St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 14, Number 32, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 February 1889 — Page 1

VOLUME XIV.

5 TOM. BY CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON, Yes, Tom's the bast ftllow that ever vou kunew. s Just listen to this: When the old mill took fire and the flooring fell through, And with it, helpless there, full in my view,' Wh&»tfl?o you think my yves saw throvgh tho e That crept along, crept along, nigher and nigher, But Robin, my baby boy, laughing to see The shining! He must have como there after me, Toddled alone from the cottage without : 6Ey?lllo ulnsgm;é him. '.l‘laen what a shout—- . how 1 shouted, “For bheaven’'s sake, m : Save little Robin(!s' Again and again _ They trix;il. but the fire held them back like a wall, I could hear them go at it, and at it, anl call, “Never mind, baby, sit still like a man! We'ro coming to get you as fast as we can.,” They could not see him, but I coule. He sat Still on a beam,(al)s little straw hat Carefully placed®y his side; and his eyes ~ - Stared at the flate with ababy’s surpris>, Calm and unconscious, a8 nearer it creps. The roar of the fire g above must have fep‘h - The sound of his voice shriéking his§ name From reaching tbe child. Buat I heard it. It cameo Again ani agein. O, God, what a cry! Tho axes went faster; I saw the sparks fly Where the men worked like tigers, nor minded the heat g 'y " That ncdmad them-—~when, suddenly, theré at their fee’, The greabl:)eams leaned in—they saw him—then, crash, Down came the wall! The men made a dash— Jumpead to get out of thie way—and I thought, "All‘s; uphwibh poor little ißobiri]!" and brought Slowly the a.rm.'gha.t was least hurt to hi The sig_gt of thé child there—when sw# at my sido, R . . Eomefclmo rushed by, and went right through the amo Straight as a dart—caught the child—and then camo 3 Fack with him, choking and crying, but saved! Safe and sound! Oh how the men raved, Shou' :?1 and cried, and hurrahed! Then they Rushed atthd work agaln, Test the back wall Where I was lying, away from the fire, Should fall in and bury me. Oh! you'd admire To see Robin now ; he’s as bright ag a dime, _ Deep in some mischief, too, most of the time, = Toul, it was, saved him. Now, isn't it true Tom’s the best fellow that ever you knew ? | There's l;obin, now! See, he's as strong as a } log And there comes Tom, too— l Yes, Tom was our doz! I s 3 i

Lost Lina; } TIE BITTER AND TH SWEET. ATale—omnents, i

CHAPTER XXVIIL.—CONTINUED, - i One year from the day they, left the '} Bristol mansion they re-entered the | Uni‘ed States through the “Golden | aitod Slates figopgh, e -Gplpon, All welecomed them home except Jeannette, and when she looked upon | the lovely form of her successful rival, | the hatred that she bore in her heart ' was almost more than she could bear. | She seemed to be glad to see them, | and welcome them back, but all the l while, that. little eloud they had left | behind them hal been growing larger | and gathering more forca each day, | and now was only waiting for a _time | to come‘Wh’e‘n"‘R‘"\fi'fi% burst uponT them with all its strength and fury | and shatter the foundation of their hap- | pin-ss as if forever. - - i1 That year had seemed to Ray and ! Lenora but one short month, and its | days but hours of perfect bliss; that | happy year had made a wonderful | impiovement in Ray's appearance, and | his little wife had grown taller and | even more beantiful. f Sh> was noble, kind, generous, and | ‘the mistress of the Bristol mansion, | vut she did not seem torealize that she was a wealthy woman. Everybody | loved her, except one, and Ray was ; never happy unless by her side. | “My dear little wife, can it be pessi- | ble that no shadow will ever cross our | path? Can I live on and on forever in l the sunshine of your smile ?” 1 “I never care to smile for any one | but you, Ray, dear. Do not worry, for | that will always be, and. always be | yours.” : ’ Ray was sitting at his wife's feot and | resting his head on her lap as they sat | by a window in the large family room, | watching the stars appear, one by one, | in the clear blue sky. ’ He spranyz to his feet. | “A song, Lina, a song! I can not | sleep until after I have heard you ; sing.” : ! Ray stoop&d and lifted the little | form in his arms, . pressing her close to | his bosom, and earried her to the pi- | ano. { The sweet, pathetic strains rose and | rang through the whole mansion, echoing throngh the halls and corridors, and then passing out of the open win- ! dows, where it floated on and on, on | the sweet perfumed air, until it was | finally lost in space. How happy they | were as they sang there, in the gather- | ing twilight, with no visble ripple on | the broad, smooth waters of life. i But there was a ripple, not yet visi- ‘ ble to th:m,-but it was day by day gathering force, and would soon be one mighty wave. That ripple, that great wave in their lives, is caused by that long-gathering eloud. One bright moonlight evening, about | tvo months after they had returned to | the mansion, they were walking in the ! park. Ray was supporting Lenora with | one arm and ecarrying her guitar with‘ the other. | “How lovely it is, to-night, Ray, and ] how beautiful the paik and lake look, ‘ bathed as they are in the mellow moon- ‘ light. Can’t we have a row on the lake, | dear? Tt will be so grand, and I'ight.| here is the boat house.” i “All right, you little Hecate. I will | Yow across, if you like, for one of your | songs.” i “Ha! ha! Ray, you are certainly | very generous, and shall get the best | of the bargain. My song won’t be| anything, while to have you row me ; will be perfectly grand.” ] The boat was soon lowered, and the | laughinz, happy eouple left the little | lakes of {h> park and glided out upon | the dark, deep waters of ths main | llLk(}. i The air was balmy as of a sonthern i clime, and the lake was perfectly g smooth. The little boat was ullO\}'t“l i to driit; in one end sat the I';l'(l_mnt | Lenora, while opposite sat her smiling, | bhappy husband, |

