Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1893 — Page 3

TRVE AS STEEL

MRS ALVARI JORDAN GARTH

CHAPTER XVI. missing! When Edna Deane glanced into the loom at tne Hopedale Hotel where the marriage ceremony between the man she loved and the woman who had so cruelly deceived her was taking place, one member only of the coterie there had caught sight of her white, stricken face. Lured on by the deft manipulation of Dr. Simms and Beatrice Mercer, Baymond Marshall had agreed to solace the dying moments of the girl wno had saved his father from financial rtiin and disgrace by wedding her. The bridegroom of a few brief hours, destined to benefit by her fortune whether he so elected or not, too crushed over his grief to care what became of him, he went through the form of a mere mockery of marriage, and spoko the words that signalized the culmination of the scheming siren’s deft plot. It was just at the commencement of the ceremony that he chanced to glance at the half-open door connecting with the adjoining apartment. The others did not see, the others did not mark, the vivid start, the quick pallor, the gasping breath, as he stared bofore him as if he had seen a wraith. “Edna!" he panted; and then, feeling that it was a delusion of the senses, a reproachful, haunting visitation from the womhn the memory of whose love could never sanctify even a marriage of necessity and pity, he tottered through the doorway into the next room. “Edna!”

His voice rang out less vaguely now. It was no wraith—no trick of the senses. She was at the threshold of that hall door now. Her face flashed plainly, unmistakably, across his vision. “It is she—alive!” he gasped. “Oh, can it be true?” Madly he rushed for the corridor. The shock of the perfect recognition, however, had blinded, confused him. She had disappeared, and in his excitement he ran the wrong way, got lost in inextricable side passages of the hotel, and reached its street exit two minutes behind the flying fugitive. A lour.gVirat the door told an excitable story of the fleeting form, and indicated the direction in which it had disappeared. Not stopping to analyze his vivid emotions nor the strange situation in ■which his acquiescence to the pleadings of Beatrice had placed him, Baymond Marshall thought only of the dead come back to life with a great, feverish joy and wonder. Vainly, however, he scoured the vicinity. Edna Deane had come like a phantom and had disappeared like a flash.

Jaded, perplexed, an hour later Baymond Marshall started back for the hotel. His brow was black with suspicion, his keenest sensibilities aroused to the fever-pitch of augury and suspense. Edna was alive —he was satisfied on that point As he looked back over the events or the past hour, and realized how he had allowed his despair and sympathy to lead him into a net. he realized, too, that it might all be part of a plot. The newspaper item was a falsehood! The siren had again deluded him, and now—he was chained to her,. Be her illness simulation or reality, she was his legally wedded wife. The thought that Edna knew and understood all this drove him frantic. Hot with hate and excitement, he regained the room at the hotel. He would have an understanding with Beatrice! She should, at least, tell him the truth about Edna, and the mystery of her absence and reappearance. Ho paused as he reached the parlor of the .suite. A glance into the next apartment rooted him to the spot. His father, the false nurse, the strange minister had departed, but there yet lingered Doctor Simms, and there, too, no longer the incumbent, white-faced dying bride, but in all her usual regal boldness of beauty, sat Beatrice, conversing animatedly with her tool and colleague in plotting, her cousin, the doctor.

“Marshall has probably gone home,” the latter was saying, "but I cannot account for his strange abrupt departure. We will not think of that, however, Beatrice. Your scheme has succeeded; you are his wife.” “Yes," cried Beatrice, triumphantly, “my fondest hopes have succeeded.” “We had better, therefore, hasten our other arrangements at once. As I understand it, you are to be removed to my home?” “Still posing as the dying invalid, yes,” assented the crafty Beatrice. “However little Baymond Marshall may care for me, he will call daily to inquire for me. His sympathy will cause him to do that. He will see me gradually recover. When he finds he has married a well woman instead of a dying one he will accept the situation, and my love will win him to forget Edna, and he will never know the plot we have played against him.” "He knows it now!” The two schemers started back in dismay. A towering monument of wrath, their victim suddenly sprang into view.

In wild, fierce denunciation he thrust the abashed doctor aside. In righteous indignation he told the appalled Beatrice that she was unmasked, the full measure of her iniqu.ty known. He almost cursed her in the bitterness of his rage. He told her that if he ned to the uttermost parts of the world, her claim upon him as a husband should be the merest mockery of formality, and then unheeding her frantic appeals of love, he dashed from the room, not even deigning to reveal to her that he had seen Edna Deane, that he knew her to be alive, realizing that any appeal to her to toll him truly what she knew of the poor, persecuted child of destiny would not bring a truthful response from her false lips. Thatnight, baffled, distracted, crushed, Beatrice sought vainly for tho man she loved —at his home, in the village. She could not forget him. So near to success, and careless babbling had lost her the precious prize. i. She lingered at the retirement of the Doctor’s home for several days; she had him Inquire everywhere for Marshall, but the latt r had mysteriously disappeared from the village. “I shall return home,” she told him with anxious, haggard face, finally. “At the first trace you secure of him write or telegraph me. You got the marriage certificate from the clergyman?”

