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Blopmington Telephone BLOOM INGTON, INDIANA. WALTER a BRADFUTE, - - Pubushkb.

THE NEWS CONDENSED. THE EASTUBS. AHKA H&asey, of New Haven, pkaaufiy chatted with a friend on a steamer by. which the was going home from New Yaric until the vessel had cleared the harbor. Then she jumped overboard and was drowned The banking-house of Matthew Morgan's Sons, in New York, has made an assignment in eon sequence of the shrinkage of values in railroad bonds. They were rated at $1,000,000, and the institution was founded fifty years ago. They own large amounts ol real estate, including the New York Hotel. At the commencement dinner at Harvard College, President Eliot announced that only $135,000 had been donated during the year The Bev. Hemy Ward Beecber celebrated his seventy-first birthday at peekakiH, N. Y. surrounded by his grandchildren and many of his friends. Ik the Golumhia-Harvard freshman boat taoe at New London, Conn., the former crew beat the latter three lengths. Time Columbia, 9:43; Harvard. 9:54. Six lives were lost by the sinking of the Schooner Babcock near Barnegat, New Jersey H. H. Bangs (the Bay State Casket Company) failed at Boston far $400,000.

Ik San Fzandsoo, William C. Milton

IdDed iJbestina Anderson for refusing to awry him, and then took his own life..... She Be. Dr. Ehphalet Potter, President ft Union College, Schenectady, N. Y.. has been elected Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Nebraska,,.. ..The druggists of yftTriufli County, Iowa, have agreed to sell bo liquors, even on prescription, when the prohibitory law takes effect, because the Attorney General decided that they must take oat permits. Ah important murder trial has been conshided at Iancoln, BL The accused parties J. EL Hall, Belle Hall (his wife), and William Ferris were charged with the Wiling of Farmer MoMahon and his two hired men at Mount Pulaski, Logan County, several months ago. The jury found J. H, Hall guilty, and fixed his punishment at life imprisonment. William Ferris and Mrs. Hall were acquitted, but will be tried under indictments for killing Carter and

Edwabd Lixz, a young man well known in social circles in Minneapolis, killed himself with a revolver, leaving a note stating that for a year he had been insane.... At Brainerd, Minn., John White, a jockey, while practicing for a race, was thrown from his horse against a tree, breaking his neck Abridge over the Wabash River at Loganspart, Sid., gave way, letting a Yandalia construction train into the water. Engineer Grace and Fireman Scott were instantly killed. One brakeman escaped, while another received fatal injuries. Gxw. Shsbidah and a party of friends visited Chicago to witness the inauguration of the Washington Park race-track. The mooting opened with stakes aggregating $87,000, sad entries numbering 1,095. At San Fraetseo, Gustavo J. liOwengarL nephew of Samuel Seller, a nierohast, blew out his brains while an officer was mailing a warrant for his arrest on the charge of threatening hi 3 uncle's life, who refused t give Jinn money for gambling purposes. A JUfttuuvr dispatch from Helena, Montana, states that Ed Owens and Si Nicker-

stole eight horses from the Benton and

BOhngs Stage Company at Bock Springs Station, 100 miles northeast of Helena. John Davis, the Superintendent of the stage line, pursued the thieves down Muscleshell Biver. When fifty miles below the station he was told by cowboys that the thieves passed with the horess a few hours before. Fifteen cowboys volunteered to follow the trail. The thieves were overtaken thirty miles north of Black's Banch, and attacked. The cowboys were driven back, being armed only with revolvers, while the horse-thieves had rifles. Men were sent to the camp for guns and the fight was renewed. Si Nicfcerson was shot dead and Ed Owens wounded, captured, and hanged. William Jones and Tun Devlin, cowboys, were wounded CoL George A. Henry, of Chippewa Falls, Wis., timber agent, has been indicted by the United States Grand Jury for receiving two bribes for dropping trespass suits against certain parties. . . .Palmer, the Cincinnati murderer, who is partly responsible for the terrible riots in that city last March, has been sentenced to be hanged on October 10. ...John Strange, lumber dealer, of Menasha,Wis., has gone into bankruptcy. Liabm,$40,000;rtssets, $20,000.... Kingman A Go's large warehouse, filled with agricultural implements, at East St Louis was destroyed by fire. Loss, $50,000; insurance, $26,000 The iron steamship Onoko took from Chicago to Buffalo 100,000 bushels of wheat, the largest cargo ever known on the lakes. . . .Judge Wylie, of Columbus, has decided against playing baseball m Sunday in Ohio.

