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INTERNATIONAL RflZGS ASSOCIATION. CHAPTER VIL ( Continued. ) I spring of his life. If he had made any "I know it. But then you must re- improvement in his house, it had been member that she had always been ac- for Dorothy. If he had planted a C as turned to live up to her full in- shrub or a young tree, it had been for come to keep her carriage ami pair, Dorothy. He had bought a smart lituor gardener and her maids. Indeed, ; tie village cart, thinking that it was Miss Dimsdale never had any money Jas what Dorothy would like to drive to spare, and it was in the hope of herself about the lanes in but it had making riore of the loose money that all been for nothing: and in that bitshe had money that was apart from ter hour of realization he knew that her estate and her settled annuity, that he would live out his life alone, and -he unfortunately bought, among oth- j that Dorothy Strode would never come, er thin- two shares in a bank which except in dreams, vain, hopeless was Du. Js-, which, indeed, failed and i dreams, to be the mistress cf Holroyd. left her liable for nearly as much

money as the Hall and th lands wer 1 iraro I I worth.' "Then was my aunt a pensioner on your bounty?" Dorothy cried, her face all aflame at. the idea. "Certainly not," with a. bitter nolle at the pride on the soft little face. "I rrai not to take possession until her i .ith, and she had always her annuity; but after that loss she never :ived in the same comfort quite as ho had done before." "I Derer noticed It," Dorothy put in. "Perhaps not. She was most anxious that you should not do BO." "Then this la your house?" said Dorothy, riming. "Stay, let me speak. I will not keep you out of your rights. The day after she" her voice trembling "is taken aw;:y. I. too. will go." and then she turned away, to hide alike her anger and her tears. David Stevenson rose also, his face hard and set in response to the bitterness of the girl's tones, his hands trembling, and his heart as heavy as lead. A sharp reply rose to his tongue, but it went no further, for all at once the sight of Dorothy's grief touched und softened him. "Dorothy! Dorothy!" he said, "what II KISSED IT. an 1 ever have said or uone to yon that you should treat me like this? I have loved you all my life, just as I tore you now, but there is no crime in that, surely? By writing and asking yon to be my wife. I certainly never meant to insult you. and yet you seem to think I have done you some deadly wrong to offer you what most men !OBsMer the highest compliment they can pay to any woman. The idea of your talking of my rights here, when your aunt is still lying in the house, it too cruel, too unkind. I am not an interloper, who cheated my friend out of her dues; on the contrary, 1 saved her from all the unpleasantness and the expense of exposure. She never looked upon me as you do now. I don't think, Donthy," he ended reproachfully, "that I have deserved this frrom you." Dorothy had hidden her face upon the chimney-shelf. "I am very miserable," she said, in a choking voice. "I'm very sorry." David Stevenson drew his own conclusions from the admission; then after a minute or two of silence, he said, "There is one thing I should like to toll you before I go, Dorothy" "Yes," vry meekly. It is (on't think I am trying to force myself on you when you are in trouble, for it is because you are alone and in trouble that I must tell you. It is that I ihink now about you as I alnappens, one pair of arms will be always have thought, and as I believe I always shall think. And I want you to remember. Dorothy, that if ever you feel any differently toward me than you have done lately, you have only to send a line and say, David, I want you." Or if you choose to go away into the world altogether, to marry, to do BAJthiag, you know that, whatever ways opon for yon, one lover always ready to call you mistress, one man always ready to lie down under your feet. That was what I came to say to-day." There was a death-like silence. Dorothy struggled to speak, but could not. Then she put out her hand in a blind sort of way toward him, and David bent down and kissed i!. MfdehST Of them said a word more, an.: after a moment or so he released her hand, and went out of the room, knowing as surely as if she said it in plain words, that Dorothy Strode had given her heart away, and that she would never send for him in this world: that it iras all over, and at an end between them forever. So he went homo to his own handsome, lonely house, and looked around as a condemned man may look around the cell which is to be his while life lasts. He was quietly and utterly Tiiserable. for until a few months ago öorothy had been the life and main-

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CHAPTER VIII. COUPLE of hours passed before he remembered that he had ever mentioned the tabject of Miss Dimsdale's funeral to Dorothv. or sctually tc Id her precise stances in what had rnmiM'caMiMWMiMt been left. "I hare lost my head over all this business," he said, with a grim laugh to himself; "and she. poor little girl, is probably worrying herself to know Whether she can afford to buy herself a black gown, I must send her a line down at once." Dorothy therefore, in something less than an hour's time, received the following note: ".My Dear Dorothy: I quite forgot this morning to mention several matters of importance just now. First, to tell you that when everything is settled there will be at least a thousand pounds for you. Your aunt has left you everything. Therefore 1 have sent into Colchester for Mawson to come out and .