St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 14, Number 43, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 20 April 1889 — Page 1

VOLUME XIV.

WHY! Heart of im why do yon sfgh? Why droop ycur eyelids, pale nnd shy, Like snow-flakes that on violets lie? Why do you sigh, my heart ‘I , Sweeting, wherefore do you weep Till the tlowers that May winds steep When the day has sunk to sleep, Seem from beds o' dew to peep ? Why do you weep, my sweet? Oh, my love, whence comes this glow, Like the sunset on the snow, Which on your fair face doth show ? Wliy do you blush, my queen? Must I speak your answer, dear? Listen, then, and von shall hear Why you sigh, and weep, and blushWhy e'en now you bid me hush. Sing, oh, sing, yo birds that be; Answer, music of tho sea; bpin, old earth, to melody; For my one love lovoth ma. Does she not. my heart? ■^Amelie Rives, in Harper's Magazine. 1 GREAT TREASURE, The Stage Mystery Snrronnding Its Disappearance. A STORY OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST. — BY FRANK BARRETT. CHAPTER V.

agreement 48 it stands." Edith came down late to jreakfast. She looked pale, and said she rad overslept herself. “For the first time in your life, I beieve,” said Sir Edmund. “You did not 'all asleep quite so readily as usual—ley?” he asked, smiling. “I could not sleep,” she answered, but 50 gravely that I saw it was not Irom the cause the baronet implied—the love that rad kept me awake; and then she added, “I have been terribly frightened.” We looked at her in astonishment and mxiety. “I will tell you all al out it,” she continued, “because you may be able to explain what perplexes me, and that will be i great relief.” She paused, as if to collect her thoughts, and then said: “I was nearly asleep when I noticed a sound coming from the window. It was as if some one were rapping upon the glass—not loudly or quickly, but softly, is though with the tip of the finger, and at intervals. I might have counted twenty or thirty between one tap and the next. I took little notice of it at first, thinking that as I had left the window partly open it might be the wind moving the Venetian blind; but alter a while the persistent tap-tap —tap irritated me. I rose and lit a candle, then I went to the window. The lattice was just as I had left it. >The blind hung perfectly motionless. I drew it up and looked out. There was a gray mist everywhere. Not a breath of air stirred; the flame of the candle burned as steadier as though the window had been closed. I let down the blind and fistened; there was nut the slightest ■sound. “A moth on the ceiling,” said Sir Edmund; “they have worried me in the same -manner. Then you get a light, and the -thing stops.” “Hold on; we ain’t heerd the last on it, I kin see,” said the Judge, looking at Miss Lascelles intently, his shaggy brows bent over his quick eyes. “I explained it as you do, papa. I put •out the light and tried to sleep. I heard no sound for quite ten minutes, I think, and then again that soft, slow tap—tap—tap came from the window—the same -sound, with the same long interval between them. It was not like the beat of a moth’s wing. It was like nothing but the touch of a human finger. But I tried to think it was an insect in the wall—the intsect that is called the ‘ death-watch.’ And I did my best to take no notice of it. but I <eould not help hearing it, and after a time I grew frightened, and the sound grew dreadful in my ears. It became unendurable; I could not lie there listening pas■sively. I got up again and struck a match. The wick of the candle was slow to light, and during these moments I noticed that the sound had ceased. As I say. I was /frightened—very frightened. And the unbroken silence seemed more terrible than the sound. There was something ghostly and supernatural about it that brought back the old terror I used to feel as a child in passing the room that is said to be haunted at night. And just then the clock in the belfry struck. I dared not go to the window. My hand trembled so that I could not take up the candle, but I looked toward the window. The first thing that struck me was that the laths of the blind, instead of lying flat, as they generally do when down, and as I had left them,were opened and turned edgeway. Do you know how I mean?” She held her hand, that trembled with the recollection of her terror, one above the other horizontally. “But the next thing,” she continued, and then stopped, with a little shudder, while we who listened held our breath—“the next thing I saw was two great black eyes that caught the light from my candle in between the lower laths of the blind.” She paused, and then continued, with .more firmness: “I think I fainted; I must have done so, for I was conscious of nothing after that, until I found myself upon the floor. The light was still burning upon the table. As recollection returned to me, I looked toward the window. The lafhs were no longer open, but turned flat. Then it occurred to me that all I had seen was mc<rely imaginative; that it was merely a realistic dream; that I had gone through these experiences in my sleep. .My great terror was gone. I went without fear to the window to ascertain if the night was as I had seen it. There was the gray mist; the flame of the candle did not flicker. Nevertheless, when T looked aown and saw how impossible it was for any one to have stood outside the window. I felt convinced that at least the vision of the two eyes was imaginary —an out mme of the fear 1 felt when I looked toward the window. I lay down again, and. though 1 could not sleep for some tim , I heard no further sound whatever, save the chiming cf the clock

