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SQUAW CREEK. BY ANNA CERES FRITSCH. Flits tho moon’s jialo beam O’er tho rippling stream? <*MI Ot mesnd’ring Squaw Creek’s limpid waters. Ghostlike fogs arise, Low the night-wind sighs, .Linger here tho wraiths of nature’s dusky daughters ? Wait, as twilight fades, Dark-eyed Indian maids, Fortheir lovers from tho chase returning? Glides the swift canoe O’ey tho waves’ bright How, Flashing back tho glow of wigwain tires burning ? • Como flerco-visagcd bravos, »001 forgotten graves, Nightly seeking vanished council tires? Sing their death-song low, Chiefs whose spirits go To the happy hunting-grounds, where roam their sires ? Thus, as night's shades fall, Seem at fancy's call, Scenes of other days before my vision coming ; As, in murmurings low. Tales of "long ago,” Tells the stream at mystic hour of gloaming. Vanished every trace Os a vanquished race, Swept away by time’s effacing finger; Indian squaws and braves Fill forgotten graves. Legends only, of their tribe, in inem’ry linger. Where the wolf's dread howl And the panther's growl Mnlo discordant music near the forest, Peaceful herds now graze, Fields of tnssoled maize Yield unto the husbandman a golden harvest Where the red-man’s spear Felled the agile deer, By the stream of Squaw Creek's whispering waters, Gleams tho reaper’s blndo, Walk, in the twilight’s shade, With their lovers, Avon s beauteous daughters. A MODERN MAGDALEN. BY M. C. FARLEY. CHAPTER 111. A LETTER FROM BYWATER PARK

ND will I blow out my brains with a pistol, too?” asks Loo innocently. “If you can’t live without money, can I?” Her father again eyes the few remaining bills

in his purse, glances wistfully at his daughter and says peevishly: “You shall be married Loo, before the year is out/ A curious smile Hits about her mouth. “My opportunities for match-making being so very excellent, it is a wonder that I am still in the market,” she says lightly and scornfully. Bolton ignores this sarcasm, and again buries his nose in his novel. Some seconds elapse. l oo rises, goes to the door and gives the maid the money for which she has been waiting outside, then returns to her chair. The thick, yellow envelope lies unopened on the table. Loo picks it up, examines the seal, furtively tries the point of a pin along the edge of the flap, and again calls out to her father, “You haven’t read your letter.” Inwardly anathemizing the correspondent, whoever ho, or she, may be, he takes tho unwelcome epistle, and tears it open. As he breaks the seal, Loo rises and WH 1 Isii i 1 ' p । v ~ v ~' I I ? ep / The. unwelcome epistle. peeps mischievously over her father’s shoulder at the contents of the missive, whose advent is to change the tenor of her whole life: Bywateb Park, March 21, 18—. Nephew Bolton: .Do not deceive yourself upon the receipt of thin le ter, and imagine I have restored you again to favor. For such is not the case. As I told you I would do,- many years ago. My will is made, cutting you off from inheriting anything of mine; and I shall not change that will. You are a sad dog with money, and I hope to see you a sadder one without it. As you know, I am growing old—B6 next May—and I feel the need of having young people about me. You have a daughter; yon are poor, and without health. Very welt In your circumstances girls are luxuries to be dispensed with. My proposal Is this: To take your girl and give her a home, in return for winch sho shall read to me, sing, talk, and otherwise amuse me. If she comes, I will abo give her a small salary—the money to lie paid to you for her services—not to her. By this, you arc not to infer that I will leave her any money at my deatii, or yon either, for I will not. Let me know if l am to expect her, and if so—when? Your aunt, Evelyn Dundas. Mr. Bolton fetches a long breath. “It is a perfect godsend,” he says after a moment, “a perfect godsend.” Loo colors violently. “How glad you are to be rid of me.” “Not glad to be rid of you. But glad that so good a home is offered for your acceptance. You will be clothed and sheltered far better than I can do it. In these fifth-rate boarding houses to which our poverty condemns us, you can have no opportunity to better your condition or to see anything of life.” Loo sn'fl’s. Then she feels ashamed of her emotion, and as a subterfuge she falls to work upon the thick envelope, and delivers a sharp criticism on the crabbed chirography. Bolton hoars her patiently. Then he make some calculations with a pencil on a sheet of paper, and he says presently, in the most matter-of-fact way imaginable: * You’ll need to make a few purchases

