St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 46, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 30 May 1891 — Page 3

T ——— e—- — e G es, sy A Romance of West Vieeini ance ol West Virginia O —e e—— BY DAVID LOWRY. e QI et} CHAPTER XVII. AN THE COUNTERFEITERS’ CURIOUS CABIN. As he spoke, Hank Dawson darted forward and caught the man’s arms firmly in his great hands. “Don’t! Don’t! Youll break my bones,” said the man as he writhad. “I don’t care if I do.” | Hank lifted the man up on his feet by sheer main strength. “There now. . What does tkis mean, { Chub?” “You can see for yourself, dad.” I Hank, still grasping the man's wrists, glanced at the man lying on the ground. “VWhy, if it ain’t Bash—or the man as | <calls himself Bash.” “I rockon he's hurt pretty bad.” - Chub bent over Mr. Bash aud assisted him to a sitting posture. Bash sat up, looked around like a mah just aroused \ from slumber, and looked Inauiringly atHank Dawson. { By this time ha!f a dozen of the men | and boys who had followed Hank Daw- ' son approached the spot, with wonder depicted on their countenances, “What is it?”? Mr. Bash felt his head, then rose to | his feet. “Why, don’t you know?” said Hank ‘ Dawson. “It’'s not strange if he doesn't, dad,” aaid Chub. “’Pears as if he deoesn’t know where Yo is yet,” said Dawson. “This fellow.” said Chub, pointing to l the man she held at bay—¢“this Dick | “Treddle can tell you. If he doesn’t, I'!l ! tell. ? | Dick looked sullenly on the ground as ! Hank whipped a handkerchief out of his | pocket and bound his hands behind him | quickly. ! “Mr. Bash and me were standing here, ‘ or just over there. We didn't suspect | there was any one near us. 1 was tell- | ing Mr. Bash this would be a good place ! 10 make a corner where no one would | find one, when I hearl a shot. The' coward meant for Bash—but he missed. | I wheeled, saw a whiff of smoke and tried to make out who was there. It took some time, then, seeing the vines amove in there, I fired. | “There wasn't a sound. I waked | around right here in front of this round- | topped rock, and Mr. Bash wa'ked 1 around the other way. Justas 1 got | here there was another shot, and I l hurried and found Mr. Bash lying on the | ground, with Treddle there standing | <over him. ‘ “l had my rifle on him in an instant. | I kept it on him and called, and he | Swore awful—you heard him, I reckon, | Dad?” f “Yes, I heard him.” | - Hank Dawson looked as though his | - hearing was as keen as his desire to o omete e&mt xl)ltimishment to Treddle. He - #arncd on him abruptly, |

: se 1 . “YoaeWcre alone. Whatare you ~ «Find out, Hank Dawson.” «] will.” ' Hank and Bash, who was none the ~ worse for the 'ow that stunned him—- ~ “Treddle had clipped his hair with his bullet, then struck him with the butt of | ‘his gun as he fell, rendering Bash whol1y unconscious for the time—immediate1y approached the cabin formed between the rocks, while the others stood near ~them. “Hello!” Bash’'s exclamation was natural. There, just beside the entrance to the .cabin. were articles with which Mr. Bash was familiar. Numerous dies, bright -drops of metal sparkling on the ground, various tools were lying near. While Bash was examining these, directing Hank Dawson's attention to ‘them, Chubdarted past them into the irear of the cabin. The rear of the cabin was dark. But Chub was fearless. Besides, she was firmly convinced that ther afiianced was near by. Something in her heart told her he was near. She was in a flush of excitement as she peered about in the back part of the

