St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 14, Number 35, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 February 1889 — Page 1

VOLUME XIV.

THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER. BY CAPTAIN JACK CRAWTOBD, TUE POET SCOUT. X’na free to make costfedsiou, that 1 ain’t much on the pray, Fur my early edication war’ neglected that-a-Avay, An’ as fur efficaciousness o’ prayer as •>-rule, 1 reckon I’m a pr’pil o’ the doubtin Thomas tjehool. But » want to troll an instance that occur"ed in T>s, AV hen the hull Matte River country with the redskins was alive An instance, whar’ a little bit o’ Tough, impromptu prayer Bone the work up neat an ban'seme, an' saved our party’s hair. Uhac’ was me an’ Arizona Bill and Shorty Martindale, War’ sent out on a little scout to find ol’ Spotted Tail, An’ when wo stopped to oat a lunch an’ git a little rest Our horses tuk the back’ard trail, on’ run like ail possessed, An’ thur we war’ ten miles from camp, afoot, an’ in a spot Whar Injuns war’ accustomed fur to make things rather hot — I can't jist tay tue tte.in’s us we felt war’ acto d fear, But 111 <.raw it mild, say wo folt uneasy like an queer. Wo held a short discussion, fur to try an’find away To beat tue situation, an’ to make a safety play, • ... An' 1 reckon that a question in the Congress o the land Never got Gm close atteution as the one we had in hand. ' We s’meued it fust on this side, then examined it on that; But ah our drawn conclusions seemed to be exceedin’ tint. Au’ 1 calculate our feeliu's would bo somewhat hard to tell, When, durin ihe discussion, we heard the Injun yell I Thar’ come the painted devils, yellin’ like a pack o' hound . Their uosses hammerin’ the ground with quick, excited bounds. An’ if ever tlueo poor critters looked into the face o death Twar’ us- way, darn, it, pardner, we could feel his icy breath 1 Thar' wan t a cussed hook on which to hang u thread o' hope, As that band o’ howlin’ demons came a swoopin' d wn the slope, An' we stood thur', dumb an’ paralyzed, jist like a beast at bay, , Till Shorty, sort o' solemn-like, says: "Boys, suppose we pray. ' The idee struck us proper, an’ we knelt down in tue sand, An’ turned our anxious faces up toward the promised laud, An’ I !,ues6 no mortal ever heard eich deep an’ earnest prayer As the three of us, in chorus, sent a shootin’ thr >ugh the air. The lumps st pped in wonder at the strange, onusua> signt O’ men a talkie m the air, instead o’ showin’ tight — They knew their own Great Spirit camped above that name blue, An’ 1 guess they thought we had communication with him, too. An’thar’ they stopped and stared at us,* an’ we kep’ up the pray, Expectin’ every minute they would make a final play. An' when they raised another yell, an' v,e let loose o’ hope, A troop o’ mounted cavalry came tearin' down the slope. They slashed them Injuns right an' left, an' waxedit to ’em hot. An’ we uelped on the lively work with many a tellin’ shoe, Till those as war remainin’ o’ the band in terror fled. An’ left the ground all dotted with their dyin’ an their dead. Now, I'm free to make confession that I ain’t much on the pray, But our long drawn-out petition saved the partyon that day; It may be that the Ruler up in glory didn’t hear A cussed word we uttered in that manner strung i an' queer. But thar’ can’t be no disputin' that, if Shorty hadn't thought O' heavenly reinforcements, we'd a’ died thar' on the spot. Fur the lull us’wild astonishment at secin' of us pray Kep’ their fingers from our top-knots till the sogers made a play.

Lost Lina; -Oil,THE BITTER AND THE SWEET. A Tale of Two Continents. BY MRS. NINA LAW3ON.

