Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 25 August 1893 — Page 2

THE TELEPHONE.

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BLOOMINGTON

INDIANA

rrhcfollowinf poom by Mrs. Sarah T. 1-UUou f olU, bur is givtju a renewed interest by the rieatfc of th tainted authoress, at Indianapolis on the ith iust-l Though roary land Italians cHumv And call Helvetia's land sublime. Tell Gallia's praise in prose and rhyme, And wot ship old Hispanla: The winds of hrsivtn never fanned. Tb circling sunlight nev-r spanned Tr.e borders of a better land Than our own Indiana. Uncrowned nith formats ffmtrl and uHl. Knthroued on mineral wealth untold, "oiningher soil to yellow gold. Through labor s tfreat arcaua: he fosters rommeree. science, art. With willing hands air) tf-ncroua heart, And sen Is to many a foreign mart Kiches of Indiana. r t Where late tfcobirrh-n wigwam stood. , r Indian brares their gutne pursued. nd Indian ia ids were won and wooed. By light of soft Diana, air fities as ly mac rUe, With church tower? win ting to the skier. ud schools that charm the world's vU- ryes To fair youa IndianaVbere late some fifty years ajyo The antler's wacon lumbered slow rhrough nand. and mire, and froicn snow. O'er hillside and savannah The engine, with his flery eyes, -ike omc mad demon nants and flic. Startling the echoes with his erica Throughout all Indiana, ot to old realms, with police pile. Vnd crowned kings -nor sea-girt isler, Wherein perpetual snmmer smiles On bread-fruit and banana. mld we in word or thought compare Vhe free domain, the balmy air. The silver streams and valley, fair Of genial Indian i. With kindly word and friendlv hand She welcomes row of every land, Krom HammerftFtto Samarcand, From India to Britania: A.ikl many a toiler, sore opprest (a olden lands has found his quest A happv homestead on the breast Of fruitful Indiana. fler gentle mothers, pure and good. In stately homes or cabins rude. Are types of noble womanhood; Her girls are sweet and cann'.e; ner sons among the bravest, brave, rail no man master, no man slave Holding the hci ltage God gave In fee for indiaaa. But even while our hearts rejoice In the dear home-land of our choice. We should, with one united voice. Give thanks, and sing Hosanna To Hhn whose love and bounteous grave t ave to the people of our race A freehold, an abiding pla e, In glorious Indiana.

READING IN BED.

Cork) as Impression Ltcft on the Eye After the Light Was Put Out. Buffalo Commercial. A gentleman who is in the habit of i coding after he goes to bed tells us of a queer experience he had recently. The other night he had been reading the Gleaner, and finally turned to the stand and blew out the light preparatory to going to sleep. As he closed his eyes he was surprised and not a little startled to see a big black hand appear to his vision! It was surrounded by a halo of light, and whether he opened or shut his eyes the hand still appeared with one long, black finger pointing downward. The gentleman is not biassed as a spiritualist, and says he 2 not superstitious, and thoughts of ..ne apparition as a warning that he was going down to perdition cvere only momentary, as that fact was no news to him. Still the hand stayed and he felt uneasy and could not explain it, and as it continued to point downward he concluded that it might be a warning that the Stockbridge burglar was in the cellar. About this time his wife heard a noise that she could not account for. That settled it. He got up, lit a lamp and proceeded to the cellar lightly clad in a night shirt and hand-lamp. He did not find a burglar, but succeeded in knocking over a pan of milk, and when he heard his wife scream he knew that his family was awake and frightened. He swore softly, and mounted the stairs and restored quiet. As he entered the bedroom the Gleaner lay on a chair, and there, boldly priuted at the head of an advertisement, was the hand. He had read the news, the story, the advertisements, and finally dropped off into a muse with his eyes fastened on the hand. The lamplight, white paper and black printed 4 'fist" had left an impression on his eyes that remained after the light was extinguished. PEOPLE Mr. Gladstone is fond of Scott's novels and has lately given a set of them to the Ha warden Institute. Thomas Spurgeou and Charles Spurgeon are sons of the great Charles Spurgeon. They are twins, both are clergymen and" both have recently preached in this country. Guy Boothby, the Australian traveler, who has ju5t completed the remarkable feat of crossing the continent of Australia, has arrived in London, accompanied by his private secretary, C. T. Longley-Taylor, his sole companion on this momentous journey. The reports of Herbert Spencer's ill health are said to be exaggerated. His state at present is said to be no worse than it has been for the last five months. Since his winter at St. Leonards, near Brighton, overwork has prevented recovery from one of those frequent relapses to which his chronic nervous disorder subjects him. War was the business of the Bo u root French. As tboy have do opportunity it France, they have uno elsewho-ts for oo oapation. Prince Louis Napoieou. son o: 'Plon-Flor." andjrounser brother of Princ Victor, hits received his commission in the Russian army and will go on duty in th Caucasus.