«cabin. ' ~ While her father and the “detective | ere talking, pointing out this and that | 400!, they heard a quick, low exclama- | * tion from the rear of the cabin. “It's Chub-—she’s found something.” Hank was going back when Bash said, | “Well, let’s strike a light.” | His action was suited to the word. A | | dight was struck, anu Hank Dawson and | E the detective walked back to the rear of ' . the cabin or hut. | There they beheld another opening,i ‘ leading still farther back between the | - -two rocks, through which Chub had dis- ~ :appeared. “Where in the name of all that's won- = «derful has she gone?” demanded Hank - Dawson. . *“Here! let’s get a better light,” said | - he detective. p . %’«fflfi,mmedabout him. and at last found | Wfismp, which he lit Meanwhile they | .could hear Chub talking to some one. \ «She's found him! She’s found him, Bash'” exclaimed Hank. " «There's some ong, 1 hope it is Dan i % | Bash.” ! They walked back, where Chub pressed i in the darkness. | But Chub had an infallible guide—the : ~yoice of her lover. ! Yes, it was indeed the voice of the l missing bridegroom Chub heard as she | stood in the back part of the rude hut. l 1t was like a moan, but to Chub’s acute | . .ear it sounded like “Belle”—the name | her lover called her. It was then that Chub darted back through a coor she had not noticed till that low sound fell aapon her eager ear. { ; She felt her way cautiously but quick- ‘ iy as she has'ened to the back room, and there, reaching out a hand, guided only by a pencil of light that stole in from the rear, she felt around until her hand touched a rough ladder. Passing both hands over this to a sure herself her surmise was correct, she Jheard a secoad time that sonnd. It was then she exclaimed: “Ch! Dan! I'm : Jhere—coming—coming.” This was the sound that brought her £ather and the detective to the rear, to

the ladder, down which Chub had swiftly descended. As Hank Dawson reached the ladder he called: “Where are you, Chub?” “Here, dad! Ch! quick—quick. Help me to get him out of here!” I “I told ye,” said Hank Dawson, nodning to the detective. L | He descended the ladder immediately. Bash held the lamp overhead. “My God! It’s Bash, sure enough!” the detective heard Hank say, as he held the lamp. “Can I help you down there?” l “I reckon you can.” | “No, no,” said Chub, vehemently. “I’ll | help lift him, dad. Tl'll go first, holding his head.” ‘ The detective could hear a strong voice | | answer: , , I “There’s no need. If you’ll unbind my | feet and my arms, I can manage after | awhile to get up myself.” | I As Hank reached up the ladder for the ' lamp, the detective descended. | Together the three looked at Dan l Bash as he struggled into a sitting pos- | ture after he was unbound. His captors had tied his ankles firmly ( | together, and then had tied his arms. He i was lying on his side in a very painful I position, when Chub found him there in l the dark. , | “Don’t—don’t touch that arm, please,” | he said to Hank. : ‘ 1 “Sore?” 1 “It's broken.” 1 [ “Broke, Dan!” - ———— , Poor Chub’'s tears rose unbidden. || rfl‘hoy overflowed in spite of her. ] “Yes—broke in two places, T"m afraid. » He sat upright, moved his feet, and looked at them. ] “Just wait until the blood circulates.” “Here! I reckon I'll heip iton a mite.” Hank uncorked his pocket-flask, and, | pouring out a stiff drink in the cup of | ! the cover, handed it to him. | Dan Bash gulped it down eagerly. 1 “That ought to help some,” said Hank. | “It does. I feel it now.” i “What kind of a hole is this, anyhow?” said Hank, looking around him. l “Seems like a hole in the ground.” i “That’'s just what it is,” said the de- ! . tective. “See! Here is the face of a | rock. They've found a large cavity ! ! here by accident—dug alittle more earth ' out, shaped it into this queer shape, and | . used it for the Lord only knows what. | j See! Why, there wasn't much work to be | done. Here’s a rock on this side and a | rock on this side. We're between two rocks with straight sides, or faces.” “That's £O,” said Hank, examining the ' - place curiously. 4 “If there were vines here it would be i the place I dreamed about,” said Chub. | ; “You dreamed I was lyving here?” said | the lover, quickly. “Yes—Dbut there was room for the sun to shine down on you.” 1 “S 0 there is—or ought to be. They've | covered me up—kept the daylight out,” | . said Dan, sadiy. | “Feel like movin’ yet?” Hank asked in | a sympathizing tone. ; Dan made an effort, and succeeded in mounting the ladder with the help of | Hank Dawson’s strong hands. He moved - with difliculty. He was weak—faint r - with hunger and pain. t { “Is that dayvlight out there?” b, - “Yes, Dan,” said Chub, as she held his : sound arm, and walked to the door of | the cabin, followed by her father and | . the detective. ; ~ “Thank (God!” said Dan, as he put his [ 1 ~hands up over his eyes, which were | blinded by the sudde = light. {:

