Bloomington Courier, Volume 15, Number 40, Bloomington, Monroe County, 27 July 1889 — Page 2

THE COURIER. I

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BY' H J. FELTUST

BLOOMINGTON,

INDIANA

Alphoxss Daudet Is thinking of

making a visit to -tis country

Bummer. '.

this

" Admiral Nelson said that he owed his success to being always fifteen minutes ahead of timely - 4-

-The-man who picks up (toe trains at

Queen Victorians 'drawing-rooms" ia Sir Spencer-PoBsonby-Faull He has been manipulating trains 4or nearly forty-nine years and has- becomebent

- 4 We .don' t want any 'God bless ye's,1 "said Talmage at a meeting in Brooklyn to raise money for the Johns tow?i survivors; we want cash. Some of the meanest men Tever' knew' have been prodigal of 'God bless ye."5 ; ;

The "Blocks of Fire Man" Repudiated, r .. . but Rampant All the Same.

. Ix Itais thev saccharine or -sugar made:from"Coahhas : been.nnanimously condemned; by- the medical profession, because it- seriously - troubles diges-

si i fcion. In consequence ot their recom

mendation a law has been enacted pro? Mbiting the Use of coal ; sugar as an article of .food. r - U ; ; ;

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The usual medical complaint against Ice water is heard ; at the beginning of

the fwarm" season; i bui most people.

seem to preferl? living - -comfortably for

a le3SN average duration of life than !' Uyingiwitliout the use of ice a longer -t period. , Ifc is curious: to notice the ex--tentv-to: which ice- water haabeen

'4BdopJtedaabroad. --:?iV t-: . 4 ""

. , in jaaaxagorua winey, xwas, ore number of negrees who are natives of Africa? r They were- pirated' and brought" iere firom Guinea- during the brief pesiod of the republie. 5 They preserve many of the strange customs 'Of savagery, nse their own language among themselves and retain all the superstitions of fetichian. .j

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1st one of the pubUc schools of Atlah-

v fea, Ga.tiiey have novel method of punishing-boys whb use bad language. When-anv of the young men are caughb

faying anything profane they are --made

in

mse .their mouths with water which

hak been left standing" in- a quassia caiK' The water is exceedingly ; bitter nd makes a lasting impression on the

Pater Trkxt.kb. of Gatawissa Val-

ley, Ohio, noted a peculiar flavor in his tea and lllx1 Trexler on lifting the kettle iid found within a beautiful trout boHed to death. Mr. Trexler hadkept it for years in the spring to purify the water. Usually his wife

Tr - . got t water trom; tne spring in a, oucaret

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but being hurried this time she lower-

cri thrt tAakftfctl elanned the lid On

W? r -f without looking into i and set it boii-

trout was in tne pot. . The JEsguimaux of the Hudson's

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Straights are in the habit r of making offerings of various articles spirits, and scraps of food, powder and shot, tobacco and the like are to be found on

;thegvea are'

anxions-xo concituate an iae Known

a-t!- :

itnwniAtnRd nowera as well-as the nn-

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Pf8ll 'f-known,4- ani therefore, - they made

shape of a man recently erected in that region! When two cannons, undoubted 5"Iett upon the shore by some early t explorers; 'were stobdron endf bullets, T &hot and a lot of other rubbish fell out,

.which the natives explained had been

imthere as 'u.otermg;to the;smt3i,,

mm

Mrs. Recbe Frost. - 6t John son

;? epuhtyir Louisiana, has two;: genuine

madstones that were given, aer years

ago by her father, the famous hunts

man, Lord Priced Their power of ex-

rabid dogs hai

5? -. .tnthn v thA nninn nf

...s.V hftVor been tested, though thev will bs

-fif.'S .says her father-kliied m nis uietime

"upward of: nve hundred deer and found

i onijc tnree maaswnes wo or wmcn ne

tas K ffave hfir wnen a ffiri. ,ane:- lurtner

estates that ner lather toxa ner tnat a

5 hun tor could tell .as soon as a deer was

killed whether or not its stomach coh-

tairied the magic stone, as in every instance where-the stone is the hair -oj the animal slain turned the reverse

from its natural position when 4 cold ii

death. :

New Tort Sun Wash, letter. ;

The freeze out of Gol. W. W. jPutey by his old friendj Benjamin Harrison, seems to be complete and lasting. The anther of the" "blocks; of AtO" letter is still in W ashington, and appears to be quite busy recommending friends for unimportant appointments, but his power as a dispeneer of desirable patronage is goneforever since Harrison snubbed him bo effectually. , A friend of Dudley's said the other day : - sThe true reason why President Harrison refused to recognize, his old Indiana friend in any public manner after becoming President has ;n ever been told. It is well known, however, to most of ub who watched the course of events in ; Washington about the 4th of March." According tos this friend the facts in the case are these : Early in January the President elect learned on unquestiona

ble authority, and with, great surprise and? disgust, that Budley had quietly formed a kitchen cabinet, through which? alKapnointments were to be made. The membership was to be com

posed of men in high place in Washing

ton; and Dudley was1 to be the Premier. Some of the men who it was intended

should form this auxiliary cabinet Were

taken into the confidence of the chief

organizer, but; the others never knew

and do not itnow now thai they were set- down- for sucK distinction. Firet

Assistant Postmaster General pJarkson, Assistant Attorney General Tyner,

Commissioner of Pensions Tanner; Col. A T; Brit ton, Chairman of the Commit

tee on Inauguration Ceremonies; Capt,

Geors EL Lemon, the Pension -Agent,

and a few others were chosen by Dudley, either with or without their consent as the, men to join Mm in the

enterprise. F very thing was being put

in readiness for active operations, when

a menu laia tne wnoxe scneme bare before the eyes of the President. Mr.

