Bloomington Courier, Volume 14, Number 6, Bloomington, Monroe County, 3 December 1887 — Page 2

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: Dkxis Kearney lacks oi being a fooL He Bays in a recent address: "Workingmen, yon can not benefit your condition by listening to mailmen or parading behind red flags. To elevate yourselves you must become American citizens and barricade yourselves behind the American ballot."

New Yoee;, still continuing to be an object of great interest in connection with - the nest national election, the course of the prohibition cause there becomes a salient f eature. In . the .ast ten years the prohibition votevhas been

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There appears to be no doubt any longer that the malady-of the German Crown Prince is subsran tially the same that cut shot the heroic and valuable life of Gen; Grant: and that signifies that there is no chance of recovery. He may survive for several months, and he may die at any mom ant. There are many princes in the world that could better be spared; indeed there is hardly another one who has prooved his right to live; and his capacit y to. rule in an honorable and creditable manner.

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It is none of our business, perhaps, but it seems tons that tte congregation of the late Henry Ward; Beecher might have found a clergyman wortny of their pulpit without sending-to England for one. They are not likely to find a man i equal to Mr. Beecher any where, but if such a person is living he is more apt to in America than England- Mr. Beecher was an American in brain, vein and tissue; he made hS chunjh the most distinctively American organization: of its kind on the continent, and his spirit will hardly be pleased3 to see the place .whieh he made famous occupied by the Bev. pharles H. Berry from England.

The Hon. Joseph Cbamberlaih, who is delegated by Great Britain to representher interests in the fisheries ques-

; tion. made an excellent speech at the-

annual dinner of the New Tork Cham- . berof Commerce. He said that the United States has carried to the highest . development the science of the produc- ;:' tion" of wealth. That,f however, was but v one step in a nation's progress; and if he did not mistake the signs of . the

times, sooner rather than later other

important problems must be solved in America. , The safeguard in those days - -would be the innate reverence for law, which is the guiding idea of Americans;

the people should make the laws, the people should enforce the laws, and the

- people should respect he laws. A great er Englishman than Mir. Chamberlain expected the perpetuation of free institutions as long as the people respected the staff of the constable as the symbol

of the Government's power; A lack of t. that respect wasr exactly the beginning

of the anarchist troubles at Chicago.

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Tubs is such- a thing as being top enterprising. The steamship lines that

are inducing Italians immigration and

cholera in order that they may make

money are too" nrosrreHsivo enUrel v. It

has always been contended that cholera travels around the world with per lodi-

caTregiilarity, and it ?ill doubtless get

here booh enough without any artificial

- assistance, xnat qmurantme measures

are the only preventives of these

plagues has been fully demonstrated by

the history of the yellow fever epidem

ics. The time was? when it was thought

thsiWne rigid enforcement of quarantine

was paying too- dearly for the public

health. But thegreat epidemic .of 1873

taught a difierent policy, and it is now - pretty well. demonstrated that by rigid, unyielding quarantine our southern

coast can be kept measurably free from fever. Cholera should be more easily

handled than yellow fever,because there

are no circumstance a in this country

Which? can combine to germinate it;

whereas it is more than suspected' that

yellow fever is indigenous to certain southern localities in the United States.

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y IJIGHT WITH A WHALE.

;-' A finback Smashes a Boat and Kill

Three Men. ""'

ProrineetowB, Xass., special.NoT. 19. The; whaling steamer Lizsie N., Capt . West, which has been engaged in the finback whale fishery, on the eastern eoast, this season, on Oct. 6. when about " fifteen miles east-southeast from Seguin island, off the coast . of Maine, saw a large, lone whale of that species and ai - tempted its capture. A boat was lowered and manned by Captain West, his mate and four seamen.1 Captain West, with a large, heavy whale gun, in which was an explosive bomb lance, took the breach of the boaV while tneN mate steered. 'Upon approaching the whale

it was seen tha he would be an ugly 4

- customer to deal with, as he showed no inclination to run, but kept slowly moving around, evidentlywaiting to be at- - tacked. When the boat was near enough ,.". to warrant a shot, Captain West fired the gun, but as the1 sea was rough the motion of the boat destroyed the accuracy of the aim. The whale was badly wonndedi but not in any vital part. The whale then made for the boat, and in passing under it struck it with his flukes, throwing it some thirty feet into the air with its crew. As the boat descended the whale again struck it with its tail and completely demolished the boat and killed one of the cre w; Jacob ? Kloek, cutting him completely in two. The whale then commenced? to bite,and v strike with its tail, at the pieces of the boat, killing two more -Neil Oisena and Cims Johnson who were supporting J themselves on pieces of the wreck. Captain West, the mate and the other

men were safety taken aboard the,

steamer and another boat was lowered to capture the monster. Then the whale --attacked the steamer, By a quick turn of the rudder the steamer , cleared him by afew feet. Th?s occurred a second time,' and the swell which was created by the whale's fail back into the water - knocked all on board off their feet. -By throwing - oyer an imunRnse 'cask, at which' the whale, thinking it was the ship, kept bucking away, the Captain was enabled to gefa shot with the bomb " 7 lance, and finally the whalewjfts killed..

Water in the Well ot Bethlehem. TriziXor It and Obtain Bvorlaatlng Xilfo ThTe. f s Nothing That Can Slake the Thirst like That for it Comes from the Fountaiuat the Gate of the Kingdom.

Kev. Dr., . Talmage preached at the

Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Subject, "Thiretin a Cavern." Text, "Oh,

that one would give me a drink of the

water of the well of Bethlehem, which

is by the gatel"- I. Samuel, xxiii., 15.

