St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 15, Number 17, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 October 1889 — Page 1

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ARomanceofthe Civil War. BY MAJ. JAMES F. FITTS. R :;’_l‘P_:\l\

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three heavy columns at three separate oints, and repeated again and again ?hrough the day. At dark the same story had to be told everywhere. Impreguable - works with a ditch before, approached only by narrow ways; a withering fire and cross-fire from behind them, in the face of which no troops could stand or ad- ~ vance; the attacking parties shot down by . hundreds, mainly unable to cross the ditehor climb the parapet. The besieged fou%ht under cover, and met with but slig t loss. In the bloodshed and mutilation of that dreadful day it was proven that the defenders of Vicksburg would fight desperately for their works, and that the latter could not be taken by assault. Weary weeks of the pick and spade followed. This narrative does not aim to give a circumstantial account of these operations; yet because some of those of whom we write were there, and saw and partieipated in these things, it is right to refer - to them. Victor Hugo, in writing of Waterloo, gives us conspicuous instances of personal valor. They were matched in the heroism of the American volunteers in the actions along the Mississippi. Men yet live who can tell you how at Vicksfmrg a Sergeant with & handful of men Fenetrated an outwork and held it awhile, though commanded by a higher | one, till all but the Sergeant were slain on the spot. They will tell you of flags being planted on the parapet. and idly waving there all day; for when those who assaulted were beaten off they covered the place from the approaches with their rifles and shot down all who tried to seize - the flags from within. Hurled back from ~ the face of the works, the assailants | ~ ecrouched behind anything that wowuld | . offer cover, and fired at the top of the | garapet. In the ditch and near it they ~ hung to this grim warfare till nightfall, when they were withdrawn. Thousands - were sacrificed in the useless attempts. ? Our Mountain Battalion, worn te about . the proportions of a company by the serv- ~ ice it had seen dwuring that month, was in . the assault. The remnant fell back from - the slanghter, and during the following - hours the survivors gathered themselves - together. Not more than one-half report- ~ ed. With othervictims, the missing were . lying in the ditch or before it, dead or - hurt beyond the power of motion, ~ Captain Hankins found himself:in com- . mand. “Where i§ the Colonel?” he asked. ‘ Nobody remembered to have seen him . after the first fierce rush into the fire from . the works. Cne man, who carried a plank . to bridge the ditch, was certain that when . he fell Colonel Smedley caught up the | plank, laid it across, dashed over it, and - shouted to the men to follow. I “Yes, that was so,” another said. “I . was close behind him when a ball caught me in the leg, and I had to come away.” “I'm afraid he’s gone,” groaned Han- . kins, The men anxiously compared notes. . Several had seen him on the other side of . the ditch, trying to mount the work; but . the incessant flashes of fire and putls of | t smoke from imside it filled the air with . confusion, and they lost sight of him. No . man had seen him fall; but it was certain . shat he had not returned, or he would be ~ among them then. I There was a flag of truce next day to . bary the dead, and several of the mountaineers were of the party. Among the ' hundreds of slain they searched every-. ¢ where for the bodv of Colonel Smedley, t but did not find it. They came back with heavy hearts. Many of the bodies . were in such a condition, from exposure to the sun, that identification was imposi sible. They did not doubt that his was among them. aptdin Hankins reported him as dead. It appeared in the lists 1 gublished in the Northwestern papers. ¢ Major Brandon, convalescing at Cincin- . nati on detached service, saw the report and read it to his wife—for Alice Clay '~ bore her old name no longer. They had been married the previous winter, resolved to secure gven the transient happiness that | the situation offered. “Dead?” repeated Alice; “I never saw i him, but you have always praised him so, and poor Mrs. Baird, too, that he has seemed near to me. O, when will this dreadful work end?” : “This is heavy news for me,” said the f Major. “Itis like the loss of a brother. But it will be sadder for you than ycu -~ think.” . “0, Graham!” . She swiftly comprehernded his meaning; the arms of tho young wife were about his neck; she was sobbing on his shoulder. “Must you go?” “Yes; there is ng field officer with i them now; I owe them a duty that I must i not shirk.” “You are not able to travel.” f “The doctor told me this morning that i I was in condition to be discharged from i here any time. I have been lingering for Your sake, knowing that I was fit for active duty.” * “What shall 1 do? You know everything is disturbed again about Knoxville; i perhaps I might not be able toreach there b at all. Where shall 1 go?” “Come with me to the front!” Brandon replied; “or, at least, as near there as you can get. There will be some place not f far from our lines where I can leave you b in safety. I don’t wantto leave you yet, | if you'll believe it.” 1 He certainly merited the embrace that L he received. All this occurred some days after the 22d of May. On the night of that day a Confederate on gnard behind the works discovered a body lying up the steep inl clined face of the part where he watched, £ 50 near to the top that one hand had - been thrown up and rested there. “That Yank got pretty far before he . was stopped.” - ; CHAFPTER XV. DIVIDED. - * For many days following the existence ‘of Charles Smedley was as & tiroubled dream. He raged in a delirium of fever causod by bis wound. He was in the East

