Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 5, Plymouth, Marshall County, 13 January 1899 — Page 3

A FELON'S LOVE.

BY HENRY W. CHAPTER XIII. A few hours afterward the coach came lumbering up to Sullivan's door, whore William Luke was standing, anxiously watching for its coming. Directly the driver descended from the box. he seized him by the arm. "Good evening. Sam." he exclaimed. "There is something I very much wish to ask of you." "Well, go ahead, mate; we have only ten minutes to liquor up in." "I will liquor you up more than you can drink in the next fortnight," cried Luke, "if you tell me truly what I want to know." "What is it? Blaze away!" "Did you or did you not, on the night I traveled up with you here, bring a letter to Tom Baynes, the cuok at Redmount?" "I I bring a letter to Tom Baynes?" echoed the man, pausing for a moment to consider. "No; that I certainly did not. Who says as I did?" "Then it's false!" screamed Luke. "He had no such letter calling him away; and there was some reason for his fearing to meet me face to face!" "It certainly is very odd," admitted Mr. Hall to Luke, when he presented himself again the next morning at the station. "And you say that the driver, Sam Jones, positively denies having brought up a letter for Bayncs on that night?" "Yes. sir," replied Luke, "on that or any other occasion." "Well. Bayncs must have told me a lie, for I remember distinctly his saying the driver; and there was no one among the passengers whom he was likely to have known." "No: they all went on to Mount Gipps." "You are certain?" "Quite certain. I was the only one Who stayed behind at Sullivan's." "Then I must own it begins to look very mysterious," said Mr. Hall. "I think you have some grounds for your suspicions after all." "Thank you for saying that, sir," returned Luke. "I have felt that you must think me quite mad upon the subject; but I cannot help it. There is something in me which seems to urge me on. I don't know what it is, but, whatever it may be, it has been strong enough to enable me to keep from the drink; and that is what I have not had the pluck to do this many a day." "Then nurse the feeling." said Mr. Hall. "If it keeps Us hold upon you it will bring you more good than all the discoveries you may make, or even the one thousand pounds reward." "I feel tlrat, sir; and with Heaven's Tielp I'll never touch another drop." "Amen to that!" cried Mr. Hall. "Whatever searches you may wish to make, Luke," he continued, "you are at perfect liberty to make them at your leisure on and about the station; but I fear ycu will find nothing by which you will trace your brother. We searched every nook and corner." "Would you think it a liberty, sir, if I were to ask of you rather a strange favor?" . "Not at all. What is it?" "It is permission for me to occupy Baynes' hut." "Certainly why not? But what seems much more to the point to me is the advisability of telegraphing to Sydney and throughout the country to detain Tom Baynes and is wife. As a justice of the peace I can have him arrested upon suspicion of having been concerned in the disappearance of your brother. You can then see the man. If your suspicions prove incorrect, very well. We shall all feel more satisfied, at any rate." . Accordingly Mr. Hall despatched telegrams to Sydney. Adelaide, Melbourne, and a number of other places through which he thought Baynes would have probably passed while Luke took possession Meanof the Baynes' hut. The place was very much in the same state as when it had been last occupied. The charred logs remained upon the hearth, and the furniture if the bedstead, table, and two benches could be called furniture was there Just as it had been left. William Luke retired early from the gossip of the men's hut. He was tired of hearing the same old stories of how Mrs. Baynes had lived in rigid seclusion, and what a capital mate Tom Baynes had been. A roll of blankets bad been given out to him from the store; and, as he entered the hut, he lighted a candle and surveyed the scene. It was quite a warm night, but he shivered as he looked around. A small heap of brushwood lay in one corner by the chimney, so he thought he would light a fire. Kneeling down, he removed the logs whlch were there, charred in the center, just as the flame had died out and smothed the white ashea away "with his hand to make room for the dry scrub. Again he shivered, feeling a strange chilling sensation as though some awful thing were about to happen to him. "It's the drink," he said aloud. "I thought I had got over it. Maybe I haven't yet. I am nervous that's -what's the matter with me."

