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'WWI Sli EHfVinOLWr CHAPTEK XVll—Continued. “Shall we go to tho hotel?” queried Prescott. “What for?” demanded his companion, sharply. “To divide the money, of coirse.” “Eh?” frowned the other. “Oh, yes; certainly. We divide, as agreed. No, I am not going to venture near the hotel. lam afraii ” “Os a woman!” sneered Prescott. "With the money gained, never fear the rest. ” “You don’t know her!” gasped the impostor, with a timid glance all . bout | him, as if fearful that some wraith would suddenly block his path. “Anyway, we will shake the dust of tho village from our feet, sure and fast. I ! want to meet my friend, Paul Dalton’s! jailer, at a cabin in the woods. Come on. Soon as we reach a retired spot I’ll ; divide the money.” Ralph Pres: ott’s heart boat high with hope and avarice. Ho had failed in most of his plans, b it tho very material fact of money, at least, was tangibly in sight at least. Just beyond the village, near a little grove, the imposter halted. “It’s moonlight,” he said, “and we can seo to count the money. You demand half, eh? ’ “We agreed on half.” “All right.” The impostor peered sharply about them. He made a feint as if to take the wallet from his pocket. “Here you are,” he said, between his teeth, his breach quickening. Ralph Prescott put forth his hands, as if to receive the money he had so : coveted. The next minute they went to his ■ head, he uttered a wild cry and stag- ■ gered back. l or, with the 'swiftness of lightning, 1 the man he had made an accomplice had drawn some blunt instrument from his pocket. A heavy blow on the temple j repeated stretched Prescott senseless at I his feet. ; “Lie there!” he hissed malevolently. I ■“Half! ha! ha! I have plotted too deep- i ly for the fortune to give it away. No, i mine, till mine! Such sneaks as you deserve a”traitor’s reward!” He knelt amk drew Prescott's watch Ing ^nnket— even his purse he took. Betrayed, robbed, deserted, Ralph Prescott would awake to find that crime had : brought him its own time recompense. ! Then the shallow-hearted villain darted through the thicket, carrying 1 with him the results of evil scheming, making off with the booty, to obtain which he had ruthlessly trampled on human lives and human hearts. CHAPTEK XVIII. AT LAST Lawyer Drew filed away his papers, closed up his desk and lit his’pipe, ready for a comfortable smoke, after his two visitors, Ralph Prescott and the impcs’or, had left him. He felt very complacent, for the assured heir of the Forsythe legacy had paid him an extra large fee to expedite matters. A ring at the door-bell, followed by | the hurried parley of son^e new visitor with the servant, interrupted the law- i yer’s pleasant reveries, however, a mo- , ment later, and almost immediately ! tramping footsteps down the hall pre- j ceded a rude intrusion into the room. , There stood a man, pale, unkempt, : wild-eyed—so closely the prototype of j the man who had just left that room with a royal fortune surrendered to his charge that the lawyer stared in amazement. “Why, Mr. Dalton!” he ejaculated, ‘ rising abruptly and staring wonderingly at his visitor. “You have returned? : something has happened?” “Returned? No!” exclaimed the in- ' truder, excitedly. “ I have not been here before to-night.” "What! Did I not just pay you—’ “Too late!” gasp d the new comer. “‘He has been here. I feared it. Mr. Drew, do you not know me?” “Why! yes, I ” stammered the lawyer. "I am Paul Dalton; not the Paul Dal- ! ton who has taken my place and repre- ! sente! my identity for the past week, ! but the Paul Dalton you knew of old—the superintendent of Maple Leaf Farm.” “Then the other?” "Was an impostor.” Lawyer Drew’s jaws fell. The awful truth suddenly dawned upon his astounded mind, and it paralyzed his faculties completely. “Yes,” went on Paul Dalton, rapidly, "you have been made the victim of a deep plot, a scheme to wrongfully secure the Forsythe fortune, while I have been a drugged, bound prisoner. To-night I overpowered and bound my jailer and hurried here, but too late to prevent the consummation of an ihiquitous project between Ralph Prescott and the man who r sembles me.” “Remarkably. Ho must be a brother, a close relative?” “It matters not. I cannot expose him here now. Quick! how much of a start has he got of me! He must be overtaken, he must disgorge his ill-gotten booty, he must tell me what he has done with my wife —my darling, precious Ruth!” “I can answer that question! A clear, confident voice uttered the words, just about to advance toward the door, Paul Dalton recoiled as a dark-eyed, sad-faced woman crossed its threshold. The lawyer, too, regarded her in open-mouthed wonder. “Isabel!” exclaimed the startled and bewildered Paul Dalton, “Isabel!” ‘ Yes, Paul, the wronged, persecuted wife of your enemy, the woman who, at

