St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 14, Number 49, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 June 1889 — Page 1

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OSCEOIXS LAST DREAM. BY HEZEKIAH BcmatWOBTH. Set the ■windows open and<cool my vein.. For the fever of death is new begun. And hot on my hands and feet are my chains, Andtne ocean pants in the low, red sun. In the Euchee Anna the Ibis to-night Drifts down ok the wreck of the dead canoe, And ths Cherckee roses with hearts of white Lie thick as tfae stars in the seas of dew, And tne misty moon looks over the waves Ou the cypress covers of bones and graves. I ask but a breath-—what is left to me In this treeless prisor. by hot Tybeo? Listen to Osceola: Only the Tain < ro>v that cries in the fen, Only the fur in the werewolf's den. Only tho bones where the hawk has bee®, But pity not Osceola. <0 Floridas far, so rear you seem I breathe the breath of your oranje groves, The lives of the warriors form my dreams, And my bride, the Beautiful, with me roves. 'Thefans of the palms as in years of old. ’Wave cooling mo now in these splendors of •dreams And dance by tfce firefly 's tapers of ©eld. My white canoes in the rippling streams. And the trade-winds blow my plu»ea'of wtiite, And the shores are filled with the moonrise light. It is all a dream—what is left to roe Os thj palm-rrro wned land and obeuight-eooled sea Wi’.at is left to Osceola? Only the rain crow that calls indhedei:, Only the fur in the were wolf y 'den, Only the Hones where the hawkhae been, But pity not Osceola. .Ay, pity two not —these hands are'red, ■As red as the forges that linked these chains, And the merciful Fever wavesiover my head ThetorcU'of the Tempest, lund 'throbany veins, lour wife is dear to your besom -•well. My forest bride was as dear to me, My heart, too, was human—and what befell? Ask the slave pens, red in the Manatee. Stolen and sold for a slave I And'whose hand Was lifted for her in all yocr laud? There I bared my breast of my heart bereft To the winged rifle— and what-is left? What is left to Osceola? Only the rain crow that culls in the fen, Only the fur in the werewolf’s den, Only the bones where the hawk has been, But pity not Osceola. When war's wild spirit breke inmc I cursed the land and it sunk from eight. " I called the red pinnies from the Manatee. I caded from Tampa the plumes'of white. I called the young chiefs from the Everglades Anil the oozy swamps of the dar k AVahoo, Irom the feathered trails in the red wood’s -shades. And we fought for our own ns ithe heroes do. Ye bound me once, but 1 brose my'bands. And the captor cleft with. Obese wedged hands. And.ye bound me twice, and what remains But this nerveless arm amd its load of chains. What is lett to Osceola? Only the rain crow- that cull in the fen, Only the fur in the werewolf’s den. Only the bones where the hawk has been, But pity not Osceola. •Chains? What are ther mow? On .plumes o light My free soul soars o’er the crimson sea. Ye doies Zenaida, ye ibises white, I sweep the clouds like your pinions free. The Cherokee roses, the sunbeams’ flowers. Like the fallen cups of the gods, lie sweat, As in the bliss of those starlit hours L'Wheu my bride lav dowmat my weary feet. The sunset fades in my prison burs, But the angel of Kight I see in the stars. When Justice you face with your soul laid bare, Tell me, what shall await you there? Listen to OsceolaOnly the rain crown that calls in the fen, Only the fur in the werewolf’s den, SOniy the bones where hhe hawk has been, Pity not usceola. 'Ye shall lay my bones where the reedy winds In the cool savannahs for me shall sigh; Where the wander n; heron the sea-conch finds. And the tears of the Gulf-clouds fill the sky. Ye shall not bring me your pity there, Nor add one brea h to the sounding deep. Nor mork the heavens with psalm or prayer— For herself alone let Injustice weep. Y’e may lav my exiled form in the sod, But beyond your reach hang the scales of God, And in the heights of the judgment air Yc may find a sentence mere bar 1 to bear Than the doom of Osceola — Only the rain crow that calls in the fen, Only the fur in the werewolf’s den, Only the bones where the hawk has been — May the God of the withered leaves pity you thenPity not Osceola. A GRI AT TRFASIIRE. o ft Strang Mystery SwomdiDE Its Disappearance. A STORY Gs EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST. BT FRANK BARRETT. 1 CHAPTER NlL— [Continuhd.]

