St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 11, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 26 September 1891 — Page 3

DOW DICK AND JOE; CB Th© Poorliouse Waifs. BY DAVID LOWRY. _ CHAPTER XXI. JOE MEETS MB. rHATT¥ AGAIN’. At half past ten Monsieur Dufaur's bell rang. “See! it is Mistenßrown —or that boy!” said Madame Dufaur. “I know it! —I feel it. ” Monsieur Dufaur ushered the clown, his cheery wife, and Dick into the room a minute later. Mrs. Brown was quick to perceive something was ami-s. “Are you not well, Madame Dufaur?” she said. “O! Monsieur must tell you—l cannot ” “It is a very strange affair,’’said Monsieur Dufaus. “Incomprehensible,” said Madame. “Inexplicable,” added her husband mournfully. “It is poor Joe—the child has disappeared.” “What!” exclaimed Dick. “Joe lost!" “Since—it will be three hours since she - ■went out,” said Madame Dufaur. “And which way did you send her?" asked the c'own, with a serious face. “O! ’twas but a little ways—only five minutes' walk .She has often returned in fifteen minutes—yes, less time.” There was a profound silence. Then the clown spoke. “Whatever is done must ba done i quickly. ” “What can I do? Tell me. I will do anything,” said Monsieur Dufaur, holding out his hands. “You —we must go to the police.” “I have been to seo the police—l have told all—have described the girl.” “Well—did you tell them to exert themselves to their utmost’” “I have said to them: ‘Spare no pains, spare no means; I will pay 1 berally. ’ What more can I do? Yes, I can advertise in the papers. Then I am done. I can do no more ” “I can,” said Dick, decisively. They looked at him. “Eh? You! What can you do?” Monsieur Dufaur looked down on him ■with a look of wonder. “I will go round and ask all the boys in the streets about here, and in the stores. I'll ask the policeman on this square. I'll keep asking till I find something. ” “I guess you are right. Double Dick,” said the c'own. “That’s business with a big B. But 1 can’t help any, I’m afraid However, I’ll see you can have plenty of time. ” “It is a dificult task, ” said Monsieur, “still it is better than doing nothing. I am glad someone can do it. As for me, I can employ a detective. I aid not think of that ” “That is business, too,’’said tho clown. Ben Brown had formed a plan he resolved to pursue on his own account, but he said nothing. So they separated sadly, Madame Dufaur grieving that she had permitted Joe to go out alone after dark. Monsieur Dufaur to employ a detective immediately, Dick to inquire of all the boys he encountered residing . near at hand, while Ben went away to 1 consult a friend whom he thought would assist in the search. Meanwhile I will relate what "befell Joe that evening. Joe had performed the errand required of her and was returning home, when sho was accosted by a poor woman who begged permission “just to speak to her. ” The woman looked so wretched that Joe’s heart was touched. “There is a little money—l'm so sorry I can't give you any more ” “O! thank you—but if anybody would* come and see my sick child—if anybody would do something for her.” “Is it a girl?” “Just like you, miss.” “Where do you live?” “Just in here below —in a cellar." “In a cellar!” “Yes, and awful bad it is.” Joe was distressed. “I can't do anything.” “No! but you might send some one—after I've took you to see. ” “I’ll go with you—now, but I can’t stay a m'l'JiXg- ” TV 7*? that poor Joe's syrnpa^nus it y a SiunQn. The poo r roman urines wereplayeW*^ 0 lue jH was employed simply ~ Boor Joe walked with open into the trap. - There are many such traps i'^ ICj । large cities. O “Why, you said it was just here?” “We'll be there directly; here we are now, miss.” The woman entered a dark passage; the next instant Joe felt a pair of hands around her mouth and throat, while a ; voice whispered in her ear: “Keep quiet, or I'll murder you; try to scream or run, and it will be your last move. ” But, notwithstanding this horrible threat, Joe struggled, freed herself, and opened her mouth to cry for help, when she received a blow that deprived her of consciousness. When she regained consciousness she heard a man's voice, saying: “I had to do it; she'a brought someone down on us in a second. She's not hurt any. I didn’t hurt her; just stunned her a trifle. It’ll teach her a lesson.” “Yes; but if you hurt her Jenks will Make a row, and you know it. You'd better ’fess up, and don't bring me

