Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — Page 3

TRVE AS STEEL

BY MRS ALVAM JORDAM GARTH:

CHAPTER XVIII. „ CONCLUSION. ■“Too late!” Just? as Beatrice Mercer hurried toward the house again the words emanated from the shrubbery near the pit, and the speaker stepped into view. It was Raymond Marshall, but not the Raymond Marshall of a few days previous. Hope, joy, excitement illuminated his radiant face; horror, too, shadowed it, as he glanced after the disappearing plotter. Then he drew into the open space another form. . “She meant murder. Oh, cruel! cru 1! How can she be so heartless? And I loved her, trusted her as a sister. ” ■ “Courage, Edna,” spoke Marshall. “The faithfut Bruno led me here in time, it seems, to rescue you. You believe me now —that this woman deceived me into that marriage, a farce that cannot dim our love, though it may part us in this world?" “Oh, Raymond, let me leave this terrible place!” “Yes, I will take you back to the farm-house. Then to leturn and learn the meaning of this woman being here. Wait! Some one else is coming. ”

He had been led to the spot by the clever Bruno not ten minutes previous, had discovered Edna in the pit, had rescued her, and now both shrank into the shrubbery again as two forms crossed ■the garden. The steward and the housekeeper, returned from the village, their words reaching the ears of the listening Raymond Marshall caused him to start violently, for they were discussing Beatrice Mercer. „ Creeping nearer to them, within two minutes a hint, a word revealed to Raymond Marshall’s quick mind a marvelous suggestion. He guessed at the truth now. This ■dark schemer, Beatrice, had assumed Edna Deane’s name and place. Her plots, her sudden wealth, her strange movements all verified the surmise. For a few moments he refieoted. Then, as the two people entered the .house, he took Edna’s arm, and led her towards its open front portals. Through the windows of a brightly lighted apartment he could see an old man reclining in an Invalid’s chair, and near to him sat his pretended daughter, Beatrice Mercer. Without a word of explanation to the shrinking Edna, fired with the zeal of a confident discovery, Raymond Marshall entered the house. A wild cry rang from Beatrice Mercer’s lips, and Mr. Ralston stared wonderingly at the intruders as Marshall and his trembling companion abruptly entered the room. “Alice —Edna!” exclaimed the invalid; “who are these people?” “Alice? Edna?” repeated Marshall, eagerly. “Is that the name she gives herself? Pardon me, sir, but I have intruded here because I deem it a duty to unmask that woman yonder.” “That woman —my daughter!” exclaimed Ralston, indignantly. “She is not your daughter. Beatrice Mercer, your plots are known. Silence! I will tell my story. ” White as marble Beatrice shrank back as in forcible, emphatic words Raymond Marshall, sentence by sentence, revealed his suspicions. He forced her to assent to his surmises; he compelled Edna to relate her story. With a look of anger at the woman who had deceived him, with a loving glance at the timid Edna, when all had bqen explained and made clear, Mr. Ralston opened his arms to his real daughter. “Yes, yes. it is true!” he murmured. “She has her sainted mother’s face. Oh! how could Ibe so deceived? As to you ; ” “Yes, as to me,” cried the baffled Beatrice, scornfully. “I am unmasked! So be it; but I still have the power to rule. I know your secret—you, an escaped convict. You will be glad to silence my lips with half your fortune, or I betray all.” Ralston palted and shuddered. At that moment the door opened, however. An emaciated form crossed the room.

“Rodney!” cried Mr. Ralston, amazed. It was the messenger he had sent for Edna to 'the Hopedale seminary, the man who had seemingly perished at the broken bridge. “Yes, it is I,” replied Rodney. “Miraculously escaped death; just recovered from my illness attending exposure and injury, and in time to refute what that impostor says, for I overheard her words and your own. Ralston, light has come at last! The man for whose crimes you suffered imprisonment is dead; and, dying, he has confessed all and cleared your name from every taint of guilt!” “.Oh, thank heaven!” cried Ralston, fervently. “At last! at last! Alice— Edna, my darling child, at last I can offer you an honored name, a loving home! ’ “May you be happy!” sneered Beatrice, malevolently. “I am baffled, beaten—at every point except 'one, it seems. Raymond Marshall, remember that the law gives me your name! You are my husband. That is more to me than the honor of being an ex-convict’s daughter or a wealthy heiress!” “So be it!” spoke Raymond Marshall solemnly. “In name I am your husband, but Edna Deane or Alice Ralston has my love till death. Fear not; I shall not bring reproach on her fair name by remaining near her until the law annuls a fraudulent marriage. Edna, I must hasten to your friends, the Blakes, and tell them that you are safe. They are very anxious about you. To-morrow I will come to see that you are safe and happy, and then I leave you to battle this woman for my rights. ” He passed from the house as he spoke. His heart was happy, despite the complications that evil plotters had cast about his life. “I say, old fellow!” uttered a maudlin tone, as he neared the road outside the mansion grounds. “Well, what is it?” demanded Marshall, regarding curiously the swaying, shabby form of a half-intoxicated man near the wall.

