Bloomington Courier, Volume 13, Number 45, Bloomington, Monroe County, 10 September 1887 — Page 2

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THE COURIER.

BY H. J. FELTtia

BLOOMINGTON,

INDIANA

, Thb United States Express Company has leased for a term of years all the lines of the B, & O. Express Company. The latter name will be retained where now used. " ' " BiLtrY' F.i a Grawfordsviile horse, paced amilent the Logansport fair, last week, in 2:22; said to be the fastest time yet made in Indiana on a half mile track. . - -:

Pbksidbxt -' Cleve&akd will go west

through Indiana October 1st, over the - Pan Handle and Vandalia. He will be at Indianapolis from 11 a. m. until 3 p. - in., and onejipur each at Richmond and Terra Haute. ; f . Mich Ait, Butler, a discharged keeper 4 of the insane asylum on Ward's Island, New York, declares that of the 1,750 inmates confined there, 300 of them are perfectly sane and 1,000 harmless. An investigation is being made.

Senator Blair's educational bill did not receive a very strong indorsement, even in the Legislature of his own State. The vote in its favor was 136 to 127, The people are in favor of education,bnt the most thoughtful of them have some doubt of the advisability of taking

money oufcof the 'National Treasury to hjf ... 0 . . ... , foot, go stumbling aid State institutions. There is always rnntn tinr tn

danger of "job" in such grand schemes nerves and alleviate the pains of the

ox JNauonai chanty.-

A Ministering Angel to the Sick and Distressed, Her Position In the World Higher, than Man's &nd She in Braver than He Where True Courage is Required, Rev. Dr. Talruage preached at "The Hamptons" last Sunday. Text, Solo mon's Songs, v::., 8.: .' There are three score queens." He saidi

So Solomon, by one stroke, set forth the imperial character of a true Christian woman. She is not a slave, not a hireling, not a subordinate,but a queen; and in my iBxt Solomon , sees sixty of these going to make up the royal pageant of Jesus. In a former sermon I

showed you at some length that woman's position was higher in the world than man's, and that, although she had often been denied the right of suffrage, she always did vote; and always would vote by her . influence) and ihat her chief desire ought to be that she should have grace rightly to rule in the dominion which she has already won. I begau an enumeration of sohie of her rights, and this morning I resume the subject. In the first place, woman has ' the special and the superlative right not again going back to what I have already said woman has the special and superlative right of blessing and comforting the sick. What land, what street, what house, has not felt the smitings of dis-

easer .xens oi tnousauas or sick Deaai

What shall we do with them? Shall

man, with his rough; hand and clumsy

around the sick

room trving to soothe the distracted

tossics natient? The voum? man at col

lege may scoff at the idea of being under maternal influences: but at th first

The incentive to im- blast ot the typhoid fever on his cheek,

ne says; " w nere is mother? ' It . is an

s CorxTY fairs are pt great importance

to all the people.

provemente in agricultural and mechan- saysr - w nere is motnerrv it is an ? V ii v v awful thing to be ill away from home,

'largeiy from the competition here af

forded. Ought not the county especially when such fairs are likely to result in financial loss through its commissioners own the grounds, giving their free use for the purposes of exhition, and in every possible way encourage and foster such an enterprise?

X is about settled that the so-called TOtbteak of the TJte Indians was largely imaginative and purposely magnified to further the purposes of certain people fc srt Colorado who desire to get hold of the Ute reservation and lands. A Colorado -man is reported to have said last week -that "the main idea of our people is to get rid of the infernal Indians, and that -is why we all favor the idea of an Indian war." The militia and cow boys hold hundreds of head of stock owned by the Indians. Colorow is said not to have been on the war path, but has: avoided hostilities so far as possible. The War .Department will hereafter take all re- & ports with some -allowance, and it is best that she people of the country do the same. If the charges -against the ;'wr boys and others are true the War Department-will net only be justified in .' protecting the Indians, but in suppressing those who foment ill feeling and dissatisfaction in order to gain their nefarious ends.

The Lebel; rifle, the new gun with which the French infantry is being armed as fast as the factories can turn it out, is said to be the highest type of

weapons of thiskindJt is named after its inventor, and it is otherwise known as

the "little gun," it being smaller and lighter than any other gun now in use.

It is fired, too, with a powder peculiar

to it, the secret of the composition of

which is possessed by the French government alone; The gun will, it is said, throw its bullet a mile and a half and with' a move certain aim than any other rifle; The bore of the gun is very small, and the ball; which is of steel and sharply pointed at one end, is said to revolve at a speed of a thousand revolutions a second. In the tests made' by the French government this bullet has penetrated a brick wall eight inches thick at a distance of 500 yards; it wili go through any kind of armor which can be worn by soldiers, and at a distance of more than a mile will pass through a man as easily asat ten paces. The gun has no recoil under fire, and the powder gives out no smoke whatever. The Lebel gun is, of course, a repeater, and t he cartridges are so small that each soldier carries 220 rounds of - ammunition, as against 116, rounds, formerly considered the maximum.

