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W' F. SMITH, Publisher. VOLUME IX. TOPICS OF THE DAT. Campaign enthusiasm seems to bo at Icrw ebb. Lincoln was shot on the anniversary the fall of Fort Sumter. Won t it soon bo time to commence complaining about cold weather? General Suerman is anxious that short work t>e made of the Apaches. The {look Fund has reached SI,OOO. Ibis required 100,000 contributions. Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missis sippi, Ohio, \ irginia and Wisconsin elect Governors this fall. ' lhe late President was a magnet to ynrds whom all hearts were irresistibly di awn. He was of the people. is little doubt now about the suc cess of the Mrs. Garfield Fund, started b\ Me. Cyrus W. Field. Subscriptions are- pouring in liberally. \n unsneezed sneeze, when it is there, wants to come and can’t, is decidedly more interesting than the unkissed kiss the aesthetic poet has gone crazy over. Three sisters wero married in one wedding at St. Louis, and the occasion required eighteen bridesmaids. Asa matter of economy, the scheme was a success. The Detroit 'Free Press wants the Government to introduce opium among the Indians. Chinamen die by the hundred thousands from the habit of opium eating. In his inaugural address, President Arthur intimates his purpose to pursue the policy indicated by his predecessor in office, forsliadowed during his briel aU ministration. The late Lorenzo Delmonico made $2,000,000 keeping a restrauraut, but ho never set up meals for fifteen cents, not by any means, ills memory is dea/ only to the rich. This is a little too too. Says the De troit Free Press: “David Davis has just had a reunion at Bloomington. He took a dose of alum.” Wo suppose it brought him all together. It is something of a remarkable coincidence that the death of President Garfield occurred upon the anniversary of the battle of Chickamauga, where lie was most distinguished for gallantry. Kaleooh’s San Francisco congrega tion have voted not to grant him leave to go on a lecturing tour, although he has signed a contract at S2OO a night. Ho will probably resign bis pastorate. Queen Victoria is worth about SBO,- 000,000. We have been judging her fortune by the way she gives when called upon by suffering humanity, and we didn’t think it was near that much. President Arthur, for the present, will not occupy the White House. He will reside with Senator Jones, of Ne vada, in one of the granite buildings crock'd by Ben Butler, near the Capi tol. The statement that polygamy is be coming obnoxious to Mormons and they are entertaining thoughts of exterminat ing it, is rather hard to credit. That, if we understand it, is the foundation upon which their faith is built. The New Haven Register puts it in tli is shaiie : “ Josie Mansfield is flitting about the gambling halls of Paris, Stokes is in the oil business, and Jim Fisk has one of the finest monuments in the State of Vermont. ** Person* Aim y, President Arthur has many warm friends. Up to the present time he has been the head of the law firm Arthur, Philips, Knevals fc Ran som. He is a widower, his wife having died some two years ago. Mbs. GARFTEiiT> has passed so many days of suffering and anxiety at the White House, that she is heartily sick of its surroundings, and now expresses the hope that she will never be required to enter it again on any occasion. General Burnstpe’s war horse. Major, that bore him through the war, wa<= killed the other day at Providence. I* had become helpless, and the General had arranged for its death whenever it oould be killed without his knowledg* Ottr National calamity has been of a character so overwhelming that we had almost lost sight of the suffering pre vailing In Michigan. However, we sve gggggggggggggggg iMotnj to Iwlufctrial Inter*st, the Diffusion of Truth, tbe Establishment of Justice, and the Preservation of a People’s Government. gratified to be able to state that the pub lic everywhere have responded very lib erally to the call for aid. Two diminutive brothers, named Sparling, have just entered* Hillsdale College, Michigan. Christopher, the older, is eighteen years old, is 39j inches in height and weighs 37£ pounds. The other, Edwin, is fifteen years old, weighs 49 J pounds and is 42l inches tall. Since we have ascertained that Marvin, w ho is in jail at Richmond, Ind., married eighteen different women, wo have con cluded that men become bachelors from their own choice. Wo don’t mean to say that girls will marry anybody at aR lhats not the idea. We can’t explain it, however. The ball in the Presiden’t body,which was foufftl just back of the heart, was fully a foot and a half from the point where the eminent surgeons had located it, which goes to show that the surgeons wero about as much at sea about the matter as persons of much less profes sional knowledge would have been. Mu. Wm. Hyde, editor of the St,. Louis Republican, has been connected with that paper