Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 11 July 1893 — Page 2

THE TELEPOHNE.

By Wauuh Bradfute.

BLOOMINGTON

TnE salmon trust is the latest combination or conspiracy to divert unfair profits from the pockets of the consumer to the safety deposit vaults of capitalists. The new organization will control the entire output of the Columbia river canneries. The output will be limited to 465,000 cans annually and prices will be advanced.

enterprise of the men whose ideas 1 are so far beneath a correct conception of what is proper and fitting

that they would paste a handbill on the dome of St. Paul's or place a

INDIANA i floating signboard m famed Loch . Lomond.

Vice-President Stevenson has received the degree of L. L. D. from the college at Danville, Ky., of which he is a graduate. It is said that this honor will be of benefit to Mr. Stevenson in the discharge of bis duties as presiding officer of the Senate, but it is difficult to see how so common a title can be of any especial benefit to any man, however gratifying it may be to his vanity.

Oh, where are we at, with G-rovcr so fat, and Adlai a doctor of laws, with silver so plenty and money so scanty that traffic has come to a pause? With banks without cash and things going to smash, and wheat that is cheaper than corn, men are prone to be rash and drink sour mash and wish they had never been bora. But the clouds will soon clear and the mist disappear from the view that seems doubtful and dim, and soon with a roar tide will turn to the shore, so hasten to "get in the

swim.

"Necessity is the mother of invention" is an old adage that has seldom hod feo peculiar an illustration as he very novel method of changing bank bills that has long been in vogue in Bolivia. Years ago when bank notes were first issued fractional currency was scarce and it became a recogaized custom to tear up the larger notes in order to make change. Jo such an extent has this practice been carried tha t a perfect bank- note of any denomination is a rarity in that country. A decree, however, has been issued that after June 30, of this year, mutilated notes will not b2 redeemed. Holders of notes were warned by legal advertisement to present their old and mutilated bills for redemption before that date, failing in which they must stand the loss.

A dairyman near New York was for a long time annoyed by his cows returning from pasture at night with full stomachs and empty udders. Strong suspicions were aroused that certain families in the neighborhood were fattening at the dairyman's ixpense. but careful watching failed tro detect the offender. Matters became desperate. .The profits of the dairy went glimmering into the unknown like deposits in a Dwiggins bank. Standing recently in a despondent mood by the side of a mill rase that ran through the farm, thf dairy maa saw his favorite cow enter the water until it touched her body. After cooling off the animal emerged from the stream with a fifteen-pound carp hanging to her adder. The fish had absorbed every drop of milk. The mystery was explained mmmmmt The delightful Frenchmen are still quarreling about the Panama scandal. Longwinded debates occupy the time of the Deputies, and members arise and frantically demand that the Chamber vindicate their injured honor. Mock duels are of frequent occurrence. M. Clemencau is ready to fight all comers and guarantee the personal safety of the combatants and spectators. Dr. Herz continues too sick to be extradited and certificates to that effect have been made by his physicia ns in London. In the meantime the prominent men who were convicted and sentenced to imprisonment have been released on technicalities practically without prejudice. So the great farce goes on and no man can safely predict the end. The French are very "funny."

A determined and organized effort has been inaugurated in England to protect and promote the rural simplicity of nature's works, in countryand architectural works of note in town ou rivers or mountains, where the same have been, or are threatened with, the vandal desecrations of enterprising advertisers. The patent medicine advertiser has become a pest in that country, and even in Ireland the lakesides, and the eliffs and glens of Scotland and Wales, are disfigured with horrible daubs and prints setting forth the virtues of medicines, corn plasters and corsets. Some of the most famous and beautiful scenery in the world, is thus disfigured, and it has been determined to wage a vigorous crusade against the scandalous and unsightly evidences of the ill-advised

