Bloomington Courier, Volume 13, Number 46, Bloomington, Monroe County, 17 September 1887 — Page 2

BY H. J. FELTTT&

BLOOMISGTON.

INDIANA

Tnc receiver of the wrecked Fidelity Bank, of Cincinnati, has instituted a civil suit for $3,000,000 against the directors? of the concern, on the ground that thev betrayed -their official trust,

and are accordingly responsible in a personal way for the losses which occurred. As a matter of simple justice,

thev should certainly have judgment

rendered against them; ana a aecismn oi

that kind by the United States Court in w hich the question is to be passed upon would have a decidely wholesome effect.

JLIVE ANI IjEX BE.

A dispatch from Columbus, Georgia last -week reports the discovery and capture w of two wild colored men on Hermit Island, in the Chattahootchee river. They are aged probably fifty or sixty years, and have no intelligible language, the only word that could be understood being "dog," which they pronouneed distinctly. They were

entirely-naked and half-starved. There nails and teeth had grown long and hooked, so that they findjno difficulty in tearing fieshfroma carcass. The theory is that the men are escaped slaves who have been alone on the island for over twenty -two years.

Alfred Rrupp spent his life in devising instruments of death, big guns for killing people at long range and 'small gunsfor killing them at short range. How to kill people the most certainly and the most rapidly was Krupp's one all absorbing passion, and he succeeded splendidly, but unally Krupp's time came to die. He contemplated the inevitable at long range, but as the disease took a more resolute grasp upon him, he concluded that he must do something wor thy of the occasion, and he said', "My dear doctor, make me live

ten years longer and I will gladly give you a million." It was too late. If he had offered a tenth of that sum earlier he would probable now be alive and making guns. '. The public outside of Georgia are getting "inside" the convict lease system oi that State, and at each step another perspective of wrong and cruelty opens up. "The Atlanta Constitution," which is doing good work in the cause of humanity, asserts that "in spite of the continual outrages that have been reported for years from the convict camps, not a single lessee has been dispossessed of his lease or suffered one dollar so far as the public knows for his violation of -the law." Even in one of the cases we recently alluded to, it seems that the managers of the camp only, who have no financial responsibility for the lease, have been removed, and the lessses, who were coining money out of the misery of the 'convicts, will go right on with the old business at the old stand. An Augusta- paper declares that the removal has had no effect whatever with the work of the convicts. The same paper gives an account of a mother's visit to her son at the Augusta camp. She did not see him. He had disappeared and was thought to have escaped. The convictssaid he was in "very bad health," and unable to do hard work. He was "very thin and could not live long." The camp is described as being "surrounded by water three feet deep" and as "slow death" to the convicts. There is material here in the wickedness and

cruelty of these Southern convict camps for another "TJncle Tom's Cabin;" It is

well known that the tendency of the

-system has been to long sentences and other . hardships, because short-term

prisoners were less valuable to the

Live and lot be! The Alpine heaven is bright; .... Tired cloudlets sleep along yon azure sea; Soft airs steal by and whisper, faint and light, Live and lot be! Live and let be! Is it not well to rest Sometimes from labor? Live as do the flowers't Bask in the sunshine, lie on Nature's breast, Not counting hours? Nnt hopfUnt might, but on the Dale, worn chce

To feel tho warm breath of the murmuring

pine. .... And watch on many a rosc-ftushod, hoary peak Heaven's glory shine? Is it not well! Sweot, too, at wandering eve To list that melody of tinkling bolls, And hear old Echo in her distance weave Endless farewells! Night, too. hath here her music, deep and strong . Of cataracts, solemn as an ancient psalm, Whence the soul's fever, born in hcatand ihroilj! Grows cool and calm. Live and let be! .It will be time enough '. Hereafter to resume the great world's cave, When autumn skies are troubled, winds aie rough, And trees are bare. Then to renew the fight, the cause rewakeu, Dare all the strife, the burden and the pain, Rally the weak, the downcast, the forsaken, Liffcupagfliu!

And what thou doest then iu peace begotten, Shall show like peace, her looks and tones recall, And, all the frail aud faulty past forgotten, Bring good to all. Till theu let nothing past or future vox The uatrammcled soul 'mid Nature's freedom free; . . From thoughts that darken, questions that perplex. Live aud let be! The Spectator.

A Little Koad With a Biff Name. The New York Central, Hudson River and Fort Orange Railroad Company

is the very lone name of a very short

railroad some eight miles from Albany.

According to the company 's report to

the Railroad Commissioners oi the State the corporation was "formed Sept. 1,

1884, for the purpose of carrying freight

to and from the Fort Orange Paper Company's Works, situated near Castleton. Rennsselaer county, and also carrying and delivering to the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad all the postal cards, the same being manufactured and printed at their said works." The report also furnishes a description of the Liliputian road and its equipment that is most entertaining. Its main track is less than one mile in length in fact, hut 3,168 feet, to be accurate. The rolling stock consists of one locomotive, costing $2,500, and one passenger coach, which is leased. The cost of construction is given as heir g but $70Q0. Gross earnings from operation for year ending Sept. 30, 1886, were $2,280-, operating expenses for the same period, $2,224.21, leaving a surplus of $55.79. The wages and salaries paid amount to $1,225.68 per annum. The cost of fuel for the locomotive was only $36.50 general office expenses and supplies, $4.50. The Seasons of Suicides St. touts Coroner. Of the total suicides in a year over 50 per cent occur during the hot months of June, July and August. The melancholy days of Autumn, the saddest of the year, are strangely not condemned to self-destruction, yet one would think so. I figure it out that men drink more in the summer, and consequently they don't sleep well. You will notice that most suicides occur in the early morning. The testimony a) ways shows that the aer, has been preceded by a sleepless night; with consequent brooding over real or imaginary trouble. Irishmen rarely commit sucide. That is because they are brought up in nine cases out of ten as Catholics, and have the fear oi the future before them. Americans commit suicide to avoid . disgrace, or while broken up nervously at ihe end of a debauch. There is no case on re

cord in this office of a negro committing suicide, nor bave-I ever - heard or read of one any where. Utterly Incredible. Great Traveler Yes,they have some curious customs in Cuba. For instance, Cuban girls won't let their lovers kiss them 'tin til after marriage." Omaha Girl -"Very short engagements, I .rappoae?. fNo; sometimes the engagements last several years: 9 "An i during all that . time' they won't be kissed?" "Not once." y don't believe it"