CET Lo oTRRR Re, SECR e ~ amned shoe Rahatd e- - cheers that we'e sent up from Baldy echoed from the mountain side to the road far below. : They were caught up by the searchers below and echoed again across the | other mountain slope, until the sound of | rejoicing was heard full five miles over the mountains. i Everybody within sound of the voices | that cheered until their voices grew hoarse knew the missing bridegroom | was found. i CHAPTER XVIIL § DAN BASH'S AWFUL EXPERIENCE. ! «That was a mighty close call,” said Hank Dawson, as he viewed the man all | Pine County was interested in now. “You look mighty bad.” { «Had nothing to eat?” the detective asked. 1 “Once only.” f «Well, this won’t hurt ye a mite,” said . Hank, handing Dan a piece of bread and a biscuit made by Chub. He also gave him a piece of cold meat. | “That’s Chub's biscuit, Dan.” i Dan only smiled and whispered some- | thing to Chub that nobody could hear. | “«Think you can sit on a horse, Dan? I don’'t see no other way to get vou out of this lonesome hole. It’s about the ornariest place I ever set eyes on. I didn’t think there was such a mean piece of ground in the State as thisis.” «I think I'll manage.” But it was taxing his strength. The detective was compelied to walk on one side of him, | while Hank Dawson walked on the other. | And that was the way Dan Bash was | brought out of the heart of Baldy. ’ After he was out on smooth ground | the detective returned to the cabin, to collect all that could be found there that would be serviceab'e in the proceedings | he foresaw they would unecessarily figure in. i He had willing hands to help him. | While Chub and her father were making their way home with Dan Bash carefully, the detective was engaged with‘ three or four assistants in carrying oft all the tools and material that were found in the cabin the counterfeiters had conéoatéd themselves in for so many years. That the place had been occupied for vears was evident to all who were present. © I will leave the counterfeiters’ tools and their carctakers, and Treddle, the | captive, in the hands of the detective, ' and follow Chub and her lover as they | journey home. i As Dan regained confidence and !stre‘nmh he satup li!\‘n’ his old self on

! the saddle—he was an elegant figure on | a horse, was Dan Bash—and looked at | Chub gratefully. | «Belle—do you know I owe my life to L you.” ! | © “Why do you think so 2” Chub asked, % i as she blushed. | ; «Those murderers intended either to murder me or to starve me to death. | Chub shuddered. i «Tell me all about it,” said Chub. ; «Yes,” said Hank Dawson. who was within ear-shot; “I'm just achin’ to | ] know all about this strange business. ; I'll bet it'll make a big stir all over the | country—this stirrin’ up of a gang such | { as the Monks.” | «Yes—l’ve been of some use in my | | way,” said Dan, smilling. 5 i‘ «’ve sent for a doctor to mcet us by | | the time you get home—you’'| need more l than one, may be, before that arm’s ’ ; fixed. But tell us how you fell into the | . hands of that tarnal mean, murderingl