THE SOUTH.

Ikb Laddt, a negro 95 years old, who recently made three attempts to outrage white women at Whitney, Tex., and succeeded in one instance, was taken from jail at that place and lynched. The vigilantes also cut his ears off. Zxso T. Yotjhg, editor of the Madisonvilla (By.) Times, fell from the second story of his office and was fatally hurt The National field trials for sporting dogs will be held at Canton, Miss., beginning Dee. 8 next. . . .William Cox, of Danville, Ky., in shooting at two men who were trying to break into his house, shot and killed his mother. Coxi, Cash, the South Carolina duelist, revenged himself on the people of Cheraw bj removing the remains of his wife and her handsome monument from the village cemetery to his plantation. The7 wholesale furniture stores of McCmcken & Brewster, W. J. Tebautt, and F. B. Christensen, at New Orleans, with adjacent buildings, were burned, resulting in damnce of about $175,000. DO0 Wazjdbb was hanged at Texarkana for the murder of Lucas Grant. Two thousand cHmotis were permitted to witness the execution. O account of the failure of the airbrakes to work, a Virginia Midland express train, ran at a high rate of speed onto th3 fcridfp over the James Biver, near Lynch

burgh; 'Ya. The comer of the smokingcar struck the upright girders, throwing it from the track. The trucks of the car dragged the sleepers a distance of 100 feet, and one coach fell through the opening into ten feet of water. All the passengers were saved, most of them being taken out through holes cut in the ventilatory in the top of the car.

WASHINGTON Eiii H. MtnBBAY has been renominated as Governor of Utah, paid John W. Meldrum as Surveyor General of Wyoming. . . .The Comptroller of the Currency has called for a statement of the condition of the national banks at the close of business on the 20th of July. Cox. Gilbert A. Pierob, a Chicago journalist, has been nominated for Governor of Dakota by the President. Gov. Ordway was a candidate for renomination, but his claims were not considered sufficiently strong. . . .John H. Kinkead, of Nevada, has been nominated for Governor of Alaska. The President has (signed the bill organizing s National Bureau of Labor. Under the bill this bureau becomes adjunct of the Interior Department. An appropriation of $25,000 is given. The appointments to be made are a Commissioner by the President and a Chief Clerk by the Secretary. All other work will be i&at of experts, and they are to be chosen by the Secretary on the recommendation of the Commissioner. 3he comparatively small appropriation will render it impossible this year to do any large amount of inveetiga tion, as there will be room-rent, printing, correspondence, copyist, etc., to pay for. The bureau is authorized to inquire into matters relating to wages, hours, woman and child labor, imported contract labor, such as that of the Italians, Slavonians, Hungarians, and Chinese, now brought here in gongs.

POLITICAL.

Gen. Logan was notified at Washington, by the Convention Committee, of his nomination for the Vice Presidency, and formally accepted it as a trust reposed in him by the Republican party. Geobge W. Steejjb was renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Eleventh District of Indiana after a close contest. Mr. Steele was elected last time by about 500 majority over Dailey (Dem.;. . . . The Chicagoans composing the Finance Committee for the National Democratic Convention have been offered all the tickets they desire and a chance to audit the accounts of the convention. They insist upon supervising all contracts, in addition to having the seats numbered. The official count in the Oregon election gives Herrmann, Republican, for Congress, 25,699 votes, to 23,652 for Myers, Democrat. There were 11,223 votes for the woman's suffrage amendment, and 28,176 against it. . . .The Missouri Democratic Convention elected John O'Day, Morrison Munford, D. R. Francis, and Charles H. Mancur delegates -at-large to the Democratic National Convention. The delegates-at-large and the district delegates are understood to be in favor of Cleveland for President. The Indiana Democratic State Convention nominated Isaac P. Gray for Governor, and M. D. Manson for .Lieutenant Governor. . . .The Ohio Democratic State Convention was held at Columbus. The platform adopted favors a tariff :for revenue limited to the necessities of the Government, so adjusted as to encourage productive interests at home, but not to create monopolies. Tee Republican National Committee met in New York and elected B. F. Jones, of Pittsburgh, Chairman, and Samuel Fessenden, of Connecticut, Secretary., . . .Gen. . A. Perry has been nominated by the Florida Democratic Convention for Governor. M. H. Mabry is the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor. . . . .William Williams, of Koscinsko Comity, was nominated for Congress at Michigan City., Ind., to succeed Major Calkins. Mr. Williams is at present United State Minister at Paraguay. The Arkansas Democrats in convention adopted a platform favoring public education, inviting immigration, favoring retrenchment and reform, and a reduction of duties. Regret is expressed at the declination of Tilden, who is e:ctolled as a patriot and statesman.