NESFIELD. Outside the hut was a pile of chopped wood; so, carrying some within, he soon made a cheerful blaze. Then, having drawn one of the wooden stools close up to the fireplace, he sat down and commenced to smoke. His thoughts flew rapidly back over all the strange incidents of the past two years of his life. It seemed as though it were but yesterday that he entered the service of old Mr. Hughes at Froyles. All the good intentions and resolutions which he had then formed came vividly before his mind how earnestly he had determined to give up the drink, and how honestly he had meant to lead a new life. Then he thought how small were the trials over which he fell an old man's temper and crotchety ways, the every-day worries of most servants' lives. Have not all servants, he reflected, to fit themselves in, as it were, to their employers ways and habits? Is it not a part of their servitude to try to study their master's little foibles! And then do they not have certain advantages? Are they not as a class totally emancipated from all the responsibilities of life which fall, as a rule, to the share of the smallest householder? What are taxes. Queen's or parochial, gas or water rates, to the average domestic servant? Their anxiety concerning these thir s begins and ends in carrying the unwelcome documents relating thereto upstairs. What does it signify to them whether coals are nineteen shillings or twenty-five shillings per ton? The English servant can rest with a tranquil mind, undisturbed by visions of blue slips of paper threatening distraint unless certain moneys due to her Majesty's government, are paid before a particular date. Not only is a servant a perfectly irresponsible person, so far as all such matters are concerned, but he can exact as much civility from his employer for the time being as his employer can from him. These thoughts flowed through Luke's mind as he gazed into the blazing log-fire, and they caused him to wonder at his own folly at not having had the sense to know when he was well and comfortably provided for. At last, rousing himself from his reverie with a shrug of the shoulders, he threw another log or two upon the fire. Then he pulled out his watch. Only half-past nine! How slowly the evening had gone! He could hear the r.oise of voices and laughter down in the men's huts. They, at any rate, seemed to be free from care. And again his thoughts wandered back to tho day when his great trouble fell upon him. Why should he, of all men, have been chosen to bear such tribulation? Other men had been given to drink, and had continued in their sottish ways until death had claimed them for its own. Other men? Ay, and gentlemen bred and born, thousands upon thousands of them, yet they had not suffered as he had suffered. Oh, why should he, of all men, be singled out for such fearful punishment on account of this widely-prevailing human weakness? How many men had he not known who were perfect slaves to the vice? Even in his boyhood, when a page, he had grown accustomed to seeing his young masters come homo the worse for drink. Then, by hearing such incidents, laughed at and spoken lightly about, he had grown to regard them as matters of course. "Wasn't Master Charles precious tipsy last night? A good job for him the missus didn't see him!" Such remarks had often been made by his fellows in the servants hall; and to his half-educated mind it seemed from the way pePl.e spoke about it that it was rather a grand thing to get tipsy, and that the man who took kindly to his liquor was by no means a fool. CHAPTER XIV. And so. as he grew in years, drinking became a confirmed habit in him. By-and-by he found it was almost a necessity. Until he had stimulated himself for the day he was wretched and almost Incapable of attending to his duties. By night he was generally intoxicated; and on such a night, while sleeping off the fumes of his Intemperance, he had fallen a victim to that horrible accusation. The noise of the men in the huts had ceased. A great stillness seemed to have set in, and tho very silence roused Luke to the fact that ho had yet to go to bed. Having piled more wood upon the fire, he proceeded to make himself comfortable for the night. Upon the wooden bunk or bedstead, which had been made with rough planks and uprights driven Into the earth, there was an ample supply of dry fern and heather which had served as a mattress for the previous occupants of the hut. This Luke had proceeded to shake up, so as to render It more comfortable, for It was hard and closely pressed from being in use for some time. In doing so, he suddenly startel back. What was that at the head of the bed? A snake? Seizing a stick, he advanced carefully, holding the candle In hU left hand. No, It was no snake. It was a piece of leather a broken waist-belt. Taking it up, he carefully examined it;

and, 'apon the inside, he beheld, plainly marked in ink," R. L.," the iatiials of I

