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VOLUME XIV.

LOVE’S miU BY ANNA CERES FRITSCH. My life was dark. You came, and lo! tho might 01 love changed all the gloom of my dark path vo light. My hope was dead. You took me by the hand. And bade me live, and strive, and firmly stand My courage gone. You spoko one word of cheer I gained new strength and saw life's duty’ clear My heart was sick. You healed it with one look Os love and pity, which my mem'ry ne'er forsook. My eyes were dim with tears. Your gentle ' sigh Told me you loved me still and bade my sail doubts fly. i Mv only love, help me life's woes to hoar; My weakness needs thy' strength, thy cheering presence dear. Oh! precious one. if thy love guide my soul, j How safe its path, until it reach its goal! star of my life 1 let thy light o’er me shine. Then shall my human heart bow ’neath the will i divine. THE UNSPOKEN WGavD. What silence we keep, year after year. With those who are most near to us aud dear ; | We live beside each other day by day. And speak of myriad tilings, but seldom say ■ The lull swe t word that lies just in our reach , Beneath tve eommoupla eof common speech. । Then out of sight and out of reach they go— ! these close, familiar friends who loved us so ; And sitting in the shadow they have left. Alone with loneliness, and sore bereft We think with vain regret of some kind word That on e we might have said and they have heard.

Lost Lina; —OR,— THE BITTER AND THE SWEET. A Tale of Two Continents. SY MRS. NINA LAWSON.

CHAPTER XVIII. "Oli, musses, musses, for de heben's sake what am yo’ poo’ diggar agowin’ te do? De vury ingels of de habeas am aeomin’down beer, an’ am now at de vury gates ob dis house.” “Thomas, what do you mean? Are you ill this morning, or has this beautiful. -clear. frosty weather aroused your feelings, and caused you to come to me. jesting in this manner?” ■“No, mum; Tse not ill. neider am I afoolin’, but am in de deepest kin’ o’ arnest Es yo’ am not ab‘levin me, come along an' see fur yo'self; I tell yo she am at de gat?.” "Whatcan you mean, Thomas? What you say-is impossible, and more than that, you never saw an angel, and of course you do not know what they are like.” “Os course, mum, I never sees an angel afore, but dis uu must be one, ’cause it looks jist like what my big book says them am. Yo’ see, I was brusin’ de snow oft ob de walk. an - . L’d o' mercy, when 1 comes to de gate, j dere wus on de step a mighty big, rough-lookin’ sort o’ box, an' I jist pulled up de lid, an’, L'd o’ mercy, de purtiest pictur’ I eber did set me eves on was was in dat box. “ 'Twas an angil, mum, wid de purtiest yallar curls,- an’ de purtiest white face dat eber was. Now, mum, come along an' see fo’ yo’self.” Something in Tom’s manner caused Mus. Bristol to think more seriously of the matter, and she threw a fur-lined ; circular over her head and shoulders, i and followed Tom to the front gate. To her great surprise, there was the box that her servant had described, and when he raised the lid she shrank back, uttering a faint scream. Her face was as white as the snow at her feet, and she was trembling from head to foot. Sure enough, there in that miserable- I looking box was a human being, or, was it as Torn had said: “An angel from de Hebeos above?” The old lady could scarcely believe her own eyes, neither could she imagine how the box and its inmate could have got there. Certainly a stranger thing had never happened before, and Tom was certainly right, for a prettier picture she had never seen. As Mrs. Bristol stood gazing down at the pale, beautiful face, the heavy eyelids were raised, and two great beautiful dark eyes look d steadily into hers. “Oh, you are another stranger, but you look kind,” and the tears came into Lenora's eyes. Just then a little gust of wind swept acr »ss the lawn, and tossed about the golden curls that were scattered over the pillow. “Oh, oh! I am so chilly, and where —where am I?” She raised upon her elbow and gazed round over the sparkling bed of snow; but, seeing her surroundings. she realized that something terrible had happened. She sank back on her pillow, paler than ever, while the heavy lids drooped, and she scarcely seemed to breathe. Mrs. Bristol watched her closely, and as Lenora sank back exhausted, the tears came into this good, kind, noble woman'^eyes, and sh ■ said ; “Thomas, bring the young lady into the house, and take her to my room. I see she i > ill, and does not know how she came here, and I will take care of her as if she were my own until she is better. Poor, beautiful girl. I fear she has had much trouble in her short life.” Mrs. Bristol was a widow, and an English lady; her former home was Sheffield, England, but, preferring the free, beautiful lands of the United States, she had concluded to make it her home. Being a lady of great wealth, she made her home, the Bristol estates, very beautiful. The Bristol mansion and estates were ( arranged entirely in the English style, and Mrs. Bristol, a woman of aristocratic nature, was a beautiful mistress , for s > grand a home. The grounds wer * spacious and beautiful, situated aboot two miles north of Michigan City, and on the bank of Lake Michigan. The neat little tenant houses could I be seen scattered here and there over I the estates, while from the tall, narrow I ‘‘himneys the rtlne smoke slowly curled I iL way upwards out rs • i?ht

