Bloomington Courier, Volume 14, Number 1, Bloomington, Monroe County, 5 November 1887 — Page 2

THE COURIER.

BY E J. FELTTJS.

INDIANA

BLOOMINOTOK.

"Large bodies of troops" says a dispatch, "are being massed to overawe the rebellions Crows in Montana." This probably means that two or three com panics of twenty or thirty men each art being "massed!" .....

but a month since all creation seemed sweltering in heat. Now reports of enow

storms and blizzards are of almost' dail ? -occurrence. Fifteen degrees below zero at Billings Mont. Ter., last week.

DEFENSE OF!

01 NG MEN

Tra great S: he between bandits and

vigiHntes,- reported from the Indian 'Territory istweek,in which from fifteen 'to thirty menwcre killed, turns -out to be wholly false It is evident there ought to be one death in that neighbor hood that of the monumental liar who sent out the report. , It is customary to charge a candidate for oiftee with being a skinflint, embes

zier, ruffian, cat-throat, murderer, assassin, etc, etc. " This, therefore, is suf fieient introduction to the revival of the charge 'that Henry George candidate for Secretary of State of New York, was omoo a pirate on tUe Spanish Main. John Gsorge Spax, Esq., died in

fortune of 3Q,ttC0,0Q0 in round numbers, but no heirs. Now come all the Spang? and Spjtngles, of Reading, Pa, and lay cV.m to this enormous sum of money, and are in a constant state, county and township of" expectancy 'over the outcome. It will probably be some time yet before the S pangs and Spangles of Reading, will be permitted to realize on

tneu nopes or securing tnia iortune, and in the mean time they should pursue ttie even tenor of tb-ir way.

Thb national indebtedness, has been reduced to the extent of S23,9Q2iS4(Mn &e first quarter of . the current fiscal

year, $14,247,969 of this sum being cred

ited to September. This-is equivalent to' a reduction of about $95,000,000 a year, which is $2,000,000 more than tluv. of thescal year 1886 and $14;O0O,6bO loss than tnat of 1885. From present indications, however, the debt payment will hardly exceed $90,0000,000 this year, if it equals that sum. A curtailment of the ' revenues will h ave to be made in the coming session ot Congress, and there is a probability that some of the changes may go into effect before tiMtnew fiscal vear begins.

"Youxe Hubert trarrevin, the little railroad "magnate" has gone to Mexico to spend the winter His last words on boarding the train were;' "Don't allow Jay Gould to capture Maryland -while

I'm away." This was a very sinister - cut'irom little Robert. ' .

But what would Jay Gould want with Maryland? He captured the best part of it when he gobbled the EL &0, railroad, and Jay pnly handles preferred collateral. ' : : ' -. - -" ; V. So far as this country is concerned it could, possibly get along without, either Mr. Garrett, Mr. Gould, or the State of Maryland. T3y the way, some of Mr. rarrett7s biographers are trying to make it appear that that-gentleman bas become a monomaniac on telegraphy ,if not entirely irresponsible and "loony" on other subjects.

It is expected that oefore long a prac-

tical test of one of the numerous harnesses for the control of Niagara's no wer, " broaght into existence under the stimulus o a $XOt,000 prize, will receive a practicattest which will demonstrate its use or orave it a fnilnrp. snH mvo anme-

thins; further on which to base ar;uxnents that Niagara contains no erreat

shakes of available' power. An endless chain, with feathering buckets, was an invention of a Buffalo man. The rights for Erie and Niagara counties he sold for 565,000. He says uehas a contract forthat amount. A stock company with $1,000,00 capital is to be formed if the coming test proves successful. George W. Smith .. has obtained backing to the amount of ' $10,000, which is the amount a 1,000horse power machine, will cost, and received the necessary permission of the Secretary of War to place the machinery in the river. Mechanical drawings are now being made and it is expected that the machine will be tested this fall.

SCARED MERCHANTS.

"Wealthy Trcmii Being Blackmailed ly - . MtsxJ csua Ban d it s . ' f Wealthy merchants at Rio Grande City are in a state of terror owing to tbe threats of Mexican bandits, who menace ..their lives and those of their families, this information being contained in the following correpondence obtained direct by wire from' the interested persons themselves: L. B. Locaase;- merchant of Rio Grande City, was tiMiG&tifo pay $8,000. The notiueaUonwaiigned- by 8. M. S. Amigos. Manuel Gaerra, -living in Rome, received a letter -bearing the postmark of Rib Grande City, and enclosed - in the envelope,5 'which had mourning borders, two slips of ordinary wrapping paper, one to Guerra, which read as follows: . Place 8.000 in the same manner, and place as Marrie paid his ransom. Paillog to do so within the time specified, you and your family are condemned to death, and to suffer previously such tortures as you may imagine: . This document was signed Lascoidad Contre Los Cabrona. The other slip was addressed to Con Acianco Garrera, and read: You will send us SI,t00 in the same maimer, and to ihe same place ws Barreta paid his ranBom. Failure on your part to- comply vhl 'subject you and your family to sutler death by dynamite and such other nunishment I vro

may chose to inflict. (Sisjaed) tryfjj

.The surrounding country is terrorized ' and men are afraid to leave their'npmes to visit their ranches and other interests near by. . It is understood that the, Governor of the State, as been ajy ipealed-ttffbr protection; '"' V

? JS-he Ghlcanes has been sold ' by Mrs. W. F. Story to Jamea A. West and Clinton A. Snowden, of the . Chicago Mail, representing a syndicate of wealthy gentlemen." Tho paper will be independent in politics. : ' - -