THE GREAT AtWLE. The Sublime Sacrifice That Took Place on Calvary. Paul the Apostle's Challenge Forms the Subject of Dr. Tatmffes Sermon, Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Subject, 'A Bold Challenge. " Text, Romans vii, 34: "Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea, rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also raaketh intercession for us." 4 'This is the last sermon I shall ever preach," said Christmas Evans on the 13th of June, 1833. Three days afterward he expired. T do not know what his text was, but I know that no man could choose a better theme though he knew it

was tne last time no snouia ever preach than the subject found in this text. Paul flung this challenge of the text to the feet of all ecclesiastical and civil authority. He feared neither swords nor lions, earth or hell, Diocletian slew uncoun ted thousands under his administration, and the world has been full of persecution; but all the persecutors of the world could not affright Paul. Can you tell me how tenderhearted Paul could find anything to rejoice at iu the horrible death scene of Calvary? It was because Paul saw in that death his own deliverance, and the deliverance of a race from still worse disaster. Ho saw the gap into which the race must plunge, and he saw the bleeding hands of Christ close it. The glittering steel on the top of the executioner's spear in his sight kindled into a torch to lurht men heavenward. The persecutors saw over the cross five words written in Hebrew, Greek and Latin; but Paul saw over the cross of Christ only one ,word "expiation!" He heard in the dying groan of Christ his own groan of eternal torture taken by another: Paul said to himself, "Had it not been that Christ volunteered in my behalf, those would have been my mauled hands and feet, my

I gashed side, my crimson temples."

"It is Christ that died. 11 Why then bring up to us the sins of our past life? What have we to do with those obsolete things? You know how hard it is for a wrecker to bring up anything that is lost near the shore of the sea, but suppose something be lost half way between Liverpool and New York. It cannot be found, it cannot be fetched up. "Now," says God, "your sins I have cast into the depths of the sea.1' Mid-Atlantic! All the machinery ever fashioned in foundries of darkness and launched from the doors of eternal death, working for 10,000 years, annot bring up one of our sins forgiven and forgotten and sunken into the depths of the sea. When sin is pardoned it is gone it is gone out of the books, it is gone out of the memory, it is gone out of existence. "Their sins and their in iquities will I remember no more." From other tragedies men have come away exhausted and nervous and sleepless; but there is one tragedy that soothes and calms and saves. Calvary was the stage on which it was enacted, the curtain of night falling at midnoon was the drop scene, the thunder of falling rocks the orchestra, angels in the galleries and devils in the pit the spectators, the tragedv a crucifixion, "it is Christ that died." Oh, triumphant thought! But 1 must give you the second cause of Paul's exhilaration. If Christ had stayed in that grave we never would have gotten out of it. The grave would have been dark and dismal as the conciergerie during the reign of terror, where the carts came up only to take the victims out to the scaffold. I do not wonder that the ancients tried by the embalmment of the body to resist the dissolution of death. It is early Sunday morning and we start up to find the grave of Christ. We find the morning sun gilding the dew, and the shrubs are sweet as the foot crushes them. What a beautiful place to be ouried in! Wonder they aid not treat Christ as well when he was alive as they do now that he is dead. Give the military salute to the soldiers who stand guarding the dead. But, hark to the crash! an earthquake! The soldiers fail back as though they were dead, and the stone at the door of Christ's tomb spins down the hill, flung by the arm of an angel. Come forth, O, Jesus! from the darkness into the sunlight. Come forth and breathe the perfume of Joseph's garden. Oh, my friends, if Christ had not broken out of the grave you and I would never come out of it! It would have been another case of Charlotte Corday attempting to slay a tyrant, herself slain. It would have been another case of John Brown attempting to free the slaves, himself hung. It would have been death and Christ in a grapple and death the victor. The blackflag would have floated on all the graves and mausoleums of the dead, sind hell would have conquered the forces of heaven and captured the ramparts of God, and satan would have come to coronation in the palaces of heaven, and it would have been devils on the throne aud sons of God in the dungeon. I give you the third cause of Paul's exhilaration. We honor the right hand more than we do the left. If in accident or battle we must lose one hand, let it be the left. The left hand being nearer the heart, we may not do so much of the violent work of life with that hand without physical danger, but he who has the