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' W gL once, Lo t know if she had seen the thief as he esBB caped by the window, and coull identify ‘- him. i To find Lola, however, was not my sole B object. ! The protracted absence of Brace and Van BB Hoeck excited my misgivings, and, despite 4 the Judge's promise, I already reproached myself with having abandoned my blind B partner. The Judge’'s notions of justice o were peculiar, and based upon the rough B usage of California miners in the days when / they made and executed their own laws. I "B believed him capable of applying torture, 9 only stopping short of actual murder, to ‘BB Vring from Van Hoeck the seeret which he 3 believed him to hold with respect to the B lost diamond. + I retraced my steps to the spot where I BB had helped to conceal Van Hoeck. The broken brake marked a distinet trail, and in i apit a handred vards from that point the 1 undergrowth was beaten down, asif a stiugB cle had taken place. : Was it not possible that Brace h'ad gone further than he intended, and killed Van ; Hoeck? Had he concealed the body. and fled with his daughter to escape the conseo quences of his aet? = Asking myself these questions, I followed o a track from the pit that brought me into - the bridle-way. Looking for further traces -of a passage through the brake, I made my o way down toward the road. § ‘ Again I perceived the broken brake, and i ‘ollowing the line, I threaded my way beo tween the trees upon the slope of the hill x| until T emerged from the wood upon the o high bank that edg:d the Abbey road at i that part. Tt was as nearly as possible the o point where Van Hoeck had stopped me in B the morninz upon hearing Brace in our & féar. Looking up the road I saw the finger- £ Post at the eross-roads; looking down, I saw that which took my breath away with i dmazement—Prace was trudging along the B r"‘?t‘l. toward the Abbey, with Van Hoeck {101(1111‘_' his arm on one side, and Lolahis ‘and upon the other—an incomprehensible Pleture of unity, friendly assistance, and i relinnce, T It was true that without assistance Van 5] Hoeck could not have found his way along the road, and very possible that, without L the restraint of her father’'s hand, Lola Would not have walked by his side; but all ; dodbt as to the existencs of a friendly un-d‘-‘!st:mdin;: Petween the two men was disPelled trom my mind by what followed. Arrived opposite the bridle-p ath leading . up_ into the wood they stopped, and conSUitation ensued between the two men. I gOllid not hear their voices at that distance, Ut I suw by their gesticulations that they

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were diseusstrrt some point; it ended by Erace’s going Yo the side of the road, and ■cr-anaag Ids »*ck to see if any one were in sight. I crouched down beside the thicket, which partly concealed me. ■When I cautiously raised my head and locked agsut. Brace, sti'ld standing oppoSiv? the bridle-way, was drawing his arm •At of the-sandy bank that there -skirted the W>ad. I ducked my head, as mce he peered to Sho right and left. They were -wil gone, all ’three, winen I looked agatn. Whesr I thought it safe do'veitture, I went to the f pot where Brace had Stood. There was a rabbit-hote in the sandy cutting, partly hidden by the (training growth from the Overhanging eAge. I ’took off my coat,’turned back my -sleeve, thrust in my arm, and drewMt—thefieathevease in which the d iamond had been takenfirom my wrist’ It w.s empty. I •■again thrust imy arm ii: and explored the hole, thinking—though it was little liktly—that the diamond had slipped owl of the ease or been put in separately. It wits a kind of cul-de-sac—the earth had fallen in from above and blocked the entrance.; but I did not givenip the search until I was absolutely certain that the Great Hesper was not there. lit was mot probable they would place Ihe diamond in such an open place; the Heather case was different. It was unsafe to keep that, but it was of little consequence where ’they abandoned 'it. But why had they taken the diamond from the ease, and whttt had they done with it? A clew t<® this 'mystery also I dfeeoverod before long. When I got back todhe Abbey, Bruee.Vati Hoeck, and Lola were in the library'with the police oflioer. Sir Edmund, Mr Wray—his lawyer—and a couple of triends. Justices of the Peace, who had been brought by the ‘rumors which were already widely spread. Lola was still under examination. Bite was stubbornly silent. It was with the greatest difficulty that any response to the questions could ibe drawn from her. But she adnaitted seeing the man drop from the oriel; said asked if it was one of the servants. she 'replied firmly, "No." But unore than thfe'Owuld net be got out ‘®f heron this point. To flee inquiry how she had discovered the means of getting from the buy into the oriel, fordt was by that way she had come to my assistance. she replied that she "had seen it done before,” but she would not say whom she bad seen. The police officer asked me do go into the adjoining dining-room with him. “May I ask.” he said, "if you have any reason to suspect that you were robbed by your friends—your partners in the diamond? because they profess to have been in the 'Woods all the morning, whereas I have g>®od cause to believe I hat they have in the town of Southampton part of the time.” “Areyon sure of that?” “I will take my oath that I saw the little savage in the red petticoat in lite dligh Street i&s 1 started to come there.'” (XHAPTER XIII. "I aAwieeyou.,;sir," said the officer, “to take the advice of Sir Edmund’s solicitor. Mr. Wray.” I agreed, and the called in the lawyer. I told him. without reserve, all that ha I happened. showing him the leather case I had taken