CHAPTER XXXIII. There was wild confusion, indee 1, in the mansion now; the servants were all busy trying to extinguish the tire; Thomas had dispatched the groom to the city for a physician, and Jeannette’s maid was doing al she could for her mistress. Ray had received a s’ight shock, and thoughtful Thomas had led him to his room, and was doing all he could for his master, until the doctor came. The servants were all so excited over the strange and sudden appearance of their master that it was some time before they had succeeded in entirely extinguishing the tire. Everybody had thought Raymond Bristol dead, and it was no wonder that his strange reappearance excited great wonder. Where had he been all this time? This was the first time he had been seen by any one since the night he started to the city and was stopped in the woods. The shot that rang through the forest had sent a bullet through Ray’s holy, but the party that shot him seemed to understand where to send the ball and yet not kill. It had passed through the right lung and came out of the back just below the shoulder blade. He was immediately carried to Jack Wiler’s log house and place! upon a bundle of straw. It was quite a distance from the road to the log house, ami Ray was so weak from loss of blood that he could scarcely breathe. A part of the old log house had recently been partitioned off by iron , bars, and now it had the appearance of an underground prison. Ray was placed behind these bars, where he was kept for those six long months, and during all that time he had not caught a glimpse of the blue sky above. For weeks and weeks Ray lay on that hard bed of straw in that dark, damp underground prison, : scarcely able to move hand or foot, ; Jack Wiler was his only nurse and • physician, and whenever Ray would i ask any questions ho would only re- । ceive evasive answers from Jack, j Jeannette provided all the medicine for the poor prisoner, and until Ray grew much better pld lack remained in the house much of the time. Finally the wound began to heal, but the patient’s continual worry irritated it considerably; he would often grow angry at Jack for not telling him why he was a prisoner there in that horrible plfcee, | but Jack would only say :

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“I air. not your jailer; others are keeping you here; don’t worry so, for it does more h inn than good: perhaps the day will soon come wh ui I can set you free.” • That was all Ray ever succeeded in getting from old Jack. Time rolled on, and Ray L caiw a perfect skeleton; he scarcely got ' j enough to eat now to keep him alive. i Jack never came to th? old house ex-, cept lat? at night to til! the old greas - I lamp, and give the poor prisoner someI thing to eat and a little fresh water. i Four, five, and six months of awful ; agony were past, and Rav no longer • looked like himself, hut like a mauiac. ■ The middle of April came at last. । and that terrible storm came with it. Tlie night before the storm Jack did i not come, and all the next day ]> ior ‘ Kay had not lung to cat but old dry I bread and a little water to drink ; the , i old grease lamp hid burned entirely j out, and now he wi.s in total darkness. 1 Tin* kxng hours slowly passed by, ami I yet Jack came no 1 . । "My God! Is he going to leave me : here to starve to d uth? 1 feel like cnrJug the day I was horn, and evrjyfh nk upon earlh, for God has forgetten me., indeed. What will my poor little wife think of my absence, and । what is she doing now?” He would pace up an I down that i short, narrow c 11, while strung? I thoughts would fill his mind. He was , ! ever alert for the slightest sound, in the hope that s nneoim was coming to release him. Perhaps it was his Lina that had found out whe re he was; hut ; his Slopes were all in vain. On the । : night of the storm his hear, s ink i lower ami lower, as there now seemel nothing but death hefor 1 him. ‘Hark! What did I hear?” lie pressed his hand to his heart, as >| if to cheek its wild throbbing. The , noise was nothing hut the distant roar jof the tempest., ami now it became i louder and nearer every moment. Kav | could now plainly hear the roar ami i splash of the waves of the angry lake: i plainer, still plainer could be heud I the roar of the fast approaching stoim; . the ground under his feet was shaken ’ by the heavy thunder. Ah! There is cracking an I snapping ; in the forest, now, as if the earlh were ■ being r nt to pieces; it become louder and fiercer, aud suddenly he hears a j ti rrible crashing noise by the side of I ’ ins dark, gloomy prison; lie knows it is j I a terrible storm, and can plainly hear i the trees falling all around him, yet he , is unable to escape and flee from that I dangerous place. The terrible crashing nois • near the old log house deafened the poor Ion?' prisoner, and for a few moments his sens. s were so stunned that he could not realize w hat h.id happened : he sank down upon the floor of the eel l , and buried his fae in his slim, bony hands. By and by lie felt the fresh, dump : air blowing on him, an I looking up he I saw that lie was a tree man; th • lightI ning played about him as he sat ; there, and the rain heat down upon his , face. A large tree that stood near the cor- ! nor of the old house had been torn up, roots and all, by the tempest, ami hud fallen across that end of the house that ol I Jack had used, and Kay was unhurt; the roof of th • cell had been torn oft', and the poor prisoner now s it under heaven’s dome, a free man. bieathing the pure, rain-wash ul air. I As he raised his face from his hands lie plainly saw by the flashes of light just what had happened, and sprang to his feet, clasping his long bony arms ; over his breast. "Oh, God, Thou lias not. forgotten j me, and I glory in Thy proof; Thou art > । my deliverer, and this tempest has un- i locked the door of my prison cell; 1 ' shall praise Thee all the days of my life. Glory to Thy holy name.” I As he stood there his pale thin face j raised toward heaven, the thunder i j roared, while the lightning ftadie I and j I the purple blazes played about his : feet. He was free now and cared not for wind or ra n. By the Hash sos j lightning he was able to see where to I go, and he very soon bale good-by to the old log house. He could plainly hear the roar and | I sp’ash of the lake, and went down to I i the. shore. The waters were tossing about ns if they were angry at being thus disturbed, and the waves seemed to try to reach to the clouds, as if to check ; their mighty force. । Bay knew where he was, for there . ' still stood the large old rock on the i coast that’he. often came and sat by i years ago, fishing there by the hour, i He was about two miles from home, I and he immediately about faced and | walked rapidly northward. j His great anxiety to once more s°e I his home and the loved onei there gave I hi-m much strength, and before he I could quite realize where he was he i stood in front of his own mansion. I Oh, what a sight that was as he came I up the long front walk, his eyes gazing ' up at the blue rooms; but there was no sweet face there waiting for him, and ! no light shone from any window. For some reason the great hall door । was seldom locked now, and Ray euI taxed as he had al >vays done. All was darkness within the mansion, but he | easily found his way up the long stairi way by the bright Hashes of lightning, j He was shoeless, and made no noise । as he passed up those marble stops and through the long hall to his. wife's ■ room. He tried to open the door, but iit was locked. He rapped again and I again but no one opened it, and it was then that Im rii-hed to the alarm-bull I and rang it with sin h force. Thomas came from his room imme- ; diately with a lain]) in Jiand, and as ' : Ray spoke to him he, recognized the ' I voice immediately, but poor Tom was j so frightened at first that he could not j speak. CHAPTEII XXXIV. That fearful storm seemed but a Hre- | brand from heaven a bit of God’s i wrath to punish Jeannette Xathan for her many crimes; for. as soon ns the lightning had struck the mansion ami I had prostrated tlie murderess at her poor victim's feet, it seemed t > pa>son. The lightning grew 1< ss s vere ami the thunder could only L? heard in the I distance, ihe family physician so?n I

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, FEBIU ARY 2:5,1881).

