Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 18 July 1893 — Page 2

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The new excise law went into effect in South Carolina on the 1st. The amount of wine purchased for .sacramental purposes on the 30th of June is said to have been unparalleled in that State.

bed, should procure all the curled hair they are liable to need at the usual market rates before engaging in disputes with men whose flowing beards may tempt them to begin a collection of mattress material at such ruinous prices.

Chakity begins at home is practically illustrated by ex-Senator Ingalls. He has never taken a dollar for an address delivered in Kansas, either political or literary, and says he never will. For all that, however, the prospects are that the verbose Senator will not soon represent that commonwealth in the halls of congress.

Hon. Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior, addressed the Sunday school children at As bury Park, last week. In the course of his remarks he said that newspaper criticism seldom annoyed him, but he had serious objections to being accused of drunkenness, as had been recently done by some papers, when in fact he did not drink at all arid was strongly opposed to the liquor traffic.

A horse racing Duke and "Dookess" have been added to the list of notables who have come to our shores in this Columbian year. They are the de Beauforts, and they arrived at New York on the 1st. The Duke's horses came in at the tail nd of the procession at the Chicago races, but his 'ighness has cash that says they can lead at other trials that are to take place in different parts of the country during the season.

The directors of the Brooklvn bridge corporation have received an offer of $5,000 per year from an enterprising liquor dealer for the privilege of opening a saloon on the bridge, but declined the proposition because they did not want the roadway blockaded by thirsty New Yorkers, This is a very ungentlemanly reflection on New York men, as it is not an established fact that they are any more given to intemperate habits th$n their Brooklyn brethren.

"Parisian dudes can give their American imitators a new point. Superlatively nice young men of that gay capital now employ their surplus cash in having plaster casts of their legs constructed for the purpose of keeping their trousers and underwear in proper shape. One .young man.1 is said to have sixty pairs of plaster counterfeits of his underpinnings standing around in a room especially devoted to that purpose. The effect is said to be startlngly uncanny. Pugilist Corbett advises Mr. Cleveland to run half a mile each cay, after which he should walk at least three miles with a blanket bound about the waist to make him perspire freely. As an additional flesh reducer he directs that the President perambulate the streets of Washington on a bicycle. In addition to the exercise the patient is to be limited to a strict diet and abstain from all liquids as far as possible. He guarantees that, if his advice is followed, Grover will soon be rJie gamiest President that ever vetoed a bill.

The sewer commissioner of St. Louis has recently been confronted with a condition of the underground channels in his charge that knocks out all of his previously conceived cheori&s. A peculiar red gravel that iias of late years been extensively used on the thoroughfares of that city has become a terror to his department because of its being so largely composed of iron that, when ground up by the traffi of the streets, it becomes a powder that forms an adamantine cement when washed into the sewers by the rains. Huge piles collect in the arteries underlying the city that require the most strenuous exertions of men with sharp tools to remove.

Ten thousand dollars is a large price for a handful of curled hair, yet that is the sum demanded by ;Mr. Asthur Massey from Moses King, of New York, for a slight souvenir which the said King plucked from the flowing beard of the aforesaid Massey during the progress of an animated argument over the possession some photographs, taken by the said Massey for the aforesaid King. It all depends upon the locality whence you procure your supply of curled hair. A mattress manufactured from such expensive cullings would come high, and you don't have to have that kind for a comfortable bed. Hence, people l.able to suiden and uncontrollable ebulitions of temper, and a desire for a soft

The late Edwin Booth, during the last twenty years of his life, accumulated a fortune of nearly $700,000, all of his earnings previous to 1869 having been lost in the failure of the great theater which he endeavored to establish in New York. The estate which he has left to his heirs consists entirely of personal property, with the exception of a residence at Newport. This handsome return for a comparatively few years of professional effort has called attention to the thrifty habits of actors of great ability, which is in striking contrast to the profligacy which is characteristic of a majority of the common run of footlight favorites, whose mediocre talents often bring them very handsome incomes. The fact is recalled that Edwin Forivst and Charlotte Cushman both left very large fortunes, and Mr. Henry Irving, the eminent EnglLh tragedian, is also credited with being a wealthv man. This art of accumulation is rare among men of uncommon genius and ability, and very few writers, no matter what their ability or distinction, have ever acquired a fortune from their literary, productions.