from the hole where Brace hail placed it. "A cauple-oLonnning scoundrels’" ho exclaimed.; ttheir pretended suspicion of each other was, of course, intended to blind you to their eomplieitv. while each, by implicating the other, diverted suspicion from himself” "I was newer in my .life so completely deceived," I said. "Brace seemed to me the embodiment of rough honesty. I liked the man. and it was a painful-shock to me when 1 found him uniaithful, and a thief." “He is .worse than .that, Mr. Thorne: lie is a murderer at hearts for there can be no doubt it was he who .attempted your lite; it was a sheer impossibility tor the other man to do it. We have heard the story of the robbery front Sir Edmund. Tne intelligene ; that planned .the attack was doubtless Van Hoeck’s. He looks like a man of subtle intellect. I do not sec what other part he could have played in this affair.” “oir Edmund told me. sir,” sai l the officer. "that on your return frern the! fit wing, you heard snoring in Brace’s room.” “I certainly diiL" “That euuid very well have been Van Hoeek. who had taken Brace’s place while he slipped off into your room—another proof that tne two were acting together.” "Precisely,*’ said Mr. Wray. And then, with an air of business. “Well. now. what is to be done? that is the first question. The evidence is insufficient to charge either of the inen even with being eoneerned in the robbery. '1 he leather case proves nothing. They might declare they found it empty, and have cone aled it through fear of accusation, or they might all three swear your statement to be false, and absolutely accuse you of being yourself the thief. And until we can substantiate the charge by positive proof, we must be careful to conceal our suspicions from them. If they think they are likely to be brought to justice, they will quit the country by the first steamer that leaves Southampton—and w i can not stop them. 'J he thing that must be done at oneo is to search for the diamond. That is your affair.” he said, addressing the officer; "undoubtedly they have placed it somewhere in Southampton, in readiness to take if flight becomes necessary." “I’ll have all the kens searched before the morning.” “That is part of your business, of course. At the same time, I would suggest that it is of far more importance to watch the men theinselve-. Van Hoeck would not trust the diamond to the ke ping of ordinary thieves' receiveis; it would be safer merely laid under a plant in the gardens down by the dock. You may be sure he lias the ingenuity to suggest a safe place for its keeping.” “I'll have some plain-clothes men on the first thing to-morrow morning, and I'd better go and telegraph to Scotland Yard at once.” “As soon as possible. But. not to alarm the men, you mid better make a pretense of continuing your investigations, and avail yourse<if of some plausible pretext for returning to Southampton. Everything at this moment depends upon keeping Van Hoeek and Brace in ignorance of our suspicion. And with that view,” he added, turning to me. “I counsel you. Mr. Thorne, to conceal your own feelings. Not one of these three ought to see any change, in your demeanor toward them.” This was sound advice, and I recognized -the importance ot conforming with it; but I am the worst actor in the world where my feelings are concerned, and my very soul-revolted against the men who had plotted together to take my life from the mere insensate greed of gam. I felt more bitterly toward Brace than toward his accomplice. not because I thought Van Hoeck less guilty, but because I had felt more kindly toward the Judge, to whom I seemed linked bv the brotherhood of labor. T kept out of his way when we returned to the library, and avoided looking at him. lest lie should'perceive that I was no longer his friend. But I knew he had his keen eVes upon me, and was reading the signs of my newly born aversion, and this made my acting worse. When the officer had completed his investigation ho said sagaciously, as he closed his note-book: “I have sufficient information for my present purpose. I may not be able to discover the perpetrators of this outrage immediately, but I think I shall ba in a position to tell you something about the lost diamond within twenty-four hours.” Sir Edmund accompanied him to the door. When he returned and took the seat he had occupied at the head of the long table. Brace rose, and, placing himself at the opposite end, inclined his head first to the baronet, then to the right and to the left. "Squire and genTemen of this committee," he said, “I don’t want to speakdisrespee’ful of the police, but the intelligent officer who has jest left us. as if he d got hold of the tail end of a rocket, and meant lollerin’ it right, up. and hohlin’ tight on till it bust, ain’t goin’ to do uny good so ' hisself or any one • Ise in th s business. The big diamond’s lost, and 1 e ain't goin’ to find it in twentyfour hours, nor in twenty-four years. Es it was a haystack, I don’t say but what, with the help of Providence—and a good lot of

• T two o’clock * I went once more into the wood. Lola was wanted. The police officer fro m Southampton, hearing my story, deelarl^ed at once f^that the theft a d bee n ^committed by a servant, and t h a t Lola must bo found