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e e e S Tennessep mountaing; he was in imminent peril of his life; he begged his captors mot to put him to a disgraceful dentfi, {ro}es}mg that he had ever been a stanch | 'nionist. He was leading the moum~ ta.luee'rs.a%ainst the ¢nemy; he fought over again both days at Shiloh; again he toiled toward Vicksburg, through battls! and slaughter; and, last of ail, he led his f men up to the deadly assault, Such were ‘ the subjects of his ravings, and they continued to disturb his brain until he was wearied into sleep. So it was for many days. When at last he awoke to life and conscieusness, feeble, but realizing that he should recover, he found himself in a comfortable bed in a well-furnished apartment. At negro woman waited in the | room, and & man in the Confederate uniform sat by his bedside. “Well, Colonel ——, you're on the mend, | Ishould say,” suid the officer, in a hearty | volce, ! “I really don’t know what to say,” re- | plied Smedley, feebly. “I believe I know | myselt now, but I can't tell anything that | has happened since—since—-" . "Say since you tried to visit Vicksburg In rather a rude way, on May 22d, and got some good Confederate lead into you for your pains,” said tle good-m\tured’ l officer, "Ah—l remember. The 22d of May— Yes, I shall not forget that day very soon. What date is it now?” 2 “June the sth,” l “Two weeks passed! Tls it possible? How is the siege getting on? Have our l lines ml\nncog any? Is there talk of a swrrender? What does General Pemberton—" In his excitement Smedley tried to sit up in bed. The other put a strong hand on his breast and held him down. “Lie still, sir, if you please. You must know that you are a prisoner, and at present under my orders. You are not to excite yourself, because that would be bad for you in your present eondition. For thit reason I shall not answer the impertiment questions you have just asked; and also, for the reason that it would not be prudent to give such information to a prisoner.” Swmedley looked at the oficer. He was too, weak to ask more questions, after his sudden exertion. The other perfectIy understood him. “Lie still and don’t talk, and I will tell you all you ought to know. U am Dr, Sirgleton, at your service—the Confed.erate surgeon who dug the bullet out of your back that went pretty near through vou, and came pretty near finishing you. I believe you are gomng to get well—that is, as well as a man can ever be, with _such a wound—but you'll fight no more «battles. You've got nothing to do but to lie here, take the good nursing that vou are having, and get as strong as you can as soon as you c¢an. I'll come to sec you once in a while. Geod-by, for the prosent.” He rose to go. An imploring look in his patient’s eyes detained him. “Well?" ; “Where am I? What place is this? Tt doesn't seem like a hospital, I-—" ‘ “Stop!—you shall not talk. This is not a hospital. What it is, Tam forbidden to ! tell you.” % He walked hastily out. to escape more questioning. Smedley closed his eves and 1 fretted himself over this mystery till the black woman brought a small stand to his bedside #nd told him that he was to have | some broth, , 1 “Aunty,” asked the patient, “where am | t))l i “Wha is you, honey? In yo' bed, to Le suah,” “Now, do tell me,” he coaxed. “Whose house is this?” “Yo' isn’t to know,” was the emphatic reply; and the nurse proceeded to admin- | ister the.nourishment. For almost threc weeks he lay there, visited each few days by the doctor, carefulIy nursed and watehed with, and gradually growing stronger. He had dreams and visions that he thought must be remnants of his delirium; once he thought a sad and beautiful face was bending over him, and the vision was so real that he could with difficulty dismiss it from his mind, “Aunty,” he asked, “was there a lady here just now, while I was asleep?” ] “A lady? Only yo' ole aunty. What's got in yo’ head, honey?” New efforts to ascertain what house he way- in, or how hostilities progressed, were as vain as before. When he was able to sit up and walk abtout the room, a suit of ecitizen’s clothes was laid out for him, the negro woman informing him that his own clothes had been spoiled by his blood and the doctor's shoars. “But who furnishes these for me?” he asked. “Yo’ find out. I nebber tell.” The days passed. Six weeks had gone gince he received his wound, and no explanation had yet been given him. He telt able to walk a distance; he grew restless and fretful. IFinally he said to his nurse: “Aunty, I can’t stay here any longer. I must ge out and learn the news, even if I get put in confinement for il.” “Jes’ wait till to-morrow, Boney. Yo's to go then.” “Go—where?” “I can’t tell yo’. Wait jes’ one day.” He had been treated here so kindly, spite of the mystery that attended the treatment, that he felt like complying. He rose in the morning eager to go abroad. The nurse restrained his impatience, insisted on a careful toilet and a good breakfast, and was provokingly slow 1n her movements. Itwas hard for Smedley to recognize himself in the glass. His attendant had cut his hair during his convalescence, but his face was grown with a thick beard, which contrasted strangely with his sunken cheeks and hollow eyes. The nurse led hiw into a handsome parlor and left him, bidding him wait a moment. From the sofa where he sat he could look over a range of roofs lower down the hill and see where chimneys had been prostrated and roofs* plowed with shot from the bombardment of the fleet. He withdrew his eyes into the room. A cry of surprise came from his lips; he could not repress it. Isabel Montford stood before him. Ave, it was herself! Simply dressed in black, without an ornament to relieve its severity, her regal face calm and serene, thougl bearing marks of deep suffering, she loolcd upon him without a smile, almost will out expression. l Was it a vision? Was he still disturbed by hisold delirium? TlLe windows were open to the breeze from the river I that relieved the heat; he looked out ‘ again, and assured himself that this was | really Vicksburg, and not the creation of i a distempered fancy. He turned his eyes | to that glorious presence; it was still | | there; the creature of his hopes, his l k prayers, was near him. He essayed to rise, but ghe motioned him to remain | sented. “T know vou are not very strong yet,” che said, in the fam liar voice that thrilled him tlrough. “You know me, do | you not?” | < “Know you?—Miss Montford—lsabel-— | you are my presexver. 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T was the 22d of May, 1863 No bloodier day occurred along the Mississippi. A determined effort was then made to carry the outworks by assanlt, the success of which would mean the surrenderof Vicksburg. The attack was delivered by

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1889.

