Bloomington Telephone, Volume 8, Number 38, Bloomington, Monroe County, 22 November 1884 — Page 2

Bloumington Telephone BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA. WALTER a BRADFUTE, - - Itoiasm

THE SEWS CONDENSED. THE EAST. Soi$e -students in the Industrial Institute at Worcester, Mass., recently led a horse up tiro fights of stairs to the ehapejL Twenty-eight members of the classes have been suspended for refusing to confess the detail?. . . .Three masked men entered the house of Capi John Morrow, an aged invalid, at Mansfield, Pa., bound two ladiefc of the family with ropes, and carried away $500 in money and some valuable property. . . . The community at Trenton, N. J., was shocked the other morning by the report, snbsequerrfly confirmed, that the Rev; Henry E. Williamson, rector cf St Paul's Church jof that1 city, and a son of ex-Chancelior WilEainson, of Elizabeth, had taken his own lif& According to the statements of friends, the deceased had for some time suffered from acute mental depression orarEBFMT $10 bills on a Cincinnati bank are plentiful at Camden, N. J., and

Wm L. Thompson, an engraver, was arrested at Philadelphia as being one of the coiners-. . . . Services commemorating the one hundredth, anniversary of the consecration of Samuel Seabury, the first Amertican Episcopal Bishop, were held at Trinity Church, New York,, and Christ Church, Hartford. . . .King & Upston's glue works at Peabody, Mass., were burned, causing a low of $00,000, with insurance of $70,000. Rebecca Jones, for many years housekeeper fear the Hammersleys, in Fifth avenue, New York, was last May Bent to Ludlow street jail for contempt in rjfdsing to answer questions in the. famous will case. After remaining in prison with a parrot for six months, she has petitioned to be set at liberty. . The losses incurred by the Hocking Valley strike are reported at $4,011,000. Miss Nancy Gould, of Portland, Me., who recently died, willed to the Government a house and,lot worth $2,000, to be used in paying (be national debt. The Solicitor of the Treasuiy will sell the property.

THE WEST

Gek. Wm. S. Haknet, the oldest officer in the United States army, being 84 years old, was married at St Louis to his housekeeper, Mrs. Marie St Cyr, a widow 45 years old. She has been the old General's housekeeper some twenty-odd years about as long as he has been on the retired list The General's first wife died before the war. He has two daughters married to Counts in Europe.. , . . Wreckers opened a switch on the Ohio and Mississippi, near Yincennes, Ind., causing the death of Gad Fairbanks, the oldest engineer on the line The failure is announced of the Pioneer Lumber Company of Ean -Claire, Wis., with $250,000 of debts, mainly in Chicago and Milwaukee. Govhrxob CnosBT, of Montana, in his anneal report, to the National Govern

ment, estimates Jhe increase of population

the year at 4.000,

and the present population at 84,000. He says the cattle in the Territory number over 90u,000, and the value of taxable property which does not represent one-quarter of the Tteqlth of the Territory is between $50,000,000 and $60,000,000. In other directions, Montana is steadily increasing the value of her materia! resources, ana she will at an early day apply for admission to the Union as a State. . . .Three robbers attempted to break into a store at Tioea, Ind., whan a watchman who had been pbsted inside, fired two loads of buckshot, killing one of the burglars almost instantly, and wounding the second seyetdy. The third man was found dead in the woods a short distance away. .. .Bobert S&ndring and his wife were discovered dead in the house on their aanchieven miles from Pine Grove, Colo., a ra&Bt station on the South Park Scad. The circumstances indicate that they twere. murdered for their money. Stanching SwasL one of the Colorado pioneers and rite wealthy and widely known y the wreck of a freight train, near Ashland. Ohio, two brakemen were killed, and te nremah, who jumped into the creek, -wild seriously hurt. . . .The explosion of ten fons of giant powder, at a point four miles DA rw : i a m . I "-t

xoieoo, was neara xany miies. win-

were broken m the city and limbs were

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f A NaxiohAxj Convention of cattle grow

ers was held at Chicago last week, and was largely attended. 4 National Association waa formed; and a committee, appointed to attend the St Louis convention with a view jto bringing that body under the provisions of the organization. Resolutions were adopted indorsing the work of the Bureau

of Animqi Industry, and especially com-

abuity and energy of Prof.