C3EIVEKAX

Wzlliam FrrzsiMMONS, engineer of a PittsburgK Fort Wayne :ind Chicago passenger train, injured in a collision two years ago near Alliance, Ohio, was awarded $26,000 damages in the District Court at Youngsferan, Ohio. The Trustees of the Garfield National Monument Association have decided upon the design lor a monument. The first prize, $1,000, was given to George H. Keller, of Haitford, Conn.; the second prize, $750, to Charles F. ancl Julius A. Sveinferth, of Cleveland; the third prize, $500, to Moffitt & Doyle, of New York. Mb. Gaynon, an evangelist preacher, was killed by lightning while in bed at Winnipeg, Manitoba, recently. .There were 199 failure in the United Sates and Canada during last week, againut 505 for the preceding week. . . .Eleven men were dangerously injured by the explosion of a boiler in a fiour-xaill at Stryker, Ohio. Santiago Seguin, Mayor of New Laredo, Mexico, has be an sent to jail by the District Judge for embezzling money while City Collector. The preceding Mayor lias suffered imprisonment for some months for participating in a train-robbery. . . . At Celaca, Mexico, a mob attacked the Protestant mission, con trolled by the Rev. A. W. Greenman. The latter and his party fled to an adjacent house, pursued by the Mexicans, who fired on ihem. The mission people returned the fire, killing one of the rioters and wounding others. The mob was encouraged by the Mayor.

FOREIGN.

Mb. BtrBGE, a London stock-broker, committed suicide in hilt office on account of recent losses A Spanish revenue cutter seized a British steamer one mile outside the batteries at Gibraltar and on releasing the vessel carried away her passengers as hostages A seditious notice placarded at Doneraile, County Cork, threatens to murder Loa d Doneraile. The notice says "an end must come to Rossmorrisismand landlordism." It summons the Invincibles to meet to arrange for the removal of Lord Doneraile. Italy has requested that the mail sent to that country from America be iuolcsed in tarred backs. The moil will pass through France, afedtbe precauti on is necessary to

prevent the spread of cholera through the mails Mr. Paruall writes that, io case he can not attend the Irish National Convention at Boston, Aug. 13 and 14, Mr. Sexton will come in his place .... Queen Victoria's bock, devoted principally to John Brown, has had a small sale. She is distributing copies among patients in the public hospitals Two officers of the Spanish army, who deserted in April, were shot at Gerona, Spain, on the order of the King. An immense crowd wat present. . . . A cablegram announcing the shipment of $750,000 in Amerioin gold for New York assigns as a reason ttiat money is a drug in London. ADDITIWfAL NEWS. St. Joseph's Catholic Orphan Asylum near Newport, Ky., was destroyed by fire. The inmates all escaped, and are temporarily quartered in Nevport. Gen. ScHOFiEiiD will be Pre sident of the court-martial which will meet in New York Sept. 11 for the trial of Judge Advocate General Swaim. The residence of Mrs. Patrick Murphy at Brier Hill, near Youagstown, Ohio, was destroyed by fire. Three of the children, aged 5, 7, and 9 years, perished in the flames. Mrs. Murphy herself escaped, and she succeeded in refi cuing her fourth child. The Sheriff of the Cherokee Nation is engaged in taking down fences on all tracts larger than fifty acres, and confiscating the wire. He began work south of Coffeyville, and has removed thousands of miles from inclosures which exceeded the limit fixed by the council. There is intense feeling against the