R, Rhe checked his raptures with a slmyple gesture. It is true that I found you at the hos- | gxtal, sorely wounded, and hked you rought here, where you could receive i better care. You have escaped death; I 'nm glad. This has been a house of mourning aver since you last entered it. ' The dreadful ,war has dealt hardly with ’mo. My mother is dead, both brothers fell in battle, my father lies now. at the Eoint of death, from the horrors and ardships of the siege. You have suffered, too. I would it had been in a better cause, but I will not judge you. My own sorrows and the agonies I have daily seen have humbled my pride. There was none other to do for you, an enemy, what 1 did; thervefore I have done ify” “Suy not an enemy,” he cried. “We must not, cannot be enemies.” A burst of music from the hill above came faintly down to them; his pulée | quickened as he recogmized the tuns, “Rally Round the Plag.” “Do you know what that means? Vicksburg, worn out with starvation, has capitulated; your people are marching in, Go and join them, We shall never meet agpin.” He rose and stretched out his hands to her. His heart was too full for speech. | “You do not mean it,” he whispered. “It is as 1 say. What bond, even of l friendship, is possible between us? There | was & time when I would have given you i everything; when my hemt Wwent out | fondly to you, and yearned for your com- | panionship and protection through this i struggle, through life itself. I called to you; others songht me, but my soul de- i manded you. That call you slighted; you | fled from me and joined the enemies of | my country.” [ “I joined the firiends of my country-— the defenders of the old Union and the old flag,” said Smedley, proudly. “Never shall I apologize for that, to man or -woman, You knew my opinions; you must have understood that I dared not expoze them to be overcome by your fascinations. What safety was there for me? It was you who compelled me to go, and I have taken the only part that was possible for me.” His voice was feeble, but firm. His words aroused her; ho saw her struggling to repress her feelings. He went on. “Yet we are not enemies. Not a day, not an hour of my absence but I have thought of youn or dreamed of you. 1 have prayed for this hour, when I could tell you all-—--" “Tell it not!” she cried. * There is a gulf between us that never may be passed, We are separated wider than if the poles divided ns. A monient ago I said 1 would not jullge you; now you compel me to, Think what yvou bhave done! You, Mis-sissippi-born, with pr.de of lineage and high achievements behind yvou, to consort with the foes of the South, to overrun her fair territory, to occupy her cities, to bring armed havoo and destruction upon her! At the very threshhold of your former-home you are struck down, sword in hand. Out of the recollection of happier days, 1 have given you hife, but I can | give you naught else. There is blood l between us; the blood of my kindred. Farewell, then, go in peace; look aronnd oa the misery you have helped to make, bat never again come to Isabe!l Montford with words of love. 1 follow the fertunes of my cause; I will survive or perish with it. Again, farewell; you will see me no more. The cruel words sent a chill to his heart, He started toward her with clasped haunds. “Oh, Isabel——-do not say it! If you but knew—--" “1 know all you would say. 1 have decided.” I “And is this all?" : *&]]," ' Without another word, without a touch of the bhand, she left him. What fol. | lowed seemed as part of a vision. He | thought the old nevress brought him a | siick to lean upon, and mumbled some- ! thing about “Missy awful rebel, now I I tells yo.” He found himse!f upon the street, moving slowly in a dazed way. i There were few people abroad; the eity | rested in the hot sunshine in & kind of I sullen silence. Over several roofs he saw the stars and stripes flying; and ‘ now, to the music of “The Year of Jubi- l lee,” a column in blue marched with | springing step past him. Familiar vivas | greeted him from the rawks, hands were waved 'to him, and soon, as the column ' went on, his mountain soldiers hailed l him with cries of rejoicing. No, it was not a dream. Vicksburg had fallen, l Port Hudson would follow, the river was | freed — the Confederacy severed: but Charles Smedley scarcely realized the triumph in the bitterness of his own defeat. [TO BE CONTINUED.] For the Superstitious. Are you superstitions? If you are, ’ vou may find something amoung the fol- | lowing to fit your peculiar state of | mind : i If bees swarm on a rotten tree n' death in the family will oceur within a | twelvemonth.. It is unlucky for a stray swarm of bees to alight on one’s premises. When cats wash their ears more than - usual rain is at hand. The sneezing | of a cat indicates good luck to a bride. Cattle give warning of an earthquake by their uneasiness. A cinder bounding from a fire is either a purse or a coftin, If a milkmaid neglects to wash her hands after milking her cows will go dry. } Crickets bring good luck to a house. | It is unlucky to kill them, ; If a crow croaks an odd number of times, it means foul weather; if an | even one, fine, ’ The eclicking or tapping of the beetle, called the death watch, is an | omen of death. ‘ 1t forebones evil to the child if any one rvocks its cradle when empty. | Dogs give warning of death by seratching at the door of a house. i If a rat or mouse, during the night, | gnaw on cloths, it is indicative of some impending evil, 1 Pigs running about with straws in their mouths foretell rain. | If you count the number of fish you | have caught you will catch no more | that day. ] It is unlucky if a hare runs across | the road in front of you. ; To eat the food that a mouse has ! nibbled will give a sore throat. ; A fried mouse is a specitic for small- | POX. ‘ To meet & sow with a litter of pigs is very lucky. A spider worn in a nutshell aroand the neck is a cure for fever. ' If a swallow builds on a house it l brings good Inck., To kill a swallow is | unlucky. When swallows fly high it l will be fine weather, aud vice versa ?

