Bloomington Courier, Volume 13, Number 28, Bloomington, Monroe County, 14 May 1887 — Page 2

THE COURIER.

BY H, J. FELTUs.

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Nova Scotia wants to secede the worst way, but doesn't want to hurt the feelings of the English Government. The only way under the circumstances would be to get a leave of absence.

Paris, Ont., has set a good example for the rest of the world by imprisoning a man for thirty days for allowing a livery horse to stand all night in harness, in an open shed, without food or water.

When the French people learned that one of their officers had been dragged across the border by the Germans and imprisoned their indignation , knew no bounds; but when they learned that the man's name was Scnnaebeles they wondered what a Frenchman was doing with . a name like that, and are inclined to think that perhaps its all right after all. - A Philadelphia company has just "mpleted four palatial sleeping cars, lepiete with, every modern luxury, but, strange to say, they are to be drawn by horses instead of by more modern motive power. This connecting link between the railroad sleeper and the antiquated stage coach owes its origin to the scarcity of coal -and the abundance of horse flesh in the heart of the Argentine Republic, and it will be interesting to note how the experiment succeeds. Few people remember that in the Republican National Convention of 1&56, Abraham Lincoln received 110 votes, against 259 for William L. sDayton, as the party's candidate for Vice President a fact which proves that even then the country was well acquainted with the ability of the man who was destined to play such a great part in its history. If he had received the nomination in that case it might easily have changed his career in some respects, though it would probably not have interfered with his selection as the presidential candidate four years later, for that was, in a certain sense, one of the foregone conclusions of history, or of fate, if we choose to interpret the matter in that way. He did not care to be Vice President, however, and did not seek a place on the ticket in 1856. "When you see Judge Dayton,"he wrote to one of his friends after the convention, as quoted in the May Century, "present my respects, and tell him I think him a-far better man than I for tne position he is in, and that I shall support both him and Col. Fremont most cordially."

In Bleak: Alaska. When Secretary Seward bought Alaska from Russia he added to the United States a territory of much larger area than - the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin and Missouri together, and nearly nine times larger than England and Wales. The territory stretches out so far to the westward that Sitka, its capital, is only half way from New York city to the most western Alaskan island. Many of the details of the formation of Alaska read like quotations from fairy tales. It has a volcano eight thousand feet high. The Yukon, riyeris at some points from fifteen to twenty miles wide, its entire length is two thousand miles, and it empties with such volume into the sea that the ocean is said to be fresh water for ten miles out. The temperature does at times fall as low as 58 degrees below zero, but as a rule it is mild, on account of a sort of gulf stream known as the Japanese current. It was Peter the Great who set on foot the. expedition which finally discovered Alaska; It was in 1725 that the explorers set out to cross Siberia toward the east, and one

of their leaders was Behring, a Bane, who had been long in the Russian service. - He did not land in Alaska till seventeen years later, and died on one of the islands off the shore, .whieh? bears his name and where his body now lies. Spain, England and

France also sent out exploring expedi turns, and Russia established a trading company, -which sold the furs of the region. But in 1867 Secretary Seward effected a purchase of Alaska- for the United States, which paid Bussia $7,200,000, and a little more than two years ago it was organized as a civil and judical district. At present the ehief industries are carried on by the fishery and seal fur companies. In 1880 the catch of 'salmon was eight- thousand cases; in 1& thhiynnx thousand cases, and in 1885 sixty-five thousand cases, at about $5 a ease. The magnitude of the fur operations may be seen from the fact that between 1871 and 1883 about $5,000,000 was paid by the company to the United States government as rent and tax. There are also mines of coal, lead, copper, silver, and gold, and a vast growth of fine spruce and cedar which will- some day prove of great value to the people of the United States. Lieut. Schwatka has twice been on expeditions to the great northwest territory, and is now sending home reports of his ,dis co veries, which are full of interest. It appears to to be ciear now that Sec retary Seward acted wisely when he negotiated the purchase from Russia. . . . ' - i " ..Use of Goal on Locomotives, i New York Sun. . ' "I'm doing pretty well this month on coal," said Engineer Bodley to a reporter; 4Ie saved $732 pounds so far." Bodley was looking at a paper on the wall covered with figures in tabular form. At the head of each column was a heading. One designated the number of trips and others the amount of coal - allowed and used, others the amount saved, totals and sums earned. "What does that mean?" 'l "Each engine isallowed so much coal for a trip. All the engineer and fireman can save out of the amount is credited; and one-half the cost of cbal saved is credited to the engineer and fireman, to be equally divided between them." V - , How much is allowed toeach engine?" "Usually 10 pounds per car per mile on express trains. On way trains, with many stops, as high as 14 or 15 pounds is allowed. The allowance drops to 3 " to 4 for long freight trains. The same train in winter will take a pound or t wo more per oar than in summer. If a man makes a big sum in one month, over a couple of dollars or so, the ' allowance is cat down the next mont h . An express train of five ears to Philar

del phia takes 9,000 pounds

round trip.

Temptation: Mankind Thoroughly Beset Wih It.

