St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 14, Number 31, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 26 January 1889 — Page 1

" VOLUME XIV.

YOU KISSED ME. F BY JOSEPHINE B, HUNT, S X ~ You kisse@ me! My head dropped low on your ; breast, . ~ With a feelingrof pleasureand infinite rest ; - While t.he&)oly emot.ons my tongue dars not speax Fla.shefi up in a flame from my heart to my cheek. - Your arms held me fast; o, your arims were so bold ! : Hwﬂ’vf 1;30'3 against heary in your passionate : old. Your glances scemed drawing my soul thrcugh L my eyes, | A the:un draws the mist from the seas to the tkies, | ~ Yourliys cltmgeto mine till I prayed in bliss | . They might ncVer unc.asp from the rapturous kiss. | : Ir. ? ~ Youkissed me! My hea t and my breath and | i my will % - In delirious joy for & moment stood still. f ~ Life had for me then no tomptations, no | . charms, No visions of happiness outsile of ycur arms. And were I this instant an angel, possessed ! O thl; pte_ln.ce and the joy that are given the | est, r ~ Iwould fiing my white robe unrepentingly down. ! . Iwould tear from my foreheud its beautifal crowny ¥ ~ Tonestle once mwove in that haven of rest, ' G Your lips upon mine, my head on your breast. g e ML : l - You kissed mo! My soul, in a bliss so divine, ! - Reeled and swooned like a drunken man heavy | = with winz, A | »+ = And Idtho;ght. ‘twere delicious to die thero, if | L eat Plowst | ~ Would come while my lips were yet moist with | : . your breath; ! it my heart might grow cold - | While your arms clasj o1 mo round in their pas- | sicnate fold. i - And tlilée?u ara tho questions I ask day and | ~ night, Must lm{llips taste no more such exquisite de- | ight 2 | © Would you care il your breast were my chelter | as then? { And if you were here would you kiss me azain? '

fost Lina: ‘ . } THE DITTER AND THE SWEET. A TBals of Two Continents. f

5 CHAPTER XXVI.—[CONTINUED.] ~ Ray's face was now colorless, and he ~ Jooked into Lenora’s eyes with su-h | a sal, longing, loving look that told ! ~ more than words what he was endur- | 2 ing' . - “No, no, my little darling; I cannot ‘ - look at it in that light. It makes no | _ difference to me about your wealth or - the numbér of friends that you have. | - I love you with my whole soul and ~ heart, and you are the only woman in | ~ the world that I ever loved. I want - you for my wife, for yon only can make ; - me happy, and by reecting me cannot | - you see that you are making one poor | - eraature miserable for life¥. As {rae | - a8 God is my judge, I'll marry no ~ other woman, for yeu have my heart, l :aml can have all that I possess. Do ~ hot be 89 ¢ nel,.an, mngutle love, | ! and turn me out in the world, a cold, | - heartless man. I Lelizve you love me; | . don't you?” i : | ~The azony that was in his voice and | .~ the pale, haggard look on his face al- | ~ most broke Lenora's heart, for she | - knew that he loved her and that he was | ~ her own heart’s idol. E .~ The color again: came to her face, | and her scarlet lips quivered as she put | - her little soft arms around his neck | and softly whispcred in his ear: | ;— “Yes, I have always loved you, and | ~ do you really mean it all ?” ~_ Ray quickly tore her from him, and ~ held her out 1n his great strong arms as | . if she were only a doA, still looking her | in the eye-. ; ~ “Do you mean it, and is the victory | .~ mine?” g ~ She smiled back the answer, “Yes.” | He quickly drew Ler to his bosom in | ~ alenz, loying embrace, as if he could ~ never allow her to Jeave that syob. f He knelt there on the snow, still| ~ holding Lenora in his arms, while the | . mooa shonz down upon the happy | . lovers, almost as bright as the sun, as - if it too were happy. ; i . “Oh, "Ccd of heaven and of earth, | ~ you have given me more than I de- . serve! She is mine, and my cup is | P fall>” | 5 . How long they knelt there neither | . of them knew. Th> poor litile eirl . made no effort to escaps that loving | % embrace now, but lay there in Ray's | . Birong arms, as pracefal and happy as . ababe resting on its mother’s bo-om. ' Her great, sta-like eyes were shin- . ing brighter than the stars above their . heads, =5 she looked upon Ray's radiant, n) tarned face. | ‘ Some on: had gone into the blue rooms and turncd up the gas, no doubt ' . Insearch of the litile runaway, the bright light from the window flashed in Ray’s face, and roused him from his | happy dr:am. ' ’ | He rose quickly and walked to the mansion, still pressing clusely to his = bosom his little treasure, i No one as yet had diseovered that | Lenora had left the mansion but Mrs. | - Bristol. It was she-who had turned | up the gas in the blue room, and then | se.!arched éverywhere for the missing girl; but to no purposa. Asshe had left | the rooms—feeling she scarcely knew t how—on her way to her own apariments, Ray came springing up the IC]Eg stairs, two and three steps at a time, while Lenora clung with her little arms closely to his neck. At sight of the strange scene and Ray’s radiant face, Mrs. Bristol’s face became ghastly white, and it would have been impossible for her to tell Just how she felt. “Raynard Bristol! What in the name of conimon sense do u mean, and Where and how did vou tind her?” _Oh, mother, mother! I am the hap- | Plest man in ali this wide, wide world; f for Your own sake, keep quiet; this ?re"lmxs bundle in my arms is more than all the world to me. She is innogent of even g wrong thought, and here 18 the proof. Follow me, and read for yom‘se}t'_ for I am too 11;”)};".’ to talk.” ’ Ray handed his mother a letter that he received that evening. .H(‘, ]{s“l agone to his office jlls~f after ; hig arrival in the eity and then received !‘he,l‘?ft*‘l‘ that made him happier than ;;:,li it had Le.n a draft for a million . dollarg, k. ‘He hastened to tle blue-roow aud moth<~r followed,

