Bloomington Courier, Bloomington, Monroe County, 4 June 1895 — Page 2

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OSAVENS BRO&, Pata. BLOOMINGT02T, INDIANA. After" trying the public all these years Schweinfurth objects to being tried himself. Cleveland has organized a club of bald-headed men. This is probably a gang of Shylocks. Cincinnati ice dealers are at war and rates have been cut in two. But of course that cuts no ice here. Eastern seminary girls have begun playing baseball, undoubtedly hoping thereby to familiarize themselves with the home plate. Some valuable works of art have been found in Great Jones street, New York. Great Scott! what will the Smiths say to that? "Listen to the Mocking Bird" was written forty years ago last week. The composer, Septimus Winner, is still receiving royalties from it, as the copyright does not expire until 1897. George Moore, the author of "Esther Waters," as he is generally known over here, is coming to America within a month. If he looks anything like a lately published portrait of himself we should prefer not seeing him. But as the portrait was done by one of the new artists who affect a style whose chief idea seems to be trifling caricature, we conclude that the title has nothing- in particular to do with it. The use of the word "gent" in place of "gentleman" is not of such recent origin as some may imagine. In a complaint made by Thomas, sixth Lord Clifford against his own son, Henry, who afterwards became the Duke of Cumberland, the following is found: "Certain evil-disposed persons, young gents, as well as others." This must s have been written early in the sixteenth century, because Thomas died in 1523. Milwaukee paupers are too lazy to work. Only eight in the entire county have availed themselves of the opportunity to plant potatoes on the 400 acres of land which the citizens have turned over to the Associated Charities for the purpose. Although able-bodied men at the almshouse have been importuned to work potato patches they obstinately refuse. They probably never did like work, and that's why the pauper job suits them so well. The poorest girls in the world are those not taught to work. There are thousands of them. Rich parents have petted them and they have teen taught to despise labor and to depend upon others for a living, and are perfectly helpless. The most forlorn looking women belong to this class. It is the duty of parents to protect daughters from this deplorable condition. They do them a wrong if they neglect it. Every daughter should be taught to earn her own living. The rich as well &B the poor require this training. The wheel of fortune rolls swiftly around; the rich are likely to become poor and the poor rich. Skill added to labor is no disadvantage to the rich, and is indispensable to the poor. Well-to-do parents must educate their daughters to work. No reform is more imperative than this. Mexico has cheap labor and bids fair to become a fashionable competitor in cotton growing. Large quantities of cotton seed from Louisiana have been planted. Last year in some of the states the cotton acreage was increased fourfold. In the low lands, where frost does not come, the cotton plant becomes a perennial shrub which bears every season. It is believed that cotton can be grown at a profit in some parts of Mexico at two cents a pound. If this be true, the southern planters who are decreasing their acreage' in order to get higher prices may miss their aim. It remains 'to be seen whether Mexican cotton will be as good quality as that grown in our southern states. It is the poor quality of tropical grown cotton that has given the American product its advantage over the cotton produced in India. In 1860, the incorporated banks of the United States had a total capital of $430,000,000, with a population of 31,750,000. In 1890 the capital of our chartered banks, national and state, was $840,000,000, while our population was 62,600,000. In the former period the banking capital was as $13.57 to each inhabitant; in 1890 the rate was $13.42. Within the thirty years, however, the increase in business transactions was in a very- much higher ratio than that of nopulatkra; quite probably two-fold. From these facts, oneof two conclusions must follow either (1) that the growth of banking facilities has, during this period, ben largely inadequate to the requirements of trade;, or (2) that the banks, with a given amount of capital, are now able to transact a much larger amount of business than they did formerly. There are at present no less than fifty-eight persons awaiting trial at Berlin on charges of having dared to criticise unfavorably the kaiser's "Hymn to Aegir." These people, doubtless, all agree now that the emperor is a great poet. When. ex-Gov. Waite in his new paper says "A nightmare of horror pursues us; an indefinable dread seizes us," he talks exactly like a man who has .bet on the home club and finds the other team ahead at the beginning of the ninth inning.

BULLETS FLEW FAST.

