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VOLUME XIV.

H MT TREASURE. The Strange Mystery SDi'roanSinc Its Disappearance. A STORY OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST. * — -•- BY FRANK BARRETT. — * CHAPTER XVIII.

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Edith’s heart and m'ne also. Wny.’ she asked, 'should we any longer treat him as a possible scoundrel. now that the Braces admit. having taken the diamond ?' We turned back, overtook Van 11 om-k, und I old him what had happened. The p H,r wretch was overs come with emotion, not Im nine of the possible recovery of tim lost diamond (of which .ho entertains strong doubt), but. in being once more treated as an honest, man.” Now. did Van Hoeck deserve lobe treated as an honest man? That, vu the question. I will give here Brace's account of what occurred in the woods, and as near as 1 can In his own words. “When wq parted company in the wood." he said, "1 hunted around for Israel. as was my intention, you will remember, [found him crawlin’ like a varmint of a reptile through the ferns. I fetched him into a convenient spot, ami says I. Israel,' 1 sus. ‘you air goih’ to prophesy what has gone of the Great Hesper. It’s not a hard job. if you give yer mind to it. Tain't nothin’ near so hard us phophesying what’s goin’ to be.’ “I had hold on him by the arm. All of a suddent, he Hings himself round, grapples on to me, and'tore I'm aware of anythin', I’m on iny back, and his t wo thumbs is inter my Wind-pipe. I nev. r thou rht he’d got it inter him—such strength and agility—and I'll allow he would have strangled me hes the Kid hadn't come up in the nick and frightened him by singing out for you. I did not lose any time, and when 1 had shown I was as strong as him, with a little bit to spare. I got him to prophesy. He wanted a plaguy lot of perswadin’, ami lie got it; Int when lie couldn’t stan I no more on it, he let on that it was inside of a rotten wilier alongside a pond in the holler. I didn't know no pond, but 1 ketched sight of the Kid sneakin’ off. end I jest sneaked after her, takin’ Israel along ease he luightur made a mistake in his jogcaphy. There was no walking fast with Israel over the brambles. end I lost sightot the Kid; but it stood to reason the holier was downhill, so down I went the way the Kid had gone, near as I could reckon, and there was the pond an I the rotten wilier as he had propheside. and there at the foot of the wilier was the empty case, but nairy diamond. I cocked my eye around, end once more I ketched sigiit of the Kid sneakin’ off. I wont for her uat'rally, but I might jest as well have went for a tom-tit. She got.clean outer sight about the same time's I got outer wind. But Israel wouldn’t give up, ami we hunted about for the Kid till wo couldn’t neither of us hunt any more; then we sat down in committee, and, art er pretty warm discussion, wo came to the unanimous conclusion that, fur the sake of everyone concerned, we had better get rid of the leather ca-c ami say nothin’ about it. I laid it down that the Kid had not. took the diamond lor mere mischief. She knew, in her own greaser way, that the thing had a power in it to bring happiness to the owner-dike a charm. She sec that it clothed us decent end lodged us comfortable, and that while it sen ‘rated you and her. it brought you cd Squire's daughter together. And we laid it down mutual that the Kid had too much gumtion to pitch the thing away, but would hide it somewhere where she could fetch it bimeby. Now, hes we’d done otherwavs what would have happened? Van Hoeek nd have declared it was all a lie. anil wild horses wouldn’ter dragged the secret outer the Kill. The only hope of gettin’ back the Hesper was ter let her play her game and watch her close," A copy of this statement 1 sent to Sir Edr • mund, and I added: "Either Van Hoeck is possessed of the supernatural clairvoyance, or lie must have beer, in complicity with the man who took the diamond from me. "Can that man have been the 1 FurnivaJ’ who obtained the address of Brace and myself from you ?” For my own part, I doubted Van Hoeck's Innocence. Perhaps I may have been biased in forming an ill opinion of him by my jealous dislike of Ihe relation he hud formed with Edith, Sho was the only living creature Van Hoeek had spoken well of in my hearing, and I fancied that ho was playing a hypocritical part to obtain the pleasure of her society and friendship. By the return mail Sir Edmund wrote; “I felt it right to read that part of ypur letter referring to the robbery to Van Hoeek, who for the last few weeks has been an accepted visitor Imre, and, 1 may add, the object of Edith’s sympathetic commiseration. He declared upon his oath that there had been no struggle between himself and Brace, and that no -( ‘dement had been extorted from him by tlie violent means indicated; that when you b it ho bdt his way to the road, aud waited there. Brace came and undertook to lead him home. He remembers stopping on the way while Brace asked him if he thought you had really been robbed of the diamond.’ He knew nothing of the leather case, which Brace might well have concealed in the manner you describe Without his perception- Alter this cxplanation, he said that he must once more relinquish our friendship until all doubt is cleared up. ‘But,’he added, emphatically, as he was about to leave us, ‘ if only a part of this story is true —if the girl got possession of the diamond, bid it, and should restore it to Bract) and Thorne, they will make away with it, and you will never see any one of them again.’ ’’ “If Van Hoeek is not the very old 'nn hisself," said the Judge, when I showed him this letter, "he’s hand in hand with him." We asked T.ola if she had recognised the man who dropped from the oriel window, ' "No," she replied; "the night was too thick. But be was about the size of the man I saw the night before going from one window to the other in the left-hand side of the house." One morning Brace said to mo; "I’ve had my suspicion on it for some time; but now I'm sure on it. We're being Watch' d. ’ I asked him what reason he had for this beli-t. “My reason is this." he replied. “The one-legged nigger as comes here for scraps give one of the house-helps hart a dollar this morning. It looked like he'd been buying up your silver spoons, so I jest had the rascal searched; but there warn't nairy thing on him but varmin. I-ay your life, eir, that nigg'T didn t give barf a dollar for nothin’. We’ve got to keep our eyes open!" “You think ho is a spy. paying the helps for information with respect to our movements?" 1 said. “1 do—jest that."