Dr. Simms evaded her questioning glance. “Not yet," he stammered, "but I will'. You see, the village clergyman was away, and I had to arrange with a strange minister who lives in another town. I will attend to it. Oh, you will win Baymond Marshall to your side yet. ” * “Life is torture else,” sighed the disappointed Beatrice. And that night she started back for the home where luxury and wealth were a hollow mockery, with her scheme for Baymond Marshall's love a failure. Had she remained one day longer at Hopedale, she would have seen Baymond Marshall, for he returned twentyfour hours after her departure. If he was pale, worn, jaded before, he was a mere shadow of his former handsome self now. He had sought vainly everywhere for a trace of Edna Deane.

Back at the starting-point of his investigation, ere he went to his home, he visited the hotel. He questioned the landlord about “Miss Leslie,” and inquired particularly about a mysterious visitor on the day of the marriage. “I remember now,” spoke the landlistening to Marshall’s story. “The're was a strange woman here. She sat in the ladies' parlor, but she disappeared mysteriously. However, we found a little saehel there the next morning. ” “A saehel!” ejaculated Marshall eagerly, "can I see it?” The article was produced. Disappointedly Marshall glanced over the few collars and handkerchiefs it contained. They little resembled the dainty neckwear of lii3 Edna. As he noted in red ink on the inside of the saehel an address, however, he decided that it might have belonged to Edna, that it might possibly be a clue. The address was that of a farmer, John Blake. The next afternoon, Baymond Marshall knocked at the door of the humble cottage that had sheltered his lost darling the night of the snowstorm. To her it had been a haven of safety and peace, to him it became the portals of a paradise of hope and love, as with.n ten minutes he knew all the truth. Yes, he had located Edna at last! Mrs. Blake had told him all she knew. He could patch out all the mystery of Edna’s strange disappearance now. Oh! he had found her at last. Found her, however, to lose her again, it seemed. With a sinking heart he listened to the concerned matron as she told him that Edna had been missing for hours.

That day she had gone out for a drive. An hour previous the horse and phaeton had come home, Bruno jogging after, but no driver. Had Edna again fled—had she met with an accident? “Oh! it cannot be, so ncur to finding her, to lose her again!” murmured Marshall, wildly. “Have you no idea where she went, Mrs. Blake?” No, the farmer’s wife could not conjecture, and, about to give Marshall an idea of Edna’s usual route in driving, he interrupted her. “Bruno, the doa!” he exclaimed suddenly. “Come here, good fellow!” He took up a dainty glove from the table that belonged to Edna. He patted the dog, he showed him the glove, he pointed down the road. The intelligent animal seemed to understand what was expected of him. “Find your mistress!” urged the solicitous Marshall. With a sharp bark, Bruno darted through the cottage door. Down the winding road ho ran, the eager, hopeful Baymond Marshall at his heels, realizing uoon how frail a thread hung the fate of the woman he loved.

IIIAPTER XVII. AT HER MERCY Edna Deane shrank back to the edge of the pit as she recognized the face of the person who had come in response to her cries for aid. It was Beatrice Mercer; there could be no doubt of it, and the shock of the recognition, a realization of the perfidy of her former friend, drove Edna to sudden ‘silence. She sank to the side of the pit and looked up blankly. “Who is there, I say?“ demanded Beatrice,' peering sharply down. “It is I; Edna—Edna Deane.” “Incredible!” Beatrice recoiled as if dealt a sudden blow, and turneo white to the lips. Edna Deane! For the first time in her reckless, cruel career of subterfuge and deceit the self-reliant schemer faltered. She had met her Waterloo in .the failure of her scheme to delude Raymond Marshall. That had been the first break in her plots, and now How had Edna Deane come here—alive, when she deemed her dead! At this of all places in the world, where a single misstep, a single suspicion aroused on the part of old Mr. Ralston, would strip the impostor of her borrowed plumage and place in her rightful position the persecuted, deceived Edna. For some moments Beatrice shrank back from the edge of the pit, lost in wild augury and suspense. Then her hard, practical mind grasped the situation. She knew that Ralston was confined to his room. Both the steward and the housekeeper had gone to the village and would not return until late that night. She called down to Edna. Word by word, sentence bij sentence, she forced her to tell how she had come there, learned for the first time the entire truth about Edna’s peril and Edua’s deliverance. Unheeding her appeals for rescue she compelled her to relate her story. She knew that Edna would not falsify.

