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A LOVER’S EVENING PRAYER. BY CHARLES C. HAHN. O, God! I love her, keep her safe, Although It he Thine all-wise will That I may never see her more— Yet keep her safe I pray Thee still. <O, shield her from all evil wiles And keep her pure in heart within; For me she may not keep her love. But keep her from all harm and sin. Let angels walk with her through day, Nor leave her with the sun’s last gleams; Let angels watch around her bed And give her peace and angel dreams. Hutchinson, Kan. IF. BY ABBIE C. M’KEEVER. If I were an artist I would paint A face so fair, a face so true, With a hidden something like a saint— And that face should picture you. If I were an artist I would know Just where the strongest light should touch To bring out all the wonderful glow In the one face I love so much. If I were an artist I would give A hungry soul a crust to eat, In the long years that I may live In which, my love, we may not meet. If I were an artist I would place Always above my mantel-tree Thine own sweet face; but It cannot be— Only my dreams may picture thee. Williamsburg, Ohio. fl Remarkable Romance. BY EMILY THORNTON. CHAPTER XX. SIR REGINALD'S KAGE. The next morning Ethel attempted to /ise, as usual, but found hersea so ill •with a sick headache that the attempt was vain. Every time she lifted her head from her pillow it throbbed wildly, while a blind dizziness came over her to such an extent that she felt it were better to keep still for a while, until it passed away. Sho had suffered before in her life from the same cause, and she knew it had been brought about by intense excitement. Sho knew also that it would take sev«ral hours to restore her to her usual vigor. While certain of this, the most anxious feelings were aroused at her unhappy position, as regarded Sir Reginald dendenning’s sacred trust. ' That the baronet should be at once informed of his dreadful loss, she well knew’, in order that stops might b > taken for the recovery of the missing treasure. But with this dreadful pain, how should she reach him? Finally she decided that the only way before her was to lie still until she was able to rise. At nine o’clock a servant came to her oom, and she sent an excuse to the family for her non-appearance. About ten a message camo from Sir Reginald asking how soon she could ■come to him. She returned for answer that her head was still in such pain that sho feared not until afternoon. Irvu Dr. Elfenstein tn ena. his patient, and his lordship at once requested him to look after his secretary, saying that site was not able to come to him, while he was most anxious to sec her. Mrs. Fredon was then dispatched to Miss Nevergail’s room to prepare her for a visit from the Doctor. As the young man entered he was really startled to see how wan and pale the excitement of the night before and a few hours’ illness had made her. She had made several attempts to rise, and had succeeded in dressing herself, but the exertion had overcome her, and once more she had been obliged to recline upon the bed, while her largo dark eyes and black dress made her cheeks seem almost like snow. “Oh, Doctor!” she sighed, as he advanced and took her hand in his. “Can you give me something to stop this headache, so that I can go to Sir Reginald? He has wanted me ail day, and has sent formeseveral times, and 1 must see him, but I cannot seem to get there.* “Ate you subject to such headaches?” "1 have had them a number of times.” j “You have, done right to keep still. I ' will give you a remedy tha I think will i cause you relief in an hour’s time. Until then you should try to sleep. ” Preparing a liquid, he carefully held I the tumbler to her lips, saw’ her drink it, I then throwing a light shawl over her, ! left, saying as he did so: “If you sleep now, I am almost certain I you can visit his lordship in the length of time I mentioned.” It seemed that the medicine and his calm, kind words did soothe her, for at once she fell into the restful sleep so much needed. The nap proved quite a long one, and it was seven o’clock in the evening be i fore she crept through the hall, and, with . a trembling frame but head greatly re->

“I tim sorry I could not conic to von as ' usual,” she began, but he interrupted her by saying, crossly: “Oh, yes; I dare say. Stop all apologies, and while we are alone tell me if you obeyed my orders last night.” “I did,” faltered tin* poor girl. “Did the thing work well?” asked he, eagerly. “It did. I had no trouble in the Tower at all; but, oh, Sir Reginald, somethin" terrible has happened!” ‘ What?” exclaimed the sick man, starting up in so sudden a manner that caused him to fallback with a groan, although he kept a firm grip of the arm he had seized in his excitement, regard- । less of the fact that his tight grasp caused her to turn pale with pain. “I dread telling you; but just as I left the lower to push back the panels a frightful noise of a heavy fall came, then a large monster darted out, dashed the candle from my hand, and, with a howl, disappeared. ” “My God! Girl, girl!” yelled the infuriated man before her, his face turning purple with rage, “what is this you tell me? Gone! Escaped! Speak!” added h«, roughly shaking her by the arm.