arrived at the ma inion and fonn^ Jeannette in a very dangerous condition. "It will be almost a miracle if she ever recovers,” said the Doctor. He then went to Kay, but at first sight of him he shrank back, and canid not at first realize that the man in front of him was Raymond Bristol, rimmas, who bad not left his master, hastily cxplaimal matters, si< that, the Doctor could understand. Kay had received a heavier shock than he had at first expected, and ias yet he was unable to speak. This was indeed a very trying position for the old family doctor to be placed in, for In 1 had his u opinion about Kay’s strange di appearance aud who lay at the bottom of it all; but lie ha I never said a word t > any one about it. For once in that sturdy old man's life he . -Mari'clv knew what t<> say; but as ii is mostly better t > act than to talk, he imme liatelv went to work. In the course of an hour or so, Kay asked, in I a very st range voice: “ I loctor, where are m\ wife and child * Tell me all that lias hiqipmied here in the last six months.” The Doctor winced slightly, and his face paled, but he replied, calmly : "I do not rememb. r now just where your wife did go. but she wont some , place soon after you left us all. 1 smpI pose Miss Nathan knows where she is. . Your mother has not yet returned from England. Tlmv say she has n t been very w.H this viut.r; but 1 think she ’ ought to b? sent for immediately, for ; 1 fear Miss Nathan will never recover । i.'om this shock ” "1 d<m't presume any one knows where I have been all this time, and I hardly know mvsMf; but I don’t want to talk about it now. How soon did my wife go away after I disappeared?’ “I do m>t know, 1 am sure, for she ' had been gone some time before I knew of it. ” “Well, hurry up, Doetor, au I get me looking like mortal mtn again a- soon as possible, lor I must s c Jeann tte j and know where my little Jana i?; for I some reason or oth r I fe I very ! strangely, and 1 believe there is some- ! tiling wrong.” "Gracious, man. that woman must not be disturb, d under any m nsidiTatiou foi- feme time; but, ah! Bristol. ' h th is a sear on your < hest that looks • as if a bullet had mad ■ it ; how s that I’he Doctor had l-en examining Ray’s lungs, and by accidt ut saw the sear. "You are right, for the night of the 24th of last Nov. mb r 1 was shot ! through the bodv ami I guess it was 'but a mirael ■ that I !i,«d. 1 have I been a jnisom r sine? then and have I never seen Ihe light of <Liv ; but llerc ’ is some strung.' mystery about it ad, land I do not wish to sax auv moe i iiUmt it at pr< sent." The Doctor th night it prmb’it to | keep qui'et, ami said no m r ■ about th ■ 1 matter. He had relived Kav of his beard and tangled hair as best he I could. It was daylight before the i faithful old ]>hvsi\ian left the man- > sion, and his mind was full of strange ; doubts aud famm s. Ruv mm n fell | asleep and did not wake up until i the aftm'iio ii. He was f s ling much ; better, and after dn s.sin ■ as usual. ! went down to the iibiarv. I vervthing । there was just as he hud left it six ' months ago. Poor man. littUv ho knew what sorrow was in store tor i him yet! There was a large pile of ' letterson his desk, all unopened, and most of them on business. He sat down aud began to tear open the envelopes, one by one. and hud been reading for some time when the lil rarv door opened and Jeannette’s maid en- ' tered. “My lady would like t<> see you, I please, sir.” “Very well,” aud h rose from the 'chair and f illowcd the mail, little dreaming what lay before him. [to be < ox rixt ei>. | Our Tears. 'Tears in redundance may strikingly express emotion, but tlmt is a mental sidwhich is but a snnll part of their function, as we shall see. The jirinci- ! pal element in the composition of a tear j is, as may be readily supposed, w ater, i The other elements are salt, soda, ; phosphate of lime, phosphate of soda, and mucus, each in small proportions. A dried tear seen through a microscope of good average power presents a peculiar a]>p arauce. The water, after evaporation, leaves behind it the salii.e ingredients which amalgamate and form themselves into lengthened cross lines, and look like a number of minute tish bones. The tears are secreted in , what are called the “lachrymal glands,” situated over the eyeball and underneath the lid. The contents of these I glands are carried along and under the inner surface of the eyelids by means of six or seven very fine channels, aud are discharged a little above the cartilage supporting the lid. The dis- , charge of tears from the lachrymal I gland is not occasional and accidental, as is commonly supy.osed. Tint continuous. It goes on both day and night, though less abundantly at night, through the “c induits,” and spreids , equally over the surface of the pupil, | in virtue of the incessant movement of i the lids. After serving its purpose, the i flow is carried away by two little drains, situated in that corner of the । eye nearest the nose, into which they j run, and called the “lachrymal points.” i The usefulness of this quiet How of । tears to both men and beasts is nianiI fest. Thera is such an immense quantity of line dust floating in the air, ami ' ooustuntly getting in the eyes that but I lor it they would soon become choked, i A ery little is requisite to keep the ball i free, and when some obnoxious sub- [ stance, smoke, an insect or the like, | that affects the nerves, does make its j way in, an increased flow is poured i out to sweep it away. Because She Mas I’reHy. Mother For mercy’s sake, child, what do yon < xpect to do in the world? You can’t cook, nor sew, nor teach I school; and you are not an heiress, and I will not learn a trade what cau I you do ? Daughter YVell, mother, I can g< t married, can’t I? Ymik' <■ H’a'Jc.

