Bloomington Courier, Volume 13, Number 34, Bloomington, Monroe County, 25 June 1887 — Page 2

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A coobding to the census of 1880 there are one hundred and sixty-five woman ministers in the United States.

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District Assembly 49, of New York, one already pretty well-known to the public, has.further distinguished itself by being the victim of what appears to be an embezzlement of several thousand dollars. - . - ' . Dimcon White, of Wall street, said in a college address delivered at Galesburg, HI., last week, that thirtyeven years ago he was sawing wood at 75 cents a cord. n thetPeacon was on the long side of the coffee and wheat marclet recently he may be sawing wood; at'. 60 cents a cord, before long. There wfll be little sympathy over the downfall of the members of the clique which has been attempting to run a wheat corner in the Chicago market, and there would have been little regret had the crash given a black eye to some of the banking institutions that have millions of money for grain gamblers and not a dollar for honest and legitimate trade. - -:- '- The wave of progress has struck Brazil, and a law is proposed which will emancipate all the slaves in that empire in 1889. Bussia and the United States did a good work in that direction about a quarter of a ntury ago, by which, in both countries together, about 25,000,000 bondmen' were given their liberty. It is rather surprising that a monarch with such modem ideas as Don Pedro possesses should haye tolerated Slavery so long

in his domain, when his influence could East -' v ' '.vi '

ive enaea it at any time.

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many are apparently resting' on their arms on opposite sides of the boundary line, awaiting the word which will precipitate them into a death, grapple, and the demise of the Emperor of Germany or the return of . Gen Boulanger to power in France might give this word. These things indicate that despite the apparent serenity in political affairs in Europe just at this moment, the situa- , tionis full of highly .dramatic possibilities. - j The fact that Gen. Miles has gone to Tucson to ke personal charge of the Iudian campaign now in progress in Arizona clearly indicates that another prologed warwiUk the Apaches is to b expected. Tnere is no special provocation in the case. It is simply a repetition of the old story of Indian treachery and deviltry which has cost so many lives of frontier settlers during the las. thirty years. 1 Fortunately, in this- in stance, the Federal troops are command ed by a man who has been remarkably successful as an Indian-fighter, and the coun try may rest assured that he will make the campaign: an energetic and; relentless one. ' '

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Oke of the- most hopeful features" of the business situation is the reasonable certainty which now prevails that the wheat crop of the country this year will be above the average of the five years immediately preceding- .this. There is a prospect also that the crop in Europe will be below the; average while that recently harvested ih India is understood to be much below last year's yield. This insures fair prices and an active demand lor the American product, and a profitable season for the railroads in transporting it from the west to the Atlantic seaboard. 1 In fact the prospect for prosperous- times during the coming year looks very encouraging just at this moment.

It is to be feared that the -London Spectator has a loose arithmetician on its staff, or it would not assert that "the number of born British and Canadians

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in the United States at the present time is 240,000 more than the number of born Irish." According to the census of 1880, the majority ; of Irish over British and Canadians was 221,7CK and certainly the immigration from Ireland to this country since then has been much larger than the aggregate of new-comers from the other countries named, and it is not likely to be different so long as the British Government shall continue to

hold out exfle to the irish as their only

chanee of relief from systematic outrage

and oppression.

; Tee lesson taught-by the - collapse of the great wheat deal in Chicago is the same lesson which was abundantly im

parted in the many previous breaks in wheat and other corners in that city and

elsewhere. The lesson is this: Capital,

oexienty and audacity may for a time fix its own price upon speculative com

modities, but sooner or later the law of

supply and demand must assert itself.

No one supposed when the wheat -corner was begun last Much that it would - surpass in duration and magnitude the minor transactions of its class engineered

at least once every year in Chicago, and a month ago, perhaps even the opera

tors themselves hardly expected that it could be carried- tor the middle of

Jane. So long as tibe yie!4 of last year,

-with such surplus as remained from the

year or two previous, was all that was to be dealt with the maintenance of the

corner was a task ofr comparative ease,

but when the new crop began to enter

Chicago the day of doom had come for

the conspirators. They had demonstrated their ability to hold 16,000,000 or 18i-

000000 bushels for months at the prices

which may set upon it, butj .the handling and manipulating of the tens of Bullions of bushels which the west stood ready to forward to Chicago, was an ex

ploit far-beyond their powers.- The

crash then came. If the losses occasioned by the break in prices were 'confined to the manipulators, the community would not-be called upon to exercise any; sympathy. Unfortunately, however, such deals,-while being carried'on, i are a robliery perpetrated- upon the whole people to the extent -to which prices have been forced up beyond the level which they would have reached if the laws of trade had had been interfered with and in most cases the culprits' losses at the final moment of the deal, even if they neglect to.seIl out before the drop begins, are small:' compared with the t profits which the- rise; in prices ' has brought them.

"Listen to tho tawny thief, Hid behind tho waxen leaf, Growling at his fairy host, Bidding her with angry boast Fill his cup with wine distilled From tho dew the dawn has spilled. Stored away In golden casks Is the precious draught he asks. "Who who makes this mimic din In this mimic meadow inn, Sings in such a drowsy note, Wears a golden belted coat; Loiters in the dainty rpom Of this tavern of perfume; Pares to linger at the cup Till the yellow sun is up? 'Bacchus 'tis come back again To the busy haunts of men; Garlanded and gayly dressed, Bands of gold about his breast; Straying from his paradise. Having pinions angel-wise Tls the honoy-bee who goes Beveling wi th i n a rose ! V C. F. Sherman in "Now Lyrics."

