Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1899 — Page 2

THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE

■■mAPTER XVll—(Continued.) Krasnchard was not loft long in suspense. Eg Hatta was rather addicted to scribhardly had Elizabeth .lane gone ■B when another note camo to the ■w Kbr’s house from High Street Hall. K R* B * l * n residence.” she said, "and com■Bgmble, though getting here has been a KKome undertaking. You probably 1 am going to tell you, or do B ft' not? My good aunt Templeman, the vfldow, whose very existence you ■E ■ to doubt, leave alone her affluence. R Hntely died, and bequeathed a great ■K her property to mo. I will not ■[■Hnto details except to say that I taken her name. You probably are ■Hie of my arrangements with your ■'Staler, and have doubtless laughed at RE-what shall I call it?—practical joke ■■fay getting her to live with me. But ■ ■first meeting with her was purely an ■ fluent. Do you see, Michael, why I ■^Ktmeit?— why, to give you an excuse K Rooming here as if solely to visit her, R iWthns to form my acquaintance nat- ■ Kjto. In haste, yours always, Kr "LUCETTA." ■ Rhe excitement which these announceproduced in Henchard's gloomy ■ | was to him most pleasurable. He ■ißbyer his dining table long and dream- ■ by an almost mechanical transfer I Khentiments which had run to waste ■Rk ■-.lns estrangement from Elizabeth ■■land Donald Farfrae gathered around EMretta before they had grown dry. She ■Ba* in a very coming-on disposition for ■Rmage; of that there could be no doubt. ■ else could a poor woman be who ■ herself to him so unluckily at EfllitW There was no doubt that con- ■ iKpce no less than affection had brought I ■foere- On the whole he did not blame ■RL fl»el that he would like to see Lu■K.>ag w * t * l Henchard to start for her ■ put on his hat and went. It ■ 'Bfc between eight and nine o'clock when ■Reached her door. The answer brought ME- that Miss Templeman was en- ■ ■Ed for that evening, but that she would I Rfawmy to see him the next day. sat visibly upon Lucetta the morning. She dressed herself for ■ L (Henehard and restlessly awaited his midday; as he did not come I’Kfaaited on through the afternoon. But IKdid not tell Elizabeth Jane that the ■ Kaon expected was her stepfather. IRfhe Saturday afternoon slipped on thus [■Korily. The market, which fronted I ? house, changed from the sampleIRfring hour to the idle hour before Ifßrting homeward, when tales were told. I ■Shard had not called on Lucetta, iREh she had stood so near. He must EKsT been too busy, she thought. He IRttd come on Sunday, or Monday. days came, but not the visitor, ERfegh Lucetta repeated her dressing ERh' scrupulous care. She was disheartIRSwesday was the great Candlemas fair. EC Breakfast she said to Elizabeth Jane IRite coolly: "Miss Henchard, will you go lßw> errand for me as soon as breakfast IRiver? Ah, that’s very good of you. you go and order- ” Here she IRinneraled several commissions at sunwhich would occupy Elizabeth tryrio for the next hour or two. at s-Rjttxabeth hastily put on her things and "I wonder why she wants to WtSnd of me to-day?" she said, sorrowWfrcfcas she went. That her absence, Bcr than her services was in request, Kfi been readily apparent to Elizabeth ■fae, simple as she seemed, and difficult ■ I to attribute a motive for the Rfehe had not been gone ten minutes Lucetta’s servant was sent to Rhiehard's with a note. The contents ■sere, briefly: R|)ear Michael: You will be standing Rm)C to my house to-day for two or three •’RB''in the course of your business, so call afid see me. 1 am sadly that you have not come be■U, for can I help anxiety about my own Rttirocal position—specially now my fortune has brought me more prombefore society? Your daughter's R£e*sce here may be the cause of your and I have therefore sent her Rray for the morning. Say you come on Riniiess. I shall be quite alone. "LUCETTA.” ‘fVVhen the messenger returned, her mis(R»k gave directions that if a gentleman ■■fad he was to be admitted at once, and ■ftidown to await results. 0 (■A.£ijttle later she heard the servant ■Kwing in a visitor, shutting the door Rmb him, and leaving as if to go and look Either mistress. Lucetta flung back the with a nervous greeting. HCtfl CHAPTER XVIII. IHRhe man before her was not Henehard. that such might be the ease IBM* indeed, flashed through her mind Sha*;ahe was on the point of bursting It was just too late to recede. fflfee was years younger than the Mayor fair, fresh and slender! v ■tadsowe. He wore drab cloth leggings |RK\ white buttons, boots and infinite • iKe boles, light cord breeches and Idiick IRtveteen coat and waistcoat, and he had Eawiteh in his hand. Lucetta blushed Rhd said, with a curious mixture of pout -Rteprugh on her face, "Oh, I've made a visitor, on the contrary, did not EK half a wrinkle. "But I’m verv Aity!” h ” in deprecating tones. “I and inquired for Miss Henehard, showed me up here, and at no ibaKSrould I have caught ye so unmanKy if I bad known.” 'i'"lwaß tbe unmaul “ >r, . v one." said she. is it that I have come to the wrong said Mr. Farfrae, blink- - E»Bttle in his bewilderment, and nervhis legging with his switch. no, sir; Sit down. You must come - „ - ail down, now you are here,” replied * . J&Stta, kindly, to relieve his embarrass- ;"*%•« - raSw Henchard will be here dinot strictly true; but •omethiug about the young ' ■' ■ T- - -J.'