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in the morning. It will reduce the remaining surplus in my pocketbook, but you can make it up again after you go to Bywater Park." "It is settled then that I’m to go?” “By all means. Yes. Barely fifty dollars remain in the purse, and when that is gone, I don’t know where more is to come from, (let yourself ready for the journey, for I shall telegraph your aunt what day she may look for you.” Loo snifis audibly now, and with no attempt at concealment. "What—tears!” exclaims Bolton, in surprise. “Why you have no idea of the heavenly place Bywater Park really is. I haven’t seen it for twenty years, but they tell me it is just the same as of old. It will be like going to heaven to live—-exactly.” “But when—when one has lived so long in in the other place,” sobs poor Loo, flinging her pocket handkerchief over her streaming eyes, “and has grown used to it, and knows no better way, it —it seems hard to be so-so suddenly transplanted. I know I’d enjoy living in—in heaven. Only. I’d like to go there by degrees, and—and sort of get used to the change before I arrived; instead of going all—all of a sudden like this.” Her father smiles at this naive confession, the sentiment is so very unorthodox. But it is like Loo, who is unlike any other person in tho world. “The thought of having done your duty will help you to bear the separation from me,” he says at lust. "Think, Loo, what this oiler means for us both. A home for you and a ceriain support for me; for you will notneed the salary Aunt Dundas speaks of. Without it, without her offer, what would become of us? I only seo the almshouse in the distance. ’’ CHAPTER IV. WHICH INTRODUCES MY LADY

HE train was a long one. a The coaches are already full )to overflowing as the bell rings and the engine comes to a brief halt at a wayside platform in the very heart of an open prairie. Everybody looks expectantly for everybody else to leave his

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’ VW or her seat; but as nobody makes his or her exit, the passengers groan with inward dismay and vexation as the possibility of a fresh influx of people dawns upon the mind. Heads pop out of the windows, eyes sweep anxiously up and down the open prospect. An audible sigh of relief surges through the crowded train, as one figure only is espied upon the platform outside. A young lady attired in mourning takes her place in the cars, and everybody draws a long breath, as at some danger that is either passed or averted. Each passenger secretly determines in his own mind to resist every effort of the conductor tending toward “moving up a little.” And with one accord each and all stare hard at the newcomer. She endures the ordeal of the eyes gracefully. Chaperoned by the urbane tickettaker, she passes slowly through the different coaches in search of a seat. The lady is young, handsome. Hut nobody rises to make way for her. The conductor grows savage. He elbows the fortunate possessors of seats ; he pushes them about roughly—bullies them. All to no purpose, however. The fact remains that the train is already too full of people. Nobody consents to make room for the lady, for the simple reason that there is no room to spare. The conductor becomes pitiless. He drops mysterious and scathing insinuations derogatory to nineteenth century gallantry. Insinuates that in this graceless age of progress gentlemen are ■‘few in number and difficult to find,” and adds injury to insult by italicizing “gent’emen.” But nobody resents it; evidently nobo ly hears. Perhaps his audience had suddenly grown deaf to suit the occasion. The lady whimpers: “It is really of no consequence. I can stand.” But the conductor's blood is up. He glares furiously at the shining row of bald heads in front of him. But, bless you ! the bald heads don’t mind it; not a bit. “Madam, you shall not stand,” he says savagely. “In the next car perhaps we may be more successful." They proceed in state to the rear coach, the conductor leading the way with a great show of gallantry, the lady following. Alas! Here they meet with the same result. “The coach seems to be full,” says the conductor, evincing disappointment. "The coach is full,” assents a tipsy passenger, who is trying to preserve his equilibrium on the wood-box in the corner. "The coach is full; fact is, everybody’s full —everybody. ” Somebody snickered. The conductor bit his lip. The lady blushed. But a very old man in a threadbare suit of clothes now rises slowly. “The lady can have my place.” hhe drops into the seat without a word of thanks to the old roan, but sho smiles very sweetly, indeed, up into the face of the conductor. The conductor, glad that she is settled at last, marches away, and with him goes the old roan into the smokingcar. When they are gone my lady turns about and scrutinizes the face of the girl who is to be her companion in the seat. It was a bright face, framed in a little cottage bonnet, whose drabve 1 was folded decorously across the brow, and crossing behind, the ends were brought in front and tied in a snug and becoming bow under the round and dimpled chin. A cheerful spirit looked up at the new-comer from the violet eyes in the becoming bonnet. “Let us simplify matters at once,” says she of the bonnet, "by introducing ourselves and becoming acquainted. lam Miss 1 afarge, going to Jive with my forty-third cousin at Stubblefield. This is my first journey, and I am perishing for someone to talk with. The old gentleman who has just gone was a stranger to me. So, of course, I could not talk to him.” “Gentleman,” ejaculates the newcomer, who, curiously enough, entirely forgets, or refrains from following the