Jews in Western Russia, and they are greatly alarmed. Some of the Slavic organs encourage the anti-Semitic people, declaring that to give equal rights to Jews and Christians would be a greater misfortune for Russia than the former Mongolian yoke In the British House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone moved that the vote on the proposition to censure the Government for its Egyptian policy be given precedence over all other business, but the motion was defeated The Theater Royal at Edinburgh, Scotland, has been destroyed by fire. Several buildings adjacent were burned down....Thi German Government will next session sub" mit to the Reichstag; a scheme for the material enlargement of the navy. . . .The Mark Lane Express reports foreign wheat greatly depressed, the heavy receipts causing unusually low rates. A OABiiE dispateh reports that cholera has appeared at Saluzzo, in Northern Italy. The disease was increasing at Marseilles, France. A naval captain in the latter city killed himself when his wife was attacked. French Government physicians, having ex

amined the epidemic at Toulon, report that

it is a mud form of Asiatic cholera.

A number of deaths from cholera have occurred at Odessa, Russia. A

dispatch from Toulon says: wIt is generally admitted that the worst of the cholera crisis is over. One feature of the disease has been the shortness of time elapsing between seizure and death. This would seem to indicate that the malady is Asiatic cholera." Obangemen at Twillengate, N. PM wrecked one of three houses tenanted by Catholics in that place. At Green's Pond Harbor the Orangemen drove off four vessels which put in for shelter, brutally beat the sailors, and seriously damaged the crafts by missiles. In St. Mary's Bay the crew of a bark entered the Catholic Church, destroyed the furniture, carried off the chalice and sacred vessels, and desecrated the structure in various ways. The parish priest and merchants prevented the destruction of the ship and cargo by the Catholic population. "Bill" England, a British pugilist, who came Qver to make a match with John L. Sullivan, was "used up" by George Rooke, at New York, in four rounds. Bills were reported to the Senate on the 30th nit, to forfeit the unearned land grant of the Northern Pacific Road, and for the erection of a public building at Akron, Ohio. An adverse report was made on the bill to grant public lands to the survivors of the Mountain Meadow massacre. Mr. Cameron called up a resolution to discharge the Finance Committee from further consideration of the bill for the retirement and recoinagt; ef trade dollars, but it was voted down. The river and harbor bill was taken up, and, several amendments were disposed of . A House joint resolution was passed continuing the present appropriations for five days from June 30. President Arthur sent to the Senate tho name of ex-Congressman Henry S. Neal, of Ohio, to be Solicitor of the Treasury. In the House of Kepresentutives, Mr. King introduced a bill appropriating $200,000 to prevent the introduction of cholera into the United States. The conference reports on the bills authorizing a bridge at St, Paul and the disposition of useless military reservations were agreed to. The Committee on Elections made a report that John S. Wise is entitled to retain his seat as Kepresentative-at-large from Virginia. The fortification bill was discussed. Messrs. Horr, Finerty, and Dorsheimer favored the majority report for a large appropriation. Messrs. Hoiman and Follett made speeches on the opposite aide. No action was taken. THE MARKET. NEW YORK. Beeves $ 6.00 ft 7.50 Hogs 6.25 ft 5.75 Floub Extra 4.00 ft 6.60 Wheat No. 2 Chicago. 94 ft .96 No. 2Jed 98 ft .99 COBN No. 2 White ,60 ft .02 Oats White. 37 3 .42 Pobk Mess 16.50 gjl7.00 CHICAGO. BKBVBS Choice to Prime Steera. 6.50 (3 7.25 Fair to Good 6.00 6.50 Butchers' 6.00 $ 5.50 HOOS 6.00 5.50 Floub Fancy White Winter Ex 6.25 ('$5.75 Good to Choice Spring... 4.50 & 5.25 WHEAT No. 2 Snrinir 85 CO .86 No. 2 Red Winter. 93 .94 COBN No. 2 52 .63 Oats No, 2 31 9 .32 RYE No. 2 62 ( .64 Barley No. 2. 69 ft .61 Butteh Choice Creamery .18 ft .19 Fine Dairy. 14 ft .15 Cheese Full Cream. 08 ft .09 Skimmed Flat .04 ft .05 Eggs Fresh. 15 ft .16 Potatoes New, per brl 3.60 4,00 Pork Mess 19.25 10.75 TjABD 07 .07 TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Red 90 0 .91 M Corn No. 2 .55 ft .66 OATS No. 2 81 .83 MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. 2 85 ,86 Corn No. 2 54 ft .65 Oats No. 2 81 ft .32 Barley No. 2 66 ft .68 Pork Meas 18.25 $18.75 Lard. 7.00 7.25 ST. LOUia Wheat No. 2 Red. 92 ft .93 Corn Mixed. 60 ft .51 OATS-No.2 SI ft .32 Rye. - 66 ft .57 Pork Mess 18.00 &18.75 CINCINNATI. Wheat No. 2 Red. 95 ft 97 Corn 55 ft .56 Oats Mixed. 83 ft .34& Pork Mess 15.75 a;io.25 Lard.... - MH& .07 DETROIT. Flour 6.25 ft 6.75 Wheat No. 1 White. 1.00 ft 1.02 Corn Mixed 57 ft .68 Oats No. 2 Mixed 36 ft .36 Pork Mess 19.00 ii9.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat No. 2 Red 91 ft .92 Corn Mixed 62 ft .53 Oats Mixed 81 ft .33 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle Best 6.00 ft 6.50 Fair. 6.50 ft 6.25 Common. 3.75 ft 4.C6 Hogs 5.w ft p. 50 Sheep r. -oo ft 4.60