“Tell mo it is a lie—a lie that you said just now!” “No, Sir Reginald,” returned the pallid Ethel; “it is the truth. Whatever you had there got out last night, and ran off through the ruins!” “You jade! you hussy! What did you do wrong that made this happen? Answer, or I w ill tear you to pieces!” “Release my arm, sir. You are cruel in your rage; you hurt me!” “Speak, then. How did he get out of his prison?” With a faltering voice, the frightened girl, w’hile writhing in his grasp, murmured: “I dropped the knife on the shelves a few nights before, and forgot it. It whirled around, and I knew by the cry he gave that he had it.” “Idiot! fool!” returned the enraged being before her, as he gave her arm such a fearful wrench that it dislocated the elbow. “Out of my sight! out of my house this instant! You have ruined mo with your cursed carelessness! Not smother night shall you sleep under this roof!” Once again he raised his arm—this time to strike. But fortunately, witli a moan of pain at the injury she had already sustained, she had darted back, and so the blow’ descended on empty air. Without another look at the man before her the poor young girl crept frdm his presence, and dragging herself back to her room, fastened herself in, while sho sought to prenare for her departure. With her arm anging motionless by her side, and nea y wild with pain, she opened her trunks and thrusting her valuables inside as well as she could, with one hand, she locked them, and dropped the key into her pocket. Fearing, she scarcely knew what, she put the package of papers her aunt had given her. with her purse also, in her pocket, that sho might bo certain of their safety. Then hastily putting comb, brushes, and night apparel in a hand-sachel, sho paused to rest. Advancing to her window, sho found that a heavy rain was still falling, and that darkness was even then over the earth. Throwing her waterproof over her shoulders, with its hood drawn over her hat, she opened her door and glided through the hall, down the stairs, and out of the front entrance, fortunately without being seen by any of the family. As sho had passed the sick man's room, she knew’ by the sound of many excited voices within that they had gone to his assistance, and she judged he must have injured his hip by Ids passionate frenzy. I While she pitied the man, she feared him, and never breathed freely until outside the door. Then with a hurried step she passed down the ramble. CHAPTER XXI. ETHEL'S FLIGHT. The darkness, as 1 have said, had come on early, in consequence of the dense clouds and falling rain. It was after eight when Ethel left the Hall, and then it was so dark under the ! shading trees that she could not see a step before her. Unaccustomed to be abroad alone at so late an hour, her heart I eat fast and tears coursed over her white cheeks, brought there by her fears as well as the acute pain in her arm. Once away from the house and beyond the reach of Str Reginald's wrath, she paused to consider whither she should go. and what she should do. As she paused one thing seemed plain. She could do nothing until a physician attended to her wounded arm. In order to have this accomplished it was evident that she must seek Dr. Elfensteiu at Uiu Uuuie She shrank from doing this. ” Remembrances of their mutual experiences of the evening before caused her heart to Hotter al the very thought. | lie might think it bold and uuinaidenly thus to push herself into his presence. Still it could not be helped. II r arm could not be raised, and on that arm she depended now for her daily bread Bitterly she upbraided her- If for her strange neglect in reference to that knife. Oh, that she had been more careful, and less easily unnerved. She ought to have expected movements inside the room, w here a w ild animal w as kept, and therefore counted it silly to have been so overcome as to forget her duty at the first sound she had heard. Regrets, however, were useless; she must hurry on. How dark it was, and how difficult to keep in the path! The rain beat upon her in torrents, and it seemed a weary w ay before she passed the port >r's lodge. Once in the road beyond, she could see i lights in windows of dwelling houses far ' dow n the road. The first of them she knew was where Dr. Elfenstein lived, and hope revived j once more, and she pressed on, thinking i soon to b•there. But the road seemed very rough. Great | rut- had been made in the earth, softened i by’ the long rain, and these caused her to ; trip and fall twice. Both times it had jarred her arm. and drawn forth tears of anguish. Wiping them away, she struggled to her feet and persevered. At last the gate was reaehed and opened with difficulty; then again a dizzy ■ feeling came over her, and just as her i feet stepped on the porch she fell forj ward in a long, death-like swoon. Dr. Elfenstein had gone out into the d iMiY al

