Bloomington Courier, Volume 14, Number 3, Bloomington, Monroe County, 12 November 1887 — Page 2
if 5 t hec6urier . CONCORD AND DISCORD.
. BY H. J. ELim f
BLOOMIKGTON.
INDIANA
Fraycs is crisis.
never happy without
Bin Came And Sweet Sounds Melted Away
a The Song of the Morning StaTH Will be
Resumed Again in the Great Day.
". hmae peace demands the enforce ment of law. -SixiKtbe-reBident announced-tha Mimlic office is a public trnst," we have pas, oil, whisky,, sugarK bag, and various other ''trusts." .
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. 4 Ik 1800 there were in all the United States only Bix cities of oyer 6,000 inhabitants. In 1880 there were 286, and y this time many more. Tot wrought iron pipe manufacturer have apparently concluded this a good time to form a - "trust"- and advance prices. The people of the country 'are watching these,, various "trusts" with considerable vigilance,1 just now, and it might be a good time for some of. them to call a halt, or tibeyywill get set down
hard.
The "World Has Become" Disoorclant
combination of the coaloil pro
ducers will affect everv citiaen of. the ceuntry, as in aU these moves the Standard Oil Company is at the head of tne matter. The price of ' Oil, in consequence of this "trusfwili soon;advance, while it is clear 4here is no necessity for the advance. The -Indianapolis News well calls the Standard Oil Oonv pany the "octopus.' ;
Commissioner of Agriculture, in
his speech to the Association of Cattlemen at Kansas City on , Monday, flung a few figures at his auditors that tailed eT in the millions in . the meet reckless sort of way. His concluding item was
that cattle disease in the past forty-five
years had cost Great Britain $500,000,JMC This is an average loss of over
$11,000,000 annually, and looks like jug-
gting with figures.
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Pabjc cablegram: The Extreme Left (Chamber of Deputies) met and resolved to send the following message to the Governor of Illinois: "In the same of humanity and in the jname of. the, connection between two great republics, the' Paris Deputies, advocating the abolition of political deaths ask for the lives of the seven men condemned to death at Chicago." Without presuming to approach the cause of this appeal with the slightest flippancy, an anxious public is inclined to believe that - the above petitioners wiQVsrcmain in the extreme left.
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Tn Western Union telegraph company is again in full control of the telegraph St stem of the country, and it is probable the sehemelof government control will be advocated with renewed vigor, but, need k?be prophesied with recurring failure. The W. F. is a " porporatioa that labors deligently and sue-ees-jfulty to pay fat dividends on waterad stock, thanks to the people who do ' not 8criminateih;iavor of competiuR . aompanies. Telegraphic rates are much too high, but they will not belower until the people themselves see proper to give
,; encouragement to corporations fully as -s. worthy that seek to compete with it. Evidently,hightelegraphic rates are due . to this fact alone. ; MaM ...... Julss Fxbbt is one of the ablest, mos aggressive and most ambitious of French j f - statesnien. ' President Grevy, on the other hand, is old, conservative and Kf- pnysically feeble. Bn t neither at the - - .present nor at any other time since the a foundation of the republic would the destinies of the country ha or have been as safe in Perry's hands as in those of . Francois P. J, Grevy The combination between Perry and Clemen ceau, the " Radical chief, against the President may -;" ; not succeed, but the possibility that it may succeed opens up and unpleasant prospect .for Prance. Ihe campaigns against Tunis, Tonoih and Madagascar twere some of the fruits of Jules Perry's policy when he was at the head- of the i Ministry, and in none of; those schemes did Prance win and glory.'k '
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. P. T. Babkuh says the days of the aureus clown are over, and that no such individual will accompany his show next season. Well, well, but Mr. Barlim dare not do this. He may advertise his triple ch cus rings, and acres of canvas, and four, horned' rhinoceros, and the $100,000 hippopotamous, and wild-looking and -mild-tempered maneater, attractions to be seen only with this neatest of all shows, and they won't he missed when the day rolls around. Why T Because circus goers havelearned to accept all such announcements with a grain of allowance. Bnt take away iHie gaudhy-painted, joDy clown, with s Jus gray headed chestnuts and rollicking songs and you take away the greatest attraction of the arena. He will he missed, don't forget that. When the kern goes the clown will go with it. ..... Jr. MeGiynn Expee Vindication. Dr. McGlynn Burprised the meeting of the united labor party in New York Friday evening with, the announcement that he was to return-to the priesthood of the Roman Catholic church. He said: "The authorities who dealt with me are beginning to see their mistake, and the, errors which some local authorities have made will soon be corrected by higher authorities abroad. After that outrage
has been repaired,-! shall be ready to jJohn Sebastian Bach,
go back into the folds of the church; hut : I shall not .retract a bit?' :J Archbishop Corrigan says that there is no change in the attitude of the Catholic church toward Dr. McGlynn, and the assertion that he was about to be restored to the priesthood was a Henry George campaign dodge. . ?
The Gtfrrrnor Kissed the General.
