St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 36, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 14 March 1891 — Page 3

e R U, THE REAL POET. BY HOWARD C. TRIPP. ’Tis he whose words like fiaming fires Warm up the passions of the breast, *Tis he who sings of grand desires, Os labor, honor, 10" ¢ and rest. *Tis he whose lines are like the breath Os summer's rrest flowers in bloom, ‘Who sings a deathless song of death, And glorifies the hero's tomb. *Tis he who with a mastar's art Can touch the chords of life and bring Divinest feelings to the heart— Bright blossoms on an angel's wing, He doth express the crandest thought In staves of sweet, exquisite rhyme, And with a pen with beauty fraught He wriiles the annals of h's time. ’Tis he who sees Leyond the stars The beauty of another clime. And lifts the shadow's dusky bars From Sweeter scenes that are sublime. He is a man whom we. adniire, A mortal with a brain divine, Whose words shall like a glowing fire In stanzas sweet forever shine. KiINGgsLEY, lowa. e e - , . . Or. Elfenstein s fission e e R Remarkable Romance, —_——— BY EMILY THORNTON. S— et CHAPTER XXX, SEARCHING THE RUINS. This, then, was the end of it all! The wayfaring man, dead, in his upper room, was not the Rev. Edwin C. Stiles, but Sir Arthur Glendenning, the lost baronet. Lost! Yes, indeed, lost to his friends, but not murdered. And Dr. Elfenstein felt a thrill of joy pass over him as the next thought came. His employer was now Sir Fitrroy Glendenning, and he was entirely cleared of the heinous crime with which he had S 0 long been charged. He was ready to be received joyfully back to his own e¢state and home. Yes, his summons could bring him, for he alone knew where he resided. He should start for New York immediately, and accompany and care for him on his return voyvage. Then another thought came—a thought that made his heart throb tumultuously —and that thought was this: His pledge had been fulfilled! Sir Fitzroy's name was cleared, and now he was free to woo and wed the girl of his choice. But as gladly as his heart had throbbed one moment before, sBO suddenly had it sunk again, like lead in his bosom Was this girl—this one girl that he so devotedly loved—worthy? ‘Had she a knowledge of that hidden crime? Was her hand the one that nightly opened those panels and shoved in that Tepulsive food to a human being—a peer of the English realm? ; Again, with a smothered groan, he . felt that it was she! . He remembered her wild entreaty that —ho—should =acither light a candle’ nor search that corridor on that dreadful .~ night. | And he had been fool enough to listen to her pleadings. | Yes! He was convinced that she had | aided the inhuman brother in carrying | out his wicked purposes! | But again, he thrust away the idea; and at last resolved to sce this girl, just once more, accuse her of being an accessory to this foul wrong, and then hear her reasons for so doing. | Possibly there might be some extenuating circumstances, some unexplained reason why she had lent herself to this purpose. | Possibly it was to release him in the end by giving him the knife. | She certainly had placed this method ©of escape in his hands. | Perhaps, then, God made her the ine strument of his final release for His own purposes. 1 He would think so, until she had an op- | portunity given her for a full avowal or explanation. ’ If her own story proved that she willingly aided this human fiend in carrying | out his sinful designs, then he would think of her no more forever. But, if she convinced him she was in- ; nocent? A wild heart tumult, within, finished | the sentence. l Banishing all these thoughts for thn! present, the young physician turned his f attention again to his friends, and be- l came interested when they exclaimed, all together: l “There is not one doubt of his being | Sir Arthur! But how strange that no | one recoginized him!” “Not at all,” returned the Doctor, “as I understand it, for I have heard a de- | scription of the supposed murdered man l “many, many times, as he was twentyfive years ago—a robust, black-haired, ( beardless young gentleman. Now he was a thin man, with snow-white hair and a long, snow-white, fuil beard. His attire then was that of a gay, fashiona ble denizen of the world: lately we saw | him in the long, strait-cut, black broadcloth coat usually worn by «"n'l‘!j.’lnt‘!l.\ So you plainly se¢, my friends, every- | thing tended to change his whole appearance.” “Doctor,” now queried Mr. Lee, “what course is next to be pursued?” “We must, early to-morrow, go to the porter's lodge on the premises-—I think the keeper is still there—get the keys of the Hall and investigate the ruined part with its concealed room. If we find all as here said, we must at once publish the facts far and wide. I should also recall l the servants, who probably still are near, | and reopen the house, and from his own | home bury the real baronet. All these | years a false baron has reigned in his | stead.” | “Poor Sir Arthur! Yet what nobility | of soul, what pure Christian principles | actuated that last resolve never to ex- ! pose the usurper. His was a grandly | unselfish and loving heart,” remarked | the minister, “and such self-denial and ! devotion we rarely meet.” f “Very true,” was the reply of nearly all present. j Then the lawyer made a proposition, which was to visit the place at once. l “Could we not enter the ruins without being seen?” : l “Yes, I am quite certain we can,” Dr. | Elfenstein replied. “I scarce!y think “’I has been entered since the poor prisoner !

