St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 13, Number 41, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 April 1888 — Page 1

VOLUME XIIL

e i KISSING DIMPLES, k. "".u 1&‘52'2 lt;oeel]((:s the dimples from out the . Where thoy rigple and they dance every time b ~ she Jaughs and speaks ; K Bhe said Ishouldn't do it, but I held her fast E . and tight, | And kissed and kissed the rosy little face with P . all my might, And tg:g a pair of eyes twinkled very gravely ~ Anda pa‘a.lltl" of little lips gathered up a doleful i~ With pl?tt.le drooping cormers—mno wonder, you will say, To see such boany, bonny dimples stolen all B AWAY. s ht I sh i I mo‘;fttle wh?ll;l;d have kept them for just a . Butlittle teeth were soon peeping through a little smile. _:’ And t}l&!z& laugh like sunshine was over all her - And everY dimple I had stolen was back again in place. - TO BE A LITTLE LESS THAN LOVED, . To be a little less than loved : L O empty hoarts the wide world over, Have i'ou not often thougkt of this While waiting for the one true lover? o To be a little less than loved, To have all friendship and all honor, iz Yet miss that one kind, tender hand Which sets & woman’s crown upon her, % To love a little less than love When one could make one heart the gladdest, 1 Or be a little less than lpved—--3 Dear heart, I know not which is saddest. ] ~Marion Manville. : : m WL ; b BY HUGH CONWAY. ; CHAPTER IIL , Very promising, too, were the events of ; the next day. I felt that the man I hated v was paying me attention above my fellows. ‘ Os course, it was not marked enough to attract notice, but attention it was, undoubtedly. He walked with me, and told me, among other things, a great deal about his early life and siruggles for success. He was quite interesting, so much so that I wishedql could check these confidences. I feared that his talk might awaken a suspicion of sympathy in my mind, which would grievously interfere with my vendetta. That evening he repeated his request that T would sing; but after the way in which I had misled him, I knew he only urged me for the sake ot politeness. I began with one of those little ballads which he so much disliked; an easy, simple little thing, which could only be borne out of | the commonplace by feeling on the part of the singer. I glanced at him as I finished the song. He thanked me quietly, but I saw he looked puzzied. Then I placed Beethoven's “Adelaide” before me, and sung it as I had seldom or never before sung it—entirely to my own satisfaction. I rose from the piano, and our eyes met. He did not join in the chorus of thanks; but I knew he was more than moved; and as he followed me to my chair I exulted, as I thought that the pet weapon in xixdv armory had struck well home, “Miss Rivers,” he said, “I thought no amateur in England could sing that song to her own accompaniment as you sing it. I can only congratulate you while blaming you for deceiving me so last night.” | I thanked him for his compliment, and for the rest of the evening Mr. Hope talked little except to me. There!—l will write no more about it. Now, lam utterly ashamed of it all. Had it not been for my resolve to reject it when offered, I would have stooped to win no man’s love—not even Vincent Hope's. But in five days I knew that my work was done, and fully done—so fully thai I dreaded the result of it, and began to wish I had not been s 0 vindictive. Worse than all, friends—as friends will—were exchanging knowing glances, and commenting on the relations which appeared to exist between my foe and myself. Could I have conquered my nature, and _decided to forego my revenge, it was now @ impossible to do so. For my own sake, S matters must come to a climax, that all : i Bht see how little I cared for the man. B One night, as I sat in my dressing-gown "f””tim he fire, trying to make up my mind ol myself from the pleasant glow and P:C. o bed, Mabel Lighton entered my ab & .. She was a good, true girl, who b it'«he-*her mind freely, and at times lec- - ewercven me. n 'it)eritage,” she said, abruptly, “what do nhe.dean to do with Vincent Hope?” | S M, could not for the life of me help &) hJ,yging color, and was compelled to I " the cheek mnearest Mabel with the WO hich had been protecting my eyes 3 .}the firelight. LS 180 with him! I don’t know what you i 0 llu. » s ej_,es, you do,” retorted my mentor. “Had * #.oen any one but you, Heritage, I should 8 i 3 called her a flirt. But you are not a " in} we know.” «3F £ 1-What have I done, Mabel?” I asked. @ ¥ o screen was still between us. 2 § Mabel quietly pushed it aside; then, @ J Cacing her hands on my shoulders, seru- ' ¥ ‘nized my face in a most uncomfortable ' ¥ nanner. | & | “You have done this, and who can wonL & .er at it? You have gained that man’s love " @' entirely. But, although it seems so un- | & ike you, I believe you have brought him 'f to your feet for vanity's sake. Heritage, ' &' he is a good man—a proud man. If you | # mean to give him nothing in return, I ' # ‘should say his life will be wrecked. Do E & youlove him, or are my fears well founded?” ‘%, In some fashion, 1 was bound to reply. & T sought refuge in levity. # “Whenlam moved tq confess my sigs, F Mabel, it will not be to you, but to soflie . nice ascetic High-Church curate.” B ¢ «Don’t tatk nonsense. I am in bitter ® carnest. Vincent Hope will surely ask you to be his wife. You are rich and he is ! comparatively poor; but I know thz}t wi_ll i pot influence you. Only I say again, if ' you refuse, you are to blame for all that - happens.” : This must be stopped at any cost. Until now I had always believed that hysterics and affectation were synonymous. ; “Mabel,” T said, “I hate Vincent Hope; ; but at this moment I think I hate you even ‘ more! Gotobed. I am too tired to say another word; so go away.” { Therewith, I got into bed, turned my face to the wall, and left Mabel to put out - my candle and get back to her own (uarters when she thought fit. I was annoyed and ashamed. She had £ nearly accused me of what I had in truth t been guilty of —making love to my enemy. g As people noticed my conduct, it became @ more and more necessary that I should 1 clear myself from all such imputations. ; This could be done in one way only. Perhaps I had the grace toavoid Vincent . Hope somewhat during the next two days. . Perhaps that very avoidance hastened the < catastrophe. But on the third day, chance . —pure chance, mind—left us together and Jlone. For a moment there was silence “»tween us; then he drew near to me, and (' lin a quiet, earnest voice: i o +,\Heritage, I love you. Will you be my . ?” W ?could not answer. All I could do was caivrevent myself breaking into hysterical " ghter. O 7g tried to take my hand. ' feritage, my darling! I think I loved