Reed's Opinion of Alaska. Portland Interfiew -with Congiesaman Used. "We stopped at Wrangel to -see the Indian village, and found it wet and nasty. At Sitka the Indian houses were larger, more cleanly, and gave evidences of the civilising example of the whites. - At Juneau there is a thriving mining town, with sidewalks here and there emerging from the mud. Opposite is Douglass island, where is the Treadwell gold mine. The owners have erected a mill of one hundred ani twenty stamps, the largest stamp mill in the United States and in the-world. They have begun the work necessary to double the aise of the mill. Besides the mineral resources of the country, which will soon be pretty thoroughly- prospected; in the regionS'Bearest the States; the salmon fisheries are utilized somewhat, and the possibilities of the deep sea fisheries are

very great. We did not go within 1,000

or 1,500 miles of the seal islands. In fact, the great Alaska, itself sixteen times as big as the whole New England States, is beyond Sitka. People have very little idea of the size of our purchase. There is one river in itthe Yukon which is no mean rival of the Mississippi. What ' the future of such a country will be no

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great wealth out of its varied resources. The Indians work; they will do days' works at regular pay; and they show that they appreciate civilized methods, for they have already organized one strike;"" ' Stone. Indianapolis News, - Bid you know that stone has sap in it? When it is fresh-quarried we call it 'green stone. It is not fit be used until it is thoroughly dried out. Stone fresh and moi3t from the quarry does not show its defects. If quarried in . frosty

or wet weather it should be left to thoroughly clry under exposure to the air. If no defects then appear, it can be used with safety, but must be handled with care. The reason that so much stone cracks in buildings is that it is put in green. When the sap dries out the stone changes' condition, and the pressure upon its various surfaces becomes uneven, and breakage results.

in a stransre hotel: once in a while men

coming in to look at you, holding their hand over their mouth for fear they will catch the contagion. How roughly they, turn you in bed! How loudly they talk! How you long for the ministries of home! When we are sick we want to be sick

at home. When the time comes for us to die, we want to die at home. The room may be very humble, and the faces that look into ours may be very plain; but who cares for that? Loving hands to bathe the temples. Loving voices to speak good cheer. Loving lips to read the comforting promises of Jesus. In our last dreadful war men cast the cannon; men fashioned the musketry ) men cried to the hosts "Forward march!" men hurled their battalions on the sharp edges of the enemy, crying: Charge! charge!" but woman scraped the lint; woman administered the cordials; woman watched by the dying couch; woman wrote the last message to the home circle; woman wept at the solitary burial, attended by herself and four men with a spade. We welcomed the Generals, home with brass bands and triumphal arches and wild huzzas, but the story is too good to be written anywhere save in the chronicles of heaven, of Mrs. Brady, who came down among the sick in the swamps of the Chicahominy; of . Annie Ross, in the coopershop hospital; of Margaret Breckinridge, who came to men who had been for weeks with their, wounds undressed some of them frozen to the ground, and when she turned them over those that had an arm left waved it and filled the air with their "hurrah" of Mrs. Hodge, who came from Chicago with blankets and with pillows, until the men shouted: "Three cheers for the Christian Commission! God bless the women at home!" then sitting down to take the last message: "Tell my wife not to fret about me, but to meet me in heaven; tell her to train up the boys whom we have loved so well; tell her we shall meet again in the good land J tell her to bear my loss like the Chris tian wife of a Christian soldier;" and of Mrs. Shelton, into whose face the convalescent soldier looked and said: "Your grapes and cologne cured me." Men did their work with shot, and shell, and carbine, and howitzer; women did their work with socks, and slippers, and bandages, and warm drinks, and Scripture texts, and gentle strokings of the hot temples, and stories of that land where they never have any pain. Men knelt down over the wounded and Baid: -'On which side did you fight?" Women knelt down over the wounded and Baid: " Where are you hurl? What nice thing can I make for you to eat? What makes you cry?" To-night, while we men are sound asleep in our beds, there will be a light in yonder loft; theie will be groaning down in that dark alley; there will be cries of distress in that cellar. Men will sleep and women will watch. A gain, woman has a su perlative right to take Care of the poor. There are hundreds and thousands of them ail over the land. There is a kind of work that man can not do for the, poor. Here comes a group of little bare-foot children to the door of the Dorcas Society. They need to be clothed and provided for. Which of these Directors of banks would know how many yards it would take to make that little girl a dress? Which of these masculine hands could fit. a hat to that little girl's head. Which of the wise men would know how to tie on that new pair of shoes? Man sometimes gives his charity in a rough way, and it falls like the fruit of a tree in the East, which fruit comes down so heavily that it breaks the skull of the man who is trying to gather it. But woman glides so softly into the house of destitution, and finds out all the sorrows of the place, and puts so quietly the .donation on the table, that all the family come out on the front steps as she departs, expecting that from under her shawl she will thrust two wings and eo right up toward heaven, from whence she seems to have come down. O, Christian young woman, if you would make yourself happy and win the blessing of "Christ, go out among thedestitute. - A loaf of bread or a bundle of socks may make a homely load to carry, but the angels of God will come out to watch, and the Lord Almighty will give His messenger hosts a charge, saying: "Look after that woman. Canopy her with your wings and' shelter her from all harm;" and while you are seated in the house of destitution and suffering, the little ones around the room will whisDer: "Who is she? Ain't she beautiful?" And if you will listen right sharply, you will hear dripping down through the leaky roof, and rolling over the rotten stair the angel chant that shook, Bethlehem: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace; eood will to man"