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example of the other, and keeps her name and her intended destination a secret to herself; "I hope you don’t call him a gentleman. Did you see his shabby clothing?’’ A shadow falls upon Miss Lafarge’s expressive face. The next instant Miss Lafarge laughs softly, saying: "Do you know—l have absurd notions about what it takes to constitute a gentleman. With me, the question of what is on the body is of less moment than what is in it, and the motives which actuate the behavior. Really, 1 thought him—pardon me, I still think him—a gentleman.” Now the new-comer laughs, softly, to be sure, and musically, too. But she laughs in away that shows she does not share the absurd opinion of the other. Then she opens a tiny lunchbox which she has carried in her hand, t ikes therefrom a slice of cake, a Lny bottle of wine, and a tinier glass to sip it from, and proceeds to make herself comfortable. “It was so early when I loft home this morning, that I could eat little or no breakfast before setting out on my journey,” she says apologetically; “so 1 brought a lunch along, and I find that a jaunt of fifteen miles across a windy prairie has given mo an appetite for eating. Will you have a bit with me?" Miss Lafarge accepts the invitation as frankly as it is given. The two ladies are soon chatting volubly over the respective merits of the cuke and wine, ami time Ilies. Like some great smoking monster, the train goes sweeping along over tho level reaches of the prairie, through the deep cuts in the sandy hills. On, and on, and on, and on. Miss Lafarge has had time to chatter into the ear of her companion every thought she ever had. They have discussed dispassionately the various merits of crewel work and Kensington stitch. They both agree in thinking Howell an overrated man. And, after a bit, b ith pause, as if by mutual consent, and there is a lull in the conversation. Still the train rushes along madly, for miles and miles, for hours and hours. The lady in black stares blankly out of the window. On the contrary, Miss Lafarge composes herself for a nap. She shuts her eyes and dozes. Worse, sho even snores. Her companion turns finally a glance of contempt on tho quiet fuco at her side. “What does she know of life and its possibilities?” muttered the lady in black. “1 afarge, you are a baby; an inane, insipid baby.” This, with a tightening of the lips across the white teeth, ami a gleam of something like fury in the handsome eyes. The lady in black suddenly puts her face down close to her sleeping companion. Her eyes shine with a wicked triumph, her teeth gleam She looks as if sho were going to bite. She is going to bite. She draws still nearer, the beautiful scarlet lips are smiling. Miss Lafarge moves uneasily in her | sleep. The handsome, wicked face -- for it is devilish m its expression now—is close to that of her intended vi< tim. Miss I afarge suddenly opens her eyes wide. Sho gasps, springs to her eet. A tremor seizes upon the lady in black. She shrinks, pales, grasps tho back of the seat with both her hands. A shiver runs through the train. “What is it," cries Miss 1 afarge, wildly. “Nothing,” is the cold reply. “Be quiet. You have been asleep, and have wakened suddenly.” "I felt as if something was going to happen,” says Miss Lafarge, putting her hand to her head, “something terrible.” Even as she speaks there is a crash. The coaches rock and reel; they rise in air; they topple. The next instant, engine, cars, and all on board go crashing to destruction through a rotten railroad bridge. For a moment, dreadful silence reigns. Then the air resounds with the shrieks and groans of the wounded and dying. Smoke and steam and flames rise up from the shattered coaches, which are piled in shapeless heaps on the floor of the gulley beneath the broken bridge. [TO BE CONTINUED. | No Wonder Business was Dull. “How’s business in your line?” inquired one stranger who met another in a railway car. “Booming.” “You don’t say so! Awful dull in mine. What line are you in?” “Ice. And you?” “Sto.es.” — Pittsburg Dispatch. Cheaper to Move than Pay Rent. A little Austin boy, whose impecunious parents are always moving from one house to another, was asked by the Sunday school teacher: “Why did the Israelites movo out of Egypt?” “Because they couldn’t pay their rent, I reckon.” — Texas Siftings. Blizzard Philosophy. Tho quality of tho hat doos not designate the quantity of brains that lies beneath it. Words of repining never bring a ray of sunlight. ’Tis a poor general that will not forage from an enemy.— Western Blizzard. Our Somerset correspondent says: “The ground has got so warm during the hot spell that the cows are giving boiled milk and the mushrooms are coming up in tho pastures ready j stewed.” And yet the ambition of that young man is to get a reporter’s place on a religious paper.— Fall River Advan: e. _ Building operations always have a delighted audience. It pleases the average person to see the mortar slip into the chinks of the rock like butter into a cat’s ear, especially when some ono else fondles the trowel.—Minneapolis Journal. The Boston Base-Ball Club paid .*IO,OOO for Mike Kelly. If all reports are true the managers would be willing to sell him for the same number of figures, but with a period whore Hie comma was when they got him.—Tidj Bits.

