Bloomington Courier, Volume 13, Number 49, Bloomington, Monroe County, 8 October 1887 — Page 2

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THE COURIER. i BY E J. FELTT7S. BLOOMINGTOtf INDIAN A

II mm f GOD

Christ Paid the Ransom Through Death on the Cross.

The tests to we made by the Internal Revenue Bureau of the various kinds of beer made in phis country, are for the purpose of determining whether or not the Government is being cheated in its revenue. Commissioner Miller notices that the receipts from the whisky tax have decreased several million dollars, and that these from beer have increased. He argues that it takes so much

alcohol to make a man drunk, and that it is necessary to drink more beer or other liquid containing a smaller percentage of alcohol, than whisky, to produce a given effect. The increased consumption ot beer and the decreased consumption of whisky leads him to the conclusion that there is either less drunkenness now, or that there is more alcohol in the beer than there used to be. The tests' will decide the latter point, and by inference, th former also. They will also disclose to the public the ingredients "whit:h enter into the liquid known as' bfer, the composition of which' is a matter of much importance to its consumers.

PROHIBITION DEFEATED. Tennessee Votes on the Proposition t. .. - - and Defeats It. . A proposed amendment to the constitution of Tennessee prohibiting the manufacture and sale for use as a beverage 01 intoxicating liquors was voted upon Thursday. The election passed off with remarkable quietude all over the State, no disorder of any kind being reported. In Nashville and Davidson county it was the most remarkable election ever -held. The feature of it was the oresence of ladies at the polls, working and pleading with voters to cast their ballot for theamendment. Lunches, with hot coffee, wore set at all the polling places, and whenever a man presented himself to vote the anti-ticket he was surrounded by the ladies, argued with,, and every stubborn man prayed for and regaled with sacred songs. -Such a sight was never before witnessed in -Nashville. The voters showed universal-reanact for the ladies, and, there is no doubt that to their presence is due the cutting down of the anti-majority in that county. In the Sixth ward, of Nashville, the anil's rallied their forces eariy, and were vo tin g in soli nlattoons from five to fifty. The -Prohibition inert were discouraged to the degree that they deserted the polls. Then the ladies rallied, sent out for reinforcements of their sex, and bravely stood in the breach, pleading and praying with voters until the polls closed. Even those masculines who deprecate participation in politics by women are forced to admire the bravery displayed by the ladies of Nashville. Returns are incomplete bat indicate that the amendment has been defeated by from 10,000 to 15;000. The antis claim 25,000 majority but it will hardly reach that.

Latest returns indicate that the ma

jority against prohibition in Tennessee

will be between 12,000 and 15,000. The - vote exceeds that cast at the last gubernatorial election.

...... ' An Old Man's Cranfcism. Albany (K. T ) special. - Horace Allen, aged eighty-three years, a grandnephew of Ethan Allen of Revo- - lutionary'iame, arrived in Albany today, haying pushed a wheelbarrow from his home in Delaware, Ohio, a distance of 675 miles. He started on his great tramp on June 18th, and rode only twenty-eight miles of the whole distance. He averaged about nine miles a day,and reached as high a fifteen. The old man . is wonderfully vigorous for his years. At one lira e he was worth several hundred thousand dollars, but lost all in the panic of 1873. He took to. wrheelbarrowing to cure his rheumatism, and declares that he has succeeded. Tomorrow will-push 'bn to the rreen Mountain State, where he "was born. He expects to go as far east as Boston A Narrow Escape. J:. Grand Army meri returning from St. Louis, Friday morning, on the Missouri Pacific, narrowly escaped an awful

slaughter at Yailey Park, Mo. The train was run in two sections, both loaded with G, A. R. men and their families At the point named the second section crashed into the-first, totally deraolishuig two chair cars, which were afterward

consumed by fire. The passengers were

well shaken up and many slightly ininJ I- t- mi

vjiucu, uui, aoue iacauy. xne engineer and fireman of the second section were

probably fatally hurt. The accident was

mwmia oy tne nrat section failing to

display signals. In Kornat ioim I Vacht Kace. The first of a, eeries of races for the .American, cup between the yachts Volunteer, American, and Thistle, Scottish, took place at New York, Tuesday. The Volunteer won thexace by twenty minutes. -i , The second race between the Volunteerand Thistle occurred Friday, and the Volunteer won easily, coming in two miles ahead of the Scottish yacht. Thisus the deciding race and the En

glishmen will conclude some day, proba

bly, that Americans are xachtmen from away back. ,,. The Fisheries Dispute. The President has invited Hon. Wm. L. Putnam, of Maine, and Hon. James B. Angellj of Michigan, to act with the Secretary of State in the negotiation for a settlement with Great Britain or the disputes growing out of the questions connected with the rights of our fishermen in the territorial waters of the Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland. Both of these gentlemen have accepted and it is believed by Secretary Bayard that their fitness for the important duty e regnized by the country, - -

JLonrlon YAct& a Catholic Jorcl Mayor. London has elected Faiydore Keeper, aldermanor Farrington-without, Lord Mayor. He is a Roman Catholic, proprietor of the Royal hotelBi idarestreet j Blackfriara, and a Belgian. He is the first Catholic elected Lord Mayor since the reformation. Epidemic cf Drunkenness at Washington. An-epidamic of drunkenness would seem to have prevailedMn the army and navy during the summer, affecting, even the Military academy at West Point and the civil bureaus of both depart-