in it ” , “You’re awfully afraid of Jenks; I m not. ” “Yes, you are, for all you blow so much.” There was more said, but Joe did.not hear it. The voices were lowered. Evident y the speakers had discovered that she was conscious. The name Jenks somehow impressed her. Who was Jenks? Why were they afraid of Jenks? What was he like? Was it to please him she was brought there? These and other questions passed rapidly through Joe’s troubled brain as she lay with her eyes closed, listening intently. So the young man’s warning was based on good grounds. Somebody was seeking to injure her, and it wasn t Mr. Caper, either. Oh, if she had only listened to that young Mr. Pratty! What would Monsieur and Madame Dufaur think? What would they do? They might think she was an ingrate, and ran away the first" opportunity that presented. They nrght think she was

playing a part all this time B.it, mt! Surely—surely Madame Dufaur would credit her with more honesty! “Poor Joe! Little did she dream of the commotion her absence caused in th# domicile of the Dufaurs. “Hello! You’re npt asleep?” It was a harsh, coarse voice D 't ad- । dressed her, as a hand was pl don her shoulder. Joe sprang upright as she said, with flashing eyes: “How dare youl No! I’m very wide-awake now. And you’d better bo careful how you treat me, because I've fri'nds. ” “Friends, have yer!” “Yes; friends wh> are able to punish people who ill-use mo.” “Who's ill-using you?” “None o’ that now. You let the girl < be; mind what I told you, or you'll wish । you had ” “Well—but 1 don't want her chinnin’ । me!” | Then a young man, with a sle« k face and a manner that made Joo recoil, ho was so snaky and sneaking, approached , her, and in a low voice, designed to reassure her, said: j “Don't you be afraid, miss; this is a respectable house—we’re the most respectable folks in tho city. We wouldn't hurt a hair o' yer head. No, bless you, not for the world. ” Joo fe't precisely as you have felt when your hand came in contact with a toad. She drew ba<?k (sho was reclining in a broken rocking chair) and looked fearfully at tho oily .speaker. “Do—do go away. If you don’t mean harm, what did you brhig mo here so i let mo go home.” I “Well, wo will by and by. You see—mind, I’m your friend—your true friend —tliis is a matter I’m not allowed to mix in. Same time I’ll 'see no harm comes to you. ” There was a sound in the adjoining j room Joe recognized quickly—a clinking lof glasses. She listened intently, but she did not distinguish any of the voices she heard in the next room. Suddenly the two men l # eft her, and a minute later a face—a face Joe recognized in the darkness —looked in at her. It was the face of Mr. Pratty, the young man who had warned her of danger. Would he recognize her? The , face camo nearer—then Mr.- Pratty spoke. “It isn’t—it cannot bo the young lady I met at ” “At Monsieur Dufaur’s—it is. O, take me away at once Joe exclaimed. “Sh!” exclaimed Mr. Pratty. “Sh! I must seo that we are not observed.” Mr. Jenks, alias Pratty, put a hand to his head thoughtfully, after the manner of actors in melo dramas, and leaned toward Joe. “I never was so surprised in all my life—never!” CHAPTER XXII. THE LAW CLERK’S BOLD SCHEME. Mr. Pratty advanced and spoke In a whisper. “How came you here —who brought you here?” There was a clinking of tumblers, and under cover of the noise Joe said in a rapid speech: “I don’t know—they hit me and stunned me —I don’t know who, but 1 know their faces. They were here a moment ago.” “You are sure?” * “They just went out.” “Then they must be in the next room.” Mr. Pratty put a hand over his mouth, and leaning in a 'dramatic manner toward the door, to which one thumb pointed, he jerked the thumb signili♦cant y. Joe nodded ouickly. “Humph? Wei], it’s lucky I camo in Trere~-i Trever am ireru— u<eopt on busi~ ness. I’m a lawyer's clerk (he didn't say he was his uncle’s), and I’ve got to go around hunting up witnesses in all kinds of p'aces. This” —lowering his voice—“is a'terrible p ace—for a young lady. Terrible.” “Can’t you tell the po'ice, or tell my friends, and they’ll soon get me away—yes, and Monsieur Dufaur will punish them for it. They’ll n'ever meddle witMi any ono again, if Monsieur Dufaur catches them. ” “Yes, no doubt But this is a ticklish thing. Awful ticklish. You see, the very moment I go out they'll take you somewhere e'se, and then how am I to prove I saw you here? Whv, they’d swear through thick and thin they never saw you—never heard of you. And I’d be laughed at. No! I've a better plan than that. I’ll pretend I know you—that you're a friepd of mine, and in short, Miss, I’ll just have to make believo I won’t have no nonsense, because you are my particular favorite. See?” Joe did not see, and said so very prompt y. “Why can’t you make a row now, and then 111 run away and find the read home ” H cfTb^v’d think nothing of settling, my f.~i^ “and they’d bo rougher In the first p'acc, I must find out who s“s£t tho bottom of this. I must find out who’s paying them to do this, and all about it, in short. Then 11l spring a trap on them. Now, I’ll slip out again, and if you don’t see me soon you may bo suro I'm working a plan to get you out of their clutches. ” Then Mr. Jenks darted out quickly and Joo was left alone again. Sho looked eagerly about tho room Thore was no means of exrt. There was but one door, and that led into the room where sho heard loud voices and tho clinking of g asses. Ihe time seemed interminable to poor Joo. In reality but ten or fifteen min u'es elapsed, but Joo never could believe h urs did not roll round before Mr. Jenks reappeared softly. “I thought you had gone—l was sure you had gone.”

