St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 15, Number 8, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 17 August 1889 — Page 1

. VOLUME XV.

M JUDGE NOT. { 'BY FINETTE M. LOWATER. Ye through whose veins tha life-tides sweep Withrhythmic ebb and measured tiow, ‘Whose pulse ne’er like lightning leap At passicn’s touch or anger’s blow ; Who, hedged by custom’s narrow round, Scarce know your warmest friend from foe, And think you love, becauge you've found That you no dearer friemdghip know, . How dare you judge the #cul that knows No neutral ground 'twixt hell and heaven? ‘Which ever with life's white Lheat glows, With joy transfixed, or sorrow riven. To such L.ove is no idle name, Or rosy dream, inanely sweet, But ehords of deep, divines’ pa n, Entwined with every heart-string's beat! ‘WAUKESHA, Wis, ’?; . i It Lale and Death T“ AL LY (U | e 08 UNDER MEDICAL ADVICE Ul I I L |Rde A Story of the Franco Prussian War. BY ROBERT BUCHANAN. CHAPTER XIV, | BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATIL 1 e ﬁ:\YLIGHT came Ner a” N7\ land found the NS ¢ wounded mnn' 7 {3\/‘\\ g still living, and | S ‘ ? lying in a heavy | AN Pl sleep. The old | N AR dame sat by his ’ /,\/ ' side, worn out N e Boone with watching. R N N AR From time to 78 .\)\"‘\" time during the ; h G night she had | 2\ administered the anodyne ac- | g cording to instructions of her | young mistress, and it seemed to | have had an almost miraculous | f effect. { Early in the morning Dr. Huet | '@ appeared at the chateau and went | up to the bedside. Me saw at a glance | that the crisis was past, and after a care- | ful examination and redressing of the | wound pronounced the patient out of im- | mediate danger. During the examination | the German awoke and made a sign theat I he wished to speak to the doctor alone; so | the old dame was dismissed, and the two { men were left face to fuce. | “You have something to communicate ] to me,” said the Frenchman, seating him- l self by "he bed. “Ah, monsieur,” returned the German ] officor, “it is not of myself that I wish to | speak, but of her whom God sent to save | me in my extremity.” l “Mlile. de Gawviolles? Yes, yon are right; you owe your life to her.” l “More than my life, monsieur!” cried the other, in a voice choked with tears. | “Ah! you do not know. DBut when I have ' told you, you will adore her and pity me. { Better if I had died! Better if 1 do not | live to look again into her noble face! ? Charity so infinite is more than I can | bear.” I Huet looked puzzied, and bcoan to think that the mind of his pationt was wandering. “Pray compose yourself,” he said. _“Where is she, monsieur?” asked the wounded man, eagerly. ‘‘Have you secn her?” ‘“Not this morning. Dame Fevereau tells me that the young lady watched dur- | ing a portion of the night, and then re- l tired to her own bedchamber.” “Not before she had saved my miserable l life! Not before she had snatched me | from death, though she knew that I, of all | men, was the most undeserving! Mon- | sieur, I remember. I was sinking fnst‘ when she interfered and succored me— | me whom she should have left to per-j ish!—me whom she has cause to hate so | much!” | “Come, come,” said the Doctor, good- | humoredly; “of course we know you are | a German, one of the enemies of Frauce. | But a bullet, look you, absolves all such | enmities, and we people of France do not | carry our ferocities into the hospital orthe | sick-100m.” i “Thanks, monsieur,” returned the other, ! sadly. ‘“To you, also, I know I owe a debt | of gratitnde; but that is different. To her | I owe far more-—a debt which leaves me ’ shame-stricken and penitent before my | God!” | His look was so full of anguish, his | tone and manner so solemmn, that the | Doctor gazed at him in wonder. Tremnu- | lously, with the tears sull . streaming | down his cheeks, the German reached ‘ out his hand, and placed it upon Huet's | arm. | “Monsieur, listen. Do you know— | have you heard—that she has lost her father?” \ “No!” cried the Doctor, starting in amazement., “The Chevalier? He is not dead?” Woful beyond measure, in its utter misery and self-reproach, was the look upon the German’s face as he replied: “Yes, monsieur. I killed him.” Thunderstrucl: and horror-stricken, the Doctor shook off the other’s touch and sprang to his feet. “Yon killed the Chevalier? Do you mean it? Grand Dien, it is toohorrible! How? How? _ | In broken accents the German told his story—a, he had told it overnight to Blanche, but more clearly and in fuller detail. He described the incident of the surprise, of the cutting downof Gavroiles, of the scene enacted afterwmid in the moonlight, when the dying mman committed the medallion to his enemy’s care. Dr. Huet, who had known the Chevalier well | and es:eemed him above most men, lis- | tened in simyl: horror. : “It is well for you.” he exclaimed, when | the othe: hnd finished, “that I d:d not | know this before. I leproa-h myself now | that you weie »ot suffcred to die like a | dog. It is horrible—it is infamous! Even | Yet, when the truth becomes known to the people, I will not answer for your life.” | “ o n . . . ¥ My life is nothine, monsicur, ” returned | the gick man, with = grown. “I set no | Btore by it, God knows, save for the sake | of those whom I have left at home. It | would have been better, perhaps, if I had ! died last nioht,” | But Dr. Huet s'ny:d to hear no more. | With a cry, almost an imprecaution, he | rushel from the yoom. In the lobby he came face to frzce with the old dame. , “Oh, monsieur, will you come to my Yourg mistress? I have just been to her room, and I have found her lying there like one distracted. I am sure she has not slept all night, and she talks so Strangsaly.” : Greatly excited, Huet accompanied the Woman {o the chamber, and there, | stretched upon the bed, her face woin with weeping, her hair dishevelled and Btill moist and cold with the melted snow, he found Blanche lying. Her eyes wele wide open, but she seemed to see nothing: only at intervals, with strange monotony and regularity. she gave vent to that terrible moan with which she had heard the German’s talr overnight. . “It is cexebral fover,” he cried. “Look,

