St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 14, Number 38, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 16 March 1889 — Page 1

VYOLUME XIV,

3 SHE SAID, BY D. T. TEATH, : “You cannot die,” she said ; "'l‘wouldngti‘%lilce the hear:of tha dread angel, ~ To twine his mystic, Amaranthine wroath b About so dear a hord. E I cannot have it se. . There is a secret chord that doth entw ne, . So closely knitting that dear heart and mina 1 That both at once must go. 3 “Those bright eyes cannot fade; . How have I felt their witchery ;as alone E I looked g:xmthem, their charm possossed my . And I was not afraid,” ‘ ~ PALESTINE, Ohio. P Lost Lina,; ’ b ~OR~ ‘ - THE BITTER AND THE SWEET . . sf y ’ ! A Tale of Two Continents. ; BY MRS. NINA LAWSON. , CHAPTER XXXVIL ~ As Lenora was struggling with her- ~ pelf to keep from falling, a policeman ] ~ came round the corner, in sight of ~ Lenora, just in time to see her fall. ’ He hurried to the spot and spoke to her, but received no answer. He gently ‘ touched her with the toe of his boot, but she did not move. ‘ “Eh! Another one, dead drunk; that’s the fifth to-day for me. The old fellow will have his hands full to-mor-row.” - The policewxan then rang for the patrol, and Lenora was soon fastened in a dirty, dark cell. She did no! recover from her faint for some time, but when she did she was lying on a cold, damp floor in a little dark room. “Help, help, help!” rang out from\ that dark, cold corner. By and by a | coarse-looking man came along with a I lantern in his hand. . l “Who calls for help and what’s want- [ ing?” He was then opposite Lenora’s cell. { “It was I, sir, and please come and | let me out of this awful dark, cold | room.” ' The voice sounded so sweet, so dis- | ferent from what he had been used to | hearing, that he went to the door of ! the cell through curiosity. } By the light of the lantern Lenora | could now see that she was a prisoner, | but when or how she came to be ona | she could not tell. She got up and | walked to the door of the cell, where | the light from the gaard’s lant:m'| shone directly on her pale, beautiful | face. : ' “Please tell me where I am and why I am here?” The guard looked at her for a mo- ’ ment only, but could not speak: he| had never seen such beauty or heard | 80 sweet a voice before, and now that it should be in a prison cell, no wonder h: did rot know what to say. “You—you—were put there under charge of drunkenness, and—and—are to be tried in the morning, miss.” “I drunk, sir, that is a mistake; the | last I remember I was walking along ' the street, and everything began to go round and round. I was not drank, | sir, but I had nothing to eat sinco | moraing, and the wind blew so cold— { and——" l There she stopped, for her voice trembled so that she could not speak, ] and great tears came into her eyes, she i leaned up against the iron bars and | sobbed as if her heart would break. | “Oh, darling, can you see me now. | Don’t feel sorry for I hope to be with | you soon. I wish they had left me out | in the cold to die, and then I would | now be in heaven.” ? The guard stood at the door and | heard what she said, he believed that | she was innocent of the charge. {‘ “Don’t cry so, miss, I can’t help | your being here, but Vll bring you a | blanket and pillow t> lie on to-night, | and 11l bring a lamp, too, for it’s| awfully dark down in this corner; don’t | mind about it to-night, for I guess } you’ll get out in th: mornin’.” i He then went away, and soon re- | turned with the little comforts that he | thought she ought to have; Lenora l took them and thanked him kindly: | she had not yet notficed that her ring | and watch were gore, but when she | went to see what time it was she ! missed them. How terribly she was | frightened, and how her heart ached, | for she was afraid they were stolen! | By and by the guard came down } near her cell, and she ecalled him and ‘ told him about her jewels. ; “Don’t be worriel, miss; 111 l get | them back for you in the morning.” ’ Lenora could not sleep all night, | and when morning came she could | scarcely hold up her heal; but after | she had eaten her breakfast (and the | guard saw that she had a pretty good | one for a prisoner) she felt much better. f At nine o'clock she was taken from | the cell to the ¢ uit-room. Before she | left the cell she veiled her face, in the | hope that no one could see her. i There were quite a number tried be- | fore 1t was time for her case. She had | been sitting there perfectly still, not | listening to anything that was going | on, or thinking of anything but her| great trouble. ; Finally her case was called and she | was told to take the stand. Os course | she was startled, and did not know ! what the Judge meant; then they to'd | her it was time for her to b> tried, and ‘ as she rose to her feet, in som: way her hat and veil was knocked from her | head and fell to the floor. She did not 1 seem to nLotice it for she was too) much | frightened to think of anyth'ng or realize where she was. | The room was full of all kinds of | peojple, anxious to hear the ditferent | cases ard sce the different prisoners. | Lenora’s dress was plain, close-fitting black, and secmad to sui: hor style of beauty; her long golden curls were ear l:ssly {oss:d al out, sh>me lying on l!(‘,'.' \‘]l():l‘l(l(l"j\~ \\hil ) rzt;'l rs llllf);" down the ba-k to th» wast. ' As sh took the stand g murmur of adunira'im rang throagh the room. | All were s vprsad and fascinated with | BS - L i tniat o s andl ae ahe