JI lava “No. I was just getting to the bottom of this business Now, listen to me. I’m a lawyer's clerk, as I told you. I know all about the law. There’s somebody has a claim on you.” “I know —Mr. Caper, of Barnesville Poorhouse. O, 11l die—lJl kill myself before I’ll go back there,” Joe cried. “Well, now, you may'believe me or ; not^ they can take you ” “Not if Monsieur Dufaur or Mr. Job Wonder knows it ” j “Y’ou just listen a minute, then you'll i see just how it is. In the first place— j now don’t interrupt me till I get through. I In the first place, the i.oorhouse author- ’ ities can take you. I suppose you’ve an idea of that sort. In the next place, j there’s an old farmer who says he is responsible for you to that Mr. Capqf, or to the authorities of Acorn County. It seems the old codger is in New Yorknow don't speak, wait till I'm done. Well, he's interested mightily. He’ll lose, I guess, five hundred dollars if he can’t produce you when Acorn County authorities demand you. So, he’s anxious to get out of that fix. But it

seems he's made a deal -with the supei^ Intendent of tho poorhouso like thist The old farmer’s not to be known In it ono way o. - other. He camo to town and i spied around —got poll omen and detoct- । tlves—found you out —then, Instead of I felling them to nab you—you soo, to do that ho would have to figure in it, and i as near as I can learn, ho s a raid his wife will make it warm for him if ho (jets i his iMimo in the papers—as it would; it I couldn’t help Loing printed when it [ comes Into court, as it must. So ho is ■ pretty sly—awful sly is tho old farmer—- [ lie finds a gang of fellows who will hold you till they get word to Zeke t'apor, and i lie’ll send on, or come on himself —more like he will come on to Now York hlm- ! self, and then, whoa ho gets you back in Acorn County, why, no ono will suspect tho farmer's had a hand in it—and it loaves him out —no more responsibility on his shoulders.” | “I don't believe it,” Joe cried—but the doubts had entered tho poor girl s heart —sho did boliove it—and tho disillusion was more difficult t> bear up^under than . tho dread of encountering Zeke Capor : again. “Well—that's just all I learned—l boHevo it. It s clear enough to me, miss. ” “It Is Job Wonder—tho man who was kindest to mo ” I “Ah. That’s a pity, too.” “lie—he—lio,” Joe was sobbing now, “called at Monsieur Dufaur s to day. ” “What!” exclaimed Jenks. He was not a bad actor —Ike Jenks’ surprise I seemed real. j “He called to—to—tote’l us if—if anything happened mo—so Madame Dufaur I told me —to be sure and send him wor^* and he would do all ho could to help me.” ; “Ah h!” Jenks’ exclamation seemed to be final. “That settles it. ” “What settles it?” “Why—don't you see? He knew beforehand, and how did ho know? Because he had planned it. Then the , cheek of the scoundrel—to go to your I house and pretend he would help find you!” ; Mr. Isaac Jenks, alias Pratty, was । virtuosly, furiously indignant at such ' treachery. He eou'd not say enough ill J of Job Wonder. Poor Joe was abashed—dumfounded. “The worst