Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 29 August 1893 — Page 2

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When you go to Chicago don't talk about the Midway Plai-ZANCE. If you desire to appear in good form and not attract attention by exhibitingtoo much provincialism, you must say Plai-zosce. However, if you prefer to stick to the Hoosier vernacular and insist on pronouncing the word as it is soelled, you are not likely to fail in "getting there." It is stated for a fact that stupid people at Jackson Park continue, even to this day, and every day, to ask the Columbian guards in what building the "lagoon" is. The management should at once instruct the guards to inquire of all such persons their place of residence, for statistical purposes only. It would be interesting to know from what 4 4 neck o' woods" the majority of such ignoramuses hail.

Antwerp, in Belgium, is to have an international exhibition next year, beginning in May and extending to November. Plans are all perfected and the buildings are under process of construction. It is needless to say that the exhibition will in no way compare in point of magnitude with the World s Columbian Exhibition. Many exhibitors now at Chicago have contracted to remove their goods to Antwerp at the close of the Fair, and nearly all the foreign attractions on the Midway will also go there.

place us on an equal footing with foreign nations and they will then be in a more reasonable frame of mind to listen to arguments in favor of a universal bimetallic standard, which necessarily must be the final outcome of the continued agitation of the subject.

Americans are prone to indulge in boastful praise of our system of government. We are all in the habit of regarding our institutions as well nigh perfect and are apt to overlook some things that, are startling when calmly reviewed. For instance: The so-called silver States cast all told 457,000 votes at the last presidential election. There are nine commonwealths under this head, and they have eighteen United States Senators. The great State of New York cast 1.300,000 votes at the same election and has two Senators. This is according to the constitution and laws of the land, but it would take a very able lawyer to convince an unprejudiced foreigner that such an arrangement was just and equitable to all concerned.

With seventeen cases of cholera in quarantine in New York and a dangerous outbreak of yellow fever in Georgia, it is the part of wisdom for people to clean up their back yards, deodorize all ill-smelling corners about their premises with lime or other disinfectants, be reasonably careful in the matter of diet and exposure to unhealthy conditions of all kinds, and in this way aid the authorities in praventing an outbreak of either epidemic in their respective localities. Our financial troubles are enough for 1893 without the addition of the threatened plagues.

Visitors to the Grand Army Encampment at Indianapolis, if they feel that they are atll "weak in the knees," should take warning from the experience of Mr. j'dcG-uire, who visited the cyclorama of the battle of Gettysburg, and was so

completely overcome by the terrible j

scene that he fell in a faint and had to be sent to a hospital. The Hoosier capital has a similar painting of the great battle, and it is said to be very vivid in depicting the horrors of war. Mr. McGuire Is probably the only person who was ever completely "knocked outrT by a 3icture, and his nerves are doubtless extra fine and supersensitive.

As antiquairian has recently dis covered some royal shin bones in a dust-covered paste-board box at the Louvre, in Paris. From various hieroglyphics he was enabled to accurately label the relics with the names of the persons of whom they were formerly a part. Among them, as he avers, is the shin bone of Francis L, the jawbone of Catharine de Medici, a rib of Charles VII, and a large collection of royal mementoes of like gruesome character. The royal graves were despoiled by French Revolutionists in October, 1798. but through the intervention of an inspector, the parts taken from the graves were properly labeled and secured from further ignominous treatment. Their history since that time has been traced from reliable sources, and public records show that the find is probably genuine, and in fact was no discoverv at all, as the relics might have been as readilj' found at ary time in the last 100 years as any document in the public archieves of like antiquity. If cable dispatches are to be trusted, our financial clouds will ere long have a "silver1 lining in a way unlooked for by the advocates of free silver coinage. Great apprehension is said to exist in European financial circles over the prospect of the speedy repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman silver law, and the scramble for gold already approaches a panic that promises to eclipse anything of the kind that has ever afflicted the United States. It is alleged that the United States is now the only market for silver in in the world, and when the doors of our mints are closed against it gold must take its place ahd we are sure to get our share and more, to the great detriment of the "blarsted Englishman." Should this prove to be the case, the advocates of silver coinage are destined to see their dreams realized, because o-r action n suspending silver coinage will