THE WORK OF CONGRESS.

What Li Being Done by thft National Legislature. The Senate, June 24, passed i&e Mexican pension bill, with an amendment that no person ahaU be entitled to more than one pension at a time, and the House bill to authorize the appointment of two additional Ju stices of the Supreme Court for Dakota and one for Washington Territory- In the House ot Eepiesentatives, a bill was passed to repeal the pre- emption and timber-culture laws, with an amendment that agricultural lands shall hereafter be reserved for actual settlers under the homestead law. The House electoral-count bill wan passed, as wa& also the Senate bill to pive an annual vacation of fifteen days to each letter-carrier. The Senate, on June 25, spent the day on the I&giBlative appropriation bill, and strook out the clause directing the consolidttf ion of customs districts. The House of Representatives admitted James R. Chalmers for the Second District of Mississippi, a resolution to declare the election void being voted down by 66 to 161, Bills were passed to authorize the establishment of a branch Soldiers Home in the West, and givinp: permission for a horse railway on the island and bridges at Bock Island. Thi) Senate, on the 26th, passed the legislative appropriation bill, with an amendment that all reiort8 in the Record shall be an accurate transcript of the proceedings and debates. The House passed a bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at White Cloud, Kan. Bills were reported to pension the surviving officers and men of the Tippecanoe campaign, and for disposing of the Cherokee reservation in Kansas. Ths Senate, on June 27, passed a bUil granting right of way through the Indian Territory to the Southern Kansas Boad. A bill for tne relief of William McGarrahan was reported adversely. Mr. Mitchell introduced a bill to incorporate the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Bepublic. Mr. Hawley called attention to a false statement in a speeeh printed in the Record that Gen, Logan owned 80,000 acres of land. The House, by a vote of 124 to 114, tabled the bill to forfeit the "backbone" railroad land grant. The subject of printing undelivered speeches in the oflicial report of proceedings led to some hot words and oonsld erable merriment. A favorable report was made in the Senate, Jane 19, on the bill to pension the widow of General James B. Steedman, Ths general deficiency b;lll was passed, with an item authorizing the payment of $3,0D0 to Charles H. Beed for defending Charles J. Guiteau. The River and Harbor bill consumed the remainder of the day's aesfiion. In the House, the Seaker stated that the regular order was the question of privilege comeing over from yesterday, and presented by a resolution offered by Mr. Cannon, that the Record be so amended as to show that the speech purporting to have been delivered by Mr. McAdoo, in which alrasion is made to Senator Logan, was not actually delivered by him.v Mr. Cox after deprecating the practice of printing long essays in The Record said the present dispute arose from the publication in The Record of s newspaper article stating that Senator Lgan owned 80,000 acres of land. It had not been charged that he came by It wrongfally. He (Cox) did not know that Logan was a dishonest man. What was the object of this discussion to-day, except to prevent fdjournment? In order to put an end to the discussion, he moved to lay the whole matter on the table. Cries of "Good " and "Vote." Tbe motion was agreed to without a division, air. Lovering8 eight-hour law, which proposed to pay Government employes a full day's pay fox eight hours work, was defeated.

