Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 29, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1883 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. Wednesday, octobeu 3. 1883.

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THE PROGRESS OF MAX.

"When I was young and had no sense Of care for person or for pence, In hansom cabs the livelong day I took my splashing, dashing way. Oipar in mouth, well bouquet-tied. Hat jauntily perched on side o'bead, An eye for every pretty face. Like Nimshi's son, I went the pace; The curbstone recklessly I toot, 1 he lamp posts to their glasses shook. And u 001 heedless of their roarsOld apple women by the scores. Tbe years advance, and. soberer grown. The growler'' kuos me lor his own. 1 doff my flower, croo my curls. Fohew both hansom cais and girls; ly hat so late of crown and brim Siis squarely o'er a visace prim, No more 1 fricht the sober cits. With splashing wheels and snortinz tits; No more I stuu the Eoodwivei' Jujs, Nor do to death their darling pugs; Now at each corner undismayed The apple woman spreads ber wares, The coster piles his noisy trade; The vert cur no longer cares To leave midway his hideous meals For fear of the four gentle wheels Cd which I chase Time's flying heels. Still shifts the scene a grizzling hea't Finds me of nerves und snillins sped. Four wheels 1 learn on closer view Can drive to grief as 'fell as two. I travel wow. when frth I fare. On Shanks his steady-pacing mare; Or, haply, if the way be lonr. For limb and leather none too strong, I climb the knife-board's liberal height, And from that restful eminence. Won with fome poor yet honest pence, Lilie Huso, 'tis my prime delight To watch the busy coil below, Jrivini? and driven to and fro,' Jostlers are jostled, fools who do As I, when I was foolish, too. But ah. what will the last scene be Oi this evening history? For limbs grow stiff and can not climb. And brains grow weak and can not rnyme; Pennies, though pennies. mut be paid, And to be paid they must De made. What fate, then, will the wretch betide AY bo can not walk, and may not rido? W ill Black Maria of her grace Proffer her "tasteless dry embrace," bile for a doubtful span he leeW Once more the luxury of wheels? r shall that luxury be bisn. En route but to a darker prison, In that communis omnibus iie day will come for all of us. Whose table courser pacing low But mock the pace he used to go? Who knows? The therre Is somewhat dry: My paper's done, and so am I; So for the present. Mister Y., I'll close my progress with good-bye. Loudon World. M. Alpbonse Paudet told us the other day that it is Victor Hugo's chief pleasure and exercise to ride about I'aris on the top of an omnibus. TABLE GOSSIP. Politicians po up the ladder of fame by the rounds of drinks. JJachelors wives and old maids' children are always perfect Chamfort. llTtrybody is willing to take religion when he has got uut of the world all it'ean give Lim. It is always safe 1o learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture tu instruct even cur friends. A bappy marriage is a riew beginning of life, a new starting-point for happiness and usefulness. Dean .Stanley. It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. (ueeu Christiana. Henry Carey, who was born In 1CG3, wrote, among other good things, tliesi lines, which will not wear out Ly repetition: I envy no mortal, though ever so great. Nor scorn I a wretch for nW lowly estate; Bnt what I abhor, and es;eem as a curse. Is poorness cf spirit, not poorness oi purse. Lord Sandwich said to Priestly on one occasion, "Orthodoxy is simply my doxy, and heterodoxy is all other kinds of doxy." The man who is in the wrong uses hard words and soft arguments, while the man who is in the right uses soft words and hard arguments. How thankful we should he if the Lord would ouly spoil us by giving us so much good fortune that we should become mean and parsimonious! If you are a real man, then do a real man's work and say nothing about it; but if you are only a rcrser, why, of course, you can't Lelp crowing at nothing. The world would be vastly better thanjit is if we only had the courage to say to our evil companions, 'Ve don't care to write with a feather out of your goose." "The new colors, this season, with the exception of gray, are bright and decided. All shades of gray" from the delicate turtle dove lo iron gray are fashionable. Every year three or more books and publications relating to art issued in the English language than in any other. The Oermau comes next and the French third. There is not a single experience in life which may not be used to advantage if you Lave wisdom. That which will not be nuda into butter may be made into cheese. Xo man has enough, and no matter how ranch he has he always wants a little more; but the old properb says, "He'll have enough one day, when his mouth is full of mould." Don't try to do more than you can do well. There is an old Hebrew proverb which runs, "He that hires one garden eats birds; he that that hires more than one will be eaten by the birds." A good sermon is like blackpepper in soup for though it makes the soup a little hot it aids digestion. A sensational sermon is like cayenne tapper on. the stove, its only mission is to make j-cople sneeze. A cure fof wasp stings consists in the placingoftbe hollow barrel of a key immediately around the sting till it bursts. On removing the key the ting will be found lying outsiJe the puncture it has made. A large soul is a piece of personal property which every industrious man can acquire; but some men have souls so small that a whole regimen t of theu could stand "on the tip end cd' a pine stick whittled down to nothing." The man of sixty who has been a fai'.nre all his life is just the man to take a fellow of live and twenty aside and. tell him how to get rich, and mention what a fortune he would make if he were only ten or fifteen years younger. "Ve promise largely in our youth, but in middle life we drink the bitter beer of disappointment. "We have it in us to be great, but somehow circumstances don't favor us. Andrew Borde, who lived just this side of Chancer, told the story in two lines, and they contain the entire biography of many a man: Jews and Christians were never anywhere more completely separated than during the past season at the Catskills All Jews or none was the rule alike at bote's and boarding bouses. Two hotels were kept by brothers, and in one establishment there was no Israelite, while in the other there wa 110 Gentile. Eat I Elve men matters rolling In my pate That I will