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uLD JUNES 18 DEAD. BY LOI ISE CUI.NDLI It MOULTON. I ant in my window, high overhead, And heard them say, below in t bo street, “I HUppoKoyou know that old Ji m s is d i.d"" Tiien thu speaker aiismd, and 1 hoard thoir foot Heedlessly walking tnelr onwa d way. “Doadl" \Vhat morn could t'ane bo to nay? But I aat mid pondered whn* it might moan Thus to bo dead when tho world went by. Did Jones seo fi rther th in wo have seen ? Was he one whh tho stars in the watching sky? Ordown there under thu growing grass Did ho hear tho feet of Clio daylight pass ! Were day time and night-time one to him n w, And grieving and hoping u tale thu is told? A kiss on his lips or a mind on his I row, Could ho fool th in umler the churchyard mold. As he surely felt them hie whole life long, Though thoy passed with his youth-time hot and strong? They called him “Old Jones" when at last ho died; “Old Jonos" he had been for many a your ; Yet his faithful memory t urn defied, And dwelt in the days so distant and dear Who first he found that lovo was sweet. And recked not the speed of its hurrying foot. Does ho brood in the long light under tho so I On tho joys and sorrows ho used to know , Or, fat in some wonderful world of ( o I, Where tho shining seraphs stand, row on row, Does lie wake like a et.'ld nt the daylight’s gleam, And know that the past was a night's short dream ? Is he dead, and a do I down there below ; Or dead and wiser than auv alive ; Which? Ab, who of us may know, Or who can say how the dead folk thrive’' But the summer morning is cool an I sweet, And 1 hear the the folk laugh in t he a.root. J GREAT TREASURE, The Stranje Mystery Siii'Miilw Its Disappearance. A STORY GF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST. ♦— BN FRANK BARRETT. ' CHAFTER X.

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"Yuurturn will come," Van Hoeck had said to me, and those words coming back to mv mind. 1 asked myselt if the repeated attacks upon Edith might not be a part of a complicated scheme to obtain the diamond. Suelt a plot was the more possible because it seemed impossible. An act of legerdemain succeeds or not. according to the skill with which the conjurer fixes our attention on a false train of operations while he works out tho actual feat. Asi made these reflections, I took the Great Hesper from the pouch on my waist strap, and buckled it in its ease upon my left wrist; then I doubly locked the door, saw that there was oil in tho lamp, put a box of wax matches beside it on tho table, and finally opened the long-bladed knife Van Hoeck had given mo, and stuck it between the mattress and the side of the bedstead. The room was thickly carpeted and Oak-paneled. The furniture—with tho exception of the toilet arrangements and a low. saddle-backed chair—was antique and of oak. The bedstead was particularly wide, with four carved pillars, carrying a baldaquin and heavy curtains of some thick brocaded stuff, looped at the foot, but hanging loose at the head; it faced the oriel. Between the right side of the bed and the wall was a square table—on which stood the lamp—with the saddle-back chair beside it. On tin- left-hand side of the bed was a tall carved black press. A large chimney, with a sculptured mantel and tin open hearth, faced the door. A screen shut off the washstand, which stood to the left of th oriel. A broad settle with a valance, and covered with a stuff similar to the hangings of the bed, ran round the threesided recess formed by the window—curtains of the same kind shut off this recess. A corner cabinet, with folding doors in the lower part, fitted the angle of the walls to the right; between this and the door was a deep, wide, and long chest, and above it. a large mirror. An escretoire. some highbacked chairs, and a second table completed the furniture. There was no door but the one opening upon the corridor, and no window save the oriel. In the early part of the night I had described these particulars to Van Hoeck at his request, and he had made me examine tho press, the old chest, the hangings of the bed and settles? everything, in fact, which might afford a hiding-place to Lola or another. I had even gone down upon my knees and looked under the bed, to appease his anxiety. And yet now a vague uneasiness possessed me as I raised tiie lamp shade, and looked round the room. The dark oak wainscot, the somber hangings, tho painted ceiling overhead, absorbed the light; there was a black void on the opposite side of the bed, where the light from the lamp was intercepted by the curtains; J could not see even the outline of the great press. I readjusted the shade, turned the wick higher, and, half undressed, threw myselt upon the bed. I was not afraid—in strength 1 wtis a mutch for any natural foe, and 1 did not believe in the existence of any Other—yet I felt myself infected with Van Hoeck’s presentiment of impending calamity. Van Hoeck’s theory of Lola’s complicity in a plot to Steal the diamond ha 1 been upset by the fact that I was watching her asleep at my doorat the very time Edith believed she saw the girl looking through the blinds; but this had in nowise shaken his conviction that the mysterious appearance was connected with the scheme to rob us. “Are a man’s convictions to be limited by his senses?" he asked. "You are convinced that a cloud is rising in the horizon because you see it. but am I to deny its existence because I have no sight ? Are you justified, then, in declaring that we are not menaced by this disaster which is to overwhelm us because you have not my faculty of prevision? You who can not deny prescience to a bee, tho presentiment of coming