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EIUDAY, DECEMBER 2S, 1894.

Thk Legislature of Indiana will convene, as provided by the constitution, on Thursday, the tenth day of next January. The Senate will have thirty Republicans and twenty Democrats. The House will have eighty-two Republicans and eighteen Democrats.

Thk new constitution of Xew York, which goes into force Jan. 1, prohibits any public officer from acceptinga free pass or a free ride on any railroad. Indiana needs just such a clause in her constitution. This would prevent the Legislature from adjourning every Friday.

II vpnotism is cutting quite an evtensive figure in crime nowadays. The New York St/tt expects to find it introduced in the field of politics and asks: Were Wilson and company under the suggestion of Mr. Cleveland when they paved the way for certain events in •November'.1

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campnient fixek on The and Cltickamauga take place the following week, and thousands of veterans will go thence from the Louisville meeting.

THK little State of Delaware has no penitentiary, no insane asylums, no schools for the blind, deaf and dumb or feeble-minded. If a man commits murder he is hung. Smaller offenses are punished by whipping or jail sentences. Tramps are not allowed to travel in the State, and avoid it ou account nf the whipping post of which I tliev have a wholesome dread.

Thk Sullivan T'ninn favors the abolition of the oflice of County Superintendent, and the office of Examiner created and substituted for it. It says the way it is now the people of Indiana are paying over 5100,000 per year for this otllee and about all they get is the teacher's license. It is simply astounding how some superintendents can rake in the dollars with so little effort.

Thk Franklin

RcpiMirun

As everybody«has undertaken the task of giying_advice .to the Legislature as to what it should do and should not do a "vocabularious" citizen of Tippe-| canoe county comes to the front with a few simple suggestions using the f'niirler

as his vehicle, to-wit: It should look to the minoralion of all cxtravagations and sumptuosities in gubernative operations: and, above all, the supervacaneous guerdons of the gubernative functionaries, theeversion of pecunious synoinosies, the abrogation of all the dysnomies of the present dynasts, the cessation of mercature on mutuatitious media, the enactment of isonoinies, the dcpnlsion of the ternulence and viciosity uI the proletarian ranks by saluliferous laws, and the deletion of popular inscience by erection of phrontisteries of all gradations, etc.

Democratic statesmen in their ustuteness have played what the. boys weuld call "hokey" with the German trade. Under wise Republican laws Germany was among our best customers. She bought aunuallj-an average of 81)0,000,000 worth of our products, including 5300,000 worth of live cattle, 8907,000 of cottonseed oil, S31ti,ono of canned beef, $524,000 of agricultural implements, 85,000,000 of Indian corn, 87,000,000 of bacon, and 843,500,000 of raw cotton. Germany now proposes to cut this down as much as possible, and doubtless she will make American agriculturists andmauufacturerssuffer sharply. Nothing was ever more stupidly and thoughtlessly managed than the tariff bill of |"reform" recently enacted id to law.

Thk Joubnai. recently had an article on what might be appropriately called the "Insurance Trust" aud condemned it in most vigorous terms. The North Vernon

Sun

taks up the same subject

and twists the tail of the octopus in the following plain English. There is one trust in Indiana that has long rode rough-shod over the prostrate forms of business enterprise. It still has the people as firmly in its grasp as a devil fish. This monster may properly be called an insurance trust. Almost every responsible company doing business in the State is a member of the combine. These insurance companies combine and arbitrarily fix the rate of insurance on all classes of property within the State and you are compelled tosubmit to this extortion or go without insurance. This combination is made for the express purpose of strangling competition which is most successfully accom-

Jshed under the guise of "Board The "Trust Rates" would be more truthful term, and equally 1 English. |The "Insurance Trust" has the peothe country by Uie throat and em to be powerless to extricate from iu

grasp.

