St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 14, Number 36, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 March 1889 — Page 1

VOLUME XIV.

Lost Lina; -on,— ® BITTER AND THE SWEET. A Tale of Two Continents. BY MRS. NINA LAWSON. As Bay entered Jeannette’s chamber, he found her propped up in bed with large, snow-white pillows, and she looked almost like a corpse. Her large black eyes were now sunken in her head, and the once fat, rosy cheeks were now pale and thin; the hand she extended to Rayas he advanced toward the bed was white, and scarcely any flesh remained on the long slim fingers. As she looked at Ray's wasted ,onn and sunken cheeks, her conscience smote h r to think she had been the cause of it all; her voice was no longer »strong, and hal lost its commanding tone. “Ruy, please be seated, for I wish to talk to you awhile. Minna, you may go to your room now, and wait until you are called. “Perhaps you are not strong enough. Ray, to listen to all I have to tell, but it must be told now. or never, lor I shall never see another day.” She spoke slowly and distinctly. “No, Jeannette. I am not very strong as yet. fori have had a very severe time of it for the last six months, and when you get a little l etter I will tell you all about it; but you must not talk in this manner, for you will soon recover from the shock. You make me feel worse by talking so. But you were going to tell me last night where my Lina is. and then the shock came and you could not finish. ” “Yes, it is that that I have sent to tell you about Ray, after you have heard what I have to say you will curse the day I was bora and hate my memory forever, for I have been the causa of all your trouble; no—don’t start in that manner, but be calm and listen to me, for this is my dying confession, and God alone knows what it costs’me, but I do not think now that 1 could die ; without telling all. “I knew where you were all the time, . Ray, and it was I who had you put there. I knew when you were shot and how badly; it was I who wrote that letter that caused you to go to the city that night, and I who wrote that anonymous letter to Aunt Marguerite about Lina. It was I, too, Ray, who put that poison in the cup of chocolate on the morning after the ball, and I who tried to smother that girl to death: all of this I have done, Ray, and why ? Because I once loved you and this dear old mansion more than I did my life cr my hope of heaven. “When she first came here I saw how beautiful she was, and I was then afraid that you would love her more than me ! if she remained until you came, and ; then I dbl all that I could to get her away from here, but aunt was firm, and I saw that she loved the girl. " Jeannette stopped a few moments to i rest and then went on : “And then, when I saw you give ; your heart to her. I grew jealous, and it seemed to me that you had forgotten me, and I used to think that you love I me, and that I would one day be mistress of this mansion. But.no; that was not to be, and now I am a ruined, lost woman. “After I failed to kill her with the poison, I was still more determine I to ' get her out of the way, thinking amt . yoa would then lov? me and soon for- I get her. It was then that I tried to ! smother her to death; but before I had quite succeeded the nurse came and stopped me. Rather than have her betray me then, I killed the nurse and threw her body in the lake. Yes; and it was I who shot the poor simpleton, for fear he would tell on me! “Then, when I failed at that, I was afraid to attempt a third tim * to kill her. Then 1 tried to get her from the mansion by writing that letter to aunt: but, as you know, I failed in that also. I was taken sick then, as you remember, and I knew nothing about what was going on in the mansion until just a few days before your marriage, and then I would have shot her before your own eyes if I could have got at her. “Well, you were soon married and gone, while I was left behind to nurse my wrath, and think of the } ast and my lost love. ~“0h, Ray, how I once loved you! None but God knows how much, and I so longed to be mistress of this house that I have sold my soul to eternal damnation to win it; but all in vain! “I loved you too much; yes. I would have been your slave. I would have died for you, but when I saw that you cared no more for me than any of the servants here I vowed to have revenge, and now I am the curse of your life! “Be patient, Ray; I know you feel like choking me to death. But lam dying now, and I hope your troubles will cease—but—listen, Ray, you have not heard the worst.’’ “My God, Jeannette! you will kill me yet, as you have the rest.” . “Hark! Listen! Be patient. There is only a little more, and then all is over. i “Well, I got my revenge at last, and i ‘ how I glori d at the sight of th it Woman’s misery! Oh, it was sweet to me then to see her suffer at my hands. 1 when I have lived ten thousand deaths । because of her! “I hired a man to go to Chicago that ■ night that you were shot in the woods, and the next day he sent a message that you had committed suicide, and she was told to go there immediately. : I thought the shock would kill her, and then I did not care much if it did. ; I would have seen her die and not shed I a tear. As soon as she was able she I Went to Chicago, with Tom and her I maid, but when she arrived there they k "°ld her that you had thrown yourself 1 m the lake, and had sent a letter to ■ her the same morning. They say she ■ came near dying there at the Pacific ■ Hotch an j perhaps it would have been K 6 bibssing if she had! Il v ' had men search for your body. H hut <4 course they did not find it; and