This is a very free country. The freedom of speech and action permitted to all, whether citizens or not. native or foreign born, is unknown in anv other countrv on earth. It is a cardinal doctrine of our creed to allow this latitude of thought, expression and action in all things. Yet there is a point where liberty ceases to be a virtue, and where incendiary, sentiment should not be allowed to insult the intelligence and patriotism of the great mass of our people who love their country and its flag. Socialism and anarchy have nothing in common with the aims and purposes of any free government, and when their advocates go to the length of publicly cursing a country and flag, whose benign blessings have insured to them a safe refuge from, in many cases, well merited punishment for crimes committed abroad, then if our laws can not reach them, our citizens will, at least, sympathize with and give their moral support to any man who. in the heat of passion, resents an insult to the stars and stripes as he would an assault upon his own honor by sturdy blows that are a credit to his manhood. Hence, it will be a difficult matter to obtain a jury that will punish John Schultze, of New York, who thus summarily dealt with one Frank Kraiger, of the same city, for cursing America and her starry banner. Mr. Kraiger died of the injuries received at the hands of the patriotic Schultze, as has been noted in our news columns, and there will be few who will not feel that his punishment, while severe, was well merited.

It is our aim to give our readers seasonable information at all times. In pursuance of this policy we note the departure of Lieutenant Peary for the Arctic regions in search of the Nortfi Pole. Incoming steamers arriving at New York on the 3d and 4th report encountering the most tremendous icebergs veritable mountains of 1'rigidity on the trip across. In keeping with this cooling information we chronicle the arrival on one of these same steamers of the Governor of Siberia and his staff, who are making an American tour, and will visit the World's Fair. The assurance possessed by this official is in itself cool--very cool. He probably does not realize the detestation in which his government of that ill-famed and frigid region is held by the people of this country. Should he escape open insult at the hands of some hot-headed gathering of free American citizens 'before his tour is brought to a close he will be fortunate. This, however, is not germane to the object of this article, which primarily was to furnish cooling and soothing intelligence to our readers to thereby better enable them to endure the heated term; to hold out, in fact, the blessed assurance that there is ice and snow and frozen soil still in existence on this planet, and that in due course this seething, sweltering, sizzling, soul-destroying heat will pass away. A Deceptive Adage. St, Louis Glo e-Democrat. The old adage, lta pint's a pound the world around," is as untrue as general sayings are apt to be. A pint of common coffee weighs twelve ounces; a pint of flour, one-half a pound; pint of brown sugar, thirteen ounces; pint of granulated, fourteen; a pint of chopped meat, ten, in no case does a pint of anything exactly equal a pound.

ABEAVESLYPASSWORD "$he Lord Is My Light and My Salvation." ThM Bautic of the Twilight and the Night Dr, Talmagea Sermon. Dr. Talmage's sermon at Brooklyn, last Supday, was from the text, At Evening Time It Shall Be Light," Zachariah xiv, 7. He said: While "'night" in all languages is the symbol for gloom and suffering, it is often really cheerful, bright and impressive. I speak not of such nighta as come down with no star pouring light from above or silvered wave tossing up iight from beneath murky, hurtling, porteutious but such as you often see when the pomp and magnificence of heaven turn out

on night parade and it seems as though the song which the stars be- . gan so long ago were chiming yet

among tne constellations and the sons of God were shouting for joySuch nights the sailor blesses from the forecastle and the trapper on the vast prairie, and the belated traveler by the roadside, and the soldier from the tent, earthly hosts gazing upon heavenly, and shepherds guard ing their fields afresh, while angel hands above them set the silver bells a-ringing, fc'Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace; good