Tenutiie . r ik LG ‘ “It's a short story. You knwi‘:i‘ ', much reason I had to be on the loc: % for the gang.” e | edo indeed, Dan,” said Chub-ll “I i };hol?ght you would surely keep a 8 "‘P ookout.” ‘ “I did. When I got ready to 80 to your house, instead of riding °“z““; ! road, I cut off on a by-path and kel’hf?;‘ | the mountain side, where I thought I . would have an opporvunity to See any one who might be concealed. You ' know they swore there would never be { any wedding.” | “Yes, I know,” said Chub, in & low;‘ . tone. | | “Well, T was riding along all right, . when the strangest thing happened. - A , tree fell right across the path 1 was on. It would have pinned me to the earth had I not sprung quickly off my horse. As it was, a limb torn off in the crash—a big limb—struck my arm, knocking me to the ground and breaking my arm. It was almost the size of a tree. The manner in which I fell prevented me from twisting from under it, and it settled down on me, pressing me flat against the ground.” “Oh! That was dreadful,” said Chub. “The body of the tree struck the horse’s flank. He bounded, but was caught among the branches. He made tremendous struggles. 1 could see himy™ flounder, but he probably was not sed verely injured; but the broken, jaggedd Dranches-Gonbiess. i L Lim. T broken branch cut my hegd- .‘;’, '} the mark.” : e He held up his hand. R 2 “That explains whare the blood “g‘,s from,” said Chub. -~k “What blood?” s, “Your horse came galloping up to our fence long after the time you should | have been there. I saw blood on the saddle—and marks on your horse.” “You must have been frightened | greatly.” “It was terrible, Dan—terrible.” “It has been terrible for both of us.” #§ “Yes, but you, vou have suffered a | thousand fold more than I have. But vou have not told us all.” “No. Well, I lay there, held to the ground by the big broken limb, until I thought I would die. I tried to free my- | self. 1 tried to move away from under it—to slip out from under it—but every }t time I moved, it seemed to settle heavier | upon me.” i “That was enongh to drive you crazy. #/¥ “I thought of you—or it might have.jw Then 1 tried to get a hand in my poeketf d for my knife. I thought if I could ge it ont, it would be possible to dig a hel¢ in the ground large enough toy let me b work out from under the limb that wag”? “That was awful.” 1 “I did not know then—nor until they found me—that the limb was not broken clean off the tree. A great big sliver—J J a tremendous splinter—and the barkl s held it to the main trunk, and it settled] ) down just as the wind shook it, or moved under it.” “Could anything be more horrible than{ | that,” said Chub 5 “I can’t imagine it,” said Hank Daw-| son. *“lt beats all lever heard of.” “I got my knife out at last. 1 worked at the ground near nry side. But it was | so slow, oh, such slow work.” “Poor Dan—it was enough to turn gour | mind.” § “I believe I might have freed myself in time, but just as it began to look s if I would be able to free myself, a joud thalla!® attrantad with abdbee tlint 00,

AeHO JLiTacied my atiention. yau- | Dan?” Chub asked, fearfully, | “Until some time last night, or early | this morning.” 2 . " Chub uttered a cry of terror. | “What! All thut time!” | “All that time—it secmed ages—ages , to me! [ Hank Dawson turned to loek at him. i «Out all that time! Under a big limb—- | pinned under a limb to the ground! I | wouldn't believe any one could,stand it! And with a broken arm!” ‘ “We will nurse you into good spirits i again,” said Chub, in a low tons, . ¢l am in as good spirits now as I ever | will be, Belle,” said Dan Bash. | Then Chub had to tell him her dream. | As he listened, Dan Bash looked very L grave. | “It's a strange story, bed., The | dream is very near the truth. See how ¢+ I was held under tho big limb. I was covered with the branches. I could not | move—could only turn and look up ithmuzh the leaves. Then, when they | took me from the branch, they put me ! in that hole you found me in. And that, i too, was like your dream. A crevice in the earth—just roofed in a little with , earth and stones—and no way to work | out--rocks on ecach side. It was very much like your dream!” “Well, we're back to plain facts now,” | said Hank Dawson: “and the plain facts : is, we've got the hull Monk gang by the ' neck and heels, and if we don’t pitch { them into the penitentiary, why—it i won't te my fault.” { “They drserve to be put there for ! what they’ve done to vou,” said Chub. | “Yes,” said her father, in a low tone; . “and with the witnesses we've got agin ' them we’ll make 'em wish they'd never 1 ! seced Dan Bash. We'll make ‘em swear " they'd run ten mile just to get around | his shadow.” 1‘ | And Haok Dawson shook his head. |He meant it. He was in dead earnest ; [TO BE CONTINUED. | | Bix War Ships. l Up to the recent l.\nr:-_~haw-r'l’f tho British battle ship Royal Soverelgn, the Italians had possessed the largest war | ships, the Italia and her mates, cach ! heing credited with a displacement of : | 13.000 gross tons. The latest addition to | tne British line has a displacement esti- | mated at 14,150 tons, thus slightly out- | weighing the rival craft. A radical . | difterence exists, however, in the theory