of it is, If you should man- ' age to get back to Monsieur Dufaur’s i either Zeke Caper or Mr. Wonder I O, he is a wonderful sly Wonder, is he—- > either of them can walk right in, take I you out of the houses and no one dare I say boo. That's the law. Suppo.se ! Monsieur Dufaur or his wife is inclined . । to resist, well, then, they 11 be arrested; I । and before they get out of the muss it’ll ■ cost 'em —well, knowing what I know, I ! seeing what I’ve seen of interfering . । with law, if they get off with a hundred ' dollars apiece to two or three lawyers— ' and it’ll take two or three sure, and । two or three hundred to pay th ' ”*s 1 about court —well, they’ll be luck “O, dear! That would bo dreadim—all | j that money to pay just because they might want to help me! ” “O! You don t know nothing about it, j ' miss. How can vou. I know—because : i I’m in the law so much.” | “I can’t go back to Monsieur Dufaur's, I I if I could get awav—l can't go anywhere! I don’t know anybody. My God! ■ What shall I d > ” Joe bent her head and wept. “I'll—l'll take something—l'll do some- I thing desperate—l’ll never go back to the poorhouse—never!” And Joe meant it. Jenks saw it In her face, and it suited his vile pt.rpose. “They shan't take you back—l won’t let them ” “But yon said no one could prevent them—^at nobody must In tetter** " • “•J Joe lookeif^at him in astorfJ^ttidKt hope lit up her faro azain. She smiled as she asked him, “Then what did you say?” “I said Dufaurs dare not Interfere ” “Well”— Joe’s face becanv downeast again. “There’s just ono way only one.” Ho looked at her very kindly, and winningly. as he thought. Joe thought he was very sorrv for her. “Well—what is it.”’ The noise and laughter In the next room grew louder. Jenks continued. “Why—if you were married nobody , could touch you. Zeke Caper might have a'l tho officers in Acorn CounVy to back I him all the lawyers in Now York, and j you'd laugh at them if if you had a hueband. He'd make them stand back mighty quick. He would.” “Married!” Joo echoed tho word scarcely realizing its meaning. “Yes, but I’m not married! So what’s tho use of telling me that?” “But you could bo. ” He said no more. There was no need. Joe's quick eyes saw all he meant. Sho Hushed scarlet “I understand.” [to be continued.] L , BaTTT«i.eh of a Briton. An amusing incident is reported from Paris as having occurred at tho race meeting at Auteuil. An Knglishman, whose French must have been that of the public schools, went to the Pads mutual booth and asked for 900 francs’ j worth of tickets on Papillon Quatre. His pronunciation, however, was not : sufficiently understood by tho clerk in I charge to enable him to carry out tho ■ ; wishes of his client. He understood that the individual wanted to back the 1 i horse whose name was number four^on the list, as he could make out a ''resemblance between the word Quatre, meaning four, as the Englishman pro--1 nouneed it, and the sound he in common with other Parisians give it. Acting, therefore, in accordance with the idea he supposed had been conveyed to

