St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 14, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 24 October 1891 — Page 3

DOUBLE M AND«; The Poorhouse Waifs. BY DAVID LOWRY. rHAPTEIt XXV—Continued. Ho held out a paper which a police man scanned closely, saying as, he passed it to Monsieur Dufaur, who in his turn parsed it to the clown, “Why, it is dated today.” “Yes l —we were married this nightyhero is the notary who married us.” The notary bowed assent, and Madame Dufaur again exc aimed in her native tongue, us sho he’d her hands up deprocatingly, “It is impossible—it cannot be!” “Is it true, tell me?” said Monsieur Dufaur, turning to Jee. “It is false; he want.'d me to marry him. He sa cl Mr. Caper and Mr. Wonder here, who paid them to bring me here * “Who said tha,t? Who said it?* Job could not restrain his temper. His face grew red as he turned to Jee. “He told me you p anned it all —and Mr. Caper was to pretend you didn't. He said it. And he said you and N|r. Caper would take mo no matter where I went —by law —that the only way to keep from going to Barnesville Poorhouso was to marry him.” “You thievin'—you lying—you ornary raskali!” shouted Job, making a rush lor Ike, but an officer interposed. “¥ou will have to settle this some where else. Don’t fret, old man. You've a clear case against this young man, by the looks of things. ” “I’ve given you all warning—l’ll suo you for false imprisonment—and for alienating my wife's affections,” shouted Jenks desperately, as the officers proceeded to handcuff him with the notary. “Yes,” said the notary, who, influenced by Jonks-hoped to swear himself out of the difficulty. It was two to one, he argued, until Dick spoke up. Dick waited until the notary ended his threat in these words: “Yes, gentlemen — you are making trouble for yourselves—all of you. Dll prosecute you if it costs mo my last pen y.” “No, you won't, ” exclaimed Dick. “I heard that man there plan the whole thing; ho was talking to those two men her?,” and Hick indicated two ruffians near him who wore handcuffed together.^ “I heard them plan to pretend to let in the notary as a friend —and Jon couldn't have married him after getting my note. ” “What note?” demanded Jenks, savagely. Joo quickly produced the bit of paper, and Ben Brown read it aloud. As’ho finished reading it. tho ruffian next to Dick blurted out angrily: “B ast it all' That's tho bootblack that was in heoe a while ago that you wouldn’t let me kick out. We may as well own up, Jinks; tho game’s up, so far as 1 am concerned. ” “That’s right,” said Job Wonder, dry y. “You may as well own up, ’speshally as we’ve ’bout got all we want to know without you ” Then the policemen proceedcd"with the r prisoners t > tho station, and cl .vd xvp tho vile ann, after prov.ding lodgings for its deni ons. CHAPTER XXVI. UNf AND SKFHSW-DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND. It will be necessary, to explain events in th?ir order, to return to the morning of the day on which Joe fell into the hands of ike Jenks' accomplices. ..eremiah Jenks was not inclined to pin much faith on his nephew. Certain signs — Ike's apparently preoccupied manner, when there was no excuse or reason for “preoccupation” to borrow' one of Jeremiah Jenks’ ideas: his wh stling, very low, to I o sure, but yet it was a c ear whist c—caused his uncle so observe more narrowly his nephew’s i m A’ements. As Ike was whistling softly to himself in the back room, Jeremiah Jenks sat biting his linger nails. Then he rose softly, and looked in at his hopeful nephew. Ike's hand was tracing certain j "whereases” and “bo it covenanted” upon a clean sheet of legal-cap paper. I The nephew did not dream his ancle was ' looking at him. ile had just returned, ; made his report concerning the girl, Joe, I at Monsieur 1 afaur’s, and was congratulating himself upon his success. Jeremiah looked at the young man steadily, then returned to his desk, and stood be side it thinking. Suddenly a smile —a wicked smile—lit ' up his face. As his face was not a pre- I possessing one at any time, the expression just now was devili h. Jeremiah Jenks put out a hand quickly, opened a draw r, and the next moment his head was bent over a package of letters. As he p aced his hand on the package, he started and turned pale He put down the package, and bit his linger nails nervously. Then he turned toe packagj over in his hand—remarking the tape around it closely—then with *remb:ing hand; ho untied it and was soon engaged handling, one by one, the letters the package contained. Thon he rose. HD face was pale—his lie ".op" li.aruwa-Leviction several times, shaking his hand at tho ;