THOMAS HARDY

man—that Hyperborean crispness, constringency and charm, as of a well-braced musical instrument—which had awakened the interest of Henchard, and of Elizabeth Jane, and of the King of Prussia’s crew, at sight, made his unexpected presence here attractive to Lucetta. He hesitated, looked at the chair, thought there was no danger in it and sat down. Farfrae’s presence here was simply the result of Henchard's permission to him to see Elizabeth Jane, if he were minded to woo her. At first he had taken no notice of Henchard’s brusque letter; but an exceptionally fortunate business transaction put him on good terms with everybody, and revealed to him that he could undeniably marry if he chose. Then who so pleasing, thrifty and satisfactory in every way as Elizabeth Jane? Apart from her personal recommendations, a reconciliation with his former friend Henchard would, 1 in the natural course of things, flow from such a union. He therefore forgave the Mayor his curtness; and this morning on his way to the fair he had called at her house, where he learned that she was staying at Miss Templeman’s. A little stimulated at not finding her ready and waiting—so fanciful are men —he hastened on to High Street Hall, to encounter no Elizabeth, but Lucetta herself. "The fair to-day seems a large one,” she said, when, by a natural deviation, their eyes sought the busy scene without. "Your numerous fairs and markets keep me interested. How many things I think of while I watch from here!” He seemed to doubt how to answer, and the babble without reached them as they sat—voices as of wavelets on a lopping sea, one ever aud anon rising above the rest. “Do you look out often?” he asked. “Yes, very often.” "Do you look for any one you know?” Why should she have answered as she did? “I look as at a picture merely. But,” she went on, turning pleasantly to him, “I may do so now; I may look for you. You are always there, are you not? Ah— I don’t mean it seriously! But it is amusing to look for somebody one knows in a crowd, even if one does not want him. It takes off the terrible oppressiveness of being surrounded by a throng, and having no point of junction with it through a sinble individual.” “Ah! And is it that you are lonely, ma’am?” “Nobody knows how lonely.” “But you are rich, they say.” “If so, I don’t know how to enjoy my riches. I came to Casterbridge, thinking I should like to live here.” Thus the two. She had enkindled the young man’s enthusiasm till he was quite brimming with sentiment; while he, from merely affording her a new form of idleness, had gone on to wake her serious solicitude. Why w«s this? They could not have told.