“Can you direct me? Looking for the way into this place, after a—a friend—a lady friend. You see ” "Mercy! The minister!" With a start, Raymond Marshall surveyed the man before him. Could it be possible? Yes; despite the vivid contrast between those two times, the ragged, intoxicated tramp before him was certainly the well-dressed, sedatelooding clergyman who had performed the marriage ceremony between himsllf and Beatrice at the Hopedale hotel. What did it mean? A wild thrill pervaded hie frame at the man’s next words.

w***r*s jwsMKarr, “You acquainted here? Well, I’» looking for a—a girl I’ve traced here, Beatrioe Mercer. Oh! Pm sharp, I am! A hundred dollars! Humpßt';aman can’t afford to play minister for a measly hundred dollars! She’s rich. I’ve traced her. Bet I get a thousand, to shut my lips, or I tell all I know. * All he knew! Within bait, an hour Raymond Marshall was in possession of his secret, stupidly blurted out in his maudlin wanderings. Dr. Simms, unable to seoure the village clergyman, had hired this adventurer to personate one. The marriage was a fraud. It was no marriage at all, and the last blow was given to Beatrice Mercer’s stately fabric of fraud she had so carefully erected, as the tramp told his story in the draw-ing-room of the mansion a few moments later. ■* “She leaves my roof at once!” cried the excited Mr. Ralston, but Edna, more merciful, insisted that Beatrice be provided with sufficient to begin life over again in some remote place, and - tearfully bade her go and sin no more. They never heard of her again, and when they thought of her it was with a shudder, as they realized how nearly her cruel plottings had ruined all their hopes and happiness. And the stately mansion .and its beautiful grounds became an earthly paradise to the two united hearts, whose loyal devotion had brought them, at the last, love’s brightest, holiest reward. [THE END J

Longest Swim on Record.

The longest swim ever made without the aid of artificial help, such as life preservers, life suits, etc., was made by Samuel Brook, a Yarmouth (England) beachman. the night of Oct. 14, 1815, says the St. Louis Republic. On the afternoon of the 14th Brock had noticed a ship at sea signaling for a pilot. He, in company with nine other seamen, started for the vessel in the yawl Increase. At 4 o’clock they came up alongside the ship, which proved to be the Spanish brig Paquette de Bilboa. A pilot and three beachmen were put on board and the Increase then headed for shore, which was twelve miles distant. At 6:30 o’clock, when the nearest land was six miles off, a squall sunk the Increase and drowned all on board except Brock. From the way that flood-tide was beating off shore it became evident to the man in the water that if he ever did manage to reach the land alive he would have to swim about fifteen miles in a roundabout way. A swell sea drove him out over Cross-sand ridge before the 9 o’clock bell tolled at St. Nicholas’ gate, and it was a long two hours and a half later before the nearly exhausted swimmer caught sight of the bell and light buoys themselves. It was now nearly midnight, and Brock had been in the chilly water about five hours. Within the next hour he sighted a vessel at anchor, and by an almost superhuman effort managed to get within about two hundred yards, when he hailed the lookout. A boat was immediately lowered,and the half-drowned man takan on board. The vessel proved to be the Betsy, of Sunderland, and her place of anchorase about sixteen and three-quarter miles from where the Increase capsized. Thus it was proved that Brock had made the remarkable distanoe of nearly seventeen miles in seven and a half hours on that chilly October n'gkt.

They Quoted His Own Poetry to Him.

The Rev. Mr. Haweis tells a good story of Oliver Wendell Holmes. He says: “At a reception given to Canon Farrar at the Hotel Brunswick, Boston, I found myself close to Oliver Wendell Holmes. ‘Who is that Bishop,’ I asked, ‘who just spoke to me?’ ‘Oh,’ said Mr. Holmes, ‘that is the well-known Bishop of , and not at all a bad fellow, either. I will tell you why I have a good opinion of him. I once saw him go up to two ladies in the street in the rain. He had on a brand new hat. I happened to know those ladled. They were total strangers to him, but he offered them his umbrella and walked on in the rain, and quietly spoiled his hat. ‘Now’ said Mr. Holmes, ‘a man loves his hat, and a Bishop’s hat ’ He paused. It was an awe-inspiring taught. ‘Yes,’ I cut in, laying my hand gently on the poet’s arm, and holding him with my glittering eye, Wear a go d hat—the secret of good looks Lives with the beavers in Canadian brooks; Virtue may flourish in an old cravat, Both man and Nature scorn the shocking hah I saw the author’s eye kindle. ‘Well,’ said he, ‘I had better be off now. I shall hear nothing better than that. I am in luck to-day. This is the second time since I entered this room that I I have had my own poetry quoted to me.’ ”

Why He Remained East.