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There is Little Smooth Sailing ior GotVa ChiMron The Powers of Darkness Aro ... on the Alert and the World U Mixing n Bitter Cap. Rev. Br. takaste preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday from the text Matthew, xiv., 12. Ho said: The old Goths and Vandals once ratmo down upon Italy, from the north of Europe and they. upset the gardens, and they broke down the altars and swept away everything that was good and beautiful. So thero is ever and anon in the history of all the sons and4daughrers of our race an inclusion of 'rouarhhanded troubles that come to plunder and ransack and put to the torchjall that men highly prize. , There is no cave so deeply cleft into the mountain as to allow us shelter, and the foot of fleetest courser can not bear us beyond pursuit. The arrows they put to the string fly with unerring dart, until we fall pierced and stunued. I feel that I bring to you a most appropriate message. I mean to .bind up all your griefs into a bundle, and set them on fire with a spark from God's altar. The same prescription that cured the sorrow of the disciples will cure all your heartaches. I have read that when Godfrey and his army marched out to capture Jerusalem, as they came over the hills, at the first lash of the pinnacles of that beautiful city, the army that had marched in silence lifted a shout that made the earth tremble. Oh, you soldiers of Jesus Christ, marchinji in toward heaven, I would that to-day, by some gleam from the palace of God's mercy and God's strength, you might be lifted into great rejoicing, and that before this service is ended you might raise one glad hosanna to t he Lord. . In the first place, I commend ths behavior of these disciples to. all those in the audience who are. sinful and unpardoned. There comes a time in almost every man's history when he feels from some source that he has an erring nature. The thought may not have such heft as to fell him. It may be only like the flash in an evening loud just after a hot summer day. One man to get . rid of that impression will go to prayer; another will stimulate himsel f with ardent spirits, and another man will dive deeper in secularities. But sometimes a man can not get rid of these impressions. The fact is, when a man finds out that his oternity is poised upon a perfect uncertainty, and that the next moment his foot may slip, he must do something violent to make himself forget where he stands, or else fly for refuge. If there are any. here who have resolved that they would rather die of this awful cancer of sin than to have the heavenly surgeon cut it out, let me say, ray dear brother, that, you mingle for yourself a bitter cup. You fly in the face of your everlasting interests. You crouch under a yoke and you bite the dust, when this moment you might rise up a crowned conqueror. Driven and harrassed . and perplexed a? you have been by sin, go and tell Jesus. ; Acain, I commend the behavior of the disciples to all who aro tempted. I have heard men in mid-life say that they had never been led into temptation. If you have not felt temptation it is because you have not tried to do right. A man hobbled and handcuffed, as long as he lies quietly, does not test the power of the chain; but when he rises up and with determination resolves to snap the handcuff , or break the hobble, then he finds the power of the iron. And there are men who have been for ten, twenty or thirty years bound hand and foot by evil habits who have never felt the power of the chain, because they have never tried to break it... It is very easy to go on down with the stream and with the wind, lyine on

your oars; but just turn around and try to go against the wind and the tide, and you will find that it is a different matter. As long as we go down the current of our evil habit we seem to ; get alona quite smoothly; but if, after awhile, we turn around the other way, toward Christ and pardon and heaven, oh, then, how we have to lay to the oars! You all have your temptation. You have one kind, you another, you another, uot one person escaping. ...... It is all folly for you to say to some one; i4I could not b9 tempted as you are." The lion thinks it is so strange that the fish should be caught with a hook. The fish thinks it is so strange

mat me non suouiq De caugut witu trap. You see some man with a cold, phlegmatic temperament, and you say: "I suppose that man has not any temptation." Yes, as much as you have. In his phlegmatic nature he has a temptation to indolence and censoriousness and overeating and drinking; a temptation to ignore the great work of life; a temptation to lay down an obstacle in the way of all good enterprises. The temperament decides the style of tern p tation: but, sanguine or lympathic, you will have temptation. Satan has a grappling-hook just fitted for your soul. A man never lives beyond the reach oi temptation. You say when a man -. gets to be seventy or eighty years of age he itsafe from all Satanic assault. You are very much mistaken. A man at eightyfive years of age has as many tempta tions as a man at twenty-five. " They are only different styles of temptation. . -Ask the aged Christian whether he is never assaulted of the powers of darkness. If you think you have conquered the power of temptation, you are verv much mistaken. ... A man who wanted a throne pretended he was very weak and sickly, and if he was elevated he would soon "be gone. He crawled upon his crutches to the throne, and, having attained it, he was strong again. He said: "It was well for me while I was looking for the scepter of another that I should stoop, hut now that I have found it why should I stoop?" and he threw away his crutches and was well again. How illustrative of the power of temptation! You think it is a weak and crippled influence: but eive it a chance, and it will be a tyrant in your soul, it will grind you to atoms. No man has finally and forever overcome temptation until he has left the world. But what are you to do with these temptations? Tell everybody about them? Ah, what a silly man you would be. As well might a commander in a fort send word to the enemy which gate of the castle is least barred as for yon to go and tell what all your frailties are and what your temptations are. The world will only caricature you, will only scoff at 3'ou. What, then, must a man do? When the wave strikes him with terrific, dash, shall he have nothing to hold on to? In this contest with "the world, the flesh and the devil," shall a man have no help, no counsel? Our text intimates something different. In those eyes that wept with the Bethany sisters I see shining hope. In that voice which spake until the grave broke and the window of Kain had back her lost son, and the sea slept, and sorrow stupendous woke up in the arms of rapture in that voice I hear the com raandand the promise: "Cant thy burden on the Tofd, and He will sustain thee." Why should yon carry your burdens any longer? " Oh, you weary soul, Christ "has been in this coufiicf. He says: "My grace shall ha sufficient for yon. You shall not bo tempted above that, you are able to bear." "Therefore, with all your temptations, go, as these disciples did, and tell Jesus. Again I commend the behavior of the disciples to all those who are abused and slandered and persecuted. When Herod put John to death the disciples knew that their own heads were nor, safe. And do you know that every John has a Herod? There are persons 5n life who do not wish you very wel 1 . Your misfortunes are honeycombs to them. Through their teeth they hiss at you,

