Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1905 — Page 2

CRIPPS, THE CARRIERS

BY R. D. BLACKMORE

Author of “LORNA DOO NE,” “ALICE LORR AI N E,’’ETC., ETC.

CH APT E R VIT I.—(Cent inued t “What wonders have yon wrought. John Stiiitli?” “You know that story of Cripps the Mrrier and his sister. . Some folk lieSered it, and some r>erohve\r IT.' I did ■either of the two. but resolved to get to ! the bottom 0f.i1." ’this was what I did. ■ A brave regiment of soldiers having newsy returned from India, was ordered to march from London to the Land's-end for change of tbmperaiure. They had not been supplied, of course, with any • liange fff Hotties for climate, and they felt it a little, but were exhorted not to be too particular. Two companies were ♦it be billeted at Abingdon. la>t evening; «nd having, of course, received notice ot that. I procured authority to use them. They shivered so that they Wanted work: •nd there is nothing, ymir worship, like discipline.” “Of cour-e. I know that from my early davs. Will von tell vopr story speedily T’ “Sir. that is just what I am doing. I Brought them without many wonl> to the quarry, where ten times the number •f our clodlu'Pj>ers would only have shov•led at one another. Bless my heart! they did work, ami with order and arrangement. Being clothed all in cotton they had no time to lose, unless they meant to get frozen, and it was a tine tight, I assure your worship, to see how ♦hey showed their shoulder blades, being skinny from that hot cliniilte. and their brown freckled arms in the white of the drift, and the Indian steam coming out «f them! In about two hours all the ground was clear, and the trees put • way. like basket-work; and then vvi♦ould see what had happened exactly. *ud even the mark es tin pickaxes. Every word of that girl was proved to a tittle. I never heard 'finer evidence. We can even see that two men had been at work, and the stroke of their tools was different. We shoveled away all the fallen rock, and mould, anil stumps, and sane-roots; and. at last, we came to the poor, poor innocent body, as fresh as the daylight.’’ “I cah 1 hear no more! You have lost ■ o child—if you have, perhaps you could •pare it. Tell me nothing—nothing more! But prove that it was my child!” “Why. you are only "fit to go to bed! Here. Mary! Mary! Mother Hookham! Curse the bell—l have broken it! Your master is taken very queer! Look alive, woman’! Stir your stumps’ A pot of Kot water and a foot-tub! Don't get •cared. He will be all right. Hold his Bead up. Let me feel. Oh, he is not going to die’Just yet. Stop your caterwauling. He will know us all in a minute again. He ought to hdve had a deal more spirit. I never could have expected tiiis. I smoothed off everything so nicely —just as if it was a lady ” “Did you. indeed! I have heard every word.” sail Widow Hookham sternly. “You lucked the door, or I would have Bad my ten nails in you, long ago! Poor dear! Wl.at is a stum like you? Ami after all, what have you done, John Smith?” CH APTER L\. Ou the very next day it was known throughout the parish and the neighborBood. the the ancient Squire had broken down at last, under the weight of anxieties. Nobody blamed him much for this, except his own sister and Mr. Smith. Mrs. Fermit a ire said that he, ought to have shown more faith and resignation; and John Smith declared-' that all his plans were thrown out by tiiis stupidity. What proper inquiry could be held, when the universal desire was to spare the feelings and respect the affliction of a poor old man? Mr. Sini’h was right. An inquest truly must be lo l l upon the body, which had Been found by the soldiers. But the coroner. being a good old friend and admirer , of the Oglanders. contrived that the mat- I ♦es should be a n’qre form, ami the ver- | diet an open nullify. Mr. Luke Sharp appeared. ami in a dignified reserve was ready to represent t family. He said a few word-, in the very best taste, and scarcely dared to hint at things, which Hiust be p. infill to everybody left alive to think of them. The crush of tons of ♦oek upon an unprotected female form Bad made it tint the hair having been tut off, was there no longer; ♦here was really nothing except a pail- of •ot over new stik stockings, belonging to • lady of lofty position in the county. •nd the widow of an eminent gentlmun, but not required, he might hope, to present her-elf so painfully. Mr. Sharp could say no more; and the jury felt that he now mibt come, or, failing him. his •on, Kit Sharp, into the 150.0001. of “Port-wine 1 ■’< rmitagc.” Therefore they returned the verdict carried in hi- pocket for them. “Death by misadventure of n/yoting lady, name •uknown.” Their object was to satisfy ♦he Squire and their consciences: anil ♦licy found it w ise not to be too purlieuBir. And the coroner was the hist ufan ♦<> make any fuss about anything. “Are you satisfied now, Mr. Over•hate?” asked Lawyer Sharp, as Russel met him in the passage of the Quarry Anns, where the inquest had been taken. “The jury have done their best, at once •»» meet the facts of the case, and respect •he feelings of the family." “Satisfied! How can I be? Such a iM-us-poi-us I never knew. It is not for me to interfere, while things are in this wretched state. Everybody knows what ■ a inquest is. No doubt you have done your duty, and acted according to your tartnictiona. Come in here, where we can apeak privately." Mr. Sharp did not look quite ns if he ilMired ■ private interview. However, to followed the young mail, with the tost grace he could muster. “I am going to speak quite calmly, and tore no whip now for you to snap.” said *Msel; "but mny I ask you why you tore done your utmost to prevent what Mcmed. to an ordinary mind, the firat ■MI most essential thing?” “Th« identification? Yes, of course. Win you come, and satisfy yourself? The toy of the room is in my pocket.” “I cannot do it. 1 cannot do It,” •towered the young man shuddering.