right arm in full piay has themigauestof all earthly weapons. In all ages and in all languages the right hand is the symbol of strength and power and honor. Hiram sat at the right hand of Solomon. Then we have the term. "He is a right-handed man." Lafayette was Washington's right-hand man; Marshal Ney was Napoleon's right-hand man. and now

you have the meaning of Paul when he speaks of Christ, who is at the right hand of God. The oldest inhabitant of heaven never saw a grander day than the one when Christ took His place on the right hand of God. Hosanna! With lips of clay I may not appropriately utter it, but let the martyrs under the altar throw the cry to the elders before the throne, and they can toss it to the choir on the sea of glass until all heaven shall lift it some on point of scepter, and some on string of harp, and some on the tip of green branches. Hosanna! Hosanna! A fourth cause of Paul's exhilaration : After a clergyman had preached a sermon in regard to the glories of heaven and the splendors of the scene an aged woman said, "If all that is to go on in heaven, I don't know what will become of my poor head.'" Oh, my friends, there will be so many things going on in heaven I have sometimes wondered if the Lord would not forget you and me! Perhaps Paul said sometimes: "I wonder God does not forget me down here in Antioch, and in the prison, and in the shipwreck. There are so many sailors, so many wayfarers, so many prisoners, so many heartbroken men," says Paul, "perhaps God maf forget me. And then I am so vile a sinner. How I whipped those Christians! With what vengeance I mounted that cavalry horse and dashed up to Damascus! Oh! it will take a mighty attorney to plead ray. cause and get me free." But just at that moment there came in upon Paul's soul something mightier than the surges that dashed his ship into Melita, swifter than the horse he rode to Damascus. It was the swift and overwhelming thought of Christ's intercession. Sometimes in earthly courts attorneys have specialties, and one man succeeds better in patent cases, another in insurance cases, another in criminal cases, another in land cases, another in will cases, and his success generally depends upon his sticking to that specialty. I have to tell you that Christ can do many things but it seems to me that His specialty is to take the bad case of the sinner and plead it before God until He gets our eternal acquittal. Oh, we must have him for our advocate. But what plea can He make? Sometimes an attornev in court will plead the innocence of the prisoner. That would be inappropriate for us; we are ail guilty! guilty! Unclean, unclean! Christ, our advocate, will not plead our innocence. Sometimes the attornev in court tries to prove an alibi. Ho says: "This prisoner was not at the scene. He was iu some other place at the time." Such a plea will not do in our case. The Lord found us in all our sins and in the very place of our iniquity. It is impossible to prove an alibi. Sometimes an attorney will plead the insanity of the prisoner and say he is irresponsible on that account. That plea will never do in our case. We sinned against light, against knowledge, against theuictates of our own consciences; we knew what we were doing. What then shall the plea be? The plea for our eternal deliverance will be Christ's own martyrdom. He will say: "Look at all these wounds. By all these sufferings I demand the rescue of this man from sin and death and hell. Constable, knock off the shackleslet the prisoner go free. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea, rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also muketh intercession for us." Deliverance has come. Light breaks through alt wards of the prison . Revol ution ! Re vol u t ion ! "where sin abounded grace does much more abound, that whereas sin reigned unto death even so grace may reign unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Glorious truth! A Savior dead; a Savior risen; a Savior exalted; a Savior interceding. A Woman Traveler. St. Louis Globe Democrat. A Spanish writer, the Baroness Wilson, is now in this city on her return from her second tour through South America, Mexico, Central America, and the United States. The baroness is a great traveler as well as a renowned writer, and spent fifteen years in those countries studying the people and their history. As the result of her literary labor she has published a series of valuable travels and historical works. The governments of all the countries the baroness visited vied with each other in showering attentions on her, and she was received as their guest. Every means in their power wTas placed within her reach to enable her to pursue her historical researches. The government of Venezuela raised an appropriation of $15,000 from Congress for her contingent expenses. The writer is an honorary member of the principal literary societies in Spain as well as in South America. She was also appointed a member of the International Congress of Americanists held in Madrid in 1W)2. The baroness is a native of Granada. She was educated in Paii, and on leaving the convent married an Englishman, Baron Wilson, who died a few years after their marriage

