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ALONE. BY E. N. B EAGER. I have riood, sometimes, ns the day went, out In darkness, high uj on some rugged peak, Ami seen the stars appear in sudden rout Before tho setting sun, ns children seek In play to 'scape pursuit by running round Some intervening busli; while on the ground The eternal snow lay deep and soft and white, A glittering plain in tho star lit night; There no sign of life, no sound, but the m -an Os the winds: But then 1 seemed not alone. And I have been where stagnant wato . s lay Ju awful stillness 'neath tall cypress trees, Acd seen anon the firefly s intermittent ray Thrown back from the noisome flood, as the sens Reflect the stars ; have listened to tho call Os tho night-bird s low complainings, and all rhe saddening sounds of night; the sudden crash Os stricken trees, and then tho startling dash Os frightened birds, tho trembling leaves' soft tone (n ceaseless song • But I seemed not alone. And I have seen the earth in living green Stretch out in one vast sea, to meet the blue Os Heav’n; the stars in grand perspective seen, gome near, some far, as they wander on through Space, bright watchers o'er tho silent sleepin » world. No other creature, save some meteor hurled With lurid flash athwart tho stormy skv ; And heard afar the skulking coyote's cry Across the darkened prairies swiftly blown : Kot even then. I seemed to be alone. And I am now among the haunts of men, A stranger, with many thousand thrown By chance; midst crowds of busy men, is when, Oh paradox most strange, I am alone. AFOUNBLIMG'SFATE OR, The Maid of the Tyrolese Valley.

by h. bird, esq. CHAPTER Vl.—{Continued. | Here Franzi rushed forward, and flung herself at the feet of her some-time mistress. “Oh, Miss Isidore!” she cried, hdfchoked with her sobs. “What have I done to yon that you should thus seek to ruin me? Think of my friendless condition! You know that I am parentless, with none to care for me! Oh, mother, mother! you who deserted your babe from its birth, where—where are you?” The vicar's niece stood as stilt and as rigid as a pillar of stone. “Have you done?” she asked in harsh syllables. The girl staggered to her feet, and, turning, sank into a chair. "Come!” added the lady, drawing the blackmith’s mother to tho door. “1 have spoken only the truth. Come!” “Stop!” thundered Vigili, placing himself before the two women. “My mother shall not be driven from her home; and she who would have imposed upon and fooled me, who is so beautiful, and looks so innocent, she shall not leave this house alive —I will kill her with my own hand!” And, with those words, the furious man tried to seize Franzi; but some of the neighbors caught hold of him, and held him back, while the girl escaped through the smi.hy, and tottered out into the open air. “It is all over!” she murmured to herself. “I have noth ng left me now but death. Heaven will pity and forgive me, 1 hope!” And she started oft' down the village street in the direction of Vnterwald’s house, never pausing once till she found herself in front of its doorporch, with only a strip of garden betwixt herself and it. She stood quite still, for Albert was sitting there. “Heaven protect the dear old home!” she prayed, in a whispering voice. “I thank you all a thousand times for your goodness to me! I shall never see you more, but I will show you that I have not forgotten you,” And, hastily opening the little bundle she had brought with her from the cottage, she took out of it tho crushed wreath which Albert had worn on the evening of tho festival, tore off the ring she had once shown to him, pressed them both to her 1 ps, and afterward tied them up in a handkerchief, which she threw over the hedge. The little parcel fell at his feet; but she who had thrown it there was already gone. He picked it up in amaze, and immediately went into the house, in order to examine it. When his eyes fell upon its contents, he seemed to understand all that had happened, and alarm at once possessed him. He hurried out of the house again, and looked over the gate—up the road and down it. It was starlight, and every object was plainly to be so n. While he was thus standing, the vicar's niece, who had quitted the blacksmith's tn triumph, came hurrying along on her way back home. As she approached the gate, three men. who had just left the village inn, met her face to face, “Oho!” cried one of them, stopping her. “Here is the mischief-maker of the village — the saint who takes away the character of honest girls. I.et us give her a remembrance. ” “Agreed!” replied the other two. With a scream, the woman broke from them, and flew, she knew not whither, the men following, shouting and hooting behind her. Blindly she passed through the passage, which Albert had flung open to receive her. “Here—conceal yourself here'” he whispered, dragging her into an outhouse. ‘‘Nobody will seek you here,” he added, pulling the door after him, and leaving her in darkness. Then he went back to meet the men, who had already entered the garden. “She went in here, TH swear!” said one of them. “Nonsense!” replied another. “Miss Isidore knows better than seek protection under the roof of him whose good son she sought to injure. ” “What is the matter? Whom seek you here?” asked Albeit, approaching the intruders. But before they could - answer his inquiry, a woman’s voice was heard in the distance, crying out, “Help, help!” The voice came nearer and nearer, and with it hasty footsteps through the snow. “Help, help, in heaven’s name, reverend sir!” cried Katrina, recognizing Albert. “Help whom?” he asked, fear shaking all his limbs. “Franzi!” she gasped, in reply. “Franzi!” echoed all. “Something to-night told me to follow her steps, and not to lose s ght of her,” answered the woman, panting for breath. “When she left the smith's, t was clo<e at her heels, flying after her like the wind; T called to her, but she did not hear me. All of a sudden, she made toward the river, and then was lost to my view. 1 reached the bank, but could see-nothing but the rushing waters, and at my feet this hat and kerchief. Ab, now I understand her words; the poor darling has, indeed, stopped the people’s tongues.” By this time Albert’s father and mother, bearing a lantern, were added to the rest. “Oh. father,” exclaimed the young man, falling on old Unterwald’s shoulder, “poor Franzi has rushed out of the world, and I am the unhappy cainle of her death. See, here is her parting gift to me—her ring.” "A ring?” echoed Madame Unterwald, taking the little golden hoop out of her son’s band, and holding it to the light. “Ab, I recognize it! It was found round her intuit neck. It mwst have belonged to her