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ProEate Court at Chicago Judge

cerbocker, after hearing the testimony

Jt Austin L. Patterson, A. & Trod and F.

McCtenthen, subscribing witnesses, re

fused, to probate the wilt of Wilbur F. Storey, dated Feb. 1, 188L The reason assigned is that the testator waa not of aound mind and memory at the time of making the will. On the petition of Anson L Storey, Mr. A- L. Patterson was appointed by the court administrator of the estate. nd gave bond in $1,000,000 for the performance of his duties.... Judge Brewer of the United States Circuit Court at Omaha, has rendered a decision denying the right of the Brighton Banch Company to fence in about 52,000 acres of Government land and sustaining the Government's right to remove the fences at its pleasure.. Doxey Opera House (which oosjt $60,000), a number of business structures, and a livery stable containing horses, vehicles, etc.,. at Anderson, lad, were destroyed by fire.... Dining a Democratic jubilee at Wellington, (Kan., Mrs. John Schnarr was killed by a sky-rocket, and two other persons were seriously wounded. . . .The Grand Trunk warehouse, freight sheds, and five cars at Mount Clemens, Mich., were swept away by fire, with $25,000 loss. Trb explosion of a kerosene barrel

was thrown on a bonfire on West

Qntncy street, Chicago, fatally burned six

children, and injured and burned several others. Bunna! and Adam Poole, brothers; Eddie and Aggie Burke, brother and sister; Annie Ward, and a little two-year-old son of James Daly were fatally and horribly burned and bruised. Mary Jane Burke and Stephen Hasse were slightly burned. The exgiotaon was caused by the formation of jgm in the empty keroiena barrel used to feed the flames of the bonfire. Four of the children wen removed to the County Hospital and the others to their homes. ... . Joachim Detnlow and Caroline, his wife, wase icmnd on their farm near Chicago, tlia letter dead and the former unconedSouc front several wound upon the

It m nol expected that

reaover. The auuder-

ous deeds are supposed to have been committed by tramps who were seen lurking about the neighborhood The Supreme Court of Utah has refused to grant writs of habeas corpus in the case of Clauson and Evans, the polygamic, and they were sent to jail.

HIE SOUTH. A fmghtfuii railroad accident occurred at Hempstead, Texas, on the Houston and Texas Central Railway. The north-bound express-crushed through a bridge and into Clear Creek, drowning twelve of the passengers and wounding forty. Many of the dead were mangled beyond recognition. A dispatch from Austin, Tex., gives the following particulars of the shocking affair: "About two miles south of Hempstead the road crosses Clear Creek, where the embankments are high and the water deep. Here about 1 o'clock . in the morning, as the train came tearing along, the b ridge gave way just as the engine and tender had gotten across, and the entire train, consisting of th6 express, baggage, and smoking

cars, two coacnes, and two sleepers, plunged into the river, The train was crowded with passengers, and the scene which ensued was horrible in the extreme. As the trembling timbers gave way, a dreadful shriek of horror from the terrified passengers was soon followed by the heartrending moans and cries of the woundeH and the dying. The baggage and smoking cars were plunged beneath the water, the former twenty feet tolow the surface, while the others were almost submerged. Those who were unhurt joined in the work of rescuing women and children and the wounded, but in spite of the mosr, heroic efforts more than a dozen wore drowned. Darkness heightened the terrors of the scene. Many perished within easyreach of help. At the last accounts the bodies of twelve dead victims had been recovered. Forty persons were wounded. Many of the dead were mangled beyond recognition, but none of their names were remembered. The fireman jumped the moment he saw the bridge was falling, and landed on the embankment. His leg was broken. The engineer remained at his post and escaped unhurt. The conductor did not receive a scratch. Most of those who were drowned were in the baggage and smoking cars, and among them was the baggage-master." Five laborers who were engaged in Chicago for railroad construction in Guatemala, write from New Orleans that on arriving at Port Barrios they were ordered to work as slaved under a guard of soldiers. These victims managed to escape to the United States, but left 165 other dupes penniless The Director General of the How Orleans Exposition gives notice that exhibits should be shipped at once to be ready for the opening Dec. 15. . . . The mercantile house of J Stadeker &

Son, at Canton, Missi, has been closed on

executions. The liabilities are $75,000 or more. . . . .Gardanne Casanave, a member of the Louisiana Returning Board of 1876, died at New Orleans last week Twentyfive houses in the business part of Goldsboro, N. C, were destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $250,000.,.. a A syndicate has been formed to build the Texas Central from Albany, Tex. , north to a connection with the Denver and New Orleans Railway. . . . An old negro named Johnson, living at Jackson, Miss., cut his throat on account of the election of Cleveland.... A late census of Memphis, Tenn., shows an increase of 29 per eent. in the population sir.ee 18801 ....The safe of the Texas Express Company at Bryan was unlocked and robbed of $10,800.

