartsease. Plants love company. You -will, find them talking to each other in the dew. A galaxy of stars is only a mutual life insurance company. You sometimes see a man with no outbranchinga of sympathy. His nature is cold and hard liko a ship's mast ice-glazed, which the most agile sailor could never climb. Others have a thousand roots and a thousand branches. Innumerable tendrils climb their hearts and blossom all the way up, and the fowls heaven sing in the branches. In consequence of this tendency we find men coming together in tribes, in . communities, in churches, in societies. Some gather together to cultivate the arts, some to plan for the welfare of the State, some to discuss religious themes, some to kindle their mirth, some to advance their craft. So every active community is divided into associations of artists, of merchants, of book-binders, of carpenters, of masons, of plasterers, of shipwrights, of plumbers. Do you cry out against it? Then you cry out against a

tendency divinely implanted. .Your tirades would accomplish no more than if you should preach to a busy ant-hill or bee-hive a long sermon against secret societies. m Hre we find the oft-discussed question whether associations that do their

work with closed doors and admit their members by pass-words and greet each

omerwnna secret grip are riant or

wrong. I answer that it depends en

tirely on the nature of the object for which they meet. Is it to pass tne hours I I ! 1 1 . ' .

iu reveiry, w assan Diaspnemy ana on

scene talk, or to plot trouble to the

State, or. to debauch tho innocent, then

I say with on emphasis that no man can

uj-ioiaivu, xiu: dul ia uoject in ue

fense of the rights of any class agains

oppression, the improvement , of the mind, the enlargement of the heart, the advancement of rt, the defense of the

Government, the extirpation of crime or

tne xinanng oi a pure-neartea sociality then ! say, with just as much emphasis

les. O P i . .

. oeurecy oi pi ot anu execution are

wrong only when the object and ends tt : -1 .

utj ueianous. jPiyery lamiiy is a secret society, every business firm and everv

banking and insurance institution.Those

men who have no capacity to keen

secret are unfit for positions of trust any

wuere. ., mere are inousanas oi men whose vital need is cutturing a capacity

to Keep a secret. ivientaiK too much

ana women, too. mere is a time to

keep silence as well as a time to sneak.

Although not belonging to any of the

great secret societies about which there

has been so much violent discussion.

only words of praise for those

have

associations which have for their object

me luainienance oi ngnt against wrong or the reclamation of inebriates, or, li ke

tne scores ol mutual benefit societies

called by different names, that provide

temporary renet lor widows and orphans and for men incapacitated bv

sickness or accident from earnincr

livenhpod. Had it not been for the

large numoer oi secret labor organiza

tions mtms country monopoly would long azo have, under its ponderous

wheels, ground the laboring classes into

an intolerable servitude. .... The men who

want the whole earth to themselves would have had it hefnrn this hurl t nnf

been for the banding together of great

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secret organizations, a no, wane we ae-

plore many things that have been done

oy mem, tneir existence is a necessity and their legitimate sphere distinctly pointed out by the providence of God.

I here are old secret societies m this

and other countries, some of them cen

turies old, which have been widelv de

nounced as immoral and damaging in their influence, yet I have hundreds of

personal friends who belong to them, friends who are consecrated to God, pillars in the church, faithful in; all relations of life, examples of virtue and piety. They are the kind of friends I would have for my executors if I am so happy as to leave . any thing for my household at the time of decease, and they are the men whom I would havo carry me out to the la3t sleep when I am dead. You mn not make me believe that they would belong to had institutions. They are the men who would stamp on any thing iniquitous, and I would certainly rather take their testimony in regard to such societies than the testimony of those who, having been sworn in as members, by their assault upon the society confess themsel ves per j urers. One of these secret societies gave for the relief of the sick in IS7S, in this country, $1,490,274.

Spnio ol tnese societies havo poured a very heaven of sunshino and benediction into the homes of the suffering. Several of them are founded on fidelity to good citizenship and the Bible. I have never taken one of their degrees. They might give mo the grip a thousand times and I would mot rceognixe it. I am ignorant

of their pass-word,', and 1 must

judge entirely from tho outside. But

Christ has given us a rule oy wnicn m e may judge not only all individuals, but all societies secret and open. "By their fritite Ve shall know thoni." Baa socie

ties make bad men. Good societies

mnlrfi tnod men. A bad man will not

stay in a good Society. A good man

will not stay in a bad society. 1 hen try all secret societies by two or three rules. Test the first: Their, iiilluenco on home, if they have a hme. That wife soon loses her influeneo over her husband who nervously and foolishly looks upon all evening absenso as an assault Oil domesticity. How are tho great enterprises of reform, and art, and literature, and beneficence and public weal to be carried on if every man is to have his world bounded on one side by his

front door-step, and on tho other side by his back window, knowing nothing higher than his own attic or lower than his own cellar? That wife who becomes jealous of her husbahd's attention to art, or literature, or religiou.orcharity is breaking her own stfepter of conjugal power. 1 know an instance where a wife thought that her husband was giving too many nights to Christian service, to charitable service, to prayer-meetings, and to religions convocation. She systematically decoyed him away until now ho attends no church, waits upon no charitable institution and is on a rapid road to destruction, his morals gone, his money gone, and I fear his soul gone. Let any Christian wife rej oice when her husband consecrates even-

incs to the service of chaiitv. or art, or

- - - - . - - any thing elevating.