A BLOODY NIGHT JN EARLY NEWTON. Vow Gambler Riley Avenged the Death of a Friend Nine Cowboys Laid to Best as a Result of the Gambler's Marksmanship. -N THE way of prompt and deadly shooting nothing in all the red calendar of homicide in the far west beats the record of the gambler Riley, at Newton, Kas., made one night in "1871," said C. B. Durers of Topeka, to the writer recent ly. "The Atchison railroad had been built to that point during the year and a flourishing town had grown up round the terminus to which the Texas cattle drives that had been going to Abilene now came. With the gamblers, cowboys and railroad men that thronged the streets it was a very lively sort of town, where dance halls and gambling places were in full blast, and pistol shooting often was heard by day and night It was at that time that Boot Cemetery got its start, and its list of occupants who had met violent death numbered thirty before the town got quieted down. "On the night in question the Texas sattle drives were in for shipment, and the cowboys were celebrating. Some of the Texans had a grudge against the officers of the town, and so they came in that night prepared for trouble, and they set about making it straightway. They killed the city marshal, the deputy marshal, and another man early in the evening. Later they poured into Pinkham's dance hall to the number of twenty-five or thirty. The three men already killed were not enough to satisfy them and they wanted more. Upon a bench at the side of the room a man was sitting with a girl on his knee. One of the cowboys walked up to him, slapped him on the shoulder and said: '"I'll teach you to hold my girl in your lap!' and shot him dead. "Riley was in the dance hall and the man just killed was a particular friend of his. Without a word Riley stepped back to the big double doors in the front qf the saloon and closed them. Placing his back against the doors he drew a pair of revolvers and fell to shooting, one man against the crowd. Men tumbled left and right and shots rang out all over the room in response to the drum-roll cracking of Riley's pistols. Shots perforated and splintered the door all about him, but he stood there firing until his pistols were emptied. Behind the bar which ran along one side of the room he knew where the armory was ready for instant use. Leaping over the counter he caught up a revolver that lay on a shelf beneath and; kept on with his firing. Before he had emptied the pistol that he found behind the bar, the men inside had forced the front doors open, those that could rushed out and Riley shot his last man in the middle of the street When it came to counting up losses it was discovered there were thirteen dead men in the town due to that night's shooting, of whom nine cowboys had fallen to Riley's hand. How many wounded ones rode or were carried away by their comrades to the cattle could only be guessed at. "There was one curious incident of this fight not generally known. Riley it was supposed was unhurt in the shooting. A doctor hastily summoned to the scene came to the side of a cowboy who was dying. " 'How is it doc?' asked the wounded man. 'Am I going to pull through?' "The doctor shook his head. 'I am sorry, my poor fellow, but I cannot give you any hope.' " 'How about the man who shot me,' said the cowboy. 'Is he dead?' " 'No;' answered the doctor. 'He was not even wounded.' " 'I know better than that,' said the cowboy. 'I know he was hit. I was right by the side of him when he shot me, and before I fell I fired and hit him under the arm. You examine him and you'll find that he's wounded there.' y.When the doctor got round to Riley he examined him and sure enough found that he had received a flesh wound under his arm which in the excitement of fighting he had not noticed. Riley left the town after the inquest and didn't appear there again. No effort seems to have been made to arrest or bring him to trial for an act that was generally held to be justifiable and praiseworthy. " 'I got a message some time afterward from Kansas City saying that Riley was there and asking if I wanted him,' said Major R. H. Spivey of the land department of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad who was Mayor of Newton at the time of the killing. 'I sent back word that they were perfectly welcome to keep him there. We had begun to build up a population in Newton and didn't need him.' " Water-Hyacinths Impeding Navigation. An assisted immigrant is making a lot of trouble in Louisiana. It is a plant, a water-hyacinth, which a man from New Orleans saw and admired about three years ago while on a visit to Columbia, says Harper's Bazar. He brought some bulbs of it home with him and grew them in tubs in his front yard. In about two years patches of the flour appeared in Bayou St. John, which connects New Orleans with Lake Pontchartrain. In another year the bayou was full of it, so that navigation was impeded. Now all the canals near New Orleans are overrun and covered up of it at planting-time is returned to it. with this invading flower; great masses

of it are floating in the lake; rivers running into the lake are choked with it, and it has traveled a hundred miles to the westward of New Orleans. It grows enormously, spreads like rabbits in Australia, chokes all the bayous and streams it gets into, and is a tremendous nuisance, the limitations of which are not in sight. In Columbia it is a harmless, flowering plant that grows in tubs, but in Louisiana the conditions suit it, and have developed it into the most flourishing and obstinate pest the state has known since she lost the Louisiana Lottery.

