Bloomington Telephone, Volume 11, Number 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 16 August 1887 — Page 3

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AWFUL WRECK.

Mors than Seventy-live Lives Lost by an Accident Near Ghatsworth Illinois.

Twice That Number of Persons

IrYounded, Many of Them

Fatally.

.A Heavily Laden Excursion Train Clashes Through a Charred Bridge in the Night. The Wreck Takes Fire and Is Extinguished After a Desperate Fight.

ioreet (111.) special. Ono of the most horrible accidents within the memory of man occurred three miles east of Chatiiworth, on the Toledo, Peoria and Western Bailroad, late Wednesday night. An excursion train of sixteen enrs from Peoria went through

A culvert and upward of 250 persons were killed

and inured. So far as learned, seven ty-tnree persons were instantly killed and about cue hundred and sixty more or lees seriously injured. The train consisted of engines 21 and 13, a baggage car, a special car, five coiches, and six sleepers. Two and' a half miles eaat of Chatsworth, a small village about seven miles east of Forest, there is a small culvert or ditch. It is about fourteen feet wido and thirteen feet deep. The bridge over thi-i culvert was a wretched structure of wood, and tbe hot wea'her of past weeks had made it dry as tinder. Wednesday nigat the supports caught fire and slowly burned until the entire bridge rested on the charred remnants of the timbers. When the train came thun-Jvring down there was nothing to warn the head engineer that the bridge was a death trap and the speed of the train wts not slackened. It had steamed slowly cut of Chatsworth at ii u rtVWt hnt atrikinr? r gentle down crade

the throttle was pul led out and the tram rushes

-along at a rute of forty miles an nour. HURLED INTO THE CltASM. When the first engine struck tho bridge there was a cracking of timbers, and the engine dropped. The leading engine was not tlirown from the track, and continued on its way, taking its tender with it. The next engine dropped into the chasm, and then the train rushed onward and was piled in a hoar, with the exception of the sleepors, which escaped without a scratch. The scene of horror and confusion that fol

lowed was frightful. There were about seven j hundred people on the train, nnd of these fully I ore-half were in the coaches that now lay in a j huge mass. Ten cars filled with dead axd dy ! tog people were jammed, into a space of two

ctxs length. HORRIBLY CRFrfHED A35D MANGLED. The six coaches were telesisoped in the most horrible manner, and the occupants were simply crushed and mangled almost out of all semblance to human beings. Thirty-nine lad: es were taken out from the end of one of the cars. When tne crash came they were swept oif their seats by the rear car bursting in on them and crushed to death in the further end cf the car. sA" As soon as the survivors recovered from the awful shock a train hand ran back to Chatsnorth for help. The nowa of the awful disaster spread quickly and in a short time hundreds of people from Forest, Chatsworth, Piper City, Gilman, and the surrounding country were on the spot assisting in the work of reseue. The remnants of the bridge, which was "ill burning, received the first attention. Water was brodght from farmers houses near by and the names extinguished. None cf the -cars caught fire, otherwise the horrors of a holocaust would have beenadded to an'already friqhtful disaster. Attention was then turned -to the shrieking inmates of the wrecked cars. Such was the awful momentum 01 the train that three of the coaches were not only telescoped, but piled on top of each other. The other cars had rolled off the track after tele

scoping. Fourteen trucks were piled on the east side of the culvert. In tho midst of this awful mass of broken cars hundreds of human beings were intombed. One woman with her