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[ you the moment I saw you, Look up, and answer me. Say you love me and will be my wife!” His wife! :}fter hating him for so long -——.after I\l}lbel s reproaches—after winning his love in away the thought of which made me blush! Never, never, never! So I steeled myself—drew myself up to every inch of my height, looked him full in the face—triumphed, and took my revenge. I..hope and think I spoke composedly, if not coldly. “Mr, Hope, you honor me greatly, but it | cannot be. Please never mention it again.” His face was very pale; and when an expression of positive pain left it, grew | stern, almost hard. I\Fy manner must | have convinced him I was in earnest. No doubt, had I wished to do so, I could have | made him fall at my feet and plead passionately. But then, unless one is an | utter savage, vindictiveness must be limited. Ihad dore enough. Perhaps, under such trying circumstances, no man could have hehaved in a more dignified manner than did Mr. Hope. “lam to understand,” he said, calmly, but with a look in his eyes which I dared not meet—"l am tounderstand you-—you do not love me?” I bowed. “Please let me hear you say so,” he said. “I do not. Tet us say no more about it. I think I will go back to the house now.” ‘ We walked in silénce until we were ¢lose to the gates. Thenhe said: “Unless my presumption to day makes my presence unbearable to you, I shall stay two days longer, as I promised Mr. | Lighton. It is not werth while to set people inquiring as to the reason for a hasty | | departure.” “Certainly not,” I answered. “Stay as long as you wish; or, if you prefer it, 1 will leave.” “That is out of the question,” he replied, as we crossed the threshold and parted. | I went to my room--to exult, of course, in my revenge. It was so full, so complete, so exactly as I planned it. And writers and poets say that revenge is sweet. Oh, yes, it was very, very sweet—so sweet that I double-locked the door, that no one might see how much I enjoyed it—so sweet that I threw myself on my bed, and thought my heart must break as I sobbed and we})t, for the truth must be told—l loved Vincent Hope, even as he said, and as I hoped he loved me. Yet, for the sake of vanity, I had te-day rejected the love of a man, the best, the noblest, the cleverest in the world! I had hurled my hoarded stone, and right well had it fulfilled its mission; but its rebound had crushed me. Oh, yes, revenge is very sweet! I rose, and, walking up to the Heritage Rivers in the cheval-glass, shook my fist at her violently *You fooll” 1 . mald to her. “A nice mess you have made of jife! Revenge, indeed! Call it by its right name—folly! Go and clothe yourself in sackeloth —cover your head with ashes, and ery your eyes out for to-day's work.” T'hen Mabel's words about a wrecked life came to my mind; and although I could not believe that the happiness of such a man a8 Vincent Hope could be dependent upon an idiot like myself, I thought of that strange look I had seen in his eyes—that look which no resolution of mine could make me meet, So I went back to bed once more, and cried and abused myself. Ay, revenge, forsooth, revenge s sweet!' In spite of all, I determined to go down to dinner. 1 would do that much for his sake. It should not be suspected that anything had gone wrong between us; and I knew that, if I stayed away, Mabel, for one, would certainly guess what had occurred. This, if I could prevent it, should be known to one. I smiled grimly as I thought how my revenge must fail in this; that the world would never know what I had scorned and refused. I made a great effort, dabbed my eyes with rose-water, and went down-stairs in passable trim. To-night we were not side by side, but sat directly opposite to one another. Mabel was right-—Vincent Hope was a proud man. His discomfiture was no concern of the world’s, so he showed no traces of it. All save one at that table would have said that his heart was gay and light. No one would have dreamed that, a few hours before, his love had been refused by an idiot of a girl. He laugbed and jested; anecdote and witty repartee fell unceasingly from his lips. He held the whole talk, or every unit of the party talked to him. Yet, woman-like, I noticed that he drank more wine than was his usual custom, and at times there was a sharper, harder ring in his voice. Had it not been for this, and the remembrance of the look which still haunted me, I could have believed he had forgotten or brushed away from his mind the events of the day. Vincent Hope was a proud man, and Heritage Rivers a fool! 1 would rather say nothing about the next two days. I hated myself so much that I wonder I have ever forgiven myself —perhaps I never have. All I care to say is, that none even suspected what had happened; even Mabel began to think that the accusation of flirting should lie at Vincent Hope's door, not at mine; for, although he talked to me when needful, it was easy to see that his manner was changed. The morning of the third day came, and I knew that in a few hours we should shake hands, part, and there would be the end of everything. Blaize is fifteen miles from a railwaystation, and that station is so unimportant that very few trains stop at it. Vincent Hope, to reach town that evening, was obliged to start betimes. Soon after luucheon, Charlie Lighton and the dogcart were waiting to take him to the train; and, after many expressions of regret from host and hostess, he took his seat and was ready to start. Os course, our hands met, as, in common with every one else, he bade me adieu—a quiet, polite adieu, nothing more—not even coupled with the conventional wish that we might meet again. Why should he wish to meet me again? Our encounters as yet had not been happy in their results to either! That accomplished whip, Charlie, gathered up the reins, and with a last, allembracing good-by, Vincent Hope was sped away along the winding carriage dvive, and, for the first time in her foolish life, Heritage Rivers knew that such things as broken hearts may be found outside romances. ; Something was afoot that afternoon—walking party or skating party; for it was the middle of January, and bitterly cold. Now that the necessity of keeping up appearances for another’s sake was at an end, Miss Rivers felt very much like breaking down and disgracing herself. She longed for solitude, and made some excuse to stay at home. As everyone was bound on the expedition, she had the house practically to herself. After bemoaning her wickedness and folly for some time in the sanctity of her own chamber, a strange craving came over her. She felt she must go down and sit in the little room which adjoins the library; and, although censuring her own weakness, she vielded to the impulse. Vincent Hope, in spite of his resolve to spend his time at Blaize House in wellearned idleness, had been unable to do so exactly. Ominous rols of printed matter came by post—a sin of long standing, he said, which publishers insisted on dragging into daylight at once. So he did one or two hours’ work each day, and grumbled at it in a very amusing manner. By tacit congent, the little room had been kept sacred to him; theve, when he chose, he worked | without fear of interruption. It was,

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1888.