/ the porters lodge one of the servants be- I I longing to the Hall stepped out. and I i hailing him, hade him to drive there at ' once, as his master was in terrible dis- ! tress. Without waiting for a second bidding he turned into the grounds and had just entered Sir Reginald's room when Ethel glided past it in her Hight from the house. It was with, surprise and intense wonder that the physician saw the change a few hours had wrought in his patient. Ihat something of a startling character had produced the effects now manifested was perfectly appai ent, and that the good work of the past few weeks had been entirely destroyed in some fit of passion was too obvious to be denied. At once he saw that Sir Reginald was in a worse condition than he had found him m the first visit he had made after the fall. “M hat has done this?” he asked of Lady Constance. “What excitement has he undergone since I left him doing well at 1 this afternoon?” “No one knows. Miss Nevergail came to his room about 7. We then heard him speaking in a furiously angry way and after awhile his bell rang a loud peai

for assistance. On reaching him, he was* alone, suffering as you see him now.” “Where was Miss Nevergail. “She must have returned to her room. She has been sick all day,” was the reply. “Yes; I know,” returned the Doctor. Not until the clock strack ten could Dr. Elfenstein leave the Hall, and thugs he was anticipating for the baronet a sleepless night. He himself felt tired, and greatly unnerved. The strange events of the night before could hardly yet be thought of calmly. All day he had deeply regretted no following up and learning the cause of their mutual flight; but whenever he had thought of it, Ethel's pleading tones and shuddering form had pleaded an e oquent excuse. How pleasant was the remembrance of her dependence on him in those terrible moments! Once or twice he found himself longing to be thus able to protect her all the remainder of his life; but then he had been obliged to thrust the yearning from his heart, and remember that his stern duty lay in a rougher channel, and that love could not be his guide, at least for years to come. So thinking, he had reached his home, given his horse to the man in waiting, and then turned to enter his door. But what was this he saw lying in a heap upon the porch? Stooping to discover if it might not be a large, strange dog, his fingers came in contact with a human hand, and from its small size ho knew it belonged to child or woman. Throwing open the door with his latchkey, the light from the hall revealed Etho' Nevergail’s pale, unconscious face to his astonished gaze. * “Ethel here senseless! Oh, my darf ling, my darling!” ho murmured, as hei lifted her In his arms and bore her hllWm parlor sofu. “What :an this mean?” -4 Placing her there, he ran to the foot of the stairs and called Mrs. Chun to his assistance. This person, fortunately, sat. reading in her own room, wait ng his return, that she might give him some refreshments after his long detention, knowing that he had eaten nothing since noon; therefore she was immediately by his sidand after hearing him state where he had found the poor young girl, proceeded to unbutton ami remove the wet waterproof, xvhil • Earle brought, camphor and other remedies, and then at once devoted himself to her recovery. With joy. at last, they saw Imt eyw open; but the cry of pain that followed filled both with surprise. “My arm! my arm!” sho cried. “You hurt my arm.” Seeing that something more serious was the matter than a <;mple faint. Dr. Elfei tvin release 1 the hand he held, as it seemed to pain her. asking, as he did so, “If she had injured herself anywhere?" “I cannot stir my hand, or arm. and fear It is broken,” sho moaned in reply. , “1 camo here to show it to you.” “Then it was hurt before you loft tho ‘ Hall?" returned the Doctor, passing his I hand over tho use|e„ member, in order I to see the nature of the Injury. She bowed her h< ad, sp ( a sing no word | in reply. I “Is it broken. Doctor?" finally sho i managed to ask. i “Not broken, hut disloeatod at the I elbow. In order to replace it. I fear I ■ must cause you pain. It will be imposI sible for you to go out again in this i storm, then fore Mrs. Clum, my house- ; keeper, must prepare you a rumi, and j you will remain hero to night After 'he has made you comfortable in your bed U must replace the bones, and then you' must keep perfectly quiet, or. after all this excitement, vou w ill bo thrown intoi n fever •• — Giving Mrs Glum several Instr . he saw her leave the room to * o te for poor Ethel’s reception; theu, not until then, bo bent over the sofa where -he lay, and asked her in a low I voice: “Why did you iot tell m this instead . of coming out in the storm, w hen I have i been at the Hall since eight this even- ' Ing?" I “I did not know you were there, and could not have seen you if 1 had known it. > r Reginald lb w into a furious passion a> soon as he saw me today, and bade me instantly leave his house. As my arm was Inn .. 1 was obliged to come • to y ou. ” “Mis- Nevergail. how was your arm dislocated? And w hat means the mark of those fingers which 1 see upon the ; surface?” "Do not a-k. Doctor, for I cannot tell I you.” “Well, if you cannot tell me that, why did .'sir Reginald bid you leave his house'. ” i "I cannot tell you!” was still her only I reply. -Win it for any willful fauit you had I committed?” "No; oh. no! 1 ha I met w ith an accl- ; dent the nature of which 1 cannot ex- . plain. In short. I had. without intend- ■ ing it. neglected a duty he had charged j me with on the day of my fright by the railroad. My nervousness then caused me to forget something. He had just discovered it, and flew in a rage.” “Then the brute seized your arm and gave it this wrench! You need not tell me, child: I know it by instinct. It is well 1 was not there, for one reason.” “Why?” : “1 should have struck him as he lay helpless in bed. I could not have helped it. But you are safe now; he shall never touch you again.” „“Nq, XurlsUuß uenr go back. I “Slav llprp of