back room angrily. Then he reseated himself. Still Ike ' whistled to himself softly—very softly. J “Ike’.” Why did Ike jump? He did jump ! There was something in his uncle’s voice I that made him leap from his seat. | The whistle was cut right off. Ike’s । mouth, stiil puckered, gradually opened I wider as he listened and Icoked askance at the office door. “Yes, sir; coining.” Then Ike’s head was bent, and his hand was up to his head. “He's found me out! Certain, surol Well, who cares? I’ll make a fight for it and see who’s ahead. ” He entered the office and stood waiting. His uncle eyed him steadily, cold ly. The nephew did not flinch. His uncle tapped his desk. “.Somebody has been in my desk.” He did not answer. He took out a penknife and began to clean his fingernai’s. “Look at me " Ike looked at. him. “Why don’t you speak?” “You are speaking. ” “Was it you?” _ ,

“I don't need to criminate myself; noDody but a fool would do that ” Ike smiled serenely; his uncle bit his nails, and thought quickly. “No; nobody but a fool would. Ike, you have been -looking over my private papers. ” Ike smiled. • “You have opened a pa kage of letters. ” Still Ike smiledin his uncle's face, “I see^you have. Well, now, what did you learn? AU you have learned is not worth that” /-(Jeremiah snapped his fingers) “to you!” “Thon why are you making so much talk about it?” “Because you have betrayed me—abused my confidence.” I “Humph. You never betrayed any one. You never abused any one’s confidence. Oh, no!” liters sneering smile more than his words made his uncle furious. He sprang to his feet and advanced. “Hold on, Nuncke, none o’ that. Just you keep your hands off me. I won’t have it.” Jeremiah Jenks stood aghast. “You—you villain! You ingrate! You hound! You—you ” “Take time. You can’t do justice to it in a heat, ••-said Ike, seating himself leisurely. “What in f ho devil’s name do you mean?" Jeremiah shrieked, shaking his clenched hands at his nephew. “New see here. I did read the letters, but I wouldn't if you hadn’t excited my suspicions. You tempted me.” “How—how did I tempt you?” “Why, you were so awful mysterious when Mrs. Howson called, I couldn’t help noticing it. Then you gave your- ’ self dead away, Nuncke. “Gave myself away!” “Dead away, Nuncke, tho way you showed ‘her to her carriage. If it was Queen Victoria you couldn’t been more particular. Os course I noticed it. Then when you had mo tell you all about the girl, don’t you think I wondered. Lord! How stupid you are, Nuncke!” “Am I? We’ll see.” “That’s what I’m coming to. Just what I’m getting at. Os course, I put on my studyihg cap. I says to myself, hello! Something’s up. Something uncommon. Nuncke ain't wasting no time on that old woman. An’ this here girl—she’s worth money to him someway or he wouldn't have mo keep her in sight so long and no move made—only just finding out who she lived with and how sto was treated —such things as that. I says—what’s Nuncke’s little game? And what happened then? Why, 1 found them letters. Just all by accident—or maybe it was Providence put ’em right In my hands ” "O—o! groaned Jeremiah, “providence —providence! I’ll providence you, Ike.” “I don’t think you will. Not when , you know it all. You’ll not say a word, Nuncke. You 11 just do like Crockett’s coon—come right down. ” “Go on! Go on, you scoundrel!” “Yes—l am a scoundrel. Yes—that’s so. But I m not half as big a scoundrel as you are, Nuncke. What made you keep Mrs. Howson ignorant of the whereabouts of her granddaughter? Eh?” “How do you know I did.’” “How? How? Why—l heard you tell her—l heard you putting her off with lies, until that morning she said she would put it in another lawyer’s hands—and then—then what did you say?” J remiah Jenks did not answer Ho was dumb with rage “You said, ‘Very well, Mrs. Howson. I will gladly retire, and shall take pleas uro in giving a 1 tho aid In my power to whomever you select' Then you called 1 mo In, - 1.0 ..t .... ... . questions, and when I went nut I hold the door open—l was bound to get at tho truth that day. Why, you discovered all at once tho girl was In tho city । —was seen in the city only tho day bo- | fore. Then sho got mollified like -let up on you—gave you another trial and a i hundred dollars'. A hundred dollars!" “You lie." “Ven lie, Num kn. ” “How do xou know what she gave me?” “I opened the door. Your backs wore turned, and 1 saw you turn up tlv< twenty-dollar bills ah! am 1 lying'.’ . And .she said. ‘That makes live hundred ; dollars I’ve given you. Mr. Jenks,’ " Jeremiah groaned! “<>! you may groan. You ought to. Five hundred do lars for a job many another man would have been g ad to do for five or ten W hat trouble was there? i Didn't I do all the work? Who found ■ l the g;r.? Wasn’t it mo? And what was ' । you keeping her living place hid from { [ the o'd women for—ch? What was jou I I doing it for—eh? Tell me that.” Now Jeremiah Jenks smile! craftily. , ' Ho looked wickedly at his nephew and said, very deliberately: “You would like to know. Find out You’d best do it soon. Because you're game’s played, young man. You've talked too much. My turn is coming. ; Now”—ho rose, and threatened Ike with ; look and hand—“go! go at once—and iever let mo seo you again—go!" Ike laughed in his uncle's face. “Do I look frightened. Not much. See here, Nuncke—l’ve got ready for this ” “What do you mean?" “Why—l know a'l about It.” “What do you know?" “I know you've been milking two cows. ” ’ “Miking ” t “Yes—yes, yes. Now you sit down. Best get yourself a glass of water, because like as not you’ll faint when I'm done. ” Jeremiah Jenks could only glare at his •x-nlw-w who yorv coolly tanpnd his head, it was, did I? Did I, Nuncke? lint it s

level—perfectly level. Now, I’ll just open out. Why, the girl’s worth two millions cash Two millions. She’ll *get that from Mrs. Howson, who ain't Mrs How on, by a long shot. Well, who's she, then? Why, she’s l.a ly Howson—or not Howson—that’s the family name—Lady Morford. And that’s the name on the top of her letters, and it’s' the Morford crest. You don't thii.k I,'m so awful grem I don’t know who to go to to find out all about the English aristocra y, even if there wasn't a book in the next block telling ail I wanted to know. That old woman you're so attentive to is Lady Morford.” “You’ve sa d that twice.” “Well, I’ll say it again, because it does me good to say it. Has a sort of rich, swelling sound. And the girl is her granddaughter. ” “I’m glad you've found cut,” said Jeremiah, with a sneering laugh. “You think so—you’re almost sure of it. All you want to make dead sure is . ” “Well, what?” Jeremiah Jenks forgot himself. lie leaned forward anxiously. “Why, the name of the girl’s mother

When sho went to the poorhonse In Barnesville. If the girl Isn’t found, then tho money and land goes to a nephew—a rich nephew of Lady Morford’s, who don’t speak to her. They’ve not spoken for years; and sho hates him, because she’s found out he was the fellow that Introduced her < aughter to the man who ran away with her. Good enough, ain’t it? Ain’t I right, Nuncke?” “Go on, go on—l am listening."’ “They want to fin! tho name, and they want to find tho name of tho doctor in New York—in this very city, mind you—who was with her mother and attended her two years, and afterward accidentally saw her, and talked with her In Barnesville Poorhouse.” “Curse you! You’ve rummaged all my ' letters!” shouted Jenks. “Os course, Nuncko, of course. You’d have done the sai oin my place. I read a!l you w uto to Mr. Israel Heber.” “Oh h h!" Jeremiah Jenks groaned in mental anguish. “If I could kill you I’d do it.” “Yes; but you're afraid of hanging, Nuncke. and so you won’t kill ma I read all you wrote to Mr. Heber. Nuncko, you’ve hud a good pull at this thing. All you’re sorry for is that you didn't get a few hundreds from Job Wonder; but the countryman sized you right up—ho did for a fact, Nuncke—sized you right up, and sat down on you. I’m workin’ the o d man now.” “You!” “Why, bless your soul—l’m worut n jj this for all it's worth. I’m keeping a little surprise back for you—you’ll read it in the paper some day soon. I'm only te ling you what will interest you, Nuncke—make, you're mind easy on tho sure thing, that the jig's up with you.