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as soon as she was able sho entue back. I had hired a man to come that day and take away her babe, and when she came home nurse and all were gone, and the nursery was all dark. “I then told her just what I thought of such as she, and that she had, indirectly, killed you and her babe; that both of your bodies were lying at the, bottom of the lake. I then thought that she ought to be there and I told her s.i; I also told her that I was mis- j tress of this mansion, and that its doors I ! were henceforth do ed to her. "I gave her a letter that I had order- । led mailed in Chicago, and it was a I farewell letter from yon. I imitated ' your handwriting as much as possible.” “ Where are they now r” gasped poor Hay. “I do not know, Ray, where your wife is. She may be dead, for all I know. She left here alone, about midnight that night, and 1 have never j heard of her since. But your little girl ! lives and is well; as wicked as I have been 1 could not kill her.” “Where is she?” “She is at .Ton sb .rough, 111., with ■ that old couple that her mother once I , lived with. They know whose child ' she is. but think that both her parents are .lead ” “And my wife lives; I know it—something tells me so. Thank God, I shall once again see the light of day, I and can forgive you, Jeannette, if she “I do not ask your forgiveness, Ray. Y'ou know what it is to love and to lose, : but you don’t know what it is to be I cursed by God for a crime committed ' for that lost love, and I do. "I know now that that storm was sent last night as my punishment, and I should have been compelled to lie i h. re forj years if I had not confessed.” “That storm was my deliverer, and ; I thank God for it. Yes, you have committed a great crime, Jeannette, almost an unpardonable sin.” Ray’s eyes shone now like two great stars, and it seemed that every particle of blood in his body had rushed to his face. His blood on tire, an Ihe was in great dan., r, l ut in his present state of exeiteme it he could not ; realize his condition, and did not seem to understand fully all that Jeannette j had said. "That is all I have to say, Ray, and । now good-by, and—good-by forever!” Ray gazed at her iff a very strange I manner, as if he did not understand i what she said; his eyes were like two j great balls of tire, and his hands and knees were trembling as those of an old man stricken with palsy. He said nothing, bu: sat gazing at Jeannette with that strange, unnatural look. By and by he rose and left the room, Imt his limbs refused to carry the I H^ht weight of his body, and he sank to the floor as he reached hi a room. Jeannette Nathan died that night before midmght. and the mansion was dark and de-olate imh e I. She hud her revenge, ’out of what I ava.l to self or mortal man? CHAPTER XXXV. Those six months wer? long and clouded to another besides Raymond j Bristol. There was a little woman, a । little, lonely wife, wandering over the earth, from place to place, carniag as j heavy a burden as her soul could bear. I A long future lay before her, without j one visible ray of sniishine to light up i the lonely, dark r,>ad. This lonelv little homeless wife was Lenora Bristol. On that darkest of dark nights , that she left the mansion, alone, friend- • less, and almost penniless, ami after ! her lonely walk to the city, she reached , the cottage with the “light in the wini dow.” That cottage was the firs* on that i street, and its i nly occupant was a , I poor, lone widow that once had been the wife of a fond, loving husband, ’ and the mother of two beautiful chil’ren. Al 1 were now gone from the : i world, and their bodies were at rest in । the little quiet cemetery by the old 1 white church. A- this poor widow i opened the door and saw a woman ; stan ling there in Hie vain and cold, the - ' kind, saddened heart went out to that , poor, lone wanderer, and then w! n Lenora sank to the floor she pitied her ■ ; still more. . “Poor, dear soul, no doubt she is bur- , : den.-d with sorrow, and perhaps is a | dear little lamb that has strayed from j i light in the window these long years. , tor perhaps it nas done one poor soul I some good.” She partly carri d and partly : dragged the limp cold body and i laid it gently down upon a low worn , sofa: the black dripping hat and long j heavy a ell were then reim ved from the | head, and the old lady’s eye rested on ' a young beautiful worn n. j “Ah! Dear, sad heart, so fair, so ■young to see trouble; but then th • I world is full of it, no matter where we j go.” Mrs. Bassett for that was her name) | stirred up the fire and put the kettle I on; in a few minutes a hot. steaming ! cup of tea sat on the table that stood near the lounge; the warm lire and the ! gentle chafing of the cold hands and I face soon caused Lenora to open her j eyes, and as she looked up she saw a ; j sad gentle face bending over he/; the ; hair was white and the eyes had lost i the brightness of youth, yet around the ( mouth played a sweet gentle smile. I “Is that you, mother ? and have you , I come to me at last? Oli, it is all so , terrible, and I need you so much. You | know now all about it, and yon know it isn’t true. lam going to Chicago on ; the first train an I see if I can t rind some clue to this s range mystery. Yon believe in me, don't you, mother? I । knew you would.” i “Yes, dear. I do.” and Mrs. Bassett stooped and kissed the cold white brow, while a few motherly tears । trinkled down her pale, hollow cheek. , She readily saw that Lenora was de- ■ > lirious, ahd as she had been a nurse ; since her husband’s death, she knew I just what to do and say. । “Here is a cup < t good hot tea I have , j brought for you; you seem chilly, and . ’ this will do you good.” Leno? i sat up and drank the tea. “How preb'y you Lave made my I room look, and din you or nurs 1 build ’ that nice bright fir.*? How is baby, I i mother? Tell nurt :to bring Iter here.

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1889.