INDI \N \ II \ITENIVGS. | EM N t s AND INCIDENTS ih ai HAV» EA I EiA O< < l RKED. All interesting Sumniary of the More Im- : portant linings of Hur Xeiglibors Wetl(UiigH ami f>ealh» Criiae, < asiialti« s anil ' • iem-ral News N<<tes« Mad 'logs have math their appearance at Vmlerson. poultry associatior will be mgnutze<l at Craw fordsx ille. • There are about lifts miles of toll loads in Montgomery (’minty. Alter:; long fight the saloons have gained a foothold m Shi ridun. Last week the Jay County Recorder r< reived 2tD oil ami gas leases for record. Shi ridan hiqx sto h:,\. the largest fair next full ever held in Hamilton I <’minty. Sinttm 1 Mart, om of the pioneer l residents of Grant Countv. dn d. aged 1 7U years. I'hi Tesjdem-i of Lifa.v tti ( arr. seven mil. s north of \\ iudfail, was de -troy ed by tire. Chicago peopL have mvesteil SJO. ■ "Oli in n 1 .Ulin, ncri wihl-fowl resi ivat iou near Toh stun, l ake County. Chaplain Brown I'ortl. G. A. It., ol . Valparaiso, has adopt, J i< olntiom. favorim i: gem ml pen-ion bill. Tim report t! at White i aps are operating' hi N‘-l<’< a ilh is denounced I v the Mayor of that pl '•? as a canard. George M. Ih aglc is under arrest at Greenfield far tin attempted wrecking of a passenger tram m irtlmre hl-t .Inly . At ‘.ol Wavm. a ia.kiuni mom d Sears, ot a imlgim tit lor - non against the Teitusy Ivimia Company for the loss ' ' of ll leg. Gramlmot In r lb den, of i riwforfls Ville. WuOI-ov , | NII ye 1 s,I t. wi 11 at - ll lid the lliallr ni a t ion of Gen. Kellj. Harrison. . His. Naomi Lam) .th. of l.afuyette. 1 ■ In oug fit mi it • • • Hist W iHiam P, K irkpntrii’k for hr.- .< h-m pnami • elamnng sit.ono ibuiiages. A wom.n uaimd l.<>, I. hurt, v Gil. sick m lied, was utta< ke<l By a mad dm; at Brazil. liei husbaml uiiivid in turn . to 1.111 the I i ute. It v. Noah 11 rpi i. mic । ' ■< f flu , Baptist chm h in • ohm.bus, has r signed, to ... .p’ < ail from lio Baptist i < hutch <d' W .it ■tw . ■ ( liarlcs i list, of Law temnlmrg. run ‘ a fish-fin into his hand a (■ u days agm ' Blood poison resulted, iml -ii i 'Us emisvquenei - art f< • red. V ft >r s< v oral y < ais ot w i.mgl mg, tin < raw fordsv iile t ity < ol.lieii has , tabhsh, d a p.mt.d. ami made ll au utleUHe lot cow s io run ul large. The intt in a < <'tl mine al Mib'ltell , hr ku and prccipil.dtd the cage nim tyIlVi feet to tile bottom. One person was killed .old two Seriously mjuicd. Ii wn m■ • - ibli phtue < nbe found । in tin sw amps, tin Cimmiissivuurs of Luke and Newton counties will 1 tiild a Lrid ,ea toss tlm Ivuukkci Kivcr. Sivtti Adilins < utility farmers have just realized that k light), ing-iod ami paint peddlers swimCcl them mu of . uimnints ian.,iic. from s_’oo to Si.nn, A rewind of ^l. 'i'dts offered fol the arrest of Charles Smith, themuribrei nmier sentence of death, who recently escaped from the Posey Cuunty jail. 1 rank Kiser, of West Point, was fimml frozen I > death betweeu Lttfuy- | ette and his home. IL .s snpjiosed to have been in a state of intoxication. The maehim ry for tin m w waterworks plant, ut Columbus, fins arrived, ; and is being placed iu position. Ihe • ost of th, plant w ill lie übont >1 i.imn. Kev. b llliam R. Nobes died Very I suddenly ot’ heart disease at Flora, l Carroll County . He was 7" y ears ot age and vv 111 known ns a Methodist minister. The postoflii e it Fort Wayne moved into the m.w gov ernim nt building, just ! compk ted. The structure was eom- ’ I tuenced in l»-k ami cost nearly $400,1)00. Daniel Williams, aged 7a, one of the ; best-known citizens of Shelby County, is dead, from the efteets of burns received by falling into mi open fireplace. —lhe citizens of Morgantown arc ' raising money to Imre for gas, and not ( to determine tin- truth or falsity of an , nndergrouml lake, as charged by rival v illages. —A myHt erimis. about ing affray, in i which Fam Davi- received a bullet in : j his arm. occurred at \mleisom He re- । : fuses to disclose the mimes of the participants. The State Fish Commissioner has sent an agent to investigate the fish dynamiting outrages which are being extensively comm itt cd in Whit, River, south of Columbus. Fort Wayne is to have mdural gas from tlie wills in Blackford < minty, a , company having given bond to pipe gas to the city and through the street- in time for use next winter. Mrs. Pop Wilson, of Martinsville, almost eighty years of agi , tell mt her door step ami broke her hipbone. Mie was stricken with paralysis some mouths ago, and is in feeb^ In ilth. •hums Hymer aWd Emma Nilson, of Greencastle, were married a few days ago. (In the evening of tho ceremony the bride compluineil o! being unwell. She r.qdilly grew worse mid in Iwo days died, her physieimi attributing tin cmu-< to din dic coma. Tlie case against John Sage at Marion for accessory to the murder of a | child, which has absorbed the attention of that section for some time past termimded recently w ith a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner’s punishment was assessed at imprisonment lor life. Az.ro Dyer, Judge of the Superior ('mirt at Evan -v il le, has brought a > .0,(100 libel suit aguinsttheEv ansville Cmiri* f. The suit grows mH of publications concerning au alleged ileal between two elceL ic-light companies in that city, for one of which Mr. Dyer a ( 'G as Pre-idem

