Bloomington Courier, Volume 13, Number 26, Bloomington, Monroe County, 30 April 1887 — Page 2
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BY H. J; FELTUSii
BLOOMINGTON,
MSmucK gas yet?' is a Hoosier morning gating. Szysxtkex thousand seven? hundred and forty emigants sailed for America via. Bremen from January ito March, bothuinclusive, this year.
No doubt there are "booms" in all gas towns, but if the half is true that is
told of values, city property in these places must now be worth a million dol
lars per front foot.
England wants a little island belong
ing to Hay ti, and has therefore concocted a claim of $1,000,000 against the Gov
ernment of that little country. Of
course the money can not and will not
be paid, and England, in pursuance of
her old policy of bullying small natrons,
is about to take possession of the coveted little island and convert it -into a coaling station. The French" Government
has dispatched a small fleet of iron-clads
to protect the Hay tians, and the cable will in consequence soon be called upon
to announce the backing out of England.
France is too big a nation to quarrel
with at any time, and especially justnow.
It is officially stated, says a London
cable of last week, that Lord Salisbury,
in a dispatch sent to wasnington, on March 24, said that the' British govern
ment, understanding ihe action of the
United States in denouncing the fishery
articles of the treaty of Washington to be, in a great degree, the result of disappointment at being called upon to
pay 1,100,000 under the Hal ifax fisher
ies award, offered' to revert to the old condition of affairs, without pecuniary
indemnity, which offer, it trusts, wil
commend itself to the Amerioan govern
ment as being based upon that spirit o
good' will and generosity which should
animate two great and kindred nations
whose common origin,- language and in
stitutions constitute as many bonds o
amity and coneorcL Secretary Bayard refuses either to confirm . or deny the statement. The publication has a bad
impression in British political circles,
and is wewmed by tne laoerais as one
of the best possible electioneering cards
for the next appeal to the country. The
dispatch is attacked as the most abjec
bask-down ever seen sinre the acceptance
of Boer supremacy in the Transvaal.
ltasnro the last half century the pop
nlanty of distilled spirits has been
steadily on the wane, and beer has
made rapid strides in the opposite di
rection. The following table shows tha
the number of gallons of spirits disposed
of in 1886 was not double that of 1840,
while the wine consumption was five times, and; the malt liquor twenty times
It TALI
Behind the Counter, or the Trials of
Salesmen and Saleswomen.
Character Should he Guarded ami Hon.
osty Made the Watch word Patience ami Diligence Necessary to Success A "Warm Word to Employers and a Warning to Drummers.
as
Wises. 4.873,016 6,315,871 11,059,141 1S,JK;037 28,329,541 82,067,220
Halt , liquors. 28,310,843 36,563.000 101,348,690 204,756456 414,220,165 642,967,720
"I , Distilled " ' spirito. tm .48,060,79 33S.M. 51,883,473 13.:.-...;. 8068,661 1970 ....IQm 1830... MM..6S,Sa6,6!i mm,. .re,i,eu
It is only when these figures are reduce to the per eapita consumption that the real state of the ease is understood The average number of gallons
per person daring; 1886,- reck
oning men, wonaem children and infants
among the drinkeis,was as. follows: '
18 isaoi:.... 3380 1388
DistlOed
Wines. 08 35""' 0.S2T 0.38
Halt liquors. 1.16 1.58 3.22 5 30
8.36
11.18 Ger-
Rev. Dr. Talmase preached at the
Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Text:
Acts xvi., 10, and Proverbs" xxii., 29.
Subjects "Behind the Counter; or Trials and Encouragements of Salesmen and
Saleswomen." He said:
It. is folly for for anybody in this world to wait for something to turn up. It will turn down. The law of thrift is
as inexorable as the law- of the tides.
Fortune, the magician, may wave her arm. in that direction until castles and palaces come; but she will, after awhile, invert the same wand, and all the splendors will vanish into thin air. There are certain styles of behavior which lead to usefulness, honor and permanent success, and there are certain styles of behavior -which lead to dust, dishonor and moral.default, 1 would like to fire the
ambition ot young people, l nave no sympathy with those who would prepare young folks for life by whittling down their expectations. That man or woman
wan oe worm notmng to unurcn or
State who begins life cowed down. The
business of Christianity is not to quench
but to direct human ambition. There
fore it is that I come out this morning
and utter words of encouragement to
those who are occupied as clerks in the stores, and shops, and banking houses of the country. You say: Why select
one class and talk to one specially this
morning?" For the same reason that a
surceon aoes net open tne aoor oi a
hospital and throw in a bushel of pre
scriptions, saying: "Coine, now, and get
your medicine. Ho first feels the pulse,
watcnes tne symptoms, and tnen pre
scribes ior that particular case. So. to
day, I must be specific. The people in
this audience who are clerks are not an exceptional class. They belong to a great company of tens of thousands who are in this country, amid circumstances Which will either make or break them for time and for eternity. 1 should be very slow to acknowledge . that the clerks, male and female, of other cities are any more honest and faithful than the clerks of our own city. Many of these people have already' achieved a Christian manliness which will be their passport to any position. I have seen their trial?. I have watched their perplexities. There are evils abroad which need to be hunted down and dragged out into the noonday light . In the first place, I counsel clerks to remember that for the most part their clerkship is only a school from which they are to be graduated. It takes about eight years to get . one of the learned professions. It takes about eight years to get to be a merchant. Home of you will be clerks all your lives, but the vast majority of you are only in a transient position. . After awhile, some December, day, the head men of the firm will call you into the back office, and they will say to you:. "No w, you have done well by us; we are going to do well by you. We invite you to have au interestin our concern." You will bow to that edict very gracefully. Getting into a street car to go home, an old comrade will meet you and say: "What makes vou
look so happy to-night?" "Oh," you will OOit "nAKini nnfKinn 11 T.,- i -
Immigration, especially from
many ana HiOgiana, is large y responsible for this marked: change in the na
tional taste, c ,
: "From Atlanta to the Sea. SLtticholas for My.
