Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 October 1877 — Page 8

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27th,

BiisiNESSM rushing Sheeseleyb scull.

at-blacks put it new.

yesterday was tried here.

THERE

glit ^jjfeiklg Court House Ejphoes

THURSDAY. OCTOBER 25,1877.

On October

Mr. Asa M. Black,

administrator of the estate of Isaac Rog-

deceased, will sell

FREIGHTS north are very heavy, escially over the E. T.-H «C. and C. __. & V. to Chicago. Each road has lately placed on several extra freights, and are yet unable to meet the demand. Conducfeer Penn is carrying over eighty cars daily.

SOME persons who go west do not grow up with the country, for all its ben--cfits. This orning a coffin was seen at the depot, arrived by express from Parson, .Kansas on its way to Princeton,

:Ind.

Mr§. Kendall, who died

ial fever, was the occupant.

THE administrator's sale of the per--sonal property of the late Samuel W. MdDonaU will take place on the 14th of

Friday

Page's

Final Settlement of Estate.

acres of a val

jMble farm in Lost Creek. Readers the GAZETTE will profit bj being present

TTEW Chicago scales are at the depot HOT the nail works. was in session this morning, Judge docket

fuA

SHINE?—or GREASE? lathe way the

to set af-lcje a

THE river still rises. Theieis no fear nouses adjoining uic vum of a serious rise and damage with the Ohio street, and the two small residences rtf mmfalt 1 1. _.. UafiVAAn Pfitlfth fllld present amount of rainfall.

MM-

THE steamer Centennial came down yesterday with a load of

15,000

staves.

TPhe Prairie City came down this morning.

ONE of the piers in the Otter creek bridge at Markle's,. which has been washed out, will be repaired during the week.

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THFRE is a bridge being built by Jno. 5arretson in the southeast part of Lost Creek Township, in the Mewhinny settlement.

THE attention of Ihe police is called to the large number of loafers who congregate about the bridge and scare, IjQrses. They should be dispersed.

IT is the horse car drivers of this city that gives a big discount to the farmers "early bird" in the question of being out, first in the morning, and the driver beats Jthe bird, badly.

'THE prospects are decidedly positive •that the city will soon have a new hook and ladder truck. This is good, for anew one is badly needed. That old one long ago had its day. fcf a

If THE first quarterly meeting of the United Brethren will meet at the B. church next Friday evening, to continue over Sabbath. There will be preaching by Rev. McGinnis at 10:30 a. m.

THE new draw on the County river bridge was raised for the first time today, to allow Captain Barrick'e steamboat to come down. He has been detained some time on account of repairs on the 1. & St L. draw.

mu-

sic store. If a car load will go up on

House, and wanted to know what they asked for coffee. Grove Crafts, who was in charge, told him they didn't keep the artie'e. "Whui," said he, "not keep coffee?" Looking about him he then asked: •"Whv,isn't this Hulman & Cox's store?"

He was Informed that it was not Hulman & Cox's, but passed in town for the Terre Haute House. He agreed that "it was ion him'1 and toak his departure, first Stating that he had been misled by the jpile of cigar boxes standing in the window.

POST OFFICE NOIES. The tallowing letters are now lying at "the office here tor want of stamps and •'proper directiens. It is quite a wonder yhow very careless some people are in slettfers, some not even directed at all, some

'With no stamps and one not even sealed

Wesley York, Bigriding, 111.,(no such ^office known.) Mrs. A. M. Haff Washington D. C. (has no 6tamp.)

Mrs. T.B. Wins tie Piatt, Co. 111. «(does not give the town.) Mrs. Amelia Bell Saulsberv, 111. cols *co. (no such place.)

Mr. H. Hall, Glen co. Mo. (does not „give the office.) Mrs. K. P. Staley Pleasantville, Sulli oran Co. Ind. (has no stamp.)

the Tuller

Distribution of the Property

_I A AI1»A

Among the Heirs.

All About the Division.

(From Monday's Dally.)

THE CIRCUIT COURL*

THE Haftna-Read case at Rockville g0jng press the case was still on trial. continued, It will be Tkis morning the commissioners,—A. B. Pegg.Wm.B. Warren and C. "W.

will be a nice skating rink this

4 a.L. ...» n«n an/1 E. -winter on the corner of Main and the^E .ft T.H. track.

