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THE COURIER.
BY H, a. FELTUS.
BLOOMINGTON,
INDIANA
Me. Wihes, famous for his knowlege of prisons, and punishments, and re. form, tells us that in 1S5;J the ratio oi persona imprisoned for crime was 200 to the million?- la this owing to an in
crease of criminal intent, or is it owing to our increase of proportional city population, with stricter police regulations? Much is also due to the enormons increase of foreign immigration of a baser aort One thing is certain it is not Rowing to the increased nse of intoxicants, for, proportionally to population, less liquor is used than thirty years go. It must also be remembered that olice reports are now far more exact .ban formerly.
Fheee is no disguising the fact that the color line drawn by Christians of any and all sects, in pulpit, pew or contyocfction, is disgusting. It is so purely antagonistic to the spirit of the founder iff Christianity that we could heartily
wish the Reverends and Bishops had , tommon sense enough to let the subiect alone as far as possible, and at all times to remember that the fundamental law of their religion is to do to others as they would be done by. What Christianity is good- for without the Golden Rule we will leave to spiritual experts to deter mine. We are sure that a religion without humanity will not be of any use in Jfcherworld. History is. already surfeited ? with defunct religions. :
. It now turns out that the Conemaugh disaster was nothing but a holocaust of rictims to selfish carelessness. There is nothing else to be made of it. for more than a year the South Fork dam was known to be unsafe. A disaster was liable at any time, and certain at some
The- dam' should have been and drained and abolished
months ago. It was the largest artifi tal reservoir in th a United States and sustained purely for the pleasure of
lose who fished in it and rowed or iled over its waters. Possibly the re-
mention of the dam does not demand the Capital punishment of the guilty, but
t demands the absolute abrogation of ' dl similar menaces to life and property.
Tbs laws that are multiplied by the different States regulating the sale of ir tides to minors are not enforced, and is doubtful if they can be enforced. Several SUtes forbid the sale of cigarettes; others, the sale of liquors; others, he sale of certain kinds of books; but n not a single case are these laws enforced. Illinois now pushes forward a ratate forbidding the sale to young isople of publications principally eoni jiHing of accounts of criminal "deeds.
"mere are books of the Hebrew Scrio-
that would be excluded under the
'nw.&Sarge
part of English history as
written-consists of accounts of criminal jfeeds; Our legislators9 instincts are well enough in such matter; but for all that they do harm with their experi-
The Bierberger murder case; which
as vexed the Criminal Court docket of
xhia city for six years, says the St. Louis jabe Democrat, has" at last been irought to a conclusion. Bierberger ehberstely shot and killed a man smed Horn on a Market street car in ifilSSa; At the time of the killing fcitement ran high, and there- seemed bono escape from the gallows for bierberger . On his first trial he was aafly convicted of murcer in the first kjgree. A tender-hearted Supreme inrt reversed- the judgment. There
been two trials since then, one
ting in a sentence1 of twenty-five
nd the other ha a sentence of ten years. Yesterday the ease was compromised on year in jail and $1,C00 fine. Thus does s$Iaw convert a great tragedy into a all farce. r, fjTwp more highly respectable cashiers, fcorch members, ornaments of society, jpaDent fathers and husbands, liberal onators to all current charities, one of pern a 8undayschool superintendent, o, have been arrested for embezzlelent, Why they did not claim Canadm hospitality in due time is probably
gained by the Weldon bilL It-1
irious how these fellows take to Sunday schools and charity faixsantt church berahip. Jysjia disgrace to the JaateSeiak it is to society jhey are foremost fw what is going, ut it is worth while to remember that ligion makes a capital cloak for raslity, and it lis worth while once a ; month to peep under the oak at the man's private character. It character, not piety, that makes the fe cash boy and cashier.
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Going- to Be Hi a Brother-in-JLAw.
ston Courier," "Hullo, Black!"
Jflo, White!1; i're going to be '.y brother-in-law e, I hear." . 1 "A brother-inrlawr r ' 5Yes?V "How can that be I am not going to jrter into your family, as far as I knoy You are going to marry Miss Brown youT? "Iam " " Well; she's my m&terJ' 4Y01rsisterf, v ' Yes, she promised to be a sUter to e always, as much as three months o? - . . - - In the Scientific World.
new artificial Bilk has been pre-
redTrom pure cellulose octonitrate ring great elasticity and softness. It more lustrous than the silk of co
rns, and capable of being dyed by the unary process. . v t has been found that a solid electroe like glass is a better conductor of jfricitjs when in a state of strain or feion than when, free from strain. weediah journals state the valuable Section of scientific models left by Hain Ericsson are to be presented to 'mithsonxan Institution, quarts is said to be very useful as an ilator in electrcfcatic apparatus, as troublesome sulphurie acid can i be dispensed 1 with.
A False Alarm . .'Breckenridge Hi, dar, yo folks! h git out. I heered d' tto crack.
Coales Kim back heah, yo' tool t her face
Dat wuz Miss Winders smackia' marred the serene azure
p ober d' ice cream.
A POSITIVE WOMAN. Mrs. Prindle stood in front of a pierglass trying on a new bonnet. She was a plumn little woian with a fair, babylike face, and no one could blame her for gazing at herself with some complacency, for the dainty bit of millinery perched over the curly brown bang was exceedingly becoming. ''There'll be nothing like it in Hutchinville," she said to herself with a thrill
of pride, and her fingers meanwhile fluttered like humming birds among the trimmings, touching here a flower and there a loop.