twenty-five years, hr having been its original sole editor and reporter. He was one of the first jour nalists in the West. He will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary by taking needed rest and a trip around the world. The Loudon Times, perhaps the best known paper in the world, and certaiuly the greatest of all European journals, published eleven columns on the death of the late President, surrounded with a border of mourning. This is a mark of respect in our mother country we ;ould hardly hove expected. In our sor row we have tlie full sympathy of all Europe. Kokomo, Indiana, has been disgraced. Dr. Henry C. Cole, the Mayor of that handsome little city, was shot to death while stealing flour from a mill. He had carried the fourth sack away when he was called upon by the Shiriff and others, who told him to halt, but he refused and started to run. A volly of shot was sent after him and he fell, dead. The whole circumstances is a peculiar one. Mrs. LmniE M. Chbtstiancy wrote her husband a letter the other day, but it wasn’t a love letter, by any means. She told him that rivers of blood would not wash the stain from her which was stamped into her soul when she gave her innocent girl-life into his keeping, and added: “The greatest suffering 1 have to endure is the knowledge of the degradation that you have been my husband.” There seem to be contradictory re ports concerning the condition of Sena tor Ben. Hill. It is known that lie was troubled with a cancerous growth on the tongue, but the severity of the affliction has not been generally known. On the 6fch of September a second surgical operation wan performed, and it is now feared he will lose the power of speech. He is being treated at Jefferson College Hospital, Philadelphia. These has been so much said about tlie Boston girls that people hereabouts are getting rather anxious to see one of them. They are all said to be “aesthetic of the utterly too aAvfully too ” brand, and while we do not fully realize the meaning of the expression, we hold that it must be something awful. We knoAv we should never be able to converse with them, as they have for the most part discarded English for the dead lan guages, excepting some of the big words in Webster that nobody knows anything about. A Boston correspondent says; “They are self-poised, ready for any emergency, and carry mental quivers full of Emersonian tracts. They are largely ceramical and music and philoso phy are general accomplishments. ’ He then adds: “They wear red mits on their hands and blue or red leggings ? Well, well. This bit of biography is of renewed interest : At college Chester A. Arthur had determined to become a lawyer. Ac cordingly, upon graduation, he went to a law school at Ballston Springs, and there remained diligently studying for several months. He then returned to Lansingbnrg, where his father then re sided, and there studied law. In 1851 he obtained a situation as principal of an academy at North Pownal, Bennington County, Vermont. He prepared boys for college, all the while studying law. Two years after he left North Pownal, or in 1853, a student from Williams Col lege, named James A. Garfield, came to the place, and in the same academy building taught penmanship throughout one winter. It was a singular circum tstance that, after nearly a quarter of a centurv, both these men should meet at a polical convention, and unexpectedly to INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA themselves be picked out as the candi dates of the Republican party for Presi dent and Tice President. The Moqui Indians, In Arizona, among other pleasures, heartily enjoy a ‘‘snake dance.” Lieutenant General Sheridan, of Chicago, the other day re ceived a letter from First Lieutenant John G. Bourke, Third Cavalry, A. D. 0., in whch one of these dances is de scribed at great length, the writer having attended a dance the day before writing. The Mosqui had a procession, divided into two parts—one, of the choristers and gourd rattlers ; the other, of forty eight men and children, twenty-four of whom carried snakes and the other twenty-four acted as attendants, fanning the snakes with eagle feathers. The horrible reptiles were carried both in the hands and in the mouth. The writer says it was a loathsome sight to see a long file of naked men carrying these sinuous monsters between their teeth and tramping around a long circle to the accompaniment of a funeral dirge and monotonous chanting. After a snake had been thus carried once around the circle it was deposited in a sacred lodge of cottonwood saplings, covered with buffalo robes, and its place taken by an other. Thus it was not hard to circu late the number used, which was not far one way or another from a hundred, rather over than under, and one-half the number being rattlesnakes. When In dians get to carrying live rattlesnakes about in their mouths, we do not hesitate to pronounce them equal to almost any