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^Why:; I 'Why?' echoed Brace, drawing a lohg breath, "because it’s jest three weeks since A an Hoeek learned that we are goin' to get I back the Great Hesper, and he found an exI case for quittin' the locality of Monken Abi bey." ( lIAPTER XIX. As the spring advanced. Brace turned his ; eyes daily to the mountain tops. On the fl st of May he said lie would have a day i or two off, ami “jest have a look round at ! things." I On the seventh ho returned. “The time’s come." he said: “the snow's I goin' away sharp, and the rocks are already I squittering down, but glory be, the holo's op n. All we're got to pray for now is that the Kid’ll listen to the v’ice of reason. Leave her to me!” As we were sitting at the table he said, in a casual way; "f was up to my old lot in Pcterville for a bit of a refresher during my holiday, sir; and you’ve no idee how nice the old place do look. Now. supposin’—as we ain’t got nairy blessed thing to do for the next week, weAtnder take a look around niter that s- —we used ter think such a lot of jest fi T l "' iosity like—hey? The Kid u u-d ter n; <e a fine to-do about bein' good when she was sick; do you feel like it now, my gel ?" Lola turned deadly pale, and was silent I for a moment, then lilting her eyes to min l ’, she stretched her hand out, and. as I took it, said: "1 am ready." We made our preparations that afternoon. und took the night train from San Diego to Canyon River, where wo put up for the night. In the morning wo took the stage to Great Cun von City—a deserted mining town at the foot of the Sierra. After lunching at the only hotel, we tried mules, and. leaving the alley, ascended the mountain path. Water sti earned freely down the mountain path upon the low r slopes: but our ditlicuhies only commenced when we reached the line where the half-melted snow made the rocks treacherous even to tjie feet of the sure mul -s. Wo had tour hours of terlibly ion th and dangerous traveling before we reached Petersv.lle—-the most wretched collection of rotten shanties 1 ever saw. Not a living creature was to be seen: there was not a foot-mark in the slushy snow whichlay ankle de ‘pupon the ground ; it seemed completely abandoned. But Hie Judge led the way through the deserted rows of tumble-down huts, and presently pointed to one from which a column of blue smoke was ascending through the clear air. Wo were on a plateau in the very heart of the mountains. All around the ru.ged peaks rose high into the still air. tinted with purple glow in the shadow, and the loveliest rose-pink where the sunlight fell upon the snow. Where the snow had slid away from the precipitous sides, the granite, streaming witli water, glittered in the bright rays as if it were incrusted with jewel-:. As we came to a halt, waiting for a response to Brace’s call, the silence was broken by a prolonged roar like that of distant thunder, us sonic rock loosened by the frost broke away and hurtled down the unfathomed canyon. A man came B oni the building, which still bore faint trace of the word "Hotel” on its facade, and. greeting Brace with the air of an old acquaintance, said he had got everything aired, and a supper all ready to put down to the Hie. Brace had seen the necessity of preparin' himforthe reception. A couple of rooms hud been made as dec ntlv comfortable as might be expected. We left Ld i there, and strolled out while dinner was preparing. The end of the town abutted upon a wide stream that was tearing und whirling along among the gigantic bowlders that marked its course, toward a biack cleft which divide 1 a towering mountain in two. Fantastic as are the effects which characterize the hei hts of the Sierra. I had seen nothing comparable to this, it was as if some mighty hand had split the mountain in [ hal'. “I have know'd the time,” said the Judge, impressively, "when both sides of this river was lined with miners, and every one on ’em worth his thousands of dollars!" I had no sympathies with the past glories of the stream. My mind was filled with adnGration of the savage beauty of the scenery around, “Thar." said the Judge, flinging a piece of wood, pa t of an appliance which might have wash 'd gold untold, into the turbid an I rush! 1g Wat us; "thar, bar stoppages, that'll pass the Great Hesper in less time than it will take us to get back to the hotel." "Is jt through that cleft we have to go?” "Ah. sir, and down into the very innards of it." I was looking toward the dark chasm with a feeling of awe. when Brace touched my elbow. He was dragging at his chin tuft, his lower Up protruding, his heavy brows bent. Ila pointed slowly to a trace in the snow, "The man from the hotel been down here —is that what you mean?” I asked. "It ain't him. sir. that mark. Look at it —it's a one-footed man! End." he added, striding forward and looking closer, "end K's a one wooden-legged man!" and then, witli conviction. “It’s [he durned nigger that’s been spyin'after us. Leave him to pae. He ain’t goin’ to spy