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* A LONG LOST ONE. A Lattle Girl Abducted When Only i Ten Years Old. Evansville, Ind., Feb. 17.—‘‘At mychild! O God! I thank Thee!"’ and with the tears streaming down his cheeks a tall, slightly-bent gen- tleman rushed forward and clasped in his arms a pretty young girl just budding into womanhood, and fath- er and dauyhter were re-united after | a seperation often years. Thescene referred to took place in the parlor of Peter Roesner’s residence. The gentleman was Mr. Daniel Chisman, a wealthy farmer of Carmi, Ill., and the young woman was his daughter Annie, who was “stolen from her home ten years ago while her tather was dangerously 1/l. The story is as fellows: In 1876 Daniel Chisman, wife, and one child lved happily on a farm near Carmi, Ill. Sicxness vis- ited the household, and soon the head of the family and his wife were stricken down. Mrs. Chisman died after a short illness, and the mother- less child, then only 7 years old, was taken to the home ot a neigh- bor, Ben Johnson, and the childless couple learned to love the little one, who was very bright and intelligent and they made eyery effort to induce Mr. Chisman to intrust them with her care, but he refused to do so. Nothing daunted, Johnson and his wife quietly packed their household goods and shipped them away, and then at a favorable opportunity stole little Annie and were well out of the way before her abscence was discov- ered. The news ot her abduction so prostrated Mr. Chisman that a re- lapse came on and for a time life hung by a thread, but he eventually recovered and then began a search for his lost child. Detectives were employed and thousands of dollars spent, with unsuccesstul results. Johnson was traced to Evansville but arriving here the trail was lost. Mr.:Chisman was aided in his search by Edgar D. Mills of this city, his ‘brother-in-law. It has been devel- Oped since the discovery of Miss Chisman that Johnson and his wife came here, but after a year’s resi- dence the child became sick and suff- ered trom sore eyes, whereupon her | abductors grew tired of her, and she was placed in the orphan asylum. She was adoptea by John Roesner, a farmer, who raised her as his own child, with every advantage in the way of training and education. Dur- ing the winter months Annie residea in this city with Peter Roesner. Her aunt, Mrs. Mills, who never ceased her investigation for some trace ot her niece, at last received a clue from one of her children. She at once visited Mr. Roesner’s, and, seeing Miss Chisman, was convinced that the lost was found. She tele- gtaphed the father, and he arrived, and, in company with Mr. and Mrs. Mills, went to Mr. Roesner’s. He entered the parlor unannounced and found himself contronted by Miss Chisman, The young girl gave a startled and searching look at the stranger, and then, as past memories came crowding up, she impulsively stretched her hand out, and yearn- ingly said: *‘It is pa-’”’ Then followed the scene as de- ascribed above. All who witnessed the long-deferred {meeting were deeply affected, and father. und daughter were lett to weep out their joy together. There was a joyous re-union at the Mills residence. Mr. and Mrs. Roesner deeply regret the loss of their adopted daughter, whom they loved as ther own. Mr. Chis- man and his daughter left for Carmi im company with Mr. and Mrs. Mills. =o SS eeenannnmansnsunnsemenresturaemammnsne=eetoon ¥ a - cae The Vetoed Pension Bill. Chicago Herald. In the few places where the Pres- ident’s action in vetoing the depen- dent pension bill is seriously criti- cised it is assumed thit he has done something which will prevent the deserving soldier who was wounded in battle or shattered by disease from receiving any assistance trom the Rovernment which he served in the most arduous and perilous capacity. Nothing could be farther trom the truth or more ridiculous. There are in force under which laws already soldiers of the late war who sustain- ed any injury, even the slightest, either in field or camp, may secure | pensions simply by applying at the Pensions are given tor more | than one hundred and twenty-five causes, including every possible ill that a soldier or his dependent rela- tives could suffer. But the vetoed bill was not intended to cover these It was passed for | bureau. deserving cases. : the express purpose of bringing with- in the pale of pension legislation thousands ot men who never sustain- ed an injury of any kind in the ser- vice, men who probably never saw the enemy, men who never got south of the Ohio River, men who never hred a gun, as thousands