Farfrae was shown out, it having entirely escaped him that he had called to see Elizabeth Jane. Lucetta at the window watched him threading the maze of farmers and farmers’ men. She could see by his gait that he was conscious of her eyes, and her heart went out for his modesty—pleaded that he might be allowed to come again. He entered the market house, and she eould see him no more. Three minutes later, when she had left the window, a knock, not of multitude but of strength, sounded through the 1 house, and the waiting maid tripped up. “Mr. Henchard,” she said. Lucetta had reclined herself, and was looking dreamily fingers. She did not answer at once, and the maid repeated the information, with the addition, “And he’s afraid he hasn’t much time to spare, he says.” "Oh! Then tell him that as I have a headache I won’t detain him to-day.” The message was taken down, and she heard the door close. Lucetta had come to Casterbridge to quicken Henchard’s feelings with regard tp her. She had quickened them, and now she was indifferent to the achievement. Several days passed by and Lucetta’s secret attachment for the Scotchman increased. One morning after having spent a feverish night she told her companion that she had something on her mindsomething which concerned a person in whom she was interested much. Elizabeth was earnest to listen and sympathize. “This person—a lady—once adniired a man much—very inuc%” she said, tentatively. “Ah,” said Elizabeth .lane. “He did not .think so deeply of her as she did of him. But in an impulsive moment, purely out of gratitude, he proposed to make her his wife. She agreed. But there was an unexpected hitch in the proceedings; as a result she was so far compromised with him that she felt she could never belong to another man. as a pure matter of conscience, even if she should wish to. After that they were much apart, heard nothing of each other for a long time, and she felt her life quite closed up for her. “Ah—poor girl!” “She suffered much on account of .him; though I should add that he could not altogether be blamed for what had happened. At last the obstacle which separated them was providentially removed; and he came to marry her.” “How delightful!” “But in the interval she—my poor friend—had seen a man she liked better than him. Now comes the point: Could she in honor dismiss the first?” “A man she liked better—that’s bad!” “Yes,” said Lucetta. “It is bad! Though you must remember that she was forced into an equivocal position with the first man by an accident—that he was not so well educated or refined as the second, and that she had discovered some qualities in the first that rendered him less desirable as a husband than she had at first thought him to be.” “I cannot answer,” said Elizabeth Jane, thoughtfully. “It is so difficult. It wants a Pope to settle that.” “You prefer not to, perhaps?” Lucetta showed in her appealing tone how much ata leaned on Elizabeth’s Juiignsswt

“Yes,” admitted Elizabeth. “1 would rather not say.” Nevertheless, Lucetta seemed relieved by the simple fact of having opened out the situation a little, and was slowly convalescent of her headache. “Bring me a looking How do I appear to people?” she said, languidly. "Well—a little worn,” answered Elizabeth, eying her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting; fetching the glass she enabled Lucetta to survey herself in it, which Lucetta anxiously did. “I wonder if I wear well, as times go,” she observed after a while. “How many years more do you think I shall last before I get hopelessly plain?” There was something curious in the way in which Elizabeth, though the younger, had come to play the part of experienced sage in these discussions. “It may be five years,” she said, judiciously. “Or, with a quiet life, as many as ten. With no love you might calculate on ten.” CHAPTER XIX. The next phase of the supersession of Henchard in Lucetta’s heart was an experiment in calling on her, performed by Farfrae with some apparent trepidation. Conventionally speaking, he conversed with both Miss Templeman and her companion; but, in fact, it was rather that Elizabeth Jane sat invisible in the room. Donald appeared not to see her at all, and answered her wise, homely little remarks with curtly indifferent monosyllables, his looks and faculties hanging on the woman who could boast of a more Portean variety in her phases, moods, opinions and also principles, than could Elizabeth. Lucetta had persisted in dragging her into the circle; but she had remained like an awkward third point which that circle would not touch. All this time