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m she is quite unconscioas, TFoor echild, ‘ poor child! It is fortumate that T came here.” Under Huet’s instructions, Blanche was undressed and put into bed by the old | dame, who wept freely at her task, for ' | Blanche seemed to her almost mnke her | | own child. ! ! Returning to the chamber, the Doctor | ’ found the poor girl lying with the same | | fixed look aud uttering the same weiry | Imorm. Clad in her white night-dress, l | with her silken hair falling around her | face and setting it in a golden frame, she | looked strangeiy beautiful. | ' The Doctor's eyes grew moist as they :gazed upon her. : | “Heavenly powers!” he murmured to | ' himself. *“What fatality! The man who killed Ler father and the father's heart- l ¥ broken child both lying under the same | roof-—his 100 f —and uunder my care. It makes my head swim to think of it. Well, | with God’s help T will save her if I can.” Fortunately the good Doctor had both | skill and experience; and, moreover, the | infoimation he had received enabled him l to determine the character of the girl's ailment. i ' He walked back to the chambler where Lie had left the wounded mn, who, as he * entered, looked up wildly and exelaimed: “Mousieur, have you seen her? For | pity’s sake, tell me of her! ‘The thoucht ' of what she must suffer is wringing my ‘ i heart.” X “She is unconscious,” replied Huet be‘tween his set teeth, frowningand drawing back from the other's outstretched hands. | “You killed the father, and T fear you have | destroyed the child. T doubt if she will l ever recover.” | ' Giving o great sob, the verman turned ! { his face away snd covered it with his | trembling hands. CHAPTER XV, THE GERMANS. While these things were taking place at the chatean, the surrounding district | ‘coutinued in a panic ol excitement, owing | to the near presence of the victorious ‘Germans. A little experience, howevor,l showed the counfry pcople that the feroci- : ty-of the enemy was, to say the least, ex- [ ! aggerated. Etretat was quietly occupied. | Grave foreign officers in spectacles were | found strolling on the seashore. There | ‘ was no more fightine, as all the French | ! troops, only a handful at the most, had | ! retired rlong the coast in the direction of | . Dieppe. i ! Two days after the wounded officer of | Uhlans had been carried into the Chateau | of Grandpre a small company of cavalry, | | headed by an officer, rode up the avenue | | toward the chateau and halted on the | lawn beneath the terrace. The offier, dis- | mounting, walked up the steps to the door | and knocked. After a delay of some | minutes the door was opened by old Hu- ] bert. ! “What may mousieur please to want?” | asked the old man, quaking in every limb. ‘ “You have one of our ofticers lying here | wounded,” said the German in French. “I | l wish to see him.” t “Certainly, mounsieur,” answered Hul bert. “Will you be good enough to enter? | And wi'l you please to step softly, as my | | poor young mistress is very 111?” ! | “He is alive, of course?” mutterod the | officer, halting on the threshold. “Yes, monsieur.” On receiving this reply the oflicer beckoned and another German, also in uniform, leaped from the saddle and ran up to his side. “Yes, he is here. C(Come with me, Borg- | feldt; you may be wanted.” l With obseqnious timidity Hubert led the way up-stirs into the sick man’s room. | He was lying in bed, propped up with pil- | lows, and reading 2 book. One glance at | the book showed its religious character. ' It was the Douay edition of the New Testment. ; “Hartmann, old fellow!” eried the offi- | ! cer, with outstreiched hands, “this is, ' indeed, fortunate. We had given you up | for dead.” | | Hartmann smiled sadly, returning the | kindly pressure. : ' “God has been good to me, as you see,” | |he replied. ‘. survive, while better men | are in their graves. Ah, Dr. Borgfeldt, is | that you?” i | “What was it?” asked Borgfeldt, who | { was a tall, clean-shaven man in specta- | cles. “A bullet wound?” i } Hartmann poiuted to his hea.t, and the | German doctor, stoopiug down, made u.i hasty examination. | “It was an ugly wound,” he muttured; “the ball lodged close to the pleura, only ] just missing the left lung. Who ex- l tracted it?” | ] “A clever French doctor. Alr! he is' here. Let me introduce him—Dr. Huet."” | Huet, who had entered the room, bowed | stifily. | “How is mademoiselle, your pmient?"‘ asked Hartmann, eagerly. “Better, I pray | God?” l | “Better—and worse,” replied Huet, | | coldly. “The fever is leaving her, but | from time to time are signs that she is be- 1 ginning to remember. 