An Indianapolis Shylock who does business under the pseudonym of Chas. G. Ludwig, was sentence;! to thirty days imprisonment and fined $50 for his share in an outrageous transaction beside which highway robbery is chivalrous and respectable. A ladv borrowed $10 from this philanthropist (?) giving a chattel

mortgage as security. After paying $30 in interest, Ludwig demanded $22 more in order to square the account, sending her a threatening letter to enforce payment. The lady caused his arrest for sending the

threatening letter, not having any lesral recourse for her financial iniur-

i j ies. The result was so uuexpected,

the sharks victims having in the past submitted quietly, that he was overcome and begged for mercy. The court remitted the jail sentence. A London cablegram to the New York World brings the depressing intelligence that the "Blarney stone" now on exhibition at Chicago is a "fake." The English are actually laughing at our simplicity. No one believed the American people could be so easily fooled. Our consuf at Queenstown made a journey to Blarney Castle for the express purpose of satisfying himself, and found the old stone in the exact spot where it has reposed for centuries. This is serious and perhaps sad, and will have t. tendency to cast discredit on all foreign exhibits. They will be telling us next that the Duke of Veragua and the Princess Eulalie were 4 'bogus." Relics, and specimens of the nobility, are worse than useless if not genuine, and the substitution of imitation articles, unless it is so stated and understood, is an insult to the popular intelligence. "Hone-sty is the best policy.' in this as in other matters.

There is something wrong in a system of jurisprudence that permits the arrest of a man on a charge of murder on the most flimsy evidence and holds him a prisoner for weeks without trial and then tells him to go, as there is no evidence against him. The law grants a man

no remedy for such an outrage, or

at least if there is it is so difficult to get at that a poor man is practically without recourse. Samuel Guinn, temporarily a visitor at Haughville, was arrested and incarcerated in the Marion county jail for the alleged murder of John Tarpey. Notwithstanding his protestations of innocence and a demand for trial he was kept locked up for two weeks, and was then kindly permitted to go. the theory of the police having been knocked out by the voluntary evidence of a woman implicating a burglar in the Indianapolis city hospital, who subsequently made a full confession. Officers who allow themselves to commit such outrages should be rigorously dealt with, and their victims should have some recourse for the indignities which they may suffer from the over zealous efforts of amateur detectives.

PEOPLE.

Riley will bring out some poems in the fall with the title of "Poems at Home." The town council of Gueda Springs, Kan., is composed entirely of married women, and the Mayor is also a woman. Thomas Nelson Page and bride will make their winter home in Washington, but will choe a place equally convenient to Washington and Richmond for their permanent abiding place. The Emperor of Russia has very unexpectedly announced his intention of sending the czarowiteh to represent the imperial family at the English Royal wedding, having probably been induced to do so by hearing that Prince Henry of Prussia was to attend on the part of Emperor William. Luke Smith, of Ac to i, Mass., who took a prominent part in the recent Bunker Hill celebration in Boston, is said to be the only man living whose father fought at Bunker Hill Mr. Smith, over eighty years old, was also one of the first to volunteer in 1861. Quanah Parker, the old chief of the Comanches. brought his newest squaw into Vernon, Texas, the other day to have her photograph taken. The redoubtable chief has become highly civilized, though in a Mormon way, since he buried the tomahawk. He has seven wives, lives in a line house, drives a horse and carriage and eats the best food the market provides. He is a tall and bony but not unhandsome man.

Good Tor the Doctors. Texas Sittings. Adams There are some things cheap in New York. You can ride in an open car from Harlem to the Battery for a nickel. Burns Yes, pneumonia and a nine-mile ride are cheap fo.v a nickel.

A PLEA FOR MERCY.

