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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-28

'lst tue play go on, nor spoil the pleasure OF
Of one individual. ."-i1is last words in the
theateT.
Such was the generous lesson Of his life ,'i
All others first, himself the least of all. lrs
This was the message which he left for us
Let us remember as we bear his pail.
Through she temptations of the actors fate
The card, the cup, the aDplaure, the siren
song 'l-A rt'
He kept within his soul one cloistered cell
Where pUrest thoughts and solemn prayers
belong os-- R
He took with modest mien gay Fashion IS
And bore with patience her Imperial frown
But neither turned him from his cherished
He lived to oznament, to amuse the town.
In his own realn what presence equalled his
The Lover" "Husband," Hero Of the
To fondly WOO, to delicately love, 1ssf .ed
Suotly suggest-such washis gentle power.
Yhe fairies gave him Cmid their various gistsl
These from his cradle, first, the powe- TO
charm, $40 I rfr .tr
A smile whose sunlight lighted up the scene;
Ajoyous gayety Thich knew not harm.
Features as chisele9 as the Grecian lads 10
Whom erst Diana honored with kiss,
Nor in the favored galleries shall we find
a face more classical or rare than this
Which Death to-day has frozen into stone,
Swept of the smile and clesed the glorious
ewes, TT. A''T .
Silenced the voice whose eche haunts us still,
A summer day gown dark mid summer
skies! -nf ~ liil
Great King of Terrorsr did he see Thy face
In that vast crowd where late he said Stare
Waiting for him; vert Thou behind the scenes,
Ut In the pit, or gallery, who can teilg lli
Greeted BY mems applause and women's.
81 came a waif thrown on Your shores, /" he
said, '-sliliIfiL
II asked living. but with lavish hands s-st
You save me flowers, and fruits, and wine,
and bread. I tr-a I
There was appreciation warm and true,
l trembling waited for your praise or blame,
RI The curtain rose-lol every face friends
Deep in his heart this sacred pleasure glowed |;
1t wrapped him like garment soft and
warm. y tiii1Aii-si vi alla -Irlr
Would il had been an armor without Joint
To fend OF words which hurt and did him
- harm. lulal9 10 iH1 f1f a1r r
Few bat the friends he loved and trusted in
Knew all the injuries which he forgave.
He buried these sharp arrows in himself,
Like Winkelried, and bore them to the
grave. irlTaIaH riIf .l r0ifrIisIlIf
For US he lived, worked. suffered, struggled,
70 died. rJr.v vIrsrn-T r.rrf .0'
That We might smile, @Let stin the play go
Can we forget as he, disease and pain.
Can we deny the wreath so brayely woDe
No! on each festaI night at BANQUET gay
As Drama smiles with fascinations new,
Then shall his Image come to round the scene,
And rosy lips shall whisper Montague. 0rw
In quiet homes where most ne loved TO be,
Where fires are bright and friends are warm
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-28
THE TEMPLES.
BY LEE o. HARRIS.

