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CHAPTER I.—Continued. Cock a “Glengary’ on one side over Jerrygolden curls, tuck them out of view, and none could have wished for a bonnier Highland laddie. She possessed the blue, bright eye and saucy ; lip of every jaunty ancestor. She could whistle, she could stamp, she could featly execute more than one step of the sword-dance and shantreuse: she could go through the Highland fling to admiration. It was her I sport to respond inthe wildest gutteral Gaelic now and again to her mystified, half-indignant relative, and she was seldom Been without a piece of bogmyrtle the i adge of her clan in the bosom of her frock. For her looks, her dress, hersneech. or her manners, care she had none. It might have been from an innate sense of superiority, it might have been irom sheer pride of birth or certainty of position, it might have been from the mere heedlessness of fifteen but certain it is that rom whatever source it sprung, no cottage maiden on the I lonely moorland thought less, or ini' deed thought as little, about the effect i she produced on those around her, as did this wild and winsome Geraldine of Inchmare w.

The roughest plaid, the wrap most soiled and stained and worn by weather, suited her better than any finery procured from fashionable warehouses: and when compelled to array herself in the latter one day in the week, and present something of a suitable ap-1 pearance at the parish kirk, truth I compels us to own that the trans-I formed and elegant young heiress was usually sulky, and a ways miserable. Ensconded in the grand old family pew, she would fidget Irom sidetoside. after the fashion of a restive colt newly caught and ill at ease. She would kick her smart toes against tho boards in front until the delicate French kid would all be worn and shabby, to be regarded by its owner w’th contemptuous disparagement and mental reference to her own dear, delightful. damning hobnaiis at home. She would lean back and crush her tine Leghorn hat well aware that she was doing so until notali the efforts of her long-suffering maid could restore its normal shape or freshness. She would pull off and on her many-but-toned gloves, an i spread and twist her fingers in them. She would shrug her shoulders in her pretty cape, as if it were an annoyance and a restraint upon her movements. As for her frock itself, it would be crumpled and creased in every possible direction; and it wa- only by eiut of hating a freshly-crimped and starched muslin or cambric ready for her to put on every Sunday morning that the irrepressible young lady of the manor could be rendered presentab.e at all. Abd yet and yet -grandmamma saw through it all. With prophetic vision she behold, through the vista of a few brief years, the hour of triumph when her darling should be proclaimed peerless among beauties, fairest among the fair. She could a ford to wait. A faint remonstrance, bravely started, but ending in thin air. as already described above, was. indeed, from time to time essayed; but the annoyance would be transient, the doubt or'fear momentary, while the abiding, deep-rooted conviction of her heart was, that there was but one created being matchless in tho world, and that one was Geraldine. CHATTER 11. BY THE MOUNTAIN BURN. ■Thy gentlest sweep, and boldest leap, Thy roucn r k wa.ls. an.i plunging falls, Thy fr am-bells ringing ire; Thy pools ai?i thy shallow,, thy sun-woren ahadows. Thy startles aid sallies, thy fern-glades and valleys. Were early known to me." Very well aware was the observant young damsel that this was the case: and. being so it surely said something for her that she was neither inordinately selfish, nor exacting, nor altogether insubordinate. She would not vex granny-if she could help it. She would not disregard granny's hours and comforts —if she remembered them. She would not defy granny if sho could get round her in any way. In her heart she had a great affection—not altogether unmiugled with that pity which lies between love and contempt -for the dear whvevtih; no longer run and jump and race all over tho place, gallop on bare-liacked ponies, pull herself about in the small boat, and fish in the mountain streams, as no doubt granny ha i done in years gone by. Poor granny! She could have but few pleasures