misinterpret your motives and would be glad to see you upset. No man. gets through life without having a .oumraeling. Some slander comes after you, horned and husked and hoofod, to gore and trample you. And what are you to do? I toll you plainly that all who serve Christ must suffer persecution. It is the worst sign in the world for you to be able to say "I haven't an enemy in the world." A woe is pronounced in the Bible against the ono whom every body speaks well. If you aro at poace with all tho world, and every body likes you and approves your work, it is because you are an idler in the Lord's vineyard, and aro not doing your duty. All those who have served Christ, however eminent, have been maltreated at somo stage of their experience. You kuow it was so in the timo , of George W hit efleld, when lie stood and invited men into the kingdom of God. What did the learned Dr. Johnson say of him? He prenounced him a miserable mountebank. How was it when Robert Hnll stood and spoke as scarcely any uninspired man overdid speak of. tin glories of heaven and as he stood Sabbath after Sabbath preaching on those themes.his face kindled with the glory? John Foster, a Christian man, said of this man: "Robert Hall is only acting, and the smile on his face is a reflect ion of his own vanity. " John Wesley turned England upside down with Christian reform, and yet tho punsters were after him, and the meanest jokes of England were perpetrated about John Wesley. What is true of the pulpit is true of the pew; it is true of the street, it is true of the shop and the store. All who live godly in Jesus Christ must suiter persecution. And I set it down as tne very worst sign in r.H your Christian experience if you are, any of you, at peace with all the worl J. The religion of Christ is war. It is a challenge to Hho world, the flesh and the devil;" and if you will buckle on the whole armor of God, you will find a great host disputing your path between this and heaven. But what are you to do when you are assaulted and slandered and abused, as I suppose nearly all of you have been in your life? Go out and hunt up the slanderer? O, no, silly man! While you are explaining away a falsehood in one place, fifty peoplo will just have heard of ft in other placss. . I council you to another course. While you aro not to omit any opportunity of setting yourself right, I want to tell you this morning of one who had the hardest things said about Him, whose sobriety was disputed, whose mission was scouted, whose companionship was denounced, who was pursued as a babe and spit upon as a man;, who was howled at after ho was dead. I will have you go unto Him with your bruised soul, in some humble, child-prayer, saying: "I sec Thy wounds wounds of head, wounds of feet, wounds of heart. Now, look . at my wounds, and . see what I have suffered, and through what battles I am going; and I entreat Thee, by those wounds of Thine, sympathize with me," And He will sympathize, and He will help. Go and tell Jesus! ... Again, I commend the behavior of the disciples to all who may have been bereaved. How many in garb of mourning? If you could stand at this point where T am standing and look off upon ihis audience, how many signals of sorrow you would behold. God has his own Vay of taking apart a family. We must get out of the way for coming generations. We must get o9 the stage that others may come on, and for this reason there is a long procession reaching down all the time into the valley of shadows. This emigration from timo into eternity is so vast an enterprise that wo can not understand it. Every hour we hear the clang of tho sepulchral gate. The sod must be broken. The ground must be plowed for resurrection harvest. Eternity must be peopled. The dust must prcRS our eyelids. .;- "It is appointed unto all men once to die." This emigration from time into eternity keeps three-fourt hs of the families of the earth in desolation. The air is rent with farewells, and the black-

tasspled vehicles of death rumble through every street. The body of the child that was folded so closely to the mother's heart is put away in the cold and the darkness. The laughter freezes to the girl's Hp, and the rose scatters. The boy in the harvest field of Shnnam says, "My head! my head!" and they earry him home to die on the lap of his mother. Widowhood stands with tragedies of woe struck into the pallor of the cheek. Orphanage cries in vain for father and mother. Oh, the grave is cruel! With teeth of stone clutches for ite prey. Between the closing gate of the sepulcher our hearts are mangled and crushed. Is there any earthly solace? None. Now, what are such to do? Are th ey m erely to 1 ook up into a braaen and , unpitying heaven? Are they to walk a blasted heath unfed of stream, unsheltered by overarching tree?? lias God turned us out on the barren common to die? Oh, no! no! no! He has not. He comes with sympathy and kindness and love. Ho understands all our grief. He sees the height, and the depth, and the length, and the breadth of it. He is the only one that can fully sympathize and tell Jesus. Often when vre were in trouble we sent for our friends; but they were far away, they could not get to us. We wrote to them: "Come right away," or telegraphed, "Take the next train." They canm at last, yet were a great while in coming, or, perhaps, were too late. But Christ is a ways near before you, behind you, within you. No mother ever threw her arms around her child with such warmth and ecstacy of affection as Christ has shown toward you. Close at handnearer than the staff upon which you lean, nearer than the cup you put to your lips, nearer than tho handkerchief with which you wipe away your tears I preach Him an ever-present, allsympatiuzing, compassionate Jesus. How can you stay away one moment from Him with your griefs? : It is often that our friends, have no power to relieve us. They would very much like to do it, but they can not disentangle our finances, they can not cure our sickness or raise our dead; but glory be to God that He to hom the dVseiples went has all power in heaven and on earth, and at ourcall he will balk our calamities, and, at just the right time, in the presence of an applauding earth and a resounding heaven, will raise our dead. He will doit. He is mightier than Herod. He is swifter than the storm. He is grauder than the sea. He is vaster than eternity. And every sword of . God's ominipotence will leap from its scabbard, and all the resources of in6nity be exhausted, rather than that God's child shall not bo delivered when he cries to Him for rescue. Bu I am oppressed, when I look over this audience, at the prospect that some may not take this counsel, and go away un blessed. lean not help seeking wha will bo the destiny of theso people? So I never care whether it comes into the text or not; I never leave my place on this platform without telling them .that now is the accepted time, and to some, perhaps the last time. Xerxes looked off on his army. There were two million men perhaps the finest army ever marshaled. Xerxes rode -along the line, reviewed them, came back, stood on some high. point, looked oil upon the two mil Hon men and hurst into tears. At that moment, when every one supposed he would be in the greatest exultation, he broke down in grief. They ask him why he wept. "Ah," lie said, "I weep at tho "thought that so soon all this host will be dead." So I stand looking off upon this host of immortal men and women, and realize the

fact, as perhaps no man can, unless he has been in a similar positiou, mat soon the places which know you now will know you no more, and you will bo gone whither? Whither? , Modern Wasteful nossHftckensack Republican. Formerly the foojish virgins had no oil; now the foolish virgins are too free with the kerosene. '

LESSON OF THE BRILL.