UNION VETERANS. Work of the Grand Army National Encampment at St. Louis. Official Reports—Columbus, 0., the Next Place of Meeting. General Jolin I*. Rea, of Minnesota, Chosen as Coniinandcr-in-Chier of the Organization. SkeU'li of the New CominiMider-hi’Chlef. Gen. John Patterson Rea was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, Oct. 13, 1840, and enlisted in Piqua, Ohio, in Company B, Eleventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, April, 1861, for three months. Aug. 18, 1861, he enlisted for throe years in the First Regiment Ohio Ca dry, and was promoted Sept. 23, 18(51, Second Lieutenant; March I’2, 18(5’2, First Lieutenant; April 1, 1863,Captain; was hnnu ttod Major for gallantry in buttle Noi 1N63. He joined tho G. A. R. nt Piqua, Ohio, in Docomber, 186(>, ami was a member of tho first department encampment of Ohio. Ho became a charter member of George H. Thomas Post, No. 84, Department of Pennsylvania, October, 1867, and was successfully Post Captain, Post Commander, | ^," io X A / 1 / COMMANDER IN CHIU JOHN I’. RKA member of the Department Council of Administration, ami one of th" Pennsylvania delegates to tho National Encampment in 1872. lie was also aim inlier of the commission that erected the soldiers monument at Lancaster, l’a. In 1*75 he removed to Minneapolis, and has been Commander of Morgan Post No. 4, Department of Minnesota, ami S< nior Vue Department Commander two terms. He was elected Senior Vice commander-in - Chief in 1881 ami 1885. Ho served as Captain of Company A, First Regiment, Mir nesota National Guard, from 1-879 to 1882, and was Quartet master Gen* rai of Minnesota from 1883 to 18W, with the rank of Brigadier General. | At the close of the wai Captain Beu had , ft record of three years an ' four months’ Service, and had been absent only ten days, seven of which he was a prisoner ami three on tho sick list, la 1865 he entered the Wesleyan College, at Delaware, Ohio, and completing the classical course, graduated in .lune, 1867. During the vacation of 1866 he entered the office of the Hon. J. J. Dickey, Lancaster, l’a.. as a law student and was admitted to the bar in 1868, On April I’2, 186'3, President Grant ap« j pointed Captain Rea Assessor of Internal Revenue or the Ninth District of Pennsylvania, which office he held until it was abolished by law in 1873. He continued practicing law in Lancaster until December, 1875, when ho moved to Minneapolis, and shortly he, nine editor of the Minneapolis Tribune, remaining in that connection until May. 1877. Ho resumed law practice, but in November of tho same year was chosen Probate Judge, and was re-elected in 187'3. Declining a renomination in 1880, be again resumed practice, forming the lato firm of Rea, Wooley A - Kitchell, afterward Rea, Kitchell & Shaw. In the summer of 188 > Governor Hubbard appointed Cai tain Rea Judge of tho District Court to til) the unexpired term of Judge M. B. Koon, resigned. At the election in tho following November Judge Rea was chosen for the same office for a term of seven years. Os late years he has figured prominently in Grand Army affairs, both State and National. From Commander of a local post he went to the office of State Commander in 1883, and was elected Senior Vice Com-mander-in-ebief at the National Encampment held in Minneapolis in 1881. He is also a member of the Loyal Legion. National Encampment G. A. R. The convention of delegates to the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic met at St. Louis, Mo., on Sept. 28, Gen. Fairchild, Commander-in-Chief, presiding. Committees were appointed, and the work of organization proceeded quietly. The annual address of Gen. Fairchild was presented, and announced the evidence of permanent and healthy growth of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the strong love of the order entertained by the loyal people of this country. That this may continue he earnestly cautioned every member that he keep a watchful guard over him If when he acts or speaks as a member of the Grand Army and not consciously further schemes foreign to the legitimate purposes of the organization. Article !), forbidding the use of the organization for partisan purposes, had, so far as he knew, been strictly obeyed in letter and spirit. From Adjutant General Gray’s report it was learned that the total number of members borno on the rolls of the order at the national encampment was 326,499. The number reported on Juno 3(1, 1887, was 372,674; actual gain in five quarters, 46,157. The increase of members in ninety days, ending June 30, 1887, in good standing, was 15,616. In 1886 there were (50,634 members. In the last five quarters there have been mustered into the Grand Army 72,355. There were reported June 30, 1887, in good standing, 336,562; suspended, 25,200; by delinquent reports, 10,892; total at last returns borne upon the rolls, 372,674. The amount reported expended in charity March, 1886, to