storm to cattle, tell me that my conviction is nothing. It is only by conviction that wo live. What saves us from destruction but the conviction that, by stepping into an abyss, we must fall? I tell you to look about you; we are on the edge of an abyss. There are signs to strike the dullest intelligence. Your turn will come!" I had hung my watch in the pocket upon the hanging at the head of the bed; its lively ticking sounded strangely out, of keeping With the gloom ami stillness of the surroundings. Tim shade.] light gave a funereal aspect to the bed-hangings; the bal la quin over mv head might have been a catafalque for the dead. 1 wondmed how many men had ended their days on this bed since — ‘ W ir l» «» IwrinifA IllUl pllt lip. Wollhl more," r^ffTTro tnysm iment Im fulfilled? late tho space fartly. t -re in the morning for false impressions. minute - had pissed, v ; murder, that bed,

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with Its pull-like hangings to cent mil tho lurking murderer. Tle-tac, tie-tae, tlo-Uo, tic-tac. tlc-tac. My ear had become so familiar to tho brisk movement of my watch that thoslightest sound was audible above it. And a sound, slight indeed, I hoard. 'hi my mind, dwelling then upon assassins, it. sounded like the drawing of a dagger from its sheuth. Turning my head toward the side from Which tho sound seemed to proceed, 1 faneied 1 saw tho heavy curtain move; it was lie! ween me and (lie lamp. Tho movement was as slight ns the sound. If it was a fact that I heard one, it was a fact that 1 saw the other. 1 drew myself up gradually. and, leaning forward, 1 suddenly flung back tho curtain with my loft hand. There was no resistance to my haul; nothing to be seen beyond but the lamp burning steadily on the table, the sudd Ie - Luck chair, and tho uim outline of tho big chimney-piece, 1 got upon my knees and pushed tho curtain flat against tho wall, to be sure that there could by no possibility bo any one concealed in tile heavy folds -to assure mvself that my suspicion was utterly without foundation. This end of tho room was comparatively light, and the snddlo-baek chair was so placed as to preclude tho possibility of any one hiding beyond it. If the curtain had indeed moved it must have been by a hand from under tho bed. it was easier to believe that I had been mistaken in seeing the slight inovem ‘nt than to suppose 1 had overlooked a concealed thiol when 1 looked under the bed to satisfy Van Hoeck; so 1 let tho curtain fall and lay down again. My thoughts still dwelt upon the Idea of assassination, Setting aside the idea of an intrigue in which Lola was concerned, there was yet nothing preposterous in Van Hoe.-k's presentiment.. There were eight or ten servants in tho home, and undoubtedly every one of them knew of the marvelous treasure in my keeping. They would tell their friends in the adjacent village, tho keepers, tlie tradespeople in a tew days the story would b“ carried about mid made known to hundreds; ami was there none among them whose cupidity might toko practical form ? It was quite possible that under this very roof there was one with tho ingenuity and daring to plan and execute the robbery. A servant intimately acquainted with the arrangement of the rooms and the peculiarities of tho building would probably know of the external means of communication between tho bay and the oriel windows. Without this knowledge, no one, it seemed to me, would dare to attempt that hazardous passage at night and in tho dark; but with that knowledge, and possibly some previous practice, the feat was sufficiently practicable. In that ease. Edith might actually lime heard and seen what sho hud since attributed to imagination. But what end could be served by those repeated attacks upon her sensibility? A cause is sometimes discovered by examining the effect. Now, what effect had been produced by these attacks? The first hud irightened i’.dith excessively: the see- j end had made a slighter impression. Thus fur the effect had been confined to tier; but ; the third—for only to a third fright could 1 attribute her sei cam of terror- had brought I her father and myself from our rooms. In- I stantly, something like thu truth Hashed I upon my mind: To bring me from my room wa- tho very object with which the attack upon Edith had been made. Unriddling the mystery with this key, 1 assuaied ttint the thief had watched me dose the door upon Van Hoeck and retuin to my room; that, after allowing me sufficient time to get into lied, but not to fall into sound sleep, he had made the attack upon Edith, opening her door beforehand to provide a speedy means of escape and to allow her cry to be more distinctly heard; that, having succeeded in terrifying her, he had sped down the stairs In the left block, passed through the library and din-ing-room, and ascended by the stairs in the right block ale t the same time that 1 in ghl be supposed to have reached Edith's room, and that, reckoning upon my keeping tho Great Helper under my pillow, and leaving it there in my alarm upon'Edith's account, ho hud expected to have possessed himself of our treasure. If whnl 1 thus assumed was the fact, then indeed this plan might have succeeded but for Van Hoeck’s prudent insistuneo upon my strapping the diamond to my wrist. As I thus explained what had happened, a more startling reflect on oecui red to my mind, Tho thief hud been disappointed in not finding the diamond beneath my pillow, but ho yet might not have relinquished the hope of getting it. He might not have left the room. He might be hidden there-at that very moment! What was more easy, being in the room, than to conceal himself in it? The curtain i that masked tho oriel, the grout chest, the I settle, the press, were all suggestive of that । course. The fellow might be under the Very bed 1 was lying upon! ’iho movement i had seen in tho curtain, t the sound similar to the drawing of a blade ■ from its sheath (which might well have । been caused by the movement of the heavy \ valance of the bed). strengthened the sus- I pieion. Was he lying there waiting for the sound of my heavy breathing to assure him I that 1 slept? There was scarcely the necessity to wait | for that, for what resistance could I, lying i upon my back there, make against a foe springing out of the dark upon me? I thought of the elusp-knife Van Hoeck j had given me. and. stretehin r out my hand. i I felt for it where 1 had stuck it—between s the mattress and the bedstead. 