Further Observation Touching Natural Gas by State Geologist Thompson. The Supply Not Cikuly to he Confined to Areas At or Nenr Totvna Timely Snggentions to l'eoplfi TVho Are Ifoploring; thoJSuHhfor "Kinds" Outcome of the Drilling North of the Wobstfth Areh A waited Willi Somo Anxielj. Indianapolis Sentinel. "In a recent sketch, of the gas-hearing rock of Indiana, ' said State Geologist Thompson yesterday, "I stated the facts in general bo Iay as discovered, and in that connection I positively asserted that the drill cannot ho relied upon for certainly locating slight disturbances lying deep under the surface of the earth. I did not suppose this would he controverted at all, and, in faet, it has not been controverted by any one having any comprehensive knowledge of natural science. There is no sea, gulf or estuary, lake or pond in the world, I dare say, whose bottom is absolutely level. The soundings of the Atlantic and Pacfic oceans and those of tho Gulf of Mexico show almost every possible variation between extremes of shallowness and depth. Every limestone stratum marks the bed of an old sea, and the Trenton limestone is not an exception. It is a sedimentary rock whose fossil remains show it to be of deep sea origin. Popularly speaking, it is the accumulation of matter at the bottom of an ancient ocean. Like nearly all limestones, it shows in its composition that the shells of many varieties of marine animals constitute a large part of its bulk, either in a preserved state or decomposed. So far ss I have as yet been able to test it it has proved to be what is called a maguesian limestone, whichmeans that it contains a large per cent, of the carbonate of magnesia. It is a very thick deposit, and is, therefore, probably the result of Jong age s of sedi mentation. Any mind can comprehend that such a deposit would not be uniform; that it would be subject to infinite accident, to the habits of the animals whose shells furnished itslime, and to the laws governing the tides, the winds and the currents of the sea in which it was formed, Every naturalist of wide observation has noted that in any body of water the animal life is more or less crowded into special areas, with intermediate spaces scarcely inhabited at all. This rule applies not only to tho larger organisms, but toinflnitossiinalformsas well. From bauks of oyster shells down to the diatomaceous and foraminiferous deposits it is easy to see how the bed of any body of water may vary in superficial elevation on account of irregular deposition referable to lixed natural causes. In the Atlantic coan, and in all the smaller bodies of comparatively still water of which I have any knowledge, this irregular sedimentation is now going on. Even in some of the little lakelets of Northern In (liana the deposition of carbonate of lime is observable, and quite variable in thickness. The southern lakes of our continent have very irregular bottoms, and the Gulf of Mexico is a noticeable i nstance of a bottom running the gamut of variation. These facts, in connection with the laws apparently governing the disposition of the paleozoic rocks have made it clear that a few feet of difference in sea level between the points where Trenton limestone is touched by the drill a dozen miles apart can not be relied on as indicating fold structure in that deposit. Such a difference of level in the surface of Trenton limestone may suggest a fold, but it can not prove it. The bottom of Lake Maxinkuckee varies thirty-one feet between points eighty yards apart. Does this indicate upheaval? Well, the surface of the Tren ton limestone is the bottom of an ancient sea, and slight superficial inequalities do not necessarily prove upheaval, any more than the inequalities in the bottom of Maxinkuckee indicate upheaval. It is only when the differences in level are of an unmistakable character that they prove anything. It is unsafe, not to say visionary, to base descriptions of the structural features of deep lying rocks upon very slight superficial differences of level, as indicated by the drill. Such evidence.taken by itself, unsupported by any visible proof, is of small value.

"I have never heard it claimed by any, even the street-coiner scientists, that the coal-mines of Indiana are upheaved, and yet any stratum of the whole formation varies in level as much as does the Trenton limestone , Take the oolitic formation of the St.Louis group in Indiana, and who will claim that it is upheaved? And yet the surface of the oolitic limestone is as erratic, when referred to sealevel, as that of the Trenton. If I were speaking here for the benefit of learned scientists I should not ivassert what is so well known; but there are just now one or two self-styled and self-constituted scientists in Indiana who, as is always the case with pretenders, are attempting to gain in some way by bold assertion of the peculiar knowledge, and are thus misleading the people and causing the expenditure of vast amounts of money. Nothing is more natural than that people, interested and excited as they now are, should be easily misled by the assuming charlatan in science who swingH himself into notice by hanging at the coat-tail of some wellknown and reputable scientific personage. That there is an irregular line of disturbance of the Silurian rocks running across Indiana from Ohio to Illinois there can be no doubt whatever, but this disturbance was not disclosed by the drill. It was discovered by me and disclosed by a careful and scientific survey long before gas-drilling began in this State, and was traced and described by Professor Gorbey in the last State geological report. That the existing of natural gas in paying quantity in the Trenton limestone is duo to this disturbance there can be little room for doubt; but the anticlinal theory is pushed to an extreme, little short of rediculous, by those who locate their anticlines and synclines according to slight differences of sea-level indicated by the drill in touching the Trenton limestone. "The drill is a safe enough guide, when, as in certain instances in Ohio, described by Professor Orton, the surface of the stratum in question is shown to drop some hundred or more feet within a very short distance, hut the nice locating of folds by a boring here