of tue car and killed. The baby was xot injured. 2four colored women sitting together were crushed to a pulp. They were from Peoria. Conductor Btillvell escaped with a few injuries about the body. A man named Goodall, a butcher from Peoria, -was caught between two cars and his lower limbs crushed. "For God's sake save me." he cried to the rescuers. "I'll give $100 to any one who will pull me out of here. " But it was impossible. His body could not have been got out without chopping it out, and the poor fellow died a few minutes later. His eon is thought to have been killed. SHRIEKING OUT OF 1HE DARKNESS. As fast as possible the work of release was prosecuted, but about 2 -30 o'clock it began to rain, and the horror of the night was complete. Fhe black darkness, which was faintly illumined by lanterns and pierced by the awful yells and groans of the dying: injured, and imprisoned, was now joined by the elements, and the pouring rain, lightning, and the roar of thunder made a scene that would appall the bravest heart' One youn g man who was taken out with both legs broken was carried into a cornfield near by and laid down. He yelled with pain for a time, but aa hour later it was found that he had killed himself by blowing his bruins out. The terrible excitement and pain had probably driven him crazy. As fast as the victims were rescued they were placed side by side in the cornfield north of the -nrack. By daylight sixty-five bodies were lying side by side, silent monuments io what seems to have been a railroad company a carelessness. The majority of the dead are Peoria people. The train contained 175 people from Peoria city and county, and of this number at least forty-one were killed. STOHLE3 OP ttUHVTVORS. Mr. J. M. Tennery, of Peoria, was in the first Sleeper, and said: "I felt three distinct shocks and then heard a grinding nound, and on looking out saw that the car in which we were was directly over the fire, which was slowly blazing c-n the stringers of the bridge. I got out in safety, and the scene presented to tbe eye and ear was one I wish I could forever efface from my memory, but I know I never can. The abrieks of the dying and the glaring faces of the dead will always stay with me. To add to the horror it was pitch dark save for the fitful light of the fire under the sleep, which lighted the faces of those about only to snake their fear and anguish visible. On the mouths of most of the corpses could be seen foam, which showed that they died in agor y. At last we secured some feeble lights, but the wind blew them out, and about 2 o'c look the rt in poured down in torrents on the unprotected

dead and dying in tne neoges ana cornneids mijacent. Our efforts were divided between trying to put oat the fire and rescuing the dying whose cries for help were heartrending, indeed. Mothers ran wildly about crying for lost children and wives for husbands, btrcng men were weeping over the forms of their beloved wives. Prayers, entreaties, and groans filled the sir until daylight, when relief parties got to work and removed the dead and wounded from the scene. The bridge was on fire before the train struck. " C. Falroth, who was one of the fortunate ones occupying a berth in next to the last sleeper,

says that to put out the fire no water was to be had. All went to work with a will with such tools

as could be found on the cars to further destroy and tear away all tbe woodwork poeaib'le. and with dirt, weeds, dry grass, coats, and clothing ; in fact anything that would act as a weapon against the fierce flames. After a terrible struggle the fire was pat out. Mr. Falvorth, on passing one of the coaches, was requested, "For God's sake take my child," a babe, which he immediately did, and, leaving it in as safe a place as could be found, went into the car and found the mother, Mrs. Neal, of Mosaville, just dead. The scene in the cars was be yond description. One young child was found fastened near the roof of the ear head down, where in the jar and concussion it liad been thrown, and was dead when taken down. Others were found in all conceivable shapes, all were thrown off their seats and piled in the ends of the aisles of the cars, bleeding from gashes in the face, arms, or other portionis of the body. It was, Mr. Falvorth says, the most Sickening sight he ever witnessed. William Ellis, one of the badly injured, says he was thrown four or five seats forward uxd - stunned, and when he recovered himself he found others lying upon him. His watch was smashed, and had stopped at 13:13. He is of the opinion that the bridge was set on fire by loungers around there whose motive it was to plunder the dead, as he saw some of these i us-picious-looking fellows taking rings from fin