Two Types ot Supplicants Before the Throne. Tha FharUe mud Publican Arrogance aort HomlUtj Dr. Talmagt)' Sermon. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Subject: 'Arrogance and Humility." Text: Luke xviii, 13, "God be merciful to me, a sinner!" No mountain ever had a more brilliant coronet than Mt.Moriah. Glories of the ancient temple blazed there. The mountain top was not originally laro enough to hold the temple, and so a wall 600 feot hih was erected, and the mountain was built out into that wall. It was at that point that Satan met Christ and tried to persuade Him to cast himself down the GOO feet. The nine gates of the temple flashed the light of silver and gold and Corinthian brass, which Corinthian brass was mere precious stones melted and mixed and crystalized. The temp'o itself was not so very large a structure, but the courts and the adjuncts of the architecture made it half a mile in circumference. I see two men mounting the steps of the building. They go side by side; they are very unlike; no sjrmpathy between them the one the pharisee, proud, arrogant, pompous, he goes up the steps of the building. He seems by his manner to say: "Clear the track! Never before came up these steps such goodness and consecration." Beside him was the publican, bent down seemingly with a load on his heart. They reach the inclosure for worship in the midst of the temple. The pharisee goes close up to the gate of the holy of holies. He feels he is worthy to stand there. He says practically. "I am so holy I want to ? o into the holy of holies. O Lord, am a very good man. I'm a remarkably good man. Why, two days in the week I eat absolutely nothing, I'm so good. I'm very generous in my conduct toward the poor. I have no sympathy with the common rabble; especially have I none with this poor, miserable, wretched, commonplace publican who happened to come up the stairs beside me." The publican went clear to the other side of the inclosure, as far away from the gate of the holy of holies as he could get, for he felt unworthy to stand near the sacred place. And the Bible says he stood afar off. Standing on the opposite side of this inclosure he bows his head, and as orientals when they have anv trouble beat their breasts, so he begins to pound his breast as he cries, ''God be merciful tome, a sinner!" Now, I put this publican's prayer under analysis, and I discover in the first place that he was persuaded of his sinfulness. He was an honest man, he was a taxgatherer, he was an officer of the government. The publicans were taxgatherers, and Cicero says they were the adornment of the State. Of course thev were somewhat unpopular, because people then did not like to pay their taxes any better than people now like to pay their taxes, and there were many who disliked them. Still, I suppose this publican, this taxgatherer, was an honorable man. He had an office of trust. There were many hard things said about him. and yet, standing there in that inclosure of the temple amid the demonstrations of God's holiness and power, he cries out from the very depths of his stricken soul, "God be merciful to me, a sinnerl" I know that our souls are dreadfully lost by the work that God has done to save them. Are you a sinner? Suppose you had a commercial agent in Charleston or San Francisco or Chicago, and you were paying him promptly his salary, and you found out, after awhile, that notwithstanding he had drawn the salary he had given nine-tenths of all the time to some other commercial establishment. Why, your indignation would know no bounds. And yet that is just the way we have treated the Lord. He sent us into this world to serve Him. He has taken good care of us. He has clothed us, He has sheltered us, and He has surrounded us with ten thousand benefactions, and yet many of us have given nine-tenths of our lives to the service of the world, the flesh and the devil. Why, my friend, the Bible is full of confession, and I do not find anybody is pardoned until he has confessed. Well, say a thousand men in this audience, if I am not to get anything in the way of peace from God in good works, how am I to be s a vied? By mercy. Here I stand to tell the story mercy, mercy, long-sufirering mercy, sovereign mercy, infinite mercy, omnipotent mercy, everlasting mercy. Why, it seems in the Bible as if all language were exhausted, as if it were stretched until it broke, as if all expression were struck dead at the feet of prophet and apostle and evangelist when it trie6 to describe God's mercy. But, says someone, you are throwing open that door of mercy too wide. No, I will throw it open wider. I will take the responsibility of saying that if all this audience, instead of being gathered in a semicircle were placed side by side in one long line they could all march right through that wide open gate of mercy. ' ' W hosoevcr, whosoever. " Oh, this mercy of God. There is no line long enough to fathom it; there is no ladder long enough to scale it; there is no arithmetic facile enough

to calculate it; no angel's wing can 1

fly across it. I push this analysis of the publican's prayer a step further and find that he did not expect any mercy except by pleading for it. He did not fold his hands together as some do, saying, "if I am to be saved, I'll be saved; if I'm to be lost, I'll be lost, and there is nothing for me to do." He knew what was worth having was worth asking for; hence this earnest cry of the text, 'God be merciful to me, a sinner!" It was an earnest prayor, and it is characteristic of all bible prayers that they were answered. The blind man, "Lord, that I. may receive my sight;1' the leper, liLord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean;" sinking Peter, ' Lord save mo;" the publican, ''God be merciful to me, a sinner!" But if vou come up with the tip of your fingers and tap at the gate of mercy it will not open. You have got to have the earnestness of the warrior who, defeated and pursued, dismounts from his lathered steed and with gauntleted fists pounds at the palace gate. Another characteristic of the prayer of the publican was, it had a ring of confidence. It was not a cry of despair. He knew he was going to get what he asked for. He wanted mercy. He asked for it, expecting it. And do you tell me, O man, that God has provided this salvation and is not going to let you have it? If a man builds a bridge across a river, will he not let people go over it? If a physician gives a prescription to a sick man, will he not let him take it? If an architect puts up a building, will he not let people in it? If God provides salvation, will he not let you have it? Oh, if there