PLAYING FOR HIGH STAKES. A Chronicler of the Gambltnc at the Court of George II. Here is a little picture of pastimes at the court of George II. and his queen. It is in a letter from Lady Bristol to her husband, under date of Jan. 7, 1729: "The miserable setting out which I had both in body and mind still continues Its wretched course; my three days' journey was supported by as many doses of laudanum, the strength of which enabled me to go into court yesterday morning, where I was most graciously received and you were most kindly inquired after. I introduced Lady Hervey to the Prince of Wales, the most agreeable young man that it is possible to imagine, without being the least handsome, his person little but very well made and genteel, a liveliness in his eyes that is indescribable, and the most obliging address that can be conceived; but the crown of all his perfections is that just duty and regard he pays to the king and queen, with such a mixture of affection, as if obliging them with the greatest pleasures of his life, and they receive it with the utmost joy and satisfaction, and the father's fondness seems to equal the tenderness of the mother, so that I believe the world never produced a royal family so happy in one another; pray God long continue it. I thought to have told you of this and a great deal more by the coach, and set out this morning at 4 o'clock, therefore excused myself from all hazard at night to have the evening for that purpose; but as I sat in my chair I received a letter with a request from the Princess Amelia to come and receive 50 of her money for a share with me at all hazard, and that I must play; I thought it would not be civil to refuse her, besides, the inclination one can't but have to do whatever she desires; therefore, I sent to my old ally, Lord Godolphin, and the Duke of Grafton, who both 'offered their purses. We four lost 30 apiece, the king lost all of his, the queen part of hers, the prince lost 200, after having won double that sum, but the winning and losing was with an equal good air, throwing at all; the Princess Royal won 464, the Duchess of Marlborough had Host 500 and rose a winner of 390, all of which she got of the Duke of Grafton, who lost 800; the ether three men I can't tell no partlcolars of; they were, the Duke of Norfolk, Lord William Manners and Lord Ashburnham; but I must return to the Duchess of Marlborough, whose spirits were beyond anything I ever saw for the whole time, tho' she was forced to be carried to the table in a chair, and fixed there, before the king and queen came; after this had company to sup, and sat up till between 3 and 4 this morning." STUB ENDS. Frowning down a good cause is the modern way of stoning Stephen. The devil never expects to be hurt by the fellow who rides two horses. No one will ever shine in conversation who thinks of saying fine things. The man who is too nice to help in clean politics is too nice for the world. A dead beat that is hatched from lazi ness is of few days and full of trouble. Some men will "bet you ten dollars" when they are at the end of their argument. Give the conceited man all the road; the more he spreads the less he deceives. The man who becomes a successful hypocrite has to work at it every day In the week. There is no place like home, and that is why so many men spend their evenings down town. Hate is two points with poison tipsone toward your enemy and the other toward yourself. Bill collectors pay little attention to the rules of etiquette, they never wait till a call is returned. A good, frugal, sensible wife is the best savings bank a spendthrift can get. It is a safe investment. SNORTS. Poverty never wears a large stomach. Want of good sense is the worst of poverty. To ask a man to pay a bill is as easily .lild as dun. A string tied to a gift is a great drawback to charity. Taking the cents of the meetingpassing around the hat. The worst kind of writer's cramp is being cramped for funds. Lawyers are men who work with a will. Doctors often put them in the way of it. It is the experience of all conductors that strange things come to pass on railroads. The book agent frequently has more brass than the man who travels for a hardware firm. A man generally leaves no stone unturned when he goes out in the fields looking for bait. We expect other people to change their opinions, while we tenaciously cling to our own. When a man's mind is unsettled, it frequently happens that his bills are in the same condition. When the peace of Europe is rent will be a good time for somebody to put a patch on the seat of war. When a man attempts to warm his hands at a hotel register it is high time to inquire into his mental condition. "Will the coming man use both arms?" asks a scientist. Yes, If he can trust the girl to handle ttoe reins. Texas Siftings.