March, 1887, inclusive, is $253,934.43. This money was disbursed to 17,670 comrades and their families, and 8,999 others were assisted, giving 26,606 individuals who had received benefits during the year. The Grand Army veterans, attired in rubber coats and with trousers rolled up, paraded some of the principal streets in a steady downpour of rain. Thousands who were "at the encampment had either gone home or refused to march in the mud, but there were men enough to organize ten divisions, representing in their make-up nearly all the departments. The Department of the Missouri was given tho right of the line, and the Department of Illinois followed in the second division. An escort of police led the procession. Then followed tho Grand Marshal with

his chief of stuff, Gen. A. J. Smith, and aids; Logan Post, of St. Louis, mounted, and Springfield (Mass.) battalion, special escorts to the Commander-in-chief, who , followed a few yards behind, wrapped in ■ a rubber coat, smiling and bowing to the crowd who lined the streets. All along the way ho was greeted with applause. His staff of 100 men, mounted, preceded twenty carriages, moving three abreast, in which were the war Governors and other honored guests. In the lead was one occupied by Mayor Francis and Gen. AVilliam । T. Sherman. Although closely sheltered i from tho rain and sight, tho crowds on tho ' sidewalks soon found where the old coin- . munder was, and cheer upon cheer marked his progress down the street, while frequent groups of men would rush from shelter to the carri age-door to grasp his hand. As tho column passed under tho beautiful stained-glass transparency of Gen. i Grant on Fourth street, I otween Locust I and St. Chai les, all the men uncovered | their beads and passed by in silence. The head of the procession reached the Grund Army arch that spans Olive street at Twelfth at noon and there Gens, Fairchild and Sherman, ex-Vice President Hannibal Haml n, tho war Governors, and other distinguished guests left (heir carriages and took their positions in the grand stand just east of the arch. Across the street facing tho grand stand, Grand Marshal Grier and I staff sat in their Huddles while the rain in- I creased in volume and for an hour and a half poured down on the heads of the | passing soldiers. Missouri's contingent was twenty-five minutes in passing, Illil nois’ was fifteen minutes, and Kansas’ twelve. The other States were represented ! U>y posts and regiments. Gens. Fairchild and Sherman, partly protected from the I storm, bowed to the boys as they passed, I acknowledging continually the rousing cheers that went up from each post as they ' filed by in company front. Here and there | throughout the different divisions marched a colored pi st, and their salute was invariably a signal for applause from those i in the grand stand, which several times was j taken up by the crowd and prolonged into ; a hearty cheer. 'J he dripping tings ro--1 reived much boisterous notice, and as a I squad carrying the tattered remnants of battle-fbigs passt d by the enthuaiMDi became unbounded. Throughout the column nu occasional wairior carried a cane or n pole on which was dangling u chicken, leg ; of mutton, side of bacon, cabbage, or some j othei representative of a foraging expedition for coniniissary stores. Every delegate was tn his sent on the second day nt tho session, Thursday, Sept. 29. Department Cotumander Smedbtiry, of Cnlilornia, submitted an offer, in behnlt of Jqbnii. Capron and Colonel Holabird, of Sun Biego, with u view to the establishment of a G. A. R. soldiers'home m that city. I tie donation is in the form l of land, and is equivalent to $!(>(>,000 in 1 ca-h. Ihe proposition is accepted by the eiiciimpmcht. I lie home will be placed under the control of three trustees, ono appointed by the donors, the second by the 1 encampment, and the third by tho other two. the usual red tape regulations of soldiers homes will be tabooed, mid actual service. Grand Army membership, poverty, and residence in California will be the sole iiualilieiUions for admission. \ b ngthy i eport was submitted by the committee a| pointi d to consider tho ad- J , dress of the ( ommander-in-Chief, and it I was adopted with n three tunes three. It! < nlogi ed Id i administration of the office, mu! suggested that a proper testimonial be presented him in the name of the organization. Ihe proposal to appoint an historian was approved, anti Comrade R. ; B. Heath, <>f I’ennsylvanin, was suggested j for the position. Approval was also given ' to the pro) osition to locate permanent hindquarters nt some central point, with tiie sngi< stion that the matter be referred to tin- incoming ndministration. Special approval was also given in the report to the action of the Commander-in-Chief in 1 instructing posts to withhold replies to a circular issued by a N’-w York paper, the , ’ committee expressing the opinion that “it i 1 ! is entirely