Bloomington Courier, Bloomington, Monroe County, 16 July 1895 — Page 2

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GRAVES'S BBOa, Put). BLOOMINGTON. - INDIANA. The ability of the gas company to make both ends meet depends on the meter. There is a great rush to Europe. Americans dont want Europe to be short on American gold. Lord Rosebery went up like a rocket and there is an eminent fitness in the Manner of his coming down. We heartily sympathize with Mr. John D. Rockefeller. It hurts most any of us to lose a million dollars these hard times. The more the world sees of "Na poleons of finance" the more it longs tor the appearance of some financial Wellingtons. Choice Havana cigars" will never be a short crop as long as Florida is in the Union, and the Connecticut seed leaf holds out. Mrs. Hetty Green was, of course, praying for the counsel opposed to her, who, she believes, -have been preying long enough on her estate. Philadelphia may 'be slow and poky, but it has retired its last horse car from the public streets, and that is more than Chicago has done. If Japan cannot annihilate those Formosa pirates, just call on Uncle Sam. He at one time showed how to do it, and could repeat the dose if necessary. The New York Times calculates that New Yorkers extend annually about $5,500,000 on churches, while theaters absorb about $6,500,000. The moral seems to be obvious. John L. Sullivan announces that he Is "dead broke." It may afford some consolation to John L. to reflect that a good many better actors than he is have often found themselves in the same position. After filling the summer and winter with noise about the great war in China and the terrible engines of destruction by land and sea, it is disappointing to read that the whole number of Japanese killed in battle from first to last was 590. The trolley cars rival that record and never say a vfbrd about it. Germany's demand of $750,000 from Nicaragua, which means $1,500,000 in Nicaraguan money, if followed by force, means the practical overthrow of Nicaraguan independence, with a sort of foreign protectorate managing it as one would a farm. This may be fun for Europe, but it is hard lines for the Latin republics. New York has a novel business that of a company which offers to test gas meters without charge, if the meters are found to be correct, and for half the overcharge refunded by the gas company on all money paid if the meters are found to be fast. The company advertises that over $40,000 rebate has been made to consumers by gas companies in the past four years. The gas companies must have the inventor of . the machine. Man has natural wants food, clothing, shelter; he consumes, he should produce; hence activity labor. He thinks, he reasons, he learns, he progresses; hence science learning. He lias enthusiasm, attachment, passion, feeling; hence emotion love. Labor, iearn, love. Man must be able to do all these, or he retrogrades and degenerates. Any state of society which prevents a man from fulfilling his destiny, 7hich is to do all these, is therefore raise and, incomplete. The secret of high social development and the maintenance of a dense population in comfort and luxury is the diversification of industry and the multiplication of means of subsistence. Moreover, this is the secret of that solid and fortified basis of social existence which is able to endure the accidents of the physicial and commercial world, and to survive the rally from crop failures and temporary closing of markets, business depression, industrial paralysis, and financial convulsions. The announcement that the French government will sanction the use of a lottery loan suggests in a forcible way the advance the United States has made in public morals as compared with Europe during the last quarter of a century. Much as we have still to achieve in the way of Improvement, Americans as a people have a higher standard of political morality than any European people. It is only a pity that they exercise so little care in determining the character of their pantatas and politicians. A traveling hypnotist has been sued In Ohio by his confederate, who demands the sum of $15 for pretending to be hypnotized when he wasn't. His hypnotic influence was merely arranged on a promissory basis, the same as political influence. There is nothing strange about a forgers fondness for the Sunday-school. Neither does it in any way reflect upon Sunday-schools. Swindlers of all sorts must needs disguise themselves in the external appearances of respectability or they could not swindle anybody,

AGAINST. THE NEW WOMAN.