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A MODERN FRAME OF MEDIUM COST. Tasteful and Convenient Home for City or Country Tho Cost Will Not Exceed Kig-htcen Hundred Dollars Detroit Architect's Idea. HE accompanying Illustration shows a tasteful and convenient country or city home. The cost to build will not exceed $1,800. This estimate will cover the cost of the best material and workmanship of its kind. This design has all "the modern conveniences of a costly building. The estimate covers the cost ofmantel and grate, furnace, laundry (two tubs), bath room, fitted up with all the latest improvements, gas pipes, etc. The heights of stories are: Cellar, 6 feet 6 Inches in the clear; first story, 9 feet; second, 8 feet 6 inches. The first story contains: Portico, 5 feet 6 inches by 6 feet; vest'bule, 6 feet by 8 feet. On the left of the vestibule, and connected by a grill arch, is the parlor. Directly back of the vestibule Is the staircase hall, 8 feet by 9 feet C inches, out of which starts a handsome platform staircase which leads to the second story. On the left of the staircase hall and connected by a grill arch, is the dining room, which is 14 feet by 15 feet, and is divided from the parlor by, sliding doors. In this room, in an octagon window. Is a wooden mantel with a beveled plate top. The library is on the right of the dining room and immediately back of the staircase hall. It is 9 feet 6 inches by 10 feet, with a den off 6 feet 6 inches by 5 feet 6 inches. In the rear of the dining room is the kitchen, which is 11 feet 6 inches by 13 feet 6 inches. It is connected with the dining room by a butler's pantry and china closet, which is 3 feet 6 inches by 13 feet. The bath room, 5 feet 4 DESIGN FOB A MODEEJJ inches by 8 feet, is off the kitchen, but can be put upstairs if desired, and this space used for a servant's room. Tho second story has a front chamber 13 feet by 13 feet, with two other chambers opening off the landing, one 12 feet by 14 feet 6 Inches; the other "s 10 feet by 13 feet, with clothes closets to each. There is a large attic store room over the kitchen. The first floor is a double one of yellow pine, laid on a rough board floor, with one layer of felt paper between. The floors in the vestibule and staircase hall to be covered with parquetiy flooring of approved pattern. The finish in vestibule, parlor, staircase, hall and dining room to be hardwood. The pantry, kitchen and bath room to be wainscoted three feet six inches above floor and finished in paint. The second story to be finished throughout in pine in oil. The plaster is two-coat work, a brown and a hard white finish, the exposed walls to be plastered to the floor, thus avoiding the draught so common in frame buildings. The walls to be sheathed inside and out with building paper between outside sheathing and siding. The roof to be good quality shingles; also gables, rounded or cut octagonal, to suit the owner. The windows throughout house are to be glazed with best American glass and hung with weights and sash cord, each to be furnished with suitable sash fasteners. The doors are to have a good quality of brass-faced mortise locks, with knobs to match finish. Gas pipes and electric wires to be run to each and every apartment. This house, as the illustration shows, presents a massive and staid appearance, and is entirely devoid of any outside work that will not stand as long as the heavier work. For a home at a low figure, combining all the latest improvements in modern building, this cannot be beaten. Thomas Hyland. We are indebted to Mr. Thomas Hyland, architect, Detpoit, Michigan, for this design and description, and would call your attention to a book of designs published by him containing twentyfive perspective views of modern dwellings from $900 upwards, together with floor plans and description giving size and location of rooms, interior finish and cost of building, mailed to your address on receipt of 25 cents. There are two pages in his book devoted to how you can become possessed of a home for what you r.ow pay in rent. A MOTHER'S MELANCHOLY. The Russian Empress Awaiting tho CzarewitcU's Irath. The Empress of Russia, according to the English court (that is, the dowager empress), is stated to be gradually growing more melancholy, and on her face a stony and extremely painful expression has settled which was unknown in former days. Her constant anxiety in regard to her son, the dying czarewitch, can only be relieved by the latter's death, which may be a matter of days and cannot be longer than months. It is not improbable that the Princess of Wales will rejoin her afflicted sister for a prolonged visit in the course of the coming summer. The empress of Austria is expected to pass a portion of the summer at one of the English watering places, provided she can be assured that her incognito will be absolutely respected by every one,

says a London cablegram. This once beautiful woman, who, like tho Empress Eugenie, was noted for.tha magnificence of her gowns, now refuses to wear any dresis except one of black material, wlthou" any adornment, and no matter at what ceremony, made high at the neck. The slightest spund of music disconcerts her, and military bands have orders to cease playing when within hearing distance of any palace where hep majesty happens to be staying. She now declines to eat anything in the shape of animal food, her meals consisting of fruit, rolls and milk. For the supply of the latter a special breed of cows is raised on her majesty's estate at Corfu, and w'hereever she stays two of these cows are kept in attendance for the quenching of her thirst. HOW A SWALLOW DIED.