WASHINGTON. The total values of domestic brt&dstuffs exported during October were $11,541,112, against $14,740,994 for the corresponding month in 1883. For the ten months ended Oct 31 the value was $120,998,047, against $145,125,331 for the corresponding period in 1883. . . , .The Washington monument has reached a greater height than that of any ether structure in the world, being 520 feet 10 inches above its floor. The next highest structure is the spire of Cologne Cathedral, which towers 515 feet above the floor of the building. It is estimated it will take but twenty-five working days to complete the monument, so thero is no doubt of its being finished in time for dedication on tho 22d of Februiiry The President has accepted the resignation of Judge Hezekiah G. Wells, of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, and appointed Hon. James Harlan, of Iowa, to succeed him as presiding Judge of the court. , . .Dr. D. E. Salmon, in a report to the Commissioner of Agriculture on the cattle disease in Kansas, expresses the belief that it was caused by eating ergot. The charters of 721 national banks, with an aggregate capital of over $189,000,000, will expire during the year 1885. This is more than one-third of the entire number of national banks now in existence. From information already received by the Comptroller of the Currency it ig expected a large majority of these banks will continue their existence either by extending their charters or by reorganizing uncer other titles. There are at present more national banks in existence with a larger aggregate capital than ever before. The capital invested in national banks was increased $15,000,000 during the year ending Sept. 30, 1884. . . .Lieut Greely, despite thg advice of his physicians, has gone to Washington to prepare his report. He walks slowly, but claims to have fully recovered his memory. There were 191 new national banks chartered in the United States during the year, adding a net aggregate of about $15,000,000 to the national banking capital of the country. During the period, named eleven national banks have failed. With a view of preventing the introduction of cholera into this country the Department of State has directed the United States Consuls-General at London and Paris to appoint medical examinern to inspect all vessels leaving English and French ports for the United States. . . .On the assembling of the court-martial to try Judge Advocate General Swaim, he claim"! want of jurisdiction, on the ground that the charges were not preferred by his commander, the Lieutenant General. The plea was not sustained. . . . James H. Marr, Chief Clerk in the office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, has held the place since 1831, and has no fear now of being molested. William Hunter has been in the State Department since 1829. . . . .Under the civil-service rules, Otis P. G. Clarke has been promoted to the Commissionership of Pensions and Celvin B. Waller advanced to First Deputy.

POLITICAL.

oeratic and goes it withy a rush.... Thomas J. Wood (Democrat) nupounces that he will contest the election of W. D. Owen in the Logansport (Iud.) Congressional district. , , .Henley (Democrat) is probably elected to Congress from the First Congressional District of California by a plurality of 59. . , .William Pitt Kellogg will contest the election of Gay in the Third Louisiana District. Axbakt telegram: "Gov. Cleveland declines to be interviewed as to the composition of his Cabinet. There are rumors that he will soon resign his position to Lieut. Gov. Hill, so that the latter can sign the credentials of electors. The continuous stream of callers at the Capitol embarrasses the Governor in the discharge of his official duties." Db. Henri Howakb, of New York, who has made Presidential elections a study, expresses the deliberate opinion that the majority of mankind are crazy.... The next President will be an important man for the army, for he will have the appointment of two Major Generals and six Brigadier Generals. . , .Gov. Cleveland's most intimate friends know nothing about his rumored approaching marriage. . . . Brownsville, Pa., the birthplace of Blaine, gave a Republican majority for the first time in forty years. .Close elections are no new thing, even in New York. Wash ington Hunt, in 1850, was elected Governor over Horatio Seymour by only 5562 votes, and Seymour was afterwards beaten for Governor by Myron H. Clark by only 308 votes.