1 could not I find it. l ushing back the curtains so that tho light Irom the lamp ft ll upon the edge of the bedstead. I assured myself that it was not where 1 had left it. It must have slipped through, or been drawn out. The latter supposition explained the sound ami movement 1 had heard and seen, Yet it might have made that sound in slip- ! ping through—its full upon the floor deadened by the carpet, on it- point sticking in the boards; but 1 fancied the horn-handle was too wide to allow of its slipping through. To satisfy myself at onoe upon this point, I leuped out of bed. resolved to strike u mutch ami look under the valance. 1 stood for a moment stupefied. The box of vestas was gone from Ilie table, where 1 was certain 1 find laid them. They must have been taken while I lav screened by the lied curtains. I glanced over my shoulder. '1 lie folds of the eurtuin against this bed were not the same us when I pushed them back to the wall; one fold stood out ut an angle; and as, slowly turning round, I looked more closely. I saw against the dark oak panel of the wall, about the mid-height of a man, and protruding hut an inch or so from the edge of the curtain, the bright point of a knife-blade. Now, indeed, there was no longer any doubt. The man who had come to roll was there to murder me. Had J stopped but another moment on the bed he might have knifed me. What was I to do? I had him standing then- behind the curtain at u certain advantage. Should I spring upon him and strangle him against the wall in the folds of tho curtain? It was not a sure victory for me, ami a partial one might in the end be fatal. The thick stuff would prevent my getting a firm grip of him, and ids right hand, the one that held the knife, was free. My chance was too small, the danger too great to justify that attack, though the muscles of my arms and Ungers were strung up to make the tempting effort. Keeping my eye up< n the curtain, I drew back to the foot of the bed. To get to tile door 1 must cross tho room, and inevitably be seen by the murderous rascal as he stood there on tlie inner side of the bed-curtain; and arrived at tlie door I must turn tlie key twice, and the handle as well, before he overtook me. On the other hand, he had to disengage himself Irom the folds us the curtain and recover the start I had of him, The ehunc.es were pretty equal, and 1 deternqiied to save myself by flight rather than risk the fatal result of the unequal encounter. I made my »ay noiselessly in a straight

G NORANT of what, had occurred in Edi th' s room befoi o her cry for help. 1 paced my room, thinking how terrible i h c fright must have b cen that made her faint u second time and despite her belief in the unreality of these niysterio h s app ea r - tmeeH.

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line down tho room until I got opposite the door, then 1 made a rush for it across the open space. 1 got to the door, and with furious haste groped about for tho kev—U was gone! I grasped the handle, in the hope that i might he able to tdar the lock off; tlie screw had been taken out, and Iho knob slid off tlie spindle in my hand. 1 was lost. It astonishes me now to think with what celerity and adroitness these precautions against my escape had boon made. j The man hud not rushed after me; there was no desperate pursuit of that kind; he I knew 1 was trapp d. Only as I turned mv j eyes buck to the place where he stood, I perceived that tho light was dying out. There was but a narrow row of blue flame above tli v wiek; it faded away and all wat dark. There are degrees of darkness; this seemed tome the List degree. 1 felt as If J was sunk in n lake of pitch. Il 1 called lor help it was not certain that the heavy-sleeping Judge would hear me. Possibly Sir Edmund was yet awake, but I thought of Edith, and I osides 1 knew that before assistance could come, before the door could be burst, all would bo over. Probably my foe was already appronebin: mo; my cry would be iho signal for him to spring upon me. No. my only chance of escape was in ma uta ihing s leneo, ami keeping liim in ignorance of my position. If accident brought us into contact, I trusted to my physical strength and good luck to be a match for him and his knife in the sub >eqlieut struggle. Tl^' diamond buckled t< my wrist might serve mo in the light; 1 might stun the follow with it if fortune only tai <>red nay arm. It was a duel between us, ami any way 1 Would s di my lite dearly. With this resolve 1 drew away from the door toward that part of the room where as 1 fancied, the carved press stood. 