us to-morrow, not hes I knows it.” 1 approached the marks, and perceived that beside the foot was a round hole made by the wooden stump. After dinner Brace looked to the pine torches he find brought up and spent the evening in dying them carefully, while chatting with the man of the hotel. He said not a word about our discovery, nor did the man speak of any visitor being in the house. Tnis, wit's a certain cunning in his little red eyes, alarmed me, We were called at four o’clock the next morning. Brace saying that we must start early, in order to get our job done in time to get back to a comfortable dinner, but in reality. I believe, to preclude the possibility of being followed. When we had finished our bieakfast Brace, taking the hotel man by the button, said: "Old pal, you hev got a stranger staying in this house, I re -ko i." The man scratched his ear, looked up and looked down, and then, at a jerk of his button, blinked up at Brace, and said: “Waal. I allow I hev." "A wooden-legged stranger, I think?” The same shutli’ug, and then: "Waal, I allow he hev got a wooden leg," ”A nigger, I believe.” “Waal, a nigger, accordin' to appearances." "I kinder fancy he's in the little chamber aver there. 'Twarn’t a swine I heard gruntin’, were it?" "You kin inspect him, if you like." "J will. After which, hes I take a fancy to nailin' of him UP for four-and-twonty hours for the same number o’ dollars, you will allow me the use of a hammer and some three-inch pints.” “I will do that,” said the man; and the two, having shaken hands on the bargain, lie went off to get the articles required, while Brace looked into Ino room. "It's the same," said Brace, anil, turning Up his sleeves, he proceeded to nail up the door in a business-like manner, "I don't think he will trouble ns, unless he kin afford to make it woi sh the old pal's wlule to let him out.” said Brace, as we started from the house; "end even then he won’t get much of a chance, seein' as no mortal man can get down that hole without a light, and we’ve got eyes for to see hes a light is follerin' on us.” It was dark, despite the snow that lay upon the ground. Brace led the way with a pine torch, which burned sluggishly in the mist that envelope I us. Lola, holding my hand tightlv, we followed close behind Brace, who kept the torch low to show the nature of the path; nevertheless, we slipped and floundered considerably in stepping from bowlder to bowlder, the half-melted snow rendering it impossible to obtain a firm footing, Under other circumstances Lola would have enjoyed the difficulties and laughed at our mishaps, but noxv she neither smiled nor spoke. Sometimes she would press my hand a little tighter—that was all the sign she gave. We followed the course of the river, guided by the sound of the rushing waters. As we proceeded she descent grew

11 AD w; itten a few 3 hurried lines from Sacramento. telling bir Edmund that Lola had taken the Great Hesper, and in tern led to restore it in soon as the snow had melted and allowed us to icach the cavern in which it was concealed. In answering t his letter he wrote: "After reading your good news. fl Edith and I went J for a short stroll through the park, where weenconntoied poor Vin Hoeck, w h 0 e woe - begone appearance appealed Oil. e m ore to

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more and tnoie rapid, the stream forming a long Succession of falls, and, the light increasing, the rocks and bowlders about us became visible through Hie gray mist. At length our progress was stopped by a huge rock that rose perpendicular before us. - "Hark!" said the Judge, as we stopped to regain the breath that hail been pumped out of our lungs by the last scramble. I listen' d. We Seemed to have turned our backs on the stream -its rushing sounded more distant than 1 had yot heard it. 1 said this. "Hark again!" said Brace. Then, as I loaned my err aUentiveL-, I heard besides the swirling and d is'iing noise in our rear a muffled roar, that seemed to come from | the very bowels of the earth. I almost i fancied I felt the rock vibrating under my i feet. I “You’re light,” said Brace, when I gave him my impression; “end the roar you hoar j is that stream shoutin'down thou-an Is of ■ feet to the bottom of the great hole. If it i warn’tfor thedurned mist," he added, holding up the torch, which revealed but a few feet above our heads of the granite wall by our side, "you'd see that we're now standin' right between the two sides of the divide we looked at last night. We air standin' iteht over the canyon, with per’aps four or five thousand feet of nothing under us, on a lump of lock that’s tumbled down from up .above, and wedgcditself bore, ’cause somethin’ stopped its goin' furdor, end it do tremble. 