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As the oat driftad ou', laving behind i a fine, silver throad in the | mooalight, Lenora’s soft, dimple 1 | fingors pieked the strings of her guaitar 1 and her sweat, gontle voice rose in a | song that her hasband loved to hear, » and the mu ic, so pathetic, so swoet, | was wafted over thstill, bright waters § ; by the gentle breezes. r Those strains, as they were carriod | over the quivering sheet of silver hy | perfumed zephyrs, raached the eay of ;in'n' envious, jealous woman. : As the little boat drifted on and on, and the music became fa'nter and fainter, two great, dark cyes that had been watching every movement of the | happy couple since they first entorel 4 thepark, -now grow gs. ind davker ’ps she still watehed thm? in the distance and heard the echoing sonads of the floating musie. . This anxious listener was Jeannetto 3 Nathan, and as she lay there on the [ brizht green grass, with th» moon J shining brightly upon her lovely form, draped in the heavy -folds of a rich whits dress, she made a very protty picture. | Suddenly she sprang to her feet and l stood erect, her great, large black eyes.looked like balls of firs, while to to hex heart shq”’ti,;?t.lf,' ‘pressed. her | whits) trembling hands. | “Oh,.God of heaven! How can I endure this misory any longer! It is kill- | ing me—it is eating the very heart out | of my body to see her with him all the | time, and so happy. | - “She-has stolen all from me; she has ! taken away from me my heart'sidol, ; and through her I have losé my hope | of heaven. Oh, God! Oh, my heart! | 1 Seehowshappy “8H8" is, ™ Ray, too, | while I—ah!—l am the most miserable | ’ creature on the face of the earth, Ray | loved me once, I know he did—ves, he | i always loved me wntik sshe came Mith | Lher deceptive smile and stole frim ! from me. And he—ah, what of him!| He is to blame, too. He ought to have | been more sensible than to have beon | duped by such an artful and wicked | thing. Ah!Tam sadandlonely enough, | indeed; no one cares for me, no oue; even thinks of me any more. Tam now | cast off as an old and shably garment | is, whereas I once veigned quecn, and | along th se very walks Ray and I have | spent hours of heavenly bliss. Oh, how | can I live and see her happy and with him from day to day! - E B ~“The sight of it all will blind myey.s and scorch my heart! No, I cannot en- | dure the bitterness of it any longer. ' “Aunt Marghierite goes “to Engl.nl, ‘ | to be gone a vear, and in a short time | } that eursed woman that I 5o much hate | ' will be a mother. = “Yes, and when Aunt Margnetite 1e- | i turns the Bustol mansion shali-be the | - darkest and most lonely place that the | | sun ever shong upon. : | | “I have the money, and shall have | 'my revenge. Their present heaven | shall be equal to the bottomless pit!” i CHAPTER XXIX. 1 ' One dark, chilly night, about the # middle of November a tall, darvk, | closely clad figure might have leén! L,qe~Qn'_§Lo_),\'ly and cautiously advancing | through the park of the Bristol 11mu~,1E sion, under ‘over of the darkness and, ‘the bushes toward the boat-house. - “Hallo! who comes?” . | “Hark! All Tight, you are here, I see.” “Yes. And now be quick and quiet, i for I thought I heard some one pass by not more than ten minutes ago.” l “Very well. And are you willing to | help me throngh ?” | “On one condition only.” j “Name it.” | “For tive thousand d»llars.” ; “All right-—-vou shall have it.” “I must have half down now.” “Well, wait here untii i return.” And Jeannette, for it was néne other | than she, glided quietly back to the ! mansion and soon returned with the | amount. ” | “Here is your money, and this letter | will tell you' just what I want you to | do, and these two letters are to Le dis- | posed of acording to the directions. | Remember, those letters must he mailed | in Chicago, and when everything is done, and she is clear of the conmtry, you shall have the rest of your money. | No mistake, on peril of your life.” | Jeannette returned to the mansion | wi hout being seen, while her paid tool | went back to his old sod house, in the | woods down by the coast. E AL, humh! Two thousand five hvn- | ~dred dollars in my pocket now, and| “that much more comin’ for almost | [nnthin’; purty good, I tell you, but I| | kinder hate to do it arter all. Old | Jack’ll need eateh no more fish, thongh, | ’ while he lives, anl—ha! ha! she'’s { ! doin’ the thing.” F ~_Those were the muttered thoughts of | old Jack Wiler, an'old fisherman, that ' ' had lived for years in an old log house, | 'in the woods by the coast. No one | ' knew where he liv.d but Jeannette, ! ' and she kn2w it Ly chance merely. ; | In the early spring, as she was gath- | ering wild flowers in the woods, by | accident she came near the door of this | strange old house. | 01d Jack wes sitting on the step | smoking his old pipe as sh> came up, | -and, in a short time, sho: \‘«'n‘turwl to l ' speak to him. It was in this manner { that she learned of the sod house and | first met Jack Wiler. Hadl ther: even | a few stars shone on the night of th:iv | ‘meeting in the boat house, one might have seen how Jak looked, &s he slowly picked his way to his lonely home in the woods, but all was b’azk dark- I ness, and the hideous specimea of ’ hum/anity, with its lonz, shaggyv gray | hair and beard, its rounded shoulders, and stooped form, could not bo seen. Finallv he reached his home and entered the dark, damp, lonely room. 1 ~ An old greas= lamp was lighte 1, and old Jack ‘sat down inan old brokea ehair to read the letter that Jeannctte l gave him. - ~ “Ab, humh! I know'd old Harry'd| | be to pay or that dark, purty woman ; | would not have a fingerin the pias I | | guess I kin ‘manage it a'l light, but | |itll be purty lonely fur him in this | : old dark room fur so long.” i The light was then blown out and & ’ old Jack lay down upon an ()l_dl lmml](‘e l | of damp, : muddy straw, a richer but | | not happier man. , | In the afternoon of the fourth day i after that strange meeting the mail

