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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-09-28

within the CRATE. Then, erecting him
self, and looking loftily down upon
Miss Ketchum, lie said, in a hollow
voice:
"Hanything lIelse, NUM-"
Miss kctchum started.
"Nothing else, Junkin-you can go. "
Junkin stalked with solemn dignity
to the door, threw back ghostlike, I'M
| conscious gaze, stumbled over a hassOck,
shut the door noisclesSlv behind him,
let the scuttle fall i'll the hall with q
great clatter. ond so finally disappeared
from sight and sound.
"What all extraordinary creature !"
said Mrs. Chubbuck.
''Quite ghoul-like said Josephine.
Really, / never felt such an antipathy TO
any person as t. that waiter. He some
times quite makes my blood run cold,
with his spectral looks.
"Indeed don't wonder at it, l assure
you," Miss Ketchrm responded, with
nervous energy. 81 am sure don't
did. he goes about the house as quietly
as cat, walks like somnambulist, APP
parently seeing nothing, and yet evid-
emily knows everything that goes on,
even when l prefer that he shouldn't.
Sometimes, think he goes to sleep
while waiting ut the table; and 1 have
heard him i'll the china closet talking to
himself
Talking to HIMSELF"
"Talking to himself, actually! And
cook complains that he treats her with
the haughtiest contempt, and calls the
other servants miHiOaS."
"Dear me, But he's from London,
isn't he! and perhaps that is the Eng
l'sh way"
'Cook believes him to be a nobleman
in disguise; but old Major Banks says
he is either knave or fool, he can't tell
which. But We won't be troubled with
him much longer. Tomorrow his month
is up, and I've given him warming"
SO Miss Ketchum tripped away, and
as Just then a visitor called to see Mrs.
Chubbuck, Miss Josephine Heyden left
the room, and went to call upon her
friend, Miss Royster. Here at least she
was sure OF finding some sympathy.
Miss Royster, a willowy and some
what faded blonde, with very small waist
and rather thin hair, which contrived to
make a wonderful show by being frizzed
all over her head, was deep in the pages
of a new NOVELETTE, Foraker Bride"
when her friend entered.
ooh, Josie, I'm 50 glad that you've
come! 1 want Won to read this lovely /
description of the parting between
Electra and her lover, when But, my
dear, what's the matter"
Josephine sank into rocking-chair /.
and PIT her handkerchief to her eyes.
81 feel so wretched. Louise-so lonely, /
and misunderstood and mappreciated
by those around ne. Why are some
persons gifted with finer and more ex- !
altcd sensibilitics than others, merely to
be isolated and unhappy.'
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some ten Years younger.
You don't mean to tell me, jose
phine,' said the elder, rather tartly,
THAT you've discarded Jack Rogers"
why, not exactly" the other replied,
heSltatingly. II merely told him that
thought we were not suited TO each
other-that we would not be happy to-
gethcr."
"Not happy together. And why,
pray: What is there to prevent any
reasonable woman being happy with
Jack! Where can you find Il more gen
erous, good hum"rci, open-hearted fell
low, or one Who will make better hus-
band: Why IN II tone as of trium-
phant ar%umcnt-''h the COUNTERPART
OF my own husband, although they re
only cousins: and | am sure no couple
was ever happier than Charlie and L.
"Bccausc you and Charlie suit each
other. | don't deny that Mr.. Rogers is
all You describe, and | like him wei.
enough 81 far; but in some RESPECTS we
are not ut all suited to each other. We
are not congcnial natures-not kindred
spirits"
kindred spirits2" repeated Mrs.
Chubbuck, somewhat contemptuOusly.
what do you call Il kindred spirit
'lou may not understand me. Char
lotte, replied Josephine, little loftilv.
"becausc you and !, thodgh sisters. are
not cast i'll the same mould. That is
my mlsfortunc--that | am not under
stood by even my nearest and dearest
relatives"
She said this very patheticallv, and
with tear in her eye. Mrs. Chubbuck
looked ut her halfpityingly.
81 know, Josie, that Won were ALWAYS
excessively sentimental and romantic.
which am not, thank goodness. Still.
was III hopes that you would appre-
ciate Jack, with his good heart and good
sense"
Josie shook ker head with little fas
tidious air.
Hes good enough in his way, but
not the man l ought to marry. He's
TOO reallstic-too matter-of-fact, with
nothing aesthetic, or poetic, or spiritu-
ally exalted about him. Why, he told
me himself that ne prefers prose to poe
Try. that he don't care much for sculp- |
ture or painting, that Poe and Tennv- |
son wrote nonsense, and that he prefers !
Dickens to Byron. How can | feel any
congeniality with such nature! Then /
to see how he enjoys eating, especially |
oysters"
Jack does like good living, and so
do Charlie and L, though We are none !
OF us gluttons. We all go for the "a
tional creature comforts of life, in which /
SO much of its happiness consists" said !
Mrs. Chubbuck, composedly.
Miss Josephine Heyden gave depre-
catory s'lrug.
ellis very name is distasteful to me.
Jack-Jack Rogers. So undignitied and
prosaic. And he always las such jolly
sort of look, and-and 1 think he's
growing fat"
Josephine, you're too absurd. You
have read poetry and romance until
All, that's Miss Ketchum's knock.
Come n"
Miss Ketchum entered, smiling and
followed by tall, pale.
young man, bearing coal
,cuttle.
"Ah, ladies, don't let me disturb You,
Here, Jun.dn, put on the coal here, if
Iou please"
The young man obeyed. Daintily,
lreamilv, and with a PARKWAY and alb
'ent-minde,' .ook, he placed the Jumps
'f anthl.ci symmetrical order
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-09-28
Eccentric Chinese Time Pieces.