She was going to Hutchinvule the next week,, for the first time since her marriage to spend a few days with her mother, and the bonnet had bee:a selected from Mme. Le Grande's latent importations with a view to dazzling her rural friends. ,UI only hope nothing will happen io it before I get there," was her thought, as she turned at last from the mirror; ,
She even denied heraelC the pleasure oi wearing it to church the next nay, fearing a shower, for the skies were
lowering. To face her city acquaintances
for one more Sunday inthe bonnet that she had already worn a whole seas an
required far less strength of mind than to take her seat in the little Hutchinviile church, conecious that her bonnet, robbed of its t. ristine freshness, was being pounced upon by every eye in the congregations but she could not resist putting it on to let Jack see how he liked it. "It's pretty well up in the world," said Jack, viewing it critically, with his hands behind his back; "but that seems to be the fashion in head- gear nowadays. And really, on your head, my dear, it looks remarkably well." Mrs. Prindle preened for a moment before the glass. She was almost tempted to wear it aft er all, but a warning splash on the window kept her from yielding. "I won't risk it," she said, and, patting the bonnet back in its nest, she stood on tiptoe and pushed the bandbox in place on the upper shelf of the wardrobe. . " Hutchinville was a night's journey by boat, and the next day proving stormy, Mrs. Prindle, in terror of sea
sickness, decided to defer pier trip, but with the waning of the afternoon the wind suddenly shifted, the clouds parted, and the sun buret forth like a monarch, newly crowned. If it was going to be a fair night it would be too bad to disappoint her mother, who she knew would be looking for her the next morning, and, ordering. a carriage at the last moment, she hastily gathered up her baggage and departed. She was a methodical little woman, and even for the short time that she was to occupy her state-room she wanted "a place for everything and everything in its place;" but on boarding the boat she met an invalid friend who detained her for half an hour or more in the ladies' cabin, and before she could arrange her belongfngs in her state-room the capricious wind had veered again. She stood for a moment at the window trying to persuade herself -that there was na cause for uneasiness but the rain was already driving against the deck, and the increasing roughness soon compelled her to take .refuge in her berth. To all those on board who were predisposed to sea sickness it was a night of woe, and . when the next morning Mrs. Prindle took the stage for Hutchinville, the little village being about three miles inland, she was too ex hausted to give a thought to her baggaee; even the precious bonnet had for the moment drifted out of mind, and it was not until she alighted' at her mother's door that the discovery was made that the band-box was missing. With hasty greetings and equally hasty directions as to where to find the box, her brother Tom was dispatched on horseback to the boat, and in . a disturbed state of temper and nerves Mrs. Prindle seated herself at . the breakfast tabled ? .. . :" ' "I wouldn't worry about it, Phebe," said her mother, "if 11 be all right if you left it in your state room." But Tom shortly came galloping back with the information that the stateroom
had been searched in vain; not a box of
d was to be found.
Thenthe maid must have taken it,"
Mrs. Prindle declared. "She had to go rummaging among iny things last night t . 1 ill - 1 ' 1 A - -W ' .
ixfTioy oq ue oi saics, ana i aare say
the band wox took her eye."
"More likely it slipped overboard
wnen tney were bringing your traps
ashore," remarked Tom, with a boy's
repugnance to having people suspected.
But Mrs. Prindle, convmcecVthat the
band box-was in the waiting maid's possession, insisted on going in herself
to see the captain.
The captain, who had just risen from breakfast when the carry all stopped at the gate, listened to Mrs. Prindle's
story with courteous patience. Mrs. Bates hiudLbeen on the boat iorthirteen years, he said, and he had never had cause to suspect her honesty, but he was more than willing to investigate the matter. It was possible that Mrs. Bates had taken the box to her own room simply for safe-keeping, he added. But Mrs, Bates; who had just finished putting in order the state room Mrs. Prindle had occupied, denied all knowledge of the bandbox, and was so indignant oyer Mrs. Prindle's implied suspicion ihat the captain had some dinlculty in preventing a scene. "ItfB very strange," said Mr. Prindle, stiffly, as the captain helped her over
the gang-plank. "A box like that couldn't have gone off without hands. Somebody must know something about it, and if it isn't" the maid it. must be some of the passengers." But all the passengers had left the boat, and Mrs. Prindle herself had to admit that to send a search-warrant after them would be an unwarrantable proceeding. Beyond question the bonnet was lost, and she returned to Hutchinville feeling that the pleasure of her visit was already at an end. Even the
fact that her traveling hat was a pretty afiair, and not at all oat of style, afforded her little consolation. Still, she could have worn the traveling hat in a more resigned state of mind had the weather been such as to make the other seem a trifle in advance of the season, but from the hour of her arrival until she turned
homeward scarcely a cloud
of the skies.
( The air was full of subtle hints of. burst-
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inz buds, and robin songs filled the per fumed downs, while up and down the streets from morning till night the merry children trundled their hoops, and high above the tree tops soared the inevitable kite. But to Mrs. Prindle, bereft of her bonnet, these unmistakable signs of Bpring served only to intensify her sense of los.-, and she was scarcely sorry when the time cams for her to return to town. The loss, trifling in itself, took the beauty out of the velvet
lawns. . Jack, like the dutiful spouse that he had always proved himself to bo, was at the landing to meet her the next morning, and on the way homo she poured info his sympathetic ears the story of the missing bonnet. "You are sure you took it with you?" he asked, when the recital was ended. "Jack! Of course I'm sure! You don't suppose I'd have gone oft without it,
after buvine it on nurnose to wear it
when at home?"
1 Hardly ; but never mind , dear, all
vou have to do is to no to Mme. Le
Grande's and duplicate it," said Jack,
eager to comfort her.