I wiay nere, or course, until von are well; then a place will be provided, never ; fear. Promise me one thing now, which . is, not to worry about the future. Leave ! everything of thatnaiuio for time and I rov idence to make plain, ami try ti eompo'e yourself in order to recover the sooner. Will you do this? He took her well hand kindly, almost tenderly, as he spoke: and, meeting his anxious, beseeching gaze bent upon her, she blushed faintly and gave the required promise. [to be continued.] Ready for Business. Caller i Western newspaper office) —“I want to see the editor.” Office Boy—“ Editor’s gone off fer six weeks. Leave yer bill with tne, an 111 give it to him when he gits back.” “I havent got a bill. Ive got a ' club.” “Editor’s up stairs, sir.” In every teaspoonful of human blood there are about 15,C0 >,060,000 red corpuscles, but only 30,000,000 white ones. The blood of clams, lobsters and nearly all other invertebrates contains no red cells, but only the white.

POSITIVELY ALL HERE. REFERRING. OF COURSE. TO THE NEWS IN INDIANA A Narrow Escape—Work of Col science— His Fingers Ground—Suicide of an ExSlierltr. —Seymour manufactures tolu. —Good schools are Goshen’s pride. —Two cases of black diphtheria in Frankfort. —Leesburg wants to manufacture beet sugar. —Bogus nickels are in circulation at Brownsburg. —Large opossum captured on public square in Salem. —Madison’s Marine Railway Company has reorganized and will soon be in operation. —Samuel Lance, a farmer of Vistula, was crushed to death by a tree he was felling. —Jack Hart, a Monon brakeman, was crushed to death between the cars at Attica. —John Eidelberry, Columbus carpenter, lost all lingers of one hand in machinery. —Amo is all upset over the attempt being made to open a saloon in their peaceful burg. —Wabash is getting good, too, and has warned their gamblers to “get a move on them.’’ । —Paul Besehe, 17, died in South Bend, jfrom •'unaccustomed indulgence in in- | toxicants/’ A mad dog near Alaska wounded 'several dogs and other animals before it was killed. —.Joseph Perod’s horse dropped dead with fright in Elkhart at sight of an electric car. ■—Mrs Elizabeth Miller has been elected a member of the Muncie Board of Health. —Clay good for aluminum abounds near Fairmont. Maybe they'll manufacture It. —Salem is to have electric light, artificial ice, cold storage, and a cannery. How's that? —Monroe Talbott's little bov was run over by a horse near Shelbyville, and deformed for lite.

—H. S. Badollet's canary. Vincennes, after a silence of three years, burst forth ’ in beautiful song. —Samuel Catherwood. a veteran rail- j way agent at Greencastle, has been i stricken with parah sis. The Acme hoop and tap factory, of Edgarton. Ohio, is pros;»ei ling for a loea- . tion at Craw Fordsville. - Joseph Lamb, attempting to break j into Thoma- Neal’s farmhouse near Washington, was -hot. —Jacob Faith, of Scott Township Harrison County, di. ! of injuries causes by falling from a wagon. -1.. A. Manlln, dealer in boots and sh<w- at New Carlisle, has assigned. I.iabilitks about SIO.OGO. Sellersburg is one of throe towns in the United States appointed to have "experimental free delivery." , Mi-- K >!• ■ i Kaun. ils. < f Riehland ^Kwnship. Fulton < ountv, was fatally slelghtn^ William NiintiivH, an employe in the f ehilled p! .w ark- at South Bend, was ^killed by the bursting ot a grindstone, j —Oliver Cromwell, aged s 3, an e\-im in- ' b»T of the Legislature, has fust secured a divorce from his third wife, at Brazil. --Daniel Kotz, South Bend's landscape artist, has won favorable rec.ignition and is now located in New York Ui tv.