"My Inst recollection must not be ” "Young sir. 1 respect' your feelings. And med ask you. :ifl<r tli.a. whether 1 have done amiss in sparing the feeling's of the family? And there is Something rr ore-important tliim even that nt stake just now. Yon know the poor Squire’s sad eonditjon. The poor old gentleman is pretty well»br<>ken down at hist, 1 fear. What else could we expect of him? And, the doctor his sister had brought from London says that his life bangs positively upon a thread of hope. Therefore! we are telling him sad stories, or rather. 1 t tight to say. h.appjt. stoi'ie-: and though In- is 100 sharp to swallow them' all. they io him good. sir—they do him goM." "1 can quite understand it. But how does that bear—l mean von could Lave misled him surely about the result of this inquest ?” "By no means. He would have insisted on seeing a copy of the Herald. In tael, if tin- jury could nflt have been mnnagid. I had arranged with the editor to print a special copy giving the verdict as we wanted it. A pions fraud, of coursra and so it is better to dispense with it. This verdict will sot him up ■•’.gain upon his poor old legs. 1 hope, lie seemed to dread the final blow so. and the bandying to and fro ’of his unfort tinnte daughter's name. I scarcely see why it should be so; but so it is, Mr. Overshute." “Of course it is. How can you doubt it? How can it be otherwise. All 1 imail to say is that, you need no more explain yourself. I seem to be always doubting you: and it always shows what a fo<d am I.” "Now da'n’t say that." Mr. Luke Sharp answered, with a fine and gonial smile. "Yon are acknowledged to be the most rising member of the County Bench. But still, there is such a thing as going too far with acuteness. You may not perceive it yet: but when you come to my age. you will own it.” "Truly. But who can be too suspicious when such things are done as these? I tell yon. Sharp, that 1 would give my head off my shoulders, this very instant, to know who has done this villainy. This infernal —unnatural wrong, to my darling—to my darling." “Mr. Overshute, how can we tell that any wrong has been done to her?” “No wrong to take her life! No wrong to cut off all her lovely hair, and to send it to her father! No wrong to leave us as we are. with nothing now to care for! You spoke like a sensible man just now —oh. don't think that - am excitable.” “Well, how cast I think otherwise? But do me the justice to remember that I do not for one moment assert what everybody takes for granted. It seems too probable, and it cannot for the present at least he disproved, that here we have the sad finale of the poor young lady. But it must be borne in mind that, on the other hand, the body ” “The thing could be settled in two minutes —Sharp, I have no patience with yotTf"