New England is, in proportion to its population, the richest part of the .United States. From Maine to Connecticut the country is dotted with savingsbanks, and the bulk of the vast insurance wealth of the Union is owned there. Tom Reed tells a story of a Nebraska farmer who, traveling through Maine, happened to stop at a little house hanging from the side of a rooky hill, which constituted the farm. During his stay he made many cutting criticisms upon the character of the soil, and asked the farmer why he did not go West, where the farm land was so rich that you could thrust your arm into it up to your shoulders, and pull from the bottom dirt as rich as guano. “I want to know!” said the farmer; “and where might such lands be?” “Where I live—in the West,” was the reply, “which is in Blank Township, Blank County, Nebraska.” “I recKon I have a mortgage on some of that land,” replied the Maine man. And he thereupon brought out an old tin box, and showed mortgages on half the farms of the township. “I bought these mortgages,” he went on, “with what I made off my farm here; and as long as you fellows pay the interest, I guess I will stay East."

A Delicious Fish in the East.

One of the queerest fishes in the world is the gouramis, said an ichthyologist. It is native to the fresh waters of Cochin China, Farther India, Java, Sumatra and Borneo. Specimens have been known to attain a length of six feet and weight of one hundred and tec pounds. The flesh is so delicious that efforts have been made to acclimatize the creatures in many other countries, but thus far these attempts have been successful only on the island of Mauritius.

About thirty of them were imported into the island of Cuba and planted in ponds some years ago, but, although they grew and were healthy, they did not breed. Accordingly, after awhile the prospoct of propagating the species became so hopeless that the governor had them served up, one by one, upon hie table upon state occasions. The same difficulty has been met with elsewhere.

FLORIDA’S STATE BUILDINU.

Jne of the Mott Peculiar Structures la Jackson Park. Three hundred years ago the foundations of a Spanish fort were laid within the confines of St. Augustine, Fla. At the present moment work is progressing on a buildltfg patterned after it in every detail, and which, when completed, will be the State’s representative structure at the World’s Columbian Exposition. Old Fort San Marco, now Fort Marion, is the historic fortress which has stood the storms of battle and the elements for so many hundred years. Its pygmy counterpart in the Exposition grounds will have become dust within a space of time which would not add one dingier shade to the massive stones frowning from the sea wall of St. Augustine upon the blue, dancing waves of the Atlantic. Fort San Marco was commenced by the Spaniards in 1592, and was 164 years in building. It is built of coquina quarried on Anastasia Island, and occupies the north end of a sea wall nearly one mile in length. This wall is built of the same material as the fort, and at its south end are barricks for the United States soldiery stationed at St. Augustine.

THE FLORIDA BUILDING—OLD FORT MARION

The work of building tie lort fell upon negro slaves, Indians and prisiners of war. Every stone laid in it represented the misery of toiling, suffering humanity during a period of a century and a half. When completed, however, it was considered a masterpiece. While in the possession of the British it was considered the prettiest fort in the king’s domonions. Of this grim old fortress, with its moats, barbicans, drawbridges, frowning bastions and its mysterious dungeons in which, years ago, two skeletons were found in cages, Margaret Deland says: “There is no watch now; the fort has nothing to fear. Visitors come and go, or down in the grass-grown moat a thin, white donkey wanders about, cropping hungrily at the tufted thistles that stand in the angles of the barbican or crowd like sentinels around a stone which may have tumbled from the ramparts. The offensive attitude of these thistles, brave in green and silver and with pink cockades, is the only warlike thing about the peaceful fort.” As the building approaches completion its peculiar outlines make it a prominent feature of the north end of the Exposition grounds.

FIFTY-SIX YEARS IN MICHIGAN.

Timothy Dewey, of Concord, Who DrUled for the War of 1812. Concord can boast of containing one of the oldest inhabitants of the State of Michigan. Timothy Dewey was born in Rutland, Vt., on the

30th day of May, 1795, says a writer in the Detroit Journal. He was next to the oldest of eleven children, and survives them all. When a youth he moved to Cobocton, Steuben County, N. Y., where he was drafted, drilled and equipped for

TIMOTHY DEWEY.

the war of 1812, and was about to be called into active service when the war was brought to an end. On Aug. 13, 1819, he married Sallie Flint, and for their wedding tour took a journey of twenty-five miles on horseback to attend a Methodist quarterly meeting. In the spring of 1836 he came to Michigan. He walked from Detroit to Jackson, and after taking up a claim of 300 acres and building, alone, a log house, he moved his family here in the fall of the same year. Here he has lived since, and has cleared tip farms for several of his children. From boyhood he has always been an ardent Methodist, and was regularly seen taking his family of twelve children to meeting with a team of oxen. He has taken great pride in the education of his children, and all have been sent to Albion College. He is now in year, is occasionally able to attend meeting, and can still do a share of the farm work. He last fall husked over 100 bushels of corn.