_—— R RN escaped, as the guilty party alone knew of its existence; and I judge, dared not send any person to close the place. We have time to go and return before dark. Come, let us start.” All the gentlemen arose as he thus acquiesced in the plan, and silently wended their way to the now deserted Hall. They did not take the front entrance to the grounds, but gained it by a -shorter route, emerging at the-rear of the house, and so passing unseen to the clump of bushes, behind which was the entrance previously used by Dr. Elfenstein. The stone he then found replaced, and the opening, therefore, scarcely perceptible. This we explain to our readers, although Earle ¢ould not understand it. The person who nightly brought the food in a basket, came after the escape had been made, to find the one placed there the night previous gone. Ethel had not returred it. l.eaving the one he had in its place, a second visit found that undisturbed. | Twice this happened, then the man asked to see Sir Reginald. He was received alone, and told to replace the stone and cease his labors, as no more food was required. After receiving a large reward tor past faithful labors the man departed, never | having known at all for what purpose the food had been required. Rolling away the stone, Dr. Elfenstein crept through into the passageway or hall, followed by his two companions. Crossing this place, they found the door leading into the eorridor wide open, as it had been left the night of that terrible fright. 2 Once in the corridor, they hastened to the end near the tower-stairs, and there, wide open, exposed to view through still parted panels and displaced shelves, lay the concealed room which for twenty-five vears had held poor Sir Arthur a prisoner, now empty, and oh, so mournful when seen in the light of this fearful crime committed against an elder brother "| by one sc long known in their community | as Sir Reginald Glendenning. ) Yes, here it all was, just as the journal had described it. ! A good-sized bedroom, well furnished, | | soft bed, center table, large bookcase | ' | full of a quantity of well-selected books, ' and opening into a back room, with nec- | | essary toilet appurtenances. But the I || most terrible proof of all was a staple || driven in the wall, with a long chain at- : | tached, from which the poor man, now . dead, had cut himself loose. } Then there lay the iron shelves tlmt' : I had so long revolved, bringing the daily I allowance of disgusting food, how dis-, gusting could be scen, as a large dish of , l it stood on a shelf in one of the closets. | ( Every link was now perfect. The hor- | ‘ rible tale was true, | If further confirmation was needed it | was at hand, in the shape of the one | note written by Reginald to his brother, f when he had given him pen, ink, and | pavper, at his earnest request. 5 ‘ This note fell from a book that Mr. | Lee picked from the table. i , Lawyer Huntley knew the writing at | | once, as he had often received notes from | | the false baronet, in relation to legal | matters. { Everything was examined, and every- ; thing was found to be ecxactly as de- | | seribed in the journal. | : Then the Doctor related his experience | ‘ on the night of the escape, and after | telling of his discoveries in “The Haunt- | ed Tower” he led his friends up to the scenec of that stupendous fraud. Astonishment and indignation blended ‘ in the explanations that again broke from each lip, as they saw the frightful- l looking figure, and all the colored lights, | with their workings, used so long and so ' successfully to operate upon the fears of | a whole community. ‘ 1 Turning away then with disgust from ! i the spot, Elfenstein led them back, and | endeavored to open the deor leading to ! l the wardrobe in Ethel’s former room, | but he found it as he feared. secarely | ! belted within. The same fastenings de- | i barred entrance into the baronct's room. | Having discovered all that could be | done that day, the three gentleman | wended their way from the place, and after returning to their homes for their { evening meal, they all decided to meet at the village iun, and there make known the contents of the mysterious wallet. ! CHAPTER XXXT. ’ A PAINFUL INTERVIEW. i | It was the morning after the events | | related in the last chapter had taken | place, that Ethel sat