him, the clerk gave the Englishman ninety ten-franc tickets on Jeanne la Folle; smiling as he did so, for Jeanne, although fourth on the list, was perhaps the rankest outsider which had been entered. But with that blind luck which often causes a man to stumble on something vhieh he would never I see were his eyes or intelligence not b iuded at the time, it happer e 1 that this I error was the cause of the greatest ; good fortune that could have happened. I to this badly-pronouncing-French EngI lishman. La Folle, to the surprise of । everybody, and to the surprise and hvr.or of the clerk of the Paris-Mutual I booth, actually won the race, and the i Englishman discovered his mistake I afterwards when, looking at his tickets, he found that “the confounded French fellow who couldn’t understand what I meant, as if my French was bad and my accent not so pure as his own, actually made an error which cost him no less than 61,400 francs.”

I SUNDAY SCHOOL ■ | /^RESTING AND INSTRUC- ‘ TIVE LESSON. an Elevating Character—s J ■ Food for Thought — Studying ’jMptural Lesson Intelligently and LessoJept- 27—Quarterly Review. Lesslie Word Made Flesh. John 1: 1-IM i Memfrses: 11-13. I Gold&t: “The Word was made Cosh X>lt among us.” John 1: 14. 1 Less!hrist’s First Disciples. John । 1: 29-4 Menlerses: 40-42. । Golfißxt: “Behold the I amb of God, keth away the sin of the ■ world ilhn 1: 29. Loss 1 Christ’s First Miracle. John 2: 1-10 MetnVerses: 1-5. Golffi't: “This beginning of miracles .esus in Can t of Galilee, and manif/forth his glory. Jolin 2: 11LesXfChrist and Nicodemus. Jolin 3: 1-11 MoJVerses: 14-17. GolJ^xt. “For God so loved the worldt bo gave his only begotten Fbn,*’whosoever believeth in Him thoukmerish, but have everla ting life. ” pi 3: 16. Le ». Chri-t at Jacob’s Well. John ^■L'rZA’erso ! . 13, 14.

* “Whomever wi 1. let the watcr of life frcoly -” *(j. Christ’s Authority. John Njry Verse’. 24-27. Gob Text “All power is given unto I in heaven and in earth.” Matt4lß. , , , 1.0. 7. The Five Thousand l ed. Johnl-14. Mejy Verse-'. 11-13-Got Text. “I am that bn ad of life. ”<>hn 6: 48. Loi 8. Christ, the Bread oi Life. John 2tl 40. Miry Versos 33-35. Goh'Text, “bo'd- evermore gno us tliiread.” Jolin 6: 34.

Lem 9. Christ at the Feast. John 7: 311. M©ry Verses. 31-33. Goin Text. “If any min thirst let him me unto mo and drink.” John I 7; 3; . ' Lain 10. The Tr.e Children of God. John 8: 31-47. M<ory Voises. 33-3A i , Geon Text “As many as receive 1 him,.) them gav • he power to become : ! the ns of God.” -'o;in 1: 12Loon 11. Christ and the Dim I Man. ' Joint: 1-11 ami 35-38. Moory Verses. 35-38. Gden Text “One thing I kn o *; thatwhcrcas I was blind, now I see. • JohA): 25. Ltson 12. Christ tho Good bhepherc -John 10: 1-1 it Ntnory Versos 14-lA G <len Text “Tho Lord is my shop hen 1 shall not want.” Is. 23: 1. introductory. W glvo a’-ovo the outline of tho