East Herd of Wild Buffalo.

Hunters in Colorado are bent upon the extinction of the last herd of buffalo that inhabit the parks high in the Rocky mountains. There were only about twenty-five of the animals, and thirteen of these are believed to have been killed. Officers are hunting the hunters now and, catching them, will endeavor to bull the actual price of buffalo skins to a point absolutely beyond precedent. It is hoped by the San Francisco Examiner that their quest may be successful. Indeed, news that the monarch of the fleeing bison had turned upon his foes and horned a few of them into penitence or into the hereafter would fail to create a wave of sorrow.

There is something little short of pathos in the way the buffalo have been effaced. But a few years ago, roaming in countless thousands, they were killed for the lust of slaughter, for mere wantonness. How so scant a remnant survives that at one time it was believed not a solitary individual remained. Belonging to the plains, the buffalo was forced by this cruelty and greed of civilized man to seek other pastures. Such as did not whiten with their hones the old grazing grounds wandered away from their natural environment to the fastnesses of the mountains, far from all the haunts of human kind. There they have lived precariously, but it seems they are not allowed to exist even in exile. Man, who preaches gentleness and practices brutality, intends to chase them higher than

the timber line, to escape the otuiet only to die of starvation. On behalf of the buffalo, now almost tradition, it is proper that the persona who are trailing the final representatives of the race through the canyons of Colorado should be denounced, not Hlooe as mercenary and unworthy sportsmen, but contemptible vandals

Dust, Upholstery and Disease.

Householders in furnishing wotlld do well 1,6 remember that the ordinary practice of covering a floor with carpet is not without Its disadvantages, even its dangers. The particles which give substance to the pure search light of a sunbeam as it penetrates the window pane are of the most varied character. Harmless as are very many of them, there are many more possessed of true morbific energy and capable of almost unlimited multiplication. Anyone can see therefore how, when sheltered in dusty woolen hangings, chair holstery and carpets, they render these articles veritable harbors of disease. The less we have of such the better, especially in bed-rooms. Some practical deductions naturally suggest themselves. As to curtains and carpets, H is but rational that they should, as a rule, consist of the smoother and harder fabrics which will bear thorough and frequent brushing. If thicker floorcloths and rugs be used, they should be such in size and arrangement that they can be readily taken up and beaten. It is but part of the same argument to say that as much of the floor as possible should be either varnished or laid with oilcloth, so as to allow of frequent cleansing. Cane and leather, for a like reason, are incomparably superior to the richest upholstery when we come to speak of general furniture. Some, perhaps, may imagine that in making these observations we treat this matter too much as a hobby. Only one circumstance, however, is required in order to convince any such of their real and practical significance, and that is the actual presence of infectious disease. When this appears, all forms of cumbrous comfort in the apartment must give place, not merely to a freer and simpler arrangement. but even.to bare, sunlit and airy desolation.—London Lancet.

Mounted Duel with Lassos.

“I witnessed a strange duel In Argentine a few years ago,” said Francis M. Wakelee to a Globe-Democrat man. “Two rancheros were enamored of the same dark-eyed senorita. Now when your South American is hit by the blind archer he is hit hard. He is not satisfied to visit his charmer one evening in the week and give up the rest of his time to his rivals. If he catches another admirer hanging around the house of his inamorata there is apt to be trouble and work for the priest and undertaker. The two sighing swains in question had agreed to settle by a duel with the lasso which should wed the damsel. A hundred piratical-looking cowpunchers assembled to witness the fray. The rivals appeared mounted on mettlesome mustangs, each with a long, powerful lariat of tough bullhide. They we're both experts with the lasso, and tlielr horsemanship was a marvel. They approached to within forty or fifty yards of each other, then began to maneuver for a deciding cast. After several feints the lariat of the younger of the rivals went whizzing through the air so swiftly that the eye could scarce follow it. The other sunk his spurs deep into his mustang. The animal shot forward just in time to save his master from the deadly noose, and as he did so the second lasso rose into the air and settled around the shoulders of the man who missed, pinning his arms to his sides as in a vise. Ho was jerked headlong out of his saddle. His successful rival drew him to him, hand over hand, half lifted him from the ground by the tenacious thong and put a bullet squarely between his eyes. He then turned and rode directly to the hacienda, where lived the cause of this barbaric scene. She mounted behind him, and he came galloping back, swinging his sombrero.”

