Elkhart Monitor (Newspaper) - June 1, 1883, Elkhart, Indiana JUNE 1,1883. 22. have a little climbs my And makes the world seem possible things go wrong witli She never is the one to yon had only been More careful and more sensible thing had been She blesses me. Caresses me. And To-morrow night AU will bo good and give me Avise and good liave of friends a Bat then the trouble ever knew it all And when one's heart is full of plans all in a The wisest I Can't moke the troable My Mamie's Is jaat to don't be To-morrow night All wUl bo And then we shall think I have been much to told you And others can't be bo yon Of if trouble can't be crying is in But when a wrong will not come right Why should I not In Mamie's eyes I'm always She never thinks me It's understood I'm as the day is my little climb upon my make the scam possible things go with me. For you've the far he reach of any The hopeful trust That host can strengthen Now don't you Before to-morrow night cares you all have And everything be AND mrs. a. b. of no use talking about it any The sity is laid upon and all that is left for us to do is to take up our duties and do them for the Master's If I had free from other Heaven knows how willingly I would have become your But as it how can I ever give you For two years it has been the one absorbing dream of my life to call yoa my And within a few days of the consummation of my to have that dream so rudely After she was not y The ties you speak of are more imaginary than Has she no relatives or friends with whom yon could place the until they shall bo old enough to take care of that I know Her parents are both dead and her I She had one brother living ia the State of from whom she had several letters after her with But I have never seen And besides all Susan Browne was just as true a mother to me She came into when I untutored and what I am her love and kindness made me. I shall try to be just as true a mother to her children as she was to me. I shall never give them into the hands of strangers while I have health and strength to take care of Browne laid down her knitting andi opening the oven took out a couple of pies and set them on the while the drawn lines about her and the decisive in her convinced lover of the earnestness of her this is your final final she Harrington arose to his a cynical ' had that more for me than for any one But I see I have been Of yon do not expect me to wait for you until these youngsters are I do not expect you to wait for me. Here are aU the presents have ever all the letters you have ever written to me. I shall expect a on your a mocking Percy Harrington out of the wide kitchen while unable longer to retrain her fell upon her by the burying her face in her sobbed what was done was like the law of the Medes and help me to patient and she moaned in her Brown's father had been dead two and now the gentle stepmother had been laid by his side in church three children be cared by Mercie had concluded that reader has ghe was the of while that gentleman felt perfectly anxious to assume the responsibility of Mercie's he did as he feel called upon to take upon himself the care of her were children as entitled to her as ready seen was a rupture of their months later Percy a - faced and into an - he of duty faithfully time when she knew when she could with an intense that it was for the two years she heard nothing af all from Percy Then there came vague rumors of the fast life he was of hia often going to his home in the small hours of the grossly inebriated then of the seizure of his goods and chattels by the executioners of the of the sudden death of his heartbroken young Then his name to be and he as it entirely out of dragged its slow along the stream of bringing into Mercie's life but little of its sunshine and - By dint of industry and she ha managed to keep the wolf from her she Tiad kept her little family comfortably and Millie at school most of Millie was now 12 years Jack 9, and little Herbert 6. hard anxiety and constant confinement were making sai inroads on the once robust The erewhile blooming country was now a Would her strength hold It it It was only the spring weather making her feel so weak exhausted She would ask the doctor for a She would ask her employers for a couple of week's vacation in and she would run her native and get of the wild roses and a taste pf the fresh which would be sure to bring the color into her cheeks and strength into her alas I for all her little The doctor decided that the do little if any without rest and and her employers utterly refused the much needed account of a stress of they with the tears hanging heavily imder her and her limbs weaker Mercie worked when breezy June had given place to the sultry skies of there came a cessation of it was returning to her home one after a busier day than feeling almost too tired and ill to care much whether she lived or In attempting to cross the she became aware that a horse was directly toward A sudden weakness came over a swift darkness closed in around She knew she was know she was under the very feet of the frantic and then all was she to she was on a conch in a small surrounded by a crowd of Her head was pillowed on arm