By CHARLES HOW ARB MONTAGUE.

fOopTi|:ln. 1-StM,. by A niertca a. Press Auocia-. Uon.l But Maxey did not want t., be ivmforted. Ke looked uuutterable disgust and changed' the subject. "You ntuntioned that you had been making experiments, Lamar. "Yes," absented the physician, "wo have discovered something, First, our patient has a most, remarkable power of visualization, and next she is very susceptible to the ititiuenee of music, She was soex.-itcd Vy Miss Maxry'sl'uiesinging this afternoon that she fainted." "Thr tU-ncoI" criel Maxey, beginning to brighten up at once. "Either I don't understand the thing: the least in the world, or this means very good news. "Possibly." "Possibly! There you go again. You use that evasive word to avoid committing yourself on any subject just as soon as anybody nsks you a direct question.

Be candid, Lamar. Doesn't thii mean that there is a bare chance of singing her bnck to her senses again?" i'o Uie question put iu that limited and cautious way I would answer yes."

Maxey became very much excited. "Why not begin now at once and sing till she gets well?" ho cried. "No, no," said the sister. "Thai won't do. Both doctors have forbidden any more music-at present and for tonight—absolute quie t. "That is another medical humbug which they think of when they haven't any nastiues at hand to dose with." muttered Maxey. "Absolute quiet! Stuff! And what's that oilier tliiugwith the long name you say she's subject to?" 'Visualization? It means the power of retaining the ima^eot' nil object, after has disappeared front the actual field

TT T~ .. of sight so vividlv that its ,-.x.ict form is of the next national en-1 still seen. call h.tve it a greater of the i«. A. I. las Ken

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jgse degree. inherit is exceedingly

•ptember 11, at l,oni*-vi.Ie. st-ron^. Some people who have the fardedication of the rhattanooga

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thinks the

ballot law ought to be amended so as to do away with the "straight ticket" feature of voting. Each voter ought to be required to stamp opposite the name of every man for whom he desires to vote. This would simplify the method and at the same time encourage men to vote their convictions. Of course the main features of the law should not be disturbed.

Tiik Shiloh national park bill has passed both branches of Congress, and only awaits the President's signature to become a law. It appropriates S75,000 to purchase the land embraced in the Shiloh battlefield, some 3,000 acres in extent. The bill is similar in its provisions to those creating the Gettysburg and the Chickamauga national parks. The idea is a noble one of preserving these historic fields of the civil war as perpetual mementoes of the bravery of the American people, and visible reminders of the mighty struggle for the preservation of "the American Union, one and indivisible."

marked degree can close ilioir

national park will eyes aud oah up at will the face of an

absent friend with sneh distinctness that it is quite like 1.w.King at him. At least 1 have been told so, 1 must- say my own impressions are very faint. "Now you are getting into uiy tield," said Maxoy, who was very mneh interested. "That facility possessed by some of our be.-r portrait, painters, notably Sir .Toshna Reynolds. 1 never heard it railed by that name, bur if is obvious that tho mail who can keep a subject before his mental vision constantly. other things Iviug equal, will make tho bo-t picture. "Why, I went into tli" stndio of a friend of mine rhe oflier day, and I was struck at once by a splendid portrait iu oils he had jnst completed, "llow many sitting* did you have for that?' I asked him. 'If I tell you and you should repeat it to anybody. I might not get my price for the picture, 'he said. 'There were really r.lvmt .20 sittings, but lb of them w-re 'shams. After the first two I never did any v.ork when the subject was before ir •.' Don't you see this is just a ca'se iu point? At tho first ho had sketched the outline of the face, and, as he told me, .whenever he wanted to sir down and work at it ho had only to recall the person's face to his mind, and ho can really do his lK-.-t work from thii mental copy alone by himself. Tho presence of the real fa'-e distracts his attention and makes him nervous. He lias the power. Well, if it is a mental faculty and our girl gets well, she is going to remember all about this time and these events since we found her in a series of pictnres, I take it."

Lamar laughed. "Something after the style of a panorama, I suppose? No, Maxey, you reason too loosely. Yon don't woigh your own words. Remember all about it. Do yon know what it ia to remembei? It is to recall something that we have once known. This poor girl kuows nothing of what is transpiring around her and has not since the moment wln-n she lost her senses on the: rocks at tho sea road. What never is known cannot by any possibility be rememlierf d. No. Whatever may bo the future of the patieut, this present time will always lie a blank to her."

