Bloomington Courier, Volume 15, Number 32, Bloomington, Monroe County, 1 June 1889 — Page 2

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THE COURIER.

BY H. J. FELTUS.

BLOOMIKGTON,

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Etiquette at Washington has undergone some curious developments. The ladies ot the Cabinet and the ladies of the Senate are quite as important factors

on ceremonial occasions as the men 01 the Cabinet and the Senators. Formerly, at the beginning of each session of Congress, the head of each department must pay a visit to each Senator; but John Quincy -'Adams declined to be bound by the custom, asserting in a pithy letter that the government of the United States was for the transaction of business, and not to pay formal visits to Senators or other persons. The effect was greatly to reduce the burden of Washington etiquette. v It is somewhat surprising that there

were but two ex-Presidents Hayes and

nicvnl and H vine at the time of the

hundredth anniversary of the inaugura

tion of the first President. That was inst the number, however, who were

alive when the semi-centennial of that event took place in 1839. The New York Historical Society got up a celebration that year and John Quincy Adams delivered the oration. Seven

man. n to that time, had sat in the.

Presidential chair, exclusive of t he existing occupant Van Barenf but all were dead except John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. The chances are that we will not be much better fixed in the-matter of ex-Presidents fct the bicentennial. ; t8cixNcs' takes pains to expose the reported cure of two cases of deaf and dumb by "Christian science" or mindcere. A Portland (Ore.) instance was reported, wherin Miss Mary Tanoe, a deafmute pupil in the Oregon School for Mutes, was cured by nine treatments. Bat the lady reports for herself that she is as deaf as ever, and will return to the - school. It is the publication of such lies ? J that disgraces both science and Christianity, so far as they are credited; for they are neither religious nor scientific Quackery never assumed a more tailing title. Another case, reported from Japan, went to shew that some of ourjnissionaries undertook to test the power of prayer on a schcol-boy under their con$rofc -Fortunately, they failed.

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The American Public Health Association demands that 'the immediate attention of State Boards of Health be given to

those relations, which exist between men t and animals in the way of communicat- . ing dangerous disease. It is now well known that glanders, trichinosis and tuberculosis may be communicated

from horses or cattle to man; and it is highly probable that diphtheria and scarlatina are also diseases of animals as , well - as men. The diseases of the cow, especially, demands thorough consideratton, from thefact that her milk constitutes so universal a factor in diet At present milk consumers are living and : buying in a state of terror. It is absoj lutely demanded by public health that f the milk product of the country be under

J Jigid sanitary control.

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Why is it that old-faahib:

which put our forefathers and mothers to sleep should now lbs received in fashionable circles, as afternoon beverages, is net easy to explain. In Revolutionary days egg-nog was common mixture after a sleigh ride to go to bed on.

It would probably raise the mischief with most of the present generation, and instead of sleep secured a bewildering f. wakefulness or a positive drunk. But to serve it to wsltzers is simply comical. At a recent fashionable party in New - York, it is said that only four young " ladies were able to waltz after drinking the third mug o! this rum and egg v mixtue. The lesson is not easy to learn, ; bat nevertheless has to be learned, that stimulants dp not remove nervousness or brace up people nowaday, as they did, possibly, in the cooler, quieter days of our fathers; The only course for a

beautiful women is to pratice rigid temperence and moderation in all things or she is a wreck before she is married, and. then wrecks her family in the bargain. . - ; ,: : ' 3 1 appears that wood pavements have met with greater success in some of the countries of Europe than in our own.the reason assigned for this being the fact of their having a foundation of concrete to rest upon in the former, at the same

time receiving more attention there, in the way of maintenance, than here. .Owing to its hardness and resinous quality, American yellow pine, it is stated, has become the favorite wood

for this purpose in Berlin and Hamburg, and official report says that Frederick's Bridge, Berlin, which was paved in the

spring of 1879 with the wood in question, is still in good co' dition, while the approaches, paved with granite blocks, have twice since required repaying. The Opera plate, also, in front of-the Emperor's palace, was paved y seven years ago partly with yellow pine arid cypress, at a point where the traffic- is greatest, while at other points stone Blocks were tised, the laying of the different surfaces with these several materials being; at the same time; According to the report the srea covered with the wood pavement is at present the one which is bee? preserved. r

A MYSTERIOUS MUBDER

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The disappearance about three weeks ageof Dr. Cronin, the well-known Irish

agitator of Chicago, created a wide sensa

tion, and various reasons were given

ior ms ajsannearance. )n wn-irf.

- claimed' he went away with a woman

vv xwa wue. ABoiner mat ne was

seen in Canada several times, and even alleged interviews were given. The mystery of his disappearance was cleared . up the latter part of last week by the finding of his body, stark - naked, in one of the sewer traps in a suburb of Chicago; where it had been thrown many days previous; There were marks of violence upon his head and face, but a post mortem examination showed that neither the skull, nor none of the bones were fractured, and the means employed in his murder is almost as much of a mystery as was his strange disappearance. All of the physicians who examined him, however, were of the opinion that he might have been killed by the blow at the outer- corner' of his left eye. The entire Chicago detective force are working on the case, trying to trace the

mnrderersl

Br. Cronin was conveyed to the sewer

hope of an early solving of the. mystery is expressed, it may be said that nothing is known to the press or public further than the fact of the trunk being found upon which the hope can be founded. Later particulars are to the effect that the police are zealously guarding a ya

cant nouse in axeview, wnicn was vacated previous to Br. Cronin's murder

and has been vacant since. The house contains manv evidences of a crime

having been committed within its walls.

Blood stains were discovered in almost

every part of the noose. There are

other evidences of the murder, including, it is said, bloody clothing, but the police are silent on this point. A key

was found in the house . that fitted the

blood-stained trunk. The prospects of the capture of Dr.

Cronin's murderers are increasing daily.