1 allow. It ain't solid! It's moved a lump since I knew it in the old days, and one o' these days a chunk from up above will come down and start it off for ood an’ all.” "I think we may as well get off it. in that case.” “Wall. yes. It ain’t more risky standin' on it than standin' under it: but as we've gol to go under it, and down the hole, we may as well git.” Holed the way along the trembling rock a dozen yards maybe—the rushing water sounding upon the bft of us. und Hmn stretched out tils left arm to stop us. He advanced cautiously, mid holding out iho torch at arm's-length, the liglit fell upon the yellow water as it poured down into the black gulf upon which our standingplace abutted. The flame of the torch was drawn down by the current of air as if it had been at the blast-hole of a funiaec. Raising his voice to overcome the nois ■ of the water. Brace called out: "We’ve got to go down there!" "You are not afraid. Lola?” I asked. She shook her head, an I gave my hand another little squeeze. Brace led us off the rock, keeping the water still on our left, and there was some more downward clambering for ti few minutes. Thon we camo to a stand and ho showed mo a lateral opening about four feet in height. “We goes through there." he said; then ho produced n Hask, poured out a dram, and handed it to me. I offered it to Lola. Another shake of the head, and another little squeeze. I emptied the cup, and Biaoe helped himself. "Thore ain't no need to got ourselves tn a muck over this job. We'll put our rubbers on.” he said, "the wet drip thiough.” I took out the overcoats from the bundle of rugs, and w 1 put them on. Then I strapped the roll of rug on my shoulders again. Brace touched my should rand pointed upward to a couple of faintly pink m bub a . patches in the mist. “W hat is it ?" I asked. “The sun ketchin’ the tops of the peaks," he replied. He took a counle of torches from the bundle he eai t ied aud beean to light them at the end of the one he h i I last used. "Won’t you wait a little it will L ■ light in half mi hour?" 1 said. “Not down there." replied; it's pitch dark at noon in that almighty hole. Now.” he added, when the torches were well lit. "take one of these, kick the snow well off your feet, keep one eye on me. and t’other on the rocks, and leave the rest to Providence." With this last injunction he stooped down, and passed through the opening. We followed, but singly, for we needed both hand to make the perilous descent. [TO BE CONTINUED.) Keeping Flowers. A great deal has been written on the preservation of ent flowers, but the matter is still impmfeetlv understood by most people. It is important to know, not onlx how to take eare t>f them, after being cut. but how to ent them. On this latter point a practical hint may be of service to our readers. It might not occur to them that it made any set ions difference whether the stems were broken off or cut with the knife or scissors. A sharp knife is the tight tool for this purpose, as it leaves the sap vessels of the stems open for the absorption of water, while scissors crush aud compress these vessels so that their absorptive power is more or less destroyed. Like injury may be done by breaking off the stems, especially if they are tough. If the Howers are put into water immediately the ends of the stems should be cut with a sharp knife, as the sap vessels will probably have become clogged with coagulated matter, Cut flowers often suffer from too dry an atmosphere. It is difficult to avoid this in our artificially heated rooms, but we may at least put the blossoms in the coldest part of the room. Near a window, and especially a bay-win-dow, the temperature is generally several degrees lower than in other parts of the room, as you will see if you will test it with a thermometer. The best authorities say, moreover, that the flowers should have the benefit of light, and even of sunshine in most cases, though there is popular prejudice against exposing them to the latter. On the other hand, they suffer, as plants do, from sudden alterations of temperature and from draughts. In the case of blossoms that fall io pieces easily, it is a good idea to let fall a drop of gum or mucilage into the center, wlijch will keep the petals together at the base. To prevent this from running out before it hardens, t he flowers should be kept upright by putting their stems through the bottom of a sieve or sticking them in sand. AA ith the aid of a camel’s hair brush or a pointed stick a large number of flowers may be gummed in a short time. When flowers have been carried a long distance in close boxes or cases they often appear withered or worthless, but with proper treatment they may he revived, and restored to their original beauty. Instead of at onoe being put into vases and exposed to the hot, dry air of the parlor, they should either be spread out on wet flannel or moss and covered with a dish-cover or inverted box, or else put in pans containing moss and water or wet sand, in which they can be set upright, and then shut up in the dark for a few hours. If they do not regain their freshness under this nursing there is no hope lor them, but in all ordinary cases their recovery is certain. — journal of Chemistry. It is said that at a sale of farm stock in Womelsdorf, Fa., 5,000 persons were fed.