-ee you about the funeral, which will be. of course, in every respect as you wish to have it. May I suggest to you that you shall carry out Miss Dimsdale's often expressed views on this subject plain and good and Without ostentation? With regard to your mourning, it will be best for you to employ your regular dress people. I am obliged to mention this, as, not being of age. you cannot legally pay for necessary bills. After next month you will be the absolute mis-ties-, of whatever the property will realise. Always your true friend, "DAVID." This Dorothy received soon after four in the afternoon, just after Barbara had lighted the lamps in the drawing-room and drawn the crimson curtains closely over the windows. "There is a letter. Miss Dorothy, dear." she said, glad of anything that would help to break the loneliness and monotony of that awful day, "and while you read it I'll go and see if your cup of tea isn't ready; you have had nothing this day. and a cup of tea and a hit of hot battered toast'll be belter than nothing for you." "Thanks, Barbara," said Dorothy, listlessly. Poor child! she cried a little over the note, because the subject brought back the remembrance of her sorrow again, but her tears did not last long; indeed, she had wept so violently during most of the day that her tears seemed to be almost exhausted now. And then she put it back on the little table at her elbow. "Poor David!" she said, softly, "it is too bad for him. 1 wish I could have liked him; Auntie wished it too. Dear Auntie! But I can t. I can't, and Auntie liked Dick best afterward. It made he) so peaceful and happy to know that I was going to be Dick's wife-that Dick was going to take care of me always. And yet, poor David! Oh! I wish he would marry someone else. Elsie Carrington likes him so much- Elsie always thought David was perfect. I wonder when 1 am safely out of the way and married to Dick, whether David could IT WILL HELP YOI . be brought to think of Elsie a little. It would he saeh s good thing for her, and she is pretty and good, an 1 oh! so fond of him. 1 v-onder if I were to gire David just a little hint, just a su.spioion of a hint that Elsie has always liked him. If he wouldn't why, Ellsie would never know that I bad said anything, and then if he knew he might soon get to like her better than mo. I am sure if Dick had not cared for me as he does, and had married somebody else, I would marry David at once, and Auntie would be glad, too, if she knew. David used to he her favorite, and she always liked FJsie, always,"

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"Now, my dear," said Barbara, coming in. "here is a nice cup of tea and a plate of toast. Try to eat it, my dear; it will help you to bear it." "Yes, Barbara." said Dorothy, her eyes filling with tears again.

CHAPTER IX. following morning Dick Aylmer made his appearance at the Hall quite early. "How have you been getting on. my darling?" he said, when Dorothy fairly ran into his arras. "Oh! it was such a miserable day yesterday," she answered mournfully. "I sat here alone all day crying and thinking about Auntie, except when" "Yes? When " "When David Stevenson came to see me." Dick could not help frowning a little. "David Stevenson? why did he come?" " Weil, because he is Auntie's executor be mfiM to do everything: and oh! Dick, everything belongs to him now the very bouse it his." "His. this house! Why. what do you mean?" "I will tell you." she said. "You know; but no, of course you don't know, but I will tell you. Yon see. Auntie had this house and all the farm and so on, and also an annuity of eight bundled a year, which was bought for her by a very queer old aunt of hers. Well. David told me yesterday that Auntie had also what he called some loose money, and with this she speculated a little, and did pretty well with it. I dare say she was thinking of me, poor darling. Well, two years ago a bank in which she had a couple of shares failed, and she had to pay up a great deal more money than she had, so she sold the Hall to David, for they both thought then that I should end by marrying him. and they thought nobody would ever know anything about it. David says he gave her much more than anybody else would have Ihme, and that she was never to be disturbed while she lived. But it is all David's now, and he says that there will be only about a thousand pounds fur me when everything is settled. Put I never knew a word till yesterday." "And the fellow came and told all this!" cried Dick, in disgust. "Why. 'pOO my word, it isn't decent. Can't he even let the mistress be carried out of the house before he claims it?" "No, Dick, it wasn't like that," J-rothy protested meekly, anxious to do even David justice. "But, you see, he is executor, and nobody can do anything without him. So he was obliged to tell me that, and rhen 1 insisted on hearing everything else." "Oh, see," somewhat molificd. "Then you didn't tell him anything about me?" "We never mentioned you, Dick." she answered quickly. II" dul not speak for :t minute, but sat holding one of her hands in his. and tugging at his mustache with the other. "Darling." he burst, out at last. "I've got such a lot to tell you, and a good deal to confess to you, that I don't know where to begin. But you will hear all I've got to say -you won't be frightened or angry, will yen?" "Dick," she said, beginning to tremble, "you are not going to throw me over?" "Throw you over!" he repeated, half amused. "My dear, I worship the very ground you tread on. Throw you over! no. more likely you will be thy one to do that." To be continued.) CURED HIS WIFE OF "GADDING" CoiiiMM'tii'iit tIii-U:tiil Locked Her In a Itoom for Six Wks. Husbands in New Haven, Conn, have a very effective method of curing wives of the habit of "gaddine around." One man named Hates. win was ainicted with a gadding wife, essayed to cure her by locking her up in a room. He was driven to this act because his