be a pharisee here, a man who says: I am all right. My past life has been right. I don't want the pardon of the gospel, for 1 have no sin to pardon, let mo say that while that man is in that mood there is no peace for him. there is no pardon, no salvation, and the probability is he will go down and spend eternity with the lost pharisee of the text. But if there be here one who sav s I want to be better; I want to quit my sins: my life has been a very imperfect life; how many things have I said that I should not have said; how many things I have done I should not have done; I want to change my life; I want to begin now; let me say to such a soul God is waiting, God is ready, and you are near the kingdom, or rather you have entered it, for no man says I am determined to serve God and surrender the sins of my life; here, now, I consecrate myself to the Lord Jesus Christ, who died to redeem me no man from the depth of his soul says that but he is already a Christian. Oh, are there not many who can say this prayer, kiGod be merciful to me a sinner!"' While I halt in the sermon will you all utter it? I do not say audibly, but utter it down in the depths of your soul's consciousness. Yes, the sigh goes all through the galleries, it goes all through the pews, it goes all through these aisles, sigli after sigh God be merciful to me, a sinner! Have you all uttered it? No, there is one soul that has not uttered it too proud to utter it. O Holy Spirit, descend upon that one heart! Yes, he begins to breathe it now. No bowing of the head yet, no starting tear yet, but the prayer is beginning it is born. God be merciful tome, a sinner! Have all uttered it? Then I utter it myself, for no one in all the house needs to utter it more than my own soul God be merciful to me, a sinner! A Supply of Towels. Chicago Mail. Have plenty of towels. Comfort and cleanliness depend upon it. You can better go without some of your household decorations than to i4get along" with a scant supply of towels. Have them of good size. They are more satisfactory and wear longer than the curtailed sort. Shall the towel be fringed? That is a matter of taste. Some one said the other day that plain hems with two or more rows of hemstitching above the hem would soon lead in ; 'linen good forms." We hope so for the towel in ordinary use, anyhow. Shall our towels be damask or huckaback? That is also a matter of taste. And it is a matter of complexion. Huckaback and Turkish are more desirable for bath use, but for the face use the damask. With that you may rub the skin without producing a battered up feeling that is ceruiinly not advisable for the complexion. It is well to persistently rub the face, but it is never improved by scouring. Get the "new" out of your tovva before putting them to use. It is, indeed, treating a guest ill to offer him a towel with the "store" starch upon it. Iron your towels on both sides. They are more agreeable to use when smoothly laundered, and when so polished give a tinge of thoroughness to your housekeeping. Climatic Item. Texas Sittings. Charlie Clamwhooper You look sad. Gus. What's the matter? Gus De Smith Birdie McGinnis treated me very cool last night. Clamwhooper Great Si;ott! is that what you're kicking about? The man who receives cool treatment from his girl this kind of weather is in luck. I wish I could swap girls with you. Aline is a society lady, and she is so affectionate I'm afraid to call on her until the warm wave pisses over. Looking the wrong way through oprraglasrtes is an object-lesson that will lessen an object in appearance.

ROYAL NUPTIALS. The Duke ot York Maxries Princess May Victoria. The Most Imposing Event of the JtOad Seu la London for Year. The Dnko of York (Prince George of Wales) nod Princess Victoria May, of Teck, t'.ok place at 12:30 o'clock, Thursday, In Chapel Royal, St. James Pt.lace. The wedding was attended by a large gathering of the members of the .British royal family, continental sovereigns or their representatives, and many members of the highest nobility. The occasion was made one of national rejoicing, and a partial British holiday. Great crowds o,r people gathered along the line of the route from Buckingham palace to the garden entrance to St. James Palace. The decorations along the line of the royal procession were profuse and beautiful. The scene was full of life and movement, and the ceremony eclipsed in pomp and grandcur any recent state ceremonial in connection with the British court. The royal party left Buckinham Palace in four processions, the first conveying members of the household and distinguished guests. The next included the Duke of York and his supporters, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburg. The bride came in the third pro-