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH (‘,()UN'I‘Y,~INI)IANA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 188 ‘) ‘

$ ’ geEE CERY : ‘r\ms delivered at the mansion, and Ray - has.fii!; ran over the different letters. L.' “Ah! There is a hand I do not * know; let me see what he has to sa‘g. " . The letter was opened, and the | i nobleshearted man’s face grew as white |as the paper before him as he read -on down the page. The letter was [ this: . . . CHIgA@O, TH.S Nov. 20, 1876, . Mo the master of the Bristol estate; i 1 The things 1 wish tostate in this Isttor Lare not to be doubted, and 1 will be as briot [as possible, You may think me an im- | postor; it is not I. but that artful deceptive | beauty that you now cali your wife. | I beliave you to be an honest man, and I l am in sympathy with you, for you, as well | as mysell, are the vietim of that woman's trouchery. » By mere chance T recently learned where I she is, and am acquainted with the manner { i which sheentered your house; atso, of | the little scheme by whieh she suceeoded it | temporarily establishing her innoeangee. Her | beauty and that innocent look s‘m pos= i sosses will deceive most any man. It did (me. and I seo it has you. . The name she gave you on entering vour } lmusw wis fletitious, and I doubt whether ] iy one knows her right name; you see sho s not legally your wife. Hor little plan to [ murder me faifed, alt hough she is not aware |of the fact as yet. You see she has not ali together escaped me, and now, I want my } wifo. It you dn' nos hclxcvp me, call at the —— Hotel, in Michigan City, on the 2ith | inst., and I will prove to you these state- | ments, As for the child—why, of course, I i want nothing to do with it. b g z R. E. DETHROPE. | As Ray finished reading that strange | and awful letter, the contents of which | pierced “hiy heart like™ a “two-edged Csword, the paper dropped from his - ‘ hands, and he sat there, in a dazed, be- | wildered manner, just how long he did [ I not know. : | ! It was rapidly growing dark, and | every moment only added a more sal- ' | dened, haggard look to his face; the. coals were black in the grate, and the ' room was now dark and cold; the wind ! whistled down the chimuney, and made I a dismal, moaning sound; but Ray | heard nothing, saw nothing; the mis- | ey, the awful agony that he endured, | | and the thoughts that passed through l | his mind as he sat there for hours in | | the cold and darknessy, no one cver % | knew. ; | He finally B’owly rose from h s chair ‘and began pacing up and down the ' room, still baried in sad thoughts. ! | Suddenly he stopped in the center of ; | the room, his face lighted up with a | jmew light, while his eyes flashed fire. | “It is all false, all a black lie, for my | little darling is not false, = No, no; bat ’ | we are both tho victims of some treach- | cery, and I will go to the eity this mo- j ‘n\e"fi‘% and secure a detective and have | ' this matter sifted to the véry bottom, | 'anl, woe unto the guilty one!” f ! With two long s rides he rewh d the | | bell-rope and gave it sich a mighty | ' pull that it bronght Thomas #5 the | - door in double-quiek time. . . “Tom, hue a~h rso saddled and at | ' th)y gate for me in just two minutes.” | And in about tha' short time the horse | l was th re, and Ray was waiting for it. | “Gomow, ard t 1l your mistress that | | Tam off to the city on bus’noss, but will | ' be ba-kin an hour or so 0.” ? ! He th n lightly sprang into th» sad- | ' dls, apd pat the spar to th» horse. | | The clatter of the horse's hoofs w.s | ' soon heard far’ down the long, broad l avenug, and now thoe horse and rider enter the dark, thick forest. ‘ As Ray dash>d on, s arcely knowing | what he would do first, two rough- | looking, murderous men rushed from | their hidin 7 plae, and ordered him to ‘ “Halt!” ~Tte horse stHoppsd instantly.” “Di-mount, a:d no nois:, or you.are ! a Cexdiman.” : ’ ! What conld he do? To disobey wis | death, and yet life that night . did not | seem very sweet to ham, % “Is it money or my life you want?” | “Dismount !” “No. Life may b 2 sweet for me yet; | fly, Prince!” and he pierved his horse’s | side with the spur. But before the | horse could move, one of the men | grabbed the rein, and jerked the horse | back upon his haunches; at the same { time, a pistol-shot rang through the | forest, and Ray fell from his horse. | : [TO BE CONTINUED.]} e e sie i 0 i A Royal Poker Player. , In a hittlo 1 ook recently issued “for | ladies desirous cf learning poker”is I the following curious ancedote: Maria ' Theresa 'of ‘Austrin was greatly ad- | dicted to gambling, and played for exceedingly high stakes, “The court functionaries did all in their power to oveicome this passion, but to no pur- | pose. They finally appealed to the | Empress’ confessor, who induead the | imperial gamester not to give up eards, | but to play fcx enly a copper kreutzer i a point. 'The cunning Eaupress, how- | ever, ordere b her jeweler :to make her ' onc hundred kreutrers dm . .peculiar | manner, so that each one conld be opened in the middle and a ducat inserted. The two pieces were put together so that only the initiated knew that they were no’ what they seemed. Thus the Empress kept the letter of the confessor’s demand, and at tho same time ‘enjoyed th: excitement in which she delighted. —Philadelphia Press. = i ' Wisdom From Many Tongues, | Peace is in holdin2z one’s tongue.— ’ Portugiese proverb. The fish tha’ escapesis always a biz ‘ one.—ltaliarn proverh. ' The devil’s f iendship reache; to the | prson door.——Twurkish provery. | It takes a wise man to employ leisure | well. —Russian proverb. If the time do2sn’t suit you, suit vour:elf to the time.—Gerinan provert. : : Man ils harsher than iron, harder than stone, more d:licate than a rose. Asiatic proverb. : Tar and Feathers, . The application of a coat of tar and feathers tH offensive persons is said to have been first resorted to by Richard l Ceur de Lion. Ono of his statutes ' enacted that any robber found voyag- ; ing with the Crusaders “shall b> first - shaved, then boiling tar 3 ourad upon 'l's head, and a cushion of feathers ' shook over it.” The eulprit was put ashore the first time the vessel &touch d. The earliest record of such | punishmentis 118%. | L dishes be neatly washed, rinsed in hot water and drained, and then rub them | until they shine !