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mother, the unnatural creature! Ano’dgold ring with three stars engraved inside it.” Front the outhouse there now proceeded a woman's agonized cry. But no one noticed it, for all the men, followed by the devoted Katrina, had hurried away in the direction of the river. It was a hopeless quest After two hours’ absence, Albert and his father returned home with heavy hearts. The former looked into the outhouse, where he had left the vicar’s niece; it was empty. CHAPTER VII. On the following morning, Albert made inquiries after Miss Isidora, but he was told that sho had not been honn all night, and that the vicar was in almost a distracted state about her. But day followed day, and no news whatever was heard of her. Franzi’s fate seemed uncertain, and remained so until the spring time came, and the river became lower. Then a fam de corpse, in peasant’s dress, was found, but its features were unrecognizable. No one, for a moment, doubted but it was the body of poor Frunzi. Albert's time of suspension being past, the vicar dead, and the young priest’s fame cleared in every way, ho was presented with the vicarage, and the living annexed to it. The wicked schoolmaster was discharged, and another was engaged -one who was not too obstinate to work hand in hand with the new vicar, whose name, all through Volothol, was ever the theme of constant commendation. Every one who stood in need of a friend sought the wise counsel of the good priest, by whom the hungry were fed, the naked clothed, and the unhappy comforted. The pain that had once wrung his heart was gone, and calmness now reigned in it. Nevertheless he always looked sad, as one over whose head a mighty storm had passed. He often thought of the friend of his early youth—of Frunzi— and prayed that her only sin might bo forgiven.

A whole year had gone by, when, one day, a letter bearing the post-mirk of an adjoining city arrived at the vicarage, praying him to come to one who was fast passing away from the world. The worthy priest lost not a moment in attending the summons; and tho following morning found him at the door of a cottage, the servant of which admitted him, and led him up stairs into a room, whore she left him. As the door closed behind her, another opened, and a female figure entered. It was Miss Isidore. Y'es, despite her changed face, and her bleached hair, he knew i' w in a moment. “Is it you, Miss Isidore?” he exclaimed, starting. “What mockery is this? Why am 1 brought hither?” “Nay, you are not mocked, reverend sir,” she replied, very mournfully. "You are summoned here to visit a death-bed. But, first, I must render you an explanation—l mt st tell you my tale.” Albert took the ch tir to which her finger pointed, and sat down, a vague fear creeping into his heart.” “Do not imagine that I am the same woman whom you formerly knew," she commenced. “As my face is changed, so is my soul purified. The hatred that once filled my breast is gone, and love lives in its place. You remember that terrible night, when you afforded me shelter and protection, and what happened aft. r 1 was hidden in the on’house? Weil. I heard every word that Katrina said, and also about tho ring with the three stars engraved on it, and a light seemed to shine upon me, and the darkness went out of me forever. My father was a rich man, and I was his only child,” she went on. “But I was not good; I was vain, ambitious, and false-hearted. 1 bad a crow el of suitors whom it was my daily delight to deceive and torture. But I met my punishment before long, for one came who succeeded in deceiving me. For a time I managed to preserve the secret of my downfaft from every eye. At length I discovered that I should soon be a mother. I was bold, and I did not tremble even then. I asked my honorable and trusting father to allow me to visit an old schoolmate, and he consented. I must tell you that I did not travel far before my unhappy child was born. I never saw it. I left it with a woman, who carried it to a place where it would be certain to be quickly found, and ”