Dr. O. K. Pearsons and wife, of Chicago, have jast given 175;000 to benevoJen institutions of tha city. Tho oid Ball Run battlefield is a favorite reaorfc for sportsmpn.;

they abonld Rejoice Befoire the Bays of Sin Pra v Near, And Beware of the Tempter TPIio Would Lead Taeir Feet Arttray X.et Right he Yonr Guide Uhto a Brighter Iay. Rev- Br. Talmage preached at Brooklyn Tabernacle last "Sunday. Subject. "Defense of Young Men." Text, II. Kings, vi., 17. Ho eaid: Many young men, standing among the most tremendous realities, have their eyes half shut or entirely closed. May God grant that my sermon may open wide your eyes to your safety, your opportunity and your destiny, A mighty defense for a young man is a good home. Some of my hearers lookback with tender satisfaction to their early home. It may. have been rude and rustic, bidden among the hills, ard architect or upholsterer never planned or adorned it. But all the fresco on 5princly walls never looked so enticing to you .as those rough hewn rafters You can think of no park or arbor of trees planted on fashionable countryseat so attractive as the ple.in brook that ran in front of the old farm house and pang under the weeping willows. No barred eateway adorned with statue of br -rjfie, and swung open by obsequious porter in foil dresa, has balf tbe glory of the swing gate. Many of you have a second dwelling place, your adopted home, that also is sacred forever. There yon builtfthe first family altar. There your' children were born. All those trees you planted. That room is solemn, .because once in it, over the hot pillow, fiappped the wing of death. Under that, roof you expect, when y our work is done, to lie down and die. You .try with many words to tell tbe excellency of th& place, but yon fail. There is only one word in the language that can describe your meaning. It is home, v Now, I declare U, that 'young man is comparatively safe who goes out into &Ue world with a charm like this upon him. The memory of parental solicitude, watching, planning and praying, will be to him a shiel d and a shel ter. . I never knew a man faithful both' to his earlv

and adopted home, who at the samo rime was given over to any gross form of dissipation or wickedness. He who seeks his .enjoyment from outside association, rather than from the more quiet and unpresnming treasures of which i have spoken, may be suspected to be on the broad road to ruin. Absalom despised his father's house, and you know his history of sin and his death of shame. If you seem unnecessarily isolated from your kindred and former associates, is there not some room that you can call your own? into it gather books and pictures and a harp. Have a portrait over the manrel. Make ungodly mirth stand back from the threshold. Consecrate some spot with the knee of prav er. Bv

the memory of other days, a father's

counsel and a mother's love and a sister's confidence, call it home. , Another defense for a young man is industrious habit. Many young men,in starting upon life in this age, expect to make their way through the world, by the use of Their wits rather than by the toil of. their hands. A child now goes to the city au d fails t wiee before he is as old as his father, was when he first saw the spirei3 of the great town. Sitting in some office, rented at a thousand dollars a year, he is waiting for tbe bank to declare its dividend, or goes into the market expecting before night to be made rich by the rushing up of the stocks. But luck seemed so dull he resolved on some other track Perhaps he borrowed from his employer's money-drawer,and iorgetstoput itback, or tor merely the pnrpose of im proving his penmanship makes a copy-plate of a merchant's signature. Never mind, all is right in trade. In some dark night there may. come in his dreams a vision of 81ackweirs Ifllandj or of Sing Sing,

uuc it soon vamsnes. in a short time he will be ready to retire from the busy world, and amid his flocks and herds culture the domestic virtues. Then those young men who were, once his school-mates, and knew no better than to engage in honest work, m come with iheif ox-teams to draw his logs, and with their hard hands help heave up his castle. This is no fancy picture. If is ever-day life. I should not wonder if there were some rotten beams in that beautiful palace. I should not wonder if dire sickness should smite through the young man, or if God should pour into his cup of hfeKa draught that would

nrm mm witn unbearable agonv, I should not wonder if his children should become to him a living curse, making his home a pest and a disgrace. I should not wonder iae goes to a miserable g ave and beyond it into the guashing of teeth. The way of the ungodly shall perish. My young friends, there is no way to genuine success except through toil, either of the head or hand. Do not get the fatal idea that you are a genius, and that, therefore, there is no need of close application. It is here where multitudes fail. The great curse of this age is jbe geniuses, .men with enormous self-conceit and egotism, and nothing else. I had rather be an ox than an eagle; plain and plodding and useful, rather than high-flying and good for nothing but to pick out the eyes of car. casses. Extraordinary capacity without use is extraordinarv fflilnre tkw i

, . j :-. . tivi j torn no hope for that person who begins life

itou,'cu iw w ,uis wiiB. ior tne probability is he has not any. It was not safe for Adam, even in hfs unfallen state to haveno thing to do, and, therefore,God commanded him to be a farmer and horticulturist. He was to dress the garden and keep it, and had he and his wiie obeyed the Divine injunction and been at work; they would not have been sauntering under the trees and hungering after that fruit which destroyed them and their posterity: proof positive for ail ages to come that those who do not attend to their business are sure to get into mischief; I do not know that the prodigal in Scripture would ever have been reclaimed had he not giveu up his idle habits and gone to feeding s wine for a living. The devil dots not often attack the man who is busy with the pen, and the book, and trowel, and the saw, and the hammer. He is afraid of those weapons. But woe to the man whom this roaring, lion meets with his hands in his pockets; Do not emand that your toil always be elegant.