¥ . s INDIANA HAPPENINGS. ¥ LV & X 44N L - EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. An Interestlng Summary of the More Kinportant Doings of Qur Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths —Crime, Casualtios and - General News Notes. ————e ——— THE LEGISLATURE, Jarvary 19.—SENATE—A - resolution was offered to amend the Constitution so as to provide for the election of not less than five nor more than nine Supreme Court Judges. House—A Dbill providing that counties shall pay the cost of prosecuting criminals was referred to another committee, danrary 21.—SENATE—A number of bills were introduced, one providing for the study of the effects of aleoholic drinks and narcotics, House--A resolution instructing the Committee on Temperance {o re{mrt alocal option bill was tabled. Resoutions were offered providing a constitutional amendment relating to the terms of county officers, and for the enforcement ment of laws pertaining to returns of property for taxation. A bill was introdueced to appoint separate Bourds of Trustees for the insane, blind, and deaf and dumb asylums. ' January 22.-—SENATE—BiIIs passed: To _change the time of holding court in Posey County; for night schools in certain eities. Bills intrcduced: To prevent blacklisting of discharged employes; to prevent the trapping and Killing of quail; to amend the free gravel road repair act. The Governi or's nomination of Barnabas C Hobbs, of Parke County, as trustee of the State Nor- ’ mal School for four years from May 1, 1888, (appointed by Gov. Gray), was conlirmed. I House—Bills passed: To authorize thol burial of ex-soldiers by counties at an expense of SSO; requiring traction engines to _fn'n notice of their approach: ceding to "nited States jurisdietion over certain lands; 1o legalize acts of notaries publie whose commissions have expired, or who were ineligible: to apprepriate SIOO,OOO for - the State Normal School: to amend Sec. 4,- } J6B, R. S, of ‘Bl, in relation to schools; for | the establishment of township libraries. | - Bills introduced: To open and maintain | ; highways; relating to the v\-mr(iuu of | - cities from liability for costs: nhathorizing - township trustees and trustees of corpora- : tions to levy taxes and provide a general | system of common schools in eities of 30,000 | i inhabitants; relating to members of military | organizations wearing their uniforms nu‘ - the strects oxcept undbe ordersrolting to | ! the appeintment of special deputy sheriffs, I - January 23.—A long diseussion arose i”i the House over a resolation requiring the | Auditor of State to appear bafore a commit - * - tee and state whether he paidout any money | | to Licut. Gov. Robertson, and if so. out of what fund it was taken, and by what authority it was paid. The resolution was adopted by a party vote.. A bill was introduced making twentv-flve voars a life sentence in the State prison and reformatories, A bifl | to punish “White Cappism” was favorably | reportad. A resolutien was offered provid- | ing for the appointment of a committee to | ascertain whother Hon, Green Clay Smith, | late proasiding offloer of the Senate, had not | overdrawn his agcount., Lost,, A bill was introduced prohibiting tho teaching of Ger- | man in the priblie sehools, Jannery 24 ~SENATE-~The Rav-Carpenter contested eleotion case was discussed at | > & i length, House-—-A bill was passed provid- | ing for the establishment of g State Bureau of Statistics and Geology, and ereating the - oftiee of Chief of the Department. Reports ' of standing committees were submitted, ! Jan, 2b.—Consideration of the Ray-Car, pegter contested clecticn case was contin- | wea in the Senate. The reselution unseat- | ing Carpenter was adopted by a party vote, | but the resolution seating Ray was indefi- | nitely postponed. A new etection for Sen- | ator will be ordered by the Governor. In | the House a bill was passed providing ! for the ineorporation of religious conferenees and camp-meetings, Both branches | adjourned until Monday. ! e ——p—. | Minor State Itewms, —Thomas Feéters was thrown from a! buggy and instantly killed near Logans- | port. | ~ —Hobart, Lake County. having voted to be incorporated, will elect officers | June 21. ; -Eugene Swihart, brukeman, fell from a freight train near Valparaiso and | was killed. } "—Fred Eisenhart, while hunting near Connersville, was seriously injured by ! " the accidental discharge of a gun. i —A new postoffice, to be cnlied | Fruitts, has been established five miles | west of Yountsville, in Montgomery | County. —Lafayette will annex Linwood, a suburban town, an electionto that effect | having been carried by a vote of twelve | to one. , —lt is estimated that 8,000 barréls nt‘i | . 1 : 1 oil recently leaked, near Crown Point, | from the pipe line. Forty acres were é flooded. i - —Patrick Murray, a brakeman on the | Chicago and Indiana Coal road, while | \ b . > 3 . | coupling cars at Brazil, feil and was in- | stantly killed. j l | «~The South Bend Tribune offers a l i reward of SSOO for the arrest of the burgI lars who robbed its stove of :‘,il,(l(m} worth of goods. —James Hancock, one of the oldest l settlers in Clinton Countv died, :Igvdi 82. He has been totally blind for | | twenty-five years. i ' —Samuel Andrews’ barn in Milton ! I Township, Jefferson Coanty, was con- | sumed by fire, together with three horses, 'two cows, and a lot of hay and corn, | Uninsured. [ —Patrick Coigan, a pioneer of the Wabash Valley, and a resident of Miami I County for over fifty years, also a promii nent and wealthy farmer, died of cancer, - aged 80 years. l ' —Charles Hodlett, a . miner, was | awarded $7.750 damages, at Brazil, in a suit brought against the Drazil Block Coal Company. for injuries sustained by falling into a shaft. ' ——ls the window-glass trust carries out its decision in closing down all the Western factorics, it will prove a blow to Marion and Kokomo, in throwing out ‘ of employment hundreds of menat both places. g —Greencastle is agitated over the re- | Jocation of the postoffice. A r:peviul’ | agent of the department is now in that | city trying to select a suitable one, but he is confronted with rival petitions favoring different locations, making the gelection not an easy task. —Three young men, while hunting near Eckerty, chased a rabbit intoahole, and, while digging it out, brought to light an earthern pot containing a large quantity of mixed gold, silver, and copper coins, the dates showing that they were hidden during the war.

