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JIY SHIP. BY F. LUiWALD BRUCE ship is on the bay. bailing, sailing fastawav; She spread her wings a’ break of day Toward the sun, and railed away O er the ocean wide. Will she meet tempestuous gales? Will gentle breezes fill her sails? Will they greet her with hearty hail When they see her approaching sail On the other side? ’Twas a message sweet that she bore To my love on 11 foreign shore. As I ponder it o'er and o’er, My ship speeds on to the other shore. 1, waiting, stay. My ship comes back from o’er the sea, Bringing this message home to me: My love is true, from o'er the sea, She’s coming back again to*me, God speed the day. ffIHBWRPIN; —" 1 O R« *- The Strange Tragedy of the Grand Hotel. ARTHUR GRIFFITHS. CHAPTER 11. WHO WAS HE? Every one now was eager to examine |he ladder. But they had been forestalled by Mr. Hasnip. That active officer had already thrown open the window in the passage, aard by the red notice-board, which bore a, gilt hand and the inscription, “To the lire-escape.” Just under the window was ? narrow step, surrounded by an iron hand-rail, below which was the usual small ladder, with the rungs let in close to the brick-work; a difficult method of descent, which none but an acrobat or burglar would willingly use, unless driven to it by an imperious desire to escape from pressing danger. Duty, or curiosity, or both, sent the detective down the ladder hand-over-hand, and 1 stood with the manager at the window watching him descend. He stopped suddenly and threw up his head. “Why, it’s broken!” he cried, as he quickly climbed up again and in at the window. “Then there can be no question that the tire-escape was not used as a means of exit?” I said, rather triumph mtly. ‘That brings us buck to my first proposition. The murder was committed by some one inside the hotel.” “ I on advance that statement very positively, my dear Mr. Leslie.” said some ene behind, placing his hand familiarly on my shoulder. “I turned and found myself face to face with the chief constable of the borough police, a man with whom I had something more than a nodding acquaintance. He had been extremely useful to me in a legal matter altogether foreign to the present narrative, and I had exoressed my gratitude so warmly that a tertein amount of intimacy had sprung up between us. “Mine is only an unofficial opinion, Mr. Smart. You may take it for what it is worth. ” “It is far too early to express opinions. ” said the chief constable, rat her abruptly, ‘Forgive me, Mr. Leslie,” he went on, half apologetically, “but it is time for the law to take this horrible affair in hand. Mr. Gray, 1 must ask you to allow me to clear the bedroom and the passage. Theie are too many people about. ” The constable was accompanied by a couple of policemen in uniform, to whom he issued a few short orders. Within ten minutes none of the crowd of eager and mostly excited busybodies lemamed but the doctor and myself. Mr. Smart was a rather stout, smoothfaced man with long gray whiskers and the well-to-do, altogether respectable appearance of a prosperous tradesman or commercial traveler; one of those placid, easy-going people, who are sometimes a little too self-satisfied and apt to depreciate the efforts and opinions of others. We were still in the bedroom —the manager of the hotel, Mr. Gray, one of the waiters, whom he called Cornelis, and kept to convey messages. Dr. Peard, ■Captain Fawcett, the chief constable, Hasnip and myself. “I don’t want to stay here longer than can be helped, but there are one or two little things I should like to know,” said the chief constable. “Are you going to hold an inquiry?” .asked Mr. Gray. “If so, you had better come down-stairs to one of the sittingrooms. Run. Cornelis——” “Stay, we will all go down together. I only want to look at the corpse again and ask the doctor one or two questions, privately, of course. The official inquiry will be conducted by the Coroner. He has summoned a jury and will be here very shortly to open the inquest.” The corpse still lay on the floor. “It had better be laid on the bed,” said Mr. Smart. “Lend a hand, Hasnip, and you”—to the waiter. But the latter shrunk from the unpleasant duty and showed a not strange reluctance to touch the body. “Why, Cornelis,” said the manager to him, “you’re growing very squeamish.” “I am always afraid of such things,” he confessed, frankly. “I obey, if you order, but it makes me shiver.” The man—evidently a foreigner, although I was not certain of his nationality —was trembling visibly, and his face was very white. It was naturally a pale face, and with his pale, straw-colored hair and white eyebrows he might have been an albino/ Now the little color natural to his countenance had altogether disappeared. “You’re not the first man who has hesitated to touch a corpse,” said the doctor, in a kindly, reassuring way. “It is more in my line, perhaps. Come, we will lift it together,” he added, to the detective. “I want you to tell me the cause of death. Yes, yes; I know you have given your opinion positively, but I want it verified by ocular demonstration. “In that case it will be necessary to strip the body.” “Let us do"so.” The clothes were removed gently and the corpse laid on its stomach. “The shape of the orifice indicates that the knife was double-edged toward the point, becoming triangular with a flat Lack near the haft.” “Ah!” said Mr. Smart, gently; “an English knife?” “Possibly; it might have been a surgical knife, a bistoury, or even a dagger.” “This is a point that will have to be looked more into by and by,” said Air. Smart to his assistant, Hasnip. The detective nodded and whispered a few words into his chief's ear. “Yes, yes, of course; I was going to fell you so,’’said Mr. Smart, aloud. “I think now we will adjourn,” he went on. “You can give us a sitting-room, Gray, I think you said?”