Can you tell me why a Christian woman,

one can tell. We are far enough along, however, to see that it was worth hnv-

,. .... i : :.- . J- I J VT w v'miuvhhi " ' V 1 1 ; ing. I believe that our people will wring goingdown among the haunts of iniquity

vja a uunowiiu erntuu, .Aits vcr meew wllfl any indignity? I stood in the chapel of Helen Chalmers, the daughter of the celebrated Dr. Chalmers, in the most abandoned part of the city of Edinburgh, and I said to her as I looked around upon the fearful suroundings of that place: "Do you come here nights to hold

service?" "O, yes," she said. "Can it be possible that you never meet with an insult while performing this Christian errand?" "Never," she said, "never." That young woman who has her father by her side walking down the street, an armed police at each corner, is not so well defended as that Christian woman who goes forth on Gos pel work ... j it i i . e '

mio iue nauniS:Oi iniquity, carrying the Bibles and bread. God with the red right arm of His wrath omnipitent, would tear to pieces any one who should offer indignity. He would smite him with lightning, and drown him with floods, anil swallow him with earthquakes, and damn him with eternal indignations. It seems as if the Lord had ordained woman for. an especial work in the soli citation of charities. Backed up by barrels in which there is no flour, and by

stoves in which there are no fire, and by wardrobes in which there are no clothee, a woman is irresistible; passing on her errand, God says to her; "1fou go into that bank, or store, or shop, and get the money.1, She goes in and gets it. The man is hard-sted, but she gets it. She could not help but get it. It is decreed from eternity she should get it. No need of your turning your back and pretending you don't hear; you do hear. There is no need of your saying you are begged to death. There.is no need of your wasting your time, and you might as well submit first as last. You had better right away take down your check-book, mark the number 6f the check, fill up the blank, sigh your nanie and hand it to her. Again: I have to tell )Tou that it is a woman's specific right to comfort under

the stress of dire disaster. She is called the weaker vessel; but all profane as well as sacred history attest that when the crisis comes she is better prepared than man to meet the emergency. How often you have Been a woman who seemed to be a disciple of frivolity and indolence, who,under one stroke of calamity, changed to a heroine. Oh, what a great mistake those business men make Who never tell their business troubles to their wives! There conies some grat lpSs to their store, or some of their companions in business play them a sad trick, and

thev carrv the burden all alone. He is

asked in the household again: What is the matter? but he believes it a sort of Christian duty to keep all that trouble within his own soul. Oh, sir! your first duty was, to tell your wife all about it. She, perhaps, might not have disentangled your finances, or extended your credit, but she would have helped "you to bear misfortune. You have no right to carry on one shoulder that which is intended for two. There are sometimes women who sit reading sentimental novels, and who wish that they had some grand field in which to display their Chr! stian powers. Oh, what grand and glorious things they could. do if they only had an opportunity ! My &ister,vou need not wait for any such time. A crisis will come in your affair. There will be a Thermopyl in your own household, where God will tell you to stand. There are scores and hundreds of households to-day where as much bravery and courage are demanded of women as was exhibited by Grace Barling, or Marie Antoi nette, or Joan of Arc Again: I remark, it is woman's right

to bring tons the kingdom of heaven. It is easier for a woman to be a Christian than for man. Why? You say she is weaker. No. Her heart is more resnonsive to the pleadings of Divine love. She is in vast majority. The fact that she can more easily become a Christian, I prove by the statement, that threefourths of the members of the churches in all Christendom are women. So God appoints theni to be the chief agencies for bringing this world back to God. I may stand here and say the is immortal. There is a man who will Tefute h I may stand here and say we are lost and undone without Christ. There is a man who will refute it. I may stand here and say there will be a judgment day after while. Yonder is some one who will, re-4 fute it. But a Chistian woman in a Christian household, living in the faith and. the consistency of Christ's Gospel nobody can refute that. The greatest sermons are not preached on celebrated platforms; they are preached with an audience of two or three, and in private home life. A consistent, consecrated Christian service is an unanswerable demonstration of God's truth. A sailor came slipping down the ratline one night, as though something had happened, and the sailors cried: "What's the matter?" He said: "My mother's prayers haunt me like a ghost." Home influences consesecrated. Christian home influences are the mightiest of all influences upon the soul. There are men here to-day who have maintained their integrity, just because there were home influences praying for them all the time. They got a good start. They were launch eel on

tne. wona wnn tne Deneaictions oi a

Christian mother. They may track Siberian snows, they may plunge in African jungles, they may fly to the earth's end they cannot go so far and so fast but the prayers will keep up with them. I stand before women to-day who have tbe eternal salvation of their husbands in their right hand. On the marriage day you took an oath before men and angels that you would be faithful and kind until death did you part, and I believe you are going to keep' that oath; but after that parting at the door of the grave, will it be an eternal separation? Is there any such things as an immortal marriage, making the flowers that grow on the top of , the sepulcher brighter than the garlands which at the marriage banquet flooded the air with aroma? .Yes; I stand here as a priest of most high God to proclaim the bans of an immortal union for all those who join hands in the grace of Christ. O, woman, is your husband, your father, your son away from God? The Lord demands their redemption at your hands. There are prayers for you to give, there aie examples for you to set. A man was dying and he said to his wife: . "Rebecca, you wouldn't let me have family prayers, and you, laughed about all that, and you got me away into worldliness, and now I am going to die and my fate is sealed, and you are the cause of my ruin,. O woman, what knowest thou but thou Canst destroy thy husband? Are there not some here who have kindly influences at home? Are there not some here who have wandered far away from God who can remember the Christian infl uences in their early home? Do not despise those influences, my brother, If you die without Christ what will , you do with your mother's prayers, with your wife's importunities, with your sister's entreaties? What will you do with the letters they used to write to you" with the memory of those d ays wh en they at ten ded you so kindly in times of sickness? Oh, il there be just, one strand holding you from floating off on that dark sea I would just like this morning to take hold of that strand and pull you to the beach! For the sake of your wife's God, for the sake of your mother's God, for the sake of your daughter's God, for the sake of your sister's God, come this day and be saved. Lastly: I wish to say that one of the specific rights of woman is, through the grace of Christ, finally to reach heaven. On, what a multitude of women in heaven! Mary. Christ's mother, , in heaven; Elizabeth Fry in heaven; Char lotte Elizabeth in heaven; the mother of Auguptine in heaven; the CounteBS of Hunting ion, who sold her splendid jewels to build chapele, in heaven; while a great -many others who have never been heard of on earth, or known but little, have gone into the reBt and peace of heaven. What a rest! What a change it was from the small room, with no fire and one window, the glass broken out, and the aching side and worn-out eyes, to the "house of many mansions!' No more sitting up until midnight for the coming of staggering steps. No more rough blows, across the temples. No more sharp, keen, bitter curses, dome of you will have no rest in tHs world. It will be toil, and struggle, and suffering all the way up. You will have to stand at the door fighting back the wolf with your own hand, red with carnage. But God has a crown for you.. I want to realize this morning that He is now making it and whenever you weep a tear He