- —An Anderson glutton has wagered S2O that he can eat four pounds of hog's liver every evening, between 6 and 7 o'clock, for forty consecutive days. Ho has commenced his disgusting task. ~—A man represerting himself as o drummer for Fox Bros., of Fort Wayne, has been making collections for the firm in Goshen and surrounding towns. He is said to have made over SI,OOO by the swindle. . —Martin Houseman, of Flkhaat. lighted a fire with the assistance @f gasoline from a can, the contents of which exploded and terribly burned both Houseman and his wife. Houseman’s recovery is doubtful. —A little daughter of John Newlander, a farmer living near Charlestown, was horribly burned recent)y. She was carrying a shovelful of red-hot | conls when her dress caught five, and before the flames could be extiv guished portions of her body burned ta a crisp. —At Montgomery, Daviess County, a man started to skin a live dog, but was detected when he had the job half com[pletod. For a time there were strong threats of lynching the fellow, who said | he wanted to get the hide while the dog lwus alive, as it made the best shoestrings in that condition. I ~—A most singuwlar death of a young man, Clarke Stanley, occurred at Shelburn. One day recently he was on his farm chasing a cow with a fence paling ' in his hand. One end of the stick struck l the ground while his body was thrown | against the other. He was punctured in ! the groin so severely that he died in a few hours. ‘ —ln a suit brought against the Pull- [ man Palace-car Company by Charles I. | Olds, of Fort Wayne, for 8800 for the ' loss of o vest containing a veluable i\\'ntch and s#) which was stolen frowm | under his pillow while he was asleep in ! his berth in the sleeping-car last July, | a verdiet was rendered awarding the § pluii‘!" [4OO, i Mills Woods, one of the pioneers of | Portland, was killed by the Lake Erie :un«l Western express, three miles west | of that city, while driving a horse at- | tdehed to a cart. At the crossing of the ; Blaine pike, the engine struck the cart, Cand Woods was carried some distance on the engine. He lived but three hours. The horse escaped unharmed. - Squire Davis, aged 70, living near | Lyons Station, Payvette County, committed suieide by hanging. A few weeks ' ago his wife recovered a judgment for a divorre and FSOO alimoay, and he had talso recently been in expeusive litiga- ' tion as guardian of one of his sons, and 'these domestic and financial troubles led to his self-murder. ‘ Noews has been circulated in Muncie | to the effect that the Lake Erie and Western Railway Company are contem- | plating removing their shops from Liwa, Ohio, to that city. The rumor has created nluitr a wreat deal of excitement in business and railroad circles, and the | purchase of 400 acres of land immediately west of the city has given the color ; of truth to the report.

