Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Number 129, Bloomington, Monroe County, 30 May 1893 — Page 2

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Indianapolis has a dniggistwho is a genius at advertising bjr street signs. Here is one of his gems, painted on a card-board by his own hand: 4 'Stop here for a nice, fresh bed bug poison."

A cable ear line is now in operalion on Broadway, New York, an innovation that has been strenuously resisted for many years on accpnnt of the supposed danger to human life and the already overcrowded condition of that great thoroughfare. A homs for epileptics was greatly desired by humanitarians in New York, and a bill providing for a State institution for the care of this class of unfortunates was passed by the State Legislature recently. Governor Flower, however, deemed it inexpedient to increase the number of State institutions at this time and vetoed the measure.

A well-known practitioner of medicine in New York is authority for the statement that the grip is following the tendency of all other epidemics, and that it is losing its virulence, though still prevailing in pome parts of the country. Very few fatal cases have been reported the past winter, as compared to the record of previous seasons. It has been the history of all great plagues that they run themselves out, even in districts where no, precautionary measures are taken. Diseases die as well as the people who have them.

The majority of men who devise fortunes to their children by will do not take the precaution of warning their sons to beware of the methods by which the property was accumulated. Rufus Hatch, the New York speculator, however, deemed it his duty to warn his children in his will against gambling in the following words: "I earnestly desire that my children shall not gamble in any way for money, as their father has had experience sufficient to serve for all posterity." He also warned them against the use of liquors and tobacco in the strongest erms.

of John L. Sullivan in their hearts as the embodiment of their idea of physical perfection will be interested in the latest exploit of this hero of the saw dust arena. John L. having retired from the perch of the world's championship, now travels about the country as the star of a theatrical company, and en route, recently, from Biddeford, Me., to Concord, N. H., a one-armed lawyer had the effrontery to shake hands with a friend occupying a seat with the pugilistic, giant. This aroused the ire of the great man, and he proceeded tD pummel the lawyer in the most approved fashion, being aided in the assault by a member of the troupe. Naturally they "got away" with the unfortunate disciple of Blackstone. It is not especially gratifying to know that it cost him $1,200 to get out of the scrape, although that pun ishment is better than none. Loss of money does not trouble a beast. John La Sullivan has lost the chair -pion's belt for pugilism, but the world will accord him without reserve the championship for cowardly and assinine conduct.

CHRIST'S jIA.EHSfl. The Sublime Circuit of Healing Power.

Thi finding of the bodies of Rohl and Pallister, the escaped murderers who by some mysterious means managed to elude the officers while awaiting execution, in the Hudson river at Sing Sing, N. Y., not far from the prison from which they fled, opens a field for speculation and conjecture that should delight a romancer, but is iot especially profitable for the general public. The story patched up by the officials that Pallister probably killed Rohle and then committed suicide is very flimsy. Murderers fleeing from execution are not likely to commit suicide en route. The truth will probably never be known, but a more probable solution of the mystery is that the men were killed in an encounter with officers in pun ult, who threw the bodies into the water to save trouble, and afterwards "accidentally" found them.

SEW CURE FOB CONSUMPTION. Remarkable Results Achieved by a Japanese Physician. From Japan comes the news 4;hat Dr. Kitasato, who studied under Koch in Berlin and discovered the bacillus of tetanus, has actually succeeded in curing- consumption in advanced stages by means of some new application of Koch's remedies. The news was brought by Prof, ('lay McCauley, of Tokio. who arrived at San Francisco, Thursday, May 16. He says: ; 'The government nas granted 145,000 to Dr. Kitasato for this year and $15,000 for each of the next two years toprosecute the study and treatment of cholera, abdominal ty phus, diphtheria and consumption. During the last winter Dr. Kitasato

has accomplished some remarkable

results with consumption. Jt our cu t s- j. . A. A II

or nve patients wno naa oeen xre&ieu two months were discharged cured, and 125 who had been in hospital only a few weeks showed marked im provement. None of the patients had passed beyond the second stage nor had cavities in their lungs; but all were emaciated and had night

sweats, several coughed 60 grammes

oi sputum aany. une nau oeen in bed six weeks before being treated. All showed, signs of marked improvement within a month. The sputum decreased and there was a gain in flesh. No publicity has been given to these remarkable results because the government hospital will noli be completed before early in June. Then the announcement will be made and it is expected that hundreds will flock to Tokio."

