Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 26 September 1893 — Page 2

THE TELEPHONE

By "Walter Bradfuts.

BLOOMINGTON

INDIANA

"IT DEPENDS.1 People Don't Kujoy Shoot ing-55cos if They Get Hit. Detroit Frrc IVes. As I rode quietly along the bank of Poor Fork, just when the Pine Mountains begin to lot it over to where it joins the Cumberland river, I was stopped by a man sitting on the fence with his arm in a sling and a Winchester in his lap. ''Howdv." he said; "did vou come bv Brown s?" 4 'Do you mean the cross-roads back here about five miles?" J askoci. much astonished that a mountaineer should ask me a question first. 44Yos, that's the place." "I stopped there to have a man nail a shoe on my horse." "Hear em say anything about a shoot in match thar, yistiddy?" "I heard them say there had been

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES. 'SUNSHINE AND SHADOW." The Hoosier commonwealth is celebrated for its common school system the world over, and it is doubtful if any organized community in the United States can show a larger percentage of intelligence, culture and refinement. The State has kept in touch with the progress oi the century in all the best developments of the time, and our universities, coi

tion in India itself. The change from the hand to the power loom worked no lasting hardship to European or American people, but the baleful effects of the change in India brought great suffering to millions of people, and forced into the ranks of agricultural labor a vast surplus of underpaid slaves to compete with la-borers already subsisting on wages so low that starvation was always imminent. Naturally relief was sought and some thirty years ago the lirst cotton mill was estab

lished in the Bombay district. There

leges and higher institutions of learn-

in fostered and encouraged by j art. ut tljis time i;j5",mlls in 'all In-

duuiio UDorouriavions ana nrivate i . .

: . , . ... ' uia, witn iweniy oiners m process

of construction. All have been

one." "I heerd so, too, an' I was anxious to find out if it war so. Did you hear who the shooters wuz?" 4I don't remember the names, but they said only one of the men had been shot' "Not killed, I reckon?" lkNo; he was shot in the body, they thought, but he got away before they found out how much he was hurt or just where." "This is a dogon funny country for shootin matches, ain't it?" he asked with a short laugh. "It looks that way," I replied cautiously. "Personally, however, I dou:t think I would enjoy them." "Well, that depends, mister, on who gits shot." "Perhaps it does, but you don't mean to say you enjoy that kind of thing, do you?" "I reckon 1 didn't enjov that one yistiddy." "Why?" I asked in surprise, "you were not there, were you?" "Yes; I wuz peekin' 'round a bit." "And why didn't you enjoy it if you stayed to see it?" He laughed and held out his bandaged arm. "I wuz the feller that got shot," he said, ayd I could at least understand why he hadn't enjoyed that one. ljight and Darkness. A New York electrical journal some time ago told of aa incident that occurred in the fitting up of an office building near the New York end of the Brooklyn bridge. The engineer of the building wished to wire the offices throughout for the electric light in addition to the gas pipes on which the conservative proprietor insisted. But ad his arguments were in vain, and the apparently useless extravagance of electric wiring was obstinately vetoed. Suddenly,4 however, a happy thought struck the venerable owner. "Why," he said, "if the wires carry electricity can't you make them carry gas, too?" A counterpart of this" story is now told of a shipyard carpenter, a native of Troon, on the coast of Ayrshire, Scotland. When the contract for lighting the first three, steamers fitted with electric lights at the Troon shipyard was completed, this man formed one of a social party gathered to treat the electricians who had made the installation and otherwise celebrate the event. In a burst of candor and comradeship he was overheard saying to one of the wiremen: "Man, Peter, efter workin' wi' you on they boatsI believe I could" put in the "electric licht mysel', but there's only ae thing that batgs me." "Aye. what is that?" asked his Interested companion, willing to help him if ii lay in his power. "It's this, mon: I dinna ken hoo you get the iie alang the wires." I When Borrowing Money. Notes are a common means of borrowing money either from financial institutions or persons who have funds to lend, and giving a note is a simple transaction by which a borrower, by giving security, obtains the use of money by paying legal interest, writes Isaac Kennedy in a valuable article on '"Bank Rules and Requirements" in the March Ladies' Home Journal. Anv bank official will explain how the bank note which is furnished should be filled out. It is usually best, when a bank's rules do not conflict, to see the cashier and explain to him the standing of those whose names appear on the note, then leave it to be passed upon in the regular order of business. If you are a customer of the bank when the note is discounted, its sum is placed to your credit less the interest, which is paid in advance. All banks expect that the sum of money kept on deposit by customers will average certain amounts, the aggregate of which is a fund which the bank handles for its profit, thus paying the expenses of doing a banking business for customers. If you find it inconvenient to pay a note when it falls due, make proper explanations at the bank, asking to have either the whole or part of tht note renewed. Chicago is trying U) develop an art side to life. Verstahaglu's pictures are now on exhibition in that city. Not many go to mo them. Puck has noticed that tho man who is sure he can't bo wrong is always the very ono to find that it is tbe impossible which happens.