of a tall whose face was covered a silky and who seemed to be anxiously regaining She raised her head and attempted to but foil back with a she the brown-bearded man do your best Let her be removed to some place where she can be taken care and provide good It was my horse that caused the and I will foot the Let there bo no expense me to my own moaned where might that little the brown beard gave the name of the street and the number of the Then she was lifted arms of strong placed upon a and carried to her Before they reached it she had fainted and her unconscious form was borne in and laid upon the bed amid the distressed cries of the frightened the doctor and the women who had been caring for the the brown-bearded stranger drew tlie children into the little told them all about the and elicited such information as he could concerning their Millie proved to be but from the boys he gathered the facts of their of Mercie's relation of her failing and of her employer's refusal to grant her a holiday when she needed it so was your father's he asked at mainly for the sake of saying something to hold their stranger started mother's was answered just ns was some Trhat excited did you live before you moved the town of in the part of this he exclaimed got good news l am was my Pm so I've found you at Herbert And have you been looking for asked Millie with a sudden accession of intere t. am Herbert and I have been looking for At heard rumor of your father's death times bailing to get I concluded that she either have or her thought I would oome myself and to to try and himt yon But here you be ' ' should be very if ' too this that he was a bachelor and you have a very interesting combination of is akin to It may be soy for certain it is that from pitying Mercie * Browne there crept into Herbert Hazleton's heart a tenderer and at last he acknowledged to himself that life would be to him without Who shall say often she forward with sad foreboding to the time when would go away to his own and carry all the light and beauty and warmth of the world with Who shall say how often during those happy days of when he brought to her books and papers and and read to or marked for her reading all the choicest thoughts of the best and talked to and led her out into a new into had often but had never dared to dream she might She thanked Heaven for for this man's Perhaps she contrasted hia broad culture and intelligence and generosity with the narrow views and selfish motives of her farmer Who shall dare to blame her if she last Mercie had so far recovered that she began to talk about resuming her place at the It had been supplied for the time with the understanding that she was to go back as soon as she should be still Herbert Hazleton With no ostensible he yet and he yet made his daily visits to the little house where Mercie lived with his said one looking up from the book he had been you know that I intend to take Susan's children home with me when I had feared that was your she in a low without lifting her eyes from the sewing she held in her he have a comfortable and plenty of money that is doing nobody any particular and I feel it to be my present duty to take care of to give them a good and a chance in the is your Mr. she still without looking have done the best I could for Of course I know that you can do much if you insist upon taking I shall have to however painful the parting may Tears fell upon the snowy fabric through which her needle was flashing regarded her in silence for some She felt his keen gaze fixed upon and thought that he was testing her to see whether she really cared for the children or Burning suffused her neck and face at the bare idea that he could mistrust her She had never dared to think that he cared sufficiently for her to ask her to share his home with he burst shall want some one to help me care of those course you she very I think you will find no in hiring a capable woman to oversee the arrangements of the that isn't what I he want you to with a surprised of the blue Why Down went those blue eyes while a look of exquisite happiness crept into her glorifying every She understood him taking the little trembling hands in his cannot be blind to the fact that I have learned to love Your sublime self-abnegation in taking care of my children won my your heroic patience under the ordeal of suffering compelled my and your own sweet loving have captured my I want you for my Can you love little one? you be my wife It were needless to record Mercie's Suffice it to say that two weeks later there was a quiet sale of her few a quieter and then a happy little party embarked upon an outward-bound seeking Herbert Hazelton's distant anchored in the sure haven of her husband's resting her tired spirit for support upon his noble Mercie Browne forgets that she has ever or remembers it only to be thankful that out of her trial and loss there has come to her an infinitely greater burst into the office of a well-known with his hands full of papers and called out got I've got I've got the biggest and most profitable enterprise on and I'll let you in for half a million and nothing sir I have a concession from the ' to build railroad from to bee line 