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turned her great, sad, dreamy eyes to the Judge he did not know what to say. After clearing histhroat consider- | ably, he said: “You are charged with drunkenness; are you guilty or not guilty ?” “lam not guilty, sir.” Aund every- | body in the court-room believed what | she said. “You were seen reeling on the street last night, and finally - fell over in the gutter. How do you account for that ?” | “I was very cold and exhausted from l want of romething to eat. I was then going to a pawn-shop to pawn the only l dress I had except the one I have on, | and I grew s> weary that I presume I fainted, and then some one found me lying there.” “How does it happen that you were hungry and that you were going to pawn your dress; had youi no money?” I | “ILhad but tea cents, and could not | get work to earn more.” 1 Here the Judge drew open a drawer in his desk, and held up Lenora's jewels. “How does it happ>n that you had | these expensive jewels, and so many? ! Have you no home no parents?” Lienora had giveu the name of Minnie Hall; she could not think of disgracing the name that was so sacred | to her by Learing it in a court-room, and now when the Judge held up those jewels and asked her if she had no home, her lips quivered and the tears came to her eyes. She did not know what to say now, and the sight of the watch made her think of her lost love. T'inally she answered: “No; I have no home, no friends, no parents, and no money; but I had a| home once, and then a terrible, dark | day came,, and now that is all I have left.” “Where was your home in this city ?” She shook her head, for she could not speak. The Judge cleared his throat again, as if he was going to say something, ! when a fine-looking gentleman with a kind, honest face stepped up to the Judge’s stand and said something very low; the little prisoner was then re-| l leased and led from the court-room by | | this same gentleman. That was cor- ; tainly a day of fate for Lenora, for this | gentleman was Lawyer Hyde, formerly l 10f Chicago, but who then had a good| practice in New York, and still had in his || I possession the papers that would place her in the position she inherited at Dirth. i Gertana had painted a small picture "of Lenora, and when she placed the | papers in his hands she gave him that i | lpicture. As soon as Lenora took the | % stand he recognized the face, only now it was a 1't:1le older and very pale; he always carried that picture in his rocket, in the hope that lie might find | the original some day. The name, Minnie Hall, somewhat | confusad him at first, bat when he saw | ' the diamond ring that had been Lenora’s | mother’s, and saw the initials, R. E.C., | in the insid>, he knew tha’ the prisomer | was the long-lost heiress! j As he left the court-ro om he said to | Lenora: | “I want you to come with me, for I} am your friend, and I have something | to tell you; besides, I shall ask you many guestions. 1 hope vou will trust | me and answer them in full; your jewels | ! will be safe where they are for the | ' present.” H: then dvew from his pocket the | picture and handed it to the astonished, frightened woman. ’ ' “You are well acquainted with the | lady who painted thit: turn it over;| ! her name is writfen on the back.” l | [ Lenoraobeyed, and ther: was plainly | | written, “Gertana Girmdani, frinnd of | | the little heire:s, Lenora Charchill.” ' ‘ Those great, sad, dre my eycs rested | on those few lines a lonx while, and 1 ‘ then she looked up at the lawyer with P i such a strangec iight in hor eyves thas it l | brought tears to tho e of the lawyer, ‘ ' “Come with me now to my ofes, child, and I will tell yol al aboit|. ' this strange afiair, and I want vou to tell me all about yourself; I guess | from the sad lo kon your ya'e little | face that you have had much trouble.” | ~ They then took a cab and drove to 3 .L:L\\'}'Gl‘ Hyde's office. He thers told | ' Lienora how he came in possession of ] these papers, and repeated tH her all ’ that Gertana had told him. Thers was |- (mo room for the little love-wifo to | - doubt now that she was no longr|. t a penniless girl, but an heiress of great | | wealth. Oh, how she then longed for her | lost husband, that she might show him | the proofs that her past life was unsyotted, and that she had Leen cruelly wronged. I “Now yon know who you are; tell all about yourself, and what yon have | Leen doing since you were taken from | l Chicago.” How hard it was for her to go over 1 the dark, miserable past, and tell all; ' vet she did. The lawyer was consid- | erably puzzled about the strange man- i | ner in which Lienora and her