will toward men.n

What a solemn and serious thing is night in the wilderness! Night among the mountains! Night on the ocean! Fragrant night among tropical groves! Flashing night amid arctic severities! Calm night on Roman campagna! Awful night among the Cordilleras! Glorious night 'mid sea after a tempest! Thank God for the night! The moon and the stars which rule it are lighthouses of the coast toward which, 1 hope, we are all sailing, and blind mariners are we if, with so many beaming, burning, flaming glories to guide us, we cannot find our way into the harbor. My text may well suggest that as the natural evening is often luminous, so it shall be light in the evening of our sorrows of old age of the world s history of the Christian life. 4 'At the even time it shall be light." The prophecy will be fulfilled in the evening of Christian sorrow. For a long time it is broad daylight. The sun rides high. Innumerable activities go ahead with a thousand feet and work with a thousand arms, and the pickax struck a mine, and the battery made a discovery, and the investment yielded its twenty per cent., and the book came to its twentieth edition, and the farm quadrupled in value, and sudden fortune hoisted to high position, and children were praised, and friends without number swarmed into the family hive, and prosperity sang in tbi music and stepped in the dance and glowed in the wine and ate at the banquet, and all the gods of music and ease and gratification 'athered around this Jupiter holdir. in his hands so many thuuderbolfc of power. But every sun must set, and the brightest day must have its twilight. Suddenly the sky was overcast. The fountain dried up. The song hushed. The wolf broke into the family fold and carried off the best lamb. A dep howl of woe came crashing down through the joyous symphonies. At one rough twang of the hand of disaster the harp strings all broke. Down went the strong business firm! Away went long established credit! Up flew a flock of calumnies! The book would not sell. A patent could not be secured for the indention. Stocks sank like lead. The insurance company was exploded. The text shall also find fulfillment in the time of old age. It is a grand thing to be young to have the sight clear and the hearing acute, and the step elastic, and all our pulses marching on to the drumming of a stout heart. Midlife and old age will be denied many of us, but youth we all know what that is. Those wrinkles were not always on your brow; that snow was not always on your head; the brawn y muscle did not always bunch your arm; you have not always worn spectacles. Grave and dignified as you are now, vou once went coasting down the hillside or threw off your hat for a race or sent the ball flying sky high. But youth will not always last. It stays only long enough to give us exuberant spirits and broad shoulders for burden carrying and an arm with which to battle our way through difficulties. Life's path, if you follow it long enough, will come under frowning era? and across trembling causeway. Blessed old age, if you let it come naturally. The bright morning and hot noonday of life have passed with many. It is 4 o'clock! 5 o'clock! 6 o'clock! The shadows fall longer and thicker and faster. Seven o'clock! 8 o'clock! The sun has dipped below the horizon; the warmth has gone out of the air. Nine o'clock! 10 o'clock! The heavy dews are falling; the activities of life's day are all hushed; it is time to go to bed. Eleven o'clock! 12 o'clock! The patriarch sleeps the blessed sleep, the cool sleep, the long sleep. Heaven s messengers of light have kindled bonfires of victory all over the heavens. At eventime it is light light! My text shall also find fulfillment in the latter days of the church. Only a few missionaries, a few churches, a few good men. compared with the institution leprous and putrefied. You have watched the calmness and the glory of the evening hour.

The laborers have come from the

field. The heavens are giowing with an indescribable effulgence, as though the sun in departing had forgotten to shut the gate after it. All the beauty of cloud and leaf swims in the lake. For a star in the sky, a star in the water heaven above and heaven beneath. Not a leaf rustling or a bee humming or a grasshopper chirping. Silence in the meadow, silence among the hills. Thus the bright and beautiful shall be the evening of the world. The heats of earthlv conflict are cooled. The glory of heaven fills all the scene with love and joy and peace. At eventime it is lightlight! Finally, my text shall find fulfillment at the end of the Christian life. You know how a short winter's day is, and how little work you can do. Now, my friends, life is a short winter's day. The sun rises at 8 and sets at 4. The birth angel and death angel fly only a little way apart. Baptism and burial are near together. With one hand the mother rocks the cradle and with the other she touches the grave. But I hurl away this darkness! I cannot have you weep. Thanks be