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! What a pretty sight the large, inns- | cular colored servant made. w ith Lenora tightly clasped in his arms, and her . bright golden curls scattered over his ■ ) shoulder, looking, in the sunlight, like | i a great pile of the pure dust. The trio had reached the great hall | ) door, aud were ascending the broad ! marble steps to Airs. Bristol’s private . i rooms. “Lav her down gently, Thomas; ’ there, that will do, ami you did very nicely. It is necessary that a physician ' should see her, and you may go to the I city immediately and bring one.” I Tom was off like a flash, only too much pleased to do something for “his I i purty angel.” Mrs. Bristol did not wait until the) । doctor came to bring Lenora out of ) j that dead faint, but with her own i hands immediately applied effective I ! restoratives, and soon she was rewarded. for the lids were slowly raised and ’ again those beautiful eyes gazed into i hers. “Is that you, Gertana? You will ) take me away to-day, won't you? You I ar? my only good, kind friend, an I you J ) won't allow him to come near me any | I more, will yon? I know you won't. | for you promised me you would not.” As she ceased speaking, a sweet, sa l smile played about her pale lips, and the long, black, curling lashes ■ again laid on the soft, white che k. “Ah! how strange this is; those eyes, ) the most beautiful I ever saw, seem to ' i recall my childhood’s happy days. The face, the voice, and the expression haunt me as a dream of the past!” The Doctor soon arrived, ami hastened to the patient’s room; he carefully examined her, and then looked strange- ; ly at Mrs. Bristol. "Is she dangerously ill, Doctor?” ) “No; but for the present she must । not be disturbed. She has been given a heavy dose of chloroform, ami is still under its influence somewhat. If she does not receive the very best of care brain fever will set in, ami with such a delicate person as she the ease would be doubtful." । “I will see that nothing is left undone. Doctor.” The physician left, feeling assured that his new patient was in good hands. Sometimes the, days seemed a little long to Airs. Bristol, now, since the weather was too disagreeable for her to take her accustomed drive; ami since her only son, a young man of twentysix, was not nt home and would not be until the holidays, she could scarcely find enough to do to pass the time away. Os course, she had Jeannette Nathan, a young lady twenty-two years of age. who had always lived in the Bristol family, who now she seemed like a ! daughter to Mrs Bristol. But Jeannette's time was occupied in different ways, and her good adopted mother did not get much benefit of her society. As the doctor left the mansion Jeannette’s quick eye spied him, and her 1 j curiosity of course was excited. She was the favorite of the mansion and an acknowledged belle of society. As yet she knew nothing of the strangelooking box and its contents, for w hen the discovery was made she was still lost in sweet dreams. Seeing the Joe- ) tor leave the house, she was afraid that Mrs. Bristol was ill, and immediately . went to her aunt's rooms. “Oh, Auntie Marguerite, are you ill. or what is the matter?” The large black eyes of the tall, slender girl glanced round the room ’ and rested on the form of the little stranger lying on her aunt's bed. "Why, Auntie, what does this mean? Who and what is that strange patient ?" They had walked to the bedside mid were looking down at the beautiful pale face. | “1 do not know who she is. Jeannette, j but this is evidently a very frail, ten- । der little lady, and, indeed, very beau- i tifnl. 1 have not the remotest idea who sho is. but the face for some reason or other strangely affects me.” "But who brought her lure? She was not in the house last, night.” Mrs. Bristol told Jeannette all the particulars concerning the box: also what the Doctor had said. "Hum! A very strange way. indeed, i for any one to enter here. No doubt । she is an adventuress, and of exceed ‘ ingly low character, coming to attack ; Raynard.” Mrs. Bristol did not agree with Jean- i nette on this subject, but she di I not ) •say so. The kind-hearted woman had taken a fancy to her little patient, and was determined, if possible, to see whether the innocent, childish expression was real or not. Suddenly the eyes of the little supposed adventuress opened, and she ; gazed at the two ladies at her side; she lifted her little soft, white hand, ami I extended it to Jeannette. “Ah! you are still here, Gertana, mv dear, good friend, and you. too, nurse. 1 You must be very tired. Go, lie down awhile and rest yourself. You are all I so kind but him. Oh, he was so cruel! ' I wish I could have died then!” As Lenora extended her hand toward the supposed Gertana Jeannette saw ) the bright flash of the diamond ring on * her linger, and she then mentally de- ) cided that it was a stolen one, or that it had been obtained from some of the ! [ our victims of her trea -herons beauty. | Lenora slightly raised herself upon her elbow that she might get a better look • at her friend, but instantly she shrank ; back, with a low, startled cry. “Who are you? and where am I?, What can all this mean, for everything is strange, and ] never saw you before? Ah, I know now; h - has i taken me. away from my Gertana, my only friend on earth.” The poor lone girl sank back on the ) pillow, weary and exhausted, as Jeannette, with a somewhat cold, scornful look on her handsome face, shrank from the b -d, and soon left the room. Mrs. Bristol wont to the bedside and took the little cold hand in her gentle, warm clasp. “Do not be afraid, my dear child, for i you are w ith friends, and no one in t his ) house wishes to harm you in any way. I Now. rest quietly, for I see you are very weary. ” “Oh, thank you. lam so glad that j wn intend me no harm, and that I mu