husband ] were separated, and he did nob then i tell her his opioion of the matter. She ' bad told him plainly and exactly ev- | erything, just as* it was. That night | was not quite so dark for Lenora, for ! she occupied the guest’s cbamber in | the lawyer’s beautiful house. She re- | mained there three or four weeks, and | by that time everything was arranged; | she had purchas=d some new and beanI tiful dresses, suitable to her station as | Lady Churehill, of Churchill Castle. | One month from the day she was a | prisoner she left New York for En- | gland, in comypany with the lawyer and ' his wife. She insisted so upon their | accompanying her that finally they ' agreed, and spent a few delightful ‘ months at the grand old Churchill | Castle. ' How beantiful that old home was, ' with its long, shaded walks aud drives Cand its great airy halls and beautiful | parks, and how happy could its mis- | tress be if she had not loved and lost | that love. | Lenora's companion in her new home was an old aunt, and in time they became fondly attiched to each other. | Lady Churchill became more beautiful | each day, and soon became a great | favorite with all the nobility, but there | was always a shadow of sorrow about | her, and she treated her many admirers l lin o {riendly but formal manner. It

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was well that she did, for the happiest | ~days of her life were yet to come. « g CHAPTER XXXVIII. As Raymond Bristol sank to the floor after that terrible int rview with Jean|nette, faithful old "Tom came up the - stairs and saw his master sitting there, l while a strange, wild expression rested on the thin, sad face. Tom knew that 'something was wrong and quickly put ' Ray on his bed and sent for the doector; l the groom met him him on his way to the mansion, and he hastened on as ) fast as possible. | “Ah! Mr. Tom, I thought as much; I knew that it would come, and now you must take the very best carec in the world of your master or you will lose him forever. He has been under -a severe mental restraint for some time past, and to-day has had some new excitement and has a severe attack of brain fever. Ah! but he is u sick man, Thomas, and I will send in to-night the| best nurse I can find in the ecity. You stay by him now, and I will go to Miss Nathan’s room and see how she is‘ » He did see how she was; the mo-‘ ment he saw her eyes he knew that medicine would do no good. ! “Good-evening, Doctor, yon are very | kind to come in to see me, but I shall E need you no more, for I shall leave | this world to-night.” ] “While there 1s life, my dear, there is hope.” I “Yes, in most cases; bnt in mine there is nona. I do not care to live any | longer.” 3 “You should not talk se, child. One 80 young as you ought to have many | years of pleasure yet,” : “Yes, I guzht to have had a bright, | happy future, but all is over now. | How is Ray ?” “He is feeling as well as could be expected under the circnmstances.” 1 “I hope ha will be his old self again ' scon, and enjoy life as much as possible.” ‘ The Doctor remaired a little longer, and left some powdors to make Jeannctte’s short stay on earth as pleasint as possible. He then returned to Ray’s room and remained with bim until qui‘e late. Eow awful still «:d gloomy was that grand old home t!.e next day, and how | dark and lonely seemed the future for | poor Ray. : The day before Jeannette died the Doctor received a letier from Mrs. Bristol, and her health was no batter. He Knew that it wonld kiil her if he were then to wire her the state of affairs at her old home, and Jeannette was buried months before the heartbroken motber knew « f her death. Ray was very sick for a long, long while, but when he b zau to got bettoer he grew strong rapidly, and soon as he was able he left that gloomy house and went after his little zirl. It was difficult for him to make tho o'd courle understand at first, and they had grown so attached to the sweet little thing that they did not want to give her up: but Ray promised that she shou!d go there often and sce them, and he would come with her sometinies. Bay r miined some t'me at the old quiet home in (hy lovely valley, and every day he could be seen wandoring cv.r the field and through the woods with his littl> girl on his shoulder. | He thought the littie white sun-bonnet | Aunt Jine had m d> fer her quite bocominz, and it was alwavs fastened securely over those pale-zold curls whenever she was out in the sun. , The anxi>us busband believed, or rather hoped, that his wife still lived, | and as sOOI as he hal been ably, a‘ter | that terrille «ik spell, he employed a number of Jelceliv.s {o s-our the country in search of her. Time went | 03, but no nsws came of her, anlho | had almost given up in despair, yet, | ah! how one wili hope, even to the last moment; and o did he; thousands | of dollars were spent in that s areh, but to no purpose as yat. During his stay at the old Rice | farm he had heard, over and over :‘lgz’lill, every little thing she had ever | done, and whon the old couple told | him of the papers that belonged