“So it appears; and making due allowance, 1 am not vexed with you. You mean, of course, the interior garments, the nether clothing, and so on. There is not a clue afforded there. We have found no name on anything. The features and foim. as 4 peed, not tell you ■" “I cannot bear to hear of that. Has any old servant of the family; has the family doctor ” "All these measures were taken of (curse. We had the two oldest servants. But the one was flurried out of her wits, and the other three-quarters frozen. And you know what a fellow old Splinters is. the crustiest of the crusty. He took it in bitter dudgeon that Sir Anthony had been sent for to see the poor old Squire. And all he wottjd say was. ‘Yes. yes, yes. You had better send for Sir Anthony. Perhaps lie could bring oh. of course he could bring—my poor little pet to life again.’ Then we tried her unit. Mrs. Fermitage. one of the, last vim hud seen her living. But bless you, my dear sir, a team of horses would not have lugged her into the room. cried.sand shrieked, and fainted away. - ••'Barbarous creatures!' said said, 'you \x“ill have t(> hold another inquest, if you uje &> unmanly. I could not even see mj dear husband.' and then she fell into hysterics. Now, sir. have we anything lucre to do? Shall we send a litter or a collin for th<- Squire himself?” "You are inclined to be sarcastic. But you have taken gr-uit deal upon yourself. You seem have ordered everything. Mr. Luke Sharp every where!’’

“Will you tell me who else there was to do it? It lias not been a very pleasant task, and certainly not a profitable one. I shall reap the usual reward—to be called a busybody by evert on *. But th it is a tritie. Now. if there is anything you can sttggi st, Mr. <lversliute, it shall be doiie at once. Take time to think, i feel a little tired and in lived of rest. There has been so much to think of. You should have come to help us sooner. But, no doubt, you felt a sort of delicacy about it. The worthy jurymen's feet at last Lave ceased to rattle in the passage. My horse will not be here just yet. You xx ill not think me rude, if 1 snatch a little rest, wliU&you Consider. For three nights I have lupl no sleep. Have I your good permission, sir? Here is the key of thrtt room, meanwhile.” Russel Ovefshnte wits surprised to si’e Mr. Sliarp draw lorili'tt large silk handkerchief and spread it carefully over the eiown of his long, deep head, and around his temples down to the fine gray eyebrows. Then lifting gnitcred heels upon the Hat wide lyir of the iron fender, in less than a minute Mr. Luke Sharp win asleep beyond nil contradiction. He slept the sleep of the just. If Mr. Sharp had striven hard to produce n powerful effect, young Overshute might have suspected him; but this calm, good sleep and pure sense of rest laid him open for nil the world to take n inrger view of him. No bnd mnn could sleep like that. No narrow-minded man could be so wide to nature’s noblest power. Only a tine and genial soul could sweetly thus resign itself. The soft content of well-earned repose spoke volumes silence.' Here was a good

man at peace with his conscience, the world, and hen ven. Overshute was enabled thus to look at things more loftily. To judge a man as he should be judged, when he challenges no verdict. To see that there are large points of view, which we Jose by worldly ■wisdom, and by little peeps through selfish holes, too one-eyed and ungenerous. Overshute could not bear the idea of any iililierality. He hated suspicion in anybody. unless it were just: as his own -iiotild be. In this condition of mind he pondered, while the honest lawyer slept. And he could not think of anything neg-l':--ted, or mismanaged miu-h. in the present helpless state of things. CHAPTER X. When at last the frost broke up. and streams began to run again, and every-wTiei-eYthe’ earth was glad that men should see her face once more; and forest trees, and roadside pollards, and bushes of the common hedgerow, straightened their unburdened backs, and stood for spring to look at them; a beautiful young maiden value as far as she could come, and sighej,!; as if the beauty of the land awaking was a grief to her. This pretty laity, in the young mossbud and slendcr-neeked chalice of innocence. was laden with dews of sorrow, such as Nature, in her outer /dealings with the more material workl.-defers until autumnal iiight. ami russet hours are waiting. Scarcely in full bloom of youth, but ripe for blush or dreaminess, she felt the power of early spring, and the budding hope around her. "Am I to be a prisoner always, ever more a prisoner?” she said, as she touched a willow catkin, the earliest of all, the silver one. She stroked the delicate silken tassel, doubtful of yet; and she looked for leaves, but none there were, and nothing to hold commune. The feeble sun seemed well content to have' a glimpse of the earth again, and spread his glances diffidently, as if he expeetetl shadow. Nevertheless, there he was at last; and the world received him tenderly. “It has been such a’long, long time. It seems to grow longer, as the days draw out, and nobody comes to talk to me. My place it is to obey, of course — but still, but still —there he is again!” The girl drew back, for a fine young man. in a grand new velvet shooting coat, wearing also a long shawl waistcoat and good buckskin breeches, which (combined with calfskin gaiters) set off his legs to the uttermost—in all this picturesque apparel, and swinging a gun right gallantly, there he was, and no mistake! He was quietly trying_through the covert, without any beaters, but with a brace of clever spaniels, for woodcock, snipe, or rabbit perhaps, the season for game being over. A tall, well made, and tathcr nice young man (so far as a bashful girl might guess) he seemed at this third view of him; and of course it would be an exceedingly rude and pointed thing to run away. Needless, also, and indeed absurd: because she was sure that when last they met he was frightened much more than she was. It was nothing less than a duty now to find out whether he had recovered himself. If ho had done so. it would be as well to frighten him even more this time. And if he had not. it would only be fair to see what could be done for him. One of his dogs-—a “cocking spannel,” as the great Mr. Looker warranted — good young bitch, with liver-colored spots and drop ears torn r by brambles, and eyes full of brownish yellow light, ran ftp to the girl confidentially and wagged a brief tail, and sniffed a little, and with sound discretion gazed. Each black nostril was like a murk of panting interrogation. and one ear was tucked up like a small tunnel, and the eye that belonged tn it blinked with acumen. (To be continued.)