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“Is it not very probable, my dear,” said the baronet, “that the sound you speak of was also the outcome of fear?” “I had no fear when I went first to tho window. Thd sound was a reality. It is that I wish explained.” “Do you know what time it was when the tapping first began, Miss Lascelles?” Van Hoeck asked. “It was a quarter to one by my watch when I recovered from the fit.” “May I ask, Miss, without offense, if a thing o’this kind hes ever happened you afore?” asked the Judge. “As a child I was timid, but I cannot remember ever being so frightened." “ You don't look as if a trifle would sl<eer you, I will allow;” and, tising from his chair, tho Judge added, “if you'll ex- i cuse me, I’ll go and piospect the place straight off, for I’m lorth to say it looks to me like as if the Kid had beea taking a hand in this game. ” “By all means," said tho baionet; । “the sooner the truth is discovered the ; better. ” “We all went out on to the lawn which ■ faced that part of the building in which i Edith’s worn was situated. Ou the way Van Hoeck, who had taken my arm for guidance, gripped it tightly, and whispered: “What did I tell you? This is the beginning of the end!” CHAPTER VI. It is necessary for the reader to know what kind of building Monken Abbey was, and something of the disposition of its rooms, in order to follow clearly the action of the drama that took place within i's walls. I can do no better than to give the description by which I brought the f mts home to the comprehension of my blind partner. “Tell me what you see, Thorne,” he said, as we stood on the lawn. “An old Gothic building, flanked by two later additions in the Tudor style, that project beyond it.” “I don’t understand,” he said, impatiently; “can’t you make i f clearer to me?” I had a note-book in my pocket, and pressing the metallic pencil hard upon the I paper, I drew this rough diagram: * ■ iuut-mi.h I He passed his sensitive fingers over the impression. “The two end blocks are the additions you speak of, the space between them the old part. I understand. Go on,” he said. “The great door is in the center of the old part, the dining-room is on one side, the library on the other. The floor above is occupied by the picturegallery. It has a gable roof, and the belfry rises from the middle. The block on the right and that on the left are alike. The ground floor is divided into drawingrooms, sitting-rooms, kitchens, ete. ” “Where is the dairy, and the door that is left open at night for the Kid?” “At the hack of the house; it cannot be seen from here. ” “Is that in the right block or the left? ” “In the right; the kitchen is in the left. On the first floor are tho principal bedrooms; the servants’ arc above. Our rooms are in the right block. Sir Edmund's and Miss Lascelles’ are in the left.” “AVhat means of communication are there? For instance, how could Sir Edmund get to your room?" “By simply passing through the picturegallery.” “1 understand; go on.” “There are two oriel windows and a bay in the end of the left block facing us as we stand here. ” I drew' another diagram to explain the windows to Van Hueck. Here it is: “The oriel on the left,” I continued, “projects from Sir Edmund’s room, that on the right from Miss Lascelles’. There are stone mullions at the angles of the oriel and lattice windows between, hung inside with Venetian blinds. I have marked a cross where Miss Lascelles saw the eyes looking through. The oriels are supported by corbels. They are perfectly inaccessible from the ground except by a ladder.” “But from the story above?” “There are no windows over the oriel. The only means of descent would be by a rope from the roof.” “Are there any other means of getting at the window?” “None whatever that any human being could use. ” “What is this projection between the oriels?” he asked, feeling the paper. “A two-sided bay carried up from the ground to the gable, pierced with latticed windows from top to bottom. It gives light to the stairs inside.” "Do-the windows open?” “Yes.” “And what distance is there between the window's in the bay and Miss Lascelles’ window?” “Seven or eight feet at least.” “And the wail between is perfectly flat?” “There is a stone molding runs along parallel with the door of the first story and tne base of the oriel.” “Why didn’t you tell me that?” he asked, sharply. “Because it is perfectly impossible for any one to walk along it.” “What width has it?” “A few inches. It seems to be merely a sto ;e gutter to carry off water from the oriel. ” “Is there no ivy on the house—nothing to c itch hold of?” “There is no ivy, but the-e is a pipe midway between the b: y and the oiiel; it descends from the gable to the gutter.” “AVhat! and you tell me it is impossible to get from the bay to the window?” “1 still mean what 1 said. The gutter is so narrow that no one., oven facing the wall closely, could stand on it and maintain a center of gravity. ” “But with the aid of the pipe?” “The pipe is four feet fiom the bay and i four feet fiom the oriel. Now. suppose • Lola, for I know' whom you suspect, got ; from the window in the bay, sho would i have to advance holding to the mullion of ■ the window for support, and with one hand only, until the other could touch the pipe, a span of four feet.” “Four feet; that is not impossible, unless the girl is short-limbed.” “It is impossible, if in holding to the ■ mullion or the pipe the girl hurt to support i part of her own weight. ” I “Let us go up and measure the width of the ledge,” said Van Hoeck; “it may aps pear from below less than it is.” AVe went up to my bedroom m the right block, which, as I have sail, corresponded

-sHEN I met Sir -•Edmund in the morning I told him that my partners ha d agreed with me to alter the clause in the agreement, though we had not yet dec i d e d in Mwxvhat manM|ner. “1 am glad SHuio hear it,” he said; ■Salr “ an y t hing will be better than that

Al ALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1889.