. But let no man sacrifice home life to secret society lifo. aa many do. I can

point out to von a great manv names of

men who are guilty of this sacrilege.

Thev are as gen tie as angels in the

sociotv room, and as ugly as sin at home.

They are generous on all .subjects, of

wine suppers, yachting and fast horses,

hut they are stingy about the wives dresses and the children's shoes. That man has made that which might be a healthful influence a usurper of his affections, and he has. marred it, and he is guilty of moral bigamy. Under this process the wife, whatever her features, becomes uninteresting and homely. He becomes critical of her, does not like the dress, does not like the way she arranges her hair, is amazed that he ever was so un romantic as to offer her his hand and heart. There are secret societies where membership always involves domestic shipwreck. s Tell mo that a man hasjoined a certain kind, and tell mo nothing more about him for ten years, and I will write his history if he" be still alive. The man is a wine-guzzler, his wife broken-hearted or prematurely old, hi3 fortune gone or reduced, and his homo a mere name in a directory. Hero are six secular nights in the week. "What shall I do with them?" says the father and the husband. "I. will give four of these nights to the improvement and entertainment of my family, either at home or in good neighborhood. I will de vote one to charitable institutions. I will devojte one to my lodge." I congratulate you. Here is a man who says: "Out of the six secular nights out of tho week I will devote five to lodges or clubs and associations and one to the home, which night I will spend in scowling liko a March squall, wishing I was out spendingitas I spent the other five." That man's obituary is written, Not one out of ten thousand that ever gets so far on the wrong road ever stops. Gradually his health will fall through late hours, and through too much stimulants he will be first-rate prey for erysipelas and rheumatism of the heart. The doctor coming in wilt at a glance see it is not only present disease lie must fight, but years of fast, living. The clergyman, for the sake of the feelings of the family, on the funeral day will only talk in religious generalities. The man who got his yacht in the eternal rapids will not, be at the obsequies. They have pressing engagements that day. They will send flowers to the coffin, will "send their wives to utter words of sympathy, but they will have engagements elsewhere. They never come. Another test by which you can find whether your secret society is right or wrong is the effect it has on.yonr secular

occupation. I can understand how

through such an institution, a man can

reach commercial success. I know some men have formed their best business

relations through such a channel. If the secret society has advantaged you in an

honorable calling it is a good one. Bu

has your credit failed? Are. bargain

makers' more; anxious how they trust you

with a bale of goods? Have the men

whose names were down in the commercial agency , Al before they entered the

society been going down since m com

mercial standing? Then look out. You

and I every day know of commereia

establishments going to ruin through

the social exeesses of one or two members

their fortune beaten to death with ball

players, bat or cut ad midships with th

front prow of the regatta, or going down

under the swift hoois of the last horses

or drowned , in the large, potations o

Cognac or Monongahela.

Now, here are two roads in the future

the Christian and tho unchristian, tho safe and the unsafe. Any institution or

association that confuses my ideas in re

gard to that fact is a bad institution ant

a bad association. I had prayers before

i joined that society; did 1 have them

afterward? I attended the house of God

before I connected myself with that

union; do absent myself from religious influences? Which -would you rather

have in your hand when von come to

die, a pack of cards or a Bible? Which

would )'Ou rather have pressed to voui

nps in tne closing moment, me cup o Belshazzarean wassail or the chalice o

Christian communion ? "W h o would you

ratner nave tor your pall-bearers, the elders of a Christian Church or the com

panions whose conversation was full o slang and innuendo?

un man astray, LtOq neip you! l am going to make a very stout rope. You

know that sometimes a rope-maker., will

take very small threads and wind them

together until after awhile thev become

snip-cable. And I am going to take

some very small - delicate threads and

wind them together until they make a

very stout rope. I will take all the

memories of the marriage day a thread

of laughter, a thread of light, a thread of

music, a thread of banqueting, a tread of

congratulation, ana i twist mem together and I have one strand. Then I take

a thread of the hour of the first advent

in your house, a thread of the darkness

that preceded, and a thread of tho Iteht

tnat followed; and a thread of the beau-

a r i fit . i t . l i.ii i

tnui scan mat nttie cniiu used to wear

when she bounded out at eventide to

greet you; and then a thread of the beau

tiful dress in which vou mid her away

lor the resurrection; and then I twist

all these t breads together. - and I h ave

another strand. Then I take a thread of the scarlet robe of a suffering Christ,

and a thread of : the white raiment . of your loved ones before the throne, and

a string of the- harp cherubic, and a string of the harp seraphic, and I twist

them all together, and I have a third

strand. "Oh," vou say, "either strand

is enough to hold fast a world!" No; 1

will take these strands and I will twist them together, and one end of that rope

will fasten, not to the communion tblo, for it shall bo removed; not to a illarof the organ, for that will crumble