Thb total vote of Boston is; JHaine, 20,808; Cleveland, 32,500; Butler, 3,(02; St John, 1,235. . . .Cleveland carried Berks County, Pa., by 7,400. Earthquake may after the geography of the globe and towering ambitions derange the boundaries of nations, but old Berks always goei Dexn

A Joint resolution praying the Government at Washington to divide the surplus in the Treasury among the States f or school purposes has been introduced in the Vermont Legislature The citizens of St, Johnsbury, Vt., hanged in effigy John P. St John and a local journalist who ran for Governor on an independent ticket Washington telegram: "The retention of Koscoe Conkling by the Democratic National Committee to assist in watching the count in New York is suggestive to those who know him in this city. A gentleman who has been intimate with him for years says that he has direct personal knowledge that Conkling's desire to re-enter public life is as strong as ever, and that he will do so when the favorable opportunity offers. It is the dream of his life to be again chosen Senator from New York. The story that he is out of politics is true only in a Pickwickian sense. It was evident to him that Blaine's election meant permanent retirement for him. Without making any hurrah about it he worked against the Plumed Knight as hard as he could. The zest of politics is to him more than ever. The sores of the Garfield summer are not healed, and until he strikes down others whom he hates he will not be satisfied. " Of the large cities of the country New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Baltimore, St Louis, Louisville, New Orleans, Indianapolis and Detroit gave majorities for Cleveland; Philadelphia, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Cleveland and San Francisco for Blaine Henry Chamberlain, Republican candidate for Sheriff in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, received .every vote in his own election district. . . . Vermont came gallantly up with one vote for sweet Belva Lockwood. . . .President Arthur and Samuel J. Tilden voted in the same precinct. . . .It is thought Senator Cameron has a sure thing on his re-election.

consequently the work is tedious... Telegrams from Atnoy state that the French have captured Tamsui. . , .Shanghai corre spondence to the London Times reporti that the Annnmite auxiliaries to the French army beheaded 500 Chinese prisoners at Kep .... A cablegram from Berlin announces the death of Alfred Edmond Brehan the German traveler and naturalist. . . . Prof. Lushington has been elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University. . , .Matthew Arnold is about to moke another tour in America, . . .Baron Alexander Von Stieglitz, the famous Russian banker, left a fortune of $750,000,000. , . ,ThQ total Socialist vote at the recent German election was 650,000,

JUIITIOIWAL. NEWS.

GENERAL,

A dispatch from Pernambuco reports the loss of the ship Andrew Johnson, bound from Caleto-Buena to Hamburg, and seventeen of her crew, in a collision with the British ship Thirlmere. The latter vessel has arrived at Pernambuco with the survivors of the Johnson's crew. .... Great alarm has been caused at Buenos Ayres by the development of two cages of cholera, and a strict quarantine will be enforced against all vessels from France Distinct shocks of an earthquake were felt at Colchester and Fingsville, Essex County, Ontario, and similar shocks were experienced at Concord, Hopkinton, Hulsboro, Bradford, and Warner, N. H. Immigkation to Canada has materially fallen off during the first ten mouths of 1884, when the arrivals were 138,386, as compared with 163,485 for the corresponding period in 1883. Of this year's arrivals 80,510 settled in Canada and 57,876 passed through to the States. ...Being destitute and without friends, Jchn Downey and wife, of Windsor, Ontario, resolved to drown themselves some weeks ago. The woman performed her part, but Downey lost courage, and, when his wife's body was found, was accused of the murder, but was acquitted. The other day Downey hanged himself. . . .The demise is. chronicled of William A Duncan, just re-elected to Congress from the Gettysburg district of Pennsylvania, and of Dean O'Reilly, of Hamilton, Out. . . , .Four men who left Kingston, Canada, in a boat for Cape Vincent, N, Y., have not been heard of, and, it is supposed, have been drowned. Since Jan. 1, 301,297 immigrants have arrived at Castle Garden, New York, against 359t705 for the corresponding period of last year The Germans head the list, and there has been a remarkable falling off in the number of Italians and Polish Jews. The "assisted" airivals have been fewer the last few months than ever before. ... Sir Alexander Campbell, representing the Dominion of Canada, has been conferring with the Premier of Ontario in regard to the appropriation of territory at Niagara Falls for tihe proposed international park, and it is understood thai the plans will soon be carjied out , A HaxiIFAX (N. S.) special reports thati while a life-boat with a crew of eleven wreckers, from the steamer Inveralt, stranded on Picton Island, was returning to shore during a northerly gale, the craft was capsized and eight of the party drowned. A man from shore, putting off in a dory to attempt the rescue of others who were clinging to the upturned boat, lost an oar, drifted to sea, and was lost.