! in every external respect to the block on I ' the left; and from the oriel I measured the width of the stone ledge outside. A'au ! Hoeck’s supposition was just; it was wider than I expected, measuring a trifle less than my sp in, which is nine inches. Van Hoeck placed himself flat against a wall, and turning out his toes until he obtained the limit of width upon which he could sustain his equilibrium, hade me measure the distance between his heel and the wall. I found it was fully three inches within my span, and was astonished to perceive upon how narrow a space one may stand with safety. This settled the point. Lola might well have passed along the ledge with safety. “Now',” said A'au Hoeck, “draw me a j plan of the rooms, roughly and broadly, showing their relative position to the stairs, tho bay. and the picture gallery.” I complied with his request, marking the several parts with figures. » 5 i —! ~ X T ■<r 1 uJ *1 — 5 TitiT K t dUn I I Kx- * KKrrt j n*h j rikCJ Ji** SIX -f I 3 z I * X-L 4 i r i 1 ,^T [TO BE CONTINUED.] A New Evangelist. Air. E. I’. Brown, who is sjioken of in tho papers as “the reformed Ch cago humorist nnd ipfid l," is drawing crowds in the West with a leetur^ tntith d “ From Ingersoll Park to Beulah Land," says T'.ius Sijt nas. Mr. Brown wa< an infidel from youth, ami was an early disciple o' Bob ] iip" m>!l. For years he celebrated the birthdav of Tom Paine we almost said religiouslyho wrote pamphlets against Christianity, and deliiered infidel addresses. He made a fortune in Cincinnati printing patent-inside newspaper-, and then he retire 1 fiom busi ic-s. buying a farm in Indiana and buildirg a beautiful and costly home. But growing r. stless for newspaper w< rk io connected himself with The Chicago Iji'.nGF.n as humorous writer, in which line he excelled. In Chicago he was convert; d under the preaching'of Mr. Moodv, and mmediat Iv took up evangelical work, w hich he has be> n pur suing very sm eessfnlly through [•reaching and lecturing ev. r since. The writer of this knew Mr. Brown well in Cincinnati, and can attest t > l.is honesty, ability and thorough sincerity. He was a good fellow as an intid.d. and it is not likely that his eonxe son has caused a deterirnatiou of his good qualities. One Kainy Bay. Drip! drip! drip! The clouds were black in the sky and (he rain would not stop, although Haddy and Hay j stood by the window wishing for the ■ bright sunshin? to dry the grass so j that they could run over to auntie's to ; see Gracie. Mamma was nearly beside herself with their nci o and teasing. Hhe had tri d everv way to quiet t’hem, and she was so tired. The door opined and Aunt L tty came in, wet and dripping. “Why, I what's the matter with my boys?” she I asked. The story was soon told, and she said, “Is that ail? I thought tho express train was smashed up, or the rocking-horse had his leg brok* n. We ll soon have the sun sliding, in the ’ house, at least.” 'lhen she begged seme old news- ' papers of mamma, and taking a pair of j scissors sat dow n by the fire with a boy ■ in a little aim-chair on each side. Such wonderful things as those sharp scissors cut from those old papers! There were team-horses and trottinghorses and saddle-horses with men on I their backs, and horses that could only stand still. There were cows and pigs and hens and dogs and cats and—and —everything! Haddy and j'ay shouted for joy and I forgot all about the rainy day, and ' when at last Aunt Letty said she must go, mamma ba.de her good-by with a rested look in her poor tired face and said she was a sunl earn. And the beys had [taper animals | enough to last them ix week. Proverbs from the Ta'.nimh Do not to others what you would not have others do to you. A simple light answers as well for a hundred men as for 0110. A myrtle,even in the desert, remains a myrtle. Hospitality is an expression of divine worship. Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend lias a. friend; be disI erect. Deal with those who are fortunate. Tho weakness of thy walls invites the burglar. The place honors not the man; dis the man who gives honor to tho place. If a word spoken in its time is worth one piece of money, silence in its time is worth two. The doctor who prescribes gratuitously gives a worthless prescription. 'The rose grows among the thorns. No man is impatient with his crcd- ; itors. . Two pieces of coin in one bag make more noise than a hundred. Vian sees the moto in his neighbor's eye, but knows not tho beam in his L own.