“Heavenly powers! What dire forebodings you awaken in me!” Albeit cried. “Your forebodings do not deceive you, reverend sir,” the lady rejoim d. “•Judge me as you will, and curse me as I deserve to be cursed. Well, I learned that the town took charge of tho foundling; and afterward I had to d seover that the girl whom I had so persecuted, and diiven to despair, was my own daughter!'’ The last words were almost shrieked out, and Miss Isidore, overpowered with grief and shame, slid from her chair, and buried her face in its cushion. The good priest remained speech'ess. “When fit st I met the girl yearsago, ' resumed the speaker, “I felt my heart drawn toward her. My father died, and I then went to live with my uncle. I now began to play a part—to seem the woman I was not. I hated every body, and I learned to feel delight in making people suffer. My youth was fled, and with it every hope. Judge how I felt when I heard your mother speak of the ring with the three stars, and learnt who was its wretched owner. At one moment I felt inclined to rush forth, and reveal all to you. But I chose to act otherwise. I left my hiding-place, and flew toward the river. l lf Franzi has sought death, so will I!’ I cried, inwardly." Here Miss Isidore paused again, quite overcome with emotion. Albert raised her from her knees, and placed her once more in her chair. “What more—what more?" he exclaimed. “Oh, my whole soul goes forth to meet your words! ” “I soon reached the river bank, and by the light of the moon and the stars 1 followed her footprints in the snow. I saw that they went toward the water. But, further on, I remarked that there were footmarks as of some one coming from the river. I did not understand this. J sought further, and, praise be to Providence, I found her at last, lying among some thick bushes, quite insensible, and with her clothes all stiff with the water that had frozen on them. "Merciful powers!” uttered Albert “It is no dream, I hope! Oh, my heart, of what a heavy load thou wilt be relieved if all this be true! Go on—go on!” he continued, turning to the lady. ‘Tell me all! What happened further? Does Franzi still live?” “She does. We have lived here for some time, content that the world should believe us both dead. 1 wrote to my uncle, and told him everything, and lie arranged for me all matters relative to the property I possessed. My life for the last twelve months has been one of almost unalloyed happiness; a heaven on earth seemed open to me. But now all is changed, and 1 am become one of the most miserable women in creation.” “Impossible! With such a daughter you can not be otherwise than happy.” “Hush! She knows not who she is; I have not dared to tell her. I feared that she would turn from such a mother as I with horror and loathing. Could I say to her, T am the heartless parent who deserted her new-born babe, and let the mercy of the wide world, eating r. .tung whether it lived or perished?’ Oh, how often I have longed to take her in my arms and call her

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my own! But when sometimes the words rose to my lips, a choking sensation would come in my throat and prevent my speaking, and the words were left unsaid.” heie where is she?” “Sho is here. Can you bear to hear the sad truth?'' “What more have you to tell?” he dem aided anxiously. “1 am about to lose her,” the lady answered, in unsteady accents. "You are about to lose her!” echoed Albert. Ido not comprehend you. “She is dangerously ill dying!” lor an instant Albert’s lips quivered, and a cold shiver pervaded ids frame; in tho next he was himself again. “It was her wish to see you once more, and I obeyed her wish seeing no sin in it.” "You did well," he returned. She is in yonder chamber, impatiently expecting you. Albert turned aside his head, and silently wiped away the tears he could not repress. “Are you ready?” sho asked. “I am. ” “But one word more. Before you outer, pronounce me your forgiveness ” Not by words alone; my acts shall prove that I pardon you.” And ho gave her his hand, and she stiaightway led him into Franzi’s chamber. There, on the bed, lay a wasted form, by the side of which he fell on his knees. He saw at once that there was no hope for the sick girl, of whom nothing remained of her former self save her honest dark eyes. She turned to him." “Albert, she began, very feebly, “this is more than 1 had dared to hope for. Now 1 shall leave the world without regret. Can you pardon me. “For what? I have nothing to utter save thanksgivings. I have mourned you dead, and have been tilled with regret for vout loss. ” Here Franzi’s white cheeks flushed. She tried to speak, but was too weak to do so ut the moment. Her mother watched her with aching eyes, and gently slid her arm beneath the invalid's pillow. “Oh. how good you are to me!” Franzi said, witii a grateful look. "I shall not live to repay you for a l the acts of kindness you have rendered me. I shall not have time to do so,” she added, meaningly, and with a smile. "Oh, do not tear my heart!” wept the other.

“1 am so happy then wherefore do you shed tears? happier, almost, than when I wore the wreath on the festival,” sighed tin dying one. “And who knows but there is some still greater felicity in store for you?” said Al, bert. “If 1 could Ining yon nows of your mother, what would you say?” "My my mother! "gasped Franz*, trying to raise herself upon her pillow, and afterward sinking back upon it "My mother Does she live?" “She does." he replied. “Can 1 see her?” “Aon shall see her when you are strong en< gh to bear the joy her presence will brit g to you " answered the priest. "Where is she oh, where?' cried Franzi the roses once more blooming in her face. "She is here*my child, Miss Isidore answered. fal mg sobbing across the bed. “Oh. hate me not thrust me not from you. ” “My mother! Is th s true? Why do you not take mo in your arms, then, mid press me to your bosom, that 1 may say I am on my mother's breast if only for once and the Inst time?” "My daughter my good, good daughter!" the wretched woman exclaimed, taking Franzi in her arms, and pressing her closely. “Oh, my mother!” faintly dropped the expiring girl. Then there was silence for son e few seconds, and she was laid back on her p", low, where she remained, looking as if si e had already ceased to breathe. By and by sho felt for Albert’s hand then for that of her mother, and placid them together; as she did so. saying, in broken accents, “My mother my brother." After that tl e gentle spirit of Franzi at once took its flight. ♦ * * * * * Albert returned to Volothol. and worked with increased zeal; and. after a short time, Isidora came back to the village, where sho spent her ivonoy and her tim ■ in perlorming all sorts nf charitable ami womanly acts. Her secret lay buried with Frunzi. When Albert had worked at his smre l call.ng for fifty-six years, tin re was another festival given m his honor at A o’othol. But the friends who made mer y at his first had most of them passed away, and Albert s patent's s’ent in peace. ( ue morning, a b w days after the abovementioned festive occasion, the priest’s chamber-door not bei g opened at its accustomrd hour, h's se ran* entered the ro m, and found his master in his old armchair, with his head resting on his breast, and a smile on bis lips. On the tab’e before him rested a holy volume. Albert hid gone to Him who waited. Many, many years havj fled sine * Albert Fnterwald s death. But among those of the village who were children when he lived, and knew his many virtues, he is s ill fondly remembered; and they recount to others whit has been narrated to them of him. and shake their heads when any other pastor is praised, observing: “Well, well; wc say nothing against him, but such a man as our late vicar we shall never see again.” [THE ENI) ]