A reduction of 10 per cent, in wages by the lock-works at Branford, Conn., caused a strike by 400 employes. In the Cumberland coal region of Mary'and the price of mining is to be reduced to 40 cents per ton. Two hundred men employed in the Walsenburg mines, in Colorado, have quit work .... For non-payment of a certain tax, Father Egan ejected an aged man, Duncan McCague, from church at Thorn Hill, Ont., McCague's thigh was broken in the affray, and his life is in danger. . . . The Baltimore and Ohio road reports a capital stock of $14,783,900, and an accumulated wealth of $47,750,000 for which no share was ever issued. . , .William B. Fitch, of Kingston, N. Y., an extensive blue-stone dealer, and a Democratic elector, has failed for $150,000. A new combination route from Springfield, HI., to Chicago, Kansas City, and St Louis has been opened by the Chicago,

, Burlington and Quincy in conjunction with

the Ohio and Mississippi .... The woolenmills at Waukesha, Wis., valued at $50,000, ; were destroyed by fire, throwing one hundred men out of employment, The Continental Hotel, at Fargo, D. T., j was swept by fire. A panic prevailed among the guests, but all escaped, losing their effects, however. The Clarendon Hotel at Aspen, Col., was also burned, the loss being placed at $19,000. A fire at Milbank, Dak., destroyed a hotel and three business blocks, entailing a loss of $150,000. When the rebels evacuated Columbia, Ky., they threw six heavy pieces of artillery into the Mississippi River. Low water last week disclosed the guns, and one of them was secured in time to fire a salute over Cleveland's election B. H. Black, of Blossom Prairie, Tex., who was recently' elected Sheriff of Lamar County, was at midnight Sunday called to the door of his house and shot dead.... The Coon Hollow Distillery and Warehouse, containing 1,491 barrels of whisky, at New Hope, Ky., were destroyed by fire. Secbetaby McCuiiiiOCH has not authorized the statement that there will be no further bond calls at present, but the pension disbursements for December will probably consume the available surplus up to New Year's day. . , .In a five-mile bicycle race at Washington, John S. Prince defeated Miss Elsie Von Brumen, who was given a start of two minutes. The winner's time was 19 minutes and 45 seconds! Heavy frosts in Paris seem to have somewhat stayed the ravages of cholera. . . . The numbers of the various parties elected to the German Reichstag this year are as follows: Conservatives, 72 a gain of 20;

Free Conservatives 29 a gam of 5; t'ltramontanes, 100 a gain of 2; NationalLiberals, 54, a gain of 9: German-Liberals, 68, a loss of 32; South German Democrats, 7, a loss of 2; Social-Democrats, 24, a gain

; of 11; Poles, 16, a loss of 2; Danes, 1, a loss of 1; Guelphs, 8, unchanged; Alsatians, 15, unchanged. The Reichstag contains a strong protectionist majority. The official vote of Missouri is as fol- ( lows: For President Cleveland, 235,972; ! Fusion, 202,261; St. John, 1,506. Cleveland's plurality, 33, 711. For Governor Marj maduke (Democrat), 219,015; Ford (Fusion), ' 207,893; Brooks (Prohibition), 10,449. Marmaduke's plurality, 11,122; majority, 573. ! Official vote of Pennsylvania: ForPres- ! ident, Blaine, 473,804; Cleveland, 392,785;

Butler, 17,002; St. John, 15,737. For Congress, at large: Osborne, Republican, 476,260; Davis, Democrat, 401,042; Atwood, Greenback, 9,684; Black, Prohibitionist, 10,471 The following is the official return of the Arkansas election for President and one Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Cleveland, 72,927; Blaine, 50,806; Butler, 1,847. Chief Justice S. R. Cockenll, Democrat, 72,215; M. W. Benjamin, Republican, 50,452, Cleveland's majority, 22,121; CockerilTs majority, 21,763. The Democratic Congressional majorities are: Dunn, 5,680; Breckenridge, 2,563; Jones, 2,213; Rogers, 4,867; Peel, 6,384. . . . The vote of Ohio, as officially canvassed: Blaine, 400,082: Cleveland, 368,280; Butler, 2,170; and St. John, 11,269. Blaine's plurality, 31,802 The completed vote of New Jersey foots up: Cleveland, 127,783; Blaine, 123,378; St John, 6,153; Butler, 3,498. Plurality for Cleveland, 4405.