Governor J. B. Morgan of Georgia, addressed a largo audience at Cleveland, O., Tuesday night. At the -end of his
speech he offered to answer any ques-1 greement . with His holiness, with ..'His
tions that jnight be asked him. "What have y bn to say of General Jackson's
ch at Macon?" inquired a man in
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e auoience. "oinangr saia gover
nor Gordon. "Do you consider it treasonable?" asked.the man. ,UI have noth- - mg to say,." was the Governor's reply. General Cl W. Morgan, of Mount Vernon, introduced the Governor. General Morgan-dosed his eulogy' by referring to the stars and stripes, saying . that it was; the- only flag. J ust then Governor Gordon walked rapidly to where General- Morgan? was smnding
Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Subject, "Concord and... Discord." . Text, Job xxxviii., 6-7. He said: The fact is that the whole universe was a complete cadence, an unbroken dithyramb, a musical portfolio. The great sheet of immensity had been spread out, and written on it were .the stars, the smaller. of them minims, 'he larger of them sustained notes. The meteors marked the staccato passage, the whole heavens a gamut, with all sounds, intonations and modulations, the space between the .worlds a musical interval, trembling of stellar . light a fuaver, the thunder a bass clef, the wind among trees a treble clef. That is the way God made all things a perfect harmony. . But one day a harp string snappod in the great orchestra. One . day a voice sounded out of tune. One day a discord, harsh and terrific, grated upon the glorious autophone. It was sin that made the dissonance, and that harsh discord has been sounding through the centuries. All the work of Christians and philanthropists and reformers of all ages
is to stop that discord and get all things, i . . i j t . .e . 11. i. i -I-
oaca into xne peneci narmony .wnicn was heard at the laying of the corner stone when the morning stars sang together. Before I get through, if I am divinely .helped, I will make it plain that sin is discord, and that righteousness is harmony. ... ...... That things in general are out of tune is as plain as to a musician's ear is the tfnhappy clash of clarionet and bassoon in an orchestra rendering. The. world's health out of tune: Weak lungs and the atmosphere in collision, disordered eyes and the noonday light in quarrel, rheumatic limb and damp weather in strustfitle, neuralgias and
pneumonias, and consumptions and epilepsies in flocks swoop upon neighborhoods and cities. Where you find one person with sound throat and keen eyesight, and alert ear, and easv respira
tion, and regular pulsation, and supple limb, and prime digestion, and steady nerves, you find a hundred who have to be very careful, because this or that or the other physical function is disordered. .. The human intellect out of tune: The judgment wrongly swerved, or the memory leaky, or the will weak, or the temper inflam nable, and tfye well balanced mind exceptional. Domestic life out of tune:. Only hereand tjiere a conjugal outbreak of incompatibility of temper through tHe divorce courts, or a filial outbreak about a" father's will
through the Surrogate's court, or a case of wile beating or husband poisoning through the .criminal Courts, but thousands of families with June outside and January Within. Societv out of tune: Labor and capital, their hands on each other's throat. Spirit of caste keeping those down in the social scale in a struggle to get up, and putting those who are up in anxiety lest they have to come down. . No wonder the old pianoforte of society is ail out of tune, when hypocrisy,: and lying, and subterfuge, and double dealing, and sycophancy, and charlatanism, and revenge, have for six thousand 'years; been banging away at the keys and stamping the pedals. On all sides there is a perpetual shipwreck of harmonies. Nations in discord. Without realizing it, so wrong is the feeling of nation for nation . that the symbols chosen are fierce and destructive. In this country, where our skies are full of robins, and doves, and morning larks, we have our national symbol, the fierce and filthy eagle, as immoral a bird as can be found in all the. orni hological catalogues. In " Great Britian, wnere they have lambs and fallow deer, their-symbolis the merciless": "libnf In Russia, where from between her froaen north and blooming south all kindly beastS'dweD, they chose the growling bear; and in the. world's herald ry a favourite figure is the. dragon, Which a winged -.serpent, ferocious and deathful. And so fond is the world of contention that we climb out tnrough the heavens and baptize one of the other planets with the spirit of battle, and call it Mars, after the god of war, and We give to the eighty sign of the zodiac the name of the scorpion, a creature which is chiefly celebrated for its deadly sting. But,after all, those symbols are expressive of the way nation feels toward nation. Discord wide as the continent and bridging the seas. I suppose you... have noticed how warmly in love dry-goods stores are with other dry-goods stores and how highly grocervmen think of the sugars of the grocerymen on the same block. And in what a eulogistic way allopathic and homeopathic doctors, speak of each 0ther, 'and how ministers will sometimes put ministers on that beautiful cooking instrument which the English call a spit, an iron roller with spikes on it, turned by a cranx before a hot fire, and then if the minister being roasted cries out against itr the men who are turning him say:; "Hush, brother! we are turning thiB spit for the glory of God and the good of your soul, and you must be quiet while we close the service with: ., .,
. " 'Blest the tie that binds Our hearts in Christiau love.
- ineearnn is aiameterea ana circum-
ferenced with discord, and the music
that was rendered at the laying of the world's cornerstone, when the morning
stars sang together, is not heard now:
and though here and there, from this and that part of society, and from this
and that part of the earth, there comes
up a thrilling.solo.of love, or a warble of worship, or a" sweet duet of patience, they are drowned out by a discord that
shakes the earth.
But in this world things in general are out of tune to our frail ear, how
much more so to ears angelic and deific! T 1 : . it . . F i.
i6 laaes a saiiiea arose iuuy to appre
ciate1; oisagreement oi , sound. Many
nave no capacity to detect a defect of
musical execution, and, though there
were m one bar as manv offenses
against harmony as could crowd in between the lower F of the bass and the higher G of the soprano, it would give
mem no.aiscomiort, wmte on tne iorehead of the educated artist 'beads of perspiration would stand out as a result of the harrowing dissonance. While an amateur . was performing on a piano,
ana aaa just strucx tne wrong cord.
the immortal
composer, entered the room, and the
amateur rose in embarrasment, and Bach rushed past the host, who stepped forward to greet him, and, before the key-board had stopped vibrating, put his adroit' hand upon the keys and changed the painfull inharmony into
glorious cadence. Then Bach turned.