MEN WE ALL K50.

BY JOSH BILLINGS.

Mr. Wakd McAllister, of New York disapproves of American millionaires taking a a permanent residence in Europe, and says that it is a puzzle to him why so m&ny of our vastly rich people should leave the United States and settle abroad. He attributes the tendency largely to the fact that money in thi 3 country does nc bring to its possessor any especial recognition or importance. The masses of the people ire too independent and are not obsequious to weahh in any marked degree, nor will our common people toady to the rich as is the habit ai d custom of the lower classes in England and on the continent. The comforts and elegancies of life are within the reach of such a vast number of people of comparatively limited financial resources in the United States, that the glamour that great wealth casts about a person in foreign lands attracts but little attention with us. Hence, people possessed of large fortunes have failed to receive the consideration and deference that they feel to be their due, and have gone abroad believing that they will be mors respected and admired for the sake of their dollars. William Waldorf Astor has been the most conspicuous example of this modern tendency, but there have been other defections sufficiently numerous to indicate a well defined movement on the part of our wealthy people to settle on foreign soil. This is unfortunate and greatly to be regrettedT but thete appears to be no remedy. , Admirers of the manly art of pugilism who have carried the figure

New York Woekly. The Polite Man. The easyest thing to slide thru this world with, and hav everyboddy wonder how you do it, iz politeness. Politeness is like hunny and ile combined sweet and slippery. The polite man duz a larger bizzness on a smaller kapital than enny one else I kno ov. Politeness is a very good substitute for branes, and i hav seen it sukceed whare virtew and modesty failed. The polite man iz often az hollow at heart az a kokonut, and sum ov the worst ded beats I ever perused were az bland and polite az a duv. But, generally speaking, the polite man iz a good man, ior politeness don't seem to be mutch else but good natur properly edukated. If i could'nt hav neither wisdum nor virtew, the next thing I would pick out to travel with would be politeness. I hav seen folks so' polite that they waz fairly silly; but this is a safe blunder to make. Politeness iz sumtirnes so plenty in a man that it makes him a bore; but i kno ov several things that are classed amung the virtews which if i had them i would be willing to swop them oph and take all mi pay in politeness. Politeness iz allwuss safe, even if it ain't so smart. The Nkat Man. I don't kno whether neatness iz put down bi the professors az one ov the virtews or not, but if it ain't it onght to be. I never knu a thorolv korrupt person yet who waz thoroly neat. The neat man shines from hed to foot like a nu pin; he steps az brisk az a bridegroom, and will go two blocks out of his way to avoid the dust from an ash barrel. The neat man iz alwus particklar and precise, not only in hiz person, but in everything else; and tlieze two traits are minor virtews, at least. Yu never saw a neat man yet who waz not refined in hiz tastes to a certain degree; and tho hiz assosiashuns in life may be far from creditable, he allways preserves not only the appearance, but the tone ov respektabiiity. Neatness, like charity, covers a multitude of sins. Pocahontas did not save the life of John Smith. It has been ascertained that this worthy man was the most able-bodied prevaricator of his century. .

