Bloomington Courier, Volume 15, Number 24, Bloomington, Monroe County, 6 April 1889 — Page 2
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THE COURIER.
BY H. J. FEliTUS.
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Those -who haveread! of King Dinah, oJ the Nunze River, West Africa, says the N. Y. Sun, and of' his herniatically sealed beer brewery which rnns oily when the King is looting on; to prevent ttie sly introduction- of poison, will regret to learn that after counting the : cost he-has decided that he cannot afford to go to the Paris Exposition. He formally announced this- fact a while -ago at a banquet he gave - to some Frei ch officers! King Dinah once invited a rival chief to dine with him. He prepared for his guest by digging- a deep pit beside the festive board, concealing - it with branches and a little earth, and
placing thereon the chair of honor which k his guest was to occupy. It was thought tnat after the rival chief had tt.mhl"d -into the pit it would be a favorable ti ne
to fill up the excavation. Somebody took the news to the intended victi n, and en the appointed day he had a pressing engagementdsewhere. His grave has not yet been dag.- If France wouM give King Dinah a deaOhead .ticket to Paris, put him in a conspicuous snot, and let him distribute circulars describing hle.eventful career, he would be one
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ii, 30. He said: - r I propose to show you that the time in which. we live is wonderful for disaster and wonderful for blessing, for there must be lights and shades in this picture as in all outers. Need I argue this day that our time is wonderful for disaster? Our world has had a rough time since
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convulsion after convulsion; frosts pounding it with sledge hammer of iceberg, and fires melting it with furnaces seven times heated. It is a wonder to me that it has lasted - so long. Meteors shooting bv on this side and grazing it, and meteors : shooting by on the other side and grazing it, none of them slowing up for safety. Whole fleets and
Srf? worlds sweeping about us. Our earth
me ft xiamug buisuk ou me uhilkjs oi Newfoundland, while the Etruria and Germanic and the Arizona and the City of New York rush by. Besides; that, pur world has by sin been damaged in its internal machinery, and ever and anon the furnaces have burst, and the walking beams of the mountain have broken, and the islands have shipped a sea, and the great hulk of the world has been jarred with accidents that ever and anon, have threatened immediate demolition. But it seems to us as if our country were especially characterized by disaster. . volcanic; cyclonic; oceanic, epidemic. I say volcanic, because an ; earthquake is only a volcano hushed up.' When Sfcromboli and Cotopaxi and Vesuvius stop breathings let. the foundations of the earth beware. 1 . gfj Syeff feaagagj: -earthquakes in two centuries recorded in the catalogue of
the British Association. Trajan, the-
Emperor, goes to ancient Anitoch, and amid the splendors of his reception is met by an earthquake that nearly destroys the Emperor's life; Libson, fair and beautiful at one o'clock on the 1st of November, 1755; in six minutes 60,000 nave perished, and Voltaire writes of them:' "For that region it was the last judgment, nothing wanting but a trumpet!"' Europe and America feeling the throb; 1,500 chimneys in Boston, partly -er fully destroyed.' r: ' .".'J V But the disasters of other centuries have had their counterpart, in our own. - In 1312; Oaraccas was caught in the grip of the earthquake; in 1822, in Chili, 100.000 square miles of land by volcanic force upheaved to four and seven feet of permanent elevation; in 1854 Japan felt the geological agony; Naples shaken in
Capital of the Arntine Republic, in 1861; Itfanilla terrorized- in 1863; the ; Hawaiian Islands by sich force uplifted and let down in 1871; Nevada shaken in 1871; Anitoch in 1872; California in 1872, San Salvador in 1873; while in 1883 what subteranean excitement! lschia, an island of the Mediterranean, a beautiful Italian watering place, vineyard clad, surrounded by all natural charm and historical reminiscence; yonder, - Capri; the summer resort of the Roman Emperors; yonder Naples, the paradise" of art tbia beautiful slanid suddenly toppled into the trough of the earth, eight thousand merry-makers perishing, and some of them so far down beneath the reach of human obsequies that it might be said ! of many a one of them as it was said of Moses: "The Lord buried him' Italv weeping, all Europe weeping, ; all Christendom Weeping wnere there were hearts to sympathize and Christians to pray. But while the Nations were
measuring that magnitude of disaster, measuring it not with the golden rod like that with wliich the anitel measured
I j heaven, but with the black rod of death,
w iuc jum&n 3rcnipeiago, tne moat fertile island of all the earth is
' caugnt in the grip of the earthquake,
luuuuiaia auer mountain goes down, and city after city; until that
island, which produces the hft!thiA
beverage of all the world, has produced
mj gujujuiest acciuent or tne century.