He said:

A text is of no use to me xbem I can

find Christ in it; and u nless I can bring a Gospel out of these words t hat will arouse and comfort and bless I shall wish that I had never seen them; for your

time would be wasted, and against my soul the dark record would be made that this dav I stood before a grafe audi

ence of sinning, guttering ana aying

menwand told them of no rescue, liy the Cross of the Son of God, by the

throne of the eternal judgment, tnat shall not be. - May the Lord Jesus help

me to tell you the truth to-day!

It is not an unusual thing to see people gather around a well in the summer

time, rne riusoiinaraan puis uowuxub cradle at the well curb; the builder puts

d own bis tro wel ; . the traveler puts

doira his pack. Then one draws the

water for ail the rest, himself taking the

verv. last..,. The cup. is passed aroumj,

and the fires of thirst are put-qui; the

traveler starts on his journey, and the workman takes up his burden. , My friends, we come to-t '.ay around

the Gospel well, we put down our pack of burdens and our implements oi toil. One man must draw the water for

those-w ho have gathered around the well I will try and draw the water today; and if, after I have poured out from this living fountain for your soul, I just taste of it myself, you will not begrudge me a "drink from the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate." This Gospel well, like the well spoken of in the text, is a well of Bethlehem David had known hundreds of wells of water, but he wanted to drink from that particular one, and he thonghfc nothing could slake his thirst like that. And unless your soul and mine can get access to the Fountain open for sin and uncleanliness, we must die. That fount a in is the well of Bethlehem. It was dug by the light of a lantern the star that hung down over the manger. It was dug, not at the gate of Char's palaces, not iu the park of a Jerusalem bargain maker. It was dug iu a barn. The camels lifted their weary heads to listen as the work went on. The shep herds, unable to sleep because the heavens were filled with bands of music, came down to see the opening of the welt. The; angels of God, at the first gush of the living water, dipped their chalices of joy into it and drank to the health of earth and heaven as they died: ,4iGlory to God in the highest, and on earth , peace." Sometimes in our modern barns the water is brought, through the nines of the city to the very nostrils of the horses or cattle; but this well in the Bethlehem barn was not so much for the beasts that perish as for our race, thirst-Smitten, desert-traveled and simoon-struck. Oh, my soul, weary with sin, stoop down and drink today out of that Bethlehem well, Again, this Gospel well, like the one spoken of in the text, is a captured well. David remembered the time when that good water of Bethlehem was in the possession of his ancestors. His father drank there, his mother drank there. He remembered how the water tasted

when he was a boy, and came up there from play. We never forget the old well we used to drink out of when we were boys or girls. There was something in it that blessed the lips and refreshed th e brow better than any thing we found since. As we think of that dear old well the memories of the .past flow, into each other . like crystalline drops, sun-glinted, and all the more as we remember that the hands that used to hold the rope, , and the hearts that beat sgainst the well-curb are still now. We never get oyer these reminiscences. George P. Morris, the great song-writer of this country, once said to me that his song, "Woodman,Spare That Tree,"was sung in a great concert-hall, and the memories of early life were so wrought upon the audience by that song that, after the singing was donej an aged man arcBe. in the audience, overwhelmed with emotion, and said: "Sir, will you please to tell me whether the woodman really spared that tree?" We never forget the tree under which we played. We never forget the fountain at which we drank. Alas for the man who has no early memories! David thought of that well, that boybood well, and he wanted a drink of it, but he remembered that the Philistines had captured it. When those three men tried to come up to the well in behalf of David they saw swords gleaming around about it. And this is true of this Gospel well. The Philistines have at times captured it. When we come to take a full, ola-fashioned drink of pardon and comfort, do not their swords of indignation and. sarcasm flash? Why,the skeptics tell us that we can not come to that fountain! They say the water is not fit to drink anyhow. "If you are really thirsty now, there is the well of philoso

phy, there is the welt of art, there is toe well of science." They try to substitute, instead of our "boyhood faith, a modem mix 'ure. They say a great many beautiful things about tbe soul, and they try to feed our immortal hunger on rose leaves, and mix a mintjulep of worldly stimulants, when nothing will satisfy us but "a drink of water of the well of Betbjehem,which is at the gate." ; They try to starve us on huBks, when the Father s banquetis ready, and the best ring is taknn from the casket, and the sweetest havp is struck for the music, and the swiftest foot is already lifted for the dance. They patronise heaven and abolish hell, and try to measure eternity with their hour-glass, and the throne of the great God with their yard stick! I abhor it. I tell you the old Gospel well is a saptnred well. I pray God that there may be somewhere in the elect host three anointed men, with courage enough to go forth in the strength of the omnipotent God, with the glittering swords of timth, to hew the way back again to that old well. I think the tide is turnning, and that the old Gospel is to take its place again in the family, and in the university, and in the Legislative hall. Men have tried worldly philosophies, and have found put that they do not give any comfort, and that they drop an arctic midnight upon the. death pillow. .They fail when there is a 4e th. chill in the house; and when tbe soul comes to leap into the fathomless ocean of eternity they '. give to the man not so much as a broken spar to cling to. Depend upon it, that wel will come into our possession again, though it has been captured.. If there be not three anointed men in the Lord's host with enough consecration to do the work, then the swords will leap from Jehovah's buckler, and the eternal three will descend God the Father, God the Son, God the Holv Ghost conouerinc

tor our eying race toe way back Again to "the water of the well of Bethlehem,

which is bv the gate." "If Gou be for

US' who can be against us?" "II God

'spared not his own Son, but freely gave

turn up tor us au, now snail rie not witn Him also freely give us all things?" "For I am pursaaded that neither height, nor depth, nor angels, nor principalities,nor powers nor things present, nor things to come," shall , take from us into final captivity, the Gospel of my blessed Lord. Jesns Chris.t. , . Again, the Gospel well, like the one spoken of in my text, is a well" at the gate. ..The traveler stops the camel today and gets down and dips out of the valley of. the East some very beautiful, clear, bright water, and that is out of the. very well that David longed for. 1)0 you know that that well was at the