sets another gem in that crown; whenever you have a pang of body or soul, He puts another gem in that "crown, until, nfter a while, in all the tiara there will be no room for another splendor, and God will say to His angel: "The crown is done; let her up and she may wear it." And as the Lord of Righteousness puts the crown upon your brow, angel will cry to angel: 44 Who is she?" and Christ will say: "I will tell you who she is. She ia the oue that came up out of great tribulation, and had her robe washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb."

THE DIMPLE ON HER CHEEK.

jWithin a nest of roses, ; &alf hidflea from the sight, Until a smile discloses Its loveliness aright, jBebold the work of Cupid, j Who wrought it in a freak, The witching little dimple The dimple on her cheek! jTho Sirens' lays and glances

To lure the sailor nigh ; The perilous roranucea Of fabled lfelei. And all the spells of Circe . Ars reft of chaini and weak, Beside the dainty dimple The dimple on her check! Were these the golden ages Of knights and troubadours, Who brighten olden pages With tourneys and amours What lances would be broken--What silver lutes would speak, In honor of the dimple Th dimple ou her cheek! II RED SCAR.

Wallace P. Heed in Atlanta Constitution.

When I found myseif stranded, so to

speak, in the heart of Yucatan. I was

rather pleased than otherwise.

I had been writing up the quaint old

ruins of that strange land for a Jfew York

paper, and had turned my face home

ward, when I received a letter request

ing me to wait at San Pablo for further

instructions.

San Pablo interested me. It was a sleepy old Spanish village, with a big

cathedral, a plaza with the usual collec

tion of adobe houses around it, and

background of snowcapped mountains

rising boldly from a landscape of torrid

summer heats. .

It was here that I met with the most

puzzling experience of my life.

I was returning from a solitary ride among the hills. The declining sun

warned me that darkness would over

take me if I did not make haste, but as

I could see in the distance the massive

towers of the cathedral, I felt no un

easiness.

At one place my lonely road or mule

path skirted a deep ravine, which was

so choked up wiih a thick, scrubby un

dergrowth that I was unable to see any

thing but a tangled mass of foliage and

Vines.

"A good place for an ambush," I said

to myself. The idea impressed me so that

spurred my mule, but, to my surprise

theusuallv docile animal stood stock

still. "Senor!" The voice rang out from the depth oi the ravine, but it seemed to be at my ear. "Senor, halt!" As I halted, on account of my mule's obstinacy, the command was unnecessary. "Stand aside" I shouted, "and let me pass." Just then I saw protruding out of the bushes in front of me the muzzle of an old-fashioned blunderbuss, a flintlock weapon in very general use in Yucatan. A shudder ran down my spinal column. I was unarmed, and the blunderbuss was about the size of a small cannon. Resistance was not to be thought of. "I surrendei!" I cried to my unseen foe. "The senor is sensible," said the man with the big gun, as he leaped into the road. A rapid but close scrutiny of my captor showed me a young man of medium height, whose lithe, sinewy figure indicated exceptional activity and strength. He wore a homespun cotton suit, and the face under his sombrero had the

.brown tinge common to all Youcataneee

who were of mixed Spanish and Indian blood. The man's right temple was disfigured by a peculiar scar, shaped like a crescent and of fiery red ; color Beyond this scar there was nothing remarkable about his face. He had regular features, thin cruel lips and restless eyes like beads of jet. "I will holdup my hands and you can go through me," said I pleasantly. "You don't; want the mule, do you!" "The senor is wrong. I do want the mule," replied the robber, in a quiet, self-possessed tone. The senor will have the kindness to dismount and hold up his hands." As there was no use in wasting words, I obeyed without objection. The robber, with a quick jerk drew my hands behind me and pinioned them with a strip of rawhide. Then he bound' me securely to a tree. After finishing these preliminaries he emptied my pockets of the loose silver in them. "Is that all senor?" he asked in disgust. . "All I have1 1 answered. "The senor has my sympathy," said the rascal, with a vicious grin. "But the mule is something." The robber turned my steed to the right about and jumped into the saddle. "Let the senor be patient," he said as he rode off. "Some traveler will release him, and it is not far to San Pablo. Give Francisco's compliments to the alcade. Adios, senor, adiosl " And waving his hand he disappeared around a bend in the road. So this was the noted highwayman, Francisco, for whose head the Governor had offered a heavy re ward I There was consolation in the thought. No one would olaine me for surrendering to a dare-devil who was considered a match for any three men in Yucatan. But my train of thought was soon in terrupted in a pleasant manner. Francisco had been gone perhaps a quarter of an hour when a muleteer made his appearance leading his little burro along the narrow path. Hailing the stranger, I induced him tocut my bonds and release me. The muleteer told me that I escaped lightly. He gave Francisco a very black character. ' "If this place had not been in sight of San Pablo," said he, "the cutthroat would have killed you." ! The next morning the little town of San Pablo was in a state of eruption. Men, women and children rushed pellmell through the streets uttering wild yells. I looked out of the window several times, but could not makeup my mind whether it was a revolution or a holiday, I threiw myself on the bed and tried to get into a doze, and was p- ceeding when the alcade rushed io room with a bevy of his retainers . .'-'d me into a sitting posture. "The seuor's commands h.. .---eq obeyed," said the alcade es:itfcdly. "The dog of a bandit has been arrested, and will be tried before me at once.