benefactions, vie with each other

and successfully compete with the institutions of the older States that have had the cumulative advantage of age and experience that naught but time can bring. Wo can point with pride to one of the most popular poets of the day as a product of Indiana Riley's songs being as indigenous to the soil as the blue grass sod and fragrant clover of which he sings while all native Hoosiers who

phenomenally successful, and the consumption of raw cotton has increased oOO per cent, in the last ten years. It is an industrial revolution that threatens the very existence of the great English manufacturing centers, with a sympathetic influence that bodes no good to American industries of a similar character. The Indian mills are equipped with

machinery of the best construction,

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aeieuui,euxiui uio piuuu oi mu Erected by trained European ex fact that its talented author was .... .

. . peris, me operatives are quite

horn ana rearer! in conditions simi-

lar to those amid which thev have

themselves grown to years of maturity. Yet with all this and more in our favor, presenting a roseate picture that can hardly be overdrawn, with a public sentiment powerful for all good things and eager for the welfare of the State and its people, with laws ample for the protection of our citizens in their lives, property and honor, with every external circumstance apparently tending to the ways of pleasantness and the paths of peace, we have within the past three or four months

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pert as Europeans ana lar more

tractable, having never learned to strike and having no other idea than to work like slaves for a mere existence. The hours of labor are longer and the wages less than onefourth paid to operatives for the same task in England. The great drawback to the ultimate success of the Indian cotton industry seems to be a lack of fuel, which must be imported from England. But this difficulty seems likely to be obviated as coal has been d:scovered in Assam. Indian coal is of very poor

! ouftMtv. however, niul fml will Vinv

been disgraced by the most shocking j tpd for some time at

outlawry possiuie w ine i azoo uoi-

ieast. The advantages of the Indian manufacturers over European mill-owners are great in manv wavs. Not only has he cheaper raw material and labor, but he can buy his cotton and sell his goods for silver, and pay for his labor in the same coin as all must in the Eastern markets without any abatement in its value by reason of adverse exchange. Whenever the capacity of Indian cotton mills shall equal the demands of the Orient for goods of all grades it can bo safely said that English, or even American, competition for that trade will come to an end, and that day can not in the nature of things commercial be far distant. MODERN MUNCHAUSEN'S. The press dispatches during the

' entire summer have been burdened with alleged information concerning President Cleveland's health, the in- ! ference naturally to be drawn from j the mass of collated intelligence seeming to tend toward the inevitable conclusion that Mr. Cleveland ! was in reality suffering from some ! mvstcrious maiadv that it was I doomed absolutely necessary should be concealed from the people of the I country. So persistent and ingeniI ous did these almost dail manij festos become, and so circumstantial were the details given, that, in spite j of repeated denials from persons in ! position to know the truth, the pub

lic finally accepted them as substantially true and began to consider the probable consequences of the President's demise. Promptly at the time announced, however, Mr, Cleve-

tion to the foregoing register of , , . . . r cation, rosv. rugged and robust, ar

riving at the White House at 4 o'clock a. in. and without retiring took breakfast and proceeded at once

toms or the most desperate settlement of the Western frontier. The mining camps of the mountains, the plains of Texas, or the most illiterate regions of the sunny slave-cursed South have furnished no more revolting none so totally inexcusable exhibitions of an utter disregard for honor, right and common decency, than have occurred within the borders of the great and enlightened commonwealth of Indiana during the present year. Murders and outrages of the most revolting character followed bv lawless lynchings that would shame South African savages, white cap visitations and anti-white qap- receptions that were the one redeeming feature of the whole disgraceful catalogue with the crowning infamy of the greatest prize-lighting ring in the United States, where riot aud ruffianism defied the law where the offscourings of the great city on our northern border frothed over into our jurisdiction to exhibit its unlovely presence simply because it dare not do so at home, and because by reason of official procrastination and the laws delay it was permitted to have a brief reign upon our soil. Fortunately our Governor has at last been aroused to a sense of his duty and we are not to be disgraced in this way again at .least it is improbable that so flagrant and extensive an exhibition will again be attempted. Seemingly this appalling array of unlawful and disgraceful exhibitions had filled our measure of woe to the brim, but it was reserved for us to furnish the world in addi-