ORIENTAL RORW

PRINCE GEORGE OF WALES. cession, accompanied by her father, the Duke of Teck, ami her brother, Prince Adolphus of Teck. Tho last procession was that of tho Queen, who, accompanied by the Duchess of Teck, her younger sons and the Grand Duke of Iiesse, drove in state to the ceremoniais. Her Majesty rode in the handsome glass coach used at the opening of Parliament and ot,her special occasions. Her Majesty alighted in the ambassador's court under a specially erectod canopy over tho glass doors of the passage leading to the chapel. Thence she walked to the north end of the edifice. The spot was beautifully adorned with palms and flowers from the royal conservatory and carpeted with crimson. Upon the same

platform seats were provided for the Prince and Princess of Wales, the bride and bridegroom and the other members of the royal family and royal guests from abroad. The member of the diplomatic body, including themembersof the United States embassy and other invited guests, occupied especial seats in the body ot the chapel and in the royal and eas galleries. Drawing room dresses were worn by the ladies, the gentlemen appearing in full levee dress. The bride wore the veil which was worn by her mother on the occasion of her own marriage. Her wedding gown was of silver brocade, in perfect harmony with the

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PRINCESS MARY OF TECIv. bridesmaids' toilets of white satin and silver lace. The archbishop o Canterbury, assisted by the other clergy, performed the ceremony, the bride being given away by her. father. The magnificent gilt sacramental plate, the central alms dish which is said to have been manufactured in the reign of Charles I, and is valued at $50,000, was displayed upon the altar, which was decked with the choicest flowers. The de juner was served at Buckingham Palace, tho Queen proposing the toast of the bride and bridegroom and tho lord steward the toast of "The Queen. " Prince George Frederick Ernst Albert, Duke of York, Earl of Irverness and Baron Killarney, is the only surviving son of the Prince of Wales. He was born at Marlborough House on June 3, 1865, and baptized at Windsor Castle on the 7th day of July following. He was educated at Sandringham and Marlborough House, When fourteen years old Prince George was entered as a cadet on board H. M. S, Brittany. At the present moment he is the junior captain in the navy. Shortly after the death of his elder brother, the Duke of Clarence and Avondale, who died a few weeks before the time set for his marriage to the bride of to-day, Prince George received from tho Queen, his grandmother, the Royal Dukedom of York. His other titles are too numerous to mention. The Princess May is the eldest child and only daughter of the Duke of Teck and Princess May of Cambridge, who are both connected with nearly every sovereign in Europe. She was born at Kensington Palace on tho 0th of May, 1867, and the greater part of her life has been spent at White Lodge, Richmond Park, the residence of her parents. It is doubtful if any Princess was ever held in higher esteem than is Princess May. Her modesty and inherent kindliness have made her a general favorite, and her sympathy with the noor and her active endeavors to improve their condition have made her an idol where royalty is not well received. .lames Hughes, the Chicago Knight of Labor, has been pardoned by Governor Flower. He was sentenced at Rochester, N. Y., to a year's imprisonment for forcing clothing hnns to pay motmy to avoid a boycott

BlTn Thousand People Iownf4 T Floods and Killed fc FaHtOflT Wtoas, The tcaw Ilelricarrivedat San Francisco from Hon Kong anS Yokohama, Wednesday, bringing the foflowinff advices: One thousand people have been drowned near Shaking and Woole, by the overflowing of a branch of tho Welling, river. A vast area in Nankan Fu has beco devastated by floods, and nearly ten thousand people have been drowned or klllod by failing houses. The Peninsular and Oriental steamship' Khivtf, while on her way from Bombay to Mecca, carrying 073 pilgrims and a crew of eighty, took fire and was lost The teamer was benched. In attempting to eave the burning ship a number of the pilgrims rushed to one ot the boats, "which Aipsized, and twenty of their number ere drowned. The rest of tho passen