Harrison had, suspected ail along that

some of the men who had been so sealone in securing bis nomination and election? would attempt tb! . reap their reward in a manner unbleasant to

him, and he was therefore ready to act

promptly. He took occasion to satisfy

himself of the truth of the story brought

to him, : and then nipped the plot in the bud by publicly ostracising Col. Dudley, the chief conspirator. ' ; v - The first direct evidence that the

President had not made a mistake and

that Dudley actually had his plans all laid for controlling appointments and o&erfavors in theGovernment Departments came-to the surface in the recent investigation of the Star Koute contracts by the officials" of the Post Office Department.No corrupt practices were developed by the investigation, but had Dudley's connection with them come to

light thes alleged irregularities of the contracts would not have been eo easily

excused: " No determined effort was

made to go to the bottom of the matter,

but a sort of compromise arrangement

was made by -which all parties were

acquitted of wrongdoing. . Had the

prebe been inserted to the seat of the

disease the first light of the workings.of Dudley's kitchen cabinet would' have been revealed; The investigation was confined to the Burface, however, and the 'real wound was not discovered'. ; Col. Whitfield, the Republican Second Assistant Postmaster,, General was the xnfm who first called attention to the

irregularities in the contracts for the

transportation of the mails on the Star Routes. He had them all held up and an investigation made. Men who should appear on the scene as the agent and representatiTe of the contractors, cut CoL Dudley. - He had -managed to secure conteol of all' of them, and the first trials of the organization of the kitchen cabi

net were to be in the shape of fees for

having the bids of these contractors accepted. It was found that the bids, with the required.-bonds and sureties, were

t ft ' - - .F-K

nent oJficiaiB, upon whom Dudley de

pended for the success of his rule as a patronage boss, fight shy of him and do not wish to appear as having an understanding with him about matters of appointment and other public business. Col. - Dudley is game, however. He takes his medicine like a man, and the only .'complaint heard from him so far was contained in the letter to his friend Van Pelt, in which he said that Brother Ben was not in the habit of asking him to dine frequently at the White House. He feels the effect of the snub deeply, his friends say, and will .never forgive Harrison for robbing him of the legiti

mate rewards as his earnest, even if misdirected, zeal during the months of hard-work that preceded and followed the nomination of Harrison, ,v THIS 18 PROBABLY NKARBR RISHT, Buffalo Co rlcr. . . .. Bloks-of-five Dudley is a thrifty patriot, and it isn't surprising to hear that he iB getting rich in Washington, He is doing an-immense claim business. He has the freedom of the departments,

and in the recipient of special favors.

All the talk about the President having

turned his back upon his personal rep

resentative on the Republican National

Commi tlee iB a mere ' "blind" If it were true, does anyone suppose that

Dudley would bo warmly welcomed in

departments, that he would be received at all times by the cabinet officers, and that his introductions and recommenda

tions would have the weight which they

(do have with appointing officers? The

m 08?; lucrative part of Dudley's business

is that of a pension claim agent. He is

on the most intimate terms with Commissioner Tanner a fact which is worth thousands of dollars to him, Dudley not dead, nor is he even dormant.

certain Xi&mocratic rascals by Mr. B. Hayes. , All these facts were laid before President Harrison with the indorsement of tne Republican organization of Smalls' own district, and with a protest from black and white Republicans and Democrats against the appointment of such a man to any office. Nevertheless President Harrison, who hail made noiemn arid - repeated, profes sions of hijgh purposes in appointments, has made this ex-convict and present outcast from his party Collector of Cus: toms for the Beaufort districU We do: not know that any comment is necessary. A plain statement of facts seeros sufficient.

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publication" ofr a: great' news-

lper-which- i3, sold 4qr a, few cents would-noi l possible, except- for 4ts advertising, and in the -long run large

profitable advertisin g goes only to eputable journal. Its ; character

. fjfe best1 indication of the ;, ehai'acfer and quality of its readers, .whether they are ofethe kind before

hem it Is worth while to lay the

wares of the merchant. If the tad ertiser find that the paper deserves ihai bwnrespect r and commands his own interest, ifhesees itr in he hands

ggl I -" 61 the -honest, intelligent ahd self-

; -?Wt WS"k riespecting people, who make the- best

uswmerar a is ine more aisposea to

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all madeout in the name of the same persons.' These- same' persons also signed the subsequent contracts under

which? the work was tot be performed. The impropriety of thus allowing one

man or one set of men to hecome bidders and bondsmen on their own- contracts was at once apparent As a result of

the invesagation, the matter was jeftin

the hands of Dudley's old Indiana friend, Judge Tyner , the attorney of the

Postoffice Department! for a decision.

?ae renuereu it promptly, ana it gave great satisfaction to Dudley and his cli

ents. The decision held that while it

was allowable for the bids to be made

put by one party, the subsequent contracts should t9 signed . by responiible sureties other than those making the i.2 ji?-. - fin.' ' y.-:"; . .

woe.? xxie conxxactcrs at once announced their satisfaction with this de

cision; saying that the: b'da are the most important part of tne transaction,

as they are the basis upon n hichsuitis

hroughtin case of ? failure to perform

service. According to the statement of a gentleman who is thoroughly posted on the subject of the Star Route contracts and the method of awarding them, the decision wassimply an easy letting pwKoiGol, , judley and his friends. ' y'r- '"' ,'" .!' .'.'"'l'" "Had it been decided' he saysj "that the bids as well as the subsequent coniracts were irregular and illegal, as they undoubtedly .were, it would have been impoBsible for the clique represented by Dudley to have kept control of the contracts. Now; however, haying had the bids,- vwhich they made to suit themselves accepted, they can easily find men of straw or irresponsible parties to execute -the details of the . con

tracts which they have 'secured. - They,

vwere allowed to escape, howeyer, and ;when the next letting of contracts takes place Dudley and his professional bidders will be on hand . again, and under the Tner all competitors'' r'" ' ' ; But Cob Dadley- has not .been so fortunate -in securing favora in other directions as-he has been in the. Pest Office Department. His friends who were to have been members of the kitchen cabinet have been afraid to show their hands since the. cold shoulder has been given their chief by the Preeident, and they are keeping remarkably quiet,, Corporal Tanner was caught in the act of expediting the business of Pension Agent Lemon; and there is little doubt that Dudley knew what was being

done an that quarter also. First As

Commissioner Tanner proposes to 1 d'e- Aistant Pofctmaster Goneral mAr1rciAn

mid, it js said, an ; investigatibri E of . TJhited States Treasurer Huston, Attor-, office under his and r previous adminis i , , ' ?