Chicago Inter Ocean. ... . "I'm areolar Floridy cracker," said the Widow McMinn, with a defiant toss of her head, "and I don't keer who knows it. I was born'd and bred in Floridy, and I'm jest as good as anybody, I am.?' And, o! course,-1 agreed with her. Late one'evening my husband and I were sitting out on the front steps, having a little evening talk, when a click of the latch made us look up to see the widow coming- in at the front gate with a springing step, a sparkle in her black eyes, and a joyous expression on her little yellow, shriveled face that I had never seen tliere before. Ere I could rise she had droppeddown beside me on the step; ''Don't git up," she said, "I jist '....come over to tell you sumpin, I don't know whether to tell it or not. Hits the funniest thing I ever hern tell of," and she put her face down on her knees' and giggled like a sixteen year old girh "You know that Lizzie Riders what come down here to Floridy with ole Judge "Simmonses folks? They come from up in the North, som'ers, the Simmonses did, and wus goin to do big things by Lizzie if she'd come along and work for 'em, Welf, Miss Simmons she took an' died right off, an' the first thing Lizzie knowed she Jhad no place to stay at, an' ever since then she's been a hirin' roun' to this un -and tiiat un, and it peres like she can't git long nowheres. Well, t'other day she come to my house and wanted to stay a day or so, and I couldn't turn the poor thing outer doors, and so she's jest been a staying on. Well, yesterday she says to me oh, hits jest too funny." (There was another mirthful outburst, and then the little widow continued:) . "She says to me, 'Miss McMinn,' says she; 'I'm-gittin' awful tired bein' beat and banged 'round from one house to t'other,' she says, 'I want a home of my own She saya, 'L'jl jest tell you what, you go and see did man Myers for mo.' 4Laws a me, child," I says, "what are you talkin' 'bout? Old man Myers ain't got no wife. You can't go and live with him.";;. . aJever you mind that' she says. You go see 'im foif. me, and you tell im I'm a poor : gal that ain't got no home,' she says;; You tell 'im he might go further an' fare a heap worse, for there ain't nothin' that I can't do,' she says, 'I can cook, wash and iron jnst as good y the next one. I can do all kinds of win.' "Look a here, Lizzie," I says, "what are you talkin' 'bout?' I says, "My lands alivergal, do you want me to ask him to marry you? Why I never hearn tell of such a thing since I was borned upon the face of the v earth. Hit's the man that does the courtin'," I save.

Oh, Bhucks!" she says, "I. ain't got

no time to be waitin' xm him, like as he'd not never think1 'bout it at all," she says, "and hits the truth, too. I don't believe hit would ever come into his mind while the world stands," "'Why, Lizzie,' I says, "what in the name of all creation would I do if he was to say no! Wouldn't I be in a pretty fix then? Why he might jest up and say he wouldn't have you. . Why I'd feel just like a plum fool." But Lizzie lows she'd be no ways set back. She lows that if he won't have her, she can find some one that will. She tuck a likin' to him down to the frolic to ole man jones'es t'other night, and she knows he's got a good borne and that's

what's she's after." At last, haying fully relieved her mind of 'this weighty matter, the widow arose to go. She had decided to start early the next morning on her mission of mercyi and she promised to come around the next evening and report. True to berword the neit' evening she came. She was almost skipping along this time, and as she dropped down on the step, her favorite seat, she gave way to the usual burst of convulsive laughter. "I just had a good mind not to come," she aid., "I know you"il nigh kill yourself a laughin?r -at me.; Hit's the best joke you ever hearn tell of. I' ve laughed till my sides are. plum sore. '' Here the little woman seemed to give herself up to her narrative, forgetting even to laugh. "Well you know, I started soon this mornin, I 'low hit was about 9 o'clock when I got to Silas's that's where ole man Myers is stayin.' Well, as good luck would have it, he was ailin' and didn't go out to work, and there warn't nobody in the house but him and Mary

Ann, that is Silas's wife, and the chil

dren.

"Well I went into the house, and while the ole man was. a hitchen' the horse, I tole Mary Ann what I 'd come for. She like to a died laugh in.' She said, 'I'd better have it all over before the boys come in from the field, 'cause if they found it out they'd never get through laugbin' about it. She said she'd set out on the back shed and peel 'taters for dinner, while I had my say with the ole man. 7 " Weil, about that time here he come. Mary Ann, she slipped out on the back shed, and I tuck a chair close to the window. The ole man he sat down by the door, lent Ws-chair back against the wall, andbegan fannin' hisself with his

-hat." .

"I hope you don't feel any wuss ofi for your fall, Miss McMinn,' says he. " 'Shucks, P says, and then I j ust busts right out into a laugh,' I cquldn't hold it no lon&er. Well, we sat there for a

little bit lookih' out o' doors, I couldn't think 'bout what tosay. Then he says:

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wards nicht' he says. 'We've

pour of rain lately.' 'We have that,' I says. Then I says: "Hit's mighty bad wether on them that wants to get married.' You see I thought I'd try and bring it round somehow. "Well, he says, "I don't know as much 'bout that, but hit's powerful on the growin' truck, Miss McMinn," he says, "I was awakin' over my later patch yisterday, and I never seen nothin' come

out like them taters."

"You 'low you've got enough for two," I eays, sortee laughiu'. "Wellvnow you'd think," he says, "Miss McMinn, I've got between twenty and thirty head o' hogs I meant to make plum rollin' fat offe"n them taters." " Well,"Isays, "I know somebody that wants to go partners in them taters, and in the hogs, too, and in fact they want to go partners in all you've got," 'Well, I don't know . 'bout that he says, When I first set in here, Boh Simms vowed he'd go halfers with me, but I told him 'No; I'd gone halfers with a feller bnct and that was enough for me. No, I don't want no partners Miss McMinn, but if you know anybody that can plank down the ready cash money, why I'll sell out the whole kerboos mighty "responsible.' one I'm talkin' 'bout hain't got no? money,' I says. I saw the old fool was a poor hand to take a hint. 'Hit's a woman that wants to go partners with you, and she's a mighty fine gal too.' She's as good's cook as ever slung a kettle. She can wash and iron for you, and Bew for you. She can patch and darn, and sew on buttons. In fact, 'I says she can turn her hand to most anything, and she's willin' too. 'Well,' he says1, sorter slow like, 'I hain't needin' a cook just now; and I do my own washin' and mendin', and as for buttons, I tell you, Miss McMinn, I wouldn't give this live oak peg for all .the buttons you can sew on. I'd ruther have .a peg any day.' 'But,' he says, 'now I think of it,I would like to get a pair o' Jim's briches made, and if the woman you talk 'bout will make 'em, and had ruther take her pay out in hog meat and taters ruther than