Impaled In Its Flight n the Sharp End of a Weather Vane. This is the story of a curious mishap which befel a swallow near Cold Spring, N. Y. W. L. Calver was standing in a barnyard at that place. It was a blustery day, arid the weather vane on the barn was kept in constant motion by the shifting wind. Mr. Calver looked at the vane. He had looked at it twenty times before during the day, but this time it was different. Evidently a bird had perched upon it. Mr. Calver thought it the most unstable perch possible. But the bird remained there all day. Towards evening the boys on the farm tried to dislodge the bird by throwing stones at it. It did not go away. Next day it was still there, and then an investigation was made. One of the boys climbed out of the cupola window and, looking up, found the bird was a swallow; that, far from being perched on the vane, it was impaled. The vaDe stuck right through the bird's breast. The swallow was, of course, dead. Its position made reaching it an impossibility, so it had to be left where it was. At last only the skelFRAME DWELLIXO. eton was left. Finally even that fell to pieces. It is thought that in one of the sudden downward swoops which swallows make in flight the bird did not see the rapidly shifting vane, and that the latter veered around just in time to impale the swallow through the breast. SIZE OF FAMILIES IN FRANCE. Many Odd Facts Abont French Marriages and Births. Turquan, a Parisian statistician, has been studying the reports of marriages and births in his native country and has drawn therefrom some interesting conclusions as to the size of the French family. During the first two years after marriage half of the newly wedded couples in France have no children at all; two -fifths have one child; about one-tenth have two; 2 per cent of the entire number rather overdo the business, having three children. Of couples that have been married three to five years, only one-fifth are without children; more than a third have one apiece, a fourth have two and a tenth have three, which is apparently the maximum number, as no higher figure is mentioned. As the length of the married life increases the number of children also increases, and the number of families having no living child diminishes; of those that have been married sixteen to twenty-five years, only 13 per cent are childless, while 3 to 4 per cent have seven children. The average duration of marriage at which the family reaches its maximum number is found to be twenty years. The average number of living children in a family throughout France is 2.10. If the families who have no children are thrown out of account this number rises to 2.59. A little thought will show that if these figures are correct population cannot be increasing very fast in France, and is probably stationary or tending to decrease. Detective Ability. A somewhat ghastly but quite successful bit of elucidation is credited to M. Bertillon, tho anthropoinetrist. On his back, in bed, a man was found the other morning, shot dead through the mouth. The revolver was still in his hand. There were doubts, however, whether it was a case of suicide after all. For one thing, deceased had never been known to possess a revolver. Of course he might have bought one for the occasion. It was advisable to try to ascertain this, and it was M. Bertillon who hit upon the way. He had the corpse taken out of bed, dressed it himself in deceased's clothes, and set it in deceased's customary attitude in deceased's chair. The coiffure was as it used to be and the hue of life was brought back to the face as nearly as stage paints could make it. Then the revival was photographed, and the photograph was sent to every gunsmith in Paris. One of them recognized a person who had bought a revolver two days before, and this witness identified the weapon.

The Lake Shore Makes Soma Change With the Inauguration of the summer schedule on the Lake Shore & Michigan .Southern railway, taking effect Sunday, the 19th, train No. 14, now, leaving at 3:25 p. m., will leave at 3 p. m. TheElkhart Accommodation at 4:15p. m. will be discontinued. Train formerly leaving at 11:80 p. m. will leave at 2:45 a. m. Sleeper will be placed In depot ready for occupancy at 9 p. m. All other trains remain as heretofore. F. M. Byron, city passenger and 'ticket agent, 180 Clark street. C. K. Wllber, western passenger agent, Chicago.

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