INDIANA HAPPENINGS. EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. An Interesting Summary of the Moro Im« portaut Doings of Our Neighbors—VVtxldings ami Dentils—Crime, Casualties ami General News Note*. Patents. Patents have been issued for Indiana inventors as follows: Peter Anderson, assignor to H. G. Olds, of Fort Wayne, corner iron for wagon boxes; Bejamin F. Berger; South Beud, cultivator; Andrew J. Calloway, Chester Hill, cornplanter and drill combined; Clark Chiddister, Decatur, gate: Joseph Frenick, LaPorte, wheel: Thomas J. Harriman, New Paris, drive apparatus for piles, etc.; James A. Little, Cartersburg, spade or shovel; Edward J. Purdy, Michigan City, hunters’ portable stool; George W. Pyle, Geneva, retail case and support for stores; Abbott M. Reeves, Indianapolis, metallic mat; George AV. I Schock and A\. H. AVansbrough, South Bend, paint mixer; Frederick W. Tremain, Fort AVayne, washing machine. । KoLlhhl Uif* Corner-Stone of a Chorrh. A queer robbery was committed at ; j Cambridge City. Some person, evidently ! j acquainted with the surroundings, took I _ 11 crowbar and removed the eormr-stone ' of the Baptist church from its place in , the wall of the building. He was jioorly . repaid for his trouble, however, as the ■ receptacle beneath it contained only a few coins, amounting to about 51.50. I ho stone was laid in isill, and its conj tents comprised sii. h miscellaneous papers, articles, etc., ns are usually deposited on such occasions. A Camper I at ally Burneil. Levi Hunson, of Guthrie, was out of work and concluded to go to Bedford to • seek employment. He encamped out near Bedford, having built a fire out of s rubbish and fodder. During the night the fire spread and the clothes of Hun- I sou took fire. He awoke to find his clothing in a blaze, and it was sometime I before he could relieve himself of the I timing garments. He was s rionsly burned, an i had to be removed to Bedford, where he died from bis injuries. Mitior state Hema. The town of St. Marys of experiencing a boom. Rev. Rudolph Randolph, living near Ai: hewe.. wa thrown from a wagon and falallv injured. He is t’>s years of age. Twenty g:;s wells have been sunk m the vicinity of Coiydon. nnd in every instance there has- Leena large flow of AVhile cutting a tree at Galen:., Floyd < mmi. Nobb McDaniel, aged IT, h; I his^ne' k bioken bv a falling limb. — A mad bull um lea dash nt Peter Draper near AL x>indrm. and threw him through a rail fence. Mr. Draper s leg was broken. A very large and old gray eagle was shot near Seymour the other day. It measured forty-one inches from tip to ! tip of w tugs. S< ymour is enjoying a steady growth. It-- latest business gain is a pressed-briek manufactory, with a capacity of flu. O' Hl a day. A icvival at the Quaker Church in Monrovia, conducted bv Mr. Mnunley, ‘ of Chicago, resulted in thirty-fiveacces- ; sious to the church. — Janies Cook, 11 workman in a pluu- ; ing-mill at Columbus, had his arm par- j tmlly severed, by bating it accidently strike a band-saw in motion. —The Baptist Church of Greencastle, which Ims been without a pastor several years, has secured IL v. AV. AV. Hicks, , who will hereafter officiate there. —David Binkley, a well-known resi- ' dent of Nappanee. Elkhart County, while driving a fast horse was thrown against a fer.ee and instantly killed. —Clarington Cross claims to have • discovered, near Washington, at a depth ; ’ of ninety feet, a nine-foot vein of goldj bearing quartz, which assays $360 to the . ton. I —Frank Calv t, at one time editor and proprietor of the Wabash PlainDeaier, but lately a farmer and politician. died at Mount Etna, near Wabash. —Hon. George Nathaniel Robinson, an eloquent aud able member of the Shelby County bar, died at Shelbyville. He served two terms in the State Legisj lature; —AVhile playing near a stove, the 2- I year-old child of Samuel Starnes, of Seymour, upset a kettle of boiling water. The child was so badly scalded that i death is probable. —AVilliam Able, a well-known farmer i of Jackson County, was kicked on the | head by a vicious horse a few days ago. | His skull was crushed, and all the bones of his face were broken. I —Hon. Beatty McClelland, of Columbus, is said to have practiced law longer than any other lawyer in the State. He was admited to the bar in 1836. He is ; over eighty years of age. —AVilliam Benson, tho murderer of Jacob Alottweiler, who was condemned to death at Jeffersonville, will bo the first person to be executed in the State Prison South according to the new law. - A homing pigeon was shot on a farm near Vevav a lew days ago. It carried on one leg a silver band, numbered 12,853, and bore the letter Z. Tho pigeon was supposed to lie a blue hawk. - Jolm I’evy, tlii' horse thiwf recentlv captured at AVabash, has been sentenced to four years in the penitentiary- He is wanted in Ohio for numerous crimes, and will be rearrested wue 1 his present term expires. | - Several children were amusing themselves by burning rubbish at Madison. when Nettie, the 5-year old daughter of Thomas Dew, went too close to the fire. A gust of wind caused her dress to ignite, and in an instant she was enveloped in flumes. She was terribly burned and died of her injuries.