to ! her, and who she was, it almost made | him wild when he thonght of the man- | ner in which Jeannette had acecused her; but now the evil-doer was dead, | and he knew that she had suffered for | her erimes. [TO BE CONTINUED.] | When All Men Arve Perfect, ‘ The maxim of modern e¢'vilization | to a well-to-do man is: Avoid taking | troobie, ge’ as many of the functions | of your life as vou can performed by | others for yon. Vicarious li‘e is the | watcehword of our civilization, and we i well-to-do and cultivated people live | smoothly cnough while it lasts. But, | in the first place, how about the viears, i who do more for us than the singing of| mass for our behoof for a scan'y sti- | pend? Will they go on with it for l ever? lor indeed the shufl'ing off of responsibilities from one t> the other * has to stop at last, and somebody has to bear the burden in the end. But let 1 that pass, since I am not writing pol- l itics, and let us consider another as- | pect of the matter. What wretched, | lopsided creatures we are being made l by the excess of the division of labor ! in the occupation of life! What on | earth are we going to do with our time ' when we have brought the art of vi- ; carious life to perfection, having first complicated the guestion by the cease- ' less creation of artificial wants which we refused to supply for ourselves? All of us (we of the great middle class I mean) going to turn philosophers, poets, essayists—men of genius, in a word—when we have come to look i down on the ordinary functions of life with the same kind of contempt where- ’ with persons of good breeding look down upon a good dinner (eating it sedulously, however)? I shudder when I think of how we shall bore each other when we have rea ‘hed that perfection. Nay, I think we have already ! got in all branches of culture rather more geninses than we can comfortably bear, and that we lack, so to say, audiences rather than preachers.—-Flhe Fortnightly Review. e T e A BARBER cue—Next!

3 INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ m. . EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED, An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Qur Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News Notes, Indianians at the Ball. Among the Indianians atthe inaugural ball were Major Richards and wife, of | the Indianapolis News; Judge R. S. Taylor and wife, of Fort V\'nynd; Julius F. Prall, Charles Fayles, Miss DePauw, of New Albany; Miss Kean, of Evansville; Mayor Denny and wife; E. W. Halford, T. F. Ryan, Moses M¢Lain, C. E. Coffin and wife, Charles Vinton, of | Lafayette; . E. Kaegelo and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Walcott, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. | Pettibone, Miss Newcomer, Henry D. | Pierce, Mrs. Dr. H. R. Allen and daughter, W. H. H. Miller and twe daughters, Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Ayers, Chester Brad- | ford, George Newcomer, Lieut. Judson, Roscoe O. Hawkins and wife, Capt. Cole- ' | man, Mrs. O. Haselman and daughter. i“ All Washington society ladies of prom- | inence united in pronouncing thetoilets l | of the Indiana matrons as quite worthy ; ‘ of remark for taste and elegance. Failed to Give Proper Bonds, Last fall Anthony Bender was elected ’ Treasurer of Franklin County. He gave | bond and entered upon the discharge of l his duties. Ina short time thereafter l he drew all the money then on deposit i “ in the Brookville Bank, amounting to | about 37,000, and said he was going to l ‘ deposit it in Cincinnati, where he could | get interest on it. This action alarmed ! some of his bondsmen, and a few days ’ ago one of them, C'. B. Martin, made ap- : plication to the Cirenit Court to be re- l | leased therefrom. The court gave Mr. | Bender ten days in which to file a new g bond. When the tenth day was up, Mr. | Bender presented his bond which the | court after a careful examination, re- | fused to approve, and declared the office | vacant, and ordered the Cierk of the court to notify Gov., Hovey of the fact. I Patents, 1 Indiana genius has been rewarded | in the allowance of patents as fol- | lows: David W. Albert, Plymonth, : broom-maker's thimble; Andrew Good- | vear, assignor to South Bend ('hillml;‘ Flow Company, South Bend, wheel plow; Theodore H. Haberkorn, Fort | Wayne, pipe coupling for air brakes and | combination valve for operating air- | brake mechanisms: Carleton Sage, Elk- | hart, urethral powder-applier; William | S. Scott, Eminence, automatic grain- | weigher and measurer; George W. Stew- | art, Rising Sun, sliding gate. ‘ Minor State Items, —Columbus has a steam fire-alarm | whistle that can be heard twenty miles | away., , —Oliver B. White, aged 18, has been | sentenced, at Lafayette, to life impris- | onment for murder. —The Jeffersonville Car-works is dis- | missing all employes who are in the habit of getting drunk. —A prospector claims to have found ! silver in paying quantities inthe vicinity of Shoals, Martin County. 