Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 3 October 1893 — Page 2

THE TELEPOHNE.

- Br Walt Bradict.

BLOOMINOTON - INDIANA

It is said that ex-President Harrison wiH build a handsome residence vat Elkins, W Va., which he wilt use for a summer home. Stephen B. Elkins and other notable politicians have already built palatial homes at the "little town, and it is supposed that Mr. Harrison's temporary change of base is due to the influence of the ex-Secretary of War. The Chicago Record editorially states that the labor situation in that city is very much improved. Many factories that shut down two months tago have resumed operations. Others promise to follow soon. Building operations are beginning to go forward, the reductiou in prices in many lines of necessary expense incident to the construction of houses making the opportunity especially favorable to those having money to invest in that way. Ax electric train safe for the protection of railway express messengers, and annihilation of train robbers, has been perfected. The structure is large and roomy, and is lined with rubber and provided with a perforated bottom for purposes of ventilation. The outfit is connected with a dynamo, and when a messenger is in danger he is to step inside and locking the doors turn on the current and the robbers do the rest and are 4 'forever at rest " uTh man from Ohio" has a great and unconquerable desire to head the procession in any undertaking in which he may embark. As an office-seeker he has in the past been ubiquitous and phenomenally successful. His latest exhibition of enterprise came to light on 4 'Ohio Day" at the World's Fair. In the determination to go on record as having excelled the attendance on 4 'Pennsylvania Day" many patriotic buckeyes" are said to have dropped four instead of one ticket into the box for each admission.

Disciplks of Isaak Walton will be interested in the information that six thousand salmon were taken in nets from the wharves at Port Angeles, Wash., by amateur and unprofessional fishermen " recently. The run of salmon in the streams entering the lower part cf Puget Sound has been unprecedented . The streams at times have been positively choked with the fish, and in some cases the residents along the banks have resorted to the use of dynamite and giant powder until the rapids became filled with dead salmon. The attention of the State Fish Commissioner was called to the outrage and it was promptly stopped. Ruth and Esther are the dears, or at least it so appears, who will furnish lots of news interspersed with statesmens' views on the questions of the day. All will hope and some will pray, that the darlings will keep well so that reporters can not sell us with their gauzy fairy tales cf their infant woes and wails. Let 'em cry and let 'em laugh spare, O spare us useless "chaff." It's all right to tell how Grover brings procrastinators over, prods Dan Voorhees in his zeal for the cause of quick repeal, and well pardon them for telling a big yarn about the dwelling on the Presidential jaw, but the line well surely draw at the measles and infantum but of this,0 "desperandum. "

A movement that might well be imitated in all the remaining wilds of the United States has been carried to the point of practical success in Alaska, being anuttempt to stock the country with reindeer. Of 170 of the animals brought from Siberia but eleven died while eighty-eight fawns were born of which seventynine were Hviag a few weeks ago. The purpose of the movemeut is to furnish a reliable supply of food for the natives and also provide animals for work purposes. While it may not be practical or advisable to introduce the reindeer into the remaining territory of the United States that is likely to remain uncultivated, there is no doubt that ether wild animals could be successfully and profitably propagated if protected by game laws rigidly enforced. Thb spirit of thy Puritans still exists among men. Many reformers lack only ,he power and the opportunity to enact and enforce statutes that would equal the "blue laws" of the wooden nutmeg State in severity. Newberg, Ore., promises to rival Salem, Mass,, in the days when people were hung for witchcraft.