wm vicauij-, jwu rcuueu. xnere is a

will not let the. sin go unpunished, either in this World or the world to come, Again, a noble ideal and confident expectation of approximating to it will infallibly advance. The artist completes in his mind the great thought that he wishes to transfer to the canvass or the marble before he takes up tho crayon or the chisel. The architect plans out the entire structure before he orders the workmen to begin, and though there may for a long while seem to be nothing but blundering and rudenesB he has in his mind every Byzantine capital. The poet arranges the entire plot before he begins to chime the first canto of tingling rhythms. And yet, stranger to us, there are men who attempt to build their character without knowing whether in the end it shall be a rude traitor's don, or a St. Mark s of Yenice. Men who begin to write the intricate poem of their lives without knowing whether it shall.be a Homer's Odyssey or arhymest -r's botch. Nine hundred and ninetynine men out of a thousand are living without any great life-pfot. Booted and spurred, and plumed, ahd urging their swift courser in the hottest haste. Every day's duty ought only to be the following up of the main plan of existence. Let men be consistent. If they prefer misdeeds to correct courses of action, then let them draw out the design of k navery and cruelty and plunder. Let every day's falsehood and wrong doing be added as coloring to the picture. Let bloody deeds red stripe the canvass, and the clouds of a wrathful God hang down heavily over the canvass, ready to break out in clanifrous tempest. Let the waters be chafed, a . frost tangle, and green with immeasuraole depths. Toen take a torch of burning pitch and scorch into the frame of the picture the right name for it namely, "The Soul's Suicide." If one entering vipon sinful direc ttons would onl in his mind or on paper draw out in awful reality this dreadful future, he would recoil from it and say: "Ain I a Dante, that by my own life I should write another Infer no?" But if you are resolved to live a life such as C-od and good men will approve, do not let it be a vague dream, an indefinite determination, but in your mind or upon paper sketch it in all its minutlw. You can not know the changes to which you may be subject, but you may know what always will be right and what always will be wrong. There are magnificent' possibilities before each of you young men of the stout heart and the buoyant step and the bonnding spirit. I would marshal you for grand achievement. God now provides for you the .fleeu and the armor and the fortifications. Who is on the Lord's side? Be not, my hearer dismayed at any time by what seems immense odds. against you.. Is fortune, is want of education, are men. are devils against you, though the multitudes of arth and hell confront you, stand up to the charge. With a million against you the match is just even. Nay, you have a decided advantage. If God be for us, who can be against ub? Thus protected, yon need not spend much time in answering your assailants. The mightiest of all defense for a young man is the possession of thorough religious principle Nothing can take the place of it Be may have manners that would put to shame the gracefulness and courtesy of a Lord Cnesterfield. Foreign languages may drop from his tongue. He may be able to discuss literatures and laws and foreign customs. He may wield a ppn ol: unequalled polish and power. His qnickness and tact tuav qualify him for trie highest salary f the couuting-house. He -may be as harp as Herod and as strong as Samson, th as fine locks as those which hung Jlb3alom. stilt he is not safe from conrauvination. The more elegant his manner, and the more fascinating his dress, the more peril . Satan does not care much for the ailegience of a coward and illiterate being. He can not bring him into efficient service. But he loves to storm that castle of character which has in it the most spoils and treasures. It was not some crazy craft, creeping along the coast with a valuless cargo, that the pirate attacked, but tho ship, full-winged and flagged, plying between great ports, carrying its millions of specie. The more your natural and acquired accomplishments the more nee J ot the religion of Jesus. That does not cut in upon or hack up any smoothnsss of disposition or behavior. It gives symmetry. It arrests that in the soul which ought to be arrested aud propels that which ought to he propelled. It finis up the jguileys. It elevates and transforms. To beauty it gives more beauty, to tact more tact,

i to enthusiasm ot nature more enthusi.

asm. When the Holy Spirit impresses t he image of God on "the heart He does not spoil the canvass. If in all the multitudes of young men upon whom religion has acted you could find one nature that had been the least damaged I would yield this proposition. You may now have enough strength of character to repel the various temptations to gross wickedness which assail you, but I do not know in what strait you may be thrust at some future time. Nothing short of the grace of the cross may then be able to deliver you from .the lions. You are not meeker than M'ses, nor holier than David, nor more patient than Job, and you ought not to consider yourself invulnerable. You may have some weak point of character that you have never discovered, and in some hour when you are assaulted the Philistines will be upon thee, Samson. Trust not in your good habits, or your early training, or your pride of character. Nothing short of the arm of Almighty God will be sufficient to uphold you. Many years ago I stood on the anniversary platform with a minister of Christ who made this remarkable statement: "Thirty years ago two young men started out in the eveningto attend Park Theater, New York, where a play was to be acted in which the cause of religion was to be placed in a ridiculous and hypocritical light, They came to the steps. The consciences of both smote them. One started to go home, but returned again to the door, and yet had not courage to enter, and finally departed. But the other young man entered the pit of the theater. It was the turning point in the history of those two young men. Tho man who entered was caught in the whirl of temptation. He sank deeper and deeper in inlaray. H was lost. That other young man was

Bavecr, and he now stands before you to

certain amount of drudgery through bless God for that twenty years he has which we all must pasB, whatever be been permits d to preach the Gospel."

vui wvuyantm.) iuu kdow now men

are sentenced, a certain number of years to prison, and after thev have suffered aud worked out the time, then they are allowed to go tree. And so it is with all of lis. God passed on us the

sentence: . rjjy the sweat of thy brow sbalt thou eat bread' We must endure our time of drudgery, and then, after a whiie, we will be allowed to go into com parative libeity. We must be williug to endure the sentence. We all know where drudgery is connected .with one beginning of any trade or profession but this does not continue all our lives, If it be the student's, or tho merchant's, or the mechanic's life. I know you have at the beginning many a hard time, but after awhile these things will become eas)'. You will be -your own master. God'a sentence will e satisfied. You will be discharged from "prison. Again, profound respect for the Sabbath will b5 to the young man a powerf u I preservative against evil . God has bu?t into the toil and fatigue of life a recreative day, when the soul is especially to be fed. It is no new-fangled notion of a wild brained reformer,but an institution-established at the beginnings God has made natural and moral laws so harmonious that the body, as well as the soul, demands this inBlitntion. . Our bodies are SiBven-day clocks, that mmt be wound Up as often as that, or they will ran down. . Failure must come sooner or later to the man who. breaks the Habbath. Inspiration has calVd it the Lord's Day, and he who devotes it to the world is guilty of robbery, God

and let thy heart cheer thee in davs of

thy youth; hut know thou tbat for all these things God will bring theo into judgment." A Freachur Murdered. Sunday, while a colored minister, John DePew, of Sturgis, Miss., a preacher and politician, was speaking to an emigration meeting, another colored man on the outside of the house fired through an openwindowaload of ouckshot, blowing out his brains. The murderer escaped. It appears the preacher was about to report the man who did the shooting, for calf stealing, and he and his brother got up the so-called emigration meeting ostensibly for the p irpoo of discussing Liberia for their future home, bus really to get DePew in a place where they could murder him.