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, ~ “Why, Ray, this seems very strange, indeed. T can’t understand.” “Read it, mo'her, read it, and then ' you will know all, and can see why I | am the happiest man in all the world.” | He still held Lenora in his arms and | was pacing up and down the room. He fwas drunk with happiness, and clung | to his little love as if she was his life. f Mrs. Bristol read the letter, which | filled her sad, aching heart with bound- { less joy, for it cleared their Lina from all she had been charged with. | We know this letter was genuine ‘ and that its writer told the truth, 1t | was as follows: 1 ; MICHIGAN (‘gl'r\', Feb. 15, 1870. | | Raymond Bristol, of Bristdl Mansicn: 1 am indebted to you for my life. No doubt you remember where you were just three years ago to-day. And you surely have not forgotten the Indian that had his tomahawk raised to split open the skull of his poor helpless vietim. Fortunately for me you, a stranger to me then, appeared just in time to save my life, while there was one redskin less. You remember I told you then that if it was ever in my power to do youa favor Ishould, if my life should answer for it. Well, now, the time has come when I think I can be of some little service to you. It is no matter how [ know these things, but I'do, and_know them to be truc. You are in love with that beautiful young lady that lately and so strangely entered your l home. You will certainly believe me when I tell you that I know how she was sent | there, and who sent her, but she does ' not. Talso know that she is at present the | victim of some deep deception, and is being cruclly wronged. As true as there is. 4 heaven above my head, she is int:ocent as a littlo babe, and youmust not think that there is any foundation to what cvxlre&)orts may reach you, for they are all started through envy. She was stolen from a peaceful, quiet country home in Southern Ilinois and carried to Chicaze, where sho was kept a prisoner for some time; her captor was a Frenchman, and intended to make her marry him, but I believe she would have killed herself before she would have hecome f his wife, Whatever she chooses to tell you -of her past life will be but the plain trath. I do not know her name; the papers that were in the box cught to have identified her, but there seemed to be some underhand game about the matter, and it all seems very dark yet. She is connected in some way, however, with the nobility of England, and you can plainly see that she is a born lady. She was stolen by an unknown friend of hers from her cupm{y's house and sent to yours, and if he is still alive he does not know where she is. You are not aequainted with my name, and it does not matter for the present. You remember the man. lam ever your INTERESTED DEBTOR. As Mrs. Bristol finished reading the letter she looked up at Ray with tears in her eyes and a happy smile on her face. : “Ray, my dear boy, I am so happy | for your sake and for hers.” The happy man had been standing by his mother’s side while she read, and as she looked up with tears of joy in her eyes, Ray encircled his loving mother 1n that strong, passionate embrace with his precious burden. “This seems too good to be real, and how havpy we can all be together, and now we must begzin to prepare fora wedding, for I leng for the day when she will be mine, and then no one can get her from me,” “You need not fear, Rav; no one would want such a nuisance as I but you, and I fear you are making a very poor bargain.” As Lenora spoke she gently patted Ray’s cheek with her little soft hand, while a merry little laugh rang through the room. “Well, I feel like a new man, and I just begin to realize that I have had nothing to eat since morning, and, for the present, mother, I will leave the little ranaway in your care and go to rouse some of the servants. I feel as if I could eat the whole of a roast:d calf and five plum puddings. You need not worry, mother, for I shall not trust her to even your care very long at a time.” “I cannot sleep to-night, so I might just as well sit by her bed and watch with yon as to be peeping through the key hole.” He then laid I.enora on her little bed and left the room in search of something to eat. CHAPTER XXVII. “You do not know how happy I am, ny dear little Lina, that everything is clear to us now, and all o lovely; and now you will sarely forgive me for doubting you in the least, won't you?” Lenora gently drew her loving friend to her sac: and kissed her on the cheek, “With all my heart I forgive you, Mzs. Bristol. All was azainst me, and there was no one to take my part. It was all so dark then that it seemed that God had forsaken me, but you se> He did no:. He only made that short night bitter darkness, that the sun might shine all the brighter the Jext day. It is all over now, my dear, kind frisnd, aud there never was a hap- l picr person in all the world than I Love had not entered my heart for any man until I sawmy Ray, and since that night of the ball my heart was not my own.” t Ray returned from the dining-hall | shortly, and with his mother watched | .. v i all night by the bedsidz of her he loved. \ * x »® x> %k Jeannette Nathan did not recover for some time from the last shock, caused by that terrible vision. She had been under such a severe mental restraint since Lienora entored the Bristol mansion that immediately after her last fright she was delirious for weeks and weeks with the brain fever. This wicked woman was given every attention during her illness, and every dav, while she lay tossing about the bed in her feverish ravings, Lenora | would sit by her bed aund bathe the hot, throbbing temples in cold water for hours at a time. ‘ Finallv, the patient grew much better, and was able to set up a sow hours each day; cards had been sent out, and manv guests had been invited to the wedding. Lenora wa: very busy now, preparing for that wonderful day that every girl looks forwa: 1 to with such joy; as Jeannette was much better, and did not need the happy, lizht-hearted girl, she never went into the sick-chamber now. One beautiful morning, about the middle of April, Jeanneite’s maid was brushing Ther mistress’ heir, and thonghtlessly remarked: 3 “What a fine wedding it will Dbe! All the city folks ave invited, and some