“You are talking too much again.” ^1 “Am J? Well, maybe I am. I’ve learned that Israel Heber paid you five < hundred dollars to keep your inputh shut —when you hadn’t anything to tell him. , He thought you told the truth whemyou j taid you would inform .Itos relatives’ where sho was—where they could pu| I their hands on and at that particular time, Nuncke, you d'dn't know, because I read tin advertisement in the paper— i and answered It, and went to tho place you said to address—and you—you come and got the letters marked M M. You | was M. M." “ike—vou’ll be hanged some day, you will.” “Will I? Well, the devil will got yon without hanging. I found where Dufaurs was^or you—vou weic very anxious to see the girls th* re—and you seen J<»a—you were pretty sure of her long before 1 found pos lively. Yon got money from Heber and Lady Morford, and was going for Wonder." “Yes you’ll come to a bad end, Ike — I see it p alnly. ” “And you are spro it ng angel's wings. Well—now, I've found out all about Joes mother's iianu- and she is Lady Morford's heir, and 1 am go.ng to havs some of that p! e of m ney, you bet." “You’d best get It quickly then for I'll telegraph Holer the truth, and I'll call upon Lady Morford Inshlo of an hour—less time. ” Jeremiah Ji nks put his hat on as ho spoke. Ike coolly stool at the door, with his hat twirling in his hand, and his vane swinging "I'in afraid—Just a leel e afraid—you're too late, Nmicke. However byby, old man! Ta ta I’ll give you all a surprise, Nuncke—ta la " And Ike. aft r setting hish.it on his head aii'iti y, tils ipjemed. * Jeremiah Jshiks lo'kml after him with a devilish -mile; then h , too, went out and looku I for a cab. (To n»i nixnsrral A Bono F .0.. ILcrc Hun an uccouut nw’Uj gi'eu lie:o, nays the New Yoik Suh, of a man who crunches the shells of the ’ I Milled i'ggs tha: he taken at breakfast. 1 hero is a iother man in town who eats bmos. and who is known among : his friends as the “great American : bono rater." He is a scientist, and when a utiesli >ii was put to him he said Ido not follow- the habit for any fantastic ruion I lelieve that the organic chemii al elements f >und in bo e*, such ni ph sphntc arid carlionatc of lime, are gucati ne-dt d in the • human frame for the doscaYm.out of t|ie osseous s; stem, ido ..o make a dinner of liones but merely take a lit tie bone d« lira -y at times, when not in company. 1 «ill go through the ribbonus of a spring t hicken or quail, or what not. I will have the grilled leg . lumes of a young chicken, which arc easily eaten when well grilled, bones I of a lyickiug pig or of a .amb, and, in i fact, there are sundry bones that can I be prepared in various ways to the ad- | vantage of the eater. I have had benefit from bone eating, and 1 know several Imne eaters. Nome of the African negroes, who are very stiong. tat tho bone^of game after making them crisp at the fire, and the books tell of tho bone eaters of Europe in olden time.-y I would advise yon to get a few dainty bonea in nice order anti try them."«M« I tophin Utopia-1 schemes are plans, whether of national improvement or of social operation, founded on impractical or visionary views. Sir Thomas Moore, vin writing his curious philosophical work, “Utopia,” added a new word to the English language, a,d delineated bis ideas of a perfect commeawealth. Utopia, from the Greek, means “no place.” On the imaginary island of I topia, in the Atlantic Ocean, he places a people governed on the princisepaiate property. ''xJcru to tented with the neces-aries of lu..- v —b are employed in useful labor, and n^ man desires in clothing any other quulity than durability. Since wants are^few, and every individual engages in labor, there is no need for them to work more than six hours per day. Neither lazi .e-s nor ava ice finds "a place in this happy region; for whv should the people be indolent when they have such little toil; or greedy when they know there is an abundance for all? This is somewhat like the scheme proposed in Bellamv’s “LookiniBackward,” and is as impracticable as it is ingenious. Detective—Your description of the man with your w ife is too vague. That he boarded with you and is c o,s eved is not enough. Can you give us no stronger scent? Dunderkoff —Yah He vas very fond < f onions. Beggs—l wonder why Mrs. Jaggs won’t let her husband employ a fenude typewriter ? Foggs—Don’t you know ? ! She was his form • typewriter herself, j