| —UCaal has been discovered in Wells | County. Spegimens have been sent | to parties in Pennsylvania, who proImounce it an excellent quality, and ad- | vise the sinking of a shaft. They have | also tested some of it in blacksmith | forges, and it is said to burn as well as 'the best Pennsylvania coal. Operations ' will be begun at once to make a thorough test as to whether it exists in pay- | ing gquantities. | —E. H. Moore, a Lusiness man of Columbus, is suffering from a peculiar ailI ment, which, physicians state, ig almost rm_-rtuin to result fatally. There is an | obstruction of some kind in his stomach, | and for over three months not a particle of substance has passed into the intes(tines. He has been kept alive. by liguid ‘ food, which, after serving as nourish'ment, is ejected from the stomach by ' way of the mouth. An operation will ' be performed wpon him by Indianapolis ' surgeons with the view of removing the obstruction from the stomach. He is { very much emaciated, and his chances of | surviving the operation are very small. | —Marion has a spook sensation. The ! uncanny thing is said to haunt a dwell'ing owned by Mrs. DeLiong and occupied fby the family of John Spangler. One ' night about three weeks ago two of Mrs. }.\‘pnugler's children saw the form of a Imuu. carrying an umbrella, moving to and fro in the back yard. The rest of ; the family were notified and watched the shape until it dissolved in air. On ‘the following morning the spot where | the ghostly visitor appeared was exE amined and a hollow like a sunken ' grave was found. Since then the ap- ! parition has appeared almost every l night and dozens of people have seen it. —Sherift Hay and posse went to Bull l Creek one night recently and arrested Harrison Hogan. They ran the steamer Minnie Bay up to his shanty and threw her electric light upon it. Hogan came out to give battle, but sceing the odds retreated inside. The exaitement among [ the boys and fifty passengers was intense. ' Hogan's hired man begged him for God's !ane to surrender. The old man then bared his breast and asked the Sherift to shoot him, he had no friends, had been beaten out of his wealth and did not wantto be further abused. Finally he surrendered. The arrest cansed asensation. He has hitherto successfully resisted arrest, giving battle a number of times and putting the officers to flight, though he is 75 years old. -—(Considerable excitement has been occasioned at Rockport over a White Cap warning received by the grand jury. The notice, which was prepared in the usual style, was tacked over the door of the grm;(l jury room and warned the members of that body to “walk straight or git.” —Tt is surmised 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. Louis, Mo., to seize the ' country for the King of Spain.

Tg T -e s—. e e NYDNIN Y N | ADELIGHTFUL COUNTRY ) __-'———.—_—_ } AUTHENTIC STATISTICS IN REGARD | TO DAKDTA TERRITORY, ] Xes Assessed Valuation, Banks, Newsparers, Schools, and Churches — Largest Wheat Yield of Any State or Territory— An Array of Facts for Home-Seekers. r [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE,] MANDAN, Dak., Jan. 21, 1589. , No section of the Union has received | more attention in the last sow years than " | Dakota, owing to its wonderful growth, yet few realize the enormous possibilitias | of the Texrritory. In 1870 thore was not a town for a thousand miles from the western | end of Lake Superior to the mining camps of Montana, except military posts. Now | towns and cities are strung along the railroads like pearls on a string, and the Territory has risen to loadership in population | and wealth, It hus an assessed valuation of one hundred and sixty-two million dol- | lars; twenty-tive States Lave fewer bents: | only fourteen have moro newspapers, and tho sehools outnumber those of California, with threo times the population. Instead of P $ r 3 % \ | - ‘ ! » QA% 4 R | | .\ | E i a* N i oé' \)“c,'g~ ‘ | I , . | 5 -y | — e r"i , , ; ‘ AS LARGE AS TEN FASTERN STATES. | being entirely a wide plain, the Territory has | Over 3,000,000 acres of timber, 1,200 miles ot [ navigable rivers, bosides numerous lakes ! and small streams. Western Dakota is full |of conl, and coal gives to Northe i ern lands what Emerson ealls & | "portable climate.” Cold can be kept t out, tut not heat. A good many | coal mines have already been opened up {-along the Northern Pacifie Railroad, the [ veins varying in thickness from three to ! twolve feot. Farmers in many localitios dig | | their supplios trom the outeroppings in the | hill sides. "Fhe chief mineral district of the Tervitory is in the Black Hills, where are found tho largest gold stamp mills in the [ world, Dakota, too, is favored in the mat- | ter of easily obtained artesian wells, which, | l in some yplaces, are being used to run ma- | | ehinery, the water coming with sueh foree, Dakota's wheat crop of 1887 exceeded all the other States and 'Perritories in the numver of busheld sixty-two miilion, while in the vield of oats it took fuurth place, and in cornexceeded two-thirds of the States. | Dakotals erops ar2 grown on land worth an average of $lO an azre as against S6O and | #llOO Jangd in the States, Seven counties of | Dakota in 1887 raised twenty-threo million bushels of wheat and eleven million bush- | pls of onts. This was in the valley of the Red River of the North, whieh Bayard Taytor eulled tho Nile of America. The soil of | Dukota, needs no fortilizer or irrication. All tho erops of the lust Federal census yvear were produced upon an area but little | greater, than that ot Dakota. Who can fizure the results wheén intellicenco has | subjected the full acreage of this mighty terrvitory to human use? And a mightier domain lies to the west, rieh with minerals, | forests, and agricultural and grazing lands. | The settlement ¢f Dakota 18 mainly con- |