alone in Lady | | Claire Linwood's private Dboudoir, | l apparently engaged with some pretty | fancy work, but 1n reality more cecupied | with her own sad thoughts than the | needle worlk. i Her grace the Duchess of Westmore- | land and Lady Claire lal accepted an invitation from their agent, Mr. Bradley, to visit an estate he had recently added | to their possessions, quite a iong distance } from the castle. In order to thoroughly | examine it, they expected to occupy the | '(*nti:'e day, and as Ethel had quite a | | headache, she declined accompanying | { them. ' [ Seated by the broad open window, she ! watched the little party as they drove | away, then resumed her own thoughts | . and work. She was really giad to be alone this | day; glad to rest from teaching, 0\'011! while she liked her daily occupations. - Her heart had been very sorrowful ever , since she entered this charming home. Her dejection was caused entirely by’ - the coldness which had arisen between | herself and the young physician she had | learned to love. | ‘ During the weeks she had been in this | place everything had been done to pro- | } mote her happiness. She was ever treat- i ed with the greatest kindness, and by | Lady Claire with true affection. She had | entered into all her pupil’s pleasures with ! seeming sympathy when her soul was , even most cast down. , To-day occupation was irksome. Her | mind rebelled from study and the school- } books, and, as I said, the holiday was to | her a welcome relief. \' How beautiful everything looked to | ' her weary eyes as she cast them from | | the window! How full the air wasof fra- | | grance, from flowers and bush, and how ' I merrily a starling was singing from the ' branches of an old elm near by! But its innocent glee awoke no answer- ! % ing echo in her own hecart; therc all was | ' desolation and sorrow. ; i She felt so lonely in this her youth—no t - mother, aunt, relative near in whom to | " find sympathy and love. ) | Yes, she was utterly alone, and would | ' be until claimed by an unknown father; | ' and when she might be cheered by the i l love of one true heart, her misfortunes | llum alicnated its respeet, and all she | could do was to constantly battle with | [ her own self, and strive to overcome the | | unfortunate attachment that was wear- ! | ing upon her health and spirits. } i To-day, the more she resolved to forget | |

this man, the more she studled over his coldness, the more she fondly remembered him, and told herself that it was her own want of franknas’@;;,_ the sus- . % et gt T picious circumstances in which he had found her placed th&t»h&&fffi\‘% confidence in her integrity, and merited only his scorn. But, bound as she had been to solemn secrecy, shaw ‘con(-cive how she could hazgfg d differently, and she felt convinced that,. l in order to be true to the trust imposed upon her, she had done no wrong. ' So deep had been her reverie that sho heard no bell, no opening doer, no sound, and not until the words, “Miss Nevergail, I hope Ido not interrupt you,” fell upon her ear, did she drcam that she was not alone! Starting to her feet, she turned to face Dr. Elienstein. i She would have extended her hand and welcomed him joyfully, but his grave, i almost stern, looks deterred her, and, as l heoffered no further greeting, she merely . assured him she was perfectly at leisure, | and then wheeled up a large easy-chair for his use. p Not noticing the latter, however, the Doctor took a lighter one, and, placing it opposite the one she had resumed, said, as he sat down: e : “ILam glad to find you alone, as my business is important, and concerns no | one but ourselves. The footman told me at the door that the family were absent, { and I wou'd find you here.” 4 “They are absent for the day, and therefore, I am at your service,” " “The nature of my business, I fear,}, may startle you, but I feel that JI-e ‘ not to forego it on that account. I shaj] be obliged to ask you several ians that you may dislike to answer, Miss Nevergail, allow me to say, as a preface, that perfect frankness on your part will be the best in the end.” The young man paused for a moment, then pitying her evident confusion he went on: “Certain things, lately transpiring, have led me to regret exceedingly that I did not use my own judgment that evening, when we were together in