no doubt, on account of this that Miss Rivers felt that uncontrollable desire to sit for a while in this particular room. The stupidity of her desire need not be commented upon, as her generally idiotic nature must have made itself manifest many pages back., She entered the room and closed the door softly. She sat down at the leather-covered table, and leaning hex head on her hands, looked anything but a prosperous, healthy, comfortable young woman., ) Presently she glanced stealthily around her, and from the bosom of her dress drew I out a photografih of a very handsome, dis- | tinguished-looking man. Mr. Hope had | given it to her, at her request, some days | before. It was to go into her celebrity-al- | bum, she told him. Laying it on the table ! between her elbows, Miss Rivers gazed at | it long and earnestly, until her foolish eyes | became so misty with tears that she could ' | see it no longer. One by one those tears || began to fall, and soon came so fast that | she gave in altogether—forgot where she was—forgot all risk of interruption; and | laying her head on the table, presented | the very picture of woe. J Her bewailings and beweepings were at their greatest height, when the door was suddenly thrown open, and Mr., Hope stood before her. She sprung to her feet, | and in her ngitation brushed the photograph to the ground. Even in her dire | confusion, the prayer thatit might have fallen face downward framed itself. But | she dared not look to see; she had to face || the intruder as best she could. Yet he seemed for the moment to be taken even - { more aback than Miss KRivers. He stam- | mered out something about a shaft broken three miles from home--impossibility of | catehnig train-—came back to write telegrams, ete, Then he looked on the ground, and what he saw there was enough to make | him glance wonderingly at the shamefaced girl who stood before him with wet lashes and glowing cheeks. | “Miss Rivers—Heritage,” he said, “tell | me what this means.” She made no reply, but endeavored to | pass him. He b]oc'ked the way, and by the | exercise of some force took both her hands {in his, As they stood there, she could see | on the ground between them that unlucky | photograph lying face upward. | “Let me go, Mr. Hope,” she said, “it is | unkind to keep me against my will,” | Her appeal was in vain, His strong hands | held her yet more firmly. He seemed to be | waiting until she chose to look up and meet | his eyes. But that would never have been | —not if he stood there till the present mo- | ment. | At last he spoke; his voice was almost grave: “Heritage, lam very proud. I Lave always vowed I would ask no woman twice to be my wife; but I will ask you once more if you love me.” Miss Rivers only bent her head lower and lower. “Answer me, Heritage!” he said, in a changed, passionate voice. “My darling, answer me, and this time truthfully!” It was no use. Had she wished to do so she could fight no longer. She ventured to raise her eyes a little, and said, so timidly, so differently from her wusual way of speaking: “It I thought you would only forgive me, I would try and show you what I can not, will not tell you—how much I love you!” She was very, very humble in her newfound happtness. : Then Vincent Hope loosened her hands a little, and—— Well, these things only happen once in the life of a true woman, and she should neither write nor speak about them. But when Charlie Lighton came to look for the telegram, not even written, nor, in the propesed form, to be { written, Vincent Hope and Heritage Rivers were wondering. as every orthodox pair of lovers should wonder, why they were chosen out to be made the two very happiest people in the whole world. So this was how I worked out my revenge. It was only after we were married that I ventured to tell my husband that I had actually laid myself out to win his love—l and why, when won, I had rejected it. My confession, which was really seriously made, being complete, he looked at me with mock severity. » “Heritage,” he said, “had I known this before, I might, even at the eleventh hour, have thought better of the step I was taking in putting my future in the hands of such a vindictive young woman.” “And perhaps, sweet sir,” I answered, “for the very fear of that I have deferred my explanation until now.” [THE END. ] How Langtry Goes Shopping. Mrs. Langtry’s home life here is no mystery to her neighbors, and it is the key to her “wearing quality” in her success with women. Follow her on an afternoon’s shopping tour and see if I am nat right. “he enters a fashionable milliner’s on Fifth avenue (she gets all her hats at one place'. Her carriage, with the awfully pompous English coachman on the box and the awfully diminutive but equally dignified and bebuttoned footman at the door, stands at the curb. The half-dozen women of fashion in the place glance round as she appesars. With perfect ease she passes among them and to an attendant she says in a conversational tone: “Tell Miss —— that Mrs. Langtzy is here, please.” This lady appears and is greeted with a cordiality almost like that of a sister. But no gush. Then the work of choosing two or three becoming hats begins. No impatience, no disgust, no hauteur is visible. With a skill which is peculiarly her own she will succeed, before leaving the store, in getting the frank opinion of every lady present on each hat considered before making a decigion. This is all done in the most off-hand and polite manner possible, as though she should say: “Now, we are all here on common ground and know each other's weaknesses in the matter of personal adorn- | ment. Os course we are not acquainted, but it’s all intormal, don’t you know—just like being on ship-board-—so tell me the truth.” Os course this isn't what she says with her tongue, but with her manner. With a monosyllabic appeal she draws out each, without apparently intending to do anything of the sort. When she has finished she sits comfortably down upon a lounge and has a nice little fiveminute conversation with the head of the concern. Then with a smile she re-enters her carriage and is gone, and every lady in the place, including the employes, goes home and declares at dinner that Mrs, Langtry is the most charming woman she has ever met, despite the scandalmongers Her secret is this: She appreciates fully her own beauty and all that it is worth, and will freely discuss it in gseeking garments which set it off ; but this she does in such a contidential and frank manner as to disarm an enemy at one stroke,— Washington Post,