helpmeet was rarely home when she was wanted, and in consequence he seldom had a well-cooked meal or a tidy house to come home to. Instead of having a family row he thought he would lock her up so that he would know where to lind her when wanted. He fitted up an iron-barred and padlocked door, and every day before leaving the bouse he locked hia wife in. This was done day after day. Soon the enighhors began to miss Mrs. Bates, and there was much speculation as to the cause. When the neighbors went to the door to call there was no response to their raps and the house seemed deserted. This seemed remarkable, for there was a time when Mrs. Bates was seen abroad rery day. Finally the mystery was explained. The neighborhood was : art led one day at the sight of Mrs. Bates leaning out of a third-story window of her house shouting for help. Soon a group of neighbors gathered and to them the woman related a startling story. She claimed that for six weeks her husband had kept, her locked up in the house, and under no circumstances would so much as give her the liberty of stepping outside the door in his absence. She had stood the treatment as long as she could ami had decided to rebel. Tho excited neighbors told the police the story, and in a few minutes an officer was sent to investigate. He found tin woman's story true. The door of her room was fastened with a huge iron bar padlocked to the door casing. The policfl sent at once for the woman's husband and made him unlock the door and remove the bar and padlock.

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HON. J. M. B. SILL OF MICHIGAN. tie Baa dust Returned from the Court of COTW, Wlieru lie lias Served His Country A DUtln culshed Awerlcaa Scholar. OX. JOHN M. B. SILL, ex-minister resident and consul-general to Corea. is a native of Michigan, and has turned into his6?th year. Although he one of the best known educators in this country his whole life up to the time of his departure for the Hermit kingdom h '.s been passed in Michigan. For forty yean he was Identified with different educational institutions cf Detroit as teacher, superintendent and principal, and as iegent of the great university. When be was born Michigan was a far-reaching territory and Detroit itself was yet but little altered irorn the older city which had been the outpost of the French dominion along the Saint Lawrence. Ke grew to a lad of 11 in the hamlet of Black Rock and then removed with his parents to JonesriUe, where most of his preparatory schooling was acquired. He was one of the early graduates of the State Normal school in the beautiful .Michigan city which bad been named ioi Prince Vpsilantni in the days of the Greek war of independence. He was destined to pass a large part cf his early life with that school and ( v aa -t(i i A. 'S iif e- , v3 J. M. B. SILL. to remain closely identified with it in after years. Graduating from the Normal school In 1854, be at once became a teacher in the institution and continued in that capacity for several years. During this period he wrote and published the standard work on grammar, which bears his name, and has since always been held in high esteem as a text-book. At the outbreak of the war. although Prof. Sill was less than oO, he had acquired sufficient prominence to be elected president of the Michigan State Teachers' Association, and soon afterward was called to Detroit to become the second superintendent of the public schools. His Identification with education in Detroit continued uninterrupted for almost a quarter of a century. It was a far cry from the Michigan State Normal school to the palac- of His Imperial .Majesty, the King of Corea. but to this new duty the veteran educator was summoned by President Graver Cleveland four years ago. Although Prof. Sill had never been an ac tive participant in politics, he had been a lifelong Democrat. More times than there is space herein to repeat he was the forlorn hope candidate of his party for regent, superintendent of instruction or member of the state board of education. He was never elected and never expected to be, but his friends repeatedly evidenced the popularity of the professor by running him far ahead of his associates on the fore-doomed Democratic state ticket. His ability as an educator was known to President Cleveland, who had himself known Siil's synthesis as a text book. How ably he performed his important duties at that far distant post is wellknown. His period of service covered the insurrection of the Corean religious fanatics, the internal commotions between rival factions in the royal family, and finally the formidable Japanese invasion. His correspondence with the state department daring all this trying time was highly creditable and he won recognition as an able diplomat as well as a savant. Prof. Sill has lately turned the affairs of the American resiliency at Seoul over to his successor, and returned to his old home and bis old frieads, where and by whom he has been warmly received. Tln H4tara Anoatir. We look at our churches with their Congregations, growing in numbers and dwindling in faith, says 11. Q, Chapman, and we ask ourselves, in all these buildings, cheap or costly, what real prayers rise; and of those that rise, do any get above the roof? What God hears them, and has there ever been an answered prayer? We look at the face of tho dead and repeat a burial service. If after the manner of men 1 have fought with beasts at Kphesus, what advanlageth it me If the dead rise not? And as we say the words we ask ourselves, "Do the dead rise?" And If any one is found who believes these things, he knows that there is another at his elbow who believes them not a whit or an atom, and these two can hit on no universe that shall satisfy both, nor can one be poet to the other.