the corridor at Glendenning Hall, and search for lthe cause of our fright. I should cer- , tainly have done so had you not seemed iso decidedly to oppose it. I came to ' talk with you a little upon your career | while in that house. Had you, as I sup- | pose, any especial reason for not wishing { that candle lighted, and a search made?” % Poor Ethel! She knew not what course to take now to regain his esteem. ! Certainly she could only falter, while a burning blush mantled cheek and biow: | “I had, but I cannot explain it!” “Are you ashamed to tell the reason®” Raising her eyes instantly to his she { was dismaycd at the stern gaze fixed | upon her own. | But she answered, even while she ! trembled. | “Not ashamed, Doctor. Save for what { I did under compulsion in the tower, I { have no cause for shame.” i “Then, you certainly are a very dif- { ferent person from the one 1 took you | " s |to be,” was the cold reply. *“Miss | Nevergail, allow me to tell you that a [ more infamous crime was never com- ; mitted than the e¢ne yvou, an innocent- [ appraring young girl, aided and abetted { by your help while in that sin-stained i house.” | “Doctor Effenstein!” exclaimed Ethel, | rising to her feet, surprise and horror | blending together on each of her beau- [ tiful featnres, and wonder and dismay | settling in her large, hazel eoyes; “what ‘is this you are saying me? If I understand nrigh&?"wflmzmfiwf l being an accessory 1o soms me! Speak! Did I understand you to inean | this?” “You surely did.” | “Then, sir,” returned the indignant | girl, drawing up her slight figure to its 1 full height, while a queenly dignity ' reigned in each motion, even though I every IH_\l'Hl'X(‘ of color left both cheek . and lp, “then, sir, all T shall say in re- | ply is that you accuse me falsely, and | in doing soo vou cease to be niy friend!” ‘ “But, Miss Nevergail, reflect one mo- ' ment. Had 1 not been vour friend I should wish no explanation. I am your friend, while I desire to be sure of ygur innocence. You say, and 1 rejoice to hear you affirm it, that you are guiltless. Will you not relieve my mind of . these doubts by telling me frankly the ' nature of your occupation while at the | | Hall?” | | Clasping her hands together in anguish, | the poor girl only answered: “Would that I might, but I cannot!” | “Then, Miss Novergail, I shall be obliged to tell vou that all has been discovered, and that your horrible seeret is known.” |- “0, thank God! Can it be possible! Please go on, forl am anxious to hear all ‘ vou know, but dare not utter one word!” exclaimed Ethel. “You must learn then, that your nightly work was to carry food to a certain concealed room, place it upon revolying shelves, and——” “Doctor, you do indecd know all; then now am I free to speak, as no seeret will be revealed by me?. Those shelves weare knocked over, and the ape cscaped that night. It was his dreadful howl that se¢ frightened us. Tell me, has the anima} been recaptured, and returned to the owner?” “Ape? Owner?” gueried the Doctor, surprise illuminating each one of his speaking features. , “What can you mean?” “Yes; Sir Reginald said it was a kind never before seen of that species. He was keeping it concealed, until the owner returned with other extraordinary euriosities, he was abroad collecting. When he did return, all were to be exhibited. The fact that he kept its existence a secret, and made me take 2 solemn oatlr, never to reveal it, was certainly mnao crime. It was absurd, and the absurdity sprang from a love of money, but in consenting to preserve the ereature’s life by giving him food, during his lordship's illness, I did it. only because he was nervous, and seemed to worry so much over its helplessness. T saw nothing wrong in It, and as it was not sinful, I am not ashamed of it.” 'l’l‘() BE CONTIN UED. | Carl Pretzel’s Philosophy, To got shduck on der praise of der multitoot vas not pooty goot, to been destitoot of it vas a defect in your constitootion, bye-laws, preambles und amendments. Vanity vas der complaint of disconnected mans, who vas discontented mit his shtation in life und gets pooty much ruflled by der disabbointments of seferal unreasonable oxpectations. It vas der trooth, dot all der plgtu}'es of great poollic troobles vas shpring from wiolent passions out.— Nationai Weekly. " A cuinzy saslutation—shake!

