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CHAPTER X—Continued. “Humph,” commented the bewildered Mrs. Shrimp, “I have my idea of that young man. He’s beginning mighty young, but he’ll endup like John, sure’s mv name’s Matilda.” Meanwhile Jack had been literally pulled up the stairs and into Mr. Beverly’s room. Now,” said the latter, closing the de or, “are you really Jack Beverly?” “Positively. I wish I was sure of everything as I am of that.” “Well, then, all I have to remark is that we are a tine pair of Jacks. I daresay it was a fellow feeling that drew me toward you when you came in tonight. I would have offered my room sooner, but my feelings were really so worked upon by the pathetic s'ory of Mr. Miller that speech was impossible. Suppose I bad not spoken at all? This revelation -would not have been brought about. I’m beginning to see now. You are me. But who in the devil am I?” Beverly looked so perplexed over this pioblem that Jack was forced to laugh. “I don’t believe I put that straight,” remarked the former. “Let me see. I’ll get it right presently. Sit down, and I’ll follow suit. I’m upset, like the worthy John. Now, you are Jack Beverly, and I’m Jack Beverly. That point seems to be firmly established. But somehow we don’t progress. Oh, I have it. You’ve been staying—where?” “South Weston.” “Precisely. Just the place I started for. It isn’t quite as clear as daylight, but mighty near it. I suppose you have been staying with Mrs. Millard?” “No; Mr. Millard.” Beverly jumped up and sat down again. “Just as I said. You are me, and hang mo if I don’t believe I’m you. You have a friend Frank and another John, and you had an idea of marrying Mis. John, and Miss Harly is pining for you; and you bought an evening suit and a pair of gray trousers from Thomas Bailly, tailor, and haven’t paid for the same?” These questions were put wi‘ha rapidity that was ludicrous,-and Jack, slightly unnerve 1 by what ho had lately discovered, eould only pass his hand over his tr >w in a perplexed way. “I know the people you mention,” he answered, “and I have patronized Mr. Bailly, but I can’t understand ” “That’s just it. I’m getting it, however. All that’s clear just yet is that you’ve been visiting my friends and I’ve been dancing attendance on yours. Now we’ll go at it again. I’ll tell you a few facts which in ry help to unravel the tangle. To begin, then, I live in New York, where I practice law. I’in a lone 1 -•••

father | or mother. About three mouths 1 ; inenu or my lathers, ann, havm ghe r. . through another friend of my existem^-, tie was anxious to make my acquaint- ! ance, and so on. Well, the upshot of it, was he invited mo to visit him at his > home in South Weston. I had the name of the place pat enough at the time, but, being a thoughtless fellow, as my friends have often kindly told me, I was scarcely surprised when I met a gentleman on the train who told me Mr. Millard lived in Weston. I naturally thought I had made rhe mistake, and there I was. I eoirfoss I found my welcome much less cordial than I expected, and I have been rather surprised at. Mr. Millard’s silence regarding my father and our letters. Lately I have suspected something, but for certain reasons I did not feel anxious to investigate. That’s my side of the story. Yours, I know, will enlighten us still further." Jack looked his thorough bewilderment, and it was some seconds before he could gather his thoughts. “Well,” he said at last;” how plain it all seems now. You see, I left New York with, the intention of vacating fee a month or so. One of my friends suggested Weston as a delightful place to rusticate. He had some friends there, he told me, and he would write to them immediately. He assured me I would like them, and that they would make my visit pleasant. “Under the circumstances I set out for Weston, but through inattention . when the station was called I left the train at South Weston. Imagine my surprise upon finding Mr. Millard’s carriage waiting for me. I could not understand it, and I could only conclude that Frank’s letter had brought about this unexpected welcome. I confess I have been surprised at a number of things, but I usually found, or thought I found, a reasonable explanation.” “It is curious, to say the least,” remarked Beverly. “I don’t regret the mistake, however. I have had some fault-finding letters, and been threatened with a law’suit, but I forgive all, as, | I don’t mind telling you, I have found the happiness of my life.” Jack sighed. “Why that sigh?” inquired Beverly, slapping him on the shoulder. “It strikes me you are rather down in the mouth. Now I am a thoroughly jolly fellow. I can’t stand the ‘blues’ in my presence. Out with the trouble if you have any.” Jack was about to sigh again, when his face suddenly brightened. “Tell me,” he said eagerly, “is your I engagement known bore?” “My dear fellow, Weston is a village. ; Need I say more? My affairs are proba- 1 bly canvassed from one end of the town to the other. I don’t say this is the result of greatness. It is merely a nat What’s the matter now’?” Beverly broke of! thus abruptly as Jack, rising hurriedly from his chair, began to pace the floor. “It is possible,” was the answer, as Jack came to a standstill in the center of the room, “it is very possible that you have done me a great injury.” “That sounds ominous,” was the grave reply. “Under the circumstances there is nothing for you to do but to tell me the whoH story. There is a story, I see.