gers and money and valuables from the pockets of others not able to re a i at. H. W. White, of tho Peoria Journal, gives the following account : "I was in tbe necond sleeper, and we were goins along about midnight when there came a peculiar jostling. I thought that wo had been derails!. Our porter said, 'Wo are all right,' when some ono said, 'Tbore is a Are ahead I got up and went to the front. Tho head engine had rushed over the chasm. The second engine had tumbled into it. It had telescoped, and the engineer was a shapeless mass. The first car was turned at rifht angles with the track, and tbe remaining eleven cars hod telescoped and piled up in one heap. -Several of is climbed on the care with axes and lanterns and went to work. Tho first man we found was Billy Stevens, the confectioner. He was dead. We pulled him out after some effort, and th;m pulled his daughters, Kmma and Ida, out. They were all dead. Every oue was groaning and crying. Their feet seemed to be jammed Most of them bad their legs broken. After an hour and a half we cleared tho car. 1 hey were offering 55- each for relief. Probably there were a aozen bodies taken out. Mrs Deal was one of these. "I then went down on the ground and assisted in taking the dead down. The people on the ground put a plank up and the bodies taken out were slid down the plank. Tbe dead were put in one pile a-id tho living in another. Kvery live person seamed to want to see their families at once. "One of the horrible incidents was this : A man, well dressed, who was so badly injured that his bowols were protruding, called incessantly for water, and as be could not be attended to he finally pulled out his revolver and shot himself through tbe head. "One litrle I oy, the son of the Methodist min ister at Abingdon Frank Suadeckor, about Pi years old was found on tho bosom of bis dead mother. His left log hung by the skin, his right rtrm was broken, and one eyo was put out. They pulled hun out and tried to give him a drink of brandy. He refused to take it ami said: 'Give me water.' Ho never uttered a groan, 1 round a bead hanging from a truck. It was apparently that of a man who had been caught bv the hair. "I found several headless bodies. Those who recognized the dead immediately ticKoted them. "One of tho most awful sights was that c ?me of those released robbed the dead of their watches and valuables, and somo people held tho theory that tho bridge was set on hie in order to thus perpetrate robberies." W. Gucker, one of the Galesburg passengers, relates a singular experience. Hiawifo un 1 ho were in tho rear of a chair car, the tenth cur of tho train. They had no warning of what was to come. The train was running at the ratD of thirty-five miles an hour. Mr. Gucker was aroused by tho terrible crash of glass and breaking timbtrs. The end of the car was poised twenty feet in . the air. He crawlod through a broken window and slid down the slanting side cf the car. . His wife followed safely. Several Galosburg people who were in that end of the car escaped without serious injury. Thr top of the car parted in the center. The other end was crushed I ke an egg-shell. P. P. Van Liew, who walked from the safe end of the car the moment before, was caught and dangerously injured. "There were thirty in tho car, said Mr. Gucker, "and only six survive. Out of one party of nine enly three live. One man who had lost his wile "and child and was badly injured himself went into an adjacent cornfield and committed suicide. Six young men from Canton who were in the first car were saved by being thrown up through the parted roof. " A woman seated near Mr. Gucker thrust her head through a car window and was decapitated. The pockets of a number of these injured were picked b unfeeling rowdies." K G. Kisser, of Kankakee, who was at the scene of the wreck soon after the disaster, says : -'I was at El Paso and missed the excursion train by lees than five minutes. Twenty-six minutes afterward I took a freight train, and when we got to Forest the conductor had orders to bring all the physicians he could. When we arrived at the wreck we found the most heart-rending and indescribable scene ever witnessed. Kvery one was begging to bo taken from the wreck, as they were afraid of it catching liro. The bridge was on fire and no water was at h&nd to put it out. All the trainmen and such passengers as could went to work to smother the fire. We had nothing to work with except our hands, and had to carry dirt as best we could. "At about 1 :'M) a. m. a shower of rain putfout the fire and we turned our attention to relieving the people in tbe cars. We worked until 3 a. m .nd took out sixty-one dead bodies, besides scores of wounded people. They were terribly mangled. Belief trains took the deitd and wounded to Piper City and Chatsworth. The city hall and school-Lonse at Chatsworth were improvised