“You must make no outcry,” she said, in a cold, steely tone of voice. “This place is a dangerous one for any stranger. It I release you will you go away and never tell any one you saw me here nor seek to know why I am here, or revisit the place?” “Yes! yes!” assented Edna, eagerly, somehow terrified at the cruel, repeliant expression in the face of her farmer friend. “Only one question—where is Raymond Marshall, your husband?” Beatrice’s tteth closed with a vicious snap. “All is over between you two —he is mine now,” she responded. “Remain here until I return—until it is safe for me to rescue you and get you outside the grounds.” Then she was gone, and darkness and silence supervi ned, and poor Edn i, shr nking, trembling, awaited her fa e, with a confused sense of peril, of mystery in her agitated thoughts. Beatrice had gone to her room in the mansion with a drawn brow and tightly compressed lips. She had a hasd problem to study out, and it was perplexing her. Edna Deane, whom she believed dead, had come across her path aga.n Of late, she had begun to realize the value of wealth; she was not yet hopeless of winning Raymond Marshall to her side; but, If

he learned that Edna was alive, If old Mr. Balston asserted that she was an -impostor, what then? Darker and fiercer glowed the basilisk eyes; more somber and tragic grew the sinister face. She dared not let Edna go free; it meant ultimate disaster to all her hopes and plans. She proceeded, finally, to another room. In one corner of it was a large cabinet. Unlocking and opening its doors, she revealed row after row of phials and bottles, evidently the medicine use by the invalid Balston. K A la> ge bottle, bearing the label “chloroform, ’ attracted her attention, and She took it up, thoughtfully. “I have only a short time to act, for the servants will soon return,” she murmured. “I must quiet her, for I have not time to get her out of the pit before they come back. I will empty the contents of the bottlo into the pit. They will stupefy and silence her. Later, 1 will get her out, imprison her, or —I must take time to think. If the fumes kill her that is not my fault,” continued the heartless siren. She went out into the garden, the bottle in her hand. She reached the pit and uncorked It. “What was that?” She started with the ejaculation, and peered sharply at the near shrubbery, as she fancied she detected a rustling movement there. It was not repeated, however, and she leaned over the edge of the pit once more. Emptying the volatile fluid into the prison-place of her victim, the merciless plotter hastened from the spot, the desperate cruelty of murder in her wicked heart. |TO BE CONTINUED ]

Judged by Their Hair.

A hotel man claims to be able to read a; woman as accurately by her hair as anybody else can by her eyes, nose, mouth or other features: I start out in my reading of a woman by her hair, with the quite generally known and accepted principle that the finer the hair the gentler the birth, or the bettor, higher grade the family stock from which she came, and having thus determined whether she is of gentle or rude birth, I rely upon the amount of care which her hair shows to have had in order to obtain the key to her mode of life. The closer the ends of her hair cling together when unaffected by an artificial force, the more intellectuality does the owner possess. When the ends, and particulaily the body of -the hair show a tendency to curl it is an infallible sign that the owner has inherent grace and poetio ease of the body. The straighter and less yielding—though not necessarily harsh—the hair, the firmer and more positive is the woman’s nature. Treachery and jealousy hide beneath lusterless or deadblack hair nine cases out of ten. Feminine hair that may appear of the finest texture and be glossy almost to brilliancy when viewed at a little distance, but that on close examination is found to have a broken or split appearance—something quite common in ladies’ hair —may be depended on to a certainty as indicating a badly unbalanced character, a woman with an excess of especially queer notions. The lighter colored the hair the more sensitive and “touchy” the owner, except in rare cases, where her ladyship enjoys perfect health. Brown hair, whatever the shade is, is always the most pleasant and satisfactory shade of hair to have to do with across the hotel counter, and that’s the place to find out a woman’s nature.

Serving a Writ.

Fifty years ago a bailiff who ventured to serve a writ on an Irish gentleman was pretty suie of a warm reception. Many unfortunates were forced to eat the document, others were beaten almost to a jelly. Mr. W., a “Sunday man” —one who could take his walks abroad only on Sunday, for fear of the too pressing attentions of bailiffs during the week—was “served” by one, of those ingenious individuals in the following manner; One morning, standing at his study window, he beheld two policemen dragging a drunken man up the avenue. Mr. W. was a magistrate, and he supposed the “peelers” were bringing the man to him, so that he should sign the warrant. Accordingly he desiren the prisoner to be brought in, which was done. “Did this man do any harm?” he asked. “JHe broke a publican’s window, sir, and was offering to fight every man into the bargain.” “Bad!’.’ muttered the magistrate, preparing to sign the warrant; “it will go hard with him, I fear.” “Ah, then your honor,” here broke in the prisoner in a whining voice, “I’m a poor man lookin’for a place, an’ I’ve a fine character here from my old master. Read it, sir; it will show I’m an honest man.” And as the innocent J. P. took the paper offered, the bailiff, who, it is almost needless to state was as sober as the Judge, exclaimed in quite a different tone, “Now you’re served, sir. And”—turning to the astonished policeman—“l demand protection from you. ”

A Reliable Superatition.

Several men were talking of superstitions so common among all classes of people. As a matter of course, one of the things touched upon was the sup-’ posediy fatal number thirteen. An old colored man who happened to be within he .ring distance felt moved to remark: “I to tell you gem’men not to make fun o’ dat thirteen bus’ness. I ain’t superfishus, but I tell you don’t you eat at no table whar dar’s thirteon. I done do dat, and I hope to die if pretty near every one of dem ain’t dead and buried.” His hearers expressed surprise at his remarkable statement and asked for par.iculars. “Well, some of dem got killed and one thing an’ another, and some jest natehelly died. But they is pretty near all gone to-day.” “How long ago did this thirteen at table incident occur?” “Now, lemme s-e. Been about thirty year since the war, ain’t it? Well, I specs it must a happened fifteen or twenty years beforo tho war broke out. But it makes me feel about as oneasy as though it was only yisierday. I specs I’ll be the next most any day.”