I hope you are mistaken as to my agency.” “I may be,” replied Jack, leaning against the window frame, “but in my present condition, I am glad to grasp the least straw of hope. The simple fact is, that I, like you, came to a little viNage to find the woman I would make my wife. Until to-day I cherished a possible realization of my hopes, but now ” “Wait one moment. Does she know of your feelings?” “Yes, two days ago I asked her to bo my wife.” “Well?” “Her answer was all that I could wish. At that time her heart was mine. Her lips, as well as her eyes, confessed it. To-day I returned from a short visit to New York, to find a note, in which, without further ’explanation, she denounced my conducted, and hoped in the bitterest terms, that I would never bring myself into her presence again. After her attitude of two days before, I was staggered.” “Did you allow it to stop there?” “No, I forced myself upon her, and demanded an explanation. Her answer was: ‘Ask your conscience.’ I tried to see her again, and failed. Now you have heard all. Perhaps you will give me the benefit of your opinion. For myself, I am too utterly miserable to think. Can you see the drift of my suspicions?” “ Clearly—Miss ” f Millard.” “Ah, you don’t say. Well, Miss Millard has heard of my engagement, and imagines you to be the recreant. Perfectly natural, my dear fellow.” “Natural!” echoed Jack. “Good heavens! What do you think it medns for me?” “I know what it means for me,” was the imperturbable answer. “It means a trip to South Weston, and a call upon Mr. and Miss Millard. I’ll inform the old gentleman that I am the son of his old friend, etc., etc. See! It will all come right, and we’ll both be benedicts before we are a year older.” Jack looked slightly dubious, but ho tried to emulate his companion’s sanguine spirits. After more conversation, during which the young men became like old friends, Bevtrly proposed that they should turn in, cautioning Jack, however, to move with as little force as possible in bed, as he had not yet tested the full strength of that article of furniture. CHARTER XL Mary was lying in her hammock the next morning, when a shadow fell across the porch, and, starting up with a hasty exclamation, she found herself face to face with a young man. “I beg your pardon,” he said in a pleasant voice; “I fear-1 startled you.” “Only very slightly,” she returned, trying to regain her self-possession. “Do you wish to see grandpa?” “If grandpa is Mr. Millard, that is my wish. ” “He is Mr. Millard. Walk in, please. , him.” Opening the door, sho led tn® Way to the parlor. “Will you give me your name, please?” Tiier® was . a second’s hesitation on the young man’sJ - --,. ..—.—■■ft**/ »

part. TumnTii a pmiu 11 \ nitre HWUn -” X swered, “Bev-rly. _ (■■■WlPWw^Tedy?” she asked, with a disturbed air. "Yes, miss, Jack Beverly.” i Without a word Alary stepped out of the room, repeating the words: | “Jack Beverly. His name is Jack j Beverly.” “Grandpa, his name is Jack Beverly." “What, my dear?” questioned Mr. Ylillard, with decided surprise, as Mary came upon him with this announcement. ! “A gentleman who wishes to see you, grandpa, and ” “A strange gentleman, Mary?” “Yes, a strange gentleman, and his ! name is Jack Bev ” "So you have said, my dear. You are j very nervous, Marv. What is it, my child?” , “I am afraid to think,” she answered, as he laid his hand upon her head. , j “There are a thousand questions in my ; mind now. I—l cannot dare to answer ; them. You had Getter go, grandpa, lie i is waiting." I “It is strange,” she heard him mur- ; mur, as he left the room. | “It is more than strange,” she re- । peated, throwing herself on a chair and i leaning her head upon the desk. She was in this position a half hour later, when her grandfather returned. | "There has been a very curious mis- j । take,” he said as Mary looked up quesj tioningly. “The Mr. Beverly I have j just been talking with is the son of my l old friend. He has been staying with I another Mr. Millard, whom he'has been I taking for me, and ” “How did he discover all this?” “He has seen Jack, and they have been comparing notes. Each has found out that the other lias made a similar mistake.” “ Where is he?” “Gone to look about the village. I have in ” v i “I don’t mean this Mr. Beverly,” in- < terrupted Mary with a quick frown. f “Oh, Jack. He is in South Weston.” 1 “Did Ja-—the other Mr. Beverly know this one was coming here?” “Really, I did not ask, my dear; 1 ........ i:i.. »»