The < hies of tin Fire Department at Crawfordsville, asked the Council to ! । appoint a man to keep people from in- j ! terforing with the firemen at fires. He was instructed to turn the water on them. William P. Fisher, a prominent Itopublican of Union Township, was ar- | rested, recently by a t'nited States । Marshal, on ihe charge of violating the election laws. He gave bond in the sum of SS<IO. The fortune of half a million dol- 1 lai's to which George Zinn, formerly an ( inmate of the Lu Porte County poor 1 asylum, was said to have fallen heir to, ! has dwindled down to 52,» under imvs- ! । tigation. Mary Sauers, a 13-yenr-old girl, is 1 ou trial at LaPoite for administering a I fatal dose of arsenic to her brother. She is charged with murder in the first degree. Her father is also under in- , dictnient. S. M. ('oilman, editor of the Craw--1 Fordsville .I i i/ms-A'< ex, was arrested on ; ■ a b< nch warrant issued by the Ti]qieca- I noe Circuit Court, where he is wanted i to answer to the i hare, of assault upon ! Ml'S. \. T. Kellisou. Wabash is in dmigei of losing tin Strawboard Fai tiny i ontempbited by , I the Barber Match Company. Failure to ■ | make satisfactory transportation rates' ; with tlie (’., W. A M. Railway is said to ' be a st mnbling block. It is surmised that tin Spanish coin rci-j’idly found near Hanna were left in tin- jar in tin tree by some one of tho Spanish troop vv hieh came to that region m 17M from St. Louis, Mo., to seize tLa country for the King of Spain. tlmm two yeai ago Mrs. F. I i/abi tii Cailw aliader. of <'raw fordsi ille, was I struck by an engine, which was backing I at th. eros ing of Mam street ami the I. N \. . ('. she sued for SaJKM) <lam- ‘ ages ami tin jury gave her i 11. Lyman, a y ard 1 rnki imm at Fort Wayne, lu s Lei ti adjudged insane. Two years Ugo he was implicated in a collision « .K icln one passenger w as fatally ami mo 'al seriouslv injured. Since then he ha- been partially demented. lohti Cornell, mine boss nt No. 'J mine, nt Knight-v ille, owned and opiated by the Brazil Block Coal ( om- i p iny, fell from the top or tqqu r vein to the lower vein, a di-tanee of übont twenty Let His rieuvery is doubtful. A team drivi it by a farmer named John Schoeff, raniiwuy at Roanoke, six milt ■ wist of Fort Mayne, and dashed In adlo, g into the Wabash fust train, wlii h was pa-- i ■ t the titm. Both horses mi i < iii-.tant 11 k iHed. uml Schoeff wis so badly miit'c'l that he cannot om iv । . \t \\ derioo the White ( ins utti Uipted to iXi i Ille a lliitid they hii.l । mmh iiuunsi lames Burk. liny ham-. , nn red in tin door of his house ami eu- ' tel. <l, blit the >e< upants opened iile । mi them, one ! all taking effect in the ! > jaw of Ski]> Barnhart. The rest of the i ’ gang thereupon took Hight. 1 In M ormon missiona i i<s, who hive i been for the past few week- conducting I meetings iii Dubois ( iiunty, claimed | that they emild work miracles similar to j those of tin < ally apostles. The doubt- I ing congregations demanded un exhibi- I tion of mirm-ulous powers, but tin I tuh ! apostles failed to respoml. The passruger station at Adams, I live miles east of Fort Mayne, the jum - | lion <>f the Cim iunali. Rn hurnn l and Fort Mayne, ami Pittsburgh, Fort Mayne : and Chicago Railroads, was destroyed : by tire, caused by a defective chimney. ' Loss, S2.0II"; no insurance. The baggage ami tickets were saved. The Christian Church dedicated at I Boone Grove recently, is the first house of worship erected in that place. It is sui I to be one of the finest in Porter County outside of Valparaiso. Rev. 1.. L. ( arpi nti r, of M abash, mmdueted the services, aud raised SLoIK) more than ! sufficient to pay off the indebtedness. Prof. August Vontwiertsheim, who claims to be a German baron, was ar- ! rested at Fm tM ayno for obtaining money under false pretenses. The Baron, who is highly educated, has been living on thr fat of the land I’m the past three months, geums' the means for his high living