n the ages; but I wind it round and

round the cross of a sympathizing Christ and, having fastened one end of the rope to tho cross, I throw the other end

o you. Lay hold of ill Full for your

ilex l ull lor heaven.

RICHES IN B AHLIEN 110

Tho Ingenious "Devices Resorted to in

Salting Worthless Mince. How fcli Bent- of Experts Are IVtrnj'cfl to Reporting Valueless Holes in Ground as Bonanzas.

llie

St. Louis Globc-Dcraocrat. "Anyone who has had much

ence in mimng,especially in early ilay

managed. This Milne had a vein of excellent) ore, hut tho amount was too small ior profitable working, Tho ownera therefore determined to Bait and sell it. D. 0. Mills, of California, sent three experts to examine tho property, and as their reports were favorable, agreed to give $150,000 for it, putting up $15,000 as a forfait. Just before the time for the final payment, Mills asked a hiend of

oxperi- J his who happened to be going to

that re.irion. to look at the mine and

said Maj. M. B; Mikesell, of Silver City, to a Glohe-Deniocrat reporter, "has

learned by experienc to he continually ou his guard against salting, and the

more promising the assays the keener

and more suspicious should be his

vigilance. No man can know all the

tricks by which a mine is salted, as new means of deception are discovered every day, and new schemes concocted to deceive the Unwary. Some of the plans practiced can mislead none except an inexperienced expert, while others are calculated io deceive the most intelligent and careful miner in tho world. As a warning to those new in the business, 1 will give you a few instances of the skill of the salters, which havo fallen under my own observation: T1JREB RXPEKTS FOOLED. "Some ten years ago a friend of mine,

who had been engaged for yearn in min

ing in California, Nevada and Now Mexii-

and who is about the best expert 1

co,

Old salts Epsom

Harper's Bazar.

and KocheUe.

ever knew, was employed to examine

mine which had been favorably reported

upon by three other experts. He took his own assay er and went to the mine. It did not greatly please Mm at tho first glance, as the rock looked dead, and there were no indications of any rich ore. Ho went through the mine, taking samples from all parte, which he turned over to his. assay er, fully expecting that he would iind very little mineral. But to his surprise the ore run about $800 a ton. He went through the mine again, exercising particular care in the selection of his samples, and the results of assays were even greater than before.He was almost convinced that the mine was genuine, as he did not see the least trace of any salting process. Ho went to the owners, and fold them the result of his examination, but said that he should make no report unless they would turn the mine over to him for forty-eight hours, laid let him do what he pleased with it After some hesitation they consented, and the next morning he took a gang of men down the shaft, and blasted to the right and left, cleaning away the exposed rock,and taking his samples from the newly exposed wall. The assays from these did not yield a trace of mineral , and he saw that the mine must have been salted, but how he could not imagine. At iiast he went :o the owners and asked them pointhlauk how they had done it. They seeing that there was no longer the slightest chance of selling the mine, finally told him. They bad scraped together a quantity of the soft talc that is nearly always found adhering to the foot-wali of mines, and mixed gold-dust with it until the combination would assay about $50,000 a ton. They then put it into shotguns and fired it against the walls of the mine. The force of the explosion scattered it over xhe entire wall and eaused the talc to penetrate every crevice, so that gold would be found in a sample taken from any part of tne mine. This was one of the sharpest tricks I ever knew, and "was calculated to deceive the oldest and most cautious of miners. If the mine in which they tried it had not been so utterly unpromising in appearance as to arouse suspicion, there is little doubt that it would have succeeded, ..PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. "On another occasion I myself came near being victimized. I went to examine amine inKewMexico,andmy assays ran very high. The mine looked well, and I thought at first that there could belittle doubt of its value. But with the conservatism which comes of long experience, I determined to exhaust every means of examination, and tcld thewner that 1 wanted to sink the shaft; ten feet deeper and take my samples from the ore I should find there. He refused to allow this, and I told him that 1 would not consider the matter any further., but would break off negotiations at once. In a day or two he came to me and told me he had thought it over and decided to let me sink ten feet, or fifteen 3f I wished. I told him that 1 would go down twenty feet, and he agreed to turn the mine over to me on the next day. As I was going home

that night, at an unusually late hour, I ; been hired by him to salt the mine righ

IN DIANA STATE NIiJWS. prepared but that the three1 Democratic

irirwrnfin had rpfiisftd tn man them

Forest fires have been doing consider- jSttto of two would

write him what he thought of it. This

gentleman went to the owners, who

wore very willing to show him over the

nronertv. As he went down the shaft

.- . -v. - " he was struck with admiration at the ap

pearance of the ore. and thought that

Millfi had made a most splendid bargain.