One William Eliker, of Indianapolis. 'entertained angels unawares' a few evenings since, but as subsequent events demonstrated they can hardly be ealled "angels of light." Mr, Eiiker had accumulated a surplus of some $700. Becoming inoculated with the prevailing epidemic lack of confidence he withdrew the money from the bank and secreted it under the family clock. Quite a company being present on the evening in question, the host, suddenly recovering from the epidemic, developed a surprising amouni; of confidence in the mixed company present and in a spirit of bravado bantered them to find his household gains. His own sister speedily found the hiding place under the clock and exhibited the cash to the balance of the guests in triumph. The company found the discomfiture of their host very amusing. At a late hour the guests departed and the host retired, to sleep but a short time, however. He was awakened by unusual sounds and found a window sash removed, and thought he recognized one of his guests departing from the room in a hurried manner through the unusual exit. Looking at once for his money he found it gone, and at once gave the alarm. Police were soon on the track of the thieves and before the day was over four of Mr. Eliker's guests were behind the bars and he was once more in possession of his dollars, every cent having been recovered. The Sentinel frivolously remarked that Mr. Elicker placed his money under the clock so that he "could get time qn his bills' The matter is more serious, however, as Mr, Eiiker's illadvised desire to amuse his guests will doubtless put "time"oa a number of them in the penitentiary.

It all depends on the point of view. The merits of a practical joke are nearly always susceptible of at least two constructions The joker is absolutely certain of the amusing features of his performance. The victim is equally certain that his tormentor is an emissary of the lower regions where drought is the normal condition. One Casper Minor, of Indianapolis, who for years had violated the law by permitting himself to stay about his own saloon, is a victim of a huge practical joke, and he has turned on the jokers in a way they despise. Mr. Minor arose early on the day in question to serve his thirsty customers with their regular potations before breakfast, and was astonished to find that his cash drawer had been robbed of $8, numerous boxes of cigars sadly outraged, and the best liquors in the house uncorked. The matter was reported to the police, and developments led to the arrest of a neighboring butcher and two other young men who had previously borne good reputations. The parties admitted their guilt, but declared the entire matter was a huge joke. They had found ordinary fun too tame, and were impelled to devise something unique. They didn't care for expenses, and before their incarceration employed a "mutual friend" to settle with Minor at any cost. The "mutual friend" was also locked up as an accomplice. The unhappy quartette still think it was the monumental joke of the season, and are convinced that Minor is absolutely the dullest, stupidest, thickest-headed beer-slinger in the Hoosier metropolis. If they ever get out of the scrape they might prosecute Minor for allowing himself to stay about his own saloon. The law is explicit. That would be a joke th.it even the obtuse dealer in drinks could "see."

AN OLD m HOSTESS; The Strong Minded Woman of Bible Times.

The closing week of the life of John E. Collins, of Rimini, Montana, was quite out of the common. Within seven days he was married, divorced and had committed suicide-

Tho Hospitable Matron Who Entertained ElUha When Ho Jouraotd toShuaem. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklvn, last Sunday. Subject: "A Great Woman." Text: II Kings iv, 8 "And it fell on a day that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman." Here comes Elisha, a servant of the Lord, on a divine mission and he must find shelter. A balcony overlooking the valley of Esdraelon is offered him, in a private house, and it is especially furnished for his occupancy a chair to sit on, a table from which to eat, a candlestick by which to read and a bed on which to slumber, the whole establishment belonging toa great and good woman. Her husband, it seems, was a godly man. but he was entirely overshadowed by his wife's excellencies. If a man marry a good honest soul he makes his fortune. If he marry a fool the Lord help him! The wife may be the silent partner in the firm, there may be only masculine voices down on exchange, but there oftentimes comes from the home circle a potential and elevating influence. This woman of my text was the superior of her husband. Her name has not come down to us. She belongs to that collection of people who need no name to distinguish them, in the first place she was great in her hospitalities. Uncivilized and bartarous nations honor this virtue. Jupiter had the surname of the hospitable, and he was said especially to avenge the wrongs of strangers. Homer extolled it in his verse. Thi? Arabs are punctilious upon this subject. Again, this woman in my text was great in ber kindness toward God's messenger. Elisha may have been a stranger in that household, but as she found out he had come on a divine mission he was cordially welcomed. We have a great many books in our day about the hardships of ministers and the trials of Christian ministers. I wish somebody would write a book about the joys of the Christian minister, about the sympathies all around him, about the kindnesses, about the genial considerations of him. This woman of the text was only a type of thousands of men and women who come down from the mansion and from the cot to do kindness to the Lord's servants. I suppose the men of Shunem had to pay the bills, but it was the large-hearted Christian sympathies of the women of Shunem that looked after the Lord's messenger.