his brother. How had it come there? Bob Luke had been in the hut then, and the belt had been broken probably in a struggle. Whatever had been done with his body, supposing him to have been murdered, and the things he had upon him seemed as great a mystery to Luke as ever; but this pieco of belt had no doubt been overiooked by his assailants, and there it seemed as a witness against them. Luke searched carefully amongst the fern for some additional evidence, but could find nothing. At last, worn out with thinking, he lay down and fell, asleep. For five or six hours the weary man, slept soundly. The fire had burned down to a few smouldering logs, and the tallow dip which he had left alight; had long since expired. The morning breeze blew keenly through the crevices of the slab walls, though thej sun had not yet risen, when William Luke moved painfully in his sleep. Then he commenced to struggle aud cry out strange things. Whatever his dreams may have beenthey caused him to clutch and tear ail the sides of the bunk and strike out wildly in the air, while beads of pers-' piration silent proofs of his mind's; agony bedewed his distorted features.( At length, as if his soul could bearj the torture no longer, he leaped from the bed with a yell and shouted, "Yes,' Bob what is it? Here I am. Whatj was it that you said?" Then he became quite awake. He struck a match and righted an-, o'.her candle. Seeing no one in the hut, he listened; but he heard nothing. Still vividly impressed with the idea that he had heard his brother's voice, he opened the door, and looked all around outside. No one was there. Several' times he called out "Halloa, Bob! Bob Luke! It's me Bill your brother Bill! Do you hear?" No answer came. At last he went back into the hut and sat down to wait for day-light. In vain he tried to remember what it was he had dreamed, but all he could recall was that he had hear his brother's voice calling out for help. "It's that horrible drink; I haven't got the better of it yet," he murmured, to himself. "I am shaken to pieces' with it, and can't sleep in peace!" (To be Continued.) SOCIAL PRETENDERS. The ways of social pretenders are always amusing and often ingenious. The query. "Do you know the SmytheHobsons?" and the reply, "Oh, intimately; why, I dined with them only two nights ago," are common everywhere, though they deceive no one.. In England, however, there are special forms and devices which are particularly interesting. An Englishman lells of a certain ingenious friend of his; who, when writing a letter, invariably, begins with "Dear Duchess." Through this he lightly runs his pen, and then, proceeds below soberly with "Dear, Smith." By means of this simple de-. vice he has contrived to advance himself considerably in life. "In the earlier days of my London career," continues the Englishman, "I remember having been much im-, pressed by an individual who was apparently acquainted with all the 'carriage folk in town. His hat was per-, petually on the move. No sooner had a carriage dashed past than he wouldj lesiurely bow, at times casually remarking, 'Why, there's Lady Baltimore. What a charming woman she Is!' or otherwise making some such airy comment on the situation. As a matter of fact, he was every bit as complete a stranger to the lady as I was myself. I groan when I recall the numerous dinners and other expensive civilities I wasted on this execrable old humbug in those innocent days." Another self-advertiser had once, and once only, been favored with a brief conversation with a prominent royal personage. Ever afterward he invariably addressed every one as "Sir," occasionally, however, correcting himself and apologizing on the grounds of his long connection with royalty. Still another individual contrives to enter upon his intimacy with great people immediately on learning of their demise. No sooner do the papers announce that "The right honorable tho earl of Scattermore" has departed thi3 life than this fellow straightaway adopts the late peer as an old and much-lamented friend. He thrives on these spurious post-morten intimacies. The most surprising scheme, accord ing to American notions, is that of Mrs. Somerset Cobbles, a fascinating and ambitious little lady, possessed of pretty eyes and a fixed determination to make her way up in the world. Dally for weeks did a smart single brougham, bearing the royal colors and stamped with the royal crest, display itself at her door, and dally for weeks did the envious neighbors grind their teeth thereat. Somehow her secret leaked out. She had, it appeared, bribed the coachman Into bringing his mas ter's carriage to do short duty each day outside her door! Tested Ulm. Butler "Oh, Mr. Toot, while you were out a gentleman called ' "Ah! Was he a big, strong man?" "No, ho wasn't very strong. I found no trou ble in throwing him out." Ten cents in your pocket will pur chase more than the dollar some one owes you.