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it—he might toe ! upt® the jobhe’somflortook But it ain’t «a haystack. End es he was t<i grind up the wheEe of this country, end every blessed thing upon it. small, tpuddled it itt a ‘etoan flume, and sifted the tailins careful, ho wouldn’t find It. End these bein’ my views, it stands to reason (Jhat I ain’t goin’ to inang abeut here lookin’ at the place where ff’ve come to grief, like a® old female what’s ■slipped e6f the sidewalk on a bit o& orange-peel. With your permissSon, Squire., Fin griin’ away right off.” ~1 cun not stop you, Braoe, even if I wished to,” replied Sir Edmwd. who, be it •observed, knew nothing of the suspicion against the Judge. “I am inclined to thVnk that you will be happier iti seeking’ a new fortune than in lingering about with the faint hope ms recovering the old. If the diamond is found you will hoar of it wherevor you maybe. ' Are yom going to ’look for another diamond?” “No. Squire; I’m going to find that, please •God,” Brace replied; then, after a moment’s pause, he said. “There’s a matter of busiaiess to finish up before I go, sir: all the □poney I have in my pocket belongs to you.” "It is a loan: keep it. Brace—keep it until you are in a position to pay me; andtt hope, for your sake, that time may not be far honcel" ’’You're grit. Squire—-real gritl I won’t 'refuse your kindness. I shall need a bit to start with. But I'll ask you, sir, toihold this ttilld claim it." He went round to Sir Edmund. “What is it. Brace?” asked the 'baronet, taking the paper Brace drew from his ipocket. He found it was the Judge’s copy of agreement. “Oh. Ido not need this, my good fellow,” ho protested; “I have your T O U, and that is as good new ns ever it was? "If you won’t keep it for your-own security . Squire, I 'll ask you ‘to keep it for my own. It's a kinder ee'tif’cate. and if anyone lies got anythin’ to say agen me when Um not hereto defend mysolt.lTl ask you to let that up. Good-by, Squire." He held out his hand, and said, as Sir Edmund shook it cordially: “Thank you, sir. thank you! You are grit!" He strode down the room.'brushing past Van Hoeek. who sat immovable and silent us though lie were carved in stone, and came to where 1 was standing. My face must have told hilm that my heart was hardened. But he -stretched out his hand and said hoarsely: "Saygo<>d-by to pardner." I fok<cd my arms and shook my head. He dropped his hand by hie side. “I’rehaps you’re right!” lie said, remorsefully, "prohaps you’re not. 'rime will show that I’ve got a clean censoience. if Heaven is just.” He paused.alien in a still lower tone, and witii an accent of reproach, lie aided; "Say yer hopo-se, pardner. say yer hope so.” “I hope so." I said. Ho shook his head ruefully. ” 'Tain’t yer old mice. Gentleman Thorne —there’s no heart in it. We’ve roughed it together, and we’wi shared our 'baeca out there, end"—his ehin’t wife bed convulsively, ami turning away I e muttered, "it takes all the pluck outer me to part dike this." Lola was standing in a corner of the room by the door, with her eyes fixed upon me. As Brace was about ti pass Through on his way out ho eaught up her wrist savagely in his hand. As savagely she tore it away, andip her turn came and stood before .ae. "I'm u-goin’.” she said. “And a good riddance.," J thought, exasperated by the belief that she knew where the diamond was. and could reveal the whole mystery it sl>e chose. “You ain't goin’ to let me go like him. are yer?" she asked: ''ton ain't gain'to let me go without sayin' good-by?" There was deep petnos in het wiee. The friendless little sax age loved me. She had sav' d my life. My heart smote in for forgetting that. 1 g^ve her my two hands; sho drew them round her slight body, ami then, flinging her arms about my neek, she whispered, with tender iiunulsiveness: -Shall Ilie good” Shall . ;.qi you where it is?” Lint just at that coomeut her fine ear caught the rustle of a woman's dre-s. and catching a sight of Edith, who was entering from the dining-room, sho started hm k. Scowling over her shoulder at Edith. her eyes at'anr with hate, she said, in a voice from which all tenderm- ss had gone: "For lior sake? No!” And without looking again at mo. she went frees the room and joined her father. [to be foxiixrrn.j l lit> Tiger Plague in .Lna. According to the administration r.port, of .lava recentlv laid before the L’utch OhambeKs, portions of that island are depopulated through tigers, lu 18s2 the population of the village in tike southwest of the Bantim province was removed and transferred to an island off the coast in consequence of the trouble caused to the people by tigers. These animals have now become an intolerable j est in parts of the same province. The total population is about GOO.OOO, and in 1887 sixty-one were killed by tigers, and in consequence of the dread existing among the people it has been proposed to deport the inhabitants of the villages most threatened toother parts of the country where tigers are not so common, and where they can pursue their agricultural occupations with a gre iter degree of security. At present they fear to go anywhere near the borders of the forest. The people at present s?em disinclined or they lack the means and courage, to attack and destroy their enemy, although considerable rewards are offered by government for the destruction of beasts of pray. In 1888 the reward for killing a royal tiger was raised to 20U florins. It appears also that the immunity of the tiger is in I art due to superstition, for it is considered wrong t ? kill one unless he attacks hist or otherwise dors injury. Moreover, guns were always very rare in this particular district, and, since a rising a few years ago, have been taken away by the authorities. The Dakota Parson. Just got back from a Northwest trip,” said a drummer to his iriend in the presence of a Chicago Mail reporter. “I extended my ran and went into Dakota ami Montana. Stopped in .Bismark the other day, and it was awful cold. Iwas nearly frozen after hustling around town, and stepped into the Sheridan House barroom to get a blood tingler. A nr ment la’er a man clad iu shiny black broadcloth strode into the place. His feet were encased in a pair of immense cowhide boots, from the li g of one of which protrude d a razor, a butcher’s cleaver and a club, an I from the other the half of a scythe blade and another club. “Strapped to his back was a Winchester rifle; a belt contained a revolver and a ten-inch Lowie. On his left hand was a pair of steel knuckles; his right wrist was encircled by the loop of a flexible slurgshot, and he pointed a 45 caliber revolver at the crowd. “ ‘Bob Bloomer, you come hyer!’ he ordered. “The shrinking form of a seven-foot bull whacker advanced from the crowd, and the walking arsenal grasped him by the neck and waltzed him out and down the street. “ ‘Your Sheriff goes loaded,’ I remarked to my right-hand neighbor. “‘Sheriff be blowidl’ h > replied. ‘Thet yer is our new parson, an' he s a rustler. No backslider gets away from him.’ ”