Again, the woman in the text was great in her behavior under trouble. Her only son had died on her lap. A very bright light went out in that household. The sacred writer puts it very tersely when he says: He 6at on her knees until noon, and then he died." But, thank God, there are those who can conquer as this woman of the text conquered, and say: i 'It is well! though my property be gone, though my children be gone, though my health be sacrificed, it is well, it is well!" There is no storm on the sea but Christ is ready to rise in the hinder part of the ship and hush it. There is no darkness but the constellations of God's eternal love can illuminate it, and though the winter comes out of the northern sky all ablaze with auroras that seem to say: ''Come up this way. Up this way are thrones of light, and seas of sapphire, and the splendor of an eternal heaven. Come up this way. " I heard an echo of my text in a very dark hour, when my father lay dying, and the old country minister said to him, "Mr. Talraage, how do you feel now as you are about to pass the Jordan of death?" He replied and it was the last thing he ever said 4 'I feel well; I feel very well; all is well," lifting up his hand in benediction, a speechless benedic

tion, which I pray God may go down through all the generations. It was well! Again, this woman of my text was great in her application to domestic duties. Every picture is a home picture, whether she is entertaining an Elisha or whether wnethersheis giving careful attention to her sick boy. or whether she is appealing for the restoration of her property every picture in her case is a home picture. Those are not disciples of the Shunemite woman who, going out to attend to outside charities, neglect the duty of home the duty of wife, of mother, of daughter. No faithfulness in public benefaction can ever atone for domestic negligence. There has been many a mother who by indefatigable toil has reared a large family of children, equipping them for the duties of life with good manners and large intelligence and Christian principle, starting them out, who has done more for the world than many another woman whose name has sounded through all the lands and through all centuries. When this prophet wanted to reward her for her hospitality by asking some preferment from the king, what did she say? She declined it. She said, 'I dwell among my own people" as much as to say: 4iI am satisfied with my lot. All I want is my family and my friends around me. I dwell among my own people." How many there are who want to get great architecture, and homes furnished with all art, all painting, all statuary, who have

not enough taste to distinguish between Gothic and Byzantine, and who could not tell a figure in plaster of paris from Palmer's "White Captive," and Bierstadt's "Yosenaite ' men who buy large libraries by the square foot, buying these libraries when they have hardly enough education to oick out the day of the almanac! Oh, how many there are striving to have things as well as their neighbors, or better than their neighbors, and in the struggle vast fortunes are exhausted and business firms thrown into bankruptcy, and men of reputed honesty rush into astounding forgeries! Yea, the woman of the text was great in ber piety. Faith in God, and she was not afraid to talk about it before idolators; Ab, woman will never appreciate what she owes to Christianity uatil she knows and sees the degredation of her sex under paganism and Mohammedanism. Her very birth considered a misfortune. She like cattle in the shambles. Slave of all work, and at last her body fuel for the funeral oyre of her husband. Above the shriek of the fire worshipers in India and above the rumblings &t the juggernauts, I hear the million, voiced groan of wronged, insulted, brokenhearted, downtrodden woman. Her tears have fallen in ths Nile and Tigris and the La Plata, and on the steppes of Tartary. She has been dishonored in Turkish garden and Persian palace and Spanish alhambra. Her little ones have been sacrificed in the Ganges. There is not a groan, or a dungeon, or an island, or a mountain, or a river, or a lake, or a sea but could tell a story of the outrages heaped upon her. About eighty-seven yers ago and just before their marriage day, my father and mother stood up in the old meeting house at Summerville,N. J.r and took upon them the vows of the