How to Succeed in Society. Dress well, even if your tailor has to pay for it. Feed those who are already overfed 'They will piob ibly return it. Most animals are fashionable. Few men are. The most conspicuous adventurer is the most reliable weather-cock. No man knows society better than he who has worked his way up, and there is no greater scoundrel than the one who hat worked his way down. Snow is white till people tread it down. So most of us arc tolerable till the world has rubbed its dirt into us. Seldom Lazard an assertion. AVhen retailing a scandal or a marriage, preface your statement with, “Is it true that?” etc. This is never compromising. The object of extreme discretion is to intrench imb. cility and impotence. Speak well of everybody till they are irrctriably broke; then listen to nothing iu their favor. Shun poverty; its consequences are contagious. in these days a gentleman must be a snob. Formerly a snob could not be a gentleman. Snobbishness is worldliness without knowledge of the world. Don’t be ashamed of your vices; what irritates us are our tirtues. Follow these instructions, and you will be considered “nice.” A CABEijr.ss critic, who was criticising a young lady’s father severely across the dinner-table, paused a moment to say; “I hope ho is no relation of yours, Miss L.?” Quick as thought she replied, with the utmost nonchalance; “Only a connection of mother's by marriage.” I adds nothing to the self-respect of John g. Sullivan that he has to get behind a one-cent stamp in order to Bek it.

FARM PRODUCTS. Wheat in Michigan Shows No Improvement—A Slight Advance in Illinois. The Country's General Acreage Niue Per Cent. Less than at This Time Last Year. National Department Report. [Washington telegram.] The report of the Department of Agriculture for May relates to the condition of winter grain, the progress of spring plowing, and proportion of the proposed cotton area already planted. It indicates a decline in the condition of wheat of two points since April 1, the general av .age for the whole country being 86, against 95 at tho same date in 1886, 70 in 1885, and 89 in 1884. The changes in condition have not been uniform throughout the winter-wheat region, some States showing an increase, the majority a slight decline, and a few a heavy falling oft. The States of the Middle Atlantic coast from Pennsylvania to North Carolina show some improvement. In New Y'ork and New Jersey the amount of winter-killing was not fully known on April 1, and this, with cold, unfavorable weather during the month, has caused a serious reduction of condition. Drought has reduced the average somewhat in the Eastern Gulf States, and has wrought very serious damage in Texas and Arkansas, lowering the condition during the month nineteen to ten points respectively. Favorable temperature and seasonable rains have improved the prospect in Tennessee, West Virginia, and Kentucky, the condit on being considerably higher in those States than it has averaged in May for the past five years. The most serious reduction of the month is in Ohio, where there is a falling oft of eight points since the Ist of April. Michigan and Indiana show a slight decline, while in Illinois and Missouri there is a gain of one point. I'nfavorable weather in Kansas and California lias caused a slight f illing oft', while in Oregon the prospect has advanced, it being the only State in which condition rea -hes HM>. I he averages of condition by States are: New York, 86; Pennsylvania, 72; Maryland,B4; Virginia, 80; North Carolina, 90; Texas. 60; Arkansas, ?:<; Tennessee, UO; West \ irginia, B*3; Kentucky, 95; Ohio, 71; Michigan, '.'o, Indiana, 87; Illinois, 93; Missouri, 96; Kansas. 81; California, 89; Oregon. 101. Bye has suffered from the same condition which has seriously affected wheat, but on account of its hardier nature the general average is considerably higher, standing at 90.8 against '.'2..-, April 1. and 95.7 at the same date m 18nb. Tho condition of bailey is low. the average being 87. s against 96.7 in May. 1886. and 82 in 1885. The season has been more generally advanced in nil parts of the country than usual, spring plowing I eing seriously behind only on the Atlantic const south to Pennsylvania and on the Pacific slope. The proportion of cotton nlreadv planted amounts to more than four-fifths the pro posed area, and is slightly greater than at the same date in any of the preceding five years, but is a little less than the proportion returned by the cm respondents as the average planting at that date.