une nundred titousand people dying,
uut look at tne disaster cyclonic. At
tne mouth of the Ganges are3 three islands-theHattiah, the Sundeen and
Lue xaKin snaoazpore. in tne mid-
nignt ot uctober, 1877, on all those
islands the cry waK "The waters! the waters!" A cyclone arose and rolled the sea over those three islands, and of
pppuianon ot 34U,UW, 215,000 were
arowneu. uaiy tbose saved who had climbed to the top of the highest trees. Didyouever see aclyclone? No? Then I pray God yen may never see one; I saw one on the ocean, and it swept us eight hundred miles back from oar coarse, andfor thirty-six hours during the cyclone and after it we expected every moment to go to the bottom. -They told us before we retired at nine o'clock that the barometer had fallen but at eleven at night we were awakened with
tne shock of the waves. AH the liirhts
uui; v8Q! went au tne . me boats. Waters rushing through the skylights down into the cabin and down on the furnaces until they hissed and smoked in the deluge. Seven hundred .people praying, blaspheming, shrieking. Our great ship poised a moment on . the top of a mountain ol phosphorescent fire, and then plunged down, down, down, until it seemed .as if she never would again be righted. Ah! you never want toaee a cyclone at sea. But I was in Minnesota, where there was one of those cyclones on iatd that swept the city of Eochester from its foundations, an took dwelling: houses, barns men, women, children, horses, cattle, and tossed them
v: into indiscriminate ruin; and lifted a , rail train and dashed it down, a mightier hand than that Jot the engineer oh the ; afr-brake; Qyctone in Kansasi cyclone ; j in Missouri.: cyclone in Wisconsin, cyclone in Illinois; cyclone in Iowa. e- Satany prince of the power of the air, y ; .never made snch cyclone disturbances as he has in outda; And am 1 not
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right in eaying that one of the characteristics of the time in which we live is disaster cyclonic? .. But look at the disasters oceanic. Shall I call the roll of the dead shipping? Ye monsters of the deep, answer when I. call your names. Villede Havre, the Schiller, City of Boston, the Melville, the President, the Cimbria. But why should I go on calling the roll when none of them answer, and the roll is as
long as the white scroll of the Atlantic surf at Cape Hatteras breakers? If the oceanic cables could report all the scattered life and all the bleached bones that they rub against in the dephts of the ocean what a message of pathos and tragedy for both beaches: In one storm eighty fishermen perished off the coast of" Newfoundland, and whole fleets of them off the coast of England. God help the poor fellows at sen, and give high seats in heaven to the Grace Barlings and the Ida Lewises acd the lifeboat men hovering around Goodwin's Sands and the Skerries. r The sea, own-
mg three-fourths of the earth, pioposes to capture the otner fourth, and is bombard iu the land all around the earth. The moving of our hotels at Brighton Beach backward one hundred yards from where they once stood, a type of what is going on all around the world and on every coast. The dead sea rolls to-day where ancient cities stood. Pil lars of temples that Btood on hills geolo
gists now find three-quarters under the water , or altogether submerged. . The sea having wrecked so many merchantmen and flotillas wants to wreck the continents, and hence disasters oceanic. Look at the disasters epidemic. I speak not of the plague in the fourth century that ravaged Europe, and in Moscow and the Neapolitan dominions and Marseilles which wrought such terror in the eighteenth century; but I look at the yellow fevers and the choleras and the diptherias and the scarlet fevers and the typhoids of our own time. Hear the wailinjrof Memphis and Shreveport and New Orleans and Jacksonville, of the last few decades. From Hurdway, India, where every twelfth year three million devotees congregate, the caravans brought the cholera, and that one disease slew eighteen thousand .in eighteen days in Bossorah . Twelve thousand in one summer slain by it in India, ..and.. twenty-five" thousand in Egypt. Disasters epidemic. Some of the finest monuments in Green wcod and Laural Hill and Mount Auburn are to doctors who lost their Jives in battling with; Southern epidemic. ' But now I turn the leaf in my subject, and I plant the white lilies and the palm trees amid the night-shade and the myrtle. This age is no more characterized by wonders of disaster than by wonders of blessing. Blessing of longevity; the average of human life rapidlv increasing. Forty years now worth four hundred years once. Now I can . travel from Manitoba to New York, in three days ' and three nights. In other times it. would have . taken three months. In other words, three days and three nights now are worth three months of other days. The average of human life practically greater now than when Noah lived his 950 years. Blessings of intelligence: The Salmon P. Chases and the Abraham Lincolns and the Henry Wilsons of . the coming time will not be required to learn to read by pine-knot lights or seated on shoemaker's bench, nor will the Fergusons have to study astronomy while watching the cattle. Kno wledge rolls its tides along every poor man's door, and his children may go down and bathe in them. If the philosophers of the last century were called up to Tecite in a class with our boys at the Polytechnic, or our girls at the Packer, those old philosophers would be sent down to the foot of the class because they failed to answer the questions! . Free libraries in all the important towns and cities of the land! Historical alcoves and poetical shelves and magazine tables for all that desire to walk through them or sit down at them! Blessings of quick information: Newspapers failing all around us thick as leaves in a September equinoctial! News three days old rancid and stale. We see the whole world twice a daythrough the newspaper at breakfast table and the newspaper at the tea table, with an "etra " here, and there between.'; ., j. , ; ... Blessings of gospel proclamation: Do you not know that nearly all the missionary societies have been born in this country? and nearly all the Bible societies, and nearly all the great philanthropic movements? A secretary of one of the denominations said to me the other day in Dakota: fYou were wrong when you said our denomination averaged a new church . every day of the year; they established nine in one day, so you are far within the truth." A clergyman of our denomination said: "I have just been out establishing five mission stations." I tell you Christianity iB on the march, while infidelity is., dwin
dling into imbecility. While infidelity is thus dwindling and dropping down
into imbecility and indecency, the wheel of Christianity is making about a thousand revolutions in a minute. All the
copies of Shakspere andTennvson and
Disili and of any of the most popular
writers of the day, less in number than
the copies of the Bible going out
from our piinting presses. ..... A few years
ago, in six weeks, more than two mil
lion copies of the New Testiment pur
chased, not given away, but purchased because the world will have it. More Christian men in high official
position to-day in Great Britain and the United States than ever before. Stop that falsehood going through the newspapers 1 have seen it in twenty that the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States are infidels, except, one. By nersonal acquaintance I know three of them to be old-fashioned evangelical Christians, sitting at the holy sacrament of our Jjord JesusChrist, and I suppose that the majority of them are staunch believers in our Christian religion. And then hear- the dying words of Judge Black, a man who had been AttorneyGeneral of the United States, and who had been Secretary of the United States; no stronger lawyer .of the century than; Judge Black dying, his aged wife kneeling5 by his side, and he uttering that sublime and tender prayers: "0 Lord God, from whom I derived my existence and in whom I have always trusted, take my spirit to thyself, and let thy richest blessing come down upon my Mary." The most popular book to-day is the i Bible, and mightiest institution is the church, and the greatest name among the nations, and more honored than any other, is the name of Jesus. "' Oh, you dead churches, wake up!' .Throw back the shutters of stiff ecclesiasticism and let the light the ot spring morning come in. Morning for the land. -Morning for the sea. Morning of
emancipation. Morning of light and love and peace. Morni ng of a day in wnich there shall be no chains to break, no sorrows to. assuage, no despotism to shatter, no woes to compassionate. Oh, Christ, descend! Scarred temple, take
the .crown! Bruised hand, take the
scepter! Wounded foot, step the throne!