Detective Dan Coughlin, who at first

wasput ontne case to work it up,, is now behind the bars himself on the

charge of participating in the crime. P.

O. Sullivan, an ice dealer who gave the first information of the house in which

the crime was committed, is also behind

tne bars on tne same caarore. it seems

possible that the mystery will soon be

cleared up, and very probably the two

named will be found among the guilty

ones, xne pouce nave been put in

possession of the facts which, if true, are far more startling than was ever expected concerning t)r. Cronin's murder, ft has been clearly shown by the dead

mans menus mat nis removal was

ordered by a committee in some way

representing the Clan-Na-Gael society. Charges of traitorous conduct wore pre

ferred against him at a meeting of

Clan-Na-Gael camm tie was found guilty

and his removal was ordered.

It is know that an attempt to decoy

ur. uromn to a very lonely spot was made a short time before the doctor's

murder. The story of the attempted but unsuccescfnl effort to get Dr. Cronin

to a lonely neighborhood to see an im

aginary sick man is interwoven with

other incidents that lead back to the Carlton cottage. One night about 11:30 o'clock, shortly after the cottage was

leased to two strange men, a telephone

message was sent to the doctor, asking

him to call at Butterfield and Fortieth

streets, on the South Side, where it was said a man was badly hurt The person who telephoned gave explicit instructions as to the locality and urged the doctor to make all possible haste. Dr. Cronin was absent from his home at the time, and did not return till nearly morning. After it Was light he went to the place where it was said he was wanted in such haste. The spot was a vacant

let. Be made careful and exhaustive inquiries in the neighborhood, going from house to house. After spending several hours in the search he found that no one had been injured in that vicinity. The. message was a decoy. There is little doubt that had he gone there during the night he would have been assassinated. The mystery of Dr. Cronin's murder was unraveled Tuesday by the confession of Frank Woodruff, alias frank Black, the driver of the wagon. He took the officers over the route driven on the night the crime was committed, and the scene of every- incident- connected wiih the tragedy was pointed out Coughlin, Sullivan and Woodruff have been indicted for the murder by the Grand Jury. The police are said to have discovered evidence implicating many prominent Irishmen;

SINFUL : WORM) ..AND A PLAN OF PURIFICATION.

THE NEW SHIP CANAL. The Nicaragua Canal Company announces that the steamship Alveno, which sailed for Greytbwn, Nicaragua, May 25, carried about fifty men and a quantity of implements and stores for the Nicaragua Canal Construction Company, being the pioneer expedition lor the commencement of the work of building the Nicaragua interoceauic canal. Similar consignments of men and materials for the prosecution of the work will follow one another at short intervals. Ten engineers of the surveying expedition of 1887 and 1888 have remained in Nicaragua in the service of the company, and will meet the construction party at Grey town. They have collected about 500 native laborers there, in readiness to begin operations at once, and in the meantime have constructed temporary quarters, for themselves and these who are shortly to arrive.The first work to be done, and wh'ch will begin immediately, is railroad building, building a pier at Grey town erecting permanent quarters, hospitals, warehouses and shops, running telegraph wires along the line of the projected canal, dredging in Grey town har

borand clearing and dredging the first twelve miles of the canal, from Greytown to the "divide." Preparation will be made for the heavy work on the rock cut embankments, etc. : The company will send down witl the expedition a locomotive, ten large steel canoes, a steam launch, for thu chief engineer, two diamond drills, fifty tons of provisions; clothing for 500 laborers, six large pile drivers, two large

portable houses, for large rock drills,

150,000 feet of lumber for houses, 1,000,-

OtO feet of piles and timbers, 20 ham

uiuvjko, aw cois, a large stock oi engi

neers' instrumentt, 20.000,000 feet of

galvanized iron roofing, tools (railroad.

carpenters , oiacKsmitns , engineers ,

ete.), 'about sixty tons of iron, nails.

steel, etc., telegraph and telephone ma -

terials. crockery, hardware, gunpowder, dynamite, oils, rope, 400 rubber blank

ets, furniture, drugs, etc.

Patents were issued, Tuesday, to In

diana inventors as follows: Stephen G.

Baldwin, Marion, ink well; Stephen A. I. BcaeH, Atlanta, gate; Oliver H.

CastJe, Indianapolis crank waist and

VlftTTTtO TamcB IT Ann.lnln X?

Martin, Richmond, last' and stand; James W. Fierst, Red Key, balanced

swingmg gate; John R. Fox, Fort

"Way ne, electric arc lamp; Charles SU Hartman, Vincennes, cultivator; El wood P. HiatV Nobles vi;le, bed furnpce;

Theodore Kruse, Indianapolis, heating

furnace; Frank Lenhart, Brazil, horse

detacher, Frank G. Perkins, Mishawaka,

bushing for pulleys; Freeman M. Teegard en, Colfax, saw table gauge; Eiias W. Tucker and A. P. Orr, Arcadia, clothes pounder; Lewis F. Wickers and

B. C. "Wickers, Lebanon, fence.

Experiments made, by M. Mosso of

It is known that theboly of Tmin prove that eels' blood is as poison

ous a$ the venom of snakes.