Animals with Human Voices.

A species of crow in India has note which exactly resembles the human voice in loud laughing. The laughing jackass, when warning his feathered mates that jiaybreak is at hand, utters a cry resembling a group of boys shouting, whooping and laughing in a wild chorus. The nightjar has a cry like one lamenting in distress. Among birds that have the power of imitation the parrot is the best; but, as a matter of fact, its voice is decidedly inferior to that of the mynah, a species of starling. Curiously enough, the male bird speaks in a high, clear tone, like that of a child, while the female has a gruff voice. Another bird, the morepork of Australia, is frequently heard vehemently demanding “more pork,” in a clear, stentorian voice. The whip-poor-will also demands his punishment in a distinct imitation of the human voice, and the command of the guinea fowl to “come back” could easily be mistaken for a human voice. Coming to quadrupeds, the cries of none approach more closely that of the human voice than those of seals when lamenting the loss or capture of their young. The cry of a wounded hare resembles that of a child in distress.

Wood Concrete.

A new wood concrete, according to the Bautechnische Zeltschrift, has been invented in Germany. Shavings and planing-mill chips, either of common or fancy goods, which may be stained before use if desired, are mixed with cheese, or, rather, casein, calcined magnesium, limestone, glycerine, silicate of soda, and a little linseed oil, and this queer mess is forced by hydraulic pressure into molds, where it is allowed to harden. When dry the composition is strong and solid, and can sawn, planed, polished and varnished. It is expected that it will be found useful as an “ornament” in the shape of panels, or as a covering for entire wall surfaces.

Mimicking Nature.

Artificial grass for the grounds of seaside cottages is one of the industries of Manchester, England.

MATTHEWS AND NYE!

ABE INAUGURATED GOVERNOR AND LIEUT. GOVERNOR. Ceremonies in the Corridors of the State Capital, In the Preaoiioe of the Leglelature—Prominent People Present The Decoration*, Etc. A special from Indianapolis. dated the 9th Inst., says: Claudo Matthews inaugurated Governor and Mortimer Nye Lieutenant-Governor ofTtftllaiia, this afternoon. The ceremonies were appointed for 1:30 o'clock, but it was later than that hour before they took places The south corridor of the Capitol was the scene of the inauguration, and a distinguished body of men and women collected as spectators. The corridors upstairs and down, stairways and other placo»4n the capitol afforded a line Held of observation. The decorations wero imposing in their simplicity. On either side of the dome beneath the skylights the courts were resplendent with the national colors, the bunting being suspended from above in many beautiful folds. On thu upper

GOVERNOR MATTHEWS.

floors the flags woro of the largest pattern, while those below were moro numerous though somewhat smallor. Some of the columns were also gracefully twined with yed, white, and blno. The two courts wore drapod alike with the exception that tho ouc south of the dome, whore the Inaugural ceremonies took place, bore tho additional decoration of tho State seal, displayed on a largo silken banner of blno. This was suspended directly above the platform, and showed to the best advantage tho retreating buffalo and the vigorous woodman plying bis ax. Prior to the Inauguration, tho two Houses met separately for a few minute* The Senate was called to order at 1:40 p. m. Tho President of the Senate announced that it was in order for tho Senate to proceed to tho place of Inaugural, the body to bo met In the corridor by tho members of the Houso, tho senators to return t,o tho chamber aftor the Inaugural ceremonies. Tho doorkoepers then arrangod tho members by twos, and proceeded to tho corridor to meet tho House. Tho House did not meet until! 1:30. It had Just boon called toordor when tho doorkeeper of tho Senate appeared and announced that the Hcnntq was waiting In tho corridor to join the Houso Tho members of tho House arose, and, forming by twos, marched to the corridor and took place in lino In the rear of the Senators. Tho band, which had boon stationed on tho second floor, began to play, and tho Senators and marched north along the second floor corridor and down stairs to the seats prepared Tor the mombors of tno two Ileuses In the corridors under the skylight. At 1:45 tho raembors of tho Lcglslaturc, tho senators heading tho column, marched into the court and filled the seats provided for them, the sonators being given the front places before the rostrum. Tho galleries, above wero 111 led with on-lookers, and tho human figures contrasted with the radiant colorings of the draperies, formed a beautiful and animated scene. The attondanecof ladles was not largo, but enough wore, present to show thal the sex took an Interest In the, ceremonies. The band, with a full complement ot pieces, enlivened the time of waiting by playing a number of Inspiring plecos. Seated on the platform wore Senator David S. Tnrpie, ex-Oovernor Albert G. Porter, William 11. English, Governol Ira J. Chase, Mrs. and Miss Matthews, wife and daughter of the Governor-elect, tho State officers, including mombors of the Supreme and Appellate Court and others.