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I where he is not, or is he here, too? | Please tell me all about it, and how I । got here.” “My dear, youare at the Bristol Mau- | sion; it is my home, and you may reI main here as long as you like. I do 1 not know who brought you here, and ) you were asleep when 1 first saw yon.” । Lenora smiled faintly, and Mrs. Brisi tol continued: “Where were you when you last remember, and who is he that you do not w ant to see ?" “I was not at my home, and yon ■ surely know that it is not here in Chi cage. The man that I so fear is my worst enemy. Oh, please keep him , from me.” And she closed her eyes, while her ) hands trembled w ith fear. “You are not in Chicago now, my | dear, ami not even in the State of llli- ! nois, but in the extreme northwestern part of Indiana.. Be calm, my child, and do not worry, for you are safe, and 1 will care for you.” Lenora looked at the kind, sweet face before her with a pleased smile. “How strange it all is. I was in I Chicago last night, where I went to sleep, and now 1 am so far away from it. 1 must have been transported by ' some good fairy, or, perhaps it. was one of Aladdin's slaves, ami this is his pnli ace, while von are his good, kind, loving mother.” Mrs. Bristol could n 4 help smiling । at Lenora's comparison. “J am a widow, my dear, aud I have an only son, also, but my home is nothing t<> compare to Ala Idin's jdace, for I would he like tiie Sultan and much worse. You arc too weary to talk anx more, and 1 beg of you to rest now.” Lenora nestled among the soft pilI lows like a beautiful little kitten that had been petl d to its heart's content, and Mrs. Bristol went to the farther part of the room and sat down to think. “Jeannette must be mistaken about this girl, for it does not seem possible I that such a sweet, innocent-looking face could be deceitful. I urn satisfied for the present and shall try and find out more about her when she is better.” While Mrs. Bristol was sitting by the gate toasting her linger- by the glowing limit, she was not awai’’ what was going on just outside of her room. I'wm had found the paper-' that Hutchinson had put in the box with Lenora, and was bringing them to his ,) mistress, but Jenmiel te met the servant ! at t he head of the stairs and asked him what he had. Tom told her tha‘ he had found the : roll in the box ami would give it to his mistress“I will give it to her. Tom: you need not bother There, that's a good fellow. now.” \nd she took the papers, w hilc Tom. pleased at her compliment. I tinned and went down stairs, while she crossed the broad, beautiful corridors to her own elegant apartm -nt . “ vh! Ami these w. re in the box that that st ranee, beautiful newcomer ! came in. 1 will keep them tor my own use just at pr. s’Ht, tor 1 am determined. if possible, to find out who she i:. These papers may c.mtain the de sired information." The curi nis, cunning rirl tore open the s als and uuw rapped tin- roll; but. to her great astonishment, h. r eyes I met nothing but blanks. "\\ ell! \\ ho ever in this world h ard i tell of such a thing? How verv ; strange! There must be some glia’ mystery connected with that beautiful girl. Can she possibly be a real ad i veuturcss?” In her astonishment she had dropped the papers. She stooped to pick hem ; up. w ith a shrug of the shoulders, and a chuckling, low laugh ran tnrough the rt om. “It makes no difference to me what she is. for certainly Aunt Marguerite will not allow her to remain here long,er than is necessary. She will soon lie . able to leave here, and 1 need m ver fear anything iu any way. "Oh, w on't 1 have a jolly t inn l , though, when Rnynard comes home. / t “To the opera we shall go; and, yes, , every place of amusement, and, oh, my! that grand ball we are to have ou i Christinas! That will b > perfectly delicious; no one can waltz, as nicely as I, and Bay will waltz with no one else. ■I do not want that girl here. SomeI thing tells me something will happen ) if Auntie does not send her right away. “Oh! oh! AYhnt if, when Ray comes ; home -ami - ami she should be here - ) and, oh. 1 dare not think of it! It I would kill me, I believe, kill me! but pshaw! I know he would not be so foolish as to care at all for such as she. Only a little tramp, if not an adventuress.” She th -ii went, to the grate, and stood w ith clasped hands looking down at the bright coals, while in her own ) mind slie was building bright and tow- ) ering castles for the future. She hoped : to be mistress of the Bristol mansion ! some day, and even now looked upon it I as her ow n. "I know Hay loves me, because he i acts just so. If that little tramp does | stay here, what need I. fear?” And with ) a haughty toss of the head, she rang i for her maid to dress her. I That was her day for shopping, and I as it was so loveh outdoors, she would start earL . Gmler Airs Bristol's careful nursing, l ienor i grew rapidly better, and in a ! we -k's time the Doctor said she would be able to leave her bed. Os course . the kind woman was greatly pleased ) over her pet patient’s convalescence, ) hut nev ’T once had she asked her anything about her past life, or even hetname. Ito be con-iinved.l Short ami Pit hy. “And now, fellow-citizens,'’ said the j political orator, "I leave the subject with you. I have aimed to make my speech short and full of ]>ith.” “Like a stunted corncob I” yelled an unconvinced old farmer in the audience A Lheelij Nurse. ) Nurse Gan t I put baby in the crib, i ma’am? Mother No, doggie is in the crib. ) Wait till doggie has had his nap. Gustav Freytag, the German noveli ist, prefers not to use the title of nobility which has been conferred upon him'