T — -+ . ~ INDIANA fIAPPENINGS, EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCULRED, An Interesting Sumn...ry of the More Important Deings ol Our Neighbors - Weddings and Deaths—Crime, gusuulties and General News Notes. Sl Enoch Avden Over Again Light years ago, Henry Brubaker, a well-te-do farmer, of Perry Township, Allen County, suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. He left behind a wife and six children, and all efforts to trace the missing man were futile until, at last, it was the accepted theory that | Brubaker was dead. The case created a | good deal of talk at the time of its oc- ' currence and was regarded as one of the mysteries of the northern part of Allen County. Mrs. Brubakerstruggled along and reaved her children snugly on their eighty-acre farm near Huntertown, and after waiting for four years for her mis- i i sing husband, she married Conrad SnyI der, an honest farmer, who faithfully " helped her bring up her large family. - Liast week the truant husband, ghost- ! like, walked into the farm-house, when : the family were seated at the dinner i table. There was a sad scene when wife i and husband, amid tears of joy and sor- - row, fell into each other's arms. Ex- - planation followed and the wanderer told his story. Actuated by some inexl plicable but irresistible power, he had left home and family and drifted to the Pacifie coast. After years of hard toil fortune smiled upon him, until now he | ' can draw his check for a cool RIOO,OOO, He then thought of home once more, and concluded to atone for his past con- | duet by dividing with his family the fortune he had acquired. But when his wife told her story- four years of wait-" ing and sorrow, and, finally, a happy, contented lire by the side of her second husband. Brubaker found, too late, that gold canunot disturb her home which he had left so frivolously. He went to Fort Wayne the same nigit, and, after visiting a few old acquaintances, re- ' turned to California. r Southern Indinna Press Association, ' The Southern Indiana Press Associntion, composed of the editors and ! publishers of Southern lndiana, met at [ Seymour, and organized by the election of the following-named officers: President, Chas. (. Setrit, of the Washington | Gazette; Vice Presidents, R. A. Brown. -of the Franklin I ttublican, and James P. Applegate, of tne New Albany Ledger; Secretary, Findley 8. Collins, of the Seymour Democrat; Corresponding Seceretary, F. B, Hitcheock, of the Bedford - Mail; Treasurer, Isane T. Brown, of the : Columbus Republican., The association ‘ is non-partisan in charvacter. The next regular meeting will be hold at Washington, Ind., the second week of next L May. E RBesidtence Saved by a Woman's Impulse, . While at dinner ex-Attorney General Daniel P. Baldwin and wife, of Logansport, were discussing the Studebaker fire at South Bend, Like most women %\\lm take an interest in home affairs, ' Mrs. Baldwin was much concerned about the fire, and fearful lest such a disaster might befall her own home. She told My. Baldwin that she would go up stairs and ascertain if all was secure in the upper chambers. Upon reaching the second floor she wuas appalled to find the house filled with smoke. The fire had originated from the gas pipes, but was inguished after considerable effort. Mr. Baldwin had his right hand quite severely burned. "“"His Throat Cut by the Fall of a Tree. John MeKain lived on a farm eighteen miles southwest of Greensburg, near Sardinia. The other day he was assisting his son and neighbor in felling a ' large tree in the woods. The top striking another tree, the trunk slipped backward from the stump and struck a large limb lying on the ground. '.l"his% limb strueck Mr. M¢Kain under the chin cutting his throat, and causing death in l less than an houy afterward. Mr. MeKain was 73 vears old, an excellent citi- I zen and a prominent Mason, by which order he was buried. He leaves a widow | and three daughters, all married, and a young soun. : Minor Statg _l?emfl. —Marion Reeves was killed by the cars at Monupelier. —Murs. Charles Snyder dropped dead from heart disease at Richmond. | —A Farmers’ Institute will be held at Crawfordsville, on November 5. —Noah Gaither was probably fatally injured in a runaway aceident at Jetfersonville. —Night schools will be established in Peru, in accordance with recent acts of the Legislature. —The cooper shop of James Nichols, at Terre Haute, largest in the State, was destroyed by fire. ~ Cholera has become prevalent among the hogs in Steuben County, and they are dying by the hundreds. — William Shaw, an old and highly respected citizen, was struck and seriously injured by a train, at New Albany. —Fifteen thousand bushels of apples have already been shipped from Steuben ] County. The apple and potato crop there is enormous. —Near Nashville. Brown county, John Duhamnel, aged 65 years, and a prominent citizen, was found dead in his corn-field. IHeart disease is the supposed cause. —The grand jury of Shelby county has reported that it had decided not to indict Mrs. Mary Corwin for shoeting and | nearly killing Gid Parmer and son Witt, | last June, while trying to break inte her nouse. Mrs. Corwin is the woman who has had eight husbands. —Philip Shadle, a prominent farmer living west of Montpelier, drove his team in a pit to load his wagon with gravel when the bank caved in on him, burying him to his arms. He could not extricate himself, but the other teamsters coming in dug him out.