emergency. They are fully capable of caring for themselves. How Rome Was Saved by a Goose. The story is related of the fourth siege of Rome, in the year 387 before Christ. A number of Gauls, under the command of Brennus, entered Upper Italy, and laid siege to several places. Rome in terfered, and by this act simply irritated the invaders, who marched against the “Empress of the World.” A battle was fought and the Romans were defeated. Rome was now practically at the mercy of the Gauls. The Senate had not enough men left alter the battle to defend the “Eternal City,” and so they threw all* the men capable of bearing arms into the Capitol, and sent away all useless mouths ; the old men and women and children took refuge in the nearest cities. There remained in Rome only a few pontiffs and ancient Senators, who, not being willing to survive either tlieir country or its glory, generously devoted themselves to death, to appease, accord ing to their belief, the anger of tlie in fernal gods. These were found by Brennus, and for a time their splendid habits, tlieir white beards, their air of grandeur and firmness astonished the Gauls and inspired a religious fear in the army. Finally, however, the Gauls massacred the Senators, and all who had not escaped were slaughtered, and then they attacked the Capitol. While the Gauls plundered the city, the coun try round was recovering from its defeat. Camillus was chosen leader of the Ro mans, and while the Gauls were revel ing they attacked the invaders and killed many of them. Camillus was proclaimed the savior of liis country, but he refused to do anything ns their leader without the order of the Senate and the people shut up in the Capitol. It was almost impossible to gain access to them. A young Roman, however, had the hardihood to undertake this perilous enterprise, and was successful. Camillus was declared Dictator, and collected a large army. The Gauls had discovered the traces left by the young Roman, and Brennus attempted during the night to surprise the Capitol by the same path. After many efforts, a few succeeded in gaining the summit of the rock, and were on the point cf scaling the Avails ; the sentinel was asleep and nothing seemed to oppose them. Some gee&e, consecrated to Juno, were awak ened by the noise made by the enemy, and began to cry as they do when they are disturbed. Maulius, a person of consular rank, ran to the spot, en countered the Gauls and hurled several from the rock. The Romans were roused and the enemy were driven back; and ultimately were defeated in open battle by Camillus, who has been called Rome’s second founder. —Chicago Inter Ocean, Theory of Luminous Paint. Light is supposed to be the vibration of an extremely elastic fluid called ether, which is supposed to fill the whole of space, and which, set in motion by the vibration of the luminous source itself, produces upon our eyes the sensation of light. Now, it is thought that the waves of light communicate their motion to the particles of paint, which start into energetio vibration, continuing long af ter the exciting cause is withdrawn. When we ring a bell the blow of the hammer communicates its motion to the particles of the bell, which start into action, imparting their motion to the particles of air, which transfer the vibra tions to the drum of the ear and produce the sensation of sound, which grows fainter and fainter, until at last it dies away, when the particles of the hell are once more at rest; so it is with the lum inous paint and all other phosphorescent bodies, the particles of which, when dis turbed by the waves of ether, yield light for a tine, which decreases in brilliancy as tli© particles grow less and less ; they, too, like the parti les of a bell, require periodical renewals of the force that af fords them their motion. Antiquity of the Earth. Theologians of every sect and creed had persistently taught that only some 6,000 years had elapsed since the earth sprang into being. The suggestion of its greater antiquity was received with ft storm of theological opposition, which underwent little abatement during half a century, and of which even yet the ground-swell may occasionally be felt in some of the dark recesses of ignorant minds. The majority of those who raised th® storm were the social or pro fessional ancestors of these who now, in like manner, oppose the doctrine of evolution; but the change which has come over the latter races of combatants Is itself some proof evolution affects the minds of men, whatever it may do to their bodies. Fifty years ago the full force of an anathematizing odium theo logicum burst upon the heads of the assailed geologists, with a violence hap pily unknown among the opponents of evolution. Then, as now, the represen tatives of geological science explained to the world the great facts upon which their conclusions were based. Then, as now, myriads of men were in doubt whether to resign themselves to the