INDIANA HAPPENINGS. EVKNTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURREIX M An InteresUnj; Summary of thse More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News Notea, Minor State Items. —Lebanon's City Council has increased liquor licenses to $250. -—Connersville has organized a cemetery association with $15,000 capital. —Capitalists are talking of erecting a large cement-mill at Lexington, Scott County. —Vigo County horses are dropping dead in harness froan some unknown malady. —Floyd County rejiorts the largest crop of early cherries ever raised in that section. -‘Oscar Dogan, in jail at Fort Wayne, for drunkenness, committed suicide bj’ hanging himself. - Bloomington reports a real estate l>oom iu anticipation of a uew factory working fifty hands. — Logansport authorities are raiding gambleis and destroying the furniture ■of gtriulding-tables. —Shelbyville has cut dowu salaries of city officers, and is likely to raise the price <of saloon licenses. - I>. If. Lipes. a prominent and wealthy farmer of Cass County, died recently at the age of 77. Additionstotbe New Albany woolen mills, now nearly completed, will employ UM> additional hands. Fort Wayne gets thirty-eight miles of eight-inch natural-girs mirin laid from tlie Blackford field for 87(1,(HML Sjieneer proposes; to sink three test wells for natural gas and subset ipt ions are being taken for that purpose. 'The Cite Council of Crawfordsville has passed an ordinance increasing the saloon license from $ 100 to 8250. There are (i.'J27 school children in Lawrence County, of which number Bedford bus 2G5 mid Mitchell 250. Frosted elox er is credited with killing several cattle belonging to 8. IL Logan, who lives near Greesburg. - Johfi Whiteman. a young tanner of Spencer * ounty. wounded himself fatalli while playing with a revolver. < arl Meyer.n ti-year-old sou of Fred Meyer, of Greeiißburg, died of lockjaw, the result of running u v ire nail in bis foot. A vein of gas which ignited and burned for hours has been struck near .Elgin by parties who v ere boring for water. Near Indianapolis. John Taylor shot and fatally wounded his wife, because she remonstrated with him for drinking v hieky. A pnojMisit ion to increase liquor licenses under the uew law to $250 was defeated by the Logausjiort City Council. Matrimonial agents in Jeffersonville are to be e; • rhauled by the grand jury for falsely swearing to tl ages of prospeetiv e brides. Sevmosir parties have a contract to furnish l.’MMi.OiHi feet of clear sycamore lumber for Louisville tobacco-box manufacturers. -Lightning struck the barn of Calvin Barnes, near Seymour, and killed two horses on ued by Gordon Hurtwell, and valued at $350. The President has remitted Sim Coy s tine, thus shortening his sentence just one mouth. Coy will return to Indianapolis June 1. —William Darringer.a young man who liven near Cnua. in Jennings County, was killed, by a shotgun bursting while he was tiring at a bird. B. M. Parks, living near Martinsville. lost about live hundred dollars worth of horses and mules that got in the way of a freight train. - Major Doxey, of Anderson is credited with a scheme for piping natural gas from the Blackford field to Cincinnati. The estimate cost is 51,250,1100. —Thieves stole about live hundred dollars' worth of jewelry from Mrs. Perry A. Jones’s house, at Spencer, while she was watching a circus parade. * —News lias been received at Bloomington of the death of Mrs. Dabney, wife of Prof. 11. 11. Dabney, of the State University, at her former home in Virginia. —The physicians of Jeffersonville have settled on a scale of charges, and started a black-list of persons who do not pay for medical services rendered them. —Ex-patrolman Thomas Gibbs, of Kichinoud, has been advised of a bequest of $27,00(1 left him by au Eastern relative. His wife recently inherited SIO,OOO. —The Mitchell Horticultural Society has invited the State Society to hold the annual meeting there this summer, and the invitation has been accepted by the Secretary. —Niue horses dropped dead in the southern part of Vigo ('ounty one day last week while in harness, and the farmers report some unknown malady prevailing. —A town company has been organized in Jackson and will begin operations midway between Bedford and Seymour on the E. A R. Railway, where the company has purchased a beautiful town sitei A large public sale of town lots will take place soon. -Sunday, the Kith of next month, has been fixed upon as the day for the laying of the corner-stone of the new $40,000 Catholic Church in Tipton. Invitations have been sent out, and prominent priests from different parts of the State will be in attendance. —lieports received from the farming districts of Wabash County show that much damage has been done by cut worms since the recent rains. In some instances whole fields of corn have been mowed down in a single night,as though with a machine, by these pests.