| llned to the castern part. It has 0111§‘b0en : ’ in the last four or I{,\'a years that settlers ' began to oceupy the country west of the | Missouri, and as vet the -settlements aro - | mostly along the line of the Northern Pa- . cifie Raflroad. The topography and climate of Western Dakota are peculiar; it is prairie, L | with buttes or odd-shaped points o} earth . | prominont everywhere. Inthe grassy sides | of the buttes lignite coal erops out. The " | soil of the broad slopes and valleys is rich, - and produces all the staple erops of tho - North. The country is well watered by the Heart, Cannonball, Knife, Green, Sweet- | briar, Little Missouri and other streams, . | along which there is considerable growth | l cf timber and wild fruits. The climate is ;I- S— -B — .-? T-—.. | | . W il = \ o el %v b1 ORTHE pon ’ v)i%\ . PALIEIC A e i vn & b I . ) { 7 ‘ ] 2 ‘7-% ;|,E‘~i}°@ \ . i > f ‘ ! fi b 5 b atil L P . e o ‘ | P , | A DAKOTA COUNTY LARGER THAN TWO EASTERN ‘ STATES, | milder than in Eastern Dakota, owing to the , | hills, which break the force of the north | winds, and to the influence of the Chinook .| breezes {rom the west.' The winter is - much shorter than in Minnesota. There is | more variety in landscape and resources | than in Eastern Dakota. fuel costs but little, and stor is abundant for building | purposes; but, more than ‘all, iree. homei steads can still be had almost in sight of | the cars, an advantage not found anywhere 1 cise in the United States in a general farme | ing region. 'To open a farm on a free quars | ter section of land means the ercation of a | property worth {rom $1,500 to $2,000, | but it takes work. The c¢hief town | of Western Dakota, the Black Hills not be- | Ing ineluded in this review, is Mandan, three | miles from the western end of the Northern l Pacifie bridge across the Missouri, the only | place the Big Muddy is bridged in Dakota. | Mandan is county seat of Morton County, | and to further impress the reader with the | vastness of Dakota, we give a diagram of 1 the county, which contains over 100 townships of land, area enough to allow the ‘ States of Rhode Island and Delaware to be I gpread over its ample bosom. The present population of Morton County, 6,000, could be increased to 60,000, and: yet not be crowded as an agricultural region. T'wothirds of it is still vacant land. Mandan is to Western Dakota what Fargo 1s to ‘ Northeastern Dakota, Sioux Falls to Southeastern Dakota, and Deadwood to the Black Hills. in all that goes to make up well-organe ized society—population, wealth, and character—such as should be the basis of Statehood, Dakota has been up to tho high=ost standard for soveral years. Thatit is large enough for two States, or even four, wo think is fully shown by our diagram. The two Dakofas, with 75,000 miles square each of land, will each surpassin size thirty of the present States, and oach lead all the other Territories in population and wealth. MosEs I'oLsoM. “WHAT will be the end of the human race?” inquired the orator, and one fellow in the audience remarked that if cremation continued to grow in popularity the racs> would end in a dead heat.—ZTerre Haute Kxpress. | ONE touch of a blizzard would make ! the plumbers grin.--. New York Morning Journal., % ‘

NUMBER 3978

| THE SUNDAY §C AA JHOOL. s aieedis detaibtn il || SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY AND ABLY CONSIDERED, e —————— j A Scholarly Exposition of the Lessen ‘ ! —Thoughts Worthy of Calm Reflec ' tion—Half an Hour's Study of the Scriptures—Time Wel)l Spent, The lesson for Sunday, Feb. l found in Mark 4: 10-20, 87, Feb. 3, mev be ; . INTRODUCTORY. | ~We have a window thrown up, as §. were, | In this lesson, and we cutch a glimpse of the | mighty geappls of {he kiugmh»m with the { worll. There sat Christ in the boat, The ‘ mllltllmlt'.s were gathered ahout. They rep- { resented inflnite need, Ho the infinite t!'utfi. i \\'ll}' were these uot .hl'()ught together? Why did not all mep, believe on him? Look. ' Around about on the rising hillsides are i lil'blf. and the sower hag gone forth to sow. I Christ points to the Scene as u parable of ' the kingdom. Seed is fouitful only as it finds right rootage. The hard, beaten wayside, | the stony, uncualtivated ground, the thorny, unwatehed soil, the hungry upturned sup. { row—all sovts of lodging-piaces thero are | for the seeds of truth:- Christian worker, one ol the sorviceable gifts of the Spirit is | patience. When the heart erics, “Who hath believed our report, and to whom is the p arm of the Lord reveale!?” remembeor the | long-suffering of Christ and read again, as t here, the parable of the sower. . WHAT THE LESSON TEA CHES, ‘ When he was alone. 1t was the disciples? | Opportunity; the cherished houp when freed ‘ irom the elamorous and petulant throng our L. Lord was seated apart with his true learners, | How blessed now the converse, how sweet F the ill!imac)l' of thouzht and feeling, how | restiul to bring him all the cares and per- | plexities of the day and have him remove | them! O favored disciples! Christian friend, do you know that this is your privilege and mine to-day? We can this moment, any moment, seek Jesus and ke alone i with him. His redemptive work finished, ; he is now seated at the right hand ot God. | That attitude is the attitude of the teacher and tnstructor. He is there to hear us and talk with us and remove. our doubts, | Blessed portion—alons with Josus! Said | the bishop to the young man, Giscoursing | with enthusiasm of a sojourn in the Holy Land, said he (mietly, significantly: “I'd | rather be five minutes with Clrist than a { Year in places vhere ', onee vas!” Unto you it is give ) knows the mystery. Above we have the Christian's privilege of ! fellowship; here we have the Christian's privilege of knowledge. It is the fullillment of that beld prayer of Paul's in Ephesians (t: 17, 18), “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give | unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened.” The ! truth is a touch-stone. It reveals'the truth or untruth of the heart. Where there is the meekness of a child of God, it brightens | and illumines; where thers is hostility to . God, it but makes the darkness greater. One clue to this somewhat startling Seripture is in this simple word: “If any man wili do his will, he shall know of the doetrine.” | Obedience and faith are at the thrcshold‘ | First “Come unto me,” then “learn of me. - The sower soweti the word. Christ Is the grear sower, The preacher and the teacher - are but, as it were, the hands of the sower. ' We speak net of ourselves: «“We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech ‘you by us, we pray vou, in Christ's ' stead (as ambassadors for Christ, ssxeal'{mg for Him), be ye reconciled to God. ;\o\\‘. remember, when the world ruectsfi;xs it re- | Jects not us but Him who sent us. The sced 18 the word; not our word, but the truth ot i Ged. " Wherever that is spoken it is the germ ot new life; and he who - cepts it or declines it accepts or dgvll}\(‘s | not eur doecttine, but the _l‘l‘Jl("l‘!‘l’ of life everlasting—God’'s doctrine. 'lhe field is the world; we go forth to sow besid:s all waters, seeking to cast into good and prepared soil, we yet let the truth fly abroad I that ‘it mav {ind lodgment on every hand, for only the Spirit knows the prepared heart. Outs but to sow. umkmg‘luurch-iz-~timony whon opportunity occurs; the root- | I{;\;( l;: :}i&h thfjlblpil'it. as with God the in- | erease.