Christians. Through a long life of i

vicissitude she lived harmlessly and usefully and came to her end in peace. No child of want ever came to her door and was turned empty away. No one in sorrow came to her but was comforted. No one asked her the way to be saved, but she pointed him to the cross. When the angel of life came to a neighbor's dwelling she was there to rejoice at the starting of another immortal spirit. When the angel of death came to a neighbors dwelling she was there to robe the departed for the burial. We had often heard her when leading family prayers in the absence of my father say "0 Lord, I ask not for my children wealth or honor, but I do ask that they all may be the subjects of Thy comforting grace!" Her eleven children brought into the kingdom of God, she had but one more wish, and that was that she might see her long absen t missionary son, and when the ship from China anchored in New York harbor and the long-absent one passed over the threshold of his paternal home she said, 4 'Now, Lord, leUest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation." The prayer was soon answered. It was an autumnal day when we gathered from afar and found only the house from which the soul had fled forever. She looked very natural, the hands very much as when they were employed in kindness for her children. Whatever else we forgot, we never forgot the look of mothers hands. As we stood there by the casket we could not help but say, ''Don't she look beautiful?" It was a cloudless day when with heavy hearts we carried her1 out to the last resting place. The withered leaves crumbled under hoof and wheel as we passed and the sun shone on the Raritan river until it looked like fire. But more calm and beautiful and radiant was the setting sun of that aged pilgrim': life. No more toil, no more sickness, no more tears, no more death. Dear mother! Beautiful mother! THAT DREADFUL DITTY.

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"A lit tle maiden climbed an old man's knee" That is the tune now, from which we tiee Sunz by our sweetheart, hummed by her ma, Howled by her brother, whistled by Pa; Thumped on Piano thumbed on guitar. Driven to madness, where'er we are. List to my story, I'll tell it all" How wo have suffered' After the ball." HHokbats a hashing under the moon. Teeth are "-gnashing, caused by this tune; Tats are a lighting, dogs howl with pain, Ptreet cars a-smadhlng, pleadings are vain. Long hours have passed, pet: I've gone to bed, Still that cursed jingle batters my head, Hor-ri-ble torture, damna-ble squall. "We can't escape it "After the ball." When will this bawl be over? When wUl the daylight dawn? When will the singers perish? When will the plaguj be goner When will relief come, if come at all? Shall we go crazy, "After the ball"? The Only Theory. New York Weekly. Housekeeper I think you charge a perfectly awful price for salt pork. Dealer It's worth it mum. Housekeeper It is, eh? Then you must have bought that salt at a drug store. The Conscientious Dealer. New York Weekly. Indignant Female That lamp you sold me exploded, and burned down the house. Dealer Well, mum Fi! give you a new one, "A new house?" "A new lamp." Citizen How long will it take you to drive to Park place? Cabman (tentatively) Are yeh goin to pay by th' mile, or by the hour? In a Measure Prepared. Chicago Kecord. Maud I don't see how nen can bear to watch a prize fight, Ellen Oh, I don't know. I've seen a session of the board of lady managers.