last realizing all,the noble sacrifice of your life, has determined, be the cost; what it may, that you shall wreck youi happiness no further, to enrich anJ I shield a consummate scoundrel, my hus- , band though he be!” “What does this mean?” gasped the overwhelmed lawyer. “I will tell you,” rang out the woman’s voice. 1 “Isabel, I forbid you!” interrupted Paul Dalton, sternly. “No, I shall disobey you,” returne I the woman, firmly. “Too long you have suffered in silence. It means this, sir,” to the interested and curious lawyer, “there are two Paul Daltons —this one, and my husband, the man who has just swindled you out of a fortune. The one good, the other bad, remarkably alike in | I looks, but in soul—ah! this man’s noble j i sacrifices and life of sadness shall shine ! j bright in the judgment day before the : j blaely-hearted cruelty and sin of that j other Paul Dalton—my husband.” “They are brothers?” “No, cousins—the children of sisters I who, fondly hoping to win the favor of 1 rich old Paul Dalton, the banker, each I named a child after him. They grew I up. My husband was the favorite. He j was the accepted heir of his uncle, but । he broke his mother’s heart with his • j ev.l ways. On her death-bed she made : ; this noble-hearted man here promise to | : shield his cousin from harm. Hoping I I he would reform, this Paul Dalton did ; j ail lie could to help him retain his j * uncle’s favor. But, why continue tho ! I story? Its end tells all. My Paul Dal- , to 1 was convicted of forgery when this 1 Paul Dalton was out West. He served I his term, bat, returning home, reversed the real position of affairscharged this Paul Dalton with being the convict and Ihe the man out West. Ho wedded me i to a life of misery, and for my sake ’ after old Paul Dalton had died, and my ! husband had squandered his fortune, | this noble man mutely accepted the stain of a convict reputation, gave up 1 all his ambitions and disappeared. That i is the story. My husband was the j forger—this man’s soul is white as I snow.” The old lawyer sat overcome at the I strange revelation. “When Paul Dalton left Ridgeton tin days ago,” continued the woman, “to find my husband, and demand that he ’ explain, at least to Ruth Elliott, tho । truth wh ch he was sworn not to divulge, : my husband learned of the fortune left [to him. He made a prisoner of this Paul Dalton, and—the rest you know. : I hurried on his track, determined that no further injuy should come to this! man. I warned him; he refused to heed - : me. Now he shall suffer the con re- > i quern es of his crime. Paul Dalton, I i I rescued your wife to-day—there she is!” i ! Ruth Dalton appeared at tho library ; i door. There was a mutual cry of joy, 1 and husband and wife were reunited in one another’s arms. “Wait here!” ordered Isabel. “I know ■ Where ray husband has gone. I will ; find him —1 Will right tho great wrong < f 1 the past—if I follow him half the wo: 11 ! overt” Ci! APTEK XIX. IX THE WHITE MOIIXLIGUT. 1 Ralph Prescott lay wT r ho had been I left robbed and insensible in th- white [ moonlight, while his assailant sped ! ! away from the spot with tho fleetness of ; a deer, an i the guilty U ar ng of a er.m- , inal es. aping from the hands of justice. 1 The false Paul Dalton’s breath came quick, and his m nmr showed th it he | was not yet altogether sanguine of kmv- ; ing the country without some trouble. I He feared Prescott, revived and hot I on his trail with all the vengmul persisten'y of a baffled accomplice; he dreaded tho angrrof h's descried wife, I ' whose written warning anti subsequent | silence were more impressive than: i spoke n words. But he had arranged for all that. The ! bearded man, Newcombe, whom ho had ! ■ employed to act as jailer to Paul Da- i ! ton, was an old-time- confederate in { 1 crime, and he ha I arranged to meet him • j at a dilapidated cab n a mile distant, [ 1 that night. “I’ll see Newcombe and we’ll fly tho ; i coun ry togeth r,” he murmured, as he ’ ! hurr.eJ over tho m.ionlitlan iscape. “He : is too old a friend to des ri, but as to that