essage of Condemnation of lynching, non- 1 :ommittal recommendations on the ?ontroversy between state and ncnnate colleges, denunciation of trusts and lobbyists and legislation giving the rtate board cf arbitration power :o enforce its decisions, were the leucines of the biennial message delivered nv Gov. Mount to the legislature on rinrsday. Great prominence was given to the subject of lynching, the ;overnor citing recent lawlessness in tipley and Scott counties, and saying imong other things: "AH sense of justice and safety re volts against the mob as a tribunal for pronouncing judgments or administerng punishment. It cannot be argued that lax enforcement ot law justihes a manifestation of contempt of courts, md disregard for the law. Any coun ty that can organize a sentiment to prevent lynchers from being punished can also organize against crime and mnish criminals in a court of justice. Where Ivnch lawlessnesss obtains. there justice is dethroned and courts are mvths. The constitution and aws of the state would there be tram pled under the bloodstained feet of brutal and lawless men. If mob vio lence is to go unpunished, then hate and malice will sit enthroned, and passion, fired by intoxication and governed by a spirit of revenge, instead of evidence, justice and the law, will render insecure life and property. The anarchist would welcome such condi tions and would then feel licensed to proceed to even up things according to his dwarfed sense of equity. Stringent L:iw Urcecl. "Every person charged with crime has the right, under the constitution and laws of the state, to a fair and impartial trial. For a better guarantee of this right and to awaken a more lively interest in the counties against lynchings and white-cappings, I recommend the enactment of a law making the county responsible for such conditions and liable in a civil suit for damages. In the case of lynching, the nearest of kin should be authorized to institute the suit, and for the offense of white capping the aggrieved party should have the right to recover damages. Any sheriff who permits a prisoner to be taken from his custody by a mob should be required by law to forfeit his office. Lax enforcement of laws eventually results in the people taking the law into their own hands. All good citi zens should feel a keen interest in the enforcement of the law. They should be willing and ready to testify before the grand jury or in court or to sit upon juries. The judge who will al low technicalities and dilatory motions to delay or thwart justice is in some degree responsible for the terrible crime of lynching, and the judge who condones this crime ami by word justifies such lawlessness has not the proper regard for the high functions of his office and is not fit to sit upon the bench. In recommending the enactment cf a "strict primary election law," the governor says: "The safety and perpetuity of a free government is in the keeping of the people. If corrupt men are selected to make laws, and if incompetent men are chosen to fill official positions.then evil results are certain to follow. The nomination for candidates for office should be so far removed as possible from the dominance of political lead ers and ring politicians, giving to all voters an equal, free and untrammeled right to be heard in the selection of candidates." Previous to the reading of the mes sage the republican organization slates were adopted by both branches of the legislature. Legislative Proceeding. The two branches cf the Indiana leg islature convened at 10 o'clock Thürs day morning. Citizens from all parts of the state crowded the two halls to wit ness the opening scenes. The organiza tion in both houses were made quietly and in order. The officers selected by the majority caucus were promptly elected and installed. In the house, after the usual prayer, Frank L. Lit tleton of Indianapolis was elected speaker and sworn in after making a brief speech of thanks. In the senate, Senator Newby was sworn in as president pro tem by Judge Montas of the supreme court, and the other republican caucus nominees were elected. After the business sessions of both houses were completed a committee waited on the governor and informed him that the joint ses sion of the two houses was ready for his biennial message. The message was an unusually long document. It was accompanied by an appendix in which the governor fairly reviewed the part Indiana took in furnishing men and material for the Spanish war. The first division of the message was de voted to state finances, and the gov ernor showed a reduction of $1,320,000 In the public debt, which reduces the total state debt to f 5,100,G15.12. The for reform in township and county government, and the governor hackee! his recommendations by showing very wide variations in rates of local taxa tion. Some space was devoted to the subject of lynchings, and the governor strongly recommends legislation tend ing to prevent these outrages by mak ing the counties in which they occur financially responsible The governor sprung a new notion by advocating at length that agricul ture should be taught in the public schools. The governor suggests legis lation by which labor controversies can be brought into the courts. The