Kvport* trom Illinois. Indiana, anil MhhiKan, Springfield dll 1 special.] Advance sheets of the May crop report of the State Board of Agriculture show the condition of winter wheat m Illinois May I to be 92 per cent. of an average. This is an advance of 2 pi r cent, over ti e previous month. It is still i’> p< r cent, less than tho average condition of May 1, 1886. In the northern and southern counties the average condition is 88 per cent., and the central counties 101, i Indianapolis special.] Reports from every county m Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio state that the wheat crop has been damaged somewhat by the spring rains, and the average percent, of condition durmg April was 83 in Indiana and Illinois and 70 in Ohio. The acreage of oats is 97 in Indiana, KH in Illinois, and 98 in Ohio. Ihe fruit crop promises to be larger than for several years past. Lansing Mich..' special. The Michigan crop report for April shows severe drought in all parts of the State. On sandy soil w heat has made good g.vwth. but on clay soil the growth has been unsatisfactory. In the southern tiers of counties the condition is 87 as compared with average years. The central counties show 94 condition, while the northern counties return 93. But little of the grain will be plowed up. There has been marketed 54,891 bushels of wheat, ( lover is badly injured, and in many sect’ons it will be plowed up. The condition of herpes and other stock shows but little change since last month. Injury from the Drouth. [From tho Chicago Tribune.] Drouth in the grain fields of the Mississippi Audley was the one great topic of conversation in commercial circles Tn sday, and it materially influenced the course of prices for the leading cereals. The ground is very dry in the Southwest, and to this is superadded the appearance of the chinch-bug in Kansas, while the news from the great spring-wheat regions of the Northwest was very bad, the crop prospects in the fertile Red River Valley being described as poor indeed. Grass seeds and hay, as well as oats, corn, r and wheat, promise but a scanty yield, unless there be a speedy’ change in the conditions. And in some cases the season is too far advanced to permit reasonable hope of a full crop. Tho time for spring showers has gone by. and the good, vigorous root, which is possible only when moisture has been supplied during the early stages of growth, is hardly to be expected now, the indicatioi.s being regarded as decidedly unfavorable to an average yield in proportion to acreage. Cur street markets show the effects of the unusual dryness in other directions. The strawberry pat hes in Mississippi are desiccated to the extent of rendering Ihe fruit unmarketable, while the dusty appearance of tho berries received from Tennessee tells of almost equal drouth in that State. LIVED NEARLY 102 YEARS. Ho Voted for Madison and Cleveland, and Never Kode on a Kailroad Train. [Freeport (Ill.) telegram.] The oldest man in Stephenson County, if not in Illinois, has just died at his home, about seventeen miles northwest of Freeport. Had he lived until July 29, Air. Smith would have been 10’2 years old. He was born in Guilford County, North Carolina. In 1815 he moved to Highland County, Ohio, and from there came to thin county in ISbi, and has resided here ever since." AVhen about 20 years old be was married to Dorcas McDaniel in his native county. She bore him twelve children, all of whom but one grew to manhood and womanhood. Two years ago his hundredth birthday anniversary was celebrated with great pomp, there being present perhaps

2,000 people. When in his younger days he enjoyed fishing and hunting exceedingly, but when it came time for him to get down to business he learned the blacksmithing trade, which he followed for some time. The greater part of his life was devoted to farming. With the exception of chewing tobacco, Mr. Smith was a most temperatoman all his life. He never joined any church, but had always been an attentive and careful render of the Bible, and about six years ago was baptized. He east his first Presidential vote for James Madison, and his last for Grover Cleveland, and had always been a Democrat. Ho never rode on a railroad train and never ate a meal m a hotel. BLOOD-STAINED BURGLARS. Mother and Daughter Brutally Murdered by Eustic Robbers in West Virginia. An Aged Woman at New Haven Bound anti Strangled by Unknown Marauders. Mother and Daughter Foully Murdered. I Steubenville (O.) special.] A shocking double murder was perpetrated at Halliday’s Cave, Hancock County, W. Va., on the Pau Handle Hoad. When Mr. Van Baker, who loft home Monday at 4 p. m. and spent the night at his father’s, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, returned Tuesday morning, he found his wife, Eliza Baker, and her mother Suzelle McWha, lying dead in the sitting-room with their heads beaten brutally by a ear pin. An ax was also lying beside them. Mr. Baker says the only thing missing is s3sii belonging to him. Evidences ot search are plainly to be seen. Tho theory at first given for the murder is that it was for robbery. Mr. McWha bad a few days ago received several thousand dollars, and Monday he went to Pittsburgh to deposit it. Uis son-in-law, Mr. Baker, also being absent that night, it is thought some one familiar with the situation, tint not knowing that the money was gone, attempted robbery, and being discovered and identified by the women, killed them to conceal their crime. Mrs. McWha was 70 years old, her daughter about 40. The belief is general that the murderer is some one famiirir with the family.

An Aged Woman MraiiKled. New Huven (Conn.> telegram. Mjs. Margaret Ernst, a German lady, ag' d 71 years, was found early Tuesday morning by the milkman in the front room of her house. No. 31 Spruce street, with her hand and feet bound with ropes and a lope around her neck. She had been choked to death dining the night and robbed. She was supposed to have had on her person at least $lO • in bills, b it when the Corcnei arrived Tuesday morning only y1.‘27 was found. She was ihe owner of two houses, and there is about sl,s'hi in the bank to her credit, she being worth about SIO,OOO. She made a will about two years ago and had notified her attorney that next week she d-shed to see hum as she had concluded to change i‘. The Coroner and police seo in this fact the motive for the crime. She was the widow of John Ernst, a I nmn veteran who died twelve years ago. GEN. RI RD IAS TORPEDO. Designed I -peciullj for Ilie \ t tack of A easels Protected by the sleet Net. New York dispatch I he Berdan torpedo, a working model of which was shown I efore the Iniled States Naval Torpi do Board at th ■ Navy Yard Friday, is designed • specially for the attack of vessels protected by the steel net, though equally eftective in the absence of a net. The individual expression of the members of the Board was that of favor and admiration for the device, but this was not formulated by the Board, as it must await an authorization to accept the terms under which Gen. Berdan will let it go to the Government for trial. There is no doubt that an agreement will be reached, and the trial made this summer. Out of twenty-five torpedoes offered to the consideration of the Board, twentythree were deemed to be unworthy of being ordered to trial. The one selected besides Gen. Berdan’s was the Howell, a self-di-recting torpedo, against w hich the net is a sufficient prot etion. Gen Berdan has contracts with the Governments of Eng land, France, Germany. Russia. Turkey, Italy, and Spain for the use of this invention. In England it is known as the "Yankee trick." The torpedo is described as a diving torpedo, with a snubbing line. It can be rigged on vessels of any size, and has the advantage of being capable of working effectually in heavy seas and rough weather when a self-steering toipedo would be as helpless as achp on the waves. The boats are intended to be swift, handy craft, and to be used in connection with motherships to carry coal and supplies. A heavy ram bow, plated to protect the men and machinery, is a feature of the boats, the slanting surfaces requiring only light plating for this purpose. Ihe torpedoes may be fired automatically or by mechanical or electric devices controlled from within the boat.