1 dread the com- | | plete return of her faculties, for then——" | “Yes, yes; I understand,” cried Hart- | mann., “Would to Heaven that I ('ouldl‘ comtfort her! but, alas! it is too late for that. May God forgive me!” ‘ The other two Germans l'stened in no little surprise to this conversation, which, | ‘ of course, they were at a loss to under- | | stand. Then the officer Lioke in: | | “Well, Hartmann, what cin we do for ’ you? Youseem in snug quarters here, so that it is unnecessary to think of removing T you, I suppose?” ' 1 “Pardon me,” interrupted Huet, “the ' sooner he is removed from this house the better.” { l “Quite right,” said Hartmann, sadly. “I bave no ii:ht here, where thy very pres- 1 {l ence is an outrage. Take me away as soon ‘ | as pOSSi'-Jl('J," | ! Without asking any further questions | the officer prom:sed to rend an ambulance i cart that very afternoon, and in the mean- | ’ time to tell off a couple of soldiers to keep E { guard over the patient and attend to his l ) wants. . k { In the afternoon the ambulance arrived ! and Hartmann was assisted down. It was | | an open vehicle with a canvas awning, | i rudely extemporized for the purpose and | strewn thickly with straw, on which the, ? invalid was able to lie almost at full ; | length. Lying thus, with his head propped | | up by pillews, he could see the wintry | ! seene around—the trees laden with snow, I [ the driit upon the ground, the gray, stiil | { heaven alove the woods. ‘ | Heet stood on the steps of the chateau | watching his departure, Hurtmanr beck- | | oned to him. | | “Monsicur,” he said, “T am going away | ' with o heavy heart. All my thonght and | care row is for Mlle. de Gavrolles. | Should she ever sy eak of me—should she | | ever bear to think of one soo unworH:y-—i | tell her that I shall never forget her, never | | cense to pray for her and to bless hur.i | May God comfort her, monsieur, and ! | watch over her, now and fo:ever!” ; Huet made no reply. The cart moved | | slowly away, driven by a soldier in un- \ I dress, and with a monnted soldier in uni- | | form on either side. Down the long | | blexk avenue, through th«; wintry woods, | went the little procession. Here and | \ there the snow was so deep that progress was difficult, and it was necessary for the | l soldiers to alight and free the wheels. |

TeaAASSSS= Y WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1889,

. . . B A, S .PO AR S WS Hartmann lay looking on the desolate scene, his heart full of a kindied desolation. His thoughts were wandering back- | ward lo the sick-toom where the mar- | tyred girl was lying. l They had traveled some distance | through the woods, and could see the} | open country close at hand, when the | driver came to a full stop. Blocking the ' E narrow road was a traveling carriage, one i of the wheels of which had loosened and - was lying deeply imbedded in the snow. ' The driver was on foot, now examining | - the carringe, now gesticulating wildly to | | the soldiers rs they approached. I | Seated in the carriage, with his face | ; turned away from Hartmann, was a tall | gontlemen in military undress, carrying his arm in a sling, ; ’ With angry exclamations in their native | tongte, the German soldiers rode up to | the driver and seemed commanding him | i to clear the way. He answered them with j - a volley in French, not a word of which‘ - they understood and pointed to the wheel. | | “What is the matter?” asked Hartmann, | l addressing the diiver of his own vehicle. | “An accident, Herr Captain,” replied | f the man, saluting. “The cairiange has | broken down.” | * At this moment the strange gentleman, | g leaning on a stick or crutch, alighted from | ' the carriage. The light fell upon his pale | | face und close-cropped hair. ! i Hartmann started and raised himself | | upon his pillow. Something in the face { seemed familiar. He looked and looked ; again. Saints of heaven, could it be pos- | sible? Trembling violently, he called to the driver of the ambulance: i “Quick! go to that gentleman! Demand his name and whither he is going!” The man leaped down, and, joining the ! group at the side of the carriage, addressed the stranger. Then he came back to | Hartmann, and said, saluting: | “His name, Herr Captain, is the Chev- ‘ alier de Gavrolles, und he is returning invalided to his home yonder at the cha- ”» tean. | § Had an angel from heaven alighted 1 . upon his path, bringing some happy mes- [ sage from another \\‘orfd, Harlmann could | : not have felt a wilder rapture or a more ! wondering awe. A cry bioke from his lips; his eyes swam with gudden rears. Oh, the goodness of God! the great mercy | and marvel of His ways! The world , ; brightened as if with morning sunshine. | i Eairth and heaven seemed radiant with | some noly light. g | “Ask him to come thfs way. Entreat [‘him. 1 must speak to him. Quick, for | Heaven's sake.” 1 | The man obeyed and again walked over | to the carringe, where the coachman, as- | sisted by the soldiers, was busy attempti ing to mend tho wheel. Then, after a | minute, the gentloman, leaning on his | | eruteh and partly supported by the soldier | | in undress, made his way laborieusly to ' the side of the ambulance. | | Hartmann leaned over with trembling, | i outstretched hands, while the other looked | up at him in surprise. | | “Monsieur, do you not know me?” cried the German. "“Al, heaven! do you not remember? I left you for dead. You | gave me that last message—that medal- | lion?” | | “Isiit possible?” roturned the Ohevealier. “The German officer who ——" “Who thought that he was guilty.ef your death, but who now thanks God for restoring you so unexpectedly to life. Ah, monsieur, it is & miracle! Itis God's doing! Tell me—how did it happen? How were you saved?” | “By your countrymen,” answered the l Chevalier, smiling and taking Hartmann's { hand. “A party of Germans vurry'}ugihc | Red Cross found me lying where you left | me, and, discovering s.me faint signs of | life, bore me to their ambulance. Your | surgeons are both skillful and humane; | under their care I at last recovere 1.” i “Thauk God! thank God!” cried Hart- | mann, raising his eyes to he:ven, while the tears streamed down his cheeks and he l sobbed like a little child. I’ That evening Dr. Huet stood by ! Blanche's bedside, watching her as she ' slept under the influence of a narcotic ad- | ministered in the aftermoon. Suddenly she | stirred, moaned faintly and opened her ! eyes. The wild look of delirium had faded j from her face and Dr. Huet saw that she | recognized him. ] Then, in a moment, came memory, i flashed before her like a mirror. All her | brain was clear and he saw that she re- | membered, With a wiid cry sha covered | her face with her hands aud uttered her ! father’s mame. , “Mademoiselle,” said the Doctor gently, “are you listening? I have something to % tell you.” ' She drew her hands from her face and | raised her eyes to his. He placed his hand l softly upon her shoulder and continued in | the same kindly tone: | “Will you tell me about your dreams? | Sometimes. I think, they were about your | father, my old iriend the Chevalier, were | they not? Ah! then you mustnot distress ! vourself. Sometimes, when love is so | great as yours, it works miracles and brings | back the dead.” ! Who was that stirring the shadow of | the door and listening? Blanche could | not see, for her.eyes were hlind with tears. | “Father! father!” she cried. ' “Mademoisclle, do not weep. I have { had news which will give you comfort, Your father lives still, and sends you his loving blessing.” She rose up in bed with a wild ery and seized Huet’s arm. { “lLives!lives!” she cried “No; he is | dead! He killed him! Monsieur, for | pity’s sake, tell ame! What have you } heard?” Who was this stealing into the chamber —atall, oray man, with a face full of | eager love and rapture, and eyes full of i blinding tears? . ‘ Wus she dreaming still, or was it the | spirit of her father? No, not dreaming, | and no spirit. He came close to her; he | bent over hex. [ “Blanche, my dariing, do you not know j me? Itis I—your father.” [ “Father!” she cried; and, opening her % arms to embrace him, fell swooning upon { his breast. : : | “My child, my ehild!” he sobbed. “I | have killed her.” | | “No,old friend,” said the good Doctor, | ' brushing away a tear from his own cheek. i “Jov does not kill so easily; she will re- | cover.” e | f CHAPTER XVL | ! CONCLUSION. | :{ Meantime, while the c¢vents were pro- | ceeding at the chateau, Houzel, the fori ester, had conducted himself more like a | | madman thun o rational being. A rame- | | less raze, tempered with dread, pursied ! him. During the lorg nights he watched | { the windows of the chatean, where he | | knew the wounded officer was lying; then, | | when day cume, he wandered through the | i woods and by the saa, a prey to his own | l stormy thoughts. _ : !l Asthe enemy came nearer, overrunning | the district, Houzel was among the fore- | most in resi-tance —mtil, on the very day | of the Chevalier's return, he was cuught | lurking in the woods near the village, after : ‘, having just fired from the bushes at some | | ofticers of thie enemy. Dragged from his | | hiding-place, struggling like a wild beast, 1&11(1 loudly proclaiming his treacherous | deed, he was given a shoft shrift. He died ‘ fearlessly and defiautly, and as he fell the

eA o e B 4 0 S 0 R B . B S i S last word on his ipe wns the mame of Ris mistress, Two years had passed away, when, on ‘ the first day of the new year, a little party l was gathered together in the Chateau of | Grandpre. At the head of the table sat |the Chovolier de Gavrolles, still partly ;crippled by his wounds, but otherwise | well and strong. Facing him was his | daughter Blanche, a little paler and sadder than of old, but as beautiful as ever. l On his left sat worthy Dr. Huet and tie | little cure, and on his right, with eyes ever | fixed on Blanche in tender respect and l atfection, the German officer of Üblans, in | plain ecivilian dinner costume, like any ordinary gentleman. ' The Chevalier had his glass charged, an“d was in the act of giving a toast, The old year has gone out in peace; | may the new year bring further forgive- | ness and reconsilintion. Feace for France! | Peace for the world!” . [ “Amen to that!” said Hartmann. g “The old landmarks change,” proceedecl ' the Chevalier, smiling. “Who would ever | have prophesied that a savage Teuton . would ever be welcome in the Chateau of | Grandpre? Yet Blanche will have it so, | 1t seems.” | “No, father,” cried Blanche, blushing; | “it was you yourself that wrote to Ger- | many and brought an enemy back.” I "Under medical advice,” interrupted | Huet. “Corblen! I did not want to have - another funeral; and as mademoisclle was | 50 delicate, 1 preseribed the only remedy.” | A merry peal of laughter went round the | table. | “lam a Teuton no longer,” exclaimed - the German. “I find my nationality where i I found my life—in the Chateau of Grande , ’ Here the little cure broke in: | “That’s all very well; but if there should be another war, what then?” l “In any case,” said Hartmann, “I am invalided forever. No more fighting for ‘ me. I shall remain at the fireside with | my darling nurse; and if ever the nations { bezin quarreling again, I shall say——" | "Peaceto France! PYeace to the world!” i clied the Chevalier, : And all drank the toast again together. i [THE END.] i Not as Wicked as Painted, t It has become so much the custom | for those cities jealons of the greatness - and fame of Chicago to publich envious and malicious libels upon her Christian | character that it is a pleasant surprise | to find in a voice from Canada a fair- | minded description of Sunday life in | Chieago. In the courseof an interest- | ing letter published in a widely eireu- | lating Dominion newspaper the corres- ¢ pondent thus disposes of that vener- { able slander, the “wickedness of Chi- | cago:” | “There are over 350 churches in this | eity, from the pulpits of which ring out | 700 warnings each Sabbath to those | who have ears to hear. These churches | have a seating capacity of 250,000. | Tu addition to