Bishop Goxe Likes Her No Better Than Docs Bishop Doittie. At the commencement exercises of the Livingston Park Seminary, held in St. Luke's Church, Rochester, recently, Bishop Coxe addressed the girl graduates as follows: "The effort to establish the 'new woman' has, it must be said, been accompanied by a desire on the part of the agitators to emancipate themselves from religion. When I read from day to day of the utterances of this new cult, giving forth startling 'truths' and disseminating odious principles from the lecture platform, I am inclined to cry, 'O shame, where is thy blush?' I am in favor of the higher education of women, for I believe that such education embellishes most fitly the state which Providence designed for her activity. It pleases me to see the intellectual taste and patience in acQuiring knowledge possessed by your sex. There are cases where women can accomplish great good in a life of publicity, but they are exceptional cases. But no stigma should be cast upon those who purify and embellish home life. Every true woman makes her own life where Providence places her. Such is the opinion of the truly good of all ages. It is not by noisy declamation that the state of woman is to be changed. Of late it seems to be the trend of fashion among women to appear as much like men as possible. Such is neither in keeping with her past historj' nor in accordance with true ideals of grace and beauty. "It is the true and established sphere of women to influence men and guide him to look to higher ideals and more worthy desires. He is not a man who has not, at some period of his existence, had the fostering care of a devoted mother or the subtle influence of a beloved sister. Past experiences illustrate this fact. When the great West was being settled men rushed there, leaving all restraining influences behind them, and plunged into the abyss of vice and sin. But when women, sweet, matronly women, came, all was changed. Religion obtained a foothold and vice sank into the dark caves whence it had come." ANGEL CALLED PATIENCE. It Is of the Feminine Gender and Dwells in the Room of the Invalid. We see a lovely kind of adaptability with certain invalid women who are able to make their sick rooms as beautiful as palace towers of fairy bowers whose couch is, as it were, a dainty throne whose lives, shorn of all bodily energies, are yet full of mental activities and such sweet and tender handiwork as fits in with their disabled conditions. Where their unwise sisters spend their time in self-pity, in self-considerations, in worrying their attendants and in bullying their doctor in that he has not the power a God in his hands and does not hold the issues of life and death, of health and disease like so many tweezers in his case of instruments, those, wiser and more womanly, make the best of a bad thing, and adapt themselves to their conditions. In return for which, sweet peace and heart's content come to them like doves bearing the olive branch snatched from the waste of .waters, and they are able to make good the remnant left them by their devastating enemy. Many and many a one of this kind, high and low, in a mansion and in a cottage, have we seen in our way through life, and perhaps no kind of mental beauty strikes with so much force as this sweet and tender patience, this unselfish adaptability to the sorrowful conditions of disablement and ill health. Unjust late. "Here is another one of them plutes," said Mr. Dismal Dawson, "in the paper that says he never was so happy as when he was workin' by the day." ' Well?" ventured Mr. Everett Wrest, with languid interest. "Well, you say? W'y it is jist this. Here is a feller that really likes work rollin' in more money than he kin count, and here is you an' me, that money would do some good I guess you know where we are without no furder words." Cincinnati Tribune. WORTH KNOWING. Aluminum heel tips are coming in vogue. The Imperial library at Paris ha3 seventy-two thousand works treating of the French revolution. The name Munich is derived from the fact that the monks owned the property on which the town now stands. In the year 1300, splinters dipped in oil were used in England and France to furnish light for guests retiring to their rooms. Br. Lombard, of Geneva, Switzerland, who has just died, was for many years regarded as the leading medical climatologist of the world. MEN WE TALK ABOUT. Mr. Du Maurier's new story, ?fhe Martians," will, like "Peter Ibbetson" and "Trilby," be a story of French and English life. Count Ito, easily the leading oriental diplomat, is a Japanese statesman who did not come of a noble family. He be gan his career as a telegraph Count Boniface de Castella married Miss Anna Gould, has for $120,000 ground on the Avenue de Boulogne in Paris, on which he wi. build a palace. United States Minister Ransom finds that the high altitude of the City of Mexico does not agree with him, and may be obliged to resign his post. He Is now at Monterey and is very weak, though improving under treatment. Prof. C. V. Itiley, the eminent entomologist, who studies the habits of bugs for Uncle Sam, has advanced a theory of telepathy among insecis--a sixth sense whereby they am enabled to communicate with one anotner at great distance.