... A Tivly Oil utuh How. Mrs. Ganltand Mis. Malheney engaged in a row in church at Horseneck, W, Va., Snnday. The minister stopped his sermon and a general knock down onS'led. One lady was sevoroiy stab bad.

A Go 'Ml FiftC'O for Them." The Mormon brethren have applied to tbe Porte for permit slcrn to establish a com mini ty in Turkey, it is expected the request will Ik granted.

I DOtTBT IT.

When a pair of red lips aro upturned to yow own, With no one to gossin about it, Do you pray for endurance to let them alone? WoH, may bo you do but Idoubt it. When a aly little hand you're permitted to seiKO, With a velvety softness about it, Do you think you Ould drop it Witn uftVer a squeeze? Well, may be you can but I doubt it. When a tapering waist is within reach of your arm. . With a wonderful plumoncss about it, Do you argue the point 'tw let the geod and the harm? Well, may be you 6o but I doubt it. And if by these trieks foi capture a heart, With a womanly sweetness about it, Will you guard it and keep it, and aot the good part? Well, may b you will but I doubt it.

THE SPIRE'S WIFE.

New York Kews. Squire Clover listened in silence, but with a quiet smile upon his lips, to his old cronitis1 yarns of their various haps and mishaps in their younger days in trying to get possession df the girl of their choice. But after they had all spoken he knocked the ashes out 6f hii pipe and, proceeding to refill it, said: " Ay, neighbors, ye' ve told some pretty ueer stories, but I'll warrant I can tel 1 one that'll match 'em. I rather guess 'twould astoni3h those acquainted with my quiet, modest-looking wife yonder to know bow it was that I thought of taking bir for better or worse." 'Now, David," expostulated Mrs.

Clover, bloth reddening and smiling as

she met her husband's quizzical looks.

"Whv Will voti tell that sillv storvt If

you hadh't cared to take me, you could have let me alone." "Ah, sure it is easy talkin'," Baid the squire, shaking his head with demure gravity. "But when a girl an', especially sich a pretty one flies directly into a fellow's arms, what else can he do? That's what I'd like to know!" Laugluhgly declaring "that she'd stay to listen to no such nonsense." Mrs. Clover gathered up her work and ran away; and her husband, after shaking his jolly sides with silent laughter, until some of those present were fearful that apoplexy would be the ireBuifc, gradually recovered himself and proceeded to satisfy the curiosty he had aroused thus: "I was a poor boy, as perhaps you know, with nothin1 bul a pair of stout arms and broad shoulders to push my way in the world with; but I had a brave heart, an wasn't afraid of work,

an' on the whole, ain't no ways dissatis

fied with what my hands have brought me. "The summer i was twentyne I went to work for Sue's father. "Mr. Bean was a well-to-do farmer, and Sue his only child. He wasn't any-

wavs 8 tuck no about his property, but

he set a great store by Sue; an', as he knew that some day she'd have as good a farm as there was in the county, nat'rally expected that the man who got-her would be able to give as much as he took. "So I had no more idea of ever bein' Sue's h usband than I had of fly in; an' yit the very first time I set eyes on her I knew, as well as I know-no w,$hat no othei woman would ever be to me what she was. "I remember the day just as well as if 'twas yesterday. I had seen Mr. Bean down to the village the night afore, an' 'twas agreed that I come the next afternoon.

"When 1 come to the house an' a

nice looking houBe it was, with a broad

piama each side on't I was dubious as

to whether I had better go in the Bide or backdoor. I finally concluded to take the Utter. As 1 passed the kitchen window I heard a voice sin gin" as sweet an clear

as a robin's, an on lookin in I saw

Sue standin' by a table, kneadin' bread, an' I never see a prettier pioter afore or

sence. "Ah, lads, ye may talk about girls at the pianny, but they ain't half so much to my mind as the one I saw at the moldin'-board; the flour she was siftm' not any whiter than her round, uncovered arms, and with as bright a bloom on cheek an' hps as the roses that were clambering over the porch. " Wal, arter starin' at her pretty face as long as I dared to quite unbeknown to her I knocked at the door. " 4Come in!" sang out a voice that Bet my heart to beatin' like a sledge hammer. "Liftin' the latch I walked in. " Ms xur. Bean to home? I stammered, colorin' as red as a beet, as Sue turned her black eyes on me. " YeB; father's somewhere about. He'll be in in a minute. Won't you take a seat? "In goin' across the room, 1 stumbled over a pail, which so lushed me that I sat down in a chair where a large giay cat lay curled up aaleep, spittin' an' crawlin' at me sprang out the window. "I could see by the dimples that came round Sue's pretty mouth that she had hard work to do to keep from laughing outright. But she didn't 'pear to take any notice on't it, and pretty soon old Mr. Bean came in, an' then I began to feel more comfortable. "They were real nice sort of folks, who tieated their help like their own family, an'I soon began to feel at home. "All but with Sue; I couldn't seem to say two or three words to her without blnnderin', an' was always doin' some awkward thing or other, whenever I went nigh her. "I don't think I'd have felt quite shy if I had known her opinion of me; for I wasn't a bad-lookin' ohap in my young days broad shouldered an' as straight as an arrer with big hazel eyes an' brown hair, as full oil crinkles as curled maple. "I hadn't been to Mr. Bean's long before I found that Sue had a beau. His name was Silas Peterkin;, son of the store-keeper down at the village. "He was a white-faced, slim-waisted feller, with little hands an' feet, that I'd been ashamed to own, but which he seemed to be mighty proud of. "He used to come to see Sue about twice a week,dressed inhis store clothes, and lookin' as if he'd jest stepped out of a hand-box. . . "Sue never seemed to act as though she had any partie'lar iikin' for Silas; but

twaseasy seen that the old folks set

great store by him an' wai mighty pleaa-

1 1

ant at the idea of his steppin' up to

their darter.