though it is very likely.” “You said you invited him to dinner, did you not? I must let Jeannette know.” A minute later, she entered the kitehen, with the abrupt announcement: “Jeannette, Mr. Beverly will be here to dinner.” Jeannette dropped the potato she was ; peeling. “You don’t mean ” she ex- ! claimed. “No, I don’t mean that one,” returned j Mary, with a gulp in her throat. “This is quite another one entirely.” “Another one!” repeated the surprised ' Jeannette. “Mercy, save us. There i ain’t another one of them Mr. Beverlys a-coming.” “Another one of them Mr. Beverlys, Jeannette? What a peculiar expression. I only know there’s a man coming to I dinner named Beverly—and—and that’s ’ all I want to know.” ! And fearing a further exhibition of feeling, Mary rushed from the room. “Queer,” commented Jeannette, apostrophizing the potatoes. “I wonder how this one’U turn out?” Beverly returned shortly before dinner, and Mary followed her grandfather to the parlor. She did not feel in humor for conversation. So she contented L.w-

self with quietly observing their visitor, conscious that he, in his turn, was like- : wise observing her. > “Miss Millard,” he said at last, so suddenly as to almost make her start, “J , have been telling your grandfather what I a beautiful place Weston is. I dare say, | however, you are more familiar with its charms, as no doubt you go there quite! frequently.” “I haven’t lately,” she responded. “That is, not until the other day. I— l went there then.” “Ah!” he questioned, observing her nervous manner. “I dare say you have friends there?” I “Only one very humble one —Mrs. Thomson. You know her —that is, you j have spoken to her, maybe. She told ’ me about Weston and about ” She paused in helpless embarrass- j ment. “I suppose I’m making a fool of my- | self,” was her inward comment, “but I cannot help it. I’ll die if I don’t know. ’ I shall have to ask him outright present- ; Ly. Why won’t he say something? How , can grandpa sit here and talk so coolly of other things? If I only had a chance?” i She made her own chance after din- ' ner. She was sitting alone with Bever- i ly, her grandfather having left them, to find a book from which he had been quot- ! ing, when, without apparent reason, she , dropped the subject they had been dis- I cussing, and, turning to him, asked, | with noticeable eagerness: “Do you know Miss Ellis? You have ' been staying in South Weston,” sho , went on in explanation of her question, “and I dare say you have mot her.” “I have,” he answered,” with a pecul- | iar gleam in his eye. “She is Mr. Millard’s—my M r - Millard," he added, with a laugh—“stepdaughter. Therefore, I have had unusual opportunities to cultivate her acquaintance. We are, I am happy to say, very excellent friends.” “And more,” added Mary, in a low voice. “I—l beg your pardon. I thought so.” With which ambiguous remark Mary gave him a questioning glance, and, reading her answer in his face, left her chair with the abrupt words: “Grandpa is coming. Please excuse me.” “Going, Mary?” asked Mr. Millard, meeting her at the door. “Please don’t speak to me,” she cried, darting by him. The old gentleman looked surprised. Turning to Beverly he said, in >6mo anxiety: “Pray excuse me a moment, Sir. My granddaughter doos not seem well.” In her own room he found Mary on her knees, and her face buried in the bed. Lifting her with gentle hand, he drew her toward him. “Since when have I lost the right to your confidence,” ho asked, stroking her hair with a caressing touch. “You have something to tell me, dearest.” Mary buried her face on his breast with the passionate cry: “It is no use to hide it, grandpa. I cannot hide it from myself. I have ruined my own happiness. Three days ago,” sho continued, with a half sob, “I was as happy as^t is possible for anyone to be, and now ” Well?” he