. -Uf oy vjwMtsrui jjxiutsi nuu tuer promi"

ousinessa ; it is a waste of i money, to

advertise andmportant -.z business' in a

mi: vKaving no respect-for the

tjpe sort -.of 'readers to whom' it appeals

hot' support sueh- a trade;- and.

4iuttujry'"trtist' the- advertisements

tff considraMe-

ih-itv The advertiser: puts himself in bad company and' buffers accordingl y:

A newspaper conducted on' thenplan Mr- Miller 5 denounces might- get a

sale as a? novelty; and

for a short time, but decent and sensible advertisers would shun it, lest they

v ig!at share in its deserved

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WASHINGTON NOTES. !

Mahone and anti-Mabone factions

of the Virginia Republicans, it is an-

committee of the National Republican

Committee and the white dove of peace is to float peacefully oyer their deliberations in the coming State convention.

.. The President has appointed? M; . MJ Hurley, of New Albany, Ihd., to be Third Auditor of the Treasury; tosuc ceed John Williams, of Lafayette.; "'

Ex-Congressman Horr, of Michigan, positively declines the Consulship, to Valparaiso, which appointment was

tendered some weeks, ago.

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AWFUL REFORM.

The Snide Article Dealt Out By Benuy'a

Ad minist ration.

K,.Y. World. i

During the past week four Presiden

tial postmasters in Indiana were re

moved without assigned cause. The

intervention of the National holiday

was not permitted tb interfere with the

operation of the guillotine in the office of the Assistant Postmaster-General , where the record of 1,000 decapitations a week is a matter of pride. The usual

batch of consulates, given out as "re

wards to good Republicans, ' further curtailed M. Blaine's stock in hand.

And the other departments helped to

swell what is already by far the largest percentage of removals made by any

rreaiaent since ine war. And this is the work of a President Who wrote in his letter of acceptance

that "in appointments to every grade

and department, fitness, and not party service, ahould be the essential and di criminating test,- and fidelity and efficiency the;only sure tenure of office. Only the interest of the public service Bhould suggest removals from office." This is the policy of a President who, when , a Senator, delivered himself Of thin invocation: I do lift up a hearty prayer that we may never have a President who ' will not either pursue, and'compel his Cabinet advisers to pursue, the civil service policy pure and simple and upon a just basis, allowing men accused to be heard, and deciding against them, only upon competent proof and fairly. -Either have that kind of service, or, . f ot God's sake, let ub have that other frank , and bold, if brutal, method of turning men atfel women out simply for political opinion. Leu us have one or the other. President Harrison promised "the

one" but is pursuing "the bther"ri-ex-cept that, instead of being frank and

bold, if brutal," his policy is canting

and hypocritical.; Js it any wonder that the flavor of piety in his speeches and the taking of a "pastor" with him on bis Sunday excursions has not saved Benjamin Harrison from the contempt ofdionest men in both parties who despine a Pharisee and a. promise-breaker? PABK-LANTBRM RBHOVALB. ' - When President Cleveland attempted tp run with the reformers and hunt with the spoilsmen by proclaiming that officials would not be removed without cause, and then accepted secret charges of ' 'offensive partisafnip'1 and other yagae accusations as sufficient grounds for- removal, no one denounced this cowardly policy more vigorously than did Benjamin Harrison, then a Senator from Indiana He inveighed hotly against such "star chamber proceedings' and thus prayed : ' "I do lift up a hearty prayer that we may never have a President who will not pursue, and compel his Cabinet ad viseis to pursue, the Civil Service policy pure and simple and upon a just basis, allowing men accused to be heard an i deciding against th em only upon competent proof and fairly, Either have that kind of Civil Service or, for God's sake, let us have that other, frank and bold, if brutal, method of turning men and women out simply for political opinion. Let us have one. or the other." But as President Mr. Harrison has adopted and approved the policy which he thus condemned. It is the practice in all the departments to withhold, all information as to th reasons for removals from office. And to a protest to the

President that under this practice public

officials are "denied .the privilege granted to the worst criminals,1' the President is said to have replied in effect that "it would never do to disclose the names of the menwho made the chafc--

es, as that practice would prevent many people , from telling what they know." And thus the assassination of character is permitted to go on in order to provide places for partisans of this Pharisaic Administration. What do honorable Republicans think of it? ' COKViCP COLLKCHOB. Robert Smalls was the negro political ooss of the Black District of South Carolina for many years. He was State Senator during the carpet bag regime

when Moses Wf s Governor and when

the State's subfltance was openly pillaged to the extent of many millions by an undisguised conspiracy of State offi

cers, legislators ana otaertnieves.

During his term as a Senator Emails actively shared in the plupiering of the State, on one occasion accepting his

share of the plunder in the form of a check payable to his order, which he at once indorsed and deposited in bank.