this three of the theaters pand one large hall and several smaller | ones are utilized on Sl\l)l{’l}' morning | for religious purposes. Supposing that | each of these churches are but hall | filled at each service, that would pos- { sibly be a fair average for this or any | other city, would give an attendance | of 125,000 for each service, two services | each Sunday (the Roman Catholic and { Episcopal c¢hurches have move,) will ' show an attendance of 300,000, Add | to the 8,000 or 10,000 who attend the | several services in the aforesaid thea- | ters and halls will bring the total up | to considerably over 300,000 church | attendants each Sunday in Chicago | out of a population of 800,000, Then | take into consideration the many SunI day-schools, some of them having an | average attendance of 4,000 and 6,000. | So, netwithstanding all that might be : said about the wickedness of Chicago, | she will compare favorably with like ‘ cicies even in Puritan Canada.” i Items of Interest. { Moest people need more encourage- | ment than rebuke. | Ohio and Michigan are better prs- | vided with public school libraries than i any other States. The former has 191 ‘ and the latter 154 volumes for every [ 100 pupils in average attendance. f Little Rock has received 60,000 bakes | of cotton this season. { For every 1,000 inhabitants the | United States runs trains 9,700 miles | annually. { Mankind worship sucecess, but think | too little of the means by which dt ds | attained. | Dignity is expensive, and, without other good gqualities, 1s not particulaily | protitable. | The government pays the Adams | Express Company $175,000 annually | for the transportation of bonds and ! specie to different sections of the United | States. ! A Habit Died Out. | The habit of inhaling snuff was so 1 prevalent fifty years ago, not only with | gentlemen but with many elderly i ladies, that there were few counting | rooms or offices that did not have a { huge box supplied with the favorite maaeaboy snuff and the sweet smelling bean on the desk, counter or bracket specially arranged for it, and eallers ! would inhale a pinch or two, then draw { forth a huge yard square red silk { handkerchief, and there would be a | resounding blast. Fortunately, mno | Ameriean then wore a musfache. Men { did not carry white linen handker- | chiefs, but sometimes used white silk | ones in those days. As bad personal { habits usually inevease, it’s a marvel | that this one died cut some years ago. } He Diin’t Know Her. | Judge—ls this true, priconer? Can | vou really have so forgotten what is | due to your wife as to throw a wine- | glass at her head ? | Prisoner—Does your Honor know my | wife ? i Judge—ll have not that honor. | Prisoner—l thought not. If you did | know her you would ask why I didu’t | throw the bottle at her.—London | PickMe-Up. Carl Pretzel’s Philosophy. { Hooman life drots along mit itself in | pooty gocd erder, vhey efery feller his | pishness miwds. _ | © Der tuvfel keeba a blace vhere brim- | shtone und polzdicks vas der cheef in- | kredients. | | Dervorld vas hafe a short time mem- “ | orv. You got to jog dot ting ockasion- ‘ ally or he vill forgot about you. , Dots besser you dond vas run in _debt | for reshpectabilidy.—Sunday N ationl

o ——————————————— | INDIANA HAPPENINGS. e e l EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. An Interesting Summary of the More Im- | poriant Doings of QOur Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualtios and ‘Gencral News Notose Driven ¥rom ifome. The other night Christian Dalhoover, a farmer living with his wife and three children in Milton Township, Jefferson County, was awakened by the barking of his dog. Looking out of the window, he saw about a dozen horsemen riding toward his house, the leader wearing a mask. They halted before his home and ordered him to come outy Almost frightened to death, he barred all the doors and windows, when, all of a sudden a erash was heard, and a ponderous bowlder came through the roof of the frail structure, landing alongside of the bed, wherein slumbered his three small children. Hastily awakening them, he carried two and his wife one in her arms, and they made their escape through a side door. As they fled they could hear | the crash of timbers and the rattle of dishes, for the midnight maraunders had | torn off the reof and weather-boarding, and, gaining an entrance, had entirely demolished the stove, furniture and ornaments. When the old man returned in the morning he found his home a heap of ruins. | Fatally Burned, Together with Her House. | The residence of George Wurfel, | keeper of the toll-gate on the Hamburg i Turnpike, about three miles from Jefi fersonville, was destroyed by fire, and it is believed that his wife, who was | rescued from the burning building, is | fatally burned. Mr. Wurfel was not at | home, and James Apvlegate, aneighbor, 'and seme farm hands were the first to | discover the fire. They rushed into the ' burning building and found Mrs. Wur- | fel lving on the tloor very nearly uncon- | scious. She was carried from the | building. and was only able to utter one Cword “oil,” which leads to the supposi- | tion that she was attempting to light a ' coal-oil stove when the thing exploped ! and set fire to tne building. Her hair and clothes were all burned off, and her | body in many places was burned to a erisp. Mrs. Wurfel is about sixty years I of age. 1 Mhu);A;T:;-;:_l_nnn!. | —Richmond is building an electric railway. | —Typhoid fever is epidemic in Mon- ! roe County. —Work has been begun on Muncie's | street railway. ~—(+old has been discovered in Oregon Township, Clarke County. | A barn belonging to David Mickley, in Whitley County, was struck by lightning and burned. ~—(lark County