TATTOOING NOT UNCOMMON.

Fashionable English People Have the Craze. In the annual report of the directorgeneral of the medical department of the British navy appears a paper by Staff Surgeon Finch, of the Thesis, in which reference is made to the case of a stoker who was tattooed at \Yeihaiwei and who subsequently suffered from a rash over his body. . , "Tattooing,” says the report, “is now “not uncommon in many widely separated classes of society and it would repay any one desiring this form of decoration to see tiiat the needles used are sterilized.” Inquiries made show that the report as to the popularity of tattooing is quite correct. Alfred Smith, who lias tattooed over 15,000 persons—among them over 1,000 medical men—said that witli antiseptic treatment there was no fear of any disease . being spread and all his needles were sterilized. He prepares every arm in the same way as a nurse would before an operation. Asked ns to whether fashionable'people liked to lie tattooed. Mr. Smith said that a great many of his clients were society folk —"from dukes downward.” The average time for an operation Is one and a hqif hours and .♦sometimes,' when an elaborate picture Is lielng made, n man will call twice a week for six months. Women and children are also tattooed. Some women, it seems, like to have a little inscription on the third finger of Hie left hand, where It is covert'd by the wedding ring. The inside of the upper arm and the ankle are also favorite places tor pictures. Men and women often come to have Initials tattooed on their arms and sometimes, after a respectable time, they want the initials altered. One young lady came—at different times —with eleven different men. At each visit she signed her name and the signature was tattooed on her companion’s arm. The young woman Is married now, but her husband has not his wife's maiden name on his arm, while of the eleven young men whose arms were once so adorned six have been back to Mr. Smith to have the same obliterated.

Extremes.