Henchard’s smoldering sentiments toward Lucetta had been fanned into higher and higher inflammation by the circumstances of the. case. He was discovering that the j’oung woman, for whom he once felt a pitying wormth of gratitude, which had been almost chilled out of him by reflection, was, when now qualified with a slight inaccessibility and a more matured beauty, the very being to make him satisfied with life. Day after day proved to him, by her silence, that it was no use to think of bringing her round by holding aloof; so he gave in, and called upon her again, Elizabeth Jane being absent. He crossed the room to her with a heavy tread of some awkwardness, his strong, warm gaze upon her —like the sun beside the moon in comparison with Farfrae’s modest look—and with something of a hail-fellow bearing, as, indeed, was not unnatural. But she seetffed so transubstantiated by her change of position, and held out her hand to him in such cool friendship, that he became deferential, and sat down with a perceptible loss power. He understood but little of fashion in dress, yet enough to feel himself inadequate in appearance beside her whom he had hitherto been dreaming of as almost his property. She said something very polite about his being good enough to call. This caused him to recover balance. He looked her oddly in the face, losing his awe. “Why, of course I ha Lucetta,” he said. “What does that nonsense mean? You know I couldn't have helped myself if I had wished —that is, if I had any conscience at all. I've called to say that I am ready, as soon as custom will permit, to be publicly married to you.” "It is fully early yet,” she said, evasively. “Why, for a man and wife to talk to one another like this!” “We are not man and wife,” she answered. tiring quickly. "If going to the registry don’t make us so, I should like to know what it does make us.” Lucetta burst in passionately: “How can you speak so! Knowing that it proved to be void by her coming back, and th.‘t it was entirely on your side that the blame lay which put me in so awkward a positVn. you ought to allow me to look nt it as I choose. I suffered enough at that lonely, terrifying time after I was sent back from joining you—not knowing what was to happen to me. And if I am a little independent now, surely the privilege is due to me!” "Yes. it is. It was a bad job for you.” he said repentantly. “But perhaps you’ll have the justice to own that I was as innocent as you?” "Yes, I believe you were,” she said, more calmly. “Then let us be quick and legalize your state by going through the service again as soon as we can; and so, in spite of the mishap the first time, we shall wind up well at last. It is very odd,” he murmured, "that I. so little of a woman's man as I be. should find it necessary to marry two women twice over. Well, what do you say?” For the first time in their acquaintance Lucetta had the move; and yet she was backward. “For the present let things be,” she said with some embarrassment.. "Treat me as an acquaintance: and I'll treat you as one. Time will —” she stopped; and he said nothing to fill the gap for a while, there being no pressure of half acquaintance to drive them into speech if they were not minded for it. “That's the way the wind blows, is it?” he said at last, grimly, nodding an affirmative to his own thoughts. A yellow flood of reflected sunlight filled the room for a few instants. It was produced by the passing of a load of newly trussed hay from the country in a new wagon marked with Farfrae’s name. Beside it rode Farfrae himself. Lucetta’s face became—as a woman’s face becomes when the man she loves rises upon her gaze like an apparition, f A turn of the eye by Henehard. a glance from the window, and the secret of her inaccessibility would have been revealed. But Henehard in estimating her tone was looking down so plumb-straight that he did not note the warm consciousness upon Lucetta’s face. “I shouldn’t have thought it—l shouldn’t have thought it of woman!” he said, emphatically, by and by, rising and shaking himself into activity; while Lucetta was so anxious to divert him from any suspicion of the truth that she asked him to be in no hurry. He had hardly gone down the staircase when she dropped upon the sofa, and jumped up again in a fit of desperation. ’1 will love him!” she cried, passionately; “as for him—he’s hot-tempered and stem, and it would be madness to bind myself to him, knowing that. I won’t be a slave to the past—l’ll love where I choose!” (To be continued.) The boarding-house beefsteak la rare when it appears on the table only once a week.