40 long the as he brought out his and there's seven ranges from 4,000 to 6,200'fet'-lghy 100 of Apache and I'll throw in- my right I concession ' is y ' After the dark day in Egypt came the the short woman begged the tall man for a she stooped to sayd the for a church sexton is the man who has no music in his said the pointing to his block of new all except the one at the That's but not male residents of upon arising in the thank God they were not born The women look them and respond with a hearty business seriously affects his for unto himself two and legal question comes up as to which shall support and which it not true that as a cobbler he should stick to the last WESTERN was once conversing with an Illinois man on his religious Said you attend church I never go to but I allers a to all the They be just as and thar no HOUSEHOLD journal says is not the best wash for important if but what the young man wants to know is how to polish up a dollar store diamond pin so that it wiU look like a gem of the first remarked a M. just from suppose the next thing will be to hunt for a good location and wait for something to like on a said a it won't be long after you do begin before the monument will be on Sie little Austin boy visited his on his and congratulated He then asked his uncle he had washed so asked thf patting the innocent prattler on the papa said if the clean thing would give me at least a Sifting said a preacher from his are the passengers on a train speeding its straight and narrow way to and I am conductor of that thank the run her first-class I should remarked a looking over the the number oi sleepers you're of. our exchanges heads an item Bad Has any one seen a good when the rich old folks and man rims away their and the knot is tied before they are it is considered a good the young at you on your you could be asked an Austin was examining Colbert for $ Colbert for a good while before he At last he replied that he had the required mark cramps when I eat green first quarrel Philip Jr. has after prolonged to get gaudy raiment and take his wife to the fancy I had married a sensible His spouse whom the said ball is for the much more attractive than have had the passengers in the street cai on Austin avenue were very much annoyed by a crying and one old gentleman appeared to be particularly do wonder what little tootsy is crying said dancing the infant up and know what he is crying He has been crying about sii ever since you got into the said after the usual domestic had got well under you gentlemen want your wives to be at replied Mr. the from his head and at we don't want them to be angels at all we want to be And then the row all over and the cat crawled softly into the cellar to drop anchor until the storm should be A - And tell of thy charm to For I cannot utter affection I feel for O monm for the college never has felt O the banishes care Let them of the baneful lurks In the dainty But Of or of good - GREAT a spell that is In clouds of And carry to as Incense words thy poet ' An old colored evidently the was wrapped in admiration and an in front of the when we went into the see anything ' to beat - dat are is thing down - fer ' dat dis like of the Suspension Bridge East Greatest of the Kind in the of the great suspension over the East between New York and been looked forward to with a great deal of interest all over and the formal ceremonies of opening the to the public traffic ware witnessed by an immense building of a bridge to connect the two was suggested by Thomas of the nearly half a century it was and nothing was done - In 1&57, Mr John A. - acted on by the siate of popular the of a to cost with a roadway 20a feet above that should be both for and and on on which trains should ran from shore to shore This may to have been tba first definite Three years in 1860, the same bis views in the of the and Journal then the cost at and the revenue derivable from a which Bho aid include the fare over in the at Six years more and then 0. of who had taken up the and who was by Henry O. and Congressman B. began to work zealously the of what many an impossible A was introduced into empowering a company that had been formed to build and it passed in 1809. work was commenced under the auspices of the like was at first a privata But as ib progressed It became that its cost would largely exceed the Objections were also raised to sach an undertaking being in the hands of the The result was that in 1875 a was passed by the Legislature of this authorizing the cities of New York and Brooklyn to buy out the former to the extent of one-third and the latter to that of Tnis arrangement was into and a Board of Trustees waa appointed by the Mayors of the two under whose direction the work has been carried were commenced on Jan. 3, that the work has gone on ally thirteen years and five The to ine bridge are not yob but are aeon to The total of the bridge is 5,989 the span between the two being feet 6 inches of the towers that support the great are 378 feet above high and their foundations go down on the Brooklyn and New York sides respectively 45 and 78 feet The clear height of the bridge above high water In the center is 135 grade of the