It was thirty-one days after starting
from Atlanta before Sherman re-opened
communication with the North. In
that timehe had destroyed two hundred miles of railroad, and broken up every connection between the Con
federate forces east and west of Georgia. He had done more than" a hundred
uiuuuu uonare worm oi damage, consumed the com and fodder as well as
fho cattle, hogs, sheep, and -poultry oi a region three hundred miles long and sixty broad, carried away ten thousand horses and males, and liberated- countless number of slaves. Sixty thousand men and thirty-five thousand animals IPnndantty fed, and when the troops reached the coast they needed no provisions but" bread, ihey started wilh five thousand head of cattle and arrived with ten thousand.- The teams were in splendid condition, , and not a wagon was lost on the road; The army had captured so many horses that Sherman ordered them to be shot, because it demoralized the troops to ride. The success of the campaign was equal to ite daring, and although its dangers proved less in reality than in anticipation, the skill of the commander and the courage of the men are none the less to be admired. The romantic character of the march is unsurpassed. That an army should disappear from sight for a month,; marching unharmed through hostile regions, its whereabouts unknown to its friends; and emerge at last as if out of a wilderness, with undiminished numbers and increased renown, is a circumstance that equals in interest any in history; and so as American boys and girls read the account of the nation's achievements, they will find no chapter 'more fascinating than that which tells of Sherman's March to the Sea. . ? - f i iii. . Some Ideas of Words. Boston Trenserlpt . Some gems rescued from the collection of small boy definitions gathered by a Massachusetts teacher from her examin
ation papers: Hazardous A female hazard. Femur The largest bone in the human body; it is situated in1ihe ear. Spine A collection of small bones extending from the head to the feet. Ash-heels A Greek hem. celebrated in antiquity. Probably Achilles.
Trying To Get Tbora. . friend," said a solemn passenger to the driver of a Third avenue street car j "do yon know that you will never get to heaven if you swear at jour horses like that? ..' If I didn't swear atahem bosses," responded the driver, "I'd never get to
Harl em; an that'Sithe point i-m-haed
for now;" MM : v -
win say; nowunj, noininff." xmx in a
few days your name will 'blossom oirthe sign. Either in the store or bank where you are now, or in some other store or bank, you will take a higher position than that which you now ocaupy.. So I feel to-day that 1 am standing before people who will yet have their hand on the helm of the world's commerce, and you will turn it this way and that; now clerks, but to be bankers, importers, insurance company directors, snippers, contractors .superin tendents of railroads, your voice mighty "on "Change,' standing foremost in the great financial and religious enterprises of the day. For, though we who are in the professions may, on the platform, plead for the philanthropies, after all, the merchants must come forward with their mi llions to sustain the movement. Be, therefore, patient and diligent in this transient position. You are now where you can learn things yon can never learn in any
utuer piuue. , vvnat you consiuer your disadvantages are your grand opportunity. You see an affluent father some day come down on a prominent street with his son, who has just graduated from the university, and establishing him in business, putting $100000 of capital in the store. Well, you are ... envious. You . say: "Oh, if 1 only had a chance like that young man if only had a father to put $100,030 in a business for me, then I would have some chance in the world." Be not envious. You have advantages over that young man which he has not over you. As well might I come down to the docks when a vessel is about to sail for Valparaiso, and say: "Let me pilot this ship out of the Narrows." Why, I would sink crew and cargo before I got out of the harbor simply because 1 know nothing about pilotage. Wealthy sea captains put their sons before the mast for the reason that they know that it is the only place where they can learn to be successful sailors. It is only under drill that people get to understand pilotage and navigation and I want you to understand that it takes no more skill to conduct a vessel, out of , the harbor and across the sea than to steer a commercial establishment clear of the rocks. You see every day the folly of people going into a business they know nothing about. A man makes a fortune
in one business; tumks tnere is another occupation more comfortable; goes into it and sinks all. Many of , the commercial eatablishments of our cities are giving to their clerks a mercantile education as thorough as Yale, or Harvard, or Princeton is giving scientific attainment to the studente matriculated. The reason there are so many men foundering business from year to year is beeause their early, mercantile education was neglected. Ask these men high in commercial circles, and they will tell you they thanked God for this severe discipline of their early clerkship. You can afford to endure the wilderness march if it is going to end- in the vineyards and orchards of the promised land. But you say: " Will the womanly clerks in our stores have promotion?" Yes. Time is coming when women -will
be as well paid for their toil in mercantile circles as men are now paid for their toil. Time is cominsr when a woman
will be allowed to do anvthine. she can
do well. It is only a -little while ago when women knew nothing of telegram
pny, and they were kept out of a trreat
many commercial circles where thev are
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nvw welcome; ana rne ume will go on
until the women who at one counter in
aatore sells ten thousand dollars' wortn of goods in a 3rear will get as high a
salary as the man who at t he other
counter of the same store sells ten
thousand-dollars' worth of goods. All
honor to Lydia, the Christian saleswoman. Anl in..-.. passing, I might as well say that you merchants who have female clerks in your stores ought to treat them with great courtesy and kindness.When they are not positively engaged, let them sit down'. , In England ?nd the United States physicians have protested against the habit of compelling the womanly clerics in the stores to stand when it was not necessary for them to stand. Therefore, I add to tne protest of physicians the protest Of the Christian Church, and in the name of good health, ; and that God who has made the womanly constitution . more delicate than man's, I demand that you let her sit down.. .....
