Bloomington Courier, Volume 13, Number 48, Bloomington, Monroe County, 1 October 1887 — Page 2

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THE COURIER.

Tl PLUMB LINE,

BY H.

J, FELTT7S.

BLOOMINGTON.

INDIANA

Straight Up-and-Pown Religion the Proper Kind.

Tntx flies. Who can realize that x

has been over six years since Garfield's

death-Sept 19, 1881.

Sisck LSSO our manufactured pro

ducts in silk has grown from a value of

$24,519,723 to over $50,000,000.

Hon. Wir. M. Evakts, of New York is a lineal descendant of Roger Sherman

nf the tismers of the Constitution.

Thk Chicago petition to the Governor

for the commutation of the sentence of

the condemned Anarchists affirms that

"such action will conduce to the peace

of the State." This is too much like an implied threat that the peace will be

rfuttiTharl if the law takes its course. If

thaw is an v doubt as to whether law

and order are supreme in this country,

tho nnestion would 'better be settled

right now.- :: ---

The number of State elections taking

AU Tliat the Great World Wati to Make

it Ilnppy tot Good be the Guide and Heaven la tho 3Rosult Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the

Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Sub

ject: "A Straight Up-and-uown Keiigion." Text: Amps, vii., 8. He said:

What the world wants is a straight

up-and down religion. Much of the so-

called piety of the day bends this way

and that, to suit the. times. It is hori

zontal, with a low slate of sentiment

and morals. We have all boon Diimung

a wall of character, and it is glaringly

imperfect and needs reconstruction.

How shall it be hrougnc into xne per

pendicular? Only by the divine rueas

arement. "Ana tne iora saia 10 mo,

Amos.. what seest thou?' and 1 said, A

plumb line.

The whole tendency oi tne tunes is w

make us act by the standard of what

others do. It they play cards, we play

cards. If they dance, we dance. If they rea l a certain style of books, we

read them. We throw over the wall ot character the Tangled plumb line of

other lives and reject the infallible test which Amos saw. The question for yon

place in November this year is unusually should not be what von think is right, small- In six only of the thirty-eight but what God thinks is right. This per-

petuai rererence iu ui-.' ueuuviui ui utu-

Commonwealths will State officers be

fthoapTi in that month this vear. These

are Iowa, .Maryland, Massachusetts,

New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania, The elections take nlace November 7th.

Rhode Island and Kentucky have al

ready held elections. The former took place on April 6, and the latter Aug. 1.

The Swiss authorities are to be com

mended for their decision in prohibiting Monnon missionaries from further nroselvtinc in that country. Switzsr-

land has been hitherto an exceptionally fruitful field whence Mormonism drew fresh strength and blood, and this de

cision wilt be one of the most telling

blows is has received in many a day. If

now Germany and the other States of

Central Europe will follow the example

set by Switzerland, they will richly de

serve the grateful thanks of every friend of good morals in this country, and aid materially in checking Mormon growth.

The refusal of the clerk of the New

York Superior Court to accept Herr

Mo3t's preliminary declaration of intention to become acitiaenof the United

States has served to call general atten

tion to the fact that there is a law oi

Congress which provides that before a

man i admitted to citizenship in this

country, he shall have resided here at

least live years and "shall have be

haved as a man of good moral charac

ter, attached to the principles of the

Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the cood order and

happiness of the same." The rigid en

forcement of these provisions bv all

iL' r ji . a J s.i

omcera iiavmz unties cunneuieu wuu

process of naturalisation is desirable

for evident and forcible reasons.

Even Ireland appears to be sharing

in some of the prosperity which many

of the leading countries of Europe and

their dependencies are enjoying at the

present time. In the first half of 1887

there was an increase of 3 per cent in

tne ermines ot insarauroaus, as com

pared with the corresponding time in the

previous yeart and an important growth

in tne aeposrt3 ot joint stocx ana sav

ings banks. Unfortunately, however,

these material advances are accompanied

by an increase in t he use of whisky .

This; of conrsa, may be considered, in

some slight degree, an indication of prosperity as it shows that money is

more plentiful in Ireland than it has

been for the past eight or ten years. StilHhis increase in the consumption

surprising, when it is borne in mind that in England and Scotland, where

there has also been a growth in business suitivity, less whisky is now used than in any previous period of the same

duration-for several years past.

Ins frequency oi the attempts recent

ly m&de to wreck rafcoad trains proves con cl asiyely that either the laws against that species of deviltry, or the manner

in which these laws are enforced, need f a pretty robust revision at once. A Mexican law affixing the death penalty to o flenses of this class,, and the pro

ceedings preliminary to carryine the

penalty into effect were so simple and

summary that in many cases the cul

prits were placed securely under ground

before the railroad authorities had time

to clear the wreck and start the train on its journey again. The law was on, the

statute book about three years, and was repealed a few months ago. According to American notions, of course.

this law was barbarous. It should be

rememberedin extenuation, however.

that it was far less barbarous than the

ers, as tnonjiii u neoineu anyimng nut

human fallibility, is a mistake as wide

as the world. There are ten thousand

olumb lines in use, hut tmlv one is true

and exact, and that is the line of God's

eternal right. There is a mighty attempt beins made to reconstruct and fix up the ,Ten Commandments. To many they seem too rigid. Tho lower of Pisa leans over about thirteen feet from the perpendicular, and people go thousands of miles to see the graceful inclination, anol by extra braces and various architectural contrivances it is kept leanmg from century to century. Why not nave the ten granite blocks of Sinai ret a little aslant? Why not. have the pillar of truth a leaning tower? Why is not an ellipse as good as a square? Why is not an oblique as good as straight up and down? My friends, we must have a standard; shall it be God's or man's? The 'divine plumb line needs to he thrown over all merchandise. Thou sands of years ago Solomon discovered tho tendency of buyers to depreciate goods. He saw a man beating down an article lower and lower, and saying it was not worth the price asked,and when he had purchased at the. lowest point he told everybody what a sharp bargain

he had struck, and how he had outwitted the merchant. Proverbs xx., 14: "It

is nausrht it is naught, saith the buyer;

hut when he is srone his way he boast-

eth." So utterly askew is society in

this matter that you seldom find a seller

asking the price that he expects to get He puts on a higher value than he proposes to receive, knowing that he will

have to drop. And if he wants fifty he asks seventy. And if he wants two

thousand he asks twenty-five hundred.