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"A vs; on the next floor,” said the mar.agnr “May I go with you?” I asked. This strange case began to possess an extraordinary fascination for me. All right; let s hear what the Chief is after, and then we’ll go back.” M e were still the same party in the sit-ting-room, except for Captain Fawcett, who bad disappeared. “(should like to know who first found out what had occurred,” said Mr. Smart, seating himself magisterially at a table in the center of the room, while we ranged ourselves around. “The chambermaid.” “Is she here?” Emma Jones was called in. “You were the tint, I hear, to find the body. What took you to No. 99?” She was a chubby-cheeked, robust countrygir', in a pink cotton dress and neat cap. Her face still wore a look of startled, horrified surprise, and her fright increased at his abrupt question. “Don’t be afraid, my girl. Tell me all you know,” went on the chief constable, more kindly. “What took you to No. 99, I ask, this morning?” “He (the corpse) was to be called at half-past six. It was down on the board.” “Had you called him?” “Yes, sir, punctually.” “Had he answered?” “No, sir; but that often happens. J thought he was asleep." “And you went away?” “.Yes, sir.” “But you came back to No. 99? You must have, to find the body.” “Oh, yes, sir; I came buck about halfpast 8 or 9.” “On,purpose? IWhat brought you?” “I was only passing, but 1 saw the door ajar.” “Ha!” The exclamation was mine. But Mr. Smart held up his hand. “The door was ajar. Was it so at-half-past six?” “Oh, no, sir,” she said, quickly. “You are sure?” “Quite sure, sir; at least I think I am quite sure. ” “A great deal depends on this.” Mr. Smart looked at me and I saw plainly that his thoughts and mine followed the same line. “You must try and recollect positively.” Hasnip, in spite of himself, looked disappointed. “liemember what you have told me. At 6:30 the door was ” "Closed. lam almost certain ” “Only almost certain? That won t do, my dear. Stay. Let me help you to fix your memory. You say you knocked at the door. Hard?” “Yes, with my knuckles; hard enough to be heard inside.” “Then the door, if it had been open, would have given way. Did it?” ‘‘No, sir, it didn't give way.” “Then -you can no longer have any doubt ‘that it was closed at 6:30?” “I suppose not, sir,” she said, with her eyes cast down. It was dear that she was not absolutely convinced, although she had admitted as much. “Well, now, go on, my dear,' continued Mr. Smart. “At any rate you found the ■door ajar at 8:30 or 9.” “I am certain of that, sir.” “And what did you do?” “I knocked again.” “Did you think No. 99 was still there, asleep?” “No, sir; T thought he had gone downstairs, and I wanted to make sure before going into the room. ” “You got no answer?” “No answer, sir; so I went in.” “Meaning to do up the room.-” “Yes, sir.” “And then you found ” The chambermaid turned very white at the recollection of the horrid sight that had met her gaze on enteringthe bedroom and could only give a low, almost inarticulate reply. “ Well, well, I won’t press yon. I understand; and I think that will do for the present,” said the chief constable. “You will have to tell the coroner all this, my good girl; remember that, and mind yon, don’t vary your story.” “The chambermaid throws a new and very Important light on this mysterious affair,” 1 could not refrain from saying. “No more hasty conclusions, I beg,” quickly interposed Mr. Smart. “Some person,” I went on. looking hard at the detective, “passed the door of No. 99, ibetween 6:30 and 9. He—or she — may have gone out then for the first time after the murder. That may have been his—-or her—firs 4; chance of getting away. Or he—or she—may have gone back ” “Bather risky,” said the detective, with a laugh that seemed uneasy. “The object in view was perhaps worth the risk. It might have been to pick up and remove some clew, some article or paper dropped or forgotten, and only missed when afterward brooding over the deed. ” “This is all pure conjecture,” put in the chief constable, more and more displeased, as I thought, at the freedom which the various points in the argument were discussed. ■ “It will be very awkward and perplex--1 ing if all papers have been removed,” I went on. “We may have no other means of identification. Don’t you”—to the I manager—“don’t you know anything of the murdered man?” 1 "Next to nothing, I believe,’’repliedthe manager. “We have his name—the name he gave us on taking his room yesterday • —and his address—London; but that is all.” ’ “Identification is very necessary, I pre- , sume?” the Doctor inquired. “Essential. Indispensable,” said the 1 chief constable, warming with his subject. “We shall never arrive at a solution ’ of the mvstery in any other way. Given the man’s name, antecedents, ways of 1 life, friends, associates, and so forth, and we shall obtain a clew to the causes of the crime. Every great crime has its mainspring. Fear, passion, or greed; it 1 is one of these three that has led to the commission of ninety-five per cent, of the murders known.” “There must be two to make a quarrel, and the second person, the dead man. 1 would thus have been on his gu ird; forewarned, in fact. But it may safely be presumed that he was taken unawares, eh, Doctor?” “Quite so. The blow was ^struck in the back, secretly and without warning, I should say.” “This conclusion disposes of a fight or struggle. Passion may, therefore, be also eliminated from the motives of th crime, I th nk, Mr. Smart*” “It is impossible to deny your logic, Mr. Leslie. All causes seem excluded, then, but fear.” “Fear of what?” “Fear of some compromising revelations. The dead man had the murderer in his power; perhaps knew something to his or her discredit; was in possession of some damning fact, and threatened exposure.” “A case of blackmail, in fact.” “Possibly. But this is -still mere conjecture, of course. ” “To accept it we must show that the murdered man had relations, was more or ; less intimately acquainted, in fact, with . other persons staying in the hotel. Yet so far the evidence is all the other vay.” I

