Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1890 — Page 2

[Original.] SUDDEN PROPOSAL.

COSSXASCB O’CONXOR. " 'ft'as the week for the little red Mhle cloth. If Uncle Henry had only ohosen to make his visit a week earlier or a week later, everything might have been different with me. But I knew that Aunt Jane's strict system would not permit that another "cloth should be used, else I should have enlarged the table, and then sister Jo .md I would have met our Uncle at the same time and have had equal chances for his favor. He had been in Cuba for several years, and having become rich he had come back to visit his old home. His coming was unannounced to my Aunt, and as she would not display any such* weakness as being startled out of her csual programme, she simply said: “you’ll have to take us as you find us, and eat what is set before you without murmuring.” -“Sister Jane,” said he. “I'll agree net to murmur, if you have a dinner that will remind me of old times.” JS r ow I loved my twin sister with so rare a love that I gave her always the first and the best. So, that day, I made her sit at the table with the older people, while I hovered fondly about my chrysanthemum bed. •Josephine and I had been left orphans only one short year before, and we had found a home with our eccentric Aunt, our Father's single sister. She was really fond of us. but so different from our gentle Mother that wd often wept together when we were alone. Our sainted Mother was always kind and sympathetic” hut Aunt had often denied us some gratification which did not accord with her ideas of

economy • VVq were but seventeen and were not, •very wise. Jo had light hair while mine was as black as the raven's wing; 'her eyes were blue and merry, mine were dark and grave. She had winsome ways and sweet smiles, while I oould not overcome a native reserve of manner. Perhaps, then, if wo had been presented to Uncle Henry at the same time be would huve chosen her. Certain it is that she practiced her favorite wiles so successfully that be'fore dinner was over Uncle Henry said:

Jane. I think I must take this niece hbme with-rae. You wrote that there were two of brother John’s children left, I believe. It would be fair for you to have one and I the other.” Aunt Jane's lips moved convulsively a moment, and then she said: ••I suppose it would be fair, brother, but what would you do with a young girl out there in that heathen coun-U-y ?”

Uncle Henry threw back his head jnd laughed so loudly that the sound reached my ears, and caused me to creep stealthily to the window where I could overhear the conversation. “Why, I'd send her to school, and I'd take her among white folks, for there are many Americans there, you should know. And I’d dress her as good as the best of ’em. for I've got the money to do it. I have.” Aunt Jane fidgeted a little, and then said, brusquely: ••Ifyou had a wife.it would be more to the purpose." “I’ll get my partner's wife to look after her now and then,” he replied. I could bear it no longer. I rushed into their presence and remonstrated against the scheme. I wept over Jo, skying: & v • Don't leave yoi# poor old Gertie. Say you won't go. Trust me for the tine toilets and the school. Come away with me now. my own dear, and never see that horrid man again. Oh, how can you think of leaving your only sister. Jo. Jo. you will not, you ran not go." During this torrent Uncle Henry had set aghast, and Aunt Jane was too shocked to speak. "And Jo—she was •her own sweet, smiling self, allowing my caresses- and saying: •■Don't excite yourself,Gertie,there's —a dear.' 1 - -—-■■■• -

But I observed even then, in ray frenzy, that she seemed, quite indifferent to the separation. “Gertrude,” said my Aunt, at last. • this is your Uncle Henry. Go and speak to him."’ I calmed myself, and advanced to him. •So this is my other niece, is it? Why. girlie, you must not he so flurried.” he said, gently. •Uncle, please excuse me.” I said. 4 Jo and I are all in ail to each other, and since our Mother died— ’* but here I broke down, sobbing. ••But I’m not an . ogre, wanting to eat her up,” he said. Ti only want her for company, my dear, for I am a looely old man. It will be a rea -charity for her to come and cheer me up. I'm your Father's brother, you know, and I have a right to one of you.” “Yes. yes. I know. lam selfish, I suppose, hut ev.en if you lived in this ■very town it would be hard to spare my darling from my arms; but away off across the sea—oh, dearest Jo* how can I give you up?”