Qnaterly Review. Tho superinton ent witi the aid of the blackboard, together with a school responsive to his call, in b*th teacher' and scholars, can make of | It what ho will, and tho exorcise will bo , nost profitable ethers will wish to , the time to the temperance lesson, perhaps a lesson on missions, which ley may select For those «ho choose tn follow tHo temperance lesson, sußti- - nttMcXiMlies, a few notes v <C herewith appended. » XOTK«. It takes many feet to make a “path.” ami many paths tn form a “way " But “broad is the wa; that leadeth to de-! s’ruction. ” Ami the reason is plain ■ । “Many there ho which go in thereat.” I The best way to k<-ep out of the evil course is to adopt the advice of the. writer of the i ro.< rb<, “Avoid it, pass pot by it, turn from it and pas< away.” Many other plans h'ave been tried; none have worked so well as this T ake some other road, find another path. There Is no doubt, of it, the dram shop !is set to do evil. Quite fitting the words of Solomon in such an application: I “They sleep not except they have done ; mischief. ” AH night saloons, for instance. We cannot afford to trifle with evil. It is after the words, “lead us not I into temptation,” that tho appeal is put, , “deliver us from evil.” “Bread of wick-dne«,” “wino of violence.” they feed on mischief, their meat ! and their drink, literally, todo the will lof their master, the devil. sou cannot ! regulate such. Where wickedness is bread for t'ae mouth and violence is wine for the tongue, wickedness and violence . are not going to be put away while th institution rema ns Vou cannot regulate a hungry fox so that lie can live jieace^bly with fowls. Keep the fowls away. Or to be sure—strange we didn't think of it-—kill the fox! They were passing the usual temper- : an e resolutions in ti e Indiana State I Convention. The saloon; they said, “an oxil, and that continually.” Yes, an [evil, butwhy continual! y? Some of us I have not settled down to that; we pro- ' pose to fight the saloon unt 1 it is not j only considered a moral offense but a i national outlaw, and there shall be found l ' no place for it in our fair American civ- । i ilization. There are two ways along l I which tire seer looks in this passage. One is the way of the wicked and he i says it ends in “darkness.” T lie other ' ! is the way of the righteous, and “it is ’ I,a shining light that shineth more and ‘ more unto the perfect <!ay. ” Thank God for such a vision. May it be ours! ’ “The coming of the kingdom drawetb > nigh."

Passing Events. A family at J^rristown, Ta., keeps forty-two cats. There are live prosperous colonies of Mormons in Mexico. A deaf and dumb book agent is the latest novelty in New York. Two large blocks of coal in the Presidential arch in Tacoma, Wash , weighed six tons each. The Lick telescope has revealed a tiny moon as a satellite of one of Jupiter’s moons. In the Solomon Islands the market ■ quotation on a “good quality” wife is 10,000 cocoanuts. j In proportion to its population, Australia is the largest tea consuming coun- ' try. England comes next. I A company has been chartered to build a bridge across the Delaware at Philadelphia; cost *2,000,000. i Statistics show that eight times as many murders are committed in Italy I as in any other European country..

THESE ACTUAL FACTS*' ALL FOUND WITHIN THE BORDERS OF INDIANA. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors — Crimes, Casualties, Deaths, Etc. —Jesse Sweet fell from the roof or a barn near Frankfort and was instantly । killed. —John Voorhees, while digging a well at Flora, struck a pocket of gas. He 1 will drill a well. I —Alexander McLoed, who was nearly । cut in two at Eckerty, is fast recovering and able to walk. —The sixth anniversary of the Pythias I Lodge at Peru will be celebrated Oct. 7 । with r tournament. —A State military company is being organized at Muncie. There will be an armory and gymnasium. —Xenia, lying on the edge of the gasbolt in Miami County, is said to be indulging in the luxury of a boom. । —Mrs. Elizabeth Conway, of Greensburg, died from an injury produced by j puncturing her foot with a rusty nail. I —Notice has been served on Greencastle saloon-keepers that th practice of throwing dice for the drinks must cease.

—lion. H. Francis, Senator from La I Porte and associate editor ot the Weekly I Dispatch, died in Michigan City after a three days’ illness. _ । —Dr. W. P. Wherry’s carriage collided . with another at Fort Wayne. Both buggies were smashed and Dr. W herry narrowly escaped death. I Beter H. Bottorff, of Gibson, Clark County, has had his horse and buggy i stolen from his barn no less than three i times within the past few months. —Harry Snyder, of Michigan City, I book-keeper for the Rawson & Root Lum5 ber Company, has departed, leaving a I considerable shortage in his accounts.