1 want to seo her—there, now, T drank t the tea, see? and that will do.” “You feel a little better now, don’t you? Nurse said baby was asleep, and we won’t disturb it. You lie down now and go to sleep, for I believe you are tired.” The poor, weary young wife obeyed, and was soon asleep. That was the : first night, of many more following, | that kind Mrs. Bassett sat up and watched over the feverish, delirious ; stranger for three long weeks. Lenora lay in that pretty little clean । cottage, and her unknown friend did everything she could for her beautiful ; ! strange patient. Lenora had gone again and again i over those awful days and nights, and , Mrs. Bassett now knew who her pa- > tient was, but she said nothing to any i one about what Lenora would cay. At the end of three weeks Lenora began to grow better, but very slowly; I five, six weelu; had passed, ami she was । able to walk round the cottage, and felt quite strong. She wanted to leave there then, but her kind friend would : not consent to her going jus! yet. “You may go in one week if you promise to be careful of yourself, but no sooner.” "I shall miss yon vi rv much, for yon have been like a mother to me; but you know I can’t stay bore, for the memory of it all would kill me, and then I must go to Chicago to see what I can do. 1 would just as soon die as live, now, but I am not the one to say that it is time for my troubles to cease, i and I pray God may give me strength to bear them.” [TO BE rONTINVEn.I Paul of Russia. An apoplectic stroke removed Catherine li. from the throne of Russa and ]>laeed tipon it the son sho despised. A bad woman, but a great soverign, gave place to a vain man whose weak mind unfitted him to rule. Having seen his mother dethrone and murder his father, Paul began his reign with one fear, the dread of a palace revolutii n. He persecuted those m ho ha.l b en in favor with his mother, and lie raised to the highest positions in-ignifieimt persons incapable of performing the duties assigned to them. Fear of treason made him suspicious, severe and capricious. A word brought persecution, and the favorite of to-day was banished on the morrow. He wished to strike terror that all might be submissive, and t int his will should be at once exe uted. Roti’ ’ hats vi ere fori i Lien by an imperial d< cree, I ecause th** < zar thought them a sign of liberalism. If in the crowd set ing a yar.uL a man appe ire I with an old round hat. an aid-de camp pursued the culpii , wh > if caught w.is flogged at the m arcs' guard-house. 'A lien a curr. qe met tin* ' mpcror’s, it stopped and th<> coachman and foot man took off their t aps, and tin* oc *upants, alighting, made a profound oom io his Maj s!*. Thinking, that pcopl wished io slight him, he scrutinized the bow to see if it wa< marked by profound repcct. Th * eIT * *t was that persons iu carriages or on foot to k car not to meet the dreaded Czar. AVhen his carriage was seen approaching they fled down 1 side streets or hid under gaten ays, that they might not be forced to stand in the snow or in the mud and bow themselves to the earth. The person who had the most influence over the despot was KutavscholT, Iris barb, r. a small, st ut, alert Turk, who had been captured while a child and adopted by Paul. The great st generals and statesman of the empir • ol ssquiously sainted the barber, who became the emperor's valet, then a graLd-equcny, adorned with order, and owning large estates, the gifts of th * crazy Czar. Hi a rule became a reign of terror. All h ited him, and every, one synqiathized with the conspirators who choked him t > death. The Fi st < iihiesf Railway. English engineering plans to build a railway in this empire have met with no success; but now French engineers have been more favorably received by the Y'iceroy Li-Hung-Chang and the General Tchenk-Ki-Tang. It is. indeed, only a railway for private use, which is to connect Ti-ntsin with the Yieeroy’s country seat, five or six miles distant. The country and the people wit], of course, derive very little benefit from it, yet the first step is taken in China, ami the most wonderful achieve n eat of Western ci\ilization. which । already has found its way across the san Is of Africa and thtj steppes of Asia, ‘ is now to be found within the walls of China. The cars or carriages for this . road were built in Lyons. They are six in all, three luxuriously fitted up; the one intended for the Viceroy’s use . is painted blue on the outside with gilt ■ decorations, and in each panel is 1 painted the imperial shield and the dragon with five claws. The interior is Louis Quinze style, and is fitted up wi;h cherry-cjlored satin and plush, J The two other ] arior cars are painted red and gold one m ith a large room for the mandarins, upholstered in green ' plush and satin, and the other contains a tea-room in violet plush and satin.— Demorest's. He >p->ke Too Long. A long-winded orator was expatiating on the fellies of this world, when a gentleman quietly observed to a friend sitting next to him that the orator's , speech was like the middle of a wheel. । “YYhy s >?” “Because the fellows around him at the table were tired.” “But don't you think that his speech is creating quite a hub-bub?”— Sunday National Comparative Criticism. First small boy—Say, Muggsy, did yer see "The Lost Trail” last night? Second small boy—Bet-cher life. Wuz it better’n ‘Eleven Lingered Mike?’” ! “Bet-cher-life! It’s got three explosions an’ a shipwreck. ” “Gimini. It must be uz good uz Booth in ‘Hamlet.’” — Time. Is Boston the neck of a chicken is called Napoleon, because it as a bony part.