POST AND WIRES co mes t his b 7^~ of indi _ a na news. Fir.., * ; the State _ ’ Crimofc Su,c “*- Etat South Bend'uH^ haymow -Th/ir;! . “^‘ke tliref ‘ ribs, ing to build V h ^ re | hren are preparvllle, d church at Crawfordsish thirtv^fon? ’ a l ' riUOnt ’ llas a ra<l ' ence. y ° UI inches circumfer-: nlla I^’ i >o ii°ek, of Indiananic<» In t£ U p UCt L Og evan Belistic8 elistic s ervP ^byterian Church at Rader h nf wT ^klenco of John L .SS ; .S? - a Cou " tv -"as burned. 11l tfx ’ '" suranc e, *4OO, in the Home of New Aork. (,f Brazi1 ' has been ktate Bank Examiner. Ile ’iH^the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Harry Francis. ~-d. A. Sheets, near Madison, has an orchard of English walnuts and almonds which is yielding handsome "elurns on the investment. •^November 24 and 23 the MontCounty Farmers' Institute agy4^^ Skate Institute will hold a •Ir at Crawfordsville. ^wWan'd M was dragged a quarter of a mile in a runaway. Be still ; lives, although dangerously injured. —Robert Gray and Mrs. Cross have been running a restaurant at Colum- । bus for six months on the cash plan. Just skipped out leaving st>oo debts. —Leonard Campbell, a brakeman at Columbus, has sued the Panhandle Railroad for $15,000 for injuries re- ' reived falling from the top of a boxcar. — Dixon Williams, the evangelist, ! missed the step getting in an omni-1 bus at Vincennes, and will have to cancel his engagements because of a broken leg. —Farmers in the territory northwest of Goshen an said to lie losing their swine by the hundreds on ae-i count of a malignant disease which it seems impossible to check. —Seth Coffman, a wealthy dain- ’ man near New Albany, was attacked by a vicious bull while crossing a pa^- | lure on Itis farm and gored »> badly that his recovery is uncurtain. —Trustees of the Trinity M. E. I Church of Elkhart have brought suit ; against John Guepe for his pro]>ortion of s3u,ooi> which he agreed to pay ' toward the erection of a church^ building. - Dr. L*>ra Henry and wife left Greensburg as missionaries to Egypt. I Dr. Henry was l*orn and n an- I in Ihvatur County, mar Spring Hill, and has already sjH iii some time as a missumary. John B ind, colored, at Mitchell, g'»t .4iad at his mother just at the rh»seof the war, lieeaUM* she sold the f "ent tn i>e<l. wher*' III' lias | ever since, except Gire when he i “*H -nry WHHnms. a th>-year-term convict in the Jeffersonville iwni-' tentiary, csrnjMMl. He was provided with clothing and cast aside his strip - in the vit inily of the prison. ; This the third esiafw wit liln a mouth ' —Aron Slaughter, colored, was ; seiitene* I to jail for assault and bat-? tery in Perry County. On account of; the building <>( a new jail the) had no place to ki p him. He was given I railmad fare and told to go to Kock- 1 port and lock him- -If in jail there, i which he did. — Ralph Brietenstein, a 12-year-oliU son of a wealthv farmer m-ai illaits-. vdle, was killed Hv l>eing crushed under a heavy roller. He was unhitch-' ing the team when they became' frightened and ran away, throwing him under the roller. Death was in-stantam-ou •. — ••Blacktongue” has develop'd among the cat tie in Parker County, and bu'uheds of animal' have succumbed to its ravages. The tongues’ iiecome Mack and rot away. State veterinary surgeon has been summoned to investigate and the strictest quarantine measures will l>e enforced. —Johnnie Ruff, a 5- ? ear-old son of Mr. F. W. Ruff, a prominent merchant of Evansville, met with a fatal accident. The little fellow, withtwo older brother' and several other companions. was ••teetering” on a dray, when the child was thrown off. The heavy shaft-pile of the dray struck hi’l in tho adomen. causing internal in^ries, which resulted in his death aAourial’T. r burned by the explosion of a h’^^of nowder, at her home, just ” -ah of iirivz.il. The powder had lying about the house for a number of months and seemed to have so completely lost its explosive power that, notwithstanding repeated former efforts to burn it up. it had always failed to ignite. On the fata! occasion referred to Mrs. Blair touched tire to it, when the entire mass exploded burning and blistering the entire body from head to foot. Her recovery is not thought possible. —G- W. Knap]), a larmer, living near Spencer, while hunting squirrels in compamy with his two sons, was killed by the accidental discharge of his rifle, which he dropped by his side while he peered into the foliage of a tree in quest of a squirrel. The recent earthquake shook all the water out of a subterranean lake near Waverly, and left merely a darksome cave, from which there now ; come sounds as of explosions and the ’ unattractive smells of burning brhnj stone.