"It is naught," saith the buyer. "The

fabric is defective: the style of goods

is ..x poor: .. I .... can get elsewhere

better article at a less price; it is out o

fashion; it is damaged; it will fade; it

will not wear well." After a while the

merchant, from overpersuaeion, or from

a desire to dispose of that particular

stock of 2O0iis, says: "Well, take it a

your own price," and the purchaser

oes home with a light step and calls

into his private office his confidentia

friends and chuckles while he tells how

that for hal f price he got th e goods. In

other words, ne lied and was proud of it.

Nothing would make, times so good ano

the earning of alivelihoodso easy as the

universal adoption of the law of rignt.

Suspicion strikes through all bargain

making. Men who sell know not wnetn

er they will ever get . the money. jnr

chasers know not - whether the goods

shipped will be according to the sample

And what with the large number oi

clerks who are making false entries and

hen absconding to Canada, and the ax

plosion of firms that fail for millions o

dollars, honest men are at their wit

end to make a living. He who stands

up amid all the pressure and does rich

is accomplishing something toward tho

establishment of a high commeTcia

prosperity. I hae deep Bympatny for

the laboring classes who toil with hand

and foot.

But we must hot forget the business

men, who, without any complaint o

bannered processions through the street

are enduring a stress of circumstances

terrific. The fortunat ) people of to-dav

are those who are reserving daily wage

or regular salaries. And the men mos

to be pitied are those who condu ct a

busineps while prices are. falling, and

vet try to pay their clerks and employes

and are in such tearful straits that they

would quit business to morrow if it wer

not for the wreck and rum of others

When people tell m at what a ruinous

Iv low price they purchased an article

it gives me more dismay than satisfac

tion. I know it means the bankruptcy

and defalcation of men in many depart

ments. The men who toll with the braii

need full as . much sympsthy as thos

who toil with the hand. All busines-

life is struck through with suspicion

and panics are only the result of wan of confidence. The pressure to do wrong is all th

stronger from the fact that in our da

the large business houses are swallow

mg up the smaller the whales dining on blue-fish and minnows. The large

houses undersell the small ones because

they can afford it. They can afford to

make nothing, or actually lose, on sotfie

styles of goons, assured they can make i

up on others. So a great dry goods bouse

cops outside of its regular line and sells

booki at cost or less than cost, and that

swamps the book-sellers; or the drv

goods house sells bric-a-brac, at -lowef

practice it was directed against, and that

the miscx-eants whom it dealt with were figuresthat swamps the small dealers fully as deserving of death as the Chi- ricSbra(r M the same thing goes

cago anarchists who are to be hanged

November 11. It was on the Btatute

bboE for aT brief perio onrtyButrit

has succeeded in making train wrecking

in Mexico as complete a novelty as it

wonld be in Ethiopia or below the Ant

arctic Circle. If the various States of

this -country should use a little of the

vigor and intelligence displayed by

M?x?.oo, this class of malefactors would

on in otner styles ot mercnancuse, anr

the consequence is that all along the tl . m . ... it

ousmess streeiaoi our ciues tnere arc

merchants of small capital who are in

a terrific struggle to keep their head

anove water. This is nothing against

the man who has the big store, for every man has as large a store and as great r.

business as he can manage. To feel

ngncano ao rignt unaer an this pres

sure requires martyr grace, requires di

vine support, requires celestial reinforce

ment. Yet there are tens of thousands

soon become a missing link in the species f sach men getting splendidly through.

or American criminals.

Daktn at Bis Word. Saratiau. ......

"I s'pese you'd take a man's last cent

for a drink here?" exclaimed a respecta

bly-dressed individual with a red nose as he walked in and leaned on the bur

of a Railroad Place saloon yesterday.

"With pleasure," replied the affable

attendant. The first speaker ordered a drink of brandy, which he quaffed . with

an appreciative gurgle, followed by a smack of his Hps. Reaching down into

the corner of his pocket the customer resurrected a red penny, laid it on the

counter and astonished the bartender

with the two words: "Last one!"

They see others going up and themselvea

going down, but they keep their patience

and their courage, and their Christian

consistency, and after a while their turn

of success will corne. The owners of the

big business will die and their bovs will

get possession of the business, and, with

a cigar in their mouth and full to the

chin with the best liquor, and behind a pair of spanking bays, they will pass

every thine on the turn -pike road to

temporal and eternal perdition. Then

the business will break up, and the

smaller dealers will have opportunity

Or the spirit of contentment and right

feeling will take possession of the, large

tirm. I know of scores of great business

houses that have had their opportnn it v

of vast accumulation and who ought to

quit,. But perhaps for all the days of

f his generation, tn a struggle of small houses to keep alive under the over

shadowing pressure of great hows will continue; therefore, taking things as

they are, you will be wise to preserve

K ': -i 1'. ,.: ..: " -

That Veto. Isay, Pat, what does President Cleve

land wear red, white and bine suspen- your equilibrium, and your honesty.nm

j eijji .1 jym.inuu, miki niuv ly.uvui nu hud vuuir

irsrea wmreana ome, is itr w en heads, and cotton-bales, and rice-casks,

sor, I can tell yez. its to show his pat i the measuring imo of divine right.