The Origin of Christian Science Medicine for Nervous Invalids Dr. XaU miee'i Sermon. Rev, Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Text: "Who touched me?" Mark v, 31. A great crowd of excited people elbowing each other this way and that and Christ in the midst of the commotion. They were on the way to see him restore to complete health a dying person. Some thought he could effect the cure, others that he could not. At any rate, it would be an interesting experiment. A very sick womau of twelve years7 invalidism is in the crowd. Some say her name was Martha, others say it was Veronica. I do not know what her name was, but this is certain she had tried all styles of cure. Every shelf of her humble home had medicine on it. She had employed many of the doctors of that time when medical science was more rude and rough and ignorant than we can imagine in this time, when the word physician or surgeon stands for potent and educated skill. Professor Lightfoot gives a list of what he supposes may have been the remedies she bad applied. I suppose she had been blistered from head to foot and had tried the compress and had used all styles of astringent herbs, and she had been mauled and hacked and cut and lacerated until life to her was a plague. Besides that, the Bible indicates her doctors bills had run up frightfully, and she had paid money for medicines and for surgical attendance and for hygienic apparatus until her purse was as exhausted as her body. What, poor woman, are vou doing in that jostling crowd? Better go home and to bed and nurse jFour disorders. No! Wan and wasted and faint she stands there, her face distorted with suffering, and ever and anon biting her lip with some acute pain, and sobbing until her tears fall from her hollow eyes upon the faded dress, oniy able to stand because the crowd is so close to her pushing her this way and that. Stand back ! Why do you crowd that poor body? Have you no consideration for a dying woman? But just at that time the crowd parts and this invalid comes almost up to Chris :, but she is behind him and his human eye does not take her in. She has heard so much about his kindness to the sick, and she does feel so wretched she thinks if she can only just touch him once it will do her good. She will not touch him on the sacred head, for that might be irreverent. She will not touch him on the hand, for that might seem too familiar. She says: "I will, I think, touch him on his coat, not on the top of it nor on the bottom of the main fabric, but on the border, the blue border, the long threads of the fringe of that blue border; there can be no harm in that. I don't think he will hurt me; I have heard so much about him. Besides that, I can stand this no longer. Twelve years of suffering have worn me out. This is my last hope." And she presses through the crowd still farther and reaches for Christ, but she cannot quite touch him. She pusnes still further through the crowd and kneels and puts her finger to the edge of the blue fringe of the border. She touches it. Quick as an electric shock there thrilled back into her shattered nerves and shrunken veins and exhausted ar

teries and panting lungs and with-

ered muscles health, rubicund health, God-given and complete health. Christ recognizes somehow that magnetic and healthful influence through the medium of the blue fringe of his garment had shot out. He turns and looks upon that excited crowd and startles them with the Interrogatory of my text. "Who touched me? Are you curious to know how that garment of Christ should have wrought such a cure for this suppliant invalid? I suppose that Christ was surcharged with vitality. You know that diseases may be conveyed from city to city by garments, as in case of epidemic, and I suppose that garments may be surcharged with aealth. I suppose that Christ had such physical magnetism that it permeated all his robe down to the last thread on the border of the blue fringe. But in addition to that there was a divine thrill, there was a miraculous potency, there was an omnipotent therapeutics, without which this twelve years' invalid would not have been instantly restored. Now, if omnipotence cannot help others without depletion, how can we evr-r expect to bless the world without self-sacrifice? Notice also i:a this subject a Christ sensitive to human touch. We talk about God on a vast scale so much that we hardly appreciate his accessibility God in magnitude rather than God ir minutiae, God in the infinite rather than God in theinfinitessimai. Wo talk about sensitive people, but Christ was the impersonation of al sensitiveness. The slightest im print of the smallest finger of human disability makes all the nerves of his head and heart and hand and feet vibrate. It is not a stolid Christ, not a phlegmatic Christ, not a preoccupied Christ, net a hard Christ, not an iron-cased Christ, bat an exquisitely sensitive Christ that mv text unveils. la your trouble a home trouble? Chnst shows himself especially sympathetic with questions of domesticity, as when at the wedding in

Cana he alleviated a housekeeper's predicament, as when tears rushed forth at the broken home of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. Men are sometimes ashamed to weep. There are men who if the tears start will conceal them. They think it is unmanly to cry. They do not seem to unders tand it is manliness and evi