— Charles Knavver, employed in a New | Albany box-factory, fell through a I hatchway recently, and had to have one foot amputated as the result of his injuries. —Gen. Lew Wallace, in reply to a telegram from AVashington, tendering him an appointment as visitor to West Point, replied that he would accept the appointment.' —The city council of Kokomo, by a vote of G to 2, has raised the municipal liquor license from SIOO to $250. The ordinance was passed under a suspension of the rules. —Miss Winefred Morgan was assaulted at her residence iu Spencer by an unknown colored man, a day or two since, but was rescued by her father. The negro escaped. —Alexander Spereisen and wife celebrated their silver wedding at Fort Wayne, in the same clothes, and with the same attendants as on the oceassion of their first marriage. —Mrs. Adam Klingel, of South Bend, was fatally burned, her clothing taking , tire while she was preparing dinner. I Her husband burned his hands badly trying to save his wife. — Clark County grand jury men pro- ; pose to indict people who treat new I married folks, iu that county, to a ’ charivari with pan-pounding and bell- ! ringing accompaniments. —An old man mimed Patrick Cusic, of ! Madison County, lost a hand by partly i falling under the wheels iu jumping j from a moving train, in the Union Station at Richmond, recently. The saloon men at Crawfordsville are renewing their permits at sl(M> a I year before tiie taking effect of the new t ordinance, which calls for $250 per year, i By this plan each saloon man is saving Sl.Vli. \ company is being formed at Mnrtmsville for the purpose of making ; necessary improvements for a health resort there. A tine hotel, with parks, i drives, etc., is likely to be constructed in the near future. An incendiary tire near Charleston, destroyed a barn and contents, valued ut sio.ooo, belonging to Walter Hikes, and one near Plymouth burned a barn and contents belonging to Senator Reeves, valued nt $2,000. Little Charlie Caldwell, 4-year-old son of A. H. Caldwell, of Martinsville, fell headlong from a counter in the store while romping with his father, alighting on his head. He is thought to be critically injured. Clark County road supervisors are having difficulty m getting men out to work the highways. I'mler the existing law there is no exemption or relief whatever when judgment is given against a defendant in a road suit. Among the street-cleaning gang working on the streets of Jeffersonville is a large negro woman, who is said to make the dust Hy as dexterously as her white conqianions. She is a widow, and has .ovi-ral small children to support. They have a fiend in Indianapolis who amuses himself by throwing vitriol lon ladies dresses, utterly ruining the ! goods. He seems to choose those of I costliest texture for his experiments. He may be some monomaniac, but none the less, he ought to be run down by the police. Joshua Mullen, an inmate of the | ( barlestown Poor Asylum, built a wagon j and ran away with Lucinda True, ani other inmate, taking with him her baby I and trunk. When last seen, Mullen : was in the wagon with the baby and trunk, smoking a jdpe, and Lucinda was pulling the equipage. —Buben Pulley, a young man about eighteen years of age residing four miles north of Marion, was struck by a falling tree and instantly killed, his ueck being broken. Pulley recently pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery and was sentenced for two years, but sentenced was suspended during good behavior. —The Commissioner of Fisheries for Indiana, William T. Dennis, of Richmond, has issued a circular addressed "To anglers and all law-abiding citizens,” in which he presents all the laws now in force in Indiana relative to fish and fishing. He calls attention to the fact that the duties of his office require him to enforce these laws, and he calls on every angler and friend of fish protection to aid him. He gives as his motto “Let no guilty man escape,” and says that if the names and residence of persons violating any of the fish laws be sent to him he will at once notify the prosecuting attorney of the county and have them brought to justice, while those furnishing the information shall never be known. —The result of the war of the saloonkeepers of Fort Wayne who have been forced to keeji their places closed on Sunday by Mayor Harding manifested last week in a number of affidavits filed against butchers who sold meat before 1(1 o’clock Sunday morning; against druggists who sold soda water; against bakers who delivered bread, and against all dairymen. One justice before whom a number of these cases were brought, made a wholesale dismissal of the suits, and in another court in a score of cases the justice held tlr.it only in cases of charity and necessity were Sunday sales permitted. Considerable feeling is engendered among the citizens about the matter, and the best citizens condemn the saloon-keepers for their action in bringing the suits and will uphold the Mayor in his warfare against them. — Several farmers of Hendricks County have noticed the remarkable absence of moles this spring. They say that last year these troublesome barrowers were unusually numerous, and this fact led the farmers to look for a renewal of their depredations this year. Thus far, no farmer whose attention has been directed to the matter, has seen any evidence of the presence of moles in the cornfields or elsewhere. ( uriosity has been aroused to ascertain whether this is generally the case throughout the State.

WILL DIE PAINLESSLY. I’KE PA RATIONS FOK EXECUTING WM. KEMMLER, AT AUBURN, N.Y. j Ho Will Be Killed YVliile Sitting in an Easy Chair—Description of the Chair, the Kuh- i her Cap, the Metal-Soled Shoes, and I Other Apparatus. a [New York special.] The proceedings on the day of putting to - death Kemmler, the murderer, who is to be executed by electricity at Auburn, so far as they are at present arranged, will be as follows: On whatever morning shall be decided upon in the week of the execution the prisoner will be notified; and whatever opportunity he desires for religious consolation ami farewell words will be given him. These over, just before the hour fixed upon for the execution the officers will enter his cell, and the death warrant will be read. His shoes will then be removed, and a pair resembling regular army brogans will be substituted. In the sole of these there will have been inserted a metal plate covering the whole sole, and connecting with wires passing out through the heels. While one officer is making this change of shoes another will fasten the prisoner’s hands together in front, and will place around his body, just beneath (he armpits, a stout leather strap, with a buckle