from German ministers amt teachers. He represented himself as a, professor connected w ith some school. The alleged pedagogue wa- seid-ncei to one year in the penitentiary. Hvdio]ihobia is prevalent t< an alarming extent in various parts of. । Southern Indiana. \ few days ago an I unknown mad Hog made its appeal mce j in the vicinity of Champimi, Jennings County, uml before it could be killed it had bitten several head of cattle and .. mule. I hree animal^ are showing unmistakable signs of hydrophobia, and several * f them have already been shot. All of the dogs of the neighborhood are : being killed, ami excitement run- high nimmg the people of that locality. John Liiienw eiier. a farmer near China, Jefferson ( oiinty, mystermuslv disappeared from his home five yearago, ami it was supposed ho hail been murdered or diowm d. ihe family 1 mourned him as ilend. flic wife, or i widow, as she supposed het sulf to be, j formed the aeqiiaiutunci ot < Madison | gentleman, ami a wedding day was fust j j approaching, when who shmihl imm ar ' j upon t lie scene lam week but ihe long- । missing husbaml. M hat explanation he ! gave of his singular action and long jibsPiK ty is iiot kiitiwii, hut it is known that he put a damper on the wedding jireparations. I —Mary Sowers, u girl Ei y ears of • e ] pleaded guilty to the charge ol nmrif r - in the Lal'orte ('mimy Circuit Court, arid was sentenced by Judge Noyes to live years in the Stale Reformatory. The girl's father is in prison awaiting trial for the same crime, which was the murder, by administering arsenic, ot an infant brother ami son. I>uiing the same session of court William Austin was sent to the penitentiary for five yearr> for committing an assault on the ■ ■ girl sentenced as above. Ihe fathers cose comes up to-morrow.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. — A WEEK’S DOINGS OF OUK STATE A I.AU - MAKERS. ' I Resolutions Otl’vwil- Bills Introduced Home Passed and Others Defeated A ; Summary uC the IToeeedings. Krb. 0. In the House a bill was : passed limiting bequests for charitable : ‘ or religious pueposes to one-fourth of I the estate. The Senate devoted the day in considering several sections of the new election bill. h'.b. 11. Senaii. After the introduction of several bills, the reading of ; the election bill tor the purpose of aseertainiug w hether or not the numerous mnemlments made thereto in the last few days were correctly incorporated was commenced ami pursued until the recess for dinner. Tlie reading was continued part of the afternoon. The remainder of the day’s session was consiimed in discussion of various amendments to the bill, among them the substitute prepared by the minority, which I was rejected by yens. 21; nays, 27 Senator Barrett moved that the report ot ! tin committee be concurred in without j further amendment, ami that the bill be ! ordered engrossed. Tho motion was | aqreed to by yeas 38, nays U. Hol si: A bill repealing the statute making it a criminal offense to intimidate men from working or to interfere with the running of trains was ordered engrossed. V bill lessoning the power of 'Township Trustees was passed. A bill was introduced to legalize the mar- j i riage of dnchel Mason Goy, to Lawrence 1 Burggs. Tin bill appropriating SHK),(HKi for buildings for the feeble-minded children, with majority and minority re- 1 ports thereon, was rend ami ordered engrossed, and made a special order for next M edm sday. I he bill rolat ing to the I’olivo Boards of cities of 2'j, (Kid inhabitants', on motion j of Mr. Curtis, was milered engrossed. /•'</>. 12.- Sin vie Bills passed: Ti legalize the elections in the town of Booneville: qiproprint iug S18(>,30(l so ' i the Indiana school for feeble-minded l youth; to legalize the election of the j board of director-- of the ( linton Drawbridge Company. House V uuniber of unimportant 1 bills were introduced and the following I passed: l o Hpprnprinte SilO.OOi) for a . library building ut the State I Diversity; i to appropriate S27.