5 —Mrs. Christina Gerdt died at Indi- | anapolis from the effects of wounds inflicted by an unknown person. : —(Capt. J. T. Hago, of Evansville, one | of the oldest steamboat men on West- | ern rivers, is dead, at the age of 70| years. i —The store of William Campbell, at| New Richmond, was destroyed by fire, | together with its contents. Loss, $3,000; insured. ‘ —Peter Biesen, ex-Councilman and a | prominent German citizen, died at Mad: | ison from the effects of an accidental | fall from his wagon. : —Dislike for the superintendent caused twenty-three operatives in the | carding-room of the Madison cotton- , mill to go on a strike. ‘ —George Vogelsong, who left his | Shelby County home in a passion a year i and a half ago, has just been heard from. l He joined the regular army. [ —Robert Wilson, who lived near Al- | toner, was instantly killed, by a falling | tree. Wilson was engaged in chopping | wood when the accident occurred. i —Natural gas, with an estimated pres- | sure of 300 pounds, has been struck at | Dublin, at a depth of 883 feet. The gas will be given free to all manufacturers. —William Thornton, a Vandalia freight conductor, was injured in a | frightful manner at Clymer’s Station, | dying in a few hours frém wounds re- ‘ ceived. ? ‘ —Charles Landgrave, a prominent farmer, while hitching a horse at Pern, ‘ was kicked and had a leg broken, besides receiving other dangerous injuries. —The residence of Wiley Burns, near Elizabethtown, Bartholomew County, was burned with its contents. T.oss, &15,000; insurance, $250, in the Phenix of Hartford. —Arthur Gordon, who made false col- | lections on goods sold by the Rockford Publishing Company at Crawfordsville, pleaded guilty and was sent to the peni- | tentiary for two years. ! —At the graduating exercises of the Fort Wayne Medical College the prize in the competitive examination in surgery was awarded to S. Celia Dupont, the only lady of the class. —Charles Yager, a prominent young farmer,living near Decatur, inthe south- ; west part of Adams County, committed | suicide to-day by blowing out his brains. He was insane from religious excitement. —William Henderson has transferred to the Indianapolis Natural-gas Company gas leases on 2,542 acres of land in Madison County, over six thousand acres in Hamilton County, and large blocks in Hancock and Marion Counties. The average price paid to the owners ofl the land was SSO per farm.

—George Alexander, an employe of Adam Dunlap, a Franklin commission merchant, forged the latter's name on two checks, one for $25 and the other! for S2O. He successfully passed both. —David G. Pulse died, at Greensburg, from heart disease and dropsy, at the age of 60 years. He was the father of ‘ ex-Representative O. L. Pulse, and the present Deputy Auditor James C. Pulse. —Harry Fultz, the 6-vear-oid son of Mrs. Marshall Fultz, of Columbus, was standing near a red-hot stove, when his clothes ignited, and before the flames could be extinguished his body was terribly burned. --James Phillips, of Bainbridge. fell dead from paralysis while feeding his hogs. He was found by his wife lying among the porkers, with his faithful dog at his side keeping the animals away from his body. —A sensation has been created in Hamblen Township, Brown County, over the elopement of Albert Flint with Miss Maud Crabb. The children belong to highly respected parents and their ages are 18 and 15 years, respectively. L —Mrs. Wm. Miles, of Lebanon, has brought suit for $5,000 damages against the Lipinskey brothers, saloon-keepers, forselling liguor to her husband after she had ordered them not to do so. While intoxicated he fell and broke his leg. —J. C. Shaffer, of Indianapolis, who l has a twenty-two-year street-car fran- l chise at Richmond, is endeavoring to have it extended to fifty years. Heo ' wishes to put in an electric moter plant, I and also to secure a franchise for furnishing electric lights. ~—John Gamble, living near Brownsburgh, is 92 years old, and was one of the first settlers in Hendricks County. He rides to town on horse-back once a week and wears a beaver hat that he has | worn for the past forty years. The hat | is considered quite a relic, and many | persons have tried to get possession of it. x ~ Steuben County is anxions for n} high-license-local-option temperance | law. Would-besaloon-keepers are con- | tinually harassing the Commissioners | for licenses, but have failed to procure ‘ them through the active remonstrances | of the temperance people, although the ' matter has been carried to the courts | several times. Upon entering his itome at Elkhart, Charles Honald found his 18-year-old wife Iving dead on the floor and their baby playing about her. She issupposed to have died of heart disease, but as | there is some gossip to the effect that | she had had trouble during the morning | with a neighbor who was in the house, ! tize coroner has been summoned. | ~-Another big break has occurred in I the great oil-tank line of the Standard | 01l Company, this time at Servia, Wa- | bash County. A portion ot the farm of | Henry Augenbaugh was flooded by the l oil, which ignited, making a great con- i flagration. The leak was stopped as | speedily