In Days of Dueling.

To another gentleman one day the same individual sa'd: “Sir, you smell like a goat.” A challenge to fight was the '/(evitable consequence, but said SarAo Foix asked: “To what purpose? If you kill me you won’t smell any better, and if I kill you, you’ll smell a gieat deal worse.” The argument did not appeal to the insulted gentleman, and he insisted upon the duel, out of which, how ver, he only came second best.—Gripsack. A blood-beet measuring fifteen imhes in length, fourteen inches In circumference and weighing four pounds, is a curiosity of St. Tammany; L*

FAVORS AN OPEN FAIR.

DR. H. W. THOMAS DISCUSSES THE SUBJECT. the Eminent Chicago Preacher Give! Reasons Why the World’s Fair Should Not Be Closed on the First Day of the Week. Sava It’s Not Sinful. There is to be a combined effort on the part of those who favor an open Fair to have the Sunday-closing clause

of the law making the appropriation repealed. Strong influences are to be brought to bear, and, according to Washington advices, it seems altogether that a majority of Congress will yield to the pressure of the anticlosing poople. Some of the church-

DR. THOMAS

es have now declared in favor of opening the gates seven days in the week. Among the most prominent clergymen who have thus expressed themselves is Dr. H. W. Thomas, of Chicago. In a recent sermon touching on this subject he said:

Imperfect as may be the present social order, the public Intelligence, liberty, justice, and general well being and doing of the nineteenth century are very far In advance of the first century. But almoßt every step of this progress has been resisted by an unwise, a narrow and dogged conservatism. Royalty and eoclesiastlcism have resisted liberty and deinooraoy; the new truths of science and religion have been contested at every step; and In the fierce battles radicalism has sometimes been destructive. In our most Intelligent and liberal age the extremes of radicalism are less violent and dangerous; and where lohurch and state are separated, ultra-conservatism has lost the power to enforce its demands. It can make ugly faces, call hard names, silence and expel soholars and preachers, but can no longer Imprison, banish, and bum heretics; but It still stands In the way of the larger life of man. An Illustration of this is seen in the meetings and discussions of the American Sabbath Union, and In the extreme conservatism in attitude of the churches opposed to opening the gates of the World’s Fair on Sunday. The mistake of these generally well-intending people Is In two things: they fall to see what this World Exposition is and what it Is for, and their Interpretation of the meaning and uses of tne Sabbath is too narrow. The nations of the earth have gladly consented to unite with our country In a great Columbian celebration of Its discovery. In this will be brought together the results, not of four centuries alone, hut of all the centuries—the results of learning, art, science, government, religion. Necessarily, the cost is large; but It is not a business, was not projected to make money, but was mado possible by the money given by the people of our own city, by the different States and the nation, and by the governments of the world. It is not a business for gain, but a great .and friendly gathering of the millions of earth, each land bringing its richest treasures, that all may rejoice In the peace and progress of these great years. It Is a school, a church, suoh as was never possible before, nor can soon be again. Its educational, Its moral, its religious value to those who look upon the galleries of art, the halls of machinery, the collections of antiquity, the results of all Industry and learning, and the growing beauty and good of the world, will bo Incalculable. It means for eaoh one a larger life, and for the millions of comparatively poor and laboring people this Is the one opportunity of their lives: a soeno to enlarge the life of the young, a vision to bless the aged before they go hence. And yet these conservative, puritanical Sabbatarians would close the gates of thlß world school and church oh Sunday, and In the name of Him who said, "It Is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day!"