leadership of geologists or of the theo logians. But those who ranged them selves under the banner of Cuvier, Lyell and Sedgwick ultimately found them selves on the victorious side. One by one the theologians laid down their vitu perative weapons. The late Dr. Chal mers early accepted the geological creed. Dr. Pye Smith received the fellowship of the Royal Society for his well-meant endeavor to reconcile the Mosaic narra tive with the writings of the geologists, earning some hard names from the de fenders of the orthodox camp for his sup posed abandonment of their holy cause. Meanwhile, the geological batteries made sad breaches in the defenses of that camp. A late Dean of York valiantly confronted the assailing hosts when assembled in his cathedral city. Singly he faced his foes like anew Horatius, but speedily fell beneath the sharp arrows of Sedg wick’s biting eloquence. The last Hy patian geologist who strove to restore the dying faith was Young, the clerical au thor of the “Geological Survey of the Yorkshire Coast. ” He, like the Dean, lifted up his warning voice in a geologi cal section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, but in vain. Even a Julian could not have re stored the ancient belief, and Young was not a Julian. Truth proved too much for error; and, though occasionally a theologian may still be found so ignorant of what is going on around him as to uphold the exploded doctrine, the race has almost become extinct.—Contempo rary Review. Keep Them Bright. Keep your lace, your heart and your home bright. Don’t let the cobwebs gather in the corners of the pretty little sitting-room ; or the dust accumulate on the furniture till you can write your name thereon. No matter what is on hands, or how much you have to do, take time at least once a day to tidy the rooms, and gather fresh fknvers. You will never regret it, even though at the close of your life you may not possess quite so much of the world’s goods as some of your neighbors. It is the best plan by far, to enjoy life as it comes, and this you can never do, in a sloven or disordered home. Would you keep vonr husband from evil associations, and your children from wayward paths ? Remember there is nothing in this world so attractive to a man as ft pleasant home, and a smiling face therein ; and as for the little feet, they will not be apt to wander far, so long as your face beams with tlie love and solicitude that your heart bears them. A wife, or a mother is a queen, always. Not of vast domains, to be sure, and not of society, but of the most sa cred spot on earth to every human heart, of homo. You never thought of it per haps, but it is true, and it is indeed true also, that there is no more pitiable sight than one of these “ queens” who do not, either from want of judgment, or lack of will, govern her subjects aright. Did you ever see a truly happv family, without a loving, watchful ana affection ate wife and mother, at its head ? The father may be sour, hard, or cross grained, but if the mother is all right, there is sure to be happiness in that family. —Farming World. . Why American Hoods Are Preferred. The growing reputation of American manufactures in the markets of the world has alarmed competitors abroad. Whatever Americans undertake, whether it be machine tools, cutlery, silks, flour, cotton cloth, or any other merchandise, they make, their brands the leading ones, selling for the most money, and universally sought after. The reasons for this are plain. It is not on account of the better and more direct processes employed; it is not by discarding work shop traditions and old time methods; it is not by such adventatious aids that we have achieved so great an eminence that onr trade marks are counterfeited and foreign goods are represented as of American make. It is because ouz manufactures have found that mercan tile honesty is the only policy, and that when they attempt to adulterate or lower the standard the criticism of competitors exposes them at once. American machine tools of first class makers are not cut in weight or in work manship. It is a race to see who shall discover a weak part that can be made stronger, or a detail exposed to wear that can be made more durable. The same is true of cotton goods and silKs. The senseless weighting of both with adulterants of one kind or another is not practiced here, for experience teaches our people t£at the best is the cheapest. —Mechanical Engineer. The Bosting Reporter. Once a Chicago editor sent a wild and untutored son of the West, who wore his hair shoit and chewed plug tobacco, to an Eastern city to report a big horse race. Before the reporter went awaj* the editor told him to look sharp when he got to the horse race, because thei'e would be a lot of awfully smart reporters there from New York and Boston, and it would be great sport for them to “ scoop ” friendless and inexperienced young men from the West. So the re porter said he would try