is buy AliigUUiUtThese things I say because I want
you to be alert. I want you to be watch
ing all these wonders unrolhnsr from the
heavens and the earth. God has classi
fied them, whether calamitous or pleasing. The Divine purposes are harnessed
in traces that can not break, and in girths that can not slip, and in buckles that can not loosen, and are driven by reins they must answer. I preach no
fatalism. K
Those of us who are in midlife mav
well thank God that we have seen so many wondrous things; out there are
people here to-day who will see the twentieth century... Thincs obscure to
us will be plain to you yet. - The twentieth century will be as far ahead of the nineteenth as the nineteentn .is ahead of the eighteenth, and as you caricature
the habits and customs and ignorance of
the past, others will caricature this age. Some of you may live to see the sniin-'' rnering veil between the material and spiritual -world lifted Magnetism, a
word with which we cover up our ignorance, will yet be an explored realm. Electricity, the fiery courser of the sky, that Benjamin Franklin lassoed and Morse and Bell and Edison have tried to control, will become completely manageable, and locomotion will be swiftened, and a world of practical knowledge thrown in upon the raoe. Whether we depart in this century, or whether we see. the open gates of a more won
derful century, we will see these things. It does not make much difference where we Btand, but the higher the stand-point the larger the prospect. . ..We will see them from heaven if we do not see them from earth, I was at Fire Island, Long Island,aud I wont up in the cupola from which they telegraph to New ork the approach of vessels hours before they come into port. There is ah. opening in the wall, and the operator puts his telescope through that opening and sees vessels, far out at sea. While I was talking with him he went up and looked out. He said: "We are expecting the Arizona to-night." I said: 'Is it possible that you know all those vessels? Bo you know them as you know a man's face?" He said: "Yes, I never made a mistake; before I seethe hulks I often know them by the masts; I know them all; I have watched them so long." Oh, what a grand thing it is to have ships telegraphed and heralded long before
thev come to port, that mends may
come down to the wharf and welcome their Jong absent loved ones. So to-day
we take our stand in the watch tower and we look off and through the glaasof
inspiration or Providence, we look off
and see a. whole fleet of ships coming in.
That is the ship of peace, nag with one
star of Bethlehem floating above the top gallants. That is the ship of the church, mark of salt wave high up on the smoke stack, showing she has had
rough weather, but the Captain of salvation commands her, and all is well with her. The ship of heaven, mightiest craft
ever launched, millions oi passengers waiting for milliens more, prophets and
apostles and martyrs in the cabin, con
querors at the foot of the mast, while from the riereine hands are wavincr this
way as they know us. and we wave back
aerain for thev are our3: thev went out
from our own households. Ours! Hail!
Hail! Put eff the black and put on the white. Stop tolling the funeral bell and ring the wedding anthem. Shut up the hearse and take the chariot. Now,. the
ship comes around the great headland.
Soon she will strike .the whan ana we will go aboard her. Tears for ships going
out. Laughter for ships coming in.
Now she touches the wharf. Throw on
the planks. Block not up that gangway with embracinc long-lost friends, for
vou will have an eternity of reunion.
Stand back and cive way until other
millions come on. Farewell to sin.
Farewell to struggle, harewell to sick
ness. Farewell to death. All aboard
for heaven!
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.
Bedford Catholics will erect a church.
n The Jeffersonville car works employ
1,600 men.
A pressed brick concern is a new Sey
mour enterprise.
The fruit buds of Huntington were
injured by a freeze. . .
: Wm. Wallace has succeeded ... Aquilla
Jones, sr., as postmaster at Indianapolis.
South Wayne has seceded from Fort Wevne proper, having voted for a
sererate town corporation.
Francis Murnhv s temperance meet
ings at Indianapolis, last week, resulted '.. - AAA J J. 1 J
in securing i,auu signatures pitsuguu.
John E. Sullivan, late clerk of Marion county, it is officially announced stole S4 7.020 irom the trust funds in his
hands.
John Darsev. the Chicago & Atlantic
railroad engineer whose alleged careless
ness resulted in a fatal accident at Kouts, Ind,, wiil be tried for manslaugh-
ter.
Governor Hovey has pardoned Marion A. Hardy, of Evansville, who
naa been serving a seventeen year
sentence, for highwav robbery. It is
shown that he was innocent.
J3emamin ifinsiev, oi J iat kock, is in
possession of a powder horn carried dur
ine the Revolutionary War. and which
was carved bv Solomon Purdv a Bed
ford, Mass., in March, 1782.
-;. William Shumate, aged seventy, and Dora Elgin, aged nineteen the latter blind, eloped from the Bartholomew
County Asylum, Wednesday nieht, but
were re-captured Thursday,at the West
ern Hotel, Columnus.
Dr. Allen Furnas, the wellpcnown hor
ticulturist of Hendricks county, who
has taken the lead for yearsin advancing
fruits in this State, has sold his cele
brated nurserv and orchards in Hen
dricks county, and will remove to Cali
fornia. . r
The case testing the responsibility of
natural gas companies for accidents, was tried Thursday, at Anderson, and judg
ment was given plamtin for $500. Jflam-
tin s nouse caucnt nre irom excessive
.pressure on gas mains. An appeal will
betaken.
. A constitutional defect has been dis
covered in the saloon high license bill passed by the recent Legislature. Its
unconstitutionality lies in the fact of its
naming the section of the statute to be
amended without setting forth the sec
tion in full. This is a clear violation of
section 117 of the constitution.
Patents were! issued, Tuesdav, for
Indiana inventors, as follows: Deeds.
John B., Terre Haute, asbestos packing
and treating asbestos; Hehler, Amos, Warsaw, split-band pulley; Emmie, David, Fort Wayne, brick kiln; Baab,
Peter, Indianapolis, road scraper; Ruesel,
Alien A., Indianapolis, straw stacker.
The much' talked of fight between Ike
Weir, the "Belfast Spider," and Frank Murphy for the light weight champion
ship, took place at Kouts, lnd., early
Sunday morning, sixty-eight rounds
were fought with no decisive result, although both men were badly punished when a postponement for several days was ordered. There is great demand for Indiana stone, more particularly from the quarries in the southern part of the State, and the Monon railway is hauling fifty carloads daily, principally to Chicago and the Northwest, some of it going as far as Omaha. The company expects to load one hundred cars daily when the
season fully opens
As a result of the hydrophobia panic
in the neighborhood of French Lick,
twenty-five dogs were shot m one day. Citizens are still going armed for fear of
meeting a mad animal, and horses, cows and hogs are frequently giving evidence of having con tracted the rabies. One
ram which was affected finally succeeded
in butting out his own brains. South Kokomotwo years ago had a scattering population of 150 people. The next enumeration will show over 1,500, with over ten-fold advance in
value or Jots. There are now nine manufacturing establishments in South Kokomo, employing 1,000 men, where two yearB ago there were none, and in other ways the growth has been marvelous. . ..." William Robert Burnie. aged thirtyfive, and Maggie May Islett, a school girl, of Port Wayne, were married, Thursday, by the pastor of the First Baptist Church, a false affidavit having been made relative to the age of the girl, who is only fourteen, by which to obtain a license. The parents promptly
repudiated the alliance, and are moving
to set it aside. The groom has been twice married, and he has a divorced wife living in Fort Wayne. Alonzo C. Stewart, of Dunkirk, and other jovial companions, believing that Charles Culver, a night watchman, was cowardly, feigned a row in a saloon and called in the officer. Stewart was chosen to do the scaring, and when Culver, was requested to arrest him as the guil
ty party, Stewart jerked loose and grabbed a chair, and while simulating great anger acted as if he intended to
strike. He was met wiih a whack over
the head with a macs, which felled him,
and Friday he died from the ettects of
the blow. Culver stands charged with murder. ........