ws possible. This is the fifth | bad leak in the Lima and Chicago pipe- | line. ' —The City Council of Seymour bas | contracted for the construction of a | water-works plant, costing SIOO,OOO, to * be completed Nov. 1. It will include l 100 feet of stand-pipe, eight miles of; main, and 100 public hydrants, with free water for city buildings, schools, nud‘ churches, and Indianapolis rates to pri- i vate consumers. W. S. Mc¢Millen, of ‘ Paris, 111., received the contract. | —Two Mormon elders were egged while condueting a meeting at a school- I house a few miles south of Corydon. ‘ The eggs were thrown through the doors | and windows, and the elders were cov- | ered with them from head to foot. Per- | sons on the outside opened the doors and windows, but who they were is not known. The meeting was continued, notwithstanding the interruption. i —By the breaking in two of a freight | train about five miles west of Greencastle, on the Louisville, New Albany and Chieago road, freight c(onductor B. Covey, of Lafayette, lost his life. The I train broke in two on a grade, and the | conductor was caught under one section ; which passed over him, terribly|mutilat- l ing his head and body. His home is in % Lafavette, where his family resides. l —An accident occurred which resulted t in the death of Hamilton Monroe, a well-to-do farmer, and one of the best known citizens of this vieinity. He was on the way to the depottotakethe train, | and in erossing the tracx at the platform ; was struck by the engine of the J., M. & i I. passenger train, which arrives about | 10 o'clock. The deceased was 51 years | of age. He leaves a wife and six chil- ' dren. —The youngest son of Bat Finn, of Gireencastle, was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun while out hunting. The boy was climbing over a fence, | pulling the gun over after him, when the hammer caught and discharged it. l The ball passed through his hand, and | entering his neck, passed downward to ' his lungs, cansing a hemorrhage, resulting in his death. The lad was about 14 years of age. ~ —White Caps are again at work in ' Dubois County. At Ireland, a young man }n:xm«-d Joseph Sermersheim was taken from hishome and given thirty lashes \ with horse-whips, because he disregarded a previous warning to “get to l work or get.” The White Caps also left | | a bundle of black hickory switches and | a notice at the farm-house of Stepheni & Cook, warning him that )his move- i ments were being watched, and that he had better carry himself straight. { —While the Daughters of Rebekah | ' were in gegsion in the Odd Fellow*s'Hall, | at Moore's Hill, the other evening, a large dog broke into the room. The animal was frothing at tiie mouth and l howling in a manner which left no doubt that it was rabid. The ladies . were terrified by the presence of the un- : welcome visitor, but the gentleman suc- | ceeded in ejecting it. The dog was afterwards killed. Unfeeling persous will be uncharitable enough to say that the animal was simply the lodge goat on & rampage. !

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. l e e A WEEK’'S DOINGS OF OUR STATE LAW-MAKERS, —_— Resolutions Offered—Bills Introduced— Some FPassed and Others Defeated—A Suinmary of the Proceedings, March 2.—A Dbill providing for ‘the election of three trustces for each of the new Insane Hospitals was passed, in both branches, over the Governor's veto. A bill was passed making bribery at conventions or primary elections a crime, and fixing a penalty therefor. =~ | March 4.—A bill was introduced making it unlawful for any State officer to secure money or pay the same to maintain the benevolent or other institutions in the absence of an appropriation. Governor Hovey vetoed the bill depriving the Supreme Court Reporter of fees and making his salary $4,000, but the bill was passed over the veto. March s.—lnthe Senate the following bills were passed: Making the sale of tobacco to any person under 16 years of age unlawful; making eight hours a day’s work upon all public works; requiring that judicial executions shall be ; performed at the State Prisons, except | in cases where persons are not under | sentence of death; empowering county l commissioners to pay $35 towards the burial expenses of indigent soldiers; I creating a Superior Court in Elkhart | County; making it unlawful to pipe ‘ natural gas out of the State. N 6 bills of importance passed the House. March 6.—ln the Senate the contested election case of Grimes vs. Bichowski was taken up, and the contestant (a Democrat) was seated. A substitute for the deficiency appropriation bill, containing a section making it a felony for the Auditor to issue a warrant for the payrent of money when there has been no ' appropriation made for it, was passed by | the Democratic majoity. ' March 7.— SENATE — Bills passed: | Making appropriations to meet deficien- | cies; repealing the act making it a felony for any person to interfere with the running of a railroad train, or to intimidate any man from working. Houvse-—Bill passed: Authorizingthe | State Treasurer to borrow $1,400,000 with which to meet the deficiency in theState Treasury. ' Two more political bills were vetoed l by the Governer, and passed over the veto. ' Mareh B.