of construction, the British ship having a protective belt of armor, with steel face and iron back on the compound systern, the same with a maximum thickness of eighteen inches, while the big craft of the Italian fleet have not any outside protection. At the first blush it would appear that, in point of ecne durance, the odds would be largely with the Dritish ship, but first class naval authorities are not by any means agreed | that side armor is eflicacious, for since even the six-inch rifle at short range can pierce the heaviest armor that can be floated, there is a likelihood that shells will break through aund explode, unshipping the guns and demoralizipg the ecrew. while in the case of unprotected sides it is likely to cut its way clear through the ship and explode harmlessly in the water. JAPAN is a great country {or poor people. The most expensive form of crema- | tion only costs seven dollars.

UTLY FOR INDIANA. ! H‘;TIMETo REP:D ABOUT

;' A GREAT STATE. YWhile Rolling Logs—Co-Opera- { Cheese Factory—Paroled by the or—New Albany Needs Brick-— Doanths. = usual fee for a spree in New

4 is $9.50. Hlu Preefer is the second woman public in Clark County. e Methodists are preparing to new church in New Albany. 3¢ New Albany Council expects to fge the salaries of all city officers. ‘ Sarles Straund fell into an elevator 85t Michigan City and was killed “Fank and Harris Bures saweod their ‘Wut of Jeffersonville Penitentiary. Shey can’t make bricks fast enough #w Albany to supply building de-

. D. Everly, of Spencer, is in a dans condition from being kicked by a S mare. A barn on the DeForest farm near er, struck by lightning, and four fine cremated. Sherman Perkins, of Company B, Ohio Infantry, was found crazy aring in Rising Sun.

R o Y Six-year-old Frank Fox waded ove r]] 34{ ae, ana wis G Y o "}Korton Brown, one of the wealthiest tf»’ in Floyd County, died at his e near Galena, aged T 4 L -Thomas ¥. Patton, of Brown Valley, [Pntgomery County, claims to be the &sessor of a five-legeed calf. ! A firemen's tournament will be one § the features of the Fourth of July lebration at Crawfordsville. —%Lemon teas” are all the rage in pffersonville, having supplanted Japan, foung Hyson, Gunpowder, and “pink” eas. ~—Frank Bullet, a Claysburg boy, while eing chewed up by a vicious bull dog, vas rescued by a large Newfloundland log. —A man in Montgomery County, when hig child died, made inguiry if he could get a sccond-hand coflin cheaper than a HewW one, —Jay Eaton, a prisoner in the county jail at Portland for burglary, while assisting the sheriff outside the jail, made his escape. ~—Tramps near Richmond took a bas ket of grocer!cs from a boy namcd John Johnson and then tied him to a tree in the woods, —Rain or shine, 'Squire Keigwin every day manages to Kkiss some Kentucky bride and get his name in the paper al Jeflersonviile. ~There are 207 members in the Craw fordsyille Young Men's Christian As socfation, which has been organize aboait four voars.

P his hotel at Logansport on a ‘Dafota land deal, has ‘Swapped back” yrder of the court. . ZForty Scottish Rite Masons were ted at Fort Wayne, to the mystic shrine. Two hundred Indianapolis M kl\!\ attended the exercises ~Fish in Eel River, Miama County, | aredying in such gquantities as to clog water wheels in mills along the stream. Wfi:_tb(‘r from disease or dynamite is unknow . ~George Farrell McCabe, of I:ii‘h-l mond, who never saw or heard anything ( of his father after the latter went to the war, has found his long-lost parent in the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton. ~While engaged at plastering a Lizhceiling at the Columbus St. Denis Hotel, Charles Ross fell to the floor, some fifteen feet below, breaking his right arm and sustaining internal injuries. He will recover. —Melvin Bennett, the Jeflfersonville boy who was shot a year ago. and who still earries the bullet beneath the skull, prefers constant suffering to taking the risk of having the skull reamed out and