The Indianapolis News says: A Mon
roe county patriot, anxious to serve his
county, has written to Governor liovey,
saying: "am-my inenas air asKemg me
to takee the Place and serve as No tary
Republic and I have promised if you
will give me the appointment and as
worked hard for your election now
will you re a f rien i;o your friend and
give me the anointment.'' Twenty -one
names are signed to this remarkable
letter, all in the same hand-writing and .1 J . J T 21- 1
eviaenuy iorgeries, indorsing mc applicant.
Almost a sensation was caused by the
announcement, Saturday, that the law
"passed by the recent .Legislature" au-
thorizing a loan of $1,400,000 is proba-
bly.unconsututions;! for the reason of
the explicit wording of that section of
the constitution authorizing the con
tracting of loans. It provides that loans
can only be contracted to meet detlcits, : l cu jai. -,1 4
pa.y ziiiureab uu otiw uwuv, x;pcx mvnsion, suppress insurrection and provide
for the public defense." The act authorizing the loan stated, it is claimed,
can hardly come under any of these requirements, and the opinions of attorneys who have examined the law is
unfavorable to it. His understood the
capitalists who stood ready to provide the money are unwilling to do so under the circumstances However, the State
officers express the opinion that the loanBcanbe perfected and that the law will stand, and Treasurer Lemcke has
cone to New York with the object of
closing up the loan. Judge Woods, of the Court, spent Thursday ments upon motions to
ments against persons for alleged violation of the election laws. During the
dav he passed upon twenty, and found
sixteen of them invalid. The four that
were not quashed were onlv sustained
in part. The maioritv Of the counts
were found to be irregular, but enough
remain to warrant a hearing of the cases. Similar motions are pending in
regard to other cases, and it is not improbable that many of them may be
found bad. The indictments quashed
were against . the following persons:
Morton O. Fussel man, Isaac N. Hanack,
John Butler, Herbert H. White, John Biid, Samuel B. Ensminger, Lafayette
Moore, Amos Price, William Beakely,
Ira Thompson. Ollie Huffman, William
Pavton, William E. Macy, Albert B.
Marsh. James M. Fletcher and Oiner
Meyers. Indictments against the fol
lowing were ouanhed only as to certain
counts. Lewis A. Lucas, Jeese N. Talbott, Robert Brock, Charles McKen-
xie and teo. Barley.
United States
hearing arguauash indict-
THB NATIONAL OAPITAIi.
The Senate, in secret session , Thurs
day, discussed the nomination of Murat
Halstead to be minister to. Germany.
The nomination was hotly debated, the
criticism of Mr. Halstead coming principally from the Republican side of the
chamber. The principal cause o
grievance against Mr. Halstead was his
criticism of the course of certain Kepub
lican Senators during the investigation
of the election cf Senator Pavne. The
criticisms of Mr, Halstead were quoted from a file of the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette in the Senate chamber bv Re
publican Senators. Sherman defended
Mr. Halstead, while Senators Ingalls
and Teller led the attack upon him. A vote on the nomination resulted in its
rejection, the Dsmocrnts voting solidly
against it, and the votes of Senators Ingalls, Plumb, Cullom, Farweil and Teller being recorded in the negative also. When jt was evident that the
nomination would be rejected, Sonator Sherman changed his vote from affirmative to negative that he might be in a
position to enter a motion for reconsid
eration. That motion was entered, and
was pending when the Senate ad
journed. .
The intimacy -ihat has suddenly sprung
up between President Harrison and
Samuel J. Randall, appears to occasion uneasiness among Pennsylvania Republicans, as well as among the Democratic
leaders. Mr. Randall comes and goes at
the White House ust as if ho was
member of the Republican party, and it is understood uhat. the President has consulted him about several appoint
ments. It is said that Mr. Randall at present has been intrusted with helping
to select the Democratic member of the
Board of Commission era for the District
of Columbia.
it is uneerstDOd tnat the three com
missioners to negotiate with the Chero
kee Indians iov the sale of their lands in Indian Territory will be ex-Governor
Long, of 3lassfiChusetts: Judge Wilson,
of Arkansas, ai d ex-Congressman War
ner, of Missouri. This appointment is
one of the most lucrative in the -gilt of
the President, as the commissioners are
each to receive a fee of $5,000 and their
expenses, and their duties will . not occupy them more than two or three
months. .
The fact is ms,de known that Chauncey
j.. Depew was tendered the English
Mission. Mr, Depew, when the matter
was broached to him, said that his business relations would not permit him to accept, it but asked that the tender be
made him in: writing, that he might
treasure it as a n honor unsought. The
President then, in a formal letter, offered
the appointment and Depew in like
manner formally declined. It is stated that the President said
fewdaysago that he did not intend to make a change in the office of Commis
sioner of Railroads, now held by Gen, Joseph E, Johnston. General Sherman,
it is said, has made a special request
that General Johnston be retained. The Commissioner :is now eighty-two years of age, but in spite of his advanced years he is able to atnend to the business of
the omce.
President Harrison has received his first month's ualary. It amounted to
S3,888.88,and was delivered to him in the form of a Treafrarv note. It was for the
month of March,. minus the first three days. Mr. Cleveland received the President's salary for that portion of the
month.
A count shows that there are 200,000,1
000 stamps in the vaults of the Interna-
Revenue Bureau, their total value be
ing !HD,uuu,uuu. The count, wnicn was
made necessary by the transfer of the office from Commissioner Miller to Commissioner Mason, was completed
Sunday.
The reason the President withdrew
his nomination of John W. Berryman, nominated for postmaster at Versailles, Ky., was, it is said, because of the dis
covery oi: tho lact that he nas a son
named Jefferson Davis Berryman.
The President and Navy Department
have received several cablegrams of
svmpathy from varioos .sovereigns and
officials on account of the Samoan catas
trophe. The cablegrams include a very
gracious mesenge from the Queen. The nomination of Hon. James N. Huston, of Indiana,, as Treasurer of the United States, was confirmed within two hours after the announcement was reported and unanimously confirmed, an unusual and high compliment. A friend of 3ur. Robert T. Lincoln, at Chicago, is of the opinion that that gentleman will decline the appointment to the Court of St. James because his wife is a confirmed invalid. Secretary of the Interior Noble has issued an ordftr to heads of bureaus, di recting thai no resignations are to be called for except by instruction of the Secretary. Col. John O. New's nomination as Consul General to London, to which there was some opposition has een confirmed. The nomination of Murat Halstead to be Minister to Germany was rejected by the Senate Saturday by a vote of So to 19.