—The follewing Senate bills | were passed in the House: To provide 1 for tho establishment of kindergartens | for children between the ages of fouri and six years; to provide for the | release of liens in deeds to real li estate; to authorize the purchase | of ten acres of land for the use of the ! hospital for the insane at Logansport; | an act to provide for the execution of | the bond of County Treasurer, being 5 Sec. 5911, of R. 8. of 1881; to authorize railroad companies organized | under laws of the State, but not under I the acts of the Legislature, entitled “An | act to provide for the incorporation of | of railrond companies,” ete.; to " legalize gifts, donations, sales, and | transfers of money, stocks, bonds, and I other property by an incorporated city | or town in the State; to prescribe [ the acts of judges and clerks in guard- | ianships; to provide for the establish- ! ment of branch highways, defining | their width, ete.; to require of railroad ; companies to give notice to passengers | of delayed trains; to legalize the incor- % poration of the town of Russelville, { Putnam County; to legalize the town of | Huntsville; to regulate the sale and % manufacture of dynamite; to repeal an | act entitled “an act touching the duties } of township trustees with reference to ' liquidating and contracting indebted- l ness of townships in certain cases,” approved March 5, 1883. ‘ An Intelligent Witness. Sam Weller in the court scene in Pickwick has been regarded as the type of the unmanageable witness. But he certainly has a rival in the prisoner deseribed below. . In one of our Boston courts, a genius was brought up or some trifling offence, and the following conversation ensued between the court und the defendant: “Prisoner, have you ever been condemned ?” asked the court. *Yes miv.’ “State under what circumstances.” { “YWhen 12 vears of age I had an at- | tack of inflammation of the chest, and | was condemned by three doctors.” “You do not understand me. I ask l whether you have ever been proceeded | against ?”' l “Yes, sir,” “Tell me the particulars.” “Most willingly ; one day, when taking a walk in the country, I was most | violently proceeded against by a savage ; dog.” - K “That is no answer to my question. | What the court wishes to know ir | whether vou have ever been arrested?” ~ “T have nothing to conceal, and I re- | ply in the affirmative.” ‘ “When ?” “Last year.” | “For what ?” i I was going along Washington street, | and my progress was arrested by the ] crowd of people.” 1; He was sent to the island, and can : come to the city with fresh wit in the | ame. - e “What a fine little fellow,” said the | gentleman who had been_elected repre- | sentative for four successive terms from ’ his Congressional district. His remark | was addressed to a kind faced lady who [ held in her arms a little fellow who i blinked gravely at all that was going on. | “Yes,” replied the lady. “His father and I set a great deal of store by him.” | “Well, he’s a bright looking little | fellow. Maybe he’ll be a Congressman | some day.” i “Maybe he will,” said the mother. “But,” she added vsrnestly, “I'm going | to do my best toraise himright,” |

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T T THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, e e—— SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREF ULLY A Soholurly Exposit —Thoughts \Vorthyim:)fotc g tion—Half an Hour's Stud alfm Mot tures—Time Well Bpent, T S The lesson for § be found in Mark qx‘.l,nii';-yizmamh e INTRODUCTORY The parso Lt They hlad rgggfie?it Es “;%rth Yavis Seipne. ik tanotis. whid & - eyd.supposed, all one of the chi'dren, sevez fiscq\'emd Shes been removed to places of aving alrem_ly the burning buiiding, Twe of (1. vil lagers climbed, the one u WO Ok the 8o the-other, thal Sl tlggll!' tfhe shoulders from the_npper windst ittle one foith Wesley, the father of Mothatin Jonl knows what is wrapped ue fi o o and hearts of the youn P an éhe S he it is that urges upfn. u Othonly , and dlv‘ne Soll Sl‘lch Corflial lovs rollgh hls f?l"ltlhem. Last weel we wer: szt’l:gyi]:gg :lr,d child as an aid a i : . week we look upgg (:%ngfiifg cog ey type of that great kingdom of S %hc ?a\“iour came to dechge gr;lc:)\;gmh wo lessons . o S plicity of trutsiai;hél(?d?n AT WHAT THP LESS _ They brought yousr?