feilow Pres ott, he han Ue 1 e Iged ; tools and got cut—he got all he de- , • served.” Tlie imp istor threaded a forest maze, ! : and at last came to a dismantled hut. He paused in the bushes to whistle : several times. There was no response to this evident- i ly agreed-on signal, and he entered tho doorless structure and proceeded to light a lantern, which, with a lot of other traps, lay on the floor in one corner of the gloomy place. From among these he selected a suit of clothes, a false beard, a pair of blue j spectacles, and other articles likely to be 1 of use in making up a disguise. ! When he had donned them they gave ; him an appearance scarcely according I with the fugitive of a few minutes ' previous. “I fancy no one will recognize me in j this disguise even if pursuit is made,” he । chuckled confidently. “The money ? i Yes, that is all safe. Ah! it was w "th ! the battle, and victory perches 01 my i tanner, and I have won the daj A royal fortune! With Newcombe to co- ' operat; with me, we can double it at some foreign gambling place.” He gloated over tho well-filled pocketbook for s me time, then, securing it in j an inner pocket, he paced the floor of ! the h it restlessly. An hour went by, and he glanced at ; his wa’ch —Ralph Prescott’s —his time- ! piece now, he told himself, with a hilarij ous laugh, as he pictured the discom- ; fiture of the plotter when he regained : his senses. “Strange that Newcombe docs not lome!” he murmured, impatiently, at las , extinguishing the lantern, and go- ■ ing to the door of the hut. , । Another hour went by, and he started from the spot. “I can’t, I w< n’t risk trouble by re- । ! maining here or going :.n search of New- | combe, ’ he muttered, determinedly. . ! “He had his cue to be here. He is not , ! here, so I leave the country alone. With an abundance of money I can find an equally shrewd partner in Europe.” Utterly selfish and heartless to the last, the impostor hurried through the woods. ; . He had his plans formed to cross the

country to a railroad, take an eastLound train, reach New York, and thence by steamer, Europe. Just wher j a narrow ravine lined tho path he was traversing, he paused suddenly. Like a flashing meteor, a woman’s form crossed his vision and blocked his path. “Sop!” Clear as a clarion note the mandate rang forth. “Isabel!” gasped the startled plotter. “Yes—l hive found you.” “What—what do you want?” stammered the abashed impostor. A white, shapely hand was extended from the folds of the long, dark cloak that enveloped the woman’s form. “I want the fortune you have stolen from the man you have so cruelly wrong d, Paul Dalton!” was the imperious reply. CHAPTER XX. CON. U SION. Tho hand of the impostor clutched the breast pocket containing the precious wallet at tho peremptory words of his deserted wife. Then, with a wild glance about him, he made a movement of precipitate Hight. The woman never mo’, el. She simply repeated the ominous mandate. “Stop! I wara you, Paul Dalton. You know I never tell a lie. Take one more step, and— lam prepared to prevent a new wrong. I will kill you before you shall reap the reward of your awful wickedness!” The hand under the cloak moved significantly. Tho man shuddered; his hair crisped; his bloo I chilled. He knew she was a broken-hearted, desperate woman. His eyes were lurid with baffled hate as he gazed at her. "Then take it!” he hissed, as he drew forth the wallet. She reached out her hand, but uttered a startled cry as sho realized in a flash that the acquiese nt words of the scoundrel were employed solely to throw her off her guard. For ho gave her a violent push back toward the edge of the yawning ravine. The woman did mot, however, lose her presence of mind. With one hand she clutched the wallet and tore it from her husband’s grasp. With the other she stayed a fatal des: ent into the cavernous darkness of tin yawning void, three feet away. Her would-be executioner was less fortunate. His violent movement caused him to lose his balance; his wild struggle to gain the coveted pocketbook cost him dear. He stumbled and fell. A cry of horror rent the woman’s lips as his sd u;gling lorm disappeared over the edge of tho cliff and was swallowed up in the black dar! ness of the ra\ ine. She listened with bated breath for some sound or cry, but none came. Then, thrilled, appalled, she sped from tlie spot. Reaching the first cottage, she summoned help. An old farmer and his hired man accompanied her