They hud much ado to. quiet my wailings. Uncle reasoned with me, Aunt continually advised me. to be seusiblo, and sister told me over and Over again that she did not much care, which was but sorry comfort. It would be hard to say which process was most efficient, or whether, indeed, my own exhaustion ended my ravings. I pass hastily over the next few weeks which were spent in preparation for Jo’s voyage. She often talked in glowitag words of the pleasure she anticipated: “Oh!” she would exclaim, “I know [.shall like the change. Won’t it be lovely to have all the pretty things I want? And I believe I shall have to

go to school, Gertie. Do you really think there will be a school?” • ‘There ought to be for you, dear, ” I would answer. “But I think Uncle has not noticed much about it.” Aunt never failed on these occasions to preach economy and propriety, which were her favorite doctrines. As for me, a dull pain dWelt ever in my heart, as Lbent my head over my work. But sometimes, when I came near my darling, or looked into her face, the pain was so acute that I cried out, and giving tier a Caress I would weep uncontrollably. Words were useless. What could I say when I knew she repined not at. leaving me? And my love was too unselfish to cloud her bright outlook. I look back now with unspeakable pity for myself, to those days wherein I know that I was slipping away from her heart, just as surely as she was slipping* from my arms. •/' ■ ■Vi

My uncle, to compensate me in some measure, left a fund subject to my order, which should supply my wardrobe and pay for my books until I finished school. This relieved me greatly from my Aunt’s parsimony, which had been such an intolerable burden to me. I suspect that Uncle had anticipated such a relief, when he planned what, he called a “condolence fund.” Fortunately, the school term began soon after my sister's departure, and I entered upon toy studies with a greater zeal than ever before, hoping thus to forget my loss.--“Gertrude, come out on the play ground,” the girls would say. “Why, you are really gett: : morbid.” Once they gathered around my desk and commented on me, as if I were an inanimate thing. “She looks as grave as a deacon.” said one. “How jolly she used to be when Jo was here,” said another. - ■ - ■ “But Jo was so bright and funny, and perhaps she led Gertie on,” said still another. “Well, I wouldn't mope. Gertrude. Why you are like an old woman, ” was the next stab. But I was too proud to let them see that they hurt me, and, forcing a smile, I rose and permitted them to lead mo away.....T"TT!? That night I looked searchingly at my face in the mirror. Was I getting morbid?

1 feared it was true. overcome the fault. Henceforth 1 counterfeited a gaiety. 1 talked, and laughed, and sang, and made mevry. Naturally light hearted, this heroic treatment soon restored me to my wonted cheerfulness. Save when Jo’s letters came, I was the Gertie of old. But her letters, brimful as they were of happy records, always made me long so ardently for my idolized sister, that my spirits sank lower and lower, until I sobbed myself to sleep at night. My classmates would know the state of affairs by my red ayes next day, and then I would be overwhelmed with questions, and lessons would be neglected. Graduation day was drawing near, and its absorbing interest to the participants, at least, had its inlluei.ee on me equal to the others. “Gertrude will wear black, 1 presume,'’ said Susie Gray. “She has been mourning all the year." • Now that is too had, Sue," said ( Mabel New. ••You know she has discarded her weeds, and she is going to bloom out on Commencement day as the very sweetest of the sweet.” ••Wouldn’t Josephine have been a sweet though?” said Susie. That was the thought that made me sad. How much 1 would miss her on that occasion! So listless was I that I let them plan tha.dressea. as they wortkiaad I simply ordered what they told me to get. Our town was justly proud of its high school and always complimented . the graduating class with a large audi- • ence. There was not a break in the ; program, and we all were told that we acquitted ourselves creditably. As we passed out of the large auditorium I heard Judge Brown remark tohisvVife:. “What a pallor and sadness there is about that Bentley girl!” “Why, you know,” said Mrs. Brown, her twin sister was taken away to Cuba last fall, and Gertrude has grieved for her ever since.” ••She must have had an unusual affection for her.” he responded. The balmy June days were now upon us. “roses everywhere were blooming,” the fieldswere green. But just when nature, like a beautiful woman, was in best attire, and smiling graciously, a sudden passion darkened her countenance,; and she smote her children right and left with dread result.

Aunt and I were standing at the gate one afternoon watching a dark cloud that came sweeping along from the horizon. In a moment the air was full pf flying sand and sticks, and we rushed into the house for safety. I looked through a crack of the shutters and saw trees swaying and boards flying, while the roaring was" terrific. Not more than half a minute did I stand there until all was over. We went out and saw other people coming out to see what the damage was. Some one shouted: ••Dr. New's house is down.” * Thither we all rushed, to -fin'd the large substantial brick house lying piled upon its own lower lloor, crushed like an egg-shell. Where were the family? I was dumb and mptionless, hut only for an instant. Mabel, my dearest friend, might be buried there. I had known the house froni attic to cellar. I found a grating which ,was unobstructed, and kneeling there, 1 called: .“Mabel, Mabel, are you there?” To my joy, there was a faint response, l rose and confronted those who had followed me. “Tear away the rubbish from the outer cellar jpor,” 1 said.