INDIANA STATE NEWS. I i I A CHKONIVLE OF HAPPENINGS IN j HOOSIEHDOM. Slux-kiiig Deatlin, Terrible AechlentM, Hor- ! rible Crimes, ProeeeiliiiKs of Court s, Se- | erct Soeieties, ami, In fact, Everything of j Interest to the Hoosiers. liniianii Congn-ssim-n The following are the footings of the ) official returns of the vote for Congress- j men iu this State: First District- Parrett, Dem,, over i Posey. Rep., plurality 2(1. Second District—O’Neil, Dem., over Braxton, Kep.. 1,884. Third District—Brown, Dem,, over Sayles, Rep., 8,074. Fourth District Holinnn. Dem., over ! AVilson, Rep., 738. Firth District—Cooper, Deni., over Duncan, Rep., 701. Sixth District Brown, Rep., over Morris, Dem., (>,322. Seventh District Bynum, Dem., over Chandler, Rep.. 1,727. Eighth District Brookshire, Don., over Johnson. Rep.i 69. Ninth District Cheadle. Rep., over McCabe, Denn, 4,150. Tenth District Owen, Rep., over) Zimmerimm. Denn. 1.156. Eleventh District Martin, Dem., over I Steele, Kep.. 475. Twelfth District MeCh-llan. Dem., over White, Bep., 1.111. Thirteenth District Shively, Dem., over Haynes, Kep.. 355. Heavy Danuice Sult ihr BarthoL ontew Comity Board of < omml^shuuTH, Jerome Springer ami wife, of Sandcreek Township, Bnrtholmn County, have entered two suits in the Circuit Court against the Boii—l of County Commissioners for injuries received in an accident last January, which was caused by the horse, which they wire driving, backing the iniggy in which they were seated off a bridge which hud the railing broken off. In her complaint Mrs, Springer alleges that 10-i spine was so injured ns to make her a cripple for life. She asks that she be r< imlmrsed in the sum of slu.lHiU, H< r husband de- , mands $3,0<)0 in fnl! si-ttlement of the ) amount paid to physicians who have treated his wife, damages to horse and buggy, and depreciation of his wife's services ns housekeeper. It is alleged that the accident was due to the negligence of the Cmmtv Commissioners in not keeping the bridge in repair. A Sensatimml I moult, Quite n sensational suit has been tiled nt Bloomington) against several prom- ) inent people of Monroe County by M illiam Norman. Ibi action is for SIO,OOO damages, and in his pdition Norman alleges that tin defendants named iu the paper are M hitv < aps and that th> y j took him from his house ontlu night of ' Muy 1. Ihss. mid most brut illy whipped I him in the presem < of his family until j he was nearly dead. St rung counsel has > been employed on both sides and the suit promises to be one of the most exciting eases ever tried m .Monroe < ounty. The defendants are Marquis D. Reed, [suae D. Brannm. Marshal Norman, •Jolin Norman, Eli Sowdcrs. .James H. Ragsdale, Isaac Shies, jr., umT\\ illiam Staek- ) leather, all men of good eharacter mid in good circumstances. The enre is si t for trial Dee. 3 next. Horrible I>eatk from Hy d rophobi a. On Oct. 19, Frank, the 5-y<ar-old son i of Mr. M illiam Mason, of Terre Haute, was bitten on the check by a dog, with i which he was play ing in the street. A I physiei m sewed up the wound, and said 1 there was BO cause for alarm. Ihe dog ' was killed and examined, but there were i no indication of rabies until recently, when the boy complained of a ]>ain m i his cheek, and later began to display ) ; unmistakable signs of hydrophobia. The ) sight of milk, of which he had been ) fond, threw him into spasms, lie had but little relief from the spasms, and was in constant agony until death came ; to his relief. For a few hours before ' his death he taxed the strength of two ) men, who wore heavy gloves to prevent him liiting or scratching them. Horse anil Rider Found I)<-a<l. David Smith, a prominent farmer, who I resided five miles north of Henryville. ■ Vanderburg County, was found dead on [ the pulilie highway. His horse, which I lay beside him. was also dead. Smith, I whose greatest fault was a fondness for liquor, went to Henryville, to transact some business, telling his family’ before leaving that he would return late in the evening. After the business which took him there was transacted, he went into a saloon to get n drink. Ho took several and was very drunk when he started home. Nothing more was heard of him ) until he was found, cold and lifeless. The supposition is that the horse stumbled and fell, and in falling killed both itself aud master. Traveling Xian Stabbed by Rouglis. Charles Bulger and John Dalton were attacked 1 a company of toughs at Monroeville, Allen County, and Bulger was stabbed in the back, just above the right rib. The attack was entirely unprovoked. Mr. Bulger is a traveling salesman. He was taken to Fort AVayne and his wound pronounced serious, but not necessarily fatal. Robertsons and Bryant, leaders of the tough gang, have been arrested. i Minor Stul^ Item*. Joseph Stewart wmj arrested near j Kirklin, for horsestealing! —John E. Binkier, aged 18, living several miles north of Huntington, when returning from a coon-hunting expedition, was mortally wounded bv the accidental discharge of his rifle. He cannot recover. - -A probably fatal accident occurred on the farm of Henry Sickman, near Burr Oak. A windmill was being raised, when part of the machinery broke, letting fall a heavy casting. It struck George Burkett, giving him injuries that 1 may result fatally, and also crushed the head of James A. Miller, of Tlymoutb. |