and do I cm not tell What This Las been recently copied from one of the original Plymouth Colony Records: "At the Cen'l Court, holden att Plymouth the 2cond of October, 1G58, the Governor and Assistant direct Leif tenant James Wiatt to Ue sharply reproved for Lis writing a note about common business on the Lord's day, att least in the evening somewhat too ßoene." In 1 SCßthe best railroad time between Xew York and New Orleans was fiye days, and a passenger had to make nine changes, many ot tlwem long rides from depot to depot. In 1809 the time was reduced to lour days; in 1373 to three and a half days, and in ls78 to three days and only One change. Now the time Las been reduced to forty-eight uours. A well advised exchange classifies the Americn watering places and their specilatics oi quests as follows: "Newport, .bnglisli celebrities and their American imitators; Saratoga, politicians, musicians and sports men; Long Branch, actors, actresses and railroad kings; the Adirondack?, Mount

roert. and the Isles of ShoaJs, college dignitari, authors and authoresses; Coney Island, the dear people " A rood story was told by the late J. T. Fields of an old deacon who sat grave and unmoved during his lecture upon "Cheerfulness," and said at the close, "Well, Mr. Fields.your lecture wasn't near as tedious as I expected it would be." Lord Lvtton. born in 1S03, died in 1S73,

seems to Lave struck the keynote of the modern politician of Lneland, though of course his langnage is not applicable to the American product, since everyone knows that the politician of thisjrlorions country sacrifices every thing to the good i t'u dear people. hen singing of the vicjs 01 a certain seeker after otliee he said: nt ttatecraf t, mainly, was his pridy an1 boattj The golden "medium" was hia guidia str. Which means, "Move on till you are uppe-most. And then ttlnps can't be better ihan they aref Brief, in two rule, he summed the ends of man "Keep all you have and try for all you can!" A great manv reformers, sell-styled such, are merely men with a maggot in the brain. They have a sort of mental kind, and that is pretty nearly all they do have. Ihe world is all wrong, they think, but one of the most remarkable wrongs in it is that they them selves are not sufficiently appreciated, and are compelled to live on thistles when they ought to be living in clover. Thy are very rowerfulin their denunciations of the gov ernment, but if the government would only give them a bit of sinecure with a handsoru ; salary they would keep as still as though they had been born dumb. The world will never lj right until thev are properly taken care of, and then if wrongs are discovered, why. the people who are foolish enough to discov er them must be the ones to take care of them. They resemble that friend of MrKmerson of whom Mr. ltipley said, "He would Loe corn all Sunday, if I would let him, but all Massachusetts couldn't make him do it on Monday " There is a vast deal of energetic reform which is simple ugliness and nothing better. Noted Gamblers. New York Star.l "Every one has heard hundreds of stories of John Morrissey, the Woods, Kd Simmons, John Chamberlain and other famous gam blers. Chambeilain fell into bad odor with the sporting fraternity, as almost every gam bler did who kept a house exclusively for gentlemen." "lo you think there is any sucu thing as a square game: Of course I do: my observation would place gamblers higher in the scale of honesty than railroad Directors, stocn brokers and other social aristocrats They are not so apt to swindle their friends. There is a great deal of nonsense about marking rings, bugs, brace faro boxes, briefs and strippers, and the like I have asked many players, who could have no reason to lie. They say that at an open faro bank, where professionals play against the bank, tiiedealingis generally fair, l-'or all that, gambling is. perhaps, the worst vice that can get hold of a man. It seems to be the most insidious and the hardest to cure You can talk, for example, with Mr. Derby, who has dealt fur Senators, Ambassadors, Kotlisciids and, fur nullit I know, crowned heads. He will tell you 01 life behind scenes at Washington that would make your hair stand on wnd "J've often seen that poor unfortunate Connie Yanderbilt at a game. He would put a stack of chips on the queen, another on the corner of the ace. and three or four more on ditlerent cards Then ho would suddenly be seued with an epiletie tit, fxiaui at the mouth and fall on the grou.id After a while he would rise, and inquire carefully into the fortune of each one of Lis bets. T here were Teek and Able, and Fyles and Oaks, and I'ncle John and a host more in theso days. Oaks had a caustic wit, but you could never make him say anything unkin.lof any one "One of the most impressive Iive3 of gamblers that I ever followed was that of Doc West. I knew him in New York years ago. He had such an education as one acquires by a term at a medical college. When I first met him he was a boarder at a faro bank;that is, a man whose business is to eat, not to play. 'I used to keep one of the finest Club houses in the city,' be said to me. It was frequented by all the famous cracksmen. Men would often come to me at night and say, 'Doc, I want to leave ?"0,000 in your safe for a few days.' They knew that it would bo perfectly safe with me. while a savings bank might fail. Notwithstanding this, there was a trilling dispute between the Doctor and another player about fhe title to a live-dollar bill, which resulted in his being barred out of tbe saloon. I learned afterwards that his parents had been rich and had brought him up to no work. They had lost their money and the Doc Lad taken to cards. I lost sight of him for a long tine, but a year and a half after I was at Billings. I was visiting one of the fashionable saloons in that stranire town. A cur.d the table one could easily distinguish be: wern the old-timers and tender feet. I w: 3 watching the dealer at the end of a deal. Tour for one. Last turn, gentlemen,' cried the dealer. Just then there wa3 a suddon stir. Some one struck a man over the head with the butt of a pistol. 