I led the way, and with the strength of excitement I worked ah* removing the debris, and felt no fatigue,, for i had no consciousness of myself. And all the while I went often to the grating and called to Mabel to keep up hope and be patient. When at last the cellar way was cleared, it was found that some of the heavy sills had been broken, and that Dr. New was pinioned under one of them by his feet. Mrs. New had been slightly hurt, but she was so unnerved that she only regained consciousness to faint away again. Mabel, quite sate, as she said, was devotedly caring for her mother while Dr. New was being sustained by his brother, who had recently come to town to practice with him. It was some hours before the doctor could be released, as the men were obliged to work vary carefully lest they should precipitate more of the wreck. He was no covvardfin stiffering but lie lamented the anticipated loss of his limbs. He afterward suffered amputation of both feet. There was no lack of hospitality or of help in repairing such household articles as were not totally destroyed.

Within a few weeks a cottage was fitted up for the temporary use of the family, until their own house could be rebuilt. We all vied with each other in arranging this cottage for them. Mabel’s uncle was most untiring in all these weeks: he was a kindly, genial man. seeming much older than we girls, but I was so engrossed with ministering to iny friends' needs, that I scarcely noticed him. But on the afternoon when a few of us were putting the finishing touches to the cottage it. chanced that he and I were left together in a little •alcove where I had been arranging a hanging basket of ferns, intent on the effect, I stepped backward, and said:

“There, isn't that lovely?” “Yes,” he said quietly, and then in the same quiet tone added: •■Miss Gertrude, will you be my wife?” I thought my ears had deceived me. —.4What 1” I cried. — r He Repeated calmly: “Will you be my wife?" putting his p,rm around me. I disengaged his arm, “Why, what put such an idea into your head?” I exclaimed in dismay. » “l ean scarcely tell what first put

the idea there,” he said smiling, • -but it has been growing for some time. I have been watching you in your unselfish devotion to your friends, and I have found out that you are just the, woman I want for my wife.' 1 ••Why—why—l -thought you were engaged,” I stammered. ••I must confess to a little duplicity there.” he said. “I allowed Mabel to give that impression, but I have never loved before. If you could entertain the tlioughtrof allowing my love I should like to become engaged.” . not look at him then, but I mentally reviewe’d all l knew of him and found there was nothing against him. Was it possible that a good, true man was offering himself to me? How strange that the “young doctor’ 1 should love me! He came and took my hands in his. “Miss Bentley,” he said gently, “I fear I have not been quite fair with you. I meant to be more conventional but you have, been so occupied that I could not.” I looked up with a sigh and a smile. And’then he poured out his soul in such impassioned words that I could not doubt his sincerity. The happiness of new-born love crept into my face. Moments sped away on winged i upturn. Rnl 1 was recalled by a voice calling:

••Gertrude, haven't you finished arranging that basket yet?” “Yes,” I answered, with a conscious blush, as I stooped to pick lip some fallen leaves. The young doctor went to meet our riends, and said to them: •■Gertrude has also arranged*her future.” Then there was a chorus of exclamations ami congratulations from which I was glad to escape. We have now been married four years. [ have found him kind, true, and devoted, and my affections cling to him as tenaciously as they used to cling to sister Jo. 1 rejoice daily that fate led such a lovable man to my side. Among my priceless treasures is the little red table doth which first caused Uncle Henry to choose Jo, and left me to become the victim of a sudden proposal.

Prince Aibert Vibrt Victor.

It is whispered about that Prince Victor of Wales, on returning from IneUji and finding that no establishment and no dukedom had been provided for him in his absenee. was not at all backward in expressing his discontent. A suggestion of his marriage with anyone except his cousin. Princess Mary, of Teck. is scouted at by him, and lias informed his intimate friends that ho not only corresponded with ihe Princess regularly during his Indian tour, hut loyally carved both their names, in lover-like fashion, on the temple of Delhi. He has made an offer to waive bis right to the throne, as his father’s eldest son, in consideration that he be allowed to marry the girl of his choice and have settled upon him an ample allowance. His brother. Prince George, who will he twenty-five on the fid proximo, would, in that case, become the heir, and; in all probability, tlio next King of England. The arrangement is considered tho more desirable as Prince Albert Victor is both physically and mentally weak, while his broth er is of sound constitution. < ‘ • Nevada cattle men are troubled by the cruel trait of the magpie which leads it to pick out the eyes <]f the cattle. |