When about to ascend, ho happened to hold the candle close to the wall and saw

a litt le tlash, At once his eyes were opened

to the swindle. That flash meant gunnysack, and a shred of gunnysack had no

business at the bottom of a Io0ifoot

shaft. Taking his hammer, he scratched

the walls, and in a moment penetrated

the envelope of ore and struck clay. He

repeated the experiment all the way up

with the same results until ne came near the mouth of the shaft, where he

found the ore genuine. The owners o

the mine had soon worked through their

thin blanket vein, and then had sunk

their shaft 125 feet through the earth

When this was done they had taken

their ore, which was of a consistency about like that of cheese, and carefully

smeared the walls of tho shaft with it

Nothing could be more natural. You nnnlil sp.fi the great swelline curves, in

which this kind of ore usually comes ami the marks of the pick on the walls It was perfectly done, would have de

ceived nine men out ot ten, ana was

nnlv discovered bv the accident of the

tlame of tho candle coming , in contact with a shred of the gunnysack in which the ore had been carried to the bottom of tho shaft. The gentleman who examined it was so frightened at his narrow escape from recommending a worthless property that he declared ho never again would engage in expert work." TUE FAILURE OF FOUR SIRENS. "The last attempt at salting of which I have any knowledge was tried upon me myself. I was sent to look at a mine which had twice been favorably reported upon. The owner received me most hospitably, and insisted upon my remaining at his house, saying that his four daughters were very lonely and would bo glad to see me. I declined his offer, but agreed to breakfast with his family the next morning before examining the mine. After breakfast the young ladiesinsisted on accompanying me and showing me through the mine. They were very polite, one of them going in front of me and directing me where to take my samples from. I noticed that she had a way of brushing her skirts against the walls and leaning against them just before I took a sample. I thought this proceeding rather unusual, and watched her closely. In an unguarded moment she caught her overskirt upon a projection, and pulled it hack, allowing, me to see two or three little bags which were hidden beneath it. I said nothing, but soon ascended the shaft, saying that I would complete my examination the next morning. When I returned they again offered to accompany me, but I declined, and they withdrew their request on condition that I would let them bring my lamp to the mine, to which 1 agreed. I went through she mine, oarefuity sampled it, and got to the top of the shaft before the ladies, made their appearance. I then filled a sack with ore from the dump, and sat down to wait for them. They soon made their appearance, and we all took lunch together. One of them asked me what I had in that sack.

I said that it contained

my samples, I soon noticed that two

the young; girls managed to stand be

tween me and the sack, while the other

was busily engaged in looking for a ring

which she said she had dropped near it

After lunch I went to their home with

them, taking the sack with me, which

left on the porch. Just before my wagon

arrived to take mo to town I slipped ofi

ana got my samples. Just as i was

about to drive off their father called ou

that I had forgot my sack. I replied tha

I did not want those specimens, as I hacl

taken others eai Her in the day. A look

of hlank surprise came over his face, hti'i

I drove off before he had time to speak

That niejht he came to tho hotel and con

fessed the whole scheme. The girls

met were not his daughters, but hat

able damago in Brown county.

Judge E. B. Martindale ha purchased

tho Denison hotel at Indianapolis, pay

ing $160,000 therefor.

On petition of citizens, the Richmond

city council has passed a resolution ap

propriating $10,000 to be used in boring

for gas.

The normal school authorities at Val

paraiso deny that there is an epidemic raging there. They say that the health

of the f students has never been better.

The students of Wabash college, at

Grawfordsville, gave a public reception to Parke Daniels on Saturday night. Mr.

Daniels came out ahead in the recent

State oratorical contest.

General Lew Wallace has declined to serve on the Soldier's Monument com

mission, owing to literary engagements and press of private business. He has

sent a letter to the Governor thanking

him and the State officers for the com

pliment conferred, and asking that he

be relieved. Hon. Hugh Dougherty, of Blafiton. chosen for one oi the Demo-

- w . ; i .... Zr : . cratie commissioners, has also declined

to serve, owing to ill health.

The Knights of Labor of Indianapolis

and xicinity are giving the plan of cooperative industry a practical test. Three

no-onerative companies iave. Deen or-

. .. . .. ...... ganir.ed. The capital stock has been

taken by Knights, and the employes ot

the associations are Knights. They

have organized a lumber and coal com

pany, and a co-operative boot and shoe

company, the latter with a capital stock

of $25,000.