gate, so that nobody could pjo into Bethlehem without going right past it? And so it is with this gospel well it is at the gate. It is, in the first place, at the gate of purification. We can not wash away our sins unless with that water, I take the responsibility of saying that their is no man, woman or child in this house, to day that has escaped sinful defilement. Do you say it is outrageous and ungallant for me to make such a charge? Do you say,: "I have never stolen I have never blasphemed I have never committed unchastity I have never been guilty of murder?" 1 reply, you have committed a sin worse than biasphemj', worse than unchastity, worse than theft, worse than murder. We have all committed it. We have by our sin recrucified the Lord, and that is decided. And if there be any who, dare to plead "not guilty" to the iudictment, then the hosts of heaven will be impanelled as a jury to render a unanimous verdict against us; guilty one, guilty all. With what a slashing stroke that one passage cuts us away from all our pretensions: "There is none that doeth good no, not one," "Oh," says some one, "All we want, all the race wants., is development." Now I want to tell you that the race develops without the gospel into a Sodom, a Five Points,, a Great Salt Lake City. It always develops downward and never upward, except as the .grace of God lays hold of it. What, then, is to become of our soul without Christ? Banishment. Disaster. But I bless my Lord Jesas Christ that there is a well at the gate of purification. For great Bin, great pardon. For eighty years of transgression, an eternity of forgiveness. For crime deep as hell, an atonement high as heaven; that where sin abounded so grace may much "more abound; that as sin reigned unto death, even so may grace reign throughout righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Angel of the Covenant, dip thy wing into this living fountain today, and wave it over this solemn . assemblage, that our souls may be washed in "the" water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate." Further, I remark that this well of the Gospel is at the gate of comfort. Do you know where David was when he uttered the words of tbe text? B e was in the cave of Aoullam. That is where some of you are now. Has the world always gone smoothly with you? Has it never pursued you with slandei? Is your health always good? Have your fortunes never perished? Is there one dead lamb in the fold? Are you ignorant of the way to the cemetery? Have you ever heard the bell toil when it seemed as if every stroke of the iron clapper beat your heart? Are the skies as bright when vou look into them as they used to be when other eyes, now closed, used to look into them? Is there some trunk or drawer in your house that you go to only, on anniversary days, when there comes beating against your soul the , surf of a great ocean of agony? It is the cave cf Adullam! The cave of Adullam! Is there some David here whose fatherly heart wayward Absolam has broken?. Is there some Abraham here who is lonely because Sarah is dead in the family plot of Machpelah? The world can not comiort you. What can it bring you? Nothing. Nothing, The salve they try to put on your wounds will not stick. They can not with their bungline surgery mend the broken bones. Again, the Gospel well is at the gate of heaven. I have not heard yet one single intelligent account of the future world from any body who does not believe in the Bible. .... They tnrow such a fog about the subject that I do not want to go to the skepticB heaven, to the transcend entalist's heaven. 1 would not enchange the poorest room in your house for the finest heaven that Huxley or Stuart Mill or Darwin ever dreamed of. Their heaven has no Christ in it, and a heaven without Christ, though you could sweep the whole universe into it, would4e a belli Oh, they tell us there are, no songs there; there are no coronations in heaven that is all imagination They, tell us we will do there about what we do here, only on a larger scale geomeirize with the Clearer intellect, and with alpenstock go calmbering up over the icebergs in an eternal vacation. Bather than that, I turn to my Bible, and I find, John's picture of that good land that heaven which was your lullaby in infancy, that heaven which our children in the Sabbath-school will sing about this afternoon, that heaven which has a "well at the gate!" ....... ,: I do not care whether cherub, or seraph or my own departed friends in that blessed land place to my lips the cup, the touch of that cup will be life, will be heaven. I was reading of how the ancients sought for the fountain of perpetual youth. They . though if they could only find and drink out of . that well, the old would become young again, the sick would be cured, and every body would have eternal juvenescence. Of course, they could not find it. Eureka! I have found it "the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate." , . I think we had better make a bargain with those who leave us, going out of this world from time to time, as to where we will meet them. Travelers parting appoint a place of meeting. Tbey .say: We will meet at Borne, or we will meet at Stockholm or Vienna or Jerusalem or Bethlehem." Now, when we come to stand at the death-pillow of those who are leaving us for the far land,do not let us weep as though we would never see them again, but; let us, there standing, appoint a place where- we will meet. Where shall it be? Shall it be on the banks of the liver? No; the banks are too long. Shall it be in the temple? No, no. There is such a host there ten thousand times ten thousand. . ... . Where shall we meet our loved ones? Let us make an appointment to meet at the well by the gate. Oh, heaven! Sweet heaven! Dear heaven! Heaven where Jesus is! .Heaven! Heaven! But I am glad to know that you, may come yet. The well is here the well of heaven., Come: I do not care how feeble you are. 'Let me take hold of your arm and steady you up to the well-curb. "Ho, every one that tbirsteth, come." I wo'jld rather win . one soul to Christ this morning than wear the crown of the world's dominion, " Do not let any mango away and say I did not invite him. Oh, if you could only just look at my Lord once; if you could just see Him full in the face; ay, if you could only do as that woman did whom 1 read about at ti e beginning of the services just come up behind Him and touch His feet methinks would s live. In Northern New Jersey, one winter, three little children wandered ofl from, home in a snow-storm. Night came on. Father and mother said: '-Where are the children?" They could not be found. They started out in haste, and the news ran to the neighbors, and before morning it ws said that there were hundreds of men hunting the mountains for these throe children, but found them not. After t while a man imagined there was a place that had not been looked at, and he went, and. saw the three children. He examined their bodies. He found that the older boy had taken off his coat and wrapped it around the younger one, the baby, and 5 hen taken off his veBt and put it around t he other one; and there lb cy all died, he probably the fi rst, for he had no coat or vest. Oh, it was a touching scene when that was brought to light. I was on the giound a. little while after, and it brought the whole scene to my mind, and I though t to my se I f of a more ami ti n g scene than that It is that Jesus, our older brother, tools off the robe of Hie royalty, and laid aside the last garment of earthly comfort, that He might wrap our poor souls from the blast. Oh, the height, and the depth, and the length, and the breadth of the iove of Christ!