-—The North Indiana M. E. Conferenco will meet at Lagrange April 3, Bishop Andrews presiding. -The State Baptist Chautauqua ‘ grounds have been surveyed near La- , Porte, and work on them will be commenced in the spring. —John Blake, a leading merchant ft tailor and an old settler, died at Peru recently. There is a section boss on the Logansport branch of the Yandalia Railway who has been married thirty-six years and now has thirty-four children. Mrs. L. (). Robinson, the evangelist, । has just closed one of the most successful revival meetings ever held in Greencastle. Over two hundred conversions I were made in six weeks. i Leavenworth is situated at the foot of a very high cliff, and the people of that place live in constant dread of the huge 1 rocks which become loosened by the ruin and frost and come crashing down the ) hill and through the town, occasionally doing considerable damage. W ord comes i from there that almost the entire population recently fled the town for safety, when a rock twenty feet square let go and came crushing down the hill. Fortnnately, the rock was broken to pieces liy striking trees, and did no damage. Another large rock projects from the ; hillside, and is expected at any moment । to come down mid demolish the county ! jail. The Greencastle Electric Light Company has sold its entire tilanl to G. T. Stewart and Chas. J. Watts, of Springfield, 0., who will increase the । capacity of the works and otherwise improve the property. Mi llet McCain rode off with another imm s buggy ut Roachdale a short time ago. and for the offense ho was sent to the penitentiary for two years, by .Judge Me Grego or. of the Putnam Circuit Court. cattle-buyer, unknown to the residents, is going through Tipton and • luiton Counties buyingstock, and paying for it with bills raised from SIR to SSO. The work is so neatly done that even bank officers suy they lire hard to detect. Samuel Wood, of Cool, yville, has a do' that beats anything on record. A hawk caught one of the hens and Hew away with it. It got eight feet in the air. when the dog gm ea jump aud the hen got away all right, Imt the hawk is on exhibition. Suit has been brought in the Superior Court of Lafayette by Alonzo Platt against the Electric Street Railway for SIO,OOO. Gue of the electric cars run into Mr. Platt s wagon, severely injuring him. I'his i>. the second suit brought iigam-t the eompanv since it coniineiieed business u month or two ago. \ s A. 1 . Antes, u you ng man 21 yearn old, of l.dinbnrg, arose from his chair, a pistol fell from his pocket, striking the floor, discharging itself. 3 lie ball took effect in the instep of his foot, inflict mg a ii rv pninfiil and peihnps dangerous wound. All efforts to find the bull havi been fruitless. Ihi 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson Steele, of Fort Wayne, was play ing about t he room w h ile the mot her was engaged m doing some washing. A : vessel tilled with hot water stood on a chair in the room, and the child approaching this pulled it over, spilling the contents all over its person. The ic-ults were terrible, and the child was horribly scalded, its injuries being so severe that death resulted. Mrs. F.llen Wellener. aged 75 years, of Seymour, was fatally injured by being thrown from a buggy. N. \t month tin Board of Directors of tiie Prison South w ill meet and elect a warden and other officers of the institution. Captain l’atten and all the other officers will doubtless be re- ' elected. — The trial of James ('ole, of Hartford City, charged with the murder of Jos. McClellan, on the 11th of last June, at Portland, has resulted in a verdict of ■’ manslaughter, and in imprisonment for wenty years. - Recently four teams ran away at Crawj fordsville. One team caused two others ito run, and in another runaway Dr. I Alotler had his leg broken. One of the horses was hitched to a dray, and had j not run a step for thirty years. —Mrs. R. B. Douglass, of Martinsville, ! died at the home of her childhood, in Morgantown, after an illness of several months. About a yearago she went with her husband to California, in quest of health, but to no jiurpose. Mrs. Douglass is a sister of Rev. Joseph Woods, a Methodist minister of eminence in central Indiana. - Emil Steenhofel, aged 10, was acci- ■ j dentally killed at Hammond by the discharge of a revolver in the hands of 1 Mrs. Koch. —There is a serious epidemic of diphtheria raging in Wabash, and already over a dozen deaths have occurred wit hin a short time. Every case has so far resisted treatment and proven fatal, the patient dying within two or three days. The symptoms are all similar to those ) seen in croup of the most malignant form. — The new A’. M. C. A. building at Crawfordsville is almost, under roof. , The officers of the association have announced that of the 2,6(10 young men in i that city only 325 belong to the church, and a united effort is to be put forth by all the city churches to see to the wel- । fare of the remaining 1,675 young men. —Frank AlcDonald, son of John McDonald, Superintendent of the Seymour Slack Stave Company, was instantly j killed while hunting ducks on White River, two miles from Seymour, by the accidental discharge of his gun. Young ' McDonald was 23 years old. —The Sheridan Arf/us is booming the project of a new county, with Sheridan as the county seat. They want a slice of Boone, Clinton, Tipton and Hamilton. —A 3-year-old child was drowned in a 4 । cistern near Anderson. t