The Senate adjourned on the 2d. J
KING SOLOMON'S MINES.
BY E RIDER HAGGARD. CHAPTER XIII. TUB ATTACK. Slowly, and without the slightest ap-
pearanoe of haste or excicemenc, ne
three columns crept on. When within about five hundred yards of ua the main
or center column baited at tho root of a
tongue of open plain which ran up into the.hill to enable the other two to cir
cumvent our position, which was shaped
more or less in the form of a horse-ahoe,
the two points being toward t he town of
Loo, their object being, no doubt, that the threefold assaultshould be delivered
simultaneouslVi
"Oh.for a Gatling gun!"groaned Good, as he contemplated the serried phalanxes beneath us. "I would clear the
plain in twenty minutes."
"We have not got one, so it is no use yearning for it; but suppose you try a
shot, Qaaterrnain. See how near you can
go to that tail fellow who appears to be in command. Two to one you miss him,
and an even sovereign, to be honestly
paid if ever we get out of this, that you don't drop the ball within ten yards."
This piqued.mejSO, loading the exoress with solid ball, I waited till my. friend
walked some ten yards out; from his
force, in order to get a better view of our position, accompanied only by an orderly, and then, lying down and resting the express upon a rock., I covered him. The rifle, like all expresses, was only sighted to three hundred and fifty yards, so to allow for the drop in trajectory I took him half-way down the neck, which ought, I calculated, to find him in the chest. He stood quite st ill and gave me every opportunity, but whether it was the excitement or the wind, or the fact of the man being a long shot 1 don't know, but this was what happened. Getting dead on. as I thought, a fine sight, I pressed, and when the puff of smoke had cleared away, I, to my disgust, saw my man standing unharmed, whilst his orderl v, who was nt least three
paces to the left, was stretched upon the ground, apparently dead. Turning
awif tlv. the ofheer I had aimed at began
to run toward his force, in eyjdent
alarm. . "Bravo, QuatermainP' sung out Good; 'you've frightened him."
This made me very angry, for if possible to avoid it, I hate to miss in public. When one can only do one thing well one likes to keep up one's reputa
tion. Moved quite out of myself at my failure, I diet a rashthing. Rapidly
covering the general as he ran, I let drive with a second barrel. The poor
man threw up his arms, and fell forward on his face. This time I had made no mistake; and I say it as a proof of how little we think of others when our pride or reputation is in questionI was brute enough to feel delighted at the sight. The regiment wno had seen the feat cheered wildly - at this exhibition of the white man's magic, which they took as an omen of success, while the force to which the general had belonged which, indeed, as we afterward ascertained, he had commanded began, to faJ'J back in confusion. Sir Henry and Good now took up their rifles, and began to fire, the latter industriously ''browing" the dense mass before him with a Winchester repeater, and I also had another shot or two, with the result that so far as we could judge we put-isome eight or ten men horse de combat before they got out of range. Just as we stopped firing there came an ominous roar from our far right, then a similar roar from our left. The two other divisions were engaging us. After the sound the mass of men before us opened out a little, and came on toward the hill up the spit of bare grassland at a slow trot, singing a deepthroated song as they advanced. We kept up a steady fire from our ri fles . as they came, Ignosi joining in occasionally, and accounted for several men, but of course produced no more effect upon that mighty rush of armed humanity than he who threws pebbles does on the advancing wave. On they came, with a sh out and clashing of spears; now they were driving in the outposts we had placed among the rocks at the foot of the hill. After that the advance was a little slower, for although as yet we had offered no serious opposition, the attacking force had to come up hill, and came slowly to save their breath. Our first line of defense
was about halt wav up the siue, our
second fifty yards further back while our third occupied the edge of tho plain. On they came, shouting their warcry, "Twala! Twala! , Chiele! Chiele!" (Twala! Twala! Smite! Smite!) .. 4Ignosii Ignosi! Chiele! Chiele!" answered our people. They were quite close now, and thetollas, or throwing-knivea began to flash backward and forward, and now with an awful yell the battle closed in. To and fro swayed the mass of struggling warriors, men falling thick as leaves in an antumn wind; but before long the superior weight of the attacking force began to tell, and our first line of defense was slowly pressed, back, till it merged into the second. Here the struggle was very fierce, but again our people were driven back and up, till at length, within twenty -minutes of the fight, our third line came into action. But by this time the assailanJ3 were much exhausted, and had besides lost many men killed and wounded, and to break through that third impenetrable hedge of spears proved beyond their power. For awhile the dense mass of struggling warriors swung backward and forward in the fierce ebb and flow ot battle, and the issue was doubtful. .... Sir Henry watched the desperate strnggle with a kindling eye, and then without a word he rushed off, followed by Good, and flung himself into the hottest of the fray. As for myself, I stopped where I was. The soldiers caught eiight of his tall form as he plunged in the battle, and there rose a cry of "Nanzia Incuba!" (Here is the Elephant!) "Chiele! Chiele!" , From that moment the issue was no longer in doubt. Inch by inch, fighting with desperate gallantry, the attacking force was pressed back down the hillside, till at last it retreated upon its reserves in something like confusion. At
that moment, too, a messengur arrived
to sav that the left attack had been re
pulsed; and I was just beginning to congratulate myself that the affair was
over lor me present, wnen, ko. our
horror, we perceived our men who had been, engaged in the right defense being driven toward us across
the plain, followed by swarms of the enemv, who had evidently succeeded at
this point.
Ignosi, who was standing by me, took
in the situation at a glance, and issued a rapid order. Iastantly tlae reserve regiment round us (the Gravs) extended it
self.
Again .'gnosi gave a word of com
mand, which was taken up and repeated by the captains, and in another second,
to my intense disgust, I found myself
involved in a furious onslaught unon
the advancing foe. Getting as much as
could behind Ignosi s huge frame, I
made the best of a bad job. and toddled
along to be killed, as though I likd it. In a minute or two the t ime seemed all
too short to mo we were plunging
through tho flying groups of our mon.
wno at once began to reform behind us, and then I am sure I do not know what
happened. All I can remember is a
dreadful rolling noiso of the meeting of
shields, and the sudden apparition of a
huge ruffian, whose eves seemed literally
o be Ptarting out of his head, making
straight at me with s bloody spear.