—Lafayette Reynolds, a young Greenfield lawyer, died of typhoid fever. —Mrs. Jane Dudding, an old resident of Hancock County, died of typhoid fever. —A new Southern M. E. Church to . cost $6,000 is in process of erection in Jeffersonville. —Charles Holmes, a house painter, fell from a roof at Brookville and sustained fatal injuries. —Mrs. Newton Smith, wife of a Shelby County farmer, attempted sui- , cide by taking strychnine. : Barns belonging to Johanna Lynch and Jacob Rudick, near Sevmour, were burned by incendiaries. ~sk new bank has been opened at Wingate, Montgomery County, to be known as the Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank. Roberts, a Canadian exhibitor at the Washington fair, was lobbed of 8100 while sleeping in his tent. —Miss Follic, who sued the detective agency at Crawfordsville, fm I chicken stealing, has been given $1 damages. —M inton Richards, a farmer near I North Manchester, went through a i bridge with a load of lumber and was ; fatally hurt. —ls. A. Ilicc, of Scott si iui'k, was thrown from IHh ami tlrag«< <l seventy-eiKht yards. He is not ex-IHM-tcd to Jive. —Louis Green, son of Rev. George W. Green, of Memphis, was crushed by a cider-mill that fell out of a wagon. It is feared he will die. —Lewis Bovvers, of Morristown, stepped off the railroad bridge over Big Sugar Creek, at New Palestine, and is thought to be mortally injured. —Mrs. Wm.Bushand her sister Mrs. J John Bush, both living with their husbands, eloped from Georgetown ; with John Kinney and George Rein- | hart. —James Serlwr. of Waynetown, has Im'i u fined sl, disfranchised for । two years and given a jail sentence of five days, for stealing one pound of ; butter. ■John McVey and wife, of Moores- ■ ville, claim not to have taken a dose I iof medicine in tho last twentv-five I ; years. Mr. McVey is ?s years old, : and Mrs. McVey is 66. —Jacob Williams, of Blue River Bostotllce. Washington County, is aged 24, and he stamhseven feet two and one-half inches in his stockings. ! Hi' foot is fifteen inches in length. A lawful heir to the estate of , John Carey, of Logansport, has been j found in a sm. who resided in Southern Indiana and was ignorant of his father’s death until he read it in the new 'pa]wrs. Walter Kii ing. the German musician who elo]H'd from Wabash with one of his pupils, was sentenced to two years in the ]M'nitentiary for 'tealing thehorM*and buggy in w hich the couple drove away. -John Daveniiort and William A. iJonley, two tra]«se performers of i ’ Barnum's circus, who were arrested i In < 'rav. fordsvlllc for robbing a saloon, 1 j nave O. < u 't ill to till pt mu Utl.oj- ! for one year, fined and disfranchised. <>n - week ago John Herron, a j weh-to-do farr.ier, residing in the ' eastern part of Bartholomew County, i was aeeidentally thrown from his h In 1 he fall Ue was injured internally. from the effects of which j 1 death followed. ■' •■nii' Bark, on the Silver Hills, l iovd County, is the camping-place of I * band of gypsies and Turks. They j i have with them forty horse', one ]>oi lar and two cinnamon bears, tvvomonl keys, one baboon and a trained ! ■Shanghai cock that out-crows any; fowl of the kind in Southern Indiana. > —'Squire Eckels, of Brazil, while intoxicated swore in a number of his . saloon friends as deputies to keep the ■ peace. Marshal Allen then created a ; number of deputy maishals, who arrested the ’Squire and had him lined, after which be turned the tables By having the new-tledgcd deputies arr sb I for assault and battery committed on him while placing him under arrest. —Before the State Fair, and at a time when there wasn't a cent in the sock, parties who held accounts against the State Board of Agriculture. nearly wore out the fioor of the capitol trying to collect the money. Two or three parties walked out to Irvington trying to raise the amounts from Treasurer Johnson. The board lias all kinds of money on hand now and has to send a personal invitation to creditors to come after amounts due them. —The lit tle 4-year-old son of Robert Kirk, wlioliv.s -.mo ;ii ik s son; h <>f , , ..... -. » Its lllliv&c A.UIAUI—L np