The Soul Cannot bo C!eaii9cd by

Apologies, Nop by . the Belief that Your Sins Might Be Worne -Grace of Christ and Faith Needed;

Rev. Br. Talmage preached at the

Brooklyn tabernacle last Shnday. Text Job ix., 30 31. He said:

I remark, in the first place, that some

people try to cleanse their soul of sin in

the snow water of fine apolog:cs. Here

is one man who save: "I am a sinner;

confess that; but I inherited this. My

father w bb a sinner, my grandfather.my

great- great-grandfather and all the way

back to Adam, and I couldn't help my

self." My brother, have you not, every dar in your life, added something to the original state of sin that was bequeathed to you? Are you not brave enough to confess that you have sometimes surrendered to sin which you. ought to have conquered? I ask you whether it is fair play .to put upon our ancestry things for which we ourselves are personally responsible? If your nature was askew when you got it, have you not sometimes given it an additional twist? Will all tue tombstones of those who have preceded us make a barricade high enough for eternal defenses? I know a devout man Who had blasphemous parentage. I know an Honest riiaii whose father was a thief. I know a pure man whose mother was a waif of the Btreet. The hereditary tide may be very strong, but there is such a thing as stemming ir. The fact ihat 1 have a corrupt nature is no reason why I should yield to it Tne deep stains of our soul can never be washed out by the snow water of tuch sufficient apology. Still further, savs some one. "If I

have gone into sin H has been through my compauions, my comrades and aasociatesi they ruined me. They taught me to drink. Thejr tdok iha to the gambling hell. They plunged me Into the house of sin. They ruined my soul," I do not believe it. God gave to no one the power to ,. destroy you or me. If a man is destroyed, hois self-destroyed, and that is always so. Why did you not break away iroai them? If they had tried to steal your purse you would have knocked them down. If they had tried to purloin your gold -vatch you would have riddled them with shot, "but When they tried to steal your immoital soul you placidl v submitted, to it. Those bad felfows have a cup of fire to drink; do not pour your cup into it. In this matter of the soul,- every man

lor nimseit. xnnc tnose persons are not fully responsible for your sin I prove by the Jact that you still consort t with them. You can not get off by blaming them. Tnough you gather up all these apologies; though , they were a great flood of them; though they should come down ith the force. c melting snows from Lebanon, they could not wash out one stain of your immortal soul. Still further, some persons apologize for their sins by saying: ' We are a great deal better than some people. You see people all around about us that are a great deal worse than we.1' You stand up columnar in your integrity and look down upon those who are prostrate in their habits and crimes. What of that, my brother? If I failed through recklessness and wicked imprudence for $10,000, is the matter alleviated at all by the fact that, somebod v else has failed -for $100,000, and somebodv else for $700,000? Oh, no. If I have the neuralgia, shall I refuse medical attendance because my neighbor has virulent typhoid fever? The fact that his disease is worse than mine does that cure mine? If I, through my foolhardiness, leap off into ruin, does it break the fall to know that others leap off a higher cliff into deeper darkness? When the Hudson .River rail train went through the bridge at Spuyten Duyvil, did it alleviate the matter at all that, instead of two or three people, being hurt, there were seventy-five mangled and crushed? Because others are depraved, is that any excuse for my depravity? Am I better than they? Perhaps they had worse temptations than I have had. Perhaps their surroundings in life were more overpowering. Perhaps, oh, man, if you had been under the same stress of temptation, instead of sitting here to-day you would have been looking through the bars of a penitentiary. Perhaps, oh, woman, if you had been under the Bame power of temptation, instead of sitting here today vou would be tramping the street, the laughing-stock of men and the grief of the angels of God, dungeoned, body, mind and soul in the blacknens of despair. Ah, do not let us solace ourselves with the thought that other people are worse than we. Perhaps in the future, when our fortunes may change, unless God prevents it, we may be worse than they aie. Many, a man

after thirty years, after forty years, after fifty years, after sixty years, lias gone to " ii it- t . . .

pieces on tne gana oars. un instead 01 wasting our time in hypercriticism about others, let us ask ourselves the

questions, where do we stand? What

are our sins? What are our deficits? mi A. TTTI I

.wnat are our penjsr vvnat are our

hopes? Let each one say to hiuiBelf: nrrri -1 r L.n ni .11 r

-ryvnere wiii jl oer -onaii i range, in

summery fields, or grind in the mills of

a great night? Where? Where?" Some winter morning you go out and

see a snow-Dan in graceim uriits, as though by some heavenly compass, it had been curved; and as -the sun glints

it tne luster is almost insuflerable, and seems as if God had wrapped the earth in a shroud with white plaits woven in looms celestial. And you say; "Was there ever anything so pure as the

snow, so beautiful as the snow?" But

you brought a pail of that snow and put it upon the stove and malted it; and you

round tnat tnere wag a sediment at. the bottom, and every drop of that snow water was riled; and you found that the snow-bank had gathered up the impurity of the field, and that after all it was not fit to wash in. And bo I say. it will be if you try to gather ur these contrasts and comparisons with others, and with these apologies attempt- to wash out the sins of your heart and life. It will be

an unsuccessiui aDiution. oucn snowwater will never wash awy a single stain of an immoital soul. . But I hear some one eay. "I will try something better than that. I will try the force of a good resolution. That will be more pungent, more caustic, more. extirpating, more cleansing. The snow-water has failed, and now I will try the alkali of the good, strong resolution. My dear brother, have you

any idea that a resolution about the future will liquidate the past? Suppose I owed you $5,000 and I should come to you to-morrow and say: "ir, I will never run in debt to you again; if I ehould live thirty years, I., will never run in debt to you again;" will you turn to me and say: 4'If you will not run in debt in the future, I will forgive vou the $5,000." Will you do that? 'No! Nor will God. We have been running up a long score of indebtedness with God. If in tho future we should abstain from sin, that would be no defrayment of past indebtedness. Though you should live from this time forth pure as an archangel..-. before the throne, that would not redeem the past. God, in the Bible, distinctly declares that He "will require that which is past" past opportunities, past neglects, past wicked words, past irpnro imaginations, past everything. The past is a great cemetery, and every day is buried in it. And here is, a long row of three hundred and sixty-five graves. They are the dead days of .1888. Here is a long row of three hundred and sixty-five more

graves, and they are the dead days of

1887. And here ib a long row or tnree

hundred and sixtv-five more . trraves,

and they are the dead days of 3886. It

is a vast cemetery of tne past. . uut God will raise them all up with resur-

br, ail m fcaj p risoner

stands face to face with juror and Judge, bo. you and I will have to come, no and look upon those departed days face to face, exulting in their smile or cowering in their frown. "Murder will out" is a : proverb that stops too short. Every !3in, however small, as well as. great, will out. In hard, times in England years ago, it is authentically stated that a manufacturer