Pat-

terson on the tench. The 'docket was

cajled and the case 0f

Al Scott VS. Judy

fraudulent conveyance, was'

... tried before a Jury. At the time of the

Mancourt,—reported to the court the

Mancourt,—reporicu iu me w«.*

divj8ion 0f

the estate of the late Owen

Tuller. Owen Tuller, Jr., gets the fine residence on Ohio street, the two business houses adjoining the Court House on

on Chestnut street, between Fourth and Fifth. The heirs of Emma Smith, nee Tuller, get the fine store rooa.on the northwest corner of Main and Fifth, now occupied by the Messrs. Ehrlichs, toe Cherry street residence, occupied by W. W. Davis, and the Bissel property northeast ot the Polytechnic School, consisting of 11 -acres.

George Tuller gets the Enssman farm in Honey Creek and kiley townships consisting of about

5°°

acres of land al

so the store room on the south side of Main near the corner of Third formerly occupied by the American Express Co. also the former residence of his father on south Fifth street between Walnut and Swan,

and

the fee simple in the wareMain street, the

house property on east life estate in said property being

awarded to Mrs.

Tuller

ceased. Mrs. Tuller had previously sold

her interest in the estate to Oliver Tuller

Lean for

George

M, Tuller, John G. Cram

lwr^. Const r.

Thomas Pierson to Garret Amis, (eee deed.)

$150.00.

John V. Pooe to John Mc Querry sec 11, T.

10,

10, 7

c»

Friday, Mr. Harris has promised to bring able feature about them was their ages as them back after the second performance follows:

night. This will be a great

accommodation and will enable busiaess .men and others to go up. $£

A MISTAKE.

"yesterday evening a well dressed ge.v •tleman presented himself at the cigar stand in the lobby of the Terre Haute

Mr. Larnce Ronnan, ift care of C. H. D. Baggage room (does not tell where to aend it.)„also one letter with no direction stall.

If not called for before, they will be sent to the dead letter office op Saturday.

acres.

L. &

N6vember. The enumeration of the ar- bhaar mare) tides may be seen elsewhere. The sale will attract very general attention from ~j all those wishing oargains in 6tock,either worth in

horses or cows, carnages, carpets and 3d

Ensign Mitchell Claudius Ira Obadiah Newman

$3£5-°°-

John McQuerry to James T. Drake, in sec 11, T.

10,

10. $600.00.

W. H. Stewart to Alexander Lucas, of cor l7»

I3»

acre-

$l$°«

Crawford Fairbanks to Emeline Fairbanks, inn cor out-lot

4. $4,000.

Riley T. McCormick to Elizabeth Mattox, lots a and

Rose's sub. $1,600.

E. Musgrove to T. B. Johns, off 11 side

34» *3' 9' *cres* $400,

Addison Williams to Chas. Miller, lot in Centreville.

$40.

Stuthard to Andrew Lewsad-

of malar- der, offs end sw /\y 7»

acres.

$310.

THE pork house owners are beginning bo look up matters in their line, and are getting their doors opened, and putting •their houses in order for the coming sea- A GOOD DEAL OF FUN AND tson, A large "winters'business is antic-

J3i 7 23

l'HE SCRUB RACE.

SOME ACCI

TU®

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DENTS AT THE FAIR GROUNDS. (From Tuesday's Daily.) ^Yesterday afternoon there was a race ge being everything Theie wen. .nree entries 1 Lady Ellsworth, which animal was sold to Dr. Treat. 2

pated, as the price of hogs is now favora He and falling, giving hopes thej maybe _.. bought at prices that will leave a profit at the fair grounds. No charge was made Jto slaughter house men. for admittance everything being fiee.

Joe Fisher's mare (The old Krum-

flesh. Ells-

C. P. Stuart's piece of hor?e The first heat was won by Lady

3:17

second in about the same

by Fisher's

•ltou6ehold goods generally. 4th by Lady Ellsworth.

ALL persons who intend going to LAST evening on the Vandalia train Rockville to attend the musical contest from St. Louis, was a party of three there on Thursdav and Fridav will do brothers orv theirway from Madison Co, well to leave their names at

mare in 3521 and and the

years.

091 84 76 7r

Making an aggregate of

388

LINRN

from

50c.

—.

$50

years. An

average of 77 3-5 years to each, and all were well, healthy and hearty, and feeling jolly and all had been very prosperous.

ODDFELLOWS

The Odd Fellows lodge No.

were

THE TF-Rttrc HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE'

MAD,

Drunk, or Crazy,

Hell has no Fury Like a Woman S-corned.