'It is only a nipper,' some one remarked. Every one was intent on the game and did not Stir. "As the cards left out of the box, the winners, among them myself, rose and inquired into the condition of the wounded man. The losers sat motionless watching the shuttling cards with wolfish eyes. The proprietor Lad the nipper carried into the back room and laid 011a box. I saw the negro waiter slyly transfer a few stolen chips from the nipper's pocket to his own. A young doctor Lastened to complete what the pistol had began and ushered the toor check pilferer into the presence of his Creator. "The face seemed familiar to nie, and in the morning I visited the corpse aain. It was my old acquaintance Doc U'esL" Spreading for Leagues Around the marshr, overflowed lands, sunken lots and halfsubmerged river banks which give thcan birtn, the seeds of malaria impreanat) the air, and aro lahaled at every breath by thousands UDprovldod with any adequate safeguard against the baneful influence. Yet such exist potent alike to remedy or to prevent, pure in its constituents and the professionally recognized substitute for fio hateful drug, quinine. Its name is Hostctter's Stomach Bitters, a family spetiflc and safeguard, foremast cot only as an antidote to rnaUria, but also as a means of permanently removins dyspepsia, and relieving constitution, liver complaint, rheumatism, kidney and bladder allmcn's and nervousness. Among invigorants it takes the first place, and is also a superb appetizer. Use it systematically. For several years past naphtha refuse has been used for fuel by Russian vessels in the Caspian Sea The opening of the Baku. Triilis and I'atoum 1 '.ail way has lately reduced the cost of transportation to euch an extent as to warrant the use of the same fuel by the Black Sea fleet. During the present autumn tests will be made on several torpedo boats, for which class of. vessels naphtha is considered to be specially suitable. The necessary alterations in the furnaces, etc, will be made by Messrs. Noel fc Co., who have large refineries of petroleum in Baku, and who have already altered several . of their own steamers with a similar object. Nathan Knapp says: WOLCOTT, N. Y. Gests I Lave been troubled with rheumatism for several years to such a degree that 1 found it impossible to attend to my business, which is that of foundryman, and have been confined to the house and to my bed much of the time. Haye tried all sorts of remedies, and have been treated by several doctors, all to no purpose, until I finally heard of your Rheumatic Syrup and wa induced lo try it, and I am very happy to say, after the use of a few bottles. I am as strong and well as ever, and never feel a symptom of anything like rheumatism any more. I can cheerfully recommend your Rheumatic byrup to all who are afMicted with rheumatism, for it is certainly a most invaluable remedy, end too much can not be said in its praise.

A SOU niEHN RIP VAN WINKLE

"SlaTes' Still Held ou a Forgotten Alabama riantation. A Man That Did Mot Know the War Had Kxtded, and Bad Bocght or Sold Kot bloc for Twenty Tears. rPertespocc'ent of the New York Tribune. Pittsfield, Mass , Last summer, on my way from Florida to Selena, Alabama, I determined to make a part of t'.e journey on horseback tor the benefit of my health. I was unacquainted with the country, and so was the clergyman with whom I spent a night soon after I started. However, he produced an ancient map, and by its aid I Chose the "Bottoms road" from Andalusia to Greenville, a distance of eighty-three mile, according to the well-meaning guide. I had no idea that the "Bottoms road"' was unused, until I Lad ridden perhaps twenty miles and left the last cabin . behind me. But the weather tfas fine and I would not turn back. When the first night came without the sign of a habitation, I tethered my horse, rolled myself in a blanket, aud slep't on the ground. All the neit day I rode, and saw not a Louse nor a Luman being. At six o'clock, when I had already made up my mind to spend another night in solitude, I came upon a roadside camp-fire, beside which a negro sat. Of all colored men that I have met, this one was tbe fattest, greasiest and happiest. He gave me a bow as I stopped "Good ebenin' to you, massal" he saluted "Good evening," I returned. "Can you tell me Low far I am from the nearest house?" "It's a powerful distance to walk!" the fellow grinned. "And who lives there when you get there? ' I questioned, after vainly trying to get the distance in miles, or at least in length, of time. "Ole mars', he lib dar!" was the answer; and further Questioning elicited the information that "old mar's" was another name for Master George AViltsie, that I was then on the border of his plantation; that his residence was several miles distant; that the negro was "Sam; that he resided with "ole mars , and that he "was down dis way splorin to see if dar conldut be timber cut in disseckshun. I was soon camping by Lis lire, with my hore feeding near by on the grass. LIKE MASTER LIKE SLAVE In ten minutes 1 made up my mind that 'am whs the most ignorant of Africans Could he tell me Low far 1 had travelled sinc the yesterday morning? He Lad no no idea. How far to the neit turn? Didnt know; never heard of a next turn. How far to the nearest neihlor? l:dnt spect that there was any nearest neighbor now. Mars I'eiton used to be nearest, but his house was burned these dozen years After many other questions, the answer to each leaving me more and more convinced of tbe creature's ignorance, he began to praise Mr. Wiltsie, concluding with: "De bea' mas'r in Aiabam'! Nebber soiled any of us nigs for some while!" "And you all continue living with biro, the same as you did before you were freed?" "We ain't freed!" declared the paragon of ignorance; and I now come to the conclusion that he was a fool. Out f all patience I fixed my bunk for the nigh, .nd placed my pistol at my pillow. In the morning the negro was not to be found, and I was more and more convinced of his insanity, and had him in mind as I rode onward. SOMETHING LIKE A MOATED GRANGE. My third day's journey at least the forenoon's part of it was not unlike the first and second days. At 2 o'clock I suddenly came upon a field of corn by the roadside. A little further on five or six negroes were standing, among them "Sam" of the previous night. "Dat'sliim!" I heard "Sam" say as I approached, and like the cows and mules the negroes scampered. I went on to the Louse. It was an old fashioned typicai Southern Louse that Lad evidently seen "better days. The main door was of heavy carved oak, battered and weather-beaten, aud the knocker that I took up was niuch worn. It was ten minutes or more before my twice repeated knock had an answer. Then the door opened slowly by a colored woman. A nod of the Lead answered my question as to whether the master was at. Lome, and scarcelv invited I went in. The woman van ished, to appear again after a minute with a scared face. "Walk up, mas'r!" she said, leading the way up the stairs and through halls. 