crime, the most oaring ana success

ful train robbery that has occurred in this or anv other countrv one in which the largest number of outlaws were engaged, and if the truth was known, the largest sum of money was secure!. In view of all these disgraceful and unlawful exhibitions, the peaceful citizen of Indiana who has flattered himself that he was living in a State whore culture, and refinement and all the finer attributes of modern civilization were largely in the ascendant, where life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness were assured and safe can only ask, 4 Where are we at?" INDIAN COTTON. Not onlv has India become a formidable competitor in the markets of the world with her surplus of wheat, but the cotton production of that country threatens to ruin, or at least greatly retard that industry in the United States and England by its unwholesome competition. The cotton plant has been cultivated in the land of the Hindoos for twen-tv-three hundred years, and Herodotus tolls of its wild trees bearing lieeces like sheep. In the last century, as late as 1 74)5;. the annual import of Inian haiAl-wove cotton goods into Great Britain was valued at $l,250,000. despite laws prohibiting the wearing of Indian muslins and calicoes. Indian fabrics continued in general use in England and on the Continent, and veen in America, until machine-made goods drove them from the markets of the world and greatly lessened their consump-

to the consideration of public business, serenely unconscious that by so doing ho was proving numberless correspondents to be unconscionable liars and Munchansens of the most versatile and prolific powers. Now that the enterprising journalists have had their innings, an intimate friend, who has been a constant visitor at Buzzard's Bav during the summer, states that the only foundation for the entire aggregation of misinformation printed about the deadly malady said to be carrying the President to an early grave was a very bad case of toothache, and that Mr. Cleveland's prolonged summer vacation was necessary because of his increasing flesh and the excessive heat always prevalent in Washington during the summer solstice. Such enterprise is a curse to modern journalism, and one against which readers and editors have no adequate safeguard. Editors must print the news as it is reported to them and trust to the rereliability of correspondents and telegraphic reports for its truth. Readers can do as they please about believing what the read, ant! it is quite as wjll to take with several grains of reservation any newspaper story that seems at all extravagant or improbable. The Duke of Westminster is said to have expended about $f, 000,000 in rebuilding Eaton Hall, now one of the palatial private mansions in England.

THE WORLD'S FAIR.

I A Chapter on Fossils-What Ctn lie

Seeu in This liine at Jackson Park. Chicago KocorJ-

OSSILS, SAID TO be as old as the earth itself, tell the taleof its formation to paleontologists. There are all forms of fossils ranged in rows of cabinets and cases in the south gallery of the anthropological building. The evolution of the

first form of life to its perfectionman is laid out and traced in order, according to the lore of paleontologists, in the Ward collection. Cabinets of erutaeeans. t.rilobitos, crinoids do not alone monopolize the space of the exhibit in paleontology. There are all sorts of things of all the geological ages, from the first, to the latest before our own, from the Laurentian to the quaternary. There arc reproductions of the forms of

FOSSIL KKPTII.K. giant reptiles, mastodons and models of the huge beasts of prehistoric times. To the mind of the paleontologist the term antediluvian does not convey the impression of great antiquity. He deals with things of the age when the earth was a shapeless, molten mass, of the age when it first began to cool so that existence was made possible upon it. Properly the Ward collection has its beginning in the north end of the row of cabinets which adorn the east wall of the south gallery. Over the first division of fossils is the label "Laurentian." which signifies the first of geological ages. In this age, according to the erudition of paleontologists, the molten mass first assumed shape and had cooled so that it had a crust. With the gradual coating and the forming of the crust animal life developed. Whether in the Eaurcntian age there was animal life is still a bone of contention, but certain it is that there was in the succeeding age called the Cambrian. Then the low-

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seen. Still all the life on earth was confined to invertebrate animals and there were no signs of vertebrates. The star fish came in the Devon iau age. A score of varieties of these fish in fossils were found at the fails of the Ohio near Louisville. The perm iau, triassio and jurassic

ci,i,ossochkt.ey"s atlas. ages are classed together and called the "reptilian ages." In the latter part of the permian age the reptiles began co come. From small animals they grew into huge-jawed beasts. Some walked on their hind feet and after awhile developed wings. The ichthyosaurus, a huge creature of the sea, is found impressed on fossils. There wore in those days hundreds of varieties of the nautilus, while today there are but few. The fish mostly had cartilaginous skeletons, like the shark of today, Vertebrate animals began to put in their appearance, and in the cretaceous, the tenth age, then the first bird soard into the air, if the theory of paleontologists is sound. The bird was only a further development of the reptile with wings. It had a caudal appendage and teeth and was covered with feathers. One animal of the tenth age was the iguanodon. A femur bone of one of these animals is in the possession of Prof. Ward. The bone is four and onehalf feet long, which would make the height of the animal about twelve feet. The tertiary and quaternary ages weft? the ages of mammals. Some of them grew larger than the elephant and some were of prodigious bulk as well as height. The things of the waters were huge beyond comparison with any living creatures of our own age. The common, ordinary cows of which skulls and horns have been found in the strata of the quaternary age would put to shame the prize 3. 000-pound bulls of the stock exhibit. Some of the jaws of the mammals are four feet long with the teeth several inches wide. The eggs of animals akin to our ostrich are about four feet in circumference. The models of these prehistoric animals probably attract more attention than any other exhibit in the anthropological building. The largest of these models is that of the

THE FAIR HEX.