TO KEEP A SUOUfcACE TIED. One of the Ureat Annoyances ol Liife Removed by a Twist of the Wrist. New York Sun. A public benefactor has arisen in this town, and, though he is raeiely selling shoes on a small salary in an up-town boot and shoe store, he is none the loss worthy of fame, and, perhaps, a monument. He gives away with each pair of ahoes the secret of tying them so that they will remain tied. Every male reader of the Sun has more than once fallen over a schoolgirl who has suddenly stopped on the sidewalk to tie u shoelace. Every reader of that sex has frequently stopped perhaps it has happened in the middle of a declaration of love while his fair companion has put a foot on a near-by garden railing and stooped over to tie "that provoking shoelace." Every such reader has himself been halted, and perhaps missed the last train out of town on a Saturday night, in order to catch up the flying ends of his shoelaces, whose tric-a-trac on' the pavement waVned him that if he did not tie them up he might trip on one of them and break a limb.

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This young .shoe clerk 1ms found the way at least he has been making the way publicly known so that hereafter men and women may buy shoes with the consciousness that they can pursue their chosen vocation without frequent and annoying interruptions that constitute a horrible slavery to their shoelaces. AM that is necessary is to tie a double bowknot in the same way that everybody does, completing the operation up to the very last point of drawing the knot tight against the shoe. Before doing that and finishing the job he brings in his clinching and perfecting touch. It is done by merely bending one of the bows under the knot and then pulling the knot tight by taking hold of each loop and pulling. The illustration shows all that is new in the clever unloosable knot. When the reader ties his shoelaces and has the bowknot completed he will notice a space or opening between the laces where they come up from the shoe to meet the knot. Into and through that space he must put one of the loop ends of the knot He merely takes hold of one loop, bends it under the knot, pushes it through the opening bet ween the knot and the shoe, and then pulls the. knot tight by pulling on the two loops in the old-fashioned way. If he does that not all the powers of darkness nor all t he cussedness of inanimate things will ever be able to make that shoelace come untied until he wants it to. When he wants to untie it he will do so as easilv as he ever untied any shoelace. A pull on the tag end of the laces and the thing is done. Cyclonic Power. Storm Jake tla ) Special to Inter Ocean. Below is a rough pencil drawing of a part of two trees from Mrs. Slater s farm, south of Aurelia, and in the path of the cyclone of the th of July.

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The larger represents a maple eleven inches in diameter, through which was driven a board one inch thick and twelve inches wide, The smaller is a maple also, about eight inches in diameter, into which is driven an ordinary stove shovel ol sheet iron. This is driven into the tree across the grain about two and one-half inches. Ex-Secretary of the Navy Tracy is quoted as saying, apropos of the disaster of the Victoria, that a line-of-battle ship like her is always exposed to the danger of capsizing, being top heavy. "The Victoria carried a monstrous gun, weighing 110 tons. The largest gun we have weighs only sixty-five tons. This tremendous weight placed the ship at the mercy of the waves as soon as the water began to pour in. This accident only re-enforces what I have repeatedly said in my annual reports, that, however it may be for England, it is folly for us to keep a large battleship cruising in time ol peace." A Reasonable Request. Texas Silting!. Mose Schaumburg happened U surprise his wife and his clerk, Ike Silvertone, conversing together in the most friendly manner, bo he said indignantly. "Look here, Sarah, vill j'ou choost be so kind ash to quit dot foolish

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his neck around, den I have some pishness T vunt to talk about mit him."