unto God who giveth us the victory, at eventime it should be ight. I have seen many Christians die. I never saw any of them die in darkness. What if ohe billows of death do rise above our girdle, who does not love to bathe t What though other lights do go-out in the blast, what do we want of thetn when all the gates of glory swing open before us and from a myriad voices, a myriad harps, a myriad thrones, a myriad palaces, there dash upon us, "Hosanna!" A minister of Christ in Philadelphia, dying, said in his last moments, "I move into the light!" They did not go down doubting and fearing and shivering,, but their battle cry rang through all the caverns of the sepulcher and was echoed back from all the thrones of heaven: 0 death! where is thy sting? O grave! where is thy victory?' Sing, my soul, of joys to come! Hungry men no more to hunger; thirsty men no more to thirst; weeping men no more to weep; dying men no more to die. Gather up all sweet words, all jubilant expresssions, all rapturous exclamations. Bring them to me; and I will pour them upon the stupendous theme of the soul's disenthrallment! Oh, the joy of the spirit as it shall mount up toward the throne of God, shouting. ' Free! Free!" Your eye has gazed upon the garniture of earth and heaven, but the eye hath not seen it. Your ear has caught harmonies uncounted and indescribable caught them from the harp s trill and bird's carol, and waterfall's dash and ocean's doxology, but the ear bath not heard it. There wilf be a password at the gate of heaven. A great multitude come up and knock at the gate. The gatekeeper says, "The Password." They say, "We have no password.We were great on earth, and now come up to be great in heaven." A voice from within answers, tkI never knew you." Another group, come up to the gate of heaven and knock. The gatekeeper says, "The password." They say: "We have no password. We did a great many noble things on earth. We endowed colleges and took care of the poor." A voice from within savs, "I never knew you." Another group come up to the gate of heaven and knock. The gatekeeper says. "The password. They answer, "We were wanderers, from God and deserved to die, but we heard the voice of Jesus." "Aye, aye," says the gatekeeper, "that is the password! Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates and let these people in." They go in and surround the throne, jubilant forever. Ah, do you wonder that the last hours of the Christian on earth are illuminated by thoughts of coming glory? Light in the evening. The medicines may be bitter. The pain may be sharp. The parting may be heartrending. Yet light in the evening. As all the stars of night sink their anchors of pearl in lake

and river and sea, so the waves of Jordan will be illuminated with the down-flashing of the glory to come. The dying soul looks up at the , constellations. "The Lord is my light and salvation. Whom shall I fear?" "The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." Narrow JRscape tor the Townsman. Washington Star. "Silas," said Mrs. Begosh. "they's a hull lot o' mushrooms out in the iield or maybe they's toadstools." "Well, they ain't no good to us zlong's we don't know the difference. The only way fur to tell is to get somebody to eat "era." "Will they keep?" "Not very long." "Well, ye might as well throw 'em away. They won't be no summer boarders here for a month yit." Facts in Africa. Puck. Missionary I have come, my benighted brother, to lead your people to a better life. Native Got no time now. King taking amateur photographs. Queen trying on crinoline and people all learning to ride bicycles. Better try the next village. An Kle&ant Customer. Chicago Inter-Occan, "How was it Aligns had to pay $1 for a cup of coffee? "Well, you see, he stutters, and they charged ten cents for every time he repeated the word cott'ee."