now. and those of a very tame kimi. It must be terrible to be only able to jog along at a languid pace upon the broad back of stiff old Sandy. Granny was, in reality, a very vigorous dame of her years, and prided herself upon the manner in which she mounted her sturdy Shetland pom. and setoff for a rough hill ride. But Jerry wouid stand sorrowfully by and see. ana be almost ashamed of the tine spring wit h which she alit upon her own littie saddle afterwards. Worse still must it be for her poor grandmother, sue thought, to have to sit idly in the stern of their pretty sailing boat, ensconced in rugs and. wraps, and taking no part in the hauling-in or letting-out of the sheet, the tacking, and the other maneuvers with which the men were proud to have their little lady think she was rendering assistance. Poor granny, moreover, had to stay at home whenever it was wet and misty outside. Now nothing was more exhilarating in Jerry's eyes than being out and abroad in a soaking, blinking drizzle, swept in gusts across the moor-

lands, or f’ying tin from the sea-loch, with a dash of salt spray about it that co I<l be tasted on your lips afterwards. It was delie <»is to shake out her loiur wet io.-ks to dry in the sun that would by-and-by peep out. And then what shining and glistening of erag and corrie, what chirping of rejoicing bit ds, what freshness of tree ano leaf, and. above all. what thundering from the hidden waterfalls which abound on the moors of Inchmarew! Those falls were pretty well known to her— in especial those belonging to her own grounds, and whose every turn and winding, pool and shallow, she had ; been ac (uainted with from early years. Poor old granny could never see, never get near enough even to guess at the half of this treasure of beautv aud delight. In consequence, granny was supposed to suffer such loss as rende id her an object of very real compassion and forbearance: and in her tender moments the child would even look with satisfaction on the good time for granny which was one day to come. when, in order to give her some enjoyment such as she could appreciate and partake of. she. .Jerry, would sacrifice herself in so far as to follow her poor dear in and out of a whole dreadful London season. i’es, she meant to do that, to go through even with that for her poor dear’s sake granny was always her ‘•poor dear" when in these moods— i and, however hateful and wearisome the whole thing might be, granny should never know how much it cost her. The resolution helped to salve the willful young conr.cicn e many a time ’ when Jerry had been more than usually self-assertive and independent. She was going to be good by-and-by, and forth'’ present she was going to be —let alone. That, at any rate, was too often the practical outcome of a remorseful tit. With something of the kind in her mind on the present occasion, the litflsherwoman now ran merrily off down to the bridge, where Donald waited, and was eagerly hailed by that expectant knight. ‘‘Haste ye, haste ye, Miss Jerry.’’ cried he. “We arena’ a thocht ower suae The burnie’s doon enough, and it’ll be aye gang’n’ lower yet. And the sun—it wull no’ be the sun that we | want—and the sun he will be out himsel’ directly.’’ pointing as he spoke to gleams of light here and there breaking outon every side. Haste ye.thenl” exhorted the ragged urchin ardently: and seizing the basket, and slinging it across his shoulders, while his young mistress with equal dispatch took from him her rod, the two suddenly disappeared from the bridge and plunged into the recesses of the wood, which at this point approached nearer the Castle grounds than at any other. Breath was" precious, and neither wasted it in words. A quarter of an hour's hurried climb brought them to the side of the burn, which could be heard ever more and more distincty roaring in its tumulous depths: but, though brief, the transit was rough enough to have soaked and torn any less durable covering than that donned by the prudent little maid, who now fearlessly followed her pioneer over mossy rock and quagmire, until each had slid down the slimy bank, and found themselves in .lie hollow, beneath a swollen and bellowing waterfall. They were not too late. The waters had barely subsided sufficiently for sport, as their anxicus. critical eyes