in the same way. we need to m as

ure our.thoiogie8. All sorts of religions

are putting forth their pretensions. Some have a spiritualistic religions and

their chief work is with ghosts; and orb

rp a religion or politics, economy, pro

posing to put an entl to human miserv

. . . - j- p j . t

ov a new siyie oi taxation: ana -tnere

is a humanitarian religion that iooks

riotigm 4iKo.w . . ..... "Well, thin, its to mak' up wid the so'diers for that vato o the pinsoner8.,, "No,fV -. . . , 4 - "Fhwat fur is it thin?' '

after the body of men and lets the soul look after itself; and there is a legislative religion that proposes to rectify all wrongs by an enactment of better laws; and there is an iwsthetic religion that, by rules of exquisite taste, would lift the heart out of its deformities; and religions of all sorts, religions by the peck, religions by the square foot and religions bv the ton all of them. Devices of the devil that would take the heart away from the only religion that will ever effect anything for the human race, and that is tho straight up and-do n religion written in the book, which begins with Genesis and ends with the Revela

tion, the religion of the skies, the old religion, the God-given religion, the everlasting religion, which says: "Love

God above all and your neighbor as yourself." All religions but the one begin at the wrong end and in the wrong place. The Bible religion demands that we first get right with God. It begins at the top and , measures down, while the other religions begin at the bottom and try to measure up, The stand at the foot of the wall, up to their knees in the mud of human theory and speculations and have a plummet and a string tied fast to it And they throw the plummet this way, and break a head there, and throw the plummet another way and break a head there, and then they throw it up and it comes down up;Vi -J- 'lift

on tneir own pate, rooicu wny wm

you stand at the foot of the wall measuring up when you ought to stand at the top measuring down? A few days ago I was in the county, thirty after a

long wane. Ana 1 came in, anu my child was blowing soap-bubbles, and they rolled out of the cup, blue, and gold, and green, and sparkling,, and beautiful, and orbicular, and in so small a space I never saw" more splendor concentrated. But she "blew once to often and all the glory vanished into suds. Then I turned and took a glass of plain

water, and was refreshed. And so far as

soul thirst is concerned, I put against all

the glowing, glittering soap-bubbles of

worldly reform "and human speculation one draught from the fountains from under the throne of God, clear as crvs

tal. Glory be to God for the religion

that arops irom above, not coming up

from beneath!

I want you to notice this faet, that

hen a man gives up the straight up

and-down religion in the Bible for any new-fangled religion, it is gener&lhr to

suit his sins. You first hear of his change of religion, and then you hear

of some swindle he has practiced in

Colorado mining stock, telling some one if he will put in $10,000 he can take out

$100,000, or he has sacrificed his chastity, or plunged into irremediable worldli-

ness. His sins are so broad he has to

broaden his religion: and he becomes as broad as temptation, as broad as the

soul's darkness, as broad as hell. They

want a religion that will allow them to

keep their sins, and then at death say to them; "Well done! good and faith

ful servant,,' and that tells them: "All

is well, lor there is no hell." What a

glorious heaven they hold before us!

Come, let us go in and see it. There is

Herod an 1 all the babes he massacred.

There is Charles Gniteau,and Jim Fisk,

and Robespierre, the friend of tne

French guillotine, and all the liars,

thieves, house-burners, garroters, pick

pockets and libertines of all the centuries. Thev have all got crowns,, and

thrones, and harps, and scepters.

My text gives me a grand opportunity

ot saying a uaeini wora to an y oung

men who are now forming habits tor a

lifeiime. Of what use to a stone-mason

or brick-layer is a plumb line? Why not

build the wall by the unaided eye and hand? Because thy are insufficient, because if there be a deflection in the

-qsiU.it cannot farther on be corrected.

Because by the law of gravitation a wall

must oe straight m order to he sym

metrical and safe. A young man is in

danger of getting a defect in his wall of

character that may never be corrected.

Kememoer tnat tne wan may he one

hundred feet high, and yet a deflection

of one foot from the foundation affects

the entire stucture. And if you live a

hundred years and do right the last

eighty years you may nevertheless do

something at twettty years of age that

will. damage all your tjarthly existence.

All you who have built houses for your

selves or for otners, am I not right m

saying to these young men you cannot

build a wall so high as to be indepenent

of the character of its foundation? A

man neiore thirty years ot age may commit enough sin to last him a life

time. A cat that has killed one pigeon

cannot be cured. Keep it. from killing the first pigeon. Sow; John , or George,

or Charles, or William, Alexander, or Henry, or whatever be your Christian

name or surname, say here and now: "No wild oats for me, no cigarettes for

me, no wine or beer for me, no nastv

stories for me, no Sunday sprees for me;

i am going to start rignt ana iceep on

right. God help me, for I am very

weak. From the throne of eternal righteousneas let down to me the principles by which I can be guided'in building every thing, from foundation to capstone, .'But," you say. "you shut us young folks out from all fun." Oh, no; I like tun. I believe in fun. I have had lots of it in my time. But I have notj had to go into paths of sin to find it. No credit to me. but because of an extraordinary parental example and influence I was kept from outward transgressions, though my heart was bad enough and desperately wicked. I have had fun illimitable, though I never swore one oath, and never gambled for so much as the value of a pin, and never saw the inside of haun t of sin save as when ten years ago, with Commissioner ofj Police and detective and two elders; of my church, I explored the cities by midnight, not out of curiosity, but that I migfit in pulpit discourse set before the people the poverty and the horrors of underground city life. Yet, though I never was intoxicated for an instant, and never committed . one act of dis

soluteness, restrained onlv by the grace

ui uuu, wiuiout w men restraint; a wonin have gone headlong to the bottom of infamy, have had bo much fun1 that I

don't believe there is a man 'on the planet in the present time who has had

more. Hear it, men and bovs. women

and girls, all tjae fun is on the side of right Sin may seem attractive, but it is

leathfut, and like the manchincel. a

tree whose dews are poisonous. The

only .genuine happiness is in an ; honest

Christina life.