A NIGHT WITH CANNIBALS

The Feasts of British Columbia Man-Eaters Described. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. G.en. Lyman Banks and John Hutcheson. two citizens of Seattle, have just returned from a two months’ cruise of the northern coast ol British .Columbia, and it hey tell some thrilling stories of sights they have seen and dangerous adventures they experienced during their cruise. The old Hudson Bay Company's trappers all unite in calling the past winter the worst that has been known in that part of the country in the last forty years, and a leaf or two from their log-books show that the cruiserfound that fact to be only too true. A Seattle Post-IntelLigencer reporter happened to meet Gen. Banks on the street, and at his request the General recited the story of his most exciting and interesting cruise. . The story is. interesting, and it is given below in the language of Gen. Banks himself. He began his narration' as follows: “We started out full of great expectations and pleasant anticipations, and we did not realize for a moment what trials we would have to go through, and I tell you at times it required a great deal of Western grit and push to get ahead Those who are acquainted with tbe difficulties of traversing in summer a coast forest, with its thousands of uprooted trees and still worse upheaved foundations, can perhaps readily imagine how much greater a hardship it was for us to travel over three feet of snow on a level and occasionally strike drifts ranch deeper aud a great deal too much tangle of sal-lal bush for snow-shoes. But, to add to all our difficulties, our half-breed guide and the Indian packers refused to go with us as soon as we had penetrated a short distance inland. We had just sighted some hills which they said we could never pass over, and they alleged that no human being ‘had ever succeeded in the attempt. •“They strongly urged and prayed us not to proceed any further, but we had started out with a determination to accomplish a work and we were not to be baffled so easily in the beginning of our journey. So we packed up a couple of weeks’ rations and an axe in our blankets and. shouldering our Winchesters, we pushed on alone. Oh. what a journey that was! I shall never forget it as long as I live.

“Where the snow was too soft and deep we managed to make progress by crawling on our hands and knees, and at times we were obliged to lay down and roll to get out of, the snow. It was hard struggling by day, but the snow made a soft bed at night. We canoed over three hundred miles of our journey, and some of it was in very rough waters. But the most startling experience we had. and the one thing that would interest you most, happened one day just as we were running into a cave to avoid a storm. We got into the cave all right enough, but imagine du!' horror and disgust when we found ourselves in the midst of the Nahvvitti Indian tribe at their cannibal orgies. Cannibalism is prohibited by the Dominion Government, but only a monthly visit from vessels, and the nearest post being miles away, they carry on the horrible practices with immunity. “We watched the heathens during the day at long range, but under assurance of safety we ventured after awhile into their circle at night, and watched them. I can only describe the sight this way : There was a high I fire of logs in the center of the circle, | which was constantly attended by two j men, and occasionally there was an extra hiss and Hash as some uneaten fat was thrown on. The entire tribe encircled the fire, dressed in blankets of many brilliant hues. There were naked dancers, and a dozen or more lusty savages with clubs in their hands beating an accompaniment to their wild songs and dances, and the whole j sight made a weird scene that is not soon forgotten. The feast consisted of the bodies of their dead. They seldom ■ kill strangers to furnish food for these horrible orgies, as they were all the time quarreling between themselves and generally had enough dead bodies of braves to satisfy their appetites. “I had been told in Victoria of the possibility of this, and warned that when wild with the dance the braves rush out and bite a piece out of the first person they come to. Now I have no objection to being eaten after I am j dead, but to be bitten by one of those wild fellows would be as undesirable, as the bite of a mad dog. and lest in their excitement they might forget their promise of immunity, I held my hand .under ray overcoat and grasped a 44-calibre revolver that would liq,ve furnished rations fitting the occasihu. ■ Our sense of security was not increased by one of them making a speech, noticing our presence and berating the white man’s government for trying to deprive the poor Indian of the pleasure of being a cannibal occasionally, especially if he only fed upon his own dead. ••The hoys crawled behind the older people and hid, men were bitten, or simulated it, and I was afterwards shown scars where they claimed to have been bitten. But’ we were not molested. One brave, however, probably to test utf. made a dash in our direction, but others caught him and turned nun another way. It was an ‘all night session.’ and no one was allowed to leave till through, which was at 5 o'clock “tho next morning. We had seen enough, though, and were glad tq leave. We proceeded on our journey and came back again without ony more exciting adventures, arriving in Seattle only a short time ago. But I never in my life put in such a night as I did the time of thosp frightful orgies, and I candidly confess I don’t want to soon again.”