—Md. David Wright, of Cambridge City, began bleeding at the nose while in 1 church and soon afterward died of ex- 1 ; hauston. —Willis Norris, a once notorious gambler and once the wealthiest man in i New Albany, died in the Floyd County ■ poor house. | I —Stephen Huffer. a prominent teacher । of Clinton County, has disappeared with i about iM.OOO of money intrusted to him tor investment. i —Lester Lastutter, a wealthy farmer near Rising Sun. was found dead in the depot at Aurora, with indications pointing to suicide. < —Elias Snyder, of Daleville, was j probably fatally injured by a fall from i : a wagon, the seat of which tipped over and threw him out. —Mrs. Frances Spray sues the city of 1 Seymour for 55.000 damages; hurt in a < fall a dark night where warning light should have been. —John Candan, aged GO, residing near |Monon, was deserted by his second wife, Iwho joined the Salvation Army. He (blew out his brains. I —J. M. Pucket, a. model gentleman | Mind brick manufacturer, of Ne w Corner,

« —The aged mother of Mrs. Sarah Johnson, of Kokomo, fell down a stairway sustaining injuries that will prove fatal. She is 82 years old. , —Mrs. Owens, Connersville, shot her 5-ycar-old boy. not dangerously. Said she would thus prevent his being taken to the poor-house, as was intended. —L F. Force, of New Albany, was probably fatally injured bv walking out of a second-story window of a hotel at Rochester, N. \., while in a somnambulistic condition.

—While Rev. Mr. Whiseand and Newton Miller were conversing, at Bethel Church, Richland Township, Greene County, some unknown person fired : through a window, the bullet passing between the two gentlemen. —The Crawfordsville Police Board is after the night policemen there and there will be a more strict enforcement of the law regarding gambling and the saloons. An order was also adopted that a city policeman could not act as a private watchman when on duty for the city.

—Miss Mary Cox, of Okalla, Putnam County, dropped dead from heart failure. . —The Chicago Inter-Ocean says: No State can make a more interesting exhibit of difficulties overcome, of progress attained, or of prospects more bright, than Indiana. I —Rev. C. E. Bacon, who for the past three years lias been pastor of the Methodist church in Wabash, has decided to accept a call from the First Methodist ' Church at Evansville. —A confidence sharp, claiming to be a ' Mason, from Ripley County, has just [ been exposed after victimizing several of , Madison’s citizens by taking contracts to furnish spoke timber. —George R. Joyce, who lived about two miles north of Fairland, was in- | stantly killed while engaged in felling timber by having a tree fall on him. He was about 25 years old. • —Mrs. John Sprangler eloped from Milton tho other night with a Quaker preacher conducting meetings there. They were met in Cambridge City by a mob and stoned and beaten.

—James Welsh, a brakeman, was killed at Columbus. He was a son of John Welsh, of Edinburg. He was a well-respected young man and the main support of his father and sister. —Bartholomew Surver, a farmer living near Clay City, formerly sheriff of Clay County, committed suicide while temporarily insane. He was 70 years of age and leaves a wife and nine children. —The First' Presbyterian Church at Crawfordsville has given a call to Rev. R. S. Inglas. a student in the Princeton 1 Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. J. This church has been without a pastor for a year. —At Martinsville, while John Skaggs was engaged in sanding a buggy body at a rapidly revolving sand-wheel, the body slipped, letting the fingers come against the wheel, and they were ground off of his right hand before he could disengage it. Miss Carrie Curran, of Correct, Kipley County, has entered two suits in the Jefferson Circuit Court for slander and ‘ criminal libel against John W. Horton, of Madison, and a separate suit against the Madison Democrat for 55.000 for criminal libel. The injured lady wants $15,000 damn ges.