to pay oil his hands. A man infuriated with hunger met him on the road and took a rail with a nail in it from a paling fence and struck him down. Thirty years after the murderer, went back to that place. He passed into the grave yard, where the f-extou was digging a grave, and while he stood there the spade of the sexton turned up a skul l, and, lo! the murderer saw a nail protruding from the back part of the skull; and as the sexton turned the skull, it seemed with, hollow eyes to glare on the murderer; and he, first petrified with horror, stood in silence, but soon cried out, "Guilty! guilty! 0, Godl" The mystery of the crime was over. The man was tried and executed. My friends, all the unpardoned sins of our lives, though we may think they are buried out of sight and gone into a mere skeleton of memory, will turn up in the cemetery of the past, a ad glower Upon us. with their misdoings. I say all our Unpardoned eins. Oh, hdVe ydu done the preposterous thing of supposing that good resolutions for the future will wipe out the past? Good resolutions, though pungent and caustic as alkali, have no power to neutralize a sin, have no power to wash away a transgression. It Wants something more than earthly chemistry to do this. Yea, yea, though l4I wash myself with snow water, and should I cleanse my hands in a ! kali, yet shalt Thou plung me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me." You see from the last part of this text that Job's idea of sin was very different from that of Eugene Sue, or Gfiorco Sand, or M. S. Michelet. or any

of the hundreds of writers who have done Up iniquity in mezzotint, and garlanded the wine ctip with eglantine and rosemary, and made the path of the libertine end in bowers of eane instead of on, the hot flagging, of eternal torture. You see that Job thinks that sin ia not a flowerv parterre; ttiAt :it is not a table

land of fine prospects: that it is not

mudc, dulcimer, violoncello, Castanet

and Pandean pipes, all making music

together. No. He Bays it is a ditch, long, deep, loathsome, stench ful, and we aro all plunged into it, and there we wallow and sink and struggle, not able

to iret out. Our robes of propriety and

robes of Worldly profession are saturated

in the slime and abomination, and our

sou), covered over with transgression.

hates its covering; and the covering

hates the bouI until we are plunged into the ditch, and our own clothes ab

hor us. I know that some modern religionists carricature sorrow for sin, and they make out an easier path than the "pilgrim's progress" that John Bunyan creamed of. The road they travel does not stop where John's did, at the City of Destruction, but at the gate of the university; and I am very certain that it will not come out where John's did, under the shining ramparts of the.ee lestial city. No repentance, no pardon. If you do not, my brother, feel that you are down in the ditch, what do you want of Christ to lift you out? If you have no appreciation -of the fact that you are astray, what do you want of Him who caine" to seek and save that which was lost? Yond er is the Ci ty of Paris, the swiftest of the Inmans, coming across the Atlantic. The wind is abaft, so that she has not only her engines at work, but all sails up. I am on board the Umbria, of the Canard Line. I he boatdavits aie swung around. The boat is lowered. I get into it with a red flag and cross over to where the City of Paris is coming and wave the red flag. The captain looks off from the bridge and says: "What do you want?" I reply: "I come to take some of your passengers across to the other vessel: I think they will be Safer and happier there." The captain would look down in indigtiation and say: "Get out of the way or I will run you down." And then I would back oars amid the jeering of two or three hundred people looking oveir the taffrail. But the TJoibria and City of Paris meet under different circumstances after a while. The City of Paris is coming out of a cyclone; the life-boats are smashed; the bulwarks gone: the vessel rapidly going down, The boatswain gives his last whistle of despairing command.. The passengers run up and down the deck, and ome pray, and all make a great outcry. The captain says: "You have about filteen minutes now to prepare for the next world." "No hope!" sounds trom stern to stern and from the rat lines, do wn to the cabin. I see the distress. 1 am let down by the side of the fimbria: I push on as fast as I can toward the sinking city of Paris. Before I come up people are leaping into the water in their , anxiety to get , to the boat, and when I have swung up under the side of the City, of Paris the frenzied passengers rush through the gangway until the officers, with ax and clubs and pistols, try to keep back the crowd, each wanting "his turn to come next There is but one life-boat; an they all want to get into it, andvfne cry is: "Me nextl" "me next!". You see the application before I make it. As long as a man going on in his sin feels that all is well, that he is coming out at a beautiful port, and has ail sail set, he wants no Christ, he wants no help, he wants no rescue; but if under the flash of God's convicting spirit he shall see that by reason of siu he is dismasted and water logged, and going down into the trough of the sea where he cannot live, how

soon he puts the sen-glass to his eye and sweeps the horhson, and at the first sight of help cries out: "I want to be saved. I want to be saved now. I want to be saved forever." No sense of

danger, no application for rescue. Oh, that God's eternal spirit would flash upon us a sense of our sinfulness i

The Bible tells the story in letters of

a fire, but we get used to it We joke about sin. We make merry over it What is sin? Is it a trifling thing? Sin is a vampire that is sucking out the, life

blood of your immortal nature. Sin?

ft is a bastile that no earthly key ever

unlocked. Sin? It is expatriation

from God and Heaven. Sin? It is grand

larceny against the " Almighty, for. tho

Bible asks the question: V Will a man rob God?" answering it in the affirma

tive. This Gospel U3 a writ of replevin to recover property unlawfully detained from God. ....