A heavy freight train was pulling up

tho steep incline of the Henderson

bridge from the Indiana shore, when a

coupling broke and ten or twelve heav

ily-laden ears started on she back track.

The passenger train wan 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.collition. if or several miles, and until a level was reached, the race was an exciting one, both trains flying at lightning speed. John J. Miller, an old and wealthy iarmer living near Milford, in the northern part of Kosciusko county, is a victim of a confidence game whereby he is loser of $2,300. Two men eaUed on Miller, Friday morning, and bargained for his farm. On the road to Milford, accompanied by Miller, to complete the negotiations, they met the customary affable

stranger, who induced them to bet

chanced to pass the mouth of the shaft, and was surprised to hear sounds proceeding from it,as if some one was churning at the bottom. Determined to discover the cause of these unusual noises, I crept to the platform and looked down the shaft. THE CHEMICAL PROCESJS.

"I saw two men at the bottom, one drilling a hole and the other working a

churndasher. Soon the drilling ceased,

the man with the churn poured some

liquid into the hole and pounded upon

it with something like a churndasher.

could hear their conversation from where

I lay, and soon found that what they

were doing was of great personal interest

to mo. One said:

" 'We ought to have set a guard at the

mouth of the shaft.'

" 'Nonesense,1 said his companion, mo

one ever comes at this hour,'

" 'Well,' said the first, 'he can sink his

ten feet after we get through, and t wenty

more if he wants to.'

4iI had heard enough, and quietly went

home. Next morning I saw the owner

and told him I did not care to sink his

shaft any deeper, as I had decided not to

ro'jommend the mine. Ho became very

indignant, and talked so offensively that

at last I said to him:

" 'My friend, you had better keep

quiet. I was at your mine at 3 o,clock

his morning, and saw what was going on,' "His jaw dropped, he iookedat kuo in

surprise, ana saw tnos tne game was up,

and left without a word. Tho trick he

ried to play upon me is one well known

by all waiters. A solution of gold is made oy some chemical process, which will

penetrate the hardest rock to a depth ol

eight or ten feet, and gives excellent

assays, where there if; no minora! at all.

t is a mngerous tneic, anu one very

difficult of detection in certain kinds ol

rocs.

VENEEUEO WITH GOLD. "Tho case of the XJtha mine, the Bas-

sett I believe it was called, eamo verv

near being a very successful instance oi

salting, and was most Ingeniously

under the noses of the experts. He hat

provided them with porous baes fillei

with an adhesive compound of gold

which concealed in their skirts am

rubbed against the wall just before

sample was taken. They had salted nr

supposed samples, and it was my refusa.

to take these to town with me which

showed the old gentleman that I ha penetrated his scheme. The ways c

the Salter are various and devious, and

the shrewdest man needs all his eyes to

elude their wilss,"

Woman Suffer age in Leavenworth, Leavenworth. Special.

The result of yesterday's vote fcr Mayor was not determined until a late

hour this morning, owing to the way

the tally was kept in the Sixth ward.

The full account gives Mayor Neely forty-six majority but the balance of the Democratic ticket is defeated. A major

ity of the white female vote was cast for Neely, while the colored female vote was

almost solid for the fusion ticket. The

male colored vote wfas about equally divided. A broad feature of to

day's demonstration was a procession

in the forenoon of the leading ladies of

the city in carriages, all wearing Neely

badges. They paraded the principal

streets, and this was followed in the

afternoon by another huge procession, composed of all classes, and which was over two miles in length.

have been sufficient.

A cold-blooded and deliberate mufdef

was committed at the southern prison at J"effersondlle,i?riday night, at about 6

o'clock, Frank Harris, whsi was Bent

there from Putnam county to serve three years for larceny, being the victim, and

Macy Warner the perpetrator of the deed. The two were employed in the

shoe department, and, so far as learned,

neither had any particular grudge

against the other. A few minutes before quitting time Warner was seen to be whetting a shoe knife, and remarked, at the time, "I will kill the - '-

No one paid any attention to

his remark, not knowing against whom the threat was made. When he had

finished whetting the knife he walked

over to tho bench where Harris was eit-

ting, and, making a desperate thrust at !

the latter's throat, slit it open from ear

to ear. The bloodthirsty villain slipped

up behind his victim, taking him un

awares. Jtiarris oiea a tew nours arter

the cutting occurred. He was a' quiet, inoffensive man. Warner is one ot the most desperate characters in the prison. He has committed three murders. . His first victim was a citizen of Terre Haute, and he served a term in the nonhem

prison for the crime. He is now serving.

out a twenty-one years sentence for killing a policeman at Washington, Daviess county. . ;, MISCKliLAXEOS NOTJES.

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Be form in Small Things.

Washington special.

Such a trifle as the washing of the

Treasury towels is a subject of serious agitation and investigation here just now.