1 was ushered into a larse room fitted as a library. A gentleman occupied an arm-chair beside an oriel window. His face was yellow, his hair was long and white, and a heavy grizzled beard hung over his breast. He was a man of more than seventy years, with remarkable blue eyes, and Hashed in a defiant way as I introduced myself. "I can not arise, sir," he said, in a lofty tone. "Be seated, and tell me what you have come here for." "I would like to remain with you all night," "Yes; but travellers never come through here. You are the first traveller the first white person that has been Lere that I have seen in more than twenty years. Why did you come?" I gave my reason as well as I could. "You must have lost your way," the gentleman said. "I never haYC visitors. The Bottom road is never used." "Then there is a better road by which you get out?" I remarked. "I never get out," he answered. "For twenty-six years I have been a helpless paralytic!" " "But your servants" I began. ' Never go from home," he finished. Then he went 011 to say that he needed no communication with the world, and followed with some particulars of himself and family. TIIE STORY Or A RECLUSE, t The plantation of the "Wiltsie family had originally comprised a section of 5,000 acres. It had been in the family since the State was settled. The father of the present owner had been a politician of some eminence, and also a man of wealth. He had left this one son, who bad married and inherited the estate. After a few years of a happy life the wife had died, and two sons gladdened the father's heart They were educated as the eons of Southern gentlemen are, aud came home from their graduation twenty-three years ago. One John had gone to Xew Orleans to purchase slaves, and hail been murdered there. The other James had in the following year enlisted in the Confederate army and been stricken with a malignant fever when in camp at Selma, and there had died. The deaths ot the two sons had been heavy blows to the planter, and in both cases Lad teen occasions of prejudice to him. "John's death determined me that I would never buy or sell another slave, and I never have,,' he said. ''Before Jame's death I was an advocate of the freedom of the South. But after the death of James I did not care what became of the South!" "1 do not care to see the world," ho said. "No one conies, and if by any chance they do, they shall have my welcome. I am content as I am. Tbe world gets on, I suppose, but Low, or in what war, I do not care. I take no papers, Lave no mail, communicate with no one. We make our own sugar, flour and meal; raiso our meat, grain and fruit. I take no interest in our Government, and neither know or care who is Governor of Alabama or President of the Confederate Southern States of America. I do no trading; my goods and slaves that I have satisfy me. In more t han twenty years I have not bought nor sold anything, from a box of pills to a slave!" KIPVA WISKLE RE PI V IOCS. "I beg your pardon, Mr. Wiltsie," I said,

"but t!o you ret know the history of the last twenty jeans?'1 "I know not and care less!" was the answer, "I hope you do not propose to enlighten me If you do, as a matter of pity to me, I will excuse you. I do not care to know. The histories of times past that I read are just the same as that of times recent names, da: es and places being changed." "But snrely you know the result of the rebellion ?" lie struck the table with his clenched fist, exclaiming excitedly, "I tell you once more that 1 do not know what has been done, aud I do not care!" "I see that you suppose that secession was successful?" " "Suppose it!' I have never thought," he replied. "A well-made scheme is always successful, Though little I care for citizenship, I am proud to be a citizen of the Confederate States " "Why," I said, "do you not know that the civil war resulted in suppression of the re tellion? The secession was a failure " The man glared at me and said nothing. "You spoke of slaves." I continued. You do not pretend to own slaves now, do your He glared more fiercely, and did not answer. "There are no slaves in America," I continued. "Every slave in the South is a free person !" Still be glared and then he Listed. "Are you from Xew Y'ork?" "I am' from Massachusetts." I answered. 'You are a fool," he said. "When Sara came home at midnight saying that a crazy man had met him in the bottom lands, I knew whom to eipccL b'am rar. away frjrn you last night because he saw you were crazy. But I tnought then and know now that you are a Northern sorehead. You have come liere to amuse me with lies." Keeping my temper as well as I could, I looked him squarely in the face. "Mr. Whiltsie," I said, "let mc ask you a question. Will vou answer it directly '" "Well?" Le said sharply. "Do you not know that Alabama is still a member of the Union, as it was before it seceded? And do you not know that slavery is abolished?"" After abusing and cursing me he gave mc a most emphatic "no " Therewcre four or five hours from the time of my arrival until I was shown to my room, and in that time I tried as well as I cor Id to convince my host that I had told him that which was true. But in vain were my efforts. The old man was positive that he was right, and confident that I was a liar. We had supper, and at eight o'clock he called Lis "slaves" into the bouse, and read prayers. There were nine of the negroes three men and four women, who w ere gray headed, and a girl in her teens.and a little boy. Tbey sat with bowed heads. and after the reading went out. Then Mr. Wiltsie signified that I had better retire, and one of the women took took a tailow candle aud conducted me to a chamber. When my sable escort withdrew she bolted the chamber door. The two windows had already been nailed up. At 7 o'clock the morning I was let out of my prison, and sat at the master's frugal breakfast immediately after. lie was very uncommunicative; and when the meal was over, before he had rang for '"Sam" to wheel out his chair, Le said to me: - "Good-by! You can be off as soon as you may please!" 1 said, "Good-bv!" and one of the servants showed me out. My horse was at the door, and when I rode oil it was in the opposite direction from which I had come the night before previous. After two days of Lard riding I arrived at Delhi Plantation near Greenville, not having seen a person since leaving Mr. ÄViltsie's, Kot at ail to my snrpris 1 found that the hermit planter's nearest neighbors, lorty miles from him, did not know of his existence, or that there was a plantation on the bottom road."