and there some miles apart, and with but a few feet difference in level, is simply trifling and unworthy of a passing notice. "The sooner everybody directly or indirectly interested in the discovery of petroleum and natural gas in Indiana lay to heart a few stong probabilities, the sooner will they begin to act upon safe principles. (1) Discard the thought that gas and oil run in belts, and quit assuming that a boring in the lino of two productive points will locate a third productive point. These assumptions are fallacial. (3) liemembor that the Wabash liiver, from near Huntington to some point near Delphi, perhaps , near Lafayette, marks in general way a fissure or cleft in the Paleozoic strata, or rather a shattering of those strata near the crest and along the arm of fi low, wide iold, and that along lateral projections of this fold gas in paying quantities may be looked for, and (with chance exceptions) nowhere else. (3) That the Trenton limestone, if porous, may contain large accumulations of gas even where there is no structural fold, whilst on the other hand the same stratum, equally porous, may not hold a foot of gas, though on the apex of an anti-cline all this is referable to the fact that limestone is variable, and therefore may have porour areas surrounded by impervious one and the converse. (4.) That when the drill in reaching the top of tho Tren

ton limestone at one point indicates a

certain departure from sea-level, and at

another point ten miles away it indicates

a difference of ten or twenty feet in this

departure, this fact alone does not prove structural disturbance, but may be the

exponent of variations in the mass of the deposit. (5.) That in Indiana subsidence

has followed upheaval, and the paleozoic

strata affected thereby have been greatly crushed and shattered. Therefore,

slight faults and peculiar terraces, like

those described by Professor Orton in

Ohio, may he expected. (6.) That no

man, no matter how great his scientific

attainments, ean foresee just where gas

will or will not be reached by drilling.

"Science is the wisdom of facts, and it

does not deal in prophecy, nor does it

assume to see through millstones. What

the drill is doing for us now is not the locating of folds. It is confirming the order of the paleozoic strata and giving

us their thickness and the nature of

their substances. It has sot the people

to studying geology, and it is teaching

them that the aims of science are prac

tical and its methods practicable.

"A word now as to the supply of rock (natural) gas in Indiana. If rightly read,

the record of the drill is a lesson on this point. I find that the people are apt to

assume that the gas supply is confined

to areas at or near towns. This is be

cause most of the boring has naturally

been prosecuted where gas, if found,

would be of most immediate value to the finders; but I dare say that if gas be

piped to Indianapolis from Nobles ville, or elsewhere, And the supply fail after a time, a new area will be found from which to fill the pipes; and. the supply,

such as it is, will ho kept up for a. long

time, though how long may not be safely

conjectured. Ono thing would appear

certain: with a fair flow of gas at Marion,

Kokomo, Portland, Anderson, Muncie,

Noblesville and other points, all at

towns on lines of railway, it may be

safety assumed that there are many

areas not near towns and not on railway

lines, where abundant supplies of gas

may yet be tapped by the drill. If the supply is as great as the facts seem to

indieatCjCareful management and eeono

my may keep it adequate to all our proper demands upon it for many 'ears

to come.

"I am waiting with anxiety the out-

comejof drilling on the northern side of

the Wabash arch. So far no gas has

been found in that area save in a bore

made in 1866 near Francis ville. This

well is reported as having towed gas in

termittently for twenty years. Its depth is said to be near 900 feet, which would place it in the Trenton limestone. A

well recently bored at Francis ville

showed oil at 85 feet, and . one now

boring at Monon will bo watched with

interest. Monon is north of what ap

pears to be the center line of disturb

ance, but it. is in the area affected, just

as Kokomo and Marion and Muncie and

Noblesville are south of the central line,

but in the area affected by the disturbance. It remains to be seen whether

our little disturbance, like the mighty

one in Pennsylvania, has a productive

and an unproductive side, or whether

both sides have limited productive

areas.

PJtESS JfOIUTSL

What is the oldest woman's club? The

broomstick.

When is iron the most ironical? When

it is railing.

Alwavs onen to impeachment The

Delaware crop.

Deeds done in the Iesh--Those drawn

up on parchment. The New Englander is the 'pumpkin pioneer of the world.

It is a paradox that of all shoes a felt

shoe is the least felt.

Spring openings have thus far admit

ted nothing but cold drafts. Always stranded on the same rock baby who has hut one cradle. A burglar generally makes his home run after he reaches the plate. A coquette is like a war veteran she goes through many engageraents. A burglar seldom does his work alone Be generally has jimmy with him. "I'll be darned if I have a lot of holes worn into me," muttered an old sock. The burden of a song is too great when a singer can not carry the tune. Some women never want to marry until men think they are too old to do so. Texas Sif tings: Advice to a dressmaker Be sure youe right, then gore ahead. Nature ia already having her field sports. The first event is a backward spring. A "premature wrinkle' is one that comes in a woman's face before she is married. "It is the little things that tell." says an old adage. Yes, especially the little brothers. A cross old bachelor suggests that births should he announced under the head of new music. An unknown quantity may he described as what you got when you buy a quart box of strawberries. Tid Bits: Nox was the ancient god of night. Knocks now rules the intfrning the early morning at tho bed room door.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Indianapolis hod carriers are on a strike for advance in wages. j Fire losses in Indiana during April are reported to amount to $218,350. I Cut worms are greatly interfering with the growing corn in Jackson county and much is being destroyed. The outlook for the farmer is not encouraging A ury at Yincennea, Thursday, gave Oliver Taylor seventeen years in the penitentiary for outraging his cousin, Anna Taylor, aged ten, two weeks ago. Tho Kokomo Gazette Tribune has been purchased by McManigan&Kantz, of Wabash, of B. B. Johnson for $9,500, and will hereafter appear as the Tribune. At the Intei-state oratorical contest, which took place at Bloom ington, 111., Friday, Park Daniels, of Wabash college, Indiana representative, tool: second place. Two men, named Andy Munro and William Smith, and a hoy named Fred McNeil were terribly burned at the Ohio Falls car works, at Jefferson ville, Friday, by the accidental overturning of a ladle of molten iron. The proposition is started to make the fund now being raised by the four Indiana conferences and doubled by Mr. DePauw a separate fund for the endownment of the school of theology in DePauw university. Thus the fund raised by the ministers will be used to educate ministers. Two important suits were tried in the