money, wny, it's ail xne same uib. 'Now, I tell you, 'bout that time I was gittin' mad. Hit looked like he was a plum fool and a dunce besides.' 'Look a here,' I says, 'can't you take a hint?- If you can't 111 just tell you plain out The woman wants to marry y ou. That's the way she wants to go partners,' I saysi 'she wants a home and she tuck a likin' to you down to the frolic to old Joneses, and she wants to know if you'll marry her, and I tell you hit would be a mighty good trade for you." "Well I wish you could a seen 'im, he looked like he'd been struck kersinack in the face with a flash o' lightnin'." 'Oh,' he says, 'that's hit, yass, I see. You want to marry me. Tuck a likin' to me down to the frolic to old man Joneses. AVhy, Miss McMinn, I didn't know you was there,' he says. "Laws a mercy." I says, 'lands ahye,l wasn't there, and don't you think right there, 'fore I had time to tell 'im hit. wasn't me I was talkin' ' bout, in step& Silas; tWhy, howdye come on?' he says; 'I've got enough of it for this day;' and he sets right down and begins talkin5 crops and things. "Weil. I wouldn't go out in the shed where Mary Ann was, 'cause I knowed she'd want to know all 'bout it, and I didn't, want to tell, so I just set there. "Well, the pie man studied, and studied te his self for a good bit, and then he looked like he kinder cheered up, and I never saw 'im laugh and talk so in my life. Asa gineral thing he's got mighty little to say. Well, after a bit Mary Ann said come out to dinner, and the ole man, he walked right 'long side of me. 'Take a seat Miss McMinn,' he says, pullin' ...back the bench so I could git in the table, 'take a seat and help us clean up these grits and taters,' and he bust out into a big laugh. "Silas looked plum funny. He's ful o' devilment, Silas is, and I knowed ho was a thinkin' thoughts. . "Well, I was af eared it mought rain, so mighty soon after dinner, I lowed I'd better be gettin' home. " Well, the ole man he jumps up and him and Silas both walks out to the fence with me. Mary Ann, she couldn't cause she was gittin' the baby to sleep. Well, Silas he had to go back after some things, Mary Ann had fixed up for mo to take home with me, so the ole man came up close and sorter whispered, "Hit was powerful lucky you thought bout that trade,Miss McMinn. I'm righ b in for goin' partners with you.' He says, 'that hummock land o'yourn j inert right on to the east end o' mine, and hit'll make the finest orange grove in this county.' He says, 'we'll go partners shure, but I don't keer nothin' 'bout you sewin' on buttons, I'd ruther haye pegs any time.' Well before I could say one word here comeB Silas, and then I had to come off home. He's a comin' to-night, he whispered that 'fore Silas come. Now hain't I in a pretty-fix?" "Now, what would you do if-you war me?" she asked. "I don't know,' I replied; "what do you think of doing?" "I hate to hurt the pore old man's feelin's," she said. "I know he feel pow'ful cut down. Lizzie hain't much on looks, you know, and she's got nothin' pore thing." "Hit looks like ther hain't no way for me to git outin i t I hain't got the face to tell 'im I won't have 'im now. Then hits jest as he says. My land jines right on to the east end o3 his'n. There's no deny in' that, you know. So I reckin I'll jist haye to let things stand as they are. Any ways hits orful hard for a pore woman like me to git 'long by

nerseit. Ana tne widow s lace wore

for the moment a doleful expression. "But what about Lizzie," I asked; ''she'll feel so disappointed," "Oh. well," the widow said, rising to go, "I don't know as I'm 'sponsible for Liaaie, . I must look out for myself, yoi. know. But I'll go to see Bob Simms tomorrow; he's my cousin, and may be he'll have 'er." And he did. Uenerosity on the lioad. Tid-BLta. , " . ! : First Tramp Now we' ve got to di vide fair, Ike Second Tramp Oert,pard. I aint had nothin9' to eat since Friday, an' you ain't; had no sleep for four nights. I'll take th' pullet, an' you take the feathers, 'n go over in thatair barn-'n'enjoy yourself.-

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Ht?w OurGreat Cities Can bo Sav ed.

TheDo1" cl Coarse of Youth Must 3e Stnyetl .Vd .IiiteHeotnnl larkuess Must Give Way' to V,Sdu3ation--rarettts Grovt3y to Blame-TliStrot a Poor School. Rev. Dr. laLng6. preached at the: Brooklyn TabernK'cle last Sunday. Text, II Kings ii., 19-21. He said: It is difficult to estimate how much of tire prosperity and heft W f umftyar& dependent upon good 'ter. The tune when-through well laid j. pes and from safe reservoir, an . abundance of wate c from Croton, or Ridgevoov L .or bchuyir kili is brought into the citvr is appropr iately celebrated by orations and pyrotechnic display. Thank God every day or clear, bright, beautiful, eparfchog water, as it drops in thesho'eyor tosses up in the fountain, or rushes tu hydrant. . m The City of Jericho, notwithsl TOtngall its physical and commercial ai.,Tn-t ages, was lacking in this important clement. There was enough water, but M

Ww diseased, and the people were crjv

inff,vt by reason thereof.