FOREIGN

Choleba in its most fearful form prevails at Paris to an alarmmg extent. Eleven deaths and ninety-seven now cases occurred in one day, exclusive of those occurring at the hospitals, which were overcrowded with latients suffering from the dread disease. , . . .Victor Guichard, senior member of the French Chamber of Deputies, died at the Palais Bourbon while conversing mth his colleagues ... .An edict has gone forth from the Parisian police that public gambling must cease Twenty-three gambling clubs are said to have already been closed. Kaxseb WiTiKKTiM's late accident proves to have been caused by a feinting fit These fits, it is said, have become periodical, and will, it is feared, result some day in izerions injury .... The Canadian boatmen are liaving more trouble than was anticipated m the Jttle expedition. The water is muddy, and it is next to impossible to the rockit and

THE MARKETS, NEW YOR1C 'DEEVES $4.75 0.73 Hogs 4.00 0 Flour Extra. 6.00 t$ 8.5) Wheat No. 2 Spring Hi .82 No. 2 Kent S'i (1 .83 Cov;K-No. 2 52 J .53?2 OAT5 White 33 & .37 Pork New Mess 15.00 $X5.50 CHICAGO. Beeves Choice to Prime Sceors. 6.50 & 7.00 Good Shipping 6.00 ci 6.50 Common to Fair 4.0J ($ 5.03 FOSS 4.50 & Flouk FancyWhite Winter Ex. 4.00 $ 4.50 Good to Choice Spring.. 3.23 3.75 WHEAT No. a Sprin 72 4 .Wis No. 2 Red Winter. 74 .74 & Corn No. 2 43 g .45 Oats No. 2 20 .27 Bye--No. 2 50 .CX Barley No. 2 58 & .tw Buttee Choice Creamery 24 .27 Fine Dairy 10 9 .21 Cheese Full Cream 12 & ,13s Skimmed Flat .09 i& .10 Eoos Fresh 20 & .21 Potatoes New, per bo. 30 .35 Poke Mess 11.75 U2.25 Lard 07 .07 M TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Bed...; 6S 0 .70 Cork No. 2 42 & .44 Oats No. 2 26 t& .37 Ja MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. 2 71 & .73 Corn No. 2 40 & .42 Oats No. 2 ., 28 $ .30 Barley No, 2 .53 el Mh P rk Mesa 11.50 ($12.00 Lard 6.60 & 7.00 ST. LOUIS. Wheat No. 2 75 .70 Corn M xed 37 .39

f atb Mixed .25 m .27 Rye 47 m

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Philosophy in Tatters "Will you loan me enough to pay for a lodging, sir!" The speaker was gray-haired, and bent with age, but an air of respectability very faded, to bo sure still clung to him. "What will be the result if I do?" queried the writer. "The result? Ah! yes,, the result," said the old man, reflectively. "The world measures everything by results. Forty years ago I had as good prospects as any young man could wish, and I'm a vagrant now ! What was the cause of my downfall ? you ask. Primarily, a perfectly legitimate business enterprise. I did not go into it hastily, either. For that matter it makes no difference how carelully a man may weigh a venture before embarking in it. If it prove unsuccessful ho is, in the eyes of the wor d, a fooh Yet if bo stumbles into fortune, has it thrust in his face, so to speak, how different is the world's estimate. It discovers in him qualities before un observed shrewdness, ability, brilliancy, "What have you to say about application ?" asked the writer, strnck by the old man's evident intelligence. "It often succeeds, no doubt' he replied, "but the world enly looks at the results it achieves. Let a man stay year by year in a position and not be successful, what does the world say? It says: 'He is a plodder. If he had a particle of push or enterprise he might have made something If he succeeds, the world takes especial pleasure in lauding the very trait it otherwise at best damns with the faintest kind of praise. If it is successful, it is highly commendable perseverence; if unsuccessful, pig-headedness, stupidity or lack of enterprise." "If a man branches out for himself, goes west, or elsewhere, and succeeds, as thousands have done, the world praises him. It says: He was not satisfied to movealong, year after year, in the same groove, the same rut; he had enterprise.' If he fails, what doe3