The second counsel I have to give to the clerks who are hero to-day is that you seek out what are the lawful regulations of your establishment, and then
J submit to them. Every well-ordered
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lose your
house has its usages. In military life, on ship's deck, in commercial life, there must be order and discipline. Those people who do not learn how to obey will never know how to command. I will tell you what young man will reach
rum, nnanciai ana morai; u young man who thrusts his thumb into
his vest and says: "isooody snau oic-
tate to me; I am my own master; i win
not submit to the regulations oi tms house." Between au establishment in which all the employes are under thorough discipline and the establish
ment m which the employes oo aooui
as they choose, is the difference between success and failure between
ranid accumulation and utter bank
ruptcy. Po not como to tho store ten minutes after the time. Be there within two seconds after. Do not think anything too insignificant to do. well. Do not say: "It's only just once." From the most important transaction in commerce down to the particular style in which you tie a string around a bun-
die, obey orders. Do not get easily dis
gusted. While others in tne store may lounge or fret or complain, you go with hands and cheerful face and contented: spirit to your work. When the bugle sounds the good soldier asks no questions, but shoulders his knapsack, fills his canteen and listens for the command of "March!" Do not get the idea that your interests and those of your employ er are antagonistic. His success will be your honor. His embarrassment will be your dismay. Expose none of the frailties of the firm. Tel! no store secrets. Do not blab. Rebuff those persons who
come to find out from clerks what ought
never be known outside the store. Do
not be amone those youne men who
take on a mysterious air when, something is said against the firm that employs them, as much, as to Eay; "I could tell you some things if I would, but 1 'Wpn t,n Do not be among those who
imagine tney ean buna tnemseives up
by pulling somebody else down. Be not ashamed to be a subaltern.
Affain. I counsel clerks in this house
to search out what are the unlawful and dishonest demands of an establishment, and resist them. In the six thousand
years tnat nave passed mere nas never
been an oceasion when it was one's duty to sin against God. . It is never
right to do wrong. If the head men of
the firm expect of yon dishonesty, dis
appoint them. "Oh",, you say. lose my place then." Better
place than lose your soul. But you will
not lose your place. Christian heroism
is always honored. You go to tho head
man of your store and say: "Sir, I want
to serve you; I want to oblige you; it is from no lack of industry on my part.but this thing seems to me to be wrong, and
it is a sin against my conscience, it is a
sin against God. and I begj'ou, sir. to
excuse me." He may flush up and swear
but he will coot down, and he will have more admiration for you than for those
who submit to his evil dictation and while they Mnk you will rise. Do not.
because of seeming temporary advan
tage,give up your character, young man.
under uog, mat is tne onjy tmng you
have to build on. dive up that, you
give up every thing. That employer
asks a young man to hurt himself for
time and eternity who expects him to
mate a wrong entry, or cnange an. in
voice, or say goods cost so much when
tney cost less, or impose upon tne ver
dancy of a customer, or misrepresent a style of fabric. How dare he demand of
you any thing so insolent?
There is one style of temptation that
comes on a great many of our clerks.and
that is upon these who are engaged in
what is called "drumming." Now, that
occupation is ust as honorable as any other, if it be conducted in accord with one's conscience. In this day, when there are so many rivalries in business.
all our commercial establishments ought
to nave men abroad wno are seeking
out tor opportunities ot merchandise.
There can be no objection to that. But
there are professed Cnristian merchants in the week-night prayer-meeting who have clerks abroad in New York conducting merchants of Cincinnati and Chicago and St. Louis through the de
baucheries of the great town m order to
secure their custom for the store. There are in stores in New York and Brooklyn
drawers in which t here are kept moneys
wnicn tne cierks are to go and get whatever they want to conduct these people through the dissipations of the city. The head men of the firm wink at it, and in some placesac tually Jemand it-professed Christian merchants. One would think that the prayer wroulil freeze on their lips, and they would fall back, dead at the sound of their own song. What chance is there for a young , men when commercial establishments expect such things . of them? Among all
things infernal I pronounce that
the most damnable. Young man, how will the firm treat you when you are utterly de-
sponea'iana aragge a out witn sin. going
tnrougn tne naunts or iniquity for the
purpose of getting customers for their
store? How will shey treat you? Oh, they will give you a pension! They will
buna you a nne house! They will get
you a norse and carriage! Will they? No. Some day you will go to-the store, shabby, intoxicated', worn out in their service, and they will say, "John, you are a disgrace to our house. Now, just look at yourself. Accountant, how much do we owe this man?" "A dollar and thirty cents." "Well, now, here here it is; $1.30. Go off. Don't be hanging around the store." Magnanimity superb! They-stole the luster from his eve. and
the color from his cheek, and the honor
from his soul, and then they kicked him out. If Buch professed Christian merchants do not go straight to hell I don't know any ue m having such a place. Oh, young men, disappoint the expectation of that firm; disappoint those customers, if these things are expected of you. You may sell an extra case of goods; you may sell an extra roll of silk;
but tne trouble is, you may have to throw your soul to boot in the bargain. Again, I counsel all clerks to conquer thetriah of their particular positions. One great trial for clerks is the inconsideration of customers. There are people who are entirely polite everywhere else, but gruff and dictatorial, and contemptible, when they come into a store to buy anything. There are thousands of men and women who go from store to store to price things without any idea of purchase. They are not satisfied until every roll of goods is brought down and they have pointed out all the real or imaginary defects. They try on all kinds of kid gloves, and stretch them out of shape, and they put on all styles of cloaks and walk to the mirror to see how
it would iook, and then they will sail out of the store saying: "I will not take it to-day," which means "I don't want it at all," leaving the clerk amid a wreck of ribbons and laces and cloths, to smooth out $500 worth of goods not one cent of which did that man or woman buy. Now! call that a dishonesty on the part of the customer. If a boy runs into a store and takes a roll of goods off
the counter and sneaks out into the street, you all join in the cry pellmell:. -"Stop,, thief!" When. I see you go into a store, not expecting to buy anything, but' to price things, stealing the time of the clerk, and stealing the
time of bis employer, I say, too: "Stop,
tmefr' It I were asked which class of
persons most need the grace of God
amia tneir annoyances l would say:
"Dry -goods clerks." All the indignation of customers about high prices comes on
tne cierir. ror instance: a great war
comes. The manufactories are closed. The people go to battle. The price of goods runs up. A customer comes , into a store. Goods have gone up. "How much is that worth?" "A dollar!" . "A dollar! Outrageous! A dollar!" Why, who is to blame for the fact that it has got to bo a dollar? Does the indignation go out to the manufacturers on the banks of the Merrimac because! hey have closed up? No. Docs the indignation go .out to svard the employer, who is out at his
country seat? No. It comes on the clerk, fie got up ho war!. He levied the taxes! He puts up tho rents! Of course, the clerk! i
Then a trreat trial comes to cierks in
the fact that .they, see the parsimonious side of human nature. You talk about lies behind tho counter there are just as many lies before the counter. Oh, people of Brooklyn, lay not aside your urbanity when you come into a store. Treat the clerks like ladies and gentlemen, proving yourself to be a lady or a gentleman, Semember, that if the prices are high and your purse is lean, that is no fault of the elerks. And if you have a sou or daughter amid those perplexities of commercial life, and sucli a one comes home all worn out, be lenient and know that the martyr at the stake no more certainly needs the grace of God
than our young people amid the seven-
times heated exasperations of a clerk e
life.