Dr. Lamar spoke very positively. "Well," sighed Maxey, "if she but recovers enough to explain who she is and how she came where w« found her, I shall fee] reasonably satistled. Still I can't see wh*t your visualization amounts to if she cannot cany a picture which she sees now into tho future, whatever be her condition." "Ah, that isanotherthing!'' said Lamar, "quite another thing from memory. That might be. She might carry

tho picture, but it would bo a picture simply, unassociated with the succession of events. If she were a painter now, though she never knew you, she might paint your face aud think it an idea of her own. Nor very probable, I admit, but still it might lie."

Maxey looked serious. "What a curious fancy, that I" he mused. "I believe if alio does get well, I will teach her the first thing to paint. Heiglio, but she's not well yet!"

It had grown quite dark in the sitting room while they had boen talking. The early evening of a winter's day had already come. Lamar al 1 at once awoke to a realization of tho flight of time. He turned the face of his wate.h to rhe fire and exclaimed: "What am I lagging here for? It is nearly 6 o'clock! If I don't l-ok out, this girl will ruin my business. Let us see how tho patient, is before we go. No, you need not trouhlo yourself to get a light, Miss Maxey. I have more senses than one. Ah, sleeping quietly I That is food, verv cood. I shouldn't wonder, after all, Maxey—but, ah, who knows, who knows?" "I will strike a light while yon put on your things," said Miss Maxey. "Oh, na Don't, pray. I know how comfortable this twilight is. Never spoil it with a light if you can help it. It is the best- time of the day. Well, Maxey, good night." "No,"said Mnxeysuddenly "Ithink

I will go out with you. I have got something to say, and besides I want to smoke. Since our arrival that's prohibited here, you know. Ellen, yon are tired, and if I were you I would lie down a little wh'le. 1 hall not be gone very long. I am jnst'going to tho corner with the doctor. Liui really, if you will take my advice, you will lie down and restr yonl-solf.'' "Don't worry about me, my dear, good brother. I know my strength and my weakness. I shall not- overtax myself. It has not, hurt, me to be up a little nights. I feel as bright as a daisy now."

This must have lxcri just a trifle wide of the truth. Kllen. Maxey. Your brother had scarcely closed the door bchintf himself and. i'k handsome doctor when you threw yi nr tir- -:y upon the bed. You listened to their footsteps going down stairs. You hear them becoming fainter and fainter till they are lost altogether. Tho deep voice of Dr. Lamar is still sounding in your ears. Do not deny the fact that it is exceedingly good mnsio to you. You think of Dr. Lamar, and you wonder.

iu the iriy.te. Th -vivind rnttl. the pines. There im ctiier Kvo.i t'jo iire is paling now—is .in out entirely. Yon are souud aslct.p. e*--"Open ihu door! Open the dour! Ellen'. Eilcn! Open the door, I say I"

Still the silence of the pravx within. Julian Maxey was-thoroughly alarmed by this time. Already liad stood in ?. the hall putindiuy ami calling f-.r what seemed all ago tti him. There was sometiling very strange about all this. Strange that U'.U-n. expecting him back directly. •h'.uld loektue door on the inside. ri: iMuger still that she should go out and leave the sick girl alone. "KHe.ii! Fn- the hist time, Ellen!"

M'svxoy hal a momentary idea of breaking in ho door. Then he bethought himself of his bunch of keys. Ho thrust one or tin into the keyhole. ITo broathei In.-ivily ia his excitoiuent. Ah, the key was indeed ou the inside. Uv dint of much rattling he managed to push it from its place and heard it fall with an ominous cHoU to t!v itoor. After many ineffectual trials he picked tho lock. Tho obstinate dvnw yicldeti at last to his touch. He rushed iu. It wi.s totally dinkcvu.where. He felt his way to the sitting room. The only light was the dim glow of the coals in the grate, which tri'id lim nothing.