it say? 'Foorfool! A Tolling stone! If he had stayed where he was he would have been all right V "The same line of argument applies to the smaller affairs of life. Let a man bet on a horse-race and win, the majority of the world smiles approvingly; at all events, does not censure. Jf he loses it cannot find words strong enough to condemn him; he is a gambler, a profligate, an ass! "But as ah! thanks, thanks, that will pay for my breakfast, . too as an Italian epigram says: 'It is only a fool who would expect the wind 'to be always blowing from the same point of the compass I hope some day to re pay you, sir. Good night,, And touch inghis time-worn tile politely, the pld man moved slowly away. Subsequent inquiry revealed the fact that the aged philosopher spoke the truthcertainly as far as his own experience was concerned. Boston Globe. A Little Lecture on Country Life. There is some sweet epice to every day's work in the country, something to brighten the passing hours, and make the children happy. The watermelons are ripe now, and the cantaloupes, and the grapes, and the peaches. By and' by the walnuts, and hickory nuts, and may paps, and black haws will come in. Partridges and young squirrels will soon give sport to the boys, and put a good dinner in the pot. Already the little chaps are grabbing for sweet potatoes. The popcorn is growing for the long winter nights. Every season has its good things, which make the reward of labor and toil, for nothing half so good unless we work for it. A dollar earned is worth $2 given us. Let every man make his own patrimony, and bo a father to himself, and then if any more drops into his pocket it is all right, and he will know how to use it and enjoy it But it won't do for a man to run himself to death after money. Let him go slow and mix a httle pleasure and recreation with his pursuit Not long ago I went to hear a revival preacher a sort of a Lorenzo Dow and he picked out a lot of young men standing away baok under a tree, and he preached at them with a vengeance. Said he: " Young men, I have been

watching you and praying for you for days, and you won't come nigh the altar. Now if you. have made up your minds to go to hell, I want to give you some parting advice. Don't go gallop ing to hell you will get there soon enough. Take it leisurely; go in a pace, or a walk, and even now and then stop and rest under the shade of a tree." Well, I suppose that a preacher could talk that way, but it sounds rather puculiar to say the least of it, though the idea is a good one, and I never see a man working himself to death for money but what I think what that preacher said. I know a man who worked hard for twenty years to make money, and lie made it and never stopped to rest under the shade of a tree, and now he is in the lunatic asylum from overwork, and his children are spending his money about as fast as he made it A man had better become acquainted with his children in this world for fear he won't know them in the next, and let them learn to love him and respect him. Minglo with them, read to them, tell them stories, go to mill with them, play drafts with them, and work with them, and when he gets old they will comfort him and take care of him. It is a pitiful sight to see a man lonesome and deserted in his old age. Bill Arpt in Southern Home and Farm. Sporting Item,

y' "Did you read in tho paper that a

colored woman at Newport wears $40,000 worth of diamonds?" asked Gilhooly, of an Austin drummer. "Yes, I have road that item, and I would like to know what her name is." "Want to be introduced to her?" ".No; but you see I travel about a great deal, and I would like to know on what line of railroad her husband is sleeping-car porter, so I could inveigle him into a little game of poker." Texas Sifting h. If it is desirable to make a man contented with a hard and hungry lot,