The city council of this "greatest moral city on earth" has recently passed an ordinance forbidding any person under the age of 18 to wander about the town after 7 p. m. between November and April, and after 8 p. m. during the rest of the year, unless they are provided with a written permit from parents or i guardians, or are accompanied by them, the penalty provided being a fiue of not less than $5 nor more than $20, or imprisonment for not less than two nor more than twenty days. Some people will regard this as making progress backwards, but its rigid enforcement in all our towns and cities would have a tendency to better the morals and growing characters of the rising generation Law is a queer science. Technicalities frequently defeat justice. Criminals known to be guilty often escape through the messes of the net woven about them by the prosecution. A peculiar case illustrating this unsatisfactory condition occurred at Indianapolis last week. Contractor Rains was engaged in putting down a cement walk on the property of a Mr. Stumpf. His men became involved in a quarrel with two expressmen passing by. Bricks and stones were thrown, and it was charged that the missiles hurled by the expressmen struck the fresh cement walk, doing considerable damage. The two men were arrested and charged with ''destroying the property of Mr. Stumpf." At the trial their counsel held that the sidewalk had not been accepted by Stumpf, and was therefore still the property of Contractor Rains, The court held the point well taken and, although there was no doubt of the guilt of the men, they were discharged because they were 'not guilty as charged." Fees of London Surgeons. Some testimony concerning surgeons1 fees in Eugland was given in a suit which was tried in the London High Court a few days ago. Charles Keetley, the senior surgeon of the West London Hospital, sued Prof. Banister Fletcher for $2,000 for attendance upon the latter's son, who was badly hurt in the terrible railroad disaster at Burgos some time ago. Prof. Fletcher paid $500 into court, declaring that to be an adequate payment for the services rendered. Dr. Keetley is reported by the New York Evening Post as testifying in his own behalf that he thought $150 a day was fair remuneration for bis undivided attention and that, be would charge no less for a day's work in London. He received $75 a day whenever he attended court for an insurance company with which he as connected professionally. Alfred Cooper, F. R. C. S., consulting surgeon of the West London Hospital, said that in his opinion Dr. Keetley's charges were moderate in the extreme. For himself he should charge $2,000 for a trip to Paris and $150 to $200 a day while he remained there. For going to Burgos he should charge $5,000. For bringing a patient home from Burgos and taking care of him doing a three days' journey, he should charge $2,500. For devoting his whole time to a patient in London he should not consider $40 an hour excessive charge. Other surgeons gave similar testimony, and finally the jury decided that Mr. Keetley was entitled to $1,750, a verdict that gave him a substantial victory. A Dutiful Sou. A religious parliament was held near this city, in Warren county, a few days ago, says the Attica Ledger, that differed from the one in session at Chicago only in its vigorous termination'. There was plenty of warmth in the discussion from start to finish, but when one man remarked that : 'anybody who belongs to church is an idiot," the thermometer rose ten notches. "Do you mean that?" inquired the upholder of orthodoxy. uYou betcher life I do' warmly responded Bob Ingersoll's pupil. "Well, you pull your coat off and get right out here in the road and well settle it," was the pressing invitation of the defender of theology. It was quickly accepted, and biff bang went the blows. It took exactly two short rounds to vindicate religion and place the "idiot" portion of the membership right before the world. While the form of the disciple of Tom Paine lay prostrate in the dust, a neighbor happened along and inquired the cause of the trouble, and this was the reply that came from the brave defender of the church: "Well, you see, he denounced religion, and furthern that he said right out that anybody that belonged to church was an "idiot, an' I wouldn't stand that talk because because my mother belongs to church and I don't How nobody to call her an idiotl" A MlfluudorotAndiuff, Texas Sifting. A hard citizen who had been sent to the Island a number of times was up again before Judge Duffy one day last week. After imposing another sentence the little Judge said: "This will be, I hope, the last time I'll have to punish you." "What! Is your Honor going to resign ?J