fastening it in front, and snap hooks projecting from each side at the back. Another officer will place upon the back of the prisoner’s head a j eeuliar close-fitting cap, apparently of black rubber, made around a small metal piece in the center. It will look somewhat as if made by taking a rubber foot-ball, and with a metal cap at the hole for a center, cutting off the end of the ball into a sort of hood. The cap will tit over almost the whole of the head, from the base of the brain to well toward tbe forehead. Inside of it. in the center about the metal piece, will be a spiral arrangement of copper wire, about five inches in diameter, and made (o fit down over the part of the head that it will cover. The wires, just before (he cap is placed on the prisoner’s head, will be covered with sponge saturated with salt jvater. While these arrangements are being put on the prisoner will be sitting on a chair in his cell. This chair, not differing apparently from an ordinary one, but which is being made especially for the purpose, will be connected with wires leading to another room, and the prisoner sitting in the chair will without knowing it be subjected to a current of electricity too light to be felt, but heavy enough to give an expert electrician m the other room an exact measurement, by the use of what is known as the“ Whefstore bridge,” of the ! electrical resistance of the man. This will ■ take only an instant, and will be done be- ' fore the officers have the prisoner ready to leave the cell. From the cell the jirocession will be I much as now to the execution-room, where : tbe deputies and other j>ersons permitted : by law to witness the execution will be I waiting. Near the center of the room, raised upon ; a small jilatform about eight inches above the Hoor, will be a chair, made somewhat like a huge reclining chair. The long, straight trame that forms the slanting buck will be of hardwood pieces, three ■ inches square, and will be long enough so | that if a seven-foot man should lie in the chair his head would rest upon the back. The seat and arms will be of plain wood and without any peculiarities. The upper part of the back frame on each side will be fitted with a slot, in which will slide back and forth a small arrangement with a ring at the top and a thumbscrew beneath. The rings are to receive the hooks in the back of tbe belt about the man's body, and the screws are to fasten the arrangement in place at the spot where the rings will meet the hooks, which will vary according to the height of the prisoner. In front of the chair will be a foot-rest, something like those in a barber's shop, ■ except that the top portion, instead of bei ing fixed, will be balanced on a pivot to permit it to diji front or back, so that the feet will lie firmly upon it. This whole foot-rest will be arranged to slide back- : ward and forward, and to be secured I with a screw at the point where the prisoner’s feet will rest upon it. i From the ceiling over the back of the chair and over the foot-rest will dangle two flexible wires, like those from which small ■ electric lights swing. On the wall at one side will be a small round dial attached to a brass instrument. A hand upon the dial will indicate the intensity of the current that will pass over the wires. Near it on the wall will be a small doublepole switch, a brass instrument similar to the familiar switches used to shut off or let on the current wherever electricity is ; used, but designed especially to show at a glance whether the current is off or on, in order to jnevent accidents which carelessness in handling the apparatus might bring about. This will be all of the aj>paratus apparent in the loom. The prisoner, immediately upon entering the room, will be led to the chair, and in a moment will be pushed back into it, the hooks in the belt about the. body slipped into the rings in the chair, and there fastened in place by the turn of the screws. At the same moment his feet will be raised, the foot-rest slipped under them and fastened by a turn of the screw, and a strap on toj» of the rest will be buckled tightly over his ankles. In another moment the two d mgling wires will be fastened, one to : the metal at the center of the back of the cap and the other to the metal connection on the heel of each shoe. A black cloth will be pulled over the face of the prisoner, the officers will stand well back from the chair, and ut a signal the executioner at the switch will turn on the current, the volume of winch lias previously been adjusted to suit the resistance of the prisoner, as shown l>v the test in the cell. ■ Only the experience of Jo-i ph Kenimier ciin certainly tell what will happen then, but if the confidence of those in charge or the efficiency ot the apparatus is well founded, at th. instant tha’ the switch is touched there will be a little stiffening of the pt isonei’s body, a little quivering of the limbs, life wil!• flutter tor a bare instant, like the needle that will be dancing njion the dial on the wall, and then it will all be over. There will be no pain, no convulsion, scarcely a movement to mark the pass me Irom life to death, but the victim will tie liopeh ssI ly and unmistakably dead. Minor Mention. ' The total liabilities of the Scranton (Pa.) Bank are, s.‘>'2(UM>o. Miss Susie Pickls was instantly killed by lightning at the m w town of Frisco, Oklahoma. ' The crops around Dover, N. IL, were greatly damaged by frost. Cou. W. 11. Curi/rox, for fifteen years editor of the Lonisvillo (Ky. I < kk >•- Jauniat. is dead. Two Fisii i ininx, Michael Matcbiassin and Samuel Desmoulins, -were drowned by the capsizing of a sailboat in Thunder Bay.

NUMBER 49

TIIE SUNDAY SCHOOL. AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE LESSON CONSIDERED. Reflections of an Elevating Character'll hole some Food lor Thought - Studying the Scriptural Lessons Intelligently and Profitably. Ihe lesson for Sunday; June 2, may be found in Mark 14: 55-65. J rn: I WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. of tire Tows Tho ^gious rulere m' A 6 , " S- Ihere were twenty-four in *4// /J 16 f ° r °i the P r iestly orders R.rihes ™h W ” C V‘ 11 Was cou >pos«d also Os scribes who interpreted the Jaw, and elders chosen from among the people, in all some three score and ten men. Sou o nt. Imperfect tense, hept Keeking. In the processes of their investigation.