{?b({h?gfcmm. i é_o CthriSt it was, and for theri?esl&n’;?t' ‘s touch, nothi & 3 s R e tlfiznigsu;{igi'-eifigglb::;%;xyg endeavors to carry his 1{ ilg wi Tt close up to the very \Vor'}) Ui g bringing i thete 46 of life. Such mother goes with h‘el;'enchitl]?le téatGher 5 earnest prayer. May we not also s O}hm ;;g:y afct oélhelpfulness done to th%ylittill; 8, for Christ's sake, i ingi the little ones to hi;:.ke'sltznoiel’mugmg o next to the abiding inspil‘alion)ofsal’_,xs that stone in Africa, the thing to which hwmgthe most for all that is best in hi *is the almshouse in old England, that :m ]l:sht'he up a ragged boy fx'gm th’e streoto o tanght him better things in Chri tef s] = Brother teacher, how it should st’s e feel that in our weekly work :)f? e der God’s Providence, we are gvp, e “young childreu to him!” s ; Those that brought i influence over thoge wltl’:)cg:"()ugllxlt‘lzllieogl:%e dren. Coming with a right conceptio : i Christ’s relation 10 the little og e with a craving for his Llessing u f);’ atlllxd beads of those whom the# bore{) 13 they have gone foith themselve o blessed? The :o'e pious feature of;m; i n so-cal'ed baptism there at the altar I""l' has been the parental solicitude displ m& And with us all, in prayer, in se-I¥-3Z30: tion, in purer ].lfe, how much closer to (God are we drawn by the children. Acr in the country yonder is a farme;', 8 'u(::f imle' :1. neglectt‘ar of the sanctuary, who las just come back and renewed his cov—enant. He gives as a reason for his re tarn the thought of his boy who ]oveci him and followed him in implicit trust “Everywhere I went, down through the new-plowed ground,” said he, “I could see little Johnny's tracks along side my ouwn.” It was the vision of those little shoewarks cjose to his own that brought the r:ght-thinking farmer back to his aod “b'u;‘fil'r little children to come unte "meThe l.ord loves the little ones. ‘They are by His grace ahe:dy His, and there is an insistent and instinctive feel.ng in our breasts th:t to Him they belong. 7The oft-told incident of the child recitationi t never fails to move us. “Suffer little (-hll(l}'(en, " ghe said, and then she forgot. “Sufler little childrea to come unto me,” and then paused again. But once more she essayed it and with this somewhat original result: “Suffer little children to come unto me—and don't anybody stop ‘them, for He wants them all to ccmse.” True ecough. Why not have indced a | child’s revision of the Scriptures? Alas! that we should ever apply other tests than those of a child-trust. ; Os such is the kingdom of God. In truth we have learned much of the kingdom from the quick alertness or the wise trustfulness of the child. We were all of ‘us telling in the testimony meeting what Elt‘, was kept us so long from coming to - Christ. Some said it was a fear of man. Others, a doubt as to God’s power, or un- ' due dependence upon self, or waiting for a more convenient season, or seeking for ' some better way. At last they asked a little bright-faced lad of eight or nine, sitting well up toward the front, and apparently intent upon all that was passing. ' “And what kept you?” said the leader. Without a moment’s hesitation, the boy | replied, “I think it was sin.” Sure enough, i what else was it? That closed the discus—sion. | As a little child. Child-likeness, by E the Master's word, comes the nearest to | Leing Christ-likeness. What is it te “re- | ceive the kingdom a3 a little child?” | There was Annie Redmond, the lost child, | in the Home of the Friendless. Some oru recognized her and asked her name. “Gurley,” she said, giving the name of her abductress, “but my other name is Annia ‘ Redmond.” Presently her mother was before her. “Is this your mother?” To | leap into her arms was but a child’s answer. How are you receiving the kingdom? You are saying, “Yes, I think that is my Heavenly Father. I think that is my elder brother.” But you make no effort to spring to his embrace. You stay | just where you are. Certainly, that is nos | childlike. We took the peins a while age | to copy from Jonathan Edwards—who will | never be accused of sentimentalism—this sentence: “There is not so much differs - ence before God beiween children and | grown persons, us we are ready to im- | agine. We are all poor, ignorant, feolish | babes in his sight. Our adult age does b not bring us so much nearer to God as we are apt to think.” - t Jesus beholding him loved him. Chriss | loves the young man. He covets tho | strength of youth for the kingdom. God | wants the voice of the young 1n his | church. What a great and gracious gift it ' would be should the hearts of the young | men of any community be given to Christ) | But it must mean whole-hearted surren—- | der to the Master, not & partitive obsery- | ance or a partial fealty. Sam Small was | right in insisting that with naturalization | papers taken out, {he old life is renounced | and a wholo new life is begun. Theologi- | eal regenecration is nothing more nor less | than spiritual naturalization. Back there | the alien died and the new citizen was | born. That is what Christ desires to do with every young man—give him a new heart and a new life. | Next Lesson — “Blind Bartimzus.” « Mark 10: 46-52. | Young Men at the Top. | Quite a noticeable feature connected ' with the settlement of Dakota is the | number of young men between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-five making - ap her population. T]le“-‘predommate, whether on the farm, in the trades, professions, and business undertakings, or in political and ofticial ma.n?gemen,t of Territorial and local afisirs, av give to every enterprise that pus’ ambitious effort which has national reputation for * P, ®, McClure, in Har & el