RELIGIOUS NOTES.

The Emperor of Germany has subscribed 20,000 marks to the Evangelical mission for a hospital at Zanzibar. A translation of tho “Pilgrim’s Progress.” printed: with raised types foi the use of the blind in the Island ol Formosa, is about to be published. Miss Guinness says that the nearer one comes to an open port in China, the more antagonistic is the feeling toward foreigners. That is a sorry comment on the lives of foreigners in the ports of that country. It is said that Bishop Bowman has dedicated more churches than any other minister of any denomination. He recently dedicated a new church on the circuit in Pennsylvania, where he preached his first sermon over fifty years ago. —— The last yearly meeting of the ;Friends. in London, is described by ond of their number as “one long series of sermons and prayer, unrelieved by silence.” And out of the weariness of such performances he cries out for , -the active power of silence.” The United Presbyterian Church has conformed its statistical inquiry this year to the schedule of the Census Office. It- reports 865 congregations, 103,1121 church members, 815 churches, with a seating capacity of 263,303 and valued at $5,036,764. The central division of ,the. Salvation Army has just celebrated the tenth anniversary of the landing of the Army in this country. At the meeting in New York five delegates from the Army in India, including a Mohammedan, a Buddhist Priest, and a native of Ceylon, were present. A highly valued manuscript copy of the Gospels, written in letters of gold, on purple vellum, dating about the seventh century, is, as reported, to be soon offered at public sale in London. Six years ago it was purchased for the Prussian government at a sale of manuscripts belonging to the Duke of Hamilton. Five thousand pounds were offered for it by an English bookseller. It is said that there are only three or four manuscripts of the same kind in existence. The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church is a body organized just after the close of the war of colored members 01. ilia.. Methodist Episcopal Church, South. It has annual conferences and a General Conference which meets every four years. Tho fifth quadrennial session of the latter was held last month in Little Rock, Ark., the bishops presiding in turn. The episcopal message reported the church as in a very prosperous condition. The business transacted by the conference was chiefly of a routine nature.

Not An Awfully Bad Business.

There is a young man here in 1 New York, says the Star, who dabbles somewhat in artistic and literary pursuits, and who occasionally buys and sells a picture. Sometimes when he visits some of the interior cities he takes three or four pictures with him, which he manages to disposes of at a comfortable profit. The young man’s father, who lives in an eastern Ohio tow.n, and who has no sympathy with what ho terms the vagabond pursuits of his son, often used to admonish him that he was getting to be such an age that he ought to settle down to “some legitim mate business.”

, “Really,” he asked one day, “are you making any money at all?” “Oh, I can’t complain,” answered the son; I manage to pay expenses.” Soon after the young man unpacked his valise and showed the old gentleman some pictures he was taking on out west with Him. One of them particularly attracted tlie father, who asked the price of it. ••Oh. S3OO for that, hut if you would like to have it I’ll make it $250.” The father gave a check for the amount, and was greatly delighted with his purchase. “I’m afraid, though, that you are not making anything on this picture?” “Oh, yes. I’m making a fair profit on mv investment.” The next day, as they walked to the train, the old gentleman said: “Now, you know I feel the greatest possible interest in your affairs and your success. me what you made on that picture I bought from you.” “On that picture I made just $2;25.” The old gentleman was sileDt for two whole blocks and then he ejaculated: “Well, it isn’t such a dreadfully bad business you are in after all I gues9 you’ll get along.”

The Bachelor.

Starr Iloyt Nlebols, in Woman's Cycle. The general presumption that all bachelors are as they are by free ancl unconstrained choice is but a fatuous conventionally. Some men are indeed born bachelors, but more of the single have had bachelorhood thrust upon tnem. They have simply failed to secure the woman they wished. Rejected, perhaps many times, by different objects of their choice, and tin willing to descend to inferior grades, they drag out a forlorn and disappointed existence, backed of most comforts and lean of opportunity They have but a grumbling interest in the present, and but a shriveled confidence in the future. Both church and state cease to be to their minds, and the domestic trials of their married friends fail to reconcile these bereaved natures to their lonely condition. Of course, they carry a high feather, and the seductive smiles of many willing females who would Cheerfully supply the miss- ' ing felicity prevent them from realizing to the full the Irretrievable nature of their actual disaster; but it is real, all the same, ( and plucks down with it the delightsomeness of their fleeting days. Often towards the close of life ' they realize their sad experience, and ‘ are ready to cry with the life-weary and tottering patriarch, “Few and evil have been the days of thy servant.’