and gave salutation to the -host who had invited him, J. . But the worst of all discords" is moral discord. ;-If society" and' - the "world are painfully discordant to imperfect man, what must they be to a perfect God? People try to define what sin is. it seems" to me that sin is getting out of harmony with Godl a disa-
pnncy. wun nw love, witn ins com
mands, our will clashing with His will, the finite dashing against the infinite, the frail against the puissant, the created against the Creator. If a thousand musicians, with flute and corneta'pis ton, and trumpet., and violincello, a n.d hautbois; and- aombone, and all the, wind and" stringed ihstrumenta that ever- gathered in; a Dusseldorf j ubi lee should resolve that they would play out oi tune and put concord to the rack, and make the place wild with shrieking, and grating and rasping sounds, t hey could not make such a pandemonium as that which rages in a sinful soul when God listens to the play of its
thoughts, passions, and emotionsdis
cord. The world nays more for discord than it does for consonance. High prices have been paid lor music. One man gave" two hundred and twenty five dollars to hear the Swedish songstress in Now York, ami another six-hundred and twenty-five dollars to hear her in Boston, and another nix-hundred and fifty dollars to hear her in Providence. Fabulous prices have been paid for sweet sounds, but far more has been paid for discord. The Crimean war cost one4 billion seven hundred million dol lars, and our American civil war over nine aiid a half billion c ollars, and the war debts of professed Christian nations are about fifteen billion, dollars. The worlc1 pays for this red ticket, which admits it to the saturnalia of broken
hones and death aeonies, and destroyed
;cities, and plowed graves, and crushed
hearts, any amount oi money ouum asks. Discord! Discord!. But I have to tell you that the song that the morning stars sang together, at the laying of the world's cornerstone, is to be resumed again. Mozart's greatest overture was composed one night when he was several times overpowered with sleep, and artists say they can tell the places in the music where he was falling asleep, and the places .where he-awakened. So the overture of the morning stars, spoken of in my text, has been asleep, but it will awaken and be more grandly rendered by the evening stars of the world's existence than by the morning stars, and the vespers will be sweeter than the matins. The work of all good men and women, and of all good churches, and all reform associations, is to bring the race back to the original harmony. The re hellions heart to be attuned social life to be attuned, commercial ethics to be attuned, internationally to be attuned, hemispheres to be attuned. But by what force and in what wav? Now, our world can never be attuned by an imperfect instrument. Heaven has ordained the only inatiument, anil it is made out of the wood ol the cross, and the voices that -.accompany it are imported voices, cantatrices of. the. first Christmas night, when heaven serenaded the earth with: "Glory to God in the highest and on earth oeace, goodVwHl.td men." Lest we start" too far off, and get lost in generalities, we had better , be.n .wi th rmrRolvea.'Set our own hearts
and life in harmony with the eternal Christ. Oh, for His almighty spirit to attune us. to chord our will with His
will, to modulate our life with His life, and bringr us into unison with all that is pure,and self- sacrificing and heavenly. 1?he. strings of our nature.are all broken and twisted, and the bow iB so Black it can not evoke any thing mellifluous. The instrument made for heaven to play on has been roughly twanged and struck .by influences worldly and demoniac. .0, master hand of Christ, restore this split, and fractured, and despoiled, and unstrung nature until first it shall wall out for our sin and then trill with divine pardon. The. whole world must also be attuned by the same power. A few days ago I was in a great factory, six hundred hands, and they have never had a strike. Complete harmony between labor and . capital, the operatives of scores oi years in their beautiful homes near by the mansions of the manufacturers, whose invention and Christian behavior made the great, enterprise. So all the world over labor and capital will be brought into euphony. You may have heard what is called the "Anvil Chorus," composed by Verdi, a tune plaved by hammers, great and small, now With mighty stroke, and now with heavy stroke, beating a great iron anvil. That is what the world has. got to come to anvil chorus, yard-stick chorus, shuttle chorus, trowel chorus, crowbar chorus, pickax chorus, gold-mine chorus, rail-track cHorus, locomotive chorus. It can be done, and it will he done. So all social life will be attuned by the goapei harp. There wiil be a many classes in society as now, but the classes will not be regulated by birth, or wealth, or accident, but by the scale-of virtue and benevolence, and people will be assigned to their places as good, or very good, or most excellent. So, also, commercial life will be attuned, and there will be twelve in every dozen, and sixteen ounces m every pound, and apples at the bottom of the barrel will be as sound as those on the top, and silk goods will not be cotton, and sellers will not have to cha ge honest people more than the right price because others will not pay, and goods will come to you corresponding with the sample by which you purchased them, and coffee will not be chtcoried, and sugar will not be sanded, and milk will not be chalked, and adulteration of food will be a state's prison offense. Aye, all f things shall be attuned. Elections in England and the United States will no more be a grand carnival' of defalcation and scurrility, but the elevation of righteous men in a righteous way. Heaven isr.to have a new song, entirely new song; but I should not wonder if at some time n earth a tune is fashioned out of many tunes or it is one tune with the variations, so some of the songs of the redeemed may have playing through them the songs of earth, and how thrilling as coming through the great anthem of the saved, accompanied by harpers with their harps and trumpeters with their trumpets, we should hear some of she strains of Antioch. and Mount Piajjah, and Coronation, and Lenox, and St, Martin's, , and Fountain, and Ariel, and Old Hundred! How .they ..would bring to mind the praying circles, and communion days, and the Christmas festivals, and the church worship in which on earth we mingled! I have no idea that when we bid farewell to earth we are to bid farewell to all these grand old GoBpel hymns, which melted and raptured our souls for so many years. Now, my friends, if sin is discord and righteousness is harmony, let us get out of the .one and enter the other. After our dreadful civil war was over and in the summer of 1869 a great national peace jubilee was held in Boston, and as an elder of this church had been honored by the. selection of some of his music, to be rendered on that occasion, I accompanied him to the jubilee. Forty thousand people .sat.! and stood in the great Coliseum - erected for that purpose.