Oh, this plumb-line of the everlasting

right! God will throw it over all our

lives to show us our moral deflections.

God will throw it over all churches to

show whether thev are doing useful

work or are standing instances of idleness and pretense, T He will throw that

plumb-line over all nations to demon

strate whether their laws are iust or

cruel, their rulers good or bad. their

ambitions holy or infamous. He threw

that plumb-line over tho Spanish Mon

archy of other days, and what became

of her? Ask the splintered hulks of her overthrown Armada, He threw thai

plumb-line over French imperialism.

and what was the result? Ask the ruins

of the TuHleries and the fallen column

of the Place Vendome and the grave

trenches of Sedan, and the blood of

revolutions at different times rolling through the Champs Elysees. He threw that plumb-line over ancient Borne, and what became of the realm of the Caesars?

Ask her war eagles, with ber k dulled and wings broken, flung helpless into

he Jiher. Uh, sick and diseased, and

sinning and dying hearer, why go trudging all the world over and seeking hero

and there relief for your discouraged

spirit, when close by, and at your very

eet, and at the door of your lie art, ave.

within the very estate of your own

consciousness, the healing waters of

eternal life may he had, and had this

ery hour, this very minute, 1his very

Sabbath? Blessed be God that over

against tho plumb line that .Amos saw

is the cross, through the emancipating

power of which you and I may live and

live forever!

"A WAY OF MAIS' MOOiXS."

0 Spring's a coquette, for ebo will ana she'll not; Sliecnjoles and deludes; sbo blows cold artd blows hot. Is she fair? Does she smile? Are her soft airs caressing? nave a care? 'TisaguUe; she in only finessing, 1 met her one day by a daffy-down-duly. The flht! She was tcmotiug Persephone's lily. Big Uoreas blustered a)ong and the jilt Danced off with the wind, leaving daffy to wilt. And I longed for tho summer to come. And Summer came, buxom and debonair, With a sinuous step and a rose in her hair : With rou n d red lips and great blue eyee, That were part ot her own deep, cloudless skies. Out Summer grew fervid; her love became pain;

She sighed like a furnace, wept hot gushing rain;

Ilcr round lips parched and a misty liazo Crept over the blue of her earlier days,

And 1 waited for Autumn to come.

And Autumn came, a nut-brown maid

In a thousand garish tiuts arrayed,

found her so lissom, so witching, so gay

In a hazel copse, watching the squirrels at play.

She tied and I followed through woods and o'er

moors, ......

Wherever her golden and purple robe lures,

Till at last the enchantress gave me the slip

In a grim, gray fog that she blew from her lip,

And I longed for the Winter to como.

But Winter was stately, grave, severe, A haughty dame and something sear, Whose girdle, like chaste Diana's, shone,

An icy belt, an arctic zone;

Crisp of speech, with a chilling air,

Nipping love ere love was aware. Then I said to my sea coal fire,

Fruitition is death, but love is desire, Let us pray for the Spring to come,

HEROINE AND MARTYR

Translated from the French, I.

The French army has lost the day!

For tho last three hours the soldiers

crossed the village of Chailie. The re

treat had commenced. Cannon, haggage, infantry, cavalry, all were mixed

together. The officers tried no more to bring order and regalarity among their

men, or to stop their disaster. Towards the evening the retreat ha

become a helter-sVelter, tho vanquished decreased in number, a few cavalry men

and then nothing.

Bnt in the last rays of the sun the

people of thr village saw a dozen of soldiers coming on the road. From time to

time they turned around and fired shots

at the enemy.

Far off, a black spot, then two, then

twenty, then a hundred, detached

themselves on the line of the majestic

trees.

These black spots were the Germans!

Arriving in the village, that dozen o

Boldiers forming the rear guard was what

was left of ?he rear guard of the army o

La Loire; they stopped.

The captain who had commanded

them had chosen a good position be

tween two big houses.

"Hurry upjboys," said he to his men'

'we will erect a barricade here. It shal

not be said that the sauerkraut eaters

have entered this village as in a church

Burst open the doors if it is necessary

and once more hurry up."

That captain had the tone hrm, and

his face expressed anger and determination; his men, old African zouaves n nd

Tutcos, enraged fighters, were not ap

prentices in the art of building barri

cades. In less than a quarter of an hour

the street was made impassable by cars

of manure, mattrasses, doors, shutters

in fact everything bulky was employed

for that purpose. The captain, .who had picked up

gun on the battlefield, was reloading it

when a tall mar with a pale face ap

proached liim.

"Excuse me, captain, are you the of

fleer in command?" "Yes."

"Jjeheve me. sir, renounce to den na

this village against an enemy twenty

times, one hundred more numerous

than you are. You shall not be sue

cessiul, ot course, and you win cause

our village to be set on fire by the Ger

mans."

The captain looked at his in terloeu tor with an immense expression of dis

gust.

"What do you sayY Will you go

away mighty quick, or else I shall send

you to"

And the captain took the man by

the neck and was in a way to strangle him. when a tall old man with white

hair emerged from a house near by. "Lee him go, captain, he is no

worth the straogulation. My name is

Pierre and I'm a vine fdresser," said the

old man addressing the officer. Then,

turning to the co ward, he added: "Go to

your home, monsieur the mayor; if you

ar6 unwilling to do your duty, at least

do not prevent others to accomplish it. You see, -captain, that mayor is a monsieur from the city, sent to us by the imperial government: all his fortune is

9 . 9 - in this village, in which he owns sever

al buildin&s. and if the Germans set

them on fire he shall he ruined. I am m3fself in the same- case; if my cabin is destroyed I do not know what will re

main for my granddaughter Jacqueline.