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“He was alone in the hotel, certainly,* said the manager. "Had no friends here?” * “So far as we know, none.” “Was he absolutely solitary? Did he speak to nobody?” “They tell me that is the fact. I hav ■inquired within the last half-hour from the head-waiter and others.” i The foreign waiter, Cornelis, was still I present, and had heard the whole of onx ■ arguments. I fancied as the talk turned । upon the loneliness of the dead man that i a look of dissent crossed the waiter’s white, pasty face. It was very fugitive, and was not followed by any remark tending to elucidate this last point, whether’ ■or not the dead man had friends or »e---quantances in the hotel; but it was sufficient to make me resolve to subject Cornelis to a little dexterous cross-examina-tion by and by. CHAPTER 111. THE JEWELED HAIRPIN. At the end of the dialogue already recorded—and it was more a desultory conversation than an inquiry—Hasnip, in •obedience to a look from his chief, rose and left the room. I followed immediately, and overtook the detective as I he^as close to No. 99. He was unlocking the door when I asked: “May I go in with you?” He looked at me curiously. “Well, as a rule, I like best to work alone. I don’t care for help. Advice, suggestions, and all that only put me off my business.” “ Work alone, if you like, with all my heart. Only don’t prevent me from working, too. Let each go on our own way, until, at least, you wish it otherwise.” “That’s fair enough,” said Hasnip, more cordially. “Anyhow, come in.” We entered the bedroom. “I think twill be the best to lock the door inside,” went on the detective. “We shall be safe from all interruption ■ then. ” To be locked in a room with the corpse of a murdered ire n, even when that room was brightened by the full rays of a September sun, and filled with the sounds of life in progress upon the beach below, was enough to make one snudder. I could not prevent myself from looking ut the bed. It was there the body a white mass, covered decently with a clean sheet, motionless but not shapeless, telling its story of death and honor only too plainly. My companion meanwhile Lad set to work in a business-like manner, lie had evidently been taught to conduct a search as p ut of his profession: and while I was lingering, sentimentally gazinz at the bed, he had gone straight to the dead ' mans portmanteau, which he had opened without diffieul:y. There were a few shirts, a suit of clothes, a pair of thin shoes, a coll r-box of cardboard, and that was literally all. Not a scrap of paper, nothing whatever, written or printed, to help us in our inquiry. The linen was no: marked. The only reference to the owner was an address label—a puce of coarse yellow paper—pasted on the top. This label bora the name, “Joseph Cooch.” with the words, “Passenger to London,” underneath, the whole written in a large, strangling hand. "He has a foreig i look, rather; so has his handwriting. This name under win h he was registered at the hotel was probably false," 1 said. “We shall know where he halls from when we know what brought him here; and I expect we shall have to wait till then before we lay htuids on iiis murderer, ” replied Hr.snip. He bundled the clothes back into the portmanteau and diopp< d on ;o his knee. At this moment he was near the dressi gtable, with his back to the light. In th s attitude he crawled slowly along the caipet, inch by meh, circling toiind the hideous spot in the center w here the half-dried i pool of blood still stained the floor, and ending at the bed. He searched the w hole room in this way, and last of all lifted the valance of the bed and disappeared underneath. I. on the other hand, having thus watched the detective for a time, began to work on my own account. I stood erect where I was. and made a slow, careful nwvey of the room, its furniture, and its fittings throughout, from the door to the window. As my eye rested on the latter meditatively, I remembered that it gave upon a balcony. It was an ordinary window, but the panes were of plate glass, and the lower s.ish reached to the floor. With the idea of further investigating th° baleojny I approached the window, and found to my surprise that it was open a lew inches from the ground. How long had this been the case? From the early morning? It was impossible to fix this with any .certainty at the moment, but I knexv that if the window had been open at the time .of our first irruption into No. 99, the fact had esc aped my observation, and, so far as I knew, that of every one else. The point of the open window was one to note for future consideration, close]}’ affecting as it did the question of access to the death chamber. Meanwhile, as Hasnip was still under the bed, I lifted the sash and stepped out on to the balcony. As the manager had said, it did not serve No. 99 alone. That room was at the end of a corridor; it was really a corner room in the northern flank of the building. The Grand Hotel, Bythesea, consisted of a central block, with two square flanks slightly in advance of the center. The balcony I now stood on enc rcled one of these squares, and was apparently an external means of communication with all the rooms belonging to this part of the building, an important fact, bearing closely on this same question of access to No. 99. I did not think it fair to pursue this fresh scent alone, and I turned to re-en-ter the bedrqpm. As my foot was on the window sill, something lying amid the long hair of the wool-mat below’, and glittering in the sunlight, caught my eye. I stooped at once and picked up a tortoiseshell hairpin. [TO BE CONTINUED.! Reflections. Stilts are no better in conversation than in a footrace. Folly must hold its tongue while wearing the wig of wisdom. It is the foolish aim of the atheist to scan infinitude with a microscope. When poverty comes in at the cotage door, true love goes at it with an ax. Many an object in life must be attained by flank movements; it is the zigzag road that leads to the mountain top. All the paths of life lead to the grave, and the utmost we can-do is to avoid the short cuts. The office should seek the man, but it should inspect 't i thoroughly before taking him. Humility is most s< .viceable as an undergarment, and should never be worn as an overcoat. The Good Samaritan helps the unfortunate wayfarer without asking how he intends to vote.