INDIANA HAPPENINGS. EVENTS ANI) INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. An Tn tern* ling Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties aud Saneral News Notea. Killed witli a Brick. A murder occurred at Hobbs, n small town five miles east of Tipton. Eli Harter lives on the farm belonging to Lucy Brown, a widow. Harter boarded with Mrs. Brown. The other day he went to Hobbs, and when he returned he was intoxicated and very quarrelsome. Asher Brown, son of the owner of the farm, seemed to be the object of Harter's hatred, and he drew a knife and made several attempts to disembowel young Brown, but the lad escaped into the house, where he was followed by Harter. The drunken man attacked Mrs. Brown, shamefully abusing her, and swearing that he would kill every one in the place. A'onng Brown went into the yard in order to avoid the enraged man. but the latter again attacked him with the Knife, cutting his clothes but doing no other damage. Brown stepped to one side and picked up a brick, at the same time warning Harter to put up his knife, Harter seemed determined to kill his man, and made a start for him. The latter threw the brick, striking Harter just above the left ear. from the effects of which he died. Brown carried the senseless man into the house and washed his wound, after which he went for the doctor and gave himself up to the authorities. Public opinion is in favor of Brown, and so far he has not been imprisoned. Harter was a bad character, and had a brother killed at this place one year since. Northern Jiuliaim Editorial Association The meeting of the Northern Indiana Editorial Association was held at Kendallville, and was a most interesting and successful session. Over fifty papers were represented, and a large number of the craft outside of the association were present. The papers read before the association by Hon. Daniel McDonald, of the Plymouth lh mocrat: J. H. Rerriek of the l.agrarge Standard; AV. D, Page, of the Fort Wayne Daily h.i; J. AV. Adams, of the Columbia City Pont; Gen. Beub Williams, of the Warsaw 'l'iinrn. aud others, were most interesting features of the meeting. The officers elected for the ensuing year are: President, Q. A. Hossler.Warsaw Tinu .<t; I'irst A’ice President. 1.. A. Jeaniegan, Mishawaka Knti rpriHt ; Second A ice President, W, D. Page, Fort Wayne A i s,- Re. or.line Sven t :ry. John li. Herrick, Lagrange Standard; Corresponding Secretary. J. .E. McDonald. Ligonier Hanner; Treasurer. J. A\. Adams, Columbia City Post. The next meeting will be held at Lake Muxinkuckee. Minor State Items. — Flora is arranging to build a $5,000 school-house. There are twelve steam stone quarries at and near Bedford. M. M. Puett. a well-known citizen of Bicknell, dropped dead. South Bend begins a telephone exchange with 100 subscribers. Elliot Ralston, of Angola, was killed by the accidental discharge of his rille. —Clark County’s poor farm reports the cost of keeping paup< s at 53 cents a week. —Joseph Murphy, of Pittsburgh, was struck by a Bec-line train near Anderson and fatally injured. —There is talk of establishing a MethodistUhatauqua assembly at Hudson lake, in St. Joe County. —AVilliam Cupp, a farmer living near Columbia City, was run, over and killed by a AV abash freight train. —Goshen City Council passed an ordinance by a vote of 3to 2 raising the liquor license per annum to $250. —The residence of Jacob Reisinger, at Hanover, was destroyed by fire, caused by mice nibbling at matches. —Adjutant General Ruckle mustered in a new company of fifty for the Indiana Legion at New Albany last week. —Mr. AVilliam McMahon, one of the oldest and most prominent citizens of Carroll County, was found dead in his bed. - Miss Mary E. Hanna, sister of Hon. B. AV. Hanna, minister to the Argentine liepublic, died at her home, near Crawfordsville. —Richard Nightingale has been arrested at Goshen, charged with abducting a boy named Charles Boyder from Readville, Mich. — Chief of Police Diehl, of Fort AA'ayne, resigned because his salary was reduced, and Lieutenant AA’ilkinson was elected in his place. —Charles Crider, jr., of Owen Township, Clark County, while out hunting squirrels, was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun. —Mrs. Ethelda AVright, of Harrison County, is making a quilt of 22,176 pieces, two of which were furnished by the wife of President Harrison. —Lincoln City has found a four foot vein of coal, of good quality, near the surface, and close to the Cannelton branch of the Air-line railway. —AVillio Phillips and Charles Gasmyer, of the Wernle Orphan’s Home, near Richmond, are missing, and are supposed to have been drowned. —James O’Brien was sentenced, at Bluffton to five years’ imprisonment for shooting his associate burglar, Newcomb, at Huntington in January, 1885. —Charles F. Brower, AVm. Boyer and Thos. J. Armstrong, of AVilkinson, have received notice and a bundle of switches, supposed to be the work of AA’hite-cap-ism. •—The election cases against A. M. Campbell, AV. 11. Spence and AV. S. Brannum were called in the United States Court at Fort AVayne and dismissed.

--Grief over the action of a dissolute son and the accidental death of another son in Chicago, caused AVerner Fust to commit suicide, at LaPorte, by cutting his throat. —At Xenia, in Miama County, James Saxon shot a boy named Harry Metcalf last week, inflicting a dangerous wound. Saxon claims the shooting was accidental. —Lafayette, which claims to be one of the wealthiest cities, per capita, in the country, is being criticised for neglecting the Johnstown contribution movement. - Doc Sloan, living one mile north of Princeton, discharged his gun when it burst. The breech-pin entered the head just above the left eye. The chances are against him. —Bloomington’s gas well, “shot” at 805 feet, furnished a very limited quantity of gas. Salem’s 1: ‘ well did better, and furnished a small amount of crude oil with the gas. —A. J. AVashington, with his wife and baby, were thrown over a fifty-foot embankment and into a creek by a fractious horse recently, but all managed to get out without fatal