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overnor recommends that no insurince commission bo created, declaring hat the matter was better handled through the auditor's office than it is by separate commissions in either Ohio or Illinois. He recommended a drastic anti-trust law. declaring that the one enacted two years ago is valueess. WHAT'S IN A NAME. Who says we are nnromantic at this end of the century? Who says tho that the modern girl has Iot her affection for heroes who are all eyes and highsounding names and for heroines whose life histories are made to match i the names supposed to have been bestowed on them at their baptism? We are always being told that we are nothing if not practical now and that girls who have dispensed with cnaperoncs, who ride bicycles, who are proud of their ap petites and would disdain to shrink from a live mouse, are much too levelheaded to be glamoured by fine names. In real life as we know, it is not only the Geoffry de Veres and the Cyril Deanes who enslave the hearts of the opposite sex. Plain Johns and still plainer Samuels are quite successful in affaires de coeur as Montagues or Claudes or Lancelots. But in fiction all is different, apparently. Heroes must have heroic names and heroines are uninteresting unless they bear some cognomen which goes trippingly on the tongue. One would have supposed, however, that in the modern novel considerations such as these would have no weight. That it is not so very good evidence that the spirit of romance is even yet alive and that deep down in the heart of the modern maiden, though she may not be aware of it herself, are cherished the very same ideals that were worshiped by gushing young ladies of the early 'GOs. One is glad to find this the case. .It is a relief to know that an end-of-the-century girl can be romantic and si 11 j', even to this extent. When she can no longer endure heroe3 and heroines of novels with "lovely names" then we shall indeed realize that there is nothing more to hope from her. The best playwrights venture to be more realistic than our novelists in christening their puppets. Is not the heroine of Mr. Henry Arthur Jones' new play a Jane? And not so long since it was a Susan he set before us in the same capacity. Mr. Pinero is equally reckless in naming his characters, but if he or Mr. H. A. Jones dubbed a hero William Blogg or a heroine Matilda he would be perfectly certain that the popularity of these persons would not be affected, because William Blogg and Matilda would be shown in the flesh and would prove quite as interesting as if they had been respectively Audrey and Gwendoline. The novelreader can, of course, only imagine what He and She are like and apparently it greatly stimulates tho imagination to read that it was between a Clarence, a Noel or a Lionel and a Brenda or Viola or Cecily that the course of true love ran with its customary turbulence. Indurated Feet. The French ethnologist. Prof. F. R?gnault, has made special studies in the far east in regard to the ability of the Hindoos to make use of their feet as auxiliaries of their hands. This ability is particularly noticeable when one watches Hindoo tradesmen at their work. The carpenter employs his feet as a vice and as a gauge; the shoemaker holds the shoe between his feet, leaving both his hands free to work upon it; the Hindoo butcher holds a knife between his big and second toe, and cuts his meat by drawing it across the knife and pressing it down with both hands. The help of the feet is most valuable in weaving, and it is a wonderful thing to us to see a Hindoo artisan use both his hand and feet in handling his loom. Regnault also observed a child climbing a tree, and grasping the branches of 1:2 tree between the first two toes of either foot, whenever a hold could thus be secured. This collaboration of the feet with the hands, it would seem, is the result of several changes in the physical development which the Hindoo race has undergone in the course of time through outward agencies. Their hip joints are much freer and more limber than ours, and will permit them to squat on the ground and at the same time draw the feet so near to their hands that they can grasp with their feet the work in hand, and hold it with some expense of strength. The ankle joint is also limber, and works freely and the big toe is more developed and can be moved by them at will as regards its bending and stretching, its separating from and approaching toward the second toe. The normal foot of the Hindoo shows a large space between the big toe and the second. This, however, U due solely to their wearing sandals, which arc held in place by a wooden peg placed between these two toes. The constant muscular exercises practiced in holding the sandals naturally tends to strengthen these toes, and tho use of the feet being a general custom, and tried even by children of this tender age, has gradually changed th3 Hindoo anatomy. In the government reformatory at West Australia hoy prisoners are to he handed over to the Salvation Array authorities, who will employ them on a new Industrial farm in the Collia district.