| COMING HOME. | The Resignation of Isaac Bell, Min- ‘ ister Resident at the Hague, | Accepted, J | [Washington special. | The resignation of Isaac Bell, Minister | Resident to the Netherlands, has been ac- | cepted. It will take effect on the 4th of | May. Mr. Bell will return home on ac- | count of a pressure of {private business. | Mr. Bell, who is about 43 or 41 years of ] R B . SN R \ : SNSRI, \\\\\ l SRR R A ¢ T : RN ST N ' ""':-:"'_":1':'-'- ..'."\“ gt l SRR Rek PEREE T eI N SFcF 000 SN : R S 9-\." s w Nt ¢ OEANRE | RN : i s 0 /ffri'f‘ i : ; e . y < 7 ') Z 'I :"'.:?}f s ) 7 ’ S B | T\ Ny g7 l ) . . age, is the son of Isanc Bell, public | spirited citizen of New York. He married i | a sister of James Gordon Bennett, owner | |of the New York Herald. Y'pto 1877 he ' || followed the business of cotton broker. 3 ' | He then'retired to Newport, R.1., where | he owns @ handsome villa, His wife and i | he are leaders in the society of that resort. | ) YNy [ , UNCLE SAM'S CASH. | | e | : < ‘| The Monthly Debt Statement—A De- | crease During March of 1 ] $11,686,569. | ' ; @ | ) |Washington special.j l‘ l Following is the regular monthly debt | ' | statement: ‘ . INTEREST-BEARING DEBT, < | Bonds at 41 per cent., . ............$ 280,544,600 | Bonds at 4 percent..... ....o..uvns 732,452,300 | Refunding certificatos at 4 per cent 143,040 | Navy pension fund at 3 per cent. .. 14,000,000 | | Pacitic railrond bonds at 6 per cent 64,623,612 | i R | b1 Prlnoipil i vvcsisaniinianviiianae .$1,041,704,052 | [ M G PP l TRI ah i B onoeet | DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCH : MATURITY, - BOINGIORL (s iiiiii i vaiA senian 2,088,795 | | l BDROEBNE. ...osvacannannsnsvusansnnnai 171,556 : e i , L . siiiiaasaa i a Y 2,850,351 | : DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST, S | Old demand and legal-tender notes. § 346,737,956 | Ceortifioatos of Adeposit. ...ccvvvvensns 8,915,000 | | Gold certificates. . ...covvrsrinness 91,953,048 | Bilver certifoatos....ccivvvvivisnes 391,080,440 Fractionai currency (less $8,375,034 ; - ostimated as lost or destroyed).. 6,941,061 i ERIRAIDAL.. s e 8 048,074,411 : FOTAL DEBT, o ; Priselnal. il d GGI e3L 000,001,058 | Interest. . .. 11,370,182 Total 00l e- SR TOL NSO | l.ess cash items available for re- L t duetion ot the debt, e .8 806,455,300 | Less reserve held for redemptioh f | of UuS.notes.....oovvvinsininnins 100,000,000 | e | SN s ws.w.),:ml Total debt less available cash items 1,295, 442,085 | Net cash in the Trea5ury........... 104,573,930 | Debt loss cash in Treasury April 1, | | R it LR IS | Debt less cash in ll'reasury March 1, | IR RN Decrease of debt during month . § 11,085,559 | Decrense of debt since June 3, 1857, 88,500, 681 l CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR THE | IEDUCTION OF THE PUBLIC DEBT, | Gold held for gold certificates actu- @ ; ally outstanding.........cceovnev.. § 91,953,040 | Silver held for silver certificates L actuallyoutstanding.............. 191,520,445 | U. S, notes held for certificates of : | | deposit actually outstanding..... 8,015,000 | | Cash held for matured debt and in- i ! froRtIHERId . it 14,008,977 | Fractionnl CUITODOY « cov . vuiinssnsin 83 | | Total available for reduction of ‘ debb..ooiieiinnieeiuinniiiieenn § 306,435,351 | : RESERVE FUND, ' l Held for redemption of U, &5, notes, acts Jan, 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882 $100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction ot the debt— Fractional silver GOill.....eveve .. $25,566,279 | EINEPOOIN ... o i ihesie 186,548 | ’ WOl s e DTR Y ’ Certificates held as ca5h.......e0e0 49,671,889 Y Noßcaß on bl . ..o G RO Total cash in Treasury, as shown : by the I'reasurer’s gen'l account. $386,454,002 | HYDROPHOBIA EPIDE MIC. | Thousands of Dollars’ Worth of Cattle ' Killed by a Mad Dog. [Parkersburg (W, Va.) telegram,] | In Jackson County, W. Va., an epidemio | | of hydrophobia among cattle of all kinds has broken out, and the farmers have lost thousands of dollars’ worth of fine stock. | A dog owned by a man named Huffman | went mad, and before he was killed attacked « number of other dogs, cattle, | | sheep, swine, and poultry on several farms. These animals nearly all went | mad and have since died. There is | scarcely a farm in the upper part of the county upon which some animal has not \ been bitten. The dog when it reached | home attacked its master, who felled it to | the ground and chained it till it died. 1 More than fifty dogs have been killed and numbers are yet about the coantry. Deaths among the cattle are increasing. , Cattle th-t have died from hydrophobia are lyi: ; inthe fields, and persons are afraid to eat any meat from that section, ‘ JUSTICE WAITE’S ESTATE. Civil-Service Commissioner Edgerton \ Shocked by the Meddling of Busybodies. \ {Washington special | Civil-Service Commissioner Edgerton ig | very indignant over the published report | that the family of the late Chief Justice Waite is in great financial distregs. The Post publishes an interview with him on | the subject in which he says that while the reports are absurd he fears that they may be believed by unthinking people. He says that Judge Waite’s sons are both well-to-do, and whatever their father’'s estate | may have been, the family is not likely to want for anything. What displeased Mr. Edgerton mostis that the subject should be discussed at all. Such an interference in the private affairs of the family in the midst of Mrs. Waite’s great distress he regards as unwarrantable and indecent. ‘ MAXWELL’S CASE. | The Supreme Court Refuses to Allow ' Further Legal Quibbling in the Chloro-~ | former’s Behalf, & (Washington tologr:un..] The Supreme Court has denied the motion for a rehearing of the Maxwell- | | Preller murder case. : [St. Louis spect_nl.} : . | , The refusal of the United States Su- l . { preme Court to reconsider the;lr action in the Maxwell case leaves the little Knglish | chloroformer with only one hope-—namely, a commutation of sentence from Governor | Morehouse. :