"As for me, I never eeo him eittin' by

Sue, and smirkin' up into her face, but

what I felt as if I wanted to fling him,

head first, out of the winder.

"So matters went on until September, when Mr. Bean gave a hnskin' party, "We young fellers set to work with a will, an' aforo sunset the corn was all husked, an' piled away, an' the barn swept clean for the dance ar.' supper we was to have in the evenin'. "Pretty soon the women folks began

to flock in, all dressed in their best, an lookin as fresh an' bloomin' as a flower garden after a shower. "But Sue was the prettiest of the hull lot, dressed in her white frock, with the pink ribbon tied around her waist. "Silas Peterkin, he was there, of course,, an' as Boon as I see him I went to the house. "As I was standing on the back steps, out of sorts with my eeli an' everybody else, I heard a voice say: " 4Davidl' "An' turnin' round, I saw Sue, lookin, as smilin' as a basket of chips. " 'Ain't you coram' down to the barh?" says she. "I ruther giiess I ain't wanted' says I. "Oh, yw, you are,' says sho; 'I want you.' "She looked and spoke so sweet that I was e'enamost a mind to go. But just then I Heard Silas callin' her; an' mut-

terin'' somethin' about bavin' some tool to 2;rind, I walked off, "I was most sorry for't though, when I caught Bight of her face as she walked awray with Silas, an' saw how sober it was. " 'Sittin' down on tho back steps, I went to work; the raspin' of my file soundin' a great deal pleasanter to my ears than th flddhn' that floated up from the barn down in the medder. "It had been uncommonly hot for a number of days, but this had been the hottest one of all. Not a leaf moved, an' there was something unnat'ral in the stillness of every thin' around. There was a strange look to the sky, too: it was streaked overhead with purple an' vi'iefc, with a strange and yellow glare in the west "Old Bose, the dog, who had been wanderin' restlessly about for the laat hour, now set up a. mournful howl. "When I went to fodder the cattle I found the poor critters huddled together in one corner of the yard, utterm low bellows of terror and dismay, their instincts warning them, as all these signs did me, of the tornado that was approachin1. "Goin' back to the house I shut every ioor and winder. "Then thinkin' of the folks in the barnthat was the most in danger of anythin I ran down through the garden toward the medder where it stood. "But I had hardly ?oue two rods before it came liftin' me off my feet an' hurlin' me against an opposite fence. "I picked myself up an' hurried on. As I came in sight of the barn or, rather, where it once Btood the air was filled with dust an' flyin' shingles an1 timber! "As soon as it had cleared away a bit, I saw Sue standin' in a most perilous position right in the midst of it. "I shouted to her come away; and jest then the wind took her up as if she was but a feather, bearin' her directly toward me. I opened my arms, an' she came right into them, "As she did so, one of the flyin' sticks hit one of my arms, makin' it useless; but holdin' her tight with the other, 1 took her to some low buBhes in a little hollow between two hills. uThe tornado was as short" as it was violent, and, though a good deal of damage was done, luckily no one was hurt much, "Sue escaped without a scratch. My arm was broken; but considerin' who nursed me, you needn't -waste any pity on me for that, "I heard afterward, as coon as the alarm was.-given, Silas Peterkin took to his heels an' never stopped until he reached his father's door, "Whether he heard that the old man vowed that he'd set Bose on him if he ever came nigh Sue agin', I can't say, but his visits ceased from that'day. "I sent him an invite to my weddin', which took place a few months arter, but as he didn't come, I'm sort of mistrustful that he was afraid of another tornado." Triokof cu t magiaatiOB. Baffine Jfecprees. A short time since a man was taken to one of the hospitals suffering intense pain. He informed the doctors that his home was down in the country, and that if he should die he wished to be sent there. The physicians asked him what he supposed caused the pain. "Why, I swallowed my plate and four falso teeth while asleep the other night," was tho answer. The patient was put upon liquid food and all the examinations made by the medicos failed to locate the swallowed article. The man's sufferings were lessened considerably and as a test it waB decided to give him a little piece of beefsteak. This was done and the poor patient was writhing in agony as soon as he h d swallowed a mouthful. "Oh, my God!" he exclaimed, "this is killing me. I know I shall die!" aud numerous other such speeches. Tho physicians and nurses could hardly keep him in bed he suffered so much. Again he broke forth in exclamation. This time he said: "Oh, how I suffer. I can feel the teeth tearing my stomach apart. Oh " he did nofc finish until a nurse opened a telegram from his wife. It read: "Found teeth under bed." The suffering man, who had swallowed these teeth, got up and dressed, paid his bill and left the hotal without a word. This is only an Illustration of what imagination will do , Haunted rjy the Ohatsworth Horror, Sioux City Journal. John Srillman, the conductor on the fated train Which carried seventy-eight souls to death at Chatsworth, III., on the night of the 1 1th of September, is visiting a brother at Grinnell. Since the frightful occurrence Conductor Still man has lost forty-three pounds of flesh, his sleep is filled with dreams of the torn ble wreck,and he has not known a night of restful slumber since the accidenr.. He is off on a leave of absence from the road. They have aent him off to go where he pleases and stay as long as he wishes, with orders to look to the company for anything he wants, no matter wbat it is.