1 kepi mv ii'ins free, my hotly eroimhed together, nr "very muscle tem-e and ready I micked a few feet from the door, and then 1 stopped, ill the I' Hection crossed my mind that I might bo backing toward my udversarv' Tium I regretted that I hm' left the door, where nt least 1 might huvt stood sa’e from the rear attack. |TO HE COXTINUEO. | Similarit y of l’i o> erbs. Examples of ideas which seem to be indigt nous to all couutri s occur to flu mind in bewildtuingredtinduney. “Om swallow does not make a spring," wt find alike in English, German, ami Kussiam In the sunny South it take' the form, “One Hower does not make s garland.” In Italy wo fr d, “He whe grasps all, less gets;” ii I ranee, “H« who emlnaies too much binds badly;’ and in our own eountiy, "Grasp all, lose all." Our Birds of a feathei flock together" is repn seated In tin Italian "Eveiy like covers its like;" the Greek, “A comrade loves a comrade;’ the French, “Q’ttt sr I'U^sriubb', s'aswmlilf'.’’ Plato declared more than 2,00.1 years ago that "A beginning is half of all, ' and lias found an echo in our “What s begun is half done," and in the Italian, "Who eoinmcnees wi ll is at tlie half of th< task." There is a true Ori< ntal ring about such proverbs us “Among flic sumlul trees are deadly serpents," " Hivers have lotuses, but also all gators." it is Heedless to suggest the Western cor lelatives. "By a number of Straws twisted together elephants can be bound," is again only the Indian foim of the Scotefi, "Mum’a little makes n mickle.” The Greeks, wishing to east doubts upon a mini's probity, declared him to be "A sheep with a fox's tail.” whi h answers to our "Wolf in sheep's clothing," an the French “II fait t- Ihhi a/iolre,” The familiar “Fniis coroiiel o/iks,” Ims passed by litoral translation into French ami Russian. "All's well that ends well,” bears a strong likeness to the tie man “ Emb ijut .Ilir's (jut." There is a lengthy Griental proverb. "Let u eurs tail be warmed, jiressed out straight, and swathed with bandages; if released after twelve years it will nevertheless return to its natural sha] o.” It is easy to trace the similarity of idea in our “You cannot make a silk purse out of a s >w's ear." "Man proposes, God dis poses,” appears n the German, while in Russian it takes the form. “God makes the crooked arrow straight.” "Charity begins at home,” in Russian assumes the more graphic and suggestive form. “One's own shirt is nearest to one’s body.” We discourage carrying “Coals to Newcastle,” the French deprecat ■ taking "Water to the liver. We‘Think ns we brew," or would if we could; the French, "Sleep on the bed ns they have made it." The old Athenian was as much eoncer e I to seo a bull in the city as we are when that quadruped appears in a china sh >p. With us “Still waters ru i deep;” ii Russia they “Sw rm with devils,” a mach more vigorous figure. Singular l'atalit ei. It was some years ago that four trusted and popular employes of a certain well-known Chicago firm pulled out and started in business for themselves in the same line. For a time everything went along smoothly, and the ordeis rolled in from their old customers. Then the head of the firm went East on business, and a week or so Inter tlie staitling news came that he had fallen into the machinery of a mill ami had been crushed to death. It was not many months later that the junior member of the firm went away, and while Uaveling he was killed in a railroad accident. Then the third member of the quartette was mysteriously murdered, and now the surviving member is wondering if an untimely death is to be his lot. It was a singular succession of fatalities. Btirbers in Olden Times. It is seldom in these days that you hear of a person being leeched or cupp d. It is rapidly hew ming a lost ait. Not a gie.it many years back it was a very imp iriunt I u line.ss in connection with a tons iiial establishment. In fact, it was almost a profession of its own. Cupping ami leeching were very popular aim ng the Germans, and, whether weak or strong, they finlowod the use. Not a preut many years ago an apprentice barber invariably had to become as proficient in the application of the leech as ho did in th ■ shaving line. Ra bers also did a good deal of tooth-jerking, but that pait of tlie business is also no more, since dentists uro so numerous. An^Ulous. —Anchors are said to have been invented by the Tuscans. The second tooth or Huke is said to have been add< d by Anarcharsis the Scythian, 592 B. U. Anchors are said to have been forged in England A. B. 578.

INDI ANA IIA ITEM NGS. EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATKI.Y OCOUIIRED. An Siiinnmry of the Moro Important Dolngn of Our Nel|flibor>i We«ldiiiKx ami DeatliH Crime, l'asiiulticD ami General Newn Nutoia Why llenjamln Law Would Like Hl* LibNo num in tho Imiiunu State Prison South chafes more under the restraint imposed by his sentence than Benjamin Law, a twelve-year convict sent from Franklin, Johnson Uounty, Sept. 30, 1887, on the charge of miimdiiughter. By the provisions of his grandfather's will, recently probated, young Law comes in for $75,000 hi cold cash, not a dollar of which, however, ho can enjoy until the expiration of his sentence, almost ten years hence. Hardly less rare than the occurrence of a convict falling heir to a large estate is the fact that no less than three of Law's relut ives are his fellow convicts, all on different charges. His father, William Benjamin Franklin Law, is serving outn sentence of twelve ami-one-half years for murder, having been sentenced from tho same county, Dec. 11, 1888. The senior Law whh disinherited, it seems by his father, and will end his sentence u pimper, while hie son emerges into the possession of a eomfortidde fortune. Mrs. Alice Law, the wife of Benjamin Law, jr., whom he ■ I married at a tender age, and whoso maiden name was Glass, has two broth- i J ers now in prison here Edward and Stephen Glass serving time for larceny. Like the Laws, they were convicted m lohmion County. Gen. Anthony Wnyne's I Ini;. l>r. P. G. Moore, of Wabash, is the owner of a rmcentennial relic. It is nn American Him vv hu h was curried by Brig.