MONTANA’S ABUNDANCE'! A MAONIFKKNT CLIMATE AND A , SOU. Or UNSUHPAsSED FERTILITY. , Sesom’s Oranhic Letter Descriptive of the * Nortliwest, I’articulnrly of Mcntana—lnteresting- Facts Gained by Actual Invest!- i gation. Gkeat Falls, Montana. Feb. 18, 1889. A man need not be very old to remember I when Chicago was in the flit* West, and a ■ journey beyond the Mississippi was like go- i ing into a far country. Now a dozen rail- | roads run to the Rocky Mountains, and the ■ Pacific coast is separated from New York as : Monday is from Saturday. Lewis and j Clarke, whose wonderful trip in the early i years of the century gave the world llrst ! knowledge of this vast region, were over a | year in reaching this locality, rowing, poling. ' and pushing their canoes for nearly 3,U)i) j miles agaiiist Hie swift current of the Mis-; souri. Now it takes a day or two in a Manitoba palace car or a free-colonist sleeper to reach here, and 119 danger or privation and three good meals n day. Most people have been so accustomed to look upon this part of the continent ns so far north, so cold, so snowy, so far away—and a lot of other so-so's—that it, would probably never be a fit abode- for mankind; but the faeis show to the contrary. Why, : hundreds of miles north of here there is a country with winters no mor,) severe than I those of the north New England States,am! 1 summers more .suitable to the growing oi grains. We are separated from t.htvi. region by the luity-ninth parallel, mt imaginary political boumlary M’hich nature will not take into account when adjusting affairs in the future. she intermingling ol people of the same blood, speech, religion, ideas, and ambitions will obliterate it. Statesmen have foretold it and business interests will hasten it. Those who think Dakota and Moniami are sections of the aretie regi n slipped d >wn out of place should look to tie* east. Tm* south line <>f Dakota is Die foity-thi,<i parallel of north latitude. Follow tills line across the Atlantic and much of Europe will be found lying north of it. All of r.ritnin ami Norway and Sv.oden lie a full degree above the norihern boundary of our two great Territories. Edinburgh, St. retersburg, Stockholm. ami Christiana, in the midst of a swarming ]>opuiation. are on the parallel of Sitka. Alaska. And Sitka is as tar from Great Fulls as tin* Gulf of Mexico. I England and the north of Europe are made habitable by the influence of the Gulf Stream. The Kuro-Siwo—the Bla *k Ocean river of the Astatic emist—or the Japan Curr ’nt. gii<'s to this northwestern re^,im ' the same mildness of clima that tlie Gulf । Stream dues to Northern Europe, mni win should mu this eountry. IGe that. I e (Hied ' With lite and industry? Water iieated oil I Die coast of Southern Asia sweep, aernsa the Pa illc Ocean and tempos th" climate of our western coast nearly up to the Are- I tie Citric. This rite -of w,ninth gives t<> British Columbia. Wa idngton. ami Oregon winters so mild tim' ice is scarec article, even in Sitka. while roses bloom in the gar lons along the constat Christmastime. Itnpart ing its limit to the air. which, ascendine. passes<>ver the Hoeky Mountains much low. r here than in j the south, it affects the climate of a re Jon > larger than thvoriglnal Unite.( states. Comparisons <•’ temp rnture mad W.th the Atlantic coast nr<* m >st favorable t • Moni nm. Th" rivers of M jitun 1 < lose Inter .d open •arlier than th ' < tni ■- far -■ nth ot this parallel. Tj. i.in here is dear ■ >f ic*‘ a :m nth mirltc. th in it is at Omaha. In tlie light o existing kmovl dgi' wiio «.li sav that up l> t • ar.h patall ,u; this mordiwest is not as eamil ! ■ being s.ctied us lilts-in ; n 1 N ■ rvmv .in I Swelen south of thut Hm : Glance at t ie physical features of this । portion of the coutim'Ut and on-» will see a j great plain sloping northward. It : - the latitude of tin ntinental water syst«i.>. NoWlier'' el-e in the world is there sueii a succession ol lakes and navigable rivers; no other country possesses sm-h an area of agricultural lund so interse 'ted by fresh water. Within a radius ■* 1.00,1 mib'S is ■ halt the fresh water of the globe. At Grand i Forks. Dakota, tne Red River is less than i I.OCU feet abov the -ea. Follow the river | to its mouth. L Winnepeg. ami it fins descend 'd .‘«IO t-et, ami in ab -t one can j steam westward on ’Ue Saskatchawan imne I than I.IKJO mb's. and then dottle 1 the distance on other rivets. Follow the ' Red River to its source in Lake Traverse, and in high water u boat ea*i reach Dig Storm l.ake, the source of the Minnesota, 1 ami thence pass to tin* Mississippi, thus : joining Hudson's 1'... - and the Gulf of Mex- ; ieo. Two liundred miles to the east is Lake Superior ami a water way to the Atlantic. , Three liundred miles to th west the Mis- ; souri can be reached, and the traveler be borne into the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. from whose western side another mighty river springs -the Columbia—and leaps to a different sea. After the Mississippi and Missouri the Columbia draws the largest basin in the republic. From i.uke Sup'.’ior along the northern ' boundary of Die republic to tne l'aeiiic Ocean 1 tai' average altitude is less than 2,000 feet j above the sea. It is the only line on which I connected agricultural settlement can be] made across the continent. It is the cereal belt, and history shows that mankind gathers in larger numbers where food is most abundant and cheapest. South of here is the roof of Die continent; the plains of Cidorado arc almost as high a- the mountains of Montana: Denver, surrounded by productive farms, is a half-mile higher than ihe average of Montana's valley and plains. Between Omaha and Sacramento there is a continuous elevation of quite 4,000 feet. Ascending every- 300 feet makes a difference of one degree ir. temperature. Os the twent;-two States and Territories west of tlie Mississippi, each one is larger than all of New England, while Dakota and Montana each possess area double that of the New England States. Montana, seaioely known by name tn England, is larger than