IS A TEUE BEFOEMER

MRS. CHARLES H. PARKHURST AN EARNEST WORKER. To Her Husband Is Not Due All the Honor of Reforming New York She Was the Inspiring Augel of the Great Worit. T is pretty certain that when a man does the work and gains the position occupied by Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, there is a woman in the case, who is something of a power behind the throne. All the world knows now that Dr. Parkhurst is a moral here. The fact is universally recognized that he is a man with a thought, and that he possesses the courage of his convictions. His praises are sounded everywhere, but how many stop to think of the noble woman in his home, who has been herself, in a large measure, the inspiration of this great life? Nevertheless, it is a fact that Mrs. Charles H. Parkhurst is a woman of such intellectual ability, moral and spiritual character, as well as personal address and magnetism, as to be placed justly on this pedestal. She believes in her husband. She believes in his work. She is in fullest sympathy with him in what he has done and is doing. In her quiet, refined, womanly way she renders assistance that can never be told and that will, consequently, never be known. But all people everywhere ought to be given to understand that when Dr. Parkhurst and his work are spoken of, cora-

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.

mended and praised, Mrs. Parkhurst ought to have a place in the mental concept. How carefully she guards her husband against intruders ii known chiefly, if ximi ftnly, by those who have sought and failed to obtain interviews with Dr. Parkhurst. She measures his strength with marvelous accuracy, and when the limit is nearly reached she understands It and no amount of persuasion can prevail upon her to give way and permit another ounce of weight to be placed upon his overburdened shoulders. As a counselor Mrs. Parkhurst is not only sympathetic but wise; with true womanly instinct she sees, as If by a divine inspiration, the right, and then, notwithstanding her native gentleness, she is ready to stand by the fight as unflinchingly as is her worldfamous husband. Mrs. Parkhurst Is not an advocate of so-called woman's rights, and if all women could exert their Influence as she Is able to put forth hers, there would be no crying demand for the right of franchise on the part of woman. If she had any number of ballots she would not be able to exert by their use a tithe of the inMRS. CHARLES II. PARKHURST. fluence that goes out to affect public affairs from the quiet of her home. Her H influence for good is simply incaleulaje. No wonder that in an atmosphere hi such happy domesticity Dr. Parkhurst stands out boldly against the enfranchisement of women. It is bcaus.-i he has such a wife, who in her quiet way works such a mighty influence, doubtless, that he has been led to take this position. All honor to this ncbie woman for the part she has tak?n, for the influence she has exerted in public affairs, all unknown to the great outside and, in some reflects, unsympathetic world. There, is no end to Mrs. Parkhurst's mission work, the demands unon her time being enormous. She is con-

nected with many working girls' homes, relief societies, and, in fact, all of the charitable enterprises of the church of which her husband is pastor, as well as a number of outside missions. Her friendly words of advice cheer and encourage many a forlorn and heartbroken girl, and those who are deserving receive help from her generous heart in a more substantial way. The hungry never leave her door unfed, or the naked unclothed. Regarding Christian ICndeavor societies, Mrs. Parkhurst expresses herself strongly against their necessity. "Evidently the Endeavorers do reach some people who could not be brought into religious fellowship in any other apparent way," says she, "but where a Young People's Christian Endeavor society is organized you may be pretty sure of finding a weak church preceding it. Each church member should be an earnest, vigorous worker in the cause of the saving of sou-s, and if he or she performs his or her duty conscientiously, there can be no reason for organizing. I always accept it as a sign of church weakness, and the organized Christian Endeavorer acts as a prop to keep It from falling." Mrs. Parkhurst was born in Chalemont, Mass.