He was tried for his dimes before a

juiy largely composed of men of his own

race and party, and by them convicted the Court sentencing him to two years

imprisonment; He appealed and was

afterwards pardoned by a Democratic

Governor, in exchange, "4't is currently

reported and believed, for the pardon of

TANNER MUST GO. Washington letter. Tanner must go. This may be taken as a certainty. It has come to be recognized by his colleagaucB and official

superiors tliat he is a dead laimre as a

Commissioner; that his appointment

was not only a blunder, but a freak; that

he is utterly incompetent, unbusiness

like, reckhiss and incorrigible. Com

missioner Tanner regards nimseit as a

much bigger man than the Secretary of the Intei ior, who is the official head

of a department embracing about a dozen

bureaus almost as important in some respects as the Pension Bureau. Tan

ner thinks he is there as the pet of the

Grand Army, and that the Grand Army

pet has a right to go ahead irrespective

of the will of Secretary. President or

Congress. , President Harrison and Secretary Noble have had almost as much of Tanner's nonsense aa they can stand and there is hardly a doubt that the Com

missioner has been informed that his resignation would be acceptable. It is

a moral certainty that his commissionership will no t ontlive the snmtp er. Discriminating againsii certain pension at

torneys in favor of others is one of the

creat troubles with Tanner, mat was

the real cause of the sacrifice of Confidential Secretary Squires and his friend

Van Brunt, although .another reason was given, reflectir.g more directly upon the gentlemen personally in order to

save the Bureau from a general scandal.

But notwitlistanding the caenfices oi

these two officials, the same jobbery

still continues. Secretary Noble and

President Harrison know that it must

sooner or later create a ecandle if con

tinued, and Tanne r's retention of office

is continued upon the immediate turn

ing over of a new leaf. Tanner,of course,

denies that he has been cautioned ,

Assistant isecreiary Kussey was seen

to-day in reg;ard to the conference held yesterday between himself, Secretary

Noble and Commissioner Tanner. He

did not Bay there had not been a serious

disagreement between the Secretary

and 'the Commissioner of Pensions in

yesterday's conference. He did say

however, that in ti&e administration of

such a large department as that of the Interior action was taken at times that

was hot entirely satisfactory tb the head

of the Department. He also said that

in the confeiencevith Mr. Tanner yes

terday the subject of his resignation

was not mentioned. He was not aware

that Mr. Tanner's resignation had been

requested, aei wasirumored. ;"

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The Silent Teamster.

From The La3fc Tip In," in the aeries on Pictures of the Far West now

running in The Century, illustrate

with full-najre pictures by Mary Hal-

lock Foote, we quote the following

"The teamster, as one of the types o

the frontier, is seldom introduced in

print without illusions to his ingenoiu

and picturesque profanity; whereas i

is his silence, rather than his utterances, that gives him, among his brethern of the way almost the distinc

tion of a species. r

I "The sailor hm his chanty, the ne

gro boatman his rude refrain; we reao

of the Gossask's wild marching chorus of thebeg2ing-3oag'of the Russian ex

ileson the gfreat Siberian road, of to Persian minstrel in the midst of the

caravan, reciting, in a mgn, " singing

voice, tales of bantle and love and mag

ic to beguile the way, Iror years th

parlor vocalist has rung the changei

upon barcaroles and Canadian boa

songs, but not the most fanciful of pop

ular composers lias ventured to dedi

cate a note to the dusty -throated voy ageur of the overland trail.

- 'He is riot uq picturesque; he nai every claim that hardship can give to popular sympathy; yet, even to the mo3t in experienced imagination, he pursues his way :m silence along those

fateful roads, the names of which wil

soon be legendary. As a type he wai

evolved by these roads to meet theii exigencies. ; He', was known on the great Sante Fe trail, on the old Oregon trail, on all the historic pathways that have carried westward the storj of a restless and determined people. The railroads have driven him from fch'e main lines of travel; he is now merely the link between them and scattered settlements difficult of access. When the system of feeders to the main' track are completed, his work wil 1 be done, -He will have le ft no record among songs of the people oi lyrics of the waj-, and in fiction, pddlj enough, this most enduring and silent of beings survivorthrough the immor tal rhetoric of his biographers as one w.ho reath is heavy with curses.

DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.

COURAGE IS REQUIRED IN

SI STING EVIU

RE-

: : Wounded Eascle. A wounded or enraged eagle is an ugly f Antagonist h. C. Brinkman, of Burlington, had tin encounter witji a wounded eagle not long ago, which he does not care to repeat. While huntr Inghe fired a t an eagle and broke tho bird's wing, but did not otherwise in jure it ' Expecting 1 o in ake an easy capture of his prize hi v wsnt forward. To his surprise tho eag'e flow at his face, and had ho not warded it off with his arm his eyes would have been put out by the savage- bird. As it was, it gripped his a.rm, and, despite his of forts1 to free himself, ho could not shako the eagle off. It struck at hini with hi sound wing, dug lis sharp talons through his clothing into his ,rm, and used its beak most vieiou&ty. , He called to his friends a short -'distance away. They came and killed the bird, and then pried its claws out of the flesh of his forearm and,, leg:, which were badly lacerated. Mr. Brinkman' $ wounds were quite serious. He wilt bear the scars for

jjnany a day -?-Yc'uth's Companion.

Dangers that Beset Pathway of

Youth More Easily Repulsed than in Mature Years But One Way. Bev. Dr. Talmajre preached at Lake

Maxinkuckee, Ind., last Sunday. Sub

ject: 11 How to Conquer," Text: Prov.

xxiii. So. He said: . ...

Our libraries are adorned with an ele

gant literature addressed to young men,

pointing out to them all the dangers and

perils oi ills complete maps pi me

voyage, anowmg au tne rocas,. se

auicksands. the Bnoais. uuii suppose

a man has already made ship wreck; sup

pose he has already gone astray. How

is he to get back? That is a lield com

paratively untouched. I propose to address myself to such. There are those

m this audience who, who every pas

sion of their agonised soul, are .ready to

hear such discussion, ihey compare

themselves with what they were ten

years ago, and cry out from the bondage in which they are incarcerated. Now, if there be any here, come with an earn

est purpose, yet feeling they are beyond the pale of Christian sympathy, and that" the sermon can nardly bo expected

to address them, then, at this moment, 1

give them my right hand, and call them

brother, .looh: up. xnere is glorious and triumphant hope for you yet. I sound the trumpet of GoBpel deliver

ance, the church :is ready to spread a

hanouet at vour return, and the hie-

rarchs of heaven to fall into line of ban

nered nrocesaion at the news of your

emancipation. So far as God may help m. I nrnnose to show what are tiie ob

stacles of vour return, and then how

you are to surmount those obstacle.