Governor Matthews and Lieutenant Governor Nyo appeared upon the rog. trum at 2 o’clock, escorted by a Joint Committee of tho Senate and House. Thoy were greeted by a pleasant recognition, which appeared to be strictly nonpartisan, as the Republicans joined theli Democratic colleagues In the applause. Tho escort consisted of Temporary President Griffith of the Senate; Speaker Curtis of the House; Senators Holland, McGregor, and Wishard, and Representatives Cullop.Sulxer, and Redman. President Griffith called the Joint convention to order and prayer was offered by the Rev. Joseph A. Milburn, pastor of tho Second Presbyterian Church, of this city. Them were noises about the corridors, talking and moving feet upon tho tiles, which prevented the hearing of the prayer by those of tho audience who were at any distance. He prayed for a blessing upon the people of tho State and upon those who wore to take up the great duties to which they had been called. The roll of senators and representatives was then called, Roll Clerk Waltz calling the senators and Acting Chief Clerk Newkirk tho representatives. President Griffith declared a quorum of both bodies present, and Judge Reinhart, Chief Justice of ths Appellate Court administered the oath to Governor Cijaudo Matthews, who then spoke, hYs address partaking ooth of the nature of an inaugural and a message to the general assembly. •After Governor Matthews had spoken Lieutenant Governor Mortimer Nye took the oath ot office, administered by Judge McCabe of the Supreme Court, and spoke briefly and forcibly. After the inauguration ceremonies each House returned to its hall and went into brief session.

An Appropriate Name.

A—Why do you call your dog Hector instead of Caesar? B—Because he put on so many airs when I called him Ctesar that there was no getting along with him.

Prince Roland Bonaparte.

Prince Roland Bonaparte, whose wife’s Immense dowry was a part of the revenue from the gambling-house of Monte Carlo, will not marry again, it is believed. The Prince now enjoys the benefit of his wealth, but is sensitive about the source from which it is derived. Indeed, it is said that he dropped the acuuaintance -of a lady friend who was so indiscreet as to solicit his influence at Monte Carlo in behalf of a young lady singer that was seeking au engagement,

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

-.nuary 10.—Thelpeaker announced the standing, committees. Thera were no special surprises in the award of Chairmanships. Cullop was sent to the Ways and Means, as was anticipated,and McMullen to the JudipJary, while Ader, of Putnam, who was also a candidate lor speaker, was given the Organization of Courts. Bench secured tho Benevolent Institutions, Redmon tho Prison South, Harkness State Prison North, Fippen Fees, and Salaries, Farlowe the Corporations and Heagy tho Roadg. A grept number of bills wero thrbwn Into the Hod Me. The Speaker anticipated a crash, and be adopted a rule limiting each member to two when his name was Called. Then the flood began. Quite a number of Representatives wero loaded with road bills, the annimus resting with tho good roads agitation In which the State Is Interested. Other measures were in the line of so-callod labor bills. Among them is the one aimed at the Insurance system In vogue on the Pennsylvania Central, which tho labor leaders clam militates against the beneficial features of their owu organizations. All of these bills were In duplicate, the filing being simultaneously in both houses. A bill of considerable moment was presented by Darby of Clark, providing for a sinking fund of 5 per cent., and calling for a marked change in the manner of applying appropriations.

Senate—The Lieutenant-Uover norap pointed Magee Chairman of the Finance Committee and sent Griffith to the Judiciary Committee. Tho other principal assignments Included: Leyden, Benevolent Institutions. Sellers, Fees and Salaries; Korn, Insurance; McHugh, Educational Institutions,and Moore,tho Roads. Tho Judiciary Committee in both Houses, judging from the personnel of the membership, is made up of conservative men, and this will be important in considering tho special legislation demanded by the labor leaders. No radical legislation la looked for from either committee. A bill was sprung in tho Senate to-day by Kopelke of Lake, which contemplate a revolution In the management of penal and benevolent institutions. All of theso institutions, with the exception of the Female Reformatory, arn to bn placod under the management of four people, to be known as the Board of Regents; the first Board to be appointed by the Governor, and Its members to bo thero&ftor elected by the people, tho same as other State officers aro olectod.