R ——— THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. I Notes on the Lesson for Apri 8« Christ's Last ‘Warning." {Frola the Chicago Standard,) l The lesson for the above ants may be found in the twenty-third chapter of Matthew, from ‘the twenty-seventh tc the thirty-sixth verses. | DAILY READINGS, M.—The Lesson. Matt. 23: 27-39, i T.—A garallel. Luke 11: 44-51. | W.—The truth’s reception. 1 Thess, 2: 13-20, T.—Casting out evil. Deut. 13;: 6-11, F.—Stephen’s accueation. Acts 7: 51-6), 8. —Jerusalem’s destruction, Zech. 11. | S.—Coufort for disciples. John 16: 1-16. INTRODUCTORY, { It is the time of the passover, early spring in Palestine. Tho streets, in accordancs with the custom, have been newly swept, the conspicuous sepulchres freshly whitened and garnished. It was good preparation for the mssove'r-—'outwa.rdly good. But, says Christ, | ok within. Are you remembering in your hearts the ceremony of the lintel stain? “And ag our Lord looks upon the proud, cruel and hypoceritical Pharisoes, he cannot but oom-l pare them with the decorated tombs that stand out prominently in the back-ground. | Beauty without—ashes within. The lesson begins with words of woe; it ends with weep+ | ing. There are terrors at the opening; there are tesrs at the close. Yes, a.mr at tie last, | through the very tears, shines for those thal vateh and wait, a rainbow vof promise. “Blessed is be that cometh.” “Amen, even so come, Lord Jesus!” ’ l J WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. l Woe wnto you. Cutit out. The Bible will i be much more largely read with these words , omitted. Put it in the apocrypha. lLetus make an expurgated edition of the scriptures with the “woes” left out. 1t will be very popular, this “World’'s Edition” of the life and sayings : of Christ. But hold. Put up thy knife, Je- | hoiskim. Remember the codicil: “If any man | sball take away from the words of the book of this pl‘orheoy. God shall take away his part out of the book es life!” It must stand. And if it stands, let it be preached. Is it not pos- ' sible that we stay too long at the fore part of ) the alphabet in our teaching and preaching of | the gospel? “Blessed” comes very early, and | it i 8 a long way from Bto W, DBut it is theore, | and God assuredly means us to utter his | “whole counsel” from Alpha to Omega. 'The | Sunday-schools and pulpits of the land are | given good u}mortuuity to-day. | Serices and Pharisees, hypoerites. That is the full name; fill it out to the end. But, we may be sure, it is dangerous business, Bt is l much easier to stop with the first or second | part without going into the character title in | the third member, The most of the martyrs . loat their lives for doing no more than that l They filled out the name. They told kings, | potentates, peoples, all, just what they were { 1n God’s pure sight. !magiuo us doing it to- | i dsy. My lord, the duke, robber! Father { B——, wolf in sheep’s clothing! Hon, O——, I truckier and time-server! Messrs. E. and F., { murderers! Very imprudent it would be I called to-dav, now that Huss and Knox and | Bunyan are gone. Let Rome be called by its | | right name, and halls will be closed and ¢ven | Chriatians witl hold up hands of holy horror. | i And yet will the prophet of righwousneuu‘ | ever loead the church to its own, under God, i until he has walked, even here, in the foot- | styps of his Master? Heaven grant us to-day { & gospel preached in utter trufi:fnlmsss! | | Whited sepulehres. Outwardly fair, inwardly foul. The electric light of God’s perfect truth | . was thrown with merciless irradiance upon I the false Jow. BSo shines the light to-day, un- | | covering, exposing, discomtiting. The legend | goes that a French daguurmtyrist invented | & liquid solution by means of which he could | bring out the real faces of the persons who ! sat for pictures. He took the natural likeness and then, dipping the plate inte his mysteri jous preparation and exposing it to the sunI light, he was able to print the character linea- ' ments of those who came, Sometimes dull { features would turn boautiful, sometimes a face fair to look upon would change to ugliness; and once the comely countenance of agay | young man was transformed into the horrid | features of a wolf. If we remember aright, it was he who destroyed the solution. Dut within, Ah, yes, they had forgotten ! that. Caring so much for the mixing and lay- | ing on of whitening for the outside, tuey had | forgotten to put away the uncleanness within. [ It 18 a common mistake, and not simply in | matters of house-cleaning. In a sort of peri- | odical clearing up oi*the life, in Lenten times, | for instance, well-meaning people get no | farther than the whitewash part. That was a | good strong word a few weeks ago in these l columns from our Hartford friend: “What | good thing shall I do that I may have eternal i life? . ... There! he had put the holy water on his forehead, crossed himself, tingered his beads, gone around the church on his knees before all the pictures. . . . joined the church, taken holy communion, bought