The World Could Havo Troatert Him Better if It Had Chonott, hut It U. Not Too JLnte Yet to Itaw Down and Confess. Rev. Br. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Text, II. Corinthians, viii., 9. lie said: That all the worlds which on a cold winter's night make the heavens one great, slitter are i nhabi ran t less is an absurdity.. Philosophers tell us that many of these worlds are too hot or too cold, or too . rarefied of atmosphere for residence. But, if not fit for human abode, they may be tit for beings different from and su perior to ourselves. We are told that the world of Jupiter is changing, until it is almost fit tor creatures like the human race, and that Mars would do for the , human family with a little change in the structure of our respiratory organs. . But that there

is a great world swung somewhere, vast beyond imagination, and that it is the hea'dqnarteis of the universe, and the metropolis of immensity, and has a population in numbers vast beyond ail statistics, and appointments of splendor bevond the caoaeity of canvas, or poem

or angel to describe, is as certain as that

the Bible is authentic. Perhaps some of the astronomers with their big telescopes

have already caught a glimpse of it, not knowing what it is. We spell it with six letters, and pronounce it heaven. That is where Prince Jesus lived nineteen centimes a so. He was the Kind's son. It was thy old . homes ead

of eternity, and all its castles were as old as God. Not a frost, had ever chilled the air. Not a fct-ur had over rolled down the cheek of one of its inhabitants. There had never been in it a headache, or a sideacbo, or a heartache. There had not been a funeral in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. There had never in all the land been woven a black veil,-for there had never been anything to mourn over. The parage ot millions of years had not wrinkled or crippled or bedimmed anyoi its citizens. All the people there were in a state of eternal adolescence. What floral and pomonic richness! Gardens of perpetual bloom and orchards in unending fruitage. Had some spirit from another world entered and aeked, what is sin? what is bereavement? what is sorrow? what is death? the brightest, of the inell igences would have failed to gi ve a definition, though to study the question there-were silence in heaven for half an hour. The Prince of whom I speak had honors, emoluments, acclamations such as no other Prince, celestial or terrestrial, ever enjoyed. Aa He passed the street the inhabitants took off from their brows garlands of white lilies and threw them in the way. He . never entered any of the temple without all the worshippers rising up and bowing iu obeisance. I n al I the processio ns o t th e high days he was the one who evoked the loudest welcome, ometimen m foot, walking in loving tiiilc with tie humblest of Lho land, but at other times He took chariot, and among the t wen!y thousand that David spoke of His was the swiftest and most flam in tr, or. as when John described Htm, He took white palfrey, with what pranee cf foot and arch oi neck and roll of mane and gleam of eye is only dimly suggested in the Apocalypse. He was not like other Princes, waiting for the Fiither to die and then take the throne. When a few years ago an artist in Germany made a picture for the Royal Gallery represent inj Emperor William on the throne,and the Crown Prince as having one foot on the step of the throne, Emperor William ordered the picture changed, and said: "Let the Prince keep his feet off the throne till I leave it.7' Already enthroned was the heavenly Prince, side by side with the Father. What a circle of dominion! What myriads of admirers! What an unend ing round of glories! All the towers chimed the Prince's praises. 0 all the inhabitants, from the center of the city on over the hills and clear down to the beach, against which the ocean of immensity rolls its billows, the Prince was the acKnowledged favorite. No wonder my text says that "He was rich," tfet alt the diamonds of the earth in one scepter, build all the palaces of the earth in one Alhambra, gather all the pearls of the sea in one diadem, put all the values of the earth into one coiu. the aggregate would not express his affluence. Yes, Paul was right. Solomon had in , i?old?

680,000.000 pounds sterling and in silver 1,029,00(377 pounds sterling But a greater man than Solomon is here. Not the. millionaire, but the quadrillionaire of heaven. To describe his celestial surroundings the Bible uses all colors, gatherin anthem in rainbow over throne and setting tbem as agate in the temple window, and hoisting twelve of them into a wall from striped jasper at the base to transparent-amethyst in the capstone while between are green of emerald and snow of pearl, and blue of sapphire and yellow ot topaz, gray of ehrysopra-

sua, ana name or jacintn. All the

loveliness of landscape in foliage, and

river, and nil, ana ail enchantment

j aquamarine, the sea ot glass mingled

wirn ureas wueu me sun amirs m the Mediterranean. All the thrill of music, instrumental and vocal, harps, trumpets', doxologies. There stood the Prince' surrounded by those who had under their wings the velocity of millions of

uuies iu dccuuu, iwu iu. luve, rieti m adoration, richjin power,'rich in worship rich in holiness, rich in God.. . Bat one dai there was a big disaster

in a department ot wod s universe. A

race fallen! A. world in rains! Our

planet the scene of catastrophe! ... A globe swinging out into darkness," with mountains, and seas, an islands, an awful centifogal of sin seeming to overpower the beautiful centripetal of righteousness, and from it a groan reached heaven. Such a sound as had never been heard there. Plenty of sweet sounds, but never an outcry of distress, or an echo of agony. At that one aroan the Prince rose from all the blissful circumjacence, and started for the outer gate, and descended into the night of this world. ;Ont of a bright -harbor into what rough sea! "Stay with us," cried angel alter angel, and potentate after potentate. "No," said the Prince, "I can not stay; I must be off for that wreck of a world. I must stop that groan. I must hush that distress. I must fathom that way. I must redeem those nations. Farewell, th rones and temples, companions cherubic, seraphic, archangelicL Excuse this absence, for I will comeback again, carrying on my shoulder a ransomed world. Till .this

is done I choose earthly scoff to heavenly acclamation, and a catile pen to a King's palace; frigid zone of earth to atmosphere of celestial radiance. I have no time to loose, for hark ye to the groan that grows mightier while I wait. Farewell! Farewell!" "Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Chmt.

that, though He was rich, yet for your

sakes He became poor." ...