(idd to the ITaiutield Re form School. t-'t b. 13. One of the partisan bills introduced by the Democrats, taking ! I rom tlu < lov < i nor t In- iiovver to apjioint i a Geologist, Mine Inspector ami Oil lus|metor, was pas-.ed to engrossment in . the Semite. file election bill was read a thiol tiine. \ local-option bill was imhdinilely postponed in tin House. Bills' missed: \ pnropriat ing SIB7JIOU, io bo used in . construct ing a Rome for feeble-minded i ! children; making nppropriations to 1 meet deficiencies: nuthoriziug the State i Treasurer to borrow sjoo.iHKi to pay the . expenses ot the General tssenibly. h'< b. II Tm: Andrews election bill, i embracing the prinepal features ol the I Australian law. passed the Senate. I’ln । Supreme Court Commission bill was I j discussed al length, ami passed to its I third reading. In the House a bill was passed making eight himis constitute a legal day’s work; also a bill making a separate judical circuit of Chirk and Floyd count ies. b'eb. 15. The Pleasant school textbook bill was discussed in the House, a)id referred to a sele. t committee of seven with instructions to report a school-book bill on Monday. A bill was passed providing for the election by the General Assembly of three police commissioners for cities having more thiin 29,000 inhabitants. (Indianapolis and Ev ansville.) The Senate passed a bill appropriating 575.000 for the use of Purdue Fniversitv. 7 Cause am! Effect. Buffon, the great naturalist, one day । entertained a company of distinguished savants to dinner. • At its conclusion they all went out into the garden. It was a very hot summer’s day. Tn tho center of Ihe grounds there stood on a pedestal n large glass globe, which one of the guest hiq)]>ened to touch with his hand, when he found to his astonishni nt that it was warmer on the shady side than on the side turned toward the ' sun. He communicated this discovery to the other guests, who at once pro- ‘ ceeded to verify the statement. M hat j could be the < ail.se? All animated discussion ensued, in the course of which every imaginable law of physics was made to account for ' the strange paradox. At length our . scientists agreed that it must be so, owing to the laws of reflection, repnl- ; sion. or exhalation, etc. ’1 he host was, however, not quite convinced, and calling the gardener, lie said to him : Pray, tell us why the globe is warmer on the shady side" than on the --id. turned to the sun.” The man replied " Because, just now 1 turned it round for tear of its cracking with great heat. (lazette A iie<-ilotlqiie. "What is a man-of-war?” said n ’ teacher to his class. "A cruiser,’ was • the prompt reply. "What makes it go?” "Its screws, sir “Mho goes with it?” “Its crew, sir.” (b-ean. An Even Divide. "TJiis world is pretty evenly divided. . afti r all,” said tin- butchei as he scraped away at his block. "How?” “ Lady in tho diamonds and sealskin gets out of her carriage and comes in here and inquires for ‘sassage.’” "Well?” "MAdl, other folks have tlie money and us butchers have the eddecashun. Makes me feel more content.” Detroit Free 7 'ress. A sweet gatberins—a boiL

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J THE SUNDAY SCHOOL SERIOI S SI IMEITS ( AKEfIiU Y AND ABLY « (INS IDE RED. 1 Scholarly Fxposltion of the LeivM® - Thoughts AV orthy of Calm KeHe.-lion-Half mi Hom 's Study of the Scrij lures Time Well Spent. The lesmn for Sunday, Feb. 24, may be found in Mark vi. INTItODI ('TORY. When Eudoeia enjoined Chrysostom with threatenings, the bold preacher said Say to her 1 fear nothing save sin.” M e siy that "with God ail things are*pos- • ible, yet there is one thing that, hinders His giaeious and mighty working, one thing before which Omnipott. ice pauses It 1-; unbelief. "Ho could them do no mighty works, says the lesson before us. Mas not. able, ’ Dr. Conant puts it in h s luminous translation. Remember the trnth, deep, grave, startling; in simple < onsisL ne i with His own holiness and Hu tree will with which He has endowed num, God eannol do contrary to the choice of a single human soul. With just these will-, of ours wo can stay our ecdem).,ion and foilei: heaven. A lew weeks ago wo were studying of tho people ol' Doeapolis who banished Jesus by their tiesucehings Here we have Him driven out by noiibt, unbelief. It is the m 0;... desperate, despicable, devilish thing m •ill the universe. Beware of it! vv 11 v. r tu,r lehson teaches. Inlo his own conntrii. Christ loved His boyhood town of Nazareth. This was the second effort He made to secure its etormd goo.l. Before, Ho had been rejected with violence; but now Ho comes again, to be again repulsed. Assuredly the hardest field for labor is sometimes closest home. How difficult for sons to speak to fathers, w ives to husbands, brothers, sisters, bosom, iricmls to each other! When you are being entertained in a home, brother, I<Y > your Christian testimony join in heartily’ with Hie witnesses for Christ in that, household. Yom word may be ail that is’ needed to add itself to tho faithful In jsj 1 being lived under the reof. Lip and life together may bring to instant decision.. ‘ Are your sous all converted?” said au' I evangelist once as he sat at a humble! Eastern tireside. "Yes,” answered his host, ami then lie added, "all but De-j w itt .” 