Thousands of wind and stringed instru-'
ments. Twelve thousand trained voices. The masterpieces of all ages rendered, hour after hour, and day after dayHandel's "Judas. Maccabfieus," Spohr's "Last Judgment," Beethoven's "Mount of Olives," Hayden'8 "Creation," Mendels
sohn's "Elijah. " Meyerbeer's "Corona
lion March" rolling, on and up in surges
that billowed against the heavens. The
mighty cadences within were accompani
ed on the outside by the ringing of the
bells of the city and cannon on the commons, in exact time with the music die
charged by electricty. thundering their
awful bars of a harmony that astounded all' nations. Sometimes I bowed my
head and wept. Sometimes I stood up
in the enchantment, and sometimes Ihe effect was so overpowering' I. felt I could
not ensure it. W hen all the voices were
in full chorus, and all the batons m
full wave, and all the orchestras in full
triumph, and a hundred anvils under
mighty hammers were in full clang, and all the towers in the city rolled in-their
majestic sweetness, and the, whole build-
ing quaKeu wun me ooora oi zumy can
non, rarepa ivosa, . wito a voice tnat win
never again; De -.equated on earth until
the archangel voice proclaims that
time shall be no longerv rose above" all
other sounds in her. rendering of .our
National air, "The Star-Spangled Ban
ner' ..
It' was too much for a motral. and
quite eno'ugb for an immortal, to bear,
and while some tainted, one womanly
spirit, released, tinder its power, sped; away to be with God .
and kisaing him directly in the mouth, cord, life long discord, maddening dis-
REMINISCENCE.
"What is that, mother!" "tlie rink, .my. ohli; The year It was built all the people went wild. They crowded its walla, aiid t muaio'f glad . sound On furniture casters they slid themselves rouad; But the fool-killer came with his two handed . . . Club, ( And he smote all the sliders, frem greybeard to cub; . - ' And the building so silent is uied, as you'iee. By the Mourners' Embalming and Shroud Com pauy." .Robert J.3rdet
An A ppeal for Aid. . ,.V". General Master "Workman 9owderly
has appealed for aid in behalf of Jthe
triking anthracite coal miners.
A Cmtom House Skth, Ne w York Graphic. ".We were on our wedding trip, Mrs. Robinson and I, in the spring of '78well, Mrs. Robinson doesn't like meto say how long we have been married, but it is several years ago. :At that' time traveling in Europe was hedged about with many difficulties from which now it is, thank heaven, comparatively free. Passports were to be provided, and what not, and in short,- it was- the - end and object of every petty principality this was before '66, and sovereign princes were as plenty as blackberries in midEurope to make it as unpleasant as possible for any traveler not properly accredited to his or their serene Highness. "However, this has little or nothing to do with my story, which relates ex
clusively to my experience with the
Custom House officials, except it he to
explain how everybody was suspicious
of everybody else, and where diamond
cut diamond was the order of the day,
thieves and adventurers generally passed
the frontiers triumphant, while otherwise honest folk frequently paid, the
penalty of being caught in an occasional
breach of th moralities.
"Now my wife, like all her sex, had peculiar notions on the subject of con
traband goods. She held in common,
I am bound to say, with many other
wise scrupulously honest folks that Custom House officials were only in
vented for the annoyance of travelers,
and as such it was not only allowable but praiseworthy to sircumvent them in
every possible way.
"In short, it was a case of all being
fair in love or war. They were there to detect and prevent the passage of certain
ailicles. It waa obviouslv the duty of
every right-minded pergon to resent this
arbitrary conduct on their part by carrying from one country to another as many
of the said articles, concealed more or less ingeniously upon their persons, as the nature of the case permitted. "1, on the contrary, not only had serious qualms as to the honesty ,of the proceeding in question, but being then, as now, of a naturally timid disposition I conceived that the pleasure of eyaaing the payment of a few dollars on a piece of lace or a box of cigars would be dearly purchased by the anxiety wliichl should endure when I perceived the eye of a stern-visaged official fixed upon me and should politely be detained on suspicion, and" perhaps searched. ' "Even the tenor of this last appeal to her reason failed to convince my wife. " 'I am sure no one would ever want to search me, she insisted. 4 a.nd I really don't see the harm.' "To which I replied in the words of a well-known novelist that -I bad never known but one woman who could understand reason and she wouldn't listen to it.' ' .';'-. "Well, to make a long story short, we argued the question out until both of us became quite warm, and. I ended by absolutely forbidding my wife to carry anything of a contraband nature on her person. She made no reply, and I, fond man. supposed the matter settled. I had only been married- a few months, and I had the most absurd ideas as my wife will tell you on the su bject of duty and obedience, and so forth. You see I did not know the sex. "We had a delightful run through Europe without any special disaster, and my wife's air of injured innocenceexpressed in the most part in very indifferent French, but making up in expression what it lacked in idiom when asked to declare any dutiable articles, was positively beyond description. "It was in Brussels, I think, that I read in one of the English papers of the arrest of French women at Dover charged with smuggling over a quantity of lace which they had wrapped around their persons under their clothing, and . which was only discovered on their being searched by the officials. "The writer added that a regular corps of female searchers had been added to the department, and thnt suspicious characters were invited to step in and interview these ladies with a view to vindicating their appearance or falling under the tenure of the law. "I showed the paper to my wife, whose only comment was, 'More fools they.' , . . "I suppose she meant to express her contempt for women who were foolish enough to look suspicious. I thought at the time she intended to convey her opinion of the folly of attempting to outwit her Most Gracious Majesty's
servants, and I felt relieved at the idea that my arguments had prevailed upon her at last. "Once more, Brown, old fellow, I showed my ignorange of the sex. My arguments had had precisely the same weightvupon her as my commands. "Mrs. Robinson spent a good deal of money in Brussels. Indeed, when on bur way to Ostend I came to add up the amount I had given her during our short stay, I felt, I must confess, a little staggered to find how much. But it seemed a little early to allude to such mundane matters, and I held my peace, only considering what the dickens the had got to show for it all. On the steamer, as-in duty bound, Mrs. Robinson paid that tribute of respect which Father Neptune ..demands of the majority of those who venture upon his dominions. In a word, Mrs. Robinson was awfully seasick. And, I may add, .not in the best of -humor; And when, in asking for her keys, I confessed the hopo tiiafc she had followed my wisheB and abstained from bringing over anything dutiable in her trunks, she was very-inj ured, and tell it not in Gath - rather cross. " I think you -might have more 'consideration, Henry, than to bother me at such a time. Let the wretches look for themselves. -They'll find nothing in my boxes, I can tell you.""- .. "I went on deck again with the keys, and had plenty of time to get a little out
of temper myself by the time we reached the pier. Still, I should have been
much appeased by the vision of my
wife's suffer in g,but to my astonishment, when she did arise up the companion
ladder she was positively radiant. She had taken the utmost pains with her personal appearance, and managed, somehow, I never knew how to fight down the least traces of her nausea.