Was there ever a contrast so overpow

ering as that between the noonday of

Christ's celestial departure and the

midnight of his earthlv arrival? Sure

enough, the angels were, out that night

m the sky, and an especial meteor acted

as escort, mit tnat was lroni other

worlds, and not from this world. ...

,. The earth made no demonstration of welcome. If one of the great princes of this world steps out at a depot cheers resound, and the bands play, and the flags wave. But for the arrival of this missionary Prince of the skies not a torch flared, not a trumpet blew, not a plume fluttered. All, the music and pomp was overhead. Our world opened for Him nothing better, than a barn door. To know how poor he was, ask the camel drivers, ask the shepherds, ask Mary, ask the three wise men of the East, who afterward came there, yonngCaspar. and middle-aged Balthasar and old Melchior, To know how

poor he. was examine all the records of real estate in all that Oriental country, and see what vineyard, or what house, or what field He owned Not one. Of

what mortgage .was He the mortgagee? Of what tenement was He the landlord? Who ever paid him rent. Not owning the boat on which He tailed, nor the beast on which He rode, nor the pillow on which He slept. He. bad so little estate that in order to nav His tax He

had to perform a miraclt, putting the amount in a ttsh'ft month and having it hauled ashore. And after His death the world rushed in to take an inventory of His goods, ami the entire aggregate was the garments He had worn, sleeping in them by night an travelling in them by day, bearing on them dust of the highway and the saturation of the sea. Panl in my text did not go far from hitting the mark, did he, when he said of the missionar3' Prince: "For your sakes Ho became poor!" The world could have treated Him better if it had chosen. It had all the means for making His earthly condition comfortable. Only a few years before, when Pomppy, the General, arrived at Brindiai, he was greeted with arhos and a costly column which " celebrated the twelve million people whom he had killed or conquered, and ho A'as allowed to wear his triumphal robs in the Senate. The world had applause for imperial butchers, but bulletin g for the Prince of Peace. Plenty of golden chalices for the favored to drink out of, but. our Prince must put His lip3 to the

bucket of the well by the roadside after He had begged for a drink. Poor? Born in another, man's barn and eating at another inan'B table, and cruising the lake in another man's Ashing smack, aod buried in another man's mausoleum. Four inspired authors wrote of His biography and innumerable lives of Christ have been pttbliehed, but He

composed His autobiography in a most

compressed wav, He paid: "I have

trodden the wine-press alone." Poor in the estimation of nearly all the prosperous classes. They called Him Sabbathbreaker, wine bibber, traitor, blasphemer, and ransacked the dictionary of opprobrium from lid to lid to express their detestation. I can think now of only two well-to-do men who espoused His cause. Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea. . His friends for the most part were people who, in that climate -were ophthalmy or inflammation of the eyeball sweeps ever and anon as a ecourge, had become blind, sick people who were anxious to set well, and troubled people, m whose family there was some one dead or dviug. If he had a purse at all it was empty, or we would have heard what was done with the conients at the post-mor!em. Poor? ... The pigeon in the dove oote, the rabbit in its burrow, the silk wormjin us cocoon, the bee in its hive, is better provided for, better oft", better sheltered. Aye, the brute creation has a home on earth, which Christ has not. But the Grown Prince of all heavenly dominion has less thau the raven, leas than the chamois, for He was homeless.' Aye, in the history of the universe there is no other instance of such coming down. Who can count the miles from the top of the throne to the bottom of the crosb? CWparrn, t:!v;;?g h banquet to Antony, look a pearl worth a huiKired thousand doll a rs a nd dissolved it. in vinegar and swallowed it. But when our Prince, arcord ing to the evangelist, in His last hours took the vinegar7 in it had been dissolved all the pearls of His heavenly royalty, j Down until there was no other depth for Him to touch, troubled until there was no other harassment to suffer, poor until there was no other pauperism to torture. Billions of dollars spent iu wars to destroy men, who wiU furnish the statistics of the value of that precious blood that was hed to save us? . "Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesu3 Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your s&kes He became poor,' . One of John Bunyan's great books is entitled "Abounding Grace." "It is all of grace that I am saved" has been on the lips of hundreds of dying Christians The boy Sammy was right when, being examined for admission into church membership, he was asked: "Whose work was your salvation?" and he auswered: "Part mine and part God's." The examiner asked: "What part did you do, Sammy?" and the answer was:; "I opposed God all I could, and He did the rest!" Oh, the height of it, the depth of it, the length o it, the breadth of.it the grace of God!. Yes, yes; for your sakes! It was not on a pleasure c&cursion that He came, for it was ail pain. It was not an as

tronomical exploration, for He knew this world as well before He aliyhted as

afterward. It was net because He was Compelled to come, for He volunteered It was not because it was easy, for He knew that if. would be thorn, and spike, and hunger, and thirst, and vociferation of angry mobs. For your sakes. Wipe away yonr tears. To forgive your wrong doing, to companionship your loneliness, to soothe your sorrows, to sit up with you by the new made grave, to bind "p your wounds in the uely battle with the world and bring you home at last, kindling up the mists that fail on your dying vision with the sunlight of a glorious morn. For your sakes! No, I will change that. Paul will not care, and Christ will not care if I change it, for I must get into the blessedness of the text myself, and so I say: "For our

sakes!'7 i?orweall nave our temnta-

tions and bereavements and conflicts . 1 . -r-T . . -

ror our saaes: we who deserve tor our sins to be expatriated into a world as

much poorer than thisas this earth was

poorer thau heaven. For our sakes

But what a fruitful coming. down to take us gloriously up! For our sakes! Oh, the

personam y oi tni3 religion! JNOt an ao

Biraeuou; not an arch under wnich we

walk to behold elaborate masonry: not

an ice-castle like that which Empress

.feihzabeth of Russia over a huudret

years ago ordered constructed, winter

with its trowel of crystal cementing the

huge blocks that had been uuarrie

from the frozen rivers of the North, but

a lather's house with a wide hearth

crackling a hearty welcome. A religion

ot warm la and inspiration and light

and cheer somet hing: we can take into

our hearts and homes, and business

recreations and joys and sorrows. Not an unmanageable gift like the galley presented to Ptolemh, which reqnired

lonr inousanu men to row, and its

draught ot water w.is ao great that it could not come near the shore, but

something you can run up any stream

of annoyance, however shallow. En richment no?, enrichment forever!