into a hospital and the cit.zens came to our relief with curTee, bread, and butter, and everything possible, especially bandages and medicine for the suffering." Mr. Kisser said he stood the sickening work of relieingthe wounded and getting out the dead until he came to the dead bodies of two girls about the age of his own, when his humanity gave way and ho was compelled to stop. THE BEAD. The news of the disaster was brought to Chatsworth by one of tho passengers about midnight, and the inhabitants aroused. Buggies, lumber-wagons, and every kind of vehicle were used to reach the fatal spot. As fast as the corpses were taken from the wreck they were laid out on the side of the track. Before midnight the work of recovering tho dead and moving them to Chatsworth was begun. As soon as the corpses were received they were placed in a large vacant building lately occupied as a store ; also in the public school house and in the depot-waiting room. The residents of the town threw open their houses for the reception of the dead and wounded, but the former were all taken to the improvised morgues. Friend and relatives of the dead came to Chatsworth with the remains, and the scenes in the different places where the bodies lay were heartrending. As the day passed bodies were being continually brought from the scene of the wreck, the majority of them being , mangled in the most frightful manner, many of them having their faces entirely torn away, leaving their brains exposed, while their jaws, Humors, and legs had been torn off. NOTHING TO LIVE FOB. There was one incident of the accident which stood out more horrible than all of those horrible scenes. In the second coach was a man, his wife, and little child. His name could not be learned, but it is said he got on at Peoria. When the accident occurred the entire family of three were caught and held down by broken woodwork. Finally, when relief came, the man turned to the friendly aid and feebly said : "Take oat my wife first. I'm afraid the child is dead," So they carried out the mother, and as a broken seat was taken off her crushed breast the blood which welled from her lips told how badly she was hurt. They carried the child, a fair-haired, blue-eyed girl of 3. and laid her in the corn-field, dead, alongside of her dying mother. Then they went back for the father and brought him out. Both his legs were broken, but he crawled through the corn to the side of his wife, and, feeling her loved features in the darkness, pressed some brandy to her lips and asked her how she felt. A feeble groan was the only answer, and the next instant she died. The man felt tho form of his dead wife and child, and cried out: "Mv God, there 13 nothing more for me to live for now !" and, taking a Eistol out of hU pocket, pulled the trigger. The ullet went surely throught the brain, and the three dead bodies of that little family are now lying side by sidb in Chatsworth waiting to

ne laencinea. INCIDENTS OP THE HO RltOIt, One man with both leg broken dragged himself away from the wreck and took out a pistol and shot himself in the head. Superintendent Armstrong of the Wabash, accompanied the excursion with his spt cial car, with several officials of the road. Kone of them was hurt. From the latest reports it is said that 126 were killed and about three hundred wounded, making it one of the worst railroad accidents ever known in tlris country. There was an incident in the affair which was not only remarkable in its wav, but shows how terribly those six coaches were jammed and mashed together. When the accident occurred Andy Mooney, of Peoria, and Conductor Sti1!well, who was in charge of the train, were throe cars from oach other. Mooney was in the second car and Bttllwell in the fifth. The next instant they found themselves literally in each other's arms, the car in Iwhich the conductor was riding having been carried over the two in front and dropped on top of the one which Mooney was in. The strange part of it was that neither man was hurt. There was also another wonderful escape in the first car. This car was completely telescoped, and the soach behind it crashed entirely through it, crushing every passenger. Only four people escaped al ve from this car, and three of them were badly wounded, bat one, a large woman in the middle of the car, did not get a scratch, while every one around her was killed. "Don't ask me to describe the scene," said Mr. A. H. fetauffer, of Bloomington. "It was indescribable. I ran out of the sleeper half dressed, and did all I could to get the people out of the wreck. One man in the chair-car called to me, and as I went to his aid I had to literally walk on the bodies of other passengers, while I had him in my arms and was trying to pull him out of the wreck, he gave a gasp and died, "