assured them. A sharp point which should pro eet from the heart of the tall, when the time to fish the pool beneath had arrived, was inst putting out its nose, and before that had been done, the stream would have been too full. Donald nodded in silent ecstasy—speech would have been thrown away. Both, however, understood to move a little lower down, to where the black depth showed signs of yielding and flowing out in a shallower current towards its ocean bed. and then almost simultaneously, each threw a line. Fortune wa- on their side. At the very first cast a greedy trout of lusty proportions and in excellent I humor, as though as ready to be caught i as the fair angler was to catch him. : sportively hooked hiraselfonto Jerry’s line, and was landed in a thrice. He was but the earnest ol the fun to follow. It was hardly fishing; it seemed all loading, all basketing, all rejoicing, and mute comparing. At length, however, the little girl’s tongue could keep silence no longer, and at an unlucky moment, for she had worked her way to some slight distance from the lad, she let it go. She just landed a tine one. “Look, look at this, Donald.” Donald at the moment drew carefully on to the rocks its counterpart. “Why, yours is still bigger. Oh, I say, isn't it splendid?” shouted his enchanted companion. “Isn't it glorious? isn’t it '?” “What's your wull?" lie thought she had something to say. something for him to do, or to go for. “Isn’t, it glcrious?” in rising accents. “Ech?” Only those who know the shrill Highland screech can interpret that “Echi'’’ whose eeble Southron meaning would be “Eh? “Ech? screeched the urchin, wrinkling up his small, shrewd physiognomy, and putting his hand behind his ear, the better to hear and comprehend. “Nothing - nothin.’’ impatiently. “I onlv said iiow spu.-ndid it was. and what beauties they are.” bawled Miss Jerry back, unable woman-like to resist the last word. , “E-c-h? ' again, at the extreme pitch of Donald’s little yelling voice. “Oh, what’s the use of talking' ' and Jerry stamped and “Never ; mind—never mind, Isay. Nothing—nothing—nothing,’ as the grinning, wrinkled. inquiring face was still stretched out for the information which the noise of the waters drowned. “Stupid boy,” added she. sotto voce, . “hear that, if you can Oh. the idiot, he is actually coming over the rock to : me. Oh, Donald, you knot, stop where you arel Go back -go ba.:k I don t • want you. Go back, 1 say—back • baekl” waving a peremptory band. “Go- I ack:” in a last supreme effort. “Can I tell the boy anything? in- ■ ouired a voice almost in her ear. . ' So startling was the gentle sound,

that the effect produced upon anyone thus taken at unawares might have been—nay, must havs been, antiei* pated: but on Geraldine this effect was intensified from the fact that, in spite of her hardihood and early training, she was usually susceptible to anything of the kind, and in consequenue was strictly guarded from the chance of its occurring. It could, therefore, be no inmate of Inchmarew. who. plainly with the intention of causing surprise, had thus crept up behind, and now almost breathed in her car. On the surface, the interference was, of course, pardonable. A civil inquiry and offer to help, when it appeared that two of a party were desirous of communicating with each other, and were unable to do so, could hardly be cavilled at; and perhaps the perpetrator of the jest was not greatly to blame, in that when the extraordinary and grotesque figure he had addressed whirled round upon him with a gesture tnat sent her fishing-rod flying over the rocky promontory, and a cry that rose above the raging of the waters, he merely laughed aloud, and that in her very face. But he caught her by the arm nevertheless, for her foot slipped, and the place was not one to slip in. "What, you young shaver.” he cried as he did so, “what, I made you jump, did I eh- By George: it's a girl,” catching sight of her face and of a wavy lock around her throat. “It’s a girl, by all that's wonderful! And a rare pretty girl, too. Well, my lassie, come, come,” as a burst of tears now succeeded the first shock of alarm. “Come, come.” continued the stranger, patting her on the shoulder, and still laughing at the success of his trick, "no need for all this din. I would not have done it