THE G.1 A. E, ENCAMPMENT.

Wonderful Increase in Membership the Organization, Tho Command er-m-Chief'R Address The 1011(1)1101) Coioimtteo'a Hnport. The National Encampment G. A. K. met at exposition hall St. Louis "Wed

nesday. Commander-in-Chief Fair-

child's address wasvery lengthy. The

statistical report shows that the total

number of members borne on the rolls of the order at the hist National Encampment was 826, 49&. The number reported June SO, 1887, was 372,07. In 1880 there were 00,634 members. In the last five quar tiers there have been mustered in to tho rand Army 72 855. There were reported June 30, 1837, in good standing 336,762. suspended 25,220; by delinquent reports 10,892; total at last returns borne upon the rolls, 372,674. An increase in membership that must be gratifying to all members. The amount reported expended in charity March, 186, to March, 1887, inclusive i8$253,W4,43. Thi3 money was disbursed t(f 27,307 comrades and their families, land S,939 others were assisted, giving 2,606 individuals who had received benefits during the year.

Prohibition.

Iu the i?M three weeks twelve Florida

counties have gone dry . Other elections

are going on, and the Prohibitionists are

liable to sweep the .State.

The Chicago Tirana, Thursday, pub

lishes information received from a spe

cial represent alive to the effect that

prohibition is a failure at the capitol of Iowa, and that officera employed to enforce the law quite frequently connive at its violation. A Trji-la Weddinjjr at Boston. The first society wedding of the Boston season was that of Mary, the youngest daughter of George H. Chickering, of piano fame, and Lieu tenant John Fitxherbert er non Buxton, of Ireland, and the British army. Rev. Philip Brooks officiated. The groom was dazzling in his full royal artillery uniform of green and black, silver cordon top boots andspnrj?.

The agitation of the English miners has spread to Derbyshire. The workmen in that district havo just held a conference, at which they decided to petition for the eight hour day, and oth er improvements in their lot. Socialistic ideas aro said to be making rapid progress among the miners.

members

Gen. foil win

"Witt

had died during the year.

Fairchild concluded with the

the people of the South we on

ly seek tb continue the friendly -rivalry

long ng( entered upon in the effort to make our beloved land great and pros

perous uid its people dilh'gent, happy

and virtuous. We will rival them in

exalting all that pertains to and honors this grcjat Union and in condemning everything that tends lo foster a bos tile sentiment thereto. We will rival them in earnest endeavors to inculcate in the minds of all the citizens of this country! and especially of our children a heartfelt love for the Uuited States of America, to the end that present and comingj generations shall in every part of tho and believe in and "maintain Jrue alljegience thereto, based upon a paramount respect for and fidelity to its constitution and laws," which will lead them ti "discountenance whatever tends 10 weaken loyalty, incite insurrection and treason, or in any manner impair theeiThdency and permanency of our free institutions," and will impel them to "encourage the spread of universal liberty, equal rights and justice to all men;" and to defend these sentiments, which are quoted from the fundamental law of our order, with their lives if need be, and to th further end that they shall so revere the emblems oi the Union that under no circumstances can be coupled with them in the tame honorable terms 'die symbols of a sentiment which is antagonistic to its perpetuity." The committee on pensions submitted their report Thursday. They relate their efforts to procure liberal legislation from Congress and the fate of the dependent pension bill The committee wereat Washington during the debates in Congress over the bill. It was far frcsii what they wanted, but it at least would have Kunovod 12,000 veterans from pauper houses. They caU attention io the Me xicau pension bill far more liberal thau the one for pensioning the soldiers against the rebellion. This bill met the approval of the President and they wore fairly stunned when from the same hand came a veto of the measure of like prineip!o,but infinitessimal in degree,for the veterans of the war against treason. They appealed to tho Grand Army of the Republic, and ihe response came

from 800,000 members iuno uncertain

tones, lne committee tnereiore pre

pared a new pension bill. This bill

makes provision for pensions to ail veterans who are or mav hereafter become

unable to earn their own livelihood; for

direct continuance of pensions for

widows in their own right; for an increase of the present pittauce to minor

children and for fathers or mothers from any ate of dependence. Such a law

would at once reniove fully 12,000 veter

ans from the public almshouses where

they now rest, making them pensioners

instead of paupers, provide pensions

for fully as many more, now dependent

unon private charitv, and nut into the

general pension laws, for the first time,

tho recognition of the principle, that pensions may be granted to survivors of

the late war without absolute proof of

disability arising from tho service, proof

almost impossible to procure after the

lanse of more than twenty veara. The

bill is similar in general principle to that vetoed, but the objectionable . paur-

per clause is omitted, making this a dis-

abiliry and not a dependent bill.