But what do vou want, sir? France.

our country before anything.

The captain was touched, and remov

ing his cap he said to the patriot:

"You are a brave man and God bless

you." "An

John L Bnllivan should take he contract to exterminate the English sparrers.

old soldier," replied the vine

dresser, straightening himself. "There is my Cross of the Legion of Honor given to me by the emperor himself, the

great Napoleon! Now, captain, if you have a gun to lend me, I will show you that 1 know how to handle it." At this moment lively musketry was heard from the other side ot the barricade. The Germans were coming.

The village was deserted by its inhabitants, women, children, cripples and old people had departed, taking with them everything they could carry. The able-bodied men were in the army. . The battle begun; the bullets whistled in the air and flattened themselves against the walls. The French held the plaee well and Papa Pierre, the vine dresser, bare headed, his hair to the wind, fired his un bravely, while his granddaughter loaded the firepiece after each discharge. Suddenly, a bomshell burst at ten yardsirom the barricade, "Sncre N de D!" exclaimed the cap tain, "they bombard us now, ,in ten minutes we will have to go if" H-i h.id no time to end his phrase when a second projectile passing through the roof of thft shelter covered him and his soldiers with duBt; happily no one was wounded, alone Jacqueline had ut

tered cry. The emotion was too much for the girl-she fainted, "You must retire, captain," said Papa Pierre to tit& ogjcerj but I will remain

here. I some cartridges left; I shall fire them off. Go!"

"Never!" exclaimed the captain. "We

shall die here."

"I tellyoUjto retire, you are respon

sible before God and before the country

or the life of your men. To remain

here is simply madness and not bravery.

How can you defend this village with

guns agamsi cannons, wit n twelve men against five hundred?"

"It is better to die on French soil in

fighting than in a German prison."

"But you will not be taken: leave

immediately that barricade that you

cannot hold any longer; turn on the right when you reach the end of the

villaae, and take a refuge in the forest."

"AndJyou?" "I! I am too old to walk." t We shall carry you." "No, thanks; in this village I was

born; in this village I want to die; be

sides that, I confide my Jacqueline to

yon, captain. Have you any children yourself?"

"Four." "Then I am tranquil on her fate. A.dieu. captain! Adieu, soldiers, my

young comrades, and Vive la France!'

II. The Germans advanced. The firing had decreased on the French side; all

at once it ceased completely. Papa

Pierre had no more cartridges left.

He opened his door, entered his cabinj

threw a glance on tho Mkeness (ft his

granddaughter, then on a wooden cruci

fix and awaited the enemy.

One bv one the Germans climbed

over the barricade. "Ah! there he is, the old devil," ex

claimed a six-loot corporal, was sure

of seeing him firing at us."

That corporal, nermann by name,

had been a workman in the village of

Chailie for years, and he knew every inhabitant intimately.

A colonel, pushing his way through

his soldier, said to Papa Pierre: . "Show your hands, man." The old man showed his hands. The were black with powder. . "Kill him," yelled the officer.

Hermann thruBt his bayonet into the breast of the old man. A moment Pa

pa Pierre struggled on his legs, then fell

face downward.

The brave patriot, the valiant sol

dier was dead.

"Quick bring some straw!" cried the officer. "Let us burn that village as we

did Bazeille. That will teach a lesson

to those rascals of Frenchmen."

Hermann had not left the house. He lighted a candle and descended into the

cellar.

Ah! ha! He was to get a good drink

of Papa Pierre's wine. The old scoundrel: so it was he who had resisted his

comrades so long and killed not a few

of them. He had no regret for having assassinated a defenceless enemy, the

man who protected his home. Had he not refused him the hand of his grand

daughter and promised her to Francois,

a soldier of the Third Suaves? In re

gard to him Hermann had joined the

German army as he was in duty bound

to do. being a German and he had al

ways wished for a thing, which was to

return to the village where he hat

found hosnitalitv and work when he

was in need of both to settle his accoun with Papa Pierre, the vine dresser. " And his wish had been granted.

He was in the middle of his joyfu reflections when he heard some one call

intr "Hermann! Hermann!" He rec-

o . -- ognized the voice of Jacqueline, who

regaining her senses, had refused to fol

low the captain and his men, and had

returned in search of her grandfather from the top of the ladder conducting

to the cellar. She was looking inside and she saw the assassin corporal, whom

she knew well.

"Hermann, in the name of God, did

you see my grandfather?"

"Well, yes, I did. Now, will you be my wife?" asked he, drinking from a bot

tle he had taken in the cellar.

"Oh, Hermann, tell me where he is."

"WhP.rp. he is? Mv dear and hand

some Frenchwoman, if they have no

changed his resting place he is there on

the floor near the table where I stretch

ed him out with my bayonet."

He tried to climb up the ladder, load

ed with bottles.

"Oh, miserable wretch!" exclaimed Jacqueline. Quicker than the wind,at the moment

when the head of the German appeared at

the level of the floor, she took him by his long beard and th rew him back into cellar. Then she shut the heavy trapdoor, put across the heavy iron bar that was used to fasten it and went out. "Who is that woman?" said the colonel. Arrest her and let us go." The incendy began. From the four corners of the village the flames ascended toward heaven. When they were about 200 yards from

the village they stopped and a first sergeant read the roll call.

All answered their names but one-

Hermann! . ..

"Where is that brute?" asked an offi

cer. . - - .

Many answered tnat they had seen

him in the youug girPs home.

"Brintf her here," commanded the

i

colonel.

When Jacqueline stood before that

officer he said to her in French;

"Do you know where is a corporal

who remained in your house?"

She answered not. "Ten volunteers here! Tie that girl

and load yoar muskets."