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PITH AMP POIKT. Novel Objections Tho.se urged against fiction. A door is sometimes a jtr ani an earthquake always is. A ROUSINC DKMOXSTKATIGN Getting a growing boy out of bed. It makes a milkman's wife blush to ask her if her silk dress is watered."'"" A Philadelphia youth who got acquainted with a girl vho is dreadfully fond of lemonade calls her his eour mash. "Five thousand molecules can sit comfortably on the point of a pin." Herein the mplecule differs materially from man. "Goix into politics any this lall? said the merchant to the dentist. "Expect to take the stump occasionally' was the reply. An overcautious Philadelphia father wouldn't allow his children to study the map of Europe because the cholera was raging there. "All things come to him who will but wait" Not much. Tho fellow who borrowed $20 from you last summer will not come to you if you wait five hundred years. There is a woman in Kansas who, to spite her husband, has not spoken to him for seven weeks. The belief is gradually gaining ground that he is the happiest man in tho State. SL Louts Magazine. "Ever had a cyclone here?" asked a Kansas man who was visiting a country aunt in the East. "A cyclono? O, ye said his aunt. "Deacon Brown's son brought one from Boston a spell ago, but, law! he couldn't ride it Tumbled off every time he tried." When a man has lost his pocketbook or a gold collar-button, the question asked him by nine people out often is: "Where did you lose it?" And this is always a very soothing question to thd loser, because if he knew where he lost the article it is not reasonable to sup-; pose that he would be looking in forty different places to find it Mrs. A. "How strange !w Mr. A. "What's strange?" "The paper says that in recent excavations in Egypt they discovered a mummy wrapped from head to foot in gold coins." "Ha ! then the theory that it was once warm at the poles and cold at the equator must be true." "Why, how in the world do you make that out?" "It is evident that in the past ages Egypt was cold enough to have plumbers' Little Willie was fond of throwing stones at the passing school-boys and

then taking refuge behind the hall door. One day he did not get away so easily, and, faring pretty badly, he burst into his aunt's presence with the tears running down his cheeks, and sobbed out in great wrati "I just wish I was an angel 'way up high, where the policeman couldn't catch me, with my pocket full of rocks, .if I wouldn't give it to them boys !" Harper's Bazar TOO FLY. It's little, bntoh,my! The fly, It settles on my nose, yowe eye, It enters in your ear. so slv, You make a grab. You villain, die! Its buzz derisive poems to cry; Not L I'm fly! No one so much abominates as I The fly. It worries me ho much it makes me si&h! It haunts my very meal from soup to pie. But courape! The sweet by and by Will bring the wiuter, when the fly -Will die OrL St Louis Post-Dispatch. JIiss A. "Yes, I have just returned from Canada. I had a lovely time. Met everybody in the best society. Miss B. "You like the Canadians, then?" Miss A. "O, I did not associate with Canadians, but Americans. . The American society there is just splendid. I had such lovely rides with Mr. Minks the rehypothecator, and Mr. Finks, the ex-financier ; and I nearly fell in love with Mr. Pinks, the handsome young embezzler; and I just wish you could have seen Mr. Binks, tho eminent defaulter, lead the germane He is just too sweet for anything."

A Beautiiul Thought. A gentleman connected with an east ern crematory has just discovered a process by which the ashes of cremated bodies can be hardened and made into beautiful jewelry. Here is a nubject that is worthy of wide and careful at tention. The thought is a beautiful

and touching one. Can the human mind conceive of a more beautiful idea than a sorrowing widow to wear her late husband around her neck as a neck lace, or for a nephew to wear upon his finger all that is mortal of a once loved aunt ? The bereaved maiden with a de ceased lover holding up her back hair would present a touching picture, or the mourning lover could have his lost darling act as a head on his cane where ho could often caress her with his red ripe lips. It would awaken the most tender emotions in the stoutest heart to see a mother with her twins dangling from her ears, or a sister wearing & baby brother as a bangle to her betrothal ring. SL Paul Herald. Hotels Needed in Mexico Among the needs of Mexico, ex-Gov-ergor Bice is quoted as saying, are "convenient and modern hotels upon the system now so popular in the United States. There is also needed machinery for preparing the fibers of! Mexico for the manufacture of carpets, rope, matting, and also paper. Thous

ands upon thousands of tons of fiber annually go to waste in that country, which could be used here and in Europe for the manufacture of paper. It is soabundant and cheap that ere many years shall pass this great industry will be one of the most important, and furnish a large part of the material for the entire world," Hired to Do It. "Who is it writes all these jokes in. the papers, I wonder?' said Mr, Jarphly. "Why, I suppose they hire some on to do it,w replied Mrs. .larphly. "Hire some one ! Who hires some one?" 'I don't knowT answered Mrs. Jarphly, 4perhaps it's young physicians struggling for a practice." jrisburgh Vhrcntcle Telegraph. Bleached veal is the latest iuiquitjr in the New York mwkek