Says Seth Thomas, the clock man
ufacturer: "The dial of the CLOCKS
which We make for china is marked
in lieu of figures, with characters which,
l suppose, mean something to them
They don't TO me. There are three CIR
Giles of characters, the inner one having
eight divisions, the next one twelve, ana
the Outermost twenty-four. There ale
two hands, the shortest one making
revolution every two hours, while tns
long takes twenty-four hours to ge'
around. But how they compute tins
by these is Chinese puzzle. New
York Tribune.
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he SAW THE PROPRIETOR,

Wife-''John, wish you'd go into
Coffee & Co.'S when you're down town
and see why they haven't sent up the
groceries ordered by postal card two
days ago. It's shameful to neglect my
order so. Just give them a real hard
scolding, will you. john"
john shall go there and see Mr..
Coffee himself about it,
John ian hour later)-"Mr. Coffee,
here's an order on this postal card that
I've carried in my pocket two days.
wish you'd get the goods up to the house
early this morning; will you, please?"
Ep0ch.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-09-28

as she recently remarked so Miss Ro1
ster
L" 1t was small price to pay for snI
a husband as | have for Lonise Ja1
if it had not have been for that borra
affair L should never have apprec;a.d
Jack.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-09-28

Queen Victoria. Julia Ward Howe and
Walt Whitman nave celebrated their
seventeen birthdays within the last few
weeks. Victoria is in the best health of
the three; but, then. she has not had to
work so hard rs Julia and Walter.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-09-28

Bradlaugh. the intdel English agita-
tor, strongly urges Il seventy five per cent.
cut in 1.-THE wages of Queen Victoria"
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-09-28

To the American Statistical Association
MIR. Amos G. Warner has lately furnished
paper in which he argues that poverty
is disease. although he does not con-
tend that it hes its distinguishing mic
robe
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-09-28

Lumber is reaching market from q
much larger number Of places than few
years ago, discovers GoodGUs San. and
hence the influence of lumber centcrs on
the market is declining.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-09-28