"I may go to Mme. Le Grande's and order another, but I shall not duplicate
it," said Mrs. Prindle, with much dig
nity. "I've no wish to have my bonnet
a companion piece to Mrs, Bates's. That
woman ought te be brought to justice,
and as soon as we're through breakfast,
Jack, I want you to take a description
of the bonnet to som-a detective and put
him on the watch for her."
Jack barely succeeded in suppressing
a whistle.
"Wouldn't it be better " he began; but the stopping of the street car in
front of their own door served to change
the subject. I feel like a famished
hunter." said Jack, as he turned the
latch key.
Mrs. Prindle, too, was hungry, and
when Jack had deposited her parcels
she asked him to tell Bridget to put the breakfast on the table at once. "I'll be down in a moment," she added, as she pulled out her hat pins. Jack started to obey, but before he was half way down the stairs a cry from Mrs. Prindle caused him to face about,
and on regaining their room he found
her standing in front of the wardrobe
gazing in a dazed way at the upper
sneii.
"jaoir, sue wnisperea nussuy, is
that a band box up there?"
Jack himself seemed a little dazed. "It
looks very much like one, my dear," he said slowly, "but of course it is not the
one you took away with you." "I'moh, I'm afraid it is, Jack!
gasped Phebe, is Jack took down the
box; "or rather I'm afraid I didn't take it, after all. I remember now telling
Bridget to put it with the other things
in the carriage- she had my bag and
umoreua in ner nana at tne time and just then the door bell rang, so I told
her to go on and I'd bring the box, bu
x aian-c tninK oi it again tin l was a
the gate, and t'oen Bridget came running put with it, or at least with something
that I supposed to be it, and stowed
into the carriage; but now I think of it
it must have been the lunch box. Ob,
Jack, what a goose I've been!" "Moial," said Jack, taking tne bonne
irom tne oanaDox ana percmns: it on
his own head.
"Please don't, Jack," entreated
Phebe. "Well, then, let's have breakfast,'
said Jack, hungry enough to be glad o
a truce.
But. though the subject was not al
luded to again that day, whenever Mrs
Prindle shows a disposition to be a little
over positive, Jack, with a masculine memory for feminine shortcomings,
mildly reminds her of the lost bonnet.
OHIO POLITICS.
The Ohio Republican State Conyen
tion met at; 4-o'clock. TueBdav, at Col
umbus, and perfected preliminary or
ganization. Hon. W. S. Cooper, waB
made temporary chairman. In taking the chair he made a speech highly eulo
gistic of the present administration The platform reader
First We renew our adherence to all the prin
ciples so cleary anfl strongly enunciated "by the
Republican National Convention of 188S, aJid
especially to the principles of piotection in its
two-fold meaning and operation; protection to
every American citizen at home, in all parts of
our countjy; protection to every American citizen abroad, in every land, on every sea; protec
tion to every American citizen in the cxt-rciae
of all his . political rights and privilege?; protec
tion to American industry and labor against the
industry and labor of the world.
. Second We hcattily approve and indorse the administration of Benjamin Harrison, President
of the United States, and pledge him our cordial support in the discharge of the duties devolving
upon him as chief magistrate of the Nation;
and especially do we commend the just and liberal. policy .of -the Pension Bureau in carry
ing out the pledges of the loyal people to the
soldiers of the Union. ...
Tnird That we favor the passage by Congress, at its next session, of the proper and equitable
eryice-ension bill for all honorably discharged
Union soldiers and seamen-pf the late war. Pour tn We demand a full aud-adequato pro
lection for the wool-growing industry, which will, in due time, give to the American wool
grower the American market for all the wool
required by American wants. We indorse the provision of the bill on this subject passed oy
the Ser,ate at the last session of Congress.
Fifth We heartily indorse the decision of the
Secretary of the Treasury whereby the duty on
worsic js is maae auuaoie at tne same rate as upon woolen goods, thereby benefitting our
manuiacturlng and wool industry.
Sixtb We congratulate the people of Ireland on the progress of their strupgle for home rule,
find let. this connection we indorse the course of President Harrison in selecting for honorable
positions in the diplomatic service worthy and
representative Irish-Ameiican citizens.
Seventh-Resolved, That we heartily indorse
the adminifitraf ion ot our gallant and able Governor, J. B. Foraker, as vise, pure and patriotic. His promptness in responding to the call of suf
fering humanity has endeared him to the hearts
of all generous people. His splendid admims tiation of the finances oi the State, so misman
aged by the last Demccratic administration,
oi losing oraer oui oi cnaos, rcpienisning a
depleted treasurVt re-csUtblishing the credit of the .State, while at the same time reducing the rate of taxation to a figure lower than it Las been for half a century, entitle him to the
gratitude of the people, and mark him as one of our most brilliant Governors,
'Eighth Resolved, That we indorfe the wise laws oassed by the Republican pislaturein legard to the liquor traffic, and pledge the party to keep abreast of public opinion upon that su bjeCt. : I finth Resolved, That we tend greeting to our honored Senator, John Sherman, visiting in foreign lands, and assure him of the great confidence we have in his wire and patriotic 6tate$mmship, his loyalty and devotion to the high principles of Republicanism, the grand doi-trines of protection of American industry, and honest bftllotand a. sound and equal currency, an assure him a hearty welcome to Ohio upon h:ts return to the United States, Not a Goo El Pay. Tramp, (after ringing the door bell) "Please, I've Been better days " Houaekeeper "So- haw I. It'aieal foggy to-day."
CONDENSED STATE NEWS,
South Bend will have a bicyele fac
tory.