REMINISCENCES OF PUBLIC MEN. by ben: PEKLEV POOHE. Gov. Marcy,when Secretary of Stftte, used to liavo seine diplomatic contests with Loid Elgin, then Governor General of Canada, nnd it was generally a "drawn game."' Few men have ever lived who were more persistently ambitious than Lord Elgin, who toiled in the service of the British Foreign Office, onward and upward, until, an viceroy of the East, he died in the prime of life on a steep hillside in tho interior of India. Marcy's career was also arrested by death when his many friends were hoping to see him tho Democratic President gf the tTnited States. Presiident Cleveland reminds us old stagers of Marey. Sir Lionel Sackville West derives his title from his having been appointed a Knight of tho Bath. Should he, however, outlive his brother, he will become Lord Sackville. When Lord Beaconstield cfeated Mortimer Sackville, then a prominent conserative member of the House of Commons, a peer under the title of Lord Sackville, he had t special act of remainder passed by which his brother Lionel was made heir to the title. After the dethronement of Louis Philippe in '48, tho French Republic sent here as its minister Major Poussin, who had . served in our engineer corps. He thought that Mr. Webster, then Secretary of State, was backward in acknowledging the new Government, and calling on him one day, asked whether the United States intended to recognize the new republic. "Sir," said Mr. Webster, gazinp: at Poussin from his cavernous eyes, 1;the United States have in turn recognized the Bourbons, the Republic, the Constitutional Monarchy, and now " Enough! enough!" exclaimed Poussin, as if convinced that if half of these precedents were followed the desired recognition would take place. ''And now," Mr. Webster went on to say, "I think we can consider the propriety of acknowledging the Government you so ably represent." Gen. Edward F. Beale, known among his friends as "Ned" Beale, has led a most romantic life since his birth in 1822. He is a grandson of that old naval hero, Commodore Truxton, of the Constellation, through the Commodore's beautiful daughter, Emily Truxton. He is a son of Paymaster Beale, United States Navy, and himself entered the navy in 1842 from tho Naval Academy. In the military operations in California he distinguished himself, and in 1847 Commodore "Stockton detailed him as bearer of oSicial dispatches to Washington announcing the conquest of California. This honor was conferred "in consequence of heroic conduct in volunteering to leave Gen. Kearney'3 camps; surrounded by the enemy, to go to the garrison at Saa Diego for assistance and relief for the suffering soldiers." His brother officers for this service1-voted him a sword of honor and epaulettes, and petitioned the Government for his promotion. Having resigned at the end of the war, he served as Superintendent of Indian Affairs in New Mexico and California, and upon retiring was presented with a service of plate by those under him for his efforts in the cause of "Indian civilization consistent with the spirit of philanthropy and crowned with success." He was made Brigadier Gen

eral to bring the war in California to a close, which he did. He ran the thirtyfifth parallel from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean for a national highway, and reported, at the request of the President; and Secretary of War, upon the feasibility of using camels for transcontinental transportation. President Grant appointed him Minister to Austria during the last year of his administration. Iu appearance Gen. Beale is of short, sinewy stature, very dark complexion, with a closely-cut mustache and hair almost white and also kept short. He has a nervous energy in his actions and movements which indicate the high spirit and gallantry which he has shown in all the walks of life, whether in the front of the assaulting column moving on the works of the enemy, in the peaceful pursuits of Indian administration, as pathfinder across the continent, as diplomate at the court of the House of Hapsburg-Horraine or in the management of his vast landed possessions. Gen. Beale is one of the largest landed proprietors in the United States, His cattle ranch, Tejou, embraces 250,000 acres, eighty miles north of L03 Angelas, Cab, upon which there are 40,000 head of cattle and fine herds of horses. He has a farm of several hundred acres eight miles from Washington, where he has a stud of blooded stock. Among these is the celebrated royal Arabian horse Leopard, one of the two superb animals selected by Gen. Grant from the imperial stables at Constantinople, at the request of the Sultan of Turkey, and presented to him by his sublime majesty. Gen. Beale also possesses a large estate in Chester. He is very fond of horses, and is one of the best judges of the points of that noble animal in the United States. The equestrian statue of Gen. Burnside, purchased by the State of Rhode Island and by the contributions of her citizens, is said by those who have seen it to be one of the nicest works of art in this country. It is almost colossal in size, and represents "Old Burnie" as Commander-in chief of the Armv of the Potomac, seated on a strong and graceful horse,about sixteen hands high, with all its feet planted on the ground.