"She was very cool, however, to me
reproachful and indignant, I thought, at my suffsrestions about the Custom
House business. I ha 1 alluded once or
twice to the female searcher arrangement, and that article in the Daily News was still running in my head.
"She did not speak to me for some
time, as we stood watching the boat
made fast to the pier, and when she did,
her first words showed that I was right in my idea of what was in her mind.
"'Perhaps you think, Henry,' she
said, with a glance of ineffable scorn,
that I look the sort of a person who is
likely to be. subjected to a personal search?1 - .
"I don't know what possessed me, but there flashed upon me all in a moment the idea of giving her a lesson. I determined that she should have such a fright as would effectually destroy for her any romance that still lingered around the smuggling business, and at
the same time would enable me to pose as the sagacious husband, who by a proper exercise of his authority had prevented her from being placed in a very serious position. "The idea would have flown as quickly as it came, had not my wife insisted on alluding to tbe subject again and again, and had she not displayed a most independent spirit when at last we stood upon the pier, declining my proffered arm with a toss of her head, and finally marching off by herself to a little distance, after giving me my instructions as to having the baggage properly paektd again after being opened, "Just at that moment an official of some authority apparently passed close to me. I touched him on the arm. 11 'Dp you see that lady in the sealskin sacsue and black satin bonnet ever there?' I said. 'I don't want to be mixed up in the matter myself, but I think it would be worth your while to look after her.' "The man stared at me for a moment, then thanking me he disappeared in the direction of the main building. "I thought he had either ignored or forgotten about my trust, and, indeed, was lather congratulating myself that he had done so, for I had already repented of my intentions of frightening my wife, when I saw an ocial step up to her, and politely touching his cap say a few words in a low tone. She looked surprised, and glanced in my direction,but apparently not seeing me in the crowd, she followed the man into the Custom House. ... "Now she was in for it. i felt very sorry indeed for my wife. I had hardly realised before what a very unpleasant operation it must be to be searched. It was really a cruel thing of me to have subjected her to such an ordeal, even if she had been a little obstinate and annoying, and it was scarcely consoling to reflect that she would certainly never forgive me if she should by and chance discover that I was the author of her misfortune. On the whole, it hardly
seemed quite as amusing as I expected it would be. " 'However, it was consoling to know that she had nothing upon her, and perhaps they would not trouble her very much after all, while it certainly would be rather a triumph for me. , I .would ask her with the utmost indifference of manner where she had been and what had kept her so long. Then if she were unhappy and distressed I would condole with her unmerited disaster, and insinuate how fortunate it was that I had prevented the possibility of her having any thing contraband upon her; what should we have done if she had, etc. If, on the contrary, she was disposed to brazen it out, I should have no scruples in exercising my undoubted right to ejaculate 'I told you so,' with such additional self-congratulations as might suggest themselves, that I had not been fool enough to let her have her own way. "She was so long in returning that I began to be a little alarmed. Several
ideas occurred to me. ..remaps sue was
ashamed to face me. Perhaps she had been so overcome with the indignity to which she. had been subjected that she might have fainted. "I became very persistent in my curiosity, and, forgetting my fear of compromising myself in the matter, I rushed off toward the Custom House iu search of her. ...... "The great hall of the building was almost empty, most of the personages having got through their examination and departed whither they were bound I looked around in search of Mrs. Robinson, and at that moment I caught sight of the revenue officer to whom I had first pointed her out. "He came over to me with an expression of satisfaction on his face. 'I can't tell you how much obliged we are to vou. sir' he began. 'We
haven't had such a prize for some time. Two hundred pounds' worth of lace at the very least calculation.' " 'What?' I exclaimed, while a cold perspiration seemed to start out of every pore. 'What? Do you mean that lady " 'Was an old hand, undoubtedly, air. Why, she brazened it out till the end, Talked about writing to the Times, and her husband being; an American' of position, and all jrest of it. But Lor' bless you sir, we knows 'em. I just turned her over to one of on readies, and she found the lace wrapped round her body; just the same as a couple we nabbed here a fortnignt ago.' " 'And the lady' I found strength at
last to stammer. " 'Oh, she's safe enough in the jail by this lime, I reckon. The, magistrate is sitting now, and my men just took her right over, and no doubt she will have been committed at once.' " ' ,... . The rest oi Robinson's story waa a little Unintelligible, but I gathered from it that it took him a week's hard work and all the influence he could command in London to rescue. Mrs. Robinson from the consequences of her folly and his stupid practical joke. And T could easily understand,-after hearing . the talet- my f riend's anxiety to have as little to do.
with customs officials as might be; and
still better could I appreciate Mr. Robinson's ominous silence whenever the subject was mentioned, while the way
in which she would purse up her lips on such occasions made me think that if she hud had enough of smuggling, her husband had probably come to the same conclusion in respect to practical jokes. And 1 thought, too, that oh the whole I
would, rather be a week in jail myself thansbe the means, however innocent, of cau sing Mrs. Robinson to undergo the experience; at least if I had to live with her any length of . time afterward.. . . Ami yet when I got home and iold my wife the story her sympathies were all with the lady, and she would not admit the.: justice of my "nerved her right.'" - ; And now she is looking over my
shoulder and insists upon my expressing my opinion that she would not have behaved like that, anyhow. And I do not really believe she would. Adding, however, like a true woman. "But I think he was a brute all the same."