T ——— —Four boys of Ladoga were riding a : horse, when all of them fell off. Three ! of them foll ‘'on Everett Gibson, injur- | ing him so that he died in a short time. —Much elation is felt by the Fisher families and descendants, m Miami County, over the probable heirship to a | large portion of estate in Germany, valued at $51,000,000, —Therve is a school district in Union Township, Montgomery County, in which there are ouly two girls of school age, and neither of them attend school, which is composed of about thirty boys. —Three school teachers in the city schools at Crawfordsville have pur- ’ chased the state right to make corsets, sand are manufacturing such goods duri ing their leisure moments. —The slander suit for SIO,OOO, of Samuel Wallace against Frank Perkins,tried at Crawfordsville on & change of venue from Lafayette, resulted in the jury giving Wallace 1 cent damages. —William Karne's baby, 2 years old, was horribly burned at Richmond. While its mother was doing up her work it got hold of some matches and set iire |to its clothing. It will probably die. —Mary R. Moberly, a school-teacher of Spencer, has sned James R. Henry for libel, asking $20,000 damages. She claims that through his active influence she was discharged and her liceunse revoked. —John Shults, in Morgan Township, | Porter County, recently drained a large | fish pond. Hundreds of fish were caught and seld on the ground at 8 cents nj pound. A large number of people were present. ‘ —Allen Jones, while working at the wooden-ware factory in Murtinsville, was hit in the stomach by a block which had caught in the machinery. He was | quite seriously injured, though the physicians think not tatally. —James Downey, the oldest teamster in Evansville, while leading his mules out of an alley. stepped backward into I a distance of fiftoen feet, sustaining in- [ ternal injuries. le is 70 vears of age, and there is no wnece for his recovery. In burning ¢ e brush in her yard, Mrs. Staples, motner of Joshua Staples, of Putnamville, five miles south of i Gireencastle, was so severely burned that ’sh-\ died soon aflter the accident. Her | elothing canghbt from the flames and her body was burned t. a crisp. She was 70 veas old, While Mr. John L. Porter, a prominent farmer residing near Shoals, was Preturning home from market, he noticed I something wrong with his traces. While } he was preparing toright them one of his horses kicked him, causing instant i death., He was the father of ex-County i Superintendent Porter. ; An election was held in Noble, La- { gro, and Waltz townships, Wabash | county, to determine whether the Vernon, Mill Creek, and New Holland 3 turnpike should be purchased by the ‘lu\\'uships. and the proposition carried by & handsome majority. The aggre- { gate length of the road is eighteen | miles. ‘ ~—As farmer James Hull, living ten I miles west of Fort Wayne, was driving | home he was struck on a crossing by a 5 west-bound passenger train, on the ! Nickel-Plate Iroad. The locomotive : struck the horses and front end of she | wagon. Hull was thrown out and in- ? stantly killed. Both horses were also | killed. He leaves a large family. { —During the past two months over 20,000 bairels of apples, the product of ; the orchards on the hills near New Al- | bany, have been shipped to northern cities, and have brought to the growers about £20,000, Siice about the middle of May shipments of fruit from New Albany have been very large, and have brought back to the fruit-growers an enormous sum of money. | —A curiosity in the shape of a milk | pumpkin can be seen on the farm of O. I N. Tranbarger. a few miles soutnhwest of { Anderson. The vine upon which the f pumpkin grew was partly coyered with [ loose dirt when in bloom. At the points i\\'hcre the dirt covered the vine small roots grew out, The vine was lifted up i and the roots carefully placed in a pan { of milk, whi-h was rapidly absorbed. The pumpkias onthe vine grew to enormous size, and one weighs 125 pounds. —N. J. Clodfelter, of Crawfordsville, the author of “Snatched from the Poorhouse,” has received $3,600 as his per cent. from the sale of said work. ©T. B. ‘ Peterson & Bro., of Philadelphia, are | the publishers, and Mr. Clodfelter re- | ceived $213 for the sales in July and %203 from the Augustsales this year. He l has just received ®ls for an eight-line | poem, entitled “Two Hearts.” Mr. Clod- { felter is at work on another novel, which was to be ready for the publishers next fall. Mr. Clodfelter is expecting to go to California this full. | —~The Common Council of Peru is taking a determined