The washerwoman charged 80 cents a dozen , The la undries took the work at 40 cents per hundred. This resulted in i r -1 l - ii r rrr.

an apparent saving oi aoout $o,uuu a

year; but tho washerwoman came forward with expert testimony to show that the laundries destroy the towels by using chemicals, and that tho added cost for new materi al makes the laundry jbx periment the most expensive one in fche and.

a

few dollars on a little trick with cards. Miller was easily duped, and the rascals departed with his money. The men were well dressed and of pleasing address. They took the train on the B. & O. at Syracuse and went east. A reward of $300 is offered for their apprehension Patents were issued to Indiana inventors Tuesday, as follows: Edwin M. Byrkit, Michigan ? City, assignor ,of three-fourths to A. A. Adair, J. H. Murray and H. Ooburn, Indianapolis, clapboard-making device; John E. Donaldson, Monteztima, chisel; Elias 33. Douglass, cow milker; James H. Edmonds Valparaiso, dental ptugger. William Finnell, assignor of one-half to K B. Wilson, Oakland City, ditching

machine; Jesse B. and O. B. Johnson,

Indianapolis, bailing press; Enoch W. Keegan, Crawfordsville, two-wheeled vehicle; James M. Kelly, assignor of one-half to H. Hollenbe, Kingston, stretching and supporting device for wire fence; Joseph Id nek, assignor of one-half to M. Armstrong, Snoddy's Mills, coal-drilling machine; John T. Long, Menominee, Wis., assignor to himself and O. L Seymour, LaPorte, photographic print washer; Stephen C. Mortimer, Fort Wayne, mechanism for converting motion; Charles M. Reed, nearConnersville, and W. C, Frazee, near Clermont, tricycle; William. J. Wooley, Anderson, tile machine and brick machine; George M. Wright, assignor ot one-halt io S. H. Morris, Shelby ville ombinedm. itten and sleeve for garments. There was another monster citizens' mass-meeting, held in the open air, at Kokomo, Friday night, in the public

square, for the purpose of booming .the city and inducing capitalists and manufacturers to locate there. There is great activity in all branches of trade; new buildings are going up in all directions. One hundred and twenty-five capitalists and business men arrived in the city, Friday. Among others the large Ithaca, N. Y., glass works closed a contract for a location, and will begin the erection of a mammoth plant at onee. The bona fide real estate sales for the day will reach 150,000. The State Geologist pronounces the wells the best west of Findlay. The Marion county grand jury investigating the election forgery cases has failed to indict, the Democratic members refusing. The Republican members asked to be discharged from further service on the jury, and said; "The tally sheets from five precincts and the poll books in three show that systematic changes and alterations have been made upon them. The evidence before us is complete and conclusive that these

changes were made after the election

boards of these precincts had completed

their work upon said documents and

adiourned. The evidence is also con

clusive that such changes were made

with the unlawful and felonious intent

of so changing the returns of said elec

tion as to make it appear that persons

who had, in fact, received a majority of

votes, had enly received a minority of

votes, and causing the board which can

vassed the returns from the precincts in

said countv to declare persons duly

elected who had not received a majority

of votes in fact. Evidence of the most positive and direct character, as well as

much of the strongest circumstantial

character, has come before us as to the

persons who committed said felonious

acts. We are unwilling to subject our

selves to tho condemnation of an out

raged public and our own consciences,

by proceeding with idie investigation of

other and comparatively trifling viola

tions of law, while bold and defiant con

spirators go acquitted. We behove that

your grand jury, as now constituted,cau not accomplish the purposes for which

it was empaneled, and such as contem

plated by law. We therefore respect-

ully ask you to discharge us from tur

ner service on said grand jury after

adjournment for April." In tho regular

report- the election cases wero referred

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o as "dismissed for failure of a sufficient

number to sign indictments." It seems

that the indictments had been already

The vice precedent of

Rum.

There are 816 people on Bamum's

payroll.

A New York woman has sent cards t

her friends announcing her divorce. r Thev allow no marrying in haste in

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Japan. It takes three weeks to -perform

the ceremony. ...

In lite we meet with joy and woe,; Where'er on earth we 50, 'i A mixture of the good and had . . Fate wills It should lie. so. j Just in the flubh Of our success ,j Reverses kill our joy, . . ' Hut few of us have the u?w and d&wns ; Of the elevator hoy... Young Lady (distributing flowers to convicts) And when do you expect to come out, sir? Convict (inhaling . the fragrance of a violet) It will be December of next yearjjjniss, before Itoake my debut. ,--Life Is a certainty, . Death is a doubt; S Hen may he dead While they're walking ahout; Love is as' need f ul ; Toheingashreath; Loving is dream ing And wait ing is death. - , ; Wohn Royle p'Reflly Secretary Fairchild is short and stout, fond of ridings yachting and other outdoor recreations, and an attendant upon the services of the Protestant Episcopal Church. . Rutland ( Vt.) Telegram: There is a sugar orchard not very far from this village which is so completly snowed in that the o wner of i t does not propose to make any sugar tliis seasons Hardly more than the tops of the trees are visible, the snow being almost sixteen feet

d3p.