Shelby county has a hairless calf and
a two-legged colt.
Tnere are GB mues of gravel road in
Montgomery county.
Sycamore trees are dying by scores in
Bartholomew county.
Five nouses were struck by lightning
inside two hours at Decatur, 111,
Elijah Newland, of Connereville, has
been granted $5,467 back: pension.
Charles H. Cordez, o! Seymour, was
badly iniuredby a vicious dog, Sunday.
John Roush, a resident of Cass county
for thirty-five yeais, died at Ixgansporfc,
Friday.
Evansviue is laboring to secure ear works and has half the capital Bub-
scribed that is necessary. Hundreds of acres of corn was dam
aged and part of it destroyed by recent
overflows near Hortonville.
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Siawson. of Vin-
cennes, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary this week. They have
eight children living. Mrs. Barbara Wertlebamer, of New
Albany, committed suicide Monday.
She was in destitute circumstances and
unwilling to accept charity.
The Prosecuting Attorney at Madison has instituted proceedings at Anderson
for not posting the time of arrival of be
lated trains as required by law.
Frank Doty was fatally injured at the
ceraline works at Columbus, Saturday.
HiB left lee was caught in a cog wheel
and pulled ofi below the knee.
William Q. and L. Craig have been
arrested at Laporte, charged with at
tempting to swindle Wm. Eaton, a farmer, in a lightning rod transaction.
George Kuggles, an engineer, was
caught in the belting at DesherV grist
mill at Plymouth, Saturday, and terri-
blv mangled. He was dead when
found.
Warden Patten holds that a parole permanently releases a convict, unless
he is arrested and convicted on another
charge, and that the Governor has no
authority to order his recommital,
Benjamin Duley, of Huntington, after
thirty-seven years spent in experiment
ing, claims to have discovered perpetna
motion. However, ne nermita no one
to see the machine which he has in
vented. An attempt was made to blow up
drug store at Elizabethtown, Thursday
night, because liquor was being unlawfully sold. An adjoining building was
badly damaged, the drug store escaping
serious injury.
The election of Wm Anna V. LaBose as Superintendent of the Logansport citv schools is regarded in Cass county as a radical departure in the management of school aUairs. She is said to be fully competent for the place. Eight hundred ezccursionists from Niles, Mich., and intermediate points visited the great gas wells at Marion Friday, and were amazed with what was shown them. A display of the best wells was made in their honor. Chailes aud Teddy Bean, of Crawford county, have been warned by White Caps to leave the country, or they will be treated as Deavin and Tennyson, who were lynched by a mob. Teddy accepted the warning and fled, but the other is braving it out. Patents were issued, Tuesday, to Indiana inventors as follows: Alfred L. Bernardin, Evansvil.le, toy; Eugene Bretney, Indianapolis, dust collector; William J. Jacobs, Bargersville, shockloading machine; David M, Parry and T. H.,-Indianapolis, vehicle attachment. A tornado swept over what is known as the "Godfrey Reserve," near Hartford City, Friday, destroying several barns, one of which was the largest in the county, ruining a number of orchards and breaking down $10,000 worth of timber. A heavy rain followed the wind storm, filling the streams to overflowing. Matt Hurley, of Eransville, convicted of larceny, while a 'trusty" in the Prison South, and having but one month to serve, escaped and was recaptured in Illinois. Meanwhi'e- an indictment has been found by the Clark county Grand Jury, it being a felony to escape from prison, the minimum punishment of which is two years. W. A. Olds, of Martinsville, previous to committing suicide, sent a letter to his betrothed, telling her that his physician had concluded he was hopelessly ill with consumption, and therefore he was not willing to burden her, nor his family nor friends, and preferred to die by his own hands. Last summer, while attending a picnic, he fell and injured his spine. W. H. Toney, of English, who last
summer snot ana wounaea a man
named Kay, an alleged "White Cap," has been sentenced to a short term in the Prison South. Toney was a saloon keeper, and some oi his friends having been maltreated by "White Caps," he
vowed to kill the first one he met. For
saying this one nigh t he was dragged
out of his saloon, tied to a tree and
severely whipped. Some weeks later Ray entered Toneys saloon, was identi
fied as a "White Cap," and was assault
ed by Toney, both men using their re
volvers, and Ray being wounded. Samples of wheat heads infested by
the insect which is threatening to in
jure tho coming crop have been sent to
the editor of the Millstone, says the
Indianapolis News, frorn several coun
ties in the State, and the bugs were for
warded to Professor F. M. Webster, entomologist of Purdue University, for in
spection. Professor Webster has submitted an extended report in return,
and he is not inclined to think that
their presence will result m any great
damage to the crop, particularly after the recent widespread rains. The insect
is of foreign origin, and in a report pub
lished by Fish in 1861, he states that he
had observed the species repeatedly,but
only in limited numbers and scattered
about in a manner t o cause him to re
gard their appearance as of little conse
quence. Within the last twenty years
iho insects have occasionally been quite
numerous, but have rarely caused any widespread destruction. The present season has been favorable to their de
velopment because of the drought which
preceded the recent rains, but it is not
believed there will be any further in
crease in numbers and depredations.
Sam Titem, a Ripley county farmer,
went before Judge Woods, of the Fed
eral Court, Tuesday, and pleaded guilty
o the char ge of buying and circulating
counterfeit ten dollar treasury notes. I
received a letter from a man by the name of Clarke," said Tatem to the
Court, "who told me that if I would
meet him at night at a certain school
house, he would put me on to a good
thing. He wanted to sell me counterfeit
money, but I concluded not to buy. But
I got full and while drunk bought $40
worth of the stuff. I will never do it
again - at least not in two years,1' he
included rather grimly. The court
withheld sentence. This is another of
he participants in the wide spread con
spiracy to put these counterfeit tens on the marJset. The Government author
ities have made a score of arrests, and
one by one the "shovers" are being
brought to punishment.