The result of submitting this bill to the comrades of the Grand Aamy oi the

Republic, shows that whatever legisla

tion some of the comrades desire, they

are practically unanimous for every

bine contained in this bill. Whatever-

else may be desirable, the committee

knows from the experience of five years

that any additional legislation is only to be secured inch by inch, after most persistent eflbrt. Your cemmittee

therefore recommend the continuance

of earnest effort in favor of the follow

ing: The out prepared oy this com

mittee, granting pensions to all veter

ans now disabled or in need; to mothers

and fathers from date of dependence;

continuance ot pensions to widows m their own right, and increase for min

or children; atl of the recommendations

for increase and equalization of pensions

for disabilities, made in his recent report bv Pension Commissioner Black: a

pension of twelve dollars per month to

all widows of honorably discharged

soldiers and sailors of the late war; increased pensions for the severer dis

abilities, substantially as presented in the bill prepared by the United States Maimed Veterans League; pensions for

the survivors of rebel prisons, sub

stantially as presented in the bill of the

national association of prisoners of war;

incresed pensions for loss of hearing or

eye-sight; a re-enactment of the arrears

law, and an equitable equalization of

bounties; the same pension for the

widow of the representative volunteer

soldier of the Union army -John A.

Logan as io paid to the widows of those

y pi cal regulars, Thomas, the Rock of

Chickamauga, and Hancock, always

"the superb."

The committee on tho annual address the Commander-iQ-Chief endorses

the address and congratulates Commander-in-Chief Fairchild and the Grand Army of tho Republic upon hie.

administration of the past year, stating

that all of the official acts and every

sentimeut contained in the address meets the approval of the committee, and. they believe with the approval of the comrades. To t he discharge of the delicate and assiduous duties of tho high office, so deservedly bestowed by the twentieth National encampment, comrade Fairchild brought rare tact and talent. He has fearlessly and faithfully discharged every duty, always having in view the best interests of the Grand Army of the Republic. The National Encampment, G. A. R,, Friday afternoon, elected officers for the

ensuing year. For Commander in Chief General H. W. Slocum, General J. P. Rea, General 1). P. Anthony, and General D. P. Grier were nominated. Slocum received 153, Anthony received 60, Grier received 48 and Rea 294. The Commander in Chief is a resident of Minneapolis. Nelson Cole, of Missouri,

was elected Senior Vice Commander The Junior Vice Commander was John C. Linahan, of New Hampshire. Gen, Lawrence Donahue was elected Surgeon General. Rev. Edward Anderson was elected Chaplain in Chief. Irvin Robbins represents Indiana in the council of administration. The committee on the I.ogan monument reported, recommending that a fund be provided for the erection of an equestrian statue at Washington. Governor Alger subscribed $1,000, and George G. Lemon subscribed $1,000. THE MORMON CHURCH.

Report of the Government Conimisttioners ou tho PastYefti'8 Work. G. L. Godfrey, A. B. Williams and Arthur L. Thomas, constituting a ma

jority of the Utah Commission, have

filed with the Secretary of the Interior the annual report of the Commission on the affairs of that territory. A memorandum at the close of the document states that Commissioners' Carlton and McClernand, dissenting from many of the views expressed therein, do not sign the report. The population of the territory is estimated at 200,000, a gain oi nearly 60,000 Bince 1880. The valuation of the property assessed in the several counties oi territory is given as $85,665,802. The prosperity of the past seven vears, says the report, has been equal to that of any former period in the history of the territory. In April, of the present year, the total Mormon population in the Territories of Utah, Idaho, Arizona and New Mexico, and the States of Nevada and Colorado was 102,383, officially classed as follow;: Ti:ee presidents, 11 apostles, 65 patriarchs, 6,4 !4 seventies, 3,723 high priests, 12,411 elders, 2,423 priette, 2,497 teachers, 6,S40 deacons, 81,183 members and 46,639 children under eight years of age. The total church population of Utah was 132,297. The lithings for 18S0 were $540,000. The

strength oi the non-Mormon element

is estimated at 55,000. Thi3 element owns ot the assessed property of the Territory nearly one-third, exclusive of railroad property. The different religious denominations have now in Utah 62 churches. These churches have established and control 87 schools with an aggregate of 6fi8 pupils and 230 teachers. Since the passage of the Edmund's law in 1SS2, 540 persons have been indicted for unlawful co-habitation, aud 2S9 of these were convicted. The number convicted of polygamy was fourteen. Many of

the persons indicted have fie i to escape arrest. In the enforcement of the law, the report says, the officers of the Federal courU in Utah are entitled to special commendation. The National laws, relating to bigamy and polygamy, havo been in effective operation for about three years. The Mormon leaders and their obedient followers have made no concession to its supremacy, the issue is squarely maintained between assumed relations and the law of the land. The report then cites the already published results of the election under the registry law ou the first of August last, and of the convention' in June and subsequent elections partici

pated m by Mormons only, m whicn a constitution was adopted with a view to application to Congress for admission as a State. The commission regards this State movement as an effort to free the Mormon church from the toils which the firm attitude of the .Government and the energetic course of the Federal officers have thrown around it, and opposes its consumption. During the past year the names of 68 men have been reported to the commission as having entered into polygamy. The commission renews its recommendation of last year, except such as were enacted into laws at the last session of Congress. The commission also recommends that authority be conferred upon the Governor of the territory to appoint the following county

officers: Select meu, Clerks, Assessors, Recorders, and Superintendents of District Schools. In conclusion the com

mission submits that in its opinion the

results which have followed from the

passage of the Edmunds Act have been

very beneficial to toe territory. It has

provided a fair, honest and orderly

system of elections, and it is universally

conceded bv Mormons and non-Mor-

mons, that there has been no fraud, nor

even rumor of fraud, in connection with

the reei8tration ot votes and the con-

- . .

duct of election since the commission

first commenced its work.