Then there all the trials which come
to clerks from the treatment of inconsiderate employ ers There are professed
Christian men in tins city who nave no
more regard for their clerks than thev
have tor tho scales on which the sugars
are weighed. A clerk is no more than
so much store furniture. No eonsidera
lion for their rights or their interests.
Not one word of encouragement from
sunrise to sunset, nor from January to December. Bub when anything goc3
wrong a streak of dust on the counter.
or a box with the cover off thunder
showers of scolding. Men imperious
capricious; eranky toward their clerks
their whole manner as much as to say:
"All the'interest I have in you is to see
hoM' muh I can get out of you."
Then there are boys in establishments
who are ruined in prosperous estab-
lishments ruin ed by their lack of com
pensation, in now many prosperous
stores it has been ior. the last twenty
years that bo3rs were given just enougo
money to learn them how to steal! Some
were seized upon by the police. The
vast majority of instances were not
known, A lad might better starve to
deatn on a oiasied neatn than take one cent from his employer, Woe to that
employer who unnecessarily puts
temptation in a boy's way. There have
been great establishments in these citie
Dutidmg marble palaces, their owners dying worth millions and millions, who
made a vast amount of their estate out
of the blood, and muscle, and nerve of
half-paid clerks. Such men as -well, will not mention any names. But
mean men who gather up vast estates
at the expense of the people who 'were
ground under their heels.
Go back forty years to Arthur Tappen's store in New York a man whose
worst enemies never questioned his
honesty. Every morning he brough;
all the clerks, and the accountants, and the weighers into a room for devotieit
Tney sang. They prayed, rney exhorted. On Mondav morning the
clerks were asked where they hadattend-
ed church the previous day and what
the sermons were about. It must have sounded strangely that voice' of praise
along the streets where the devotees of
mammon were counting their golden beads. You say, Arthur Tappen failed.
YeB, he was unfortunate, like a great
many good men; but I understand he
met all his obligations before he left
this world, and I know that he died in
xne peace oi . tne gospel, and that ne is
before the throne of God to-dav for
ever blessed. If that be failing, 1 wish
that you might all fail. ....
Every invoice made out, all tho labels
of goods, all certificates of stock, all lists
of prices, all private' marks of the firm
now explained so every body can understand them. All the maps of cities that were never built, and in which lots were sold; all bargains; all gougings: all. snap judgments; all. false entries; all adulterations of liquors with copperas and strychnine; all mixing of teas and sugars and coffees and sirups with eheaper material; all embezzlements of trust funds; all swindles in coal and iron and oil and
silver and stocks: all Swartwouts Huntingtons and Ketchums. On day, when the cities of this world smoking in the last conflagration, trial will go on and down on an lanche of destruction will go those wronged man or woman, insulted and defied the judgment. O, that
be a great day for you, honest Christrian clerk! Ko getting up early; no retiring late; no walking around with weary limbs; but a mansion in which to live, and a realm of light, and love, and joy . over which to hold everlasting dominion. Hoist him up from glory to glory, and from song to, song, and from throne to throne; for while others go down into the sea with their gold like a mill-stone hanging to their neck, this one shall come up the heights oi amethyst and alabaster, holding in his right hand the pearl of great price in a sparkling, guttering, flaming casket.
and that are the God will
The Western "Boom." J. ii. Lane in 61. Louis CHobt Democrat. I have just returned from that fertile section which the entire . country believes is booming on the basis of substantial improvements and large crops. The facts are that there has been no rain in the vicinity of Wichita or Kingman for six months, and unless relief comes within the next few weeks you will see thousands of families removing from the drouth-stricken district. The winter wheat, when examined at the roots, is dry and chaffy, and the snowfall was so light that it was not; sufficient to moisten the ground three inches below the surface. From the cornfields for miles outside Wichita you can see street cars in rapid motion wi thout carrying a passenger day or night. They are supported ; by real estate agents, who advertise in Eastern papers that "street cars pass the door," This metropolitan attraction would be all right if there were any doors there, but all I could see was an endless avenue cut through the cornfield, through which the mules patiently plod with their empty cars. An investigation will also show that railroad subsidies have entailed a tax of $15 per acre, wliich will have to be repudiated or paid during an indefinite time. The Postal Cards. K. Y.8uu. 0. C. Wool worth, of Alabama, head of the concern that makes postal cards for the Government, says that at the factory in Castelton, Pa., they manufacture between two and three tons a day the year round. The largest order they ever filled
for one day was 4,000,000 cards, or about twelve tons of paper, for this city. We use here about 6.000,000 cards a month. Chicago comes next, with about 3,000,000 cards in the same period. There are 430,000,000 postal cards manufactured annually. Two-cent postage did not lessen the use of postal cards, but checked the growth of their use for some little time. The check has been overcome and the public are using more and more postal cards every day. MAY.
May shall make the world anew. Goltleu sun and silver dewMoney minted in tho sky Shall the earth's new garments buy. May shall make Hie orchard bloom: And the blossoms1 fine perfume Shall set all tho honey-bees Murmuring among tho trees. May shall make the bud appear Liko a jewel, orystal clear, 'Mid the leaves upon tho limb Whcfro tho robin liltt his hymn, May shall make the wJld'tiowcrs tell Where the shining snow-flakes. fell: Just as though eaeh snow-flake's heart. By some secret, magic art, Were transmuted to a tlower In the sunlight and the shower. Is thwe such another, pray, Vontler-makiug month as May?.. ITrank Dempster Sherman in St. NlehoUis,
INDIANA ST&TE NEWS. Muncie claims a population of nearly
0,000. .