injury. —Spencer County Commissioners recently refused a numerously signed petition for an appropriation for gravel roads, and there is considerable indignation over the refusal. —ln AVarrick and Spencer counties the Farmers’ Alliance is receiving bids from storekeepers, and at Boonville, it is said, not less than ten merchants will close out and move away. Mr. C. Sonneborne and wife, old and wealthy citizens of LaPorte, were stunned by an electric current last week. Mrs. Sonneborne will die, but her husband is likely to recover. — Sanford Nichols, foreman of Barnaby's saw-mill at Greencastle, was seriously and perhaps fatally injured by a spoke catching in a belt and striking him in the back of the head. A Jersey calf belonging to AVilliam Cloud, of Montpelier, drank two gallons of linseed oil and yellow ochre, mixed for painting, and seems to be none the worse for its unique repast. Ex-Sheriff Schroeder, of Aller County, having traveled recently all through Northern Indiana reports that there will not be half a corn crop.. As to wheat, the piospeets were fair. Ed. Shelt and Clara AVcnger, of Goshen, aged 17 and 15 respectively, recently eluded their parents, crossed the Michigan border, and were united in marriage by a notary public of Niles. Carl, the 12-year-old son of Charles Lartz, of Bloomington, had two toes crushed by the wheels of a train some time ago while playing about the railroad yards, and died recently from lockjaw. AVilliam Seering, of Crawfordsville, dre« $75 pension money and gave it to his wife to keep. She hid it in the stove, and next day he built a fire in the stove to warm himself, and burned the money. Charles Hall, an employe on the 1., D. A S. steam shovel, was instantly killed at the gravel pit east of Montezuma, by being struck by the steam shovel. He leaves a wife and small child. Clay County reports considerable damage to crops from high water. The block coal mine at Pratt was also flooded, and the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad, near Saline City, was badly damaged. —James AV. Scott, Daniel Maxwell and John AV. Fender, Commissioners, of Union County, have each filed cases of libel for an article which appeared in a late issue of the lievieir, asking $2,000 damage in each case. - A contract has been awarded by tha Indian Department to the AVoolen-mill Company of New Albany for the manufacture of 10,000 yards of black and white jeans for the Indians now on the AVestern reservations. — Sheriff Dickey, of Greensburg, frustrated a jail delivery, by watching in the dark until his prisoners were busy sawing their way to liberty, when he captured them and the tools that had been furnished by friends from the outside. —John Haworth, station agent and telegraph operator at Gessie, fell while climbing on a freight car and the wheel running over his head killed him instantly. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge of D; nyille, and leaves a family. —The County Commissioners of Montgomery County have passed an order appropriating $2,000 foi the purpose of building an addition to the Orphans Home of that county. The new part will be two stories in height, with a basement, and bids are to be received for the construction of the same, —The Buck Shoals Silver-mining Company, of Dubois County, which was thought to have been killed off by an unfavorable report made some months ago by a visiting scientist, has again resumed operations, and a few days ago had a car-load of coke hauled from Jasper to the mines, to be used in reducing the ore. —Steve Brown, a A’ermillion County farmer, who. eighteen months ago, shot and killed a tramp in cold blood agreed to plead guilty of manslaughter, and given ten years in the penitentiary. The evening before he tried to commit suicide by swallowing powder made from a looking-glass with the quicksilver attached. —Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors as follows: AVillard Bell, Greencastle, sad iron: John AV. Blackledge, Indianapolis, show-case; Chester AV. Clark and T. D. Keasey, assignors to Keasey Pulley Company, Mishawaka, bushing for pulleys; AVilliam Conwell, assignor of one- half to H. E. Clevenger, Neff, hoof-parer and trimmer; Geo. AV. Gilbert, Kendallville, soda-water apparatus; Edward L. Hilderbrand, H. Rost and C. L. Davis, Sullivan, draftspring; Joseph D. Norris, LaPorte, cut-ter-bar guide for harvesters.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY AND ABLY- CONSIDERED. A Scholarly Exposition of the Lesson • -Thoughts Worthy of Calin Reflection— Half an Hour’s Study ot the Scriptures—Time Wcl Spent. 'lho lesson for Sunday, June 23, may be found in Mark 111: 1-13. TNTBODUCTORT. Says the critical Ewald: "Nothing stands mo o hi dorloaliy certain than that Jesus rose fi om the dead and appeared again to his followers." Says the candid Arnold: "I know of no one fact in iTc history of mankind which is proven by better and fuller evidence of every sort, to the mind of a fair inquirer." Think of it. The malice of the Jew and the might of the Roman were arrayed against him. He was crucified in the sight o! all, his side pierced by the lance of the soldier, his decease witnessed by Pilate's centurion, was buried still in the light of day in Joseph’s well-known garden, was phi 'ad in a rock sepulchre, with a stone rolled against and into the mouth, a seal upon the stone, a guard beyond the seal, tc make it “■ure." Moreover his own disciples had given him up for dead and the faithful women came to embalm his lifeless body. Lost to the world, men esteemed him to be. But there was one door they did not lock. It was the farther gateway of the tomb. That way is wide open still, and through Christ the tomb becomes a tunnelWay from lesser light t > bright t. WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. 