to the ravine. There, lying across a mosseovero I rock, they found the broken body of her husband. He was still alive, an I they bore him to the village. Placed under a doctor’s care, me was nursed by his wronged but faithful wife until morning. At oarlics! dawn, a l>< draggled, lin ping form stale into Ridgeton and 10 Maple Leaf Farm. It was tho biffli'd ‘-chom r, Ra’pn Prescott. Before noon, tuk nu with hin the entire cent- ills of Farmer John’s I strong b< x he sneaked out of the vd- 1 lage. That village never heard of him a . a'n I for two years, then it was to leant ttia: he had died in a fight in u fur Western gambling saloon. The man Newcombe, whom the real Pa il Dalton h d overpowered at the cabin, was brought to town by the sheriff and imprison d. As Paul Dalton did not wish to make his own ass firs public, liow.-ver, he was release ! later, and disapp ared. But on the morrow all Ridgeton knew the story of one man's nable sacrifice an 1 an other man’s vile plolting-s. They knew, too, that to tho last Isa- I bel had clung to the battered wreck < f i hummity, who died deploring, if not re- I pent ant. It was a week later, after the burial j of her husband, that Isabel returned to Ridgeton. Paul Dalton an i his wife welcomed her at the old home of Geoffrey Fqrsj the, where they had begun life anew, as husband and wife. “I have come back to stay with you, ! as you wish, ’ said Isabel, sadly. “I ; know you want me, and, with my life I wasted and broken, I will feel happi- ' jie -s to be near you. My father his for- ) given me.” “You have blessed our lives by lilUng the dark veil of my past, ’ returned Pad, affectionately. “You recovered the fortune we would hive lost. You shall have it with us here, as friend, a lviser, sister.’ “Not here,” answered Isabel, softly, "but at your proper home—Maple Leaf Farm. Ruth, I have told your fat ter all the story of your husband’s nobleness, of the evil deeds of his favorite, Ralph Piescott, and he is brokenhearted over the injustice he has done. He is here to ask forgiveness an I take you and yovr husband back t > Maple Leaf Farm.” Rugged old Farmer John was a contrite, tearful man in that room a minute later. A happy man as, with his daughter and her husband, he returned to th • old home that had been so cheerless without them. He knew th.' true from the false now, the poor metal from the dross, and ; knew, too, that his future would be . might and peaceful, assured of the love and devotion of Hearts of Gold. ; Onoe more the golden grain is waving over the broad, fertile acres; once more i Rath’s happy face beams from the homestead door, and once more, blessed | by thp love of Paul, the sisterly d'evo- , tion of Isa', el, and th t tender care of ! old Farmer John, she is the Heiress of ! Maple Leaf Farm. [the end.] A dens for seeing under water gives a distinct vision of objects twenty or thirty feet off, the loss of extended sight under water being because an entirely ! different focus is required. The spectacles which provide this can be made by putting two watch glasses of threequarters of an inch diameter and an inch radius back to back, or with the । concavity outward. Many inanimate things appear to be ’ endowed with reason. For instance, a collar button knows when a fellow has a i sore thumb, and improves the occasion ; to refuse to do duty.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE LESSON. li®fiectsons of an Elevating Cliaractc* Wholesome Food for Thought — Studying the Scriptural Eccsou Intelligently and Profitably. Tlie Ascension of Christ. The lesson far Sunday, July 3, may be found in Ac s1: 1-1” INniODUCTORV. The “Acts es the A post! s” might quite as fitly be named the Acts of tho Holy Ghost. Indeed tho title is j-r poily “Acts,” nothing more. As the gospel of Luke, the writer's former treatise, described what Jesus tegan to do and to teach, so this from the same hand tells us what the Holy Spirit sent of Christ hogan to do and to teach, the apostles being the ago*ts for his gracious manifenations. Dr. J. Ransom Lumby in the Cambridge Bible very sagaciously says, referring to the witnessing :t both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria and unto tho utterm st parts •f the earth.” that “taking these words for his theme the author directs his labor to show in what manner the teaching of tho apostles was begun in each of these appointed fields of labor, and he does no more.” There is something left for others, for us. WHAT THE LESSO^■ SAVS. The former treatise. Literally, ti e first word, i. e. comtnuni ation. account (logos). Have I made, lie had been making a statement,• lie purposes now to make an additional one. Theophilus. Meaning lover of God. An unknown person. All that Jesus began. The important word is began, for this is the book of beginning^; but ti e emphatic word is Je-us. The beginnings of Jesus' words and acts he has already sketchedhe will now outline tho beginnings of the work of tho Holy Spirit. 