The first difficulty in the way of your

return is the force ot moral gravitation.

lust as there is a natural law which

brings down to the earth any: thing you

throw into the air, tio there is a corre

sponding moral gravitation. In other

woras, it is easier io eo.uuwu man jb w

go up; it is easier to do wron than it is to do richt. Call to mind the comrades

of vour boyhood davs -some ot tnem

toofl. Rome of them bad which moat

affeeted vou? Call to mind the anec

dotes that you have heard in tne ibbi

five or ten years some of them pure and some of them impure. Which the

more easily sticks to your memory? During the years of your life you have formed certain courses of conduct some

of them crood. some of them bad. To

which style of habit did you the more ftsflil v vield? Ah. mv friends, we have

to take but a moment of self inspection

to find out that there is in ail our souls a force of moral gravitation?

But that gravitation may be re

sisted. Just , as you may pick up from

the earth something and hold it in your

hand toward heaven, just so, by the power of God's grace, a soul fallen may be lifted toward peace toward pardon,

ro ward heaven. Fore e of moral gravitation in every one of us, but power in God's m-ace to overcome that force of

moral gravitation.

The next thing in t he way, ot your

return is the power oi evil habit.

know there are those who say it is very

easy for them to give up evil habits.

do not believe them: Here is a man civento intoxication, ! He snows it is

disBraoinff his family, destroying hiB

orooertv, ruining him, body, mind and

soul. If that man, being an .intelligent

man, and loving his family, could easily give up that habit, would he. not do so?

The fact that he does not give it up

nroves that it is hard to give up. It

is a very easy thing to sail down stream

the tide carrying you with great force;

but suppose you turn the boat up stream

is it so easy then to row it f as long as

we yield to the evil inclination in our hearts, and our bad habits; we are sailinr down stream: but the moment we

trv to turn, we put our boats in the

rapids just above Niagara, and try to row uo stream. Take a man given to

the habit of using tobacco, a:ad most o

you do, and let him resolve to stop, and be finds it very . difficult. . . Trenty-seven years ago I quit that habit, said I would as soon dare to put my right hand in the fire sb once to indulge in it. Why?

Because it waB such a terrible struggle

to' set over it. Now let a man be ad

vised bv his physician to give up the

use of tobacco." He goes fuound ho

knowinc what-to do with himself. He

can not add up a line of figures. He can

not Hleeu nights. It seems as if the

world has turned upside down, He

feels his business is going to ruin

Where he was kind and obliging he is Scolding and fretful. The composure

that characterized, him has given way

to a fretful restlessness, .and he has be

come a complete fidget. What power is it that has rolled a wave of woe over the

earth and shaken a portent in the heavens? He haa tried to stop smok inc or chewinc! After a while he says,

T ftm wjini? to do as I please. The

doctor doesn't understand my case. I'm

fminiir hackto.-mv. old habit.1' And he

returns. Every thing assumes its nat

ural composure. His business seems tp brighten. The world becomes an attractive olace to live in. His children

seeing the difference hail the return o their father's genial disposition. Wha

wave of color has dashed blue into the

akv and greenness into the .mountain

foliage and the glow of sapphire into the sunset? Wnat enchantment has lifted & world of beautv aad ioy on his

soul? He has gone back to tobaccol

Oh, the fact is, as we all know in our

own experience, tnat. na diij is. a tasKmaster. As long as we obey it it does ehafltiflfl mi: but let us resist and we find

we are to be lashed with scorpion whipB

and bound with ship cable and thrown into the track of bone-breiiking Jugger

nauts! . .. -

Suppose a man after five or ten or twenty years of evil doing, reaolvea to do right? Why, all the forces of darkness are allied against him. He cannot sleep nights. He gets down on his knees at midnight and cries, "God help mel" He bites his lip. He grinds his teeth. He clenches his fiat in bis determination to Keep his purposes. He dare not look at the bottles in the window of. a wine store,. Jt was one long, bitter, exhaustive, hand-to-hand fight with inflamed, tantalizing and merciless habit. When he lihinks he.is entirely free the old inclinations pounce upon him like a pack of hounds with their muzzles tearing away at the flanks of one poor reindeer, I have also to say that if a man wants to return from evil practices society repulses him: Desiring to reform, he Beys:' "Now 1 will shake off my old associates, and I will find Christain companionship." And he appears at tie church door some Sabbath day, and tne usher greets him with a look as much as, to say: "Why, you heie? Yon are the last man I ever expected to see at church! . Come, take this seat right down by the door!" Instead of saying: "Good morning; I am glad you are here. Come, I will give you a fust-rate seat, right up by the pulpit." Well, the prodigal, not yet discouraged,, enters the prayer-meeting, and some Christian man, with more zeal than common sense, saye: "Glad to see you. The dying thief was saved, and I suppose

there iB mercy tor your , xne young disgusted, chilled, throws himself back on his dignity, resolved that he will never enter the house of God again. Perhaps not quite fully discouraged about reformation, he aides up by some highly respectable man he used to know going down the street, and immediately the respectable man has' an errand down some other street! WolI,.the prod igal, wishing to return, takes some member of a Christian association ....by the hand, or tries to. The Christian young man looks at him, looks at the faded apparel and the marks of dissipation, and instead of giving him a warm grip of the hand offers him the tip end of the long fingers of the left hand, which is equal to striking a man in the Oh, how few Christian people under

stand how much force and Gospel there

Is in a good, honest handshaking!

Sometimes, when you have' felt the

need of encouragement, and some

Christian man has taken you heartily by She hand, have you - not felt that

thrilling through every fibre of your

body, mind and soul, an encouragement that was just what you needed? You do not know anything at all about this unless you know when a man tries to

return from evil courses of conduct, he runs against repulsions innumerable.