To Succeed on the Stage John McGullough insists on familiarity with routine, and an habitual unconsciousness that leaves the intelligence perfectly free. But the two qualities which he regards as impera

tively essential to success are com

prised in the terms heart aud untiring

industry.

Joe Jefferson says that the successful

actor must be gifted with sensibility, imagination, and personal magnetism. n

The student should begin at the found

ation to learn. He thinks it a mistake

to regard the lower positions degrading. Some actors he says, are inspira

tional and inventive, while others must

have everything clearly mapped out.

and a thorough plan of action arranged

before they begin.

Lawrence Barrett does not think that physical size has anything; to do with

success. Me says there nave been large

generals and small generals. Salvini

ana xsoota illustrate me iaci in reiauon to tragedians. In hk opinion, it would

be best if a young man could start in a school of actors, so that-he might have

none but models to guide him. Every

actor is an imitator of some time in his

youth. An actor can be great in only a

few parts. William Warren says the chances for getting on are greater than when he was a boy. He says of the comedian that he Bhould have a real, genuine ap

preciation of the humorous and gro

tesque in life, and the magnetic power to make others feel as he feels. He need not, by any means, be what is known as a' "funny man." He does not hold to the theory that any particular size of body is essential to ttuccess as a comedian. John Reeve and Burton were fat men decidedly; Charles Matthews, on the other hand, was thin. Mod jeska believes in "vocation." She thinks the best school for acting is the stage itself, when one begins by playing small parts. She believes more in inspiration, at the last, than technique or art, important elements as the latter are. Maggie Mitchell says the jstage is the only school, and 18 is the minimum age for going before the footlights; and she hails the change in favor of simple and judicious femalo costuming on the stage. Henry Wahd Beechee U reported as having said: "Pie, sir, goes with civilization; where there is no civilization there is no pie." Accepting that theory as correct, some printing offices where "pi" is constantly accumulating must be in an eminent state of civilization. It is a well-known fact that when a new batch of "pi" is made in a printing office the foreman uses some very Christian-like expressions. Carl Fret zeVs Weekly. Love never tires; and the more we love, the more we have of soli d satisfaction. Every new soul we come in contact with and learn to esteem fills us with new life. Those who love others are themselves full of sunshine, and the day marches triumphantly on with them from rosy morn to de?y eve and silent night. One of the latest cheats :is tobacco paper. The stuff is such an exact imitation of the natural tobacco leaf, and is so well flavored that it talces a magnifying glass to detect the deception. Cigars made of this tobacco paper have a good flavor, burn well, and hold their white ash. firmly. BsteENTANCK without amendment is like continually pumping without mending the leak. Dilmyn. At the latest accounts tho debts of H.

E. H. Albert Edward footed up $1,000,000.

UEKUIXE BULL-FIGHT.

The Splrifrd Battle thjtt Ended In the Ignominious Idlest of "Texas." There had been considerable chaffing, variegated with especially lurid illustrations ol the possibilities cf profanity, on the merits of the two bulls, and for several nights the smoke hung low over the camp fires, as if listening, too awestricken to rise, to their various stories of their prowess in former struggles. Murcbeson's men were to tb westward of the trail, but they cam over to Zingraan's round-up, two xniles to the east, every evening to talk over their bull, and speculate'on the chances if Zingman's men felt the spirit of ownership of anything they wanted to pit against him. But Zingman's people hesitated. They bad a bull, "Texas," which had killed everything he had tackled, and they thought it an unfair advantage to turn him loose against so manifestly an inferior animal as Murcheson's " Wild Bill though they couldn't call to mind any other animal they were willing to risk money on. This position broke up the poker game, and gave rise to some pronounced polemics. If wind could have settled the dispute it would have been, decided in favor of both sides. Belying on the anecdotes related of each, one would suppose that a contest between them could only result in the termination of time. Murcbeson's men were a unit in the statement that on one occasion "Wild Bill" had rushed his adversary down, and, unable to stop his headway, had gone home with a Baptist Church on his horns. Zingman's people conceded the possibility of this, but maintained "and proved conclusively by the testimony of each other that "Texas" had on ono occasion picked up an earthquake on his horns and held it there until it agreed never to visit that section again if he would let it go. On this state of faotsitwas obvious that nothing but a meeting could definitely determine the superiority, and the duel was arranged for Sunday morning. The fight was to come off on neutral ground, midway between the two herds. Every cowboy was to have his weapons behind him, a judicious precaution, since the cowboy pistol has a supernatural method of discharging itself, without reference to material causes. Each side was to remain behind its own bull, and neither to approach the fracas closer than three hundred yards, the winners to take all the money to be found on the persons or in the possession of the losers. Bright and early Sunday morning, the grass still shining in the dew, and the sun coming up with every promise of a glorious prairie day, the bulls were cut out of their respective herds and driven to the battle ground. A man who has never seen a Texas bull doesn't know how much fight can be tied up in one hide. Strong and wiry, not too heavy in the flank, short of horn, and quick of action, he was built to