In tho Shetland Islands thero is a

man with leprosy. The hollow of the

foot has swollen until it is flat on the

ground. The joints begin to fall away

The ankle thickens until it looks like the foot of a wild beast. A stare un

natural comes to the eye, : The nostril is constricted. The voice drops to an almost inaudible hoarseness. Tubercles blotch the whole body, and from them there comes an exudation that is unbearable to the beholder. That is leprosy, and we have all got it unless cleansed by the grace of God. See Leviticus. See II .Kings. See Mark, See Luke. See fifty Bible allusions and confirmations. The Bible is not complimentaryin its language. It does not speak mincingly about, our sins. It does not talk apologetically. There is no vermilion in its style. It does not cover up our transgressions with blooming metaphor. It does not sing about them in weak falsetto; but it thunders out: "The imaghmtion of man's heart is evil from his youth." "Every one has gone back. H has altogether become filthy. He is abominable and filthy, and drinketh in iniquity like water." And then the Lord JeBUS Christ flings .down at our feet this humiliating catalogue: . "Out nf the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornication, murder, tletts, blashemy." There is a text for your rationalists to preach from. Oh, .he dignity of: human nature! There is an element of your science of man tat th$

anthropologist . never has had thef l l K . i V n TliVvln in I

all the ins and outs 01 the most loroemi

style, sets forth our natural pollution, and represents iniquity as a frightful thing, as an exhausting thing, aei a loathesome thing. It is not a mere

beminng of the leet, it is not a mere

befouling of tho hands) it is going down, head and ears under, in a ditch, until our clothes abhor us. My brethren, shall we stay down where sin has thrust us? I shall not, if vou do. We can not afford to. I. have

to day to tell you that there ia some

thing purer than snowwater, something more pungent than alkali, and that is

the blood of Jesus Christ that cleanseth

from all Bin. Ay, the river of salvation, bright, crystalline and heaven born, rushes through this audience with a billowy tide strong enough to wash your sins completely and forever away. Ob, Jesus, let the dam that holdei it back now break, and the floods of salvation roll over us. Let us get down on both knees and bathe in that .flood of mercy. Ay, strike out with both hands and try to swim to the other shore of this river of God's grace. To you is the word of this salvation sent. Take this largess of the divine bounty. Though you have gone down in the deepest ditch of libidinous desire and corrupt behavior, though you have sworn all blasphemies until there is not one sinful word left for you to speak,though you have been submerged

by the transgressions of a lifetime, though you are so far down in your sin that no earthly help can touch your case tho Lord Jesus Christ bends over you to-day and offers you' His right hand, proposing to lift , you up, first making you whiter than snow, and then raising you to glories that never die. 'Silly said a Christian bootblack to another, "when we come up to Heaven it won't make any difference that we've been bootblacks "here, for we shalS get in, not. somehow-or other, but : Billy, we shall get in straight through the gate." Oh, if you only knew how full and free and tender is the effort of Christ this day, you would all take Him without one single exception; and if all the doors of this house were locked save one, and you were compelled to make, egress by only one door, and I stood there, and questioned you, and the ..Gospel of Christ had made the right impression Upon your heart to-day, you would answer me as you went out, one and ali; 'Jesus is mine and I am His!" Oh, that this might be the hour when you would receive Him! It is not a Gospel merely for footpads and vagrants and buccaneers, it is for the highly polished and the educated and refined as well. "Except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God." Whatever may be your associations, and whatever your worldly refinements, I must telt you, as before God I expect to answer in the last day, that if you aro not chanced by the grace of God, you are still down in the ditch of sin, in the ditch of sorrow, in the ditch of condemnation; a ditch that empties into a deeper ditch, the ditch of the lost. But blessed be God for the lifting, cleansing, lustrating power of His Goape1. TKOUBLE WITH ENGLAND; A Washington special says: The sending cf the English flag ship Swifture and the Amphion to Sitka, with orders to cruise in Behring Sea, has caused quite a stir in official circles here. The Treasury Department haa time and again called the attention of tho Government to the fact that ships flying the English flag are engaged in illicit sealing in Behring Sea. In most cases these vessels are well arnied, and our revenue cutters, which carry only howitzers, are no match for them. The Government has decided that its interests in Alaska shall be protected. The United States steamer Adams, which was under sailing orders for Honolulu, expected to leave on Tuesday, but a telegram has been sent to the com mandant of the Mare Island Navy Yard to detain her. She will go north in company with the Iroquois, and both vessels will leave early in the week for Sitka. The State Department has decided that Behring Ssa is a Mare Ciausum, and intends to assert dominion over the whole North Pacific within the limit defined in our treaty with Kussia. What constitutes the waters of Alaska has long been a complicated question, and if, as appears, the English Government is sending war ships to protect Canadian vessels engaged in taking seal north of the Aleutien Islands, our Government will be confronted with an international question of the gravest importance. The revenue cutters Rush and Bear and the war ships Thetis, Adams and the Iroquois will he at hand to enforce the aw of the country as defined by the Treasury Department, so far as depredatiun of the seal fishing is concerned. Our Government takes the ground that when we acquired Alaska by purchase in 1867 we also acquired all of its vested rights, one of which was Behiing Sea. This question was settled in 1820, when England attempted the same tactics she is now engaged in. Kussia Bhowed fight and sent a large fleet to these waters to uphold her position. The question was finally settled by arbitiation against England. Secretary Blaine is determined in this matter. He maintains that we have exclusive dominion over all that portion of the Pacific Ocean known as Behring Sea, excepting such as lies east of the treaty line, bordering on the Siberian coast The matter has been discussed in Cabinet, and the determination of the administration is to enforce all our rights in the matter. If England persists in sending ships of war

to protect the Canadian vessels in tak

ing these young seal, this government

will take vigorous measures to stop it.

The first conflict of authority within

this immense area of water, claimed

ana owned by the United States, may

mean war. It is believed that England seeing that this government is determ

ined to enforce its rights, even if re

course to foTce is necessary, will withdraw and submit the question to arbi

tration, as was done with Russia in 182P,

Josh Billings7 Philosophy. N. Y. Weekly. Everyboddy luvs tew feel that the) are ov sum importance in ibis worloj even a pauper looks forward to the day oy hiz phuneral az the time that he has got to be notissed There iz menny a person who ken set a mouse-trap tew parfeckshun, but, not satisfied with sich small game, they undertake tow trap for bears., and get ketched by the bears. Moral: Studdy yure genius and stick tew mice. Mi friend haz got hiz phaiiings, and

that iz one thing that makes me like him so mutch.