the ball removed. i —A student of Wabash College, while ' ‘ riding a bieycle down a hill, struck a| | mau in the back and landed him at the bottom among several dozen eggs, which t he was carrying. The student »naid $1 for the broken eggs, and the man departed happy. —Florence Boyd one,of the best known men in Clay Township, Wavne County, wi merhaps fatally hurt while ln:uiiuui T Won a ran-Handle car at Greens-j ifi%i}\ stake was thrown against his brea® with such force as to knock him ton r¥et, injuring him internally. —At Amboy a peculiar and terrible accident befell Mrs. David Lemon. She started to a neighbor’s, and had walked but thirty yards when she was stricken totally blind. She was taken back home, and an hour later became a raving maniac. Before midnight she was dead. ——A new company, with 1 capital stock

of 54,500, Las been organized at Russia- ; viile for the purpose of starting a butter ~and cheese factory on the co-operative ‘ plan. There are fifty-one stockholders, the greater number being farmers. AI contract has been let for building and equipping the factory to a Chicago firm, ‘ and the factory will be in operation about September. —Ted Ring, the Montgomery County desperado, who was serving a jail sentence in Parke County for beating his| grandfather, broke jail and returnedto Crawfordsville, where he was thrown out of @ saloon and rearrested. —Henry Schenk, of Montgomery County, made an attempt to commit suicide by jumping in the creek, but the water was not of sufficient depth, and he will b€ sent to the insane asylum, where he had been undergoing treatment. i

—Aaron Hudson, of Montgomery | '| County, who, in attempting to commit ;‘ suicide, severed his wind-pipe, is able to | be up again and at work. \ —The Cerealine Manufacturing Com-

pany at Columbus is erecting a $27,000 elevator, as a store-house for corn to be used in the manufacture of cerealine. ~ —Panhandie Engineer John Manes, of Hartford City, has presented the Soldiers’ Home at Marion with one of the eagles captured at English lake, Porter County. —Charles Mc¢Millen, sent to the South-

ern prison for two years in March, 1890, from Parke County, for larceny, has been paroled by the Governor upon petition of the court officials and many citizens, including the man from whom Me- | Millen stole two revolvers, the theft for which he was sentenced. He is only 17 "| years old, and was led into crime by an older man, who is now serving a sentence 11 at Michigan City. - —A wood-house was erected in the

yard of a country school in Montgomery County, and was painted. Ina few days a saloon advertisement was painted on the building, and tne trustee promptly painted over it. Inafew days an advertisement for a grocery was found on it, and again it was painted over. One morning last week it was found that the Barnum show-bills had been pasted on the shed, and then all further attempts

O KROC :v' > DUuldlNg . ree _{ron _2clOls y a5 AL e e ST, —Numbers of flsh are being found dead and dying in White River, near Matinsville, ané the river banks are lined with buzzards, feeding on the bodies. People who have examined the fish say dynamite cannot have been the cause. It is claimed the fish are poisoned by filth thrown in the river ot Indianapolis. Some, however, say that dynamite is being used, regardless of the law, and it is certain that explosions are frequently heard about daylight. The Fish Commissioner’s attention will be called in this direction. —Seventeen months ago Willie, the 13- ‘ vear-old son of Louis Affelder, a very prominent and respected citizen of Peru, ! disappeared, and since then not the ! slightest trace has been obtained of his | ! whercabouts, though his father expended | a fortune in advertising and in deteetive agencies. The other day Willie came { home. He had spent his time seeing the - ‘ world in all large cities, as was his in- + | tention when he ranaway. He spent the ‘ last seven months in San Francisco, was |in hicago for the first two weeks work- , | ing as messenger in a police station, dur- . | ing which time the Chicago Pinkertons had the case. v{ —Conrad Morgan beat his way from y ‘ Dublin to Richmond on a freight train, t | to see Forepaugh's circus, and after the | show he was trying to beat his way - | back. It was dark, and Morgan leaped .- | from the train to avoid arrest. It hapd | pened to be on the bridge, nearly seventy feet to the water where he jumped. & - JREse T g st Ra ol Sst s B