if I had known you were a girl; but after all, there’s no harm done. I only meant to make you jump. And I owed you one for being beforehand with me at this pool, the best pool in the stream, or I am mistaken. What business have you two monkeys to spoil the water for me eh? Little ra-cals like you can’t catch th« trout yourselves and you only make a mess of other people's sport. Oh, I say though -” as at the moment his eye fell upon the brimming creel, somewhat ostentatiously opened by Donald, who had drawn near, and had understood enough to perceive that some one was being rated, and that his and his young lady's fishing was, moreover, being dis; araged. “Dia you catch all those?” demanded the new comer in accents which told their own tale. Donald nodded. , “And here—in this pool?” The brat nodded again. “Good heavens, what luck! And I’ll warrant you have had the best of them, too, you young rascal And you, too, you Jenny or Maggie, or whatever they call you. you can throw a line as well as he. I saw you from the bank. And I say, what a nice rod,’’picking it up. “where did you get that rod? Wha gied it ye, lassie?” essaying the broad Northern dialect in an unmistakably I Southern accent, and eyeing the pretty rod. of a make superior to that which he himself held, jealously as he spoke. There was no sort of response. Misa Campbell of Inchmarew, was for once feeling herself fairly caught in her own trap. Granny had told her, what might be the result of her presi ent disguise, andjthat result had strict- ! ly come to pass. The person making the mistake pre* dieted by the wiser head was clearly a : gentleman, and poor Jerry, tearful and sobbing, had all the instincts of a lady. It was dreadful to her to be addressed as she was now being -not that there was anything rude or disagreeable : either in the stranger's cone or msl- - but it was sufficiently jocose and familiar to jar upon the ear of a highborn young maiden, accustomed to a certain degree of deference added to ; courtesy: and although a cottage lassie, I such as she was deemed to be, would ' probably have found no fault either with the jog of the elbow or chuck of the chin which accompanied the last j inquiry, it is hard to say which of the two actions the indignant little lady I most resented. Perhaps the swift recollection that i she had brought both on herself was worse to bear than all beside. Hitherto she had not spoken, being ' sufficiently occupied in steadying her ; still tremulous limbs, and checking I the tears which, do what she would, could not all at once be restrained, but I the insult conveyed in the changing of i plain English for broad Scotch was too much, and enabled her. better than anything else could have done, to regain full command of her small self, j She now drew hastily away, drew I up to her full fhight—alas!the cruel | yellow oilskin hid the grace with which she did it:—and with quivering, passionate lips, strove to assert herself, her rights and her dignity. [TO BE CONTINUED. Painting. It is said that the smallest piece ot painting in the world has recently been executed by a Flemish artist. It is painted on the smooth side of a grain of common white corn, and pictures a mill and a miller mounting a stairs with a sack of grain on his back. The mill is represented as standing on a terrace, and near it is a horse ami eari, wiiiir a gloup of several peasants are shown in the road near by. The picture is beautifully distinct, every obje t being finished with microscopic fidelity, yet by careful measurement it is shown that the whole painting does not cover a surface of half an inch square. Worth Rememberin';. According to a recent pamphlet by \ an Italian doctor a sure way of restoring life in cases of syncope is to hold the patient’s longue firmly. After two other doctors had worked tor an hour without result over a young man who was apparently drowned, he thrust a spoon into the patient's mo th, seized the tongue, and worked it violently until the patient gave signs of life. Water the horse before you feed him: the water rapidly leaves the stomach and the gastric juices have full play. Water with the food weakens the digestive fluids His stomach is small, therefore dq not let him get too thirsty and drink too much. Vou can always tell a spring chicken by its crow.