INDIANA HAPPENINGS. | events and incidents that have LATELY OCCURRED. Au I nterosting Summary of the More Im- I portant Doiiigs of Our Neighbors- Well- ; •lings ami Deaths- Crime, Casualties and General News Notes. Curious Case of Robbery. A. curious robbery with a more curious ending occurred at the little town of i Buckskin, a few miles distant from I Evansville, on the Evansville and In- | dianapolis Railroad the other night. | The store of Herman Buskubl was eu- | tered by thieves and robbed of a lot of i small articles, such as knives, French harps, lead pencils, etc. ■ Buskulil discovered his loss -on entering his store next morning and ir.mediately set out to hunt the robbers. He followed a! country road leading from the village, > and was surprised toiind the articles he i had missed distributed along a by-path. I : He walked quite a distance, and was • about to return to the village to get something to carry the articles in when , he came neioss a sack lying on the ground. This he appropriated and I fi[led it with the articles recovered, but i discovered it had a hole in the bottom > as well as the top, to which fact, no i doubt, he was indebted for the recovery । of his goods. It was evident that the 1 thieves had used the same sack and in | the hurry of their flight had lost nil their booty, and, becoming disgusted, threw the sick away when it became ■ empty. Buskubl was congratulating • himself on his early recovery of the : goods, but was almost paralyzed with grief, on returning to bis store, to discover that he bad been robbed of about S2OO in cash. Tramps are supposed to be the authors of Bnskubl’s trublo. Elinor Slate Itenm. . William Lock, residing near Onward, W instantly killed by a falling tree. lu some portions of Montgomery County the hogs are dying with cholera. An unknown man was killed by tin Grand Itapids express, at Michigan City. Ora Emmons was thrown from her horse east of Montpelier and was fatally i njured. Fire destroyed J. I’.. MeKendryk stave and heading-factory, at Elwood. Loss. SIJHMi. The cooper shop of Junies Nichols, nt Terre I Piute, largest in the State, was destroy ed I y fire. M illie Crawford, aged 8 years, was thrown from a wagon at Huntingburg, and instantly killed. Oi l. the 12-y<ar-old son of John Emmons, was thrown from his horse at Camden mi l fatally injured. - One of William K-utmi’s eyes was destroyed nt W estport by the explosion of a percussion cap in his pipe. ■ A son of Harmon smith, residing near Hagerstown. Mayne County, was killed by the accidental discharge of his rifle. .Mrs. 11. S. Lane, of Crawfordsville, lias been chosen as one of the directors of the Cleveland College for Women. — Mrs. Louise Marriotte. of Fort Wayne, was seized with heart disease while talking, and fell out of her chair dead. -Peter Senseback, of Seymour, was attacked with an ax by an unknown assailant, in Jackson County, and nearly mu rd ered. While Miss Kate Pittman, of Evansville. was dusting a mantle, her clothing caught fire from the grate, and she was terribly burned. —Ross Longworth, of Anderson, was caught in the shafting of a handle fact >ry of which he is part owner, and his shoulder was broken. —Frank Pinnick, who was shot by his consiu John, near Bird's-eye, has since died. The nrui’derer went to Jasper and surrendered himself. —Henry Wiseman, the engineer nt Perry Riddle’s mill, at Leavenworth, . was badly scalded by escaping steam • from a boiler which exploded. —By the breaking of a parallel rod on a Monon freight engine, near Lafayette, the cab was badly mashed and both ! legs of Patrick Murray were broken. —The little daughters of New Salis- ■ bury and Henry Bonam, near Corydon, j were recently bitten by a mad dog. and | are being closely watched for developments of hydrophobia. —Charles Close is suing Cart. Benjamin Calkins, an old man of 70, at Rising Sun. for alienating the affections of his wife, a woman of 40 with several children. He wants $25,000. —The machinery and other fixtures of the Crawfordsville natural gas well have been taken to Indianapolis by the purchasers, McElvaine Bros. The 1,900foot hole was left, however. —Flora Brown, colored, was found on the river bank, at Rockport, where she j had been left to die, terribly beaten and i cut about the face. Her assailants are j unknown. She will probably recover. J -At Sholes, Sallie Ftterman. a hotel j waitress, struck and nearly killed James Ritchey with a flat-iron. He had slandered her and was just coming in to apologize when she delivered tbg missile. -John Pike, of Lebanon, who was injured in the Midland wreck on the 17th of last month, is dead. His death resulted from concussion of the brain, caused by the shock received in the collision, —At th.o Indiana Sailors’and Soldiers’ | Orphans’ Home there are 488 inmates, I with applications on silo for the adinis- j sion of over three hundred more, none j of which can be accepted until the new < buildings are completed. —John McClellan, of Jeffersonville, went to his barn, and tying a trot-line to a rafter, put his head in the noose. He was standing on a barrel, which gave way, and lie fell with such force that the rope was broken. He was found by his wife an hour Inter, almost strangled to death. 1