At different times I have pointed out to you the fountains of municipal corruption,, and this morning I propose to show you what are the means for the rectification of those fountains. There are four or five kinds of salt that have a, cleansing tendency. So far as God may help me, I shall bring a cruse of salt to the work, and empty it into the great reservoir of crime, sin and shame, ignorance and abomination. In this work of cleansing our cities, I 'have first to remark. that there is a work for the broom and the shovel thatnothng eise can do. There has suwaysoeen an intiBaate connection between iniquity and dirt. The filthy parts of the great cities are always the most iniquitous parts. The gutt ers and the pavements of the Fourth ? ard, New York, illustrate and Bynr&olixe the character of the

people in the Fourth Ward. The first thing' that a bad man does when he iB conv erted is to thoroughly wash himself. Th&re were, this morning, on the way to the different churches, thousands" of men in proper apparel, who befere their conversion were unfit in their Sabbath drefs. When on the Sabbath I see a man uncleanly in his dreBs my suspicions in regard to his moral cnaracter are aroused, and they are well founded. So as to allow no excuse for lack oi ablution, God has cleft the continent with rivers and lakes, and has sunk five great oceans, and all the world ought to be clean. Away, then, with the dirt from our cities, not only because the physical health needs an ablution, but because all the great moral and religious interests of the cities demand-it as a positive necessity. A filthy city always has been,and always will be, a wicked city. Another corrective, influence that we would bring to bear upon the evils., off our great cities is a Christian printing preBS; The newspapers of any place are the test' of its morality or immorality. Tho newsboy who runs along tho street with & bftudle of papera under his arm is a tremendous force that, can not be turned asidteor resisted; and at his every step the city' is elevated or degraded. This hungry, all devouring American mind must have something to read, and upon editors and authors and book publishers and parents and teachers rest the responsibility of what they shall read. Almost every man you meet has a book in his hand or a newspaper in his pocket. What book is it you have in your hand? What newspaper is it you have in your pocket? Ministers may preach, refornsars may plan, philanthropists may toil: for the elevation of the suflering and the . criminal, but until all the newspapers of the land and all the book-sellers of the land set themselves against an iniquitous literature untiMhen we shall be 1 fighting against fearless odds. Every time the cylinders of our great publishing houses turn they make tls earth quake. From them go forth a thought like an angel of light to feed and blew the world, or like an angel of darkness to smite it with corruption and sin and shame and death. May. God and flis omnipotent Spirit purify and elevate the American printing press! I go on further and say that we must depend upon the school for a great deal of correcting influence. A community can no more afford to have ignorant men in its midst than it can afford to have uncaged hyenas. Ignorance is the mother of hydra- headed crime. Thirtyone per cent, of all the criminals of New York State can neither read nor write. Intellectual darkness , is" generally the preenrsion of moral darkness. I know there are educated outlaws men, who, through their sharpness of intellect, are made more dangerous. They. xnse their fine penmanship fin signing other people's names, and their science in ingenious burglaries, and their fine manners in adroit libertinism. They go their round of sin with well-cut apparel and dangling jewelry and watches" of eighteen karats and kid gloves. They are refined, educated magnificent villains.. But that is the exception. It is generally

the case that the criminal classes are as ignorant as they are wicked. For the proof what I say go into theprisons and penitentiaries and look at the men and women incarcerated. t The dishonesty in the eye, the low pansion in the lip, are not more conspicuous than the ignorance of the forehead. The ignorant elasses are always the dangerous classes. Demagogues marshal them. They are helpless, and are driven before the gale-

ic is nign lime xnax an cn.y ana oiaiu

authoritv. as wen as tne Jederai. trov-

ernment, appreciate the awful statistics that while years go in this country there was set anart fort v-eieht millions of

acres of land for school purposes, there

are now in New England one hundred

and ninety-one thousand people who can neither read nor write, and in the

State of Pennsylvania two hundred and

twenty-two thousand who can neither

read nor write, and in the State of New

York two hundred and forty-one thou

sand who can neither read nor write,

wniiemthe united states mere are

nearly six millions who can not read

nor write. Statistics enough to stagger

and confound any man who loves his

God and his country. Now, in. view of this fact, I am in favor of conpulsory education. When parents are so bestial as to neglect this duty to the child, at the same time when a gentle hand

ought to lead the little ones out into the

light of intelligence and good morals. These thousands of little ones through our streets, who are crying for the bread of knowledge and intelligence. Shall we not give it to them? The officers of the law ought to go down into cellars and up into the garrets and bring out these benighted little ones and put them under educational influx ences; after they have passed through the bath and under the comb, putting before lhem the spelling book,, and teaching them to read the Lord's Prayer and the Sermon on the Mount. Our city ought to he father and mother both to these outcast little ones.

Still further: Reformatory societies are an important element in the rectification of the public fountains. Without calling any of them by name, I refer more especially to those which recognize the physical as well as the moral woes of the world. There was pathos and a great deal of common sense in what the Eoor woman said to Dr. Guthrie, when e was telling her what a very good women she outght tobo.."Oh,"she said, "if you were as hungry and cold as I am you could think of nothing else." I believe the great want of our city is the Gospel and something to eat! Faith and repentance are of infinite importance; but they can not satisfy an empty stomaclxj You have to go forth in this work with the bread of eternal life in4 your right' hand and the bread of this life in your left hand, and then you can touch them, imitating the Lord Jesus Christ, who first broke the bread and fed the multitude in the wilderness and then began

to pieach, recognising the fact that while people are hungry they will not listen and they will not repent. We want more common sense in tho distribution of our charities; fewer magnificent theories and more hard work. Still further: The great remedial influence is tho Gospel of Christ. 1ike that down through the lanes of suffering Take that down amid the hovels of sin. . Take that up amid the mansions and palaces of your city. , That is the salt that can cure all tho poisoned fountains of public iniquity. Do you know that in this cluster of throe cities, New York, Jecsey City and Brooklyn, there are a great multitude of homeless children? You see I speak more in regard to tho youth and tho children. of the country, because old villains are seldom reformed, and therefore I talk more about the little ones.. They sleep under the stoops, in the burned-out safe, in the wagons in the streets, on the barges, wherever they can get a board to cover them. And in the summer they sleep all night long in the parks. How many are waiting for you to come out in the spirit of the Lord Jesus Chri&t and resc ue them from the wretchedness! here! Oh, that the Church of God had arms long . enough

. nd hearts warm enough to take them up!