MISCELLANEOUS KOTKS. One-third of the Stajo of Oregon has never been surveyed. The fat from Paris abattoirs is made into "simile" butter. The wedding ring is now made inconspicuous in thickness. , Omaha is very anaious to have the Republican National convention next year. Senator Stanford, of California visited

Oregon the other day: for the first time in his life. ' In Boston there are nine hundred negroes who were born subjects of the British crown. It takes a Missouri journal to give a comprehensive opiniion. We find in a S . Louis paper the decision that "iif you are a married man yc-ur wife can compel you' to support her. If you are not she can't." Pittsburg Chronicle Telt graph. A young lady in New York who was inattentive at whist, has broken Off hor engagement with her lover because he recommended her to "scoop up bur mind in a peanut shell and fix it on t)ts game." " it has been found through recent measurements of 100,000 BuBsians- of both sexes working in variioufl trad es that workmen in the textile branches are of smaller stature than those engaged in other industries. The spinners aro the weakest in every respect.

In Italy turkeys are always fattened with w'alnuta. Thirty days befoire jthe turkey is to be killed one walnut' is stuffed down his throat. Each day he is given aniadditional walnut, and' on the twenty-ninth da.y he has twentynice walnuts. He is then immensely fat. Qt. M. Crouch, a farmer, seventy six years of agOj of Preston, i?e., died a few days since, literally eaten to dtjatit by a maggot known as the screw-worm, A little fly lays the egg in freBh blood. They were deposited in Crouch's nostrils while he was asleep, hi nose having bled just previously. His toogue and the palate of the mouth were eaten

out &nd the throat cut by their incessant working. j Jesse Packard, of Brickfield, Me., for got his temperance pledge long enough the other night to g;et full, and while he was on his way home some one knocked him out in a fight. His limp and apparently lifeless body "was carried

home, and one of his boys seeing it,

moanedi "Oh, dad, you are kilt! you are kilt!" Old Packard never stirred, but he growled out: "Well, don't you s'poae 1 know it 'swell as you. !!TAn observant Pittsburger says: "If you want to tell a" woman's temper watch her eyelids. You can read a man in the same way, but not so reac ily. A woman with a fiery temper will move her eyelids with a snap and that snap betrays her. Another who is ea?y-going and hard to arouse-, moves her eyes languidly. One with a quick brain and temper, furious when aroused, just winks steadily, but neither quickly nor slowly until engaged in interesting conversation. There is not much justice in this land of freedom, after all. A resident of Lancaster county,. Pennsylvania, who has been confined 93 days in prison to insure his presence a3 a witness at a murder trial put-in a bill of l a day for hia time,, but the court not only disallowed the bill, but charged the witness $2 a week for board. To make the case complete, the man should have been sent to jail at hard labor to work out his board bill. Mr. Blaine' Early Ambition. 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. Colonel Lionel Sheldon, ex-Governor of New Mexico, and at present on3 of the receivers of the Texas and Pacific Railroad, is in the city, at the Southern. In conversation with a Globe-Democrat reporter yesterday he related the following incident: In 1S72 he i Sheldon) was a member of Congress from Louisiana. One day, not later than January of that year. Mr. Blaine, who was also a member of the House, met ' him and suddenly said to him: " What would you think of my running for Vice-Presi-detiit on the ticket with Grar.t? I .think I can get it." "WelVsaid Sheldon, "if you want to retire from politics the Vino Presidency is a good road to retirttmont. Formerly the V .ce President wran looked upon in the tinu of successionthe Vice President of one administration was the President of tbe next; but. they've chaidged all tbat lately, and

S now the moment a man is elected Vice

President he ceases to bo in politics." "I guess that's so," saici Mr. Blaine. "But I'm too young to retire from politics. How would it do for me to be Secretary of t he Treasury under Grant?" "That's worse yet," snid"' Shokloo, "so far as any future is concerned, f inance ministers are rarely heard of after their terms of office." The conversation was L.oktm off at about this point, and was not resumed until 1879, wnen Blaine visited Ohio to make some speeches. Sheldon had by this time returned to Ohio rod was livint? about twent y mi'es from Cleveland. Blaine and Sheldon .met, and had not beon lomj in conversation whdii Mr. Blaine introduced tho subject of the Presidency and his own candidacy. Sheldon sbook his bead ami said: The trouble with youJa that you live at the wrong end of the country. Tina West is going to make all the President hereafter, Wrongly Placed, Washington Critic. "Young man," said the minister, impressively, "I could Hto you as'you tat at the gambling table laat night wah a. deep re:l flash on your face." ' "Excuse me, but you art wiag about i hat deep red flush. Bill r Ji n l.ins hrid it in his baud," ' - iDOUGLAS,TSN OEtt AXl TRUB. Co uld ye come bt'ck to me. Bouulas Douglas, , In the old like teas that X knev? : ' I would be so faithful, so loving DcuUvs.-? Douglas. Douglas, tender nwl trre. Ncvera scornful word ah.mk"i j je'i vo I'd smile on ye sweet s the tt"u Is clo;--Sweet as your s niie on me shone eyet, Douglas, Douglas, tender and Iriie. t Oh, to call buck the days that iue aot , My eyes were blinded your Vi olas wera lew Do you kiiott tHo truth now, up i i hhayen, Douglas, Douglas, toydor aud tvuer I cevnr was wo tby of vou, lonjlfts, Kot half wort hy the Ufce of you ; .... Now all men b'side seem to me like shadows, Douglas, Douglas, tender aud ij-ue. StieUh out yo:r band to me, 1'icuplas, Dou:lafi, 33rop forgivejkess from boavec. ike dewr - A I lay my heArt on your dead hsirt, DouglsDouglas, DotiHlM, tender and t u. --Puurii Mfcrla mlwk.