by hng< TTYtT mofKer e^ to I hear the screams of her child, and I rushed to find it in the hog lot. down ' on the ground, surrounded by vicious hogs tearing out its life. She drove off the furious beasts, snatched her boy to lier breast and carried him to the house. The child was horribly torn and bruised. Its scalp was torn completely loose, its cheeks were eaten away, anil it was lacerated and gashed all over its little body, from the tusks of the swine. It is in a terrible condition, and may not recover. —There is much excitement in Daviess County over the attempted as'ault of Miss Carrie A. Whittinger, a noted Southern Indiana evangelist. —The other night on a crowded train on the Cincinnati. Wabash and Michigan road, an old farmer named Harris, returning from the fair at North Manchester, was forced into the toilet-room of a coach and held up for nearly S2OO by crooks. The fellows, after doing the job. pulled the bell-rope and when the train slackened jumped off and escaped.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL thoughts worthy of calm reflection. A Pleasant, Interesting, and Instnictive Lesson and Where it May Be found—A Learned and Concise lieview of the Same. Washing the Disciples' Peet. The lesson for Sunday, October 18, may be found In John 13: 1-17. isTßODCcronr. Christ was the greatest teacher the world ever saw, and one of the points he gives us in the scripture before us is the effectiveness of object lessons. When he would teach humility to his ambitious disciples betakes a child and sets hint in their midst, and again when hj would teach his disi iples the secret of his own mission in the lowliness of ministering to others and serving their wants, he, as it wete. waves the servants of the house aside and, girding himself with a towel, petforms the menial tass c m nonly assignel to them. Shall we wash feet? Yes, walking, standing, sitting, —everywhere in kindly conde- en,:om WHAT THE EESSOX SAYS. Before the feast. Literally so. The Lord's Cupper was protaMy TEursdav night, the Passover Friday night. , hat he should depart Or. in order that he should depart or pass over, implying the purpose of his .coming. Io the end. An interesting | expression (eis telos). At t Thus. 2: it) it ! Is translate!, to the utternrast; at Luke i 18: 5, continual (the -continual voming" of । the importunate widow). The uutailin^ ! quality of the divine love. । Supper being en led, Greek: Supper | ’.King, 1. e.. In course of being served, or | perhaps at tkm v«ry tir-t. u* the ftxit-wash->ll>K Imply.— ».%»»» llviLTt Qreek: Cust lull, worn v. 5 below Os Judas Iscariot. Literally. That Judas Iscariot should. Betray. A compound word, meaning to give over. The Father had given. Greek: has given, realistic language. That he was come. The original is terse and strong. From God he came and to God be gees. His garments. The upper or outer garments that would impede (imatia). A towel. Symbol of service. The coarse cloth or apron carried by the servants w! o usually washed the guest’s feet. The action itself was intensely expressive. After that, or then, next. Graphic description. Poureth. Same word in Greek, as put, at v. 2 ipallo: to cast) A basin. 1 Better, the basin, commonly present in such a place. Wash. From same root as basin. Wipe. Gree:: ek-:n:;sso, from which doubtless our massage. It was a refreshing service in that hot, dusty country, where sandals were UM'd. Ihen. Rather, therefore, i. e., in the course of his kind offices. It is not necessary to suppose that he came at one a to I Peter, as if be were first; primate, f> r- ! sooth! Dost thou? The order of the ; ’Jreek word is emphatic and strong: Lord. ' thou of me wash th ? feet! I Shalt know. Different word from know । in the same verse; understand is more ; accurate. Sec Variations. Hereafter. । Rather, after these things. Probably tha । things just taking place, perhaps including the crucifixion. Thou shale never. Exceedingly forceful language: in the original: Not at all shalt thou wash my feet, everieis ton aiona). If 1 wash ihee not. The necessity of ■ Jhrlst’s atonement. 