Men who invade the province ov wimmin are alwus jeered at; and how kan wimmin, when they invade the province ov men, expeckt two eskape the same kind oy treatment. Altho the learned and witty often cater to the ritch, thare never waz oue yet, however poor, who would swap estates with them.

BANQUET TOCILEVELAND BY THE YOUNG TURK'S DEMOCRATIC CLUB- OF NEW YORK.

Where Ho Makes a Speech or Consulerall I'Piigtlt in Support of the Principle of the Democratic Party. The Young Men's Democratic Ohio of New York City honored ex-President Cleveland with a banquet, Monday night, at which there were present many prominent inenibeit of the party. Mr. Cleveland, in his speech, said; "Many incidents of my short resideuceinthia "good city have served , to till my cup of gratitude and to arouse my appreciation of the kindness and consideration of those with. ..whom I have made my homo. The hospitality for which the citizens of New York have been distinguished has outdone itself in my welcome. The members of my profession have, upou my return to its activities, received me with fraternal greetings, and personal friends have not permitted me to feet like a stranger in a strange city. And yet I can truly say that none of these things will be more vividly or gratefully remembered than the opportunity afforded me by this occasion to greet the political friends I see about me. While I believe that no

one is more susceptible than I of every personal kindness, and white I am sure that no one values more his personal friendship, it certainly should cause no surprise when I say that these t hings are not more cherished than my attachment and loyalty to true Democratic faith and my obligations to the cardinal principles of its party organization. 4I have been honored by my party far beyond my. deserts. Indeed, no man can deserve its highest honors. After six years of public service, 1 return to you, my party friends. Six years have I stood as your representative in the State and nation, and now I take my place again in the ranks, more convinced than ever that the cause of trne Democracy is the cause of the people their safeguard and their hope. I come to you with no excuses or apologies and

with no confession of disloyalty. It, is not given to man to meet all the various and conflicting views of party duty and policy whieh prevail in an organization where individual opinion .is so freely tolerated as in the Democratic party. " Because these views are various and conflicting, some of them must be wrong. And when they are honestly held and advocated, they should pro voke no bitterness nor condemnation; but when they are dishonestly proclaimed, as a mere cover and pretext of personal resentment and disappointment, they should be met by the exposure and contempt which" they deserve. . "If with sincere design and intent one charged with party representation has kept the party faith, that must answer his party obligation. No man can lay down the trust which he has held in behalf of a generous and confiding people and feel that at all times he has met hi the best possible way the requirements of his trust; but he is not derelict in duty if he has conscientiously devoted bis efforts and his judgment to the people's service. I have deliberately placed in close connection loyalty to democratic principles and devotion to the interests of the people for in my view they belong together and should mean the same thing, "But in this day of partisan feeling and attachment, it is well for us to pause and recall the truth, that the only justification for the existence of any party is the claim that in principle and performance its object and purposes are the promotion of the public good and the advancement of the welfare and prosperity of our entire country. There never was a party platform or declaration of principles which did not profess these things and mase them the foundations of party creed; and any body of men who should openly proclaim that they were associated together for the express purpose of gaining supremacy in the government with the sole intention of distributing offices and the spoils of victory among their associates, would be treated with ridicule and scorn. Thus are we brought face to face with the proposition that parties should, no more than individuals, he untruthful and dishonest. Of course, in the supremacy of party there are advantages to its members and this is not amiss. But when high party aims and professions are lost eight of or abandoned, and the benefit of office holding and personal pelf are all that remain to inspire party activity, not only is the confidence of those, relied on for patriotic support forfeited, but the elements of cohesion and of effective and lasting political strength are gone. The honesi differences of opinion that must always exist upon questions of principle and public policy should furnish abundant occasion for the existance of parties, and point out their field of usefulness. ; The study and discussion of these questions cannot fail to result in more valuable citizenship and more intelligent and better equipped partisans. .: "When we seek for the cause of the perpetuity of the Democratic party and its survival through every crisis and emergency, and in the face of all opposition, we find it in the fact that its corner stone ia laid in devotion to the rights of the people and sympathy with all things which tend to the advancement of their welfare, and happiness. Though heresy may sometimes have crept into its organization, and though

party conduct may at times have been influenced by the shiftiness which ib the habitual device of its opponents, there has always remained, deeply imbedded in its nature and character, that spirit of true Americanism and that love of popular right which has made it indestructible in disaster and defeat, and has constituted it a boon to the country in its time of triumph and supremacy. "The great founder of our party, as he consecrated himself by a solemn oath to the faithful performance of the duties of the presidential office, and pledged himself to the preservation, protection and defense of the constitution, after presenting to his assembled fellow-couutrymt-n the causeB of congratulation found in the condition of our. country and the character of our people, impressively added: With all these blessings what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still ono" thing more, fellowcitizens. . A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.' "In the lexicon of true democracy these words are not obsolete, but : they still furnish the inspiration of our efforts and interpretation of our political faith. Happily, the party creed which we profess is not within such narrow lines..-as that obedience does not permit us to move abreast with the advanced thought of the country and. to meet and test every question and apply a principle to everv situation. True democracy,"

stanch in its adhesion to fundamental

doctrine, is at the same time, in. a proper sense progressive. It recog

nized our growth and expansion

and the birth of new thought

and sentiment. It will judge tbem all

bv safe standards, and in all phases of

national development it will be pre

pared to answer, as they arise, every need of the people r.nd every popular

want.. , -

"True democracy honeBtlv advocates

national brotherhood to the end that all our fel low-countrymen may aid in the achievement of the grand destiny which