(From Monday's Daily.)

Wall street was the scene of an immense sensation this morning, by the appearance there ot Mrs. Dr. Reed armed with a revolver, ringing a bell, and loudly proclaiming her determination of 'shooting on the spot,' and in many other ways killing several prominent parties especiallg Hon. Wm. Mack.

It appears that about nine o'cloce she came driving down Main street, ringing the bell, proceeding to Slaughter & Watkins hardware store she procured a fine large sized revolver, re-entering her buggy she drove around to Wall street to the office of attorney Mack and entered it,but he was out, ana volubly proclaimed her intention of killing him, She yelled, shouted, cursed and swore like a pirate, and acted generally like a termagant ot the very worst species, not fit to be seen or heard on the public streets, either being badly crazy, or awfully drunk.

She was accompanied by her little child, a very bright, attractive, sweet little girl about eight years old, and exceedingly pretty. This poor little thing was terribly frightened and had the deepest sympathies of all who saw her as she appealed piteously to her mother to go home.

Not being able to find Mr. Mack, she acted in such a manner that Officers Piper and Houseman arrested her and made a pretense of taking her to the station house, but released her a short distance away, on account of the pititul terror of the child, and Deputy Vandever succeeded in getting her to enter her carriage, and give up the revolver, (it was found unloaded) and go home.

A few moments after tie had returned, all were surprised to see her again Mad? Oh, no! The

come

driving up.

widow of the-de- atmosphere was chock full of brimstone

near her She Btriued

swore an(j jammed

equal JJTO-

Mjn 8he

Jr. and the late Mrs. Smith in portions, tor a cash consideration. The ^ada score to settle with several others attorneys in the case thus Satisfactorily inc]U(jjng Messrs. McLean and Lamb and speedily settled were Wm. E. Mc-

t^em

Tuller

for Mrs. Ganet C. Tuller Mack and Burton for heirs.

find, and to be the curse of such a pretty Wm. N. Stuthard has been appointed child, seemed to be a sin hard to account constable of Nevins township, vice for.

CONSTABLE APPOINTED

David McBride, moved from the county Bond, $1,000, Bondsmen, David Stuth ard and S. C. Davis.

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

and W. T. Beauchamp Terre Haute, in lot S,

like a grenadier,

things like a trooper,

couldn't find Mr. Mack, but she

an£j what 8he

wanted was to find one oi

that would "just knock a chip from

and Messr® ghouidgj-." Such an eye, such a Smith voice, such a lovely concentration of sa» tanic female ugliness, it would be hard to

After interviewing several legal parties ohe was again induced to go to her home

It is learned that the cause of her deep hatred toward Mr. Mack is that he was

Charles C. Miller to Harmon Miller her attorney in her case now pending rciH W T. Reauchamo Terre Haute, in- ]gting to the property left by Dr. Reed,

ft off side, Ross and Bracken-

bush sub, pt

38. $3,850.00.

but she acted so ridiculously that he threw up the case in disgust, and courteously informed her that he was no longer her legal adviser in the case. This set her on her largest ear, and was the cause of her diabolical dress parade on the streetB.

The GAZETTE reporter interviewed Messrs. MdLean and Mack as to the cause of the hostility ot Mrs. Read towards them, and the following is the result

They have been acting as the attornies for Mrs. Reed in the 6uits instituted by Mrs. Hannah and John Reed against her. They said they had been doing all that was necessary to be done in the case, but Mr. Mack said Mrs. Reed catne to his office on Thursday and stated that she had heard he was working against her' and in favor ot the other side. He stated to her that he ought not to act for her if she felt that way towards him that he would eimply withdraw as attorney, but supposed she would want him as a witness. He advised her to get Judge Gookins in his place. Judge Patterson and one or two other gentlemen were present. She saw him next day and said she was sorry for aoything she had said that was improper while under laboring excitement. That she had heard reports and that she was grerftly troubled and excited and did not know whom to trust. Mr. Mack still declined to resume duties as her attorney and referred her to Gookins and she retained Judge Gookins. Mack gating to her he woulu give Gookins all the aid in his power by informing him of all the facts and points he knew in the case.