HOME AND THE FARM. A DEPARTMENT MADE UP FOR OUR RURAL FR ENDS. The Experience of Farmers with Home Mixed Commercial Fertilizers—Select Corn While Hulking Dm Trough for Calves Agricultural Matte.-* in GeneraL Commercial Fertilizers. When it is realized that the farmers of the United States buy $.10,000,1 00 worth of commercial, fertilizers every year, the need of analysis of fertilizing materials will be understood. The standard- required by law iu the different States, vary, so that the valuations contained in bulletin Na 102 of the New Jersey station, are onlv of use inside the limits of that State. In other respects the bulletin will prove an excellent guide to farmers in all sections. The fact that "it pays quite as well, proportionately to use good business in the purchase cf fertilizer sunplie- as in the sale of produce” is not grasped by the general farmer who does not realize that “those who carefully study the source of supply and make up their orders early, and purchase considerable quantities are able to get better quotations than those who buy at the busiest season of the year, in small lots at a time and of the nearest dealer,” Inquiries as to the advantges of home mixing brought replies from sixty farmers, fifty-three of whom find that it pays them well to buy raw materials and mix for themselves But three farmers report any disadvantage. One states that there was considerable loss from handling: another that it is difficult to procure the materials in small quantities at a reasonable price, while a third considers it a disadvantage to pay cash. This summary of practical experience should be sufficient evidence of the value of home mixing and of the adoption of this method of purchasing supplies. Drinking Trough for Calves. The drawing represents a handy pen for feeding calves. It consists simply of a plank trough raised to a convenient drinking distance from the floor, with partitions in it. The i stalls are made from each partition large enough to admit the calf without allowing it to turn around and are made high enough to prevent stealing from or interfering in any way with its neighbor. The advantage of this arrangement is the calves do not have to be taught to drink. Take them from the cow, turn them into the stall, put in the milk and i they will soon learn to drink without aid.—Farm and Home. The Fodder Shocks. Corn cut off at the ground and shocked after heavy rainstorms, is . apt to become twisted, and some of the shocks will corkscrew and fall over. All such shocks should be broken down as soon as they have dried out, and the -talks set round the upright shocks. If left partly fail' d down, they cannot dry out the fodder will mold, and then the grain will become heated and will quickly spoil. Tins is a little matter where only a few shocks are lost, but it is a great loss when the shocks blown over are many. Each large corn shock will husk from a half to a barrel of corn, i The fodder is also valuable. Corn, i owing to the shortage in the West, will command better prices this winter, and clean, bright fodder is worth $5 per ton; thereto.e, it is well worth saving in the best possible manner. Feeding mouldy grain, or mouldy fodder, is dangerous; it is injurious to the stock. If fed to milch cows it Injures the quality of the milk, and if the grain is fed to hogs it is apt to produce disease. Horses will not eat mouldy corn. Fodder shocked properly will shed water readily, and neither fodder nor grain will be damaged, even after sev ral days’ rain. Good twine tarred makes an excellent tying mater.al. It is strong, easy to handle, and costs but a tew cents per pound. It can be used for tying the shocks first, and then, after the corn is hu-ked, it is useful for tying the fodder in bundles. If cared for, it will ia-t two years.—Baltimore American. Select Seed Corn While Husking. The progressive farmer always breeds from his choicest stock, and plants seeds selected from the best of the i rope By this means he overcomes the constant tendency to degeneration. and secures strains of varieties and breeds which are best adapted to the soil aud climate of his farm. This is especially true of maize, of which only the best filled ears from vigorous stalks should be used for seed. At husking time, this selection can be made to the greatest advantage. Whenever a choice ear from a good stalk is found, the busker should throw it into a separate pile, or into the front part of the wagon. When unloading, these best ears may be thrown into barrels or boxes, and when re-sorted may be stored in a dry room for the winter. Such cont inuously selected seed corn w 11 soon make a neighborhood reputation for improvement. Milk Typhoid. The recent enormous extension of the creamery business, involving, as it does, the mixture of the milk from whole districts, evidently brings