interrupted, with a gentle intonation, as seating himself in a ahair, he drew her to his knee. “Tell me all that has happened since, Mary.” Then in a low and self-reproachful voice, Mary repeated all that had passed between Jack and herself from the moment he hwl asked her to be Ide wife to -IFO time he left Kobinja iinal of him, wu* Mr. Mubui Nuiswer, when Mary finished her recital. sYet I must confess, you hail great reason. If you had told me this before, we ndght have discover d the true state of affairs without all this heartache. I believe 1 should have had better faith in him.” "That is hard on me, grandpa. You I cannot think of m.y feelings when you j say it. 1 could not look at it coolly, or j stop to consider a possible mistake. I ' felt myself wronged and outraged. I । thought he had made a sport of my affeetioms. For I had confessed my love for ' him. I had allowed him to kiss me. and. ! grandpa, it was humiliating, so bitterly i humiliating, to remember that.” Mary covered her face with her hands as she uttered these words. "1 understand that, Mary,” said her . grandfather, kindly. “I don’t think you can quite understand, grandpa. No man could. And you don’t know how hard it was for me to believe him guilty. My whole heart rebelled against it. But' what could I think?" "You eould have told me, Mary.” She sighed. "I don’t think I wanted even you to know how weak and foolish I had been; ' and I was afraid you might think I eared more than I did. Os course, while 1 believed what I did, I hated him.” Os course, my dear,” was the quiet answer. "Now I hate myself for having been unjust. Still, I had rather a thousand ; times suffer through my own injustice than through his dishonor. Don’t scold me any more, grandpa. I’ve been pun- j ished enough.” "My dearest,” he cried, pressing her to his heart. "I only wish to help you.” , “It is too late for that.” “No,” was the decisive answer. “Y’ou must not allow pride to interfere with the reparation you owe Jack, and the duty you owe yourself. This misunder- ! standing has not changed your feelings , for him?” Her face drooped. “He cannot have forgotten what I said ; to him,” she replied in a low voice. “He may even have grown to hate me. I

— J ■ • • LW HULU Jilt*. JL can’t ask him to come back to me, Grandpa; I can’t ask him to do that, I’d die first.” Mr. Millard regarded the unmanageable Mary with a slightly perplexed air. “You will tell him you misgudged him, ! Mary? That is simply justice you > know. ” “How am I to do it?” she asked, anxiously. “If I ehould write it I should ! make a fool of myself, I know and if ” ’ | “Let me write it, my dear; you can ' trust me.” “I am not so sure, still you may write. ! Don’t say too much. Tell him I mis- i judged him in a very grave particular, i and that I am sorry, and—Oh, grandpa I you know how to express it. But please : don’t make it seem that I am so anxious, ' I should die of shame.” “I will take care of your dignity,” ho ' returned, with a smiie. |TO BE CONTINUED. | Kats and Wire. As a precaution against rats in the corncribs it is suggested that the outside or the inside of the cribs be lined with screen wire, which is fine enough to keep out mice also.

JERE’S ALL THE NEWS i — TO BE FOUND IN THE STATE OF INDIANA. Giving a Detailed Account of the Numerous Crimes, Casualties, liras, Suicides, Deaths, Etc., Etc. Indiana J airs. In the appended list of fairs all dates . aie inclusive, and the name at toe end : of each announcement is that of the secretary: I Acton District—Aug. 30 to Sept. 2, T. M. Rich- , orason. | North Salem—North Salon, Hendricks I enuty, Aug. 1t05,L. c. Mcoro. . Heury, Madison and Delaware—Middiet own, I Henry County Aug. 2to 5. I'. li. Hodson. I midgeton Union—Bridgeton, Park County, . Aug. 8 to 1 i, T. L. Nevens. | New’ Ross—New Ross, Montgomery County, Aug. 8 to 12, T. F. Houk. I Oakland Citv—Oakland Citv, Gibson County. : Aug 22 to 27, Z. T. Emerson I W ayne, Henry and R nuolph—Dalton, Wayno ! County, Aug. 23 to - 26, J. E. Dennis. [ Knightstown—Knightstown, Henry County, . Aug 30 to Sept. 3, L. 1‘ Newby, j Switzerland and Ohio—East Enterprize, Switzerland County, Aug. 30 to Sep - , ;, W. H.