We say of some man, he lives a block

or two from the chu rob, or half a mile

from the chrrch. There are people m our crowded cities who live a thousand miles from the church. Vast deserts of . indifference between them and the

house of God. The fact is, we must

keep our respectability, though thous

ands ' and tens of thousands perish.

Christ sat with publicans and sinners.

But if there comes to the house of God

a man with marks of dissipation upon him, people throw up their bands in horror, as much aa to say, "Isn't it

shocking?" How these dainty, fastid

ious Christians in all our cnurcnes ... are going to get into heaven I don't know, unless they have an especial train of cam, cushioned and upholstered, each

one a car to himselil They can not go with the great herd of publicans and

sinners. Uli, ye wno curl up your up

oi scorn at the fallen, I tell you plainly if you had been surrounded amid the

cultured and the refined and the Chris-

tia3, to-day you would have been a

crouching wretch . in stable or ditch covered with filth and abomination! It

is not because you are naturally any better, but because the mercy ot God has protected youl Why are" you that, brought up in Christian circles, and

watched by Ghxistian parentage, you

should be so hard on the fallen?

I think men also are often hindered

frem return by the fact that churches

are too anxious about their denomination, and they rush out when they see a man about to: give up his sin and return to God, and ask him how he is

going to be baptized, whether by

sprinkling or by immersion, and what

kind ot a cnureo ne is going to join. Oh, my friends! It is a poor time to talk about Presbyteri an catechisms, and Episcopal liturgies, and Methodist love feasts, and baptisteries to a man that is coming out of I the darkness of sin into theglorious light of the Gospel. , " . , ,: ,

Who cares what church he joins, if

IT IS A 'YAJOmM OF DEATH.

he only ioins Christ and starts for

heaven? Oh, you ought to have, my brother, an illuminated face and a hearty grip for every one that tries to turn from his evil way! Take hold of the same book with him, though his dissipations shake the book, remem

bering that he that converteth a sinner

from the error of his wayB shall save a aoul from death, and hide a multitude of sins." . . . . ..

Then, also, I counsel you, if you want

to get back, to auit all your bad associations. One unholy intimacy will fill

your bouI with moral distemper. In all the ages of the Church there has not been an instance where a man kept one evil associate and was reformed. Among the fourteen hundred millions of the

race not one instance. Go home p-day. open your desk, take out letter paper

Btamn and envelope, and then write a

letter something like this:

"My Old Companions: I start this day

tor heaven, until I am persuaded you will join me. in this, farewell," .Then sign your name and send the letter by

the hrst post. ive up your oad com

panions, or give up heaven. It is not

ten bad companions that destroy a man,

nor five bad companions, nor three bad companions, but one. What chance is there for that young man I saw along

the street, four or five young men with

him, halting in front of a grog shop,

nvninn Viivr, trv rrn in lio VdOlofinO Vlft.

lently resisting, until after, awhile they

forced him to go my it was a summer night, and the door was left open, and I

saw tne process. Juney neiu nun mat, and thev nut the cup to his lips, and

thev forced down, the strong drink.

What chance is there for such a young

man?

I counsel you also to seek Christian

advice. Every . Christian man is bound

to help vou. First or all, seek God;

then seek Christiap counsel. Gather

up all the energies of body, . mind and soul, and. appealing to God for success,

declare this day everlasting war against

all drinking habits, all gambling prac

tices, all houses of sin. Half-and-half work will amount to nothing; it must be a Waterloo. Shrink back now and vou

are lost.. Push on and you are saved. A Spartan General fell at the very mo

ment of victory ,but he dipped his finger in his own blood and wrote on a rock

near where he was dying, "Sparta has

conquered." Though your struggle to

get rid oi sin may seem to oe almost a death struggle, you can dip; your finger in your own blood and write on the Bock of . Ages, "Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ" Oh, what glorious news it would be for bo me of these young men to send home to their parents. They go to the postoffice every, day or two to see whether there are any letters from you. How anxious they are to hear. Who has brougnt disgrace upon his father's name! God pity the young man who has broken his mother's heart! Better if he had never been born better if in the first hour of his life, instead of being laid against the warm bosom of maternal tenderness, he nad been coffined and sopulchered. There, is no balm powerful enough to heal the heart of one who has brought parents to a sorrowful, grave, and who wanders about v i hrough the dismal cemetery, rending the hair, and wringing the hands and crying: "Mother! Mother!" Oh, that to day by all the memories of the past and by all the hopes of the future, you would yield your heart to God. May your father's God and your mother's God tbe your God forever!" :

Remedy Tot Sunstrokes. Whatever is to be done in this disease, must be done Quickly. Clinical, as well as expeimeutal observations, enforces this doctrine. " There should in sueh . cases be no waiting for the doctor. The remedy is so simple,, the death so imminent, that the good Samaritan passing by should saye-his brotiier. The good Samaritan must, however, have a cool head to be useful, Not every man who falls unconscious on a ho day has a sunstroke. There is fortunately one criterion so easy of application that any one can use it. Go at once to the fallen ; man, open his shirt bosom and lay the hand upon his chest; if the skin be cool, you may rest assured that whatever is the trouble, it is not sunstroke. If, on the contrary, the skin b burning hot, the case is certainly sunstroke, and no time should be lost

The patient 8houl6Vbfe--eOTle"trrtn

nearest pump pydrant, stripped, to his waist,.ana' busketful after bucketful of cold water dashed over Kim un

m consciousness begins' to return, or

the intense heat of ttie surface deoid edly abates. St Louis Magazine.