to keep up with the procession, and went away. When he got to the horse race he met a great many other reporters, one of whom was from Boston. This repoiter was very cultured, but he didn’t know a scalping boot from an overhead-check, and that is really the kind of culture that a man needs when he is writing about a hors® race. The Boston reporter was very kind to the Chicago reporter and told him what a great city Boston was, and how smart a young man had to be before lie could become a reporter there, and the Chicago reporter took auothei chew of plug tobacco and winked to himself. The Boston reporter asked the Chicago reporter if lie had read Emer son’s works, and the Chicago reporter said lie hadn’t—he had seen “ Pinafore.” Then the Boston reporter said: “Really, you astonish me,” and went away to drink some Deep Rock water and smoke a cigarette. Then the Chi cago reporter laughed heartily, and said in the reckless Wabash avenue way : ‘‘ I wonder if that duck thinks I am a sucker that he can play on the enrl of a string. 1 should twitter that he wall get left if he does.” So he hunted up three other reporters and said to them: “ Let’s paralyze the gawk from Chicago.’ The other reporters were willing, and so they all wrote very long accounts of the races, goiug right from the track to the telegraph office, but the Boston reportei he went to his hotel and had supper, and then he went to his room, telling the clerk to send up a messenger boj about midnight. When the boy came tho Boston reporter gave him a long dispatch, but when it reached the tele graph office there was so much other matter ahead of ii that the wires were blockaded until four o’clock in the morn ing, and by that time it was too late to get a dispatch to Boston in time for the paper.- —Chicago Tribune. Belshazzar and His Brother Bill. Belshazzar Smith had a very bad and very dangerous habit of walking in his sleep. His family feared that during one of his somnambulistic saunterings he would charge out of the window and kill himself, so they persuaded him to sleep with his little brother William, and to tie one end of a rope around his body, and the other around little Wil liam. The very first night after this arrange ment was made, Belshazzar dreamed' that a burglar was pursuing him with a dagger. So he crept over to William’s side of the bed, stepped over William’s slumbering form, jumped out on the floor, and slid under the bed. He stayed there a while, and then his night mare having changed, he emerged .upon the other side of the bed, and got under the cover in his old place. The rope, it will be observed, was be neath the bed; and it was pulled taut, too. Early in the morning, Belshazzar, about half awake, scrouged over against William. To his surprise, the move ment jerked William clear out of bed. Belshazzar leaped out to ascertain the cause of the phenomenon, and at the same time his brother disappeared under tlie bed. Belshazzar, hardly awake, was scared, and he dived beneath the bed stead ; as he did so, he heard William skirmishing across the blankets above his head. Once more he rushed out, just in time to see William glide over the other side. Belshazzar just then be came sufficiently conscious to feel the rope pulling on him. He comprehended the situation at once, and disengaged himself. Perhaps little William was not mad. He was in the hospital, undergoing re pairs, for about three weeks, and when he came out he tad a strange desire to sleep alone. Belshazzar anchors himself to an anvil now. — Argonaut. The Discipline of Drudgery. A “liberal education” is a capital thing, and the thousands of young men who are now honored with the title of A. B. are to be congratulated upon the good fortune that has permitted them to acquire the mental discipline resulting from a four years’ course of academic study. But these young men must not make the mistake of supposing that this discipline is an all-sufficient preparation for the higher callings of life. That is, the young men who purpose to enter any of the branches of professional life, for instance, must not imagine that the fact of their having a college education will permit them to leap to the top rung of the ladder at once. The discipline they have is valuable, but chiefly so as the basis for the acquirement of practical knowledge, without which success is im passible. By practical knowledge we mean acquaintance with the minutiae or little details that go to make up all oc cupations. Such knowledge a college education cannot give and is not intended to give. It is only to be acquired by patient application. The discipline of the college curriculum must be supple mented by another kind of discipline, namely, the discipline of drudgery. No one, however largely endowed with mental power, can be exempted from the necessity of acquiring this discipline. It is fpr more essential to success than the discipline furnished by a college coarse. —New Haven