A SHOCKING AmOENT. Five Men Fatally Burned at Ilie Edgar Thonison Steel-Works. [ Pittsburgh dispatch. ] A terrible accident occurred at the Edgar Thomson Steel-AVorks, at Braddock, which will probably cost five lives. Furnace E was blown out a few days ago, and Tuesday a gang of in n was put to work clearing it out. An arch had formed, composed of coke, limestone, and other materials, which was still at a red heat, and part of the men were working beneath this mass. Shortly after 10 o’clock at night, without warning, the arch gave way. The red-hot matter was thrown in all directions, knocking men down and in some instances almost burying them. Few of the men in the vicinity escaped uninjured. In a short time the debris was removed, and five men were taken out in a horrible condition —the clothing burned from their bodies and the flesh liternlly cooked. Tho names of the victims are: John /awloskey, John Geaici t, John Gedard, John Lawatte, Charles Ledonofki. Iho physicians who aie attending them entertain no hope of their recovery. Soiilherii Baptist Convention Adjourns. [Louisville iKy.) ilispatehj The S outh'.rn Baptist Convention has adjourned to meet nt Richmond, A'a., on tho second V cdtu sday of Atay, 1888. Gen. Green Clay Smith’s re] ort on temperance was adopted, after tome sharp debate upon tho clause, •‘Liquor as a hove:age.” A number of the delegates held that intoxi ating liquors should not be allowed even as a medicine. A inoetiir.' of the alumni of the Baptist '1 heological Seminary was held, at which Dr. Bryce said that a New York man had offered 6'25.0(0. provided $75,000 more were raised, one-l alf to endow a professorship. During the meet ng $l,lOO was subscribed by the students as the nucleus of the fund which it is proposed to raise.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL Notes on the Lesson for May 15—The Call of Moses. [From Chicago Standard. By Bev. J. M. Coon ] The lesson of tho day is found in tho third chapter of Exodus, versos one to seventeen. Tune, 1491 B. C., about eighty years after the events of tho last lesson. The place is Mount Horeb, or Sinai, in tho wilderness of tho Arabian Peninsula. SPECIAL MENTION. JWidiamtes. Midiau was tho son of Abraham by Keturah (Gen. ~5: 2), and tho progenitor of the Midland s. They are always spoken of collectively as Midian, except in throe or four instances. It is supposed that tho descendants of Hagar and Keturah intermarried, and that “Midian” camo to be about equivalent to “Arab.” The merchantmen who bought Joseph arc called ‘ Ishmaelitos” and “Midianites” (Gon. 37: 28). They are supposed to have dwelt principally in tiio desert north of the peninsula of Arabia, and to have extended southward along the eastern shore of tho Gulf of Eyloh, and northward along tho eastern frontier of Palestine. The oases in the desert of Sinai afforded pasturage for their flocks, and were therefore included in laud of “Midian.” When Moses fled from Egypt ho was hospitably entertained by Koiii l, tho priest or prince of Midiau, to whose daughters ho had shown a kindness. Ono of these daughters became his wife, and ho dwelt with his father-in-law forty years, keeping his flocks (Ex. 2). Descending from Abraham, tho Midianites must have had some knowledge of the true God, and tho union in one person of tho prince and priest points to tho custom of the Hebrew patriarchs. At tho same time tho violence shown to Beuel’s daughters by “the shepherds” (Ex. 2: 17), presumably his own people, shows that even the respect for prince and priest had well nigh died out among the Midianites. They were children of the desert, Ishmaelitos, whose hand was against every man. (The Examiner). Land of Afidian. Midian was a country in Arabia Petra**, deriving its name from Midian, the fourth son of Abraham by Keturah. It* was situated on tho south of the Dead Sea and the land of Moab, and probably comprehended the whole country, as far south as tho Red Bea It is at least certain that if tho country of Midian di.l not actually reach to Sinai, there were colonies of the Midianites who settled near that mount, ami who also gavo the surrounding districts tho name of tho “Laud of Midian.” Among thoke emigrants who preserved tho worship of God in comparative purity when lost among their countrymen in the north, was Jethro, with whoso family Moses hero comes into connection. (Bush.) Jethro. Also called Raguel (Num. 10: 29) and Beuel (Ex. 2: 18). He is thought to iave been a descendant of Abraham (Gon. 25: 2). Ho was a priest, a prince, of Midian, though very little is known as to the nature or rank of his office.