all of Great Britain, and is richest per capita of all American commonwealths. Single counties of Montana are larger than fair-sized Eastern States. The counties of Choteau and Dawson, in North Montana, contain more acres than the State of lowa. With the exception of a .few mountains and high buttes, the whole of the two counties is described as a rolling prairie, covered with grass and filled with running streams. The main rivers are the Missouri. Milk. Marias, Sun, and Teton, a total of 1,200 miles of waterways, not to speak of numerous tributaries, all flowing through valleys of generous width and of great depth and richness of soil. Here the story of the buffalo was closed. Strange that the American people, usually sagacious, so long considered this Western land as sterile and worthless, regardless of the fact that it gave support to countless heads of untamed cattle. It is no doubt true that animal life had its origin in the warmer climates, but it is also true that the colder climates have developed the most sturdy, energetic and brainy races of men as well as the best breeds of domestic animals. Frost and health lines seem to be synonymous. The races of the frost climes arc the most vigorous; it is the lesson of history that Northern nations have always been more successful in war and progressive in peace than their Southern neighbors. The material and moral conquest of the world belongs to the races of the frost lauds; they have been the most energetic explorers and pioneers, the most adventurous colonizers, the most active merchants, the best . founders of governments, and the • wisest of rulers. Sanitary statistics prove the healthfulness of the Northwest for both mankind and animal life. There is more sunshine here than in the East, and invalids begin to come and find health un- 1 der the genial skies. The conditions, too, । are most favorable to the stock industry. There is an abundance of grass, the most nutritious of food, the climate is invigorating and heathfuh water is abundant, and everything favors the conversion of the products of field and pasture into the finest । beef, mutton and pork, into symmetrical and . enduring horseflesh, into wool, anil into that most useful of all domostic x animals, : the milch cow. Sheep do remarkably well, and the business has assumed suck magnitude that the flock-masters’have a Territorial organization and support a monthly called the Montana Woof Grower, 1

published nt Fort Benton, and wool shit.- 1 meats annually run into millions of pounds.. Sheep pelts and cow hides have taken the place of buffalo hides and furs which formerly gave prominence to this region. Horses do quite as well as iheep, and every year increases the demand for Montana horses. ] The mounted police of the British Dominion I draw their supplies from this Territory, and in a recent call for the purchase of cavalry horses for the United States army the Quartermaster General exp essed a preference for Montana stock. The possibilities of the country, however, are not confined to stock raising alone; the soil is exceedingly rich, and wherever cultivated yields prolific crops. The first settlers gave little attention to agriculture, and it has only been in recent yeais that they found out what Dio country is capable of in Diis direction. Sixty bushels of wheat to the acre is not uncommon, and other grains in proportion. Potatoes, onions and other root crops mid vegetables are easilv produced and the yiel lis oiten enormous. The ilema^' for farm produce among the minors tmustoek raisers has so far kept prices at high figures, eggs and butter in particular bringing about double the prices of the States. The coming of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Kaihoad has given great impetus to affairs in North Montana, and the next few years will witness a marvelous growth. No transcontinental road pa-s >s through a region of such varied wealth as lies between the mountains and the Mississippi River. Passing through the granary of Dakota—the valleys of the Red and 'he Mouse—'he vast pasture fields and v..lleys of Montana, it taps the granite vaults of the great hills, filled with gold and silver and copper, but guarded with time locks, to be liiliy opened now !>v the advent of eompetitivo railway facilities. A rough mountain is valueless for agricultural purposes, but when lull of rich ores a single acre ns p wealth producer compensates for thousands ot acres of arable land. Montana is the richest mineral bearing district in the United States; the output of precious metals last year led ad the other States and Territories, the total being nearly onefourth of the entire production of the country. Tae dream of Die alchemist has been realized; the laborer of yesterday is the millionaire of to-day. The mountains are not only lined with veins of precious metals, but iron, lead, coal, and building stone exist in limitless quantities. Goul is scattered over the entire Territory, in North Montana croppingout in many places along th" Missouri and other rivers. North of the Missouri River, along th" St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba tiailroad.tho coal is of the coneh shell formation, black and shiny, and burns to a red ash. while Die variety south of the river is known as the Peacock eoa'. on account of its "hr.'math* coloring, and leaves a white ash. The coal of the plains, eastward into Dakota. Is lignite, ! ut the mountain coal is bitumbu us. Th" o',her day I went m’o a coal mine, eight miles fr an Great Falls, in which the v in was ten feet thick, the enrram*e being in the side of a hill under a lumvv roof of lock. It Could not have fl" 11 mnri' conveniently planned by man. This mine is reached by 1 branch of the Manitoba. The extension of Die Manitoba road, the rapid and odid vonstrueHon (,f whieh was one of the meehanical feats f the age. has opened up a i irg-area of both agricultural and mining territory, and the wise and praeticuMe ■ urse of I lie compaey in dealing with the public will soon result in larg • settlement and great prosperity to Die entire or,ntry traversed. Near where the Sun River enters the Miss uri is Um citv of Great. 