Pills for Doctors. '

Physician (to anxious wife) We have

held a consultation, madam, over your

husband's case: he is a very sick man,

and it might be well to send for a minis

ter, I think.

Anxious Wife Will one bo enough.

doctor, or would you advise a consulta

tion of ministers? Life.

Pittsburger Doctor, I am convinced

that I am suffering from the most pronounced form of inso mania.

M. D. What are your Bymptoms? Pittsburger On Sunday last I remain

ed awake during the entire service, though the service was one hour long

and the thermometer m the vestibule

stood at $2 degrees. Pittsburg Bulletin.

A young physician who had recently

hung out his sign, came home one day in high spirits. "Do you know, my dear," he said to his wife, "I'm really becoming quite well known here. The undertakers bow to me already.'Frejicb Fuu.

INDIANA STATE NISWS, Rain has done much good everywhere. War is being made upon saloons at Angola, Randolph county will have art avenage of six month's school. Elkhart maintains an annual lecture course, of which it is justly proud. Switzerland county sent thirteen convicts to the penitentiary South during September. The Salvation Army prooession at Ladoga, last Wednesday night, was stoned by the citizens a.ll along the lino. The State printing has been awarded to W. B. Burford and A. R. Baker, the lowest bidders. Both are at Indianapolis.

Ten counties in the State estimate the yield of corn at 2. bUBheh per acre; yield of oats, 32$ bushels; notatoes! 19 bushels, with S psr cent, of old corn on hand. The Randolph county board of education has resolved upon measures to have representative work of the schools of the county exhibited iX the net county

institute, and also at the county fair. At least 150 of the teachers of tha county will take up the reading circle work. Alexander MePhetters, one of the richest men in "Vigo county, wsis fleeed out of $S,0J0 by a sharp who professed to be a son of W. R. McKeen, president of the Yandalia road, and said he had drawn $4,000 in a lottery and needed $2,000 io collect it, but didn't want his father to know it.

law was tried by 'Squire Cumberland, at Craw fords ville, last .Saturday- Charles Sheon,aroad supervisor, was arrested on complaint for not hiking up estray cattle after having been notified of the fact that the cattle were running at large. He was lined $1 and costs added. Shortly after the war a wagon loaded with barreled cement was upset on the levee, at Jefiei eon ville, and a greater portion of the load rolled into the river. Thursday, while a number of men. were at work repairing the wharf logs, the contents of one barrel was found lying in the water. The cooperage had long since rotted awny, but the cement had remained together nnd had become as hard as stone. . The Soldiers' Monument Commission have made their first quarterly report to the Governor. Ix shows that $14. 7i have been expended ou salaries and office expenses, and gives a detailed account of the operation of the board, in arranging for the competition. The expenses of the commission at present are being paid from $2,500 which the Oh A, R. monumental commission donated, as there are at present no available funds in the State Treasury from which to draw. Representatives of the State board of griculturc and the treasurer of the Sate fair were in session Monday closing their balances. The ga?e receipts this year show a total of $22,01.1 70 sifrainst $19,505.45 in 1880. and $!3,ol8.$J in 18S5; The coupon tickets sold by railroads are yet to be reported, and so are a number of receipts from oilier sources, swelliugthe graad aggregate possibly $5,000 in access of what is given as gate receipts. In a financial sense the State fair was a success. The hog cholera, which appeared in the north part of W abash county three weeks ago has since been spreading rapidly, and it is now apparent that in two weeks there will be no more hogs in that section. The finest and healthiest animals are attacked. The first symptoms is either a drowsy condition or bleeding at the noss, the a the animals become dumb. They remain sick several days and never recover. Nothing has been found to stay the ravages of the malady. In one neighborhood fully 400 animals have died, valued at $7 to $8 each. Farmers are much discouraged, The statistics of the Friends yearly meeting at Richmond show that 134 members bad partaken of intoxicants and one sold it; 46 had sold tobacco and 1,009 used it, spending 39,000 The home mission committee leported 51

organised home missions in the yearly meeting and seventeen monthly meetings

without organization. There areCXO mem bers, and 1,860 meetings have been held; there had been 2S7 conversions, 19 Bible readings; 16,900 pages.pf tracts had been distributed, and 2,894 visits to families had been made; 77 needy families had been relieved and $848.31 expended. There have b een 336 births, 371 deaths and 914 new members have been received by certificate from other meetings; total number of members in Indiana yearly meeting, 30,t95; mates, 989; females, 10,706; number of families, 4,715; non-resident members. 2.M5; members under twenty-oue years of age, 7,322; disowned, 185; reisigued, 365; established meetings, 146; recorded ministers, 28$; meetings without recorded

ministers, o4.

It is generally known that there have been two Women's Relief Corns in In

diana, one represonted by Mrs. Wnlschner, of Indianapolis, as President, the

other by a lady at South Bend. The

contest for supremacv was earned to

the National W. R. C. at St. Louis. On

Thursday it was decided to admit the

Wulschner delegates to the convention

on an equality with other delegates.

This the Wulschner faction consider

quite a victory. The latter state the contest was very spirited and that great

opposition had been overcome, including that of the National President. The Wulschner orps had organized 86 posts during the year and the South Bend Corps but two posts and this is believed to havo contributed no little to the Wulschner victory. The national convention ordered that the two forces should operate as they

are until the next meeting of the In

diana Department, at which time they must; come together and place them

selves under one control. The new

National President will select a lady

outside the State to preside.

mum MEN OF INDIANA.