Let the machinery be stopped Saturday night; let the morning hours of Sunday be for rest and worship; then open the doors, reduce the rates, and thus honor the rational observance of the Amerioan Sabbath by giving the poor and the laboring classes the best possible opportunity to see and enjoy this wonder of the ages. And the preachers and the educated classes could not do hatter than to go and mingle freely and kindly with the people, as guideß and teachers to explain the great works of art. The labor can thus be lightened, and the day be rich In blessings to all. And why objeot to the necessary work, and to receiving money at the gates? Is It not work to open the churches Sunday? And what Is the difference between asking the people for money at the gate, and asking them for money as soon as they get Inside the church? All time Is sacred; labor is as sacred as rest. The command to work six days Is just as binding as it Is to rest the seventh. Nature makes no change on Sunday, but (tod has appointed one In seven of man’s days for rest, and man hallowß the sabbath in thought and feeling and act by devoting It to bodily rest and the Improvement of the higher life, and hence a portion 6f the day should be given to worship; but “the Sabbath is for man,’’ to be used for his greatest good, and hence no cast-iron rules can be laid down for Its observance; there maybe times when it is more religious to work than to rest or go to chnrch. . Christianity is the liberty of the Spirit, and not the bondage of the letter of the law; and yet it Is for the letter, and not the spirit of the Sabbath, that these rigid conservatives are contending. We should all enjoy a quiet Sabbath day at the Exposition; but dosing the gates will not bring such quiet, nor will opening them add to the noise and confusion, nor much, if any, lessen the travel. If closed on Sunday, people will stay over Saturday and go home Sunday, or come Sunday to be hefe Monday. There will be two or three hundred thousand strangers here every Sunday for six months; we have to face this condition of things; and in no other way can there be found so much quiet, so few temptations to wrong, and so many opportunities and incentives for the good, as In opening the gates of the Fair. To my mind, it is not only narrow and unwise to dose the gates on Sunday but a great wrong. And we must all regret that the advocates of the Sunday closing have ceased to be reasonable, not to Bay gentlemanly and honest, In their methods. It is humiliating when ministers of the gospel declare that it were better to have the cholera In our land than to have the Fair open Sunday, and Bay that tbose;who are opposed to their views are "disreputable," and speak sneerlngly of thtfke-who observe the seventh Instead of the first day of the week as the day of rest.

MANY LEGISLATURES MEET.

Governor Flower in His Message Touches on the liuflklo Strike. The New York Legislature was convened, William Sulzer, of New York, being made Speaker of the House, and Mr. Maltby, of St. Lawrence County, 1 the Republican leader. The Governor's message was read in both houses and an adjournment taken for one week. ; Gov. Flower, referring in his message to State institutions, discloses that he has visited nearly, if not quite, all the State asylums, and he holds that His recommendations of legislation must have the weight due to judgment founded on personal observation. So close an inquiry into State interests by a Governor is unusual. The State has financial obligations amounting to $450,(00, and a treasury balance of $1,701,487. Touching the Buffalo strike, the Governor announces the expenditure by the State to have been $192,647, and then adds: “Employes have the right to strike and peaceably persuade ethers to join them, and in their earnest and lawful efforts to benefit their condition they may always feel sure that pubFc sympathy is with them and against selfi6h corporations. .But every citizen and corporation, every employe and employer, must observe and respect the authority of law and government.” Dealing with the law against “sweat shops” and its results, the Governor says: “The present law does not go far enough to remedy all the evils which have grown up under thiß system. If the manufacturer escapes the responsi- , bility and expense of running a factory, I he should be compelled to keep a register of those who are making up his gords, and no person should be given work who could not produce a certificate from an inspector, stating that he occupied healthy and suitable quarters for the purpose of manufacturing.” Merry War In Pennsylvania. At the opening of the biennial session of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, the returns of the election of members of the House, as certified by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, were presented by Mr. Harrity. When Crawford county was reached the chief clerk substituted for the returns certifying the election of Wilbur P. Higby (Democrat) the document awarded Saturday last to W’illiam H. Andrews (Republican), by Judge Henderson, before whom Andrews had rai<_id the question of the legality of Hifby’a election. The Democrats,

by Messrs. Fow, Wherry, and Bitter, made an Ineffectual attempt to check this action, but Chief Clerk Voorhees declared th at nothing was inorder but the reading of thonturns. Mr. Fow denounced the as an unheard-of outrage. Gov. Pattlson’s message roferred to the Homestead strike and said tho entire community seemed to surrender to the disorderly element. He criticised the civil authorities for their weak action. The cost of maintaining the militia at Homestead, he says, was over $438,000. He recommends that corporations bo more heavily taxed and a tax raised from inheritances. The coal combines came in for a severe scoring. The Dakota!'. At the joint session of the two houses of tho South Dakota Legislature Governor Sheldon, after having been sworn in, delivered his inaugural address. Tne document »-as brief, and after congratulating the people upon their prosperous oonultloh, touched upon State matters and calls the attention of tho Legislature to the fact that no provision has yet been mude for the election of judges of various courts whose tonus of office expire next year. It suggosts an appropriation for the World’s Fair, and urges the early selcotion of all lands granted for eduoatlonal purposes by the General Government. It asks that changes in the law bo made so that railway commissioners will be elected by the people and that some amendments in the present ballot syslein be made. Tho chief interest In the session of the North Dakota Legislature centers in tho contest for a successor to United States Senator Casey. The Republicans have a clear majority, and tho result hinges on the decision of the party caucus. Lively Session at Lincoln. An attempt to organize the Nebraska Senate began with a ballot for temporary secretary and resulted In a strict party vote: Kepublicans, 14; Populists, 14; and Democrats, 5. The Senate then adjourned till 3 p. ra. When Secretary of State Allen reached Knox County in the roll-call he callod “Chester Norton," the Bopublican. There was at once a protest from the Populists and Democrats, but tho protest was overridden and tho roll-call proceeded. although the Populists refused to answer to their names. 4.t the afternoon session the House orgauized permanently, elected Jainos N. Gaffln (Ind.) Speaker and Eric Johnson (Ind.) Chiof Clork, the Deipocrats voting with the Independents.