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Fitteburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Tbcsun was sinking iroui sight in a mechanical sort of way behind Haycock iVIonnd, as, with complaining groans oi the half-greased axles, the wagon which bore Josh Lawhead and family, late of Missouri, crawled into sight around the bend of the creek road. Tall, lank and

pale faced Josh sat half doubled up in

the backless seat and gave voice to the

lugubrious song, whieh told of the maiden who Gave three shrieks for Hen-e-ry An' plunfced her body clown! The emphasis given to the "down" was something astonishing. At the end of every verse ho broke the monotony by bestowing a spirited

nop or two of the blacksnake whip upon the little line-backed mules, Jinny and Dock. The animals bore the blows with heroic stoicism tbat seemed to give color to the Western belief that mules arc destitute of the sense of feeling. As they came ahead of the clump of pawpaw trees that came close to the. roadside, the mules stopped with a suddenness and unanimity that very nearly threw Josh Xawnead, late of Missouri, off from the backless seat. "Wal," he remarked, with a broad current of reproach in his voice, "wal, what's a pesterin' you all now? What's yan, anyhow? Nuthin', I leckon. Giri dap!" The blacksnake popped fiercely on their mouse-colored hides, and "Jinny" and ".Dock" moved on agaiu. Josh resumed his song: 'She gave three- " A number of dark figures stepped from among the pawpaws. "Hello, thar, stranger!" one of these saluted. "Hello yerself, an' see how ye like hid!" the man from Missouri answered socially. "Who air you, and whur yer goin?" '.'What's a hangin' on my answer? Who air you 'uns, anyhow?" "We're peaceable." "All hunky, then. I'm Josh Lawhead from Dack yan in Mizaoory, an I hain't goin' nowburs in p'tic'lar. J est paekin ' the ole woman an child'en out to whar I kin git a claim." cVIn a hurry?" "Wal, no. Leastaways, I hain't a hurtin fer to hustle forard." "Then yer jist the man we want," spoke one of the dark figures. At that; the mop like head of a slatternly woman appeared beside that o the man from Missouri. An incredible number of childish pates, thatched with tangled, hay colored hair, tbrnst themselves from under the edge of the wagon cover. There seemed to be more yc4 inside who could not find posts of ob servation. "Great go v'nor!" exclaimed one. "Air ye pedlin' child'en in assorted sizes?" "Wal, hardly, podner. Thar haint but fo'teen on 'em." "Fifteen," corrected the woman. "That's a fack, by grip. I'd plumb forgot the baby. Butj what do you all want no me?" He drew a long, brown rifle up beside him as he spoke. "I haint stold nuthin'. Bought theso yer mules no Scott Tyler, over van" "Hold ob!" broke in one of the da:k figures at the road side. "We don't want you that a way. We want y r help, that's all." "Wal, o on with yer rat killin ' What's up, anyhow?" "Air ye in favor no tnovin the school house?" "Haint nuthin' agin hit, I reckin. It they 's folks as wants to move school houses, w'y, I 3ez let 'em rip!" "Light out!" "Which?" Bud up yer team an' git ! We hai n t got no use fer ye." " W'y? Lessen a minute ago you all wasmoighty peart to stop me, an' 'lowed you wanted my he'p. Now you all tell me to git. What's the difiiculty, anyhow?" "Hit's this a-way," answered one f the men. "We lowed we wanted yer help an' lowed to make it squar with

yon, but it yer in favor no moyin school houses, the beat thing you can do ia to bud the mules an' keep movin'. "P'raps I spoke tollable previous, as the feller said," remarked Josh Lawhead, slowly. "JVtebby I hain't in favor no the movin' atter I year all the argyment agin hit. I'm alius open to ar-ry-mentwen hit's to mv intrust to he."

he added slowly. "The whole blamed aftair is jest, this a-way," said Ellick Turly, after the man from Missoury had unharnessed the lineback mules, and with his wife and lightheaded children had gone into camp close where the shallow "draw" ran into the creek. "Hit's like this. Two months ago. right smart no the people in this districk " "District-number three," interrupted another. "Yas, districk number three " Ellick went on. "Right smart no 'em took theldy into ther heads that the school

house didn't stand whur hit orter

Wan W to drnc- lilt ott to one Side, oil

the districk, an'" "What fer?" asked the woman. "You tell," answered Ellick. ! never kin. Some fool notion, I reckon

Wal, they called a election, an at that eleetion thev anointed a committee t(

look up a now location. They lookec

one up an reported. Hit would make

right smart uv our child'en hev to go mile furder, but that didn't cut no finger with them. They were dead set on movin' hit, whuther or no." "But we'll fool em," broke in one cjf the listeners. I "You bet!" This from almost the entire circle around the camp fire, j 41 Wal, then they hold another election an' voted to move the school houst Vo the new place. We kicked, but hijt wan'f no kinder use, an' the word went out that the movin' would go on. Then wo rustled in dead earnest an' called another eleotin to reconsider the decision!. That takes place day after to-mor', an' every last one u v us will be thar, am' you bet yer life the majority '11 say nb move." "That's what's the matter!" agreed the circle. "But," went on Ellick, "thar hain't as many uv us as we'd like, an' so if you stay we 'low we'll find' the whole lay; out uv ye as long as ye want to slay." j By "find" he mant provide with thb

cseature comforts or life.