Al IKE rate the population OF Norway
is now leaving that country for the
UnitGG States not one will be left there in
fifteen years, and the world can use the
vacant spaces, suggests the ingcnius De.
troit Free Press, for cold storage pur-
Doses.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-09-28

Pennsylvania has new law which i'm
poses fine and Imprisonment for the de-
rruction of song birds.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-09-28

The Canadian Government is growing
uneasy over the influx of MOrmons into
the Northwest provinces.
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Very good, cheap land is rapidly dis,
appearing in the United States. announces
the Chicago SIN, and speculative hold.
ings are increasing at an alarming rate.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-09-28

Russia j. said to he farther bchindhand
than any other country in what are con-
sidered the requisite tools of the trade of
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-09-28

In Maine the mortgages on the farms
of that state have been reduced. figures
the New York Tdegy"o, from nineteen
in twenty to one in twenty.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-09-28

The population of school age in the
United States is about %, 900. 600 The
number of children attending Sunday
school i estimated at 1000, 900.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-09-28

japanese ladies refuse to adopt foreign
dress. and the Frcnchman who was i'm
ported to spread Paris fashions has gone
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-09-28

Foreign power, have lately taken up
the discussion is to whether or not wal
correspondents were to be allowed 10
take par, il future campaigns.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-09-28

The efforts now being made in China
for the construction of their own heavy
guns promise to be very successful.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-09-28

According to German military
journal, no less than $50, 900 young men
in Alsace- Lorraine have since 1874 evaded
military service.
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&be meeklp Alesserlger.
Published Weekly
AT
st M artinsviIIe, L a.
BY
EASTlN 4 BIENvENU.

Rents in Scotland are growing lower
md lower.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-09-28

1t is estimated that the United States
has doctor for every 600 inhabitants.
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CHANGE OF INSTRUMENT.
''I've just written q waltz. Got q Pr
ano! Ill try to run over it for you.
"No, 1 haven't q piano; but | have
dog. You might try it on him."
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Little Tommy Grom outside)-"The,
s one thing you won't get unless you
young man hurries. His boss just rur
sway!" -
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-09-28
A KINDRED SPIRIT.
BY SUSAN A. WEISS.

\ a private parlor of the
Misses Ketcllum's select
boarding house were
seated two ladies, the
personal resemblance be-
tween whom marked
them as sisters, though
one was a matronly lady
of thirty, and the other
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war
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-06
DUDLEY AND WOODS.
With Few Pointed Reflections the
Committee of One Hundred

To THE EDIToB-Sir: ] voice the sentiments OF
every true democrat in the state of Indiana when
say, 'All honor to THE SENTINEL TOR the brave
words it has spoken in denunciation OF the out
rageous instructions of Judge Woods TO the grand
jury in the Dudley matter!'
Two years ago Judge Woods and the committee of
hundred could file witnesses into the grand jury
room at the rate of twenty per day for six weeks in
effort TO force the jury to indict democrats and
the judge could indulge in q TRADE of abuse
of the jury because il would indict eight nine
men when there was no evidence against them.
But the law that powerful then when he
hunting down democrats is no law aud has force
when there is republican scoundre to be indicted.
And where is the committee of one hundred that
protested TO be non-partlsan and active two
years ago in pursuing democrats? Now when there
is a republican scoundre 10 be looked after the
committee is silent the grave. Are the mem
bers all dead? II not, why don't they speak out in
favor OF fair elections and try and punish the de-
bauchers of the ballOt-box? If they do not come
out and denounce Dudeyism, the people will regard
them a set of political poltrOOns. The hand of
Harrison is plainly visible in the blocks OF five"
and in Judge Woods instructions and in the silence
of the committee of hundred. The president
elect will soon go 10 Washington where he will enter
tain his guests in grand style but the ghost OF BqRq0
will appear in the shape OF the trusted man. and
blocks of FIVE" The handwriting will be the wall
to remind him that the chair he occupies belongs
another. J. r. CARSON.
Cicero, Ind, Jan. %.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-06