But we need the senor'a testimony.

Without the senor we can 5o nothing."

It took me almost no time to dress

and accompany the little brown alcade

and hiB browner alguazils to the pretentious stpne edifice on the plaza called the palace of justice.

I had never seen a criminal trial in a

Mexican court, and everything was new tome. The alcade presided with great

dignity. He was assisted by a prose

cuting officer and several advocates, as thoy call their lawyers, were also on

hand. The court room was filled with

a crowd of eager spectators all talking, swearing, and shaking their fists at the

prisoner. The robber, Francisco, was the most unconcerned looking man in

the crowd. Surrounded by alguaiis, he was not handcuffeda, and when he saw

me he smiled and made me a polite bow.

The proceedings dragged all through

the weary day. My limited knowledge of the language made it impossible for me to follow everything that was said

but I understood that an effort was be

ing made to prove an alibi. Three men

with rather honest faces swore that on 6 o'clock on the previous evening they had imbibed pulqe with Francisco at a little village twenty miles west of San Pablo. If they told the truth, of course my robber could not have been Francisco. It irritated me to see so much importance attached to tho alibi and to my case, because I had been led to believe that the prisoner would be held anyhow as he was wanted for other crimes, and a big reward had been offered for him.

I was told, however, that in Yucatan a

prisoner when he demands a trial, must be tried or released inside of twelve

hours. In order -to hold him, therefore,

the San Pablo authorities had to make

the most of my evidence.

Theitlioi business worried the old alcade not a little. The three witnesses

who swore to meeting Franeisco on the aiternoon before were reputable men.

On the other hand I was a stranger and

an American. Several times during th

day I was recalled to the stand and examined and cross-examined; The ut

most courtesv charactemea tne exami

nation, but it. had a latitude that would

not have been permitted in an Ameri

can- court. Frequently a spectator would interrupt with a Question, or

make a suggestion, to the alcade. Once

Francisco remarked that he was tired,

and would take it as a favor if the court

would hurry up!

lo wards tne close ot tne aay i saw a man on the outskirts of the spectators

whoso face and manner attracted my

attention. He was the very image of

Francisco, the prisoner.

I changed my position so as to get a better view. The -resemblance was wonderfully striking. He was just of Francisco's ace, height, siae and complexion. His sombrero shaded his right temple and prevented me from weeing, whether it bore the peculiar scar which disfigured the robber. His costume was the same as Francisco's, but, as nearly everybody wor homespun of the same or and pattern, this didn't excite my surprise, "If he has the scar," I muttered, "he could pass anywhere for Francisco. It would be impossible to tell them apart." Naturally I began to understand the alibi. The men who swore that they saw the highwayman twenty miles away from the scene of his crime at the very t oment he was trying my hands, might honestly be mistaken. They had seen this mysterious stranger. But they had sworn to the scar. Gould it be possible that the stranger's face bore Buch

a mark?

I determined to edge my way to him

in the crowd and accidentally knock off

his sombrero in order to look for the

fiery crescent.

When I reached that side of the building he was gone. I made every

effort to find him, but finally gave it up.

He had either left the room or had shift

ed his position, keeping other persons

between us so as to screen him from my

view.

As it was growing dark, four tallow

candles were lighted, but the gloomy

stone walls made the room look almost

as dark as ever.

I was wondering what would be the outcome of the case, when the lights

were suddenly blown out.

"Keep in your places!" shouted an alguazil. "Order in the palace of jus

tice!" .. .

The candles were re- lighted, and then

was beheld such a Bcene as-has rarely

ever been heheia in a court room or

anywhere else.

In front of thealcade's bench stood

two scar-faced men as mucn anae as

two brown peas.

"Merciful saints!" ejaculated an ai-

euazil. "Do I see double, or are there

two Franciscos?"

"It iB the work of the devil," sugges

ted a pious old man, as he crossed him self.

My friend, the old alcade, put on hia

spectacles, and looked flharplv at the

two men. , "Francisco!" he called.

TCanh of tho two mem gave a jerk of

his head, and auswered to the name.

"Let the American senor take the

stand," ordered the alcade.

In response to the questions put to me I admitted that 1 could not point

out the real Francisco.

Three witt esses called to establish

the alibi were recalled. They shared

mv bewilderment, and could throw

no light upon the casci.

ThA filftAdA snratahfid his head. Then

he touched one of the double! with his cane.