Despite the almost incessent rains
that have marked the past three -w eeks,
the indications are that the corn crop
throughout Indiana will be a good one this Beason. J. B. Conner, editor of the
Indiana Farmer, is daily in receipt of
correspondence from every part of the
State, and he said Monday that if such
reports are reliable, as he has no rea
son to doubt, the wet weather has had
little or no bad effect. "The corn got a good start this season," he remarked,
"but it looked as if it would be flooded
out almost, in the beginning. The weather we have been having for the
past ten days, however, has done infinitely more good than all 'the harm that was occasioned oy the rains. There will be a good crop unless some unforeseen obstacle prevents. I think it will reach about 90 or 95 per cent. We won't have as much corn
this season as we did last, for in 1888
there were about 135,000.000 bashels
harvested, but it will reach a high
fierure. Wheat is not as eood as it has
been, but then it is not going to fall
very low. In short, the farmers all
over the State will have Eood crops if
everything continues as it is at present."
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES!.
One of the easiest ways to reduce
weight is to wear a short flannel sweat
er and ride a horse on a brisk trot. If
the horse trots rouehlv. and the rider
bounces up and down in thw saddle, so
much the better. Ten pounds a week
can be lost bv this process. The best
kind of a sweater is made by taking four,
six or eight thicknesses of flannel and wrapping them around the loins and
lower part of tne cnest. Tne upper
chest should be left free.
For two years a man who said he was
Edward Jones, of Company B, First Main Regiment, has been an inmate of the Soldiers' Home at Togus. Some
months ago he applied for a pension. A reply came from the Pension Office that Edward Jones, Company E, Finit Maine Regiment, was already recei ving a pension. This lei to an investigation by Criminal Examiner Jacobs, who found the true Jones in an obscure village in New York State. The Esquimaux of Hudson's Straits are in the habit of making offerings of various articles to spirits, and scraps of
food, powder and shot tobacco, and the
like are tj be found on the graves of the dead. But they are anxious to conciliate all the known supernatural pow
ers as well as the unknown j and therefore they made similar offerings to a
beacon in the shape of a man, recently
erected in that region. When two cannons, undoubtedly left upon the shore
by some early explorers, were stood on end, bullets, shot, and a lot of other rub
bish fell out, whicn tne nawves explained, had been put in thero as "an
A CASTAWAY.
plenty of birds, but I did not find a reptile or wild animal of any sort.
The island was a paradise in almost
every sense, out long enougn weiuio
night I was greatly troubled in my mind
as to howl waatoget along. A young sailor with a nearty appetite craves
Who pidn-t Enjoy Himself as Hoinson Crusoe Did. New York Sun ... If boys did not get the idea of going to
sea, the supply of sailors would by and something more solid than wild fruits.
by give out, but I do not believe that one boy out of twenty who has grown to be a sailor came by the occupation legitimate! v. The maioritv of them ran
awav from home to go on their first voy-
I wanted a fire, and 1 had no means of
procuring one. I wanted conpany, but even the birds avoided me. I wondered
vaw T AATilri make a, Bienai. ana waav
Wind of craft came that way, avd how
offering to the spirits."
French Judges have met decided a
most extraordinary will case. A Frenchman of wealth named Travers had con
ceived an intense hatred for his country.
When he died, five years ago, he willed
his property to "the poor of london,1
after these words: "I have always
been oppressed in my native land.
I have arrived at the age of 45, and have
never been my own master. Horrible nation! People of cowards and blockheads! I should like to have milliards to give to the English, , who are the born enemies of this idiotic France. This is clear and to the point." The relatives of Mr. Travers naturally disputed this will on the ground that the testator was not of sound mind, and that the will, being framed ih hatred of France, was contrary to "public order," and, lastly, that it could not be carr ied out in Emsland, as there was no legal representative of the poor. But the Court overuled all these objections, and the appeal subsequently made has just been rejected. Postmaster General Wanamaker would accomplish a beneficent reform if he would overhaul the list of the 58,000 postofhees of this country, and compel a change in some of the ridiculous appellations that now belong to some of them.
There is no particular obj ection to Aquashicola, Waywallopen, Passadum keag, Punxflutawney, Wytopitlock, Dagqscahonda, Mattawunikea;?, Kishocoquillas. Wanepashemet, Quijotoa, Skaneateles, Quonochontauf Agua Oaliente, or Tajique, providing they mean anything in this particular, and there may be some excuse for Blue Eyes, "Dew Prop, Baby Head, Early Dawn, Sweet Lips, Bridal Veil, Rose Bud, Daisy Dell, Sweet Home, Dell Delight,
Keep Tryst, Prairie Queen, and so on, but when it comes to calling a post office a Big Shanty, Burnt Cork, Drj Bones, Happy Jack, Hanging Dog, Hal
Off. Horse Gall, Hump Back, Little
Chucky, Mouse Tail, Negro Foot, Bab
bit Hash, Parch Corn, Pay Up, Pink Quid Nunc, Bough and Ready, Rye Patch, Sal Soda, Scalp Level, Shoo Fly
and Short, there seems to be room for
- - tr - - reform. State Treasurer Lemcke, out of $3,905,
000 school refunding bonds has been
able to dispose ot S3,8oU,0UU, xms is
$491.75 short of being 73 per cent of the
entire loan A redistribution of the fund upon that basis will be necessary, and instead of $7.-8 there will be given to the counties $5.32 for each voter. H is thought that the rest of the bonds can be disposed of next month.
the sea forever before they had been
out a week, l had the romantic idea
of the average boy, and I ran away to sea, and the reason I became a sailor was because circumstances afterward
obliged me to be. I sailed for the best part of sixteen years, shipping in all
sorts of craft and with all sorts of crews,
and it was rarely that I found a Bailor
who would not hare eladlv traded his
his occupation with a wood sawyer
The romance is all in the books. A sailing craft, either in port or on a voy
age, is surrounded with anv thine but
romance.