Col. McLean said he knew of no dissatisfaction on the part of Mrs. Read, until Saturday, when on his return from Indianapolis, he heard she was dissatisfied with Mr. Mack and him, and he saw her and she said she was afraid of the whole bar of Terre Haute. She would not trust them that they would all work for the other side, and said she would get lawyers from Chicago. He thought it onlv the result of excitement and supposed it would not continue for any length of time. He went with her to read over some depositions ,that were being taken. She was intensely excited in reading them* He had n^vtr seen a person more thoroughly aroused. He interviewed her the next day and found her excitement increased, rather than abated, she then insisted

observed last evening marching towards -she would not have any lawyers defend lodge No. 157 and the fact created en- her case. She would let it go and sue quiry. It was ascertained that it was a her lawyers for damages. fraternal visit between lodges. Weun- He could do nothing with derstand there was an enjoyable occas- her but had no ill feeliori had at Ft. "Harrison lodge last night, ing towards her, and that he is still and that other reunions will follow, acting as her attorney and doing what he can to protect her interest. Upon leav-

the sickroom is thorougTi- ing her yesterday he request-

ly disinfected by Glenn's Sulphur Soap, ed her to meet hin-1 at the celebrated remedy for local maladies Gookin's office "this morning of the skin, beautifier of the complexion to consult about the case hit she declared and cleanser of various kinds of fabrics, she would not do it as 6he seemed to have Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye, Black or little or no confidence in him either. Brown

,J-—

large

Wm. Schaal caught sixty pounds of divorced from his second wife, fish at Greefield baycu on Friday

tIast,

The trial of what is known as the Read

a be in as it to as id

Supt. Daily has raised six hundred conveyances to his wife, now widow bushels of potatoes on the Poor Farm, above mentioned—comes up at Rockville Four hundred of them are most remarka- to-morrow. Carlton and Lamb, attorble

fine looking ones. neps for the plaintiff propose to prove „»«. great irregularity in the matter of their Street Com. Cox ivill repair a num- marriage. In a word, they propose to ber ot bad washes in the grade this sid§ show tnat they were possibly married of the bridge. It is done at the expense twice and possibly ^married not at all. ot the city. They were married in Chicago, but at the time it was done the Dr. was not then

Mrs. Hannah Bement Read. That was

and the reputation of that formerly cele- fraudulent and void, being bigamous, brated angling pond has again risen They were married again, or claim to away above par. have been, at Greenfield, O., in the spring of

1862.

Gentleman's hats that last year brought testimony to this tact. They will intro$3 apiece can n«w be purchased for $1.50 duce the testimony ot an eminent phywhereas it still costs a woman from

$15

A marriage certificate bears

to sician in thiscity, that he was with Dr,

to go comparatively bareheaded. Read in Indianapolis on the day ot this

pretended marriage for several days fore and several after and that

be-

11 Mi

and several after and that if* Mrs. Read was married on that day it was to some other person than the Dr. The attorneys for Mrs. Reed will move to have the case continued, if she doesn't shoot or discharge them before the Court meets.

BURNS.

"J 'j.-s ______

THE MURDERER TELLS HIS STORY. Yesterday afternoon Charles Burns, the man who shot and killed an officer in Edgar Co, sent for a GAZ RTTE reporter saying he wanted to tell his side of the affair.

His story is as follows: My name is Charles Burns am nearly twenty-four years old I was born near Oswego,"

N. came from there about

three years ago, to Edgar county Ills., and have worked around there most all the time sincc, mostly on farms.

On Friday last I heard that officers wanted to arrest me and another fellow named Dick Prosyth so we went to the farm of an old man named Scott, living about eight miles south of Chrisman to put up our horse and go and give ourselves up.

As I was standing in the front vard talking with Scott, and three or tour of the larm hands, we looked up *nd saw Lige Birdwell and John Cohoe come riding by. As quick as hell, Birdwell drew his revolver and fired at me without 6aying a word. ,He was then sitting on his horse but Cohoe had dismounted. I pulled out my shooting-irons and fired at Birdwell, as he sat on his horse, hitting him the first shot. I then saw that Cohoe had got behind a tree, so I turned and fired at him, and ha fired at me. As I turned, Birdwell, who had slid off from his horse and had sprung behind the fence, fired again and that time he hit me right in the left side and the bullet is in me now and makes me feel pretty sore and stiff. They both kept firing at me and I then ran towards Cohoe and drove him from behind his tree and I got behind it myself where I fired and drove them all off, My pardner, Prosyth, had run away at the first, so I didn't see him again. They fired about a dozen times at me, in all, and I at them. I saw Birdwell fall down and I then "lit out." They didn't any of them follow mc, so I stopped after running about a hundred yards and 6tood in a lot of low bushes and re-loaded try revolvers. They a^l gathered around Birdwell. j" 1/.