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INDIANA STATE NESVS.
PEOPLE WE B EAU ABO OT. Mis. Proctor, widow of Barry Cornwall, is the most . interesting old lady in
London society. She is 87 years of age, but "goes everywhere" as the phrase is, and 58 eminently popular for her wit,
good spirits and conversational powers.
Her ff.ther was the ramous Basil! Mon
tague. Mrs. Proctor lives in a handsome
flat in the Albert Mansions. . Charles
Dickens used to say that when he wanted "to brighten up" he went: to see Mrs.
Proctor. She has known intimately the famous men of England for some generations past,and heir memory is stocked
with interesting facta.
There were a series of coincidences in the life of Robert Stoepel, the composer,
who made twen ty years of music in London, twenty in Paris, and twenty in
New York. He bought an annuity just before he died, and' of course never
drew a cent on it. He had just agreed
to move into a new home, and ne was moved in feet foremost and' buried
from there. When death began, stiffening his fingers he had just dropped from them the pen with which he put the
fimuhine touches to the score of a new
comic opera, "The False Pi ophet."
King Humbert, of Italy, one day, in
speaking of the best form of monarchy
said: "Gentlemen, the best of all mon
archies is the one where the King is felt
eveiy where without being observed
U Ar, Unci- lA.m svf . VAIM-lhlll?"
asked a certain embassador, "It is that one." was the reply, "where, as in America, the geniuu of the people has so deeply penetrated every fiber of the social fabric that no place remains for a kin,?."
William E. Cramer, editor and proprietor of the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin, is blind and. partially deaf, and in spite of his affiimaties does an enormous amount of newspaper work. He dictates his editorials to a secretary, who reads them to him by means oi an audi phene. In this way Mr. Cramer proxluees from a column to three columns of matter a day: - The Khedive of Egypt is a strict monogamist. - He-lives with hui one wife and children at his palace at Ishmalia, near the Nile Bridge, E very morning he rises between 4 and 5 and takes t wo hours'-ex-erciise. Between 7 and 8 he drives to the Abdin Palace, where he holds State receptions, receiving telegrams and attends to the affairs of state. The Prince of Montenegro is a handsome man, six feet in hight with a pleasant face, ornamented with a heavy mustache and muttin-chop whiskers. The Priiacess is still a handBome woman, and in her youth was a beauty. She is probably the only woman in Montenegro past SO who does not look an old crone. Mrs. Whitney, wife of the Secretary of the Navy, has about concluded to establish a school for the training of domeat ic servants. She thinks $100,00 would be suMcieJit for the enterprise.
I)r. J. H. Hall, of Jacksonville, Ela off lira to distribute 100,000 acres of land, at the rate cf twenty-five acres to each family, among the homeless popref Ireland who will settle upon it.
A $10,000 fire, occurred, at Corydon,
Monday night.
The Sunday school cause of Harrison
county is in a flourishing condition;
The Police board of Terre Haute has
ordered the emorcement of the JU o'clock liquor law.
The Montgomery county grand jury bund forty.fi ve indictmentsjprincipally
against saloon keepers.
Citizens of Jackson county have in
corporated tbe Seymour and Southwestern railway, with a capital of $70,000.
The State Convention of the Y M, O.
A. met at Crawfoidsville, Uriday, ana
continued iu session until Monday.
There wag a large attendance..
By a majority of nine Rushville voted
.down Wednei$day a .proposition to build
water works. The town has $zu,uuu in cisterns and 110,000 in wells. ,,
Bev. Andrew -Luce, pastor of the Pres
byterian church at Lagro, dropped dead
in his nnlnit'SundaV niffht. He was 86V-
ati t.v. four vftrs nf ae. and had been
J . J . o-i- ...
pastor ol the ohurch for forty, years.
Anna Gavotte, betraved and deserted
by her lover, who also got several hun
dred dollars of her money, jumped into the river at Evansville. but was rescued
barely ve and taken to th e hospital.
A band of White Caps was organized at Bedford, Simdav, and seventy-two of
t.hA hestfiiHxeriB are members. In the
future the citizens propose to ha a
and order or some one will suffer.
John W. Hombe, formerly Super
intendent ' of Public Instruction of Indiana, and now chief clerk of- the Bureau of Education at Wa8hington,was married at 1 Indiana iolis. Wednesday evening, to Miss EMe 3. McOuafc. The coal miners' st.ke in Eansville was practically ended, Tuesday, by a large number ol miuers returning to work in the, Ingleside end Sunny side mines at the old scale of prices. ' The remainder of the strikers returned Wednesday;' ; A gentleman from English, Crawford county, reports that about twenty-five "White Caps!, paraded the streets of that town Thursday-nignt. Several persons were notified to either reform their bad 'habits or leave the community, but no one was flogged . :.,v The St. Joseph Valley Register of South Bendj wai so'd at Sheriff's sale, Friday afternoon , and was bid in by the Tribune Prin ting company, which will
consolidate the paper with the Tribune, The Register was founded by Schuyler Colfax foity-two years ago, and, was owned by him for twenty years. In a novel fight bet ween a large Poland China boar a nd a yaiu?bie Jersey eow of quarrelsome disposition, on . K WTood's farm, at Moored H U1, Tuesday, the boar came out victorious, killing the cow by striking nor iu the abdomen with his long, sharp tusks. An artery was
new trial to Charlev Koberts. tne n
r 7 . '
Parke county desperado, now in
Peru: This makes the second new triaf
that has been wanted-in the case, and
the coming trial will he e third. On
both former trials a jctry gave BolnB seven years in the penitentiary, and ha
has served fourteen months on hi
original sentence. The ctiarg j
burglary:. . i:l.-t; .:-:,'
The Carroll county grand jury, after
spending a week inveetigating the Amet?
Sreen lynching, were unable to identify
any one who participated M v the affairThe jury exaohiBdover .irty witnesses
Thev are convinced that in the present'
state of public sentential? ft will be im-
nnahlA to Hftmrfl 'information ot value.