I found, too, that almost every boy I
encountered on shipboard had a Robin
son Crusoe life for his pet theory. He
was aching to be cast away on some uninhabited island, and he had it all
planned out how he was to live on the
land. It was mv fortune to be thus
cast away once upon a time, and I will
give my experience in order that the
boy readers of the bun may draw con
clusions. There was also a curious coincidence connected with my adven
ture which will bear relating.
We were on the run down from Yokohama, Japan, to a port in Cochin
China, on an English tea brig called the Russell. Our course lav to the south
down the Pacific to the island of Formo
sa, and then around into the China Sea.
It was the season for squalls, and the first four days out gave us plenty to do, although we made good progress. On the evening of the fourth day, just as
twilight was coming on, a sudden squall laid us almost on our beam ends, and
while in that position we were swept
by a sea which carried me overboard. I don't suppose I was even misBed for the next quarter of an hour, and I was no
sooner in the water than I understood
that the brig could do nothing for me.
No craft leaves a man to drown if there
is the slightest show to save him, but I
kn'jw the brig had her hands full with
the squall. I waB near done for before
I got a breath of air, and I had not yet
pulled myself together when I flung out my arm and touched a solid object. It proved to be a case containing about
twenty live fowls, which had fetched
away, and I wasirt over five minutes in
making fast to it by means of my belt.
By the time I could look around the
meat had come down and the brig was
nowhere to be seen. The squall lasted
about twenty minutes, and then passed
away, to be followed by a steady breeze
during the entire night.
I had no idea that the brig would re
turn to look for me, ?nd the beBt thing
I could do was to make myself comfort
able. The water was warm, the night
balmy and starlight, and the sea was not heavy enough to annoy me much. I had every hope of being picked up the
next day, as vessels were numerous on that route, and so, taken all in all, I waB
not in despair. I was driven to the west
at a steady pace up to about midnight,
and then a queer thing happened. I
was on top of the coop or cage, which
was buoy ant enough to float me afoot above the surface It had no doubt been lashed to the deck by a rope or
two, and portions of these ropes might have been trailing underneath, or it
may oe that in going overboard it
had entangled a rope. At any rate, at' about midnight there was a sud
den commotion under and about me
and then my craft started off at almost railroad speed,. I have an idea that a
big shark came nosing around after me
and became entangled, but it might have been soma other large fish. Whatever it was, was fast and acting as a tug, and the way he towed that cage
along the surface was a caution. He
tried divine, but he could not pull it
under, and seeming to be more fright
ened by this discovery he set off with
increased speed.
For at least three hours the sh&rk, or
whatever it was, ran to tne west at a
rate of speed which could not have been less than fen raiies an hour, and the first
flush of day was in the horizon at my
back when there was a shock and a
crash, and I went end over end ofi my boat. To tell the truth, I was asleep. I had been towed so steadily and rode
so easily that I went to sleep without
knowing that my eyes had closed.
struct out ana oegan swimming, con
fused and frightened by the. shock, but
I had not made a hundred strokes before
f beached myself on the sand and saw
that I was ashore on an island. I sat
down to wait for daylight, and when it
came the situation was plain. I was on
a thickly wooded island, and two hun
dred feet from the beach due east of
where I stood was the wreck of the
and bound home, and httiu Bradbcm
was transferred. Thut was the last I ever Bern or heard of her, though ! know the ehip reached England safely! 1mm
a roving sailor, with no home or addrew
and no' matter how badly her husband
wanted to thank me, she -knewnQtW5s
where I wis to be found.
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Superintendent Porter, of the Census Bureau, has divided the country into 173 census districts for the purpose of taking the next census, each one of
which will be in charge of a supervisor. In 1880 the country was divided into 160 distriots.
A lot of Boulahger ciphers have been discovered in Paris, but the greatest Boulanger cipherthe gentleman himself, we mean is' still in Iondon, Philadelphia Press.
aae. and would have been glad to quit far to the west the other island were,
and before night I was so homesiOK ana
broken up that I waB ready to flhed
tears. I crossed the island twice daring
the afternoon, looking more particultfrly
fn ma Ira hii thfire were no snakes. t
which I felt an awful dread, and, as
failed to find any, I made my bed that night under a .tree on som boughs I cut
off. I slept fairly well, and my second breakfast wes again made of fruits.
When l had got my fill I determined to make fire. The novelist of to-day will have a cast-away youth rub two
dry sticks together for a few minutes and start a blaze; be I &pt the dry est sticks I could find and rubbednntii I was complefly tired out, and
I could not even blacken them? I got and struck stones to
gether but the moEB would not ignite
it Theree-quarters oi the day wa
spent in efforts to get a fire , and then I
had to give it up. A smoke would have been the best signal to a passing craft,
but as I could not get a fire and as I had
no clothes to snare, being in my shirt sleeves when I went overboard, 1 had to abandon the idea and hope that some
native craft would 'touch the shore.