for 90 cents to-day, and so the war-path is
practically overgrown with grass. In a
year or two men with sample-cases will,
no doubt, visit the Indian tribes and sell
their years supply of everything in that
line. We are utterly discouraged. There
has not been a warlike attitude among the
Piutes since the acknowledgements out
break of So"
Friday we visited Gov Hill at Albany
and tried to mold the policy of the state
He spoke kindly of other things, but said
he was doing his own molding almost
entirely. Gov. Hill has his office in the
new capitol building, and it is swept out
before he comes down each day. He has
private Office in which he does his ex-
ecutive work, and then there is large
general office where he appears when en-
cOred by the populace, and where he
bows and tries to look pleasant when
paved over by strangers for instance who
have just visited Niagara and then desire
to scrutinize the governor OF New York.
He has cold, calm eye with which he
encouraged me to forget some bright and
bon homme things which had thought
of saying to him. | had intended to chirk
him up with a few buoyant thoughts of
which | am the parent, but | did not do it
and | am glad now that | did not.
Gov. Hill is one of the most esteemed
coterie of bald-headed men. He represents
the better element of democracy which,
though bald, scorns to comb its back hair
up over the place Hes stand for candor
and honesty at the polls.
Some say that resemble him little,
but people who have seen us together
talking over the future of our common
country, say that they can readily distin-
gulsh the governor from me. His figure
was more commanding than mine and his
carriage is more graceful and has redder
wheels than mine. When we walk to-
gether people easily pick me out, because
| walk with more freedom and a sinuous
movement which takes UP most of the
sidewalk. An old teamster with whom
associated, once said ] would never make
a good roadster as my feet did not track. :"
My walk is more extemporaneous than
Gov. Hills. He possesses a conscious
dignity which l sadly lack This lack of
dignity secures for me at a strange hotel
the room in which former guests
have been in the habit of blowing
out the gas, or their brains such as
they are, and there is a soiled place on
the threshold of the transom where the
bell boy has been in the habit of crawling
over to examine deceased. This room also
has an old fashioned bell cord in it, with a
woolly tassel at one end, while the other
is tied to a brick building on the next
block
After holding the hand of the governor
for quite a while, and trying to think
of something to say to him which
would fix my face in his memory for four
years, ! said we were having rather an
open winter it seemed to me, and then,
gently but reluctantly | gave him back
his hand, to do with it as he might think
best. There being no obstacle placed IN
my way at this time, l came away by
means of the door, which was held ajar
by man who seems to have the entire
confidence of the governor. BILL NYE.
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forgot it. There will be smashup if you
can't stop her.
Swiftly the answer came back over the
wire:
"'No. just pulled out. VIII stop her
If can
"And the operator was a cripple, hardly
able to walk. tell you l lived an age in
those few moments. | don't believe those
stories about mems hair turning white in
an instant, because mine is black to-day.
One, two, three, four, five, six minutes
passed. Would the suspense never end?
Then the clicks announced:
" Barely caught No. l ; one minute more
and it would have been too late
Il resigned a short time atterward. My
neglect was known at headquarters, but
the superintendent wanted me to stay, on
the principle that the scare would make
me more careful. but l had got enough OF
that office ("
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-06
ANOTHER PROPOSED REFORM.
Educational Qualification For the Stat
County and Municipal Oficers in Indiana