awaits us as a nation, ana condemns that pretext of liberality and harmony which, when partisan advantage is to be gained, gives way for inflammatory appeals to sectional hate and passion. It insists upon that equality before the

law which conceds the care and protection of the government to simple manhood and citizenship. It does not

favor the multiplication of offices and salaries merely to make partisans, nor use the promise and bestowal of place for the purpose of stifling the ptesa and bribing the people. It seeks to lighten the burden of life in every home, and to take from the citizen for the cost of government the lowest possible tribute. "We know that we have espoused the cause of right and justice. We know that we have not permitted duty to country to wait upon expediency. We know that we have not trafficked our principles lor success. We know that we have not deceived the people with false promises and pretenses; and we know that we have not corrupted nor betrayed the poor with the money of the rich. Who shall say that these things promise no reward, and that triumph shall not follow the enlightened judgment and the sober, second thought of our countrymen. "There are to-day no weak, weary and despondent members of the true Dsmoeracy-r-and there should be none. Thoughtful attention to political topics is thoroughly aroused. Events are day by day leading men to review -the reasons for their party affiliations and the supporters of the principles we profess are constantly recruited by intelligent, young and sturdy adherents.

"Let us deserve their confidence and,

shunning all ignoble practices, let us remain steadfast to Democratic faith

and to the cause of our country. If we are true and loyal to those? theday of

our triumph will Burely and quickly come and our victory shall be fairly, nobly won through the invincible spirit

ot true democracy." ...

MATTERS OtLJj&W;

Recent Decisions of the

Supreme Court-

Indiana-

SINGLE TAX YS. PROHIBITION;

An Interesting- Imposition of trie Two

Parties' Principles. ' Indianapolis Sentinel.. f. ...

A rather novel meeting was that last

night of the Single Tax League in con

nection with the Prohibition league, in the hall occupied by the latter in the When block. The pi ohibitioniets had invited their single tar brethren to a friendly joint discussion of the issues, aims and principles of the two organizationswith the faint hope, perhsps, that they might discover a . tangible , bond which would lead to theit union. While the meeting was moat hatmomous and the debates free from had humor, it became evident that the views of the members of the leagues ran inN divergent channels, and that there was little possibility of a union. There were about 100 persons in attendance at the meeting and they were pretty evenly divided between the two societies. Mr. L. P. Custer, of the tax .league, presided. It was decided to allow one speaker from each side to occupy thirty minutes and that the remainder of the time should be spent in a general discussion. The tax leaguers were assigned to open the discussion, their speaker being Mr. Thomas J. Hudson. He stated

his opinion that the temperance move

ment was wholly a moral one and not one that affected the people in dollars and cents. He further said that he le-

garded intemperance as an effect-aiad not a cause. The cause of this and

nth or evils existing to-day .was much

farther back. He then proceeded to outline the pet theories entertained by. the single tax iollowers the central one of which wa tnat all land should he taxed according to its actual value for use. He wanted to contradict the state

ment sometimes made that if the single tax theorv was carried into' effect farm

ing land might be ' taxed $ 10 per acre. The reason it would not be was because

farming land was not very valuable. If farming land was to he taxed $10 an acre under the sinele- tax theory there was

one acre of land in New York City which

would be taxed $180.680. 1 Another in

stance of this law was the fact that there

were seven acres in the city of London that were of value equal to three states such as Indiana. Mr. Hudson impressed

upon his auditors the fact' that it was population which gave value to land. Referring to the temperance question,

acain he said he thought it of much less

imnortance to woraingmen 4 than -the

laud question Workingmen who were injured by intemperance were generally driven to drink by poverty. ? "You can,"

he V aid. "trace the downfall of no civil

ization to intoxicating liquors, but you can trace the downfall of two or three

to the abuse of private ownership in land." .. ... '-v- f. Mr. J. B. Jaques spoke in behalf of

the prohibitionists. He thought that

Mr. Hudson's idea that the prohibitionist question was one of morals was en

tirely erroneous. In a financial sense

alone it was, he said, the most important question before the people. . Secretary of the Treasury' WinOom, had once said that the prohibition question, as one simply of political economy, was he most important before the country. The speaker then recited the arguments popular with the prohibition , speakers, pertaining to the in jury done the com m unity and country, in a material way alone, by the wide use of alcohol. He attributed all wretchedness and poverty to it. Referring to Mr. Hudsonrs statement that alcohol had never caused the downfall of a nation, he said the gentleman must have f orgotton the history ol Babylon. He also thought the quesof prison contract labor would almost

disappear if .prohibition should prevail,

as that would result in a depopulation of the penitentiaries. " .. HJY

i i i v Pulling Teeth by Electricity. ' . Boston people nowadays have their superfluous teeth drawn by electricity.

Tho "process is very simple, scarce any apparatus being required beyond an ordinary twocell oattery with vibrator attachment. This attachment ib a thin strip of metal fastened at the ends, which is made to vibrate a thousand or more times a second by the electric current, At each vibration the circuit is cut off and renewed again, the effect being to give a perfectly steady- flow of

the mysterious fluid. In order to make sure that the flow is quite satisfactory, the operator tunes the machine-assist

ed by a little reed tuning pipe until the

strip of metal sings "A." Now, to the

battery are attached, tnree wires. Two

of them have handles-at the ends, and

the third is attached toa forceps. The patient in the chair is given a handle to hold in each hand, and the current is' turned on gradually until it becomes; painful. Then he is told to grasp the handles as strong as possible, the electricity having been switched off for a moment is turned on again suddenly, and the dental surgeon applies his forceps .- simultaneously to the tooth The instant the molar is touched, it, as well as the parts surrounding, becomes electiified, and absolutely" insensible to pain. When it is withdrawn from the socket the subject of the. operation feels; not the slightest disagreeable sensation. A jerk, and tho tooth is out, the patient drops the electric handles; and the

painless affair is over.