The rider is slightly turced in the saddle, earnestly looking, with reins in the left hand and field-glass in the rigltt, as if watching the movements of troops in motion. The face is remarkably striking and life-like, preserving the identity of the soldier to a wonderful degree. It wfas designed and executed by Launt Thompson, and cast by the Henry Bernard Bronze Company of New York. The statue will weigh dbout 9,000 pounds, and its cost, with that of the pedestal, will be not much abort of $40,000. The work reflects great credit upon those who have had the management of it, find it will rank as an evidence of advancing American art. It is now to be hoped that tho people of Rhode Island will honor the civil associate of Gen. Burnsiide, Senator Honry B. Ant hony, with a statue. One of the rarest collections of auto

graphs in this country is in the Department of State, where the treaties nnd other communications from the crowned heads of Eiuope, since the Declaration of Independence, are preserved. When the British burned Washington, these treasures were packed in bags and car

ried out into the country. They now havo a place in the magnilicent library of tho new Department of State. In addith n to the handwriting of the Emperor Napoleon, the ill-fated Mario Antoinette, crazy George 111., Alexander of Russia, and several Oriental sovereigns, are many American state papers. Prominent among these are the private papers of George Washington, and a vol vane which relates entirely to the capture, trial, and execution of .Major Andre. There is the letter which that br.ivo young man wrote to Gen. Washington the night before, a he says, UJ. am to swing upon a gibbet," and there is also a letter from the traitor, Benedict Arnold, who informs Gen. Washington that, having tho interest of his beloved country at heart, he can no longer servo the American army. W ith these autograj hs are many souvenirs of distinguished individuals, including tho war sword of Gen. Jacks;n, which lie broke in a fit of passion, and which was rudely mended by the camp blacksmith. John P. Halo was a most incorrigble wag, and ha delighted iu making Senator Footo of Mississippi, who in an unguarded moment had threatened to hang him as an abolitionist, a butt for his jokes. One day, after a visit to New York, Senator Poote came smilingly in and took his seat at his desk, rather astonishiug tho other Senators, as his previously bald pate was covered by a line, curly, black wig. Up rose Mr. Halo, and demanded a special committee to examine the credentials "of the youthful upstart who had assumed Senator Poote's likeness and chair." Senator Foote rose up, and bowing politely, convulsed the Senate by quickly removing the wig, and hanging it on his umbrella, with the observation : "With this motion on my part, which is quite in order, despite my illustrious colleague's, the committee is not necessary." There was a round of applause. Wrens and Bluebirds Fightinir. The bluebirds early took possession, oad in June their first brood had flown. The wrens had been hanging around, evidently with an eye on tli place such little comedies may bo witnessed anywhere and nqw very naturally thought it was their turn. A day or two after the young bluebirds had flown I noticed some fine, dry grass clinging to the entrance of the cavity, a circumstance which I understood a few moments later, when the wren rushed by me into the cvt;r of a small Norway spruce, hotly pursued by the male bluebird. It was a brown streak and a blue streak pretty clcsj together. The wrens had gone to housecleaning, and the bluebird had returned to lind his bed and bedding being pitcned out of doors, and had thereupon given the wren to understand in the most emphatic manner that he hed no intentions of vacating the premises so early in the season. Dav after dav, for more than two weeks, the male bluebird had to clear his premises of thene intruders. It occupied much of his time and not a little o: mine, as I sat with a boo.; in a summer-house near by, laughing at his pretty fury and spiteful onset. On two occasions the wren rushed under tho chair in "which I sat, and a streak "of blue lightniag almost flashel in my face. One day, just as I had passed the tre a in which tho cavity was placed, I heart, the wren scream desperately; turning, I saw the little vagabond fall into tho grass with the wrathful bluebird fairly upon him. Tks latter had returned just in time to catch him, and was evidently bent on punishiug him well. Bat in the squabble iu tbe grass the wron escaped and took refuge in the friendly evergreen. The bluebird paused for a moment with outstretched wings looking for the fugitive, then flew away. A score of tim es during the month oi' June did I see the wren taxing every energy to get away from the bluebird. He would dart into the stonewall, under the Ih or of the summerhouse, into the weeds anywhere to hide his diminished head. The bluebird with his bright coat looked like a policeman in uniform in pur&uit of some wicked, rusty little street gamin. Generally the favorite house of refuge of the wren was a little spruce, into which their pursuer made no attempt to follow them. The female would sit concealed amid the branches, chattering in a scolding, fretful way, while the male, with hi eye upon his tormentor, would perch or. the topmost shoot and sing. Why ho sang at such times -whether in triumph and derision, or to keep his courage up and reassure his mate I could not make out. When his song was suddenly cut short, and I glanced to see him dart down into the spruce, my eyo usually caught a twinkle of blue wings hovering near. The wrens finally gave up the tight, and their enemies reared their second brood n peace. Cabell's Magazine. Forced WorLouu. When Gen. Martinez of Mexico wa& fighting against Maximilian he and his soldiers were in the habit of taking what they wanted from tho people, oven going so fr as to levy on the treasures of the churches. One day the sacristan of a certain church found two of the soldiers from the army of Martinez on their knees before the altar of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The shrine was covered with coins and jewels, placed there by devotees on offering up prayers lor the safety of tho absent ones, or in gratitude for deliverance from some peril. And one of the "Macheteros" was praying like this: "My dear, holy lady! I'm a poor bov. ' I've been in the army a year, and i liavon't made anything so far. I've a very poor family. They may bo starving. I m obliged to take somo of these precious things. If I have good luck in robbing somo other place 111 return these-" So saying he arose from his knees and coolly tiwept the shrine of its valuables. New York Tribune. Dialogue between two blind men "Do you know the gentleman who gave you the dimo just now?" "Oaly by sight" Paris Gaulois.