But, I say it with pride I rose to the oc-
oceasion. It was an occasion before which most people would have cal lapsed once and for all, Seeing that if I stood where
I was I must bo done for, I, as the hor rid apparition cam, flung myself down
in front of him so cleverly, that, being unabk to stop himself , he took a header right over my prostrate form. Before he could rise again, I had risen and settled the matter from behind with my revolver. ,, Shortly after this, somebody knocked me down, and I remember no more of the charge. , When I came to, I found myself back at the koppie, wil h Good bending over me with some water in a gourd. "How do you feel, old fellowt" he askedj, anxiously. .1 got up and shook myself before answering. r
"Pretty well, tiank you, J. answered.
Death has no terrors for them when it is incurred in the course of duty. 4 "And whilst the eyes of the multitude of Twala's regiments are fixed on the fight," went on Ignosi, "toehold one third of the men who are left alive to us (i. eM about 6,000) shall creep along the right horn of the hill and fall ujr on the left flank of Twala's force, and one third shall creep along the left horn and fall upon Twala's right :3ank. And when i see that the horns are ready to toss Twala, then will I, with the men who are left to me, charge home in Twala's face, and if fortune goes with us the day will b3 ours, and before Night
drives her horses from the mountains to
'f:
How Justice Gray Fell in.vflRllJlt,, p -r ,' Miss Mat thews, ''
f
Thank Heaven! when I saw them the mountains we shall sit in peace at
carry you.in i lei t aune sick, x inougnu you were done fc r. .... "Kot this time, my boy.V I fancy I only got a rap on the head, which knocked me out of time. How has it ended?" ... They are repulsed at every point for the time. The osa is dreadfully heavy; we have lost quite two thousand killed and wounded, aid fchey must have lost three,. Look, there's a sight!" and . he pointed to long lines of men advancing by fours. In the center of, and being borne by each.group of four, was a kind of hide tray, of which a Kukuana force always carried, a ... quantity, with a loon for a handlet at each
corner. , On theKO trays and their number seemed endless- lay wounded men, -who as they arrived , were hastily examined by the medicine men, of whom ten were attached to each regiment . If the w ound was not of a fatal character, the sufferer was taken away and attended to as carefully as circumstances would allow. But if, on the other hand, tin wounded man's condi? tion was hopeless, what ' followed was very dreadful,-! hough doubtless it was the trnest mercy. One of the doctors, under pretense of carrying out an examination, ewiftly opened an artery with a Bharp knife, and in. a minute or two the. sufferer expired painlessly.
There were many cases that day in which this was done. In fact, it was done in most cases when the wound was in the bod y, for the gash made by the entrv of the enormously broad spears used by the Kukuanas generally rendered recovery hopeless. In most cases the poor nufferers were already unconscious, and in others the fatal "nick" of the artery was done so swiftly and painlessly that they did not seem to notice it. Still it was a ghastly sight, and one from which we were glad to escape; indeed, I never remember one which affected me me re than seeing those gallant soldiers thus put put out of - pain by! the red haaded medicine men, except, indeed, on an occasion when, after an aitack. I saw a force of Swazis burying their hope iessly wounded alive. Hurrying from this dreadful scene to the further side of the koppie, we found Sir Henry (who. still held a bloody battle-axe in his h and )t Ignosi, and one or two of the chiefs in deep consultation. tThank"Heiiven,here ypu are,Quatermain! I can't quite make out what Ignosi wants to do. It seems that, though we hare beaten off the attack, Twala is now ireceiving lafe re-enforcements, and is 3howing a disposition to invest us, with a view of starving us out." "That's awkward." . , "Yes, especially as Infadoos says that the water supply has given out.", : "My lord, that is so," said Infadoos; "the spring cannot supply the wants of so great a multitude, and in failing rapidly. Before night we shaH all be thirsty; Listen, Macumazahn. Thou art wiee, and has doubtless seen many war in tho hinds from whence thou earnest that is if, indeed, they make wars in the stars. Now tell us, what shall we do? Twala has brought up many fresh men to take the place of those who have fallen.- But Twala has learned a lesson; the hawk did not think to find the heron ready; but our beak has pierced his breast; he will not strike at us again. We too are wounded, and he will wa;t for us to die he will wind himself round us like a snake, around a buck, and fight the fight or 'sit down.' " "I hear you," I said. "So, Macuroazahn, thou sees we have no water hen?, and but a little food, and we must choose between these three things to languish like a starving lion in his den, or to strive to break away toward the north, or" and hero he rose ami pointed toward the dense mass of our foes "to launch ourselves; straight at Twala's throat. Incubu, the great warriei for to-day he fought like a buffalo in a :aet, and Twala's soldier's went down beiore his ax like corn before the hail; witt. these eyes I saw it InGUbu says 'Charge;' ,. but the elephant (Incubu) is ever prone to charge. Now what says M acumazahn, the wily old fox, who has seen much, and loves to bite his eneoy from behind? The last word is in Ignosi the king; for it is a king's right to speak of war; but let us hear thy voice, O Macumazahn! who watches' bv night, and the voice too of
IXXllX UaUDJJOlCUb CJO.
V.What sa5 est thou,, Ignosi?" I asked.
'Nay, my .father," answered our quondam servant, who now clad as he was in
.tha mil panoply of savage war, looked every inch a warrior king, "do thou
speak, and let me, who am but a child in
wisdom beside thee, hearken to thy
words."
Thus adjured, I, after taking hasty
counsel witr Good and Sir Henry, de
livered my opinion briefly to the effect
that, being trapped, our best chance, es pecially in view of the failure of our water supply, was to initiate an
attack upon Twala's forces, and then
recommended that the attack be delivered at once, ''before our wounds crew Btiff," and al 30 before the sight of Twala's
overpowering force caused the hearts oi
'fore a fire." Otherwise, I pomted out,
some of the japtains might change there
mmas, ana, maxmg peace wisn jl warn, desert to hha, or even betray us into hie.
hands.
This expression of opinion seemed, on the whole, to be favorably received; indeed, amoni! the Kukuanas mv utter
ances met with a respect which has
never been accorded to them before or
si nce. But the real decision as to our course laid with IsnosiV who, Bince he
had been recognized as rightful, king, could exercise the almost unbounded
rights of sovereignty, including, of
conrse. the linal decision on matters oi
generalship, and it was to him that all
eves were now turned.