7t stopped on the street and just look-

at the lace of one ot those little ones, jjfe.ve you ever examined the face s of the neglected children of the poor? Oth ei children have gladness in their fac9SV When a group of them rush acf6sstiv. 6 road, it seems as though a spring (Mh. nac unloosened an orchard of apple h oasoras. But these children of the -poor. TIiwq is but little ring in their laueMfc r, audit stops quick, as though som e bitter memory tripped it. They have aLold ,wak- ,ah?y dp not skip or run up "ie mmbor just for the pleasure of leai, down. They never bathed in the mv attain stream. They never waded in th f brook for pebbles. They never chased we butterfly across the lawn, putting th. w Jat rlt down where it was justi. re. Childhood has been dashed out J cnem- Want wflvpd it wisard wand a. wve the hun

ger of the birth, and.withcWd leaves are lving where God intended -a, budding giant, of 'battle. Once in a wlA e . oo of these children gets out. Hex 18 ne for instance. At ten years of ag he is sent out by his parents, who say to him: "Here is the basket- now go off and! beg and steal." The iov says: "I can't steal." They kie

him into a corner. Tnat nignt ne puts his swollen nead into the straw; but a voice comes from heaven, saying; ' 4 Courage, poor boy, courage! ' ' Covering up his head from the bestiality, and stopping his ears from th o cursing, he gets on up better and better. He washes his face clean at the public hydrant. With a few pennies got at running errands he gets a bfttter coat. Hough men, knowing that he. comes from a low street, eays: "Back with you, you little villain, to the place where you came from." But that night the boy says: "God help me, I can't go , back;" and quicker than ever mother flew at the cry of a child's pain the Lord responds from the heaven; 'Courage, poor boy, couragel" His bright face gets him a position. After a while he is second clerk.' Years pass on, and he is first clerk. Years p'aes on. a he glory of young manhood is on him. He comes into the firm. He goes on from one business success I'D another. He has achieve d great fortune. He is the friend of the Church of God, the friends" of all gooa institutions, and one day he stands talking to the Board of Trade or Chamber of Commerce. . Some years ago a. roughly-clad, ragged hoy came into my brother's ofUee in New York, and said: ,, Mr. Talmage, lend me five dollars." My brother said: "Who are you?" The boy replied: "I amnobody. Lend me five dollars." "What do von wan&to do with five dollars?" ."Well," the boy replied, "my mother is sick and poor and I want to go into the newspaper business, and 1 shall get a home for her, and I wilL pay vouback.'1 My brother gave him the

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Indianapolis Council has granted a franchise for a cable street railway. The Elkhart telephone subscribers have refused to accept the toll system. Some hoodlums broke into the M. E. church at Ashboro, Clay county, and stole the organ. Sidney A. Dwight, cashier of the Coxsackie, N. Y, National Bank is reported $50,000 short in his accounts. Samuel Meyers, superintendent of the Miami (tounty poor farm, is accused of brutally beating inmates of the county asylum, Watermelons and nutmegs in Jackson county never looked better than now, and with favorable weather the yield promises to bo immense. The secretary of the board of health of Harrison county reports three, cases of pleuro-pneumonia among cattle in the vicinity of Cory don. Mr. S. J. Louiso, recently appointed postmaster at Temple, Ind., has been boycotted by the business men of that little place, and forced to resign. At 1030 o'clock Monday morning, at a depth of 1,352 feet, petroleum of an excellent quality was struck at Brownstown. The people are in spasms. Since March Porter county has paid bounties for twelve foxes, seven wolves and over twelve hundred woodehucks. One boy killed ninety-five woodehucks. At South Bend 162 out of 208 telephone subscribers have signed a paper declining to submit to the toll system. Some oi: the forty-six who have not yet signed will come in. The commissioners of Monroe county have ordered a special election on the

19th lust, in four townships, to decide whether or not aid shall be voted to the proposed Columbus & St. Louiis railroad, Mr. and Mrs. L. D, Carpenter, of Seymour, will take their departure soon for missionary wor in Japan Mr. and

Mrs. Carpenter are among the wealthiest and m( st respected people of Seymour. A m jvernment officer has arrested

Fiflnk J?owler, near Wabash, on a charge of ha via tg forged a check for $27,O0O on Govenu r Bate, of Tennessee, more than a year 'A go, and has taken him there for trial

The in. mperance people of G reensburg j

made a4 etermined fight agaioat the revival of general liquor licenses. As a result, ol eight applications for license, but threa were granted by the commissioners. William Poor, Peter Shaffer and J. W. Hershbergt r, farmers living near Anderson, iiave had judgments taken against them for 175 in notes, obtained by Joseph Clark, a u patent paint" swindler. Efforts are now being made to organize in Indiana a branch of the National farmers', Alliance, one of the many new movements, the objeot of which is to revolutionize the political parties of the country. The alliance is said to be strong in many Western States. Sportamen in Marion, Waba3h, North Manchester, Waisaw, Kochester, Peru and Logaasport are arranging to form a district association, and hold two shooting tournaments in, each plaice. But one style trap and one style bird will be used, thus avoiding confusion, The new church building at Nabb, Scott county, which was to have been

is-

five dollars, of course never exneetint? to VW-!WUU,,JF vl"t'

rr it swain: but he said: "When will vou 1 dedicated Sunday, was burned Saturdav '

night. Supposed incendiary. Loss

pay it?" The hoy wad: "I will pay it in six months, sir." Time went by, and one day a lad came into my brother's office, and said: "There's your five dollars." "What do you mean? Wnat five dollars?" inquired my brother. "Don't you remember that a. boy came in here six jnonths ago and wanted to borrow five-jdollara to go into the newspaper business?" "Oh 3es, I remember; are yon the lad?" "Yes," he replied, "I have .got along nicely. I have got.a nice home for my mother (she is sick yet), and 1! am as welt clothed as you are, and there's your's five dollars." Oh, was he not w orth saving? Why, that lad is worth iifty such boys as I have sometimes twen movirig' in elegant circles, never p-ut to any uge for God or man. Worthssaving! I go further than that, and toll you they are not only worth saving, but they are being saved. So some by one human and Christian visitation nd some by another are being rescued? In one B.e form School,! hrough which thou sand of the little ones passed, one tat.msancl nine hundred and ninety-five iurneti out welL In other words, only.. -five" of the two thousand turned out badly. There are thousands of thpm who, through Christian societies,

have been transplanted to beautiiui homes all over this land, and there are unvny who, through the rich graces of our Lord Jesus Christ, have already won the crown. For this vast multitude are we willing to go forth from this morning's service and see w hat we can do, employing all the agencies I have spoken of for the rectification of the poisoned fountains?