dence of a great heart. T am afraid of a man who does not know how to cry. The Christ of the text was not ashamed to cry out over human misfortune. Look at that deep lake of tears opened by the two words of the evangelist, "Jesus wept!" Behold Christ on the only day of his early triumph marchiug on Jerusalem, the glittering domes obliterated by the blinding rain of tears in his eyes and on his cheek, for when he beheld the city he wept over it. O man of the many trials, O woman of the heartbreak, why do you not touch him? When T see this nervous woman coming to the Lord Jesus Christ, I say she i3 making the way for all nervous people. Nervous people do not get much sympathy. If a man breaks his arm, everybody is sorry, and they talk about it all up and down the street. If a woman has an eye pu t out by accident, thev say, 'That's a dreadful thing." Everybody is asking about her convalescence. But when a person is suffering under ie ailment of which I am now speaking they say, "Oh, that's nothing; she's a little nervous; that's all," putting a slight on the most agonizing of suffering. A Christian woman went to the Tract House in New York and asked for tracts for distribution. The first day she was out on her Christian errand she saw a policeman taking an intoxicated woman to the station house. After the woman was discharged from custody this Christian tract distributer saw her coming away, all unkempt aud unlovely. The tract distributer went up, threw her arms around her neck and kissed her. The woman said, 4 'Oh, my God, why do you kiss me?" "Well," replied the other, "I think Jesus Christ told me to' ''Oh, no," the woman said, "don't you kiss me. It breaks my heart. Nobody has kissed me since my mother died." But that sisterly kiss brought her to Christ started her on the road to heaven. The world wants sympathy. St. Yoo of Kermartin one morning went out and saw a beggar asleep on his doorstep. The beggar had been all night in the cold. The next night St. Yoo compelled this beggar to come up in the house and sleep in the saint's bed, while St. Yoo slept all night on the cold doorstep. Somebody asked him why that eccentricity. He replied: "It isn't an eccentricity. I want to know how the poor suffer. I want to know their agonies that I may sympathize with them, and therefore I slept on this cold stone last night." That is the way Christ knows so much about our sorrows. He slept on the cold doorstop of an inhospitable world that would not let him in. He is sympathetic now with all the suffering and all the tried and all the perplexed. Oh, why do you not go and touch Him? I preach a Christ so near you can touch him touch him with your guilt and get pardon touch him with your trouble and get comfort touch him with your bondage and get manumission. You have seen a man take hold ox an electric chain, A man can with one hand take one end of the chain, and with the other hand he may take hold of fie other end of the chain. Then a hundred persons taking hold of that chain will altogether feel the electric power. You have seen that experiment. Well, Christ with one wounded hand takes hold of one end of the electric chain of love, and all earthly and angelic beings may lay hold o! that chain, and around and around in sublime and everlasting circuit runs the thrill of terrestial and celestial and brotherly and saintly and cherubic and seraphic and archangelicand divine sympathy. So that if this morning Christ should sweep his hand over this audience and say, "Who touched me?" there would be hundreds and thousands of voices responding: "I! I! I!" MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

IN Oi'KN COURT. Mroclou Murder la th Court Room al DanTli'e. Cola Brown, president of the Lebanon eas and light company, was the defendant In a damage suit brought by a man named lioo, who was injured In a gas explosion.

J. C BROWN. 0. L. Wesnor, also of Lebanon, was fToe attorney. The case was taken to Dannie on a change of venue. In his argument Saturday morning, Wesner made ioveral remarks concerning Brown, much 10 the latter's displeasure. Court adjourned shortly after 12 o'clock, and Attorney Wesner was standing directly in front of tho Judge's bench when Brown stepped forward, drew his revolver and fired two shots. The first nullet hit Wesner in the arm and the second struck him below the ribs, passing through the body. The injured man died fifteen minutes later. The scne in the tourt room baflled description. Brown

SAM I EL WE3XEK. was immediately takan in custody and :onfined in jail. Excitement was great uul it was thought best to transfer Brown to the Marion county jail at Indianapolis for safety. Brown claims to have acted In self-defense. As a result of the inquest at Danville, ver the body of C. S. Wesner, killed in ihe court room, daturdav, by Cola Brown, f Lebanon, the coroner issued a warrant sharging Brown with murder. Brown's preliminary trial will be held next week. The funeral of Hon. C. S. Wesner, the rictimof the Danville tragedy, occurred tt Lebanon. Monday, and was largely ttteitded. The local bar attended In a ody and adopted resolutions of sympathy ior the bereaved family. THE TERREHAUTE PGSTOFFICE.