He hUii's'y e-.wnxl his way to the nt'-v '.able. knew there was a niatchsai'e. In the ol»curit,v ho struck

nsaiustchair and overturned it. It foil with a st rtii'iii crash, and in the instant of its concussion, starting, as itwere. out of ih very sound itself, he heard again that low, tremulous utterance tb-.i Wic- wither a moan of pain nor a i»"R •rcy. bur akin to l*»th, ja~t a- he l.: heard ir borne on the bitter wind i'nuu the darkening sea that night on the rix-ks alvove the sui'ging of tiie .ves. 'j'iiero was something in the, .TV that completely unnerved .Maxey. It had always been his terror. Now. intentiled by tho circumstances, it assu:u--.l tiie potency of fate itself. His hand trrr.ib'.cd so he made several futile attempts before lie eou'd strike a light. l-'inaUy the s'u n.'e shaft took lira and blazed tip, Maxey touched a gas jut. In the glare rliat fr.'.'.owisl he saw the girl tii»v ealM Annette sifting, robed in white, upon the edge of rhe little bed in the alcove r,«'in. wringing her hands in tin- old si-rvons fashion, her fearful, -white fare ienie,t toward him, lier dark eyes ri g. i'ii:tig him with dread.

I.v,a ii wr. not this that chilled him the art, that mr.de the color fade•m hi- lip rill they were ashen. It i- t'le sp er-i'd,. of his sisrer. Ellen

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e. his »i*Ur. thrown down across her bed. a

silk handkerchief twisted about her neck and her fingers 'dnspiup the ends iu desperate energy. Her face was black, aud when be siyke to her she did not movo. His voice seemed to awake an echo in the place.

Nothing else but the wind rattling the panes, and faintly the grinding of the ice agjinst thy stones as the tide flowed to the =ea.

CHAPTER V. THI'.' BfRXKD I'APKll.

For once the stecal Lamar lost his composure. "For God's sake.-how did it happen?''

In a hollow voice Maxey made the rely: "They were alone."

The physician was rpeechless. Maxey thought him horrified. Ou the contrary, he was amazed. WLr-ri he found his voice again, there was but a single wold iu his vocabulary equal to rhe situation,?: and ho utternl it: "Impossible!"

Maxev did nor heed him, but went on in a liopckvs tone: "It was my fault, of course, entirely my fault. I allowed myself to be led by her girlish whim when I ought ro have looked tiie matter squarely in the face and assci ted my own will. 1 ought to have taken your advice. Lamar. You knew it—you foretold it all. You warned"

Dr. La:-iitr interrupted him. "Not of any such occurrence ls this, .Maxey. Never. Do you mean to toll me that yon think thepaticnr tightened that handkerchiefaround your sister's throat?" "I tell you," said Maxey, "'I left them tilojie—absolutely alone. When I came lack the door was locked "Ou the inside?" "On

the

inside.

Lamar svvpt a hewildircd glance about the ayartuient, stared at tho pale face on the bed in the alcove room, at

eutnrrs hi hind the torn anxious

the swollen drapery, at profe-s-ionally visage of the nnrso, who was moving about lietvc-en the two. He looked at tho doors, at the windows, at the chimney place, tie stepperl from the corner where he had been talking with Maxey to the center talje and lx-gan very carefully to pur snrg'.cril instruments back into the ease from which ho had lately removed them. When he had completed this task, be closed the box with a sudden snap, and turning to the artist with the positiie crgv of a man who lias thoroughly made tip his mind said: "Max -v. y:u! r.-'er ,:y!"

His (:u: h,itj" routed tho young mav

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M-.p-.r. From tho

moment whe:: he heard I'ne key fall from its pli-.ee. on 'ee,

ij.siile

of the door as he

tried to i: iy ti e-r had seemed to him lite* 1 jn-L.'•.-haphazardhap-peniti's ...'Oy •-i 1. i:e h,»l acted with j,r.vi^.-r ui tiie emergency, Le li.al done so mechanically, iu a sort of ins'hictivofashion, without reflection. Alt. 0K-:istiUi'"5 had arrived and the imna diate excitement, was over he wr :it ab,,ut in a dafcn. The physician's sharp tone made liim start. He lifted his eyes from the floor, unclasped his hands, which had lieen folded lxihind his back, and passed his palm over his throbbing forohend. "I believe you are more than half right,'' he mnrmurcd. 'The blow was so sudden and unexpected that it crushed ma Lamar, you have always been the best of friends. Wo were boys together. I know you wouldn't deceive mc about a matter of this kind. Tell me tho truth at ouce. Yoti have grave fears for Ellen?" "No, I haven't," returned Lamar quickly. "I