3 opped and word scent | back to look for his dcad body, bnt he had struck some soft dirt in the side of the blufl, and rolled, perhaps, sixty feet to where he was found unconscious. He had sustained only a fractured wrist and a few bruises, and after a nightin St Stephen’s Hospital was able to be sent { home. —Miss Mary H. Krout, one of the lady managers of the World's Fair Commission from Indiana, had a narrow escape in a runaway in Crawfordsville. She ' was in a carriage on the way to the ‘ Monon depot t <eturn to Chicago. The driver left the horses standing in front of a botel, and during his absence the team | ‘ started rapidly down the street to the { 'bus stabie. Turning the corner, the wheel struck a teiephone pole, and Miss 1| Krout was violently thrown against the | side of the vehicle. The horses were l caucht. and as the carriage failed to be ‘-»\«-rturno-d. Miss Krout escaped with . | nothing worse than a scare and a bad ) % shaking up.

—A large pin-oak log was being sawed ' at Jesse Cox's saw-mill, at Seymour when the saw struck some hard substance. The engine was stopped, and the side of the log was chopped into, and a whole horse-shoe was found, the outer end of which had been struck by the saw. The tree had been sawed down in the old fair arounds in the northeast partof the city. The shoe was located about three feet from the end of the log, and there were twenty-six distinet yearly growths over ’tho- outside part of the sboe. The outside of the tree was smoothly grown over, and there was nothing to indicate the hidden shoe and save an indistinct snare in the bark. —A dastardly attempt was made to wreck the Pacitic express on the Wabash railway,a mile east of Wabash. A steel rail, Iving in a rack at the side of the i track,was thrown across the rails in such ' amanner as to derail any traia passing. A huge bowlder, weighing five hundred pounds, was rolled upon the track five hundred feet further west. The express, running at the rate of fifty miles an hour, struek the rail, the engineer not perceiving it until he was nearly on it The truck wheels of the locomotive left I the track, and ran aleng the ties for some distance. lortunately the drivers l held the rails, else the entire train would almost certainly have gone down a fortyfoot emtankment. —A series of lawsuits tetween a son i and his fatner. which has been in in the | Montgomery County Court for ten years, has at last ended. The son froze to death last winter and his body iies in a pauper's grave. —The body of Thecdore Timme, a well-known resident of New Haven, Allen County, was found near the Wabash Railroad track at that place. The body was fearfully mutilated. It issupposed that he was run over by a train. Timms leaves a large family.

M s YT 3 | THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. e e e AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE LESSON. Reflections of an Elevating Character— Wholesome ¥ood for Thought — Studying the Seriptural Lesson Intelligently \ and Profitably. ; The lesson for Sunday, May 31, may be found in 2 Chron. 24 4-14.

INTRODUCTORY. Heredity is something, but it is not iron. It may well make us fear, but it need not cause us to despair. This same Joash, who works so loyally for God in the lesscn betore us, had for his greatgrandparents the notorious Ahab and Jozebel. But God had intervened and tonched his heart with a new inspiration from ‘on high. There is an almost romantic interest attaching to the story of the long concealment of the young prince in the house of the high priest. His pious rearing shows itself in his kingly career, and proves azain how qm

bringing up tells more than does tha blood in the after life. It is a lesson of peculiar interest to the young, and it has its suggestions also for the Jehoiadas and Jehoshebas of to-day. WIHAT THE LESSON SAYS. After this. The things narrated in the opening verses—the young king’s coronatfon and establishment in the kingship.——Was minded. Hebrew: Upon the heart of Joash.——Repair. First meaning, to make new or Ixfeshisi. g.., lenew. So rendered at.2.Chron. 15: W 4 & AR R M e s