I then struck down the bottoms and through the woods, along the river in a hard rain storm to Clinton, where I crossed over and came to this city. The shooting affair happened about 6 o'clock Saturday evening and 1 got here at about 4

o'clock on Monday moaning and went to a house somewhere on Fourth street, the Boston house I believe, and got a breakfast, I felt pretty well tired out and sleepy, besides sore and stiff, for I never slept a wink from that time till I got here. I went up to Madame Dean's house, on Second street, went in and went upstairs. I gave one of the girls there a4$iobill to get a bottle of beer with. She did so and gave me back the right change. I then laid down on the floor and went to sleep with my arm under my head.

The next thing I knew, 1 woke up and found Officer Vandever standing over me. He had both my revolver* in his hand and sud "Get up I want you." 1 said "All right," and got up. The girls had gone out of the room. We went down stairs. He said: "Ain't you the man that shot Birdwell Saturday?"

I replied: 'I am.' He then told me that the man

was

dead. I said 'All right I

shot him to kill him and, damn him, I am glad he is dead.' We then came do^Hrn here (the station house). One thing is d—r—d Bure ifl had been awake or had my revolveis, that Vandever would never had got me, so ea9y.

I always carry two revolvers,—one a five shooter the other a seven shooter. I carry them because I want to. I was never locked up before nor never was in a penitentiary anywhere, and never did anything so bad as they say I aint such an awful hard fellow as the papers make out. When I got here I found I had been robbed of twenty dollars. I want it understood that I will, give that biggest revolver to Mr. Tucker the keeper or superintendent here for his kindness to me in helping dress my wound and letting me have tobacco. He has been good to me and I hain't no money so I give him that revolver, and the other one I will see about. You just put that down sure and tell them I say so, for that revolver belongs to me and I can prove I bought it and paid tor it in Paris 111 I didn't know Birdwell at all. That is all damned stuff about his having been with me in any game. I just knew him by sight, that was all, but shot him, G—d d—n him, because he pulled and fired on me first, without any cause, and not giving me any show. That's all about it, and I am glad he is dead. I ain't afraid about it a bit. They won't punish a fellow for shooting a man that tries to kill him. Birdwell had no cause to fire at me, and he is the one that hit me the second time he shot." The interview here ended, and the sheriff of Edgar county took charge of him. He took him to Paris on the afternoon train.

As to the murderer Burns, he is a most vicious-looking villian, a desperate wiry dare-devil, both in manners and languarge. He is a liar in everything except where he don't well recollect the truth.

His insinuation about the money being stolen is all false and of no account and casts no reflection on officer Vandever at all. It is made up out of whole cloth. His statement about the shooting is entirely false, the facts being the exact reverse. He had before shot at some other officers who had tried to arrest him and his scoundrel companion, his 'pard,' They have been for some past breaking into houses and have been in arrest here before. He is well known to our officers and the officers of many other places, and has served his time in prison. He carried two loaded revolvers with him all the time and was known to shoot on sight, and had done so, too. His word is utterly unworthy ot belief and he is a cut throat^ fully ripe for the gallows, where he ought to and will, go. This world has no other use for him or hi* class.

Mr. Alfred Hale, a farmer, whose trip with his family through the west to Kansas in a wagon, was noticed in the GAZETTE, has returned after a stay of about four, months. He is immensely pleased with Ifis trip, which Was purely one of pleasure. He took his time and moved leisurely along

FORWARD MARCH.

Lecture by Rev. Lyman Abbott

At the Congregational Church

Last Night.

A Large and Appreciative Audience in Attendance.

(Vrom Tuesday's Dally.)

A large and enthusiastic audience comfortably filled the spacious auditorium of the Congregational church, last evening, to listen to the lecture of Rev. Lyman Abbott, former pastor ot the church here. He was introduced by C. C. Oakey. We present a full synopsis of his remarks.

PROGRESS

is a combination of antagonistic currents. The miners in our western territory crushes the quartz beneath ponderous hammers, then places it in a seive, and by rapidly shaking it to and fro, separates the gold from the rock and earth. So the world mines for truth. Perpetual agitation is the price we pay for all pure gold in thought or deed.