“How far is a Sabbath day's Journey, pop?” “It depends on whether it Is lieing made by a chauffeur or a messenger boy, my son.”—Yonkers Statesman.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Terre Haute to Furnish Its Own Electric Licht—Demented Man Attempta to Burn Baby—Fire Destroys Farm of Decker Melon Grower. The Tern- Haute city" .-.dmi'iistration has contracted with the Mr-t'ull x-h..com-pany of St. Lottis to prepare plans ami estimates for a munieipal electric light plant. Mayor Birlamnn report-; as a tisult of his investigation, that lit- is taififident it will be. cheaper-and better for the euty to own its own plant. He believes that !MJ per cent of tin- people of the city favor a inunicipal plant, but that a skillful attempt is being made to array business interests against it. Science Is Ilefeutcd. Just as strrgotins believed they had successfully arranged to provide him with a metal lower jaw to replace a 1 >ss through illness in his yotuigt-f days, Ralph Hirsi-hlef. son of a wealthy Terre Haute family, died in Waukegan. HL, of pneumonia. He was 21 years old. The operation, if successful, would have been original in surgical science in many details. Tries to Burn His Baby. Worry over financial losses mentally deranged William Wendling of Walton, who was found by his vjfe piltting tlieir 4-inbnth.s-oid baby in the stove. sayingThL was going to use the child for kindling wood. Wendling and his wife were painfully burned in struggling for the infant. He was committed to the Longcliff hos-, pital for the insane. Finds Baby on Porch. A baby boy was fotjnd in a telescope on the porch at the residence of Stover Hicks, a Valparaiso bitsiness Tnan. The baby was about 2 weeks old and well dressed. It is believed to have been left by two women who alighted from a Chicago train. Tli'O officei- are-investigat-ing. Valuable Barn Is Destroyed. Fire of incendiary origin destroyed the huge barn and wart-house on the farm of Emery Yates of Decker, loss $!).l»t)i», insurance .'fi-1.000. Yates is a melon grower and is in Florida, His entire stock of melon baskets and much live stock, including thirty head of sheep, were l&st. Girl Scalped by Machine. Miss Josephine Halter, 15 years old, was completely scalped when her hair caught in the shafting at the Vincennes button factory. One car was torn off. The girl’s injuries are fatal. Minor State Matter*. Pneumonia is prevailing at London, fifteeii cases being reported. John. Reed, a bachelor, ."5 years old, hanged himself at Rochester rather than go to jail for one day. Traction service to Rushville on . the Indianapolis and Cincinnati lino, being built by Charles L. Henry, is opened. A burglar entered the jewelry store of A. C. tlenung. at Frankton, and finding the safe unlocked, carried off S2OO in cash and, S4OO in jewelry. Anderson has been placarded with 5.D00 printed notices in effect that the anti-spitting ordinance is now in legal effect and will be enforced. The wharfbont at Leavenworth was wrecked by ice from a gorge which broke above the city. The wharfboat at New Amsterdam was also wrecked. Rev. Richard Bassett, the best known colored man in Indiana and a former member of the Indiana Legislature, died at his home in Kokomo, aged G 2 years. J. H. Wilson of Fortville, a sophomore at Depanw university, suffered a severe hemorrhage as a result of injuries received in the class fight. Hh> condition is critical. The perjury charges against George W. Riley, a newspaper correspondent, and “Dude" Cook, the divorced wife of Elmer Browning, growing out of the Shafer murder in Bedford, lia ve been dismissed. Mrs. Effie Stanfield, bride of Howard Stanfield of Washington, made two attempts at suiyide by hanging. Each time she was unconscious when found, but was cut down in time to save her life. Sue and Howard Stanfield were nnirried at Muttoon. Ilk. three months ago. Harry S. Hicks, formerly treasurer of the Indiana Dental college. i<. in a complaint filed in the. Superior Court in Indianapolis, charged with having misappropriated nearly $20,000 of the eolleg-’s funds. An accounting is askel. City Clerk Taggart of Richmond notified the administrator of the estate of the late James Morrison to appeal- and show cause why stock in the MorrissonPlummer Drug Company of Chicago, which is owned by the estate and in the administrator’s hands, should tint be listed for taxation. The city claims the stock lias not been listed for a period of stivOral years and the city clerk’s estiniate of taxes due is in excess of $lO, 000. A lawsuit will probably result. Representatives of the Elkins-Wide-ner syndicate of Fhilndelphia have been investigating traction, gas and electric plants in Ln I’orte. It is understood that negotiations are pending for the purchase and merger of the Chicago and South Short* Railway Company, owning and operating the interurban line between I.a Porte and Michigan City; the La Porte Gas and Coke Company; the Michigan City Traction Company, owning and operating a street cur line in Michigan City: the La Porte Electric Comimny, owning and operating an electric and hot water heating plant, and the Lake Citie* Electric Company of Michigan City. The deal if made will involve over $2,000,000. Trustee Williams of Prairie township, hns awarded the contract for construction of a SIO,OOO school house nt Springport to W. H. Jones o£ Newcastle. Drillers sinking a water well ut the home of John Miller, in Muncie, encountered what they supposed to be a vein of gold, and specimens have been sent away for analysis. The fraudulent marriage chnrgc brought by Louise Pierce Riley against Howard lliley in Newcastle hns been dismissed, and. insteißl, n divorce euit was filed, with the decree in favor of Mrs. Riley, coupled with S3OO alimony.

Travel in 1860 and in 1004.