The Clerks Kiiow'Bm, Lad v. in bric-a-brac store Let me see

something handsome but cheap.

, Uferk x es m; something for a wedding present?

A TXIIFLK PREMATURE. Put away the ice cream i reeeer, Closet now tbe gowns of tulle; Shelve the straw aud lemon-squeawc Fo the weather's getting aool. Soda fountains are deserted, Tennis now give plate to pool; And the iceman's disconterted inoe the weather got so eool. Trom the seashore hies the plumber, 8d converse the oysters hold, Seeing signs of shrinking snmmer, Now the weather's growing cold, Adieu, dog clayiirAter-6paniel8), Lucky he whose ftn is coaled; Wcleome now , back-number flannels, Hang it! ain't the weather eoldT

TI W LINE FENCE.

"If there ain't them hens again," said JSHas Long, setting down the milk-pail on the ; ki tchen porch with a j erk. The stout, pleasant-faced woman to whom he spoke paused in the doorway with her bare atms twisted into her calice apron, az?d regarded tbe offenders mildly. They were struggling through one of te gaps in the broken down fence whith separated Mr, Long's garden horn that of bis neighbor, Alvin Talcott a procession of nine, clucking in a crooning way and stepping high. They came on with composed deliberation, pausing among the cucumbers with a contemplative air, skirting the radishes after a! dissatisfied survey, and settling down at last among the tomatoes with a chorus of victorious clucks. "It ain't going to do," said Mr. Long, wiping a disturbed face with his old red silk hunkerchief. "I haint going to stand it." "It! ain't likely he's thought of it," said his wiie tranquilly. "He can't think of nothing but that pesky croquet business," rejoined Mr. Long, jerking his head toward his neighbor's yard from which the sound of voices and the clicking of mallets proceeded. ... "Oh, laws, Ellas!" Mrs. Lont? began in easy remonstrance; but her husband bad seized an old tin dipper from the porch-shelf, and was making for the to-mato-!patch as fast as his sixty y?ars would permit. There was a wild cackling and scattering as he threw his dipder into the midst of the scratching flock, pushed them unrelentingly to the farthest possible point, and leaned exhaustedly against the sunken gate of the dilapidated fence. It was sunken with tiie yj-eightof the many friendly ehats held across it since the long-ago period of its! erection; chats held at all times of day land upon all subjects politics, mowing machines, fertilisers, sewing societies, croquet, patterns, raised cake recipes, etc. Mr. Talcott's croquet-ground was before him, Mr. Talcott himself stood neary leaning; the weight of his small and wiry person on his mallet; his hat over; one ear, his cheerful, round face

shining with eagerness, his wnole atti

tude expressive of watebful and profound absorption. Mr. Long suiveyed the scene with displeasure. He had, originally, strongly disapproved of Mr. Talcott's croquetground. He had not been sure that croquet was not on a level with"keerds" andigambling; and that a deacon of the church and a member of the Town Council should countenance and encourage such iniquity was a subject for grave reflection. Fjrom this after frequent glimpses at, and' occasional considerations of the game over the fence he had softened to the opinion that it was a waste of time and a pack of foolishness; falling gradaally into the habit, despite his convictions, of observing it regularly graduating from the fence to Mr, Talcott's door-step, and thus acquiring a tolerable knowledge of its baleful methods. He had even been known to manifest an interest in the game, to tender advice in a crisis, to give his opinion on a disputed point, to join in applause of a good strike. But he had always considered that his presence was something of a reproof and restraint. Just now, as he stood frowning down the long bewicketed ground, nothing could have convinced him that he had ever retreated in the least fiom bis primal attitude of' rigorous disapproval. . Mr. Long shifted his position nearer. "You'll have to keep them hens of yourn to home," he said. "They're spoiling my garden jest about as fast as they can manage it." Mr. Talcott's smiling face hardened. It was not the first time his neighbor h ad mentioned the henss though never hitherto with so much decision. "I don't really know as it's any of my concern," he said; "you can't jest: expect for me to be chasing hens everlastingly." . '; . "I don't know but what you better be chasing hens than wasting time over this here," responded his neighbor, surveying the croquet ground with sternness in his long-featured face. Mr. Talcott's small bright eyes snapped. "You h'ain't no call, as I know of ,to give no opinion whatsoever," he retorted. ' . Mr. Long turned his eyes upon his irate countenance. He was slower to anger than his neighbor, "About them hens," he said, "I ruther guess this line fence better be fixed up; needs it. They couldn't get in then unless they should go round by the orchard, and that ain't likely." . , r

"I h'ain't been calculating to law out any thing on fences jestatpresbnt,"said Mr, Talcott,bracing himself on his short legs definantly. Mr. Long's thin face grew grim. "You betiter jest thiuk over about this here fence," said he, as he turned stif&y away, Mrs. Talcott had come out of the house with a little bowl in her hands; a thin woman, with pleasing remains of sandy-haired prettinees. "I want you take in some of my rising to Hannah," she said. They had known ejich other by their first names for some fit ty years. v