"You, now," he said, "what is your

name?" "Francisco," was the reply. . "Your residence and occupation?" "I have none. I am travelling about." The alcade turned to the other man. "What is your name?" "Francisco," "Your residence and occupation?" "1 have none. I am travelling about." Tho same answer, delivered in the very voice and manner of the first double. Seeing the aicade's embarrassment, I went to him and suggested that he imprison both men until the matter could be looked into. "I cannnot do it," he said. "One is innocent. If I imprison him I shall lose my place. Besides, the twelve hours will soon expire, and without satisfactory evidence I must turn both loose,"

I hintud that it was all a put-up job, that Francisco probably had a twin brother, who had arranged it to hav'e the lights blown out, and had then in the'dar!:nes made his way to the prisoners side, thus couftlstng matters with the intention of evading justice. "It matters aot," said the alcade. "Two men cannot be arrested, tried and imprisoned on a; warrant against one, nor can a warrant be issued against two, when it is known that only one is guilty. No senor, it is a hardship doubtless, but it is better to disappoint justice Until to do injusticej"

Then raising his head lie said: "The prisoners are discharged." Silently the crowi divided, leaving a

broad pathway.

Down the broad aisle walked the

franciscos. Each wore tho same scornful smile. Hach gave the same wicked

look out of his black eyes. Each made

the same low bow to the court, and

when tuey passed me they noticed that

the red Bear on each man's temple were

both tlie same size and of the same

flaming; color.

Out of the arched doorway of the pal

ace of justice, out into the darkness,

out into the region of the mvsterious and unknown, passed the two Francis-

cos, with not a man to follow or say them nafi The next morning my expected letter came. I was informed to lose no time in returning to the States, and left San Pablo at once. For all I know, the two Franciscos are still having a royal time down in Yucatan.

CITUiUSNCf.

THE PRESIDE Rift PElWRf

Piroit Free Press. ; The average Texan chews his weight in tobacco every four years, and it is needless to add that most of it 'is borrowed. Bont send any bustles to the cyclone sufferers in Kansas and Nebraska. The women out there don't wear 'em. They catch too much wind. The Philadelphia family which had a suicide, a marriage and a funeral ail in one day must be hustlers and Borne of them will no doubt run for office thU fall.

A Kentucky negro made a rush in

the night on what bethought was a calf. ril)B an umbrella aa she shouted"

It turned out to be the back ena ot as lT don't know whom vou ar looking:

Penalties of Greatness on Iu a Witnessed by a Tourist. '

Through an accident of travel I bap ; v

peneu tne oiner nigra vo w uu V ofMmai Pilnrim dllTinff thffc

trip hen she carried among her passen. gers the President's wifey his mother-in- -law, Mrs. Folsom, and General and MS Greely, with whom Mm. Cleveland and her mother have recently been wdtinft in Marlon, MassaGhufjette. r v - -: . ' . ar "Where is she?" exatee ah end-

innnalTT fah nrnman ira Ofl till tK Tfiftfc of

it . ' - - . . -. - : -

cnem, ana, use au iue ,reav uw M;,.p full of bundles. She poked me inlhJ

FARM NOTES, Mr. Elmer Atkinson reports Judge Biggie as saying he would give half his

farm if he could quit the use of tobacco. It is "the worst weed" with which this slave has to contend. A young colt may be taught to eat oats very early, and they are absolutely neceKary when the mare's milk begins to fail, or it comes time to wean him. Liv-a Stock Indicator. Many a good crop is sometimes almost ruined by neglecting to harvest it at the proper time. Corn fodder becomeii dry and weather beaten if allowed to remain too long in the field. Two quarts of linseed meal or the grain will make an excellent feed for horses in the spring. The best way to give linseed is to grind the grain with oatsand feed the meal with cut hay or straw, slightly wetted. Milk kept cold, we know, is not affected by thunder, and from this fact we reason that Smith is right when he says it is the heat that always accompanies the thunder that does the mis

chief, American Dairyman. When a man like Professor Arnold demonstrates the unfitness of koumiss for even the ordinary swill tub, he is attacked by the average editor and writer as thiugh he were reallj some great misanthropist, instead of the benefactor he is. O. 0. Farmer. Here is a bit of wisdom from the Husbandman: "A good thing for any farmer to do on a summer day when he can f spare the tima, is to take his wife in his best carriage, with a safe horse in front, and drive along neighboring farms to see how the crops look, how they are cultivated; to look at the orchards and gardens; in short, to get new ideas and the freshening that a day of! rest gives."

The Cottage at Mount McGregor. Uadiion (Wis ) Journal. . ' "While Gen. Fairchild was in the East receatly he paid a visit to Mount McGregor ani entered the cottage where Graat died. He says that it is a structure large enough lor the accommodation of a good siised family. It remains in eractlv the same condition in which

it was when Gen. Grant died. Even the clock stands there with the hands resting on the iijjureB where they were stopped by Col. Fred Grant as soon as he was told that his father was dead. An old candle, partly burned down, is alBC to be seen resting on a stand beside the bed the last light that Gen. Grant biew out before he died. The iurnitura stands around as it was when Gen. Grrjit was thereevery thing tb e same. A special endea vor has been made to keep things undistured, and there they are to day, just as the eyes of the great General gazed upon them for the last time. Dead jFridLiaiifc Debts, Eas'i Oregoniaa, " The debts oi dead Indians are paid

by their relatives," said an ex-merchant on Main street, Mondav- "When An

derson and Benhart," he continued,

"killed an Indian several years ago he

owed me $345. Since that time $338 of

this amount has been paid me by his

relatives. Kentucky died the other day

owine me $50. Already his relatives

have approached me on the 6U'jut and

made arrangements to pay the amount.