1 hrough the Holy Ghost. Standing over against tlie word Jesus in the first verse. Christ now speaks through the Holy Ghost; it is of this new m tl.od of teaching and doing that Luke will now narrate. Unto the aj o-tles whom he had chosen. Cho>en for the purpose of laying the foundations of which lecor I Is here made. Showed himself ali'-e Literally, presented himself living.-—-After bis passion. Greek: After him to sutler. By many Infallible proofs. The word tekmar, from ‘which the last word conics, means a fixed mark. Tlie miracles and signs of Christ’s reappearances form a fixed and permanent foundation, on which tho whole superstructure of the Christian religion securely rests. We t his see the present worth of the miracle; it is like the solid stone under the building, placed there once fi.r ail. Being seen. Jesus was an object of vision, the (.significance of the word) off and on, for forty days, in order that the “proof” might be Infallible. Being aa-embled t raeti er with them. An ivwkward expression: be.ter. long in a--semblo with them: i. e.. in a lompany caled for the purpose. Iraniis-; i. e., the thing promised, the Holy Spirit ——Not to depart. A word signify ing formal withdrawal, as possibly for the estal lishn.ent of a separate insi i:ution. Ye have heard of me. Uh.' sinld 'ti leap int i dire td scourse hero is sign: fieant. It intimates the frequency and loving e'osenes< with which th- very words of Christ were quoted by 1 l.e dis dples. John truly baptized with water. How that baitism was admlnistere 1 tie next words g.vj indie it on: But ye shall be baptl ed in the Holy Ghost (on). Tlie hou-e in which they Were silting, it is to Ie rememtiered, was filled wuh t,.0-nianffest presence of th' Spirit; it w. s aver/ immersion. I'r < mt's translation ■ Bible In Ion) !<, immer-ed in tlie Holy Spiiit. W hite they i t held. As they v.e:e ra/i ig. doubtlg^s in apprehetrslon of s.imet bL.g about to occur or now oceicrlng. h'eCelvod bin . The lexicon SU go-ts Unit fhl- * to tako ti p self unnernmuh ' hat is taken tin Out iof ihi-ir si ht. Creek e es S:ili within { I rem h of their hope and aspi; ation. I ■ | Greek, to ga o inti ntly : ir m tin- r of ini ten<e. strained light. r- <> ard hi aen Litouill. iiro tho heavens a very vi\id account As be went up Greek: lie go- ! ing up. : Sto >d by then. Tlie piuperfe t ’ form. Behold two ni n were siandin-. I. e.. had been standing while th-y were looking up Why stand ye? or W h h :ve ye Iren ; standing? (porfe t ten-e) In like man- ■ n ras ye have seen him go. As clear and : expihi as it could be made. Olivet. Meai 1 ig, an olive garden ——A ■ Sabbath day’s journey. Tlie exact s|x>t ; described, as of u i authenti mid verifla- i bie event. Vll <T THE LESSON TEACHES. • | All that Jesus began both to do and , i teach. The gospels are sufficient unto s :- : I vat on, and they present in thems -Ives a ! I perf -et plan of redemption. But as re- ; 1 spects tlie whole truth which is in Christ ■ Jesus, they constitute still b r us only what ■ Jesus began lioth to do and teach. The ' Acts of the Apostles, inspired in their con- ; veyanee. carry us farther on into this mar - ! velous doctrine and pr ietice; the history ; of theeliuic i in subsequent ares gives in 1 larger and fuller glinip es, and in t’., i future is there not yet more t > follow? ! i Chiist Jes'-s as d'ucttiue is the greatest I thought eve.' born 'nt । the earth. Christ : Jesus as pets n, an object transcending all , individual powers of perception. He grows I with the ares. Daily the Holy Spirit i- guiding the Christian mind and heart into all the truth. Wait for the promise of the Father. 