ot enlisted troops did not, and men who, hay- ing enlisted for three months, per haps when the war was already over, receiving big bounties and, incurring no hardship, may now be suffering from any of the ills which all flesh is heir to, but not one ot which is properly traceable to their brief mil- itary service. Pumping up tears in behalf ot the deserving soldier is theretore entirely out of place in this instance. The soldier who lost a little finger or con- tracted a case of chronic. stomach- ache in the field can secure a pension by applying tor it. No new law 1s necessary for him. All he need do 1s to ask and he will receive. The vetoed bill was intended to cover the cases of those who make no pretense thet they were injured in the service. It was designed to give pensions to men who are poor or want them, It threw down the bars and leveled all distinction between the honored veteran bearing wounds received in his country’s detense and the mere pretender and vagabond who, grow- ing weary of supporting himself, asks she government to do it for him The country, and especially the sol- diers who saw service, are not pre- pared to wipe out the distinctions which existing laws make on this subject. A Cheap John Hero. Lots of sentimental slush and gush 1s being wasted upon Boston Cor- bett. Posing as the avenger of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, he is interyrewed oftener and slob- bered over more tulsomely than the anzel Gabriel would be if, when he came to summon the quick and the dead, some rival newspaper in a city where there were two should get the first blast of his trumpet. There was the murdefer, Booth, surrounded ina barn. His leg was broken. From the ankle joint to the thigh it was a swollen mass of tormenting flesh. The barn was on fire in every direction. Filled with hay, todder and other inflammable materials it was roaring like a fur- nace. Two hundred cavalrymen had formed a cordon about it. Es- cape was impossible even for a whole man, and that mana giant. In ten minutes more the flames would have done their meritable work, but the avenger was at hand. Standing un- seen in the darkness and just as se- cure trom bodily harm as if he had been a thousand teet under the earth, Boston Corbett took deliberate aim at Wilkes Booth and killed him where he lay. That was easy todo. Booth was as incapable of any aggressive resis tance as a 12-months’-old baby ina cradle. The light of the fire shin- ing all around. Anybody could have shot him. There was no risk to do that. It required neither cour- age, nor hardihood, nor persorial prowess to do that. If Booth had been on his feet, body to body and pistol to pistol with Corbett, then should Corbett have been immortalized if he had killed him; but to shoot him as he did, and afterward to claim credit for the heroism of the act, isto make every really brave man in the coun- try feel tor him an inexpressible con- tempt. : That Booth ought to have been killed no one doubts. He murdered President Lincoln in the name of the South, but he had no right either to speak or to act tor the South. ‘If he had loved it as he professed to do, his place was at the front. Instead, he never fired a gun for the Southern Confederacy, and he killed the only -- = | man : | saved the States which composed it | from the voracious beaks ot the car- | pet-bag vultures, and the iron! pro- cesses of proconsular reconstruction. ‘There was not a true Confederate | soldier in the land who did rot gneve for the death of Lincoln. The South knew him and understood him 4 great deal better than many of his more vociferous supporters. Itlook- ed upon him as a ruler who had some soul, conscience and a lofty patriotism. It felt instinctively that when the war was over it was done, and that all of the energies and re sources of his singularly sympathetic and forgiving nature would be di- rected toward binding up the wounds of the entire country and making it whole and healthy again. To bring Boston Corbett into any transaction witch has to do with Abraham Lingln is simply sacri lege. He shot a bullet into a man who was already as good as dead. lt was the carrion crow whocame to a corpse.