-- The Board of City School Trustees I have decided to do away with all ex- . j aminations im the public schools of I Crawfordsville. — Malignant diphtheria prevails at ; Stantonville, Clay County. Out of sis- ! teen cases three deaths have occurred. Five deaths have occurred at Brazil. Other places in the county are also afflicted. —W. U. Scribner, a junior in Wabash | College, lias become insane through | over-study and too close application to j his books, and has been taken to his j home in New Albany. He was a. great I favorite with .professors and students. — The Ohio Falls Car Company has closed the biggest contract the intitution has secured for many years. The eon tract is with the Central of Georgia, .and calls for 1,200 freight cars and twentv-two coach, baggage, mail, and I express cars. —A resident of Knightsville, named ; John Dansbury, was seriously and perI haps fatally injured by the explosion of a shot in the mines at Fontanet. Nows ns conveyed to his wife concerning the accident, stating that it was almost • impossible for him to live until she j could reach him. Mr. Dansbury was I not an experiencecf miner. —A daughter of William Odell, of La- ■ Porte, recently died at Los Angeles, j Cal., and left an estate worth from $20,- ' 000 to $25,900 to the children of her I brother. Frank Odell. The latter left i LaPorte twelve or fifteen years ago and : went to Logansport, where he married I and afterward lived in Chicago. His present w hereabouts are unknown. —John Hallett, the 14-year-old son of Milton Hallett, of Wood Township, Clark County, was attacked by a Jersey bull, a few days ago mid almost gored to death. The boy had gone into th/ stable to lead the animal to water he was attacked. lie was gored^lu several places, and when he reaclj^i the ■ house he was covered with blood. A dog belonging to John Rhinehart, j a wealthy funner, near Shelbyville, went mad a tew- days ago. and bit a hog and :i hoisv. The dog and hog were killed, and the horse penned up to , await results. The horse became furious, his eyes shining like a tiger's,while he kicks ami bites at everything in reach, screaming in the most unearthly i nianner. Manv years ago Hiram Armstrong, of ('ass County, applied for u pension, I he progress made in the prosecution of his claim was unusually poor, mid the ; old veteran ha 1 about abandoned all hope. One morning, about three weeks ago, Mr. Armstrong was found dead in his bed. On the same evening his pension voucher for a handsome sum nrriveu. , i’iie Washington ami Clark Fair As-sm-oeiat ion. which holds its annual , meetings on the grounds at Pekin, has • lected the following officers: Dr. Blight, President: L W. Overton, VicePresident: M. A. Graves, Treasurer: J. : M . Elrod, Secretary; F. Turner, Superintendent. Directors Morgan Martin, Sam Karnes, J. M. Elrod, B. L. Elrod, I.ewis Leach, William AlcKmley, and N. S. Martin. The officers of the Indiana Barbwire Eeuce Company, whose factory is located at Crawfordsville, say that they will not join the wire-fence trust, and from this fact will in all probability be foiioed to go out of business on Jan. 1. A* all the wire-mills belong to this j trust it would be impossible for this i company to buy wire, and they will be forced to close down. The officers pre- | fer to go out of business rather than join this trust. —Au old feud between Robert Grayj son, Clabe Sloan, and Perry Wilson lias | broken out in Clark County. A few j days since tho factions happened to meet, near Blackstone's mill, and a furij ous fight followed. Grayson and AVil- > son were found to be badly cut in several I places. Sloan was afraid that he had j hurt one of his adversaries so baslly i Lat he might die, and it is supposed i that he has left the country, as he has not been seen since the fight took place. —Samuel Strond, a Mrs. Crosby, the widow Lee and the 17-year-old son of i the last mentioned, a few days ago, were taken from their beds at there common I home, near Magnolia, Crawford County, J by a gang of “White Caps” and soundly whipped with hickory switches. The women were punished for alleged unchastity and the man and the boy for being too free with the property of other people. Stroud’s additional offense being, in the language of the county, “freshness.” —Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, of Cass County, has tiled a suit in the Howard Circuit Court, at Kokomo, against Henry C. Davis, administrator of the Christian Hooper estate, for $(‘>0,000. Tho complaint charges that a tin box containing j notes and mortgages to the amount of I $5,000, and bank stock certificates to the • amount of $5,000, was given to her by I her aunt, and unlawfully appropriated ’• by the administrator. Mrs. Schmidt ' claims that, in 1869, she was in Germany and Mrs. Hooper induced her to leave all and cross the ocean to America, by the promise of making her the sole legatee of her estate, valued at $60,000. Upon this promise she left her home at the age of eighteen years, but a deed of conveyance was prevented by her aunt's sudden demise. The action will be stoutly resisted by the sisters of Mrs. i Hooper. | -Abraham Stahl, a pioneer of Black- ■ ford County, died at the homo of his son, Ezra M. Stahl, cashier of the Citii zens’ Bank at Hartford City. Mr. Stahl j has been prominent in public affairs, and hits served the county as clerk, treasurer, auditor, and recorder. He I was a man of commanding presence, and was universally respected. Ho lived i to be 82 years old. —The Franklin City Council has re- I fused to extend tho time given the local Waterworks Company to begin work, and tht franchise will lapse Dec. 31.