Java. Java is regarded as tho most fertile and prosperous tropical, island 01: tho globe. It is south of Borneo, an.l ' he fourth island of the Malavan archipelago in size, having an area of 5U2('0 square milos. It is a colonial possession of Holland. Tho surface of tho island is mountainous, a range of loi'ty peaks running from one end of the island to the oi lier, and another range skirting the fcouth coast. All of these mountains ar-3 of volcanic form ition, and there are on the island thirty -eight volcanoes, the most of them conslantly active. Some of the most terrible eruptions on record havo oc.mrrod on

this island, among which may 13 men- .

turned tho outbreaks of the volcano Papundayang in the year 1772, cf Galmiggong in 1822, and Kxakaloa in 1S8:1 Between the peaks of the mountains in the central part of the island are several plateaus which are very fertile, and have a delightful climate, owing to their elevation above the hot district of tha shore. Along the north side of the island is a long, low, and very very fertile plain. All of the island is well watered. The seasons are two, tho wet and tho dry, and the temperature of the island is very equable. All tropical fruits, hires, and animals abound in the lowlands, and on the high plateaus all grains and fruits of temperate climates can be successfully raised. Java is one of the principal coffee-growing countries in the world; sugar is next in importance; then comes rice, of which two crops are annually raised; indigo, pepper, tea, and tobacco are also exported. The population of Java is estimated at over 17,OOGY.)00. About 30,000 Europeans reside on the island; there are also about 190,000 Chinese, and some 20,000 Arabs and other foreign orientals; the rest are natives. The Javanese are almost entirely occupied in agriculture, though they have some knowledge of the mechanic arts, and make bricks and tiles, build houses and boat s, and work in metals with somo skill. The women of the country also weave a stout cotton cloth, and make coarse silk cloth from raw silk imported from China. The ancestors of" the present race of Javanese must have hail considerable knowledge of architecture, judging from the remarkable specimens of ancient temples, most of them in ruins, to be seen throughout the island,