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[ one 1s coming over from fingland. My! l but she will be a be uttiful bride!” “What do you mean, Minna, about a wedding? Who is to b married now, and who is the beautiful bride?” A look of anxious curiosity came into Jeannette’s eyes, and her maid no- ‘ ticed it. l “Oh, my lady! I forgot. But the madam said I should not say anything to you about it until yvou were better, for fear you would want to help before you were able.” “For Heaven’s sake, Minna, what do you mean? Tell me, instantly!” “Why, the master and the beautifal Miss Lina are to be married the first of lMay. There! I was hot to tell for a week-—but ——" The sentence was never finished; quick as a flash the feeble, trembling Jeannette seemed to possess the strength of a lion, for she sprang from her chsir, like a ball from a cannon, and dealt her maid such a blow on the temple with her clenched fist that she was knocked senseless to the floor. “Oh, heavens! Why didn’t they tell me? Why didn't they tell me all about it, and how it all happened? I* will shoot her—yes, shoot her—~and in front of Ray's own eyes. “She shall not dethrone me thus, and drag the ancient, honorved race down to the low scums of society to which she belongs! No! I will save the Bristols’ Lonor if I am lost to eterna! damnation; the heart of that thieving, contemptible creature shall stop beatirg, and by my hand!” Half crazed with anger and excitement, she went to her drawer to get her little pistol. As she stooped to reach it she glanced up at the glass, and in an instant her hands dropped to her sides and her face was ghastly white, for in the glass she saw, standing on her rizht, the shrouded form of the nurse she had murdered, whil» on | the left stood that of the simpleton. They were looking at her and pointing at the pistol, while the icy Dbreath whispered, “Don’t.” Jeannette uttered a faint moan, and her lifeless form fell backward aeross that of her unconscious maid. UHAPTER XXVILIL : The first of May dawned clear and ; warm, the sun never shone brightsr | 5 i than cn that day, and the birds never | sang more sweetly. " Early spring had dressed the fields, 5 | the forests, the lawns and the park of the Bristol estates in robes of brighest green; the air was full of sweet perfames from the flowersof the park, and | those s:attored over the lawn. i The icz and snow that was on the i lake that bright moonlight night in | February had all disappeared, and now [ over the deep blue waters, could occa- | sionally be seen a dancing white-cap, ] and the sail-boats, with their sails shining like broad s‘rips of silverin the ; sunlight, at a distance, and sometimes a large steamer would pass by; the | tre-s were in blossom and looked like | huge bouguets of bright flowers; the ! whole of the Bristol estates scemed to | smile and welcome the day, while in- | side the great house all seemed like | fairyland. i The great pillars of the halls were | one solid mass of bright flowers, and | the rooms and archways were draped | with roses and lilies. The servants | ~ . were all Dbright, happy, and gayly | dressed, and Mrs. Bristol's happy face | shone with the good news of her soul. | The mansion was full of guests, and | every heart'beat with joy, except one | -—d Jeannette Nathan's. ! A few minutes before twelve, Ray | and Lenora appcared in the jarlor, | and as they crossed the room to a little | gilded raised throne, draped - with | heavy silken curtains, the roses and | lilies were scattered at their feet, ? Just as the great clock in the hall | struck twelve Ray and Lenora \wl'eg prononnced man and wife. -No earthly | being could look purer or more lovely | than Lenora did as she raised her | child-like face for the groom to kiss | his bride. The rest eof the day was spent in | merry-making and in extendiog con- | gratulations to the bride and groom. g Ray gave his bride, as a wedling ' pres-nt, a check for two hundved thou- ! sand dollars, besides deeding to her | Rhine Castle-Ly-the-Sea, in Ingland, ; that he had fallen heir to when he | becam? of age. f Mrs. Bristol gave most of the family | jewels to her beautiful daughter-in-law. i The morning of the second of May dawned e jually as bright and beauti- ’ ful as the first. At ten o’clock Ray with his bride left Michigan City, en ] route for New York, where thoy were lto take u steaxmer for Liverpool. l All was sunshine and happiness, and there seemed to be no cloud in the'r horizon to darken their lives or hide the sun from th:ir faces. The cloud ‘ was not visible, forit was behind them; i and in their great joy they forgot to | look back or review the past. Tt seemed | that they shounld rof see trouble any more, bub as life is nos eaded on the wedding day troubles anl trials do not cease; and so it was with Ray and Lenora, for the darkest days of their lives had not yet dawned. [TO BE CONTINUED.] A Bay’s Shopping. Husband—More money? Why, my dear, I gave you %100 this morning for shopping. What did you get? | Wife—Oh, lots of things. We were | | absolutely suffering for—a pair of sccks for you; they were 25 cents. A | necktie for you; that was 50 cents—a perfectly lovely tie, worth twice that; ‘ it isn’t the right ¢olor, and I don’t sup- | pose you will wear it, but it was such a bargain. And then I goft yon two | new collars for a quarter, and a pair of nice, warm gloves for you—only 30 | I cents, just think! And a pair of socks ‘ for the baby, they were $2; and a dear | little necktie for little Dick, that was ‘ £1.50; and a rattle for the baby, that was 40 cents: and such a cute, cunning little hood for the little cherub, only &7 : anda winter cap for you for stormy weather, you know, that was 30 cents; and that was all, except a winter wrap for me—that was SB7. | Puncn bowls in oxidized silver wick- | er work and lined with gold now claim | attention, 7