-Gen. Anthony Wnyue in Inn ex pedition iigninst the Northwestern Indians in 1792. The Hag is undoubt- ■ edly liHi years old. I “r. Moore hud known of the existence of the trophv for the last 20 years, and miimiged to secute possession of it four years ago. It was the property of Mary IHxon, of Miami County, a member of n band of Miami Indians. She inherited the Hug from her mother. It was cuptured from Gen. Wayne by Marv Bixun's grandfather, who was ii Well-known chief. I'he Hag is in size by T fm I, and is mude of pure home-spun linen. There are fifteen otripes, and the colors all hold remark i ably well, flu Held is nly2l im lies m size, and contains simple the inscription m antique capitals, pat on with iiob li ble ink. “A. Wayne, Commander inChuf." I'ntent* Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors uh follow- Brice, Peter F. and A. I'., luduimipolis, bread making machine; Burns, John 8., Indianapolis, assignor of one-half to E. Il Hums, Watertown, N. ¥.. automatic brake ml just or; Burrell, g > orge s.. K daman 00, Mich., assignor to F. E. Marsh, Indiamipohs, carpet protector: Mvers, Jolin A., Monroe City, combined harvester and threshing-machine; Owa u, Wm. IL. Onarga. 111., A. B. Boswell, Fowler, and J. .1. Carlock, Watzka, stove; Scott. Stephen E., Plainwell, Mich., and W. Oheru, Fort Wayne; assignors of onehalf to J. 11. P Hugart. Grand Rapids, and P. S. O’Rourke, Fort Wayne, ruilwuv bridge guard; Will Brandt. Emit, Indianapolis, surgical needle-case. Bailly Burned Woman. While Miss Flora R.igsdule, 111-year-old daughter of Roland Ragsdale, rei siding in Union Township. Johnson County, was engaged in pouring water ■ into a kettle placed over a fire that had been built in the yard, her dress caught lire from the Hames, and she was burned almost to death. Her frantic screams brought her mother to the rescue, and ' in tearing the clothing from her daughter the mother's hands and arms were burned almost to a crisp. The young ' lady is so seriously injured about the > limbs and abdomen that her recovery is ! extremely doubtful. Minin' Slate ItmiK —The town of St. Marys of exporienci lug n boom. —White Cap notifications are reported from Henry ami Daviess counties. —AVilliam Osborne, a prominent resident of Elkhart County, fell dead from his carriage. George Cox, colored, fell from the new opera-house at Evansville and was instantly killed. Rose Polytechnic Institute, at Terre 1 Haute, has 111 students, with eleven in the senior class. - Joseph Ulmer, of Lanesville, Harrison County, was found dead in the woods near his home. —North Manchester is working to secure the location of the Roanoke United Brethren College here. —New Albany druggists are being overhauled by the grand jury for retailing liquor without license. —Robert Titus, a prominent farmer of Shelby County, was thrown from u buggy and dangerously hurt. Reports from several of the southern counties of this State indicate an unusually large strawberry crop. While playing n game of ball nt Dundee, Richard Mcßride ran against Ezra Farr with such force that it caused rupture of the latter's bowels. The physicians say Farr cannot live. - As George Shafer, an employe at tho Muncie Rubber Works, was running a piece of rubber through the calender, his left hand was drawn through the large rollers and mashed into a jelly. The hand was subsequently amputated at tho wrist. — Joseph Ullman, an aged German citizen of Georgetown Township, near New Albany, wandered away from his home and two hours later was found dead. The suppositi on is that he had become exhausted, and died while resting himself.

The Governor has appointed TloophihiH R. Kumler, of Butler CouAty, to be a Trustee of Miami University. Mrs. Sturgeon Watson, of Marion, and her two children were recently badly burned by an explosion of natural gas. An effort is to be made to organize a Young Mens Christian Association among the colored people of Jeffersouville. Thore are 1,04(1 school children in Union Township. Montgomery County, of which number 2,539 are in Crawfordsville. Dr. AV. H. Brent, of Jackson township, Orange County, had hie burn and contents, including three horses burned a few nights ago. Houses are rented before the foundations are finished, in New Albany, arid real estate agents claim there is not a house for rent there at this time. Engineer John Lauders, of Ackerman s factory, at Marion, was badly scalded a day or two since by thu giving way of a "miinhend" of a steam boiler. A little daughter of Martin Pupel's, living near Portland, fell a few days since and injured her lower limbs ho that both hud to lie amputated above the knees. A branch of the Soldiers’ Service Pension Society has been organized in Jefferson County, with Col. W. S. Mei lure uh President, mid A. W. Henry us Secr.tmy, Beuj. Riley, a sleep-walker, got out of n second story window of a New Albany hotel, and fell twenty-five feet on his head. His condition is considered dangerous. A 2 vear-old son of W, P Stonfer, living near W abash, wandered into n Held where coHh were pasterod and was kicked and pawed until he was nearly dead when rescued. An eniimvrntion of children within the school age just taken at Seymour shows there are within tho city Males, S 2I; females, N 35; colored, mules, 3f>; femules, l>. total, 1749. I he Farmers’ and Citizonn' Bunk of I’urmlaml. vv hose new bunk block was blown to atoms by u natural gas explosion, in December. 