' At length, after a pause, during which
hs anneared. to be thinking deeply, he
spoke: '
."Incubu, Macumazahn, and Bougwan, brave. white men, and my friends; Infa
doos. mv uncle, and chiefs: mv heart is
fixed. I will strike at Twala this day, and set nrv fortunes on the blow, ay.
and mv lifef: my life and your lives . also
Listen: thue will I strike. Ye see how
the hill curves around like ; the ; half moon, and how the nlams run like ft
green towa:xl us within the curve?" " We see, ' I answered, ry "Good; it is now midday, and the men eat ana re3t; after the toil of battle. When the s un has turned and traveled a little way toward the dark, let thy regiment, my uncle, advance with one other down to the green tongue. And it; shall be that when Twala Bees it he shall hurl his force at it to . crush it, But the spo'i is narrow, and the regiments can come t. gainst thee one at a time only; so shi ill they be destroyed one by one", and the eyes or all of Twala's arm? sltall be fixed upon a struggle the like of which has aot been seen by living man. And with t'leo my uncle shall go Incubu my friend, that when Twala sees his battle-ax titishing in the first rank of the 'Grays' his heart may grow faint And I will com! with the second regiment, that which follows 'thee, so that if ye are destroyed, as it may happen, there may yet be a king left to fight for; and with me shall come Macumazahn the wise." . "It is well, oh king," said Infadoosi, apparentl3f contemplating the certainty of the complete annihilation of Ms regtraent with perfect calmness. Truly theue Kukiianas are a wonderful people.
vraahiagton special. ;
It has been announced' that Justice (xray, of the United States Supremet Court, would, in the near future, lead to the altar Miss Jeanmatte, daughter of ther (ate Justice Matthews, but the enddeii death of the intended bride's tatherhtscaused a postponement of the event. It had been intended that the engagement
should be a short one, for Juetice
Loo. And now let us eavf; and make
ready; and, Infadoos; do thou prepare, that the plan be carried f out; and Btay, let my white father, Bougwan go with the right horn, that his shining eye may give courage to the men." ... The arrangements for attack thus briefly indicated were set in motion witn
a rapidity that spoke well for the perf eg-
uoa or toe D.uKuana mincary syBrem. Within little more than an hour rations had been served out to the men and devoured, the three divisions were formed, the plan of attack explained to the leaders, and the whole force, with the exception of a guard left with the wounded, now numbering about 18,000 men in all, was ready to be put in motion.. Presently Good came up and shook hands with Sir Henry and myself. .... "Good-bye, you fellows." ho said,"! am off witn !;he right wing according to orders; and so I have come to shake) hands in case we should not meet again , you know," he added significantly. . We shook hands in silence, and- not without the exhibition of as much emctaon as.Englishmen are wont to show. "It is a queer business," said Sir Henry, his deep voice shaking a little, "and I confess I never expect to see tomorrow's sun. As far as I can make out,
the Grays, with whom I am to go, are to fight until they are wiped out in order to enable the wings to siip round unnwareB and outflank Twala. Well, so be it; at any rate, it will be a man's death! Good-bye, old fellew. God bless you. I hope you will pull - through and live to collar the diamonds; but if you do, take my advice and don't have anything more to do with pretendersl" In another second Good had wrung us both by the hand and gone? and then .Infadoos came up and led off Sir Henry to . his place in the forefront of t)ie Grays, wnilBt, with many misgivings, I departed with Ignosi to my station - in ithe second attacking regiment, -
. (Continued next week.)' , :. - . ' Use of Oil to Still the Wav es; Under the aboya title, Lieutenant W. H. Beehler contributes to the March Century fcn account of the experiments made with oil in rough water. We quote the following account of two rescues: "The canuain of the ship Martha Cobb, loaded with petroleum, fell in witia a sinking vessel during a heavy gale in the North Atlantic in December, 1886. The bignal made said the vessel was sinking and that all her boats had been stove. The Martha Cobb had lost her large boats, her bulwarks washed out, and decks swept in the same storm; the only boat left was a Bmail sixteen-foot dingy, which could not possibly live in the sea that was then running. The captain says he was puzzled and lay by lor some hours hoping that the gale would moderate; hut as there was no appearance of better weather and night cornmg on, he decided to make an attempt to rescue the crew of the sinking vessel. The 'Martha Cobb had a cargo of petroleum, some of which leaked, and the captain had noticed that the sea in the wake of the ship was much smoother when the pumps were worked. 'He signaled to the other vessel to haul by the wind while he luffed to get to wuidwaid, and . at the flame time started the pumps; but the ship drifted faster than the oil ,and while the oil made the sea comparatively smooth to windward, it did not cover the sea leeward. He then ran down across the other vessel's stern, hauled up close under her lee, and started the pumps again; at the same time aleo he emptied a five-gallon can of: fish oil down the scuppers. The effect was magical. In twenty minutes the sea between and around the vessels was broken down. The lonf; heavy swell remained, but the combers and breaking seas were all gone. The little dingey with three men had no difficulty
in polling to wind ward, and the. crew were saved i The boat was deeply load
ed and did not ship any water, although
the sea was breaking fircely outside o
the 'charmed' space in which ;$he ves
sels-lay on oiled Beas. ,, , . : : ,;
"In June, 1885, the British ship Slive-
morc took fire and had to be abandoned
when eight hundred miles north-east of
the Seychelle Islands, Indian. Ocean.
The neoole took to the boats and
made for Sevchelle Islands. The third
day after leaving the vessel a cyclone came
up. and no one believed that the boats
would live through it. , Before tney left the ship the boats had been supplied with oil for just such emergency. Each boat got out a drag made of spars and pars lashed together, for what is known as a sea-anchor. Oakum saturated with paraffine was stuffed in long ntockinga hung over the bows of the boats. Before the oil was used the boats had been-Aes era! times nearly filled with w ater and the occupants had to bail for their iiyes; but when oil was applied no further trouble, was experienced. An oil-slick fornied around the boat3, whicti rode in perlect safety on tremendeoris swells whi ch took the place of the previously breaking seas. Little if any water came ove r the sides of the boats, and the occupants could lie down and sleep. The boats eventually reached the islands, but every soul would have perished except for the forethought o:C Captain
Oonby, the captain of the Slivemore."
''if
m
Do Pew Joking , on Serious Subjects.
Fro;ai his speech at the St Patrick's dub dinner.
Iiast St. Patrick's day we adopted a:
rule on the New York CentMii road of
put ting two green flags at the front of a
train an unconscious tribute to St. Patrick; but Ireland in fibe yard stopped wojrk at pur expenBe laughter and
gazed at the trains as they shot out of
the depot, and . the foreman said to a
companion, "Moike, what oes it mane?"