January 11. —Tho Legislature dived Into law-making with a vougoauce today, tho House alone listening to tho Introduction of noarly a hundred bills. Among tho most Important were co-em-ployes’ liability bill, one extending the jurisdiction of the Appellate Court, one against child labor, one raising tho age ot consent to fifteen years, one providing for the discharge of harmless Insane, one making Labor and Memorial day legal holidays, two reducing the school tax from 10 cents to 10 cents on the SIOO, one providing freo text-books for Indigent children, ono curbing Township Trustees in their purchases of school supplies and one providing the same system for school supplies now In use for school-books. Mr. Fippen introduced a scheme for a joint law by half a dozen Status taxing foreign mortgages, and resolutions were adopted for special committees on tho soldiers’ monument and World’s Fair, whllo tho G. A. A. encumpmont was given some attention. To-day was an unevantful If not a drowsy dav in tho benatn. A numbor of Souatorß wero absent and the rest a trifle sleepy. The bills were nearly all of minor Importance and of local effect The bill asking that $50,000 bo appropriated to defray tho oxponses of entertaining tho G. A. R. reunion was about the most Important. The bill relating to tho erection of memorial tablets in tho Government Park of Chlckamauga on behalf of Indiana soldiers was of somo interest. Senator Magee’s bill asking for the separation of tho State revenue funds and legislative action regarding the spending of tho same and the creation of a sinking fund was of perhaps tho most general importance.

January 13.—Both the Senate and House this morning adopted tho joint and soparato rules which governod the fifty-seventh General Assembly without' practical change. Sonator Boyd introduced a resolution looking to tho investigation of tho accounts in the office of Attorney General Tho resolution, was made the special order, ot next Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock. An Important resolution introduced by Senator Stuart, has for its purpose the redistricting of tho State for Circuit Court purposes. The following bills wore Introduced in the Senate: Providing for tho erection ot brldgos over streams dividing counties; protecting dairy products; appropriating (10,500 to tho State Normal. The House passed and ordered sent to the Senate a joint resolution, asking the Indiana Senators and Representatives In Congress to use their Influence and cast their votes to secure the establishment ot the office of Secretary of Labor as a regular cabinet position.

The Conference Committee appointed on the bill appropriating $105,000 to defray the expenses of the session, made its report, which was accepted, and employes may now gpt their pay. January 13.—1 n tho call of committees a few unimportant bills were recommended for passage, among them being Senator FUman’s bill exempting all church parsonages from taxation; Senator McCutcheon’a bill fixing a penalty of from ten days to six months In Jail, and a fine of from SSO to SSOO for carrying concealed weapons; a House bill providing for a continuance In cases where an attorney Is a member of the Legislature. The Senate adjourned at noon until next Monday at 11 o’clock. The proceedings In the House was dull and unimportant. The Conference Committee’s report on the Appropriation Bill to pay the expenses of the session, was adopted. The Labor Committee reported favorably on Mr. Deery’g bill, making It a misdemeanor to discharge employes for membership in labor organizations; also favoring the passage of Suchanecb’s bill, making It unlawful to employ children under 14 years of age In factories over eight hours a day. , A few other minor bills were recommended for passage, a few unimportant bills were Introduced, and the House adjourned at poon until 11 o’clock Monday.

A polite Texas journal compliments its new rival on “leaving so much room for improvement.” t The business losses of Hamburg, in account ot the cholera last summer, foot up about $35,000,000. Business men of this country should understand that a visitation from this dread disease means a heavy loss tu them, even If it does not touch theii homes to take away their loved ones. Money spent to clean up means money saved in business by barring out th« pest. There are too many people who seem to think that the best thins they can do for the Lord is to try to run their preacher.

THE WAY THINGS RUN

IN THE GREATEST OF Offe*? STATES, INDIANA. Thing* Which Bare Lately Happened Within It* Border*—Soma Plnaaant aid Some Sad Beading, ✓ Minor State Item*. A 500-bajirel oil-well was struck on the Cogarshell farm in the Camden field. Jay County. Du’H.tbuha is raging at Grandview, a small town on the Ohio River, six miles from Rock port. Sneak thieves are working extensively in Terre Haute, many .robberies being daily reported. Grave robbers stole the corpse ot Miss Emma West, an 18-year-old girl who died recently at Brazil. Anderson Is In a pretty bad wav during this cold weather, as the natural gas service is miserable.