Mr. Albert M. Bigelow, of New York, writes in regard to a trip from NewTork"to tbe Lake Superior mining region as follows: “I was absent from my office in New York Friday, Saturday and Monday.. I bad one day in Chicago, two days and a night at Lake Superior, and did not need to break the Sabbath by any business transaction. This was accomplished in this way: I took the Lake Shore Limited for Chicago on Thursday evening, leaving at 5:30. I arrived in Chicago at four o’clock on Friday. I stayed in Chicago four and one-half hours, meeting some people there and accomplishing some business. I took the train at 8:30 and, arrived at Lake Superior at 6:50 in tlie morning. I had all day Saturday and the evening there. I spent Saturday night there and Sunday. Sunday evening at 6:50 I left Lake Superior and arrived at Chicago on Monday morning at 6 o’clock. I had a half-day there and left at 12:30 p. m. on the Twentieth Century Limited on the Lake Shore road for New York, arriving at 9:30 Tuesday morning, which enabled me to reach my office at the ordinary time. On each of the trains which I took I had a comfortable room for myself and was luxuriously supplied in (lining cars on each road. This more than verified the story in the Arabian Nights of the wonderful Persian carpet on which the Prince was transferred "some one hundred miles in a single night.” Mr. Bigelow adds that the above is in striking contrast to his first trip to the Lake Superior region in 1859, when it occupied seven or eight days of constant traveling in going one way.— From the Troy Times.

The Trouble with Him.

“I refuse to talk to you, sir.!" roared the indignant old father. “If you will come around when you are sober to ask me for my daughter I may consider the matter.” “When I’m shober? Thash all right, old man —thash all right. Glad to do it. Only I never seem to want her when I’m sober.”—Chicago Record-Herald. About twenty per cent of the young men who recently applied to enter the Naval Academy failed in the physical test, and the failure was largely due to the use of tobacco, resulting in the irregular beating of the heart.

DERANGED NERVES . , . L__ -4 * - DISTEESSING TEOUBLES LEFT BY ST. VITUS AND GEIP. Woman Afflicted for Yeara by Strange Spells of Numbness and Weakness Recovers Perfect Health. When she was fourteen years old, Mrs, Ida L. Brown had St. Vitus’ dance. She finally got over the most noticeable features of the strange ailment, but was still troubled by very uncomfortable sensations, which she recently described as follows : “ One hand, half of my face, and half of my tongue would get cold and numb. These feelings would come on, last for about ten minutes, and then go away, several times a day. Besides I would have palpitation of the heart, and my strength would get so low that I could hardly breathe. As time went on these spells kept coming oftener and growing worse. The numbness would sometimes extend over half my body.” “ How did you get rid of them ?” “It seemed for a long time as if I never could get rid of them. It was not until about six years ago that I found a remedy that had virtue enough in it to reach my case. That was Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, and they have since entirely cured me.” “ Did it take long to effect a cure? ” “No! I hadn’t taken the whole of the first box before I saw a great improvement. So I kept on using them, growing better all the time,until I had taken eight boxes and then I was perfectly well, and I have remained in good health ever since with one exception.” " What was that? ” “ Oh ! that was when I had the grip. I was in bed, under the doctor’s care, for two weeks. When I got up I had dreadful attacks of dizziness. Iliad to grasp hold of something or I would fall right clown. I was just miserable, and when I saw the doctor was not helping me, I began to take Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills again. In a short time they cured me of that trouble too, and I have never had any dizzy spells since.” Mrs. Brown lives at No. 1705 DeWitt street, Mattoon, Illinois. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are without an equal for the rapid and thorough cure of neryous prostration. They expel the poison left in the system by such diseases as grip and are the best of tonics in all cases of weakness. They are sold by every druggist.

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INDIANA LAWMAKERS.