BY LEE o. HARRIS.
only glass, now and then, with friend!
Why should they warn me and bid me be-
EEL ware? rla fr.re as rnm
He loves me, / know, and my love will defend,
e And lead him away from the treacherous
70 snare. @ -
The tempter win fly, and the blush of his wine
Grow pale in the garlands my love shall en-
twine.
Only glass! And pray where is the harm?
Why should affection be startled at this?
can Bacchus betray with his roseate charm,
When Hymen has hallowed his cup with
kiss?
Away with your warnings, SO gloomy and
grave! t.e nrs.
The tempter my lure, but affection car save
Osly a glass! Shall torture for this
A heart that is beating responsive to miner
In doubt there is SORROW, in faith there is bliss,
And love can not drown IN goblet of wine.
Thus trusting in love she goes with him a
bride,
Nor sees that the tempter still walks at his
side.
Only one glass, dear-'twas hard to decline
Nay, do not weep for so trifiing thing.
Old friendships must mellow their autumn
While love wears the crown of perpetual
spring
But often, Oh, often, her eyes shall be dim
While love dwens with her and the tempter
with him.
Only a night. now and then, in the street
Crazed by the demon that lures him to roam.
While hope is awaiting his staggering feet,
And love, like a hermit, sits pining at home.
Only two lives, in their bitterness seen,
Walking apart, with the tempter between.
Only a drunkard! Lostt Lost and undonei
Can this be the end of affections design?
Oh, hope, hast thou fed from the sorrowing
one?
Oh, love, hast thou died In goblet of wine ?
Oh, garlanded faith, thou vert fair, thou vert
ssweet,
But the tempter hath trampled thee under his
feet.
Only hut at the edge of the town
Empty the cupboard and naked the floor
wretchedness sits at the hearth, with a frown,
And famine is crouched, like a wolf, at the
door.
Well may the eye of the mother grow wild.
Who lists to the wall Of her famishing child.
Only cOffln-cOme, Wretcn, anu uraW nlgn,
Thy wife and thy child are both slumbering
there;
Kneel down in thy anguish of spirit and cry
"Have mercy, o God! on my bitter des-
pairi"
But the tempter shall mock thee: "These loved
ones of thine
Were sold unto death for goblet of wine."
Only grave! where the bones of the poor
Mingle together, SO scanty the room;
Where the eye of affection can find them no
more,
And even the rose is forbidden to bloom.
oh, sweet was her faith when his wooing be-
gun,
But this is the end, and the tempter hath won.
Only a warning-this ditty of mine
oh, may 1t waken some slumberfng heart.
Close as the garIands Of love may entwine,
The hands of the tempter can tear them
apart; s
Affection recoils from his pestilent breath,
And kisses from him are but kisses of death.
Lewisville, Aug. "a 1873.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-28

We never bet, but we will enter into an
arrangement with anybody whom it may
concern TO pay q certain sum OF money for
every straight republican elected to congress
over and above the number of 110, provided
the party of the second part will agree TO pay
similar sum for every one short of that
number. Those able and astute political
calculatOrs who profess to be sanguine that
the republicans will carry the next house
may ind in Que proposition an opportunity
to illustrate their faith by their works. We
bave surveyed the field carefully and are con-
fident that our information is as reliable and
exhaustive as any that can be obtained. Our
conclusion is that, instead of gaining the Ia
or 10 members required to give them bare
majority of one or two in the next house,
the republicans will lose from IL to Is>of the
seats now held by members of their caucus
We do not expect that more than three or
perhaps four, of these Will be gained by the
democratic party as caucus organization,
but they will be wrested from the repubi-
cans by class of men whose views on the
money question, which is really the chief
subject Of the agitation of the immediate
future, will be even more radically
caucus policy than the average ssnti-
ment of the democrats in congress. AS to
the issue between the democrats and the
greenbackers. it is mainly one OF organiza-
ton; and there need be no insuperable diff
Guilty in devising measures which will substan-
TALLY unite the votes of the two IN the.legis-
lation of the ensuing congress, excepting,
perhaps, half q dozen fanatics from New
York city, and that Immediate financial
neighborhood. But the republicans may as.
well hang their barps on the willows. Their
re presentation in the next congress is fan
more likely to fall under 100 than to exceed
the number required for bare majority.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-28
The Hanging Tale I'm Shakespeare.

To the Editor of the Sun
SIR-The following assertion appeaneSiin u
Sunbeam August Is: Shakespeare makes
use of the words. Thereby han g a, tale,' in.
four of his plays"
Will you please give act and scene2 O.
CoLnEsHAM, Aug. Is, 1875
In "0thello,' act 3, scene l..
Clovn-O, therby hangs tale.
First Musician-Whereby hangs a tale, Sirf
In Merry Wives Of Windsor" act /, scene
A, Mrs Quickly remarks:
9 "weH, thereby hangs tan, good. faith, ii Ia
such another Man,
In "As You Like II, get 2. scene Z, m the
middle of Jaque's first speech:
And so, from hour to hsar, xipe and ripe.
And then, frons,hour - hour, We ripe and
rot. flfI trrr
And thereby hangs a tale.
And in the Tanning of the Shrew," act
4, scene 1:
Grumio-First, know my horse Is tired my
master and naastress have fallen ont.
Curtis-How7
Grumlo-Out Of their saddles into the dirt.
And thereby hangs tale.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-28

Cincinnati Enquirer: NJ. A. Burton, sheriff
of LswrsDce county, Indiana. in company
with ofhcers from Bedford, passed through
Wheatland. having in charge four thieves
whom they captured three miles west OF
there, The thieves had stolen a pair of
horses and a wagon near Madison. this sfate,
on hast Sunday night and had ma lie good
their escape thus far on their way out west
~ grow up with the country. The officers
in charge will return the thieves TO Bedford,
where they will be given into the hands of
the proper authorities.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-28

Elkhart: The bridge at Oscecla fell to-
day as a team aud three men were crossing.
One man is probably fatally hurt by horse
falling on him.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-28

only glass, now and then, with friendl
< Why should they warn me and bid me be-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-01-30
Facts About Fires.