1887, moved into new und commodious quarters recently. The Rev. Walter Beutou, of Jaekson County, has been uetivelv engaged in Gi>« ministry of tho Methodint Episcopal < hurch since 1825, and. although tot illv Mind, he is still "nt the harness." lle w uh born in 179 I .*. \ ttermi George W. Fmicnnnon, of i arhile, formerly of the Forty-third] ludimiti Regiment, and now an insane immite of the Vermillion County Any him, has been grunted a pension, winch, with its mreiils, is said to amount to SIIJMMI. .1. 11. \\ illis, ii wealthy and aged farmer of I'etmsburg, was ( d dead in his Held, lying on his face. The mysterious affair created no little exeitumeiit. He was not known to have an enemy in the world, and no expluuntion eun be made if he was foully dealt with. Aurelius Payne, and aged <>2 years, was married at Fort Wayne for the eighth time. Ho bus buried six wives and been divorced from the seventh. His new wife is Miss Alice Coleman, aged 27. Justice of the Bence France performed the ceremony in the presence of a large audience. A party of Eastern capitalists arc reported to have purchased large tracks of laud in Starke and Marshall counties, mid will expend $75,000 exploring for natural gas. Operations will be commenced nt once. 'Two of the wells will be located near Knox, the fapitul town of Starke County. Barns belonging to Jesse Simons und John Morris, four miles east of Tipton, were burned, destroying $2,000 worth of grniu und farming implements. No insurance. The buildings were set on tire. This makes the fourth barn that has been tired in that locality during the past month. Claiborne Polk, of Gibson County, was swindled out of S3OU by u trio of young sharpers to whom he sold a farm for $2<),000. A bogus check for $20,300, purporting to come from the mother of the purchasers, was given him, and on a stiitement that she had mistaken the amount, Polk gave them the difference in cash. -—J. C. Collins, a farmer living near Benn Blossom, Brown County, made u valuable and unexpected tiud of gold one day recently. He was engaged ut working on his farm, when he discovered two nuggets of precious metal lying in close proximity to oue another. Ous of the nuggets is valued ut s2(l and the other ut $8.5(1. —Christopher Hannon, the “sto king" of Southern Indiana, died ut his home near Vernon. His demise wuh sudden and unexpected, although he had been in poor health for several years. He leaves a fortune of many thousand dollars, to be divided among n large family of children. His wealth consisted of a number of stone quarries, and several valuable houses and lots. An unknown mini has been creating considerable excitement in Tipton lately, by catehing women on the streets after night and forcibly hugging them. Several ladies have been insulted in this manner by him. He conceals himself behind trees and then catches any women that may chnnae to bo passing. All the Indies who have suffered ut his handH describe him alike, and the authorities think they have the guilty person located. Rushville has a curious freak of ! nature in the shape of a chicken which hiiH four distinct legs, four wings, two bodies and one head. It lived almost n day, and has now been preserved in alcohol. 'Jhe little 2-year-old daughter of Jucob Baker, of Mitchell, slipped into her father’s stable, where n vicious culldog was kept chained, and was caught by the snimul aud terribly mangled If she should recover she will be horribly disfigured, three bites of flesh being taken from the cheek.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. ENTERTAINING DISSERTATION ON SERIOUS SI BJEOTS. A Pleasant, Interektlnir, and Instructive Lesson ami Whore It May Be Found—A Learned and Concise lieview of the Maine. The lesson for Sunday, May 12, may bo found in Murk 11: l !i. IN'l’imnUOTOllY. Mutthow and Mark pause hero, as itseems, to give us a rcminisecnce. ami a beautiful one it i.H, sadly beautiful. From John’s uecount wo judge that (lie supper ut the house of Simon in Bethimy took place prior to Christ's triumphant entrance into Jerusalem, and that Judas from tiuit hour began to scheme for the betrayal of the Muster. Matthew ami Mark, la tlie pllssago before us, begin to tell of the death of Uhrlst, and in doing ho they go back toreeull that moving Incident at tho supper in Bethany, which, us they think of it now', wus the first intlmntion of the coming supination. Naturally enough they speak in tho same breath of Judas and the betrayal to the chief priests (vs. 10. 11), for it- was "from that time, uh Matthew says, "Im sought opportunity to betray him.’’ (20; Ri.) Hero have wo those two eontianted characters, Mary aud Judas, the truc-heurt and tlie traitor: ami two contriistud preparations for Christ's death, tho preparation of love and tlie preparation of Imto. \Ve all have to do with it death on tho tree. What is the work wo \ ) wrought against tho day of his burial? we stand with Mary or with Judas? One or the other. WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. After two days was the least of the passover. The Haered season is just two days distant. Let us see how the chief priests ami the Scribes make themHolve.H ready for its pious rites. Listen, 't hey "sought (were seeking) how they might tuke him by guile and put him to death." Plottings and murders! such was tho Jews' preparation for the piiHsover. All through that passion week since tho day Christ rebuked Judus in tho house of Simon at Bethany, quiet mootings wore being hold, the conspiracy was forming that should presently lead to Christ's betrayal with n kiss in the garden of his holy vigils. The pussovor is mude the oeeiiskm for bribery und blood. Two days away from the memorial of tho nation's dolivoriineo and they are putting a vrioe upon tho head of thoir “Groat Deliverer." and