have no fears at

alL

narrow escape,

The great house is so still, and you are escape.'' so very tired I WTiat vraa that? rxime- "Escape from what, from whom? You body at the door? No. A rat gtawisg taid jnat now that I was cnuqr, Lamar, behind the woodwork. A looee.coai falU because IjiraYS utterance, to what wanted

She

will be herself again with proper care

(o mo the only possible suspicion a man (Miild ei.t-- I io,ne home, lludtheni. alone. Mid 1 iiuer that tiie poor, irrosponsie!.? e.dature fcud indeed fulfilled yo-.vr prediction and brought terrible trouble upor u. And now you say" "Impossible," the physician lntdvJ posed positively. a "Annetto did uot do it?" "Annette could not have done it." •Maxev seemed electrified. He glanced around the room with an air of suspicion and excitement. Then with characteristic. impulsiveness he seized his hat and ixiat.

La.eat, who liud been watching him with a look of grave concern in his handsome features, laid his hand gently on his shoulder. "What are you going to do?" "Io? I am goiug to tho police, lam going to have this matter investigated at once. I"

Ho stopped horl, amazed by the expression which lie saw in the pliysiciau's face. "No, .luli:ui Muxev. not- if I can prevent it."

Th-^ serions, earnest gravity, tho utter solemnity of Dr. Lamar's speech and manner, frightened the artist "What is it, Lamar? For heaven's sake, what are yon thinking about?" "I cannot tell you here. Let me see you in private.

A r-Tvous tr. i.'biing took Maxey all at once. Hi- did not know why. He led the '.v::v to the li i-nt of the house. There was a dim li§lu in the parlor. Maxey did not tarn it up. He sat down close beside tho phy.-ieian on a sofa. Lamar did not se to his way clearly to what- he Wsiitted to say, aud after a moment's siir't .\,-.y spoke up excitedly: "Tie re yi h:n« on your mind, Lamar: I kumMf. There is something which you know and I don't know, so serious hui.yon hesitate to toll me of it. "No," said Lamar gravely. "I laiow nothing which you do not luiow—much less, iu t'aei, than you ought to know. 1 only desire that you shall stop to think

before you a't. You have not told me everything.'' "Ciood hoavciU-, how :un I to tell von t'Vt i'V?IjiliV^ \Vr» "I had rather not question Ellen."

Maxey wa» .-ilei'.c from astonishment. My dear boy," sai the physician iu a low and not wholly steady voice, "are you sure your sister has Iveu entirely happy of late?" "I am quite :ure she has not!" cried Maxey impetuously.

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you know what troubled her?" Maxey did not answer, but he became scarlet to thes roots of his hair. The light was dim, but the change iu tho artist's manner did not c-seapo the observant physician. Dr. Lamar became slightly embarrassed.

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three days. Don't Imagine from that there has been no danger. It was a terribly

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Maxey suddenly arose. For the first time the nature of his friend's suspicion dawned upon him. "You believe this wu* my sister's own act?"' lie exclaimed in an unnaturally calm voice. "She wore the handkerchief about her neck. I noticed it there this .literliOOU. "She did!" cried Maxev, losing his ... calmness all at once. "She did, but tigation was-unislied. don't you flatter yourself, Lamar, that

The artist was pacing the door excitdiy and spoke as if he was uddressing a multitude "Don't talk so loud." said Lamar, a little impatiently. You know I am tho last man iu the world to wish to believe this theory. You know I would never mention it to any other than yourself. Nothing bnt a sense of duty aud personal friendship would induce me to speak of it now. If it is true, it is necessary that you Bbonld bo warned. it is not true, yoa win lorgivo me tor speaking of It You bclievo, Maxey, that the imbecile pulled the ends of the handkerchief your sister worn. Did the imbecile also lock' the door?"