Sherman Lancaster's house, near Windfall, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $1,000; no Insurance. Burglars broko into the Southorn Indiana Natural-gas Company’s offices at Shelbyvllle, and got S3O. Miss Minnie Loosdon of Eureka, Spencer County, while skating on the Ice, fell and broke her neck. John Fkehkrkh of Rockport, one of the wealthiest busluoss men of Southern Indiana, died suddenly-at Louisville. Miss Eva Winton of Shelbyvllle, fainted and fell against a stove, receiving burns that will mark her for life. The citizens of Sleigh. Carroll County, think there Is natural gas In tho vicinity, and will drill for it as soon as the weather permits. The Diamond Window Glass Company of Findlay. Ohio, located at Farmland, will employ 125 men, the factory being * twenty-pot plant. The Young People’s Christian Endeavor Societies of Hamilton County have just closed a highly successful convention in Noblosvlllo. Albert A. Fkatherling,a hay-dealer at Kouts, Porter County, was kickod over the heart by a horse, and fell dead before assistance could bo summoned. , Jeremiah Harris, oldest Odd Fellow In Indiana, aged 88. died at Marlon. In 1842 he established the first paper in Grant County, tho Democratic Herald. A tramp -printer, who tried to clean out the office of the Brazil Times the other day, said, when placod In jail, that he had boon mesmerized a year or two ago and novor got over It. John Fleming at Caseyvlllo, Clay County, was paralyzed by falling slate in in the Brazil Block-coal Company’s mine No. 8. When found he was pinioned to the side of his room wholly helpless. Ha will die.

The First National Bauk of Elwood will increase its capital stock to SIOO,000, and thon consolidate with tho Elwood National Bank, recently organized by Colonol Conger. The combination will have a capital stock of $200,000. A 0-YKAn-oLD boy named William Cunningham, and tho support 01 a widowed mother, lost both oyos at the rolling-mill In Brazil. He was looking Into one of the largo puddling furnaces when one of tho employes threw water on the fire. Tho hot ore flashod into his eyes, leaving him totally blind. Ho was otherwise badly Injured about tho head and face. • The strange animal that nas made'lts unwelcome appearance In the vicinity of Brownsbqrg waa again soon the other evening, and It came very near capturing one of Brownsburg's James Adams was milking his cows when the animal suddenly slipped up from the other side of tho cow and struck a powerful'blow at Mir. Adams with Its paw. Mr. Adams started for the house, with tho animal close at bis hoels, and luckily be reached the door ahead of the beast lie then “sicked" bis two large bull-dogs on iho varmint and slipped out to a neighbor’s house for a gun. When ho returned the animal was gone and his bloodod dogs had been whipped and torn so badly that one of them bad to be killed. Citizens will import blood-hounds to capture or chase the animal to lie den.

A hand of about forty foreigners, said to be from the Island of Skilly, are' camping In Clinton County, about five miles southwest of Russlavllle.' They have with then;, besides thoir horses, five cinnamon hears, and a sow mhukeys. Thoy are furnishing some amusement and a considerable amount ot uneasiness to the farmors In the neighborhood. A groat many wild Btorles are being told about'thejr man,nor of living, ble storv, which soems to bo well authenticated, Is told of the disposition of the body of a babv that died,. In their camp on New Year’s Day. It is said that tne big chief of tho company took a huge knlfo and cut the child's body in plocos and sod It to the bears. They wore camped In a dense woods near “St Paul,” a country church, until recently, when they pulled stakes and departed at the instigation of an enraged community.

Many citizens of Brazil are talking loudly about tho pardon of Isaae W. Sanders, who was sent from that city, about fifteen years ago, for wife murder. Tho crime was most atrocious, and the prisoner had to be guarded from violence at the hands of a mob. On the 11th of April, 1878, Sanders, while intoxicated, shot his wife through the heart, virtually kllllngher. She was tho daughter of Jonathan Crousdale, one of the wealthiest citizens of the town. Sanders pleaded guilty to tho charge of murder In the first degree, and would have, been condemned to death bad not Mr. Crousdale arose In court and asiced that he should not be hanged, as ho wanted “no man's blood on his hands.” The prisoner was immediately taken to Joffersonxllle, to avoid mob violence, which the officers had reasons to believe would follow if tho prisoner remained in the County Jail over night He was granted a .new trial two years after bis sentence, but was again convicted and sentenced for life. ’ .

A farmer named William Templeton, aged 45, and residing six miles southwest of El wood, met death recently in the woods. He was cutting doyvn a a large tree and was unable to escape from under It when it fell. He was pinioned to the ground and bis head crushed. He leaves a wife and two children. Miss Ida S. Durham of Darlington, has entered suit for $5,000 against S. G. * •Kersey for breach of promise. A misplaced switch on the Wabash railroad caused a freight wreck at Roan. W. B. Loughran of Peru, was the only person in lured. Geqpqe ObUGLER, in ''an Intoxicated condition, applied at the home of George N. Hicks near Elkhart, stating that himself, together with a companion, had been assaulted.,by thieves. He besought Hicks, who was an aged and feeble man of 70 years, to go with him to his partner In need of help. The story so excited Hicks with fear and dread of being the victim of a plot that be was immediately taken sick and died before be could be put to bed. William Porterfield, while at. work at the Shelbyvllle ice-houses, became entangled in the hoist, which broke aud carried him about twenty-five feet Into the river. It wsp only after hard work that he was rescued, badly bruised.