A Bavine ia Yellowstone Park Where Game -Is AsphyatedvN p Sun Francisco Chronicle. ' v "In YellowBtone Park there is a ravine that proves as deadly to animal life as that Death Valley of Java, where wild beasts perish by the score," said Henry W. Mclniyre at the Palace Hotel last; night. The gentleman was connected with the party who surveyed the reservation, under the leadership of Arnold Hague, the park geologist. While following the streams to trace the extinct hot springs the explorers reached a ravine in which the bones 'of many animals, bears, deer, rabbits and squirrels, were found . The presence of the remains caused the party much wonder, and a solution of the- strange affair was found only when a crow that

had been seen to fly from the aide of

the' valley to a carcass . that was yet fresh lit on its prey, and almost im

mediately fell to the ground-

y "The death of the bird," continued

Mr. Mc Intyre, "was caused by gaseous

j exhalations, whose presence in the park

had ueen before unsuspeoted; - The

arger game also met its death by in

naung tne deadly gas. Tne ravine is

in the northeastern part of -the park; in

he vicinity of the mining Camp of

Cook Creek, and not far from the line of the mail route. All about this region

gaseous exhalations are given off, which

sulphurous deposits. In the almost ex

tinct hot-spring area1 of- Soda- Butte,

Lamar River and Cache and Miller

creeks the ravine was found. This

region is rarely -visited, although it is

an admirable spot7 for game, which,

however, goes unmolested bv man, the

laws against hunting being very severe.

The road to the valley has few attrac

dons, and the visitors to the f ossil for

ests and Hindoo basin seldom make the

trip. .

In the centre of ameadow reached

by an old elk trail, is a shallow depres

sion that was once the bed; of: a hot

spring pool. This is now dry and is

covered with a slight deposit of salt,

and that is the bait that attracts the elk and other game of the region. The

lick' extends for seventy-five yards up

the ravine and is thicker and more pal

pable toward the upper end. The

creek runs past along the Bide of the

valley and boils and bubbles as if i were -the outlet of a hot spring. Bu

the water is cold and the disturbance in its surface is caused by the emissions

of gas, mainly carbonic acid. It also

contains sulphur, as particles of that are seen on the sides of the treek. h As we went up the stream the"- odor of sulphur became very strong and caused irritation of ihe bronchial passages. About eighty yards above Cache Creek were the bones of a large bear and nearby was a smaller grizzly .decomposed, but with the skin and hair yet fresh. Only a short distance farther on were the skeletons of many more animals, such as elk and deer and other large game. Squirrels, rabbits;- birds

and insects were lying about in quantities, and the rayine looked as if it had been the 'scoop' of a drive into which the animals of the park had been hunted and had there been left to die of hunger out of mere wantonness. There were no wounds apparent on the bodies before ua;' all; the animals had been asphyxiated by the deadly, gases that hung a few feet from the surface of the gulch in a dense, palpable curtadn; "The first bear we saw was a good way down the gulch, where a'T. neck is formed. To that point the gas . must have been driven by the wind, and its deadly nature may be easily guessed when it is remembered that the slight-: est motion causes a diffusion of ether that would tend to decrease Its noxious

properties. Here is the explanation of the oft-repeated assertion that game was being exterminated by hunters in the Yellowstone, ,, notwithstanding the stringent laws that had been passed for the protection of animals there; I had seen it noted that each year bears, deer, mountain tigers and other wild animals were disappearing from the i reservation, and it was asserted -that friends of the people who had charge of the park were allowed to hunt there in defiance of the law. There were probably 150 bodies of wild animals in the gulch when I was there. But, although, they were " skeletons entire and single bones, it must not be Buppospd these were the remains of all the game that had found death inthe ravine, -t They had accumulated only since the last rainstorm. -Through this gulch a mountain torrent runs when the snows have melted from the mountains or after a hard rain; Then all things, stones, bones and bodies, are tumbled together on their way to the mouth of the guicb, whence they - are carriedaway in the creeks or are left to mark the course' of the stream and bleach -on the table lands. I had noticed near the Mammoth hot sprihg? the bodies of mice and bugs, but had never attributed their presence to the deadly gases that were bo rapidly killing off the large game of the :para f j

." -5

standi ng amid the falling snowflikes on -

he railway car at Springfield, ho asked he prayers of hfe neighbors: ? -VthjQse-

touching phrases whose eclio roee that

night in invocations5 : irons thousands

family altars, to that memorable hour when oh the steps of the Oapitor hiav; humbled himself before his Creator ia

the Bublimo words of the - seebfad " wF

augural, there is not an ex

known to have come f rbnaV his

pen but proves he held: jbim

able in every act-of his great career tosj

more august tribunal than anjr f-AjitB-

The fact that he was' aot a commiuciHbf

of any church, and 'that ''"ha .wasrsiugV

larly reservedan regard to tim pereopa

rftlitioHH lif. oivfis- only tne :sawiajyf-

T7-. T.. . T J T. : , " .

Powers P'

From?, that morning" wbeni-

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force to these striking proofs 'Sm'f &&M

found reverence and

AjreOlass. v (

Jewels that

Most of the world?s beads

tian. In the island of Murano a thons- v

and worxmen are devoted?; -m tnis

.... w. ' ' .- .-;..V"4

are vene- &z&

1 ?

4- -.

hrannh. Th fimt nrcMWi 'nransW&i ':':V,V:

the glass into tubes of the diam eter of

the proposed oeadf For this , pmrpbse

the glass house at Murano has a kind of 4

rope walk gallery ,150 ieet long. 1f?f :

gathering various colora from different.

pots and twisting them, into

mass many combinations ,- f0, tot:

are made. The bes-are fcarefuJlir:KJ:v"f;

fragments olnmfcm,siseVTjm&

ashes, which fills the holes, an

vents the sides itiiwt- closing

when they are heat ed . They sire next v :

piacea in a sinu on irymg-pan, ;anu co- 'c.

atantlv stirred over afire. -nutil -ahie - . 4. 8

edges are roundebinto a lobular fonw. im-: WJ,

they .are perfectly sorted byijfciiei ,Tto

they are threaded by chUdrer4 bundles, an d ex ported to thes- endisife 3ft:S

tne ear tn. i ranee

ot eieves until the ashes are'. ..ait;

and in another series" of eieves

3' ;ODV'

ura

has long prod need :J

the 4earl beads" which - in

forms are closed imitations? 6f

Thev are said- to have been inswal

ju. uaqum, in wo.