RELIGION EXPOSITION

Observance of the Nineteenth Century ot Christ's Birth. Xm Brookla DIyIm'i Grt Scam & Un5a CUbrtto Dr. Talmmgm'm Htrutou. At the Brooklyn tabernacle, Sunday afternoon, the Rev. Dr. Talmage preached a sermon of unusual interest to a vast audience, the subject being "The Nineteen Hundredth Anniversary A Proposition Concerning It." The text was taken from Isaiah ix, 6, ;'To us a child is born." That is a tremendous hour in the history of any family when an immortal spirit is incarnated. Out of a very dark cloud there descends a very bright morning. One life spared and another given. All the bells of gladness ring over the cradle. I know not why any one should doubt that of old a star pointed down to the Savior's birthplace, for a star of joy points down to every honorable nativity. Protestant and Catholic and Greek churches, with all the power of music and garland and procession and doxology, put the words of my text into national and continental and hemispheric chorous. uTo us a child is born." On the 25th of December each year that is the theme in St. Paul's and St. Peter's and St. Mark's and St. Isaac's and all the dedicated cathedrals,. chapels, meeting houses and churches clear round the world. We shall soon reach the nineteen hundreth anniversary of that happiest event of all time. I pray God that there may be no sickness or casualty to hinder your arrival at that goal, or to hinder your taking part in the valedictory of the departing century and the salutation of the new. But as that season will be the nineteen hundredth anniversary of a Savior's birth I now nominate that a great international jubilee or exposition be opened in this cluster of cities by the seacoast on Christmas Day, the 25th day of December, 1900, to be continued for at least one month into the year 1901. The three or four questions that would be asked me concerning this nomination of time and place I proceed to answer. What practical use would come of such international celebration? Answer The biggest stride the world ever took toward the evangel ication of all nations. That is a grand and wonderful convocation, the religious congress at Chicago. It w'll put intelligently before the world the nature of false religions which have been brutalizing the nations, trampling womanhood into the dust, enacting the horrors of infanticide, kindling funeral pyres for shrieking victims and rolling juggernauts across the mangled bodies of their worshipers. The difference of Christ's religion from all others is that its way of dissemination is by simple "telling" not argument, not skillful exegesis, polemics or the science of theological fisticuffs, but "telling." "Tell ye the daughter of Zion behold thy king comethl" "Go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead.'1 "Go home to thy friends and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee. " "When he is come he will tell us all things." A religion of "telling." And in what way could all nations so well be told that Christ had come as by such an international emphasizing of his nativity? All India woula cry out about such an affair, for you know they have their railroads and telegraphs, "What is going on in America All China would 1 cry out, "What is that great excitement in America?" All the islands of the sea would come down to the gang plank of the arriving ships and i ask, "What is that they are cele- j brating in America?" It would be i the mightiest missionary movement j the world has ever seen. It would j be the turning point in the world's j destiny. It would waken the slumbering nations with one touch. Question the Second How would vou have such an international jubilee conducted? Answer All- arts should be marshaled, and art in its most attractive and impressive shape. First, architecture. While nil academies of music and all churches and all great halls would be needed, there should be one great auditorium erected to hold such an audience as has never been seen on any sacred occasion in America. If ! Scribonious Curio at the cost of a . kingdom could built the first two i amphitheaters, placing them back to j back, holding great audiences for ! dramatic representation, and then by wonderful machinery could turn them round with all their audiences in them, making the two auditoriums one amphitheater, to witness a j gladiatorial contest, and Vespasian could construct the Coliseum with its eighty columns and its triumphs in three orders of Greek architecture and a capacity to hold 87.000 people and 15,000 standing and all for purposes of cruelty and sin, can not our glorious Christianity rear in honor of our glorious Christ a structure large enough to hold 50,000 of its 1 worshipers? j The time is near at hand when in theological seminaries, where our j young men are being trained for the j ministry, the voice will be developed, j and instead of the mumbling ministers, who speak with so low a tone you can not hear unless you lean forward and hold your hand behind your ear, and then are able to guess j the general drift of the subject and ' decide quite well whether it is about Moses or Paul or some one else instead of that you will have coming from the theological seminaries all