with it many dangers. Formerly milk typhoid was character!, ed by sudden outbreaks, widely spread among the consumers of infected farms, but under the creamery system, by which each farmer receives back his proper proportion of skim m:;k from the general stock enteric fever on any one farm tends to be rapidly distributed throughout the dairies served by the creamery, and it becomes quite obvious that, if the creamery system is to be safely worked, a very careful and thoro gh system of inspection of the farms must go along with it Country Roads. Roads should be surfaced every time they become rutty and uneven. By cutting out and opening the waterways on the sides of the road the first great thing in buiidiug or rebuilding a road is accomplished. After a roadway is put in proper shape, if it can be rolled over four or five times with a heavy roller ot five or seven tons in weight, it will form a crust from four to six inches thick that is so hard tha the prints of a horse’s foot or the wheels of a hea y loaded wagon will hardly make an impression and will prevent rutting for a long time to any great extent. Country roads should be gone over with these machines as early as possible in the spring after the frost is out, to prevent deep ruts from ingSugar Beet*. The Nevada station has issued a bulletin containing its final report on the suitability ot the soil ot that State for the growing of sugar beets. This industry is excitinggre.it attention all over the world. The Eng. llsh farmers ware the last in Europe to interest themselves in the subject But they are now aroused, and say that with proper government encouiq agement they could cultivate enough beets to supply the country with sugar. This would enable them to give up raising grain to a considerable extent and would furnish work to the large number of laborers now out of employment It would also enable them to retain the $70,000,000 now sent out of the country for the purchase of sugar, mostly in France and Germany. Food for the Horse. The horse’s natural food is grass. There is nothing else upon which he will do so well or live so long. His internal ec nomy can accommodate itself to the dried, seedless stalks of winter, the luxuriant foliage of spring or the highly nutritious seed pods of summer. The stalks preserve his health, the green foliage fattens him and the seed pods invigorate and strengthen him. No horse, however lightly worked, should be fed on hay alone. The ration should include grass or roots, and when the work is hard enough a suitable quantity of grain. No horse that is lightly worked should be highly fed on grain. It is a common and costly practice which causes many a horse to be discarded long before his time. Better for the Business of Farmers, Farmers’ boys have, as a rule, succeeded in all occupations, but how much more able, influential and respected would the farming community be to-day if it were made up of those same talented and edu rated sons, asks the Farmer's Review. If rnv education will aid me in other vocations, while will it not serve me as well as a farmer? That is a fallacious doctrine which teaches otherwise. Is not the knowledge of agricultural chemistry, methods of plant giowth, and the nutrltition of so ds of practical use? An educated mind —that is, an athletic mind—is trained to thing. Does it not pay the farmer to think? Polished Mold boards. A plow that will not scour is a vexation of spirit, and the fault generally lies with the previous user, who did not wipe off the moist soil, or else left in the furrow, or with the polished surface ui wads to catch the rain. When stopping work, both at noon aud night, the ptow should be taken out of the furrow, wiped bright with a bunch ot grass and turned over on the edge of the share with the land-side up to prevent injury to stray stock and to keep the moldboard dry. When the plow is to stand unused for a time, it is well to coat the polished surface with castor oil to prevent rust. Beef for England. The value of our English market for 1 eel is shown i y the i ct that we exported to Great Britan 37,500 tons of dressed beef and 166,000 live cattle during the first live months of this year, valued at $-22,50 ‘.O 0, or $15,000,000 for live cattle and $7,50',000 tor dressed beef, a considerable increase over the exports tor the corresponding time last year. Added to this is 65,000 sheep, valued at $600,000. The expoit ot hog products for the month of May was 2*.44",000 pounds. The total value of all provisions and live stock exports for May was $15,045,000, or $2,000,000 more than May, 1893. Last Vear’s W heat Crop. According to the Agricultural Department at Washington the world’s wheat trop of 1893 was 7,000,n0n bushels less than in 1892 and more than 21,00 ',OOO bushels greater than the world’s crop ot 1 11. But the crop ot’ North America was; last year only 447,000,000 bushels, as against 574,134,006 bushels in 1892 and 684,500,000 bushels in 1891. The* greatest increase was in Europe from 1,208,680,000 bushels in IS'-1 to 1,4: 3,660.000 bushels last year, and in South America, which increased from 50,0. O,i)OU bushels In 1891 to 81,840, • 000 bushels in 1893. Did any person ever thoroughly , “understand” another?