. N DY . § “WIANA RIGHT IN IT, ' THIS coLumN wHICH GIVES ® ALL ITS NEWS. o - 1 *7'F®€ Bollers Expiode In a Coal Mine— Ous Death at Columbus—Curious ’g"‘ ,_,;‘,,, 8e Contract—Death of a Pioneer— ‘ ,&?l- Sulcides, and Accidents. ‘ E n!;fli!s Hammond, Booneville, sui- | ¢ided with 3 revolver. 1 13 f{ifi{ffiafl@mington voted overwhelmingly fi“‘" of water works. | | —lndiana was the sixth State admit- | ted under the foderal constitution. ‘ .b,',".:;_ffi‘-he' Perennial fight against licensing 3 sis on again at Charlestown. | ;ig}%v@fli&laturcs of many other States Will opy Indiana’s school-book-law. | “‘*AS& result of the Murphy meetings «nti?f@rristowu that town is now without a saloon. | —Tipton City Council passed an ordinance to increase saloon license from | SIOO to $250, - —The church denomination of the | Friends will erect a building at Paoli | this summer. ~ —@George W. Walker was crushed to | deathoflia desconding cage in a coal mino g gvanvile. e “ Armstrong, the oldest and b | @n horseman in Indiana, died at h: _-'in Rushville. & anans own more property to the .. \fiis owned in any other State in the statistics say. —Joseph Augh’s barn at Frankfort was burned by an incendiary, and a horse valued at 8500 perished. —Taylor Eads, janitor of a Greencastle school building, was shot at twice in the darkness, but escaped unhurt. —George Curtis, a deaf mute, was struck and killed by a train while walking on a railway track at Danville. —An immense cave, as yet unexplored, has been discovered in Owen County, on the farm of J. W. Beem, near Spencer. —The drv goods store of Byram & Sul- | livan, at Indianapolis, was destroyed by } fire. Several other firms lost heavily by smoke and water. | —lsabel Shafer, a lunatic. confined temporarily in the Brown County Jail, set fire to the structure and narrowly es- [ caped cremation. | —An eight-foot fly-wheel burst in the | Northern rolling-mill at Terre Haute. ’ Though the mill was full of workmen | nobody was hurt. ! —A wreck on the Evansville and Rich- | mond road at Kurtz's Station is reported, : in which it is said cne man was killed | and three injured. | —While doing switch work in the | yards in Muncie, Mark Morton, a Big Four freight brakeman, had his right | hand badiy mmutilated. ! —The Strawboard Company, at| Noblesville, say they don’t empty pois- | onous substance enough into \\'hitc} River to cause any bad results. —Addison Carter, residing near Liberty, shot Oliver Steston, a ncighbor, in h M" duangoerdiie Tig quarrel origina¥ed over a dog. A-Hydrophobia is raging in Slu-”\yl Coduty, farmers having lost many cattle , and hogs from mad-dog bites. John | Reinhart had to kill two fine horses. : —Grafton Johnson's safe was blown open at Greenwood, robbers procuring some small change. This safe has been | blown open four times the nast fifteen years, : —The new officers of the Waveland Horsethief Detective Association are as follows: President, J. O. McCormick; Vice President, John Robertson: Decretary and attorney, L. E. Acker. l —John Payne, a private watchman at | deffersonville, was assaulted by Micthell ‘ Moorman, whom he was trying to arrest. His skull was fractured and he was| stabbed several times in the breast. —Wiliiam Mullen, formerly employed | by the Norton Creek Coal and Mining | Company, No. 2, of Clinton, disappeared | on the morning of Feb. 15. The other | night his body was found in a ereek near ! | Geneva. —NMrs. Edward Lashon, of Lebanon, | committed suicide by cutting her throat with a butcher knife. Her reason had become dethroned on account of the recent death of her son. She leaves three ! ’ small children. ’ —The American Wheel Company has signed the papers for the removal of the ! ? hub and spoke factory from New Market 'to Crawfordsville. This was secured i through the efforts of the Crawfordsville Land and Improvement Company. ; .