1 A VSRS L | Satan cometh immediately. We may well ) ‘ pray, as our _Lord_ taught us, “Keep us from ) 1 the evil O.HC. forit'is he, l)re('ifif,‘ly, the evil ) | one that is desecribed here as ¢coming imme- | diately. There isno doubt of Satan's pres- ) | enee inthe world, yea, in the synagogue 2s , | of old. He is here to withstand the truth, if L | pos=ible, and to snateh away theseeds from b | unwary minds. There is one sort of infldelJ | ity, d:mg_er@us, deadly, that we scem to be , | overlooking. It is skepticism negarvding a | personal devil. We seem whoily ignorang 1 of his presence and whereabouts, and yot - li(iml loeates him as right ‘at our hearts, | working at the very core and center of our | spiritual life. Some one played a suggest|ive. joke on Mayor Hewitt, of New York. | Ho wrote to him that the block bounded by i certain fonr streets was infested by thieves, and thau citizens could not pass through | there at night. The Mayor promply dis- | patched & policeman to look up the matter, Land found thatthe place deseribed was, sure | enough, full of cut-throats, and impassable, [ for it was the Tomus. Qur topography of !the eity of man-soul is about as vague, and of the ranges of Satan, chained and un{ehined, we seem to know as httle, and fear i l(‘i.“-. I Dy thé wayside. The seed was sown broad- | cast, “Let us go into the next towns that I | e s Witk { may preach there also, said Christ, for [ therefore came I forth.” Manifestly in this | reneral proelamation all sorts of conditions [would be met. Our duty is to preach the | zospel and preach it everywhere, whether [ men will hear or forhear. First of all we ! have the wayside hearer; his is the imnen~trable heart. It represents the lowest econdition of spiritual-mindeduness, and yet it. . | may go along with a large degree of intelli- | vence and of so-called moral eulture. Omne | may become, as we say, gospel-hardened, | A Sottled condition of indifference to the | truth. Nothing tries the heart of tc:w‘hm' | ov pastor more than the sight of dull, im- | mobile faces, unchanging through all the | yoar under the carnest proclamation qf the | truth.. _One of our _city pastors has insti- | tuted a reform ‘in his prot.mcted services, | He proposes to alternate nights of preach- | ‘ ine with nights of visiting and so bring new [ hoarors into the Lerd's house. Not because | there are not members of the unsaved al- | ready present, but because being unsaved they ave still unmoved. Thev are wayside | hearers. When the fowls of worldliness }vomc down (-ix the s;lutliliitl%l. tl{uli"ol;s no ratching Abraham to drive them away. ‘ y Sown f)‘u stony ground. Edward I. Wil- { son, in a recemt Ceniwry article, “Round | About Galiles,” gave us some pictures of Gal.lee farm land.® There were some very !1 ad pieces of ground. God seems to have | given that little patch of the Holy Land as a ! vary picture-book of the lungd()m. .Mll’('h | of the ground was stony; the soil thi, it [ onerty soon gone. What does it represent x bhut the superfieial hearer, eatening up the truth and hiding it a moment to let it blis- { tor and let it dry in the sun when the shower [ has passed, or cast it forth to die \glth the | first frost? “No root in themselves, How- | over thrifty the seed, it requires soil for | rootage, and where the barren, rpcky [ formations occupy all the space, there is no | room for the tiny tendrils of the truth. The - | sood is allowed to perish of inanition and | justfor lack ot sustenance. “A deeper work | of grace” wo all have neced to pray for. | Mayv the stony. hoart be removed and a | heart of flesh be given us. ! Noxt Lesson—‘The Fierce Demoniae.” ‘ | Mark 5; 1-20. i 11 is proposed to hold the next rewnion 'of the Smith family in Delaware. The | absurdity of- holding a reunio -of the | Smith family in Delaware .wouldvmake t.he authors of “Pinafore” smile,—Somerville Journal. . LT e e e | WHEN coal is worth $8 a ton it 18 better to let your neighbor's cat warble all mght than to pelt her with anthracite.—New | York Evening Sun. m""_-__-___‘—_—‘__—_______.‘—— ! TuE p:culiarity about a rising deathrate is that it brings people down.—Balti‘meore American.,