Maxey stopped as abruptly in his walk as if ho had suddenly encountered a wall There was complete silence for full a minute, and then the artist spoke in a different tone. "I am acting like a lunatic," he said quietly, "i have too little system. I only take in half tho situation and ignore the other half. There is a significance in tlnit

locked

door, qnito other

perhaps than I had imagined. We each jumped to a conclusion. We undoubtedly are both wrong. Lamar, I am going to search the house. Will you come too?''

His manner was so much more calm than it had been that Dr. Lamar felt relieved of a great- responsibility. "You have re o.. red yourself, Maxey," he said. ®. 1't lose your head again at the new rum iu affairs."

Maxey accepted 'he rebuke quietly, "You arc right, Eustace. I do lose my head too easily, 13ut I have recovered myself now. Meanwhile I am afraid we have lost very valuable time.'

Dr. Lamar arose with a new light in his eyes. "Then you tiiink''—— "That sor..eb..dy may have been here in my absence."

This seemed a positively luminous idea to tho physician. Dad as the alternative was, under the circumstances both men would be glad to accept it.

Nevertheless Lamar said doubtingly: "Do you suspect anybody?" "Na" "Is there any possible motive?'! "To kill my sister? In God's name, how could thore be?" "What enemies have you?" "Nono, thank God!"

Lamar sighed. After all, was there much plausibility in the artist'B suggestion? All at once he turned upon his frieud with a new question: "Maxey, are you suro you havo uot been robbed?''

Maxey started. "I was thinking of that- very tlnug myself. I havo uot missed anything, but I have been very much excited, and possibly—possibly, Lamar, I see it all. Wo wont out, and tho thief who had been wntching his chance crept in.

was dark here, and while he was searching

for valuables he alarmed Ellen, who was asleep on the bed. She thought perhaps it

was myself returning aud called

to him.

To save himself

he

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oealed himself iu one of the rooms, perhaps in the very place where we are standing. He waited till he heard me come in or till a suitable opportunity presented Itaelf,'crept through the two rooms to the door and got- away unnotioed." "Well done, Maxey!" cried Lamar, with something^ approaching enthusiasm. You have devised at last a plausible theory.",

He stopped abruptly, with an expression of doubt., His eyes rested on the door, ^vhich closed immediately between the front parlor and the outer corridor. "The obvious objection to your theory is that tho supposed thief might have escaped through this door by simply turning the key in the lock. It was locked on tiie inside, was it not?" "It was and is and will remain so until I eet the leisure to bring a locksmith hero to fix it. I twisted the key off in the lock the other day and nothing will dislodge the stump."

Nevertheless Maxey tried the door. It was securely fast. This being the only means of getting into the outer hall, except by tho door which led from the little vestibule belonging to tho suit, a passageway oxtending the width of Miss Maxey's sleeping chamber and connecting the large roar room with tho back parlor, Maxey naturally saw no objection to his theory so far. Out of this private hall were

"I beg your pardon if in my anxietv three doors besides the outer door—one

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touched ou a

for your welfare I liav family matter." "It is nothing to be ashamed of, blurted out Maxey, "but it is her own secret, and I have no right ro mention it. She has never whispered a won I to me. But I am not blin !. "Don't be'ray her. I beg-.f you," said tho physician onvnesrlv, "but when she recovers, if you have any power to remove the cause of her uuh rtiniuess, do so. I say this in all earnestness. She must not be allowed to brood."

opening at one end into the sitting room, another at the other extremity into the roar parlor, and the third at tho back

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tho unhappiness I spoke of was of snffl-

cient strength to induce tho pocr girl to take her own life. Not bit of it, sir. Not in the least 1 Preposterous! It would have urged her rather to live. The idea! Why, there isn't a natuf.illy moro cheerful and contented person alive than my sister Ellen. Kill herself? I guess not! One of these days, Lamar, you'll see what afoeil you've made of yourself. Is thi:? your ground for believing Annette incapable? Eustacc. if I am crazy, you're a raving maniac.

into Miss Maxey's chamber. It would have lieeu easy for tho intruder, with j. this ample provision for his purpose, to jhavo escaped observation until a snitabio opportunity presented for his safoes- I cape from the suit.