When Mrs, Long opened the kitcken door at s ix o'clock the next morning, and stood looking out at the early August day in the moneut before fried pork had sifcsled itself quite brown and the coffee came to a boilher faculties concentrated themselves upon an unexpected circumstance just beneath her eyes. "ISlias ," she said, "he's tearing down the line fence. He's got . Joe Dwyer helping him." $he was devoid of: sus

picion concerning the fact; her voice was merely inquiring. Mr. Long bad tipped back against the wall studying the city paper to which he subscribed. He brought the front legs of his chair to the floor at his wife's announcement, and came to the coor rather slowly. He stood there rubbing his chin doubtfully; and then went down the steps, and towards his neighbor's yard. Some inner consciousness prompted bim to make a careless and uudireci. approach to pause and inspect the garden, and stop to tighten the empty clothes-line, aud to bring up at the fence in an accidental aud unpremeditated way. Mr. Talaott was working energetically. A pile of worm-eaten posts, pulled up by the roots, and broken pickets, lay before him; A little further down John Dwyerfwas amassing a similar heap. "I thought likely you'd think better of it." Mr Long observed, with his eyes fixed warily on the other, "This fence has been wanting fixing for quite a spell. I don't know as it's worth while tearing it down; I thought, mebbe, a little fixing up?d do it. But I'm willing to do my ahare, if you be calculating to build a new one;" After an unresponsive pause: "You're calculating to build a new one-, I'so pose?" "Yes, I be," Mr. Talcott rejoined, with acrimonious promptness. "Well," he said, "it'll be a good thing I s'poae it ought to been done before." He pulled a blade of grass and chewed it undauntedly for two or three minutes be'ore he went into the house. "Well?" said his wife, as she set the dish of pork on the table. "He's set out to build a new line fence," said Mr. Long, taking his seat and shoving his kuifo up and down between the tines of his fork. His wife turned to look at him. Her sharp intuition rooted out the dark side of the statement. ,. "You hain't had words with him, Elias?" she said, a quick alarm in her pleasant face. "Now yon didn't have no trouble with him yesterday about them hens?"

"I told him," said Mr. Long, reaching for the coffee-pot, "his hens had been making tol'able free in my garden, and the fence better be fixed up. If he's a mind to flare up like a fool, don't know as it's any of my concern." He took a swallow from his cup. His wife watched him wifltfully. She looked dazed. She went about the house that day with an uneasy apprehension in her face. "I don't know what to make of it," she kept thinking, in a troubled way. She knew by the next night. The new line fence was done. It was seven feet high. There was nothing to be seen acrose;it except the upper half of Mr. Talcott's house, the tops of the trees and the barn roofi" I t rose tali and stern and forbidding. And there was no gate. It was a hostile, uncompromising barrier. It was an effective monument to Mr. Talcott's wrath and resentment. The summer had passed on into the fall, and the fail became raw and windy, and eventually snowy. Mr. Long's tomatoes had not suffered again from Mr. Taibott's hens. They had ripened finely. , They had been eaten and stewed; they had been made into catsup, and they had been pulled while green to be sliced and pickled. Mr. Tallcott's fence had accomplished this, and a great deal more. It had stood the:re like an evil monster and had never been crossed. It had come down like a curse ferom the skies and shut off all the old communication, and turned the old friendship into a hard enmity, and the old trust into fixed rancor. It became rapidly known that the two old neighbors were "not on sneaking terms," and the causes aud circumstances of the rupture were not a mystery. It was known, too, that Mrs. Long and Mrs. Talcott were not active participants in the quarrel. The old pleasant companionship seemed virtually ended, because, in their timid womanly subraissiveness, they obeyed the unspoken commands of their husbands, rather than face the displeasure which would have followed a defiance of them. But theyA smiled when they met each other; they lingered in the church vestibule to each exchange good-morning. The au tnmn days filled the air with the dim-blue vapor, and not unpleasant odor of fc one-fire smoke. Mr. Talcott was late with his. He put it off till his fall cleaning was done the garden freed from its dry and empty bean vines, and raked off; the weads pulled up which had flourished powerless for harm during the last month or two, and which now stood black and frozen; a few dead bushes cut down and the fruit trees trimmed here and there. It was late in November when the pile lay ready, low down in a corner of the plundered potato patch. In some of its hollows lay the remains of thin snow. Mr. Talcott lighted it directly after supper. Now aud then he replenished it; at eight o'clock it was still burning.

He sat down on an old stump to look at it as it leaped and flickered itself out, lighting up a broad space around it and shining on the high fence. Mr. ralcott sat with his elbows on his knees and his chin in his hands. There was a sorlj of peace in the clear night, and in th early quiet which had settled down upon it. He looked around

at the still, bare scene and the pale gray sky, and felt something of the tranquil! A little, spark from the subsiding fire snapped into a little pile of dry stalks half a rod distant and they flamed up. A twig took fire from them and burned to its end, and a loose er blaied in its turn. He watched the curious line of light as it ate its flickering way along. There was a deep deposit of dead leaves drifted up against the tall fence; they took the alarm and glowed and crackled smartly. After then the flames mounted up, and gjw broader and redder the fence had caught fire. Mr. Talcott got up and walked over to it. Then he returned, with scarcely the haste that might be looked for, and started for the pump. ; He seemed rather

to linger on his way; when he reached it he stocd a moment without doing anything i n particular before he filled a wooden pftil which lay near, and ent back with it. The fence was flaming

brightly; but ho stopped to pick out a j

chip which had gok stuck in the sole of his boot, and tied the old woolen muffler