I bad landed midway of the island,
on the eastern shore, and the spot was
as pleasant as any other locality. ThereforeVon the third day I built me a com
fortable shelter under the trees, and
settled it with myself that I was in for
it for Home time to come. Twice that
day I saw sailing vessels to the east,
but miles away. I also went to the nniith. went and north sides of the
island, and piled up shells on the beach aoove the tide mark and placed' sticks
on top of them pointing mj way- Who
ever landed would be anfc to see them
and understand that some one had been
castaway.
A week passed, and ne craft came
near. At the end of five or six days J
was thoroughly tired of my feed, but
there was no change, unless I wanted raw fish or fleBh. I could have made a net but of vines and caught some fish, or I could easily have killed some of the birds with a club, but the absence
of a fire was the drawback. Few men
get lesB Bound sleep ; than a Bailor
Many a time I have promised myself
H slumber of a week at the end of voyage. I ought to have slept like
stone on my island as there was nothing to make me afraid, but I was more
wakeful than on shipboard -'Z
About the middle or tne second week I had an adventure which quite broke me up for the next day or two. Haying seen no sharks within the reef, I had . taken a swim in the ciear,v"fetilt waters every
morning. On thiB morning, soon after
getting out of bed. I stripred off and
jumped in with a great splash, and be
gan floundering about. I was about to
strike out for the reef when Lsaw the
dorsal fin of a shark between me and it.
and I turned and landed without loss o
time. As I looked back something
struck at me, and fell short by only a
foot, and I leaped away, just in time to
avoid another feeler of a monstrous
devil fish. I could plainly make him
out on the bottom, and ne had eome
within an ace of getting hold of me
The shark, which was fully sixteen
feet long, advanced toward the beach
and as he reached the spot . where the
devil fish lay a row began. The shark
was seized by at least two of the feelers
and in the first moment he was rolled
over and over. Then he pulled him
self together, and for the next five min
utes the water was churned to fury
I think the shark got the best of the
fight, as he made off after awhile seem
ingly unhurt, while pieces of one of the feelers came ashore to prove that it had
been severed from, the body by the
shark's teeth.
The second week passed, and a third
and a fourth. During this time
sighted many sails, but they were al
ways afar off. I had become so sick o:
my fare that I scarcely ate any thing,
and the lazy life became a positive dis gust. At the end of the fourth week 1
would have agreed to work one year at
digging without pay for a passage to
civilization. On the second day of the fifth week there was a gale and a heavy
sea from the east. At about noon on
the third day a ship's yawl nearly full
of water, but containing a woman, drove ashore almost at my feet. There
was a heavy surf, notwithstanding the
coral reef, and had I not been
on hand the boat would have been
pulled back by the ; undertow and
carried out among the rocks and
smashed. The woman had lashed her
self to one of the thwarts, and was near-
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NOEES AND CHBMMESfi The social season and the suicide season being both nearly oyer, the dress suit may be folded up and put away" where the moths will notget at Chicago NTO. " -f . ;;-;.".".v. 'i :$- Stanley has? heen heard from again, and the great question now seems to be where is Bemvett? Has he yet met the
Makdi and dr&ak h maunder, eiable -Chicago Heralld. ' i. "'.-, , ;T? The 'literary interests of the con atjry c demand the apitointment of- WilUanx -D. Ho wells as Jfitinnster tOj Russia, It will give him his ortly chance of eveW ; discovering a plotr-Baltimbre AmeriMi' can, w ::. ; v
Will the people who love to- cavil at
the newspapers stop ami reflect
tne nooie results ine yretw u -ww ibii-; j try has achieved for the welfare tfjth;.g?0 "
suffering? Wo hope schiladelplia
JN orttx American. - " v
Up to the present time nearly -S500,-
000,000 have been spent in itipplying
drinking water to this peopF nf iht
XTnvted States It would be intesttng
to xaww now mucnotner -neye? , , . -
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have oeafc the countryr New- xoric
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The New York world is receiving;'!? 'f- i. good deal oi information from correal j ;
pondents as to who are the oldest twins in this country The iqidest twins we
know of are Wi ckednessand: Want; andi t
they will probabirsurvivetiU doomsday ; fc Boston Herald. , Scientists have; discovered that in- i 1 toxication by radiation is;' possible' -'; That is, a man may became intexneate f0 c by contact with anotiieir who i undier : v
the influence without partaking of drop himselfv JNow the great questionv is, who sat next to Benator Juddleberaer
in the Senate chamber
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to stay there until he has done' hia ' 't: work. The millions already expended
tor the education oi tne negroes win ne
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supplemented by other millions, until ' ' " V" ' - t' '.ILL' mm
and the finest lotv of educated A frican--
eveBsaw--
hencoop entangled in a coral reef which ly exhausted with hunger and exposure.
now and then showed its head above
water. Between me and the reef the
water was ten feet deep and quiet
enough to float a canoe.
utt the Boutnern coast oi japan are a lot of islands called the lieon-Khieon
group. All of them are inhabited now,
but at that time only the two or three
larger ones were peopled. I was only
a common sailor, but it did not take me a areat while to figure out that I had
been cast ashore on one of this group,
Had I started out to become a second
Robinson Crusoe, I could not have
chosen a better location to begin busi
ness. The climate was perfect, the island loaded with various wild fruits,
and fish were leaping up all around me.