devoting him to death. A part of their coin for unleavened broad, thirty pieces of it for unholy betrayal. O, what hollow mock of pity ! Christ erueilled on tho very day that spoke most loudly of himself. Tho council that betrayed and burned Huss was called for tho express purpose of reforming nbuse.H und touching more of Christliness. How much better do mon do to-du • with their formul lenten piety. Christ being still wounded in tlie house of his friends. Xot on the feast tlay lest there be aa uproar of the people. So then they hud some regnrd for the day just enough to guard their own lives. It would not do to put Christ to death on the least-day Why? “Lest there bo an uproar of the people." "Among the people," Matthew says. Was it unseemly noise they weie seeking to prevent? Luke tells us in plain words what it means, “They feared the people.” There was no fear of God and of God's holy day there, none whatever. It was tear of man coupled with lovo of sinful self. There is just one reason why the enemies of Christ have some little respect for God's ordinances, and why thoy do not spring up in open dellumw of God's Son. They tour the people. It is more discreet to muintain some docent respect for the Lord's day. tor tho Bible, for tho church, for tho Christian religion. Wore they sure of tho outcome, they would rise against them ail In a moment. God has his pit pose in it all. “Smely the wrath ot man shall praise thee, and tho remainder of wrath shall thou restrain," And she brake the boxa nd poured it on his head. Real love hits no reservations. It breaks the bottle and pours itself out. Love to Christ is just tliis, complete, unconditional. burning the bridges behind, cutting itself off from all retreat. It is, in fact, Cnrist's own love in us. “Continue ye in my lore," ho says. What sort of love was that? We me not left in doubt. Even prophecy announces it. Saeritleo and olYerung thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened” (or pierced; margin "bored"—in token of a bondservant's subjection), "burnt-offering and sin-offering thou hast not required. Then said I. Lo. I come: in tho volume of tho Lord it is written of me. I delight to do thy will, Omy God: Yea. thy law is within my heart.” (Ps. 10). It is then no partitive giving, it is tho breaking of the whole box of preeious ointment, the gift of a life. Mrs. Harri T Beecher Stowe, writing to tier brother. Thomas Beecher, of the end of a long struggle in her soul, says: "I despaired of bending my will—l despaired of allformer and all present efforts; but ut his word 1 lesolved to begin and go for the whole.” As Junies und John, he suld unto them: Launch out now and let. down tho net. They say unto him. “Master, we have toiled all night and have taken nothing, nevertheless at thy word 1 will let down the net," and 10, the net break with the multitu Ie of tlshes. Thenceforth following that self-abandonment sho could say. “The will of Christy seems to me the steady pulse of my being." ll’Ay ieas this waste of the ointment made? Judas still lifts the query. Why this waste? Bishop Hunnington dying in his prime in the hot jungles of Africa. Lyon und Rayl und a host of others spending a few short years abroad and then passing away. Did you observe that pathetic note in a recent paper: "Miss Leonora Page, late missionary of tho Woman’s Baptist Homo Mission Society, died April 2. worn out with toil and disease. Patiently she endured till tho release came.” When lust we saw her at her chosen work, so brave and strong. "hy this waste? What is waste? The longest life is wasted that is lived apart from the path of God. The shortest lite is full of sweet incense if it bo but devoted to God. Said the would-be missionary disappointed in his application. “I theught my grave would serve him better in Afiieu than my life here," and who can say that it would “Care not what others have to do, XV hat niuv be or has been ; But in the path Go<l calls thee, And use thy faith therein.'' She has done what she could. This is tho human side of it. She did what she could and Judas did what he could. The difference was not in the energy. We are in the midst of a busy world. Men are doing what they can and its results us for or uguiust Christ is largely determined by what they ■will. It is for us to sav whether our energies shall be expended in behalf of Christ or in opposition to him. shall life be a weary round of service for self ami Satan and against Christ, or shull it be tho swee loing of what we can for Christ? As F. B. Moyer, of Regent's Park ehap d. has said. “There is nothing in the world that gives so much rest to the soul as to do the will of God. If. only we were as intent on linishing the work given us todobv Him. as men are in achieving the ends of’ personal ambition. Then the spirit of heaven, where the will of God is done, would engird our barren, weary lives, as the Gulf Stream some wintry shore, dispelling the frost and mantling the soil with Howers of fairest, texture and fruits or Paradise. Do not try to feel the will of God: will ft. choose it, obey it; and as the time goes on. what you commenced by choosing you will end bv loving with mdent and vehement a tie cti on. ” Next Lesson—" The Lord's Supper." Mark 14: 12-20. Woodmen say that three-fourths of the moss on tret's grows on the northern side, that the heaviest boughs on spruce tret's are alwuvs on the south side, and that the topmost twig of every hemlock tips naturally to the east. Fhencif engineers are utilizing tha POPPY to strengthen railroad embanki lents. The roots of the plants form a network that cannot be exterminated without great difficulty, and are therefore admirable for the purpose numeli.