Jackson circuit court, Just closed, on tho sale of Bohemian oats to farmers in that county. Judge Collins, having given the questions and evidence every possible construction, decided the collection of tho notes void. His verdicts meets with general approval. William Evans, a young man twenty years old, accidentally killed Arthur Voss,Sunday night,in Spring ville,a little town nine miles west of Bedford.. The young men were boon companions, and the shooting was entirely accidental,

Evans having fired up an alley with the

intention of scaring Voss.

It is not the Big Four that is to extend

its track from Lawroriceburg to Aurora, but a new com pauy, under the management of Mr. Horace Scott, formerly superintendent of the J., M, & I. railroad.

The road is to be run from Cincinnati to Aurora, and is independent of any other

company at least ostensibly so.

Wm. Pogue, twenty-two years old,

residing at Anderson, a brakeman on the Pan Handle railway, was imitantly

killed at S o'clock Friday evening, at Dunreith, five miles east of Knights-

town, by falling from a west-bound

freight train while the cars were in mo

tion. He wa3 cut to pieces, his head

being served from his body.

Professosr John M.BloB3,supeiifltendent

of the public schools of Muncie and ex-

superintendent of public instruction of

this State, has been invited by the

school board of Topeka, Kan., to take

the superin tendency of the public

schools of that city. Professor Bloss has

tendered his resignation to the school-

board of Muncie, but it has not yet

been accepted.

JBnnumel Logor, who assaulted a ten-

year-old daughtor of George Bush, oi

Adamshoiough, near Logansport,, which so affected her father that he committed

suiaide,hs been compelled by indignaant citizens to flee for his life,aitd is in hiding in Logansport. Moore, who cir

culated the story that Bush was attempt

ing to blackmail Losor, has also been

compelled to hide.

Not long since a xnan at Crawfoidsville lost his false teeth, and, as he was to

make a pobli speech tho next day, he

was in an awkward predicament tintilhe

persuaded a neighboring woman to loan him her teeth for a special occasion. The

speech was delivered, the teeth returned,

and no pe:rson was the wiser. Th e only

difficulty he oxpierenaed was a tendeney

to talk too much.

B. Wilson SmithjOf Tippecanoe county,

John W. Study, of Rush, Jolm W.

Cravens, of Jefferson and Daniel He

Donald,of Marshall,have been appointed

by the Governor as honorary coinmis

sioners from Indiana at the centennial

celebration of the settlement of the Northwestern Territory at Marietta,

Ohio. W. W. Woolen, of Indianapolis,

and R. M. Lockhart, will serve as commissionem to the exposition to boJeld

at Columbus, O., next year.

The owner of land forfeited to the State in 1874 desires to redeem or re

purchase by paying the delinquent penalties and taxes. The land as not

sold when advertised for sale ten years

ago, no bidders appearing. The, Auditor asked the Attorney General's opinion,

and that official states that the failure

to redeem after tho exposure to sale perfects a forfeiture to tho State after

two years, and, therefore, tho former

owner must purchase as would any other buyer. Elmer Be tts, Jesse May and Willie Sasser, aged respectively sixteen, eigh

teen and ten, residing two miles south

west of Portland, were returning from

church Bun day night. Some boys

had constructed a scare-crow in a corner to frighten them. Betts was the first to see it, and began firing in that direction.

Three shots were tired, the last striking

young Sasser in the left temple, passing through the brain and coining our over the right eye. Instant death resulted The coroner found a verdict of death from accidental shooting. Judge Woods, Tuesday, instructed the Federal grand jury, to investigate the Marion county tally sheet forgeries. He maintains that the cases are under the Federal court's jurisdiction, and quotes precedents to justify the investigation The Federal grand juryconsistBoi D..W. Coffin, (foreman), and H H. Lee, Indianapolis; Rufus Abbott, Aurora; H. C. Brush, Lebanon; John L. Carr, Brookston; Timothy Cornelison,Kilmore; Thos. Ciawson, New Castle; W. J, Dulin,Richmond; Jonathan Foltz, Ben Davis Sta

tion; W. A.Graskinfl, Farmersburg; John

Gregg,Rockfield; Nathan Hanlan,35ethel; Jos. Kaufman, Dana; W, P. Kizer, Winchester; W. P. McCoy, Ciovordale; John Ryanand Marion Slut, Green fied; R. S.

Sturgeon, Franklin; Riahard Thai, Shel-

bvvillo, aiui Henry Tilley, Aurora.