INTERN AL REVENUE. ANNI Al. REPORT OF COMMISSIONER JOSEPH MILEEK. The Quantity of Liquor anil Tobacco Con- ' suino<ri>urlng the Past Year—YVltlulraw- ) als for Actual I sc Exceeil Those of Last Year. [Washington special.) ‘ Joseph Miller. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, has made u report to the Secretary of the Treasury on the working of that service during the fiscal year ended June 30 last. The report shows that the total receipts for the fiscal year were $121,326,175. an increase oi $5,^19.174 over the ipts for the previous year. The estimated receipts for the current fiscal year are $125,600,000, provided no changes tire made in the existing rates of taxation. 'Die with druwals for consumption during the year were: Spirits dictilled from apples, peaebes, and grapes, 886,107 gallons; other spirits. 70,677,379 gallons; fermented liquors, 24,680,219 barrels: cigars, 3.844,726,650: cigarettes, 1,862,726,100; snuff, 7.436,989 pounds; tobacco, chewing and smoking, 201.925,613 pounds; oleomargarine, 32,667,755 pounds. This shows n huge increase us compared with the previous year. The cost of collection of internal taxes for the year was $3,978,283, being less than 3.2 per cent, of the amount, collected. During the year 881 persons have been arrested for revenue violations; property to the value of $132,744 has been reported for seizure, and $73,619 for assessments for unpaid taxes and penalties. During the year 51.8 illicit stills were seized, resulting in the death of one officer and the Wounding of another. The number of distilleries registered during the year was 3,991, and the number operated was 3,646, ’Die Commissioner renews his recommendation that authority be given for tho distillation of all kinds of fruit under the regulations which govern the production of brnndy from apples, pouches, or grapes exclusively. In regard to the proposition to remove tiie tux from brandy distilled from fruit, he says that it nppe irs to lie probable that the relief of this article from taxation would lead tothe utilization of a largo number of diiTerent fruits for tho distillation of spirits, and to the production of an additional volume of such spirits, which might reasonably bo expected to have au appreciable effect upon tho taxuaid grain and molasses spirits xvith which it would come into competition. The quantity of spirits (70.279.466 gallons) produced and deposited in distillery warehouses during the year is loss than the production of 1887 by 7,552.193 gallons. There was an increase amouniing lo 4,827,669 gallons in tiie production of alcohol, rum, gin, pure, neutral, cologne spirits and miscellaneous. and n decrease amounting to 12.379,862 gallons in tho production of bourbon whisky, rye whisky, and highwines. Tho quantity of spirits (70.741.811 gallons) withiirawu. tux paid, from distillery warehouses during the y ur exceeds that of hist year by 1.353,50 s gallons. The Coininissionor says that in response to numerous suggestions by niembeis of < oiigri ss and otiiers as to the practicability of wit hdrnwing spirits from distillery warehouses free < f tux for use in the mechanical arts, and protecting the revenue against, fraud by methylating the spirits in bonded warehouses, established for tile purpose, the microscopist of his office was requested to make । xperinients in the chemical la. oratory for tiie purpose of ascertaining whether Siieh spirits could be demethylated. He has siieeeedi’d, by the use of a small -till, in separating the methyl or xvood ah-obol from the ethyl or taxable alcohol, aud in deodorizing a portion of ethyl alcohol through the use of bone black and other chemical sul -tan.-es. Tim Coimnissiom'r -a i s tut ther "It may be urged that if the d.met h \ hit ion cannot he aeconiplislied wit liout the use of a still the operator is reudilv liable to detection because of tile special siirvi'illanm required by the inter-nal-rexomie laws in the matter of stills and distilling, but I do not. take this view of the ea-e. The internal-revenue laws do not prohibit tiie use of stills by persons other than the distillers of spirits, and, as a. matt< rof tact. many druggists and others use stills on their premises. The still used in this office was among the smallest of the -tills which druggists mid others, not distillers, tire permitted to use. and its use would be hard to detect.” Th< quantity of spirits remaining in distillery warehouses at the close of tho your is given al 61,633.618 gallons, being 4,112.251 gallons more than at the close of the previous year. 'Die quantity so remaining (h-t. 1 last is given at 52,554,625ga110n5, of the 561.70 f gallons grade brandy of bonded during the year 535,583 were produced in the I irst district of California, 10,689 gallons in the Tenth district of Ohio, and 416 gallons in the Eiftli district of New Jersey. 'The quantity or distilled spirits in the United States, except what was in customs bonded warehouses, on Oct. 1,1888, was 93,712.919 gallons. 