—Mrs. Brown, wife of John Brown,» wealthy resident of Crown Poiut, fell from her carriage while driving alone, a few days ago, and was instantly killed. She bad been married only a few months. —The action of the New Albany Fishing Club in offering n reward of $25 for the conviction of any person found using dynamite in the small streams near that city has almost broken up tho practice. —Silas Livengood, a farmer living near Waynetown, Montgomery County, fell from his wagon, which was loaded with tile. The wheels passed over his head, mashing his jaw and crushing in his skull. The stables at the Centreville race truck were burned, and Charley Brumfield, a sort of vagabond, perished in the flames. He was sleeping off a drunk there. No horses were there at the time of tho fire. —A shepherd dog belonging to John Curvin, of Taylorsville, Bartholomew County, went mad the other day, ami before it could be killed had bitten Air. 1 Curv’iu's 5-year-old daughter, besides two horses and several cows. —At Boggstown, a frame house occu- , pied bv Bettie King eaught tire from a : pipe she was smoking, aud was cou- ; | sinned. Tho woman, being an invalid, ‘ was unable to escape and was burned to death. Her age was forty-five. The directors of the I’risou South have elected Abel Ewing, of Greensburg. deputy warden, vice AVillis Barnes resigned. Dr. G. H. Runeie, of Fort Branch. Gibson County, physieir.n. vice , Dr. \\ olf. of New Albany, resigned. The AVinchester Board of Trade has elected Gen. A. Stone president, and Enos L. Watson and two others vice presidents, and u board of five directors. A great effort is being imide to ar- ; range for free gas for manufacturing purposes. AVilluimJienson, under sentence of 1 death at Jeffersonville for the murder jof Jacob Mottweiler. has made a full ' confession, in which he says his sole motive for the crime was his love for the girl Sallie Snyder, the domestic in Mottweiler's family. Minnie, the l-year-old daughter of Geor :e Shekel!, who lives near Fountaintown. was burned to death while playing with fire nnd burning trash. Her clothes were burned off. The mother s 'minds were severely burned in trying to put out the fire. A mammoth stalk of corn raised on the farm of Samuel Brumfield, in Ohio Township, Bartholomew County, is on exhibition at Columbus. To the ear, which m large ami solid, it measures nine feet ami seven inches. The entire height of the staik is eighteen feet. t»twell Pike Countyi White Cups left switches aud notes of warning at the doors of the houses of all the lazy, dissolute and disreputable persons of th it ton n. The notes adi ised immediate chan.;? 111 the mode of lite of those warned, or immigration from the town within ten days. Frank Mote, a young man residing five miles east of Seymour, was run over by a switch engine in the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad yards, receiving injuries which caused his death in a few hours. It is supposed he was attempting to board the engine or cars attached while they were in motion. Judge Ferguson, of Jeffersonville, has decided that the bondsmen of A. J. Howard, ex-warden of the Prison South, are not responsible for his last term, j AVhen his last term commenced, Howard's bond was not renewed under the j supposition that the first one was good. By this ruling the State will lose u large sum of money. —The Indiana Live Stock Commission, 1 constituted by the last Legislature, met ' at Indianapolis and organized by electing Adam Earl, of Lafayette, President, and Samuel Bowman, of South Bend, ; Secretary. The work before the Commission was discussed., but the adoption of rules and the election of a veterinarian was postponed till the next meeting. —Mrs. Mary Charnes. the wife of Martin Charnes, who was seriously assaulted by her brother-in-law, Josiah Charnes, a short time ago at AVashington, is dying from the effect of the terri- ■ ble treatment which she was subjected 1 to. Her ante-mortem statement of the ! assault has been taken, to be used in the trial of the brute whose violence is I said to bo the cause of her death. - —Mrs. AVilliam Cross, of Jackson 1 County, was bitten on the foot by a copper-head snake over thirty years ago. but she partially recovered after months of suffering. Y’early since that time her foot has swollen to enormous size, and several times she came near dying. For more than a year past she has neither been able to stand nor walk. Her body is now swollen out of proportion, aud she is dying of blood-poisoning. The Board of Trustees of the State Normal School, in session at Terre I Haute, find they are very much embarrassed by the failure to make the State loan. The trustees should have ' had ^IIC>,OD<» from the State Treasury by i this time —§100,(HU of tho appropriation I for the new building under construcI tion, and §IO,OOO deficiency appropriaI tion. About thirty thousand dollars is 1 duo contractors. As yet the Board has i taken no action, and finds itself emi barrassed as to the future. 'The con- ! tractors need the money to proceed with I their work. — Huntingburg, in Dubois County, has ' a population of 2,008 there being 1.031 males and the same number of females, it is probably the only town in this country where the sexes are equally divided. - -The Decatur County Commissioners have agreed to sink a gas well at least three thousand feet deep, if necessary ; to reach the gas bearing sand. The experience in the vicinity of Decatur is somewhat similar to that at Lancaster, 0., where an immense flow was obtained by going down to the sand.