Gov. McKinley’* Monßiige. Gov. McKinley. In his annual message to tho Legislature, reviews tho llnandal condition of tho State, which shows a deficiency in the funds amounting to $(19,888.32. He says the revenues of tho present year will not justify tho sura of the appropriations made for tho preceding year. Ho advises that economy be practiced, and that appropriations be kept within the estimated amount,of revenue. Ho recommends that tho voice of (ho peoplo be heeded In the domands made lot reform in municipal government. Crntt.4 Oliosnn Spmtkor. The Thirty-eighth General Assembly of the State of Illinois completed its permanent organization and is now in session. Some preliminary motions were mado, and then, on motion of Free P. Morris, Clayton E. Crafts, of Cook County, was placed in nomination for permanent Speakor on behalf of tho Democrats. Edgar C. Hawley, of Kane, was named for tho Kepublicans. Mr. Crafts was elected. StockbrldKe Is Loading. According to a dispatch tho Senatorial question absorbed all tho interest in tho Michigan Legislature, which was called to order at Lansing, The Stockbridge and the Luce factions are hard at work, and, while each side claims the advantage, It looks as though the former would cdhirol tho most votes. William A. Tateura, the Kcpubllcan candidate for Speaker, was elected, together with the other nominees of tho Republican caucus.

LegUlatnrM of Other Rtetei. Califobnia.— The California Legislature assembled, the Republicans organizing the Senate by electing Senator R. B. Carpenter, of Los Angeles, President pro tom. and the Democrats organizing the Assembly with F. H. Gold, of Merced, 1 as Speaker and George Peck ham, of Santa Clara, of chief clerk. Gov. Matkham's address was not presented at the opening, and no other business was transacted. Tenn’ebbee. —The House organized, but the Senate ohly selected a Speakef. After balloting all day the Democratic Senators in caucus upon the eightysecond ballot selected Senator W. C. Dlsniukes, from Sumner, for Speaker. The contest was a long one and aroused great interest, oecause Govornor-eleot Turuoy is In bad health, and should ho die during his term the Speaker of the Senate becomes Governor. Montana'.— The Democrats have secured control of the organization of the House of Bepresontatives, thus assuring the election of a Democratic United States Senator. - On_ Joint ballot the Legislature will stand thirty-six Democrats, three Populists and thirty-two Republicans. Minnesota.— The two branches of the Minnesota Legislature met and organized. Republican caucuses had been held and Its officers chosen. After the members of the House had been sworn In, W. E. Leo of Todd County was chosen Speaker, and F. A. Johnson of Bamsey County chief clerk, and the House was ready for business. Debawabe. Both houses of the General Assembly organized. The members-elect took their oaths on a Latin Bible printed in 1631.

Terse Tales of the Telegraph.

A company has been formed to establish a plant on the Pacific coast for making armor plate for ships. Bob Pickett was frozen to death at Birmingham, Ala., the first death of the kind ever known In Alabama. A neobo named Joe Williams is wanted at Omaha for poisoning a family named Ewing. One ohild died. Gbafilo Govzale, a St irr County, Texas, ranchman, was called to his door and shot. The murder was committed by Mexican bandits.' t The remains of Miss E. A. Ayers, a telegraph operator, were found in the ruins of the burned depot at Brighton, Cal. She had been murdered.

Waeteb Beul, wanted at Flagstaff, Ari., for double murder and horse stealing, and who broke jail there a month ago, has been recaptured at Nogales. The Bev. Father Schwalor, the priest who committed suicide at Covington, Ky., was buried in consecrated ground, something unusual in the case of a suicide. A vein of silver lead fifteen feet in width and assaying seven ty-two ounces of silver to the ton, has been discovered in the township of Baine, Fontenac County, Ont. Miss Maby Gabrett, of Baltimore, by a gift of $306,977, has increased the fund for a medical school for women at Johns Hopkins’ University to the required $500,(!0U. In Lemi County, Idaho, a number of freight teams bound from Salmon City to » ettle Creek were caught by a snow slide. Albert Bigger and E. Stein were killed. *Dave herr and Elmor Black caught on a tree top and saved themselves. Two horses were killed aai muck freight waa destroyed.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

January 5. —Tho fifty-eighth biennial session of tho General Assembly of Indiana met to-day. The Senate organized by the selection of Senator Griffith as President pro tem-j. Goo S. Pleasants, Secretary; Joseph Friedman, Assistant Secretary: William T. Mannix, Doorkeeper, Tne House organized by electing tho following officors; James B. Curtis, Speaker; Cbalea E. Crawlov, Clerk; John IX Carter, Assistant Clerk; B. D. L. Grazebrook, Doorkeeper. Immediately after organizing both branches adjourned until to-morrow, when the message of Gov. Chase will be road. January 6. —Tho Indiana Legislature met this morning in joint session in the House chamber to hear tho annual message of Gov. Chase. Tho message was long and read by tho executive *hlmself. After paying tribute to the memory of Gov. llovov, who died last February, the Governor passed directly to tho important matter of state. Ho spoko hopefully of tho new tax law and its working, saying that it had enabled the State