'Die aggregate amount of taxes collected from tobacco during the year was S 3 J. 662,431. I lie export account shows a decrease in manufactured tobacco of 224.700 pounds: a decrease in the number of cigars exported of 462.125. and an increase in the number of cigarettes exported of 40,834,500. The number of cigars imported during the fiscal year ended June 30. 1888, was 84.203,780. The value of the manufactured tobacco imported was $88,457. The retail liquor licenses in Illinois num- ■ her 11.271, a decrease of 364 for the year, and the retail beer licenses are 634. an increase of 40 for the year. In Indiana tho retail liquor licenses are 5.567, a decrease of 57 for the year, and tiie retail beer licenses are 182. an increase of 12. In Michigan the retail liquor licenses are 215, an increase of 9. In Wisconsin the retail liquor licenses are 5,466. a decrease of 842, and tiie retail beer licenses are 315, an increase of 151. In the prohibitory State of lowa the retail liquor licenses have been reduced from 3.584 to 2,928, and the retail beer licenses have decreased from 28-3 to 249. In the prohibitory State of Kansas the retail liquor licenses have decreased from 2,098 to 1,277, but the retail beer licenses have increased from 84 to 119. In Hie three States of Maine. New Hampshire, and Vermont the retail liquor licenses have decreased from 2,570 to 2,214, and the retail beer licenses have decreased from 318 to 213. For the entire country the retail liquor licenses number 168.687, a decrease for the year of 19,520. The retail beer licenses are 8.161, a deercase for the year of 524. There was an increased production of 1.500.000 barrels of beer, ami a decreased produetion of 7,500.000 gallons of spirits. In Illinois the total collections of 1888 largely exceeded those oi 1887. In the First District the collections were $9,463,818, or $241,450 more than the aggregate of the First and Second Districts the previous year. In the Fifth the coll'ctions were $18,388,340, an increase of $4,372,021 over the collections the year before in the Fourth and Fifth Districts together, In the Eighth District the collections were $1,693,203, an increase of 556,297, and in the Thirteenth District they were $585,632. an increase of $5,937, A I liii'f Justice Deal. Chief Justice Armstrong, aged 68, the Chairman of the Labor Commission, fell dead on the street at Sorel (Quebec), from apoplexy. He Imd resided over ten years in the island of St. Lucy, West Indies, as Chief Justice. He was also for some years President of the Montreal and Sorel Rail way Company. Morgan Will Succeed Himself. Democrats of the Alabama Legislature have renominated United States Senator Morgan to be his own successor, thus assuring him a third term. Death of a Grand Sachem. Chief William Printup, Grand Sachem of the Tuscarora Nation of Indians, died ; on the Tuscarora reservation, aged 76. Burning Tobacco. Wackeibarth J Joseph's tobacco factory at New Orleans was burned at a loss of $100,600; fully insured.

NUMBER 23

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL entertaining dissertation on RERIOUS. SUBJECTS. A rieuHanU Interesting, ami Instructive Lesson an J Where It May Be Found-A Learned and Concise Review of the Same. The lesson for Sunday. December 2, may be found iu Judges ii., 11-23 ” A'rH in Ihe sight of the Lord. Right und< r the eyes ot Jehovah, one gets a new sense of the hmmmsness of this sin by a glance at. the original language employed. It doesnot mean merely sin in God’s estimation. as we have been sometimes inclined to suppose, but open sin in the face of heaven. Israel was aware of God's love of holiness and his hatred of iniquity. Sha knew also of his earcful guardianship aud his watehhit eye, and in spite of it all she> went right on to do evil. When a punik eomimts bold mid witting sin right beneath the teachers eye, he adds contempt to transgression. When a child impudently ilisobeys before tho face of a parent he is a child no longer, he is a rebel, wild and will--11!!• J Jnnk of it, friends, all sin is contempt 1 oi God: transgression is not simply imprudence, but impudence. It is “evil done in the Hight of the Lord." "Thou. God, scent me. Alas, that we should forget it so, the word ol Ins mouth, his eye ever upon usd A very short memory he seems to have," said the stranger on the highway, asked aa i 1° “ DxjiiHstcT whom Im had just passed of a Sabbath morning. “Why do you say that?” was the query. “God says. Remember tho* I Sabbath day to keep it holy," the stranger i responded. "It, looks as though he> i had forgotten that. But God had not. and ) lie never will. > His eye belioldeth. i -I"*! s'crrcd o’aah'm. All life is service. « e either servo righteousness or unrighteousness. Christ or Satan; no man is neutral. And hence when the children of Israeli departed from God and did evil thev by that same step passed over on to the side of Baal and served him. There are many intimations of the character of this seductive worship of Baal in Scripture. All we need’ say about it. for it was a religion of atrocity and indecency, is that it was the deification , of sensuality and selfishness, the direct antipodes of tiie pure and self-denying worship of the most high God. Men may talk about the beauties and amenities of such a religion, but when you come to tho heart of it, as to all idolatry. It is bestiality and rottenness, nothing more. And in this direction tho enthronement of self always leads. Tho steps may be very gradual, but as soon as God is renounced all sign-posts begin to point to Baal. It is first self-ward, then . 