over tue ia iu fining ministers witfc voice enough to command the attention of an audience of 50,000 people. That is the reason that the Lord gives us two lungs instead of one. It is the divine way of saying physiologically, "Be heard!" Tbat is the reason that the New Testament, in beginning the account of Christ'i sermon on the mount, describes our Lord's plain articulation and resounding utterance by saying, "He opened his mouth." In that mighty concert hall and preaching place which I suggest for this nineteen hundredth anniversary let music crown our Lord. Bring all the orchestras, all the oratorios, all the Philharmonic and Handel and Hay I den societies. Yea, let painting do its best. The foreign galleries will loan for such a jubilee their Madonnas, their Angelos, their Rubens, their Raphaels, their "Christ at the Jordan," or "Christ at the Last Supper," r "Christ Coming to Judgment," or "Christ on the Throne of Universal Dominion." and our own Morans will put their pencils into the nineteen hundredth anniversary, and our BierBtadts from sketching "The Domes of the Yosemitc" will come to present the domes of the world conquered for Imraanuel. Addetd to this I would have a floral decoration on a scale never equaled. The fields and open gardens could not furnish it, for it will be winter, and that season is appropriately chosen, for it was into the frosts and desolations of winter that Christ immigrated when hecametoour world. But while the fields will be bare, the conservatories and bath houses within 200 miles would gadly keep the sacred coliseum radiant and aromatic during the convocations. Added to all, let there be banquets, not like the drunken bout at the Metropolitan opera house, New York, celebrating the centennial of Washington's inauguration, where rivers of wind drowned the sobriety of so many Senators and Governors and Generals, but a banquet for the poor, the feeding of scores of thousands of people of a world in which the majority of the inhabitants have never yet had enough to eat. Not a banquet at which a few favored men and women of social or political fortune shall sit, but such a banquet as Christ ordered when he told his servants to "go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in." Let the Mayors of cities and the Governors of States and the President of the United States proclaim a whole week of legal holiday, at least from Christmas day to New Year's day. Why do I propose America aa the country for the convocation? Because most other lands have a state religion, and while all forms of religion may be tolerated in many lands, America is the only country on earth where evangelical denominations stand on an even footing, and all would have equal hearing in such an international exposition. Why do I select this cluster of seacoast cities? Answer By that time, Dec. 25, 1900, these four cities of New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Hoboken, by bridges and tunnels, will be practically one, and with an aggregate population of about six million. Consequently no other part of America will have such immensity of population. Why do I now make this nomination of time and place? Answer Because such a stupendous movement can not be extemporized. It will take seven years to get ready for such an overtowering celebration, and the work ought to begin speedily in the churches, in colleges, in legislatures, in congresses, in parliaments, in all styles of national assemblages, and we have no time to lose. It would take three years to make a program worthy of such a coming together. Why do I take it upon myself to make such a nomination of time and place? Answer Because it so happens that in the mysterious province of God, born in a farmhouse and of no- royal or princelv descent, the doors of communication are open to me every week by the secular and religious printing presses and have been open to me every week for many years, with all the cities and towns and neighborhoods of Christendom, where printing presses have been establisaea, and I feel that if there is anything worthy in this proposition it will be heeded and adopted. Ayel Aye? I bethink myself such a vast procedure as that might hasten our Lord's coming, and that the expectation of many miilions of Christians, who believe in the second advent; might realise then at that conjunction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I do not say it would be, yet who knows but that our blessed and adored Master, pleased with such a plan of worldwide observance, might say concerning this wandering and rebel ious planet: "That world at last shows a disposition to appreciate what I have done for it, and with one wave of my scarred hand I will bless and reclaim and save it." That such a celebration of our Lord's birth, kept up for days and months, would plrase all the good of the earth and mightily speed on the gospel chariot and please all the heavens, saintly, cherubic, seraphic, archangelic and divine, is beyond question. Oh, get ready for the world's greatest festivity! Tune your voices for the world's greatest anthem! Lift the arches for the world's mightiest procession I Let the advancing staudard of the army of years, which has inscribed on one side of it "1900" and on the other side "1901," have also inscribed on it the most charming name of all th universe the name of Jesus.

A 1I00SIER HURRAH.

Indiana Day at the World's Fair.