Madison, Benton ai d Warren—Boswell,Benton County, ' Sept. 5 toll. G. W. Cones j Kentland Agricultural—Kentland, Newton . County, Sept. 6 to 8, W. T. Dr ke, I Grange Jubilee—Wirt Station, Jefferson j County, Sept . (5 to 9, T. H. Wallington. ! Warren Tri-County—Warren, Huntington County, Sept. 6 to 10, A. Foust, . Auburn District—Auburn. DeKalb County, Kept, li to 16, i . Husselnnm. Fairmount—Fairmount, Grant County. Sept. i 12 to lt>, J. D. Lathan. I Fruncßulle—l-rnncisvills, Pulaski County, Sept. 13 to 16, E. H. Applegate. 1 Maxinkuckee—Culver Park, Marshall County, Sept. 13 to til, L. C. Zechiel. i North Indiana and South Michigan—South : Bend, St. Joseph County, Sept. 12 to 16, c. G. Towie. | W ashington and Parke—rekn. Washington 1 County, Sept. 20 to 23, J. W. Elrod. Bremen Agricultural—Bremen, Sept. 27 to 30, H. H. Miller. I Eastern Indiana -Kenda Ivillo, Noble County, Sept ‘26to 3.(, J. S. Conloguo. j I‘oplar Grove—Poplar Grove, Howard County, । Sept. 26 to 30, R. T. Barbour. Tri-County — North Manchester, Wabash 1 County, Sept. 27 to 30. D. W. Krisher. ; BouTbon—Bourbon. Marshall County, Oct. 11 to 11, G. D. Ettinger. | Northern Indiana—Goshen, Elkhart County, ' Oct. 3 to 7, T. A. Starr. Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan Exhibition Association — Warsaw’, Kosciusko County, Oct. 4. 5,6, and 7, M. A. W ilcox. COUTY FAIRS. i Tipton—Tipton. Aug. Bto 13, W. R. Cglebay. Jennings—North \ ernou. Aug. 9 to 12, W. G. I Norris. : Henry—New Castle. Aug. 9to 13, O. L. Jeffries. | Boon—Lebanon, Aug. 15 to 19. 1.. F. Moler. I Delaware—Muncie, Aug. 15 to 19, |M S. Claypool. Jefferson—Madison, Aug. 16 to 19, S. E. Haigh. Wayne - Hagerstown, Aug. Into 19, Ed Bownum. Hancock—Greenfield, Aug. 22 to 26, Elbert '1 vner. Clinton—Finn fort, Aug 22 to 26. J. Henvilon. Dearborn—Lawrenceburg, Aug. 23 to 2i, J. S. Dorman. W nsbington—Salem. Aug. 23 to 26, E. W. Menaugh. I Vigo—Terre Haute, Ar.g 22 to 26, ( harles C. Oakley. | Fulton—Rochester, Aug. 31 to : ept. 3, W. W. Loomis. Green—Linton, Aug. 29 to Sept . 2, J. H Humphreys. Harrison Corydon. Aug. '29 to Sept. 2. T. S. Gctzaudanncr. Putnaiu—Bainbridge. Aug. 29 to Sept. 3. A. R., Allison. Rm dolph Winchester, Aug. 3> to Sept 3, B.; V. Boltz. Scott Scottsburg, Aug. 30 to Sept. 2. W. L. Morrison. . . ' I Tippe anoe Lafayette, Sept. 1 to 3, Adam Wnlhu'e. t nrroU-Camden. Sept, 5 to 9. Zlba A. Brown t • Clark Charlestown, Sept. 5 to 8, J- M. M<h, 1 Montgomery—Crawfordsville. Sept, eto9. WF SW. Morgan < Hulllvan suttivnn. 'I to 10. J. M. I.imp retro.p. J Miami Mtmx.Si.pt. 7 to le. trail. Hurst. V Toscv Neu Hiirmonv, Sept 1c to n ; . W W rimbb. ’ Greene bloomflel l. Sept. 12 to 17, B. F. Hur|ell - Huntii itton Huntington. Sent, 13 to 17 H. M. Furvimiee Johnson Fnuiklin, Sept. ;3 to 17, Wil nun S. Y'oung. Rush • Rushville, Sept. 13 to 17. Cheries F. Kemu <l.v. Miami rent. Sept. 13 to If . Fn .1 Conradt. Marshall Plymouth, Sept. 20 to 23, D. 1.. Dickiii son. Nob e—Ligonier, Sept 19 to 22, J. E. McDonald. Porter—Valparaiso, Sept. 2) to 23, E S Benell. Wabash—Wabash, Sept. 20t0'24, Gio. B. Fawley. Sjiencer ll.i kport. Sept 1.1 to 21. A. B. Garliughouse. Da.iesa Washington, Sept. U to 2i, W. F. Axt< 11 Pulaski Winnmac, Sept. 27 to 3b Jesse Taylor. Grant Marion, Sep:. 27 to 30, L. I'. Carmichael Jay— Port iniid, Sept. 27 to 30, Geo. W. Bergman. Lake- Crown Point, Sept. 27 to 30, B. Woods. Monri < Bloomington, Sept, til to Oct, 1, Geo. I‘. Campbell. Pei rv Rome. Oct. 3to W. Wheeler. Wrmillion Newport. Oct .ito7. 1.. Shepard. I W abash—Waliiish, Sept. zO to 21. Geo. B.<Fa'.v lev. W hit ley—Columbia City, Oct. 1 to 7. L. Richard. I.awrence—Bedford, Oct. 1 to s, F. Sta nard. Knox—Vincennes, Oct. 10 to 15, J. W. Emison. Crows are becoming thi tk in Southern Indiana. A skeleton was found in a cellar of an old building which was being torn down in Franklin. Mrs. Mary A. Spears of Seymour wants £5,000 from Aaron E. Lloyd for breach of promise. j A boy poured a can of coal oil in a ' stove in Columbus. The stove went , through the roof. Boy not vet found. Knife from planing-machine Hew off, in Plainfield, and struck Henry Moon in ! the forehead, cutting through the skull. ■ lie will die. I Ai.i.en Skinner, a saloonkeeper of ’ Marion, admitted fishing with a net and । ! was fined £GO. Also August De Pair fined । j for same tiling. ‘•White Caps’’ took J. 11. Haggard, I an old soldier, out ot his house, near ’ Martinsville, and were getting ready to : ; whip him when they were frightened ! away. The First National Bank. Laporte, । and the Citizens' and First National of ; Michigan City, the B. & B. and C. W E. 1. railroads have combined against the new ■ : tax law and refused to pay taxes in I i Laporte County. J. 11. Rudicil, a young schoolteacher J of Morgan County, who accepted a po- ! ; sition last faM as teacher in Hopkins ! J University, Oakland, Cal., has been ' forced to resign because of ill health, I and has returned to Martinsville. The residence of Rev. Allia of Stringtown, Clay County, was destroyed by lire. Dr. Homer J. Hall of Frankiln, was driving across a bridge over a swollen stream, when the structure gave way, precipitating him and his outfit to the water. He received painful injuries before he could reach the shore. Harry Blue of the Vandalia road, the most popular switchman in Terre Haute, was instantly killed by falling between freight cars. His death is a particularly sad one, as be had just prepared a home for his bride, whom he was to have wedded next week.

A new gas well has been struck near Farmland. The recent fire in Edinbnrg caused a loss of $25,000. Michaels, Grant County, has at last I secured a postoffice. Numerous kinds of swindlers are again working the people in the country. Mrs. Fred Feller has mysteriously disappeared from her home in Wabash. Michigan City people will vote to see whether they want water works or not. Marion Williams of Anderson, has a mare that gave birth to triplets one day I last week. Henry Ford, colored, supposed to be 100 years old, died at the Floyd County ; Poor Asylum. Frank Wenzler lost all his fingers | and thumb on his righthand in a sawing machine at New Albany. Frank Johnson, a Fort Wayne lum- ■ berinan, was fata-lly crushed while rolling logs on the Maumee. John Frash of Huntington, believes he is heir to a fifty-two-miilion-dollar estate in Germany. A farmer near Denver dreamed he

found a pot of sold. He dug his farm । up, but didn’t find it. Mrs. Nancy A. Green is the only rev- j cautionary pensioner in Indiana. She ! lives at Napoleon, Ripley County. Excitement in Carroll County grows over the discovery of zinc mines. Three shafts have already been put down. Kokomo is building a $20,000 schoolhouse, the second one erected in a year, to meet the growing demands of the city. William Heath, white, cut 2Ybe Peele’s left cheek off with a razor, in Muncie. They quarreled over a woman. Experts have pronounced the bed of limestone, near New Ross, Montgomery County, to be as fine as found anywhere else in Indiana. Robert Neal, l ank boss at one of the I Brazil Block-eoa' Company's mines, toI gether with another miner, was instantly killed bv falling slate. People at South Bend are complaining about the hoodlums who gather about the theater of evenings where temperance lectures are held. Mrs. L. M. Elsey died at her home in Posey Township, Clay County, aged 82. Mrs. Elsey was the first woman teacher that was given a school in Clay County. Edwin V. Johnson of Seymour, a graduate of Annapolis, has been made a lieutenant in the United States Revenue i Marine Service, being assigned to Lake Michigan. While Ed Jacoby was out driving at ■ Thorntown with Mollie Scott, some one ' fired into the buggy. The bullet struck the girl, but hit a steel in her corset, | saving her life. The old “Governor's mansion” in Cory don, which was oceupied by the first Governor of Indiana, is being torn down. I The building is a two-story brick and is ! now the property of Dr. A. E. L. Smith. I Ali.an Vaught, a youth residing near Solon, in Clark County, while playing I in his father’s barn, fell to his ground, a distance of fifteen feet, striking on his j> head and causing almost instant death, i AsEXEuuroßs of the vast estate of Adam Wolft Jason Wilson, of Marion, and Mayor Arthur W. Brady of Muncie, ~ gave the largest bond ever lilecL in Delai ware County. The amount beihg $600,oOok Sul ml an train botwei-n .1.-n.