e-- | INDIANA HAPPENINGS. | e e———— EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE : LATELY OCCURRED. An Interesting Summary of the More linportant Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News Notes, THE LEGISLATURE, | Janvary 14.—SENATE—Senator Griffiths offered uresolution, comprising die names of members of the Senate standing committees | for the present session, and as soon as the reading was concluded, moved the adoption of the resolution, and on that motion demandad the previous question, The demand was seconded by a strict party vote—yeas 27, nays 18, Scnator Johnson submitted the protest of Republican Senators against the organization of the Senate by any other presiding officer than Lieutenant Governor Robert S. %ohurtson. which was ordered spread upon the records without reading, on motion of Senator Howard. HouseE—The Senate having arrived, the Speaker declared that the twe houses had metin joint convention, pursuant to law, to sanvass the votes east for Governor and Lieutenant Governor at the last general election. This he proceeded to do, and, when the footing was ¢ompleted, announced 1!*.0 following as the vote e¢ast for Governor: For Alvin P. Hovey, 263,194; for C. €. Mat- I son, 260,994: for Milroy, 2.702; for J. H. Hughes. 9920. The Speaker then announced the vote for Lieutenant Governor as follows: Forlra J. Chase, 263,166; for W. R. Myers, 261,011; for Many, 2,737; for Baxter, 10,066, Januvary 15,—SENATE—Lieutenant Governor Chase presided. A number of bills were introduced, among them being bhills providing for registraticn of votes, and to {n’n\'}\m. trusts. Houseg—Dßills introduced: ’utting the new insane hopitals under the control of a board of trustees. to he chosen | by the Lesislature; for the relief of the Supreme Court: relating to elections. January 16.—Hovsg--Rules were reported | by the Demoeratic majority of the Committee on Rules, and adopted by a striet party vote, providing that after a previous question has been seconded no member shall have a right to explain his vote, and | that after the yeas and navs have been ordered upon call ofthe House no motion or amendment shall be ‘wrmiltml. Bills in- { troduced: Creating a board of eontrol for l Indianapolis: relating to elections; upyrm { priating S3OO for a monument to Gov. JenI nings, NENATE—A resolution providing for ; the appointment of twenty additional door- | keepers provoked a lively diseussion, It | [ was adopted after being amended so as to | i provide that the appointees should be ex- l i Federal soldiers, f 13 Jan, 17.--SENATE.—After the adoption of | resolutions for the purchase of five dozen | chairs for committee rooms, and setting | % aside rooms 50 and 51 for the monumental | | sommissioners, the roil was ealled and ug | lange number of bills were introduced and | | appropriately referrod. Among the most im- | | portant were the following: For the relief | of the Supreme Court; to regulate sales of | l intoxicating liguors: to pubiish State school | | books: to regulate the use of natural gas-- ; prevent ils waste. Hovuse.—A large num- | ber of bills were introdaced and referred. | ’ Jan, 18 —~Spxure.-&he Senate adopted practically the same rigle which was adopted | g in the House a few daws ago. eutting: off all { debate or speeches after the previous gques- | 1 tion has been put, There was a sharp | | wrangle over the matter. The Republican | i minority fought desperately to prevent its | I adoption, but only one Demoeratie Senator | i o S { voted with them, Another and equally im- | { portant new rule was adopted at the same | { me, providing that if the presiding oflicer | j ¢f the Senate refuses to put a motion or is | i dilatory in doing =O, any two Senators may | eall upon the Secretary of the Senate to pat | ! the question to vote. Housg.—No business | iof importanee was transacted, Anocther % large bateh of bills were introduced aud re- | ! ferred. i ! Minor State Items. ! v . - | —Samuel Rollins, aged 15, was fatally | { injured by cars at Warsaw. | i & 3 | —Dr. C. E. Rankin hasbeen appointed | | health officer for Montgomery County. ‘ —James Stoops, a farmer, unmarried, | | was found dead in his bed from heart I disease at Connersville. i —TFred Pfister, of Huntington, was ac- { . % i | eidentally shot in the shoulder by his i . « . } l brother, while hunting rabbits. | | —Under the leadership of Mr. Jesse " § 5 % ¢ ’ i Zern, Peru capitalists will build another | natural-gas pipe-line to that city. % —Juhn Po: ins, a well-to-do farmer | of Geneva, Adams County, was fatally | kicked on the head by a vicious horse. | | -—Edward Treker, living near Colum- | bus, is said to be suffering from a Dbite | i : e | inflicted by a ealf that had hydrophobia. | —The citizens of New Richmond, in i 3 s ] i Montgomery County, have organized a - . . | . company and will bore for natural gas. i g - | | -—The authorities at Lafayette have ; : refused to allow any more public funer- | | als of persons who die from infectious i diseases. i ] —The Wooden Butter-dish factory at 1 5 Seymour is said to be the largest one of | the kind in the world. It turns out 250,- } 000 dishes a day. j —A couple of hunters, who went to a