In the rock of Gibraltar there are seventy miles of tunnels. A calf in Lumberton, Conn., captures and eats chickens. Parchment glued to leather makes a belting which will not stretch. In a human body weighing 140 pounds there are 105 pounds of liquid and 35 pounds of solid matter. A tunnel 13,168 feet long is to be constructed under the Cascade Mountains, in Oregon and Washington. A Vermont judge has decided that when a lady discards a lover sue must return the engagement ring. The colored people in the United States maintain seven colleges, seventeen academies, and fifty high schools. A bright boy in a Red Bank school defined a sausage to be "a few inches of food tied up at both ends to hide the contents." Five minutes after receiving her divorce papers, a woman in Paris, Texas, faced the same judge with another man and was promptly married to him. The trial trip of a ' 'flying machine, ,! in Brenham, Texas, caused the inventor to take a tumble from a vast height. He is likely to be a sick man for months. Some Parisian shopkeepers attract spectators to their windows by emitting; delightfully scented warm air from openings at the base of the windowr frames.

&eport of the Civil Service CommUloners. The substance of the civil service report elative to tho Terro Haute postoffic xnatier that was forwarded to the President nd Postmaster Genera!, statos that on January 23, 1893, David C. Gainer was itriclcen blind with partial paralysis, and apon his recovery he was asked to resign, ind upon his refusal several sensational charges were made against him. On May V it was announced that Allan Donham bad been appointed to succeed Grelner as postmaster. Tho commission of the new postmaster arrived in Terre Bute, May 12, one day before the civil service examinations were to tako place. On the same day Donham, accompanied by several men he had appointed as his clerks, went so the postoftice and demanded immediate possession. Greiner refused and telegraphed to Washington stating Don ham's tonduct, and asked for advice. Ee ro;eived the reply to deliver up the postjftice Saturday night. Donham paid no ittention to this dispatch, but by force itayed in the oinco, Greiner also received i disipatch from the Postmaster General ;o the effect that Donham did not have ihe power to appoint postal carriers, :lerks, etc., which he had done. EAST INDIAN NABOBS.

Manners of the Indian Empire Exemplified In London. A London cable to the New York World, Sunday, says: Great court is oaid to the native Indian Princes now in London, but owing to their domestic habits neither the Prince of Wales nor any of the society magnates who entertain that sort of people will invito them to stay at their houses. This lias greatly incensed the Indians, and they are being invited to return to India through Russia, where the Czar will be proud to treat them with every hospitality. The truth is that these Indians nabobs are only semi-civilized, and their notions of cleanliness and sanitation are not even that. One of tbem took a furnished mansion in Kensington about a month ago, and the owner hearing strange stories of the way in which his furniture and decorations were be Ing destroyed, sent In an agent to inspect the house, which was found to be in an indescribably filthy condition. In fact, the agent warned the Maharajah's stew ard that unless the inmates mended their behavior ho would send the sanitary inspector in upon them, and in any case the Maharajah would have to pay the ost of refurnishing and decorating the house from top to bottom, xt appears that all meat and poultry for his table must be be killed before his eyes, so the lower regions of the mansion have been turned into shambles. As he proposes tc reside there for three months, he bound to get into trouble with the sanitary authorities before he cteparttt.

ROMANCE OF THE WAR.