Palladium. SUBSCftIPTION"SI.SO. NUMBER 7 The Hative Michigander. The native Michigander is a good fel low at heart, but he has his eooentrici “Yoe, I struck this State over fifty years ago,” he said to me the other even ing, as he hunted in his hind pocket for his plug tobacco. “I’ve heard the wolves howl, the b’ars roar, and the pan thers scream.” “ You have, eh ?” “You bet I have? Yes, sir, and I’ve lived all winter on aoorns, slept in sum mer in a tree top, and walked forty-two miles through the woods to prayer-meet kg.” “ Then yon must be pious ?” “Pious? Durn my old hide to bally hack and gosh all fish-hooks to thunder, but I rayther reckon I am. Pious ? Why, how in thunder and blazes and tea-ket tles could I have borne up if I hadn’t been pious! Say, did you ever live in the woods forty miles from the nearest human hyena, black or white ?” “Never.” “ Did you ever have to go barefoot in snow four feet deep ?” “No.” “ Ever shake with the ager right along for 284 days, Sundays included?” “No.” “ Dod rot your pampered counten ance, of course you uever did! What did you ever do towards making Michi gan the great and glorious State she now is?” “Well, I’ve run a lawn-mower.” “ Run a thunder to blazes 1 How many acres of forest do you ’spose I’ve cut down ? ’ “ Two.” “Two! Why, you onery hyena, my old woman has slashed down over forty herself, and she’s left-handed, at that! I calkerlate, sir—l solemnly calkerlate that I’ve cleared off at least 300 hundred acres of the toughest kind of forest. How much tea do you suppose I had in my house the first ten years of our pio neer life ?” “ Twenty-five chests.” “ Twenty-five li—lls !” he roared as he hunted for more plug, “we had just two drawings and no more !” “ Couldn’t you get trusted at the cor ner grocery ?” “Get trusted ! Corner grocery 1 Why, you infernal young lunatic, Avasn’t I lo cated forty miles from the nigliest gro cery 1 That’s what I’ve been telling you all "along. None of you spiled chuuren of luxury kin have any idea of how we had to get along in them old days.” “I presume not.” “ One Avinter when the old woman was sick I had nothing to feed her but salt coon and corn-dodgers.” “ Oyster soup Avould have been nice.” “ Oyster thunder! Don’t I keep tell ing you that I was fifty miles in the •wood ?” “ Yes, but why didn’t you get out ?** “Git out? What fur?” “Why, you might got out and lived on your mother-in-law and had a trot ting horse, a plug hat, a diamond pin and high living. You were very foolish to stay in the woods, where they had no ward oaucuses, or military parades, or circus processions, or ginger beer, or ba nana puddings.” We generally end here. The old na tive chokes and gasps and jumps up and down and kicks his hat into the street and goes away saying : “Them durned pampered .idiots of luxury wouldn’t keer two cents if the hull State was growed up to jack-pines so thick that a rabbit couldn’t squeeze through!” But next night he comes again to wrestle me for the championship.— M. Quad. Making Kid Gloves. The Troy (N. Y.) Times gives a de scription of glove manufacture in a town near Troy as follows : In this fictory nearly all the stock used is imported from France. The skins on arri\ring at the factory are first put through a prooess of “shaving,” which is done Avith a broad chisel, and all the imperfect parts of the leather are cut off. The skins are then taken to the table cutting-room, where thirty cutters are employed in cutting the skins into oblong pieces, after which they are sent to the “slitting” room, where the fin gers are cut and the gloves are ready for the sewing-machines. Thence we fol low them to the making room, where ninety steam sewing-machines, run by women, are kept busy stitching the seams, and twenty other women are en gaged working button-holes and putting on buttons. The gloves are now ready for the “laying off” room, where a number of long-hollow forms, like out stretched hands, are stood upright from a table. If one were in need of a good warm shake of the hand, he could be accommodated here, for each of these hollow forms is filled with steam, and gives the gloves that peculiar shape they have before being worn. Another room is the “ sorting-room ” where the vari ous colors and sizes are fitted for the market. In the stretching process is a peculiar sewing-machine which does the beautiful overstitching of the seams. Iu this factory over 200 bands are employed and about seventy-five dozen pairs of gloves made daily. The glove cutters average from $75 to S9O per month in Avages, and the makers (women) from S3O to S4O per month. A beautiful glove is now being made called the mosquetaire, from imported Inoeha skins, but dressed in the village, which is better than any imported glove, and the day seems to lie coining when American gloves will be known as superior to all other makes. The skins used will cut on average about two pairs of gloves. >Jew York claims 75,000 self-support ing Yemen.