GOVERNOR CHASE.

to reeoivo Increased revenue, and that it would insure the ability of the Statu to pay off its debt In a short time. He thought that tho debt might bo paid in about eight years. ,Ho advocated a reduction of tax for school purposes from ltl to 11 cents, lor tho reason that the educational fund already lias a large lntorest hearing surplus. Ha aiso urged the reduction of tho State maintenance fund tax from 13 to 10 cents, and advised the placing of 4 pur cent, of tho total revenue aside for a sinking fund. lie urged additional appropriations for the World’s Fair commission,, and also one to the city of Indianapolis for the entertainment on behalf of the State of the U. A. K. encampment next September. lie urged as tho most Important subject of legislation before the General Assembly the passage of laws for tho erea tlon of better highways. Ho reported tho benevolent Institutions progressive. On tho subject of penal legislation ho urged tho creation of a coni mission for the hearing of applications for pardons to bn advisory to tho exoeutlvo. After reading of tho message tho vote for Governor was canvassed and both houses adjourned until Monday, wlion tho introduction of bills will begin.

The Walking Horse.

The country would roap incalculable benefit if the walk of its ordinary horses could be aocelerated a singlo mile per hour beyond what is now general. It would put millions of dollars extra into the national pockets every year. Wo might havo horses widen would walk five miles an hour just as naturally uud easily as tlireo to three and a half, and rarely four, as is now tho rule. All the farm and much, of the country road and tow n street horsor work is done at n walk. It costs 119 more to feed a smart walker than it does a slow, logy one, and frequently not no much. Now, let any one calculate the profit and advantage of using the former in preference to the latter. Let the farmer boo how much more land per day he can get plowed and harrowed j how inany more loads of hay, straw, grain and vegetables lie can take to market; and how much more rapidly he is able to accomplish all his other work, and he will have little patience iu keeping a slow-walking horse any longer. It will he the same with tho expressman, the teamster and the truckman. liellfounder, got by the celebrated imported trotting horse of his name, out of Lady All port, was not only a fast trotter, but had a natural, easy walk of five miles per hour. He was kept by our fgjrnily sdVeraT'yeimi, and nearly all his stock, out of quite common mares, proved excellent walkers. This shows how easily and rapidly an increased fast-walking stock may bo bred by farmers, if thoy will pnly take due pains to select the stallions to which they may herenfter nick their marcs. A fast-walking horse commands a considerably-higher price witli those who care for the pace than a slow walker, and such buyers are constantly on the increase now, and that day will come by-and-by when a slow walker will hardly get a bid. The fastest walk that 1 have yet seen exaotly timed and placed on record, was that of tho English horse Slove. He made, without effoit 15.69 mile? per hour. All agricultural societies should givo good premiums to fast-walking horses, the highest prize to be awarded to the one which walked five miles per hour; the second to four and one-half miles; the third to four miles. The last should be least time for which to award a prize, and all breeds should be allowed to compete.— New York Tribune.

Fire Balloon.

The Scientific American says that a fire balloon lias been made, in which the lower part is constructed of asbestos cloth, whilst the upper part is covered with fire-proof solution. A spirit lamp is used to supply the hot air inflating it, and, being fire-proof, there is no risk, as with ordinary hot-air balloons. The system is said to be spe-1 cially valuable for war balloonr* as a supply of spirit can be easily carried where it would be difficult to take the appliances for preparing gas.

Wobk Pouch.— Take three ovalshaped pieces of cardboard, covered and lined neatly with bright worsted or silk, and whipped together, leaving one seam open. It can only be opened by pressing on the ends. It must be larger directly in the center that anywhere else. It will hold both spool and trimming.

Gobtschakoff, who waa a great linguist, once said, iu reply to a remark relative to his power to keep state secrets, that ho knew how to Jlold hit tongue in six languages.

HERE’S ALL THE NEWS

TO BE FOUND IN THE STATE OF INDIANA. Giving m Detailed Account of tbo Kami* ous Crime*, Caaualtie*, Vires, Suicide** Death*, Etc., Etc. Minor State Items. Barnum’s sanitarium at Manilla, near Shelbyville, burned, with a loss of $30,000. The 8-yoar-old son of William Rumbley, Seymour, was run over and killed by a heavy wagon. Grave robbers stolo the corpse of Miss Emma West, an 18-year-old girl who died recently at Brazil. Ax association has been formed in Richmond in the interest of the friendloss women of the 'clty and county. H. Odell, a prominent citizen of Hobart, Lake County, fiO years old, dropped doad on the street there from apoplexy. 1)r. Mitchell, one of Muncle’s pioneer and wealthy citizens, fell and broke his hip and his condition is pronounced critical. William Hutchinson, employed at tho Whltely Reaper Works at Muncie, Had his left arm ground off in a pair of cog-wheels, A valuable trotting horse belonging to Samuel Gaar, Richmond, was killed in a sleigh collision. The animal was valued at SSOO. The surveying corps for the proposed railroad from Kokomo to lledkoy, through Falrinount, is now at work on the preliminary survey. John Drkvhohlk of Bod lord, fell on the ice. receiving a bump on the head that caused concussion of tho brain, and may rosult in death. George Aoniels, well known throughout thu State as a brooder of fast horses, was stricken with paralysis at Princeton, and cannot recover. Hunting party north of Fort found tho doad body of a nian. A loaded gun was at his side and he had evidently frozen to death. Some mischief-maker placed an empty wagon on tho Big Four tracks at Waldon. A passenger train dashed into it and a wreck took place. No onohurt Benjamin Mothehal, a well known conducted on the up-frolght from Brookvllle, was thrown from tho top of his train at Motainora, and fatally Injured. Frank (lowan of South Bend, employed as cook in a boarding houso, becamo despondent and trloa to kill hlmsolf with chloroform. A doctor saved him.