We live in. a beautnul city. The lines htf'Ve fallen to us in pleasant places and we haye a goodly heritage; and any man who does not like a residence in Brooklyn must be a most uncomfortable and unreasonable ntan. But, my friends, the malarial prosperity, of a city is not its chief glory. There may be fine houses and beautiful streets, and that all be the eranitujie of a sepulcheiv Some of the

more prosperous cities of the world have

gone down, not one stone ieit upon another. But a city may be in ruins long before .a tower has fallen, or a column has crumbled, or a tomb has been defaced. When 'in a city the churcnes of God are full of cold formalities and inanimate religion; when the houses of commerce are t he, abode of fraud and unholy traffic; when the streets are filled, wich crime unarrested and sin unenlightened and helplessness unpitied that city is in ruins, though every church "were a St, Peter's, and every moneyed institution were a Bank of England, and every library were a British Museum, aud every house had. a porch like that of Rheims, and a roof like that of Amiens, and a tower like that of Antwerp, and traceried windows like those of Freiburg. My brethren, our pulses beat rapidly the time away, and soon we shall be gone; and what we have to do do for the city in which we livs we must do right sneedily, or never dp it at all. In that day when those who have wrapped themselves in luxuries and despised the poor shall come to shame and everlast

ing contempt, I hope it may be said ot you and me that we gave bread to the hunerv. and wiped away the tear of the

orphan, and upon the wanderer of the

street we opened tne .ongntness ami

benediction., of a Christian home; and

then, through our instrumentality, it

shall be known, on .earth and in heaven

that Mary Lost became Mary Found!

A Warning' t p 'Aniitiaskral.es,

ritUburgChrouieiu.

Susie George, dear, I sco that one cf

the city ministers wants people to stop

kissing, because the:re are numerous animalcules in the mouth.

George Yes, I noticed it, but people

won't stop.

Susie-No, Indeed! I don't see why we

should be so solicitous about the ammalcuies'; If they don't want to get hurt, they pnght to keep -away.

Sl,100. Insured for $280. At noon, Sunday,, a subscription of $600 had been raised for the erection of another buildirg. Depredations of robbers have created much excitement among the farmers of Daviess county, and warrants have been issued for Harry Hubbard, John Sterling and William Breeder, who are? thought to be leaders of the gang. They are hiding, and it is proposed to get bloodhounds to search them out. Teire Haute's madstone was twice usee?, last week and in both instances with satisfactory results In one of these cases it adhered to a wound for fourteen hours before it eould be removed. It was then cleansed in sweet milk and again adhered for ten hours. The stone -liae eighty years successful record. An aUirming and fatal epidemic has broken out at Oxford, Benton countv.

It attacks young - children, principally, and in most cases terminates in death in a few days. The sickness is severe from the start, and tho afflicted child soon goes into spasms, which end - in death. There were three or four deaths last week, and many other children are sick. Reports from Spencer county say the wheat crop this year will yield a fair average. Some of the wheat was blown down by the recent storms, but nearly

ail of it can be gathered up. The work of harvesting will be commenced this week. The fruit prospects are better than they uaye been for some years; peaches and apples are in fine condition.

Other crops are looking well. An unusually large acrage of tobacco 1ms . been planted in that county this season, Patents were " Tuesday granted the following Indiana inventors: John B: Deeds assignor of one-half to P. J, Kauiman, Terre Haute, hydro-carbon

burner i:or steam boiler; Robert C. Hart,

Andrews, hog trap; Matthew B. Moore

Indianapolis, sand-molding machine

Belle D. Pennington, Evans villa, portable awning: Peter Shellenback, Rich

mond, lathe: John P. Potter, Qr&wfords-

ville, wason-bed hoist; Wm. Strong, assignor of one-half to C. Aneshaensel,

Indianapolis, street washer.

The first of thecasesagainstex-officials

of the Southern prison and sureties on

their official bonds, tried in the Circuit

Court at Jeflersonville, has resulted in

a verdics; favorable to. defendant. The

case alluded to. was. against Captain M.

I. Huette and his sureties on official

bond, arid was tried Wednesday evening.

The court sustained defendanta demur

rer to the complaint, and the plaintiff

failing to amend and having nothing

further to offer in the case it was dis

jmissed. This completely exonerates Captain Huette from all charges that

have been made against his official conduct while clerk at the prison On a warrant of the State auditor Monday , $10,000 were paid frcm the treasury for the purchase of land at Fort

Wayne to be used as a site for the school for feeble-minded, children. Tho Fort Wayne management had an' advantageous offer and applied for purchase money sometime ago, but were told there were 119 funds in the treasury tor their purpose. By much persuasion and by explaining that they feared the loss of the school entirely unless aid was

received at once, the auditor finally

uued the warrant as above stated. The Northern Inditana Editorial Asso-. ciation. has concluded its twentieth uession at Warsaw. It was largely attended and its proceedings were interesting. The officers for the ensuing year are: Q. A, Hossler, Indiana Republican, president; Major Bitters, Rochester Daily Republican, first vice -president; Ed A. Jernegan, Miyhawaka Enterprise, second vke president; A, Rv Beycole, Goshen Daily Times j treasurer; R. H. Rerrich, Iagrange Standard, secretary, and (), E. Maple, Huntington Herald corretmonding secretary. The Bethel Baptist church, ten miles south of Shelby villa, was ...bunied. Saturday night, and the incendiary, Charles Co! ee, caught and jailed. He confessed, and g; wore out an affidavit for the pastor, Rev. William Snapp, a an accessory, alleging that Rey. Mr. Snapp pffered him $50 1 to burn the church. .Colee says Snapp wanted th.e church burned because some of the members had charged him with adultery with one of his congregation. Colee is twectysix years old, un married and son of John Colee, recently released from the penitentiary.