F. W. Bowman, of Charlestown, has discovered a large vein of cement rock on his farm at Grassy Flats. The strata if forty feet thick and lies immediately on the river. j —lncendiaries fired the stores of Matthews & Pnvill and Orlando Rinker, at . Centerville. Loss on the first, SI,600; I covered by insurance. Loss on tho i latter, nominal. —John Mace, a convict, made his escape from the Prison South. He was at work with a gang of prisoners in the rear of the penitentiary premises and i slipped away unnoticed by the guards. mysterious ailment has attacked tho horses in New Albany. A dozen or more family horses have died during the past ten days, being seized with a sudden illness and dying within a few ’ hours.

—John Q. Davis, of Rising Sun, be- : came demented and wandered away from home. The fire bells called out the ( i citizens, and he was found lying in a hoi- . low near town. He died the same evening, without any signs of sickness. Charlestown’s new bank has opened its doors. Its officers are: President, M. B. Bole; Vice President, W. H. | TYeen; cashier, A. M, Guernsey; directors, M. B. Cole, W. 11. Watson, J?~D. Sharp. W. H. Green and J F. Baird. —Th)' Indiana game laws open as follows: Deer, Oct. Ito Jan. 1; quail and pheasant, Oct. 15 to Dee. 29; wild turkey, Nov. 1 to Feb. 1; prairie chickens, ' Sept. 1 to Feb. 1; woodcocks, July 1 to Jan. 1; wild ducks, Sept. 1 to April 15; squirrels, June 11 to Dec. 20. —Mrs. John Wagner, residing near North Manchester, started home, walking down the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Railroad track. As she was crossing the trestle over the river an en- ’ gine, with one box-car attached, ran her down. Fortunately she fell between the rails and lay flat on the ties. As she is of very slight build, by hugging the ties closely, permitted the engine and car to pass over her without inflicting serious injury, though she was painfully cut and bruised about the head and body. She is 60 years old.

—The little 2-year-old son of Prof. J. ‘ T. Reese, teacher of music in the Con- ' nersville Public Schools, came very near meeting his death by accident. The lit-J tie fellow walked down to the Big Four ! tracks just as a freight, two hours late, । came rushing through the city. He sat down on the track, and as the whistle gave alarm again and again the little । fellow heeded it not. While the train ; was approaching the fireman crawled ' over the engine, reached the cow-catcher । and seized the boy by the arm just in . time to save his life. The fireman has ; received the praise of all for his heroic • deed. i I —Four well-known farmers of Wabash . County were swindled by Bernerd and j Hunter, the patent fence sharps who re- ’ ; 1 cently caught a number of Delaware I County agriculturalists. Their names 1 are Minus Farlow, Jacob France, Fred-

erick Burkholder, and Frederick Burk-. hart. They gave them notes for large sums for the patent right in their townships. Before the swindlers left town, however, the farmers discovered that they had bought the right to sell a patent which had expired two years ago, and came in and adjusted the matter with the bank that had bought the notes by discounting the same at 15 per cent. —The onion crop raised by the farmers residing on the river bottom west of New I Albany is said to be very large and tine this season. Four hundred barrels have already been shipped to Northern points. I As the west-bound fast train on the Wabash thundered ♦hrough Burrow's Station, a lad about twelve years of age jumped off the train. He was instantly killed. There was nothing on his person by which to identify him. He is thought to have bailed from Royal Center, Cass , County.

THAT ALL IS 111 11^. XTUat Our Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of General and Local Jnteiest —Accidents, Crimes, Suicide, Etc. —David Ferris was killed by a Lake Shore engine at Waterloo. —A new daily paper has been started at Veedersburg, by C. M. Berry, of the News. —Mark Posey, brakeman on the C.,W. & M., went to sleep on top of a car, fell off and was badly injured. | —Thieves entered Dr. W. B. Duncan’s drug store at Patoka, near Princeton, and carried off .S4OO worth of iroods. | —The fast pacing stallon Roy Wilkes, will pace to beat his record of 2:08*4 at Fort Wayne, on Thursday, Sept. 24th. | —C. J. Cottingham, of Crawfordsville, has gathered a crop of pears from a tree that is beginning to blossom again. : —A 15-month-old child of George ■ , Vawter, Queensville,- near North A er- ’ non, fell into a swill-barrel and was । drowned. - । —Lew Adams, a Delaware County 3 farmer, is about to die from blood poit soning, caught from a horse which he I was doctoring.