stand in the matter of a probable pollution of the Wabash l River water from refuse and peisenous substances to be injected therein by the Diamond Match Company’s werks at Wabash. Tho greund is taken that the water will be unfit for use and "~trimental to the city's health. To p.ioperly ascertainthe facts in the case, com- | i mittees have been appointed. One committee reports an analysis of water taken | from Wildeat ereek, at Kokomo, where gimilar works are lecuted, showing it to be a deadly poison to all animal life. The investigation will be rigid, to prevent any evil results to the people | through contaminated water. ! —A well-dressed girl baby, about 11 I months old, was found in a basket on ' the door-step of Dr. Munecie, of Marion, recently. The accomparying note asked | that the waif be well cared for, as she would inherit a big pile of money some day. ' — Horse-thieves made a raid in | Charlestown Township, Clark County end succeeded in getting away with two horses belonging to John and Oliver Shelby and a spring-wagon and set of l harness belonging to Jacob Harbison, | all well-known farmers. e |

M | L THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. | | e ENTERTAINING DISSERTATION ON ’ SERIOUS SUBJECTS. | A Pleasant, Interesting, and Instructive Lesson and Where It May Be Found—A Learned and Concise Review of the Same. Thbe lesson for Sunday, Oct. 20, may be found in 2 Sam. 7: 18-20. INTRODUCTORY, In the lesson before us we come Yo a thank sgiving pause. Piety was the teaching of last week's seripture, confession of the lesson that is to follow; very appropriately here we give ourselves to thoughts of gratitude and praise. ‘Teachers and schol- l ars have not failed to note that most of the sorivture lossons passed over in this part ‘ of Second Samuel are duplicavted in First Chronicles. The similarity and, in some ' purt, identity of the narratives, would be | more readily observed but for the strange | vrinciples of variant readings “delibervately 1 adopted by the translators of 1611.” The | sam:» material was doubtless drawn uponin | both cuses. It is to be borne in mind that | Seeond Samuel is the earlier compiiation, | First Chronicles being prepared flve hundred years lator by Ezra at the time of the rebuilding of the temple. The latter con- l sequontly being written for a special | purpose, connected with the ceremonial ' history of the nation, omits much of the aotail of political event recorded in the hook we are now studying., 1 Chronicles is the history; 2 Samuel the story. WHAT THE LESSON SAYS, s Then. After Nathan had communicated | to David that though he was not to build the temple, his family was to be established in the kingship and his own son was to rear the sacred structure.——Went King David in. Into the tent where the ark of God was. | ——Sat betore the Lord, or took his place. ' Some have preferred, for obvious reasons, ! hore the word tarried. It is the same word | that is translated abode in “His bow abode in strength.” (Gen. 49:24.)——Wh0 am I? ’ The same words used by Moses at thu! burning bush. (Ex. 3:11.) ——Hitherto. Two | words, up to here, Equivalent to thus far. % . The reference is to God's guidance in all | i his affairs, | ‘ This was yet a small thing. Or vet fell shkort; the meaning being that God’s pr- ‘ pose of mercy far out-stripped what had yet heen done.——o Lord God, or My Lord, l Jehovah. A term of special relationship, | and also of profound reverence.—Thy | | servant's house. David’'s sueocssors.———{ { Is this the manner of man? Rather, the | law for man; i. 0., an institution that is to } last. Torah is the word used, which al- | ways means teaching or enaetment; e. g., , One law shall be to him that is home-born | and unto the stranger.” (Ex. 12: 49, WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES, Who am I. O®Lord? Wao are naught iy ourselves, To God be the glory for waa! has been wrought through us; what of | good there is in us His grace has accomI plished. Here at our side lies a piece of | ¢rude gypsum, opaque, unsightly. Right over against it is a elear, lustrous rock, } eatehing the light and making itself a thing of beauty. And yet this also is gypsum; | only it is erystallized, The old common pubstance has been takon up and wonder= ously metamorphosed by the mvsterious l rruco;«vs ot erystallization. Soot erystall- | lzed makes the diamond, common lime- | gtone takoen up, secreted, and erystallized, | makes the poearl, ordinary clay crystallized tomes out the sapphire. So these natures | ol ours, of the earth earthy, are taken hold of by a higher power