My first move was to take off my wet
clothes and hang them up to dry, and
While they were drying I made a break
fast from wild fruits. , Alter getting into
my clothes aga took an inventory
and found myself possessed of a Bheath-
knife, a plug of tobaceorvthree or four
buttons and a few silver" coins. Had
there been a wreck to draw on, as in Crusoe's case, I should have been more
cheerful, I then set out to survey my domain, and by noon I found that I was
It was little I could do for her except to
give her water and food, and it was sun
down before Bhe could tell her story.
She was the wife of Capt. Bradburnof
another Knglish tea brig, the Oonstella
tion. I was coming down the Pacific
when washed overboard. She was going
up. A gust or squall heeled the Con
stellation over, and she was boarded by a sea which swept Mrs. Brad burn and
two men away, and took withit the boat and a lot of deck raffle. The men
she saw struggling as she got . hold of the boat, but they were doubtless drowned. It was almost dark, as in my
case, and sue also drove to ine west. How she got into the boat she could
not remember, nor was she clear as to how long she had floated. She thought
it must have been a great deal longer than I figured.
It was three days before the woman
picked up her strength and courage, and
by that time I was ready to leave the
island. The mast and sail belonging to the boat had been stowed under the
t hwarts and were safe, and. all I had to
do was to fill a number of the big shells
with fresh water, of which, as I have
forgotten to state, there was a fine sup-
Americans that the-; Atlanta Constitution.
Tins only persona who ; are; a!waya absolutely unmoved4 ; by heat and . . ' humidity are the Worthy gentlemen haf M-h 7 ing in charge the weather bureau. 1 Through it ajl they go on pred cooler with a confidence wethr- of
a better reward tean tney uauaiiy gavia-
namely, more heat and greater r hursid- V ity.--New :York;MbUhe There is a larger portion of the bpya- . and srirls of New Jersey than any other .'A'" .
school. It appears by Btatiatxca revrntryr taken that there &re just about J:8tk,000; childreff in the 1,997 Sunday schwtt New Jersey, Thin fact ought to insuitf
a high grade of morality: for the next, r iv; v r generation of the citizens of the States J t The Tendon Dailv Newa tells thil . l-V
interesting anecdote m a sxeten or the late Laura BriCgman; When Cwrlyle
noble thing has America ever- doners ? -
snmprwviv TArmp.n. 'nfl iiaa xtrooncea -
girl, deaf; dumb, and blind from infancy.
who, from her own'earnjngs, has sent a barrel of flour to the star ving subject of Great Britain in JrelandV ''' 1 A Ohicaffo clersrvman thinks that if
Daniel Webster had played base ballhe ?r f Ul - e
would never have been heard of. Hofv'f ; does he know that?- The man wh " A nnH on n olana' KatMlMA Vtlmira f rfn
the rottrnm might have done - -equally
well on the home plate, or in the I
And people who have never heard of the Jove of the United States Senate
would to-day be perfectly familiar ;WHj the record of 'Danny Webster, thS?
phenom of Boston;" Not neaid of indeed? Tiiat clergyman doesn7 know fame when he: sees ; Yk Tribune, l, ' S'-l
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Cleveland who haa
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CONCERSI?r(i WOMlBf.
The Duchess just published
Roll;" a work which is- likely to prove
of great historical value, does all in her-; f
power to add to the beauty df her inter
eating property. She has herself painV ed the Httle dell where Bang Harold'
fell with ferns and flowers, and made it
as charming a place as any w herein-his
toric interest and natural beauty are aU r
Mrs. Cleveland has consented to have" .
her name used by Mrs. Chapman ol
rsrpokiyn as a "patronesa '- oi a iair toc,.
oe given ior tne .ueuouit oi n xnwK?f lyn home for consumptivefl. The fpat
roness" business is quite the fad now.
The supposition is that when a society
woman attaches her name to a charita-
enterprise as a "patron ess ine people
who are not quite so fashionable iwH biB
moved.t ,,: -; , '" ' ify.:Z ; V iv&.
A London etter eays; -vThe wife of ' 4
the marquis of Lome is an undoubted -
artist. I have seen busts and other ;
works in sculpture which showed thattfKf
she had chosen plastic art as a profea-t sion she would have succeeded at itv . "w
her sketches of Canadian scenery are - " "
downright clever. The portrait at fb&f 1 Grosvenor is more than that; itama't: t terly. The atmor in which, for pietur vJ esque reasons, the warrior iB;inca8ed5 I ;:
finely painted, and there is xeal . power
of modeling in color m the flesh.
Lady Onslow, wife . of the . new gov-s-
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on an island about two miles long and ply on the island. We left in the morn
ing, heading to the south, and at three
o'clock in the afternoon we were picked up by an American ship called Happy Home. She was bound up for Japanese teas, but that same day we signaled an English ship coming out of Shanghai
one mile across. It was a regular grove
with high and dry ground, and an abundance of fruits and berries. In that walk I found the wild tea plant,potatoes, maize, onions, cabbages, rice, turnips, mulberries and bananas. There were
ernor of N e w Z ealand, the earl of Ona-i
nvp. knn a bard r.wwa tn lAftT mt 'th? ?u4 v--
outset of her vice-regal career. For
self preservation the eolonieti have passed a law requiring imrxrted dogi
to go into quarantine for a certain, period Vf
arge Lady Onslow applied for an
exemption order for her pet poodle, but
the local authorities were inexorable;;
and decreed a six months separation
between mistress and dog; The mis
take Lady Onslow made was U form
ally apply ling for exemption. Had1
she quietly smuggled the animal ashore
in a bandbox (the orthodox mode of? evading this law) nobody wonlid have been the wiser, but as she heiaelf directly acquainted -the public -; heaith ?
authorities with the animal's ?omlugjv
they aay they havefe no option s but to
enforce the law