lake near Decker, to, shoot geese, were | startled upon theirarrival by the discov- . \ \ | ery that the entire lake was on fire. | —Rev. George F. McGee, pastor of the Christian Church, at Madison, has accepted a call from Richmond, Va., and will vacate his present pulpit on Jan. 27. -—The Waterworks Trustees of Logansport have decided to sink deep wells in order to get a purer quality of water. The source of supply at present is Eel River. —William Heller, one of Elkhart's oldest citizens, fell dead in his yard from heart disease. He was one of that ¢ity’s first business men, and was 78 years of age. | —A little daughter of of Dr. Bid- | dinger, at Waynesburg, was playing near the fire, when her dress ignited, and before she could be rescued was fatally | burned. ‘ —Two agedecolored people of Charles- | town have just been married, although | they have livedtogether as man and wife | since they were slaves together before i the war. ! —At Lebanon, Thomas Breedlove's 12i yvear-old boy Williard, while hunting, | discharged a gun that had been over- | loaded by his companion. It burst and | injered the boy's left hand so badly that . amputation was necessary. l —A few weeks agoamad dog bit a “ pumber of hogs belonging to F. M. Dice, of Crawfordsville, and then escaped to | the eountry, where it bit several cattle | and hogs belonging to other people. All the stock bitten by the dog had to be killed, entailing a large loss to a numof farmers,

—Gottlieb Ellis, of Kingsbury, LaPorte County, aged 64, committed suicide by hanging himself with a clothes- ! line. Financial misfortunes is given as the eause. ' —lsaac Kres, a railroad employe, 45 years old, was fatally crushed by an en- ‘ gine on the Pittsburgh road at Fort Wayne. His injuries are of such a nature that he cannot recover. | —A lighted match, a natural-gas regulator, and two foolish boys tell how Samuel Kline's sons were badly burned at Richmond. The explosion will cost the company a good deal of money. —Father MeCabe, of Baltimore, has been appointed by Bishop Chatard, of ’ the Catholic Diocese of indiana, as assistant to Father John Kelly, priest of | Holy Trinity Parish of New Albany. ‘ -~The introduction of natural-gas in Shelbyville, has had a stimulating effoct : upon the industries of that place. Several furniture factories are in conrse of , erection, and other enterprises are under wav. —Carl Stickelman, of Columbus, the ‘ African explorer and trader, will return ; l to Afri(?a\ in a few months, being under ; t a promise to bring back the African ; Pr}ncc now with him, whose uncle is | chief of one of the tribes. ' —lt is surmiscd that the Spanish coin | recently found near Hanna were ieft in the jar in the tree by some one of the } Spanish troop which came to that region | in 1781 from St. Lonis, Mo., to seize the country for the King of Spain. —Julius Haytskil was fatally crushed in the railroad yards, in Vincennes, by a freight car. He was moving the car on | | & slightly inclined switch, when he fell 1 | under it and was horribly erushed. He was married, and leaves a wife and ‘ three sons. l -~ At Seymour, while James Fleetwood and his wife and infant child were ridl ing in a wagon, a wheel struck a logand | Mrs. Fleetwood and her baby were thrown out of the wagon in front of the wheels, which passed over the child's head, erushing it into a shapeless mass. The mother is crazed, it is feared, beyond recovery. The oldest Methodist preacher in { Indiana is the Rev. George Schwartz, of | Jeffersonville. He was licensed to { preach in 1822, when 20 years old, and | he has been laboring in the vineyard of ?tlu‘- Lord ever since. He is vigorous, l i mentally and physically. He was mar- ‘ { ried the yearhe was ordained, and his | wife is still living. : The sudden and mysterious death of I Jobn Dohn Donnell, of North Judson, { three weeks ago, aroused suspicion, and | the Coroner had the body disinterred : and the stomach sent to Indianapolis for ! chemieal examination. An analysis dis- | closed the fact that quantities of strychI nine had been administered to him, but ' :f by whom is unknown. The disease known as “scab” is pre- { vailing among the sheep north of Wa- { bash. A fine flook owned by Mr. Samuel ; Specher was attacked. The wool on the hind gnasters of the animals, in adi vanced stages of the disease, drops from [ the nides, and in a few months the sheep | die. Active measures to prevent the ! further spread of the malady will be ! taken. | Two children of a.prominent farmer \ | near Bremen were sent to school every | day, returning home at the proper time | ! at night. One night one of the children coming home with frozen feet, caused | the mother to investigate, upon which both ¢hildren confessed that they had not been to school for three or four weeks, but had spent there time playing i in the woods. { ——Abraham Doyle, a wealthy farrer of | Madison County, has been fined %50 by | an Anderson court for pasting a White { Cap warning on a tree in a barn-yard of | Charles McKee, warning him and his i wife to pay their debts and swear to no | more lies. The warning contained a { nude picture of a man hanging to the { limb of a tree. Mrs. McKee hasa $5,000 | damage suit pending against Doyle, | growing out of the same transaction. ! —Thirty years ago a Miss McMurtrie { signed a deed conveying to John Nor- | man the lands on whizh the flourishing [town of Ireland, Dubois County, now ! stands. The title has never been ques--1 tioned wuntil now. Heirs of Miss Me- | Murtrie now claim that the title is in- | valid for the reason that Miss Mei.