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MASONIC. PLYMOUTH K I L W I N I N G LODGE, Xo, i.9, F. and A.M.; meets first and third Friday evenings of each month. Daniel McDonaJd,V. M. Tohn Corberly Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No 49, R. A. M.; meets second Friday evening of each month. L. Southworth H. P. J. CJilson, Sec. PLYMOUTH COMMAXD'RY, No 26 K. T.; meets second 2nd fourth Thursday of each month D McDonald E. C; L.TannerRec PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No 26, O. E.S.; meets first and third Tuesdays of each month. Mrs. Mary L. Thayer V. M.Mrs. G. Aspinall. Sec ODD FELLOWS. AMERICÜS LODGE, No. 91; meets every Thursday evening: at their lodge rooms on Michigan st. Ed Campbell N. G. Chas. Shearer Sec KNIGHTS OF PYTrllAS. HYPERION LODGE, No, 117 meets every Monday night in Castle Hall. Lou Allman C. C. Chas, S, Price K. of R. and S. FORESTERS. PLYMOUTH COURT, No. 499; meets the second and fourth Friday evenings f each month, in K. of P. hall. Elmer Wcrnti C. R. Daniel Cramer Sec. HYPERION TEMPLE RATHBONE SISTERS, meets first and third Friday of each month Mrs J. G. Davis, Mrs. Rent Armstiong K. O. T. AI. PLYMOUTH TENT, No. 37; meets every Tuesday evening at K. O. T. M. hall. "Dan. Jacoby, Com. James Hoffman, Record Keeper. L. O. T. M. WIDE AWAKE HIVE, No. 67; meets every Monday night at K. O. T. M. hall on Michigan street. Mrs. Flora J. Ellis, Commander. Bessie Wilkinson, Record Keeper. HIVE NO. :S; meets every Wednesday evening in K. O. T. M. hall. Mrs. Maggie Fogle, Com., Alma E. Lawrence, Record Keeper. ROYAL ARCANUM. Meets first and third V Wednesday evenings of each month in Simon' ball. Moses M. Lauer, Regent. Francis McCrory, Sec. WOODMEN OF THE WORL D Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in K. of P. hall. C. M. Kasper, C. C. Joe Eich, Clerk O. A. R. MILES II. TIBBETS POST, G. A. R; meets every first and third Monday evenings in Simons ball Dwight L, Dickerson Com,. Charlie Wilcox, Adjt. SONS OF VETERANS. Meets every second and fourth Fri day evenings in G. A. R. hall J. A. Shunk, Captain. Cora B. North, ist Lieut. CHURCHES. P It E S H Y T E K I A N CII URCH Preaching at 10:30 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sabbath school at nooa. Junior Endeavor at 4 p. m. Senior Endeavor at C p. ra. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening. Teacher'B meeting im mediately following. Rev. Thornberry, Pastor. METHODIST Class meeting every Sunday morning at l:30 o'clock, Preaching at 10:30 a. m., and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 12 m. Epworth leagua ai 0:30 p. m. Prayer meeting ever Thursday evening at 7 :00 p, m. Ik S. Smith, pastor. .1. V. Wiltfong, clas leader. 1). Frank Redd, Sabbath school superintendent. PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL. St Thomas' church, Rev. Ym. Wirt Raymond, rector. Sunday services, 10:30 a. m., 7:30 p. m. Sunday service, at noon . Services Wednesday evenings at 7:30. Communion on holy days at 10 a. m. CHURCH OF (JOD-Garro and Water sts. Regular services 10:30 a. m., each Sunday. Third Sunday in each month preaching Ly J. L. Wince; fourth Sunday by II. V. Reed. 10:30 Sunday morning and 7:30 Sunday evening. Sunday school at 12 o'clock; Eva Raiteback Snpt. Prayer meeting tat 7:30 each Thursday exening. U N 1 TE D RR ETHERN. Sunday 0:30 a. m., class meeting. 10:30 a. mn and 7:S0 p, m., preaching by the pastor. 11:30 a. ra., Sunday School. 5 .00 p. m. Junior Y . P. C. U. meeting. 0:00 p. ra., Senior P. C. IT. meeting. A cordial Invitation is extended to the public. CATHOLIC CHURCH-Chmch is held on Sundays aj follows: First niasi at 7 "0 a. m.. second mass at 10 a. tn. Veppera at 3 p. m. Week day mass at 7:15. Father Moench pastor. ARE YOU ALIVE To tho fact that all successful business men credit thel succc-s to the liberal usu of printink? WUm no; proUt by their expericaot