-r ton villc ami Nmv AlLany, while getting off of hG engine Mim-ej ami fell. The engine ran over his leg, cutting off his right foot abou! the ankle. lie will probably die. Earl K. Gi.a<<. Assistant City Engineer of Riehmond, Mas found in his room recently, dead of apoplexy. He was .’s years old, and a leader in young people s religious circles. His remains will be shipped to his imme at Knightstown. where his parents reside. Ihe determination of the congregation of the Evangelical Church at Brazil to hold Sunday-school in spite of minister Winters, who refused to give up the key to the church, caused something of a sensation. The meml ers of thechureh broke in and had services,held a song and prayer-meeting in the evening, while the minister remained at home, refusing to come and preach to his flock. There is trouble between Mr. Winters and the congregation over the famous DubbsBowman case, the minister having expelled the entire church, recently. The members bought a new lock, and now the minister is locked out. The preacher will resort to the courts. When the farm bell rang for supper at the home, of Irvine Love, four miles east of Marion, the other night, Orville, the 15-year-old son, did not respond. The father called for the boy, who was finishing his evening work, and, receiving no answer, started in search of the 1 tardy one. He found him lying on the ground in the barn-yard. lie was unconscious and was bleeding from a wound i in the head. They took him to the house, i but the skull was crushed so as to lay l bare the brains, and he died in thirty : minutes. There were no witnesses to j the accident, and how the boy was struck i will probaldy never be known. It is ' supposed, however, that the colt which ! he had been Matering struck him with I its fore-foot. I The ’Western Improvement Company < j is now building a line hotel on its land j ; near Yorktown, its dimensions being 100 i • feet long by sixty wide, and three stories I ' high. The new flouring-mi!!, of 200 j barrels capacity, at the. head of the lake, ! has already' been commenced. The I aluminium works, from Bucyrus, 0., are ' now at Y’orktown, awaiting switching ' facilities which are being put in by the I Big Four, that the machinery may be unloaded from the cars, and the building [of the furnaces commenced. The brass i and novelty works wi’l be opened out ' with a full force of hands next week. The Y’orktown brick factories are to ! furnish material for these buildings, ! which, with those yet to to be erected in the near future, will create a big demand for laborers. A car-load of carpenters had to be sent for last week. Elmer Willard, desperado and highwayman, badly wanted in Logansport, was located at a farm house. The police and detective force attempted to capture him when he escaped under a hot fire. Fourth-class postmasters have been appointed for Indiana as follows: Cork- I well. Jay County, R- Landis, vice 11. L. I Robbins, resigned; Fargo, Grange County, I. S. Pittman, vice G. P. Bonwasser, resigned; Ijamsville, Wabash County, G. IL Eckman, vice E. T. Green, resigned; Milllin, Crawford County, E. A. Senn, vice J. AV. Senn, resigned; Saluda, Jefferson County, L. C. Talbott, vice J. G. Marling, resigned.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULkY CONSIDERED. A Scholarly Exposition of th® LessonThoughts Worthy of Calm Reflection— Half an Hour’s Study of the Scriptures —Time Well Spent. The Lord My Shepherd. The lesson for Sunday, April 21, may be found in Psalms 23: 1-6. introductory. This psalm stands between the psalm of the cross (“My God, my God, why , hast thou forsaken me?”) and the psalm of the crown (“The earth is the Lord’s”). ! We call it the psalm of the shepherd’s ' crook. It represents beautifully and j consolingly the kept path of taose who i reach forth from cross to crown, guided and comfoited on the way by the rod ; and staff of a compassionate shepherd, j The psalm has distinct marks of David’s ? authorship. Himself a shepherd, he could appreciate what shepherd care I means. Fleeing, possibly, at this time from Absalom he felt the need of help. And he has touched here the deepest ; wants and longings of the human heart. : To how many a soul, walking in the shadows, have these sacred sentences । come as sweetest balm! And it is a good 1 song for the sunshine, too. WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. Shepherd. From the verb to feed. The Douay translation seems • very unhappy here; The Lord ruleth me. 1 I shall not want. Here the Douay is plainer: I shall want nothing. The verb I means to be cut off, to lack. He maketh me. Hero follow the pari ticulars of that fulless hinted at in the first verse. Lie down, used also at Jer. 33: 12. Suggestive of rest and satisI faction. In green pastures. Literally i meadows of young grass. The word ! green is from the verb to sprout. i Still waters. Literally, waters of rest ■ or repose. Restoreth. First meaning to turn or return. Same word translated eonvert- ! ing in the last lesson, Ps. 19: 7 (“con- ; verting the soul.”) Righteousness, i Douay: justice. His name’s sake. Name, in the Scripture, refers, in general, to character. Through the valley, or in the valley. Shadow of death. One word in the Hebrew: Thick darkness, but compounded of two words, shade and death. Variously applied in Scripture to a prison, Ps. 107: 10, calamity, Ps. 44: 19, : distress. Job 16: 16; Jer. 2: 6. Fear no evil. More accurately, not fear j evil. Thou art with* me. The personal pronouns are emphatic here. ■ Troubles bring us closer to God. i Rod. Symbol of authority, here shep- ‘ herd’s crook. - Staff. Root-meaning i support, from the verb to rest or lean. I They comfort. They is emphatic. ! The first meaning of comfort is to pity. । Prepared a table. Literally and graphj ically, settest a table, from the verb to 1 j set in order. Prov. 9: 2 (“furnished her t.'ble.”) My cup runneth ovt, or ■ : satiateth. First meaning, drink to the ; ! full. The Douay rendition is curious: 5 “My chalice which inebriateth me; how s ! goodly it is!” (taking in part of the fol- . ! lowing vers^.) [ ’ Goodness and mercy shall follow me, , !or pursue me, as in a chase. God’s , ; people are pursued of his goodn.ess even - I unto the gates of the city. Forever. . | Literally, length of days, i. e., endless ! days; placed, it would seem, in partial e u -mm .inJ mercy while life lasts here beC low. but an abode with God farther and bt yond, in the everlasting kingdom ol the Father. MHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. I he l>ord is my shepherd; I shall not want. Logical premise and conclusion. I he Lord is a shepherd; he is my shep- ’ held; therefore I shall not want. Have ! you made this process of faith yout own.’ Ihese Scriptures will only mean , something for us, in a sense, be inspired for and to ns, as we make them per- ; sonal. Translate them into your own : word ai d thought and life. "The Lore is my shepherd,” lisped the little child, “and. and doesn’t want any sing else. ’ : Can you say the same? The Bible has not reached you and me, until we car put it for ourselves into somewhat sim- । ilar personal speeqh. He is my shepherd. Is he yours? I want nothing : more or better. Do you? He restoreth my soul. Over and ovei [ in this life, and after the valley of the ; shadow with the full vigor and strength :of the resurrection life. And all this ! “for his name sake.” We know ths ! name: “Wonderful, Counselor, the ’ migh y God. the everlasting Father, the । Prince of Peace.” A restorative name. ! indeed; in it is wrapped all the recuperi ative energies of the universe, the riches iof wisdom and power. We ought al ; once to bejrealizing this divine re-en-j foreement; we are the people of the re- ! stored soul. Made to lie down in green : pastures—some one has said that onlj । few sheep lie down, their posture bei tokening fullness and contentment. Is ; that the impression we are making on J the world? Do they see us to be ever- : restored souls? Only thus can we saj I effectually, “Come thou with us and we | will do thee good, for the Lord hath : spoken good concerning Israel.” I Thou prepares! a table before me in । the presence of mine enemies. Where ‘is that but here’ It is in this world thal l we are in the presence of our enemies, ; for "the carnal mind is enmity against | God." “Marvel not that the world hate I you.” But right here in this world, as il ■ to rebuke our enemies all about us, the । Lord spreads us a table. David found it so; every trustful soul is thus rewarded. And he who lacks a table spread in this life lacks just so much of giving due glory to God among men of this world. "I have glorified thee on the earth,” Christ could say. “I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world." God’s name means humbl ness, but it also means blessing. Are we testifying to the world of the God of all comfort and blessing? Happy homes, happy hearts, happy voices and faces —those are a part of the Spirit’s witness to the Christ. Next Lesson—“Tlw Prayer of the Penitent.” Ps. 51: 1-13. Grains of Gold. To deliberate about useful things is the safest delay. Chance opportunities make us known i to others, and still more to ourselves. To be content with what we possess, is the greatest and most secure of riches. Cheerfulness is an excellent working quality, imparting great elasticity to the character. Every new discovery in science yields its contribution to the proofs and illustrations of the wisdom, power and goodness of God.