Educational Qualification For the State,
County and Municipal Officers in Indiana
To THE EDTToR-Sir: Our lawmakers in In
dianapolis could not do better thing than to give
US general qualification law for our officers
Is it not plain that the lowest officer ought 10
know how to read and write our language and some
thing about common arithmetic? Without such
knowledge no one is fit to Gil any Office. Our peo-
pie have suffered too much already for the want Of
such law. And when we have such law will it
not purity elections? All candidates will he
persons OF capacity.
Ii there is any objection by ignorant men-gve
them the chance to acquire these qualifications by
public evening schools. This little expense will
benefit and elevate our whole state.
Introduce the phonetic system 4 simplifcation
OF the orthography, which must be introduced any
how in time. What is that little knowledge of read
ing, writing and arithmetic? ANY sound brain can
acquire that in less than two months. No human
being can have any objection 10 it.
\ board OF teachers in every county may give
certihcate TO this effect after plain examination
and a certificate OF having passed through any pub
lie school with satisfaction may also he sufficient
When we have such law, then We may 60 further
and pass a general qualification law for our public
teachers that we may get men able to teach general
law and principally the natural sciences in our pub
public schools until our teachers qualified in
natural sciences. AT present they spelling ma
chimes, who corrupt the minds of our children. In
troduce the natural sciences into our lowest COM
mon schools and will bring about great reform,
and upon this NAV build good high school Sys-
TEN. You can by such a method We will sim
pity the affairs OF state and il will be useless to
make laws for certain classes Our whole national
life will become more enlightened. il will force our
citizens TO struggle for higher culture. and we
should aim to make o every county self-gOvern-
ment-abe TO pass ordinances Tor the good behavior
OF its inhabitants
YOu punish the boys who miss their school
hours and loaf about do mischief TO others and
themselves The lazy and the Idle must he forced 70
become qualified for citizenship. Then We viii not
md public officers who cannot read nor write.
Evansville. Jan L. FRTTSCU
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-06
EARLY DAYS IN INDIANA.
"REMINISCENCES OF HUGH mcuLLocH
His ''Men and Measures of Half Century"
Indianapolis as 1t Appeared in 1888
Some of the Notable Men of That
Day-An Interesting Volume.

The Men and Measures OF Half Cen
tury." by Hugh McCulloch, ex-secretary
OF the treasury, is one of the most interest
ing and valuable works that has issued
from the American press in long time.
Mr.. McCulloch, now over eighty years of
age, mas been more or less prominent as q
man OF affairs for fifty years, and for the
last twenty-five years has been one of the
most conspicuous figures in our national
life. 4 native OF New England, he came
10 Indiana more than fifty-five years ago,
and continued resident of this state, act
lively engaged in professional and financial
pursuits, until he was called to Washing
ton in 1865 by President Lincoln as the
first comptroller of the currency Since
that time he has served as cabinet minis
ter under three presidents The reminis-
cences OF such a man could hardly fail to
ne both entertaining and instructive.
Mr.. McCulloch, when he left New
England for the West, bore a letter of
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-06
A Wonderful Invention.

To TIE EDuoR-Sir: BY reading The SENTINEL
find many plans and suggestions for making an cleo
ton law in such way that it will be impossible for
anybody but the voter 10 know how he votes voted
election Every plan far suggested is, find,
either partly or entirely failure. | have a plan,
the most simple in its nature that will precu the
possibility OF anybody, either outside in side the
voting place, knowing how any voter votes voted.
Now strange as this may appear, can demonstrate
that any voter, never deaf, never so blind or
illiterate, pass through an d vote any
ticket he may desire for any candidate OF persons
not the ticket he may desire TO vote for, with
impOssibility for anybody but himself knowing for
whom he voted. Nor can the voter demonstrate or
furnish any proof 10 other person persons how he
is voting how he voted, the voter OF any
body else corrupt the baot-boX any of the ticket
boxes change alter tickets, place spurious
tickets in any OF the boxes to misead other voters
without being detected Immediately. Now, Mr.
Editor this is matter cannot explain by letter or
diagram. viii you be so kind to have a commit
tee OF lawmakers appointed, that may appear be-
fore IL and demonstrate the truth OF every PROPOSE
ton here make / refer you 10 the Hon. Michael
Carroll, representative for this montgomery
county. A. d. WILLIS.
Charlottesville, Jan. q.