AVheat in Allen county will not make
half a crop.
Hon. Win, Heilman, o Evansville,
will spend the summer in Europe.
Governor Gray says there will not be
any extra session of the Legislature.
Wabasb college students to the number of fifteen are wearing knee pants. Gambling dens in Rushville are said to be getting oyer-ripo and need pulling. Burglars robbed the drug store of S, W. Storey at Vernon of two hundred dollars' worth o silverware.
Navagation has opened up with vigor at Michigan City, and the harbor pre
sents an old-time appearance.
The art loan of James B. Slack Post
No. 137, of Huntington, whieh has just
closed, added over $300 to the treasury.
G reensburg was visited with a heavy
frost Monday night, totally destroying
all fruit which was sufficiently devel
oped.
Smith Lewis, of Franklin county, has
been adiudced insane because he sud-
denly quit reading the lowest sort of
literature and took to reading his Bible
day and night.
Postmaster Banta, of Muncie, received
word from Washington to the effect that the income of the postoffice there was
now over $8,000. This entitles the citi
zens to the free delivery of their mail.
It is safe to say that one-quarter of the
acreage of wheat in Wells county has
been plowed up and sowed in oats this
spring, and the remaining three-quarters
will not make more than a half crop.
The eleven-year-old daughter of Mr. Alfred Wier. residing in tho southern
part of Jackson county, was playing in
the vard when she fell on a stake which
penetrated her neck, partially eutting
the jugular vein. She died Tuesday.
iVom careful examinations it is pretty
certain that fruit was -mostly killed by
the heavy frost in Jackson county. The nutmeg and watermelon shoots were cut
leyel with the ground. Replanting will
bo necessarv, whicla will make the erop
late.
The new insane hospital at Richmond
is about completed. The largest eotta&e
wi'il be put to immediate use by the trBistees of the home for the feebleminded children who will occupy the asylum building until the Fort Wayno home is eompleted. Judge Collins has sustained the demurrer to the answer in the Bohemian oats eases at Seymour. This settles the matter, as by this decision the notes for o&m are rendered void This will canse many farmers who indulged in the oats luxury to breath easier. At t o'eloak Monday morning, Thomas Smith, of Shelby ville, filed a eomplaint for divorce from his wife Mirau-
da, whom heinamed in 188o, in Owen county, Kentucky, and who refusas to eome home and liye with Thomas. At 9 ootk, one hour later, Thomas was free to marry again. At South Bend Monday afternoon, in an alternation between Henry Peak and William and Hugh Oahill, Peake was stabbed ten times in different parts of bis body, receiving dangerous, if not fatal, wounds. Alii of the parties were under the influence of liquor. The Oahills are under arrest. Esau Gresham, a veteran of the Fiftieth Indiana regiment, who formerly lived near Salem, has just been granted arrears of pension money amounting to $11,000, on account of insanity brought on by exposure during the war. Mr. Gresham has been for some time past confined in the Elisabeth Soldiers' hospital at Washington. A tornado passed oyer Princeton, Saturday night, doing much aamage to property. Two men, James H. Knott and Scott Selby, were killed in a falling barn. At Salem the flood was the most destructive ever known there. All the
streams in Southern Indiana are high, and much loss has been occasioned by
the washing away of fences, etc.
Thus far this spring upward of a hun
dred families have left Steuben county
for western Staieei, and a number o
others have gone to Tennessee and Alabama. Within the next three months
fully fifty more families will leave for the
weBt and south. The majority of these axe young people who eo elsewhere to
nd cheaper land and what they deem
better opportunities.
The Congressional contest of Lowry
vs, White in-the twelfth district has end-
ca virtually in iav or ot wnite. it was proven that White was fully naturalized
mi sou, out tne eierK oi tne court neglected to make a record of the fact, as
3 be did in 200 caseu, embracing those of
some of the most prominent business
men of the eity of Fort Wayne. The
charges made by Lowry as to bribery
were abandoned by him.
The number of acres of wheat sown in Delaware county was never so large as
last fall. The winter was very favorable,
but for the last six weeks the Yery cold
and dry weat her has done very serious
damage, and especially in the northern
part of the county . Tho rain and snow
that fell Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
will wonderfully revive it, and many fields that seemed to be past redemption will probably indicate a good
yield..
The Evansville Courier says that it has learned from private sources that
the damage suit brought by Colonel
Robertson against Green Smith is the
result of an agreement between Dem
ocrats and Republicans to settle exist
ing" differences so that an extra session of the Legislature may bp sailed. Mr.
W. H. H. Miller, of Harrison. Miller fe
Elam, attorneys for Colonel Robertson, said Thursday, that he never heard of such an agreeemeiat; that the suit was brought for the purpose of recovering damages, and not for any political effect. George Calvert was arrested at Logansport, Wednesday, for disturbing the peace at a house of ill-fame. His wife had left him at Terre Haute, and he learned of her presence in the brothel.
He went to ask hor to return and live with him, but when refused an interview with her, he beeamo indignant,and
ereaiea viie uiEi.uruuut;v mai iu iu uib arrest, In the court-room he made an appeal to his wife, but was spurned by the woman, who declared she was proud of her present life. The stock law passed by the recent legislature is meeting with considerable disfavor among farmers in Wabash county, and the position of the road supervisor is not an enviable one. Mr. David Brooks, a supervisor of Noble lownship, is in receipt of an annonymous communication warning him that in case
he attempts to impound any stock running loose on the highway his dwelling
house would bo burned. Mr. Brooks is
considerably alarmed over lihe situation
and is anxious to resign his position.