Harriet Beecher Stowe. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was the sixth child of Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher, was born in Litchfield, Conn., June 12, 1812, and was educated at the Litchfield Academy. At the age of twelve she wrote compositions on profound themes, and at the age of fourteen taught a class in "Butler's Analogy." In 1832 she removed with her father's family to Cincinnati, where she was married in 1836 to Professor Calvin Ellis Stowe. Subsequently she made several visits to the south, and fugitive slaves were often sheltered in her house and assisted to escape to Canada. In 1S49 she published "The Mayflower, or Short Sketches of the Descendants of the Pilgrims," and in 1S51, while living at Brunswick, Me., where her husband had a chair in Bowdoin College, she wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly." It was published serially In the National Era, and in 1852 appeared in book form. Nearly 500,000 copies were sold in the United States alone within the live years following its publication. It has been translated into twenty languages and dramatized in various forms. Mrs. Stowe traveled extensively in Europe for several years, and has published a number of other books, among them "The Minister's Wooing," "Dred; a Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp," "Old Town Folks," "The True Story of Lady Byron's Life," and "Lady Byron t Indicated." For some years she h resided in Hartford. Conn. The Moliere Fountain. Not far from the National Library, where the little street Moliere runs into the Rue Richelieu, at this converging point, is the Fountain of Moliere, one of the handsomest in Paris. It is supposed that the founder of French comedy died in the house now numbered 34, Rue Richelieu, and so the monument was placed here, near it, at this commanding point. The monument was built by public subscription and bears the date of the birth and death of the celebrated actor, whom Louis XIV honored with his friendship. It was through the efforts of cne Regnier, Soeietaire of the Corned ie Franca ise when Moliere's plays delighted all Paris that this subscription was started and the monumental fountain erected. There is a pedestal above which is a brone figure of Moliere, who appears as if in deep thought, while in his hand is a pen. On each side of the pedestal there is the figure of a woman, one representing High Comedy and the other Light Comedy, both of these the work of Prodier, the sculptor who was horn in Geneva, but who did all his best work in Paris. Four Corinthian columns support a pediment and cornice, and in the pediment is an emblematical figure that is holding out a crown to place upon Moliere's head. To Sludr Mars. Mr. Percival Lowell, of Boston, who eriKited and equipped a fine temporary ol.rorvatory in Arizona last year mon-Iy fov the purpose of studying the plan-L Mara, announws thnt he will hnvo a 24" Inch telescope made by Clark for further research. An old flame the light of other days.

TO ENCOURAGE PENITENTS.