The Lebanon Light. Heat and Power Company are to be made defendants in a SIOJMM) damage suit, growing out of i the company shutting the supply of natural gas from John M. Powell's business 1 room, in which he used it for heat and light. Mr. Powell is a leading member J of tho council and had paid for the use of I gas for the month of Jannarvin advance. । This is to be a test ease, and, if successi fill, more are to follow. । —Over four years ago, shortly after 1 Indiana's first natural-gas well was j ( found at Eaton. Frederick Hoover, of New Corner, ten miles from Muncie, — his sons, erected a derrick, which !»is since been used in the sinking of a । well. Mr. Hoover would employ no one but his own family in the work, which made it slow and tedious. But It has । just resulted in giving the man one of the best wells in the State. A very narrow escape from a fatal accident necurred recently at Crawfordsville. As Gus Karl and Duff Casad were driving a horse hitched to a buggy, the animal ran away. Karl jumped out.and the animal jumped over a slop-wagon driven by a colored man named Robert Jone-. The wagon, buggy, Jones, and Ca^ad wi re all thrown into the gutter and the two vehicles demolished. Casad was badly injured, as was also Jones, who also had hi-' pants torn and ruined.

— Sam Grant, of Lafayette, has challenged Ed Cory, of Crawfordsville, or any other man who is aching for a fight, to fight for a S2OO purse, or spar ten rounds in any opera aouse, the winner to receive 5 per cent, of receipts, or will light upon any terms. Grant says that he never makes bluffs through newspapers. and when he says fight he means it, and he wants less talk and more scrap. He also says that he is “always ready to come at the call of time.” —John Murnan, who lives in Moral Township, Shelby County, stole live steers from a neighbor and drove them off to Indianapolis and sold them for SB3. This was in December last. John's conscience has been worrying hint ever since. The other day he came voluntarily into court and confessed to having committed the theft, and prayed the indulgence of the judge. Judge Hackney let him off upon bond upon the condition that he pay back the money he received from the sale of the steers, then he shall be a free man; if not, he will be prosecuted for grand larceny during the next term of court. —The first session of the Wabash County Farmers’ Institute was held in

•Vb ’ ’ w:i-\u~^\.J,?y"«ly attended. i \ irginia C. Meredith, of Cambridge Citv, ‘ on “The Possibilities and Probabilities of Farm Life.” The >ady owns and conducts one of the largest and most prosperous farms in the State, and is thoroughly conversant w/*a her subject, and her paper was received with marked at- j tention. A paper on “Natural Fertili- j zers,” by Frank Mossman, and a general discussion of the topics presented, completed the exercises. The sessions of the institute are constantly growing in popularity and interest.

—Henry Gasper, aged 16. of Michigan City, was arrested and confessed to ten burglaries. It is estimated that he has । stolen §5,000 worth of property. —Leonard Brosan bower, of Stony (reek township, Madison County, attempted to co nmit suicide. His mind was upset by religious excitement. —The two lads who started from Crawfordsville to fight the Indians have returned home, having come to the conclusion that their services are not needed.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE, l Senator Howard presented a memorial to the Senate, January 22. numerously signed by citizens of South Bend, asking that the provisions of the metropolitan I police bill be extended to cities of twenty thousand inhabitants. House bill No. 38. to legalize the acts of notaries public whose 1 commissions had expired, was passed. Senator Magee introduced a resolution, which was adopted, requiring the President of the Soldiers' and Sailors’ Monument As- | sociation to present a detailed report of ex- । penditurcs to date, witli the estimate of the amount necessary to complete the monu- ! ment. Senator Lynn's bill providing that | Harrison Count y shall have four terms of court of five weeks each, and that Crawford 1 County shall have four terms of three weeks I each, the two counties comprising the Third Judicial Circuit, was passed. I The House passed the day in getting bills into shape for definite action. Standing Senate committees, January 23, reported favorably on a number of bills, which were subsequently advanced to a third reading. Among the most important measures was Mr. Byrd's bill providing for the payment of the employes of mining companies once every two weeks. Adjourned until Monday, 11 a. m. In the House a resolution was adopted in-