LTfl

tornamenS; iMmMM

ety threaded

from, glass tubi-.An

can mow nve or ..six tnousana giponiiBfs

in a day. They are lined witlgfibclm rlnh ms1m And filiffifl wrifch Wsirj fttiaaS

16,0q0 h toalM.a'pon

essence :pf pearL i Until, rehythf.g

heirs of Jaquin still carried on a large'

factory of these mock pearls;

of them are blown? irregular to counter

feit nature, some M pear si

genuine., . " - -v- : r k- j

v Bicycles. - . Who would believe that tho once derided velocipede would within' a fev years give birth to more than 75.G0C bicycles, and that the League of Ameri can Wheel men coun ts alone 12.00C mombers, 10,000 of whom live in New tovk and the surrounding suburbs.

Where They Ar, Social PhiioaopherPlf our statesmen and o raters loomed up mong the first in the world, . Where irc they now?" A blc Kditfiii' n the n e wspapor of-. ftces,, Key York WeoUlys

. Iiinooln'a Reliarion . ;; The iforthcoxhina; ( Angust nurnber of the Century will contain a chapter on 'Lihcoln and ihe; hurches,,' in the Lincoln History, by Messrs, Hay and Nicolay, from which the following is an extract from advance sheets: ... . He was a man of profound and intense religious feeling. We have no purpogg of attempting to formplaie his creef v question if he himself ever didSO; There have been swif t witnesBeswlio, judging from expressions uttered Vn his callow youth, have called hini Van atheist, and others who, with the ,Tnoflt laudable In-r tentipnB,"have"eribere conversations which they bring forwaid

to prove at once his orthodoxy : and their own intimacy with him. But

leaving aside these apocnrypnai evidences, we have only td look at his authentic public and private utterances to see how deep and strong in all the latter part of his life was the current of his religious thought and emotion; He continually invited, and appreciated at their highest value, the prayers of good people. The pressure of the tremendous problems by which he was surrounded the awful moral significance of the contest ih-which he was the chief combatant; the over whelming sense of personal responsibiUty which never- left him for an hourall contributed to produce, in a temperament naturally serious and predisposed to a spiritual view of life

and. conduct, a sense of Myerent accept

ance ot tne

cera in glass, x uvy are suu tuo $ cuiw idea of ornamental; riass in Cuna liaiS

the ancient and mid die-airea thev circuV

... ....... . ;- - -v-V-" , . ,: :jr-.-:iK

lated every where without much danger

of discovery, and aeir f ormrrlas : ifjsnfe

held as precious secrets.:" ':':BlM5fl!OT

first ;pubUshed their , compoevitions

1696. Now theysare :commonafoprQfgS M

and with the growth of sciened inUttaBtA'

past century an expert knowing viiig

become wioeiyo3Esenunawi ausa

jewel, particularly as the modt ru stones are less successful ' ''copiies

the old glass makers produce lore

stuoy is now given to arciucia which are true gems, being coror.

the same materiali aa tgenuini oti

Wues in tbft Ulaas ladTtstrv. v ---v

The best wages in the glass industryi5

era, sometimes reaching twelv tlbUais

per a ay. xne rjascer meiteis ransnext,

though they seldom get more?

that amount. From the'earn

norm' work. The olower'a

works eight or ten-lionjn. -:atlJ finishing one melt of glass: hBreSlreS

quiring sixteen hours : to hise, ten -SittSlfe

pi mowing, ana ten nours ox

The work is always by toe ;piej,7irinr

teams and in 'shops,"

oi one master

younger

each im

and

workmen

KMlWNHUUk ' X, UVIV -Mft- X K

operation 160 f urnaces, at ;wjbichisB? are emnloved aiiouV" 4.000 .bloweni

gatherers, natteners, and cutters, neyi are l bound together :.by:a - lojntti j-i 8j Mill ''A' Man(; A.W MlMMWt'l

mav vrittirn: thin nnmhftr nf mniYHunt.iMi ? :

tnan two to a lurnace;, taav prompits

workman

any foreign workman rrom gewg-mH:

being made.; in. e-- Qnthsoifi AuguT'iiy

worked in the last four :v-jeMfj:Maj

less than eight months and

much oi the time lost has becii sptnt

stnxes or ; disputes wrwtnei man

turers about

;AHoldCvi: Slaveholder g, Jac sonvflle Timfei-Tiniong s-!

At Miami Messrs. Jones

Wylie, who ree-aritly finished i;heiy. ; tri

from Tarnon Sorihia in (ha mile

er Margaret t a jihfe,pn muiafi

had the pleasures of rneej

genuine slavehohfefrt the?;

free,na

the Eyejrgiade 8emmolesi ;Whej

.Sere. good- and there is a scarcity

in Mr. Tiga4iJto sal ly forth intS tiie ne ighbi

flprt niiTitnr- niin isbm ft -faw 'rkMrtvm

who ar fAlro mtn thft iviadAki

intimated m himvthat, slaverv-' :haa littenS $M

aoousueu, ooiuo uitetsn- yiwp sa:;.ui!B g country laugheSy lengthy detail dthes?iJfep

wno arove nis cars into st, Augusan

flteam5S

mo 0bb, r

Anil otrran- il itni. ni c i

A-.:i.'-1 -i a

ray; , But it hrall theeaiue t&KgerSl

Mwsi Mfty Porteacueg the ngliih

&w -Brmtsmm" 1 w

actress, who wasfortU

obtain fSUiUUW daniages T- .sronis-jg Gairns, in a breach of pri'li I

years ago, has just euceeeded in winning tj ?

aMr. Laurence Heary Si Ppitt

On; this occasion ahe' ;c

accent ayerdiot of 51,500. Icia evidentl i

therefore, that tho bmanhiufi of -3

jj"ortescue's aueDtiOjiB -'asjn?)tjpptp f?

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