1 alls, from whence I write. It is Inn miles from lUdena and i" miles from 1' >rt Benton. From here to o■ 'm < h"',:g ■to !.■. no■ . T. St. I' ■ ■.I ;: , ■ of m untams in sight fri m tie' city, "nd none in arer than 35 miles, yet a prison not fun-Amr with this air would deMu-e it an aft 'r-supper walk to reach any of them. Th" x aB.-ys an I plains leading up to these mountains ar' cover,,<i with gruss. As un ns the eye nm reaeh. n ’ a tin "isaml times further, not an m-re i- valueless. and in time Will be 'over -d witfi tarms and stock ram hrs. Much of it is still government laud and free t . seniors. '1 h ■ grandeur is not all in sky pictures, lofty immriains, winding rivers and grassy plains, but near by is a cataract second only to Niagara, with .-tn iie<'omnanim"nt of other falls, giant springs and cascades—a combined lull of oxerNoO feet—xvhieh must n aka this a leading Northwestern resort. Henceforth the great river will net be alloxved to idle uxvay its time in rushing ami leaning, year in and year out. over the . oeks. It is being put to work so he good of the human race, grinding wheat and e rn. weaving cloth, crushing ore.-, s awing lumber, and in making this a great mart . f industry—a city of homes, of comfort and prosperity. Already the most perfectly arranged smelter in the country ior handling gold and silver ores is in operation, with a daily eapfvdty of 250 tons, find so constructed that enlargement can be made to i.0’,0 tons without an increase of buildings or I ma hinerv. A roller flour-mill, the first industry inaugurated, is the only one for J.eno miles along the upper Missouri. A great grain region is already a tributary, and ; sooner or later a railroad from here will penetrate the wheat-fields and pasture lands of the Saskatehawan, far to the north; ] even now the project is being formu- ; lated. Readers of this xvill live to I see a railroad to Asia and Europe by 1 way of Alaska and Behring Strait. Iron and steel works, woolen factories, and other in- | dustries u-e contemplated at Great Falls, ami not a tithe of the river’s strength is yet , laid out: there is power enough to build up a .Minneapolis ami a Lowell combined. With wide streets, spacious business blocks, line ; residences, churches, and school-houses, a • city is being reared by men born in the ] East but developed in the West. Barely in ' its third year, it supports two bright daily papers. Nature could not have made a more suitable site for a city, and one laid out on a scale commensurate with its mighty surroundings. There are already three railroads, the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba, the Montana Central, and the Neihart Vnlb’y. The former, in connection witli the Union Pacific at Butte, gives from St. Paul a through line to Washington Territory. Oregon, and California. Sesom. People Who Fret. Ono of the most .striking examples , of this large class of unfortunate beings is the great Carlyle—the man of noble : heart and great mind, capable of grasping great subjects and giving wise words of admonition regarding them, ' ami yet s > difficult to live with comfortably, because he was easily dis- I turbed by trifles and gave free vent to an oral expression of the annoyances he felt. There is a touch of the ridi. ulous, but much more that is pathetic, in the story of Carlyle’s behavior on his return home after an absence, during which his loved Jennie —Mrs. Carlyle —worked with loving industry to make her husband’s home-coming an especially happy one. The study was made immaculately neat, the new fumiture arranged in . the most pleasing order, and a dainty I touch here and there to make all homelike. The task completed, Airs. Carlyle awaited in happy expectancy the return of the master of the house. YVhat did Carlyle do to show his appreciation of this loving service so willingly rendered ? Did he express his satisfaction in words, or even by a look of pleased surprise? Not he. Surveying the room with critical eyes, he walked to a window, discovered that the sash rattled, ami vented his displeasure in unmistakable language. This one small flaw blinded him so all the rest of the order and } leasant arrangements of the room. — Eveninj Wisconsin. A rope’s end should never be used 1 except in a case of extremity.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE LESSON CONSIDERED. Reflections of nn Elovßting Character— Whok-somo FooU for Thought—Studying the Scriptural Lessons Intelligently and Profitably. The lesson for Sunday. March 3. may b» found in Mark 8: 27-38; 9: 1. IN TKOD U C TO K Y. AVo are told in this lesson, very season- 1 ably, what it means to acknowledge Christ. | 1 Peter’s earnest word of acceptance. “Thou ! art Christ,” though great as lip could make, was not in itself effectual, for in the next breath, -raj the same time indicating how weak at all 1 times is the flesh, he begins to rebuke his 1 Muster. Jesus must needs eall the people around him, together with His disciples, and explain to them what it means to ac- 1 knoxvledge Christ, w.th life as well as the 1 lip. It is a doctrine needed to-day, and } needing to be taught as Christ taught it in the example. May it be said of none of us. as wo present it so our pupils. “Thou savorest not the things that be of God, but the things that boos men.” Nitty e ba -h it < nt of hearts touched wit;i Clirist’s own self-sm-rilleing spirit. V. HAT THE 1.1t5.-OX TEACHES. B hmn do men say that I an 1 . He does not sax. us a human solicitor of men’s suffrages might say, ”Do men sp *ak of me? Do men i say anything about me?” He knows they nre think ,of him. Here is the proposi- . tioa: .!