"It" you'd happen-to vote agin thi tnnvin' we won't? auaTrel 'with vou fci

hit. Wal, what do you say?"

Tho man from Missouri did not. am

swrer, and, as all eyes were turned upon

him, they saw that he was peacefully

sleeping with his back against a pawj-

yhiw'a ntp.m. His wife aroused him

with a poke in the ribs. "He didn't year what you all said,

hrt nnr.Wized. "but J did, an' I 'low

i r we'll stay."

"Don't zactly grip tho argument,

Josh Lawhead said'. "But Avhatevejr Soke sen goes, hey Suke?" "Yer mighty right!" answered Suke. Next morning, just as the man from Missouri was preparing to break camp, one of the "anti-movers" rode up. ijt was Ellick Turley.. "Hello, thar! Lighjt an' hev a tin of coffee." !

He did so, and, as he swallowed the muddy liquid, he told a tale that nearly choked him with anger. In order to forestall the decision of the coming election, the citizens who were in favor of moving the temple of laming had procured an outfit of house-moving trucks, and, in the gray of the morning, had started down the road with the shool house. "An'," went on the speaker, "I'm goin' to town an' git an injunction that'll block their little game. Wal, good-by." After he had ridden out of sight the group around the camp tire wTas silent for a long time, then Josh remarked, apropos of nothing, apparently: " Wal, I'll he dad gummed!" "Me, too!" replied Suke. When, a short time later, Josh Lawhead went to the scene, the school house was traveling slowly down the road, surrounded by an'exultant crowd of those who favored the moving. A grumbling group of the "anti-niovers" hovered near. The latter were rendered powerless by the rifles that were conspicuously displayed in the hands of the first-named citizens. "What's that a comin' down the road yan?" inquired one of the grinning

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"movers."

"Dunno, looks likea runaway cyclone." "H'its Ellick an' the Sheruf, I reckin," muttered one to Josh Lawhead in the rear crowd. As they arrived at the moving school house the "sheruf" (which, by interpretation, meant sheriff), read a choice assortment of legal phrases in a stentorian voice. The upshot of the whole matter was that an injunction of iron clad proportions was sprung upon the "movers" and the farther progress of the school house. Great was the wrath of the .baffled "movers," and had it not been for the presence of the sheriff the little crowd of grinning "antiu" would have fared badly. Exactly in lront of old Riley Henderson's gate, and scarcely six feet from it, the school house had come to a hah. Old Riley had taken no part in the struggle, but had viewed it with su

preme indifference. 'Now he came out red with wrath, ' "Yer!" he shouted, "take that thar dad blamed thing away from yer! Haint a-goin' to hev it stoppin' up my gate. Take hit away!" "Now, Riley " began the Sheriff. "Hainigot notime to jawer," broke in Riley. "Take hit away, you, Dan Bagley " to the owner of th3 trucks, "whip up, thar, an' gt from before my place." It was with the utmost difficulty that the Sheriff succeeded in convincing Mr. Henderson that the school house was there to remain, Spurred on by anger, a delegation of the "movers" hurried off to town and sought legal advice. There they obtained information that threatened to cause them to explode with wrath.

When the "antis" had appeared before the Probate . Judge, they had startled and wrorried him to such an extent that he wholly forgot to serve notice to the ' movers," commanding them to show cause why the injunction should not be sprung upon them. Instantly he made out the iron-clad papers without this. The result was that the school house was stopped, and there were actually no provisions for starting it again according to Jaw. Once served, the only citi

zen of the State who had the power to dissolve the injunction was the Judge of the District Court. That powerful gentleman was somewhere in the sunk lands of Arkansas on a hunting expedition, and was not expected to return for three months. Neither was his exact location known. Theo lection occurred upon the day set 'or it. The result was a tie, owing to the fact that Josh Lawhead, late of Missouri, voted against moving the scliool house. The "movers" labored long and hard with old Riley Henderson to get. him to vote upon their side. Thin he absolutely refused to do, declaring that ' bein's he couldn't hpv Jtiit moved when he wanted hit, he didn't' keer :i dnrn ef hit stayed thar plum tilt nixsz ground hog day." And, it bids air to do so. The entire neighborhood is? up in arms, as the saying is. Ban Bagioy, owner of the trucks, desired to get bojn from

beneath the house, but was debarred by the grim injunction. "Suke," remarked Josh Lawhead 'in confidence to his wife, this yei 's a picnic fer us.'' "Bon bet!" replied Suke. "The Jedgo needn'ter hurry home on my account. We're a:gettin' 'found1 as long as this rumpus lasts. Don't keer ef he don't git yer till next snow flies." "N'mme," answered Suke. Time only can tell how the trouble in District Number Three will end.

WHERE GOOD COFFEE GROWS.

CHRIS IAN HOSPiTALl TY

Some Varieties Cost TO Cents a Pound on tho Plantations. At tho Coffee Exchange yesterday ... 1 11 1 . ' 1 a

several wen Known speculators were

discussing the new boom in that market,

when the subject of the Mexican pro

duct came up. Said one broken "Prob 11 . 11 1 . -.1 iT . ."' . . .

amy xne nest conee in tne worm is

raised about Jalapa, but it never reaches the markets of the United States, for the

reason that; it is bought up seasons in

advance by resident English buyers for

the English market. The resident Ger

man buyers contract for three or four

years in advance for the crops raised in

the States of Vera Cruz,Tobasco,Colima,

Michoacan and Guerrero. Tho little

State of Colima has probably exported

more rich eoflee beans than all the other Mexican States put together, and at the

astounding price of 70 cents per pound.