11 hen they looked. The later versions (seo variations) are again more happy in their renditions hme: "Looking up. they see that it is rolled back” For it was very Wat. The "jor’ may be to explain the surprise implied in the above wo is. Knleriny in. The tomb wa . large vaul - like structure. i'hrysaw. All but Mary. Who hail run to tell Deter and John and does mu >ee or un lerstand until later, when Christ himself appears to her (John 20) .1 yi> ioj >na>i. The angel deseilbml in Matt. 28:2 Affrighted. The word means awestruck. Not necessarily frightened, for the same word is used of the people at the foot of the mount of transfiguration who "were gre.it y arnazed. and running to him saluted him.” Jie not affrighted. Or overcome with amazem nt. 7o s, ek Jenus, Reminding them of their quest, which at sight of the apparition may have fled their minds for the moment.— ,\ld hi re. Because “risen." See the place, the empty place. I’roof of his rising. (Io your way. That is, withdraw from here. Die grave is not the place to seek to find the risen Christ. And Peter. Singled out probably, as essentially needing the divulgenco. Into Galilee. <1 Cor. 15: 6) t.s he said unto you at the supper (Matt. 2(1: 32). And tied. Now thoroughly alarmed at the thought that they had seen a spiiiL N' itiier said they anything. Speaking to none whom they met. so great was their '■"iistie nation. Here the text of Tischeud"! t ell is. WHAT THE I.ESSON TEACIIES. Sireet Ppieos for tbo dead; the Loid wanted them not. He has already been anoint d unto his burial, and the burial -eeiie has passed. Now comes the specL.ele nt liie iesutrcctlon life. He is not here 1 ul is । isen." They had brought sweet -pi'es lor tlie dead. But here tlie living: Ti it • ye here any meat." Ami when they looked. Io! "he took it. and did eat befoie them." Let love still tiring him spices and her im-ensr; lull let it be lor a living, not u dead Christ. It is Rome that lingers in the gurdeii. her hands laden, it may be, with a nmatic hurt s, seeking where they have lai 1 him. "(Io your wav,” said the angel to the oeking women, “he is not here.” Be it our- to leave the garden with its empty tomb and go out. with heart’s homage into some Dusv. peopled Galilee; there shall wo see him, as he said. Yea, our ii.eense, "with the prayers of all saints,” rises upward to a throne where sits ho that livetn and was dead, and behold, he is "alive forevermore." H7i« shall roll us away the stone? How latural and teal the scene! They kept troubling themselves as they walked along in the morning twilight. Ever the anxious thought kept recurring, who shall remove the g eat stone for us? And then they just looked up. ami, there, it was already nulled away, great as it was. How graphic a sketch out of our own experiences! li seems like a leaf torn out of the Christian's day-book. AVe keep troubling ourselves about barriers to love's ministries. ’Ne aniieipate and muse over the difficulties In the way. Happy for us. if, like tlie women, we yet keep or our way as we muse. For when we reach the place we oft-times find the stone already rolled away. It is just as God wills. AYhatever lies across the highways oi his grace and glory shall go aside for faith and love and shall find her paths made straight. Coming to that earlier tomb at Bethany Martha kept thinking of her brother's mortality, who shall roll away such a stone? "For he hath been dead four days." Then Jesus: “Said I not unto thee that if thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the glory of God?" And was not that the reason the stone in the garden was rolled away? Not to release the Christ Ho could not be holden of death and was perhaps already risen. But that men might see the glory of God. “Come, see the place where the Lord lay." And Peter. The celestial consldcrateness. Two words, but how lull ot sweet meaning! AVe ask what heaven is like. This angel’s speech gives us aglimpso, easting up a window, as it were, on heaven’s tenderness. Heaven is the place where in fullest measure another’s joy is ours: not another's grief; for, thank' God, “there shall be no more curse,” "and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” "And Peter"—Peter was the one wlio needed the word—Peter, whom l ist we saw out there in the shadow of the palace at the eock-crowing, weeping bitterly; Peter, who by this very humiliation shall come to know the grace that saves, and shall henceforth tell to others out of a full and chastened heart how great a Savior he lias found. "And Peter," God’s singular and spec'flc mercy. Have you an ache at the heait, a shadow of soul-distrust, God singles you out. brother, sister, to help you. If you will go to Him in His word now. wistfully, prayerfully, you will find a message tor yourself, and your own name, if you will read aright, between the lines. After that he appeared. They were to be fuMy convinced of his identity. Again and a rain ho was to manifest himself unto them until their every doubt was removed and they stood forth unfaltering champions of the’ risen and glorified Christ, AVe may count seven prominent appearances of Christ after his death: (1) The garden epiphany: (2) The divulgonee to Peter and James; (3) The manifestation at Emmaus; (4) The appearance, twice over, in the closed room: (5) At the seaside; (6) At the mountain in Galilee; (7) On Olivet. These portrayals of himself are recorded in the different books of the New Testament. The continual witness and reminder of them to both ehrtreh and world is this Lord’s day on which we arc met for the study of the lesson I efore us. Dr. AV. N. Clarke has well said: "As we have in the Lord’s Supper a visible broof of our Savior’s death, so its the Lord’s day we have an historical proef of the reality of his resurrection.” “Welcome, sweet day of rest That saw the Lord arise; Welcome to this reviving breast And these rejoicing eyes.’’ Next Lesson—Temperance Lesson. 1 Cor. 8:4-13. Missionary Lesson. Mark 16: 14-20, Vanadium is said to cost $12,000 per pound; zirconium, $7,900; lithium, the lightest of the metals, $7,700; rhodium, $2,500, and iridium, the heaviest substance known, $1,200. M. Cornu believes that the light of shooting stars cannot be due to combustion or heat, as supposed, but is a phenomenon of static electricity developed by simple friction. The sun is near its minimum activity. In 1888 M. Schmoll noted 190 days without spots.