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY AND ABLY CONSIDERED. A Scholarly Exposition of tlie Besson —Thoughts Worthy of Calm Reflection—Half an Hour’s Study of the Scriptures—Time Well Spent. The lesson for Sunday, Nov. 17. may be found in 11. Samuel xxiii., I—7, INTRODUCTORY. We are in the midst of a sort of appendix to the book of Second Samuel, beginning at chapter xxi. Several important items i of history are added, including some ' omitted exploits of David, a list of his ' mighty men. and tvvo of David’s cele- ‘ brated hymns. The first of these hymns, ' David’s triumphal song, is to be found in the chapter preceding. Here we take up the second, called familiarly. "David’s Last Words.” And it is fittingly named, giving as it does the wnbral and animating spirit of Israel’s poet-king. We may well pray as we read its lofty utterances. “Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!” WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. Spirit of the Lord. Tho breath of the Lord. By me. or, in me. No clearer declaration of tho doctrine of inspiration (inbreathing) is' given in sacred writ. His word. God’s speech or revelation. The divine method of communication. In my tongue. Better, on my tongue. Man’s tongue used as tho vehicle of the heavenly message. The God of Israel said. David has no ■ doubt of the source of the message, hence ' the liberty with which ho declares himself. ——The Rock of Israel spake to me. or, was the speaker. It is God’s deliverance not David’s. He that ruleth. Tho revision makes it refer, and quite properly, to David, thus: "Ono that ruleth.” Must be just. The "must bo” is supplied by the translators. We prefer the most literal rendition of the reviser’s "one that ruleth overmen ilghteously.” Ruling i,i tho fear of God. Tho same word and precisely parallel with the phrases just before. It brings out the nianward and Godward relations of right rule, righteously toward man; reverently toward God. And ho shall be. That is, let him rule thus righteously and reverently, and he will be, etc Light of tho morning. Telling in pictorial and poetic language the blessings of such a reign. When the sun riseth, or at the sun-rise. What more beautiful than tho earth at sun-rise Without clouds. Significant or a pleasant day to follow. As the tender grass. An involved sentence. The “Cambridge Bible for Schools,” following the order of tho Hebrew, translates it: "When from sunshine, from rain, grass springing from earth." Tne eye is carried from the cloudless brightness above to tho fresh, rich verdure beneath. These similes would have special force with tho people of the Orient, WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. The man who was raised on high. He did not grow up from beneath; he was raised up from above. Great, as wero David's until ml endowments, high as were his native abilities, he was. after all, great because God made him groat. He was not a man “after GoTs own heart,” and hence "chosen." but first chosen and after that a man after God’s own heart. Road his Psalms. They are tho tributes of a pensioner. Grace, grace was David’s plea, 'ihe (lower gets something, as has been said, from the earth beneath it; there comes inhnitoiy more, for strength and beauty, fi om tho Miu above it. Alan is lifted up because God has stooped down. His word was on my tongue. Think of the condescension of it, Alan’s poor, stammering tongue made the conveyor of heaven’s messages. God who speaks through the thunders and the roaring winds deigns to converse with man by tho us >o: tne human tongue. How weak the vehb 10. how wondrous and mighty the communication! Never was there such a burthen as that with which tho tongue is freighted. The significance or tho great and gracious doctrine of inspiration who can estimate? But there is a lesson also for tho men of t<-day, the living epistles read and known of all’ mon. God submits to us his word, makes us his messengers;' with us is intiusted tiio proclamation of' his matchless messages, the dissemination of his blessed truth. Shall wo not pray devoutly: "O, Lord, open thou my lips and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.” The Hock of Israel sp ke to me. A rock that speaks. God is not only a rock of refuge, of shadow, shelter, home; He is a voiceful rock of communication. As such, how safe the word He speaks! He who trusts in that word is like the house built upon the rock How sure! Taking that, word, wo may say: “He brought mo up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry day, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings." How solid and enduring ! “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away.” Has tho Hoek of Israel spoken to you? You need that speech for safety, for assuranAe, for enduring rest. Yes, that voice, has spoken, in divers manners, plain and strong. Then are other questions certainIv pertinent. Have you answered the voice that spake? Have you a part in the rock? Ruling in tho fear of God. To be ruled well is to rule well. David was a good ruler because he acknowledged a higher Ruler. Tne people feared David because David feared Goff. That man who has first governed his own spirit by putting it in subjection to a higher Power is the best fitted to lead others. Where shall men learn to be just save by finding tho source of infinite justice? This old world bad forgotten righteousness, and was sinking farther and farther into cruelty and barbarity when Christ came. How much our modern humanitarian governments owe to the Christian religion. in its indirect if not its direct influence, who can tell. When men begin to soar God they will both rule and be ruled better. A morning without clouds. What a thrill of delight comes at times with such a man! Wo had been traveling all afternoon through the rain and mist of an October day. But in the night as we rested wo could hear