- — Witness or testunonv (marturian). To put him to a^ath. Literally, unto his death (eis). j. e.. leaching to the death penalty, sufficient to condemn him to d ath. See variations. And .found none l'h e Greek is; aHd tUey find. Ihey were seeking not for light but tor an excuse for a deed already •cterxnined upon. For. This word refers back to the sought rather than to the found; otherwise itseems misleading. They kept seeking witness against Jesus, for many were bearing s ? '"‘•Hess against him. Falsewiixesx. Iciha ps telling absolute falsehoods. Such witnesses were often met with in the Oriental courts, and even among the Jews Agreed not. Literally, The evidence was i not consistent (isos). ’Jhe Mosaic law protected Christ, two independent testimonials being required, one agreeing with the other A practical safeguard against deceit. All the council sought for witnesses. It ought not to have been hard to find evidence as to the character of the accused. There w ere a great many in Jerusalem who knew him. Ihere was the impotent man who had had an infirmity for thirty and eight years and lay at the Pool of Bethesda. He could testify about Jesus; yes, and now he could come when summoned, though so long a, time unable to move hand or foot. There, too, was the man blind from birth. He wasa native of Jerusalem and well known. He knows Jesus, and needeth not any longer that any one should lead him. Why net call him? Just outside the city there is little ■ Bethany, wherein are Lazarus and Mary i and Martha and Simon, the leper. Jesus I lived with them. Why not send and get 5 their testimony? There is the great multi- । tude that heard him day after day, and were ] thrilled by his word and work. Why was it so difficult to get evidence? Ah, it was because of that little word “against."" Witness against Jesus there was none. Satan and the world have the same difficulty to-day. “Which of you convineatK me of sin?” A great silence. Mang bear false witness. Os false witnesses the world is full. Think of it, Christian, whether you testify /or Christ or not. there are multitudes ready to bear false witness against him. No matter whether the testimony is according to faet or not. it is rendered, and unthinking, world-faring-men ate influenced by it. Many of us arenot aware that the bat tle is on or that ths question is being raised. But it is. There are thirty infidel clubs in East Le idon. alone. Dr. H. L. Hastings, speaking bofore the Chicago ministers’ meeting, states that t acre are as many as a hundred such societies in England, sending out millions oL false-witnessing publications every week. Miss Macpherson, whom some of us met in her late visit to America, says that these are whole streets in London that are infidel. But that is not the worst. On the continent they grow more and more God- | defying. “I came here,” said a French i minister before the Presbyterian Assembly in Edinburgh, "to find you agitated over the question of singing hymns. In Paris we are discussing tne question, ‘ls there u God?’ ” lint neither so did their icitnesses agree together. That is tho difficulty with the adversaries. Their witnesses do not agree. Even when they speak of those things which are in some degree actual and true—as, for example, regarding biogenesis and evolution, their evidence is contradictory, save as it laHs in line with God’s eternal truth. As with the presumptuous architects of Babel, their tongues grow confused, and they destroy each other. Let the Christian apologist understand here his immense advantage under God. He has oiiiy to speak a testimony already given tohim. The word of God is inherently true,, thoroughly consistent with itself. The; more we study it the more we find it agreeing with itself. ”0, fools, and slow of hea^ to believe all that the prophets have spoken!” "One jot or one tittle shall in m.' wise pass.” Against the vagaries of men. pt each the Gospel of Christ. Send iti broadcast, “that the world may know that thou hast sent me.” Answerest thou nothing^ There is a time for silence, as surely as there are pearls us. well as swine, and the proper place for each. When men are howling in futile rago; when they are gnashing their teeth in inef--1 fectual wrath, we may let them alone. They ; are wounding themselves, destroying each the other. Why should Christ speak hero when their witnesses agreed not together, and they were overwhelming themselves in. i humiliating defeat? But the time comes to ! break the silence. It is at the putting of the main question. There he speaks, and not indistinctly. Let the servant of tho Lord know that there is a time to speak as well as a time to keep silent. Silence, them would be disloyalty. Think of it. At the very time when the disciple was miserably denying his Lord, Jesus was with a divine I courage acknowledging himself, and by that | acknowledgment condemning himsolf to the tree. » And Jesus said I am. A book has been ’ recently published upon the “I Ams of i Christ.” Study them. "I am tha way. I am the door.” “I am the bread. I ani. the vine.” They are many and beautiful. They all go back io that grand, personal query, “Whom say yo tiiat I am. with its truthful answer, “Thou art the Christ.” Yea, farther back still to that voice saving, “I am tbat I am. Before Abraham was I am.” It is the word of Hie Eternal. Whenever that voice speaks it is always with the calm, stately accents or Him who is from everlasting to everlasting. His Scripture is one great and gracious voice saying thvt I am. As some one says. "Every little while somebody starts up ana upsets this book: and it is like upiertmg a solid cu 1 eof granite. It is just as big one wav ns the other; and when you have upsel i'. it is right side up. and when you overtu: nit again, it is right side up still. It has one word of ciedentuil to the world, the word given to Moses. "Ibus shalt thou sav, ‘I am hath sent me.’" 117 m/ need we any further witnesses. No man ever claimed lor Christ in power and divinity more than he claimed for himself. 1: ho is on ti ial for declaring himself to be the Sou of God. then it is Irom his own lips Hint the chief testimony shall i bo ^enHear him: "I came forth from the lather and am come into the world. the world and goto the I'nth er. Again. ' father, glorify thou m<; with th’»e self, with the glorv which I had with thee befor-tho world was.” There is never a moment's hesitancy. When asked as to his (fod-hend he never falters, but doclai - openly the truth. "Art. thou tho Whilst, the Son of tho blessed? Uho eyes of the council are upon him. “lam. is no further need of outside tertunonyLet one go to Christ, and iie hears it so himself— l am. r>ii a r n ” Next Lesson—“ Jesus Before Ulate. Mark 15: 1-20. Noah would have failed as a railroad man. He even built an ark to keep stock from being watered The Oklahoma boomers carry their planting tools with them —the rifle, the. bowie, and the revolver.. Talk about wanting the earth; ccrinb men wouldn’t be satisfied v ith an up bolstered comet. Got the stuff in it—the ballot box,, sometimes.