Ton ksbury. Joaquin Miller in Sunday Star ? $ a a And marl, you the editor of this paper will testify to it, too that I do not choose to take this trip. There arc better things, prettier things to see and write about than this new industry in the shoe and leather business. But the staff of a great paper is a little army. It has its orders, and every man must obey them. "What is the fare to Ilaymarket station, cabbie?" "I gets a dollar from gintlemen, sur, an' you looks loike a gintleman." "None of that, my gentle Frenchman; I am going to Tewksbury, and I don't want to be skinned, even if I do go there, half a dollar." "Ye knows yer vay about ; I'm at yer sarvice, sur." I jumped down at the Ilaymarket station, which is still a sort of market of stale fruit and cheap literature, and put in my hand at the window for a ticket "Seventy cents: start at 12 sharp; time, fifty-five minutes." And with the ciick of the clerk's stamp and Lis prompt and precise answers to my questions still ringing in my ears, we drew oat, and were whirled away toward the unhappy town of Boston's homeless poor; those who have been Lit in the battle of life, wounded, mortally wounded in the intellect, and unable to cope with their fellows, yet live on; wounded, mortally, in the soul; dying, morally, in this incessant battle between good and evil; shot down early in the fight, with all the years of manhood and womanhood wasting away there in the hospital! Pity them; oh, pity them, llelpthem. Heal them. Will they ever get well and come out of the hospital with the soul healed? It is not much tobe shot down, physically, and die there on the green grass, and be buried there, and so sleep on forever. It is not much for a man to die in battle so. But for a woman to be wounded morally, to be taken to this sort of hospital, to heal her soul, as it were. Fity her, everybody; Lelp her, everybody that can. One short hour from Boston, inland, remote from the sea, but set on a little hill of sand, and healthy, I should say. so far as good air and location could make it, and we were set down at Tewksbury Station. A little Black Maria sort of wagon, driven by a kindly old man, who would accept no fare, drew us half a mile up to the top of this barren bill of sand and stone, and we were led into the stoutly-picketed Boor House, by a one-armed porter, to the Superintendent. But do not eet the impression that the place or its surroundings are barren or bare. Many trees stand in the in closure of a few acres, with tbe houses making a circle about the outer edge of it. And there is grass here, too, and some flowers. And then on the outside there is a healthy and well-ordered farm, several hundred acres, indeed, in a good state of tillage, stone fences, pine trees in clumps, a few oaks and many little tangles of wild grapevines in the less ambitious growth of woods; but what I wish to say is the land is very poor. Granite stones and tawny sand make up the solid earth here, without and within the Boor House of Tewksbury. And I found nothing here at all strange or Startling or out of line with the usual order of such dreadful places. la truth, I found those in charge of the unfortunates much more geutlo and patient than the burly Englishman who showed me over Bedlam a few years since. The place is even better ordered, although, of course, not no imposing, and even 01 a little different character, too, than the madhouse at Toronto, which I saw onlr the other day. It is a fact that all such places are sad, are simply horrible, if you go among the inmates. But the kitchen here and all its appointments is a work of perfection. Better bread I never ate. In fact, I believe if I Lad the regular Tewksbury faro instead of what I now get, I should weigh more. And it is Lard to conceive that with this kitchen for the new order of things could not have introduced that, or put up the perfect building, either there could ever Lave been any real suffering for the necessaries, or even the delicac es. of 1 fe at Tewksbury. And. in trutn the complaint Las mainly been abontthe bad treatment ol the dead, not the liviDg. Let

of a roaning, luuniiing, ayingoia men; worn out, the inevitable awaits them. They are certainly as comfortable as it is possible to make so many poor wretches in so small a space. Physically comfortable. But mentally? I wonder if they are thinking about being cut ap by the students of Harvard In their instructive devotion to scienee. They know this awaits them. The law ot the great State of Massachusetts gives the bodies of these old men to the students of Harvard. The whole row, ah, civilized, distinguished Protestant world, has not been about that at alL To put it briefly, the question has not been as to whether they should be cut up, but as to how they should be cut up. I wonder if these dying old men take so very much interest in the question of how as the politicians? And I wonder if thatbonest old Sweedish sailor, C. J. Eckland, who bad the cross and body tt Christ tattooed in India ink on his breast, did not think this all oyer as be lay dying there? 1 wonder if he did not pray and Lope and pray agsin that the cross of Christ might keep his body somehow; 'sacred when dead? Weil, poor old Christian Eckland, whatever you may have hoped or prayed as you lay dying here in this awful plane, that cross ami image of Christ did not protect you. On the contrary, it was a precious prize to the rising medical Student of Harvard. They skinned off that cross and image of Christ from above your heart in the interest of science and advanced thought, your name and all on it, poor Christian salor, dying here in a strange land; and they said it looked beautiful, and they boast ed of it, and they showed it about until it ans other like things became the topic of the country. Let us pass on quickly from this scene and this subject. Bus let me tell you this, students of Harvard: I have a profound reverence for learning. I have always felt like lifting my hat to a Harvard man when I met Lim. Hereafter I shall never meet a Harvard man without an irresistibledesire to lift my foot. I'assinff