—Thirty have died of diphtheria at SUelbyvilla. The schools' have been closed and the Mayor has ordered quarj ant'.ne measures to be taken. —Roy Gibson, a 4-year-old child, was killed in a runaway at Mt. Vernon. The ' boy had climbed into his father's wagon | and began whipping the horses. —Foster Fletcher applied for a license to sell liquor at Newmarket, but the County Commissioners refused him. The people there are bent on local option. —Joseph Pierce, jr., and John McWhiney, ofWayneton, were hunting and Pierce accidentally shot his companion lin the breast. The wound will not be

fatal. Dr. Farr, of Hindoostan, Monroe ' County, has > 3-foot 4-inch beard. It reaches below his knees. The doctor is |4B years old and has not shaved for sis1 teen years. ■ —John Thompson and Benjamin Morris were buried beneath a mass of dirt that caved in from the walls of a gravel I pit at Muncie. The two men were dug out before they were smothered. Prof. W. V. Brown, of DePau w University, and formerly of the Indianapolis night school, is a possible succes- | sor to Prof. Jacob Norris, as professor of mathematics at Wabash College. • j —A man at Crawfordsville who was ’ endeavoring to beat a tailor out of his • 1 money for a pair of trousers was capr tured and taken to the office of the Mayor, where the garment was taken off ■» .a ioilnr

and returned to the tailor. —Farmer Ham Betson and wife, residing near Newport, after a wedded life of thirty-five years, have agreed to separate and fight the world single. Their estate has been divided. Mr. Betson takes 175 acres, and his wife gets the home and 105 acres. Postmaster Campbell, of Montpelier, has received a package by express from ' Chicago a letter requesting him to hand it to the merchant who was roboed the night the express office was robbed. D. A. Walmer & Co.’s store was broken open and goods taken, but this quilt is not his. Mr. Campbell is very much pleased with the quilt, as it is of the finest silk, and worth $25. This makes the second package Mr. Campbell has received from the same alleged burglar. —James Hughes of Muncie, came near / losing his life by injuries received from - his big stallion. For some time Hughes has known the danger of entering the stall where the vicious horse was kept, but he recklessly entered the place to take the animal out for exercise. When in the act of untying the horse, Hughes was grabbed by the back of the neck and shoulder, where the beast’s teeth tore out a large chunk of flesh. It then attempted to trample its owner. He is

now in a critical condition. —A new justice of the peace in Montgomery County has established a new way to dispose of cases, and, at the same time, place the responsibility upon the jury. After the jury was secured for the case, the attorney for the defense arose and pointed out a defect in the indictment, and moved that the case be dismissed. The justice turned to the jury and said: “Gentlemen, you have heard the motion. Those in favor of it will say ‘aye.’” The entire jury said “aye,” and the case was dismissed. —Four years ago W. G. Houk, cf j Crawfordsville, failed and his possessions .were sold to pay his debts. A colt was among the effects sold, and Mrs. Houk commenced suit* to recover the animal, claiming that it was her personal property. The case has been through the lower courts, and the Supreme Court reversed the decision and sent it back for trial. The trial was held last week, and the court held that the colt, now a horse, belonged to the woman, a~nd that she should recover the-animal. Mr. Houk wont after it, and as he was driving it to town the animal reared up on its hind legs and pitched forward in the road, breaking its neck and thus ending its existence. •—Some time ago the barn of William Eads was burned near Wabash. Eads had Isaac Dawson arrested as being the one who set it on lire. Dawson was tried but released. He has brought suit against Eads for .*IO,OOO damages. —John Gladieux was driving through the woods near Fort Wayne with a loaded'gun across his knees. The gun slipped and was discharged by striking the hub of the buggy 1 The contents of the gun entered his right side and he , will die.