It :s a law with them to pay thedebts ot

thoir dea.d relatives and they never

break it, -1 ant sure of getting my money if an Indian dies owing me, hut when a white man die leaving no properly, no

matter how rich his relatives arc. I nfivp.r exuect to eet a cent;. Tuero is a

grtiatdeal of jjood about a dead Indian, anyhow," said the exmerchant, as he closed his conversation and walked afay. Microscopes. r.Chre is ho doubt, says a dealer, bu what the time will come when microscopes will be popular among both young and old as a means of amusement. The Manufacture are making more perfect instruments each year,and the increased demand lowers t lie price in spite of the improvements. Twentyfive dollars will buy a veiy fair family microscope, and $50 one that is capable of much scientific work. Every city Vim itR microsconicai societies, but what

I look for is email clubs in social circles. It is so easy ixi manipulate an ordinary

microscope, ana ine pleasure utmveu

from it so faicinating that social clubs,

if once in fashion, would jfival progress

ive euchre parties. A person who once becomes inteested in the microscope

never tiies of it, Aii Illinois Towu'u Harvest of Grapes. RetttUt dl spa toll.

The sleepy little town ot Nauvop, once

tho great and thriving city ot josepn

Smith and hie Mormon followers, is now alive to the gathering and shipment of tons upon tons of luscious; grapes. O vet-

one million pounds are now being sent

to different points in the United States, while tho vhitners send their wine to

all parts of the world. The grape crop is very largo, and the industry is grow

ing more profitable every year.

mule,and the the negro will always remember that it was. A woman at Bar Harbor has made $20,000 in five years in a summer laundry. The wonder is she hasn't made twice as much, but pet hips she divides with the tub-woman. More than a score of woman of Paris

have asked the police for permits to appear in male attirn. The stupid creatures have never heard of how suspenders break and buttons fly. Blindness has increased 50 per cent.

in this country in the laet ten years. Looking for the mighty, dollar probably has something to do with it, but looking at the last cent may have done more. The New York Telegram tells the ladies how to make abustle for two dollars. Its wisdom and money thrown away.

Three daily papers at three cents per copy is all the material required. Fifteen of the Protestant churches in Philadelphia have been closed durfng this month. A religion which can't stand a month of hot weather is not considered by the Quakers just the thing to tie to. A Cuban widow on a visit to New York wears $200,000 worth of diamonds at the dinner table. The drummer who sat at the next table got his soup first', however. His quarter counts more

than her diamonds. Within one year twenty-two men in this country have shot and kiled their wivco at night under the impression that they w ere burglars. The wife who slips out of bed to so through her husband's pockets must do so at the peri! of her life. " The New York World suggests that all governments agree to go back to the old wooden men of war, which would, be as fair for one as the other. Why not abolish all navies, which would also be as fair for one as the other.

American clocks are the only time

nieces which can be sold m Asia or

and that counts in their favor. Mosit evervbodv in thoss countries wants

time to hurry along to the end. i

A Boston tamily went on on a vacation, and the neighbors saw a cat in the

window and heard it mew pitifully. The Humane Society broke into the

house and rescued the feline from

starvation. It was a plaster of Paris

cat. .: L

for," I answered mildly She fell back witlvamassement, and without waiting to reply rushed after the crowd Jofl$ at that moment tiiere waa a diveiwon m my favor. The Captain, aided by half a dozen stalwart aailor3,iippeared,bMik-'

ing through the mass of the people, followed by General Greely, hia wife, MtSr

Cleveland and her mother, and brought them saf ely within rangei of their own state-room, which happened .to he om my side of the beat. While the marines; held back the crowd chairs were placed!

for the ladies just within the Btatcxooni door, and where they had some chancer ;

oi geicing a uitttiwrui aic w uuuv- uouv

eubiectea to ane as onisaing rauomw

of a thousand fellow-citiaens. The mar

rines were stationed twenty feet off to

prevent people from making a

way of that part of the deck, and; the

crowed fell away deeply diagUBtea,

doubtless many people decided that aucli

aristocratic exclusiveness was ; highly --.

improper in the ; wife of a man1 elected ?

by the whole people or a majority of?

them. . . - v .... :. ' ;

But the quiet was only temporaiy4

General Greely had just remarked inju voice intended to be heard at some diflrtc-

tance that he felt a if he 'belonged to ; menagerie, when women began to. , P -

pear apparently prepared for' a long..-

siege. The families of the tonntts had;

deposited their bag in theit starwmy '

or under convenient sofas, had wa8Mtt -v

themsel ves and had returnedj to iie fray refreshed and determined. The . decaf .

began to fill up, and the six marine

A on(-le2sed St. Louis beeear; wlo

"hadnt had a mouthful to eat for two

days,'' was pulled in by the police and

found to have $75 in his possession

They sent nitn up where he could get

three meals a dav for the next three

months. A New York stationer got out an en

velope listed as "Bismarck brown" m

color, and not a package could be sold. He changed it to ''Lincoln brown" and the color became popular at once. Toe

moral is: FUtronize home industry. ;

Henry Oleggy, of Meigs county ,Ten a. ,

has grown young the fastest of any man in this couutry. A week ago he was

105 years old. Three or four days later

the lost family record was discovered,

and Henry dropped back to ,88.

The superstitions of actors would fil

a book. Their egotism wrou!d fill two.

They seem to delight in ciingtog to eonie

odd belief to show their general ignor

ance, which they,mi3takenly think is a

sign of smartness.