A friend oi: mine- went down to try to secure some of this delicious product

even at the price mentioned, but he

found himself forestalled by the English, French and German resident buyers,

who watch with hawk like glance that

the letter and spirit of their contracts

with the Mexican planters are carried out,even to the extent of a single pound

of the bean.

"Jalapa is connected with Vera Cruz

by a steel railroad sixty miles long, ant

this country he describes as an Eden, The coffee nlantations are interesting,

and always slope toward the east. "When

tne plants are one vear am uiey are

transplanted into squares ten feet apart

with banana plants in between, so as to protect the coffee shrubs from the fierce rays of the sun. At this age they are

about two feet high, and they are never

permitted to attaiu a growth of over six

feet. The plant bears from the age o

three years, and, unless blighted, con

tinues to yield up to its fifteenth year.

wnenuis nsuauy uprootea ana sup

planted with a one-y ear-old sprig.

"The leaf is olive green in color, the blossom white, acd the berry itself a pea green. Each berry contains two

beans, which when ripe for picking turn carmine. The average earnings of the six-year-old coffee shrubs are forty cents and a plant from twelve to fifteen years old yields from $1 to 1.25 worth of beans yearly. Coffee is picked much as cotton or hops, and the peons earn about 25 cents per diem during the season. Upon the coffee plantations bananas and castor oil berries raised between the coffee to shelter it are sold at absurdly low prices. Last year the value of coffee exported from Vera Cruz was $1,000,000; Colima, $240,000; Chiapas, $96,00; Guerrero, $15,000; Michoacan, $153,000; Morelos, $83,000; Tobasco, $60,000; and Oaxaca, $88,000. No; we don't know in Jew York what really good coffee is. Coffee at 70 centB a pound on the plantation would cost a pretty penny here, even if we could get it." Piireort-Toed Men and Women. N. Y. Cor. Albany Argus. Nine men out of every ten are pigeon toed. I have made the same remark before, but I was the other day impressed anew with its truth. Something prompted me to keep tally of a few pedestrians on my mental abacus. I wras walking up Broad way,and quite a bustle

and rush of people contributed to the success of mv observation. Out of the

first twelve of whom I took notice,seven

toed out at angles varying from fortyfive to about five. Two toed out with

the right foot alone. Two more kept

their pedals advancing on parallel lines,

and one parson was flatly and uuequiv

ocally pigeon toed." I took no further

observation at the time, feeling that the

test had been a fair average one, and

that it would be safe to lay down the

axiom that nine men out of every ten,

as I said, are pigeon toed, meaning in a

qualified sense, that nine turn their

feet a any other angle than the right

one. I have sooken of men all

along, as no one ought to suppose that

I would be so ungallant as to scrutin

ize the attitude of feminine shoe leath

er for the ungenerous purpose of publishing the results to the public. Child La bor, the Last Resort of Poverty. Chicago. Herald.

In a single cotton factory in Cohoes over one thousand two hundred children

under sixteen yeais of age were found at work. All were densely illiterate and

so were their parents. The majority of

the latter signed the affidavits required by the insnectors with the"cross." They

could neither read nor write. Among the immigrant children lately landed at

Castle Garden the inspectors found less illiteracy. As in New York so in Massachusetts. In tho Bay State, one of the oldest American commonwealths, the proper officials lately reported 121,000

persons over sixteen years of age who were unable to read or write. Child labor is the last resort of poverty. If the head of the family is able to earn a living for his family he will not permit his children to work. Child labor is the spring of every evil which menaces the republic. It menus illiteracy, mental and moral turpitude and a proneness to crime. Sunk ly a Weasel. Hartford Times. The sloop Favorite, recently wrecked near Orient, L. I., was commanded by Capt. Anderson of Lyme, Conn., and was on her way to that port with a cargo of seaweed. The story is that while loading the weed they loaded with it an animal two feet long known as a beach weasel, and that tho animal gnawed a hole in the side of the little craft below the water's edge, causing her to founder during the night. When the boat tilled, says the report, the weasel clambered up the rigging, running or swimming from one place to another, until killed

by the sailors. V R are Set of Rooks. "What are scarcest books you know of?" asked a customer of a seller of old books in New York, (il think it is generally conceded," was the reply, "that the books of Henry S. lyes are the hardest to obtain,"

"1 Was a Stranger and Yo Took Me

In "

An Essentiality to tho Happiuestf of Hu

manity A He ward Iu the Future. Mr. Talmage preached at "The Hamp

ton's" last Sunday. His text was from

Romans, Chapter xii., v. 13 "Given to

hospitality" and his discourse as fol

lows;