Patents were issued for Indianians,

Tuesday, as follows: James W, Cole,

Greencastle, multiple subsidiary ground

terminal for lightning rods; Joshua J

Collins, assignor to hlitiself, J. S, Col

lins and W. D. to. Rodgers, Knox,

clothes wringer; Andrew J. and G. W,

Forsyth, Kokomo, wire-fence machine;

Charles Gibson, Mount Vernon, fence;

Samuel M. Jackson, Logansport. machine

for bundling wall paper; Jesse B. and O, B, Johnson, Indianapolis, baling

press; Jacob V. Rowlett, Richmond, roller skate; Francis M. Fribbey, New Albany, combined table and cot; Peter Wahl, North Vernon, razor. Wednesday afternoon at English, on the Air Line railroad, James Laswell got off a freight train with a revolver in bis hand and opened fire upon Charles B. Crecelius, who was standing on the platfoim at the depot. Crecelius ran to a creok near by, and, .plunging in, swam to the opposite shore, Laswell followed and kept firing at Crecelius, hut was fin such an excited condition that he could not shoot with any certainty. Crecelius ran down the stream a short distance, and again crossed the creek:. Laswell closoly followed, and when he reached the Bhore again began firing at Crecelius. For the third time Crecelius crossed the stream and escaped unhurt. Some time ago Crecelius eloped with LasweE's daughter, and it is said that he has lately been seeking an interview wii;h the young lady with the view to having her again elope with him. INDIANA NATTJRAIi GAS NOTES. Marion has secured a glass factory Tho Messrs. Oliver, of South Bend, have closed a contract for a pas well on their factory grounds. The wel l at Frank ton is a buccobs, and gas is rushing forth in great quantities. There is plenty to supply the wants of the town and all who may locate there. Inducements are to be offered to manufacturers. ... . Ihmkirk is all excitement over the gas find. The flow began when Trenton rock was struck, at a depth of 928 feet, and after penel rating twenty-nine feet the pressure is so ereat that the drill cannot be pushed further without improved machinery. The roar can be heard three miles. A contract was signed and delivered at Marion, Monday, for the location and erection of an eight pot glass works by eastern parties. The enterprise will employ fifty men. The location of this enterprise also secures the establishment of another works close beside it for the manufacture of glass bottles. Well No. 2 at Anderson, being drilled by N. C. McCuliough, struck gas Friday night, and operations were discontinued nil Saturday morning. On Saturday the Qow increased as the drill was pushed deeper until the drill had penetrated Trenton rock about twenty feet, and the pressure was such that it seemed impossi bletomake the drill strike' with sufficient force to penetrate further. Three two inch pipes were attached, and the flow through the opening is said to be greater than that of the celebrated Karg well at Findlay. At 10;30 o'clock Tuesday morning the drillers of the gas well at Greenfield, were compelled to stop work on account of the great flow of gas. The Trenton rock was struck Tuesday morning at 5 o'clock, and the drill went down slowly until it could not go any further on account of the great volume of gas. Whero the drill was taken out of tho rock water was blown to the top of the derrick. The drill penetrated Trenton rock twelve feet, and the well is down

080 feet. Several parties from Muncie

and other points pronounce ; it tfre best well they have seen. ' Another great gas well was opened J Friday on the farm of C. F. MaUoiry, east of Noblesville, which proves to besecond only to the Wainwright. Gas was found at the depth of 859 feet. Drilling was continued fourteen feet deeper. When operations were buspended, large pieces of Trenton rock, were blown out through the top ofc tbe derrick, and the welt, : while noto strong as the Wainwright, is a gusher,

and the locations of and distance between these wells shows conclusively thatNoblesville is in the midst of the largest and best gas field yet developed. A dispatch from Greenfield, Thursday, says: "The city is wild with excitement white mild in passion. We have the gas well and claim that it is the only well, that has yet been found.

We are immediately over the center of

the gas belt. A Mr. Brewster, representing the Standard Oil Company, says that the quality of the gas is better than any natural gas he has ever seen, while the people feel that, as to quality and quantity of gas, the town excels every other place in this State, they are not wild on real estate. Wednesday afternoon and night was a big time. Over 5,000 persons visited and admired the well. Already the city council has been petitioned to drive a well for free fuel for manufacturers, and the same has been referred to the proper committee."

PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

'JSP

The interstate commerce comm.sr sioners show as many radical differencee m appearance an any five men1 wLo; could have been selected. They vary n height all the way - from the gi a at Walker, of Vermont, down to the five feet six or seven jnchesof Judge Gooley and in girth again from the comfortable' proportions of Mri Walker's waistbaini all theway to the harrow chest and stomach that the judge's small waistcoat always covers too much J Judj;e, Cooley, as a matter- of facty is the disappointing figure in the commission. ; The popular impression about him, has been that ho was stout, solid, and some-! where about 60. His face was supooS'kI

to be round and jolly, his beard shaved i' o:!F a little for con venience in getting at his mouth, and his weight, which seem ed in the pictures to be one of his prin . cipal features, amply sufficient to kesj up his judical dig-nity.4 To get at tho ' truth about his appearance you have to T picture exactly tbe opposite kind of ja- . ' man. He is slender, anxious-lookir g, " and, for so aggresnve a man, Very mcd- r est in speech and manner. He talks r w i th his head bowed down, as if thin k- r; in g carefully over what was said j and in mere formal matters is courteous, poll to, . j and considerate .to a very pleasant' degree. On matters of business his man- V ner to a close observer is changed.' -is as polite as before and just: as ccnV sidefate, but something about himxin-;- t deates that he has made up his mic.d;-, '

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ana, whether pleasant or unpleasaf tamest cairry his decision oat. , He el? dently is not the kind of amanto siy

"No"roughly,but if he8aysit,eveninaiis most uncertain and deprecatory Wiiyy there is something about it that would v evidently make argument worse, than useless. ' His thin gray hir and the lines in his face show the traces of longwrestling with lie rd problems and jhis high forehead gives some measure of his ability. Altogether he is not nriiike a. clergyman in appearance, and his deferential way of standing up ior , his principles does not do anvthins to lessen the likeness. . y Mr. Morrison, the second member of tho board, is the most talked of and -- least understood man in public life, in the country. Mr. Morrison is accessible al ways, and in hm way courteous. In the commission so far he has bad very little to say, iiominatrng Mr: ley ' for chairman because it -was one of the arrangements between himself, Mr. Carlisle, and the President tliat' ho should do so, and then settling back icito a little oi dinary committee -work toilfc -ranging about rooms and a place , of jSiiness. v: ; '. V .'-t ..- : Morrison's figu re7 is- familiar; I Is plain blue or bla ck coat, his narr m trousers with their tendency to climb up his boots, and his shiny hat, have been described for? years in Cotters from v Washington. His manneire, however, ' are indescribable. " He is witty, ! ugly, ; good humored and irascible in the same minute, and the man who thinks himself snubbed in one instence wilt find himself laughing at bis good humor in the next. His friends say; he is kind hearted, but he is too dogmatic aad careless about other people's feelings to eiver be popularsodallyi ;- ' 0$.