"Av ell," said he, T11 tell you what it
manes, xne doss nas wusen une nag
which Mayor Hewitt would not permit
to fitand on the City Hall, and he has
put it on the end of every train, and he's going to run . for President, sure," Ls;ughter. But alas for the aspirations
of the yard! The granger didn't like
him as well as the yard. Renewed
au ghter J . I sp eak with this freedom,
gentlemen, because my commission as minister to England has not yet reached
me, but is on the way. Uproarious
au ghter. ' , , I . Two Papas. : ' '
New York Weekly. . -...
Upper Ten Child My papa is abroad.
Ts yours? Av y " rV.
Lower Ten Child ?,Ysp. , Mine is at aitje ag'in," - - "
.. '.ft
is 54 years old, and it is but natural tha J he does not care to long postpone h . happiness. Miss Jeanjietto iai3( f ear The acquaintance, of which the prea?;.
ent engagement is the outcome, began
at the bedside of the late iustice. Jus
tice Gray and Justice Matthews had
Gray -was in. the daily habit of aconap panying bis friend to the latter's pleaal ,' ant home, and he had long been WBCBf-j ni zed as a frequent aud welcome visitor It was natural ehat When- JaBtao. : "
( Matthews was taken ill -.that Justiea ' w
Gray should be his almost constant at- ;f tendant Day after day he called -r hour ' i after hour he spent at 1m bedside. It;;$ was here that he became more intimately acquainted with Miss Jeannette who was her father's faithful nurse, and- it
and father that th air acquaintance deFveloped into love. - --. : r.
Though, the engagement hsaonly jw m- m
of ay a sensation, still it is now known V, 'j$3$
that Misfl .Tftannftttft ha bfifin thfl nrona 'xi$$.
ised wife of Justic a 3ray lor nearly
month, and that by a mutual under
standing of the lovers and Justice Matthews the afftar ' wa3 kept entirely secret. It had been .intended to say nothing of the matter until very shortly r before the marriajre, which had peeti-J
contemplated for a very early da anfe H-i
oul ior an inuiscre3i remar& oroppea oy ; Justice Gray it would have remained a
o usuce vrray una . ioug vvvn ivuujpuaeu 5.77. as one of the most eligible bachelors in v" Washington society. He is the weal thirt -jr ;-js est member of the Supreme Court, and W is doubtless the m oat popular memberl ; v 1 : '
He has the reputation of being a delight-; f nl dinner companion, with a ready wit and inexhaustible fund of anecdote and: repartee at his command. He has al-v ways been fond of the society of ladiea, showing, by the"-way a marked .prelei ence ior the company of maidens of 18 and 20. Whereyw there was a social' gathering of y ounj and pretty girls the justice from Massachusetts was alwayssure to be there, a ad as a rule it wasnot many minutes afhn his coming , that he :
was enugiy ensconceaiii some coay hook v -.. with the brighter andprettiest giilia? k f the rponiw x" M ,, .f . : While society is surprised aomewhat v to v heat of his engagement to Mssl f: fi
Matthews, it is not 8urpriaed to hear that he is about "no marry, for hii name on frequent occasions has been connect-.
ed with that of marriageable ladies, will be remembepdd thatv a year or
ago it was d is tincSily and confidently an
nounced that he was engaged .toi MM. Annie Van Vechtien,' of- Albany. Misir Van Vechten will- be remembered as the especial friend , of Miss Rose Elizabeth; Cleveland, who visited; herwbiJeMisa; Cleveland was tno mistress jof Wh ite ,
- tsBm
2i
4cominto "Mgfe
House, before he Cleveland. 'Vi.:
JusticeGray w ia Miss Van? Vechten?;
constant cavalier, and there werd quent pleasantries regardihe the rivalry . between ex-President Cleveland and Mr. Justice Gray lor the fbanjS of Bwf'j Van "Vechteni It waa' understood that t he President and the justice were deadly rivals. It has since -'npxed'iathe'.-
were not. At this time ir,
wont to declare that he would
marry, and that his sister, Miss Gray; would forever preside over his house!
About this time, too, his handsome but very eccentric mi ineion on the norftiwest corner of Sixteenth and I -.streets was
completed, and nl most every day Justice .' Gray was called upon' to:dey;iatory L- f : of a different lady for his new mansion. ;
m
"its
waa
navor .-
His strongest argument, used .to
when asked rewrding a new mistress of
his house, that- no lady would liae ; tdAlive in it, for he said there was not a
in the whole hor.se from garret foeeHai 'ii BothlJustace Gray and Misa Matthews
have been very warmly congratulated.
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Ntw York Star.
The man that will -beg er steal so small a sum as $5 is a somewhat smaller ftjol
than I expected to find in your tatheH g
(The moment; .we begin to live ve then begin to die," and the moment we
are fit to die we do die, ana sometimea
a moment sooner.
Agpiisam
strength and mild courage, quiet bold-
ness and modef t assurance, which- are J
wortn au tnev cose. . ;
A pers on Bhors his standard ;
acter by the standard he holds for others
Often he knovrs no higher etandaru , than those among whom he Uvea. -"
In this lone n orld whee ftiends a
best are but few, and in old age, when of f
those few, almost all are dead, the mnkj .
ing of one more is like the loss of a UmJ,,
or an eye. it njver can jae restored. v
One of the most tryinff cases of self- A
denying responsibility is; when we must ; ; fcfllrA an afttivA miTt noAinnti th nAvnion .
or interests of others, in order to p&f:'vent evils from falling "on them whichJ they do not see norer yriJl see,cw ft?j.r-';V; order to secuie : jn for themselves which they-TrilK suspect to have arisen from these efforts 's -nf niiwt We am doomed for ever to rest
nnaer cue lmoaiAuou. m xaeir mimiH.L. ?
y-r .
. v'- :. cv
cf exercising needless severity.;'
the
New York WorH. , . --v.?-
The Hay tian soldier is a thing unique ;
in military anuais. conversing
other day with one whp; has
camp at i St Mam he5- told1- ua he
been in charge of one of thev advanced redoubts and was yery often brought ,
into collision with the enemy's qutposttv
On inquiring whether accurate aim was ,
taken m nring ne saia: - - - -
"Why, no! if we sighted on anything
we would have to vput our heada : ojer.
the barricades, imd might get hitj
m
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Thomas Nastthea
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a place on the Ukn Francisco Examiner"
as cartoonist extraordinary, The Pacific
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