~ —lnsthe Circuit Conrt at Columbnus, | Gharles Frazee, administrator of the | estate of George Welch, deceased, has | filed suit against the Pennsylvania Com_p,*%‘fln,u.m tor the killing of dv-f ceased #ln this city on the 23d of last; J:um;n?" ! —The three boilers at the Shelburn ! coal mine in Sullivan County exploded. ! The engine house was demolished, but, ' strangely. none of the several men there : were injured. Tive men were in t)u-i mine, but received no injury, and will be | hoisted out by hand. ‘F —Mrs. Martha McCracken, of Moores- ! ville, died of old age, in her ninety-third : year. Her husband, William McCracken, j died several years ago. They ?n*(‘umt‘g residents of Morzan County in 1833, and | have always been reckoned among its | progressive citizens. ! —The Atna powder-works, ]m':m'd} near Millers, blew up. No one was hurt, but some half a dozen buildings in the | vicinity were badly shattered. l —Mrs. Eliza McGrew, of Cambridge | City, was given a verdict in the Circuit i Court at New Castle for £I.OOO damaeoes t for slander against Walter Marlott, u: prominent Wayne County farmer. The | judgment is the largest ever given in j that County for slander, and would have : been $2,500 but for one juror, who held : *ut for 1 cent only. i

. R SRI BTS HNSn FANes A5 - —Robert Picken has obtained judgement for S4OO against the city of Tipton. —John Strombaugh,a long-time conviet from Logansport in the Prison North, attacked Ed. Carroll, another eonviet, against whom he held an old grudge, and inflicted several knife wounds, likely to prove fatal. Robert King, an Indianapolis convict, plq.yed the part of peacemaker and was badly carved. —A contract has been signed by the Sheridan Board of Trade with Mr. Koontz, of Middletown, which secures to Sheridan a glass factory for the manufacture of fruit jars, bottles, ete. It is the intention to commence work at once : on the buildings and be ready for operation in about six weeks. —The body of John Wittenbech, a citizen of Rockport, and formerly Superintendent of the County Public Schools, was found near the railroad, about eigh'teen miles from that city. His watch an papers were unmolested. Aninvestigation preved that he had been dead a week. His death is a mystery so far. —'The body of William Mullen, general secretary of the Miners’ Federation at Geneva, Vermillion County, who was | found short in his accounts, and who disappeared two weeks ago, was found | frozen in the ice in a ereek. The Cor- | oner is investigating the case, and there; | is a difference of opinion as to whether it | is suicide or murder. —Charles Leibfried, aged 30 years, proprietor of the Central saloon, at Columbus, was found dead in his room. Henry Schourr, a former proprietor of the same saloon, fell dead in the doorway, and six months later his brother, John Sel jurr, committed su.cide by shooting a pistol bali throngh his heart. Three years later George Philhips, the next proprietor of this saloon, died sudidvnly. Thus four consecutive proprietors of the same saloon have died yiolent l and mysterious deaths. | —John Wells, a young man, wa [ driven from some charcoal kilns he was } attending near Washington, by masked { men. They left a bundle of switches znn which a piece of paper was tacked l bearing a warning to Wells to leave the | country. As he feared to return the ) kilns caught fire and were destroyed, i Samuel Brown, the owner, has emi ployed Judge T. C. Crutcher to begin l civil proceedings against the night-riders to recover damages. They are said to be prominent farmers. i —Fort Wavne and surrounding vil- ; lages has been infested with two gangs { of burglars, who have done a thieving :hn\nn-ss. but they have come to grief. { Dempsey and O'Neil, two Chicage thieves, !