There is danger that the multiplication of large and commodious hotels in

our towns, and cities, and villages will

utterly exterminate that grace which Abraham exhibited when he entertained the angels, and which Lot showed when he watched for quests at the gate

of the city, and which Christ recognized

as a positive requisite for enterng heaven, when he declared; "I was a stranger and ye took Me in." The first trial often comes in the whim and eccentricitv of the guest him

self. There are a great many excellent

people who have protuberances of disposition and sharp edges of temperament, and unpliability of character, which make them a positive nuisance in

any house where they stay. On short

acquaintance tney win oegin to com

mand the household affairs, order the employes to unusual service, keep unreasonable hours, use narcotics in places offensive to sensitive nostrils, put their feet at unusual elevations, drop the ashes of their Havana , on costy tapestry, open bureaus they ought never to touch j and pry into things they ought never to see, and become :im pervious to rousiug bells, and have all the peculiarities of a gormandizer or the dyspeptic, and make excavations from poor dentistry with unusual impliments, and in a thousand ways afflict the household which proposes to take care of them. Added to all, they stay too long. They have no idea when their welcome is worn out, and they would be unmoved by the blessing which my friend, Gerrit Smith, the philanthropist, asked one morning at his breakfast table on the day when .he hoped that the long protracted guests would depart, saying: Oh, Lord, bless this provision and our friends who leave us to day!" But, my friends, there are alleviations to put on their side of the scale Perhaps they have not had the same refining influences about them in early life that you have had. Perhaps they have inherited eccentricities that they can not help Perhaps it is your duty, by example, to show them a better way. Perhaps they are sent to be a trial for the development of your patience. Perhaps tbey were to be intended as an illustration of the opposite of what you are trying to inculcate in the minds of your children. Perhaps it is to make your home the brighter when they are gone. When ourgaests are cheery, and fascinating, and elegant, it is very easy to entertain them; but when we find in our guests that which is antagonistic to our taste and sentiment, it is a positive triumph

when we can obey the words of my text and be "given to hospitality." Another trial in the using of this grace is in the toil and expenses of exercising it. in the well regulated household things go smoothly, but ow you have introduced a foreign element into the machinery, and. though you may stoutly declare that they muBt take things as they find them, the Martha will break in. The ungovernable stove, the ruined dessert, the joint that proves to be unmasfcieable, the delayed marketing, the perplexities of a caterer, the difficulty of doing proper work, and yet always being presentable. Though you may say there shall be no care nor anxiety, there will be care and there will be anxiety.In 1084 the Captain-General provided a grand entertainment, and among other things he had a fountain in his garden a fountain of strong drink. In it were four hogsheads of brandy, eigh t hogsh ead of water, twentyfive thousand lemons,thirteen hundred weight of Lisbon sugar, fiva pounds grated nutmeg, three hundred toasted biscuits and a boat built on purpose was placed in the fountain, and a boy rowed around it, and filled the cups " of the people who came there to be supplied. Well, you say, that was a luxurious entertainment, and, oi course, the man had no anxiety; but I have to, tell you that though you had or propose an entertainment like that, you have anxiety. In that very .thing .comes, the Divine reward. We were born to serve; and when we serve others we serve God. The flush on that woman's cheek as she bends over the stove is as sacred in God's sight as the flush on the cheek of

one who,' on a hot day, preaches the Gospel. Wo may serve God with plate, and cutlery, and broom, as certainly as we can serve Him with psalm-book and liturgv. Margaret, Queen of Norway, and Sweden, and Denmark, had a royal cup of ten lips, on which were recorded the names of the guests who had drunk from this cup. And every Christian woman has a royal cup, on which are written all the.names of those who have ever been entertained by her in Christian stylenames upt cut by human ingenuity, but wrrit$en by the hand of a Divine Jesus. But, my frieuds, you ar not to toil unnecessarily. Though the fare be plain, cheerful presidency of the table and cleanliness of appointments will be good enough, for anybody that

ever comes to your house. John Howard was invited to the house of a noble man. He said: M will come on one condition, and that is that you have nothing but potatoes on the table." The requisition was granted. Cyrus, King of Persia, under the same circumstances, proscribed that on .. the table there must be nothing but bread. Gf course, these were extremes, but they are illustrations of the fact that more depends upon the banqueters than upon the banquet. I waut to lift this idea of Christian entertainment out of a positive bondage into a glorious inducement. Every effort you put forth, and every dollar you give to the entertainment of friend or ioe, you give directly to Christ. Suppose it were announced that the Lord Jesus Christ wrould come to this place this wTeek, what woman iu this house would not bo glad to wrash for Him, or spread for Him a bed, for bake bread for Him? You see e have passed out from the trial into the rewards of Christian hospitality, grand glorious and eternal. The

ursi. rewara oi vnnsuan iiuapiuuuy its tho Divine benediction. When any one attends to this duty, God's blessing comes upon him, upon his companion, upon his children, upon his dining-hall, upon his parlor, upon his nursery. The blessing comes at the front door, aud

the back door, and down through the Bky lights. God draws a long mark of

credit for services received. Unrist said

to his disciples: "He that receiveth you, receiveth Me; and he that giveth a cup

of cold water m the name of a disciple

shall in no wise lose his reward." As we have had so many things recorded against us in heaven, it will be a satisfaction to have written on unfailing archieves. the fact that in the month of May or June, or September, or Decem ¬

ber, 1887, we made the blissful mistake of supposing that we wrere entertaining

weak men like ourselves, when lo! they

showea their pinions beiore they left

and we found out they were angels un

awares.

Another regard conies m, the good

wishes and prayers, of our guests. I do

not think one's house ever gets oyer having a good man or , woniau abide

there. George Wlufeheld used to

scratch on the window of the room

where he was entertained a passage of

Scripture, and in one case, after he left, the wdiole bouseho d was converted by

the readinir of that passage on ihe win

dow-pane. The woman of Shun em furnished a little room, over the wall for Klisha, and all ages have heard the glorious consequences. On a cold, stormy winter night my father entertained Trueman Osborne, the evangelist, and through all ate rnity I will thank God that Trueman Osborne stopped at. our house. How many of our guests have