1 Lord, not my feet only. A marked example of Peter’s impulsiveness, both in , word and act Washed. An unfortunate inaccuracy of Iranslation. Literally, bathed, a different word front the rest here used. Same as is : used at Heb. 10: 22. ( ü bodies washed. bathed) with pure water.”) It refers to an entire ablution rather than a washing of parts or members. Save to wash his . feet We much more incline to take the ; reading of Tischendorf: He that is bathed leedeth not to wash. Clean every whit. Better, as in Bible Union, who.ly clean. ; indeed, the Greek word is almost the same n sound as the English of Dr. Conant i iplos). IWHAT THE LEISDX TEACHEs. He love-X tl.t-ns unto site end. That is, ho kept on loving them, on ant on without > -ak <>r weakening. There is no end to • v/* o It Xw like <X»g .•« ft. n. •erfect circle. There are places where his tffection might reasonably have paused. I 1 here, where they disputed about place; :here, where they would hinder the little J Hies; there, where they would call down ievouring tire; there, to go on a little ’uriher. where they all forsook him and led. But h? slackened not his tender rei lard. He cared for them stilb Now I ; <now what this means, it is the love of I J d, not of mau. i Jesus knowing. Alas, Low knowledge changes us! When we thought ourselves : joor and impotent we were meek and huniI >le. Then there came the thought of su□eriority, the consciousness of power, and forthwith all the old. child-like simplicity I was gone, and arrogance and pride camo i;o take the place. Not -o Christ. It was j when he was most aware of his GidI read that he was tenderest and simplest. n bis demeanor. It was when equal with I Jod, without robbery, that he humbled j rimself. Here he knows three things, wou- ’ lerfully uplifting things: (!) that all things I ire his; (2) that he is from God; and 3) ; hat he goes to God. And there, behold lim, kneeling lowly at his disciples’ feet. J to know with Christ’s knowing—rather :o love with his loving! Ler dost thou wash my feet? It i; tho >ouV' own al p -ehension. No man has come to God, through Christ, without t ie tbrillng, o * r whelming sens r of it. Carist’s vol- • intary humiliation for •u • sakes. A long ’ :ime I looked for salvation. It would I :ome t> me by some g a :ious uplift, by 1 some lordly testowment of power. But, .hen, one Yay I loole 1 and the Son of Go!, I wounded, marred of visage, bad bent himI self down to my distress and vas humbly ! niuisterinx to me. -Thou Lord!” I cried, i fill his sweet ‘•thou.” silencing, brought ; peace; and now I am his, ar.d he is mine. I Know ye what I have done unto you? ; They thought they did. perhaps, but they i lid not. Calvary and the gardens were yet i ihead. Pentecost had not yet come. That ; word to Peter applied to all: “What Ido I ;hou knowest n it now, but thou si a t know i rereafter.” Yes. Peter did know in tho i olessed hereafter of tho Acts. What meant ’ chose journeys to the temple, where the j ame lay? What signified that long-time ministration to, tli ‘ nits t ..'er'i-alt-.n;. v wtr-rbw- trtttes Ct t?VS Gentt'e wovVA? ' What meant the agony unto death that Cephas came to know? Did ever that vision j )f the kneeling Christ pass from the eyes of ' the apostle? Happy are ye, if ye do them. Some of as have keen trying to ba happy on the ar-t condition, “if ye know these things.” It has been hard work, vain work. The mere knowing of these things is not enough, it is but preparatory to another step. To I ret to happiness we must get to the doing. I Indeed, we do not fully, strongly know • until we do. He that doath the will knowI sth the doctrine. For hope er happiness, stop not short of tho doing. I Next Lesson—Christ Comforting Disj ciplts.” John 14: 1-3, 15-27. Why not take milk as a symbol ot jonrage rather than of mildness ? There is abundant leason to telieve .hat much of it has never been cowed. —Loit'ell Courier. People who have no money of their >wn on which to take interest make it ip bv taking a gieat deal of interest n other people s money.— Boston Transcript. It is estimated that every seal ronmmes about ten pounds of fish daily, i ,