AXC1KXT ATD MODKKX SHAKKS' JAWS. est order of animal life found form. The coral sponges, crustaceans and trilobites were the first things that had existence. The fossils of these things which have a place in the collection were found, some in France, near the town of Sarthe, some near Beautharnais, Canada,, and some near Braintree. Mass. The fossils peculiar to the various ages are taken from the strata of that ago. Geologists can distinguish the laryers and the formations of any of the twelve geological ages. The specimens are oftenest found in mountain canons, broken places in the earth and about volcanoes. Right here in this cabinet of the Cambrian age begins the forward march in the evolution of man, through mollusks of all degrees and finally through the mammals of the tertiary aud quaternary ages. After the Cambrian age came tho Ordovician. The t rilobit.es become more numerous and increased in varieties and the criuoids begin to show forth. Then the oyster made his bow to veterans of the earth and took up his abode. The fourth division of lime in geologv was the Silurian ago, and at this time the appearance of new forms of lii'o were inarvelou:--ly frequent. The nautilus is in evidence in numerous fossns. (3 rcat quantities and varieties of coral are

THE OIOAXTIC MASTODON". great Siberian mammoth, which stands near. the center of the south gallery. The restoration was made by the celebrated German preparatem. Herr L. Martin. The measurements were taken from the largest bones of the mammoth contained in the Royal Museum of Stuttgart, while the character of the outer covering is copied from portions of the skin, covered with hair, taken from a mammoth that was found in 1799 in glacier ice near the mouth of the river Lena, in Siberia, and is now preserved in the Imperial Museum of St. Petersburg. The specimen is sixteen feet high and twenty-two feet long from its tail to the forward curve of the trunk. The tusks are nearly six feet long and curved. A huge skeleton of a plosiorus, a marine reptile of the iurassic time.

stands with a coterie of other mod-

els. The original specimen was found in 1848 in the Lias, near Whitby, England, it measures over twenty-two feet, and would be a hideous complement to any nightmare. A restored cast in nlaster of

the huge dinosaurian reptile, the

hadrosaurus foulkii, from the upper cretaceans of New Jersey, stands near tho huge mammoth. A tostudo of wonderful proportions and an immense ungulates or "noofed animal, called the dinosaurus. which in the tertiary days were numeorous in Wyoming. A glyptodon relict of the latter part of the tertiary age was found near Motevido. A cast of the animal is contained in the Ward exInhibit. It was a huge armadillo, but without the bands or joints present in modern species, by which they

FOR A WAIST, An attractive model for a summer waist is made of plain yellow Swiss with violets scattered over it. The vest, an adjustable affair of paiedot-

ted Swiss crossed with bands of violet ribbon, each d?corated with a tiny rosette. A belt of violet ribbon encircles the waist and fastens with a large rosette. One advantage of the waist is in the numerous vests with which it may be worn. FOR A VERY LITTLE GIRL. The quaint little gown here shown is made of white crepe de chine and trimmed with inch-wide goldenbrown velvet ribbon. The skirt is p!ain and full; the waist is very short and is finished around the neck with a plaiting of the material, which is

edged with the ribbon and forms a berthe and short sleeve. A large bow of the ribbon is arranged on ( ach shoulder and forms a graceful tinish to the dress. Madame Carnot is a blue-eyed, white skinned brunette, with hair as glossy as black satin. As aiinguist she is particularly helpful to President Carnot in handling correspondence. The ordering- and superintending of her toilets absorbs a good deal of her time, and is really one of her official duties, the dress of the wife of the ruler of State exercising a widespread influence over the commercial interests of France. Then she is interested in a number of charities, and drops in from time to time to see how Lcr proteges are progressing.

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can roil themselves into a ball. There :re nearly a score or more of these peculiar animals, all of which have no counterparts in modern life.

AN OUTING COSTUME. Mrs. Le Beau, daughter of Mark Beaubion, the man who, in 1828, built the first frame house in ChicA go, was a visitor at, the World's Fair the other da v. The assertion recently made in an English periodical that Miss Braddon had realized $500,000 from her novels was generally regarded as preposterous, but Henry Labouchero says in London Truth that he is inclined to think that they have brought in a good deal more than, ihe sum stated. The continuous sale of Miss liraddon's novels is almost unprecedented in the records of British publishers. Miss Klumpke, a young American irirl. has won for herself recognition in France as being one of the most learned astronomers.and most indefatigable and successful observers in that country. Five years ago she was received as a pupil in the Observatoire, being the first woman to whom the doors of that institution were opened. Every wife occasionally wishes shft could vindicate herself by letting some woman her husband praises have, him for a few weeks.