Oar Statesmen, DtgrnitftrU and PoU and m Vt Coacouri of looUr Turn Out. In point of enthusiasm and possibly In numbers, Indiana can lay claim to the most successful State day of the Fair. The people of that State, quoting Governor Matthews, never do anything by halves and theoxercisesjof Wednesday certainly indicate that the Governor was correct. Excursion trains were loaded to the guards. The weather was perfect. It was an Idea! autumn day. When Governor Claude Matthews and staff, ex-President Harrison, James Whltcomb Riley and others were escorted to the Indiana liulldfn? at 11 o'clock by Commissioner Havens, Mr. Studebaker and others, the guards were compelled to force back the great mass of humanity which was packed together Sn front of the State building. After a musical program Governor Matthews, uresiding officer of the day, made the opening address. Ho began by saying that Indiana never does anything by halves. "The sons of Indiana," he said, "have loft their impressions on the country's growth and have been counselors upon every great question that concerned its welfare. They have been safe and conservative leaders, broad and wise advisers, brave and accomplished defenders. They have been called to preside over tha destinies of a great Nation, and have dona It weil, The loftiest and most exalted position in the history of the world, that it has been in mortal power to bestow upon man, has been held by a son of Indiana. Such a one I have the proud satisfaction of introducing to you to-day Benjamin Harrison of Indiana, ei-President of the United States." This allusion to ex-President Harrison brought forth cheers. Tbm Gen. Ham ion arose and advanced to the platform amid a perfect storm of cheers. The exPresident devoted most of his speech to Indiana, praising her people for their thrift and eulogizing the great sons of the State. He took occasion to denounce in the most emphatic manner the lynching of men in many of the States. He said: "Obedience to thft laws should be instilled in every mind. I know of nothing 4o barbarous, fiendish and criminal as the If nchings that have occurred in our land. Citizens should enroll themselves in some law and order organization, and no matter how heinous the crime, should protect the criminal with his life, as disobedience to our laws Is of greater moment. Constables and sheriffs should be taught ;o know that every good citizen it behind them in on forcing obedience to the laws." In speaking of Chicago he twlttlngly laid: "That our pride in Indiana would be increased If Chicago would keep her price lighters and her train robeers at home." At the conclusion of the address there was general applause, and some Iudlanlan offered three cheers for Harrison, which were given with will. Governor Matthews, in Introducing James Whitcomb Riley, said: "If there be one characteristic above another for which the citizen of Indiana may be noted, it is his love of home whether that may be the splendid mansion in the busy center the farm house mid the smiling fields of grain and shaded pasture or the cabins of our father in the dep umbrageous forest. It comes to us an inheritance from the 'Hoosier pioneer who braved the unknown dangers of the forest, not with the greed of gain his absorbing thought, but with his soul Hi led with the noblest inspiration of our race.to build a home that he might leave a goodly inheritance to his children. I mentioned to yon the name of Hoosler by which the ritizens of Indiana is known far and near. I regret that there are a few whose ears have grown too fastidious that the name offends, but as for me I love the name and honor It. It is the synonym of sturdy manhood, untiring energy, sterling integrity, unflinching courage and a hospitality so broad and generous that has not its superior in all the world. It was the strong right arm of the Hoosier' that foiled the forest, bridged the rivers, pushed forward roads over hills, through prairie and marsh, and laid the foundation of an empire in the grandeur of their state. We love him who can paint ths picture of the humble life; find a poem in tho simple annals of the poor,' and sing the sacred home songs of his people. None other has ever done this better than the Hoosler poet, James Whitcomb Riley, of Indiana." Air. Riley recited one of his poems, "When the Frost is on the Pumpkin," and was warmly received. The crowd tried in vain to recall him. President Palmer of the national commission spoke in a happy vein. Douglas Shirely of Kentucky concluded the speech-making and thn the "Hoosier Nightingales" sang. There were calls for Frederick Douglas and Thomas B. Reed, but the former declined to speak and the ex-speaker could not bo found. A reception to the governor aud staff and the speakers of the day followed in the building. The Odd B'ellows held sway again jointly with Indiana. The gentlemen of the three links scattered about the grounds with their families and devotod a good part of the day to sight-seeing. They were together in force, however, for the dress parade on the government plaza, where a large crowd assembled to witness their maneuvers. The crowd around the Indiana building was enormous. The presence of Gen. Harrison and other distinguished persons seemed to draw all the people on the grounds to that particular spot. The crowd soon became an unmanageable mass. When Gen. Harrison had been speaking but a few minutes the people surged forward in their eagernoss to near his words. Suddenly there was a scream from the central portion of thecrowd. A oanic was threatened. For an instant the crowd surged and several women screamed. The ex President, realizing the danger, ceased speaking, and with perfect coolness urged the people to remain quiet, at the same time motioning them back. A fronting woman was assisted by Gen. Li an son and Commissioner Havens to the platform, and the ex-President mounted a chair so the people could see him and continued his speech. The crowd soon ceased struggling, so two other women, who were on the point of fainting, were carried out and cared for by ambulance surgeons, and th panic, which had threatened to assume serious proportions, was over.

Nothing to Be Gained by W aiting. A lawyer of L. had among his clients a former, a hard working, plain blunt man. Hearing that he had lost his wife, the lawyer sought him out to express his sympathy. To his amazement the German replied, 4iBut I am married again," "Is it possible, and only three weeks since you buried your wife?" fciDat is so, mine friend, but she is as dead as she ever will be. There are a million more men than women in the United States.