Where a drain was ordered established'

by the Circuit Court of a county, and assessments lift vied upon property within

the limits of an incorporated city,through which a part of the drain was construct-.; ed, the parties affected can not, in a suit

to , collect assessments, question the)

jurisdiction of the couri to establish

ditch withinthe limits of the city.

against a collateral attack the judgments ; will stand and the assessments be en?f

forceable. . ' "f

One who represents ' that he is ihei

owner ot one-third of real estate or

which an ancestor died seized, conceals ''

the fact that he had received advancel ments from the ancestor to the full val4 ' ue of his interest in the estate; and? thereby induces another .who relies.-. thereon to con vey land to him ht. ex . r. change for his supposed interest, whfclr 1 he conyeya to the other by quit'clarsr r" deed j is guilty of such fraud as igiyes a . right of action But if the. representstions were not relied on by the other party, and if the latter sought other sources of information upon the subject . and on his own judgment concluded to) enter the contract and .take his chances as to what he should get, there is no right of action as in such case there is no fraud. . v j ?4 , : : (fjf Where a party signs a deed , or bill

oi sate ana throws it on tne taoie, at tne. v

takes the writing, this does not amount to a delivery, unless it is found, that the paper was put where it was with the intent to be delivered. , If, after a party has signed papers and thus acted he is to have the privilegeof returning on the next day to examine them, for the pur

pose of having corrections made if. the papers were to be found erroneous, 1 there is no delivery. (3) A collusive agreement between a husband and wife, whereby the wife will ignore the charge of infidelity made by her against her

husband and asks a decree upon another ground upon which she does not re)y,y he to' make no resistance, but to aid in -bringing about the decree and to pay costs, and make certain settlements

upon the wife, is contrary to public poli--cy and illegal, and obligations executed by the husband asa part of -the transact tion are withotit:a valid consideration. " (1) In an action for slander, if express malice be proved, the jory mayi wssesf .s exemplary as- well as com pensatory 4aBl ages. (2) Evidence of other and similar ; slanderous words spoken at other times ; and places is admissible to show that the words charged in the complaint were spoken with malice and ill-wilL. ; (3) If the act complained of was conceived in the spiriof mif chief or criin-;; inat indifference- todvrl ohUionfe

then the re, is expressmalicel

The complaint of appellees seeks t o

recover from the -railroad company over- 4

charges of freight, made and collected by the company on 368 car loads of croes ties, in disregard ot an ; alleged orsl

agreement to carry plaintiffs freight at

a certain rate. Thejoyideace shows thV the shipments were made pursuant to , written and printed hills - oi lading signed by thecompany!s;agent,' and d?

livered to the plaintiffs before the tranf -

porta tion began in each instance. Held: That it ; was not competent for the plaintiffs, without alleging any; faud,f concealment or mistake, to recover upon . an oral contract made prior W the isbh- -i ance of the bills of lacgrbut the rights v oi the parties must be detemined-by the express, terms and legal import of these rnstruments. If ihe'rate of freight is not stipulated in the bUls theoarnet iB entitled to recever reasonable ami 4customary compensation. The complaint

does not charge that ' the rates chtirged

were unreasonable. ; '

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A husrjandand wifeconveyed'certain

land 1 belonging to the husband &o?M third person in trusty ify jgti&to diately to convey it to the wife in lieu ot M aU her interest and jointure in the oiher v 4 lands then owned and thereafter , soquired by- the husbanditThe trustee -conveyed to the wife as the deed atapu- f iated. It was recited in the deeds that' . ; the wife agreed to; accept the land so conveyed in full oi all her interest in, .. ner husband's estate The husband (Jt afterward died, leaving neither children! J nor father or mothers Heidi Tht as it; j was evidently; the intention of tho psr ties to make provision ,6r the wife; -'4 merely by way- of jointure in Hen o 4 what she would take as widow in case she survived, she is entitled under See tion 2490 R. S., I8Sl,tb take' as heir;what : property the husband died seized of, as ,. ;

against the husband's brothers and; sis

ters of the half-blood.

. : Where a railroad company orders a: section hand to a certain place on theline of the road; to perform a designated service, and while proceeding 'to ' tho place upon a hand car, and exercising due care. the employe is killed by reasqn of a' wild train, of the runnintt of whicli

he had no notice in thfrooeeaceof mo-:

tbe company is liable; but if ths injury . - ;

is inflicted at a place beyond the npii

where theecessed was directed by thr s

order to go, or if the Tales of the corir- VM .s pany;reqiistTO pared at all times for special io irregu- v

lar trains, theJailroaucom

isaoie. "

' . " .. Marriage in. Berlin. : ; -Pittsl)orgpi8ptch. , - v '.;. w ? --' In 1880 some young ladies; in Berlin,

Germany; founded a club, the members

of wmcnpieogeatnemseiyes nop co mar

ry, ; under pain of a fine of -1,000 marks " At first the club was a great mtomi!" :, started wihiwei-ibi and soon increaseci.lto nunib one. Suddenly howyer, :te epidemic j; of marrying broke out inthe' club; isndfv " thiaear; at the general meetingj there - ' v-' waoonlyone solitory niienibe 4who ,' found herself called" upon to dispose off 28,000 marks, the amount remaining oip h tienesthahAdbee the official advico of -perjntdlv oafe . 4. member3,'the generalmeeting resolved to divide into equal portions, 6n,e to be given to the Berlin hospitals, the? other; to be settled orr the? ast member. I v sosm8 a pity fc that an adyertisemeitt which has just appearednn a Frankfort; f 4 paper cannot be brought bef ore this; member's notice. It reads as follows:

-"A poor devil wishes to make aei

quaintance of a rich attgelwith yleir"

to matrimony, in the hope of mi

for himself a little heaven on earths

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