Law Providing for a Minimum Sentence for Good Convicts. One of the recently enacted statutes of the State of Massachusetts is known as the undeterminate sentence law, and was passed for the benefit of penitent criminals, in the belief that such consideration of that class of malefactors would be conducive to the welfare of society. This law applies only to offenses punishable by sentences to the state prison. Two and a half years Is the shortest term to which any convict may be sentenced under it, and the judge in passing sentence may fix the minimum at a considerably longer period. The court also pronounces the maximum sentence under the law, which varies according to the circumstances, as is the case in all states. When the minimum sentence has been served out, the board of prison commissioners examines the convict's record, and by that and other means ascertains how he has deported himself and what are the probable chances of his making good use of his time if set free. On the recommendation of this board the Governor and council may release the prisoner, but he goes out with the remainder of the full maximum term hanging over him. If he violates any of the conditions of his release and they are very stringent or if he breaks any law of the state, he goes back to prison to serve out the maximum term, and the period during which he has been at liberty is not reckoned as a part of the term. This plan is an adaptation of the English ticket-of-leave It has the recommendation of the penologists, social scientists, jurists and experienced legislators. Its advocates urge that valuable lives may be saved from utter wreck by giving a young map. or woman who has fallen under temptation a chance to try again. They urge that the interests of society and those of penitent criminals lie in the same direction; that the state and the individual will both be advantaged by giving the latter an opportunity to repair past errors. It is admitted that great care and circumspection will be required to so enforce this law as to make it a public benefaction, but its friends are pledged to use their best endeavors toward making the new departure a success. IMPARTING SOCIAL POLISH. Novel Avocation Pursued by a Man and Wife in the Itritish Capital. A new profession for "gentlefolk" has been discovered in London by two impecunious members of the class. They have discovered that there is a livelihood to be gained by "polishing off" the nouveaux riches and others whose manners "have that repose which stamps the case of Vere de Vere." They are a well-born, wellbred married couple who are still sufficiently young to be adaptable. They "r.p.ve been used to the ways of the Ijioure class and they are clever enough to teach them. Anything from the cure of the cockney accent to the proper way to entertain a duke is taught for a "consideration." The wife describes her share of the work thus: "I generally," she says, "undertake to engage the services of all specialists, such as superior maids, who know what is what, and can give judicious and useful hints to their mistress;' also manicurists, teachers of deportment, and sometimes teachers of elocution. I have cured one very bad case of mere outward vulgarity in three weeks for 10 guineas, and I have corrected a cockney acent in three mornings for 3 guineas; while, on the other hand, a certain city man who never aspired to anything better than heavy English dinners, Fridays to Mondays at Brighton, and Mansion house balls, until he married the daughter of a west end restaurant manager she knew nothing of life beyond her own narrow sphere gave us carte blanche to make 'fine folks' of them. Not much could bs done for him beyond keeping him quiet, but she lent herself to our process. Now they have a very pretty place in Hampshire and entertain some rather nice people in the summer. We ourselves received 100 guineas for our advice, but the husband must have spent over 25,000 in adopting our hints as to mode of living, and he tells us that what he has got for it is worth double as much." Brains in the Finger Tips. It may not be so generally known that recent poat-mortem examinations of the bodies of the blind reveal the fact that in the nerves at the ends of the fingers well-defined cells of gray matter had formed, identical in substance and in cell formation with the gray matter of the brain. What does this show? It proves that a man can think not alone in his head, but all over his body, and especially in the great nerve centers like the solar plexus, and the nerve ends on the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet. The coming man will assuredly perceive and think in every part, from his head down to his feet. GREAT MEN ON EATING. In good eating there" is happiness. Aplcius. Thou shouldst eat to live, not live to eat. Cicero. Eating to repletion is bad, but what we eat should be good of its kind. Dr. S. S. Fitch. It is not the eating, but the Inordinate desire thereof that ought to be blamed. St. Augustine. Animals feed, man eats; tell me what you eat and how you eat, and I will tell you what you are; the man of intellect alone knows how to cat. B. 3avarin. Eat not for the pleasure thou mayest find therein; cat to increase thy strength; eat to preserve the life which thou hast received from heaven. Confucius.