a pew, and said his prayer—the good thing was done, and he could now go on serving the world, the flesh and the devil” That will pass with some so-called teachers; but not with the | Master. What was the meaning of his mission | to the world but & new look “within?” ‘ Ye build the tombds, It,iß poor atonement for murder. The state offers to take the money gotten from tacit participation in the rum’s annual sianghter and build the people »ospitals, alms-houses, or perchanca inebriate asylums for the not quite dead. Modern tomb-builders! Take an illustration of another sort: Yonder, we will say, goes a costly funeral. It is paid for, in half-hearted conpiderateness, by sons who have worn a fond nother’s life out with their evil courses. Or, Kn that church there, you see a memorial window, telling of a pastor deceased. It was placed there by parishioners, unmindful while God’s prophet lived of his prayers and tears, and perhaps to-day half-indifferent to the truths for which he gave his life. O, | build and garnish character rather than | tombs! Honor the truth at once with loyal i lives. There is little expiation in posthu- | mous charity. | If we had been. The words are very com- | mon. “If it had been I,” we say, the iniquity I would not have been committed. So we mur- | mur to ourselves when we think of David and | of Achan, or of Ananias, or Peter in denial, ' or the Jew in Pilate’s court. Stop and think. | You are making the ordinary mistake of supl osing that to “put yourself in his place” you fiave only to transfer your latter-day self to | those elder - day circumstances. That is | scarcely fair. The proper test is to surround | yourself with such real or imaginary associa- | tions as will bring to bear mlmn you, at your | larger vantage, the same degree of trial or temptation. Look about younow. How are you meeting the unrighteous allurements of your own day? How are you responding to the righteous calls that come? Christliness makes its own special appeal to every successive generation. We show how we would have met the truth eighteen hundred years ago by the way we give it audience _to-.da{. Nine-teenth-century scorn of Christ is first-century murder. | Damnation of hell. He speaks the truth. No kindlier eyes than those, yet they could look sternest rebuke; no gentler lips, yet | they uttered such a terrible word as this, nd was it not kindness, true gentleness? \ f[e is always most gently kind who tells us the truth we need to know. He is only mire craven than cruel who cries as the mannei of some is, “Peace, peace, when there is ro peace.” The simple truth is that for the serpent’s succession there is no escape from the serpent’s sentence. Get out of the generation® How? Regeneration. Next Loesson—“Christian Watchfnlness, ” Matt. 24: 42 51. Dr. Ouiverß WENDELL HoLuEs wants to know what civilization would 'be without a piano. Nobody can tell, ' but we shouldn’t be afraid to try it for a week or so.—Philadelyhia Press. A MicuiGAN man has a chicken which |lB gixteen years old. Sealed proposals for the purchase of it will be received from boarding-house keepers.-—Hotel Mail. i A sPrING overcoat is not amoag the needs of a man who is wearing a mus- | tard plaster,

W“_. I NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS. s e L What Is Being Done by the Nae tional Legislature. Mg, FARWELL introduced & bill in the Senate, ! on the 20th ult., authorizing and direciiug the | Presideut to make a proclamation prohibiting the importation of products of foreign states in certain cases. Mr, Berry ucldresseg the Senate on the subject of the President’s message and in advocucy of taritf reform, Sixty-one | bills were tuken from the calendar and passed by the HSenate. Among the more important | measures passed were the following: Increas- + ing the allowance tor the San Francisco publio building to $850,000. To exvend the southern and western boundaries of the State of Kansas, House bill to ratify and confirm an agreement ¢ with the Gros Ventre and other tribes of Crow | Indians in Montana, with amendments. Relating to the inclosure of certain points of interest on the battlefield of Gettysburg, In aid ot the Centennial and Memoria{ Association of Valley Forge, and to secure the Washington headquarters mansion and grounds ocoupied by the Continental army ot 1777-8. "The House spent the day, in committes of the whole, on the Indian appropriation bill, Mr, Nelson, of . Minnesota, took advantage of the general debate to speak upon the tariff and urge upon bis fellow-Republicans the necessity of tariff reduction, l TuE bill granting a pension of $2,000 per an, I num to Mary S, Logan and the Senate bili inoreasing to §2,000 & year the peunsion of Appolin | A. Blair were taken up by the House of Repregentatives on the 30th ult., and atter a lengthy | debate were passed, the first by a vote of 154 to 95 and the latter by 148 to 91. "T'wenty-four other penslon bills were passed by the Jouue. A joint resolution appropriating $25,000 to enable the United States to participate in the in- | ternational exhibition to be held in Barcelous, l Spain, in April, 18358, was passed. The House non-concurred in the Senate amendments to the House bill authorizing the President to arrange a conference with the Central and South Americax republics for the purpose of encouraging reciprocal commercial relations, There | Was no soession of the Senate. | DiscussioN ¢! the Union Pacific railroad funding bill wno resumed in the Mouse, Mr, Anderson, of lowa, regarded it as one of the most important propositions ever brought before Congress, He said that the career of the Pacific reilroad companies had been criminal, and that they had robbed the Treasury of hundreds of millions of dollars was, he said, concedoed everywhere, 'They had nbsolutely dominated the entire western Bortlon of the country and extorted over and above what was