BY CONSERVATISM

I mean that spirit which opposes change simply because it is change which retains* the past and present because it is and has been. It objected to railroads because its ancestors rode in coaches, to furnaces or stoves in the dwelling house because its grandsire's ears had been nipped with frost.

The housewife in the latter summer boils the fruit, adds the sugar, and packs the .vhole away in air-tight cans and locked closet that no unholy hands may disturb them.

SHE CONSERVE*.

1 he genuine conservative thinks fall has come, and that all ideas have ripened and are ready for plucking and he would fain pick and boil them down and seal them up. and let no man disturb them till the judgment day. But how if it be only May and the worlds ideas are green? Conservatism thus interpreted not only reverences grey hairs it reverences nothing else. It believes that institutions, like cheese,are good only when old. Ideas like wine must be bottled up and left long till the dust of ages has settled on them before conservatism finds them palatable.

All ini ovations it constitutionally reads. Conservatism joinea hands with Pharaoh to oppose Israel's marcn from Egypt grumbled all the way through the wilderness longed to go back to the flesh pots in Egypt, and not till the generation of conservatives were all dead and young Israel had taken their place wa» Jordan crossed and Canaan gained. To Conservatism all doctrines are heresies when they fire new and orthodox only when they are old. The difference between orthodoxy and heterodoxy in politics, in medicine and in theology that one is green and the other is ripe.

RADICALISM

is more difficult of definition.Literally it bignifies simply that which goes to the root of things. He is a radical in medicine who goes to the beat of the disease and applies his medicine there. He is a radical in politics who studies the secret causes of political disorders and essays to cure them. He is a radical in religion who demands that the root be made healthy, in order that the fruit be made good, Genuine radicalism, as thus defined, all good men must agree in commsnding.

Bat this is not the popular signification of the term. In popular parlance radicalism is the direct opposite of conservatism. It disowns the old because it is old. To every gray haired project it cries, mocking his age: 'Go up thou bald head!'

Planting its artillery so as to batter down the entrenchments of error, it is quite indifferent that in the bombardment the city of truth, which it seeks to capture is well nigh destroyed.

Radicalism untempered has not Oftly broken in pieces the idols, but disowned God not only disrobed the priest but denied the verity of religion, not only demanded retormin law but sought to open all prison doors, or abrogate all penalt.es not only endeavored to elevate the condition ot women but, for that purpose .to desrupt tKe family and establish in the place of Gods institutiors those of Fourier not only to release women from restraints but to scuttle the ark that saves her from the deluge.

CONSERVATISM AND RADICALISM are often the same. After the extremest radical is only seeking the old path*. The word started Eden and is working back to Eden again. The bett of the future often only repeats the lost victories of the past. Oftener it is only a new application of an old principle.

PROQBESS

is frequently only the unearthing of long buried truths. Christ stands again at the tomb of dead humanity, bidding it come torth.

Conservatism is distrustful of radicalism. It pronounced Harvey's theory of the circulation of the blood and Stevenson's conception of a railway system as the visions of dreamers. "When I was building my first steamboat in New York," says Robert Fulton, "the project was received by the public with "indifference or contempt as a visionary scheme." This has been the universal experience of all discoverers from the days of Moses to Cyrus W. Field. Every radical Joseph has been greeted by his conservative brethren with the welcome: "Behold this radical dreamer cometh." Well for him if they have not added: "Let us slay him and we shall see what will become of his dreams."

It would not perhaps be easy to 'find a more admirable specimen oi genuine conservatism than that furnished by the physician to his majesty the King of Spain, in the

17th

century.

A proposition was submitted by some fanatic who had no violence for "the sacred institutions of the past, to clean the strtfets of Madrid. 'Sire,' replied the learned commission, 'there is no record in the kingdom that the streets of the city have ever been cleansed. To remove the accumulations of these many years would be a dishoner to the memory of the sacred dead. And we are persuaded that the odors which come from the present street so far from being perilous to health are important if not essential to its preserva

tion." The true conservative will be rejoiced to hear that at the fifth century it was not disturbed, since it never had been.

It is good to cut the cancer out. That is of long continuance is poor reason for leaving it untouched. But it is hardly worth while to amputate a vital organ because it Is deceased. Prime the dead timber from vour apple tree, but do not cut the tree down because some boughs are dead. We have no occasions to dread^ innovations that are reformations or to invite those that are not. There is neither merit nor demerit in age. The oldest institution is the family. The next oldest is slavery. Mormonism is Abrahamic. Shall we therefore adopt it? Marriage is coeval with the world. Has the world outgrown it?