■' :nen have Ho i r ojii ,1 ions of .Jesus, We p it this question to a mixed eongr- gati<m the other evening, “Are ihere any here, old w young, who have never heard of Jesus?” As you might suppose.there was no answer. Then D is second query. “Are there any here, children or gray-haired, who have f<» ned no opinion regarding this Jesus?" And of course there being no re- | spouse to Dm former interrogatory, there was no reply to this. Half-ooiisciously, but pervasively and enduringly. we form our , opinions ot Jesus of Nazareth. And iu this respect how true the word, “As a man thibketh in his heart, so is he.” .Nome say, Elias. There arc various opinions. Some say tins, and some say that. Goodman, says Rousseau; great man. says Kenan. There shall never arise a greater." Gre.it. though deluded, says Voltaire ; great and giTi 'ious, though not God. s iys Theo- ] dx>rc Parker; prophet, but not Christ, says : the Jew; Messianic, but not Messiah, says tlie Hebrew liberal; good man, great man, kinglyman—Hold! If he was only man he eoul 1 not have boon good. Those old Joxvs k"exv better than that, for to claim what ho did, being simply human, was blasphemy and xvorse than blasphemy td the souls of those who trusted him. Great man? Then all the more dangerous. Kinglj man? Then certainly let him be put to death., for lio claims men’s siiprcmest homags. i riends. our opinions redu-te themselves to i -t 'hi-: Jesus wa- either man or he was God. If man only, he was worse than man, and thex- called him rightly • I Beelzebub—let our Untia'ian friends mark it.. If God, then he claims our instant homage as the I.■ rd of life and glory. T’m act de t mist. And what Petei means By this we know from what Mutth"xv adds: "The Sui of the living God.” You r ■member that pertinent, personal inquiry of Jesus in the tw'Uty-seeond o: .Matthew: '■\V.,a' think ye ■ f Christ?” Y>u have, used . ;' i"'r'iap- ,1 :1c ii ei.i' v-io m:. ? umlayseh. ,01. rpl pt. P.O ar •' ;l. It is not.’a ■ g'*lis:ie inquiry, so rnueli a-a rebuke tor ct r 'nous opinion and false 1 oneeption. They ha l I h unding and hara--ing । Jesus tor -ome time. Herodiaus, Sadducees, Pt'.ari-< ■ like snarling wolves about their -"•nine prey. Christ holds them at ba? wi't: his answers fur a season and then he t upon them sternly, erushingly. with’ tlie siciiilh-aut counter-ii.qiiiry. ”\Vhat ' "ink ye‘>f Christ? Whose-.mis he?” As if to -ay. ’What can you be thinking of the ’ hri-i t What is your .-oneeption of the Mcs-iah?” Their condii 't. in keeping with then- answer, proclaimed it. They were looking for David’s -on. not God’s. Gur attitude toward Jesus as preached to-day de- ; dares the conception we have of the promis'*d Christ. I< he David's son merely ? Then we will probal iy go on rejecting him cr trifling with iiim. But is he to our deepest i -.ml as h ■ was to Peter. "Christ, the Son ot the living God?” Then what ran we do but accept him, own him? Hr began to teach them. It was a hard les.-on to learn a’ I they were a long while getting it by heart- the lesson of self-sur-render and of life out of death. Again and ] igainthe book of heavenly instruction w T as ] .•turned to the disciple and pupil of the ■ Master ns Frances RidLy Havergal has; said it, "With the leaf turned down at the I self-rame place.” We ourselves learn it as I sb.wly, the lesson of complete devotion for । souls' sake, lor Jesus’ -ake. Peter, through ups and downs of trying tutelage, had at | last learned the teaching lc; heart when on the day . f Pentecost. Spirit-filb d. he stood . and said: "This Jesus Hath God raised up. | whereof Ave all are witnesses." Is not I herein the significance of that added verse j (9: 1) ? Ami we have not gotten our lesson ■ fully until we have conned and compre- j bended that solemn, earnest word of Paul to the Romans: “I beseech you, therefore, ; brethren, by the merci.■*■• of God. that ye • present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, | acceptable unto God, which is your rea- ; sonable service.” If any inan will come after me let him I deny hum.i i_t. That is, let him leave him- j sell behind. It is a very simple thing. Wo , talk of the mystery of godliness and the I secret of his presence. It is not far so ' seek. Listen, “He that dwelleth in the se- i cret place of Die Most High shall abide ] (iodge) under the shadoxv of tiie Almighty.” j Tautology almost, is it not? He that | dwelleth shall—just dwell. And is not that in large part what it means? To know what | it is to live in Christ, begin right now to ] live in him. He that doeth shall know. I The word above is, literally, whosoever 1 wills to follow after me, let him deny him- I seif ami take up his cross an.!— follow me. The way to abide in the vine i»—to abide. ] This young lady has just been saying. “I ] believe it all. I know Christ sax'es the lost, i but I do not feel that personally I have taken him for my own Savior.” We say to I her: "No, you do not. fie', because you do j not take. Suppose to-night you just lose yourself, deny yourself, and go “after”— i. «*.. in the footsteps of Christ. Forget yourself and everything else—take Christ." She says she xvill. AVill you? shall a man give in exchange for his soul. There was xvretehed Judas bringing ba -k his paltry thirty pieces of silver and ‘.tying. “I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood.” He was. as it were, seeking to purchase back his peace and to redeem xvith gain his forfeited birthright. In vain. No man can give as an exchange ior his soul the poor price of worldly barter—that, indeed, the xvhole of his accumulation. xvhatever it be. for xvhieh he has. first of all. sold himself. “What is that to us?” says the heartless world. "See thou to that.” Do xve xvonder that having first abandoned his Lord ami sold himself for the xvorld, and now abandoned by the world, be should go and hang himself? Every n . n who makes such deliberate and desperate exchange ends, like Judas, in spiritual suicide, "lor the wages of sin is death.” Next Lesson—" The Child-like Spirit." Mark 9: 33-42. Rudolph Ericsson, of Nexv Britain, Conn., the inventor of the nexv explosive extralite, has received from the I British Government £20,000 for the right to use the explosive in England. ] A feature of the late eclipse of the ! moon at Doxvnieville, Cal., xvos a j gorgeous rainboxv ring that surrounded 1 the moon. Inclosed xvere seven brilliant stars of the first magnitude. 1 Room for argument —The family sit- 1 ting-room.