WITH TRIMMINGS. A Kentucky Lynching With Many New Features. Whit; Sava; Tkt am Awful Reveu& Ipon the Sentelet Body of tih Murder wv Seay J. Miller, the negrro charged with the outrage and mucderof Mary and Ruby Kay, was hanged at Bard well, Ky., Friday afternoon, and the body burned after being horribly mutilated.- The negro made a speech proclaiming his innocence, but it is said that he afterward made a partial confession. The steamer Three States, with several hundred men from Cairo on board, met the spec ial, train from Sikeston at Bird's Point. The prisoner was put on the boat and taken to Wickliffe at 5 o'clock, Friday morning. There Frank Gordon, tho fisherman who ferried the murderer across the river, Wednesday night, identiHed Miller as the same man. Still Miller pleaded his innocence, and John Ray, the father of the murdered girls, counseled patience. The mob boarded a train at Wickliffe and brought the prisoner to Bardwell, arriving at 11:30 o'clock. There were not less than 5,000 men at the depot, and the train, consisting of eight coaches, was crowded. Previous to this time an agreement was made by the people to allow the father of the children to prescribe the punishment, but when the train arrived it seemed t hat the raen forgot their promise for the time They rushed to the train, on a over another, and at one time it was thought by a frreat many that the negro was being torn limb from limb. At last quiet was restored and all went to a very high scaffold constructed of bridge timbers. Slier iff Hutson, the prisoner, and a number of of the guards mounted the stand. John Ray, the father of the murdered girls, made a talk, in which he said: "This is the man 'who killed my children, but let us keep quiet now and at the proper time burn him." The negro was called upon to make a tall, and responded promptly and with woaderfnl nerve considering the circumstances under which be was placed. His voice was clear and he seemed almost oblivious to the surroundings. His exact word were as follows: My name is Sea v J. Miller, and I am from Springfield, 111. My wife lives at 716 X. Second St. I am here among ycu as a stranger and looked on by you as the most brutal man that everstood on God's green earth. 1 am standing here an innocent man among excited men, who do not propose to let the law take its course. I have committed no crime to be deprived of my liberty and life. I am not guilty." At 3:27 o'clock the body was swung to a tall telegraph pole directly at the north end of the depot, and as he was drciwu up hist clothes were torn from his fcody by the maddened mob. He was heard to sty just as they drew him up: "I am an innocent man," but there is a fully authentic report that he made at least a partial confession as the mob took him from the jail. The negro was drawn up with his face to the pole, and when his feet were two or three feet from the ground some one shot him, the ball passing entirely through his body. In a few minutes life was entirely extinct. The body was left hanging until 4:25 o'clock, during which time some of the toes and lingers were cut off. The tody was finally carried about 300 oyards. At thai place the ears were cutoff; nearly all the remaining toes ana fingers were severed and tho body otherwise mutila ted. 'The body was then placed between two logs and kindling piled upon it. and then enough wood to complete the job of burning. The crowd remained orderly to the last, but very determined. The men who did the hanging are from Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois and Missouri.

STORM SWEPT.

A Side Show at the Flr Without ft Permit. Chicago was visited at 5:30 Sunday afternoon by the most terrific storm it has experienced for several years and the rain fell in torrents. The earlier part of tho day was well nigh perfect, cloudless and with a cool, gentle breeze blowing off Lake Michigan. The storm gathered in the north and northwest with marvelous quickness. All at once it was sv-'ooping over the city, leveling trees and spreading dec.th and destruction among th3 many pleasure boats which were out upon Lake Michigan. Owing , to the beautiful weather during the morning these boats were more numerous than is uual. Many narrow escapes were experienced, but so far as known the loss of life is lim-he-i to four, all of them lost by the capsizing of he sailing yacht Chesapeake, which was overturned about two miles from shore. The' party oq the boat consisted of nine people, and of these four svero drowned. At the World's Fair grounds little damage was done to the buildings, but te passengers who were aloft in the captive balloon had a close call, and the balloon itself s.f tor being brought to earth was biown into pieces and the pieces wore, carried out jf the grounds. With a succession of rracks tho giant silk covering was rent completely in two. The strong cordage which had' covered the silk with a network snapped as though it had been packthread. One half blew one way and half another. It all happened so suddenly that !io one had time to think.

iRMAN AND iiiS BILL

Ohio's Distinguished Senator Tells About Its -Paasago, Senator John Sherman has written a engthy letter to Congressman Walker, of

I Massachusetts, which has been made pub

ic. He says the Sherman silver bill was .he result of a compromise, and was the mly expedient available at the time to lefeat free coinage. To defeat a policy so regnant with evil the Senator was willr.g to buy the entire product of American ilver mines at its gold value, lie 9ays he jas never regretted his action, but now s-vors tho repeal of the bill and tho adop- . ion of a d liferent roMcy. With reserves .p both gold and silver in proper proportions, he thiuks we can maintain the enire body of our currency of all kinds at jar. He proposes to iight the revival of tate bunk issues, which can not hi- made i legal tender.