There be men who would vote to dethrone God because he has held office from eternity. There be others that would hesitate to interfere with the Devil. His age makes him respectable.

I have sketched these two forces at though they were free and simple. They are always compared. They neutralize each other. Their counteraction gives progress.

In every tolerably well balanced character these two forces exist. Every man is finished with both steam land brake. ere are propelling faculties. There are restraining faculties. We need both.

There is no more pitiable object in this world than a man without a progressive element in him. A' man who has no large hopes, no bright visions, no looking forward to better days and grander realizations who builds no castle for himself or for others who is content .with the present and the past, lacks the first element of power. Dead men lie not in church yards. More hopelessly dead are they who live with no thought of growth for the future. Live? Yes, as toads live, who lie for centuries imbedded in the solid rock.

Not less unfortunate is the man that lacks the conservative element. These men outlive great plans, never fulfill even a little cue propose grand, reforms in good society, never change a cog in the smallest of its wheels write books that are to reyolutionize the world, but alas! can find no publisher to print them, rush into business, disdaining all experience of the past, but cariving too much sail for their ballast, upset before they are fairly under way. These are the double mindeel men, inimitable in their ways, dwellers at Athens, spending all their time in telling or hearing of some new .thing, changing their faith as often as a fashionable woman her bonnet, and with ardent impulses and noble hearts making utter failures in practical life for lack of what men call sober common sense.

These two elements then, the conservatives and the progressive, are necessary to a well balanced constitution. Every man should drive himself as the horse onrf the course is driven with a whip in one

hand and reins in the other. What is true of the individual is true ot the community. Some few must go ahead, but a great mass must come after* It is all very well to be in the skirmiah line, but.. how long could the ground be held if there were no conservatives to entreneh the base of supplies, hold the country already conquered, and guard the baggage trains?

All nature and all mechanic art consists in the right adjustment ot forces,— relation of motive powe.'s of resistance. The resistance of the element through which the steamer plows its way, alene renders the revolutions of the paddle wheels efficacious. The bird relies on the poVer ot gravitation which it over-^ comes, no less than on its own muscular strength by which it overcomes that force. The one gives power of resistance to the air through which it soars, and its flight is the continuous victpry of a continuous conflict. It is the same in morals. The mutual antagonism of these forces,—conservatism and radicalism, gives the world progress and prosperity. They are sworn foes, but their constitutional country is their assurance of welfare.

In general the young men man the engine the old men the breaks, young heads for action, old heads for counsel, is a wise motto. Old men have had experience of life. They have sailed with high hopes and met with bitter disappointments. They have learned the difference between air castles and castles of solid stone. They have discovered that there is a long and weary road between at good theory and its realism. The patent office at Washington contains models of some wise inventions, many foolish ones. The lives

Wales, Stevenson, Fulton, Field and Muse have been written. But wh6 has written the lives of men that spent their days in planning what comes to naught.

Let us not be impatient of the conservatism ot our fathers. We will go into partnership with them. They shall hold. fast that which is good., We will prove all things, I The lecturer continued from this point, maintaining the idea that while much had been accomplished much remained ye* to be done, and in rapid review outlined the various fields of human industry in the mechanic arts, morals, theology, and sociology where improvement was possible, and it was the duty of the present generation to reverence the memory of .the fathers by adding its contribution. Speaking of what remained to be done in this domain of politics he said: In our

Westminister Abbey we may well put by the side of dead Washington and Lincoln the living Hayes.

A subdivision of the labor problem was the tramp question which he spoke about as follows:

THE TRAMP Q^ESTION*

is apart of the labor problem happily the easiest of solution. If a man will not work, neither shall he eat, is one of the divine laws ot political economy. Whoever gives a meal ot victuals to an able bodied tramp without making him earn it violates that law, and aids and abets idleness, pauperism and crime. For ho who is encouraged to think that he has a right to ask tor food will end bv thinking that he has a right to take it. A lady of my acquaintance has solved the tramp problem.

She commenccd an excavation for a .' cistern, and gave orders that if any tzamp applied for a meal to let him earn it by an hours work with the pick. The town is infested with tramps but the/ stay away from that house and the cistern is not yet completed. The school problem and women's rights also received a passing allusion. .'

The lecture which was about an hour and a half in its delivery was listened to with marked attention throughout.

The "dismal science" is the name given to political economy by Carlyle.