in regeneration and wrought into some thing ot beauty in God's | pves. lltis all of grace. | For thy word’s sake. Our ground of hops I is God's spoken word. “According to prom- ! Ise™ are all our blessings, and it we miss | the joy of good things anticipated, the | Christian’s pleasures ot hope, it is because i Wwo have not tamiliarize 1 ourselves with the Book. "His word he hath promised, and he i will perform.” Perhaps we know the prom- ! ise, but have not believed it. Then it is to | us the same as the promise unheard of. The faith needed to-day is faith to trust the gpoken word. That is a significant sentence which stands out in the midst of the blessed divalgences of Revelation 21: “And he said | unto me, 1t is done.” Think of it, all these j gracious deeds, for which we yet wait, i alreaay accomplished in God’s mind, Is it ! not in amaplification of this same truth that ' the wordg follow? “I am alpha and omega, | the beginning and the end.” We have been ] worshiping him as the Omega of ultimate i accomplishment, et us trust him also as l the Alpha who sees the end from the hes= | ginning and says for our comfort in days of waiting, “itis done!™ . l To make tly servant know. Know what? God's greatness and goodness. In fact, to ! know God himself. “lrhou Lord knowest | thy servant,” David has just sazid. And now he is speaking of what God has wrought in | order that there may be answering knowl- | edge on the part of the servant. And { what better way for man to learnof God | ’ than through a personal experience of his { grace? 1t is the only way indeed. The | | Scotch have an adage that to know a man | i you must have some business transaction ! with him. To know God we must deal I ! with him under grace. Come, as some one | | has said, to his bank of mercies and-get one | ! of his notes of promise cashed. David had | . done so. And no wonder he comes forth ; saying, “Wherefore Thou art great, O | . Lord God.” | | And thou Lord art become their God. It | ' means personal relationship. We know God as our own God only after we have | | @one to him for his saving power and drink : deep from his wells of salvation, There is | | no dearer word to the soul of man than that | | which is spoken to the one “athirst,” why | yet “overcometh” through faith: *“I will k., [ his God and he shall be my son.” Itis as | we eome, one by one, to God, accepting his | , proffered grace, that we realize how near 1 ! and intimate are the relations he will bea ' toward us. Horatius Bonar's words—and | we desire to remember this saint of God | { for these lines, if for none other—tell the | experience of every renewed soul: | I heard the voice of Jesus say, 1 “Come unto me and rest; | Lay down, thou weary one, lay down ! Thy head upon my breast,” | I came to Jesus as I was, | Weary and worn and sad ; { I found in himn a resting-place, | And he has made me glad. I ! Therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray. It wasrevelation thatstimn- ’ . lated David here to this prayer. God re- | | vealed to him the prectous promise, “I will f | build thee an house.” On the basis of that | discovery he began at once to pray. This | is what the Bible is for. It teaches us the | ground of prayer. We would not have heart | for prayer were it not for the voice that l spoeaks encouragingly to us in the world. i Perhaps the mails brought you the other | day a British pamphlet which bears on its | title- page, “List of names of persons in the | United States and Canada entitled to prop~ | ertyin England.” Therefollows a thousand | or more names. The person who finds his ; ' full and undoubted designation there, will | be very likely to sit down and communicate | | with the barrister in London who claims to | ' have access to the property. And is not | this significance of prayer? God’s list of | persons for whom gilts wait is sent forth in | his word. “Whosoever will” tells the wide- | noss of its sweep, That call is a summons | to communicate, to pray. “Therefore, hath ¢hy servant found it in his hea tto pray thic srayer unto thee.” | e | i Next Lesson—" Sin, Forgiveness and | | Peace.” Ps, 82: 1-11, I ,' StupENT—Professor, how do you ac- | count for the expression, “young man of . the period ?” Professor—lt arises from ; the fact that such a young man goes | so fast as soon to come toafull stop. | ' A JUROR in the Cronin case said he ,! “was opposed to capital punishment, but | believed in hanging. He was excused | with a rush. ] l THE potato crop in England is a fail- | . 'ure, too, but there’s lots of murphies ’ ; pver in Ireland. ‘ '

NUMBER 17.