\\'rrv arrested and a quantity of stolen goods were found in their possession. | Tom MeNally and a son of 'Squire Tani cey, both of Fort Wayne, broke into | three stores. At the last place, Henry § Busching’s grocery, they were confronted { by three elerks, who opened fire on them | with revolvers and shot MeNally through the hip. —A curious iustrument of writing exdsts in Jay County which does not appearof record, but which, if recorded, wounld create the livliest breeze that has hapi pened around Dunkirk in a long time. It ’ appears that two early lovérs failed, for g some reasou unexplained, to marry, but ' married others. Lately a written agreement has been signed up, in absolute | secrecy, providing for their future mar- [ riage to each other, in the event they | survive their present companions. This | contract further provides a Iliquidated damage of £5,000 upon failure of contract, as provided. They set forth in their contract that, owing to respect for | children, ete., no divorce shall be asked { for, but that they shall trust in providence to remove present unwelcome | stayers. | —Seymour Thompson, a young man, i was employed for the fourth year to | teach a district school in Marion Town- ! ship, Boone County. The trustee has { just asked the County Superintendent to | revoke his license because he has been guilty of improper conduct towards the | scholars. Thompson was in the habit of ! kissing three of the best-looking maidens as they arrived for the morning session. | The other day he showed indifference towards ore of them, and this put his { otherwise still sea to roughness. The iilted girl told her mother. and from that the entire neighborhood arose up in P arms against him. The parents refused to let their children go to him another | day. When his school was called to order next day, but a single bov was | present. | —Rather a remarkable case has dei veloped at Terre Haute by the filing of | the suit of Anthony Fuller vs. Alevia J. IFuller, for divorce. Fuller lives south | of Terre Haute on a farm, and during a | visit to the city recently he discovered 'g that he was the husband of two women. | The affair came about in this way~ In llS(');') Fuiler brought suit in the Clark { County, Illinois, courts, for divorce ! from his wife, Alevia. For some reason i the case was dismissed from court, but } Fuller's lawyer told him that the divorce { had been granted and collected a fee. h’n!ivr married a few years later and is ' now the father of several children by his ' %s“:‘und wife. As scon as he discovered l ' his predicament he at once instituted di!,\'m'w proceedings against his first wife, l ' who now turns up as a defiant disturber | of the peace. —Alex. Milburg, vardmaster of the Air-line at Huntingburg. was knocked off an engine and seriovsly injured. Part i of his heels were cut off and his back , badly sprained. : —lßev. Elias Cooprider, though upward | of cighty years of age, is conducting a , successful revival meeting at the Baptist ! Church at Middlebury, his home. A | number of accessions have thus far re-! sulted. He has alsodonated a choice lot and 2300 cash for the erection of a new house of worship.