PENALTIES FOR (1K1MLE. The People 0ttiuK awf ul ly Tired of the Present State of Things. ladianapolis 8e:atinl, We are looking around for reasons why mobs hang peopla. One Teason is our courts and juries. They llook leniently upon the. taking of human1 life; but touch property and the whole .country, is aroused. . To illustrate, last week a prisoner was taken from Logans-

port to Michigan City. He was sentenced for two vears On the same day a prisoner arrived from this connty. He

was sent for seven years. The two year prisoner killed a manl The seven year prisoner stole a horse! People tire of these things; and occasionally they rise up in rebeiion, and do rash things. . Two years for taking a human lifeseven years for taking a horse! Stop and think of it honorable judgesl Ponder over fit members of juries! Express opinions on it members of the press! Laf ay ete Sundav Leader. The facts stated by tlie Leader disclose nothing peculiar in Indiana; they apply to equal force to all the States. They indicate a condition of things well

calculated to arouse the people. It is of the hightest importance that people should think well of courts of judges. It is a calamity of no ordinary character, when people doubt the iiitegerity of courts their efficiency. Tlie slightest deviation of judges from the people's conception of right, . j ustiee, equity, imperils social order, furnishes texts for Anarchists, and is fruitful of tumult; such things degrade law j disgrace courts, and bring the machinery of the law into contempt. Under such circumstances men are required to investigate very little to find the reason why -for mobs, for lynch law, for acts which are said to disgrace countries, States andjntire sections of the country. tt man is indicted for murder. There Is no question about the facts. Following the crime we read blood-eurdling accounts of its perpetration. Then there

i. mrohAhlv "fisftjinA. Rewards are

offered, detectives are put on the track of the murderer; arrests sometimes result, and therl comes the trial. Note the defense, count the loopholes in the law, look at the array of -lawyers, observe the technicaUtie8that are brought

forward, listen to tjfcr orations the charge of the judge. This done the jnry is usually so befogged that it can scarcely discover between right and wronjr, and all too often the verdict it 'mot guilty;" or the penalty is so light that the culprit goes to the penitentiary impressed with the idea that he was Tight in killing hisman. Nct so with the horse thief prove that he stolo the horse and up he goes for a term of years well calculated to Impress upon his mind that stealing horses is a perilous and unpopular business. There are few loophoies in the law for him few available technicalities, oratory is of little avail. The charge of nhe judge is clear and concise, and tbe . rerdlcfc at ouce.settles the question. .. ;. . The people are getting awfully tired of this sort of a; thing, , aad a speedy remedy is requhed.; Bouquets and slush when a man is guilty murder have had their day. Weak sentimentality is out of order. Society ought to take notice of these things. Killing men is a worse crime than stealing horses. The penalty should be more severe, such 13 the vardict of the people She Knew the Siffas. Yndi'a Companion. .' A traveler put up for the night with a simple-minded old couple in a lonely farm house. As he rode up to the door ho heard the old lady say, in a tone of deep conviction; '"There! I knowed somebody'd come before night, for 1 dropped rfty fork on the floor this morning and it snick fctraitfht up "Then 1 dropped the dish-cloth at noon another sure gign of company." Ic enuring the house the visitor carelessly struck his foot against the step and came near falling H.h9 said the old lady quickly, "which toe did you ssub, the right p the left?" : :'; "The right," was the reply "That's good; it's a sn siin ycu're ffoing where you're wanted. Pa, shoo that rooster off the f once. If he crowf there it will rain before morn ing." . A little boy suddenly' ran into the room, cryiujiouc Oh, jjrHndina, look! Hera's a copper I found-in, the road. " "I'm not a bit surprised D Wfc you remember, 1'ommy, that you dreamed, of finding a nestot hen's eges last night? I told you then that you'd find some money before a week."

A young woman was washing on a porch at the back of the; bouse, and, Jth old lady suddenly cried out: There, tlu re, Sawii yoa ha venJt splashed some sa H o ver ill the front of your dress! And if you don't get a drunken .husband for it Tin wonderfully mistaken. I've known that sign to come true oi ten and often. But you can keep it from coming true by hanging all the clrthc3.on the line wrong' sidi out. and you'd better do it." A " So Si lean d id , as th d tra veler . n ti ae 1 to his great amusement. ; , - . Outwitting ft etectivj. Buffalo Conrior. On of the brightest detectives at police headquarters Sift. -the subject of a joke. He recently was-foat looking for a well known "crook," Audone of the toughest young meu ln Buffalo. The ofrlcor spotted his game on Front avenue aud started towarnl him. The latter "tumbled" very quick iy. and made off, turning down Mfth- street on a xun: The detectiye?gave chase, and the race was getting so hot'ttiat the crook' bolted i nto a toloon . A . pai 1 tf water was standing on the docft, ohito bar room, and quick as flash, she puraued threw down his hat and hean washing his face .in it. In an fif istaut the deetive burst in, asking: " Did 8i man run in here j ust now?" " Yes, " answered the crook, vigoronsly rubbing his face, "just went out the back way." The detective took the hint and went through the rear exit on? a gallop, while Mr. Grook was out oreach. ." Baptist. Centenary,' , One hundred -y eiUB ago the 20th of January next, tne liret colored Baptist Church was organised Georgia, The centennial celebration will not take place until next J une, so that the weather will permit holding a great open air meeting in Savannah. The work of the century has rest tit ed in 1,400 colored B.iptist churcheu, 300 ministers, 2,000 licentiates; ndv 160,000 members. Mrs. John Jacob Astoi1 pays her chief cook $7,000 a year, &xi$ then has to eat the plainest kiuKl o f food 8bc has tho dyspepaUv

TRADE AND JLABtMK

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Philadelphia Kecord. "'. . m

Good authority . say I that the pom

lakes will be doubled Wjfetwely or;

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:.?4 f

eiffhteen months. -

an full fit nrdftm an at ttus time. JEiverr?& e

thing: in the way of building matiftli has been ordered way ahead. : . I ,

A recently returned traveler from the f

West says some shopkeepers are anx-

ions to pay cash for discounts, THer Jf . i .. ' :''.:i -1

seems to oe. no scarcity vi

among small traders; t"?T ' US

Iron is being much more largely 1

for roofing and tile pnrooses than even J?