through the howlins house für the insane, we come to where many young mothers, baby-mothers, bend down their faces in shame over their fatherless babes. For a State of great culture, and a city that boasts to have the advanced thought of the age, I tell you these poor, pitirul mothers, who could not and would not hold up their heads as we hurried on, are numerous, fearfully numerous! If this is what "advanced thought" leads to, I say stop! But whatever has put mis state 01 tilings at your uoors, iook into it. Call home some of your reformers, your human rights teachers and your woman's rights prenchers, and let them look into this thing, and try and help these poor shamed mothers to a" higher life. Let them, for the sake of pity, please give up other people's business for a little while and look to their own. I tell you. Massachusetts. vou have got a mote in your eye bigger than Mount Shasta. Call home soire of your carpet-baggers and try a little 10 taKe it out, and see yourselves as others begin to see you. And here is the place, in this narrow little room, on that bed there, where the screw-driver and the file were used in a case of craniotimy by Dr. Ixthrop. the "surgeon" of this piace. Some of the citizens of Boston said to me that it was all right, as the girl got well. One gentleman insisted that the "doctor" deserved great credit for his skill in destroying the child and saving the woman's life with these instruments! A screw-driver and a file! And this operation took place only the other day and within almost a stone's throw of Harvard, where tho poor are cut up, skinned and tanned, in ordor that surgery and medical science might be advanced! Well, it has not advanced very far if the Massachusetts doctors within twenty miles of Harvard have to use such implements. And yet, how can you expect these young men to learn much when they arc fo busy making tobacco pouches out of the skins of their mothers' bodies, slippers out of the skins of their mothers' breasts, boots for their delicate feet from the sk:ns of brave old seamen cast at their door to die? I spoke to several shoemakers yesterday as to the quality of this new kind of leather, and they did not seem to have a high opinion of its durability as an article of wear. They all agreed that it is very soft and fine. One old shoemaker, however, insisted that it would make splendid leather if we could only kill the men or women whose skin we wish to tan, as we do cattle and other animals. The rottenness of the leather made from human skins, he ured, was due mainly to the varied diseases of which people die. He agreed with me that this new line of industry could never be very prosperous till one could kill the men and women and little children and skin them first, as wo do cattle, kids, and so on. But of course all this is a question of time in this great city of advanced thought. No, he Lad never made a pair of dude shoes for a delicate Harvard boy out of a baby's skin. "That," he said, "was a downright lie; but be knew of a fashionable doctor of Boston who had a "pair of kid gloves made ot a negro baby's skin." "Women's skin," the old shoemaker went on to say, "is better than a man's skin; it is tougher and liner; and these gentlemen prefer to wear women's skins to men's skins." I find a wide difference in quality between the dozen or two white skins I Lave seen Lere, and that of the negro. The latter is as course as pig skin. The Old Style of Firemen. Philadelphia Times. "Times ain't now what they used to be," remarked one gray leardcd veteran, as he turned his eye?, dimmed by looking at many fires, upon the reporter who sat on tho bench beside him. " 'Twas a bad day for I'hil'delhy when them paid fellers got in. They ain't got the quickness 'at we volunteers had. Bless me, you orter seed us breakin along with that air hose cart boundin' after US like a toy-wagin. I reckon we could beat any pair 0' horses they've got now in the city fur a mile. I r'member th' night that the big fire started down at Race street same day as l'resident Zack Taylor died in 1S5L One of the boys piled inter the shedyellin that a house had blowed np down near the Race Street wharf an' killed a dozen people an' had thrown a hundred bales of burnin hay around that air neighborhood promiscuouslike, which was settiu' the hull, square agoin'. "I started od ahead to find how things was, an' when I got there I see No. 9 comill' Up the street like mad, quite ahead of our cart. I sec they'd get the first chance at the nearest watering plug, an' wasn't willin', nohow, that the Niagara should be beat by that No. 9 crowd. So I picked ud a ash barT an tipped the ashes over into the gutter an' then put her bottom up over the plug an' sot down on Ite top of her, smokin my pipe as easy as any thin', though there was four houses blazin' away right afore me. The foreman of No. 9 came tearin' up and began lookin for that plug to hitch his pipe onto, but he couldn't find it nowberes. Says he, swearin' mad: 'Am I gettin' ter be that foolish as to forget where that plug is on this here street?' 'Very like,' faid I, as cool as a chunk of ice an' suckin away on my pipe, which couldn't have went out very well though on account of the sparks fallin around us that thick. 'If you have forgot that there plug is down t'other txrner further on.' "He jumped ahead, an', yellin' for the boys to foller him, the whole crowd went offdown the street like a lot of wild cats. The next minit the Niagara comes up an' I gits down off the bar'l, an', liftin' her from off the plug, hitched fast an' got a stream on five minits before the other comp'ny. I tell you, young man, they kin say what they want 'bout fbpu nw lic-a-mftrips. but the old volunteers was the best, an' sometime, when rhil'delphy's clean burnt up, they'll wisü tney a kep' us to take care of 'em." Troud of my family, sir?" exclaimed a man. "Yes. sir, I am proud. I am as proud as a boy with two stone bruises." Gbekxwich, Feb. 11, 18S0. nop Bitters Company: Sirs I was riven ud by the doctors to die of scrofulous consumption. Two bottles of our bitters cured me. Lerot BrewB.