—K. C. Times. A purgative medcine should possess tonic and curative, as well as cathartic properties, This combination ot indi- gents may be found in Ayer’s Pills. They strengthen and stimulate the bow- els, causing natural action. Another Righteous Veto. The President’s veto of the bill appropriating $10,000 for the reliet of the sufferers from the drought in the Western part of Texas will meet the ready approval of all citizens who care whether the Constitution is observed or not. The objections to this petty steal are the same as those which were urged against the bigger steal proposed in the interest ot pauperis under the name of de- pendent soldiers’ pensions. [tis a measure of charity and nothing else, and if the principle involved is to be recognized in national legislation absolutely no lmit could ever be placed upon the prodigality of Con- gress. hat the farmers portions of Texas are in need of as sistance is not questioned, but the national government 1s not the place to go for it. When tarmers who are suffering from the effects of drought can se- cure help fron Congress by applica- tion, then anybody who has been untortunate in business and 1s in dis- tress may do the same. Great fires, floods, epidemics, tornadoes, boiler explosions. reper accidents, coasting casualalties, shipwrecks and every- thing under the sun calculated to arouse the sympathy ot the public will be ample excuses for legislation in the interest of the victims. The Washington Government is not a vast charitable institution and was never intended as such, The Con- gressmen who are ever ready to vote away money on applications of this character are either stupidly ignorant of the fundamental laws ot their country or they are willtully and out- rageously unmindful of them. The veto may serve to bring members to a clearer understanding of their duty. —Chicago Herald. in some A story of rare devotion on the part af a husband toward a wife comes trom the Stillwater, Minn., penitentiary. Michael Kelly was sent there from St. Paul twelve years ago to serve a life sentence tor kill- ing Barney Lamb. Lamb’s body was found on Kelly’s premises, and in the latter's house was found an old cavalry sword covered with bl ood Kelly’s conviction was secured al- most entirely by circumstantial evi- dence. He now writes to Ignatius Donnelly giving what he claims 1s the true story of the crime. He says he tought with Kelly, caught him by the hair of the head, and held him ina tight grip. His wite, who was standing by, tried to make Lamb let go; and when she failed gave him a tatal thrust with the sword. Ex- plaining why he did not divulge the facts at the trial, Kelly says: ‘‘She was my wife, the mother of my clildren, and I love her. I have now been confined in this prison tor over twelve years, an innocent man, and while the governors of this State have ‘n clemency to many a life convict they have shown none to me.”’ By good conduct and extra work while in prison Kelly has earn- ed $Soo, all of which has gone to his wife and family, who could and would have | | WATTERSON OF KENTUCKY. | —+ +20 | He Will Support Cleveland and is for Senator Beck. eee Cincinnat:, Feb. 18.—Hon. Henry | Watterson, editor ot the Louisville | Courier-Journal, is in the city on a purely social mission. and participated in a compl mentary banquet to Minister Pendleton at the Queen City club. Ina chat with a reporter at, the St. Nicholas hotel Mr, Watterson said, when asked it he would support Cleveland for president in 1888S: ‘I know nothing to the contrary. The Courier- Journal has said all along that it would advocate the nominee of the democratic party.” “Do you think Governor Hill ot New York is paving his way to the White house ?”’ ‘“*No: he will, 1 believe, run tor governor again, and support Cleve land with a view to being his success or in 1892.”’ **Will there be a sharp contest for the United States senatorship be- tween Beck and Carlisle ?”’ “Mr. Carlisle is not a candidate for the senate. He occupies a more exalted position as speaker of the house, The scheme to make him an aspirant for the senate was origi- nated by ambitious men in his district who want to succeed him in the house Mr. Beck has a strong competitor in Dr. Sanford, of Louis- ville, who is making an effective canvass.’”’ Mr, Watterson expressed himself in regard to the large appropriations for naval supplies as a shrewd scheme to absorb the surplus and make political capital for the repub- licans, The Texas legislature nas just created ten new counties and named one of them Jeff Davis. A man who has practiced medicine tor 40 yeurs ought to know salt trom sugar; read what he says: Torepo, O., Jan. 10, 1887. Messrs. F. J. Cheny & Co.—Gentlemen: Ihave been in the general practice of medicine for most 40 years, and would say that in all my practice and experience have never seen a preparation that I could prescribe with as much confidence ot success as I can Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manutactured by you. 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