FOR EMBEZZLEMENT. Theodora P. Haughey Arrested on a Grave ChargeSchuyler C Haughej-, Perclval Coffin, Fra oil A. Coffin and Albert Reed Held as Accomplices. Theodore P. Haughey, President of the wrecked Indianapolis bank; Schuyler C. Haughey. his son. President of the Indianapolis Cnrlpd Hair Works and also the principal officer of the Indianapolis Glue Works; Francis A. Coffin, President of tho Indianapolis Cabinet Company; Percival B. Coffin, Vice-president of the Cabinet Company, and Albert S. Reed, cashier and treasurer of the same insolvent concern, were, Monday afternoon, arrested on warrants sworn out by Edward Hawkins, receiver of the Indianapolis National Hank, before United States Commissioner Van Huren. They were taken before the commissioner and severally gave bonds for their appearance for preliminary hearing on Aug. 28, as follows: Theodore P. Haughey, for embezzling the funds and misaoplylng the funds and credits of the Indianapolis National Bank from Jan. 1, 1892, $10,000 with Wilson Morrow, David B. Shideler and John F. Wallick assureties. Schuyler C. Haughey, for aiding and abetting Theodore P. Haughey in the crime charged as stated, $10,000, with Ruf us K. Syfers, his first wife's father, as surety. Percival B. Coffin, for aiding and abetting Theodore P. Haughey, $5,i0J, with John Roberts and Newton Todd as sureties. Francis A. Coffin, charged the same as hte brother, 55,003, with John Roberts as surety. Albert S. Reed, charged, like Schuyler C. Haughey and the Coffins with having aided and abetted the elder Haughey in his embezzlement of bank funds and credits, S3,O0O, with John Roberts au4 Newton Todd as sureties. Although the arrests have for some days been expected at Indianapolis, the final swearing out of the warrants by Receiver Havkins created a great sensation, owing to tUe conspicuous and heretofore blameless life of Theodore P. Haughey. Some most affecting scenes occurred at the Hanghey homestead when the officers arrived to serve the papers. Mr. Haughey broke down completely; he is completely prostrated over his misfortunes. In reference to the arrests, Receiver Hawkins said that the swearing out of warrants by him was a most unpleasant duty. Continuing Mr. Hawkins said: 4iIt is pretty trying on a man in his official capacity to proceed n law against old friends and neighbors, but it is a duty that must be performed no matter how disagreeable to all parties." GIGANTIC SILVER SCHEME.

IOWA DEMOCRATS.

Another Factor In Che Financial Problem. Ex-Senator Smith, chairman of the finance committee of the French senate, has been in Colorado with a view of investigating the silver situation. He left Aspen for Park City, Utah, Saturday. It has leaked out since his departure that the Bank of France would, if desired, establish a branch at Denver; that such a branch might be controlled by a directory composed of Colorado capitalists, tho bank simply sending a manager from Paris to represent the parent institution; that they would agree to furnish from O,OJO.0O0 to $100,000,000 or whatever would be required to carry all the silver produced in Colorado for several years without allowing any to be sold until the price was fully satisfactory. That tho rate of interest would not exceed 1 or 1)J percent, per annum. Propositons could be made at once or as soon as the course of events respecting silver were thoroughly determined in the United States. France has a deep interest in the future of silver, and will be quite willing to enter into an amicable arrangement with the producers of Colorado whereby both parties would receive mutual benefits. It would not be to the interest of France to enter into an arrangement to depress the price of sliver, but on the contrary, to sustain it to a proper valuation. There are but twenty largo smelters in the country, and if a majority of these were to go into the combination a corner on the silver production of the country could be had. Of course France would not be the first to make the proposition, but Mr. Smith says if it should come from the other sido it would be accepted within less than one week. From the time France got tho silver production of the United States under control she would dictate the price of metal to England for use in India and compel all the silver-using nations to come to her for money. The scheme finds much favor among the silver producers, and will no doubt take shape if Congress fails to give silver men something better than the Sherman law. A KANSAS NAPOLEON.

State Convention at Ie Motoi-IU5 - tnatlou ef Gov. Bole. Tne Iowa State Democratic convention, met at Des Moines, Wednesday. Temporary Chairman Vollmer, of Davenport, made a stirring speech scoring the Republicans. He called Iowa the Midwftf Piaisancc" of American polities. He said that the Republican policy had filled ttott land with swarms of unemployed ftnd starving laborers in the midst of tlm greatest abundance. Thriving tield9 and burst-tag granaries attest the kind

Kansas has produced a young Napoleon of finance, who ranks well up with Ives, in the person of E. M. Donaldson, banker and speculator, of Marion. He was president of tho Union Trust Company, of Sioux City, la., which failed Juue 28, aud of the First National Bank of Marion, Kan., which was closed by a special examiner last week. Developments show that Donaldson has tied the country and is probably in Mexico, a defaulter to the amount of at least 1600,000. Ho is believed to have most of this money with him. The shortage at tho Marion Bank is only $23.00). The bulk of Donaldson's ill-gotten gains has come from Eastern capitalists and the pennle of western Iowa. ADHERE TO THE GOLD STANDARD. In the House of Commons, Monday, the Rt. Hon, Sir Wm. Vernon Harcourt.Chanceller of the Exchequer, replying to a question asked by Mr. Itobert I. Everett

Liberal, said that the government had

found nothing in the course of events in India that would induce it to interfere with tho single monetary standard.