Careful inquiry among farmers from
all sections of Steuben county develops the fact that the wheat crop will not be more than half an average yield, as a
rule, and in some sections not more than one-third. In a very few neighborhoods
it looks well and promises an average yield. The very small acreage that was
sown early, before the heavy rains of
lasss fall, is the best, and promises most
satisfactory returns. That; which was
sown after the rains is the poorest seen in the county for many years. A large
number of farmers will plow in their lata-sown wheat and nut in oats and
other crops. r- :,
A serious wreck occurred on the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis railroad, about noon Wednesday, near Birdseye,
fifleen miles above Huntingburg. A
construction train loaded with cross-ties was attempting to get up a heavy grade and was being helped by a through
freight. When near the top of the hill a drawhead broke and the construction train started down at a tremendous speed, drawing the locomotive after it When near the bottom of the grade a ear jumped the track. Three men were killed the engineer and two workmen whose names could nob be learned. Two others are miBsing and several others were injured. Farmers in the yi-einity did all they could for the injured. A wrecking train, was sent to scene, and trains were delayed several hours. Logansport is "all torn up" over the question of Sunday base ball. Ever since George Way, the captain of the Peru nine, was chased to the train by a mob, howling for his blood, the question has been before the public. Petitions for and against the gamejOn the Sabbath, have been before almost every meeting of the council. Ministers have preached against it, and congregations voted on the question. Even the pupils of the public schools were allowed a half-day last week in which to discuss the question. The city council has been afraid
to settle the question,for the councilmen who voted against Sunday base ball could count.on being scratched I y the lovers of the game, and on tho other hand, if he voted for the game, he would be opposed by the church members. The question is to be settled at the polls next Tuesday.
INDIANA NATURAIj GAS NOTES.
Rockvi lie is boring. Indiana is a great State.. Greenfield is booming "in hopes." One of the Noblesville wells emits jets of oil occasionally. Goshen has begun to dig for gas and expects to find it in a week. No. 2 is being drilled at Greensburg. The flow at No. 1 is increasing. The Pendleton well was "shot," Saturday niht, with good results. New Castle drilled 1,214 feet without striking gas. The "duster" will be abandoned, but two other holes will be drilled. Over 5,000,000 feet of gas, comes hissing out of the well at Jonesboro, every day, with a sound life escaping steam. Heal estate is booming. . A rich flow was struck at Fairmount Saturday on J. H. Winslow's farm, at a depth of 950 feet, with 450 pounds pressure, and a blaze thirty feet high. The Anderson well is one of the most -powerful in the entire gas belt. The hotels at Anderson are crowded with eapitalists and the real estate market is excited and active. For t Wayne hasn t go t gas yet, bu t in boring has struck two flowing wells of good water, which encourages her in hoping for an unlimited and pure supply oi that necessity. . . The well on the Wainwright farm, at Noblesville, is another of the "largest" in tho United States, "exeept the one at Findlay, 0.," Three other wells are in progress at Noblesville. . Indianapolis is anxioT.is and expectant. The well at Brightwooct was adandoned after reaching a depth of 1200 feet,nearly 75 of which was in Trenton rock. Three or four other wells are . being drilled in the vicini ty. The Wabash city council has appropriated $3,000 to aid in the investiga
tion of natural gas territory. Wabash is thoroughly enthused on this question, and ihe failure of well Ho. 1 has only
incresred the interest.
Gas was struck at Shelbyville. Mon
day, at a leoth of 91G feet, and 51 feet
...... of Trenton rock. When lighted the gas
blazed ut several feet, but soon died
out. The flow had increased slightly
Tuesday. The well will be shot.
There are six gas' well uerriCKS m sight of the Noblesvillie Court house
tower. The citizen's, won win oe com
pleted about May 10. The product of
this well will be furnished free to manu
facturers. Real estate transfers are ac
tive, and free hacks are run to the well.
The Greensburg city council Wednesday night, passed a resolution appro
priating $10,000 for the purpose of sinking gas wells for furnishing the city with
light and fuel, and also with the cxpecta-
t on of furnishing fuel free to manufac
turers who will locate here. Everything
is booming.
Eight large factories have been located at MunGie. since the boom began. It
is estimated that $1,000..000 worth of real
estate has chanced hands. Thursday a
large road-scraper works from Pennsyl-
. , van ia, a thrashing-machine works from
Yerniont, and clover-huller works from
Ohio, contracted for grounds for their
buildings. ...
Shoals will spend 35,000 and drill
three thousand feet, if necessary, to
find gas. The Portland, Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad company has purchas
ed additional ground; The new opera
house, Odd Fellows1 block, and a busi
ness block, all under contract, will use
ono million brick. Dwellings are being
built by the hundred.
The Standard Oil Company, which
controls the Wainwright well and has
leaeies on several thousands of acres of gas land near Noblesville, has offered
to pipe to Indianapolis :if the city council will give them, the privilege of the streets, and promise to have everything in shape for consumption in four months. Of course Indianapolis is elated. The Shelbyville Distilling Company are thinking seriously of moving their establishment from Shelbyville to one of the towns having natural gas and other advantages. Hartford City has
offered free fuel, exemption from' tax
ation for ten years and land on which to build. Anderson is a more desirable
location, and the same terms will prob
ably secure it for this place. Anderson Bulletin.
Gentlemen from Cincinnati,Mans field, London, Springfield, Delaware, Dayton and points in New York and Pennsyl vania have bought a hall: million dollars worth of property at KoJcomo this veek, Two glass factories drove stakes for large buiMings there, Thursday. The
hotels are iu.il to overlie wmg, and. pri
vate residences have been thrown open
to accommodate visitors. Gas well der
ricks are looming up in all directions. The new gas well, the "Wainwright Wonder," at Noblesville, proves to be even better than heretofore reported.. The necessary appliances for lighting the well could not be found either at Lima, 0., or Pittsburg, and have been ordered by telegraph from New York. The company have at the well a fuS supply of such fixtures as" are used on all the other gas wells in the State, but
tho volume of gas is so great that these cannot be used. A gentleman oi: many years' experience with gas says that if it was possible to confine the gas it would produce tho enormous pressure of 800 pounds in thirty seconds. MISCELLAKEOUS NOTES.