structing Senators and requesting Representatives in Congress to vote for suppression of dressed beef and other trusts and for the repeal of the McKinley tariff, which protects trusts. The following bills were introduced in the Senate. January 26: Amending the gravel- | road law; amending an act relative to the , distribution of decedents' estates;prohibiting other than relatives orthose having official authority from visiting certain wards in the insane asylums; also, making it disI cretionarv with the Superintendents of suq^ । asylums whether visitors shall be admitte^^ to any of the wanls£proriili^^cu^M|||||«|«L an act governing the eonstructwr of street railways; providing for the distribution ot an excess of funds assessed and collected for the construction of free gravel roads. Committee on Roads. Also: To provide for the transfer of insane convicts I from the State prisons or reformatory institutions to the insane asylums : protecting domestic animals, and to proj vide for the registration of dogs; making j the gravel roads within the corporate limits of cities bordered by lands used for agricultural purposes a part of the free gravelroad system of the county: legalizing conveyances made by trustees of estates to creditors. The House passed a resolution refusing to appropriate moneyfor a World's | Fair exhibit as long as there is a probabilI ity of the election bill becoming a law. In the Senate, January 27, a bill prohibit- । ing the use of natural gas in flambeaus was ordered engrossed. The entire afternoon, was devoted to a discussion of the concurrent resolution passed by the House with-

holding appropriations for the World's Fair until the United States Senate has disposed jt the force bill. The resolution was adopted by a strict party vote. In the House there was a favorable report from the Judiciary Committee on Mr. ileasner's bill for the regulation of insanity inquests, and the care of those thus adjudged insane, and the bill was ordered engrossed. Other bills, coming from this •ommittee. were disposed of as indicated : Mr. Baker’s, concerning grand and petit juries, indefinitely postponed: Mr. Smith's, regarding vacancies in the offices of Justice of the I’eace, indefinitely postponed. Mr. Linemuth. amending the law regarding chances of venue, engrossed. The Senate. January 28, passed the following bids: Abolishing the office of State Mine Inspector and creating the office of State Inspector of Mines; requiring manufacturing and mercantile establishments to furnish chairs for their women and girl employes when the latter are not engaged at their work: requiring corporations to pay their employes every two weeks and prohibiting the use of scrip; reducing the rate I of interest on school-fund loans from 8 per cent, to 6; providing for recording in its pendents record orders of court affecting the disposition of real estate; providing that constables may arrest horse-thieves without warrant and hold rliqm until a wara.Wßf u t-< can be procured. A large nts —-RwiM^ffni portant bills were passed by the House and a few new ones introduced. A New Society Fad, One of the latest fads among society women is the typewriting of personal letters. The paper used is of a delicate tint—violet, cream or lemon—and the inked ribbon may be of red, purple, black, or blue, as fancy dictates. An. old English form of type lias been in-

vented for the use of these society novelty leaders. The letters, after being written, are laid away for an hour or two in a daintily lined book of sachet powder of exquisite perfume, the aim. being to do away with the oily odor that might cling to the missive. “What do you think of the fad?” asked a reporter of a successful typewriter. “Well, it doesn’t matter,” was the answer of the bright and industrious little woman, “whether personal or love letters would look better in one’s own handwriting or not; if the fashion inclines to type-written correspondence, the ladies will indulge in it at whatever expenese. I certainly think nothing moves one’s memory, when looking ' over happy reminiscences, pen-talks ■ with a school friend, lover or parent, more than the individual handwriting. ! But then, looking at it in another light, you can read letters that are type-writ-ten much more plainly, and one is apt to write a long letter when dictating, as in this case only the mind is taxed, whereas in writing both mind and muscle are brought into action.” i “ How about the machines themselves ? | Do the dealers provide ornamented ones lor this new class of patrons?* x | “Oh, yes. When the manufacturers

recognized the growing fancy they im- ' and I time by the forelock typewriter for anyladv's bou<l<>ir. .s/>nj’k are x erv pretty. Take those of white holly with Parisian gilt trimmings; what could match better or look more harmonious in a white and gold dressing apartment? And then there are a varie y of others, the bird’s-eye maple, the old oak, cherry, and walnut. The machine is arranged so as to slip into the, desk and the cover is made in the form of an ordinary writing desk. These special machines are expensive. If you are odd or eccentric you must pay for

i I A Master of Many Ban g ua ff os. i ■ John Fiske, the historian and college professor, is well versed in lan"ua"e°s I When only 18, besides his Greek and Latin, he could read fluently French , Spanish, Portuguese, Italian,' and Gerj man, and had made a beginning in j Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Anglo-Saxon i Icelandic, Gothic, Hebrew, Chaldee’ and Sanscrit. A correspondent asks: “How ought .emperance fanatics to be treated?” You ought never to treat them at all — Poston Post.