improper and contrary to tho I rules of the order for posts to express ! themselves by official action at tho request I ! of persons outside of the Grand Anny of | the Republic upon any subject or question ! unless officially authorized or requested so \ to do through the regular official channels 1 of the organization.” There was a sharp contest over the se- ' lection of a location lor tho next encarap- • ■ $ EX-COMMANDER-IN-eniEF LUCIUS FAIRCHILD. f ment. Columbus, Ohio, Gettysburg, a Chattanooga, and Saratoga were placed in b nomination, but before the ballot was ani nounced the two latter withdrew, and the i) vote resulted in the selection of Columbus, r While the citizens of Columbus are jubis | laut over securing the next national enj campment of the G. A. K, there is a feelr iug prevailing that the city will not be able r to accommodate tbo people who will attend. The centennial celebration of the t first settlement in the State will be in - progress there at the same time, and that a alone will heavily tax the present hotel a facilities of the city. s [ The Vandervoort resolution condemning - ! the President’s action on the pension quesy I tion was almost unanimously voted down - in the encampment on the morning of 4 Sept. 39. e Then came the election of officers, and y the following were nominated for Com- , mander-in-chief for the ensuing year: , Gen. Slocum, Judge Rea, Gen. Anthony, 1 | and Gen. Grier. Gen. Slocum received - 153 votes; Gen. Anthony, 66; Gen. Grier, u 13; and Judge Rea, 294. Gen. Sherman - received I and Gen. Wan er of Missouri 1. s Rea was declared elected. He was escorted r to the platform by the defeated candidates, , Anthony and Grier, and returned thanks 1 to the encampment. The rules were suspended and Nelson i Cole, of Missouri, was elected Senior Vico ', Commander; John C. Linahan, of New a Hampshire, Junior Vice Commander; Gen. o I Lawrence Donahue, Sergeant General; and e ' the Rev. Edward Anderson, Chaplain-in-t Chief. a Among tho members of the National p Council of Administration elected are: - R. F. Wilson, of Chicago; Irwin Robbins, t of Indianapolis; Russell A. Alger, of Des troit; George C. Gintz, of Chippewa Falls, Wis.; James 11. Drake, of St. Paul, Minn.; i. aud George A. Newman, of Cedar Falls, h lowa.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL Notos on the Lesson for Octobei 9—“ The Tempest Stilled.” [From the Chicago Standard. By Rev. J. M. Coou.j The lesson for above date may bo found in tho eighth chapter of Matthew, from the eighteenth to the twenty-aeveuth voraos. Timo, A. D. 28. Autumn, several months after the Sermon on tho Mount Place, Sea of Galileo. HPECrAL MENTION. Scribea, —Anciently the Scribes were merely officers whose duties included writing of various kinds; but on the return of the Jews from tho Babylonish captivity the aopherim, a« the Scribes were culled, were organized by Ezra into a distinct body, and they became interpreters of God’s law as well as copyists. So great was their euro in copying that tiny counted and compared all tho letters, to be sure that none were left out that belonged to the text, or none admitted improperly. On stated occasions they read the law n the Hynngogues. They also lectured to their diseiph s and eomnmnted on the law. The lawyers (see Matt. ^3:35; Luke 7; 30; 11:1"*; 14:3) ami the doctors of the law (see Luke 2:16; O li; Acts 39*1) wei c su I >s taut tally the same as the Scribes. Efforts have been made to show that different ehiHses of duties were assigned to lawyers, doctors, and Scribes, but without any very definite roßulU, Storms on Galilee, —The lake lion in its deep bed among tho hills, ordinarily smooth as a mirier, but sudden storms at times rush down every wady on tho northeast and east, and lash the waters into furious roughness. Tho winds sweeping over the vast bare tableland of Gaulouitis and the Hauran, and tho boundless desert beyond, pour down tho dotp ravines and gorges, cut in the course of ages by streams and torrents on their Yay to the lake, and lash it into incredible coniniotiou. Its position, about six hundred feet below the Meiiiterranoan, induces such sudden hurricanes, by heating the air over it till the colder ; iihiiosphero of the hills rushes down to fill the vacuum caused by tho rarefaction. CONNECTING LINK. The eighth chapter of Matthew is called by Ht. Ambrose a chapter of miracles. They were wrought at different times, and are given here by St, Matthew, not in their order ot time, but been use they wore all done nt this place. Murk gives them in their order of time. Jesus, sitting Hi a boat, had been speaking to tho multitudes standing on the snores of Galilee, tho wonderful parables of the sower and tho taros (Matt 13). At the close of tbo diiy Jesus bids His disciples prepare to sail to the other side of tho lake. I’ho order of events between last lesson and tim present is generally believed to be us follows: 1. The restowition to life of tho widow’s son at Nain (Luke 7:11-17). 