the regular rhythmic clank, clunk of the wheel upon the rail f; miliar to all who have crossed the continent, telling us that we were climbing the hills into the higher alti- j tudes. MTien at last the day broke and we looked forth, what a change from the narrowness and gloom of the preceding day! Above the clear blue sky and yonder, lifting their snowy peaks high in air, above tho rolling landscape, the everlasting hills/ We realized then,as never before, the serene beauty of “a morning without clouds,” the ineffable joy of “clear shining after rain.” Have you not known such a day-break in your spiritual 11 e ? All my salvation and all my desire. Ail in God. Present salvation, expectation of good, ultimate glory, all aro hid for us with Christ in God. That everlasting covenant, ordered, sure, stands for our defense and encouragement. When days are dark it gives us light; when burdens are heavy, it rests us; when foes oppose, it strengthens. God is for us. who can be against us? They hurried the devoted bishop off to his death, the rea-handed commune. Afterward on his coll-wall they found 'inscribed a straight, strong square, on whose four sides I were written, distinctly, "Length, Breadth, | Depth, Height.” The eternitv land magni- ; tude of God wore for him. What cared he i for aught that might set itself against him. Next Lesson—“ Solomon's Mise Choice, 1 Kings 3: 5-15. Love, sympathy, help, knowledge, I intelligence—the best part of our inner i lives —what an infinite harvest might | be reaped out of them were they given and taken, combined and recombined, ! with all freedom and harmony! Yet J how continually is this work hindered by our own unreceptiveness! j Mother —You have drawn that don- j key very nicely, Johnny, but you have, forgotten one thing. Where is his tail? Johnny—Oh, that donkey.doesn’t.need! any tail, There are no flies on him.

NUMBER 21.

V. OULU'S EXPOSITION. THAT CHICAGO WILL SECURE IT IS NOW CONCEDED BY ALL. New Yorkers Weakening—They Have About Given Up the Eight, and Are Ready io Surrender to the Young Giant of the West. [SPECIAL CHICAGO CORRESPONDENT.} The elections being over, public attention one® more turns to the approaching session of Congress, as one of the most important things to tie decided by that, body is the location of the । World’s Fair. That question, ifis hoped, will , receive the earliest attention from inenibcrs, 1 and be determined without a day's avoidable de- ' lay. j The time for preparation is short, considering the amount of work that must be done in order to insure such an exposition of the world’s progress in arts, sciences and industries as will satisfy the pride and ambition of the American people. That Chicago will secure the Exposition is now conceded on nil sides. Even the leading daily papers of New York City, aftercmeful deliberation, have come to the conclusion that the majority of the people of New York would prefer to have the Exposition located in Chicago. The New York Herald and Times, the two most influential journals in the Eastern metropolis, in speaking of the slowness with which subscriptions to the New York guarantee fund of. the Fair are coming in. iniHly express the disgust that is fast growing among ihe people of that city. The Herald says : “In comparison with the fashion in which that. M orld’s Fair fund is rolling up. the speed of a snail is so rapid that it positively takes our breath away.' I “There is a curious impression abroad oT ■ which the public mind ought to be disabused »t I once. This fund, fellow-citizens, is for th® Columbus Exposition of 1892—that is to say, for the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America, not for an Exposition five hundred years from now.nor for the thousand anniversary of that great historic event, “If we are preparing for a celebration in the year 2:92 we might congratulate ourselves upon having made a pretty good start, with a. iaiv prospect of raising the necessary sum in time. We shall not be here, however, on that magnificent occasion, unless the elixir of life turns out to be move effective than it has been, and, therefore, leave to our descendants the responsibility of that occasion. “As for the Exposition of 18C2, we n ust either claim it at once or surrender our right s to that i young giant of the West, Chicago, who bar I pulled out bis wallet, plethoric with big bills.mwl ‘ planked it down in guarantee of his good faith. ; New-Yorkers don't run much to monuments and I expositions and such things, and every acre of I the park is so precious that we shall probably | end by breaking every man on the wheel wbi> 1 votes to tear up one of its grass blades or scrujie i the moss from one of its rocks. f Chicago has no reverence for national beauties and is enterprising enough to carry the project thioughiU it takes every l ark she owns. After all. New York Is tho best monument of the republic, urid it is itself an exposition of all that is noblest, and grandest in modern civilization Perhaps it is the proud consciousness of these facts which causes us to delay. Let Chicago take the hint and go ahead.’’ The recent canvass to learn tho preferences of Congressmen throughout the country, made by another New York daily, presents one of this strongest proofs thus far obtained of Chicago's glowing prospects of success. Letters were sent to all the members, and in the 110 replica received Chicago leads with 40, New York comes next, with 33, Washington 13, St. Louis 8. Cliavtanoora 1. Forty-five Congressmen declined to declare themselves. The vote in fat or of Chicago is distributed as follows: For Chicago Illinois 11, Indiana 3. lowa 7. Kansas 2, Michigan 5, Pennsylvania 2, Nebraska 1, Ohio 5, Vermont 1, Virginia 1. Wisconsin 2. New Y6rk claims : New York. 23. Connecticut 2, Georgia 1, New Jersey 1, Pennsylvania 2. Rhode 1 shuid 1, Tennessee 1, Vermont 1, Virginia 1. Washington's thirteen votes are distributed as follow az I ouisiana 1, Maine 1, Maryland 1, Massachusetts 1. Pennsylvania 3. Texas 1, Virginia 1,. North Carolina !. St. Louis brings up the rear with G votes from Missouri and 2 from Arkansas. From this showing tho New York paperreaches the amusing conclusion that that citv is sure to secure the majoii y in Congress. It reads Washington out of the contest because, as it says, its support comes mainly from Maryland and the South, and several of these* votes will naturally come to New York. The 1 aper also lays St. Louis out, notwithstanding Jay Gould pledges and asserts that her vote, will bo divided between New York City and Chicago. It also congratulates itself because only five out of the nine replies received from Ohio favor Chicago, and because of this it says a close calculation of the prolwble ’ canvass of votes in Cmgress, based on replies, • is as follows: For New York—New York 31,. Alabama G. Arkansas 2, California!, Indiana 3. Connecticut 4, Delaware 1. Georgia 7, Kentucky 8. Louisiana 2, Maine 3, Massachusetts 11. Mississippi 5, Nebraska 1. Nevada 1. New Hampshire 2, New Jersey 7. North Carolina 8. Ohio 7, I’enn sylvania 8, -Rhode Island 1, South Carolin a 7, Tennessee 4, Texas 5, Vermont 1, West Virginia 2; total, 141. For Chicago—lllinois 20, Californio 4, Colorado mdiana 10, lowa 11, Kansas 4, Kentucky 3, Michigan 11. Minnesota«s, Montana J, Nebraska 2. North Dakota 2. Ohio 11. Oregon X Pennsylvania 8, South Dakota 1, Vermont 1, Virginia 3, Wisconsin 9, Louisiana 1, Mississippi 2. Tennessee 4, Washington 1, West Virginia 2, Texas 1; total, 123. For St. Louis — Missouri 14, Arkansas 3, Kansas 3, Texas 4. Tennessee 2 ; total, 26, For Washington: Maryland 6, Pennsylvania 12, Virginia 7. Alabama 2, California 1. Florida 2, Georgia 3, Louisiana 3,-Maine 1, Massachusetts 1, North Carolina 1, Texas 1, total 40. Resume—New York, 141; Chicago, 123; Washington. 40; St. Louis, 21; scattering &—total 330. Necessary to a choice 166, The fact is New York will hardly get a vote io any one of most of the Stares she claims. Ikeexpressed second choice of the Arkansas delegation will be divided between St. Louis hik! Chicago. Alabama will be evenly divided bftween the four competing cities. Tndia.ua ina v give one vote to St. Louis, but that will be nil. Kentucky will support Chicago with hardly twi exception, Nebraska will be solid for this city, aud North and South Carolina will give Chicago some votes. New York will not get a single vote in Texas, and co needing New- York's claim to be correct in the main, so far as Chicago is concerned, this city will have a decided lead at the opening of the balloting.. The publication is practically an admission of this on the part of one of New York’s influential advocates. E. T. Jeffery. Chicago’s World’s Fair Cbnimissioner at Puris, has cabled from that city that the Journal des Debats has a half column favoring Chicago's claims, and saying that it has private advices that Chicago will have the exposition. and also that the Paris Herald says: “A cable from New York shows plurality of Congress in favor of Chicago.” . ( Mr. Jeffery, in his private letters, suvs there is a widespead interest in Europe in the Exposition movement, and especially in Chicago’s efforts to secure Congressional recognition. He says that all Europeans are ready to concede tbe justness of Chicago’s claims, and it is the decided opinion that exhibitors would not hesitate to come here in the event of the fair being located in the city. The New Orleans City Council has placed another sod on the St. Louis boom by refusing to pass u resolution indorsing that city for the World’s Fair. Some days ago and after the New Orleans Board of Trade had indorsed Chicago the St. Louis committee conceived the idea of opposing that action by securing official reeog--1 nition from the City Council. A Coinmisioner I was sent to New Orleans charged with the innI portimce of convincing the Aidermen that St. I Louis was the only available city, aud when a. ■ resolution came up in the Council I a week ago the matter was referred to n committee. This was in accordance with Hie views of the St. Louis commissioner, and succeeded in securing the good favor of the rnajoritv of the committee, which reported ^ast Tnes'dav night to the council. In the meontiina Chicago’s adherents had become aware of them- . tentions of the St. Louis people, and when resolution indorsing St. Louis was presented by the committee to the council a moti< n to tabkwas made and carried, thereby deleating aspirations of St. Louis, and gaining, as it is, double victory for Chicago. E. D. (iLK\son, Edward B. Yf.lner. charged witk embezzlement from the Reading Fire livsurance Company, has been arrested at. Lebanon, Ky., and taken to Bhiladei- . phi a, Pa. I The limestone operators of the Mahoning Valley, Pennsylvania. volnntaiSy advanced the wages of their employes . ten cents a day. The Shenango Valley operators will take similar action. I Fifteen convicts in the Huntsville, Texas, penitentiary made a bold dash for ! liberty, and one of them was killed and . three wounded. None escaped. It is denied that the railroadswill forns a great trust, as has been reported. Twenty people are believed to bareperished in a blizzard near Trinidad, CoL