NUMBER 3(5

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. A WEEK’S DOINGS OF OUR STATE LAW-MAKERS. Resolutions OHt'rea-Biii s Introduced-— Some Passed and Oth Prs Defeated-A Summary of the Proceedings. Feb. 18.—Bills making it a misdemeanor to treat to drinks in a 'saloon, regulating deposit and trust companies and doubling the tax on dogs were passed to engrossment j u the House. Bills introduced: 1 roviding for a State Boiler Inspector; making general appropriations. A'hill was passed creating a sinking fund for New Albany. In the Senate a civil-service bill was introduced. Also, bills providing for an extension of the Capitol grounds and regulating the conduct of foreign insurance companies. A bill reducing the legal rate of interest from Bto 6 per cent, was indefinitely postponed. heb. 19. In tlie Senate a high license bill was indefinitely postponed. Bills passed: Declaratory of the meaning of the word mining as embracing petroleum and natural gas- to authorize Boards of Commissioners to negotiat and sell bonds to complete C"«rt-h‘ouses in certain cases and etc.; to pay eight ex-trus-tees of Clay County for moneys lost by failure of n bank in whieh they deposited public funds; concerning orphans’ homes and homes for destitute childrenin the House the Foster fee and salary 1 ill xvas discussed at length and passed to engrossment. Bills passed: Depriving the Supremo Court reporter of fees and fixing his salaay at $4,000 per annum; abolishing the office es President of all the benevolent institutions and ]>roviding for the election of a separate and distinct board for each institution. Feb. 20.—The bill creating the Supreme Court Commission xvas passed in the Senate under the previous question rule enforced by the majority. Senator Boyd then sought to brir jup the bill creating the department of geology, but Senator Johnson obtained the floor and a wrangled ensued. The Chair alloxved Senator Johnson five minutes,, which he devoted to scoring the majority, denouncing the enforcement of the rule which prevented the minority from explaining their votes. When the five minutes expired the presiding officer interrupted Johnson, who continued his denunciations. Whereupon the Chair ordered the roll called. Great confusion and excitement prevailed and the Republican Senators gathered about Johnson, v. ho defiantly challenged any doorkeeper to seat him. Fora time a free light seemed imminent, and xvhen quiet was restored it xvas announced that a caucus of Republicans xvould be held immediately after adjournment. It is thought all the Republican Senators, may decide to resign their seatsand leave the Senate without a quorum. A communication xvas received from the Governor urging an investigation of the affairs of the Insane Asylum at Indianapolis. A joint resolution was adopted to that effect. Iu the House the following bills xvera passed: To protect sheep husbandry; to legalize the toxvn of Rensselaer; to ap- ' propriate $5,000 for the Soldiers' Orphans’ Home; to create the Thirty-third. Thirty-fifth, and Fiftieth Judicial Districjs; to legalize the acts of the Trustees of the town of Boonville, Ind.; to appropriate money to the Deaf and Dumb Institute; to regulate insurance | companies. F< b. 21.—1 n the*House the Foster feeand salary bill xvas defeated. A bill was 1 passed relating to cemetery associations. In the Senate brills xvere passed to refund the State debt at a lower rate ot interest; to exempt from examination ; teachers who have taught for ten years ; consecutively, and appropriating money to complete and furnish the additional hospital for the insane. Ft b. 22.—The bill providing forth& creation of a Supreme Court Commission was passed over Gov. Hoveys veto, in both branches. The Senate passed the bill depriving the Governor of the right to appoint a. State Geologist; also, a Mine and Oil Inspector. A bill xvas passed regulating, the manufacture and sale of dynamite in Indiana. Iu the House, Cullen's temperanct bill wis indefinitely postponed. Bills passed: To punish “White Capism; mthorizing the appointment of a Humane Inspector at Indianapolis and Evi ansville. Hoar I s. The Hickory Fork (Ky.) Sapling, in commenting on the Bayard-Bismarck affair, says: "Our community is sick of an interchange of courtesies. M hat we xvant is xvarm blood. Oh, we know that there are a good many Germans that, xvill fight, but xve should not stand off on this account. Wilson County. Kentucky, can whip any settlement in the countrv. If any other settlement believes tliis is not true, let her mmp up and ]»op her heels together. Heai us—xvhoop! Aiilson Comity is tbeie. hear us! If any man can step or ami sav that Wilson County is not there, w'v. let him do it. Yon bear! M hoop - The editor of this paper is a man. Do vou understand us? We cannot be arrested. Hear us?” Shortly after the above was written the editor of that paper xvas arrested en a charge of stealing a horse.— Arkam-md' Traveler. The grumbler who occasionally finds himself at a loss for something to kick about is advised to purchase a ioot-oall. We don't banker for burdens, but xxa should just like to hitch on to a fresh Cornstock lode. — Lowell Courier. Strange as it may seem, xvhen monos is close it is very difficult to get near it.— Poston Post. Politician!; are excusable for being on the fence.—They wish to keep posted. Never attempt to handle a suow-sbovej Without gloves.