If” *' education. No details of the early life of Moses are furnished by the Bible, anil the want can only bo supplied by tho fanciful inventions of tradition. His training “in all tho wisdom of tho Egyptians” must nave followed as a necessary consequence from hie adoption by Thermonthis, which itself incorporMed him into the royal family and into tha priestly caste. In what this wisdom consisted it is not easy to learn, but it must have included much that was lofty and attractive, since the wisest of the Greeks—Lycurgus, Solon, Thales, Pythagoras, Democritus, Plato, And others—borrowed from it many of their ju'inciplea in polities, geometry, astronomy, »nd physics. (Goikie, condensed.) •I/"' 1 A A/uyi/urd life. This both in its nature and location was a splendid discipline for tho great work of his life. No region more favorable to the attainment of a lofty conception of the Almighty could bo found. The grand, sublimely silent mountain work} around, with its bold, abrupt masses of granite, greenstone, and porphyry, fills the spirit with a solemn earn stness. In this sanctuary of tho hills, awaiting tho time when tho advancing purpose of God had ripened Israel for the great movement of its deliverance, Mos s was unconsciously preparing for the imghty task before hm. In those calm years (t ) every problem to be solved in the organization of a people would rise successively m his mind and find Jts solution; and, above all, his own soul must have been disciplined and puriti. d, by isolation from the world and clos r and more continual communion with God (Goikie.) Mount Horeb. The names of Horeb and Sinai are interchangeably in the Scriptures to designate the “mountain of God” whereon tho law was given to Israel. Horeb is the name first used, in connection with Moses’ visit, when God spoke to him from tho “burning bush’’ (Ex. o; 1-4). Sinai begins to be used after the Israelites have arrived before the mount (Ex. 19: 1,2); and that the mountain is constantly called by that name so long as thev remained there (Ex. 19: IS, 20, 23 ; 24: 10; 34:"2, 4, 29, 32; Lev. 7: 38; 25: 1; Num. 3: 1; 28: 0; Dent 38: 2). But Horeb is again employed in Moses’ recapitulation of tho wilderness journey (Deut 1: 6, 19), in several general references to tho place whore the law was given (Deut. 4: 10, 15; 5: 2), and when mention is made of the worship of the golden calf (Deut. 9: 8). It also occurs in tho books of Kings and Chronicles in connection with references to tho law (1 King 8: 9; Chr. 5: 10. In tho Psalms both names are used—Sinai when the giving of the law is mentioned, Horeb when the reference, is to the worship of tho calf (Ps. 68: 8, 17; 106: 19). “And while tho general identity of Sinai and Horeb,” says Keil, “may be inferred from this, the fact that whenever tho intention of tho writer is to give a piecis' and geographical description of the place where the law was given the name of Sinai is employed, leads to the conclusion that tho term Horeb was more general and comprehensive than that of Sinai —in other words, that Horeb was tho range, of which Sinai was one particular mountain, which only camo prominently out to view when Israel had arrived at tho mount of legislation. This distinction between the two names . . . is now generally admitted.” Horeb was called “tho mountain of God” doubtless on account of the stupendous events associated with it in the minds of the people of Israel. Canon Cook observes, however, that “on the other hand, it is assumed that the spot was pre. viously held sacred. For this there is no ancient authority; though it has lately been shown that tho whole peninsula was regarded by tho Egyptians as specially consecrated to the gods from a very early time.” It is indeed a spot well fitted to inspire men's minds with a sense of their own insignificance in the sight of Him who made those awful heights, and who from their summits proclaimed His law amid fire, and darkness, and tempest [The Examiner. 1 SEED-TEUTHS AND GERM-THOUGHTS. 1. A lonely way and a humble service may bring tc the place of God (v. 1). 2. Faithful performance of present duty tho condition and preparation for enlarged usefulness (v. 1). 3. The least things and persons may be dignified, sanctified, glorified by the divine presence (v. 2). 4. Tho duty of turning aside to consider spiritual truths and facts and claims (v. 3). 5. God knows every individual by name, and in every act and thought (v. 4). 6. AA’o should have a reverent spirit and be watchful of holy places, times and things (v. ^7. Gol graciously and tenderly reveals himself to those who love and fear him (v. 6). 8. Tho greatness of the trouble and peril is the measure of tho uivino compassion and help (vs. 7,8). 9. God’s purposes completely control and overrule the wicked world (v. 8). 19. AVhat honor that man is called to carry out the purposes of God (vs. 9, 10). There are 20,000 miles of telegraph wire underground in England and 22,000 in Germany. It is said that underground wires diminish the speedy signaling from twenty-five to seventy-five per cent, over long distances. An English agricultural paper tells of a duck whoso egg-laying record is as follows: In 1878 sho laid 211; in 1879, 143; 1880, 145; in 1881, 155; in 1882, 84; in 1883, 30; total, 769. There is a deal to be learned ereono becomes an expert poker player.