As a special order of business. Senator Purviance's bill to establish an Indiana Tillage of Epileptics was handed down in the Indiana House on Monday.It was the signal for a long discussion. When the question came to a vote the minority report to kill the*bill was rejected by a vote of 53 to 27. The majority report was concurred in by a vote of 62 to 22. After the general appropriation bill had been introduced th«' House got down to work on the Senate amendments to the criminal code. With few exceptions the amendments were concurred in by the House upon the motion of Mr. Sayre. Mr. Agar’s bill to repeal the law creating the codification commission passed by a vote of 66 to 8. The effect of this bill, if it becomes n law, would be to end the work of the commission with this session of the Legislature.. The House on Tuesday took up the general appropriation bill in committee of the whole and adopted an amendment appropriating $5,000 to catch O. A. Baker and any others that are accused of attempting to bribe members of the Gem oral Assembly. In the Senate a bill to regulate private banks was passed by a vote of 27 to 22. The substitute tax ferret bill was passed by a vote of 27 to 15. Moore (of Putnam and Montgomery) bill to place Gen. Lew Wallace statue in National Statuary Hall was passed. A resolution to appoint a mission to investigate tuberculosis and re-, port to next' General Assembly was passed. The codification commission bill on private corporations was killed beyond all possibility of revival by the Senate Wednesday after a discussion that consumed nearly all the forenoon session. The roll call on final passage of the bill showed eighteen voting for the bill, thirty against it. Senator Hendee, who fathered th<> bill in the Senate, changed his vote from aye to no when he saw that the bill had been killed, with the evident purpose of moving to reconsider the vote. He was prevented from doing this by Senator Moore of Putnam, who immediately upon the announcement of the vote made the motion himself. Senator Milburn at once moved to Jay the Jiloore motion on tbe table. On the Milburn motion the “ayes” and “noes” were demanded and . the,. “clinching” motion, thus put to the test, was carried by a vote of 24 to 22. This effectually stops all further consideration of the bill by the Senate. The Senate concurred in a favorable report of the public morals committee on Senate bill No. 281, a “high license bill.” providing for a county license fee of SI,OOO for saloons and that an additional fee of between SSOO and SI,OOO may be charged by town or city authorities. The present county license fee is SIOO, while citio, and towns may .charge not more than $250. By a viva voce vote which appeared to be overwhelming the House defeated the Senate's provision in the codification bill on cities and towns pinking a general extension of the terms of present city officers. In its stead the House adopted an amendment of its own, providing forJa uniform time of election in all citiesrqind towns in the coming fall and every four years thereafter. Officers elected next fall are not to t ike office until the"terms of present city officers have expired and are to serve till 1910.

In the Senate Thursday the House bill for elevated tracks in Indianapolis WHS passed in order to prevent controversy as to constitutionality. The Senate concurred in report of conference committee on the Crnm'packer aiitom - Hile bill. Many bills were rapidly passel. In the House the Gninard bill on private banks was advanced to engrossment as it came from the Senate. Speaker Cantwell excoriated the lobby and forbade doorkeepers and pages from carrying messages to members from lobbyists. An attempt to correct the House journal on th ' 1 vote which postponed the bill to increase judges’ salaries failed. Bills Signed by the Governor. 11. B. 125. ftuick. Exempting the property of Greek-letter fraternities from taxation. 11. B. 15C>. Sayre. Authorizing cointies to lease lands to hospital associations. 11. B. 1!)!*. Branch. To add one week to the term of court in the fifteenth judicial circuit. 11. B. 221. Cravens. Renewing the act of ISyt), protecting pheasants for six years more. H. B. IDS. Robinson'. Providing fur the issuance of bonds by the township trustee for the payment of township indebtedness. Emergency. 11. B. I<M). Rock. To legalize the incorporation of Shirley, in Hancock and Hendricks counties. H. B. 191. Wade. To legalize the incorporation of Grillin. Posey county. H. B. 218. Mctionagle. To legalize the incorporation of Riverside City, Delaware county. 8. B. 87. Murray. Providing that action in replevin for recovery of persomtl property may be maintained before a justice of the peace or mayor without tiling a replevin bond. 8. B. 115. Hogg. To exempt the bonds issued by the State Board of Agriculture from taxation. 8. B. 7. Coats. Empowering mon Councils to transfer deeds to cemeteries to private corporations on the petition of the majority of the lot owners. 8. B. 124. Ganiard. Allowing county commissioners to pay the expenses of making school fund loans. Emergency. 8. B. 147. Newhouse. Providing for n new hospital for the insane, to he erected in a city to be chosen by the com-’ mission. 8. B. 209. Stricter. To change the time of holding court in the Twetityeighth judicial circuit, composed of Blackfonl and Wells counties. H. B. 3. Kean. To levy throe-fifths of a cent on each SHM). the proceeds to go to those poorer townships in the Btnlo which, with a local levy of 40 cents on the SIOO, cannot maintain n school of 120 days. Hille on Third Reading Senate. H. B. 170. Beekman. To legalize the conveyances acknowledged before Justlcea of the peace and defectively certified. Paaaed, 30 to 0.