paid out, during the past year, on account of sheep, killed by worthless dogs, $1,422,50, { —The labor organizations and citizens of New Albany have appointed com- | mittees to solicit aid forthe Clay County | strikers. —(Cal Shields, a farmer, living one mile north ot Montpelier, while cutting wheat with a reaper, had a valuable horse killed. | —Near Fort Wayne., Henry Beight i farmer, was thrown in front of the | knives of a moving reaper and mangled w 0 badly that he died. —The Diamond Plate-glass Company of Kokomo, has opened a monster gas | well near that city. . Experts say the wel ' | is the largest in the State. | —Mrs. John Shelton, a young wife o | Seymour, has given birth to an unusu- | ally large and hearty boy with six well: | formed fingers on each hand. | “Milk sickness” has broken out in Du- ' bois County, and prevails to such ar extent that two or three loealities have almost entirely tabooed the use of milk. - | —Mrs. Chnistopher Hillard claims tc ' | be considerably annoyved at nights by | the ghost of her departed husbanc | prowling abont the premises at Craw- | fordsville. + —Lafayette is in the throes of a faith. | cure sensation. Miss Mamie Smile] | and several others claim to have beel i | cured by a Wayne County Christiax | scientist named R. H. Ramsay. { —Asa Howard, a laborer, died fron | injuries received by the breaking dow: | of apike bridge, near Liberty, which he - | wvas crossing with a load of lumber. He ; leaves a wife and two children in needy | eircumstances. | —Kirt Baldwin, of Red Key, was | struck by the Pennsylvania limited ex- | press just outside of the city limits of | Fort Wayne and instantly killed. He was | attempting to board a north-bound trair when he was struck down. | ——The largest fish ever caught in In- | diana waters was captured in White | River, just south of Columbus. The monster was a shovel-head cat and weighed 104 pounds. It was landed by [ Axty Monroe and Nick Herod with a trot lime. It brought sll in the mar- | ket. | —The entries to the races to be given at Fort Wagne Aug. 28, 29 and 30, will inelude sueh great horses as Emma, 9:16%: Dr. West, 2:17;: Dr. M., 2516 k Almont, 2:19; Wayne Wilkes, 2:18%; White | Stockings, 2:164 and many others equally as fast. This will insure extremely fast time. It is expected that the visitors will number away into the thousands. —A very peculiar horse distemper has | made its appearanee in an extensive | stock and trading stable at LaPorte. The | disease is said to have been brought to that place from Chicago, and when a | horse is attacked by it, his head some- | times swells to twice its normal size, | and pus cavities form so they have to be | opened. Sometimes these cavities form ! in other varts of the body, and they ap- , ! pear to have no regular action. It dis- ' f fers materially from any horse disease i that has appeared in this locality heretofore.

st si e L & L ~—ln the competitive examination of candidates for the vacant West Point cadetship, held at Lawrenceburg, Robt. T. McElroy, of Madison, won the honors. There were three contestants— | R. T. McElroy, of Madison; F. L. Wells, of Chelsea, Jefferson County, and L. L. Fleming, of Lawrenceburg. —Berry Thompson, aged 25 years, while fishing in White River, just above Martinsville, with James Walker, and Al Reed, attemipted to wade across the stream and was drowned. The current was quite swift and he was steadily | borne down stream into deep water. His body has not vet been recovered. ‘ —dJoe Small,an employe at Herrl’s saw- | mill, gix miles south of Rockport, was caught by a falling tree and crushed to | the earth. He was with difficulty extri- { eated and taken to a neighboring farm--1 i house‘, \}'hero medieal aid was secured, :hut his injuries will be fatal. He was I | twenty-two vears old and unmarried. ! —The American Starch Manuwfactur- | 'l ing Company of Columbus has received 1 “a tempting offer from Kokomo to re{move their starch works to that city. A | donation of $40,000 will be given the | i company. together with free gas. Un- | less the present effort made by Colum- .| bus to have gas piped from Greenfield 'l | proves successful, the manufactory will accept the offer. ’ —A 2-year-old son of Robert and Mus. | Etherington, residing mnear Kokomo, l ; was burned to death. The mother, after & lighting a fire in the kitchen stove, i went out in the garden, and during her | absence the little one went to the stove, ; 1 when its clothing ignited, After suffer- ; ing great agony for ten hours, death ' | came to its relief. It was their only l l child, a great pet in the neighborhood, : | and the idol of its parents. .| —A Mormon missionary is engaged in El:nttmnpting to secure converts to the polygamy faith in the rural districts of ; | Lawrence County. A citizen of that ¢ ‘ county states that the man was meeting | with considerable success by preaching | among the more ignorant of the coun- : ] try people. The more intelligent : | classes, however, threaten dire punish- " | ment to the Mormon unless he leaves at ;! once. They even threaten to give him | & dose of “White Cap” medicine. | —The boiler of a small stave factory i owned by Dowden & Carmichael and il gsituated west of DBloomington, ex- § | ploded, wounding six or seven men and ' ! killing one. Henry Fowler, one of the [lmuds, lived but fifteen minutes, and g 3 James Strean, the foreman, was taken | home suffering with a severe injury to | his back, where he was struck with a " | piece of flying boiler. The statement ¢i is unanimous by the hands that the " | boiler had two full ganges of water at g : the time of the explosion. i —A tramp went into the house of ~; William Simons, a prominent farmer " | living near Moutpelier, and had all the " drawers in the house torn open. When o | Mr. Simons’ girl, 12 years old, came in 1 | from bringing the cows from pasture, | he caught her and tied her to a chaix .l and threatened her with a large knife " he hadin his hand, if she did not tell ;_ him where her father kept his money. " She told him that all the money there o | WaS her father had with him. M. , | Simons, upon coming to the house, : found his girl tied. He gave the alarm, | but the tramp got away. .