The muskets were loaded. "Aim!" ordered the officer. " Will you speak no w,French woman?' ' Jacqueline threw a glance at the vilage in fire. The cabin of her dear ber oved grandfather was a heap of ashes. "Yes, now I will answer you. Your

brigand of corporal is in grandfather s

cellar, in which I have locked mm up.

"Fire!" And Jacqueline fell as her grandfatlv

did, er face downward.

But she had avenged him. May God grant me to live long

enough to avenge her!

BODIES BUK1ED AT ME A.

by active and continued rubbing, It may also be cured by exercise and fresh air.

Kun green clovr. rve. wheat, oats or

corn through the feed-cutter, set to cut

in half-inch lengths, ard feed to fowls

This is the soiling

svstem applied to pdultrr-keeping, and

works admirably, as those know who

have tried it.

The people of Siberia buy their milk

frotfen, and for convenience i t is allowed

to freeze about a stick, which comes as a handle to carry it by. The milkman

leaves one chunk or two ehunks, as the

case may be, at the house of his customer.. ..... . .., . . ..

Neglect to spread ditch-banks often

gives trouble at mowing time, and makes

unsightly places. A sharp spade to out

line and to cut into blocks, a potato

Steamers Have no Mean of Keeping Them. When a death occurs at sea a certificate if. filed containing all information

as to the probable causes which produc- confined in yards.

ed death, and alio as to the manner of disposing of the body. The bodies of persons who die at sea are kept twentyfour hours. In bygone times a superstition prevailed among sailors that if a dead body were kept aboard a vessel destruction would be its inevitable doom, but the notiou does not eaist among

modern sailors. Monday, Aug, 3, Rev.

B. B. Dayton, of Amboy, N. Y., while

returning from abroad on the Ounard

steamer Efcruria, died suddenly and his

body was buried at sea. The action of

the officers in thus disposing of the

body gave rise to much adverse criti- drag to haul out and a long -handled

cism, bome oi the passengers said that shovel and corn hoe to nniBh up witn

the services we:re not of a becoming are the needed tools.

nature. This report has reached the

ears of the dead man's wife and family

and their friends. In order that tho

facte of the case might be understood

tho following statement was made by

the officers of the ship:

"I he body was discovered dead in

the utateroom ;about 9 o'clock Monday

evening. Immediately the doctor of

the ship made it ready for burial. After

the usual preparations were completed the remains were laid out and enshrouded with an English flag because that contains a cross. Tuesday morning the

body was sewed up in canvas and then deposited in a wooden box, covered over with the flag. Solemnly and with every evidence of respect the remains

were carried on the shoulders of eight

sailors to the after-gangway. Chief

Officer Seccomb, a humane and Christian sailor, had charge of the f uneral

arrangements, A few moments after S

o'cl oek Tuesday morning the ship'B officers and a large number of the cabin passengers encircled the body and the 0 1 1 .

mir.erai services were conducted dv a

minister, one of the passengers. At

their conclusion and when the minister

read the words 'I now consign, this body to the deep,' the box, heavily

weighted down with iron, was slid into

tho ocean. No secrecy prevailed, and

everything waa done in a proper and

orderly manner, being witnessed by

any of the passengers who were so de

sirous." A burial at sea is a solemn and imj "i . ..

prssaive evem, ano not many passen

gers iixe to witness it. a death at eea

easts a gioom over tne rest o i tne pas

se ugers, and naturally enough the officers try to do everything connected

wi th the buiial with as little ostentation

ana display as possioie. un every

steamer the custom is to bury the dead at sea. The captain of the ship is the

sole arbiter in this matter. Whenever

it is possible the body :m carried into

port, providing the officers are convinc

ea tnat tne ooay win oe claimed upon its arrival. All seamen are firm sup-

porters oi trie ineory tnat an persons

dying on the high seas, unless a short distance from port, should be given up

to the deep. On a heavily-Iajlen steam

er no room is provided where a dead

body could be possibly preserve I. The medicine chest usually carried does not

contain the necessary articles required

to embalm a. body.

The French and White Star lines carry metallic coffins, and where the

menus oi a oeceasea person manliest a

desire or are anxious to undergo the ex

pense the body will be preserved and

carried to port if it can be done without

danger to the other passengers. Numer

ous cages have occurred where men of

wealth and distinction traveling for

their health have been buried at sea

simply Because tney were unaccom

panied and no evidence of who they

were could be obtained. No law exists, as some steamship men claim, that

makes it compulsory upon the captain

of a ship to bury a dead body at sea.

AX.ONE. Btia earth tUfm nd pulses atir. And each day fcath Its deed; But if I be dead to her: What ia the life I lead? ... , Cores the cuckoo for the wood .When the red leaves are down?" Stays the rohln near the brood When they are fledged and flown? Yea we live; the common air To both its bounty brings, : Mockery!- Can the ahient share The halMontfottan things f Barren comfort ftfhcy dole ... To him that truly sees? Sullen earth can sever souls' -i . -Far as the Pleiades. . ,

Take thy toys, stepmother Earthr- . Take force of limb and brain;;; All thy gifts art little worth '

urn ner i and again. ' . Grass may spring and buds may stir Why should mine eyes take heed?' -h j For if I be dead to her y; Then I am dead indeed. .... . " Andrew Hedbroke in Atlantic Mqntiuyi

A practical farmer Bays that in setting

posts where great solidity is required he

uses gravel and small stones to fill

around the posts and then runs in thin

water-lime mortar, thus virtually imbed

ding the post in rock, preventing decay

and insuring solidity. ....

The black top Spanish merino is now

being extensively bred in West Tirginia

and Pennsvlvania. They yield delaine

wool , and tne carcass weighs about 150 nounds. Breeders who have stuck to

: ... - - the Spanish merino for years are now

going pell-mell into breeding black tops.