Put It in Oil. Albany Journal. . . . .. :- An Albanian who recently dropped his watch wile fishing tcok k to a watchmaker, who told him that it was so badly rusted that part of the works would have to be duplicated. The watchmaker said "If you had only been thoughtful enough to havo dropped your watch in oil as soon as you took it out of the water, or better yet, to have dropped it

Interesting Statistics Regarding Them and the Professions. Madison Courier. , In a recent address by Dr. J. E. Gilbert, of Indianapolis, we find the following important and interesting statistical facts regarding men and the learned professions ift Indiana. "Are the young men seeking education? From the last year's report of the commissioner of education in the department of the Interior at Washington it appears thatthe male students in institutions of higher learning in thiB State, including classical and professional schools of all Borts, is as follows: In fifteen colleges of liberal arts, 1,327; in

preparatory departments, 1,600; in one school of technical science, 62; in three normal schools, 267; in one law school, fortv; in five schools of medicine, dentistry and surgery, 24A; in three theological schools, 673; in business colleges,

1,787. Some go out of the btate tor instruction, hut judging from the catalogues of Harvard and Yale the num.

ber is not large. It may be thought that this view wili ba relieved , by the

attendance upon tho High Schools, which are numerous aud excellent,

eighty-four of them being commissioned to prepare students for the State Uni

versity, bet us see. i here were en

rolled in the public schools of the State

last year 500,000 pupils. In our city there were 12,000, in the two High Schools. 725. In the main building oi

our High School there were lastSeptem

ber 160 boys and 393 girls. . Applyng the ratio in this city to the entire State

there are in alt our High Schools only

7,200 male pupils. And of those only

about one-tenth graduate while more

than half drop out at the end of the first year. By adding these to the numoer in colleges and professional schools we

find that less than thirteen thousand o

our young men and youths receive any

schooling other than in the ftindamenra

branches. The reason tor this Btate o

things may be easily given. Our boys

are impatient to enter the activities o

real life and gam wealth. JNow it is admitted that with the bare rudiments

of an Engliah education a man may

succeed in business in mechanics or ag

riculture, but the future of this State

requires a greater interest in the cause

of learning thau is indicated in the fig

ures lust given. HiViuentty our young

men are not aware that trained minds

will be needed in the places of chie

usefulness, or else they do not inspire

for these places. The professional ex

hibit is particularly discouraging. There

are now in the State 2,400 clergymen

10,400 teachers, S,000 lawyers, and 5,

400 dentists, surgeons and physicians

A total of 21,000. it will be recognized

bv all that the better their education

the greater their usefulness.. And ye

to fill the nla.ces of these 21,000 there

are onlv 673 in professional schools

Assuming that each student has tw

vears stud v there are 310 In a class. As-

sumir.g that ihe average service, of u professional man is twenty five years, a very high estimate, we shall have pro duced 8,500 professionals to take plact of 21,000 now serving the public. If thi number is kept good and not increased with encreasing population, there will be in the next generation 12,000 ministers, lawyers, teachers and physicians, or more than half of all, who have not passed through the schools appointed for their training, and who, depending upon other instrumentalities, are no? most thoroughly equipped! for their work. In its earlier and ruder forms society may and does tolerate untrained men in ihe professions, because others cannot be had; but, iu its more advancing stages, with increased facilities and demands, a higher order of talent and a better furnishing will be -lequired. It is a bad omen that so many of our

young men expect to enter these call

ings destitute of the necessary prepara

tion. Either thev are indifferent to the

conditions or their own sfceess, Or they have no adequate conception of the duties that shortly must be laid upon them. Ignoraut .ministers, ignorant lawyers, ignorant physicians! How

shall 'they command piablic confidence

and handle he interests of "religion, of government, and public health, so as to

secure the community's good? One other fact only in connection with the educational interests of our young men will receive attention at the present time. The census shows that in 1880 there were in, this State 9,000 young men of the ages who could not read, and nearly 11,000 who could not write, that is, four per cent, of the whole number, or 10,000 who are wholly illiterates Five thousand of them cast a ballot which they cannot read. All this is iu Indiana, where twenty-nine-thirtieths of our y oun g men are American - born; where the provision for public instruction is extremely liberal, exceeded by none Of her sister States: where 11,000 free

schools open their doors for ten mouths in the year offering instruct'on to all at an annual expenditure of fi ve millions oi! dollars; whre forty -five millions of dollars have been, oermanentiy invested in institutions for higher educa- ;

tion-where free libraries n 16 established in most large towns,. containing an ag

gregate of 575,000 volumes, and where

many public spirited citizenc of wealth

devote much time to promote the cause of popular learning. If our religious exhibic-was discouraging tr Is is more so. A better sho wing may be made in several Ki ngdoins in Europe w here education is less essential to the welfare of

society. .

cluster of hard-boiled eggsHy a half A dozen--ali the cake there was in tha

house, and fill up the rest of the space with pie, and then stuff two of his pockets full of apples to eat during school

hours, and fill the rest of his pockets

ortt.h niita artn nvA Hit fioA iwhnfa ' fiviL m '"Sr:

buy 'toffy.' Then if that camef

home at o'ciock ana saia ne aian't

have enough luncheon and couldn't he -

have a piece, I would give him the

ireys to the ceuar, cupooara, pantry, cake chest, and fruit closet, and, yielding to dark despair, go out into the bam

and hang myself. iW were a boy my-.

self, once. '. ' --r i - '

m

THE ELEMENTS OF SUCCESS.

Nature Cut Out

for Him;

Every Man's Worlc

zm

Provldenc Journal.

If a visible line could be drawn be

tween the successful and unsuccessful

men of our day and generation ? we

should be surprised in seeing how much

the lamer proportion are "Upon the

wrong side. The majority of men are

failures. Every profession and avenue

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I

v

Putting Ux a Boye Lunch.