'Tho evangelist turned to the sou! and simply tohl the story of the lost; sheep. It was enough. Dewitt Talmage became a Christian. He could there do no mif/hty work. I hat is, it was morally impossible. Do y<m recall the barrister who came to the । prisoner’s cell with tho papers of a parI non in his pocket. “M’hat would you doi if you got free?" lie aske I. In a hot rage Hui convict responded that he would forthI witli shoot the judge who sentenced hint and the witnesses who bore false testimony against him. Was it wholly strange that the pardon remained unopened? I 'There is a pardon ready to be delivered to any of the sons of enith. Can a righteous God give it to an unrighteous and rebellious soul, to one who. at his heart, says he will not take it save lo do with it j greater wickedness? He marreled because of their unbclit f ; Does not that same Christ marvel much over the unbelief of to-day? There are . s lid io bo two hundred prophecies direct of Christ aud fifteen hundred of an indi - rest sort in the Old Testament. And ye. they doubted him. No wonder lie marveled. But what must Heaven think of us, who, besides these promises fulfilled in Christ’s life on earth, have the tests | niony of eighteen centuries of the careex of tim church, animated as it is by his Spirit ? Marvel the angels well may. How far w rong is Moody when he say s nt North- : field, Hundreds people right in this town don't know Chist ie out of Joseph t J sepulcher'.-'’ Hare them power. Christ was the? । source. As the disciples started forth He ■ kept giving them power, is the sense. : They had no power or authority in them i selves, their virtue was all iu Him, smd they used whatever He gave them. So i^ the’ disciple to do to-day. Whatever power God designs us td employ in this d.speusation, as we abide in IT’n He wilt continually impart to us. Christ Himself gave us the pattern in His own voluntary subjection: “The Father that dwelleth in Me, He doelh tho works.” Paul puts it in true doctrinal form for us who rest in. Christ: “M ho hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places (heavenly altitudes, heavenly realities, en epouraniois) in Christ." Lc-t us not be anxious about signs and powers: let us b? only solicitous that we abide in Hint. In that abiding will be found all tho gifts and graces requisite for the work of to-day. For remember, "He that hath put all things colt r His Jet t" hath also given Him toj;e "the Imad over all things to the church, The dust under your feet for a mony. Think of it. When one is filled witli the spirit of the Master and wholly devoted to him more than one thing witnesses for the truth of his message, cw n Hit dust <>f his feet is a telimony. “Draw Hie net, <lmw the, net,” says our friend of tho Pacific Garden Mission, “whether souls respond or not; the very fact that thev have had another opportunity ami refused it wilt make its appeal to them. Every t ime the Bible is closed in the class-roe us, every time the lust hymn is sung in the church service, every time the pastor or teacher or Christian brother turns away after an earnest appeal, there is a new ari row winged Iry the Spirit, straight at the j heart of the impenitent. May we keep in the witnessing atmosphere. I Detached that men should repent. It is not nil Ihe gospel, but surely it is n largo part of the goqiel proclamation; a part, too, it is t hat seems just now somewhat neglected. Have you read Dr. Asbmore’s article in the current Missmnant ! datiazine'.' "The go-pel, ’ he says, has a twofold errand: to witness and tobuUd. The witnessing was to come first. Ann is lie not right in urging that we put it first again to-day? It is the Inst sharp, swift message, the sho' oa Hie picket line, “the decimation of war, ’ as Dr. A'-hnmro calls it, "against the gates ot im 1, tne summons to surrender; the simp u rord of t. stimon is, as Dr. Gordon has pleaded, a lai L'u part of the preaching of the gospel. When Chris! fitted out tbm early corps of disciples ami gave them then itra c ant outfit, be set the < hurch an example for all time. In mission in' operations, n! the Sunday-school everywhere, wo .lo i well to heed it. Next Lesson Jesus the Messiah Mark . 27-38 and IB L . Th > Keason He 'His SiTnt. Smarl young man Is it possible there’s nothing new in base-ball prize fights to ta'k about? Tour® been fifteen minutes at work on my I'uee ami haven’t said a word. Taciturn barber I lout a good situation one? by talking too every dunied fool I shaved. Nexts— Chicago Tribune. The: teacher suidihat that that that tbn6 that preceded was conoctiy ussd- (an you add a "that to that ? i'htittdelphni Call.