fight, and contrives to discharge his

mission without involving . himself in

the slightest unnecessary complication.

Lashed to madness by the whips

of the cowboys, laid on mercilessly to arouse their rage, the two

bulls came in sight of each other, and their backers withdrew. By nature a

Texas bull is all the time as mad as he can get. untill he sees another bull.

then the thermometer ol his wrath

goes to boiling point. As they spied each other their heads

went down and their tails up. - They approached slowly and with a sinuous

moUon, pawing the ground and moan

ing. "Texas" appeared a little the larger of the two, and he was fully as active as his foe. A hundred paces

apart they fairly sprang from the earth,

and the bellow and the crash of meet

ing mingled together as the ground trembled beneath them. "Texas" had the best of it, for "Wild Bill" recoiled to his haunches, but the game little bull recovered first, and in the next attack gored "Texas" under the head, nearly reaching the throat. The onslaught was so unexpected that "Texas, w still dazed by the first shock, failed to counter on his adversary. But the next rush found him prepared, and he received his enemy full on the forehead, driving him again to his hannches. Before "Bill" could rally "Teas" had raised the flesh on his nigh fore shoulder bone. The smell of his own blood crazed the little bull, and his next dash was not straight. He struck "Texas" obliquely, throwing up the head ot the latter, and then turning before he had passed, he ripped up the big bull's off fore leg, catching him behind the shoulder and tearing out the muscles, cords and tendons. Though badly lamed, "Texas" was not vanquished. Once more he bore the little bull down, but "Bill" was the least injured of the two, and, struggling to his feet, he hurried a horn in the old wound. It is doubtful if he knew what damage he had done, for he was half blind with his adversary's blood. "Texas" waited the next rush where he stood, nor was he kept in suspense. "Bill" was at him in a moment, but the big bull, sadly hurt, winded and tired, held his head high, and "Bill" caught him between the fore-legs, ripping him to the neck before he tore away. Then "Texas" turned, and a shout from his backers announced his defeat. With a yell of victory and derision Murcbeson's men dashed down and

drove their bull back to the herd. Three hours later the two herds were

in motion again, but Murcheson's people were enriched to the extent of all

the cash whereof Zingman's men had

been seized at the time the duel began.

Staggering slowly and painfully

down the trail, "Texas" limped while

on his way back to the ranch from

which he came. He couldn't go back

to the herd, for the cows will gore a

defeated bull to death. There was no effort to bind up his' wounds; they

didn t even oner to lead him to water. And so alone he wandered away, beat-

n, disgraced and grievously wounded.

and in a little while he was lost to sight in the dust that floated along the prairie.