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CROPS DOING NICELY. THE GRAIN AREA NEEDS MORE RAIN AND WARM WEATHER. * Wl‘ 1 Flukhert-winter Wheat HohU l ts Q u „, bHt u .how he Need ot Rain Oats and Glass Making l„ lt Little Headway. [Ciiieaai special, Muy 7.] The country hus experienced a week of decided cold, dry, backward weather; rains only in limited ureas and ot short duration, hi some diHtrieU the winter wheat needs lain. IheoutH and grass are making but little growth. Between oyalones on me one hand and lack of moisture on the other 1 " g v ‘ eUl !“ u h,,d il hilrd struggle. Lastern Nebruska reports that up to tho Th? weiUh ?° y \‘‘ LVe but U,tb ’ l ain ' 111 weather has been cool. Considering the dry weather tha oat mop looks well '“ U l eh fuvther “flvaneed on the liihtofMny with com planting than they huvo been for nmuy years üb l ^?' lll }^* 1 'some refreshing Hhowois have fuUen recently, and tho spring wheat and oats are six inches above muH whh ' Exoel I l ' Ut l )ro «t'6Bs >bis been mudewl h corn planting, and fully 50 per cent, of the crop h now phmte I. Taking Nobraska as u whole, tho crop situation was year more P ronU9,ll S 9‘is time of tho The acreage of n ux has been lnore a ß ed hugely, and would have been even larger it seed could have boon procured. Little corn s moving, and the oats that are lelt arc mostly of a poor quality. Although during the last ten days Southwestern lowa has had light rains which did good for the limo being tlie effects have now all disappeared. Grass and outs are making slow growth, and will not improve until more ruin comes. Everybody is planting corn, the soil is in excellent condition, mid there seems to be no complaint with legaid to seed. Cattle are moving out freely, und there is a disposition among feeders to sell. At the present price of corn there is no disposition on the part of country dealers to sell. Farmers me all busy in tire Helds and little or no grain is being delivered at country points. Hogs have been sold closely during the last ninety days. The prevailing feeling during the winter was that hogs wore high, and shipments were much larger than usual. While reports from the State of lowa do not indicate a scarcity of hogs, at the siinie time tho general opinion seems to bo that the crop on thu opening of tho spring has been cleaned up much closer than usual. There is no uniformity at this date in tho general condition of the spring wheat crop of Minnesota or Dakota. Commencing at Grand Forks, and running north to Devil's Lake, the wheat looks well, but is beginning to need rain. From Fargo south to Ortonville, on the Hod River, thoy have had some bud wind-storms during the last week that have done considerable damage; to what extent, however, it is yet too early to state, hi Southern Dakota at present rai i is needed. In Southern Minnesota and on the branches of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, which includes 600 miles, the crops of all kinds look well. Northern Dakota reports no rain, except a light shower two weeks ago. for eight months. The tremendous winds have uncovered many Hehls aud torn up the wheat that was sprouted. The soil is as dry as powder. In Eastern Dakota the wheat now is reported us all up. There are no reserves of moisture, and a favorable season is necessary to insure a good crop. The winds have blown steadily for three weeks, and more or 10.-s of the grain is uncovered. All summer fallowed land that wus plowed twice, and light and sandy land every where, have been similarly affected. These conditions are so general that ruin now seems absolutely essential to insure even un average yield. la ordinary seasons Minnesota mid Dakota have always had plenty of snow and frost during the winter to help them out. But the last winter was almost devoid of both. The reports from California are not as uniform and favorable as thirty days ago. Northern California reports that the summer fallowed wheat is headed out; that the bnrluy is beginning to turn color; that tho crop prospects are better than since 1880. The stocks of old wheat are low. Central California reports that opinions are divided as to whether summer fallowed wheat will or will not make grain without another rainfall. The Hummer fallowed wheat is lining out. Western California reports that they have tho dry northern winds, which have rapidly exhausted thu moisture from the soil. Although no serious damage is yet reported, there u*e many localities in the wheat-growing districts where more rain is absolutely essential in order to give an average crop of grain. While the outlook for the whole State is regarded as promising more than an average yield, the crop is not yet assured, and much depends upon tho weather during the month of May. Many portions of Indiana report dry weather and “conditions becoming serious. The wheat is at u standstill and oats In poor shape. Central Indiana reports thu wheat crop knee high and general outlook never better. Some portions also of the best* winter wheat counties of Southern Illinois report dry, cool weather, needing rain' badly, and unless ruin comes soon p:es*ent crop prospects will be materially । educed. , . , Eastern Missouri reports prospects for winter wheat ^ood. If anything tho ground is a little too dry. Tho wheat varies in height from twelve to fifteen Inches. In Southern Missouri everything is favorable, although a good many report chinch bugs in the wheat. Tin -e are some complaints also in tho northern portion of tho State as to the appearance of insects. la the southern tier of counties in Kansas wheat is reported us being all headed out. There has been more or loss rain the present week, with cold weather, which has been discouraging to chinch bugs. Central Kansas reports wheat just about ready to head out and is twenty to twonty-four inches high. In Northern Kansas the ground is much drier than in other porHons of tho State. An abundance of ruin all through the summer seems to be an esannual lo nlull crop. Chlueh buBS o'- w'■’““souii"™ »*<•*• of rain. Grass needs it and so do the cuts Dakota south to the Indian this vast urea, which grows the great duik, ninot Ui. o»llr» ’‘“'l’ 1 ";.?' ”'""j y “If i x" s -,ss“’ the *c is not a slnglo State that does not tin.। is in t . i ar gely p anted and "Xu «!■» nil lh« " W ."““i area also stand absolute ly । ' rort by eo,a weather. ~ “And vou ftre one of the gallant four hundred?” "1 hnve that lOWL " lt tl!U st have into that valley of deatu. thAnir pardon, but I’m not one of tl c ii n hundred of Balaklava, butot New York S( Boston Iransertpt. Aghicultukal editor (to “By the way, Hluggms, are cabbages raised from seed or grafted? „ Slug- ! gins “I dunno; 1 dout smoke. A. L. --“All right. 11l n ia ke a paragraph 1 for onr notes and queries.