legitimate in the way of charges and rates an amount greater than that which they had taken directly from the 'l'reasury., Mr, Struble, cf lowa, ; asked unanimous consent for the considera- " tion of the Serate bill for the orection ot a }l)ublic buiding at Sioux City. Mr, McMillin, ot ‘ennessee, objected. The following bills were passed: KExtending the appropriation for a public building at Los Angeles, Cal.,, from $200,000 to $300,000, Granting right of way to the Rio Grande and Utah Railway Company through the Southern Ute Indian reservation in Colorado. Abolishing the oftice of United States Surveyor (ieneral for the district of | Nebraska and lowa. For a colebration at the " Naticnal Capital in the spring of 1880 in honor of the centennial of the Constitution of the | United States, Appropriating $50,000 for the ostablishment and maintepance of an Indian industrial school in Michigan. ApYrupriuting $175,000 tor a public building at | Pueblo, Col.; n}»pmnriating $200,000 for a pub- | lie building at Bay Ci‘ti, Mich.; increasing the | pension of Mrs. Gen. W, B. Burnett to SIOO per | month; to remove the disabilities of those i who, having participated in the rebellion, uf- | terward enlisted in the army and became dis- | abled, In the Senate, Mr. Voorhees introduced " & bill to authorize the issue of specie certifi- | cates redeemable half in gold coin and half in ! silver bullion, Bills were reported as follows: i To confer bLrevet promotion on army officers }mrticulurly distinguished by heroic action in | Indian warfare; appropriating $20,000 for the | purchase fromn Mrs, Virginia Lewis Taylor of | the sword which Washington wore on the occasion ofhis [resigning his commission at AnnapoI lis and at his public receptions while President, i Tug tarify Yill, with some amendments, was | presented to the House on the 3d inst. by Mr, ’ Mills, Chairman of the (ommittee on Ways | and Means, and referred to the committee of | the whole, the intention being to oall it up for | consideration in two weeks. The amend- { ments slightly increase the duty on sugar, so | as to make the mnet reduction 20 per cent. | below existing duties, and authorize the | classification of worated cloths as woolens, | The roz»urt of the minority of the Ways and Means Committee was prepared by Mr, McKinley and is signed by all the Republican mem- | bers of the committee. It denounces the refusal of the majority to receive and conslder the views of manufacturers and others atfected by the reductions, and charges the Democratic majority with favoritism toward the South in that it lowers the tariff on but two articles of Southern production--sugar and rice—while heavy reductions are made on everything produced in the North and Northwest, The Crain amendment changing the beginning of the Congressional term fromn March 4 to Jan, 1, and changing inauguration day from March 4 ! to ;\Sril 30 was defeated in the House. The Bond biil was further discussed by the Senate without reaching a vote, The Memphis Bridge bill was passed, with an amendment requiring the bridge to be so constructed as to allow of the passage of wagons aud pedestrians as well as railway trains, THE bond-purchase bill occupied a large ghare of the time of the Senate on the 3d inst. The measure was discussed aud amended, but | final action was deferred. Mr. Riddleberger called up his motion to consider the fisheries treaty in open session, and it was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, There wad o struggle for precedence in the House between the Senate direct-tax bill and the pen-sions-appropriation bill, but the former finally won, n,u& the House went into committee of the whole for its consideration. Among the bills passed by the House was the one for the retirement of Alfred Pleasonton with the rank of Colonel. Science of the Brain. ‘ Paul Broea'’s discovery that the brain ~ is a congeries of organs, each having | its special function, is being confirmed |by later researches. Prof. Mathias ' Duval has had the opportunity of de- | termining—Dby the post-mortem examination of eleven persons who, during | lite, had bLeen accidentally deprived of | | the faculty of epeech or the memory of | words or certain letters of the alpha- | ’ bet—that the faculty of speech and memory of words reside in the second I ! and third convolutions of the brain. | In each case examined there had been | injury or disease of these convolutions, | destroying their functions. Comparing Gambetta’s brain with thut of the late | Dr. Bertillon, an eminent statistician, | Duval and Chudzinsky found that in | l the brain of the former the third, or | “Broca’s convolution”—as the speech- | center is now cailed—is extremely de- ] veloped, while in Bertillon’s it is re- ‘ duced to its most simple expression. (iambetta was active and l(.)k].ll'JCIOIlS; Bertillon reticent and retiring—the oratorical (ualities of the two men were diametrically opposite, and this ! result is now seen to be due to the | physical conformations of their respective brains. Russian Sanitation. In an aggregate population of 100,000,000 in Russia, according to Dr. Bubnoff, there are only about 5,000 medical men, while no working sanitary system can be said to exist in the empire. In some district the deathrate ranges from G 0 to S 0 *per 1,000, aud in spite of a high birth-rate the population of the country is increasing only at the rate of 1 per cent. That a frightful penalty in human lives is paid | for neglect of public health iy shown | by the fact that of the total of some 2.800,000 yearly deaths something like 1,000,000 may fairly be traced to preY, | ventable causes.—Arkansaw Traveler. TuE newest use for the enamel paint of which English women discourse, as if it were the baeginning and the end of decorations executed at home, is to paint so;led l kid slippers, which it transforms into | i patent leather immediately.