Zachar iah Deputy, a wealthy citiaen

of Jennings county, was "buncoed" out

of $$,000 by sharpers, Friday evening. Three well appearing gentlemen repre

sented to him th it they were introducing

a new and elegant style of family Bible, and that they were authorized to present it to wealthy and influential? citizens throughout the country in order to get i t before the people. Before giving

out the Bible; however, on of the u

instructions, they said, was to require the part' receiving the present to show $3,000 in cash, for no other reason than

to i&oicate, or ratner atrest, tneir re

sponsibility and standing in the com

munity. Of course Mr. Deputy drew the cash from a bank, and the sharpers

stole it hrom him under a inretext of

wan ting to count Jit. All the fools are not dead yet. J. C, Pickett, "km of President Picket, of the Howard National Bmk? of Kokqr mo, and senior partner of the firm Pickett .fe McNeal, was arrested Wednesday on a charge of being accessory to the incendiary burning of the Dixon block several months ago. When the block was burned ninety-thousand-doi-lars.' worth of property was destroyed, including the stock of Pickett A Mc Neal, on which tliey had an insurance of $19,030. After the fire they made an affidavit that their stock wa.s only worth $8,000, which aroused suspicion and the case was given to detectives for investigation. Last week the Meloah brothers were arrested for setting fire to the buiiiding, and it is alleged that they have made a full confession saying that Pickett employed them to burn the tailaing, agreeing to pay them $25 each when the fire was started and as much more when he got his insurance money . In accordance with this arrangement they started the lure by igniting some hay which they had concealed in the cellar. On this information Pickett was arrested. . The Indiana County Superintendents' Association convened at Indianapolis Wed nesday with a large attendance. Superintendent James A. Harlow, of Sullivan coimty, is president, and Calvin Moon, St. Joseph, is secretary. The first paper of the session was on the subject of Instruction in Civics in the Common School," and was an able treatment in favor of thev study, by J. W. Nearse Spencer county - The paper watj discussed at length by W. B. Sinclair, Starke county, who agreed with its sentiments radically, and said it

would only be opposed by persons filled with partisanship or ignorance,. or several other choice qualities of similar nature. Professor R. G. Boone, of the State university, thought no separate text on civics wat3 needed, but rather a different and better method of teaching history and other branches. " What is wanted?' said ho, "is not a study to make the children merely gocd American citizens, but good citizens of whatever country they may in future inhabit. WV A. Bell, of the School Journal, feared -partisanship would creep into such teaching, which he deplored. John

O. Lewollen, of Delaware county, ppoke in liay or of such instruction. .1). M, Clark, of Johnson's Station; Joseph' Levi, of Marion, Ind,; Isaac Longnecker, of Lynn, Ind., and J.'R, Reeves, of Indianapolis, .all stock-drovers, were brought to Dr. Weist's office in Richmond Sunday morning, the viethus of one of the most remarkable

wrecks on record. At 10:30 o'clock Saturday night. Conductor Mahon's train

left for Cincinnati oyer the'C, H. p. At Florence Station, ten miles from the

city, the train had to do some switching

and the caboose and two freight cars

were detached from the train on the

main track. These three cars started

back to the city, descending a steep grade

and coming in at a high rate of speed

for the entire ten miles. Conductor

Fitts, in charge oi the Pan-Handle

through freight, had pulled out for Col

umbus, O., and met the runaway car near tins fair grounds. Here the Pan-

Handle engineer saved his life by jump

ing-,' but his engine was considerably damaged, the caboose was considerably wrecked and the men whose names are mentioned were asleep in the caboose when t he crash came. AH of them were more or less injured, but none ot them neriousiy, their escape being almost hniraculous.

TRADE AND LABOR OTO

Philadelphia Rwonl, ' ' ' Common labor is now; better paid than.

If had KnAn -

111 1MM WDDUiUI CBni, Ution Labor party clubs are

formed in several Western States;-?

Ten hours is now the legal limit of av day's work in New York on thgfilxeet 'z & The weekly payment system in- Con- . .'l necticut is only , two; weeM-old; ; an4 operatives all speak well.of it. ; There is a quiet distribution of thev t Chiness population of the Pacific tB0: throughput the Eastern All the machine shops of the" country

are ioii 01 oraers and: nave . exce. prospects for the rest of the vear. '

Labor org;aniemM' are' directing their'-f" efforts to hold the membership fht have rather than to increase it. ' . , ; r 1

Quite a number of mechanic : have. found employment in in Kentucky and'

tst year the South made $100(K),0; -out of 20,000,000 gallons of cottoc -seed oil, and used only one-ilfth of thearaili?rif

able product. The Western lumber

2

are trying to

manufacturera

demonstrate tbai ipricee

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Hi:?

Will be hicrher next fail, hut hnvas are - W

.k. Al 1. :" J 1 .

uunwwiigou mai. supposition. . . ff The expressed opinion of labor dele?- 4 ; gates at the various trade conventions

'that the improving, condition of ibinjwVv

'irm

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made.