GOV. ROfTACK 1WIES. ness of IPtovi (fence, but ft governmental' policy fnaugarated by Republicans has brought untold suffering to- thorsa;nds. Yet the Republican Pharisees dare to stand up and lay these calamities at tlw door of the Demo cratic party. It is hib time for Democrats to repudiate such. iobI slander. Ho scored the McKinley bill' fa unmeasured terms, and denounced John Sherman ft an "Esau"' who- had sold oor birthright for a mess of pottage. In dosing Mr. Vollmer said: "Shades of Janus, of ancient God, turn both thy faces on the temple waUs and let then burn with shame, for in undisguised two-facedness you are simply not in it with our Iowa Republicans." Following Chairman Volraer address the committee on organization reported the permanent officers, with Catc Setts, of Benton county, as permanent chairman Chairman Sells addressed the convention arrainging the Republican party for ft variety of misdemeanors. The- committee on resolutions declared their admiration for Governor Boies, express! cootideocft in the administration of President Cleveland, holding the McKinley bill and the Sherman law responsible for the tin a net ft difficulties now prevailing, denouncing the Sherman law and demanding: its repeal; expressing full faith In congress to solve the monetary question; favoring just and liberal pensions; demanding a license law, with IS30 annual tax for each saloon to be paid into the county treasury; favoring- government control of railways; opposing monopolies and trusts; favoring in-partisan control of State institutions. Following the reading of the resolutions Governor Boies was renominated by acclamation. Lieutenant-Governor Bestow was renominated on the first ballot. A judge of the Supreme Court and railroad commissioner were also nocainated. Before adjournment Governor Boies was escorted to the platform. He said: "When a few weeks atro I wrote ft letter to the chairman of the State committee declining renomination. I expressed my honest wishes and honest convictions upon that subject. But I am only one of ft great political party. Your action to-day comes to me as a command from ft party that lam bound to obey. I accept the nomination and I promise to use every esfort to make it successfuL"

INDIANA'S LVTAMY.

Deputy Sheriffs letaitd to Keep the Peace at Itoby. A Chicago special to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, Wednesday, says: The rowdyism that was rampant at the last fistic encounter at Roby will never occur again. The club officials have uwaKened from their seeming stupor and are now doing all in their power to make amends for their past mistake. The Pinkorton men will be dispensed with and in their place a hundred Indiana deputy sheriffs will be sworn in. They will patrol the Held surrounding the arena, and no one without an admission ticket will be allowed to come within five hundred yards of the building. The exterior of the club house will be brilliantly illuminated with electric lights and no loiterers or loafers will be allowed to congregate within a quarter of a mile of the club property. RAILROAD ASSESSMENTS

The State Board of Tax Commissioners has made its assessment and valuation of railroad track, rolling stock and improvements on right of way in Indiana, for the year l&Kl. The assessment for this year shows a deduction of $731,42:5 from that of but considerable new railroad property was assessed this year. The Montpel ier & Chicago, a new line was assessed at $M)0l,$72. By leaving this line out of the assessment, it makes the not deduction $,G3C,3I. BED-TICK BANK BURNED.

The Northwest Indiana Coufertno, M. E, church, will convene at Laporte, Sept. 7, The conference represents l.itj pastor 1 charges. B:shop Jove will preside.

"Owing to a Lack of Confidence," Etc., Mr. Cox l,osea HI Little Hoard. Mrs. Evan Cox, of Logootee, burned $110 i:a greenbacks which hud been placed in a mattress sometime before by her husband. She was replenishing the straw and set tire to the old straw, not knowing of its valuable contents The ashes were examined, but nothing could be found which could be identified as money and upon which any hopes of realization could be made. SEVENTEEN LIVES LOST By ft Wreck During tha Great Storm la Nora Scotia, The steamer Dorcas, with the barge Etta Stewart in tow, were lost off the Nova Scotia coast during the great storm of Tuesday night. The most reliable information that can bo obtained plfteea the number of people on board at seventeen. The crew numbered twelve men, and the wife and four chiidrm of the chief englneer were also with him. Other vessels are belU ved to have gone down.