Maxey began his search of the promises by looking under a sofa and behind a bookcase. From this thorough begin- 1 ning he went r.n in a most careful and methodical manner, peeping into closets, opening drawers to ascertain whether their contents had been disturbed aud leaving no'spot unvisited, the position of 110 carelessly thrown asido articlo unexplained. The search was fruitless. Not an atom of evidence to substantiate

and thoughtful when the tour of inves-

fctor* nt ««,

They stood at hist before the grate iu the room, with the nurse and the two sufferers, warthiiig their hands. Once in awhile Mexey's troubled gaze sought

tracted.

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The Montgomery Savings Association has opened the stock book for a new series, to begin on January 5, lS9r. Stock may be subscribed at any time with the Secretary, W. W. Morgan, in the Ornbaun block. Shares are one hundred dollars each weekly payments, 20 cents per share. Membership fee, 15 cents per share. Dues may be paid monthly, or quarterly, to suit the convenience of the public. This association has been running now six years and will mature its first series of stock within the next twelve months. The first pay day will be on Saturday, January 5, 1895.

Importint Facta.

O If you have dull and heavy pains across forehead and about the eyes: if the nostrils are frequently stopped up and followed by a disagreeable discharge if soreness in the nose and bleeding from the nostrils if often experienced If you are very sensitive to cold in the head accompanied with headache then you may be sure you have catarrh and should (immediately) resort to Ely's Cream Balm for a cure, The remedy will give instant relief.

Buckles'! Arntc* 8»l?e.

The best salve in-the world for Cuts Uruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands. Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by

Cotton &. Kife's, the »cy

Jit

sprang upon

her.

When she beoame

motionless, he ran and locked the door, perhaps to moke sure of not beixig interrupted, or, txttt^r still, beowae he' me oomintr

offcr.

Progress Pharm

2® YEARS

..t tor making Scott's ir. ievn endorsed by r!'be c. 'tH.le world. N'o his is one of its ••il-.ifsi-Hu-ntp. Hut the "l:!.-rsenioiH possible is i.'iri£t/t it pives.

Scott's sion

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All

•v.tiriOjes. ft does more for weak •Eai ic- .r,d Growing Children '.i ii! i-iy other kind of nourish-

T.er.t. It strengthens Weak ?b'bets -d restores health to suffering from Emaciation fti'.il G. niTii] Debility.

for Coughs, Cp( Li Discaxb* aridl

JSor* Throat, BronCpVikumption.Blood

THE BIG

flay There Be All Sides

in£ (iav of any previous year.

over our phenomenal business in '94.

cut pricc sale, we have yet attempted.

Pays to trade at The Big Store."

127-129 E. Main St.

Wishes Its Many 'Friends and Patrons A Happy New Year.

RV'

giMiM^'usdo^wardai'dhisbrow^coi'^ has just pissed t'hrough perhaps the most calamitous period-of

istencv'.. The closeness of money matters forced many manufacturer*

to sacrifice their products at much kss than regular values, T?hissfict

enabled us to procure many special bargains which were so'd as

bought, very cheap Also we have never for one moment lost faith in our belief that our friends would continue 'he liberal patronagethey

had before b-s owed. Lastly we have spent much money m* advertising the offerings we made.

These things have all contributed to the grand result. We are never satisfied to duplicate our' past succcfss^and1 Ih^re^ fore will make extra efforts to make a corresponding increase in *95

Peace and Plenty on

For Every Day

Of 1895.

Wc have just closed thej most successful year of our business

every day o('94 showing a healthy gain over corresfiond-

This is truly food for reflection, remembering that the countty

With this end in view we shall shortly inaugurate the greatest

Watch this spice for list of the many grand bargains wc will

In the meantime to us for all your desires- as we can s&ve )OU

money on your smallest purcinse. Again thanking you for your liberal suppart we remind yv»u "It

LOUIS BISCHOF,

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