brought to us condolence, and sympathy

and help? There is a legend told of St Sebald that in his Christian rounds he

used to stop for er tertainment at the

hoase of a poor cartwright,. Coming there one dav he found the

cartwright and his family freezing for the lack of any :fuel. St. Sebald ordered the man to go put and break the icicles from the side of the house and bring them in, and the icicles were brought into the house and thrown, onthe hearth and they began to blaze immediately, and the freezi ng family gathered around and were warmed by them. That was a legend, but ho w often have our guests come in to gather up the cold, freezing sorrows of our life, kindling them into

illumination, and wTarinth, and good cheer. He who opens his house to Christian hospitality, turns those who are strangers into friends. When we take people into our houses as Christian a uests we take them into our sympathies forever. In Dort, Holland, a soldier with a sword at hiB side stopped at a house, desiring lodging and shelter. The woman of the house at fiist refused admittance, saying that the men of the house were not at home; but when he showed his credentials that he had been honorably discharged from the army he was admitted and tarried during the night. In the night-time there was a knocking at the front door, and

two ruffians broke in to despoil that household. No sooner had , they come over the door-sill than the armed guest, who had printed his piece , and charged it with slugs, met them, and telling the woman to stand back, I am happy , to say, dropped the two assaulting desperadoes dead at Ms feet. Well,, now there are no bandits prowling around to . despoil our houses; but how-of ten is it that we find those that have been our guests bucome our defenders. We gave them shelter first, .snd then afterward in the great conflicts of life they fought for our reputationjthey fought for our property; they fought for our souls. Another reward that comes from Christian hospitality is in the assurance that we shall have hospitality shown to us and to ours. In the upturnings of

tins life who Knows in wnat city or

w hat land we may be thrown, and how

much we' unw need an open door?

There may come no such crisis to us, but

our eiuitiren may ne tnrown into some such strait. He who is in a Christian

manner hospuable has a free pass through all Christendom. It may be that you will lave been dead fifty years before any swh stress shall come upon

one of your descendants; but do you not s appose that God can remember fifty

years? and the knuckle of the grandchild will be heard against the door of

some stranger, and that door will open, and it will bo talked over in heaven,

aud it wilt be mid: "Thai: man's grandfather, fifty years ago, gave shelter to a

stranger, ami now a strangers door as

open tor a grandson. Among the Greeks, after entertaining

aud being entertained, they take a piece of lead and cui; it in two, and the host t akes one hall of the piece of lead and the guest. .takc.3 the other half as they f art. These twn pieces of lead are handed down from generation to generation, and from family to family; and after awhile7 perbaps,one of the families in want or in 1; rouble go out with this one piece of lead and find the otlmr family with-the corresponding piece of lead, and no sooner is the tally completed than the old . hospitality is j.roused and eternal friendship pledged. o the memory of Christian hospitality will go down, .from generation to. generation, and from family to family, and the tally will never be lost, neither in this world nor the world to come. Mark this: i;he day will come when we .will all bt turned" out; of doors, without any exception, barefoot, barehead, no water in the canteen, no bread in the haversack, and we will go in that way into the future world. And I wonder if eternal hospitalities will open before us, and it we will be received into everlasting habitations? Francis Frescobaid .vasa rich Italian, and he was very merciful and very hospitable. One day an Englishman by tho name of Thomas Cromwell appeared at his door asking for shelter and alms, which were cheer:mlly rendered. Frescobaid afterward lost all his property, became verv poor, and wandered up into England; and one lav he saw a procession passing, and io! :it was the Lord Chancellor of England; and lo! the Iord Chancellor of England aras Thomas Cromwell, the very man whom he had once befriended dowrn in Italy. The Lord Chancellor, at the first :lance of Fir-escobald, recognized him, and dismounted from his carriage,' threw his arms around him, and embraced him, payed his debts, invited him to 'his house, and said:, "Here are ten pieces of money to pay for the bread you gave me, and hera are ten pieces of money to provide for the horse you loaned me, ami here are four bags, nn each of which are four hundred ducats. Take them and bo well." So it will be at last with us. If we entertain Christ in the person of His disciples in this world, when we pass up into the next country, we will meee Christ in a regal procession, and he will pour ail the wealth of Heaven into our 'lap, and open, before us ever' lasting hospitalities. And O ho w tame are the richest enter tainments we . can give on earih compared with the regal munificence which Christ will display before ouriaouis in heaven. . I was reading the acrount which Thomas Fuller gives of the entertainment pxwided by George Neville. Among other things for t'sat banquet, they had three hundred quarters of wheat, one hundred and four tuns of wine, eighty oxen, three thousand capoms, two hundred

cranes, two hundred kids, four thousand pigeons, four thousand rabbits, two hundred and our bitterns, two hundred pheasants, rive hundred partridges, four hundred plover, one hundred quail, one hundred curlews, fifteen hundred hot pasties, four thousand cold venison pasties, four thousand custards the .Eari of Warwick acting as steward, and servitors one thousand. ... .

O. what a, irrand feast was that! But

then cmpiire it with the provision which God has made tor us on high; that great ioanquet hour; the one hundred and forty and four thousaud as guests; all the harps and trumpets of heaven as the orchestra; the vintage of the Celestial hill poured into the tankards; all the fruits of the orchards of God piled on the golden platters; the angels of the Lord for eup-bearers, and the once-folded starrv banner of the

blue sky fictng out over the scene, while

seated at the head of the table shall be

the One who eighteen centuries ago declared: "I was a stranger and ye took me in," Our sins pardoned, may we all mingle in those hospitalities! A Olfiinese Ainicsthetic. Boston Jourim). A curious ansesthetic, used .by the Chinese, has recently been made known by Dr. H. lambuth in his third annual report of tho Foochow hospital. It is obtained by placing a frog in a jar of hour and i:ri hating it by prodding it. Under these circumstances it exudes a liquid, whi ch forms a paste with a portion of the flour. This paste, dissolved in water, was found to possess well marked anesthetic properties. After the finger had been immersed in the liquid for a few minutes it could be pricked with a needle without any pain being felt, a.nd numbness of the lips and tongue was produced by applying the liquid to them.