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PITH and point. Over the garden wall—Moss. A dull razor is very apt tc razor tear. A\ hisky generally gets “the drop” on the man who monkeys with it. M l h l T y AV) em ' hearof an incorrigible C ^ T ’ certainly, an urchin. W hen is a poor client in danger of being devoured? When h e ’ s f fee d The man who made himself a new lie out of fur is fur-tile in resources. I each er—-Now, Tommy what is the Twins ° f ? Tomin y" (promptly)— ALfMONY may be a balm, but there is no disinfectant for some styles of divorce. J Some girls are like loaf sugar. Thev swZ SPeCial taSte ’ l>Ut they are Very Who is that little monster? That’s my daughter, madam, “Ah’ ah' the sweetcreature.” Ordinarily the ministers create the Benedicts, but at the White House the Ben-edicts create the Ministers. I he militia of different States, while they may be efficient in some respects, are generally set down as N. G. Actors are often failures, but when a pugihst appears before the public in an exhibition he always makes a hit. Down at AA’ashington thev are not bothering with the puzzle to get “the pigs in clover,” but to get them out. As long as a man can assign the property oi Lis creditors over to his wife marriage is not wholly a failure.® When a subscriber goes into a country newspaper office to renew his subscription, the editor puts on a sanctum-money-us look. First Gentleman—l made an infernal idiot of myself yesterday. Second Gentleman—Too bad I What did you do? First Gentleman—l loaned my umbrella to you. Every bicyclist should use his personal influence to secure good roads,but his duty does not require him to get off his wheel over the handles and smooth the highway down with the back of his neck. Husband — What is the reason, madam, I cannot find any socks in mv drawer? AA ife (without raising her eyes from her book)—Pooh! That’s easy enough. Because there are none there. Saugbones—You seem to be fairly fascinated with that skeleton in the corner. AVhat makes you look at it so intensely? Patient (startled)—O, nothing— I Yvas wondering if it was one of your patients. Lady—These berries look very large and ripe. Little Boy (who is selling berries for the first time) —Yes, mum, the green ones are are all underneath. That’s the way the bosses fix ’em up every morning. Mr. B.—My dear Mrs. Croesus, may I put your name down for tickets to Prof. Pundits course of lectures on Buddhism? Mrs. C.—O, by all means! You know how passionately fond I am of flowers.— Munsey’s Weekly. Reassured. Miss Middleton—Why do you start so, George ? George—Did I understand you to say that your father is failing? Miss Middleton—Physically, I mean. George—(settling back)—Oh! I was afraid it was something serious. Policeman—Why did you knock that gentleman down and jump on him ? Janitor (brownstone flat palace)—Just as he inquired the price of flats I caught sight of a baby rattle sticking out of his pocket, that’s why. Janitors can’t stand everything. Customer—A friend of mind lias a big diamond which he wants to sell. Dealer—Big tiaiuonts cost moneys. I puy von last veek, und I bay dree tousand tollars. Is your frient a bank president, eh? “No; he’s a hotel clerk. AVhat will you give?” “Haluf a toller.’ —Neic York Weekly. “Do you know what is the difference between you and myself?” This conundrum was hurled at a Pittsburgh broker by his better half, who had been sitting up for him, when he arrived home about 1 o’clock in the morning. “Can’t sav, my dear,” he replied. “Whatis it?” “You speculate all day and I ’spec’ yon late at night.” TRA-LA. Unto a little negro, A-swimming in the Nile, Appeared, quite unexpectedly, A hungry crocodile, Who, with the chill politeness That makes the warm blood freeze, Remarked: "I ll take some dark meat, Without dressing, if you please! A Murderer Driven to Confess. Shakspeare tells bow guilty creatures at a play have been so wrought upon by the cunning of a scene where a murder has been portrayed, that straightxvay thev have confessed. This was strikingly illustrated at a performance in Providence, B. L, several years ago, by AVashington Irving Bishop, the mindreader, whose sudden death in New York recently created so much sensatKßishop invited members of the audience to come upon the stage and observe that no fraud was perpetrated. Among those who responded was a resident of the city know us Mclntyre, who said he had no faith in Bishop s boasted powers. Bishop acted a murder scene. He crept stealthily upon an unsuspecting victim, out his throat aud then rifled his safe. Mclntyie turned deathly pale during this pantomime and soon slunk out ot the ha . e disappeared from Providence soon after, and the next heard of him was that he had given himself up to the authorities of Glasgow, Scotland, as the murderer of a wealthy banker there, seventeen years before. He was tried convicted and sentenced to be hanged but died in his cell of apoplexy before the fatal dav arrived. He said the realistic murder scene enacted by Bishop upon the stage drove him to confess. His leal name was Thomas Muiiay. A homely man of merit is never iepulsive. As soon as he is named Ins physique is forgotten, the mind passes through it to see the soul.— homamvi lie. Minnie I feel so awfully stupid today. Mv head feels heavy as lead. Mamie--Why don’t you take off some of your hair, dear, and lighten it?