MATTERS OF LAW.

Recent Decisions of the Indiana Supreme Court. ts (1) A proceeding to avoid a judgment on the ground of fraud in obtaining it is a direct and not a collateral attack upon such judgment. (2) In an action by an infant to set aside a judgment on the) ground of fraud, the age of the infant at the time of the judgment was taken as a proper subject for consideration. So if infants twenty years old are personally served with process and it is not shown that they were prevented in any way from appearing at the time fixed in the summons, the mere fact that before the day on which the summons was returnable a guardian ad litem was appointed, who answered immediately, whereupon a trial was at once had and judgment rendered against the infant, shows irregularity but does not 9how fraud, as the presumption of good faith prevails until rebutted. A method of keeping an account of the various funds by County Auditors and of making semi-annual settlements and the Auditor's compensation for performing the duty have been prescribed by the Legislature. The County Commissioners have no power to change the method nor to allow the Auditor any additional compensation.

(1) When an insurance company, upon being notified of a loss, obtains possession of the policy, and refuses to adjust or pay tho loss, and so notifies the insured, the latter is excused from furnishing proof of such loss, as the action ol the company constitutes a waiver, and such company is estopped to assert of the policy. (2) Where it is clearly manifest that the person who signed the answers returned by the jury to interrogatives was the foreman of the jury, the omission of the word “foreman” is notan available objection. (3) When, after loss, a written settlement is agreed upon between the company and the insured, and the policy surrendered, such settlement, although procured by fraud on the part of the company, prevents an action on the policy until it is rescinded. '■

Jn an action by the administrator upon promissory notes, secured by mortgage, was answered by the defendants that the decedent was an old bachelor; that he was the unCle of the wife of the' mortgagor, and frequently made his home with them when sick; that they desired to purchase a home for themselves, and that he gave the money evidenced by the notes in order to enable them to do so; that it was! agreed between the parties at the time, that such money should never be repaid, but that, the mortgagors should only pay interest on the amount sogiven as long as the decedent lived. Hold, that the money advanced did not' constitute consideration for the notes, and that it was proper to inquire into the whole transaction between the parties in order to ascertain their real intention. The money being a gift, and not constituting the consideration for the notes, the latter are not enforcible. (1) An answer can not be questioned for the first time in the Supreme. Court. (2) Action for horses killed on the appellant’s track near a village. Held, that the opinion of expert witnesses to the effect that the putting of a eattle-guard under the track at the place whore the horses entered would inake-the use of the track dangerous was not competent, and was properly excluded. The appellant had a right, merely to prove the condition of the tracks, their location, the use made of them, and like facts, and the burden was upon it to make it appear afflrrifatively that the track could not he guarded by cattle pits or fences without endangering the safety of its employes.

(1) As Section b,030, R. S. 1881. provides that the owner of land across which a new highway has been established shall not be required to remove fences between April 1 and November 1, and then only upon sixty days’ notioe. The notice is bad if given within the dates mentioned, or shortly before the first date; it must be given during the time when the owner may be required to act. Without sufficient notice the supervisor has no power to remove the fence, upon the failure of the owner to do so, and may be enjoined. (2) The complaint for injunction was bad for failing to properly negative the giving of notice, but as the facts were agreed upon and no different result could be reached upon another trial, the judgment is affirmed. The Township Trustee, conspiring with Boyd's assignor, issued certificates of indebtedness to the amount of $1,394 for lightning rods, worth $312, erected upon school houses. Held, that the certificates are void entirely, and that nothing can be recovered thereon.

Sold His Wife for 25 Cents.

A German contemporary has * the following story: In UpjSer Heiduk, in Silesia, a, workingman sold his wife?' for a term of two years to an acquaintance for a shilling. The wife lived with her partner in harmony, when one day the lawful husband, thinking he had surrendered her too cheaply, called upon the man and demanded a further sum of fifteen shillings. The lady, he said, had a apt of beautiful teeth. He had forgotten that, and he considered fifteen shillings a Small sum under the circumstances. The “man in possession” demurred and th,e husband' sought the aid of the law. The authorities, it appears, pronounced that as he had contracted himself out of his legal rights for two ‘years, and for one shilling, he was not entitled te any further amount. ,