STATE LAW MAKERS.

The bill to create county councils in every county in the State passed the Senate on Wednesday. The bills for reforms in county and township government are now all in the House. Both branches suspended the constitutional rule and passed a bill creating a commission to make plans for taking part in the exposition to be held at Toledo in 1902. A special committee in the House reported in favor of allowing the claim against the State of $5,000 held by Mrs. Edwin May of Chicago. The claim is thirty-nine years old and has been before every Legislature for twenty years. The bill which provides that the county commissioners shall furnish a place for holding the sessions of the Superior Court in Lake and Laporte counties at Hammopd and Michigan City respectively, and which was opposed because it was believed to be the first step in an effort to move the seats of county government to those cities, was passed by the Senate Thursday afternoon. The Senate also passed the bill to fix the salaries of Circuit and Superior judges in counties of not over 45,000 population or $25,000,000 property valuation. In such counties the salaries are to be fixed at $25 for each 1,000 population. The new law will affect the salaries of the judges in the second, eighth, eleventh, thirteenth, fourteenth, six teenth, thirtieth, thirty-fourth and sixtieth judicial circuits. The anti-lynching bill, prepared by Senator Drummond and providing that the sheriff shall forfeit his office in the event that he suffers a prisoner to be taken from his custody and lynched, was killed, and with it died the prospect of legislation along this line at the present session. The House met in the evening to discuss the bill providing for 2-cent railroad passenger fare. The railroad committee reported against the bill, and after a two hours’ discussion the report was adopted by a vote of 49 to 24, and the bill was killed. The Elections Committee in the Senate, composed of six Republicans and three Democrats, reported on Friday in favor of retaining Frank W. Cregor as the Senator from Hancock, Rush and Madison counties. The seat was contested by Elmer E. Stoner, Republican. In the House the bill originating in that body providing that a divorced person shall not re-marry within two years passed. The House also passed the bill originating in that body abolishing the State Board of Sanitary Commissioners and creating the office of State veterinary surgeon. A bill providing for the introduction of the Torrens land system was advanced to engrossment in the House after having been so.amended as to authorize the people of any county to vote on the proposition to take advantage of the system. The pharmacy bill was advanced to third reading in the Senate after having been so amended as to permit druggists who do not hold licenses to sell patent and proprietary medicines. The Governor on Monday sent to the House messages vetoing the bill amending the Lake, Laporte and Porter Superior court act so as to provide meeting places for the court at Hammond and Michigan City, and tlie -bill authorizing the purchase of water works in cities under 20,000 inhabitants. He refused to sign the court bill on the ground that it was a step toward the erection of additional courthouses in the counties of Lake and Laporte. The water-works bill was vetoed on the ground that such a law would be unconstitutional. The Republican majority in the House after a noon caucus advanced the bill for the establishment of township councils to third reading. Six Republicans bolted the Caucus, but there were fifty-one votes for the bill, with two of its supporters absent. The Senate passed the bill creating a State board of pharmacy and requiring that all druggists be licensed. The following are among the new bills introduced: By Senator Horner —Regulating the fees and salaries of county officers. By Senator Lambert—Regulating the construction of partition fences. By Senator Legeman —Requiring the publication of the State legislative Manual by the State librarian. By Senator Legeman—Specifying a method for draining and improving public highways. By Senator New—To allow foreign insurance companies, whose capital is invested in the bonds of other States, or the United States, to do business in this State. By Senator Newby—To allow boards of school trustees, in cities of 10,000 or more, to levy a tax on each $1 of taxable property, to maintain public libraries. By Senator Newby—-To repeal the insurance laws of 1854 and 18(55, which compel stock life insurance companies to go into liquidation at the end of thirty years. By Senator Newby—To repeal the insurance law of 1852. By Senator Purcell—Requiring a peddler’s license for transient merchants in all towns and cities. By Senator Wood—Providing for the killing of vicious dogs and the fining of the owner in the sum of $lO. By Mr. Baker of Martin—Concerning judicial circuits. By Mr. Whitcomb of Marion —Concerning insurance. By Mr. Caraway—To increase the tax for libraries in towns of over 5,000. By Mr. Hedgecock—To appropriate $5,000 for a statue of Thomas A. Hendricks. By Mr. Osborn — telegraph charges. By Mr. Graham—Concerning the pay of assessors. By Mr. Burkhart—Concerning the organization of building and loan associations. By Mr. May—Concerning thistles, etc. By Mr. Noel —To reduce the interest on bonds under the Barrett law from 6 to 5 per cent. . By Mr. Holcomb —To amend the law on the State Normal School. By Mr. Kirkpatrick—To consolidate the management of the reformatory and prison. By Mr. Hedgecock—To extend the Mull law so as to include the minor expenditures. By Mr. Glossbrenner Concerning claims for food and clothing. By Mr. Owen—To . protect owners of threshing machines. By Mr. Baker of Whitley—To amend the act on public printing. By Mr. Schrader—To define the sixth and fourth circuits. By Mr. Shideler—Regulating the laying of natural gas mains. By Mr. Stevens—To amend the act regarding fees. By Mr. Binkley—To fix the time when county auditors shall begin their terms. By Mr. Charles—To prevent the pollution of streams.