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Knrope or Chicago. Boston Transcript, There are many people in and about Boston who having said firmly that no money would hire them to go to Chicago, have already been once to the World's Pair, and some of them intend to go again. There has been by no means the customary rush of Bostonians to Europe, and students have gone West who usually crowd the European steamers at the close of the college year. If the choice were offered any one whether to go to Europe or to Chicago this year, there seems little or no opportunity of choice, since Europe will bo there next year and all years to come, and the White Citv will he gone from the face of the earth. People who know Europe will find in the streets and waterwavs of the city by Lake Michigan a fascination borne of its evanescence, of the dream-like quality of its beauty, the certain vanishing of the passing show. It is worth while to go to Jackson park just to see the "temples, palaces, and piles stupendous" by day, or to watch them bloom by night in the electric light. The endless attractions of The Fair arc added recompense to the traveler for every dav of his stav in Chicago. And the feeling of intense Americanism which pierces the most impassive minds and hearts is a satisfactory experience. Americans who go to Europe return with a restless sense of the repose and charm of life and the surroundings of life on the other side. But those who see the treasures of ail the earth and its beauties fall in love with our own country over again at Chicago, realizing her splendor of resource, and return with praise and pride on their lips and in their hearts. Europe or Chicago? In this Columbian year of grace the answer is, Chicago, Chicago, Chicago! And atter a visit to The Fair there breathes no man with soul so dead that he will not find he has frequently said to himself and to all who listen to him that The Fair is extremely well worth seeing. It is worth going just to feel the rousing delights of rejuvneating enthusiasm. 31otlern Society. New York Weekly. Downton Any news up your way? Upton- Well, yes. Miss Catchem is going to retire from the stage and get married, and Mrs. Cheatem is going to retire from marriage and go on the stage. Fame Ktiouh. Cbicugo Tribune. Stranger So that is the United States steamer Michigan, is it? I don't see anything so remarkable about her. Old Settler You don't, hey. Sir.

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The Paternal Anecdote. Truth. Williamson I've quit my barber Henderson Why ? Williamson His first baby is bo rinnin5 to talk

OUR PLEASURE OLUU. An Irish carpenter fell from the roof to the ground, and when picked up remarked: "I was coming down after nails anvwav."' There are said to be fifty thousand muscles in an elephant's trunk. It must have been packed by a woman. When a man does wrong he dof not fear the indignation of the Lord near as much as he fears the indignation of his wife.

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nival. See: "Know thyself?" is an injunction everyone should follow. Another one,"no less important, is: ".Don't give thyself away!" A thorn in the hand attracts mow attention than two in the bush. Mrs. Hicks Why, Mrs. Dix, how pale you look! Mrs. Dix Yes; Fve been having lots of trouble lately with a boil. Mrs. Hicks I'm so sorry. Was it or your neck? Mrs. Dix No; it was oa my hus

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First Tramp Hello, partner! Ain't seen you for two months. What you been doing? Second Tramp Been do ng time. Still water runs deep, but still whisky is generally clear out of sight . Sho was wooM rv a handsome yoong Dr.. f Who one day in h s arms tighUy ir , iiut strain i -u be swore He would do so no mc?c. Which the same, it. was p ain, gre&Uy shr. Callie Does the the motion of the train make you sea sick! Frank No; but it makes me feel confoundly sick. Jackson Burtou s new house wa completed to-day, and the builder turned it over. Mrs. Jackson Oh, how dreadful and to think of having to have :.t ail built up agali. PATIENTK- - IN A NEW BATUIZKl SUIT ruck.

Grace Innit Aren't vou coming in? Maud Beach Wait till those men go away. Customer Are those gloves much worn now? Clerk No: they are only shop soiled. Barker (in a whisper) Hulio. Harris; I'm glad you've come. My daughter is having a musical in there. Can't you go back to the club and send up for me to come up at once on a matter of urgent business?

Something that even an editor will not return.-- li fe.

'So you don't think opals are unlucky stones?" "No; I pawned mine for enough to redeem my winter overcoat." 4 'Did he inherit any of his father's good craits? I knew uOh, yes, he received his father's entire fortune."

1 Mr. Stay late I am so happy to i know that you sing; I'm always car- ; ried away by music. Mis Dollie looking at clock) I am

so pleased to hear that you are.