The following practical and scientific
observation on the quenching of fires
quickly and with the least loss to insur-
ance companies is communicated to the
Portland (Me.) Press by an old fireman:
One gallon of water at the bottom of a
fire will do more to quench it than ten
gallons at the top. Play low is the true
motto for the fireman. If the first en-
CINE that reached the Summer street
fire in Boston had burst into the ware
house and played into the goods elevator,
where the fire broke out, it would prob
ably have saved $50,000,00 To play
on the roof of a house on fire is to waste
water; the roof was made to shed water;
the rain does not put out the kitchen
fire, ncr would the Presumpscot, flowing
bodily on the roof, put out the kitchen
if afre. Play low, get the water to the
bottom of the fire, and you need not
pour in the Presumpscot. A few gal
Ions at the bottom of the fire will rise in
clouds of steam wherever the fire is
rising and will quench it. Even o heap
of rubbish turns rain and water like
partial roof. A gill of water thrown into
the bottom of a CRATE quenches the fire
more than quart thrown on top. For
a similar reason, water on the windward
side is more effective than on the lee.
ward. am speaking now OF moderate
fire, when there are only one or two
houses burning. The big blazes on the
leeward look fearfully, but they cannot
be effected by playing on them. Throw
your water into the bed of Goals and
under the retort that is sucking them,
and it goes out. That is to say, play at
the bottom of the windward side of the
fire, and you take the surest and speedi-
est way to quench the whole, leeward
side blazes included.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-01-30
A French Fiend.

A series of frightful murders have
been committed st st. Jean du Gard by
q man named Emile Dumas. The
assassin is only twenty-eight years OF
age, and had been married only ten
months. BE had been in the habit OF
quarreling with bis wife and herrelations,
and the crime was the result of dispute
which he had with the latter few days
ago. Going to the house where his
father and mother, two very old people,
lived, he attacked them with a hatchet.
Taking advantage of moment when his
mother was bent over the fire attending
to her cooking, he struck her o blow in
the neck with his deadly instrument,
which almost severed the head from the
shoulders. Turning to the old man,
he treated him in similar manner, and
then disfgured the bodies with knife.
Proceeding to his own house, after haV-
ing taken precautions to prevent the
crime from being discovered tor the
moment, Dumas concealed himself and
awaited the arrival of his brother-in-law,
whom he stabbed in the groin, but for
tunately without fatal result. His
next victim was his wife. She had run
up to him when he engaged in a strug-
Gle with her brother, and was struck
down by series of blows from the same
knife which had wounded her relative.
The poor woman did not survive the
murderous attack above few moments.
After accomplishing these crimes,
Dumas took refuge in barn, where he
was discovered by the police. On being
confronted with the coipses, he express
ed no repentance or regret for what he
had done. Dumas has since succeeded
in hanging himself in the prison OF Alais.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-01-30
How to Detect Murried People.

The Deer Lodge (Montana) NesOs
Northwest lays down the following rules:
If you see lady and gentleman disa-
gree upon trifing occasions, or correct
ing each other in company. You may be
assured they have tied the matrimonial
moose.
If you gee a silent pair in a car or
stage lolling carelessly, one at each
window, without seeming to know they
have a companion, the sign is infalhble.
If you see lady drop her glove and q
gentleman by the side Of her kindly
telling her to pick it up, you need not
hesitate in forming your opinion; or ,
If you see lady whose beauty and
accomplishments attract the attention OF
every gentleman in the room but one,
YOU can have no difficulty iu determln-
ing their relationship to each other-the
one is her husband.
If you see a gentleman particularly
courteous, obliging and good natured re-
laxing into smiles, saying sharp things,
and toying with every pretty womanIin the
room excepting one, TO- whom he appears
particularly cold and formal, and is un'
reasonably cross-who that one is no
body can be at . loss to discover.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-01-30
Hard Times i'm England.