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL ENTERTAINING DISSERTATION -ON SERIOUS SUBJECTS. A Pleasant, Interesting;, and Instructive Leswn anil Where It May Be Found—A Learned and Concise Review of the Same. The lesson for Sunday, April 21, may be found in Murk 12: 28-34. INTRODUCTORY. It wins one of the Master’s field-days. At tho opening of Murk we had the record of one day of blessed preaching and healing. Aud how full of kindly ministries it 7 was, that day at Capernaujn with its message and its miracle- of the svhagogue. the healing of Simon s- wifeys mother, coining directly after, with the gathering of tho sick and evil possessed—of “ah tho city" ut the deor “at even when the sun did set"—“and he healed inany. This third day of the week—his last week in the flesh—to which we have now come, is apotixer season of thronging events. Jlut this time ho is in tho heat of buttle, and it Is the flash of the sword that wo see piercing now and again between tho joints of tho harness. The fig tree withers up "from, the roots," the arrogant query in i the temple, “By what authority doest. thou these things?” is met, the crucial parables of the vineyard, tho two sons, and tho mar- ■ riage feast are spoken, the Pharisee with ( his piece of tribute money and the Siuidu- ; coo with his insidious questions' regarding the resurrection uro in turn put to cilifusioit. close upon their heels coming the lawyer with his inquiry answered in Le present i lesson; and yet tho day is but hal. gone. The cross was not far distant, and every moment had its weighty erraqd to tho Master. WHAT THE I.ESBON REACHES. And one of the scribes came. It is the ■ scribe’s turn now. Ore by one our Lord’s enemies came forward in this last passage at ;u ins in the temple, each to be signally discomfited and put to shame. First the high-priests-are asking his credentials 1 ad authority for preaching as he does. Christ answers them with a series of parables that | exalt the will of God as the ground of obedience, and the word> ot God as tho basis of authority, convicting his interlocutors of unfaithbilness to that will ami disloyalty to that word. They go away. Then comes tho I'iuirisce. asking slyly about the tribute to Civsar that they might “entangle him in his I talk." and with his diserhnirihting reply, "Render unto Civsar the things that’are Ba' S;>l ''s and to God the things that are God’s,"in their.yars they can" only prnrvel and hold th.*4r pence. Next., the Sadducee. • el derly asking regarding the wife of seven husbands: "In tho resurrection, therefore, wh,en they shall rise, whose wife shall slip be of them?” Christ prows, to their confusion, that th’ev “know not the Scriptures, neither the power of God.” And now, last of all. come tho scribes >uul pharisees. There is the same result. Presently we seo them standing simmr-faeed before him, “and no num was able to answer him a word." The defeat of the skept*? and the cavder is complete. Why should wo fear to-day? H7h<7< is the first convnuindment of all? '!'he word wassan echo from the vain and fruitless disputations of the day. AVhat : piece of work-righteousness wil’ count the [ most ? It is again the question of the young | innn: "What good thing shall I do?” There is the same encounter in these latter times. Mun's morality, so-called, sets itself over against the righteousness, which is of God tlirough faith. How shall the churches be mil l" more "useful?” the papers are asking, ' and M. J. Savage, of Boston, and Dr. ' Tliomas, of Chicago, and tho Unitarians 'wo wrote it first, in siunifleant inadvert- , nem I'mrersalists) of Cincinnati are replying in one breath: "Preach the divinity ai atureg “The divineness <>f the, rue etc. Yes. the world still wishes to know how it can whiten the sepulchre of this dead carnality a little more', and, dis- ' aidm,; penit meb and eoniession. roach Heaven by a ladder of good wo*rks. How can the church be made more "useful” to thi- emi? Alas! that there should bo any mieouiagement for such a tendency from' ■ church or pulpit. Thou shall love the Lord thy God. “O yes. good .Master, we do love tho great Father ' of us all. (os, do you not see, we*fast (in’ Lent) and give alms, and. keep tile law,and" —"Gos dl," says the Master interrupting th<> glib tongue of the young ruler, "give—and come follow me!" Righteousness Is more ' than a matter of the law. It is downright, hearty, supreme, sell-forgetting love. Love tho Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, mind, strength. Love to God, such love as-' is here taught, complete, all embracing, is ; what the world needs te-duy. It is as Kant ; said, acting so that “the maxim of thy will may be the principle of a universal iegis- ; lation." But who has ever been able to do?' I that who but One? If we had no other proof of man’s fall we should have it here when we compare human life, at Its best, with this sxveeping divine law. Some one once defined total depravity to bo simply and solely this, the complete failure of man to love God with all the heart. AVe need a Redeemer. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Men do not seem to bo much in love witlithemselvus, according to this test—they love’ their neighbors so little. But the trouble is that the golden rule, of which this is but another version, is not being orbserved to any great extent. There would be less oppression, less exaction, lees dis-" j honesty, if men loved each other as they I should. There xvould be more wages and । more work put into the day. were there more neighbor-love in the business and social world. “What will you xvhite-wash my barn for?" “Two dollars and a half a day, sah.” “How much for the job?' “Well, take de white-wash and de wear and tear, dur's no money in it by the job.” Our colored friend lets out a good-sized secret here. In ordinary commercial intercourse there arc innumerable hedges reared to compel that which love itself ought to eon-' strain. Ah, love, true, disinterested love, is still a very rare commodity. .Vo man' after that durst ask him any morn questions. It proved very dangerous work to assail the truth. It always does. Better leave it alone. AVhen Lyman Beecher went from Litchlleld to Boston, then the hot-bed of Unitariunism. all but one of the old churches having adopted the new Christdestroying tenets, he was like a man sent of God. and it was “as though in him one of the old Puritans had risen from tho dead.” Os course there was opposition and heathen rage. Read Dr. Boocher’s autobiography: "Showers of lies were raised about us every' day.” But tho old hero answered with the truth. God sent him revival after revival. Presently we find him saying. “All this malignity did us no harm. They only rang the bell for me.” In a little while tho opposition had changed their tactics and concluded to let Lyman Beecher and his or- । thodox preaching alone. Lift up Christ.- ! In the face of a gainsaying world, teaclr i Jesus. When they ask questions give ' them Jesus for an answer. It is enough. ' Ere long wo shall find it is of old. They dare not lor their lives "ask any more | questions." Next Lesson—“ The Destruction of the Toinplo Foretold."- -Mark 13: 1-13. Mormon( Ircesus । visit 1 ig A^assarCob lege, to snpeiintenileut) —AVhatlovely girls. jHarricd? Superintendent — No. Mormon Criesus Ive §(‘>o,ooo,--[’ll mart : Hurrah! I’ick out any sixty of us. “I see you are advertising your hotel in great shape. “Aes; it paxs. “ What’s your idea in claiming a feature of the management entirely new and original?' “Well, ve keep }>ens that th.” z Cuorus girl (ia restaurant)- —Am I ; vour little duck ? Fledging—Of course you are. Chorus girl—Then tell the waiter to bring me a canvas-back. The hotel keeper has an in 11 depend- j ent existence.

NUMBER 43

I CROP PROSPECTS GOOD. THE NORTHWEST GREATLY BliWlffi-. MTED Ry RECENT KAINS. It niter Wheat Prospects Good Ev«rywher» piing Wheat Seeilins Still Progress-mg-Onts amt Grass Greatly Benefited by the Kains. The following crop report is gleaned from correspondents scattered throughout the country fox the week e-nding the 13th inst.: h?™ rain " of tho last greatly m-rl 1 Michigan the wheat prospecto are wheat Stand's fr" U COUI<I b « «ee*ed- The X theneids UlW ° Wtall M '° aU oats, an,? spring vork has now commenced in earnest. Wheat wiFl l Hwn a he faSt d l 9a lT e '‘ ! ’fi 1 R and local mills r, m wheat t 0 k ™P their mills i r wlii M *ny mtlK are now going to Detroit foi " heat. This is something unusual. ’•eport,s plenty of rain for the J > tm, ;. ''heat crop has improved 1 B h : y durtn 8 the last thirty days. It does ” d ’“. B 7 m o Places thick enough on tho s„ 1 uh-, nm “ bout four inches high. In 11 , r ? Ohl ? the cro)> stands in need of moist®°wn well, and ranges m h‘ ,t 'ht *H the way from two to six inches. . tocks in the hands of farmers are being gradually sold and are less than a war ago Southern Indiana reports that thenow wheat stands about s>x inches high; is of good color Mid fl co from any defects so far. Stocks in tho hands of farmers awe greatly reduced. Im Northern Indiana the wheat.' is about four inches high. The rains will help it. In Southern Illinois the growing crop contin- • ties to look well. The growing wheat—that is, .he best of it—is from six to eight inches high. Parmers deliveries amount to almost nothing, Hiid tho local stocks have been reduced 50 ver cent, since the first ot March. 1” I entral IRtiiois there is a.good deal of wheat thrjt stands now from ten to twelve inches high. I I here are some reports of insects. The reserve* of winter wheat are being absorbed rapidly, aud I’ut n- small proportion of tho crop now remains in farmers’ hands; an early harvest is looked for. In Eastern Kansas there has becA plenty of rain. The winter wheat is growing fast, and is _ from six to ten inches high. The prospects for wheat were never better for years than they are to-day.and the reserves of winter wheat are melting away fast. There is little in farmers’ hands. AVith present conditions, tho early sown will be fit to cut the second week in June. The oats are all up. and have made a good o t:md. Farmers are planting corn. Southwestern Kansas says that winter wheat never looked better nt this time of year than at present. Tho recent rains, which were general over Southwestern Kansas, have given the wheat a fresh impetus, and it is now from eight to ten inches high. Many of the mills are running less than one-third of the time, and are importing most all of the wheat they grind. In Northern Missorri nil the moisture necessary for the wheat has