Commissioner Bragg is -the typisal Southern man. He is big, rough, careless about formal icies, and very vigorous in talkv In his dress he evidently tal es

Attorney General Garland for a inodeL

An Honest Htn. .. Dining the war Ianiel Hand, then a prominent business man ot Charleston, S. C, put his property into the hands of George Williams, his bookkeeper. They heard nothing of each other until recently, when communication was opened between them. Hand is a resident of Nor walk, Conn., and Williams is the head of the banking rni of -Williams & Bisney, of Charleston.; Willianvyat his earliest opportunity, refunded to Eland $600,000 voluntarily, there bcia no lrgal claim against him.

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He wears a big hat with a stiff, flat brim;

nd a top iiko art inverted stewpan, and -aif overcoat which usually has to hold1 otbythe top buttons. His hair is dixk - and pretty closely cropped, and his : beard is mostly on his cliin. He wears overgaiteis, but they are not of (her light shade that; dudiih swells like to show on Chestnut street, and evert the South can hardly be cc.nsidered a,, good fit. It is about even guessing tliatb he will divide the honor with Attoraey General Garland next waiter of beingthe only man m Washington who wbn'jb wPAra dress suit. He is very lit tie

Irnnam P.wflnt amODff TDSOOle from' his'

own State, and even from them the ' : only definite information to be gainecl is r .

or Thin mrnHahilitV in that he will be.-

pretty clear headed in his opinions anA "

very decided in sticking to them, He l-.nill.r frtllrtW TlirltTft rVwilpV- ATOfC" . .

Mr. Walker, the friend of Mr 1 munds, has as iHwerf ul a rxaine as t her ; " - senator must ha had in his youniejr- v days. He is over six feet tall, brosid- .

shouluered and luu-cnesiea, ana yia 4.

5 tout enough, tojouna out a gooa ngure. lie has a larse head, a abort, fulV beard, ..t ,,;

L. nnJ Vaii. 4-Vkof fnv wont nf ft Vpfi

tor name might l)e . called brown. Hejlooks like a thoroughly -ccmitent bsi - ;f 5 ness man and in aprjearance ought be

the neau or tne eommisBuw ;

Could n't Give Up the Hat. Georgiit Exchange. ..... . . ,v . .. . , Near this place there lives a farmer

who always wore a soft, wookn hat, and 1 and in a profile view especially he shoW

many of Blaine's characteristics. His

Mr. Schoonmaker, of New York, lias the air of a consei yative business mim. Ho don't look excitable or easily " wor-'- . ried, and has beeri regarding the' flood" of callers and letters with praiseworthy .

serenity. His appearance is somethings '

like that of James G. Blaine; His h ira "

and full beard are gray, his nose proiak nent, his eyes large, and his color good, '

vhen he went to the war ho always

slept with his nat for a pillow, The

habit of four years' standing was fasten

ed upon him not to be shaken off, and even to this day when old man John seeks the arms of morpheus the old wool hat must pillow the head that was once

a target for Yankee shot and shell.

New Danger in the Buzz-Saw. A rapidly revolving circular saw in a

mill at Sissonville, St. Lawrence county, New York, burst Monday af ternoon,a nd

the flying fragments struck JoseDh

Dashaw, an employe, killing him in

stantly. Two other men were badly

hurt. ;

THE OWL.

Bright slonms from yomlcr moacl hall, The nuMy glow tlmt strikos the vaftert . XJObo Dreomtomrs twilight echoes, hall The strains of music, and the laughter: 80ft nuoubtaius o'er my downy pato (Sloped sideways) steal, ami set mo bliuhiug, Yet dazzle not the though Is mhvtQ , That muster wheu an Owl is thinking:.

Like Jays, is man's fantastic broodSo owls decide all mirth imd-chi.ttcr; But wisdom court is solitude, Uer "happiness no laughing mat let." No cares this tranquil soul assail, Past present, future, calmly ljnk:ing ; The universe in mental scale lg'bahmcel wheu an Owl is thiukilng.

eyes, with the he,yy surges underneaUi them, mark the resemblance strongly, s

3Vfr. Schoonmaker taltoVV-S;.-goes at it cbnsertively, comfortably, and slowly, as if lie would just as soon talk as not, and-he gives the impressions that, while he is wilting to discuss or di- ,

nary matters,autiaoritafive promises and

statements can't be made until he is cerj

tain about thero. His plaee oil the

commieion is a little difficult to indfcatei .

but lie is certainly not near so likely Dush his own plans as Bragg; f r4

tor- '

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Facts and Figures, .v. ..

The bread of thoIEmperor William is

not buttered. A X' The sngar refiners in the United States -have a total refining capae barrels a month, - : The amount of chocolate annua lly consumed is at out a0,000,000 ppuj the market beir headed by France. t The finest pork grown in the WorW is" that of the Madeira islands, where lho

swine live principally on nuts, .;

The importation of almonds, into -the United States amounts to about S,500i00 pounds annually; California imports no almonds, biit she raises aboiitr 2i(K0r 000 pounds in, har own gardens. " ... 5