Thrtv r1o tftte ihflt the examin
some twentv witnesses from mmg
leading citizens , off; Pelplii an : that ; "there wWnot a witness -efore us who " j had' any inforfflaon or any - attempt to take Qreen i Among those witnesses were the may w and df inmhaV dutiei; ; ? are to preiierve the" peace of the city-.
We are of the opinion that, with all the
light wo could obtain our county omcials should have been.ujy exonei ated froroa, any blairfle ' v ; ' , Mil VJERN ON DISASTER. i
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Women of the World. Mrs. Marshall Field, of Chicago, is too much of an invalid to go iHito society, so shii) devotes herself to books and the study of languages. Mrs. Pentecost, wife of the Rev. Hugh 0. Pentecost, nominated by the Union Labor party for layor of N. J., accompanies her husband on his campaigning. 3!diss Mary Garrett owns, about $5,000,00(1' worth ot stock in the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. It is said aheadyised her brother a year ago to resign the Presidency of the road. A Mrs. Martin, of Atlanta, has sold her ten year-old son to Joseph Burns, of Chicago for $200. Burns was a discarded suitor of Mrs. Martin a doaen years ago, and now rich and childless he purchj!i8es the boy and will adopt Jiim. Miss Lucy Baumann is one oi the richest young woman in California. She res ides in San Francisco, and owns no lea than 23,000 a(tres of land in the interior counties, not to mention a big block of stock in a line of coast steamers, r ' . . - .. Sleighing Slays Horses . There iu no service to which a horse
caii. be put that wears mm out so : f uick as ilrawing a sleigh. He is used to the refi istance of a buggy's weight, and when he finds that he has nothing, so to apeak, behind him, he runs through hiiiiself. People suppose that because a: livsry man charges $5 an hour for a
sleigh during-the few daye of the sleighing season, that tie is paying himself for the storage of the cutter during the
rest of the year. That is not me case, I would rather have a horse of mine driven' to a buggy over the roads for six hours than to have him pitU a sleigh for an hour. 5 : ' ; v it "Wan jiis xvifci BuwUngtou rce Presii. ; . A gentleman entered a phrenoiegistf 3 offtce in Boston and asked to have . his head examined. After a moment's inspection the Professor started back, ex? claiming: "Good heavens! you have tbe most unaccountable combination of attributes I ever discovered in a huumn
.being, yere your parents eccentricrr
"No, sir," leplied the all round char
acter, meeklv, "but my wife is. You.
needn't pay any attention to the larger bumps, sir,"
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Che jaek-
rendered
served, and? the cow quickly bled to death. ,., u" D. M. Shively of South Bend, went to his barn in the early morning to feed his horse, and, not finding his pitchfork in its accuB tomed place, made a grab for an armful of hay and1 got instead an armful of sleeping tiamp. It was a surprise to both, but the tranip would have fared worse had the pitchfork not been missing, .... .v ; Sunday was the driest Sunday known in Vincennes for years. . Mayor Wilhelm had the police notify -eXl saloon men on Saturday night that their places
of business must be closed every night
in the week at 11 o'clock and on Sunday during the whole of the day. Thus far the order has been strictly obeyed. ; Destructive forest fires liave been raging for : three days twenty-fiye miles south of Vincennes, at Hazelton and Decker. Fences ancl timber Were left at the mercy of the flames. The people fought the lames all night Friday to save their homes. Thousand of dollars of damage was done. The community
was terror stricken. A large aniount of
heavy timber was destroj-ed. Sunday night,, as the 10 o'clock train from Louisville had passed Hollman, a small station twenty miles south of North Vernon, Stella Hoc ver, a six-year-old child, walked in her sleep from one of the coaches and was hurled from the car.' The train which was going at the rate of twenty miles an hour, was stopped, and the child -was found about ten feet from the tract with but slight bruises on the face. She was travelling with her parents, who roside in Kansas Friday mqrnig, about 1 o'clock, a large quantity of nitro-glycerine exploded in a small;, house, lined with iron, which was situated iu the woods about three miles east of Muncie. The shock was purceptible at Union City, Winchester and other places. Where the house stood is a hole several feet deep and-f ally twenty feet in diameter. Large trees .were torn to pieces. The largest piece of the iron house yet iound is about as big as a .fniyw, dollar. The cause of the explosion is not known. Patents were Tuesday issued to the following named Indianians: Thomas M. Bales, Dublin, assignor one-half to W. F. Medskei, Cambridge City, and J, F, Hatfield, Dublin, door bell; John 0. Bellew, Bvaiisville, machine for sawint' barrel hoops; Herman Froehlich, Waterloo, burial vault; Perry Keeling,. Walton, fence loom; Samuel M,; McRiynolds, Poseyyille, portable awning; Julius Welfing, Crown Point, fly screen;
Moses C. Nixon, Peru, baling press; Thomas H. Paris, "Rensselaer, heel and shank supporter;; Davis Pogue, Saratoga, corn-planter; William K H; Spaulding,
adjustable1 fireback for stoves; Calvin G. UdellJ North Indiahapcilis, coat-rack; William W illiams, assignor of one-half to J. C. MendenhaU Indianapolis, sweat-pad fantener. .... More "White Cap" outrages are re ported in Harrison and C:rawford counties. These outlaws visited the house of John Amy, in Scott township, Harrison county, and in his presence stripped his wife perfectly nude and administered forty lasheB, laid 8 on hard; - It is said that the county officials are thoroughly terrorized as is shown by the fact that the case of Charles Langford, of Mt. Prospect, Crawford county, was presented to the grand jury with proofs
of the identity of the men who had out-:
raged his family, but they refused to present a true bill. Langford tore the masks from the faces of two of his assailants and recognized his nearest neighbor and deadliest enemy in one. In. spite of this he could not induce any prosecution by the court," which fe ared the vengeance of his assailants, In the circuit court at Terre Haute Friday afternoon, Judge Mack granted a
Five: nbing tutzs went oat torn Two
Wis. Wednendav. and ireturned:
with the bodies o seventBe two women who had; beeit' flbomAJibBf foundered propeller Vernon, , making; twenty-two booties recovered so far, Oiip ly seven of the ?bodie8 were 4danti$edC They are: George Thorpe, of Ogdens-:
burg, N. Y., 'captain Vernon; y :f Johii Sullivan, Chicago, n. mate;; Lar T. ry Higgine, Chicagosectfraim ' tin Lebeau, Chicago, steward; Henry ; ' Lebeau; Chicago, porter; fted Burke t Chicago, clerk; Soy Hazeltoncago cabin- boy; ?FV B; ftiA
passenger. l;!Siwdu yklJtop about eight miles irt :ii?W j Five were floating together; r.'gto cMftMnevtwere - scattered, - ba.t nci jNir distant, si Several appeared to' have niade aeeper- .f f
af- Atrnirffte -lorine . DV awtuw w
life preservers until: . nnbimted an
useless. Tt9 uHjk p-rvera ; were, ; some instanced tpo and slipped ajr ? to the heads of the untorttiliieeB,1 tt:' they were mahdus; - a perpendhsur lar position in "the water: The captain
watch had stopped at 5:N
that hour the propelier we) torn. - Alex StoneV; member ' I crew ithe sol the vessel. Heaaya lj usually heavy a4.th(S disaster is :S doubtedly due to th is oveiiC lo ';i -. ing. nSesaib watch he ventured to sut to t captain that some lading be tlrowa oft- . so that the gangways could be closed, A, out that the latter -refused tbo aii : said that he wasyruiming that'jat.