NUMBER 41.

. ———————— INDIANA STATE NEWS. - —Patents have been issued to Indiana Inventors as follows: Dempster Beatty, assignor to DBeatty Felting (‘ompany, Mishawaka, muking combined knit and cloth boots: George I." Blaine, Dayton, thq. and E. Hill, Cambridge City, assignors to M. Kemper, trustee, Dayton, railway cross-tie and sleeper; Isaac M. Brown, Columbus, railway switeh; Charles E. Cleveland and J. Hanson, Fort Wayne, (said Cleveland assignor to said Hufison), side-dresser for saws; Henry A. Gore, assignor of two-thirds to K. WW. Walker and H. M. Rutor, Goshen, carpet-sweeper Johun F. Mains, Indianapolis, corn ana fodder compresser; Lewis A. Neff, Middletpwn, car-coupling; John E. Roth, Coal City, combiuned ironing-board and washbench; Charles M. Youang, Eby, sewingmachine. —(reorge Parker, who was given 100 lashes on his bare back, by the Crawford County White Caps, a few days ago, is reported in a dying condition, as the result of his cruel punishment. It is stated that his back was so horribly gashed from the whipping that the shoulder-blades and backbone were laid bare. Parker is a powerful man, weighing 180 pounds, but he was tied face foremost o a tree, by twenty men,each one of whom gave him five lashes with heavy, elastic hickory switches. Parker is charged with not gproperly providing for his wife, to whom he has been married about one vear, —A fatal accident occurred, recently, at the residence of J. Kuch, Peru. His two sons, Fred and Karl, were playing at “Indian scouts,” when Karl, who was snapping a suppesed unloaded revolver at his brother, discharged the weapon, the ball striking Fred in the forehead, killing him instantly. The revolver had been unloaded, but ¥red, during the evening, had placed a live cartridge therein, from which he received his death a few mowments later. The shooting was done in the presence of the horrified parents, who are nearly crazed with grief. Ired was aged 12 and Karl 16. —The managers of the various base-ball clubs of this State met at Logansport, recently, the object of the meeting being to form a State league. The following named managers were present: O. N. Lumburt and S. Primly, Elkhart; Thomas Miller, Lafayette; C. H. Dailey, Frankfort; D. C, Fishes, Ft. Wayne, and Joseph Henning, Kokomo. A State league was established, embracing the following cities: Elkhart, South Bend, Frankfort, Lafay« eite, Kokomo, Ft. Wayne, and Logansport. —\While engaged in excavating for a ditch near Losantville, Milo and Rufus ‘Bookout unearthed a huge tusk, a part of the remains of some mammoth animal supposed to have inhabited this country in the early stayes of the world's history. The specimen measures seven feet in length and twenty-four inchesin diameter, and is one of the finest specimens of a species of animal now extinct ever found in the State. It would make a valuable addition to some historical museum. —The health officer at Crawfordsville has written to the State Board of Health to prove that there is “alarge-sized epidemic” in that place; that 606 cases of measels have been reported to him. Os this number seventy-eight occurred in <Februery and 528 in March. He thinks there are from 100 to 200 cases unreperted, and writes that the disease, although it is abating in the city, is spreading through the country districts. —A freigh train on the Madison branch of { the J., M. & I. road ran over and instantly willed Anderson MeGannon, an old and highly respected citizen of Vernon. Mr. McGannon had started to attend a publia sale a short distance from town; on account of the rain he turned back, and in some way was caught by the train and killed. The accident occurred within two blocks of the home of the deceased. —At Camden the people were startled recently by a heavy report and shock as of an earthquake. It was gas from gas well No. 2. The drill, at a depth of €OO feet, struck an immense deposit of shale gas, and was thrown out of the hole with the velocity of an arrow, erashing through ihe summit of the seventy-foot derrick and twenty feet above. The crew barely escaped with their lives. —John Colgin, of Hartford City, has in his possession four young motherless foxes. They have been adopted and are provided for by a “kitless cat,” who manifests as much maternal solicitude and motherly eare for them as though they were her own family. They seem to have accepted tko gituation in a kindred spirit, and are doing well. —William Carr, a miner, while engaged ot work, was seriously injured in No. 2 mine owned by the Brazil Block Coal Company. One of the other miners fired a shot in the coal and the pillar was so thin between the places that it went through with “the above result. Carr is about twenty-three yoars of age, and unmarried. —The statement which recently appeared in an Indianapolis paper, to the effect that Harrison County orders were selling at a discount of 30 cents on the dollar has mno foundation; in fact, brokers at Corydoa are anxious to get them at 8 per cent. discount, and many persons buy them at 5 per cent. -—A representative of the Chicago Board of Trade, who claims to have made extensive inquiries as to the prospects of the wheat crop in this State, has written Secretary Heron, of the State Board of Agriculture, stating that the crop in the gouthern portion of the State is the poorest for five years. —Samuel Angus fatally shot James Saunders in Crawford County, the ending of a feud caused by the operations of White Caps. —Another bank has been opencd out for business at Ladoga, Mentgomery County. It is called the Farmers' and Merchants’ Bank. M. M. Henry is President, I. N. Miller Vice President, George E. Grimes Cashier. There are seven banks in Mont« gomery County, three being in Crawfordsville. —William Swank, a carpenter employed at the Pennington Pulley Works at Fort Wayne, was instantly killed by a pulley bursting in pieces and striking him on the ! head. H& leaves two small children, hig wife having died a few months ago,