roadway is 3K feet in 100, and of the bridge 85 feet No less than 14,3tl miles of were for the each single-wire being 3,579 feet long. These which are in weigh ceremonies attending the opening of the great bridge were under the direction of the Brooklyn and were of an Imposing was generally in both President and his Cabinet Ministers and a large of other distinguished the occasion their and the of crack local military regiments added eclat to the Gen. Jaines was Marshal of the At night there was a pyrotechnic display on the and the public of the two cities were completion of this grand marks another decided advance in the construction of class of as this the largest of its kind in the aj probably in all material respects the most notable It certainly is the most remarkable one in this In to the length of and the amount of material used in its the time of its construction the suspension bridge built by at Niagara was respect to its single its elevation above the and the daring involved its as an additional wonder of the This was in 1855; however great may have been its at that it since become so dwarfed by greater constructions that it is now scarcely In 1860 the bridge at Cincinnati was completed with a span of 1,057 or nearly 200 feet more than the Niagara and it at once supplanted the latter as a work of inthe matter of built the upper bridge at a span of 1,250 some 400 feet more than the Urst and then the Cincinnati fell back to second And has once more excelled himself by a a single roan of 1,(500 nearly double that of his first and a third larger than the Cincinnati is no suspension bridge in Europa that is at all comparable to any of it be to the first one built to at There is one at Fribourg in which has a span of 870 some 50 more than the Niagara and there are three or four bridges of the kind in England which have spans of between 600 and 700 NOT IN THE Washington Correspondent Denies the that the President Is Scheming in to Succeed The Soston of this morning published a to this move engineered in New York politics which is just to be It was planned by Arthur and is being managed by his 3ed by George The plan is a very simple and the whole power of ng have it The special then gives to be deta Is of this which is designed to the factions the party Empire State; and to the It then h a aad divided - Arthur's will claim that and he fcn carry New in 1834. A delegation from State fill present his name to the National Everything is being done to secure that state of and likely to about Ail that is out of the which assumes ttab the is to secure a nomination from the National Convention of 18S4, is the veriest I know whereof I and so does every personal friend oC the Pre It is no whatever that the President's health is that be chafer under ihe wear and tear of his and that he looks forward with to the day of his release from its irksome Only a few days since he said to a near personal not an own ambition is to see the country more prosperous at the close of my administration than it has ever been in the and to have that prosperity retained by another He has repeatedly given his friends to know under no would he again be President These Washington specials are doubtless inspired by some one who sees that the popular esteem for the President is daily that it may lead to a people's demand for his thinks it wise to forestall ib by attributing to the President a scheming for which there is not the least shadow of a OF THE Fifteenth Annual at Cincinnati in October fifteenth annual reunion of the Army of the Cumberland be held in on the and 25th of 1883. society was organized under the auspices of Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas in and is composed of and soldiers who have at any time honor in that Army of the Cumberland was one of the largest of the grand armies that battled so nobly and well to preserve the Ohio gave to this army sixty regiments of four regiments of cavalry and batteries of Illinois forty-three regiments of infantry and seven batteries of Indiana regiments of four regiments of cavalry and batteries of Michigan eight of two regiments of one regiment of mechanics and and five batteries of and the from thirteen other States was regiments of regiments of cavalry and ten batteries of making a grand at the opening of the Atlanta of 171,0.0 ' Every of these regiments who received an honorable discharge is entitled to membership in this The of the Army of the Cumberland nas held high rank kindred and its annual now numbering eighteen handsome octavo bound in contain a large amount of biographical and historical information of interest and It is to call the attention of those who were members of the grand old army to the approaching reunion of so The Corresponding Henry M. of will applications and give any desired information tD those who may to become members of the Lieut Gen. P. H. Sheridan is its WASHINGTON COLORED from Fred recent Washington telegram says that lied Douglas has come to the front in defense of ' colored ' of he is the leading spirit In a he these colored men the convention in the are traitors ani all oppressed and are notf an the There are those who are anything the race bub are ready