\[urtrie was & minor at the time she ! signed the deed. The town contains { several hundred inhabitants. A long | course of litigation is likely to follow. l _Last May the residence of Enoch | McMahon, an old and highly-estecmed farmer living in the north part of Madison County, was burned. the old man ' perishing in the flames. The house was [ not rebuilt, and since the fire the { farmer's old-watch dog has refused to ' leave the ruins, except in search of l food. Considerate friends built the animal a house in the vicinity, and the l dog spends its days and nights in howling out its grief forthe masterthat never comes. l —The thirteenth annual exhibition of the Northern Indiana Poultry Association will be held at Huntington, January 30 to February 5, and the assurance | is felt that it will be a grum.l success. Promises have been received from prominent poultry raisers in New York, Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri, of their attendance, while letters from the State indicate great interest in the | show. A number of new specimens of Ip()ultvr}: will be exhibited never before ' seen in that section of country. ! —Owing to the dullness of the 1:0:11 | trade, some of the Coal County mines | will shut down indefinitely. Many of ,' the miners are scarcely making half | time, and a number have already left the vicinity of Brazil, for Birmingham, Ala., | and points in the West. —Two very large hogsheads, each con- | taining about three thousand pounds of leaf tobacco, raised in the west part of Morgan Ceunty, were shipped from | Martinsville to Indianapolis parties. This is said to be the first baled tobacce ever sent out from that county.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. ! e e ENTERTAINING DISSERTATION ON ‘ SERIOUS SUBJECTS. | A FPleasant, Interesting, and Instructive ‘ Lesson and Where It May Be Found—A Learned and Cencise Review of the ' Same. The lesson for Sunda, an. i found in Mark 2: 1-12. i ey . INTRODUCTORY. We.ha.ve in this lesson the key-word to Mark’s gospel. Here it is: “That ye may know that the Son of man hath power on carth to forgive sins (he saith to the sick of the palsy), I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go into thine house.” It ’ was for this as a moral end that Christ per- : formed his wonderful works of healing—that i men might know of his divinity and his | Saviourhood. He came to save and for that ‘ alone. We see, then, the purpose of Mark’s { gospel. He is the narrator, pre-eminent, of | the wonderful deeds of our Lord. Yet he is ‘not a mere chronicler apd story-teller. . These are related, ail of tlﬁ:m. wits) a dis- | tinet and transeendent aim, namely, to prove ' Christ as “the Son of God that taketh away the sin of-the world.” As such may we l study of him to-day. WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. l And again le entered intg Capernawm. | Favored spot. Again and y& again he re- | turns to it. How like the privilege granted | us of this generation and of this tenderly | cared for land! Again and again he enters i into our life and brings himselt beseeching|ly upon our sense. He yearns over us or 'hc would not so repay our indifference. | Lo, to-day in church and Sunday-school | he is not far away from any of us. He | awaits your welcome, sinner, Christian, } pupil, friend. Open the door of your heart l to him, | “This loving Saviour Stands graciously ; Tho 1+ h oft rejected, Calls again for thee.” And itwas noised that hewas in the house. Literally: It was reported “He is at home.” Jesus had been absent a season from the roof that usually gave him shelter at Capernaum, but presently he erosses the threshold again and the word flies abroad. “He has 2ome baek to the house! Our Jesus is home again!” It is the glad ery that is beinz raised even now in many places throush the gracious divine visitation, May it be heard in these days of special prayer every- { where. Whether we speak of the ontward sanctuary or of the tabernacle of the heart, let the word go forth, filling all with speechles< awe and some with joy unutterable: “The Lord is in his holy temple.” There was noroom to receive them. There rurely is room, 8o far as earthly accommodations are concerned. However ample our sanctuaries ave, they are all too small should the half - uttered prayer of the churches suddenly receive heaven's asx«;umlin;: answer, and the nations turn to Christ. He preached the word unto them. No, not exactly, Jesus had Infinito diseretion and gracious tact. He simply talked to them here. We have seen it otherwise. The' voieo of the Aerux, or herald, shouting aloud in the small room as if his auditors were o mile away, or as if he was to be heard for his muech speaking. Jesus teaches us adaptation. There on the open hillside, before the muititude, he littedrup his voice and taught them. Had o done the samoe at the well would the woman have stayed for the water of life? Oh, ltow we all of us abuse at times the divine pattern! It taught us a lesson for sucred utterance. The hireling . lecturer was about to explain to us acfamous paint- | inz. He had been dropping a word quietly | regarding smaller details, and we drew up close to him as the hbur came for his fors ' mal presentation. Formal? It was for- , midable, it was ferocious! “That high hill | to the left,” he bagan, in the high oratorieal ! tone he had been taught, and we fell back | in dismay, with the feeling of being struck. ! It may sometimes be the fecling of the peo- i ple who come to hear God's truth ex- | plained. Mayv the Lord show us teachers, | preachers, all, the divine art of speaking | he gospell | Boirne of four. Tt takes about that many i to bring a sou! to Christ, and more than that | sometimes. One word is not sufficient; two, ] three, four are needed. The first iyitation | seems to do as little good as the Hfting of ' one corner of the cot by onewof the wouldbe bearers. . Several reiterated expressions | of sympathy are necessary before the soul ' seems moved at all out of its old condition | l of apathetic want. More than one sort of | urgencey and persuasion is needed. The f pastor’s prayer and pleading isnot enough. | The Christian call is one other hand at the | cot; the friendly smile and the hand-shakse | ‘ at the sanctuary door is another. And yet | perhaps the soul does not find itself drawn ' | to the fest of the Christ until a tend T, fquiet | word of personal invitation is given. “Borne of four"—four men, whatever their | habit of speech or service, each taking | hold; four men, whatever tneir individual | differences, agreed on saving a soul; four ; men looking straight toward Jesus-—there | is your “Christian endeavor.” ‘ T hey uncovered the roof. And vet we | have just read that “they could not come | nigh!" 