ISdmund Yates says? in the London World, that Mrs. James Brown Potter has undoubted gifts of voice and sympathetic expression, but he 'thinks she needs restraint and repose. That is what is needed by most stage people on this side of the Atlantic forcible restrain and endless repose. Indianapolis Journal. u , Vf A New Jersey American while traveling in Canada, called on the American consul at Guelph, Ont. Inquiring ; for the flag of his country, which he expected to see proudly waving in the wind, he found it doing duty in a bak room as a window curtain, This is not so bad as the case of an American, con

sul in San Domingo, who used his

"proud emblem of freedom" as a towel. Edward A. Menter, leader of the circus band attached to Forepaugh's oircus, died in New Yorkj Sunday night. Menter though only forty years old; was more widely known among circus performers and musicians than any other man in the business. He was horn-in it, his father haying been a leader of circus bands before him. .Covington, -Ky.,

was the place of his birth. He -had

traveled all his life with circus bands; having been with the Coup, London, Cole, and other showSj as well as with

both Barnum and Forepaugh.

The Indians of Washington Territory

have an ingenious method by means o

which they kill a great many deer in a

short time. They hike some old blankets

well scented with Indian and fasten them at short intervals upon the bushes, making a long line of bushes so covered,

Then taking in a large area of timber

they gradually close in- on the frightened

deer. When the animals have reaehed the line of blankets they travel around

in a circle like a whirlpool, refusing? to pass the line of blankets. This enables the Indians to kill them as rapidly as

they please. The School Section. J. W. BookwUter.

The Government; never sells the thrity-

sixth section. That is one of the won

derful features of our system. It was verv wisely adopted, and turns, out the

best results. You know that there are

thirty-six sections in a township, which

is a square of six miles on a side, and of

that number thirfcv-sixs is devoted to

education bv the Government. No rail

road grant, no private purchase can

vitiate that fact, ttence education goes right along with our population, being

an endowment from the last century.

They know the value of it m the wesv

and with their schools are having their

fichool libraries aliso. for the benefit of

an, : . .. A Bog's Vigil,

A Missouri fawner, driving home at

night from St. Louis, dropped a coat and

a bag of oats fro m his wagon without

knowing it His dog knew it, though,

and lying down by them watched them

for three days, despite all efforts to coax.

or d rive h im away. At the end of fchut

time tho farmer came back. Ho said that he had been wondering what had'

becomo of bis coat, bag and aog, and

hearing of a dog acting strangely on the.

road, came to see if it wag his.

A few miles from Meckinaw' 111., ifl; curious piece of ground, nearly an acreJr - in extent, which is so warni,1iiat the Bflcrw melts as iioon asit falls upon it : ' and thorigh tne surrounding country may be buried in deeplrifte, th is particniar spot remain. bare throughout theO winter. The earths there, is so dry that it is said to flash like powder.wheii dis- '

turbed, and a peculiar gas issi tes ironk the ground, which has thus f ar.ihattexe

Jevery vessel intwhich it4 eonf ined. , v

Mr. J. Ogden; of Jfamestown, DaV., has a natural cuiiosity in the e bape ofa. pig which came: into the world headless

and hairless, but with a horn stic&

out from the end of its

tuek of an infa at rhinoceros Its feefc M are like the hot-fs of a horse; anithere

is sunnosed to ihe the missing 1 iead. The -

rv hflfl mm pvr. Tt livftfl for a week

was apparently hearty bnt how pjf served in alcohol, .'",...'.,1;.' r

A nearo of the name of Wiidy Smith,

of Baker county, Ga.t is saiilny the Ssvf i

vannah News to be a physical CTriosity " J Ten years ago he was one of tl le biackest; . js? .

to be found m the State, but to-day ius. skints of a light gingirbread?:olbr. The change in him was first noticed in hmc finger-tips, wltence it spread tip his arms and then down bin body, .'ho back of

his han ds are stOl quite blac r and darMi

a strangely mottled appeajrance; '

: A fermer flamed r Orwufpvtpg near Byhalia, Miss, some, time a p became the father of a child which naturalTjr

formed as far as the body avd lower hmbs are concerned , 4mt - n lioe; v bead resembles that of a rooster. On the top4 ,

fup into a peak, is a dlrninut 1 ve comb oL. hi hrii?ht red colors and ? the nose t lookisf

like the beak of a game coek . The.eyes;

ere 'small mil protuberant,but the vision) f s

and distinct. Thei child is not

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do so sound like a roosters crow.r wr, .