The miners are earnestly endeavoring' "

to avert strikes in the future, and, if " -met with half the candor they feefc measures - will be devised by whicfc' f

Justice can be done.- r . ) - -- jt

The KansaB City carpenters are look- , ' : a ing a long way ahead. , They announce' ; that they won't work more, than eight

hours after next June, and want 36

The question of co-opsratioa is . not '

favorably considered in the Knights'

assemblies, and the land theories of

weorge, wnue myorapiy regardeq- at a , distance, are not considered good inat-r ;V-v' ters to advance wages with! . ;-W ' The London papers are complaining -1 that as fast as British workmen leave v v j;

their shores the gap is filled un with; '

German workmen and workmen frOm""'"'

Russia, They don't want the--piuper

labor of the continent ."shot" y there,The remedy is in the hiest degree obscure, , h . mm i?af54 Western cities and towns are develop i i t ing their manufacturing capabilities rapidly. Denver Col,, is becoming an :.f important manufacturing center and: will-produce $30,000,000 worth of prd:

ducts this year. Eastern man ufac! nrera

are pioneering over the West

opportunities.

There is a widespread movement

among the Knights for separate national . i trade associations. The harness-makers J will want one, the brass-wbrke havens1- J". asked for one, the iron-workers hSper-s ganized for.one and thevcoopers, .ptint: a, ers and decorators insist on separate con- ", trol. A score of other crafts) aid ask9S ing for a separate room in the great or ?

der where they canv talk ..amojtJiein-

serves

INDIANA

NATTJRAJj OAS

NOTES.

The seventh well is now giwhing;. ' gait-

at Noblesville. ' '.

(Short Coffee Crops Raise Prices. DhlcagoXews. . ... During the last year the price of coffee lae- risen so rapidly as to attract general

attention. An extensive deaioran teas

and cofiees said yesterday that the coflee growers were scared by the low prices

1 hat had prevailed up to a year agojand

(jonsequently raised smaller crops? each yeat. Q?his was supplemented by the iailure of Ceylon and Java, which were

almost destroyed by flies and rust. The result was that the surplus coilee of the world had been trenched upon-to the

extent of 1,350,000 bags. Added to all

this is the greater consumption of -coffee throughout the globe, which is now es

t i mated from nine to ten pounds per

c apita. It takes about twelve million

lag&a year to supply coffee drinkers

w i h their favorite beverage. This year

hi ro is but 8,000,000 bags. All these

causes have increased prices about 35

er cent, since last summer. . Mildewed linen may be' restored by

soaping the spots, and while wet cover

ing them with powdered chalk, 7

The ''Fountain" at Cicero-is simply .a

"grand well." The 'gas blazes fori? feet ft high from a five inch pipe..; M $

A report is current that the H ebron

gas well ''has gone through Biynibutii T- - V

rock.",, , -'-v 2tT -aiMtsff-

The Valparaiso gas well is bein'Vv - -i

reamed out to admit new, casing. Theni v . T

the woik will be resumed at tbepieptb ofLSOOfeei WM. ?i

Natural gas was struefeat noon;Jiday 4 2, at well No. 2 at Wabash, five feet ia the Trenton rock. -The gas, when ignited :-t 4. -f.-. biased several feet high. . . . The Rochester gas-well tias :beeii- :ftn- I

ally abandoned.,. At a deptn ot over 1,200 feet a flow of brine was mewhicK , was supposedto settle the gas quition y adversely. ?; 'J, :-.- I-'f-J''-S- Pr . !".

. . rwU B il 1 11 .ll..AAi:

dwellings, eighty stores and ftiiteenv fa. -f tories and mills 'wjrliBa luel? ftlt The average price per stove is;t9 ;Jr ."-v " and jgas may be burned; without limit. The Lafountain gas well, wnich . &

one of the best in the State, has filled up

with water and the; supply is shut u

Some mills were using the gas, but. haven ,s been compelled to go back U the! pld

A snftr.ial ' from Dunkirk. Indi. save &,

tne nrsi genuine on wen oiscoyerw w

struck at Montpelier, Blackford county, WmlnaorJoir TKa All nnolioo lit fiorlv

stream from the pipe at about twentf barrels a day. The weH was. bored for) f gr4 gasK and oil was found at a depth of 992;y- Mfeet There is 3 great excitement: and v rush in tile new oiifieldl : ' t. "vl-r

pill

The natural gas company at Fraiik ton-

has -'completed the measurements for vg

laying the mains, and find that it will reauired 8,444 feet of mains, Thex

will put up twenty-one street i ighnij;' j which, they agree to have all thjeCiire-Q' lighting furnish the gas, -etc., :ih4f r"?

nominal sum of two dollars per year.

This seems to be low enoughs for

starter in fixing theprice for the! con

sumption of gas. ' l'. Monday morning about 10 o'clock:

well No. 2,at HartiprdCity wssr drilled four ieet dee'per into the IVenton: roc!

with astonishing results, increasing the

volume from 9,000,000 cubic feet par

diem; to 16,000,000 cubic feet It jan

now safely be said beyond cavil that this?

is the greatest well yet developed in In-

diana,. The Ras rushes from two three

inh pipes with terrific force making

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noise which can be keard distinctly fVJ r - Warren a distance of eight, wpules ' ; :

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News dispatch;

,4 v A Gure;tor RhenmaUarat The agonizing pain and swelling of;.

acute rneumausm may oe very prpmp g.-.

ly relieved by the following very si tuple; '- treatment: One quart of milk, quite not V" . ;: in which stir one ounce of alum; liSiip'f-' makes curds and-whey Bathe; ths J8 affected -with the whey -untiHtoo; ooUT. In the meantime; keep ithe curds; i:o. andafter bathing piit eni;ou W Jir tices, wrap in flannel , Aaud--go to tepv .J ' w (you can). Th.ee applications should 3

be a perfect cure, even' iuv imX

, ..... . . -. jt . .- Progress Is a Hollow Mpolfer ;

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Bozoman (M. T7 Chronicle;

When you reflect that it b'$ liffl f years ago it was the custom for th? girl'to stand up in a row and lk ther men v . J: 4.

kiss them all good-bye, all thja; enthn flifl.qrti ahnut nationftl nmcrpm RAtAtnit it

beagwve fflpu. ;;, s:k.m

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