l Y . INTERSTATE COMMERCE. \~———~——— | IMPORTANT DECISIONS RENDERESP | BY THE COMMISSION. ; The Rule Regarding Shipments of Cattles - ~in Car Lots—Through Rates and Mileages - — Regarding Shipments of Lumber fromwe: ~ the South by Rail and Water. The inter-state commerce commissions has reudered thres important decisions. In the case of ILenord andi Chappell against the Chicago and Altom - railroad the commission decides that car- - riers can rightfully cubstitute for thes i practi(re_) ofe charging carload rates om. | "“t‘”‘\ Irrespective of weight, the rule that ’ while a carlot is named a fi]inim“nl wg}ght | for a carload is preseribed, and any excess | over the minimum is to be chargad for by the hundred pornds im | proportion to the carlot rats, The cora- | plainants vurged the gommission ' teconform to the State laws and ralings of” | Kansas and Missouri State commissioners: ] m}de'r whwl‘x shippers of cattle to points ‘ wphm the State had the right to Joad cars: | without regard to weight at a stated pricen | & car. The commission held, howewver, } that State action could not pe allowed te | (.‘on.tl‘o'l In matters within the Federal | Jjurisdiction, and that the grant to the. ! I«‘ederfu government of the power to regui late inter-State commerce is full and | comple‘e and can not be narrowed or em- | croached upon by State authority eithes directly or indirectly, ~ln an opinion on the case of McMorrars & Harrington, grain Qealers at Port Huron, Mich., against the Grand Trunk and the Chicage & Grand Trunk roads,. Commiissioner Schoonmaker says: “‘“Though rates are not “required to bee made on & mileage basis, nor local rates | to correspond with the divisions of a joint | through rate over the same line. Mileage 1 Is usually an element of importance, and | due regard to distant vroportions should | be observed in connection with the othewr | considerations that are material in fixing t transportation charges.®’ | The complaint that an 8-cent rate ow g grain from Port Huron to Buffalo was un- | reasonable as compared with a throngh | rate of 15 cents a hundred pounds from | Chicago to Buffalo was not sustained, buk | no good reason having/[aeen shown for & | higher rate on grain products that porticm: | of the complaint is sustained and the pro-- | ducts ordered to be carried at the samm | rate as grain. ] Commissioner Morrison in deciding the I case of Abbott against the East Tennessee | railroad, which is charged with illegal dis- | crimination in lumber rates from Ten-~ i nessee points to Poston, says: | “Combined rail and water competition- ] at a longer distance point does not justify l a greater charge for the shorter distance, while the shorter distance point is maini ta‘ned by the carrier at peints where the | competition is of greater force and more | controlling than at tha longer distance - | point: such greater charge is not justified’ | by the fact that local rates have been first ’! paid on lumber to the longer distance | points, nor by the fact that the freight is | shipped in cars from the longer distance | points which brouvght machinery to those* | points and for which profitable return: loads were not always to be had, nor by & | difference in the bulk and valie of the | lumber when the published rate sheets put | the lumber in the same class and at the | same rate. i “While distance is not always a coni trolling element in determining what is = | reasonable rate there is ordinarily no better . measure of railroad service in ecarryirg goods than the distance they are carried; | and when the rate of freight charges ovex | one line in sending freight carried from = ! neighboring territory to the same markot | is considerable greater than over other | lines for distances as long or lenger such | greater rate is held to be excessive and . should be reduced.”’ ! RERATING PENSIONS. j{ The Manderson Case to Be Taken as = ( Precedent by Secretary Noble, | Secretary Noble says that his de- | cision in the rerated pension ecase of | Senator Manderson may be regavded las a precedent in a number of | other similar cases. Senator Mandersomn, | bowever, occupnied a somewhat differemk | position from the majority of pensionors recently rerated, the increased pensiow having been allowed him without applies- | tion or knowledge on his part. There are | about thirty employes of the pension office | whose pensions have been rerated. llm | some instances this rerating was dopm | upon their application and in other cases [ it was done without their knowledgr. Some of these cases were allowed by Corn- | missioner Tanner while they were on ap- | peal before the Secretary of the Interior. | The presentucting commissioner, Hiram: | Smith, was rerated, but it is understood | that he made an application to that effect and that the legal requirements wers cous- | plied with, There are others in the pen- | sion office as well as outside, whose ven- | sions were rerated and who received ar- ' rearages from £6,000 to $15,000, and nnder \‘this ruling in the Manderson case | all are characterized as being .llegal. It is | thought that the new commissioner of | pensions will have this question te | consider among the first duties which he | will be called upon to perform. The com- | missioner has the right to recover all | money illegally paid on account of pen—- | sions, and in cases where the arrearages- | have already besn expended the goverm- | ment can confiscate all pension payment. | It is said to be the desire of the Se retary - | of the Interior to enforce as far as prac- ' ticable the collection of the money, and | that active measures will be adopted as | soon as a commissioner ‘of pensions has | been appointed. Fome of the e:n.ployes of | the pension office whose pensions were- | rerated have left the government service | gince the action in their case was taken. | The great majority are still in -g:ovarnment' | employ, and, of course, it will be com—- | paratively easy to compel a repayment, | providing they have not spent the money. ' In such an event the government could levy upon their salaries as well as their | pensions. g | Disastrous Floods in the Tyrol, " The floods in the Tyrol have increased. causing enormous damage, In oconsequence of the floods Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has been obliged to. postpone his journey to seec the Empress. -ut Meran. i odin gl LT OWING to the illness of “J_Qhfln}i"_ Rf}f]l—gan his fight with youns Mitchel 2"‘h & California Athletie Cub on Oct. 29 has been declared off. Rea :an forfeits his:« deposit o¢ $230: v e L STE TrE Mercer Electrie Street lewny of Omaha has been purchased b‘y the Con--solidated Street Railway Company foa £5.000,000. The purchuse gives the Con. . solidated company & 1119“0?01-‘" of all street car lines in the city, aggregating seventy-two miles. = AT Eminence, Ky., the wheels of = train cut four toes from the left foot cf Seeretary of State G. W. Adame, whe carrowly escaped being crushed to death. A STATEMENT has been profared by 1 her Postoffice Department showing that omt of 58,000 postmasters, 20,000 have beem. appointed by this administration. . ~ S R