The value of the hen manure from a

Bingle bird for one year has been iesti-

mated at fifteen cents. At this rate the

total value of the manure jrom all the

poultry in the country in the country

in 1180 would be $ 9,000.030. The total

value of the ferti ixers manufactured

during the game year was f 23,6&0,7t5, 1

TKADE AND LABOR.

Philadelphia Record.

Labor in the iron and steel mills is

overtaxed.

The woolen outlook m much better

than it was a month ago.

Railroad construction is calling for all

the common labor that can be had.

A machine has been made which

makes either a wire nail or a cut nail.

Twenty-five tons of wire is the daiiv

output of a new Chicago wire-mill.

Take care of the pence and the ab

sconding cashier will take care of the

pounds. ; ;

Two thousand men have just been

started making narrow-gauge rails at

Carondulet, Mo.

The Lake Superior ore output this

year was thirty tons for every twenty-

three tons last year.

The vapor-stove manufacturers will oool their interests in Oleveland. the

home of the Standard.

The natural gas company has struck

Tennesse. and a company has started

operations at Oliver, that 8tate.

In a comparatively short time all the large industrial establishments Eaa

will be lighted by electricity.

The largest knife-grinder ever made

is in use at Fitchburg, Mass., and weighs

between three and tour tons.

.... The shoe manufacturers are pleased

with the active demand and good

prices realised for boots and shoes.

The cutlery manufacturers have ad

vanced prices from IS to Si per cent, since their combination went into eftect.

All the coal miners in and around Bvansville are on a strike. Cause: Want

higher wages. Probably 10.000 men

are involved.

A seven month's stova-molder's strike in St. LouiB has been declared off, and

old hands are forced to seek employ

ment elsewhere.!

The Mennonite colony of silk-growers in Ka sas are encouraged by State

contributions and by liberal prices from

Eastern consumers.

xne largest steel ingv.c ever cast in

England weighed seventy tons, was sixty-

two mcnes m diameter, ana was tor a

BY THE MARSH.

Away by the marsh in the depth of the wood Our lily bloom stately and fair, .... . And the dragon-fly cornea to the lily's retreat to bash ia the warmth of thr sensuous air. The cat-tails bend rakishly each uato eaeh.ami ... nod as they think of the feiiss ..j.- ,

That each will enjoy when the day shaB has

end, and the south wind eomea back wttk

For the sun drew the wind away from their haunt, and lavished him rich with IbejvV

gifts of his gold; . ., .

But night will release him and unto the masifer

hs will bring all his riches, this wants. i

. .. v .--. v rr

bold;

FOE THE CURIOUS.

becomi

FARM NOTES.

Kansas mines annually abotit 6,61

000 tons of coal.

Dueling among women is

fashionable in France.

The electric light is now being usod m

the Scotch fisheries with great success ;

A violin, made for Louis XIV;, l'

just been sold at Buda-Pesth for $8,590.

The Japanese have lately been exain;

ining the German broweriea with a view

to native production.

The Bulgarian government htm tlua

year given orders for 24,000 meddte WW

th y army, for "bravery '.' i

A child was bom in a Philadelphia

patrol wagon while its' mother was be ing taken to the almshouse. .'.vr.-. y ; ; 4 1

A new republic, called the Republic

of CounanL between Brazil and French' 6-uinea, has been declared. 7 ";

The "Melograph-' has been invented,

by which a person can improvise on a

piano and have the music recorded.

A California girl- was recently cored

by faith, hut on the way home her hots ran away, and she is now wpise aa ever..- .- r;,. . -: I

Sir John Lubbock says that among

certain hill tribe of India it is a mark of,

respect and gratitude to put the thumb to the nose. , f, "..r: ..is:-. . ! : Sir William Armstrong's new gun b resist torpedo attacks is a thirty pounder and develops a muzxle velocity of 1,M0 feet per second; ' . j . Five thousand Protestants recently celebrated the ediet of toleration of Louis XVL, upon a peak of the (Deven- . nes mountains. ; j The oldest law Bait in DUnpis; has been on the docket fortytwo years. K began about a $S hog, and has cost th principals $7,000; . .: , InSubiette, 111., a swarm of bees have been making their home for the, last fourteen years between the floor of one' room and the ceiling of another. v Providence, R. has a freak ot nature that is attracting considerable at-? tention. It is four kittens that arejoined together at the abdomen bjr a lig-, ature. The fashionable Swiss hotels now have American bars, presided over by handsome Swiss girls in native dresa. This is said to account for the withdrawal of English patronage. X The latest estimate of the sun's temperature at the surface is from 40,000 to 100,000 degrees centigrade, while near the center the temperature may easily be from 10,000,000 to 30,000,000 deffPees Dr. Jessun of the British Medical Aa

lgg

Couldn't Give the Countersign.

Puck. .. .

"John," said through the Keyhole of.

the frontdoor, 4,i8tmu your-

"Yesh m' dear' replied John. "Well, 'trnlyrurar is the eounter

sign to-night"

uTooly loorah" So John slept in a hotel that night.

A preferred creditor m one who never I

asks for his money.

Potato growers in California are

vd over the success of the plan

ping potatoes to Chicago.

Raw onions, chopped fine and mixed with the food twice a week, are said to

be a preventive of chicken cholera.

The freshest esus are heaviest. Placed

i n a pan of water they sink; older eggs parti v sink, aud stale ones float on the

wp. ,

Pyrethrum is not poisonous to verte

brate animals, but a liUle of the dus

blown upon an insect of almost any kind

is sure and speedy death.

Althonah tho crops oi iruit have ndt

been largo this season the prices ob

tained have allowed of a fair profit to

?.hose who produced two-thirds of an

average crop.