USEFULNESS OF NATUBK. When a Mm Can Handle Her Bhm Will Work for Him. IndUaapolif Journal. The man with the ginger beard was watching his neighbor laboriously digging post holes. "They didnt dig 'em that way out in Colorado where I lived' said be. The neighbor, who was a hired man, dropped his patent digger, looked around to see if his employer was visible, found he was not and took a seat on the ground ready to listen. "How did you work it?" he asked. "By steam?" "Steam!" said the man with the ginger beard. "Naw. Done it by lightning." "Lightning?" "Yas. You see, in the part of the State I was in they is no metals of any kind in the ground and no trees. I've often watched the lightning cavortin1 around in the heavens fer a hour at a time, jist achin' fer somethin' to strike at, but not beinr able to do so, 'cause they was rothin' it could take a start at no attraction, you see. Well, one day I wa? sweatin' away, just like you would be if the boss was arjund now, when a old feller that lived there before I come, come along and says he'd si vow me a scheme to save all that work. You can bet I was willin', so he sends me to the house fer a bag o' tenpenny nails, and he plants a nail in every place I had marked fer a hole. Ther is a storm comin', says he 'and if I ain't mistaken she is a-goin to do the job in one whirl.1 I didn't say nothing fer, honest, I thought he wuz crazy, an I 'lowed I'd better humor him. "After he got the nails all planted, he dragged me away to a safe distance an' told me to watch her workPretty soon the storm come along;, with more thunder an1 lightnin' in it than you will see here in a month o' Sundays Direckly it got over them nails. Then biff! biam! It went to pluggin' away at them there nails stuck in the ground, the most delighted lightnin you ever see to git somethin' to shoot at. An ev'ry time she hit there was the neatest post-hole dug out you ever see. I did haf to trim a few of 'em up with a spade, but as a general thing, they was as neat as a body would want to look at. Natur' is mighty useful if you know how to handle her," The hired man said "Gosh!" and resumed work in the automatic manner of one in a dream. Potato Culture. Hartford Couraat Professor Plum's experiments in potato culture, as related in Garden and Forest, go to show that large tubers throw out more shoots and produce a much larger crop than small ones. Instead of cutting to one, two or three eye pieces, the professor recommends cutting to two or three ounce pieces. Regarding soils his experiments, extending over many years, show great difference in the product in a moist or dry soil, or m one thoroughly pulverized, or in a dry or moist season, in affecting the condition of the planted tubers. In a very dry soil, small planted tubers lose their power more or less in producing snoots; while in a finely pulverized, moist soil, the growth is strong and the product greater. When the potatoes are planted whole their impervious coating prevents this drying, and there is a smaller loss in a dry soil. For this reason it is often better to plant the potatoes whole when the planting is done late in spring or early in summer. In a moist and well prepared soil there is much less difference between the effect of large and small pieces. Referring to the Professor's experience, the Country Gentleman says that some years ago it performed a series of experiments to determine the effect of using large or small tubers for seed. The large ones weighed half a pound, the small ones about half an ounce. Each was cut alike in two or three pieces containing the same number of eyes. A fine, rich, rather strong soil was selected, made sufficiently fine to retain its moisture. They were planted early in the season and a unifoiyn and proper moisture continued during the summer. When the resulting crop was dug each kind was kept carefully separate. The potatoes from the small seed were quite as large as those from the largo ones, and spectators pronounced the crop of equal size. But on measuring them it was found that the larger tubers gave one-tenth more in prod uct. Had the soil been dry, or lumpy, or cloddy, or had a severe drought prevailed, or had they been planted late, it is probable that the small seed would not have given onehalf the others. HUroal Ramble. Texas Sittings. "What time," asked a lady with an. armful of bundles, "does the next train leave?" "It leaves on schedule time, responded the affable and accommodating ticket agent. And the lady repaired to the waiting room with the remark that she didn't know it left so late. At Le Mars, Iowa, there is a novel penary for intoxication. Any man who is twice arrested for drunken ness must submit to a course of treatment at a gold cure institute, or work on the streets ten days with a ball and chain.

Mrs. Amanda O. Kibble, who ha been in the almshouse at Norfolk, V a. ( for the past few years, has been awarded real estate valued at 170,000,