Y INDIANA LEGISLATURE. THE Senate, Feb. 26, took up and passed the cougressional apportionment bill. It makes only one change in the present districts. It removes Shelby from the Seventh into the Fifth District. The coal mine screen bill with amendmeants passed. Substitute for Inman liability bill reported by Judiciary Committee. Long discussion of measure requiring street railway company to bear proportion of expenses in street improvements; bill still pending. In the Liouse numerous local bills were passed. Amendments to election law reported. Bill to reorganize State Board of Agriculture engrossed. Bill to prevent piping of gas passed. IN the the Senate, Feb. 27, the entire day was devoted to consideration of fee and salary bill; amended so as to make law take effect June 1, 1892; to provide for taxation of corporations and associations; allowing the Lieutenant Governor a salary of SI,OOO per anrgin. House— Hudson suburban streev railroad bill passed, also bill to reorganize State Board of Agriculture. No BUSINEss of importance was transacted in either branch of the Legislature, Feb. 28. There was a wrangle in the Senate over the suburban railroad bill, and the House passed a few bills to a | third reading. : : | I~ the Senate, Mar. 2, the majority report on Indianapolis’ charter was defeated and restored to its normal condition; Barnes-Loveland contest decided in favor of Loveland. The following bills were passed: Providing for the turning of the proceeds of the sale of Jands belonging to the State into the school fund; appropriating $45,525.92 for the completion and equipment of the Southern Hospital for the Insane; enabling the Chicago Stocksyard Company to acquire property, ete., in Lake County for the operation of its business. In the House—Appropriation bill considered in committee of the whole; investigating committee on Richmond asylum reported. The following bills were passed: Authorizing Marion County to issue $150,000 bonds to build a new jail; requiring corporations and associations, firms and persons engaged in mining and manufacturing to pay their employes mcee every two weeks: to prevent and punish frandulent entries in horse-races; iamending the Barrett law; prohibiting agents from placing insurance in companies not authorized by Jaw to do business in this State, and providing that if nmsurance is so placed, and the compaaies in question fail to pay losses, the insured may recover from the agents who placed the insurance; amending an act relating to decedents’ estates by providing that the husband can either take ane-third of his deceased wife’s estate or what the will gives him; empowering the trustees of the School for Feebleminded Youth to fix the salaries of superintendent, principal and matron at not more than £1,500, $750, and S6OO, respectively, and providing that no child over sixteen yearsold shall be received as a ward of the institotion; creating boards of trustees of firemen’s pension funds in all cities having paid fire departments; applying the provisions of the Barrett law to the construetion of drains; exempting Union soldiers and sailors from working on the public highways. lIN the Senate, March 3, the following was passed: The City Charter bill for Indianapolis, practically as it eame from the House; fee and salary legislative apportionment; substitute for Inman liability bill. House—Amendments to charter bill concurred in. Bill to raise State levy from 12 to 18 cents passed. Terre Haute metropolitan police bill passeflk over Governor’s veto. World’s Fair appropriation cut down to £45,000. IN the Senate March 4, bills passed appropriating £57,000 for Soldiers’ Orl phans’ Home; amending election law so as to permit use of pasters; providing for the industrial education of the deaf and dumb, blind and feeble-minded by teachers and abolishing present contract system. House—Two-cent railroad fare bill passed. Resolution compelling temperence committee to report, adopted. Constitutional amendments all right. Fee and salary bill in conference. The Mate to the “Mark Twain.” The first mate of the vessel, he of the fur cap, was a character. It was appropriate to find him in the “Mark Twain.” He was bald and looked very old, but declared he was thirty. “Es you had been through what I hev, my travelin’ stranger,” quoth he, “you too would look like an example of the longest kind of long-gevity. My ‘ name figures prominently in history. I've been published in four hundred and thirty-nine newspapers and one almanac. I've been blown up by steamboats in twenty-two States and several Territories. On most occasions, everybody on board perished, except myself. Pieces of my skull is layin’ round loose all up and down this river, and numerous of its tributaries. Awful? Yes. Once I was on board the “Obiona.” I knew we were goin’ to bust that aternoon, for it was about bustin’ time with me, and bust we did. When I come down I couldn’t find nothin’. Everything had blowed to dust, or gone so fur that nothin’ was within visible distance. But, bless you!—that’s nothin’. Minor catasterfies? Oh, vyes. Once we smashed a wheel against a snag. Os course, when we progressed we went round and round, and so went round and round all the way down to New Orleans, deseribin’ cireles the whole time. We all got orful headaches owin’ to the centripital tendency of the perivhery.— Mark Twain. AS SHIPS meet at sea a moment te- | gother, when words of greeting must l be spoken, and then away into the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man’s path without hailing him, and, if he needs, give him supplies, — Henry TVard l Deecher. Abraham’s Birthplace, ' Not far from Aleppo is sitnated the | Jittle viilage of Orfah (the ancient Ur of the Chaldees,) which is of great his‘torical interest, it having been the birthplace of the patriarch Abraham. The inhabitants, mostly Arabs and Jews, still peint out a small building lying outside the town which they declare to be the place where Abraham first saw the light. It is known among them as “the house of the friend of God.”