fallen since the Ist of April. The prospects are now excellent, and the season is three weeks earlier than usual. Southern Missouri reports plenty of rain; wheat prospects never better; reserves getting low. being slowly but surely consumed. Kentucky reports the wheat good color, with light rain’just sufficient to keep vegetation growing. The crop prospects on the whole are promising. In Tennessee some of the early wheat is tali enough to joint—twelve to fifteen inches high. The season seems to be tut least fourteen days earlier than usual. The stocks of wheat in farmers’ hands are growing less and fess, and the new crop will find all the old wheat gone. Many farmers have now- finished planting corn. The huge mills of the State are about through with their home purchases and aro now importing wheat from Southern Indiana and Illinois. ' and some coming from St. Louis. Considerable wheat will have to bo imported into Tennessee and Kentucky before another crop is made. Reports from Northern Texas are not quite as favorable as they were ten days ago. Tho ■ ground has dried up wonderfully fast. Tho harvest promised to be unusually early this season, and with a dry harvest now-wheat will be used by the mills by the Ist of June. In the central portion of the State wheat is now well joined and in an advanced condition. There aro some reports of rust, but it w ill be ten er fifteen days betore the damage, if any, can be ascertained. Reports from Central California show that during the last twenty days the growth of grain has been rapid. Barley is beginning to head. The movement of grain to market is slow, indicating either n short surplus or a disposition to hold for an advance. Millers enter tho ' markets only to supply immediate wants. Eastern Dakota reports that seeding has been in full blast, and that up to the 10th inst. 50 per cent, of the crop was in. The lack of rain was > felt in the earl v part of the week, but the generous show ers of the last few days have done much to supply the necessary degree ot' moisture. The «'reage is being increased, as the early season tint higher prices have decided many to plow -' more or less of the laud which was lett for sum. mer fallow. Elevators have forwarded their holdings, us the courts have decided that wheat in store must be assessed April 1. Reports from Central Dakota say that wheat which had been soavd inior to the strong winds will to a great extent have to be resown and all of it will have to be burrowed as it was laid bare Nebraska reports drv weather, and in some parts of the State the ground is too drv to plow for com. lowa has already been in the same condition, but has been greatly relieved by tho late rains. The outs are all sown and farmers have commenced to plow for com. The week closes lip with the country practically iu this condition. The winter wheat promises now an excellent ■ crop As to its amount in bushels let statisticians figure it to their heart’s content. The size of a crop depends upon its price. There is a good prospect of an early harvest. Reserves everywhere are slowly but surely melting awav. and the prospect is now that they will ■ be nearb exhausted by the time the new crop is fit to grind. The spring wheat seeding is progressing. Seeding in Minnesota and ■ hikota is not vet finished. The acreage of spring wheat is hugely inert ased. Plowing for corn is progressing slow ly, and there seems to be no hurry about it. — DEATH^OFT PHYSICAL FREAK. A Cincinnati Boy Who Enjoyed Seeing His Flesh Roasted. ! The death of young John AValsmith, which occurred at Cincinnati, Ohio, was * one of the strangest that ever occurred liu this country. The boy s death was due to foreign substances in the stomach, He had been under a physician’s care > for four years, and had given a gieat deal of * trouble. He was strong Jas a giant, but had no physical feeling. He had placed his hand ou a hot stove and watched it roast. Nothing seemed to materially injure him or give him pain. He had been run over bv one of John Robinson s cir- ' cus wagons. He had fallen from the top of the bridge over Spring Grove avenue I a distance of forty feet, aud once walked j out of a two-story window Any one of the casualties would probably have killed a box' in a normal condition, but he never broke a bone. He is scarred I all over, aud surgeons ha'e sewed ud trreat cuts while ho sat and ■unused himself. Although he was a bright child at four or five icnrs of age he soon began to grow stupid and was inclined to i dloC N hearing had nearly gone and he had ceased to talk. In his stomach was found a strange variety. * green ball of yarn, marbles, nickels a L^ge undigested apple core and other n The cause ot his death it «»««»• tained a large needle. It stuck at tne stomach entrance and killed him. tn tged I'armcr Victimize*!. ' Two' st rangers visited Daniel Keller’s riaco near Shamokin. Pa., ami> after a proposal to purchase his farm engaged the old farmer in a game of cards. Kelb r became interested and piocuied si 700, which he put up as stakes. Iho mJnev was seized by tho strangers, and K-lh r was covered with a revoher while thev moved off. Both escaped. One o t he'meu represented himself as the sou of J. B. Packer, of Sunbury, au old friend of Keller’s. j It isn't always the man who wears 1 the largest hat who knows the most, i but generally he is the man who thinks he does. _