FASH 10 A NOTJKS. Beads about the size of a pea made of Swiss lapis lazuli are favorite necklaces for young girls. Pale colored leather of a grayish blue, faded rose, or gray enambledpn white a ttfttvniar on the nurses and card-

cases in use at this season. They are covered with enameling in figures of birds and bugs, or of ieai and scroll-work, the latest fancy being Kr reproductions of peacocks feathers. - ; Hat-pins and heavy-headed shell hair-

pins, tnrust in tne nair Denuu vy""

net to hold it in place, grow dailT inore

expensive ana ornate, some or tioc

have heavy pear-shaped gold heads, nT

which are set tiny cats' eyes. Pretty

ones, worn witn a Liegnorn nat trimmed, with buttercups, were many

faceted bails of amber set upon a shellpin. ; . , . . : Seashore umbrc llas'are of red and white or blue and white stripes, with long, sout handles of jointed bamboo. A knotted leather strap replaces the usual bow on the umbrella handle, and also serves to carry it by. The sun-shades are very large, and the end of the handle is somewhat sharpened to permit of ita being tnrust into tha sand. Red and blue hats of soft felt, to be worn sailing or on the tennis court, are made in shapes familiarized by the illuch trations of "Romalo." They are copies

of those worn by the long-haired youths

of Florence in the fourteenth centuryj but have been adapted for feminine use. The crowns are soft, and the three-inch wide brim turns up close to it in the

back; in front the brim ia much wider,

and projects some two inches over the face before turning up. They are inexpensive and becoming. The cheap jewelry for sale in the larger dry goods shops is much of it exquisitely pretty, and though they are only fleeting fancies, the designs show considerable taste. There are charming little brooches of silver frosted in colors and set with rhine stones. Some of these are skillful imitations of pansies, violets, wild roBes or ragged robins, of which the calyx is a single rhine stone. Little pins for holding the bonnet strings in place or fastening the laces about the front of square-necked and decellot gowns, come in many charming shapes; white violets, set with dewdrops

of brilliants, flowers of green, red and blue moonstones, with atinyrhine-stone spear, dragon flies with silver- filagree wings, bees set with raraets, little topaaes and fleurs de lis of pearls. The The newest are a pair of lady bugs of red and black enamel, with gold legs and antennae. . Rubies are extremely popular foi

rings, set with two diamond's of equal size on either side. These are set in three ways, diagonally across the ring, straighb across or m perpendicular line. This last gives a greater appearance of slenderness to the hand. Two other new fancies in rings are a large shield of gold, which has a narrow light ring, ihe shield being thin and beaten into rough archaic figures in relief. The other is a large oblong torquois, set amund with a double edge of very small diamonds. Torciuois necklaces are coming into favor. , . . : , .v" - Ear-rings decline in popularity every sesaon,and many of the younger women have never had their ears pierced at all. Those who have diamonds, however, continue' to wear them, and the only others that find any degree of favor are small jewels set on a screw and fitting close to the lobe of the ear. All long or heavy earrings are entirely out of date. A few women whose ears are not pierced "wear small diamonds with a little spring that clasps the ear on either side and holds the ornament in place, but they are uncomfortable and not very popular.

A CRIME OF THE AtfE. " ? 4 - Horrors of Jhife in ibe Newport. Ten.em cut Houses, . - i

Chicago Inter-Ocean. The moral depravity, social degrada

tion and unsanitary horrors of life in thetenement houses of New York are sefcy ;.; forth in an article by Bather Hnntihg- ". ton, published in ihe July EtnpmTiy ? philanthropic priest writes from a praor -; tical knowledge of the conditions, tiie' resr.lt of a long experience in exaioain ing the home Hfe oi the people as itrwas,..to be seen at all hours, and., at all times. What hi s feel ; ngs , were may . be easily1" ,

pr7ulatiou of some parts of New; YorfciU

is 291 uuu 10 c9 square mne; tnat m

block ot 1736 rooms 2,076 souls 'are- v , housed hlA thB,t in many instances from ten to fourn people? occupy rooms, in occasional instaiwes even one.' Almost all the bed rocis measure sevens : feet by nine, and hayeybut -one 4fHWP; ; and one window. The door : leds intp ; the apartment that serves for a kitchen, i' ; - ; '.-L- 'a. .-Iji-ft. . ":

parlor, sitting room, laundry .wa wu shop, and the window opens on close: . stairway, up wbich the moisture ftom the cellar arid sewer gas from the diliBi is continually rising. ; ; ::Z

People cramped halo such fetid, dingy? and close quarters must, n order to

live at all, have every door nd window

open in hofcweather, must flocfeto torn

roofs for auv must minele ireely witk

each other whether they are willing or not, arid such a thing as privacy is altov gether out of-the question. The -qnar.;

rels in one apartment are heard in dc. ens of other apartments; the brawls, thA ? ribaldry, the hideous projfenity from the ' drunken and debased, are uct limited to- v the quarters where they arise, bnfc penetrate even to the household of tther

who are fighting the hard 5ght of des peration to feed the childrim they can ? not rear in . purity Inisricy Iec6meli i saturated with vice, and ckUdren show . extraordinary maturity, so . early are they made to feel their respon sibility in. lookinz afteV themselves, i The soul