| —These patents were issued, to Ine | diana inventors: William L. Coffin, 1 | Bloomingsport, potato planter and seed | drill; Theodore W. Eversole, Garret, 2 { soldering-iron; John H. Ferguson, s Kokomo, running gear for vehicles; 1| Humphrey G. Griffith, Indianapolis, ! lantern; Alfred R. Heath, Covington, ¢ | car coupling; Mathew R. Moore, Indi- & % anapolis, sand-molding-machine; John - { P. Nichols, Marion, exercising-machine; Lucian R. Oakes, Valparaiso, lamp . | burner; Charles A. Olcott, North Vern f non, lawn-mower; Samuel Smoker, o | Goshen, broadcast seed-sower. .| —William Johnson, better known as o ‘ “Sweety,” aged 23, and employed at V| Fisher & Richert’'s carriage factory, 1 | Madison, has been paying his attentions - | to Miss Sadie Athey, dauchter of Harri- | son Athey, a respectable ship carpenter. . | The other evening the couple attended y | & wedding, he groomsman and she as n | bridesmaid. Returning from the wedn | ding they lingered at the gate. Here he { asked her to become his wife. This she a | refused to do. when he drew a large ren i volver and fired at her, the ball doing e mo damage except chipping off a piece e | of her ear, but she fell over with a v | seream. He then placed the revolver to " | his head and sent a bullet through his . | brain, falling dead at the side of Miss . i Athey. f | —The thresher engine of George s Heath exploded with terrific force at n | the home of Jerome Galliher, near the | eity limits of Muncie. When ninety - ‘pouml«; of the required 120 had been o | raised in the old engine preparatory to e | starting in to thresh a field of wheat, 1 { suddenly the old rusty bolts in the head y E of the engine gave way, and the explo- ) | sion that followed could be heard miles. -| It lifted the engine from the ground and carried it forty feet away, where it L | fell in @ heap. Lon Furr, an employee, 1 ! was badly burned aud severely hurt ; | otherwise by a large piece of flyingiron L hitting him in the breast. Two boys .| were blown off a fence near by, while ,; the machine, which had not vet been -; started. was stripped of its belts and | every loose article. A beard fence, 150 , : feet away, at the other end of the en- | gine, was blown down. ! _—_James Ferrell, foreman on the , | Evansville Suburban and Newburg Rail- ' road, was fatally injured at Newburg, | while working under an embank- | ment. A huge pile of earth caved in, , burying him beneath it and breaking his | back. [ —-At the soldiers’ reunion, to be held at the fair grounds, near New Allany, ’connueucinf_,r Sept. 18, and continuing | three days, SSOO will be given as prizes 'to the best-drilled companies of State militia, the first prize being S3OO, the second $l5O and the third SSO.

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THE SUNDAY Bomoor. i i ity (SSERTAYION oON. ' US SUBJECTS, ‘ T ——— A Pleasant, Interesting, ang Instructive. Lesson and Where It May Be Found—A ::::::ed and Concise Review of theThoe lesson for § 5 be found in 1 Sam. 15?"3)??23 August 18, may- . }NTROI.\UCTORY The connecticn ¢ ; Israel's conqm-stsbltxtxlnlgetor‘"' hrief survey of we have saiu, because wli‘ b'a.ukl. Conquests,. victory perched 11[;011 hele\e,l‘ls’,"wl went conquest proper belonged. tkd[l)‘-tll\circig'h lB 2 o s ; ' avid’'s day; 3‘\0(:(:111‘1\ :“\})l;;:,.}f; :{:ﬁ:}:"&l’ﬁ mainly defenTt was tho kin “m)-. Lo lan subjugatory. | at a later lim%s set lu:':,)s(ﬁlgff'.‘ *l“‘m‘t who dom and establshed jts s’lo"tj“"’ KingSaul was & mighty warrin. foroority. But % it . EOLYy warrior in his dav, and lad e followed up hig advantaces he ' would have been a great king H—ﬁ;a.ﬂrql{; vietory was over the . pa - to his full coronation ({17';?::31'“{;;' J',Nt Hoos ond triumph was over the Philistines. (1 Sam, 13 and 14), where Jona‘han (\nlx;g:x t(l Hm front. 'J‘}!le Lh‘ird Was over the Jluam"reg 10 fourth, the Kdomites: ¢ = Q 1771 2 | A €By ‘uld lhﬁ ﬁith. the' '»l‘!/) tans—atl mentioned in 1 Sam. 14: 47 e ._,‘::i‘,lh L paign, with the Amalekites, Goioch 00 to-day’'s lesson, occurred u,-lthLnJ !l'tt_:!“ln.h vear of Saul's reiom + Wo other Philistine wars mark the dselin.. Ing years of Saul, in the latter of wh jﬁ ‘}‘ll" perished. Saul was a man iy v lt‘ o short of his gruatest possibilitios. e smote thrice : nd stayed,” 5 5 WHAT THE LES . Behold, he set im u;?llj;[flx:c:cnlf t £ trivmph for King Saul. A inon ; onet;y himself! That was a teli-tale shmltlmelli r e veals to us the fatal weakness of s;mf?;' character—he setselt above God., Carmel | came before Gilgal, stones before sacrifice. That was the trouble in the initial defaubl?‘ a few years before, there at Giig(u] Tired of waiting for Namuel, God's .pl‘ophet anxious to be through with the formal ceremony of the burnt offer ng, ambitious to (l,ion.(?rdhtnu:l?lf, o essayed that which bed% heHe Ol)( ]%lme%eﬂgcr of God alone to s > boldly put tforth his hand, and. himself offered the burnt-cffering, It was essentially an exaltation of gels, Saul thought more highly of himself than he thought of God. 8o h h v ere he has wholly mistaken the character and obj t war, and his place in i Y A | I'2)l' S place i it, It was not merely Saul’s uplifting. Itwas to be a religious. | war, a war of extermination for Israel’s ! l.u\'t‘lng good. Saul, thinking of self again, | Sees in it a mere opportunity for present | plunder and for personal glory. Hence his | conduct. lln the providence of war compromise is often. selfishness; it may be l treachery. Abatement of the issue, how it l pressed upon us in revolutionary days, and | again in the more recent war of the sixties, ilﬁitv:rﬁ‘b: ﬁnit;ﬁzed that thcrelwere those rho saw I purpose. 