who are physically perfect unu mey are much oUstresse te

of the child. yx, -W-.yr-.. '"' A newspaper printe at Bolores

Argentine Eepiibhf whicit is situated;

near the volcanic region, gi v s ecpunfc

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mm

hick

of a mysterious shower ot s :one fell near that city a few weeks ag

stones are said to have SsMe a as thicjc m

hail, and varied in size tori ra pelble to a veiyMpectoW Incilcnlabj M damage was done to fee crops; tagtreeai were shivered to atoms, bai ns aapoafrhouses were, demolished an nsanyr domestic animals wereddlhL; In spme

localities the ground- wa5oypr4 M the 'hoi -"df .wii:0me NSlBP

which appear to have been killed during

Several xergons ,5

sttf h

their flight in the air.

were struck and badly : in jc red

work in the fields, and in t he city its'elt

which missed the violence)! the shower one dwelhngwas '-wil'.'-Xte'n M arw said to have

mnrn thftnii minute. "'?'A ' ':?H

Strange volcanic disturlces said

to have been f lightening tt e people, iiv-

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alone? the Blood Kivur, nw w,-.

CJoncordi in Galloway com ty, Ky. lne phenomena were first noti ed about ten? days ago, wheii all the wtlls suddenly t ran dry, and at nigh t theri was a dee rumblingnoiS'3 i resembling feheiauttEJnffv of distant thunder whih . ineflt6 come from the earth; Occasion tiere would be an explosion lifet t the lcmini

of a far-off gun,vand recently a colnnn of

of fire has beens seen ,to shoot

intervals during the night fromSlo:

KlnfT Km iniloa frrtm fh AWn.: Citbsenfl

.writ , -rtr r 4- I f i. i Tt WOlrfina

anee say that the heat i.earlhe Dmira

was so intense that- tmy awuo; M approach ii The scene ol theboni?

ged parts of the State, and is remefe

communiciition by rnail or

-rssmm

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tip at

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At. Bi'cakfastCzarina(coming into bre!fast.)-Good

morning, my near vitcn.

Czar Good rao.aaingscofll , : Czarina AUpjme to congratulate you

upon your escapirii? asashaatipn dutipg tho night. - ,:::..;;,,.. I' V :

Czar Thankski ! Will you please taste

the cofiee to see if it is poisoned?

' Tne Fiits ot an Armlewi Man

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Iawrence Uounty, ; A Kicnajia jwon

ovanj wno was in some rwspei;usws most remarkable men in $oxfc$t& York.' Twenty years agb, when, $'-$S&S

Donovan worked in a floa vmilfc iQiwSW,

he was caueht in a belt and receiv

injuries thatneces8itat?ed taking o

arms at the shoulders, p his nortunedid not discourage hinai, and, aftercrcoV'ering his health, he eet alout earning his livelihood as best he conld without the

use of hajids or anns.; . Rurt of the tinae he had live d alone, andfrpm the jiecessity

ofhelpmgliiniBelf 'e:lNmiwondei

using his feet and moutfi principally. He owned a horse, of ch hetpok the

entire car), harnessed it. fastened and fffi

unfastened the buckles with his teeI

and drove with the reins tied around hia .1

shoulders. Beincr in neei-ofa waconheM

bougnt wiieeisana axies ana oimt wJt-

buggy complete and pain fed it. He went.: to t he barn onefwinter ny and buil t cow-stable, sawing the mber with his; feet, and with the haninser in one foo and holding the nail with the :6.':'Mr nailed the bcu' could witli their handsT Ho dag a welL

ftfnlwA Coal- Amtr nn ol f urn in thin town'

away hay by holding th(t fork under hia

tihin and letting it rest a;rainst his shoulp

der. He would pick up potatoes in tibiej

field as fast as a man cou :d dig them. ,HM-5

would dress himself, get his meals, writej his letters, and in fact do almost any. thing thaany man with, two arms could

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Cream of Tartar anUl Small Fox.

I am willing 6 risk my -reputatioxi -f

as a puouc man, wvw uw ; nu;

to the liverpool Mercury 'if the worst

case of smallpox: can cot be cured in

three days, simply by the useof cream

of tartar; One ounce oi cream ot tartar

intervals, when cold, is t certain never?

failing remedy.- It has cured thousands, :

never leaves a mark, never causes blindnese, and avoids' tMoLnwug-.

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impressed. Woofi. C ; They have been ta king irom the-

1 ,5QP-foot level of a n ine at Virginia

City; Nev , , pieces; of pin d timbers which

have been' compressec. to one-fourtli their natural sisso by twelve years' use

-"under immense pressure at a tempera

ture of 160 degrees, TJbe wood ia of a

deep chestnut color, tak a fine polish,;

and seems as nrmgrainod aa boood.

Here's adiint or m inventor. - --.- V..- i l VA T. ..

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