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drawn but uncolored by Father Himtr j ngton , of vice, squalor, oh iridifiTereice " to morality, of stolid- unconcern for thwBsii dignity of deahv when aa,f corpse lies iotz , two days in the roorii where the family"; . eats, works - and often sleeps." Thej f whole thing is horrible' withite brotality h its sensualism, its misery 4ts povertyts despair; and one is kath to believe thaji - such a state of affairs can exist inV ft'' God-fearing, Christian community, witk its sundrv charities and missions, itau U

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pretentious - philanthropies,, its palatial

club houses, and its scoreiold million

aire citizens. What wonder that frorni .4 this slough of degredation . there; f should go forth young girls to swell .tbe4; ranks of prostitution, and young boys to jinctease the army of criminals; and' , twice wonderfuMf perchance, one boy -' or girl flees in horror ftoni these sorroundings, eagerly seeking a healthier' sphere of action, where there is promise ' of escape from threatened riiin of bpdyl? -: 'and soul.; ;'.7. ;. . v ; v " -C. : ; ;c Something is being done to ameliorate- x. the condition of these wretched people '' not all of whom are dejprayed, bat ti something is little enough. New Ycrir , as a community is indifeint to ;tWft-'- ,'- revolting stain upon its fair fame as ,i Ohristiari "city. The citizens: thin1K themselves helpless to remedy the eyiUj. -acknowledged, and piously shake tlieiii ? heads when approached with the sub--ect. It is accepted as an inevitable ; adjunct of jeat city life, though in ihef ,; '. mmd of every mtelhgent person there isfe

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live is a great ball of magnetism, but

comparatively few have aii adequate idea of the influence this property is conlinuallv exerting on all sides, that

many common but inexplicable phe

nomenacan be traced directly to this

source. Statistics go to show that in the matter of steel rails, as many as thirteen will become crystalized and break, where they go to make, up a railroad track running east and west, before one of those on a north and south track is similarly affected. This-is entirely due to the magnetism generated by friction, and the fact that the polarity of the magnetic current is in the former instance resisted in the headlong rush of the train, whereas in the latter case it is undisturbed. Another strange effect of this - peculiar and occult force is that exerted on the watches of train men. A timepiece carried by the conductor running a train twenty miles an hour, however .accurate .it may be, will, if the. speed of the train is increased to say fifty miles an hour, become useless until regulated. The magnetism generated by ttie flight of a tralnmay b said to be-in proportion to the speed with which it is propelled, and the delicate parts of a watch, numbering all the way from 400 to 1,000 pieces, and peculiarly sus

ceptible to this influence by reason of the hammering and polishing they have received, are not slow to feel the effect.

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'T say, Jenkins, can 5011 tell a young, tender chicken from an old, tough one?" "Of course I can." "Well, how?" "By the ieeth." "Ghickej: 3 have no teeth." "No, but I have."

A High Tribute. A Texas gentleman traveling in a Pull man palace carin Pennsylvania happened to say that ho was from the Lone Star State.;, :- Jl . ' .; "Do you live in the western portion of the State?" aukeid a man opposite. 4'I do." . rv ... " ' ' . "In Tom Green county?" "That's my county. V "Live near Carson?" "That?s my town." "Perhaps you know my brother, William Henry Jones?" "Know him? Gimme your hand,

stranger. I helped hang William Henry

the night before I left. He was a horsetheif, but ajgood one."

Alligators Rampant. Sumntor (Ga.) RopulHin. , V It is said that the Muckalee abounds in alligators three or four miles up the creek, and that in the swamp near Ob amb les1 they are quite dangerous. Hogs disappear daily, and the 'gaters can be heard bellowing nearly at any

time. Some or them are from ten to twelve feet long, and when two old

bulls meet a fierce fight ensues. Some

of our sportsmen who like excitement can get a full supply tackling these huge fellows, as they like tbe fun, too.

the consciousness that in somerhmt

this great' curse can be cast off?

modern civilization. Earnest effort and persistent determiration could remedy ib$A wrong,- ihis huge social crime. Better houses could be, built, a

better sanitary condition secured, a removal of children from the demoralizing' en vironments could be eflected, J In this, as in all other vital concerns, the

will to do

plish.

1 Chicago is infinitely better off than New York, but there are districts in thisj, city from -which there in a cry cpii stantly rising, like that of , Macedonia ofcf old, "Gbme;and help us, come and save . our children Tie truth is, we are bnt in the infancy of social reforms. We are -. just beginning to learn how to do oni duty with reference to the pbverty-fet.. .; teied, crime-cursed members of great . communities, and we Beerl Just the in: Btruction that comes from- free, fearless, frequent agitation of matters that relate ' to special classes and conditions, but Jt

deeply concerii aih Oeniuries of trialhave proved the inefficiency of penal '. provisions against crime aiid criminals. We have only now found out that the -i way to kill off the criminal classes is by saving the young men themselves; byv taking them put of the atmosphere of r crime and giving them a start amid

moral conditions, letting ihenct see the

value, the usef ulness., and the possible beauty of -their lives. Beforms must begin at the beginning, audi the publicmust be taught. to- know that it is false to a trust when it nermits to exist snchT

evils as Father Huntington describe!; The great ciimes of tlus ago 'a fined in the statute books;v but they are written in the hearts of aU . true philanthropists. f 4 ' The Standard Oil Company with its

untold millions Of property, doesn car ry a dollar- of .insojiiii.co;. . althoujiit losses by tire are normous. . . How does -: it get its money back fioni it puts up the price of oil 4op ';.dy :' W two. The price of oit to dealers is made ;4 oveiy dayup a fracUoh? rof a cantor down a fraction of a cent, as th e case c may be. When a big tan k of oil burns - ;v np the price is put up en ough to pay : the loss several v times over. The ;:id

vance is maintained untUiihe company thinks it hn got enough, and theji .theC,

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