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story of Her Life in Bondage and Freedom. Cleveland (O.) Correspondence oi the New York ' Tribune. A colored woman, Jane Lennon, who died a few days ago at Akron, about 100 years of age, was, it is claimed, the sole survivor of all Northern slaves. The story of ber life dates back to 1775, when the Pennsylvania Abolition Society was founded, with Benja.rnin Franklin as its first President Five years later the Society memorialized Congress to "devise means for removing the inconsistency of slavery from the American people" Similar Associations were formed in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland, Delaware. Virginia and New York. The New York Manumission Society was organized in 1785, with John Jay as President The Society brought about the emancipation of all the slaves in the Empire State. The late Jane Lennon was the sole survivor of all the New York slaves, and probably she was the sole survivior of all the slaves held in bondage in the Northern Stales. In 1817 the Legislature of New York was induced to adopt an act providing for absolute and universal emancipation throughout the Commonwealth, to take effect July 4, 127. It was by this act that Jane Lennon obtained her freedom. She was born about 17S4 probably earlier, fdthough the exact date is not known in Dutchess County, New York. She was older than the Federal Government. In early childhood she was sold by her first master to a lady who was favorably impressed with her brightness, and thought she saw in the young girl the promise of a . faithful and intelligent slave: Jane's version of this early experience was that her own mother, also a slave, gave her voluntarily to the lady, but the account of her being sold is probably the correct one. Jane soon passed ii.to other hands, and was successively sold to various persons, among them a wealthy tcntleroan named Lennon, residing at KensVerville. In 1S1C, when she was thirty-live yeuis of age, she was sold to Gordon W. Merrick, the father of Mrs. Paris Tallman, at whose residence she died. With this final transfer of the title to Mr. Merrick, the days of Jane Lennon's captivity ended, and ber life as a free woman began. Mr. Merrick was heartily in sympathy with the movement inaugurated by the Manumission Society, and the woman was therefore not treated as a slave, but a valued domestic, and when the act of 1S17 changed her legal status from slaver to freedom, it really broughc no alteration in her condition as a member of the Merick household. When she entered the service of Mr. Merrick she did not even "know her letters " For many years earnest and persist ellorts were made by members of the Merrick family to teach her to read, but the mind of the woman could not be brought to the comprehension of written words. With great difficulty she acquired a tolerable familiarity with the alphabet, but when it came to putting letters together the task was beyond her power to accomplish. In 1S33 the Merricks removed to Massillon, 0 , and four years later came to Akron, bringing with them the faithful servant Jane. Her attachment to the family, which was strong and sincere from the beginning, grow to bo the great passion ot her life. " When Mr. Merrick died twenty years ago Lis decease produced a marked effect on Jane Lennon. She never rallied from the shock, her mind and body then showing strong symptoms of decline. At the age of ninety-five the was able to walk about the honse with the aid of a cane, and to rido out in favorable weather. She liked to Lave the papers read to her, her favorite paper being the NewYork Tribune, which she always called "The Triboo." Many other words she was never able to pronounce rightly. She was a warmhearted, affectionate creature, and beloved by all who knew her. During her illness Mrs. Tallman, witli whom she had lived since the death of Mr. Merrick, ministered to her with loving care. She was a faithful member of the Episcopal Church. Thousands are being cured ot catarrh every year with Hall's Catarrh Cure, that the doctois had given up and said could not be cured. 75 cents a bottle. Sold by all druggists. o Linhtninrjr ran alon? the wire into an In diana telegraph office. The operator thought that a phenomenal roan was at work on a nas.iy message. "iou t send so tast,;' he protested. Messrs. Dolph & Carier, druegists, Winamac, Pulaski County, say: "Brown's Iron Bitters take the lead of anything we ever Landled." Malarial disorders as often attack the people of large cities as of the country. Ayer's Ague Cure is warranted a safe and certain specific. Allen's Brain Food positively cures nerv ousness, nervous debility, and all weakness ui generative organs; ci; six ior :so. All druggists. Send for circular to Allen's Pharmacy. 315 First avenue. New Y'ork. Sold in Indianapolis by Browning & Sloan. MANHOOD. KNOW THYSELF. A BOOK FOR EVERY MAN! YOUNG, MIDDLE-AGED and OLD, The untold miseries that result from indlscr Hon In early life may be alleviated and cured Tbose who doubt this assertion mould parch ase and read the new medical published by the body Medical Institute, Boston, entitled the Science of life; or, Belf-Preservatlon. It til not orlv a complete and perfect treaUe on Manhood, Exhausted Vitality. Nervous and Paysical Debility, Premature Decline In Man, Errors of Yonth, etc., but it eon'ains 125 prescriptions for acate and chronic dlwanes. each one of which la Invaluable, BO proved by the author, whose experience for 21 years Is SUCH as probably never before fell to tbe lot of any physician. It contains 300 page, bound in embossed covers, full gilt, embellished with tbe very finest ueei engravings, guaranteed