When a baby can't do anything else

to waken its little self during the nigM it falls out of bed-

1:

J i i

The Old 8cbMlmttfar

vvhat has become of him the OJ

Thirty yeans and more ago in every

".r . . . i i m- -i

community, almost, wiere ww m vuyui

teacher whose personality was stnmgly felt in all its concerns. His school was a private ote. As a rule he had no othe r ambition than to teach, and sought for no reward other than the success of his pupils in their respective walks , of life. He was a man whose opinions were respected by parents, and whoso admonitions had weight with the pupils. In those days the boy recognized that he owed respect not only to the injunctions of his parents but to those of the teacher, and so admirable was lilie relation and understanding between the parents and teacher, that there was rarely any clashing. The boy who, while at home, was under control of parental discipline, did not escape the curb during school hours. The teacher took up the reins where the parent laid them down. The effect

of this arrangement was most salutary, Hundreds of the m'ost distinguished

iucu vi tut viiut? ac&iiowieugo we wutrolliing influence of their old schoolmaster upon their lives. They may have forgotten the things they were taught by the books, but they cannot forget the personality of the teacher nor refuse to admit his potent part rn shaping the course of their lives. The influence of some of those teachers, to fame unknown, upon the history of the country, as made by their pupils, is beyond all reckoning. If ever men deserve canonization, those quiet, unpretentious pedagogues did. Some of them could eount by the score men, eminent in the world's affairs, who had once been within the reach of their birch. But the day of the old schoolmaster has gone. Few of the old fellows remain There may be one, here and there, but he belongs to the past and he can find but little comfort in the educational methods of to-day. But it is not likely that anyone would recall the old schoolmaster and substitute his regime for the public school system of the present time, for as great as was the influence of the former for good, the latter accomplishes a greater work, so far as the benefit to the average individual of the community is concerned. It is this "average benefit that justifies the publie school But it is a matter of very great regret that, with the growth and development of the public school system, the personality of the teacher could not have been preserved. As it is, the pupil sees and feels the system. He looks upon the teacher as simply a wheel in the great machine and as something which may be very easily displaced without affecting the general movement As is the case with a great corporation, individual agents count for nothing bevond their ability to execute certain specific functions The man is nothing; the agent everything. So it is with the public school system. The teacher's ability to win the love and respect of his pupils; his power t6 charm; his influence upon the moral natures of the children placed in his care, are no longer essential qualities. The teacher, therefore, becomes of less 'consequence in the community. What the teacher says or does amounts to little. He become a humble individual who is paid far baa than his deserts, and who, owmg to tho political forces that sway the boards of controls afraid to call his life his own. You no longer hear a boy satt with the emphasis of great satisfaction and a good deal of pride, that he goes to school to did Prof. X . His father, who is a statesman, is frequently heard to boast that he went to Prot X 's school. The boy goes to a ward school and only knows that his teacher has a name. He has no thought of him or her af ter school hours. It would be vastly better if the teacher could be made more of. It is painful to think that men and women who give their lives up to the daily sacrifice of school-teaching, with its tremendous responsibilities, should be so entirely subordinated to a system that they should be made to lose all their personality the precious quality in every man whose soul is large enough to con tain a noble aspiration. If the old schoolmaster and his methods could be made factors in the public school system, the good in each preserved, v there would be infinitely better results v

from the expenditure of the peoples school money. Possibly these conditions would be realized if teachers were

ers. Then there would, perhaps, en

gage in the profession men and women whose personality no "system" could crush out G. V. Matthews, in the Current Letter-Writing. What should a letter be? It may be playful, serious, humorous, pathetic, cynical, vivacious, graphic anything you please; but we cannot admit it to a high rank unless it reveals the writer himself. A letter is a talk upon paper; and only that talk is really delightful in which a man throws aside his so Atol mant Art? oliniva na aIaadW Vi.

intimate feelings. We are delighted with Gray's letters, because they show the grave, serious man getting off his

lyrican stilts and revealing his tender-

simple feeling. We are charmed with

Uowper s playfulness, as we should

nave ceen giaa to nna nun piayuur

with his hares when the dark fit was

passing away. Pope is fully as artift

o al in his letters as in his poems, and therefore fails to please us entirely; but who ean read Swift's letters in tho same correspondence without tho sense

that the gloomy satirist has lifted the

veil for a moment and admitted jw

Mall Gazette.

xu-k pnysicians oi Jusgiand wer strona on the code 100 Team mm. . A

great COUrt docta was 1 ravelin r with a.

friend in this country. The friend fell down stairs in an anonlMtiA fit: nl th

K - ' w doctor refused to bleed him because it

was contrary to professional etiquet for a physician to perform that operatic.

ill-manners s flattery. If you flatter all thci com nan v vnn nktaiiA naua If

you flatter only only one or two, you .AU.i i.1 A

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