The cry of hard times " continues to
come from England. In it's survey OF
the industrial situation, The Labor
NeUs records discomfort and strife in
several places. In Northumberland, it
says, the colliery mechanics have &C.
cepted a reduction in wages, and
throughout the district of the northern
board of arbitration the iron workers
wages are likely to be reconsidered ut
an early date. The textile trades are
generally depressed, and at Rochdale
some mills are on short time. In the
Forrest of Dean and South Wales great
distress still prevails, and measures have
had to be taken for it's relief. At Shef-
field large number cf puddlers and
shinglers have received notice OF re-
duction, and under present circum-
stances it is likely to be accepted. In
the building trades several important
strikes still continue, and labor is con-
tinually coming and going on the works
affected. At Stafford the boot and shoe
trade is especially slack, and at Birming'
ham many of the staple industries are
but.indiferently employed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-01-30
The Geography Of the Moon.

We find that the moon is a planet
accompanying our larger planet, the
earth, on its journey round the sun.
Her diameter is about one-quarter, her
surface about 2-29ths, her volume about
2-99ths, her mass about 2-163ds OF the
earth's. She completes Journey round
the earth, regarded as at rest, in about
twenty-seven and one-third days, travel
ing at mean distance of 238, ,820 miles
but the lunar month, or period between
successive conjunctions of the sun and
moon, has an average length of about
twenty-nine and one-half days. The
moons surface may be divided roughly
into raised parts which are unusually
bright, and great plains (not smooth)
which are darker, and in some cases
very dark. Over all the raised parts the
signs of former volcanic activity are very
marked, craters and ring-mountains,
much larger than any existing on the
earth, being found in great numbers on
the moons surface. Smaller craters are
numerous, not only in the raised parts,
but over the gray plains. Many cracks
and faults, valleys, ravines and gorges
are also numerous on the rugged surface
of our satellite. No water and very little
air seem present on the moon, though
there are signs that seas formerly exist
ed there, and there lsreason to believe
that the lunar air was once not very rare.
Although all is not at rest in the moon,
and certain portions of her surface seem
to have undergone remarkable changes,
even in recent times, there is nothing to
suggest that our satellite is at present
the abode Of life.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-01-30
Hyena Dogs.

Tie origin of the domestic dog is at.
tributed by some naturalists to several
species of wild animal. Among these
latter the canis foictus or the lycaon
pictus, the spotted or painted hyena of
Africa is one. Regarding these spotted
hyena dogs, as they are generally called,
DR.. Schweinfurth says that they are very
plentiful in region called Kurkur, in
Central Africa. "These dangerous ami
mails" he says, shave partiality for
the steppes and open brushwood, and
congregating in herds hunt the smaller
antelopes, especially the bushbocks. "
No case, however, was known among
the natives where they attempted to at
tack men. Some of their skins, he OBJ
serves, are most brilliantly marked, aud
exhibit such a combination of red, white,
yellow and black spots that the byena
dog may fairly claim to be the most
parti-colored Of al mammalia. Schwein-
furth speaks of one specimen that he
saw in the Serbia that was tame, requir-
ing no other restraint than cord, and
Welding to it's master with the docility
of an ordinary dog. This fact, as he
points out, appears to corroborate the
assertion of Livingstone (Which, how
ever, he, not having witnessed the cir
cumstances, makes with some reserve),
that the natives of the Kalahari desert
are accustomed to break in this animal
and train it for the chase.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-01-30
Krupp,s Great Gun Factory.