A floosie Drama Reunited After iay Xeart. A story stranger than fiction is disclosed in the visit of Mr. Brown Wilson, of Florida, to his sister. Miss E. O. Wilson, of Terre Haute. When the war broke out Mr. Wilson was living in Terre Haute with his wife and four children. He enlisted, and after serving his time he returned home and made preparations to settle in the far West, Soon after settling in the West, and before he sent for his family, the settlement was attacked by Indians and Mr. Wilson was left for dead. After his wounds had healed it was found that his mind was impaired, and he was sent to an insane asylum, where he remained five years. During these years his physical system was wrecked, and when his mind was restored he was transferred to a hospital for medical treatment. He finally recovered sufficiently to be removed to Florida. Letters which he sent to his wife never reached her, and in time Mrs. Wilson mourned him as dead. Meanwhile she had removed to Brazil. Some months ago Mrs. Wilson applied for a pension, and this brought a return from Washington that her husband was living and was himself a pensioner. Mrs, Wilson refused to believe the report, and to make sure of her right to dispose of her property she applied for a divorce, which was granted. Quite recently Mr. Wilson discovered somethin7 of his family by writing to a friend in Terre Haute, who told him, however, that his wife had remarried and that his children were dead. Thursday Mr. Wilson paid a visit to his old home, where he was speedily made acquainted with the condition of things Word was sent to Brazil and two of his daughters men him in Terre Haute. Friday he went to Brazil to again meet his wife, who has remained single. Mr. Wilson will go to Chicago to undergo a surgical operation, the result of injuries received at the time of the attack by the Indians, after which he will decide whether to take his family to Florida or remain with them. LE CARON THE SPY.

He U Dying: Through Fear of AmsasI tlon.

A London cable to the New York World of the 17th says: Major Le Caron, the celebrated British spy, is lyinff critically ill at his home in a suburb of London. His health has been broken for some time, principally by tho constant state of terror in which he had lived, fearing assassination. He haft dyed his mustacne and hair a fair tint they were raven black and this made him look so strange that he fancied it would lead to his detection by enemies. This fear has preyed on his mind. He lives ii a small house and is under unremitting police supervision. For two months lie has not ventured o it of doors. The most remarkable feature of the case is that by the purest accident the doctor who fs attending him is a younger brother of Thomas Burke, the Under Secretary for Ireland who was assassinated, with Lord Frederick Cavendish, by the Invincibles. Dr. Burke happened to practice in the neighborhood and he wascalled in by the police as a person who could be trusted with, the secret of La Caron'a identity. WILL OPEN ON SUNDAY.

Final Settlement of the Voxed Question. Sunday opening has won the day. Thirty member 3 of the World's Fair National Commission went on record, Tuesday, in favor of the Sunday opening rules submitted by the directors. Twenty-seven commissioners voted against consideration of the rule. On a final test the commission voted to substitute the minority or Sunday opening report of the judiciary committee for the majority report, which favored Sunday closing. The question then came up on the modification of the directors' rule, with the same result. The council of administra tion has also decided to open the fair three evenings of each week. Advocates of Sunday openiug ana jubilant over the outcome, although the government may t&ke some action to prevent the opening of the Fair on that day. 'RAH FOR BR'KR TALMAG&

The Brooklyn Divine Cheered on His An. nooncing the Liquidation of tne Tabernacle EebU In the presence of the congregation thai crowded the immense tabernacle to the doors, Sunday morning, the Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage officially announced that the floating deot of the tabernacle had been liquidated and that his remaining with the church as its pastor was assured It had been pretty generally understood that the necessary money bad been raised but the announcement coming from the doc tor himself created a furore of excitement among the congregation. Chner upon cheer was given by the largo congregation and it v as some time before he could continue. Ihe cheering was repeated with smphasis when the divino added that he would continue as pastor, FOREST FIRE FATALITY.

A. Michigan Lumber Camp Oestroyed &nd Ten Lives Lost A forest fire destroyed Lous Sand's lumber camp near Lake City, Michigan, Sat urday afternoon. Out of a total crew of sixty men forty -nine escaped uninjured. One, Edward Sullivan, was seriously burned, and ten are dead. Of these eight took refuge in a well and were cremated there by the timbers and curbing falling in upon them and burning. Two tried to run the gauntlet nd were burned to a crisp. At the Aquarium in Berlin there is a bi gorilla whose habits are about as correct as those of most 6t his distant relatives. He gets up at 8 in the morning, takes a bath, and uses soap without hesitation. When his toilet is completed he takes a cup of milk, after which he eats two loaves of bread, with Frankfort sausages and smoked Hamburg beef, all of which he moistens with a glass of weiss beer. t 1 p. m. he takes a bowl of soup, with rice and potatoes, nd a wing ofa chicken.