gers and crew reached the shore in safety. Tho Mission premises at Kiang Tstn, k the Yangtse, were attacked by a mob May 15, but tho inmatos escaped to the louseof a neighbor. Three of tho ringeadcrs vcrc captured and imprisoned. About the middle of May officials of the Faipinff custom house sent away a considerable quantity of money, collected as duty, to Canton. The money was intrusted to deputies, who embarked in a small boat and proceeded on their way, escorted by three small river gunboats. Some distance down the river they were suddenly attacked by several pirate boats which rushed out of a small creek unex'ectedly and set upon the boat containing the treasure. The soldiers on the gunboats fought bravely, the struggle lasting several hours, but as there were nearly five hundred pirates, both on boats and on tha banks of the river, this soldiers vere put to (light, leaving a large number ol dead and wounded behind them, and the pirates succeeded fn carrying on the booty to the extent of about $20,000. A violent storm overtook a number of fishing junks off Ycgumo, Japan, June 21. Fifteen were wrecked and five occupants drowned. THE KENTUCKY BUDGET.

Thm Dark and Bloody Ground S attaint Its Reputation. A dispateh from Inez, Ky., Wednesday, says: Wallace Desk ins was shot and killed, Sunday, at Nolan W. VaM bv Andrew Farmer during a drunken row. The assassin was pursued by a posse and was overtaken and surrounded, Monday night, but he fired on Lis pursuers and fatally wounded George Deskins and a man named Thompson. In the confusion ha made his escape, but the posse continued the pursuit and he if; now surrounded by mob that threaten s to lynch him. Ee will undoubtedly bis eaugat, and unless the th sheriff consents to surrender him, blood will flow freely, fie is on Wolf creek, in this county. Near Bardwell, Ky., Wednesday morning, Ruble and Mary Ray, aged twelvo and sixteen, respectively, daughters of John Kay, were criminally assaulted and then murdered by art unknown raan. The wo girls went to a thicket to pick berries, fn about half an hot r a pet dog came running home. Mrs. Ray thought something was wrong, and followed the dog back to the thicket, where she found the body of Mary. Her throat was cut from ear to ar. The horri'ded mother ran back to the house and gave the alarm. Her son hurried to the thicket, and found the corpse of his younger sister. Her throat was cut from ear to ear. Both bod to were horribly mangled, plainly showing that the young girls had been outraged. There is no definite clew to the identity of the brute who committed the crime.

GEN. WEAVER'S IDEAS. rhe Whilom Prftidentil Quantity Makes Few K mftrks. Gen. James B, Weaver writes the editor f the New York World from Des Moines Iowa, under date of July 2, in reply to inquiries as vO his ideas on the silver crisis. Lie advocates an independent system of finance for this country. He holds that the closing of the Indian mints is a blow chat must result in our shaking off the i'oke nder which we have so long struggled. England, he says. Is robbing us tenfold more by her financial policy than she Hid in 1776 by her taxes. We must have a ariple system of finance gold, silver and paper. Continuing;, Gen. Weaver says that the present crisis will bring about the complete overthrow of both the old parties, as they are the joint authors of the present distress. Those who wish to uphold England will stay with the old parties; those who wish complete independence will flock to the new. CHINESE KILL MISSIONARIES.

Thm :ttarder Attributed to Hatrod of Foreigner. Another fanatical outbreak against missionaries in Chin& is reported from Hong Kong. The dispatch says that a mob of natives attacked and killed two Swedish missionaries named Wfckholm and Johannsen, at Maeheng, sixty' miles from Han Kow. No details are given, but the murders are said to have been due to the anti-foreign placards that have heretofore caused much trouble to tho foreign missionaries in China. 1 A HAWAIIAN CONSPIRACY. Dispatches from Honolulu dated June 8th give details of a conspiracy that has oeen discovered to overthrow tho provisional government. The members engaged iu the plot are sworn tp remove il) persons who stand in the way of the restora tion of the deposed Quoen. Clawa iSpreckles, the sugar planter; Minister Blpunt and others who are supposed' to favor an-' nexation are marked for assassination and have received warning and threatening letters. The provisional government has tacen steps to protect all parties as far as possible, and serious troublo is not anticipated. For the first six months of the current calendar year the offers of silver aggregated 51,300,000 ounces, while for the same period last year they were only 45,350,000 ounces. 4 A fakeM Karnum & Bailey circus agent lias been abusing the confidence of tha business men of Michigan City.