It is known that the Emperor, while
at the recent military man@uvres at
Essen, visited the factory of Messrs.
Krupp, and this affair recalls the origin
of this great industrial family. When
the first chief of the factory car.c to
Essen the village had only 5000 innabi-
tants. To-day it has 10000. Krupp
commenced in 1910 with ten workmen,
and in 1843 he had one hundred. Itwas
his son, Alfred Krupp, that gave the
establishment the prodigious develop
ment to which it has reached to-day. 1t
was from England that he brought his
method of making steel, and he has
wonderfully improved upon it by com.
bining it with the Bessemer process.
In 1868 he had v, 900 hands employed,
aud he has 5000 at present. The build
ings of the factory cover space OF over
two hundred acres, and are surmounted
by one hundred chimneys. A working
mems city, with three thousand houses,
gives to the hands apartments which are
rented at from $40 to $50 year. An
association for providing food, with
twenty-five salesrooms, furnishes the
inhabitants, at reduced prices, with all
that they desire. A single bakery makes
100000 pounds of bread in q month.
There are in this factory of Essen Alb
steam engines, representing total of
$4,000 horses, and II steam hammers
for striking iron, among which figures
the famous hammer called Fritz, and
which weighs 100000 pounds. There
are 30 miles of railway communicating
with the different parts of the maniac
tory, as well as 40 miles of telegraphic
lines. The establishment can manufac-
ture in twenty-four hours 2, ZOO rails,
$50 locomotive wheels, 180 wagon wheels
and 1900 shells: and in a month 25O
field pieces and "a others OF larger cali
bre.-Revue Britannique.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-01-30
Grant in POmpeii.

A cable dispatch states that when ex-
President Grant visited Pompeii recent
ly the italian government had made ar
rangements for a special excavation in
his honor, 80 that he might see how the
work was done, and see some OF the
curiosities recovered just as they were
placed when the city was 80 suddenly
ruined. The director of the excavations
received General Grant and party and
conducted him to the principal points Of
interest. Two hours were speut wan
dering through the ruins of the ancient
and memorable city, and at every step
something of interest was seen. The
workmen then proceeded to dig ont q
chamber of buried house, and dis
covered some fragments of table made
of wood and bronze. The workmanship
was very curious and elaborate, and was
examined with great interest by the
whole party. The next object of inter-
est discovered was loaf OF bread, wrap
ped neatly in a cloth, and perfectly dis
tinguishable. Many other curious and
interesting articles were found and in
spected by the party of visitors, and all
expressed themselves ss highly pleased
with their visit to the ruins of the ancient
city. They returned in the evening.
During these visits General Grant was
accompanied by his son, Commander
Robeson, Lieutenants Rush and Miller
and retinue of Italian officials. The
general expressed himself with the
greatest admiration of the italian troops.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-01-30
Easily Attained.

There is not house 80 shabby that it
NAV not be improved by simple outside
floral decorations, and converted into a
bower of roses. Take that qnsightly old
rock, or that ancient stone wall that
marks the struggling line of the ancestral
acres next to the highway-a few roots
of woodbine or ivy would convert them
into things of beauty. Look at the un-
painted wood house, its rough, gray
boards suggesting unthrift as well
az unloveliness set grape vine
clambering over it, and you transform it
into a bower, and have fruit for your
table or Jelly for the good housewives
store. There is no beauty at once so
cheap and so blessed as the light OF the
sun therefore, cut down some of the
trees in your yard, if necessary, and let
the health-giving sunshine into your
dwelling. The girls can convert the
stumps intopillars of morning glorles, -
or crown them royalty. with flower
baskets. On one side of the house mass
generous space with roses, and have
beauty and fragrance from June TIL
October. Do not leave even the back
porch naked and desolate but coax
blossoming bushes or trailing vines over
Il and in their shade the farmer can get
new comfort from his evening rest and
his paper. If all these little opportuni-
ties are improved as they offer them
selves, the plain homestead will gradu-
ally develop into "thing OF beauty
exercising refining influence on the
lives of its occupants.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-01-30
An Ingenious Builder.

The nest of o tarantula (splder) has
been found in California of the most
singular construction. 1t is about three
inches long by two in diameter, built IN
adobes, the wall being nearly hall an
inch thick. Inside Of this is a prolec-
hon which nearly divides it into two
apartments about an inch in diameter.
The inside is lined with white downy
substance, not unlike velvet, and pre-
sents one of the cleanest and most tldy
little households imaginable. But the
most curious part of it is a door, which
fits into ON aperture and closes it her-
metically. The door is secured by q
hinge, formed of like ibrous substance
as the lining Of the house, and upon E5'
which it swings with freedom. The
nest is occupied by q dozen little taran- @
tulas. which seem to subsist on yellow
secreted substance that appears upon
the walls of the front apartment. Inc
arrangement of the door for the protec,,
tion Of it's little inmates indicates great
instructive architectural knowledge.