to scream in opposition when anything is attempted by I am not at all when some of those for whom I- and labored lift their mal the days of Moses the iate of i earnestly serve going forward see at bottom of our He Thinks the Papal to the Should Be by of published by John F. of recently an editorial headed the all the productions of papal interference in the affairs of Ireland that have marked the policy of the Vatican from the Adrian to John and from the reign of that pontiff to the present the last addressed by Leo to the Irish bishops and clergy with regard to the Parnell fund is the most intolerably impertinent If the Irish people submit cravenly to this latest Italian the being furnished by the Pope's worthy they will forfeit the respect of the world The the Irish people hold public meetings in diocese and pass resolutions sternly denouncing of his intervention in Irish and tell 1dm once and for all and to mind his own business as the head of the They might ment this action by resolving not to contribute a single cent of Peter's pence occupies the papal or at least he quits his palpable and po the arch-enemy nation and - m a we ad our countrymen to boycott the Pope ani teach him arlesson that may be serviceable at least to his * Cut off - some of supplies of and teach him being that the cannot be bulldozed into bayonets of England or by the thunders o. hope the and clergy have enough to resent this Ireland them against Pope Loo and every other foreign be ho Saxon or of the General are ' ' of the of in the It What It Is and It Is to of What Will Be tlie Highest Structure Ever Raised by Man's few persons outside of realize that the lime has come to speak respectfully of the Washington Monument The it was for so many used to stand as a big stone stump between the Ionic portico of the Treasury and the glittering shallows of the within the past two risen into a stately whose marble sides gleam in the simple and which will one day be The still joking about are behind the It is now higher of the Egyptian except Cheops and its companion King is it will be more than 100 feet higher than of and will be nob the highest known structure in the so it is the highest structure is known to have ever by the hand of The great spire of the Strasburg runs up to the height of 4&3 the height of the tower of the dral at Cologne is put at 511 St. from the to the base oE the is 448 and tno Milan Cathedral is 355 feet to the of the statue of the The Washington now 340 feet above the floor of the shaft as it will be bV 1585, at the it will fees or than feet than the very tip of the slender at Cologna The comparison is an awkward has its uses plam shaft is not to be wth a cathedral or bub it is of some to ber that while the tower of the Cologne Gai wiU probably taper into the air with a very small the Washington ab 500 or almost exactly thd same show a width of feet on of its four At the basd each of these sides have a of fif engineering feat by which a new and foundation was inserted under d structure 150 feet high and weighing 000 as the monument was when worK was begun in 1878, is one which cari only be adequately described by the engineer in and ne ears though often urged to do he shall not write a line upon the until the monument is compie ied Perhaps ib will make the story more intelligible to go back a Ti e plan of a monument bo Washington in the city his name ad many will approved by Congress in a parsed ic than a after his and requested thab his family permit his body to be deposited under it. monument was to be erected by the but was dona In 1833 an- association of leading citizens here was having enough money by private to begin the site from Congress in 1848 and laid the on July 4 of In the eight years the carried to the height of 150 work suspended for lack of and no stone was laid on tie shaft from that time August 8,1883, an interval of during which the slavery the war and the out of to the public mind from a work national and suggestive of peace and But one of the great reasons why the of little subscriptions from aU over the was was the which became that the foundation not strong When Mr. Dr. John B. Blake and other citizens succeeded in inducing Congress to undertake the which it did by a the Centennial year constituting a joint it was found that this belief was correct The monument showed a breadth of 55 feet on each of its faces at the base rested upon a foundation only 80 feet square and 23 feet and poorly constructed at that Below this was the of rather a yielding natura If they had gone on heaping stone upon the the result would simply have been that the would have driven it downward like a It probably have settled and we should have had either a new tower of or perhaps no tower which would have furnished either way any the foundation needed to ba and CoL Casey ed to a task which a good many engineers preferred Below have Going to foundation he dug from under it all leaving a core of earth 44 feet square directly the center of the foundation and and the 71,500,000 pounds ol weight stood on this pillar of Tha new excavation of a depth of 13 and made a cellar under the foundation I'M feet This was filled with solid except where the