A force pump throwing spray is used by some poultrymen in throwing whitewash and other lice killing liquid into

the cracks and crevices of tho poultry quarters.

The small potatoes may be cooked

and fed to the pigs and poultry. Always

sort out the potatoes and hw,ve them as

uniform in size as possible before mar ksting them.

The terms "Durham" and "Aiderney"

are no longer applied to cattle. The

Durham is now known as the shorthorn

and the Alderney is now the Jersey and G-uernsey. ' A cow in milk should never be driven faster thaa a walk. Good cows have large and well filled udders,whieh cause pain to them if they are hurried or driven on a run. The weeds must be killed, and the least laborious and surest way of killing them is to hit them with a sharp hoe the very moment they put their heads above the ground. Fine manure for crops is more valuable than coarse. Hens can break up manure better, perhaps, than any one of the machines invented for the purpose. Scatter some wheat over the pile and turn them on. .. The original stock of tho best occurs wild on the shores of the Mediterranean sea, in Greece, and grow wild in some of the islands of the Atlantic ocean. This is the common mangold of which there are two sub-species. A Saratoga, K. Y., farmer reports that he keeps crows from pulling the corn by scattering a J?ew quarts over the field for them to pick up, and repeating it if necessary . The crows eat enough grubs and cut-worms to pay lor the corn. NewEugland larmers aUribute the disease known as weak loins iivdiojzs to lying in hot-house manure. It is a

rheumatic trouble, which may be cured

gun to be forty feet long.

The Brockton, Massif Shoe Assembly,

which numbered l,f0frs members a year I sociation, sayis that the wearing of high-

ago, is now practically out of existence, I heeled shoes so alters the center of graT

of ship- so says its chief officer.

Sundav factorv labor in Germany is I "tailless apes, who walk on their toes.

elat-

enforced by the sharp competition be

tween employ ers.and an agitation which

will arrest it is likely tD set in.

An English mechanic with an "Hon

before nis name lias maae an engine which makes 10,000 revolutions per

minute, and which can be increased to 80,000, ... All Western machine shops seem to be crowded, but labor organizations there are warning Eastern mechanics

not to imagine that they can Jump into

situations easily. A larger percentage of European labor will remain on this si4s of the Atlantic

this winter than usual, to build bridges

open mines, erect shops and manufacto

ries, and do all manner of ordinary la-

bor.' tm

So far this month 36,296 laborers struck, three-fourths of whom were miners. One thousand Boston cigar

makers struck against the employment of apprentices, and 2,800 iron roll turn

ers and others struck nt Pittsburg.

Strange as it mav seem, after all our

..... .... : '". . ' extraordinary expansion in iron and

steel making, consumers are obliged to

import large quantities of Bheet,sections,

iron and hoops. Low prices have some

thing to do with it.

. River and lake craft ate multiplying

in the West, and about $ 20,000,000 is

soou to be invested in plants and equip

ments to turn out boats. A $5,000,000

plant is to be built at Alton, 111., to con

struct ocean and river steamships.

A Philadelphia textile firm that 'came

into possession of the textile machinery

of ten ainerent mills, selected tne most serviceable in all of at and located it

under one roof at Atlanta, Ga, where yarn from No. 10 to. No. 26 is turned

out;

An Important Point.

Omaha World. . . .. ...

Cld Lawyer "I don't like that case

and am sorry that you took hold of it.

Young Lawyer "Oh, it's all right.

We'll win."

"Have you arranjijed for the wit-

nenses?"

"No, but X hav arranged for the

- - mesk'-tx

ity as to cause a return to the habit of

m

ury

JuSt IiOtC.

Texas Silting. .. . . .

Judge You were up here once before or being drunk and d isorderly, Sam Johnsing Yes, sah, onotbefoah, 'How much did you get that time?"

I Gitt Why, boss, I had ter shell out

"How much did didn't git nurling.

$10 and cosiesses

A Pittsburg street ear driver says that

his horses suffer severely on Snndaye f from the lies, because on that day there are so few horses on the streets that;' those that draw the cars are about the only ones on which the hies can dine, Microbes are responsible; Jtor; manyithings. The latest theory of indigo ia that ot M. Alvarez, a member f the. French A cademy of Sciences, who eay that it is a prodnct of fermentation de- -termined in a ieeial resembling that of pneumonia. 5; Mount Williamson, in yd eouniy ; Gal., towering above Independence oaa-; the southwest, is said to be the irrand-

est peak in the United States aching r an altitude of 15,000 feet, a large portion of the northern side being a sheer descent Two of the three peaae are inac?

cessible. and; but two parties ascended the other! .

PLEASANT PABAttBAFHS.

The dosing of the mortgage may be called' the epd of Lent. ' ' . ry ' Political stock thatdedareenoldividend

is a drug on the market . 1 --:-M It's queer that Qeorge Washmgtfi never wonting journalismi ' .

often obliged to hunt up ms "ilncle." 5

enough to make, himself iuisanr stood." , . ,v:;. ; ; 1 Texas 8if tings: It is the silent watchea, h of the night that render aam ,elec necessary. . ' ' iv ;,. J .. ' To call a New York banker eon . now is sunlcient; to cnaej i.v9iv on his bank. :..lC' ";V Three years undisturbed possession of i

a setter dog will destroy the vera:ity ofi the best.man in America, ' 7.- i '

did

The Pitoher at the Well;

Sunday-school Teacher--Wluit

the woman of Samaria .take . to the

well?". - ?r-

Pupil "She took a pitcher." "What did she take the pitcher to the well for?",. . ,r; . ' ":t v , S "She wanted tou drewn bim because

he couldn't make the up curve.'

Progressing Finely. Citizen (to base-ball manager) -How

is the third baseman's hand getting on.

Manager (hopefully) Nicelyi He

thinks that by the end of the week a-

will be able to draw his