also says he asked tlie mate w.hthey did not turn around and put back . says that after the vinrekvB& while on a rafti one of iteto one of the fires was put ocrA,atclock,
Dnnn nnA A n'nlnMr tin WAfl AWaXMt- -V. ?
ed by a crushing sOiind and the npwe1 of t i tryip jo t boats frt the &eclx:-..He 4 felt the steamerwki fou putting on a life-jreservei through a windowi: water...'.!: -7,t 'r:l - Irvv '-M-i'ti
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TM IOWA JEVICTlOltaf:
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Preeldenfc CITeland
Writea
tlie Subject.
President 0level;and has Ptfi tt Hon. J. B. Weaver, of Tpwa, on the snb jedtofiae'xeee is appended and explains itself. T$v. 'i Your letter of nbe fflrAr-irtst, regardias thai
rietions bypr jcectlin?
etrtain panics irom
in the State cout'B (Bf R
bas eiclted my mwrasi ana Byinpamv duwi results are sure to brirj; disres often titne up--'f s on those ntireiy innocent who have setud OBt!l; . -lnds in entlra good laith. I very- much r there will be much of this, onBeauenrupon ; the loose and wasteful wanner ih VSuan ourr. . public domain has herttofore been managaa. I find upon aonsultation with -the secretary of thv: - 3 Interior and attorney gone-al, that the caaa to t which you refer were some time since wiwidere by them; and they ccneluded that Ihe unlttfjStates should not interfere in these oontrove ' hies, XyectLxm in any event its title to the lane was gone and I am obliged to contnr wwav tbem in their opinion that, under the; sireum7 v stances; the United States would hava no jtaattrx . .. ing in the contest and conld d'Oriana no reareiis -for Itself. I think, wtUi reflection, you wiU see the difficulty. -1 1 am afraid the claimants, la; 7.
these ases must fig at; -.out tneureajwT riKhts in the State so'iirts: bat suppose wCj'
determination then may be snbmittea to xn Supreme Court of the United States, upon ap-t peal, for final adjudicatioh. If any legal way ean, re suggested by which the general Government can aid iu the settlement of the question Ifcff TOlving so much hardslip and TexauVmr : WtU be eonsideied Youra UrUfeg L; J
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IndlBmaiop Average.
Theicuitural departmentj BtotwitlJ standing occasional vltic"toi'L"nt ues to issue its atatiscal ;infor!ativ with persistant; regularity. It fa information, too, that snisio hdP; lv devoured: a fact, perhaps, strange?;
when its dryness is considered, and ihe officials of the depjirtment statid" readvl to wager ft bag of eeed thai?' tHe5gar, V are facts and not action.' Hererm some local to Indraua af gathered u ; prepared by Ihe JstatJsticifth:" -Tbe1 lowing he says, arc. the' estimates of k tb V average yield andouditibn of the cropa of he Slate: VYlieatAveraget yieldt per acre, stated in bushels, ; 15.6; ayeraf r quality, lOO'tepresenting high medium ijrade, 96. Bye Average yield in - bushels; 13.0; average quality; 100 representing high medium grade. Jl
Oats-Average yielder acre in bushels
26: average euaUly, 100 xopresentMigt
uigh medium gjade Brarley" Average yield per acre in; bushels, If? average quality, 1(K) representing jhig y medium grade, Buck wheat A vuvi i' nge condition VS. Oorii-Mli: Wbite . Potatoes hum--56. -v ' - - I". "; Editor O'Brien. v 'X"
Editor V7il:iam O'Brien was transferr ed from the jail at Cork to the jail at TulUmore, Weinwda for safe keeping. The news of the twttisfer created toe mendous sensation throughout that porjl tion oilreland
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FwbUo rtt Redaction.
The receipts of Jibe7 6royernmeiit
October amounted to $31,803, and?
the expenditures te $12,474.622beiug an excess of receipts of ,$i33820f leF decrease of the lic debt
was-$16,833l695, : x- f-rhij:-
That Settled m
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Two Chicago men once started on aj
wager to see who could tell the biggest
lie. One of them begn: : ' A gentleman foim St. Xouis-
Stop right theare," said the other.
man, "and tafce yojr money.4 I.eajigo
ahead of tbat."
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