which he wore around his neck with hands which were not quite steady, Then he peered all about him, in an oddly guilty way, emptied his pail olf water on the ground, and went and sat down on the stump again. He looked cold and cross and uneasy, and anything but heroic; but there was a new-found warmth within him, There was quite a crowd about the place half an hour later, looking at the blackened remains of the line fence

several men attracted by the flame,and'

a few women hastily wrapped up! Mr, Long had come out and watched the conflagration from a discreet distance But he had drawn gradually closer, till he finally stood poking over the warm cinders with one foot. Mr. Talcott stood near by. They did not look at each other for a moment. Then the latter spoke, his voiice made high and sharp by the great ness of the effort. "Went dowai jest like paper," he said. "I guess there couldn't anybody a stopped it. I couldn't do nothing against it nothing at all!" He felt that he regained by this sonae of the dignity he had lost in his own concep? tion; he looked relieved. His neighbor did not reply directly. The darknesi hid his softened, perturbed expression, and he was not the person to make it manifest. His tone, when he spoke, waa composed and even condescending. "According to law," he said, "J: suppose I'm called on to put up the next one, seeing as yon put up this here one; I a' pose I might do it any time; I ain't so terrible busy at present" "Well," said Mr. TaUott, looking down the garden, ,;;I rather guess you better build a picket. I guess a picket'd do full as well. You hain't heard how old Lem Pearson is, have you?'' THiHCUSEMOIiI). ood HottMkMpiUf . Buttermilk mR take out mildew stains. ... A pallet knife should be used to scrape pots and kettles. Old napkins and old tablecloths make

the very beBt of glass cloths. line is best . cleaned with hot soapy water, then polished with kerosene. It is well to kee p large pieces of char

coal in. damn corners and in dark

places. , . Three teaspoonsfull of kerosene put in the wash boiler will greatly assist in the last rubbing, r" .

Oilcloth may be kept bright for years'

if properly varnished each season with any good siccative. If the hands are rubbed on a piece of

celery after peeling oniona, the smoli will be entirely l emovcd. Lamp wicks give a better light when cut squarely across and should not be pecked off as some advocate. If soap is purchased in toge tuan titles and kept in a warm dry place, half the usual amount will be required. Tubs will not warp or crack open if the precaution, isi taken, to put a pail ef water into each, directly after use. If a cucumber is cut into strips and the pieces put into places where acts are found is will sujrely drive them

'away.. r ; --. ... -

Chloride of lirae should be scattered, at least once a week, under sinks and in all places where sewer gas is liable lie lurk. ,. M o It is an excellent plan to have a penny bank.to be opened once a year, when a book may b purchasedVor the contents may be used in any way that may ,be desired. One pound of fine tobacco put with a pail of boiling water and allowed to partially cool, wheal put upon a carpet with a soft brush, will brighten the colors and remove surface dirt. To preserve eggs for winter use you will require one pint of fresh slaked nine, and one-half pint common salt to three gallons of water. Use a ladle with which to put them into the crock, cover with an old plate and keep in a dry place. If fresh eggs are put in, fresh eggs will come out. puilicTraioi; The new American party proposes to establish au ora;an in New York, and claims to have the money to dp it, It has already established an office and headquarters on Broadway, and is giving signs of considerable vitality. The managers say the party will thoroughly organize the Ste and hold a State con ventionin Apdl, with a national convention later on perhaps in June, when they will nominate a presidential ticke .. There does not seem to be any urgent necessity of more political parties, but possibly there may be a long felt want which we do not perceive, There is always room at the top. Indianapolis Journal. Mr. Jacob Sharpe, the New York boodler, is to have his case, if possible, taken to the Supreme Court of the United States. It seems that Mr. Sharpe, when before a legislative committer, made statements which : were used in convicting him, but the Constitution of the United States in Article V. of an amendment says: " No person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against . himself. " Old Take took in ?Dout $1,600,000 of boodle, and with that amount of cash in hand Saw will be found to keep him out of the penitentiary. When there Sa plenty of cash the re is usually to be f ound plen ty of law of the right sort. Indianapolis Sentinel. The Presbyterian Synod of Colorado indorsed Indian Commissioner Atkin's order prohibiting the teaching of any other than the English language in Indian schools. The Synod of Indiana denounced it, and petitioned the President and the interior Department for

it3 revocation. The Colorado elders and ministers may be presumed to know something about the matter, while those in Indiana may not know so much.- As a. rule, those who know the least upon the subject, practically, are thorn who have the most profound views ou the different phase of the Indian question. Iadianapolta Journal. Picus rurtatilonia, Christian Anion. 0$ ' At a church tmtBrtainment in Washington recently boxes-of luncheon were

sold to the young men, and in each box was the card of someyoung woman who was present. The purchasers Were supposed not to know wltat names were in the boxes tihey bought, and each was expected to share his luncheon wsth the girl whose name be found im the box.