P. T. Barnum says that during his liie as a showman he has received oyer 80,000,000 from the people. V T , The constant recurrence of attacks of rheumatic gout cause much anxiety to ex-Speaker Randall's friends.
A character in one of Mr. Cable's latest book is made to remark that he will "progress" forwardly with rapiditive celeritude." When warms the sua, and from the ilelds- tlxo snow ; , Is enusecl by thaw. . . - The furnace that all winter woakl not g ; Begins to draw. .. According to the Burlington Free Press a Maine sheriff writes: "Luke out for an eskapped criminul. He has a feerce mustache and a sin astir oxpreshnn.". v , The official title of the governor of Rhode Island is captain generaiof Rhode Island and Providence plantations. The title runs out of the state into deep water. San Francisco Alta. It is said that a man could easily ca try $40,000,000 if the money was in ten-thousand-dollar bills. It is worth while for every man to know this, so as to; be prepared for an emergency;. Miss Mary Booth, editor of Harper's Bazar, sailed for Europe Saturday, and w9i spend five months in travel. This will be her first real vacation since the establishment-of the Bazar Uyenty. years ago. ,. .... ; . , ' The recent visit of Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone to Windsor, when they diBed and slept at the castle, was their st experience of this sort. Mr. Gladstone had'enly been a guest there before in an official capacity, when he was in the Cabinet. 4 ' " Women are greatsh b ic deceivers' said Jones, leaning up against the bar; "Theresh -hie no trusting 'em. Theresh my wife. She said hie the other d ay the nextish time hie I got drunk she -d go home to ma. Ish been drunk ever since and she hie hasn?t gon3 yet.7 Tid Bits: An important legal decision has j ust been recorded in England. Mr.
Justice Stephen has decided, after a long course of wrestling with authorities, that adead-man can't, be libeled.' We therefore absolutely refuse to take back anything we have said regarding Ananias. Tuesday, a stone-cutter began to cliisel a fitting inscription onvthe monument erected long ago at W ashington, to the memory of - General Nathaniel Greene, of the Revolutionary army. The resolution authorizing the inscription was passed in 17S6, the appropriation for the-purpose was passed in. JS77 and work has been begun in 1887. A writer on the subject of physieal training for girls, in the British Medical Journal, says that for school gu-ls he would have at least two half-holidays a week.devoted to games played in a large space in the open air. Among the exercises he, would have practiced are
8 wi mining, lencim?, cncKet, ioot-nau,
fives and tennis and such games or! speed and endurance as piisoners' base, cross-
touch, etc. ; , ' .. . ':;
The Chicago Journal of Commerce has
prepared an elaborate statement of the
railway building which is to be tioue in
the United States during the present
year. It estimates the amount of new
road at 15,000 mUes. Illinois which al
ready has more miles of railway than
any other state, is credited "with 935 miles of new road to be construoted
within the next few months. Kansas,
Nebraska. Texas and Wisconsin alone
auk highest in the list. I was one day in LomJon walking down the. Strand; while t gentleman
who was accompanying in was relating
a somew hat startling-incidmt in which he had been an actor. He and a friend, whilei bathing in the Amazon river, narrow y escaped being destroyed by a huge
shark, which sudlenlv"; joined tlveir
aquatic gambols in the tropical stream.
Mv friend related the details of their
w . - . .r .... . . : escape and extolled tne bravery of his com pan ion on that occasion. Then , naturally he expressed hia regret at the unliklihood of their ever meeting again and while proving in the naost exclusive way that it was quite imjjossible they ever should do -ho, he 'Suddenly exclaimed: "Why, my goodness here he is!" And behold! f in that" crowded through fare, and shaking ? hands vigorously, stood these two rqen,. neither , of
wh om ex pecte d to see the. o the r again!
-The Amerioan 'Magazinei.- ' ;
Ji AT UK AL AN l OTflEB .AS
Kofeomo il the ordy town in theV country whose first wn wlia ; a complete success. It's ICokomo'sv luck. She 4ii i -mcotte.KQiamo
Gazette Tribrne.
Ihe future of the Hoosier Slate look
exceedingly bright; She offers a better field foMhe ii.vestttient of idle capital
man uuy yr'Biwu vt ouumtm V5ffgr,ar
Terre Kaufu Express; ' ; "
at
We may not have gas, but me have whntia letter, thft best soil, -labre fine
horses and the prettiist women to ihMi square inch'any county Jnti0 States. Rush ville Graphic. : ;
The one fact that inipreasea us mor
forcibiv than anv either i ust no w is that'
Indiana is not; as good a State to move, away from as some people have been
wont to maae , Deuere,T-u reencasue -
TimeSi . , . ,
Marsh hydraulic test-th most ac- ' curate test? of " canacity krtown and
Indianapolis Nejvs. . . .-
Governor Gray yesterday' received the
following novel letter: '
... Max ah Hill, Ind., Sir Honorable Governor
Indiananolis lnd.
I herewith pray to. you r honorable
office to be pensioned as the father of
8th boy's which ate all aliyo, tho 'youngest is 10 months and the oldest is 14-
years of age, we have no sirls, wicli! ean prove if necessary. Your hcnorable Goverhorship please take rotice of this
if so kind and answer byreturn mail if
there is any such law nr. our State or
not, if thf.ro ia such Jaw, how I limstpro ceed in the same.i Vours .Uespoetfullv, AhAiiBou.Exni5iu
shows a prea rare of 3S5 pounds-a
of fifteen poo nds over fee orijrjnal test, r-r Kokomo JT'ispatchi ' .