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Why Commander Bosh Favors a Successor to the Mtchlcran. The proposition to build a modern naval cruiser for duty in patrolling the great lakes in place of the antiquated -Michigan, is again energetically agitated in the navy department and strong pressure is being brought to bear on congress for an appropriation and the requisite authority, says the New York Tribune. The plan has been set in motion by Commander Richard Rush of the frigate Michigan, who is in Washington for examination for promotion, which he successfully passed. He is the grandson of that Richard Rush who was secretary of the treasury from 1S25 to 1S29, after having been attorney-general from 1S14 to 1817. and who is famous for having made the Rush-Bagot arrangement for the limitation of the British and American naval forces on the great lakes. Commander Rush, with the experience of a long cruise in command Of the only warship in these waters, has not proposed to abrogate the convention made by his distinguished ancestor, but he is none the less resolute in his belief that conditions have changed materially since 1S17 and that a fairer distribution of the defense work of the government to afford protection to vast inland commerce and municipal wealth is not only advisable bat essential to the common welfare. In long talks with Secretary Long and Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, Mr. Rush gave those Officials considerable valuable information regarding the remarkable awakening of laval interests In the ports visited by the Michigan, due. in a measure, to the excellent exhibition of the Illinois, Michigan and Ohio naval militia battalions, which equal similar organizations on the sea coast as military auxiliaries. New divisions of the state maritime reserves are in process of formation at Buffalo, Milwaukee and other points, while those at Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and Toledo are rapidly growing in strength and efficiency. The men enlisted in these divisions of the auxiliary would prove invaluable in time of trouble, not by assimilation into the regular service, but as arf adjunct to the army and navy. But in addition to this Mr. Rush says that all the maritime, commercial and other patriotic people in the states bounded by the lakes are enthusiastic for adequate naval protection to the enormous interests amassed in the last twenty years, and it is extremely humiliating to be compelled to place all their hope upon a single old side-wheeled cruiser, built in sections at Pittsburg and after transportation in sections to Erie, launched at Erie ever fifty-three years ago. Since that time the commerce of the lakes has surpassed that of the seaboard, so far as American vessels are concerned, and splendid vessels, comparable only to the trans-Atlantic record breakers, have become numerous, all of them built in lake shipyards. While the sole naval vessel has grown utterly obsolete, the revenue cutter service in the same waters has been (quipped with modern. fast, steel cruisers, having such refinement as torpedo tubes, and the Canadians have built a formidable Heet of patrol vessels with similar appliances. ROMANCE IN A CAMPAIGN. Politics and love are intertwined in the romance of Will D. Wright. ühiteO States district attorney at Chattanooga and Miss Nellie Spears of Jasper, Tenn., whose marriage was recently solemnized. During the presidential campaign Mr. Wright fell in love with Miss Spears. Pitted against him as a rival for the young woman's affections was II. H. Hannah, a personal friend. Mr. Wright was a candidate for elector on the McKinley ticket during the lati election against H. EL Hannah on tlie Bryan ticket. They agreed to carry on a dignified and clean campaign and let nothing interfere with their strong friendship. It was also agreed that the winner in the election should have a clear field in the race for the jroncg woman's hand. Mr. Hannah won. H MBS. WRIGHT. proposed, but was refused. Mr. Wright afterward came out for United States district attorney. Another agreement was entered into between the two men. it Mr. Wright was appointed to the office he was to propose to Miss Spears and marry her if possible. If there was no appointment there was to be no wedding. Mr. Hannah worked faithfully for his friend, the appointment tu made and the wedding; took place. Mr. Hannah, who is private secretary to Governor Taylor, officiated as best man. Another Name for It. "Your remarks are ill-timed," said the landlady to the frivolous boarder; "you should remember that there is a time for everything." "Yes." replied the boarder, "and I guess this is the time; but I never diu es re for hash."