2. Tho message to Johuh from John the Baptist in prison (Mutt. 11: 2-10); (laisson VII.). 8. \\oes on Chorazin, Bethsaida, Capernaum (Mutt. 11: 20 39); Lesson VIII.). 4. 'lne washing of Jesus’ feet nt a Pharisee’s table (Luke 7: 36 sb). 5. Christ’s second tour through Galileo (Luko 8: 1-3). 6. The restoration of ii blind demoniac (Matt 12: 22-50). 7. Tho parables (Mutt 13; 1-52; (Lessons X., XL., xll ). On tho evening of the day on which these parables were delivered ho gave orders to pass to tho other side of Lake Tiberias to escape tho crowds. Thon follow tho events iof tins lesson. Parallel accounts, Murk 4: ! 35 II; I like 8: 22-25; 9: 57-62. I MOTIONAL AND SENTIMENTAL RELIGION. V'. 18, I<l. .\'on> n-hen. See Connecting | Link. Gare ronunoiiihni nt. To Ilin disciples. To de/mrt. 'lbero may have been a double reason for this: (1) tnat ho might escape from I the crowd ami so find rest, and (2) that the people might have opportunity to examine i ilmir motives for following him. Other sUte. | Tho i astern side of tho sea, to the land of the j (iadureues (v. 28). Read Mark and Luke for j particulars. Scribe. See Special Mention. Master. Literally, teacher; a title of great I resjioct 1 will follow thee. Hu seems to have been won by Christ’s manner, and j thinks only of a personal external attachment. Whithersoever. Ilia zeal altogether runs away | with him. CHALLENGE ANt> TEST OF DISCIPI.ESHIP, Vs. 20-22. Jesus saith. A practical rebuke,

, ami yet nothing at which ho could take excop- | tion. I’otis. Quite like the animal known to | uh by the nanio name. Holes. Dens and oaroß I for homes. Hirds. Evon these lower orders Os creation are provided for. Son of man. ■ It is thought that this phrase was taken from Daniel 7: 13, to which passage our Saviour seems to allude in chap. 26: 64, and probably Stephen, in Acts 7: 66. It appears from John 12: 34 that the Jews understood it to moan the Messiah; and from Luke 22: 60, 70, that they considered the Son of man to mean the same as the Son of God. (Dr. Burton). This title designates our Lord as truly man, m distinction from his being also Son of (hid This humbler title is used seventy-one times in the New Testament, and in every case, with a ^ngle exception (Acts 7:56), by our Lord himself. (Whedon.) 7b lay his head. There was special significance in this statement after he has been rejected from Nazareth and now compelled to I withdraw from Capernaum. Another of the disciples. Or, another who was one of his disciples. From Luke 9: 59, we seo that Christ had first addressed him. Suffer me first to bury my father. A very natural feeling, and, under ordinary circumstances to be commended. Hut Jesus saith. He sees tho real spirit of the objector. The dead to bury their own dead. It was a requirement of the Rabbis, in similar cases, that if any one who wishes to be a scholar of the law had to choose between burying even his nearest relation—his parent or his brother or sister—and devoted himself at once to his sacred duties, ho should leave | the burial to others, as the loss important I duty, and give himself upon the moment, undivided! vto the other. Jesus could require no less than this; and the fact that such a custom was in vogue, would remove any seeming harshness from the demand. SEED-TRUTHS AND GEUM THOUGHTS. 1. Christ will not receive the merely carnal applause of man (v. 18). 2. The religious flatterer rebuked (vs. 19, ' 3. ‘‘To the other side” is often Christ’s call to the disciple (v. 18). 4. Resolutions are good only when made intelligent y and deliberately (v. 19). 5. Prompt and careful obedience is the best proof of sincerity (v. 19). 6. Christ’s wondrous condescension aud humiation (v. ...... 7. How many persons are willing to be saved I __ ।J' (y* #21)! S. hi a conflict of duties the lower must I yield to the higher (v. 22). ■ ’ 9. Best and highest things should be made | first things (v. 21). to. To postpone obedience may be to lose salvation (v. 22). 11. It is safe to go whore Christ leads (v. 23). 12. Storms may fall upon us even when in the path of duty (v. 24). 13. Christ is Lord of all tho storms of life (v. 25). 14. Cbrist waits ,or his people to seek him and make known their requests (v. 24). 15. Christ is a sufficient resource in time of greatest peril (v. 25). 16. Christ leads into tho storm tliat ho may test and strengthen our faith (v. 27). 17. Many wonder at the power of Christ, but reject his mercy and salvation (v. 27). Subject of lesson for Oct. 16—“ Power to Forgive Sin,” Matt, ix., 1-8. “Doctor,” said Mr. Swallowgood, “my throat lias been sore for several days; what shall I do for it?” Dr. Blunt —“Give it a rest. It’s overworked. Don’t do anything for a week but breathe with it.” We may train ourselves in a habit of patience and contentment on the one hand, or of grumbling and discontent on the other. He has much to do who would please everybody.