James Cox of Brazil, one of the oldost miners of Clay County, was crushed bonoatli a heavy fall of slate, which struck him on thu head, tearing of Ills scalp and crushing Ids skull. It Is said that the $(1,000 In money belonging to Mrs. Patsy Madigan, of Terre Haute, which she had secroted in tho attic, was tied up in little bundles, with rubber garters clasped around thorn. Pat Donohugh, aged 36, a rosidentof Princeton, was Instantly killed atMount Carmel. Ho was employed as brakoman on tho L. E. &. St. L. While getting off Ills train his foot slipped and he.foll under tho wheels. The allotment of space at the World's Fair for Indiana's educational exhibit lias been mado. and It Is far less than had boon oxpoctod. Executive Commissioner Havens has received word that the spaco Is divided as follows; Public Schools, 1,000 spuaro foot; State Normal, 300 foot; Purdue, 800; colleges,3oo; Laporte kindergarten, 100; Mrs. Sewall's Indianapolis school, 150 feet At Elwood, John Huston, omployod iiyC.lt. Bull, accidentally shot Bull’s 11-year-old girl, llusfon had returned from hunting and was climbing out of a sleigh with his shotgun, when tho weapon was discharged. The contents of tho gun passed through a door Into an adjoining room, whore five children were playing. Only ouo was hurt. One hundred and twenty-six shot struck tho child In the thigh. Warden J. W. French of tho Northern Indiana Prison lias tendered his report for tho month of December, to tho Governor. Matters at the prison for the month Just closed havo transpired as fob lows: Number of convicts In prison the first day of the month, 751; received during the month, 40; number of terms exnlred, 32; number pardonod, 4, remanded for now trial, 1; number of prisoners on the last dav of the month, 754. Of the financial standing of the Institution for the month tho Warden reports receipts and earnings' $10,031.50; expenditures, $8,889.25; not earnings over all expenditures, $1,134.34. James Samuels, brother of Giles Samuels, of Dubuque, lowa, was for twenty-three years considered dead. Ho was found in the Soldiers’ Homo at Marlon, Grant County. Ho vyas a member ot tho famons filibustering expedition agalust Cuba in 1873, and received a wound n tho head which dethroned his reason. He was reported among the dead, but finally recovered, bavinrf escaped tfto massacre of tho crew of the Virglnius, following its capture. For over twenty'years he has wandered about in a dazed condition, and it wa9 only by an accident that his whereabouts were discovered. He will be taken to Dubuque and cared for by friends,

Suit will bo brought at the next term of the Circuit Court of Miami County, by Gabriel Godfrey against the Board of County Commissioners, the Treasurer and Auditor to relieve lands from the cloud upon the title consequent upon being assessed and placed upon the tax duplicate for taxation. Tho suit Is brought on the recent decision of the Supreme Court, which declared that the Miami Indians retain their tribal relations, and are not citizens of the United States. The suit will be an important one, as most of the Indians of Miami County havo until recently, been considered voters and tax-payers, and should the suit be against tho County It Is the forerunner of many others to follow, which means a large decrease in the County treasury. At Fvansvllle a team of fire horses ran away, and the hose wagon collided with a telephone pole, breaking the wagon and throwing out hree firemen. Frank Baumgartner alighted on his head on the brick pavement fracturing |bis skull and causing death. at Moore’s Hill, Capt. James McKnfght, 80 years old, and living alone, was found lying on his bed, with a terrible gash in his head, and dying. His room had been searched, and a largo sum of money, which he was known to have In tho house, was missing. He died one hour after being found without having regained consciousness. In the Tiicker will case, at Shelbyvllle, which has been occupying the attention of the Shelby Circuit Court for sometime, the jury failed to agree. There were over eighty wituesses examined. and the costs already amount to over $3,000. The estate 's valued at at.ont $45,000, and was willed to last wile and her children. The Indian i National Banking Company of Elkhart, has been granted a charter to do business with a capital of SIOO,OOO. The officers are J. L. Broderick, President; C. B. Broderick, Vico Preside*, and W. L. Collins, Cashier. The company has ju*t completed a brown-stone front building, the finest in the city, in which to do business.