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NEWS OF INDIANA,

MINOR HAPPENINGS DUHINC THE PAST WEEK. A Ilr:it::I It :!ery CoBaBftttted at Vertlnbar Am oni C pie Crwattf Vrmlad Threat of Koti Law Mlulstcr and Brldv-ElceC. A Dratal BMwr Cnitltfd, Veedersbarg, Ind. A few nights ago Enoch Thompson and wife, wealthy and respected citizens living near this place, were surprised by the appearance at their home of a burglar, wearing a black mask. He demanded their money, at the same time producing two revolvers, Laying he would kill them before he Wt. They are old people and the resistance they offered was feeble. Mr. Thompson gave the rob her all tho money In the house, about ?4u and a check Tor flOO, He then demanded more money saying he came to kill, and would finish his work quickly if bis request was not granted. He then lecki J Mr. Thompson in a closet and took Mrs. Thompson out to the kitchen, he said, to kill her. Reaching there she began a ptteWU appeal. wh n he struck her. felling her to the floor and strialng a door, cutting a long gash on the forehead. The burglar then iocked. them both in the close-, piled beds against the dour and began striking matches, raying he was going to burn them np. He left without doing this. In the morning neighbors rescued the old people, finding them badly bruisod and guttering greatly. The community was indignant, and Mr. Thompson offered a reward for the capture of the burglar. The sheriff of th county a ad the city marshal of Veedersburg, assisted by a detective agency of Indianapolis, began working on the case. Meanwhile a young man named Alan Curtis, who bad lived here, but who had accompanJed his mother to Danville. 111., was under suspicion and a witness was found who claimed t I have overbeard him counting the money an I telling another man the particulars of the affair. Curtis was arrested, in Danville and brought here yesterd ty evening. The three trains were me: by 500 people. It had been annoum . ,1 that he was arrested in the morning, and not knowing on what train to expect him. they met all trains. The excitement grew strong and threats of mob law are made if his guilt is established. Curtis was taken to the offne of 'Squire Grlgson. who bound him over to court in 11,009 bonds, failing to give which he was removed to tha Covington jail. A Mints tv ft ad RrMe-Ktort. Marion. Ind.- A wedding which possessed more than an ordinary amount of romantic interest, and was attended with more or less mystery, was solemnized here yesterday afternoon, th contracting parties being the Rev. Barte M. Bllswortn, pastor of Grace M. E. church, of Springfield, ().. and Miss Dorothy Cottrell Carson of Piqua. O. The bridal pair arrived via the afternoon train from the east, attended by Miss Violet Cook and J. Hamilton Calhoun, both members of the bridi -groom's congregation, and leading p -pie in Springfield society. They wefe driven to the parsonage of the Rev. .(. M. Driver, of the First M. !:. church, where the ceremony was performed. The bride and bridegroom left on the evening train for the east, and they Will be at home to theh- friends at Springfield the latter part of February. It is understood that there Were obi ctions to the marriage, which prompted a trip to this city. Charge Agniiint Mr. Kvcrctt. Decatur, Ind. C. E. Everett, formerly engaged in the real estate and loan business at Fort Wayne, and conspicuous in politics, having served as ehai.man of the Allen county republican central committee, and being a candidate for the nomination for governor, and now a resident of Chicago, induced Dr. H. M Aspy and Cieorge Dolds, of Geneva, to become his sureties on a note for $2.000. He gave them mortgages on Allen county real estate as a personal guarantee. Yesterday, as alleged. Dr. Aspy discovered that the BSOflglg held by him were forgeries, and he caused i warrant to is?ue for Mr. Everett's apprehension, a telegram was forwarded to Chicago, but the Chicago police responded that Mr. Everett had absented himself from the city. Qfttttag KphiIv 'r K'n-.iTi-.iMiMMit . Laporte, Ind. The uniform division of the Knights of Pythias of this ity will be reorganised this week. The divisions in this city, Hammond, Michigan City, South Bend and Plymouth have been merged into one battalion, and drill work will be immediately begun for the Indianapolis encampment. Major Jordan, of Hammond, is in com mand. tipiirrnl Stat Nuvh. The .lohn Gilberl Dry Goods company, which for lift y years has been one of the institutions of Evansville. has sold its entire stock to Messrs. Fowler. Dick A Walker, of that ity, and will retire from business. Some hours after Jacob Bhlotooer a guest at the Hotel Neufer at Goshen, hail retired to bed, gas whs discovered coming from his room, and he was found dead having been suffocated by the fumes. He was .".7 years old. and carried $."oo Insurance for beneil of his wife. Mrs. Jack dreigg. a handsome society woman of Evansville, having a strong liking for theatricals, has joined the "In Cay New York" comnination, where she is known as Winnie Sennett. She la the premier danseuse of the company.