SGKHAJHTCOUS NOTES. AbnutoV per cent, of Spain is cultivated. The Worlds Fair has two miles of fameh counters-. A pair of canaries in London were recently sold for 500f An uncut diamond looks very irwh like a bit of the best gum arabic. Dog barbers are quite common in Pai is. f Their chief duty is to shave poodles. ' The average strength of a horse is seven :md a half times greater than that of a man. Two-thirds of the gold now m use in the world was discovered during the lust fifty years. Moldy apples-, which have been stored in cellars, are perilous to health. They sometimes cause diphtheria A bride and groom recently wedded in St. John, Mich., were aged, respectively,-twelve and thirteen years. On the Island of Trinidad is a large field covered with pitch which in the sunlight glistens like a dark liquid. It is called Pitch Lake. "If money does talk," observed Snobbs, the" other night, ''I would like to ask the girl on the silver dollar why she so persistently and successfully shuns me." ( A curious book, in which the text is neither written or printed, but woven, has lately been published iti Lyons, France. It was made of silk, and was published in twenty -five parts, each part containing but two leaves. Chemically treated, one pound of coal will yield dye of various brilliant colors enough of magenta to color 500 yards of flannel, vermillion for 2.560 yards, aurine for 120 yards, and alizarine sufficient fo 156 yards of cloth. There is a lake near the Japenese town of Nara in which no person is permitted to bathe, because once, many years ago, a Japenese emperor bathed there, and the waters have since been held sacred. The most indestructible wood is the Jarrah wood of Western Australia, which defies all known forms.

j of deca and is untouched by all

destructive insects, so that ships built of it do not need to be coppored. The average yearly expenses, of Yale's graduating class of 185 were as follows: Freshman, $939; sopho-

j more. $1,041: junior, $1,115; senior, 81.215. The highest amount ex

pended in any year was $4,700; the lowest, $200. A ReynoldsviIIe,PaMman has taken a photograph of his camera with that

i instrument itself. The camera was

stationed directly in front of a mirror, pointed toward it, and thus it Jbook a picture of itself, but the picture was trimmed so that no one eouid detect uhat it was the object in the mirror that was taken. A curiosity in this year's jeach crop on the Delaware Peninsula is the fruit of a tree in the garden of Colin Stam. of Chestertown, Kent county, Maryland. All the peaches on this tree are in twins or triplets. A twig one foot long waa found to hfive sixteen twin peaches. An occasional doublepeach is not unusaul,but such fruit seldom reaches a healthy maturity. (luileless immigrants landing in Now York sometimes are buncoed into the exchange of good European mney for Confederate bills. Last week a German gave 250 marks for a $50 bill. As the bill was crisp and new it may be argued that such counterfeits are of constant manufacture. The only power, however, that could enforce a penalty for such wrong-doing laid down its stall of oilice at Appomattox. An Arkansas City man is having a hard run of luck. Recentlv he

.went to Purcell with a cargo of

m iiles. There he was robbed of $35. On his return he bought a horse which proved to have beeij stolen iind had to give it up. Then two watches were stolen from his rai-di-nee and he has found but one. Saturday he had a house burned on which there was no insurance. An old married couple froti Ardoehe. in tho diocese of Tours, were admitted to the Pope's presence recently. The man. whose name is Charles Piboleau, is 80 years of age and his wife is 71. and this is their twinty-tirst pilgrimage to Rome, the soarney being always performed on f-nt. Thev have also been twice to Jorusalem in the same raanher. The Pope spoke with them some time, questioning them about their journeys, and in the end he bestowed on them a specially hearty benediction A material lately introduced in the construction of American warships, though not yet off ectuaiiy tested in hi war or serious casualty, is called tellvlose. A naval man in Washington, speaking of the sinking of the Victoria, says: "I hardly think that such an accident could h&v? happened to one of our war vessels. Above tt e protective deck in our boats we ulaoe a material called Cellulose. It is six feet in thickness all along the inside of the vessel's side and is about seven feet in height. When this material is wet it swells up and closes an opening. In case a shot Tom the enemy should drive a bole hrough the ship's side it would swell t .p and close the hole, keeping the water out. It would aot the same way in case of a collision in which the ships sid was shattered. It would have a tendency to prevent a rush of water."