to be a finer work In every ense mechanlcai, literary or professional than any other work retailed in this country for $2 50, or the money will be refunded. Price only 81.25 by mail. Gold Medal awarded tbe author by the National Medical Association. Illustrated samele sent oo receipt of six cents. Send now. Address PEABODY MEDICAL INSTITUTE. OI Dr. W. H. PARKER, No. 4 Bullfinch street, Boaon, Mass. The author may be consulted on all lcpanes raqnlring skill and experience. A XjPadins L.3nloi VlrjT inaa efttabiifiherf a a Ottice ia KevrYcrk for tbe Cure cf EPILEPTIC FITS. f From A m Journal ofZIalL lr. Ab. If eserole 'it nf I-tndw hn tii'io Clalty of Epllepty, 'fta wltbnnt doubt trr&ted ami irre more e&iet tbsn si'J other living plij '.c'.n. Bisfamm ))Mlmply beenf .tonlKblnp: hnva benrrt of rr.u.n ct over 90 veara' soiling ucrei-fi:liT em A t'T hin. i ' ha published wuflt on Ihl iiiM.-a-, vnltH l.f tv' Iths larire bottle of Ma wonderful cure t -y ferorwbo max wnd tbelrexpreMiind V. O. AUiiru- Vf sdviaa any ds w!?Mnir arm a tu !r-s lr. A a. UKaVHuLK. h". Jhn ft.. K" v' This EELT or Rejrencravtor Is made fjptwly for the cure f deranremente3 of the generative ormna. There Is no mistake about this instrument, the eontinunrs streaia of 1 EO tRLiCITY TKi-mentinir . thi.rh the) parts must . v-v. t. j resiore. mem vo neniinyI . Vai "iV If . I action. Inj not confound lljF rY this with Klectrio B!ts M IX' I iwtid o "ire all Ills IllrN V-nNI I tromhmdtoto. It u for llläall m Wllaal the ONE specino purpone. ,ui cirvulars trivia full information, address CluttVtr Electric Belt Co.. 103 YVuJiin.-ton St., Chicago, 111. nnniiOQD restored. A victim of early imprudence, cu-ine nermus debilVy, premature decav, etc., fcavinr tried in waia everj known remedy, has diacoverrd s airapls means rf selfcure, which he will aend KRKK to bis fellow-nurforen. Addre. J. U. HPTvra -..... . - ... .. AGENTS can now prawn fortune. Orr tilwnptKfilAfrM Aflilrtfl K. i KISEOVX C0-, 19 Barclay St., 1

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My dear sir," retorted the gentleman, with a slight show of temper, "I fsy nothing against tboce articles, but I am a business man, and always atk for precisely what I want, and for nothlEgelse. I may enlighten yon, however, whea I say that some time ago, for another disease, of which the Cspclne has since cured me, I tried all those ycu meitlon, with no appreciable benefit. They are Inefficient, every one cf them, the mean ect act of the proprietors of some of them being this; that they make plasters with similar soundlrg names to deceive the unwary Into beUevtag tbey are the same thing. Experience taught me the difference, I'll go to tbe next man in your line. Good-Cay." Be on your guard a? inst Imitations. The genuine bas tbe word CAPCINE cut cleanly In the middle of the plaster. All others are Impositions. Feabury Sc Johnson, Chemists, New York. läcssllsiisillislitet.' 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No marks on package to indicate its contents or the sen der. ti" All Consultations and t'ommunt eationa sacredly Confidential. edy fur Diseases cf trie Kidneys, Female Weak ness, LeucorrrKCa and Painful Menstruation, J2.ÜO per quart bottle ; C bottles for $10. 4 Vi ill ä U r.-.Ki,edy in the world for Nervous Debility, Lost nergy. Imprudences of Youtn or later Years, Wasting Diseases, and Dyspepsia, f 1 per quart bottle; 6 bottles for $&. JAHI3' SSfflSa FILLS, ÄWJÄi They act like a charm upon the debilitated Ner ous System, invigorate the Generative Organs and radically and permanently remove all imme diate and remote effects cf exhausted Vitality caused by imprudences or excesses. $1.04) per box; C boxes for $3.00. Sent by mail, scaled, oa receipt of price. Address CR.JAMES.No. 204Washing!on St.,Chicago,IlL s AYER'S Ague Cure IS WARRANTED to cure all cases of malarial disease, such as Fever and Ague, Intermittent or Chill Fever, Keruittent Fever, Dumb Ague, Bilious Fever, and Liver Complaint, In case of failure, after due trial, dealers are authorized, by our circular of July 1st, 1882, to refund the money. Dr. J. C. Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mass. Sold by all DrnggiaU. $200 A YEAR CAN BE SAVED In the Living Expenses of tbe Family Py the use of Kex Magnus, The Iluinistoa Food Preservative. It preserves Meat. Fih, Milk, Cream. Kgirs. and all kinds of Ammrl Food fresh. and sweet lor weeks, even in trie hottest weather. This can be proved by tue testimonials ot hundreds who bave tried it. Vou can prove It for yourself for fifty cents. You will fiuJ that this ia an article which will save you a great deal of money. NO SOURED MILK, NO SPOILED MEAT. ' NO STALE EGGS. It will keep them fresh'an sweet for maay days, and does not impart the slightest foreign taste to the article treated. It is so simple Inojxratloa that a child can follow the direction, is as harmless as salt, and cost only a fraction of a cent to m. pound of meat, fish, butter or cbee or to a quart of milk. This is no humbug: it Is Indorsed by such men as Professor Eamuel W. Johnson of Yald College. Sold by druggists and grocers. Sample pounds sent prepaid by mail or express (as w S refer) on receipt of price. Name your express ofce. Viandine brand for meat; Ocean Wave for fish and sea-food; Snow Flake for milk, bnt tor and cbecse; Anti-Ferment, Anti-Kly and Anti-Mold, 50 cents per lb. each. Pearl for cream; Queen foe epps, and Aqua Vitae for fluid extracts, f 1 per lb. eath. THE DTIISTÖI FOOD MESERVUG CO., ? S Kllby Street. Boston, Mas. For Sale by Browning & Sloan. Apothecaries' Hall, Indianapolis. KOOSIERJ AUEER TILE & BRICK MACHINES. 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