NUMBER 15.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. —The following patents have been granted Indiana inventors: Wm. Adair, Leesville, nut lock; Joseph D. Adams, MarahaU, and F. M. Pennock, Rennet Square, Pn., road-grader; Charles A. Bertsch, Cambridge City, furniture caster; John AV. Lochner and N. Oster, Aurora, device for ageing and purifying liquors; Britton Poulson and E. L. Lathrop, Fort Wayne, assignors to American Road Machine Company, Rennet Square, Pa., roadgrader; Charles J. Rinderknecht, Indianapolis, saw-mill set works; John Rogers, Elkhart, machine for grinding mowing machine knives; Isidore V. Roy, assignor to Dodgo Manufacturing Company, Mishawaka, wooden pulley; Calvin J. JJdell, North Indianapolis, towel arm. —Tho Chief of Police of Fort Wayne has issued an order directing the immedinta closing of all gambling houses in that city, under penalty of raids, arrest, and punishment of all room-keepers and inmates. The blow was so sudden and unexpected that the gentry of the green cloth cannot realize what has struck them. For years gamblers have curried things with a high hand there, and there were three public faro banks, one keno room, and numerous poker rooms, public and private, in operation. The Law and Order League is also making vigorous war upon the saloons. —John Barrett, a well-to-do farmer, retired to a room on the second floor of Mrs. Knight’s boarding-house nt Logansport, and was not seen again. until an early hour next morning, when he was found immediately under the window, with a broken arm, fractured hip, and badly bruised head and face. He also sustained internal injuries that may result seriously. It is generally supposed that he staggered out of the window, ns it was open. —Workmen engaged in a gravel-pit in the southeastern part of Rochester, have unearthed a number of human bones, which on being put together show that they are the skeletons of five grown persons. The bones were found at a place about five feet beneath the surface, and had evidently been dismembered before being buried. Tho oldest inhabitants of tho place are unable to solve the mystery. —The Indiana Farmer’s latest roportt show that the average crop yield of wheas in this State is about thirteen bushels per acre, making the aggregate crop between 38,000,1199 and 40,909,990 bushels. The yield of corn is 60 per cent, of a full crop. There is about an average area of oats, with a yield of thirty-two bushels per acre. The average production of potatoes is below thirty biiKholß per aero. —A passenger train on the Cairo, Vincennes & Chicago Railroad ran into a sawlog that was laid upon tho track recently, about eight miles south of Vincennes. A few nights before an attempt was made to wreck (in Ohio and Mississippi train between Shoals and Huron. On this occasion crosß-tios were piled across the track, but Engineer Thom saw them in time to save the train. —Gessy Thompson, who had been working at Hammond and was on his way homo, at Rochesier, on a freight, in getting off the train slipped and fell, tho wheels passing over his right leg and left foot, tearing the flesh and breaking tho bone. His hands and head were also bruised, from

which injuries he died in about three hours. Deceased was 24 years old. —A cow belonging to G. A. Smith, living near Elkhart, gave birth, a night or two ago, to a remarkable freak of nature. It had the head and nose of a bull-dog, the ears of a calf, and the legs and hoofs of a hog. The knee-joints of the hind logs were fastened to tho hips. The forequarters wore very heavy and the fore logs very short. - At North Vernon throe sisters nameo Kelly and a companion named Lona Smith, while leturuin from school, were attacked by a vicious cow. The Kelly girls escaped injury, hut Lona Smith wes seriously injured, one of the cow's horns entering her nose and tearing open tho flesh from the nostril to the top of her head. —French Lick Springs, in Orangs County, are to bo turned over by the recent purchaser, Col. 11. E. Wells, to a joint stock company, with a capital stock of $200,000, who will nt once make such improvements as will create of the springs a resort first-class in all respects. Tho parties interested are Louisville capitalists, —At the Central Iron and Steel Company’s works in Brazil an explosion in one of the furnaces drove a red-hot cinder into the eye of John Billiter, an employe, quite destroying it. He was also so badly burned about the other eye that he will probably lose the sight of it. —One of a gang of burglars convicted at Princeton, just before sentence communicated to the Court that she was a woman. She had been masquerading in male attire for three years. She was sentenced to the Female Reformatory for three years. —The citizens of Richmond are so sanguine that the Evansville and Richmond road will be built that they are squabbling over what line it shall enter their city, and have asked the Board Os Trade to take the matter up. —The Rockville Light Artillery, on ih. return home from Evansville, where it won first prize in the artillery contest, was given a handsome reception, followed by a banquet, at which complimentary speeches were made. —Samuel Hilman, of Columbus, has a sword captured by him in battle in tho late war. It is inscribed “Lieutenant Colonel Bay, Second Tennessee Cavalry, C. S. A.” He is anxious to return it to the owner, if • living. —Benj. Lyon, a well-known young man of Elkhart, was very badly burned by having his face and eyes filled with vitrol, tho result of an accident. It is scarcely probable that his eyesight can be saved. —Rev. A. B. Burner, of Westville, La» Porte County, a sow days ago foil down stairs at his residence, while carrying an ' armful of books, and received internal in- । juries which may prove fatal. I —At Rushville two young ladies named Nora and Katie Barrett were toying with a pistol, when the latter was shot in the shoulder, tho wound being a serious one.