'That is the way it often looks in our | labor for souls. Thereis so much in front | of us and between us and the accomplish- | ment of our good ministries that it seems | absolutely impossible to reach the end de- | sired. But in God's service especially | where there is a will there is away; yes, | I though the way be right down through the | i roof and by some startling and unheard of | { rupture of the established order. O, for | more leaning ladders and broken roofs! O, | for the faith and zeal that will make breaches in the walls of custom and | coremony. When Sheridan dashed unat- | tended for the front at Winchester it was, | perhaps, not in preecise military form, but | he was saving the day and he knew it; and | when, as they tell us, Custer afterward came | up and threw his arm about his leader’s | neck, that was out of order, too, but the | army had rallied, and that justified all ' things done for loyalty’s sake. So also in | the battle with Satan and the rescue of | beleagured and driven souls. The King's | business requireth haste. * Who can forgive sins but Godonly? _They were right. But this was God. Herein was | their short-sightedness. The short-sight- ’ ednezs of some religious teachers seems to be on the other score now. Not only C{od | but the priests. Are we mistaken in seeing ’ a hint of this in so able a commentary as i that of Ellicott where he says: “What they | forgot to take into aecount was the possi- | bility of either of two alternatives; (1) that | God might so far delegate his power to his | chosen servants that they, on giving suffi- | cient evidenco of that delegation, might | rightly declare sinstobe forgiven; (2) that | the preacher might himself (as he had as- | serted in John 5: 17-22) be one with God | and so share in his perfeections and prerog- | atives.” This last alone! There swere not | | two alternatives if Christ’s wurds‘wcre. t [ as we may suppose, understood. I‘Ol'-he | is not speaking here, as the language Im- : plics, of deelarative pardon, but of for- | giveness, here and now imparted. God i wlone can forgive sin, and he meant Jew ! and Gtentile to have this sole alternative, | either to reject or accept of Christ as the | living God. — | ! Next Lesson—*The Parable of the Scwer,” | ! Mark 4: 10-20. i | AN English correspondent says: “Bran | E will pay the milk-selier, but oats the but- | ter-malker. " l | ‘ | Currry County, Nebraska, with an [ | area larger than several E:}st‘crn‘ States, hasn’t a practicing physician within its borders. } . S ; Esmperor Winniam keeps a scrap- ] book of newspaper clippings rega.rdmg { himself. This may account for his fre- | | quent ebullitions of violent temper. ’ e l THE pappaw tree is the father of the | forest. L Tuar lazy man takes eight steps to avoid one.—Portugyuese proverb,

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L—-—'———*\“-—\—T__ IE TROUBI TH R }"EATSAMOA - T T ——— y T B R WHITNEY’S INSTRUCTIONS TO RAL KIMBERLY A7 ADMIs PANAMA., e——— Will Protest A- - Native Smf:’l::t C“"’ Su’ jugation of many—H yovernment by Ger- . istory of Germany’ Gain the Isl : 7's Scheme to slands, Thé dontant of fia e e cans in Samoa and “ltéllfmges upon AmeriAmerican flag by the (;lsults offered the read here with absobi ermans has been b With absobing interest strongest indignation is ex » and the the course of the Gepr expressed against ‘ O L the German Gover suffering the outrages to 1 ans. i without'an instant effort to panich Lo authors. The outecome is l‘ﬁ \pumsh their free expression of the se ikely to he some of Congress, sense «f both houses A San T'ranecise oy . 'll"nitcd States nxu&(r)l-tgg?glﬁ“{;:iﬁltgﬁ:ggtd t‘he renton have started for the i 9 })ﬁe‘ln_s'l;rubluttlnlt r;ixl weoks will bés})z%%%ie(}tg; die-drenton and Vandalia in muki th run to Samoa, Thus the Nipsic wi o u'm_\" vessel representing tlwp Unigvel(;l g:;th“ l(l‘["t‘. i 3 = “ll}tlent lut- those islands from this mﬁg ntil - after the 4th of next March Trenton sailed from Panama : arch. The il‘.‘-:;)l. li)ult\ the Yandalia is a fustgp (:}égqﬂ'lw:gh ake a more dir g Peonbon L "‘:}.h direct route than the about e coes L probably reach ‘Samos e o s s e later i . JIOS have exi . e 1 i oo e Sarmpons nerciai and Pla i 3001 5 5 rather, 4ts l)ré(iléf‘}§lon Society at Apia, or, iy : cessor, the tirm of Godefroy, of Hamburg, stood tl i Malietoa, a chiet belongi By LUO S oI V FE : clonging to one of tho most distinguished families of Samoa, 'i[l:g-olfl«)g:ui)ut the succeeding twenty yearé oreigners vy dttled G Americans, Enulis‘;“o. settled in Samoa— L ¢ nglish and Germans—sought O’y .mkmg sides with or against MuliSt)o‘at t(\) st;engthen respeet for their re‘l ective lmuons.pund thereby irerease their Itorrlxmcrog_. In 1878 the United States, which ad previously obtained a concession of f:nn&.lgil'ltﬂcl(il.)t harbor in t_he Samoan Islands ;nado% ablished a coaling station there, > a treaty with Samoa. The local government in 1879 being in a state of great confusion, Sir Arthur Gor(_10!1,1 a8 ‘_Q‘uo?n Victoria’s Commissioner In the Western Puacifie, established King Malietoa {lrmly on the throne and issued a I)l‘Otfltlnlaxtlt)nw. This proclamation was followod_l_)y a treaty with Malietoa, dated Aug. 18, 1879. In thn. same year Germany also :‘lilaidtf ‘ill. tl‘p.’lty with Malietoa. The treaties >nterec ?'llt() between the United States, Gl(‘«l.t Britain, g%crmzmy. and Samoa were treaties of friendship and reciproecity, agreed to for the purpose of promoting tll() trade which American, English, ‘zf.nd German merchants had gone to the ilcmote Samoan islands to establish. It was understood and agreed upon among the )m‘uty powers that the independence and il‘xv,:utrullt.