A Cincinnati- firrh is running night and -4

day on tiles, shingiesi iron frames

roofa and iron-ore paints and cements.

Manv maufacturinc! estabhshmento

throughout the 4ew EingifBwl and Mid

dle States are taking off their old toon and putting on asphalt roofa ai?d other

n aw fomnnsiHnnfl. The cost in USUX-

AUC AO Oil lUIVlUtUV AllOUA, ' -r - Kentucky mining aud manufacturing: : '

inrnraaT.3 ova nainir n iiniimiHii iiv Liin i .1.

; rtfl,. v .-f a .'mat. Hoa rtt tV nrrhprn anil .

being given to the dev3lopment;of lumv

her and mineral resources; "

The tendency in pur , workshops is to ; J j make more complicated- and delicats machiasry; , Inventprs iot apr parently reaching the limit dfc imglfj provements, and . ar?? preparing -. tft, f

wav for some raaicai improyemwiajr

departuroirom exisring methodSl ; ; A great many Americans are con-

RAek work.'

All ot the German rollmg-inul owners -

have formed a combinatioii - and .iay fAitrirlHrl t,h work nn hv nercfcutaares. A

commission is -now arranging scale of prices. "

Some railway companies' hlw undor contemplation' the building s of

l hniv amnlAV-n' Tf VVA BimllAT , ' I

U.UUQCO 1U1 xuava w, m. 1- 1 ;q - .-

to tne one oraerea l'uu& uy wiotu f w

VanderbiU. jThe 4 s completed in lltew York is as,fint;';4':-

ished as the best appointed club-house J

so great is wie ucuuu wi coal cars that ; lumber cars are being i fenced up Witii boardaanf nserl. Mucfe

slaty coal is going to inaraec, uu more, or less of itris subject to dockage to ifr

turn. In the urgent requiremente conh-

oM-mWo.rAfnfift eoalis ttndine its way s

St. Louis is keepmgiwce

in its industrial expansioni 13o street railways nrofchanging from horssa

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to cables. New manufacture

porations are springing uw, Some fiVe f story structures are being run up ffr seven and eight storii lrmmghAm,r 11 1

Ala., concerns are buying a -jgpoaoair -a

pi macuuiorv iu iu . w, g Topeka, Kan., will expend $2i0,0W on-v I x he sewer sv stem, A St. Louis fire-briclK concern has just been awarded a n- i-1 tract for 105,000 feet of seweiipe iter : the former cit:ft The same company" has an ordCr for j

400,000 bricks lor a v mast iurnw

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8hemeld, Ala.

mi.. riaiMi Kt4I(va Ait.rriRR the Ohio

river is to have two ispans oio i aevenO feet each, ttnd -tbjree 35Ct feet. : each; total length; 670 feet- Itwillbe ;

fiff-e.fchrAA fAt above uurn water aiaw, &

ana win cost,ouu,ww. !

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and a balf jem pmmpmmf the wonder of tbe West. .: : , ; .Vi

The stockholders of the oledOj Ann

Arbor & Northern rsalroad are paynug their workmen oh the profitssnngj system precisely' as if the snnv theyf earned per month w;ere so, mnc)i- stoei v

Hn the company. The tfiiiEbury mius .

of Minneapolis, are conducted upon tne $ same plan. All effoir te of the kindsaMn to be yielding sahiction Wtlwi . li ploying ihterestfl. . ; v.

been compelled to adopt tne usgn

control their continental tramc ; ideas of American niechahics are pwej mealing foreign wprk'Shops, and Ujejl

been obliged to adndt tbat mnclfc is - lo

z it

be learned on this side of the .water'

There have been 183 mills and wood

work factories es'ablisbetl during -th past three months ill the SonthT. -The M

total number for the year is 503. Ilunng

the past-two years the number ot nuus erected foot up 750. If the arerag daily capacity of these mills be 15,00(1; feet, counting a ruu of days pej ? year, the total; aunual production'' bf $k lumber in the Soothern States ; mus! :

reach 250,W00::fe;:V;'-:i yri .r

The Strong locomoti ve is attracting f

good deal of attention among locomotive m

tnH ttmntai A orlxjontein that it ! 'i

is capable of heavier express servios : 5 than others, that no increased weight -imi n ptacei upon ihe axle, and that it- 'uses)": lesB fuel than the side valve engine, an that it bsrns eithflr authracite or bi? J

locomotive engine (which has been v

tested) upon itsid Tiu heels i pounds. ' ; : " ,; L ; .v '-'r. I

High speed engin es are in great de maud. Maciunists are straining evejry nerg j? to secure a wtajitt'' competitors. Western 'machinists seeing to be leading tho way on sniaU engines, but in the East eng ines? of immense ,3&

ptuUbY afW lllttua -rAMi mvp f results. Mechanical "'ipp:;: i

American make aw crowding out foreign

makers because of their greater vadaom

.l2-u L-!-t .v..!-iituMi v. -it-

The lumber manufacturers ;are

tory wherever they can be bought'? cheaply. OalifoinHar bought in rapidly. The cream? of tnel yellow pine rejgioh of the South is sal ready controlled 1 AMicran nh latay bought 12,000,000 ief yellow nooto in North Carolina, ; Micixigarft

)-.lun,n -oir tVinf. 'OiMii. rrtfifc nf Ifltwinff ' ' '?f

rhiH winter will be increased about 1

rar cftnt.. and that this increase will beM !

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