POSTAL DfiJPARTMH. - fariYJm

THIS

Rirrenaei and JSxpenditura H-Fifirei hji Suggestions. i Thereportjof the Third Assistant PostMaster General for the last fiscal year has been made public. It shows that the total postal revenue of the year was $48,118,273. The revenue from the money order business was $717,330, which should be v added to the above. The total expenditures of the year were $51,138,252. The total cost of the. service over ite revenue was $5,482,670. The receipts of the year were 11.1 per cent, greater than for the previous year, wmle the rati of expenditures waB at

a ratio of but ZA per cent. In is estimated that within the next year the receipts and expenditures will nearly balance. It is. recommended- that an

investigation of the pneumatic tube

system in use in the large cities of Europe be made with a. view of introducing them here. The total value cf all stamped paper iesued by the department during tbe year waa $46,619,680, which is an increase over the previous year of nearly 7 per cent. The postage collected ou second class matter during the year wag. $1,262,348, which represents a weight of over 63,000 tons. This is an increase oi: nearly 16 per cent, over the previous year, vfiecommendation is made that in all cases where oaths are required in the transaction of postal business, postmasters be authorized to administer them. It is also recommended that all postage on second-class matter shall be paid by the attachment of adhesive stamps, as is required for all other mail matter; and (2) that certain periodicals, now enjoying second-class rates, be requiired to pay 1hird-class rates. By this is meant the so-called libraries of stories, etc. The special delivery system has increased about 21 per cent during the year,and is growing in favor. t First Ass t Ppsmaster General Stevenson's report shows that S,043 postbffices were established during the year The whole number of . postoflBces in operation June 30, was l5;157. Appointments of postmasters were made during the year as follow -: On resignations and commissions expired 6.868; on

removals and suspensions, z,oa4; on deaths of postmasters, 589; on establishment of new. offices, 3,043., The largest increase in the number of offices in any of the States and Territories during the year waa as follower Pennsylvania, 118; Georgia, 92; Texas; 77; and! Virginia 74. There was a decrease in tbe number of offices in but one State eight in Nevada. There were seven States winch

'! on June 30th contained more than 2,000 i offices each, as follows: Pennsylvania,

4,119; New York, 3,248; Ohio, 2,833; Virginia, 2,355; Illinois, 2,:266; Missouri, 8,117, and North Oarolina,2,110. Among the principal contract articles consumed by the postal service were Voout 380 tons of wrapping twine, over 193,000, 000 facing s'ips, over CO.O'WjOpO blanks, and 7,000,000 letter-heads. The following recommendations weie made: That the deposit of 50 cents for each post-! office box key be reduced to 25 cents; that authority be grau'sed and the necessary appropriations be c made by Congress for paying the . rent- of third class postoffices.

o'TrtM to 8oiv th.

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"2

. trUMONAL Will f fVA -: tMttlltff ITAmiin

who edited the gravy department and

w rrwjj i proor at onr iaie lounory . xox ?ggi

toe evening that we were to have our

clergyman to ame witn us, j)lease conffl back, or write to 3S Part Bow. eavinvf !

wiiere she left the crackers and cheeseT

uicie sumoeam nce more. uome hack

much per clnsceri'

J,f Trll kAni' niii, nrlll Vnm'.a

company at the ho ns especially people

w no uo not neiong to your set. ; : j

We will also tri yei oh; $6 hAtd$&0$$ make it nleasanter for ypu in every wajr 'fi II wo had known four or five year ag Jj that children were; offensive to", you,

wjould iiaye been different : But it is too hiio now.- All we can do is to shut them

up in a barn and feed them;- through a

knoVhole If they shriek loud 'enougk

ti give pairt to your tb robbing brow, let

no one know and w wiflr bvercomi

any falae sentiment we may feel

them and send them to the Tombs'.

Since you went away w:

wicked and icjifish we

little we considered your Comfort.

miss your lad smiler al3 vour Tenne

have learned a valuable leeeon since yo went away, and it is that the hlanwS should not have rested on one alone.It

uhoald have been diviidedetuaUyj li

?nne fa ,bearv,haItof it find'i wife1 tfpB

other half., :; . j""!- ; Where we erred wag-in dividing ;f

the blame on the b'ieis of 'tenderloin

uwiut ur ptiuuii counter. comDeiune voa&"

m

AM

4 :

r.

wj year u tin ui ib - vt:iartsmi. xuai. wiu

not work, Wilhelmiha. Blame and pre-J;

serves do not divide on the. same basis.

ire axe now in iavar- yi who- may i

called a slidihff acilri'We;' think 4rM...

.:ii lJWA kU . " ."i;vWi,-fVf '-"': '''CiSx.fk

nut uu v.uio ucvuoi:. -.. . fr--.f We also made a gsve mistake in the?

matter of nights

tormeo toe wiCKeuaoq pernicious namt ,

of having nights put myaelli i 1 'pante4-?2

ror tne mgnt air ana woma go a long.: ji

distance and stay ou fea, long time to get g

enough of it for a mtae and then bring itf home in a paper bag., but can see aowi

that it is time lor mto Temain indoor

and give young people like - yourself '-

So, if I can -do anything eyeiiiiip while you are out that will - assist yon

such as stoning raLiins or neighboring;: wind.ow command meV ; I ai no copi?gl

of conrsef but l ean peel applet or grii4:?

corlee or hold ypr head for yon when 'M

vou need svmnathy, I could also leanl'

to do plain cooking, I think, and friendf g

who come to seie us afters hw J

Uliere is no reason why :harmony should not be restored among us and the old sunlight curiae bacfe to; our roof tree.. yV-y; j , :m

Another thing T wish to write befdi3C

close thishumiliating personali '.irHtofi

about your singing: I said thatryon aanfH..;

like a slungle.mill, but I .wasinad. when4

I said iu and i wj'onged you; r vm--M

maddened by hunger, and yon toMm thac mush and midk was the, mpt

Dumg ior a oraui woraer aiiu jrua w

iumd to give me aiEiy dope fn: my dnm.

ung. vroauea to rxtaaness oy cms x

that you-'sahg like ; shingle millj buittjt

was ndt; my better , hher nature" fchi

spo&e. J-t was my gzvBaer iuiw uiur gastric nature tnat asserted itself, and, f

now deiure to take it backt- - Yon db no

sing like a shingle mihV Wp'-'jBlf'S

much as to mislead, a pnicced ear.e -

. Your voice has : more volume, ; ad when your upper retefc :-pi9i:riiL

mellower than -aim shiuirle n

Come back: Wilhehnin W

you every hour

the Daa aswe n&a seen- yon ao i ouvi.