\:of thesevxs.lu.uds should be for}l.\t'r preserved. While America and England have remained consistent to the treaty obligations, and have recognized Mulwto:} as the legitimate ruler, the policy . of the Germans has been a wavering one In the autumn of 1886 a German named B_rundcls appeared in Apia. The public was given to undersfand that he was in the service of the German Commereial and Plantation Society. Among the employes of this | firm, however, it was known that he had | been selected to be the Minister of ]Mahotou's rival, Temasese. Brandeis ‘at once began to study local conditions, and worked at times at the German consulate, made himself familiar with the business and social relations of Apia, ' and then went to the home of Tamasese. in | the immediate vicinity of the great cotton ‘ and cocoa plantation of the German Com- | mereial and Plantation Society. There a | aouse was built and furnished by this sG- | ziety for Brandeis, and there he stayed, without it being publicly known. as ' the adviser of Tamasese, and perfect''ng himself in the Samoan language, ‘T:unnscso and his adhereuts were then | amply supplied with arms and muni|tions. At the beginning of 1887, within a | brief period, hundreds of muskets were | sent through the German Commercial and ' Plantation Society and through Brandeis |to Tamasese’s party. A little later a Ger- ! man fleet of four or five ships was at anchor |ln the harbor of Apia. Four days later the I German Consul wrote to Malietoa complain-. | mg that German settlers had been attackei® ' by the natives on March 22 of that year, | and that from time to time during the previous four years the German plantations ; 'nul been damaged to the amount of thou- | sands of dollars ayear. A heavy demand for compensation was made for the damage to the plantations, without a single {tem of particulars being given to the Samoan King. The monstrous demand | was made that the sum claimed for com- ~ pensation should be paid the next day—a demand which, in such a ocountry it was practically impossible to meet. The XKing wrote, promising an answer in three days, and the reply ' given by the German commander was the landing on the next day of 700 troops from his squadron, and the issuing of a proclamation in the name of the Government of Germany, declaring Tamasese King | of Samoa. At the same time Malietoa was | deported, first to Hamburg, then to Bremer- | haven, was lodged and boarded under police supervision at Lelr, a suburb of Bremerhaven, and then was taken to Australia on board the steamship Neckar, by a German naval cfficer. |~ The native opposition to Tamasese, or to the Brandeis-Tamasese Government, as it is called. reached its elimax on Sept. 9, 1888, on which date they crowned Mataafa, a leoitimate successor of Malietoa, XKing of Samoa, with the title of Malietoa, Tooa Martaafa. Notices of this event ' were at once sent to the American, | Fnelish, and German consuls, the French | priest, and to Tamasese. Mataafa 18 still at the head of the Government, and is doing all in his power to keep it out of the hux}ds | of Tamasese and his German allies. The | position of the United States to-day is con- | tained in the following instructions which | Seeretary Whitney telegraphed to Admiral | Kimberly at Panama on Jan. 113 } “You will at onee proceed to Samoa ':md extend full protection to American infor- | psts, citizens, and property. You will con- | sult with the American Vice Coqsul,_oXllmline his archives, and otherwise inform | vourselt as to the situation and all recent | becurrences. You will protest 'dngSt the | subjueation of the native Samoan Govern- | ment by Germany as in violation of positive | aereement and understanding between the ? treaty powers, but il’lfOl’nl;the representa- | tives of the British and Germaz Govern- | ments of vour readiness to co-operate in | causing all treaty rights to be respected, | and in restoring peace and order on the basis of a recognition of Samoan rights to ! independenee; endeavor to pre\'?'nt extreme measures against the Samoans. | The coprah trade of Samoa seems to be | the cause of all the present trouble. Coprah, the dried kernel of the pocoanuti. Ils the staple commolity of the Samoan Islands, as it is of all the islands of the Westorn Pacifie. In 1885 the exports of this article for German account were (‘Stlm'«'l?@d at the value of $222,742. The competition of four American houses ]ms'greutl.\' H'l'“a'.ted the German traders, their profits -being | thereby much decreased. . | e—- — Shot His Wife. . | Mrs. Sailie Preston, nineteen years olc. living at Germantown, Pa., Was fatally shot by her husband while nursing hcl“bilb}’- | Jealousy is said to hwﬂuw' l Base-Ball Charter surrendered. | Owing to the pressure of ereditors, the franchise of the Indianapolis ({"fl') Balsc-' ball Club, which owes about $19.000. m:; heen surrendered to President h?u.ng . the National League, and the .uldlc'd‘tlo.rtls are that there will be no ¢lub in that ety the coming seasou. —e e TS ] Committed Su'cide. The Hon. Charles L. Brooks, a Boston lawyer, shot himsel through the head. ,Il}' health and money losses are said to have been thHe cause. s The first lucifer match Wwas made in 1829.