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Pitched Head Foremost Into a Fiery Furnace College Singers Dangerously Beaten—Froze to Death Under a Hedge. As a north-bound Grand Rapids and" Indiana passenger train was going into the Pennsylvania yards at Fort Wayne it collided with a rear end of a light freight engine. The freight crew jumped. Both engines were wrecked. Passenger Engineer Frank Perry was terribly bruised, but no bones were broken. Fireman Geo. Crabill had the firebox open at the time and was pitched into it. While his clothes were a sheet of flame he climbed back over the coal, took the cover off the engine tank and dived into the water. Although badly burned about the arms, he will live. Body Found Frozen. J. M. Hinkle was found frozen to death in a hedge by the roadside a mile east of Bloomington. He had been missing for three days, but nothing serious was thought of his absence. He lived on a farm in the neighborhood in which he was found and it is supposed that he was on his way home when he fell into the hedge. Toughs Beat Glee Club Men. The Franklin College Glee Club gave a concert at Morgantown. At the close of the concert a gang of toughs leaped upon the boys and severely beat them with clubs. Four of the singers were badly injured. The assailants escaped. Ko cause is assigned for the act. Novel Plan for Paving Streets. ' The city of Anderson is negotiating to pave her streets on the plan adopted by the city of Norwich, N. Y., by which insurance companies build the streets and take policies on the lives of fifty or 100 citizens as payment. Within Our Borderu. Frank Bowles’ child, 11, was fatally burned at Anderson. Jacob Haddix’s $6,000 house and barn, near Claypool, are in ashes. Commissioners have bought the toll bridge over the Wabash at Clinton. Rev. Reed Wright, a Christian preacher, died of pneumonia at English. There is a ease of smallpox at Jackson Hill. The town is quarantined. Mrs. Nancy Starr, 80, Borden, is in good health and is cutting a set of teeth. J. S. Peterson, a Lake Shore engineer, fell from his engine at Dune Park and was cut to pieces. Geo. Kelsey, a few miles north of Tipton. hung himself. His mother hung herself twelve years ago. Willis Thomas, colored, had both legs crushed while beating his way on a F., F. & M. freight at Needham. At Osgood, Patrick Gonnelly, who struck Norman Row with a beer glass, fracturing his skull, was fined SIOO and cost. Mrs. Martha Cumback died at Greensburg of heart failure, aged 66 years. She was the wife of former Gov. Will Cumback. Azra Smith’s large flock of sheep, near Sheridan, was attacked by dogs, 200 being killed and 73 wounded. It will cost the county SI,OOO. Chas. McCoy, tobacco grower near Otto, was found dead with a bullet hole in bis head. A murder is suspected and detectives are at work. Mrs. Domino Laporte had a fight with her husband, during which she cut him on the arm. Then he was arrested and she filed suit' for divorce. Wade McCoy and son, Martin, were acquitted at New Albany on the charge of being accessories in the murder of Thos. Rhetts in Clarke County, last July. Wife of Otto Beard, a soldier in the 161st Indiana volunteers, made application for her husband’s discharge, and when he received the papers he was dumfounded. Lives in Franklin. Stephen Neal, former judge of Boone County Circuit and author of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States, has filed suit for divorce from his wife, Laura Neal, at Lebanon. The plaintiff is 82 years old, and has been totally blind since last July. Mrs. Neal is 62. Ed Pottmeyer, while working at the Baker ice house, Logansport, lost his balance and plunged from the top of a high derrick. He fell 911 Frank Vance, who was working directly beneath him, and both men went down in a heap. Pottmeyev sustained merely a broken rib and Vance escaped with a wrenched back. At Evansville, Charles Brooner, aged 20, was shot and seriously wounded by Charles Sanders. Brooner had warned Sanders not to keep company with bis sister. Sanders took the girl home and was met by Brooner at the edge of town. Brooner beat Sanders over the head with a large club, knocking him down several times. Sanders, rising from the ground half conscious, shot Brooner through the abdomen and escaped. Frank R. Fisher, a traveling salesman for a clothing company of Utica, N. Y., disappeared the other night at the hour appointed for his marriage to Miss Jenfiie Showalter, a well-known belle of Waterloo. The couple had been engaged for some months. Shortly before the time set Fisher called on the bride and said he would return at the appointed hour. The bride was then attired in her wedding gown and the clergyman on hand to perform the ceremony. When all was in readiness for the arrival of the groom a messenger appeared with a note from the groom, saying that he had been called to Sherwood, Ohio, on important business. Fisher refuses any explanation, only declaring the wedding off. C. W. Carlton, 74 years old, a man of wealth, hanged himself in his room at Indianapolis with a clothes line. He had been suffering from the grip and was despondent. In a saloon fight at Newburg John Lundson shot and. fatally injured Frank Sheppard and also wounded Sheppard’s son Frank. It is said the shooting was in self-defense. At Indianapolis, James W. Tyler, father of Marion Tyler, who was lynched at Scottsburg, has begun suit in the United States Court against James Gobin, sheriff »f Scott County, for |CyNO damages.

How to Avoid Shrinking Underwear.

No greater personal discomfort can be borne than the wearing of underwear which is hardened and drawn up in washing. Yet if care be given the work the trouble may be prevented. Impure soap, and too hot water are responsible for much of the ruin wrought in washing woolen and silk goods. When ready to begin, fill a tub half full of warm water, in which dissolve a fourth of a bar of Ivory soap; wash the articles through it, rinse and squeeze, but do not wring. Hang on the line, while still damp press with a hot iron. By this washing the garments will remain soft and white.

ELIZA R. PARKER.

The Indian population of the United States is 248,340. In 1492 they were lords of the whole country; now they have reserved for them 144,496 square miles.

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