. NUMBER 46.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. —At YVabash, Pat McCoy, a laborer in the trenches of the water company, was fatally injured by the discharge of a heavy v blast of Hercules powder. The charge had failed to ignite, and McCoy was instructed to wet it and swab it out. Instead of obeying he began drilling it with an iron bar, and it suddenly let go. McCoy was almost blown out of the trench; his face, neck, and breast were horribly lacerated; his right arm was shuttered, and the fingers of both hands were torn off. His breast and neck are literally filled with fragments of limestone. The physicians say he cannot live. McCoy is a married man and resides at Pern. —Patents have been issued for Indianians as follows: James W. Cole, Greencastle, multiple subsidary ground terminal for lightning rods: Joshua J. Collins, assignor to himself, J. S. Collins, and W. 1). S. Rogers, Knox, clothes wringer; Andrew J. and G. W. Forsythe, Kokomo, wirefence machine; Charles Gibson, Mount Vernon, fence; Samuel M. Jackson, Logansport, machine for bundling wall paper; Jesse B. and O. B. Johnson, Indianapolis, baling press: Jacob V. I'o.vlett, Richmond, roller skate; Francis M. Fribbey, New Albany, combined table and cot; Peter Wahl, North Vernon, razor. —Some five weeks ago AV. W. Costancer was put off of a Vandalia freight train by tho conductor because he did not have a ticket. Costancer claimed that he could not buy a ticket, because there was no person in the ticket office, and the conductor refused the money ho offered as fare to Darlington. Suit was brought at Darlington, and judgment for S2OO was obtained by default. It is understood that the railway company will appeal tho ease, while on the other side they declare that a locomotive will bo chatted to the track if necessary to secure the judgment. —Prof. E. T. Cox, formerly State Geologist, and now of New York, furnishes some interestinginformation relative to the geological formation of Indiana, and the probable sources of natural gas. He does not accept the porous-rock theory. As oil and gas are both found in Trenton rock, which is not porous, he holds that it must exist in large cavities or systems of fissures, furnishing a much greater capacity for storage than the pores of any rock could. It would follow from this, then, that to find gas in any large quantity one of these cavities must be tapped. Air. and Mrs. William Kissing, living a few miles from Elkhart, have begun proceedings against some of their neighbors, whom they charge with endeavoring to blow up their house with dynamite. Some one exploded a dynamite bomb so close to the Kissing house that the building was badly wrecked, the window-panes shattered, Mr. and Mrs. Kissing thrown from their bed, and a young daughter frightened so that she was attacked by convulsions.

—B. AVilsou Smith, of Tippecanoe County; John AV. Study, of Rush; John R. Cravens, of Jefferson, and Daniel McDonald, of Marshall, have been appointed by the Governor as honorary Commissioners from Indiana at the Centennial celebration of the settlement of the Northwestern Territory at Marietta. O. AV. AA\ Woollen, of Indianapolis, and R. M. Lockhart will serve as Commissioners to the exposition to be held at Columbus, 0., next year. —Elmer Betts, of Portland, while returning from church one night recently, began firing at a scare-crow in a fence corner. Three shots were fired, the last striking AVillie Sassar, a companion of Betts, and killing him. Young Betls surrendered to the Sheriff. Coroner Kinsey and Prosecutor Adair held an inquest. After examining witnesses the Coroner was satisfied the shooting was accidental, and rendered a verdict to that effect. - The State Board of Printing has declined to allow a requisition of the State Agricultural Board which includes the report of the Horticultural Society. Ihe statute provides that the Horticultural Society shall have 500 copies printed. In this case the State Board of Agriculture’s report contains 5,000 reports of (he Horticultural Society, which does not comport with the law. —The Secretary of State has received from the contractor for State printing the first installment of printed copies of tho laws passed by the Legislature. They will be sent out to tho proper officers immediately. 'The book has but seventy-seven pages, including the eleven used for an index. —Mrs. Thos. Bramlett, living near Little Flatrock, south of Rushville, was feeling badly, and went to Milroy to consult Dr. Riley. Sho was taken with spasms soon after her arrival, and died in a very short time. The case is a very peculiar one. —The 4-year-old daughter of Charles Hucklemeyer, of Fort AVayne, stumbled and fell head foremost into a tub of hot water. She was rescued in an unconscious condition. She suffered the most intense agony, until death came to her relief. -Washington Township, Pike County, has voted $10,599 in aid of the Vincennes and Ohio Railroad. 'This township, after a lengthy litigation, has just paid the last of a like appropriation voted to the Evansville and Indianapolis road. —A large force of men have been set at work in building the Now Albany and Eastern Railroad westward from AVatson. Ono of the bridges on this line, with its approaching trestles, will bo 1,080 feet iu length. - Airs. 'Thomas Maloney, at Burr Oak, a few miles oast of Elkhart, committed suicide by throwing herself in front of a passenger train during a spell of Temporary aberration. Her head and one arm were severed. John AVildrich, while bending over a roll of carpet which lie was cutting, at Indianapolis, accidentally allowed the knife to slip towards him, and it struck him in tho right eye, which was entirely cut out. By the bursting of a jointer in Rambo Brothers’ Heating Alill, at Anderson, A\ illiam Ford, aged 20, was so horribly mangled that he died. Ed Markle, a fel-low-workman, was badly wounded. - There seems to be a general complaint on tho part of farmers in Washington County against the law forbidding stock to run at large.