core of earth which was not Then the sides oi the old foundation above were torn down for a considerable distance under the walls of of and spread out further over the new base thus the over a much larger area instead of a foundation 80 feet only 12>^ feet beyond each of tha four there is now feel extending 35 feet beyond each and running 13 feet engineers have come at different times to the monument and this interesting One of them looked at it a long time without saying Tien he that's enough to but I don't know one in a thousand who would want to try The result proves how well the work iaa been dona of stone was renewed 28,355 tons of stone nave been ed to the and the of- the shaft due to this load has been just one and a - The is even that the greatest variation in the of the four comers Is a ence of of an the southwest and northeast The other two have settled exactly to the hundreth part of an The pressure now borne by the bed of is 74,871 or 82 per cent - of the whole pressure that placed unon it The Ime at which the work rested 1856 can plainly be the old portion of i the darker and weather-beaten than ithe The rate contractors are able to deliver the marble regulates the progress 5 the monument - money Congress has already V about to the shaf b and as is the pyramid winch the the height of 500 rise for iif part of ib being of j in v order to deep of STATE The Chief of Police of Bichmond was discharged a few days ago for the man in died the other day of a carbuncle on his vouNG men of Martin killed thirty-three squirrels m a few one day last Mormon Elders have received threats of being egged if they continue their preaching in has an organized female baseball game was played last week on the of Martin captured an a few days which measured five feet in length and six in the Indiana internal improvement issued in 1847, were interest The who paid for the received Northern Indiana Editorial of which Dan of the Plymouth is meets in Fort Wayne on the second Thursday of June was to a considerable extent in a few days which culminated in the breaking of an old man's skull by the son-in-law of his and Eddie aged 8 and 5 years were picked up by the police of Jeffersonville said their father brought them from New Albany and deserted First Presbyterian Church of New Albany is to be ed and at a cost of about The walls and are to be frescoed and body of of was found the morning in Jacob's near the Belt railroad As he was well no cause can be found for his - He leaves property worth chief of police of Terre Haute made a raid on Prichard's gambling den the other the only game open at thab and the and whole outfit Nearly 100 mostly boys were of well-known citizens of Indianapolis presented a petition to tho County Commissioners a few days praying for an appropriation of to erect an additional building to the and an living near while apiece of land that had not been touched for or three turned up the skeleton of a human The showing signs of foul J. L McNaughton died at on aged 77 He was probably one of tJie oldest members of the Older of Odd Fellows in the having joined the order at thirty-three years A law student in Lafayette was surprised the day in the the air and swinging his arms like before a and twelve sticks of set on in an imaginary May reports of the Superintendent of Public of the school enumeration show that thepopulation children in Ev is 1.5,718, whUe in Fort which strives for the rank of second city in the the number is 14,46fi Greenlawn Cemetery Investigating of attempted to question the colored sexton relative to the abuses of the pauper but the latter declined to answer for the alleged reason that the inquiry was a to ruin The committee will recommend his of Fayette arranging a conductor at the comer of his house during a a few days received a slight stroke of the electric running from his knees down his limba He was paralyzed for some time after he was picked and was severely ' of was knocked murderously a knife and robbed of one night at by three who escaped their Four men were arrested on bat they could nob by farm laborers around are making a onslaught on the use of the labor-saving self-binding and are applying the torch very eight weeks over eight bams containing these machines have-been bumed by these and more trouble is Bartholomew George Dahn went to his stable to feed just as an unknown man had saddled and one of his most valuable The thief started to when collared but was dealt such a blow that the man caped Officers were soon in and after a chase of more than a mile the villain was He gave bis name as John paid for assault and battery on Dalm and was allowed to of number of domestic 1882 is as Southern Leads - to - from the woods 493,881 48,515 2,910,900 - 2.185,403 of in his possession a very unique of the ancient It is coined in the time of Emperor and therefore te about years old at of its coinage was about 4 r It is ornamented on the obverse side of tie and the On the reverse is of the the word and the letters J. and beneath is the iS. standing phrase consent of the coin about two is about one inch and a half la Gravel engaged in building a road north from Seymour purchased an of ground from TOe ancient