INDIANA STATE NEWS. OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings anti Deaths—Crimes. Casualties General News Notes of the State. Hoosier Happenings Wakarusa is to have an oar factory. Glanders has broken out among Evansville houses. Crothersville people are clamoring for a town hall. Greensburg is talking a! out building a new opera house. The postoffice at Hopewell, Ripley County, will I e discontinued. The great Moorewood tin plate factory, Gas City, has resumed. Richard Bryson's residence, near Clay City, is in ashes. Loss, $2,000. Meridian fancy glass works, Anderson. after two years’ idleness, has resumed. The small-pox epidemic at Walkerton, has cost the county about S9OO up to data. “Buck” Smith, a well-known character of Rockville, dropped dead from heart disease. Dunkirk has let a contract for an electric light plant, to be completed in ninety days. While Martin Newcome was felling a tree near Brookville a limb fell on him. Will die. Mrs. W. l. Philpott, a well-known Ander-on won an. while talking to a friend droppea dead. The editor of the Logansport Times is still advertising dead-beat subset- bers by offering their accounts for sale. Madison is said to have a suicide club and already some half a dozen members have "joined the silent mairxv.lt <r ?? jVilvj • Richard Watts, while working in a gravel pit near Wai ash. was caught under twelve tons of gravel and fatally crushed. South Bend’s wants are very numerous. Among them are a new hotel, a public library building, and suppression of gambling dens. Albert Croubson’b barn near Kokomo burned. In the ashes were found the charred remains of a human bodysupposed to have been a tramp. Chas. Ray, a farmer near Atwood, found the dead body of an unknown man near a straw stack on his farm. He had evidently died of starvation. George W. Kintigh died at Waterford, from prostration, resulting from amputation of a hand, which had been crushed in a cane-mill during a friendly scuffle. , William Christian, who mysteriously disappeared from home over eighteen years ago. has returned to his mother, who now lives in Blackford County. The Bloomfield bank robber who was captured and is now in jail at Sullivan, was identtied by a Chicago detective, as George West, one of the most noted safe blowers in tne country. J. H. ROSEN 1 HAL, an Indianapolis baker, began work at the Fienna Bakery in Anderson. He was unused to using natural gas and turned on the gas for some time before applying the match. The gas exploded and burned his hands, face, breast, and head badly. All of the hair was burned off and the flesh cooked until it fell off. It is thought that he will die. He suffered untold ago ay. Adjutant General Robbins has completed the classification of the various expenses incurred during the railroad and coal miners’ strikes. The total costotthesummer’slabor troubles will reach *S3,HOU. every dollar of which the State must pay. Ten thousand dollars of the amount will be paid to the railroads for transportation of troops. The pay roll amounts to 43,000, which sum has already been paid by Gov. Matthews. Telegraphic communication between the troops and the state officials cost s3llO. Aside from the salaries, which were paid out of a private loan negotiated ny the Governor, tile other bills will not be paid until after the session of the General Assembly, when an appropriation will be made for the purpose. The home of Charles Furrier, colored, on Hart street, Vincennes, was blown up with dynamite. The house, was badly wrecked, but no one was killed. There are various rumors concerning the probable cause, but no lucid explanation is known. Mr. and Mrs. Furrier are iiuiet and inoffensive colored people. They own their home, and are comfortably situated. The husband was a Union soldier and draws a pension which supports him and his wife. Mrs. Furrier has the confidence and respect of all her neighbors, so far as is known io tho public. They had a snug four-room cottage nearly new. It is now badly wrecked. The dynamite was placed upon a back porch, and shattered the entire rear portion of tlw house. John Koeppen. for twenty-five years connected with the mailing department of the Indianapolis Journal, died Fecently, a victim to the Christian Science craze. A few days ago Koeppen contracted a bad cold, but thought. if he could convin e himself that there was nothing the matter with him he would in reality be in good health. He talked to a number of the brethren in the faith, aud they assured him that he was on the right track. His eondiliou bevuine alai iiliiig', aUCi i e consuited a physician, who told him ne had an attack of congestion of the lungs. Koeppen was advised to remain in his room, but he aga’n took the advice of the Christian Scientists, and went about his work. H-e determined to fight it out on that line, and remained on his feet as long as he could stand. He finally went to bed, and in two hours was dead. Jack Stevens and William Henine had hot words over a glass of beer at St. Maurice, near Greensburg. Stevens drew a revolver and shot Henine dead. This was the third murder in that neighborhood within the past vear. Ai’TER a five weeks struggle, the Kokomo City Council passed an ordinance prohibiting the use of screens in saloons. The measure permits the use of screens during legal hours, but at nights, Sundays and legal holidays screens or anything that obstructs the view must be removed so the officers, can see the entire interior of the building