it wag not a succees : The next' day it$

Came off the nest with a litter of

I T(tr

need

sallow rolls whWmJd the action of aeidtu V;:V.''r'.4 v

; If vou cannot wime back will yoit;

please write and tell me how von

I--

TOMMY ON lUTDMJfr

getting .-alongi iww' liow!yon eontriye iusert air b oles in to hotae- made breasW vL Mm

The State Fmal Be ro r m atory. , Reports have come to tme ear of Governor Gray several times recently that inmates of the vFemale - Reformatory at Indianapolis were being inhumanely treated, and last week he investigated the charges for himself by going to the institution and examing the inmates. In the statements He. made to an Indianapolis News reporter about the investigation, Monday, the Governor w very careful, and evidently desirous of avoiding anything like a sensational report. He said that he had ascertained that, there were two methods of punishment in the institution. One was -by whipping the girls with a strap,- and when he went there he asked to see the last girl who had been punished in this w3r. She had been whipped two days before he saw her, but even then there were black and bine stripes on her arms and back, showing where the strap had struck her. A . more common form

o punishment was to put refractory in-.

mate8in a cell, through the jdoor of which were two boles a foot apart aud three or four feet from the floor. The woman's arms were put throughthexe and bantf onhad together on the outside, so that she was compelled to remain in an uncomfortable standing position. Sometimes she was plaeed with her back to the door and her hands fastened behind her in this way. One girl testified that she had been kept for three days in this position, b'it was allowed to lie down and sleep at nights. Such a punishment,n said the Gbyernor, :regard as unnecessarily cruel ,and useless, and I shall recommend to the board of managers that it be entiiuly dispensed yith." The Governor added that the inmates of -the reformatory complained bitterly of insolence and insults on the part of certain attendants, and while he was not prepared to say that these complaints were well founded, he was convinced that, the attendants and officers were eiatirely too free in talking to the prisoners. Miss Kelly, the superintendent, said she had reformed this partially sinc she had - been thfre. The whippings are generally administered by the assistant superintendent, although there hud been cases in which the services of ?a man who was employed about the institution had been used in subduing refactory prisoners. The officers insisted that it was absolutely necessary to severely punish some of the girls, citing the; case of one, named Ida McCoy who would persist in turning on the gas in her room, for tbs purpose of uf

(Anoii-ii naniQir nn n in. ini n ihi h Haiti, i luiiiinHMniiiiu itu iuihb - iv.tJVMv

The Governor urged upon the officers knonwl About speiing, Keediug,30jpaiy;

for looking alter such wftwmar, niuoww ix: aiwinfi.uuy

lapses, He donteSewo ypo:ih a poyf;:

v'' of Onr-Tuunip MaJ i

Thiait Thee thurweRonofthea y5rv

; i ij . r font & nrt'.eiiAhni m -

ikU' 1JLU5 .UHLUJOi viOUi;' AUAb wuftwwuf f

pnnkins and W ter sqfeee ?3 Kipein :

oughtum and is reddi tu beauld hoam

punkins is fe 1 tu the Cws moatu; but

Cum oi inwu sy Mfop "r1

whats bin too laey tn rase tnara owiUr

Thea qucumber Ifugg rases -Bbfe;.

squash vines, anu4tAjcsier

things when he gats vA chance; the Ji

naimli: - Thea potater bnggi thea pinc ;

ougg, mea jooa uugg, iuo -vtuuu , ' ?a - -illU: Vott

me- jjiwumg narej jluw

besidesj ;buti kaitiiukttsae mams

inatnnw-, In atiphtumveouirrulls IS Pat '

and - mails: good rqix n. uu onxwier

j oshoway shot o thea ufcheie la my.jr& set Him to plowing; and hBneakeJ And Wente hunting,- PA Felt raetl

and promist Hira' a thrashing, out iiae-j

mwer Got it; cans vmi Ma took jesnea

pcv t'nu euu tv vtT. 7; .. . -." -' ,

MiLa- DtfvWoi i Ki 'v anahftim t.Vin ' '"

flkoole Dereckters jffire a man twiner s--

fur our skool. in the summer we lwau

have A lad Te5cto

built Tfiiks a stout feller tn tem tnea

wihier skule; eaaul the Big hom gp tihen Atsknleniom cud4t4Handel t bem

ftkuleTechers expeckt'tu git '$x;m-Mm

about twiet AvWeek-T'tB'taiKeSv .ot

Bdgwkashun Ju- w-J0

the necessity for looking

matters very carefully, for the sake of the good name of the institution, if for no other reason instances of punishment by whipping aud handcuffing, he said, were common, attd he should recommend that hereafter girls who j'ete refractory or troubktsomo should be

kept in solitary confinement, in strong

cells, until they bacame more tractable, Experhmce had demftnstrated to Mm that women very much disliked to be governed by women aud this was the cause of much trouble at the . institution . ... . ;:. ; A married man can, always pack, a trunk more easily than a bachelor can

! He gets hie wiie to do it for himi

mm

Ruddying grammer It aint :Sttim8i

tu Himin ReeV life. I like joira,fi l$es

A osixun is A boddi of Watur surnsund

ByLan,. land surrounded By watur ? .f . :

ipssale dittloa

moasili 'aUwa.'xaike

Tfci vre etu mmiolce, thin Lnveickhe.3, i

hntamist:ijaj(ig tedndi sh-n

eeSi.CKJS iH WUB .

W hen y ou ead works harde? tlaan

please io reruep iber

that a jnwUiivg