watnerea. Probably a formal religious convocation.——To repair the house. Not the same word as repair inv. 4. This means to strengthen. The word oceurs in this sense at Eze. 30:21.— Hasten. Hebrew: Be quick. Required. Or investigated. The word 'means to make dilligent search, inquisition. First meaning to tread out. Jehoiada was responsible for the right performance of the duties en’oined upon the Levites.——Collection. Literally, the lifting up; hence, tribute. That wicked woman. Emphatic and placed first in the Hebrew.——Broken up. More accurately, made a breach. ——Dedicated things. Or the holy things. An added desecration.——Bestow upon. The word also means to make a sacrifice with. See Douay. (Variations. ) At what time. Or, when the time -ame. ——King's office. Or Officer. Hebrew: mustering.——Emptied. To pour yut from.——Gathered. The first meannz of the word, quite suggestively, is to sweep together. lepair. Same word as in v. 4 The king’s “mind” is now wiecuted.—— Mend. Same as word rendered repair in v. 5; to strengthen, perhaps with girders. The word was perfected. A pecaliar Hebrew idiom. Healing went up on the work, i. e. repairs.——ln his state. Hebrew, measure, proportion. See iaria--1 tions. Before the king. Literally, the face of the king-——To minister, or of serv- | jco.——Continually. The daily burnt T offering. : WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. : Joash was minded to repair the house {| of the Lord. Give the young man a _| chance. Encouragé the Christian youta _| of the land in this new spirit of endeavor for the Master. If we under- - | stand this young prople’s movement at a¥ wt iGlWie AR R e Ll Rt e

all, it means for one thing, and tHal o —— later Joash is minded to repair the house of the Lord. Not that he proposes to improve on what has been so grandly wrought under God, through his elders of Israel. The foundation of God standeth sure. The word of the Lord abideth l forever. DBut the service of the Lord’s : house may suffer loss and decline in the | wear and tear of the years. There | nerds to be a new spiritual equipping with each generation, to keep abreast of the times. When young Joash is thus minded, shall we not all thank God and take a hold with him? ilowbeit the Levites hastened i% nst. I.et that be sai® of a former generation of ministers. It is a sad thing for any advance movement when the Lord’s own aceredited servants are behindhand with it. Bad for the movement and bad for the servants. If the Lord has called his ministers for any known purpose, it is to hasten the coming of the Lord. And | vet how slow and tardy are some of those

called t)the work. keeping away from the thick of the fight, counseling at times retreat rather than advance. It is not well. This is a day for the bugle call and the battle ery; for the anointed of the Lord to be at the front, urging on | to new aggression and to certain victory. O to hear it, in lofty confidence, ail along the line, “We will rejoice (triumphj in thy salvation. and in the name of our Giod we will set up banners,” God’s banners—not ounrs! 3 And all the people rejoiced, and brought in. Certainiy. What better time for rejoicing? The joy times are always the growing times. As we bring in of our litt'e substance, God brings in of his boundiess grace. And so it is more b'essed (i. e. more profitable) to xive than to receive. A friend of ours was «alling the attention of a goodly company of us, some time since. to the fact that the word cheerful in she familiar Scripture, “The Lord loveth a cheerful giver,” is the Greek word ilarios, ery like our English term,> ™ hilarious. which comes from this same root; and so he choze to read it for the time just foritssuggestiveness—a giving tl#.t is almost hilarious, bubbling over with joy. Well, there is such a thing as the luxury of giving. Have you learned it? Thus they did day by day and gathcred money in abundance. It is the way to increase our charch treasuries. Everybody giving and giving daily. GGool Dr. Stimson oyer there in Indiana and through the Southern precinets keeps ringing the changes on the words, overy one of you, on the first day of the week, as the Lord hath prospered. Some of us will never forget it. Some of our churches are profising by it. Why not all? Perhaps those Israelites were feoding rather peor, like some of the rost of us. but when they set to work in this fashion they found the money—money in abundance. Try it yourself and see. They set the house of God in state and strengthened it. Perhaps we do not revercnee the Lord's house as we should. Perbaps we do not set it in its proper state and sirength. Happy the people that begin to think of the sanctuary as they think of their own homes—a place to be made beautiful and rich with all that is pieasant and good. Such a people the Lord loves to bless, where church and home go forward together. Make the temp'e of worship such in every way that von may really and truly say: “F was giad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord.” Next week: ¢Hezekiah, the Good King.” 2 Chron. 29: 1-li.