The Poetical Old uentlcman. Boston Transcript. ;

One evemnsr not lone ago there was

arrested in this city an old gentlemen o;

nosition and of' cheery habits. The

policeman said he bad found the old gentleman on the street very drunk.

The complaint was ntered against him

but as he seemed to be able to get about,

he was released on his own recognizance

and sent home in a hack, which he paid

for with CTeat alacrity. When his case

came up in court the only witnesses summoned to .prove his condition wrere the policeman and the old family

servant of the accused, a faithful and

devoted retainer.

The policeman had given his testi-

monv. which was unoualifiedlv to the

fact of t he old gentleman's intoxication.

Then the old servant was called to the

stand. There was a mingled expression of indignation and determination on his countenance, fie testified flatly, to .the

surprise of the court-room, that the old

man was sober when he came home.

The nrosecutiuK attorney proceeded to

question. .

"You say that Mr. was sober

when he came home?"

"Yes, sir." . "Did he go to bed alone?' -"No, sir."

"Did you put him to bed?" "Yes, sir." . " And he was perfectly sober?" "Yes sir."; ' . ' "What did he say when you put him to bed? He said, good night.' " "Anything else?" "He said as how I waste call him early." "Anything else?" "Yes, sir." :.;. "What was it? Tell us exactly what he said, every word" "Ho said as how I was to wake and call him early for he was to be queen of thoMayl" The court-room roard. And in spite of the old servant's very positive testimony, the accused was convicted and fined. - . '

whf hftld the line were implored tc al

low Mrs. Cleveland to be passed in re-

view bt a few afca time. JJnfoitMatey

ly for the President's wife,-these maneu

ver were so ably carried on that tB

marines were withdrawn, and there was-;

a fair field for the display of stratagem

Would any one believe that ? no lesit

than five women actually went npw

the stateroom door and pushed it openi

with the intention of getting a look 2 Mrs; Cleveland, and then went gigging?:

ly and exultantly back to their irtendajv

with the account of their exploit? Two -

attacking partieS'Were made up rijghtin"

my neighborhood, and I was forced to; overyear both t results. .. t, " ;".-!Af;

"I shoved the door, and 1 says: 'Ex--

c use me, is WHS Jjars: crown s ,

room?' and then I backed vout as quick as possible, for I had a real gbol Iook $ r her. She is as pretty as a , j)iciurei,r

This came from a sharp-meed xanxep'v

woman , who had resolved to do or dis - v At the fif tli attack the latticVdoor closed and locked The next sjcking t party discovered thisf and thi it was; rumored that Mrs. Cleveland had gone -to dinner. It showed great strategic J

skill upon General Greely's part that he actually got his wife and la Cjtevelan nwn tn t.hft dinincf-room before the

t.h nnner deek had

discovered the move.

upper eex

than

She Would 'NofSTield

Chicago Herald. .,. ,; . Leonard Swett has returned ftqm his wedding tour, and he end his ride are? now enjoying reading5 Beverai- hundred letters of congratulations whicltaccumn-

lated during their absence, the gem ot

the collection is the following;

Leonard Sweet, Esq.,; .

Dear Sib: Your typewriter i

mine. Of the latter I can only n&: J v' . She clieks the keys v ": ' ; t , And she UnWes the bell With a practised ease r No tongue could telt . r Her nirablQ;rliigert fif ; , ;- Audit; " ;r J Well.Tsttby :" " l' J AndVateh thegirlv 9b sweet, o shy-' . . v And my hmin's awhiri,

For I love her.ltenderly And she? ' - V

And she clicks the keys, - And if Ishonldtell ' ' ;i J.-. ti " My love, she'd freeze : ; H - ,.' j My Wood with a sv3omfal ;- Whew! .'. , ' i.js . And w I congratulate 'vou V

kiodet

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sm . ' : Li .

His Vote Doesn't Count. .

Chicago Journal. ,,, ? ' v "I am told vour new election

giving satisfaction' remarked United. States Senator Beck recently es i n; Jre? clined in an arm-chair in the. lobby it the Pacific. uMy vot don't ccniit dowii in Kentucky1 4)e adde4'snidtihlyfsin the day negro suffrage became an assure ed fact. Theresa an old dai'kgr down there who offsets my vote Veyery time. He was once a slave in my family, bnfc he can never be wontover to the side of the Democracy.; On election day ;henever votes until he is made aware that I have put in my ballot, and then he" haudB in the, opposite ticket and goes oft into a crowd of blanks and whitea;

chucklinc, "I done kill Mafisa Beck-S

vote dat time suah.,,r-

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Snatching:, Knowledipe.

Brooklyn Eagle. 2 ' ; .. . 5. MYes, sir," remarked J Itoundtript "I am a poor man, and th s only fortune I can give my children is an education, and that they have. Ski ward is entitled; to write D. "D. after his namej Alfred;

and Clara each write M. A. afber theirst

and little Timothy is an. A, Bv AIH. my

children are university bred ," "Is iU

noBsible?" exclaimed the new mi

looking at the children

Yes, indeed," repliedgjhe

ly. Harvard,, Mr. Bdundmp? ma&

gested the new minister. "Nb,' said

the father, "they took the foiweeka':

course t vixuwuhu

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. Frolics in the Atlant ic, .. C 1 French Woman (at .Long BrancH)-

Oh, we hat sooch a fine time bathing m

de otcean.

vot yon call

American Wman A goshngl Why,a

oslingis a Httle tluckkv ' J-?

French Woman-t is.yoi he

-a leetle duck,

i ?i "

M'sienr Brcwn, no mtw 'em-a gosling WMW

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