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His Lookout. "I don't believe that steak weighs two pounds," said old Nipper, surveying themeat just sent home from the butcher. "I'll weigh it and make Chopson deduct for the shortage." "Well," said he, after doing so, "lt' two pounds and a half, by Jingo!" "You will have to pay Chopson for another half pound," said Mrs. Nipper. "Not I that's his mistake." Harlem Life. The Rocky- Mountains Along the line of the Northern Pacifte Railroad abound In large game. Moose,, deer, bear, elk, mountain Hons, etc., can yet be found there. The true sportsman is willing to go there for them. A little book called "Natural Game Preserves," published by the Northern Pacific Railroad, will be sent upon receipt of four cents in stamps by Chas. S. Fee, Gen't Pass. Agent, St. Paul. Minn. The Way It's Done In Maine. One of the most appropriate "booby" prizes won at the contests that take place In Portland, Maine, in progressive whist is a wax figure of a boiled lobster. On it is not only the name of the recipient, but also a card with this inscription: "I was green once." Always Tired Describes a dangerous condition, becauseit means that the vitality is becoming exhausted by reason of impoverished blood. Give new life to the vital fluid and the nerves and muscles will grow stronger. Hood's Sarsaparilla gives strength, because it makes pure, rich blood. Kemember Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the only true blood purifier prominently in the public eye today. $1 ; six for $5. - IJ J r;l( the after-dinner pill ant tlOOa S KlllS family cathartic. 25c. ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR The BEST FOR Dyspeptic,DeIicate,Infirm and AGED PERSONS JOHN CARLE & SONS. New York. w VASELINE PREPARATIONS, f n order to familiarize the public, all over the United States with the principal ones of the very many useful and elegant articles made by this Company, we make the following offer: FOR ONE DOLLAR sent us hy mall, we wffl deliver, free of all charges, to any person in the United States, either by mail or express, the following 13 articles, carefully packed in audit box: 1 wo Cakes Vaseline Kamil v Soap, One Cake Vaseline Superfine Soar). One ounce Tube Capsicum Vaseline, '"" One ounce Tube Pomade Vaseline, One ounce Tube Camphorated Vaseline, One ounce Tube Carbolate) Vaseline, One ounce Tube White Vaseline, Two ounce Tube Vaseline Camphor Ice, Twoounee Tube Pure Vaseline. 2 I 1 One Tube Perfumed White Vaseline, One Jar Vaseline Cold Cream. ALL THESE GOODS ARE of the REGULAR MARKET SIZES and STYLES SOLD by US. These articles are the best of their kind fn the World, and the buyer will iind every one of them exceedingly useful and worth very much more than the price named. CHESEEBOtJGH HF0. CO.. 25 STATE ST.. HBW702K COT. Raphael, Augelo, Kubens, Tasao The "LINENE" are the Best and Most Economical Collars and Cuffs worn : they are made of fine cloth, both sides finished alike, and. being reversible, one collar is equal to two of any other kind. They fit well, wear well and look well. A box of Ten Collarsor Five Pairs of Cuffs forTwenty-KT Cents. A Sample Collar and Pair of Cuffs by mail for Six Cents. Name style and size. Address I REVERSIBLE COLLAR COMPANY, 77 Franklin St. New York, 27KilbySt. Boston L EWIS' 98 LYE F0W2SSZD AND FOTUIOD (PATENTED) The strongest and purest Lye made. Unliko other Lye, It being a line powder and packed In a can i . i. H.AMhiA 1 1 jt . . are always ready for use. Will matte the best perrumed Hard Soap in 30 minutes without boiiing. It is the best for cleansing waste pipe, disinfecting sinks, closets, washing bottles, paints, trees, etc. PENNA. SALT M'F'G CO. Gen. Agents, Phlla.. Pa. nUOOD POISON f" lA SPECIAUTYondaryorTef I I Itiary BLOOD POISON permanently I I lcuredinl5to35days. You can be treated at J Ihomeforsnmopriceundersamefraaraa,sy. iiytmprerenoconienere ff-e will con tract to pay railroad fareand hotel billnarui nocharge, if we fail to cure. If you have taken mercury, Iodide pot:tsh, and still hare aches and pains. Mucous Patches in mouth. Sore Throat. Pimples, Copper Colored Spots, Ulcers on any part of the Dody, Ma ir or Eyebrows- falltnir out, It is this Secondary BLOOD POISON we guarantee to cure. We solicit the most obstinate cases and challenge the world for a case we cannot euro. This disease baa always baffled the skill of tho most eminent phvslcians. 8500,000 capital behind our unconditional guaranty. Absolute proofs sent sealed on nppHcatlon. Address COOK KEMKDY CO 307 Masonic Temple, CHICAGO, ILL. iWCul out and send this advertisement. :Friends6ate (Kiln Dried) Superior to any . . Roiled Oats... Sold only In 2pound Packages At All Grocers MUSCATINE OAT MEAL CO. MUSCATINE, IOWA