Robert J. Burctette. s

A recent writer and she writes as one

whom any boy would love tells how

she saw a mother put up a lunch for her

boy to take to school, and then she tells

very prettily how daintily she would

have put up that lunch, and I Know

she would do just as she said. But she

didn't go far enough. Now, if I were

going to puc up a mncn ior a ooy w years old, I wouldn't take a little tin

pail nor yet a neat little covered basket.

would ju3t take the market basket, if

the family wasn t sro ing to use it that

day, and I would cut up a loaf of bread, and trim off every bit of crust to keep the boy from lying about it, and telling me that he ate it and didn't fire it over the fence, when he came home. I would cut that loaf of bread into slices and spread on butter until it began to fall off, and then I would stack on the sugar as long as it would hold. Then I

into alcohol or aaiy kind of strong liquor,

it would have cost you nothing but the would load in a couple ot links of sau

cleaning." This is well to xtomeuiiber. 1

of business is crowded with them. And?

this is the more, surprising when we see -

how easily others appear to succeed, as

if success were really an easy thing to

attain. It is easy, if only a few simple

laws are obeyed. It is not a matter of

luck, but of merit. In the long run

man earns what he gets, and if he fails

it is because he has earned failure. The

exceptions to-this just; .law? of God

less numerous than they appear. If we could see the hidden causes, we should

find that the lucky accident has come to; the man who from some peculiar merit deserved it. . The- unlucky man -has. always to explain how he happened toe be in the way of .ill luck, and the ex-" planation is usually an accusation. Na-" ture in the main follows Napoleon's maxim, and gives the tools to him who can use them, and is not slow in taking them awav from him who cannot: FabV"

ure for the most part means that a man is trying to use tools that he was never intended to handle and that he shouldlose no time in getting hold of pthera . sometimes a higher class of implements, but too often very much lower. Nature -s evidently never meant that Grant should be a tanner, nor that Richelieu should 'f be a poet, having very different work ; for both. Precisely so it is through all the departments of life. -A nan has" his work appointed to him before he -ia bonk . ; ; - The first requisite of success,thereforef is the right choice of an occupation.

Nature makes few mistakes, and she has fitted every one for some special work

in life. "What am i fitted for?" is the: most essential question a man hsz to answer. Answered correctly one will' have nature's; assistance in everything, he does, and his work will be done eaaily and without any needless friction; answered wrongly, aud he will have her continual opfvosifcion and protest, until he is an ap parent, if no t a self -confessed failure; There was a deep truth in hs old demand that a candidate; for the ministry should; be called;, bat such a call is always a natural one, and consists in fitness. The same call is made

from all directions. ''GaUed to he x a priest forever," -is not truer: of one than called to iJe1 a- merchant, general - editor or statesman, . was of Stewai t, Grant, Katkoft or -Jiklmuiid Burke ;J and they would have had little success without the call. Even if called to bp a hewer of stone or drawer of water, a man's highest possible success lies inrJ

going where he is called. It is for lack of heeding this that we have the incompetence and failure so frequent in.

life, men vainly trying to do what they were not meant to do, and- only learning in the bitter school of experience .f that no success is possible there' The highest aim of education ought to be to Js teach a young man what he fa best fit- f ted for. No man ia educated until he

has learned this. Many sneyer learn it

vere discipline, what they arenot fitted ' Jm for. :). : . 'm Andther essenfial element of success , J is faithfulness. The practical world Z P

puts a premium upon good workman- , ship. This qnality alone is well-nign C sufiicient to lea4 any one into th highest positions rin iife. It may be safely; , said- that every business man is at all J times ou the watch for persons who can invariably .be. trusted to do wnrkwehV Especially is this true of positions ol honor and trust: They are open to hi A

who in some lower sphere has proved himself trustworthy. Any ; one who shows even an average capacity for his work and will do it with absolute faith

fulness, equally attentive to small de tails, will speedily find the days too shorty for the honorable and remunerative' - work that men invite him., to do, . It to; . , at all times false that there is nbvwbrk! 1

to be found. Only for the untrostworxhy-i!

there is no emptoyment; arid ought tov be none; Plenty , of work, with good

wages and increasing prosperity are the

certain rewards of faithfulness.- It

anv young man man iu. uio -wiui urn

determination to put the best that he'

has into the discharge of etcry 4uty .;.

and some of the best things in life will

eventually become his own.

still aroom at the topi? and faithfulness is one of the essential conditions o

cent. r... , ;. ..,rL--..w T W'S N ok can any one succeed at last in any j f M sphere of life without a degree of pietyVf s J in its older and more beautiful sense of f habitual rrverence toward nature anA H y her laws. This is. not the teachiiig of ! the Christian relipn on of all religiou and the esperieiice o, : "y mankind. The elements of success are i moral mainly, aijd absolute oliiacii ) ;;f ; to moral laws is esseutiab to the pe-

servation of a clear head and Eounji

i ndement. Whoever is n

will sooner or later , find that he has

been sowing the wind only to reap af ' whirlwind, which will mar if not wreck his fortune when: he least exnectef V What the mass of men most need to -

learn is,that the elements or sucossa

and failure both he in themselves. -Either one is within our reach; tiie pnie

bearing immense rewrdsud, the other, v

terrible penalties.

it;

:There w?WMi

How Sad;

Sho used to like winter, and thought It was nica;;

To plow through the snow-storm or skate ou thfl led; -;a .. . $- But tio-vt when lt-s mentioned she sighs forth t "Aiaekl" , J: J - For sho hasn't Meal-skin saoque to hbacquett

There is one ba of coffee in store or

in sight for every , 150 persons in the

sages and some elpsof bp; a Qftintv united otiteB,