but this knowledge has been entirely ,

lost, lhe Javauese have made some progress in music, of which they are passionately fond, and they have both wind and stringed instruments. In reIigio:a the Javanese are Mohammedans, this faith having been established among them by the Arabs in the fifteenth century. The principal unit in Javanese politics is the tillage, whose officers are all elected by the people, and are charged with the collection of the taxes an:l the maintenance of public order. The native rulers nre allowed by the Dutch to retain their rank and nominal power as regents, but the real power is in the Governor General appointed by the Netherlands Government, who is assisted by a vice president and a council of four, and has his orders directly from tho King of Hoiland. Inter -Ocean. Tirgrmia Characters. The father of Gem E , of Virginia, had r. body-servant who was an inveterate toper. His master tried every means in his power to break him of drinking. Persuasion was useless, advice wasted, and whipping but temporary in erlect. 4 1. - J 1 . X .1 1. - ,1 1

) on -ii iiau ut't'u tu u tittuct), iiwx imbibed freely, and returned home at

break of dav, and at breakfast was rather the worse for wear. His master thought to try the effect of frightening him by apparently reading from the morring paper the death of a drunkard in 11 . "Spontaneous combustion ! Horrible death of a drunkard ! Last night Michael MoGinnis was in a beastly state of intoxication; he retired to his room, and in blowing out the candle his breath caught fire. He was entirely consumed, and nothing left of him but the ashes in his shoes." Sam stood with eyes agog and hands raised. 'Fore Gord, 'fore Gord, Marse John, dis nigger neber blew out a vaiul'ti ez long ez he lib, shuah!" The majority of mankind is unwilling to have ot her than a large "I in any undertaking which is successful, and more than willing to share failure with an equally large "We." Col. H- , of Virginia, had some negroes quarrying rock, with old Uncle Ned as foreman. One morning the Colonel rodo over to the quarry, and a f ter the usual good-morning said, "Well, Ned, hew are we getting s,long?" "Dar 'tis agin. We! how's we gittin erlong? Marse Chawles Ps erquarryin' dis here rock. You "minis me uv er passel er coons ez went er huntih deer in de swamp. Long Sam you 'members him Marse Torm's Sam? well, Sam he wuz boss er do batch, an' arfter dey done sot up deir pine-knot torches, an' wuz er waitin in de brush, Sara he spied sumpin' ermovin an' he up wid's gun, an' bimb! sumpin' drapped, an one er de boys sez, Ump! ain't we lucky? dar's one already ; toe's got one shuah. ' An, Sam ho turned round, he did, an' sez, sez he, 'Not so much we, ef yer please I kilt dat ar deer An' dey all went ter holp skin it, an' lo an' behold! it war Marse Torm's pet colt, or: er de gray mar" what he fotch from llichmun, an' Sam he looked kinder skeert, he did, an' sez, sez he, 'Boys, 'aint we jes played h !' An' ebry one uv' em answered, 'Not so much we, ef yer please; vou done kill dat colt,' An', Marse Chawles, Fa er-quarryin' dis here rock, an' we'n gittin' erloi g only middlin.' " It was this same Uncle Ned w ho was accosted by the writer upon return from college (and after the days of reconstruction) with "Good n.orniogf Uncle Ned good-morning." "Glong, chile, glong; yer mustn't talk dat way ter mo now. I's no kin o' yourn; I's yer ekal now, I is 'ocrdinter de fifteent commandment CFlongV And who, later, upon being urged to finish a bit of ploughing before sundown, said, "Glong; w'at's douse er hurryiu' so, dar's ernudder cay termorrow dat ain't eben been tetched yitr'li. A. Marrt in Haiyer'i Magazine.

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