3 that he did not. o bt 1 have performed the commandment of the Lord. Moral aburrat_xon. It is one of the | strangest, saddest things in the world—how wilfulness warps the judgment and twists the facuity of discernment. See, said Saul,. 1 "I have pgriormed the commandment of | the Lord.” And when the man of God looked, what did he behold? The flagrant | tokens of real disobedience.” Saul has-per- | formed his own will. not God’s. Oh, these ' | consciences of ours, how we can pervers | them! “I have pgrtormed the commande \ | ment of the Lord,” some one i 3 saying at | the baptismal font; and when we look, alas.. | what a travesty of the ordinance command-- | ed! “Ihave performed the commandment .| of the Lord,” some one is saying as he leaves the sacred desk, and 10, it is a piti- | fal, if not blasphemous, man-made right--cousness he has been preaching, and right in the face of the orvacle: of God. “I have | performed the commandment of the Lord.” | some one is saying at the Lord’s treasury, | but alas, how meager is his “ali for Jesus!™ | God sees it all. Words will not change its character, “Blessed be theu of the Lord”— ' | cant. “Not every one that saith unto me, ! ‘ Lord, Lord, shall enter into tha kingdom of , | heaven: but he that doeth the well ol my | Father which is in heaven.” The people spared the best lo sacrifice unto .| the Lord. Saul was not the last man who , | robbed in the name of religion, or gave | pions names to such odious things as self- - | ishness, and avarice, and cupidity. Jesus. 3 ‘ met afterward with a people who, in their | wicked covetousness, said to father or ' | mother, regarding something they would ' fain enjoy themselves, “Tt is corban,” i. e.,. | dedicatod to God. and so were “free.” Thus, | said Christ, ye make “the word of God of » | none effect.” Tney played with the word: 1| of God, that was all. Alas, how the lusts. | of pride and power and possession were : [ humored through the centuries of Rome's , | domination, and the church, so-called, be- .| came in the name of religion a self-seeker '| and a robbec! Sacrifice, indeed! And s | there is a lesson for ourselves as individ- , | uals. Jesus says, “If thy right hand offend | thee cut it off and cast it from thee.” And ! we understand it is that we let no cherished 1 a tainment or valued possession hinder our . eternal well-being. Yet, in spite .of this. ) plain mandate, behold .us, burdening nn’dx ) embarrassing our poor souls with earth’s - | rubbish or worse. We have “spared the | best,” we think, but even that which is “the ’ | best” becomes the wors* for us if it be kept | for self rather than for God, To lay hands 5 on that which is devoted is not to win heav-. t en’sfavor, but to c(;‘urt heaven's, wrath. “Ye are nol your own. . ; : ’ T e restwe have utterly: destroyed. . But c “the rest” will not atone There is no such _ thing as partitive obedience. It is whole or nought. Neither is there any such thing - as a balancing of good against ill. No.. 1 amount of strengthin yvesterday’s loyalty _ will make up for to-day's weak:ireason :md_ 3 disloyaity. The sehoolboy mayy know how - to subtract and divide very well, but if l)? - . know not how to add and multiply as well his “answer’ will be all wrong. It is no ° palliation before the court that the em- . bezzler was a fair and honest acgountant ~ twenty years of his iife, no more than that, > for the most part, he was a “royal E’-OOd; ® fellow.” and knew how to r “irn a favor: 1\ “My son, give me thy heart,”: .ys the Voice . within. “Utterly destroy the reign of S?‘lf,ls > what it means. Have you done it?” “Ne. 5 But I have no great vices. Itellno les, I . have stopped my club expenses. I have even dropped my cigars.” The rest wé¢ have utterly destroyed. Friend, never mina . . the rest, for the present. Come to the x‘m}{n ! X reql}lironmnt. Have you “obeyed .o VOlow! of the Lord?” f 2 Go and utterly destroy. Here is the end . of the whole matter. God wants uncomms promiging loyalty, uncr;ndxt}onal submis~ ! gion, tull and compiete devotion. He wants ) it not simply for his honor and glory but for our comfort and blessing. Would you ' offer sacrifice? “Behold, to obey is hetter | than sacrifice.” It is sacrifice, for it is that in which the Lord delights. Would you render service? “When thou wast little in ' thine own sight wert thou not made the | nead of the trilbes of Israel?” Self-emptyling ~ abatement hefore God is the way to leaderS}iip. ])(‘.‘itl'oy pride, root and branch. “He that is greatest among you shall be your servant.” O, ye men of 'ho]y gtmbmon in the kingdom of Christ, believe lt."rebe}lion here is “as the sin of witcheraft.” It is & virtually going over to the enemys it 1s des rtion of God. “Because thou hastneglected the word of the Lord, he hath :L]so rejected thee—think of it—from being king.” Sau!rejected the wo)rd of trhc T.ord and lost—a crown. Do we do lesst Next Lesson—*The Anointing of David.” 1 Sam. 16: 1-15. - A roxp father at Dayton, Ohio, wanted to sicken his boy of cigarettes, »ad he got a powder at the drug store to sprinkle among the tobacco. It t(')ok two doctors three days to save r‘h_e boy's life, and he wou't be well this summer. It was a sort of all-hands. gickness. sl THERE mayv be’ as its adherents: olaim, something in the faith cure. But, we would ask, has it ever been successfully tried on an infant suffer- : ing with a severe attack of calic?