1 Satan-ward, then straight down the hellish • abyss. Alas, that so much oi Baal-worslup should yet abide. Yes, even under the guise of religion. There are too many doing worship much after the fashion o." that artist who built a monument at the King’s ' orders glorifying the King, but the King's name in the superficial composition soon 1 wore off, and there in the real rock under’ neath was the, name of the artist himself, put to stay. Whom in our heart of hearts ■ ’ do xve intend to glorify—Christ or self? A?e > 1 we serving Christ or Baal? They forsook the Lord God of their fathers.. ■ Here is the third step in Israel's decline. 1 They become deserters from the covenant of grace, guilty of high treason before tho 1 courts of heaven. Presently xve shall react of them as n God-forsaken people, but as I ever in our dealings with Jehovah, they 1 \ were lirst a God-forsaking people. They : ! deliberately turned their backs on God anil > • ) heaven, choosing earth and self. "They forsook tiie Lord;" we have struck the very I key-note of Judges. The. secret it was of • ) ail Israel's opprobrium and oppression, the 1 clew to all the distresses of God’s covenant. i people—they forsook God. In doing that i they cut themselves oil from their wonted ' ! power; they threw themselves defenseless I ) into the midst of a wolfish world. Al l • ) Israel’s career was marked by such defec- > tions. Only occasionally was she in such : relations to God tts in the days of Moses, I i Joshua, David, Ezra, that lie could do his ‘ ! mighty works through her. They were like t ) that variable soul of whom we heard the * । other day that, had been "off and on Methodist for twenty years." A moving > picture Israel presents us. telling us both 1 the secret of strength and the.somce of. > weakness. Forsaking was their own doing,, for to forsake was to be forsaken. Remem- ) ber the dread double forsaking of Dent. 31: 16. 17. “They will forsake me.” said tho Lord, and, fearful words, "I will forsake ' j them.” Forbid it. Lord. They could not longer stand before their enemies. It was the lesson of Ai repeated, : a "turned-down leaf ” in Israel's file. By themselves, ent off from God by sin, they are the weakest of mortals, and to prove ' this to them God not only lets in the enemj 1 u [ion them, but compels them to do buttle ’ for a while in their own strength, which is ' impotence. It is a truth which bitter experience has taught the church of God more than once. Holding faith in God and loy--1 altytohis righteous laws we are mighty, false to him wo are in the eyes of the woikl 1 tho most contemptible of things on the earth, and Satan makes laughing-stock ot 1 apostasy. Better to be as the Lord’s foot--1 stool than Satan’s foot-ball. It is a good ' thing for us to understand this, and God ‘ leaves its by ourselves and to our own empti- : ness sometimes that we may know just, how ‘ weak we are in wickedness and without him, . * You recall the nobleman who was denouncing, before the oishop, one who had abused him. Presently they knelt to pray. “Our Father who art in heaven,” they said in con- • cert. But when they came to the sentence. “Forgive us our trespasses as we—the ’ nobleman suddenly stopped short, with the consciousness that! he was being left to say ’ it bv himself, and at once he realized that he "• was not able to make that prayer, nor could he go on until he had gone out and forgiven j his brother. I The hand of the Lord ums against them. This means positive opposition. Tiie Lot’ll 1 has at last set himself itgainst His own 1 people. And now it is useless for them to * endeavor to elude. As with Saul, lighting ‘ against God, all ill betides them. “In all to ’ which they went out.” says tho Septuagim, “whithersoever they meant to go," says the, I Vulgate, "the hand of the Lord was over them.” They could not escape it. As all ’ 1 things work together for good to a loving 1 and loyal people, so all things are made towork together for evilto those who sin amt scorn. Pentecost well illustrates it. when ’ he says. “The sun and rain will give vigor 1 and growth to a living tree, but the samo sun ami rain will increase the rot and decay of a dead tree." A warning needs to be. 1 uttered. Tho Church of Rome xyill dimbtless seek in such passagi s as tilts tor justification of excominunieation and the ban. ' But to no man or institution was this prerogative of deity ever transferred.. God alone can speak the word of acceptance or of rejection. Dr. Charles >B. I!obinsoa>cails attention to that awful word spoken by tihe Papal legato to brave Savonarola at his execution, "Jerome Savouarola, 1 separate thee from the church militant tuid the church triumphant.” "From tho church, militant you may divide me’ was the calms response, “but from the church triuniphanC —no! that is above your power.” Next Lesson—“ Gideon's Army." Judges 7: 1-8. An Orlando (Fla.) man has a coupleof tame sand-hill cranes which he finds more serviceable than watchdogs in warning him against tramps or burglars. The cranes utter a shrill note at the approach of any stranger. Tin: excise system of England dates back to the Long Parliament in 1643, xvhen duties were levir d on wines,beer, etc., and tobacco, to support the army, against Charles I. It is thought that the tomb of Mt.. Flaxier, xvho was murdered by the ' Visigoths in 512 A. D., has oeen discovered near Toulon, France. Thb terms bailiff or sheriff are said to be of Saxon origin. This officer ) was appointed for enmities in England. ) in 1079.