. To show rhat attention ti e oilfield", of Teru is di awing it is only necessary to mention aefict that Zcigler & Smith of Bradford! Pai, have titipned he '- City Counci for theprivilege Of laying
mains and pipes in the streets and alleys in rflRA ffiftv nhnnld ntrikft .natural EftS
instead of oi I.- Peru iRepublwran- ' If a stranger should happer, in a com
pany compc sed of representatives trosa twenty or tldrty Eastern Indiana-town
and should, without loosing airecuy unvnti. T-p?ann flfit 1 'Rnw are sras"-
prospects nt your place? 'f wouian t
flicivn lift a a-vtntr Knr.ttl aF vni4Pfl ilttPn TITi.f
f "is
in reply. V&yr (Jastle CouritT. ? , There is l ooming all around us. - We - , hear of Kokomoys bo am; Moiieie 's bbom9
Marion's beomflortland's bo mAnder
son's boom and a gixjat hiany other' booms; but the real; genuine, old Jacob" Townsendil:oooi is to be heartl jete .... '-- It
will be knon every where as the .Kich-
Indiana4 an a great fce, arn ismaKingk
ramu advancement in ait .mc muusmes
IrnAWn trtifJiiA nifAn1!; nf ilAim dav And-
age. riio-old Hoosier State, now stands v H
in line witti her more-pretentious sisters
and- offers as great lndt cements :to manufacturers and businesi men of afli kinds as an f of tfeem.-rejnaburg view. .. yy i J-. - Heal esjate iiEiatjiipns have'J ;been
very-brisfethis week, thesaa f amo&nH
ihg to over $250,000; The ? irger trans J actions, suh ihe Watscni, Walling;' and Gallihtr farms, attricte 1 more attention beciuse of their size buitniifcg' not be supposed that others are aot
made: towri lots and smalr tracts near
3S
m
am
thesuburbs have- beensolvl ih reat
";'."C4;"
number8.-MttnciTiroes
ICdkomo is having a geat fcbii:-;
ifa tisitnrft! omR, imid- IndianflDOlis - 1m
OL.hIJ V.r. l,n(t vsn nr Vint rii mHa
OUUU1U IUO tCOU UVW. wcaaaj,
Fortunately all the grbun t lor mites
around the oitv is already datted, and
hunt up t aeir old snmgic s ana tacK -
them upajn. Terre Haute Mail. -.f-. v
Maiion.is tjhe greatest cifcjr .lor utumination wc: have ever. seo - u Natural gas was btirning in flaniesirpni' one to .
ten feet high on the street twers and m '
many of the stores; coal oil andvaitificialv gas were burning i n the douses; and1 stores, and ofiBcesrthe electnedight vafi br icrh tl v ilashiner its rays in . the hotels
and store?: out on the edges of the town
great sheets of natTiial gasrere Bteeaaif ing andiigh over all was the clewand v soft and beautiful light of the moon . ; Logangpprt JoniaL.; ?-v;?';v"';- -1 Speaking oi heay5r ;: capitalists coming ( into the diy. one a least cannot be de x uied tha;; distinction. He retired for the nign t at one of our hoi ejs Tuesday " . evening, and smashed the bed; The?! he piled m with ; another fellow and?; smashed that bed down, and was c6ni-?
pelled tc4ie on the floor balariee of s -' . the night; Of courv; there is no paic ; fH' ular sigiiiilcance in this -iacidentj i-andv ;;f we only mention it or thj benefit of fz '-'J
Muncie, Marion and other villages who are - bellowincr themselves -hoarse over
tne mnnx oiiieavy capitaiifis. eoaomo
Gazette-Tribane. ? Wp The r eignio g bore at one time in Edinburgh xras ; his favorite subject, the ' North I'ole. it nered oot kom-4r south you ben 3ou fooJidyourfieKtraiisprted to tfi Xortlv Pole befoi :$
him. Jefirey fled from hita ob m , - v plague, when possible; but one; dahif f 5; arch-tormentor nie't him n inaxiw 'Sg lane and begiin . instantly oil the - Nort V Pole. Jerey, in despair fivnd out oi patience, daried past hin ;- exelaunin "It- n theorthPolel?SyateySmith
4
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him shortly after boiling ? with indigna-
i ion at Jeffrey 's contonypof e Norfeh
Pole.? "On ray dear fallow;'
Sydney, "never mind; hp ;vone. minds wbakJeffrey say you a know; he
specfe nothing; absolutly 'aothinfe;. Why; you will scarcely be xeye btffit- 'N;' C -1
it is not morn than k week age thatI heard him eak d feresufuli J 1dtt9: equator.? :L -fcrtSr& Ca ntious 4lioULt Cqmsii, f V rhtenip Herald - 1 V C--,.?.- -V" r-r . ' About ten years ago the Honi James .v R. Campbell, who represats Hamilton:T county reform in the lower Soiise of he Legisl atureybeeame tangle loipnra rai;c'
way accident (he calls it a h olocau8t) and had one eye blacked and ono toe sprained.
The cher day thc: agent of the raflWayr'
eompioiy athjmpted iso settle with Camp
I
.it,-
bell t or foOO; As soon as hot leard that XP&
agent was oming Gataplell' bought a-
The Important .Quory Chicago Tnter-Occim. "i ' . The question out in Indiana "What is home without a mother?" is j list now overshadowed by the question, "What
I is a town worth without a gas w$ll?" .
his bask taintped like a centenarian; fIf wilLci ve von l$GQ in full settlement os
all injuriesif1 said the
zsree to anr: crompromis
Camnlell in a feint voice?, "i think I
am injured iatrnallv: and i Ht iuh. fa ; . tally I stall wat seven i!iuja
flfty."
ihe age ntv t .can ipromis) "itfm? eaio:r t voict i: think i: :
A. Toxa Kditoi? Mses Jo Explain, ,
iJoUtivil c Stanuaru. ?
The Standard wfahes Cirr0ct a false impression m, referenceTtc the "firing V of the editor's wife and m ;other-in-law v, from t-ae Methodist; ohurcli . They were not put out of ; the buildiogi as some i: supped e,.hut merely had their names;
erased from the roll of membership-
The editor it nofrthe kind of a man quietlj subiait to having Ids wife n fc her rew ther Q red" bodily f rom achurclv or else vhe-re . Me as not bv ilt toaavj-
ne.itnei is om motnewn-iinf
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