1 his does no: refer merely to the spoken promise or to the intellectual apprehension of that promise. Too often we content ourselves wi h just so much. We read and ponder till we understand, and then our waiting ceases. We have discovered what tlie promise means. Something more is intended here, vastly more. It is the promised thing that is to be real!’ d. We are to vail, and keep on walling ii. faith, until we not only descry as at a distance Ihe desired bo n. but hold it in our hands a present pcssession. The proper commentary o 1 this passage is verse 33 of the second chapter: “Therefore, being by tlie right hand i f God exalt d, ami ha-ins received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this which ye now see and hear.” Ye shall receive power. Here is the sufficient ans >er to the r question of a moment before: “Lied, wilt thou at this time restore ata n the kingdom of Israel?” The Lord rebukes their groveli ig aims, and then interprets to them the better aspirations of their Sp rit-touched hearts, “Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you. and ye shall be witnesses.” 1 This is the kingdom which they may ex- ! pect, a kingdom of spiritual indwelling, a i kingdom and conquest of w itnessing. Power Ito preach Be satis el with that, said i Christ, till I come a. ain And then the : heavens received him out of men’s sight. His last words, do ve cherish them, weigh them as we should? Wo see him coming back for a Closing word with his disciples; and here it is, the one old word repeated: “Go, pleach.” Next Lesson—“ The Descent of the Spirit.” i Acts 2: 1-12. Ix butchering a 1,200 pound steer but ! littl i over half is used as food, overone--1 fourth is waste, and the I alanee is u'ilI ized in various ways. The cereals are i far less wasteful—nearly th ■ whob' of I wheat, oats, rye, etc., being available ! as food for man or cattle. I A woman is more considerate in as- ! fairs of love than a man; because love 1 i is more the study and business of her ■ , life, 1 I Postal-car-ds are made at the rate ; of 4,000 per minute.

CHICAGO CONVENTION. W. S. WILSON THE PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. Joules ol the La it Democratic National Convention Adopted — Deport of the Committee on Permanent Organization—The Chair Presented with a Zinc Wednesday’s Session. Precisely at 11:30 on Wednesday, Temporary Chairman ( wens rappel the convention to order, and called upon the Rev. Alfred H. Henry to offer prayer. He aske I that th ■ convention be guided to el'.oose a report sensitive of modern progressive demo racy, and prayed that tlie parly might proceed to victory, not for tlie S[ oils of o:fke. Just as the j rayer concluded the lowa phalanx entered the hall, the big blue banner witli flic picture of Horace Boies borne in front of them. There were cheers from all parts of the hall and the band very inappropriately stiu-k up “Maryland, my Maryland.” AV hen the music ceased Ihe temporary chairman brought his gavel down an I announced that the first business of the convention would be tlie report of the committee on credential-. He asked if that committee was ready to rejort. The committee was not then r; ady and dur'ng the interval Senator Palmer was called upon and ma lea short speech. When the eha rman anno ;nced that the committee on credentials was ready to report. Air. Lamb, of Ind ana, took the platform and in a clear, loud voice read the report. There was no objection to it and it was adopted. The report of the committee on permanent organization was presented by Air. Fordyce, of Arkansas, : nd read by one of the cleiks of the convention. It named W. L. Wilson, of West Yirg nia, for permanent chairman and continued th” other o'lieers of the temporary organization. Ti e announcement ol Air. Wilson’s name was met xvith loud applause. The report was adopted w.thout dissent. Air. Dickinson, of Aliehigan, moved that a committee of five be appointed to notify Air. Wilson of his apt ointment : s Permanent Chairman. Tlie Chairman appointed as the c >mmitteo: Don AL Dickinson, of Aliehigan; J. F. Duncombe, Iowa; John ( R. Fellows, New York; Joseph C. Richardson, A’ab ma; and AL L. Clardy, Missouri. Temporary Chairman Oxvens shook hands with Air. Wilson when he was escorted to tlie p!atfo:m, and then said: “Gentlemen of the convention: It gives me great pleasure to introduce to you one of the bravest Democrats in America, William L. Wilson, of West A irginia.” As Mr. Wilson came forward he was greeted with a storm of applause. He xv re his blue delegate’s badge on tin' lapel < f a cutaway coat, under which was prominent a white vest. Air. । Wilson looked calmly over the vast throng, during a minute’s silence, and then addressed the convention. When Air. Wilson com-in led his spee ‘h r ng to their feet, ware d their hats as they cheered i again ami again. i he rules of the last National Demo- ’ cratic Convention wer<-adopted for the government of the convention. No minority report was presented, an I on motion tlie report presented by Air. English was adopted v.'ithout objection. AD. Phelps of Missouri presented the < 'hni rum n wil-li n zm<' cl nn<l the convention then adjourned until ~ o’clock in the atteino.ni. I *:i --- ii^ I »s. A COMI-I ’TI Irish village will be a feature of the World’s I air. I I is said there are only two women physicians in I rance. Chicago has a bureau which gives legal advice free to the poor. Five-eighths of the bread I ate 1 in London is made o? American wh a'. The F.mperor of ''hina has ten men whose sole duty is to carry his umbrella. A Philadelphian has a garden <n his roof where he grows his own vegetables. Japan has no fewer than 700 earth-quake-observing stations scattered over th • empire. The manufacture 1 of false teeth for horses is a nexv industry just opened in France. Secretary Risk proposes to have” a plantation of rubber trees in tlie everglades of I lorida. Sixer, tlie Franco-Prussian war Germany has spent $2,200,000,1 0 I on her army and navy. A new lining for bearings is reported fro.n Germany as compos cl of a compressed vegetable parchment. A French physician has discovered the composition of quinine, he claims, an I can now jrodu e it artificially. The government of the Tyrol has passed a bill imposing a heavy i ne upon any perio i caught selling edelweiss. Ix some part or other of the world horses, cad tie and sheep are found wild, but nowhere can be foun 1 wild camels. Ix making gold threads for embroidery it has been found that six ounces of gold can be drawn into 200 miles of wire. Costa Rica is ato it to have a law n aking the sale of Indian antiquities to foreigners a crime punishable with severe penalties. I r has been as ertained that food c< sts $243.05 per y< ar tor ea -h family in the United States, while in Europe the cost is $2z2.50. The Salvation Arne in England is going to < pe l a matrlmoninl bureau, not free, but with a regular price if a suitable partner is procured. Ix a full return of the vintage in Spain last year, ihe total yield was 140,0 lO,< 00 ca'ions, and it is described as good in 10 provinces, fairly good in 34, and bad in 5. Some lar ze blasts of reck have been made to provide material for the new harbor of refuge at Brest, as much as 100,000 cubic yards being thrown out at one time. After the locomotive department of the Argentine Great AVestern Railroad 1 had mastered the question of using petroleum as tuel, and most excellent results ha 1 been attained, the supply of oil gave out, owing to Ihe borings not going deep enough, and woo I and coal are again being used. A New Hampshire man has invented a ' wn-sprinkler that is self-propelling. A truck carries a kind of stand-pipe connected svith the water supply, and the sprinklers, revolving by tlie pressure ' oi the escaping xvater, drive a shaft j which engages by means of a worm । sear with the wheels of the truck.

HERE’S ALL THE NEWS TO BE FOUND IM THE STATE OF INDIANA. Giving a Detallwd Account of tho Numeroui Cr'mes, t’osnallica, lues, Suicides* Deatln, Ftc., Lie. Minor Slate Items. Tnos. Miller, an old settler near Goshen, is dead. The saloonkeepers of Crawfordsville have organized. Alrs. Caroline Weaver, a Cicero pioneer, is dead. New Albany is raising a howl for a new railroad depot. It is estimated that Montgomery County has 2,149 dogs. Covington has contracted for electric light and water works. A basket factory is the latest enterprise Looked for Alnncie. Seed Riggs, at Mitchel], had his back broken by driving under a tree. Monticello lias organized a military company with forty-seven members. Clifford Hendricks was badly burned by a natural-gas explosion at Muncie. AVork on the new i uildings on tlie site of the burned glass works in Muncie has begun. Portland lias a curiosity in a chicken with four wings, four legs, and one head. It has been preserved. Lightning struck the residence of S. C. Allen, at Hammond, and rendered his daughter blind for life. Alartin County lias many valuable springs that would command attention, if property improved. The extension of the “Three I” railroad from Knox to Goshen, via Plymouth, is I cing talked of. Wm. AMrnhort. a prosperous farmer near Seymour, was struck by lightning while ataeking wheat. Dead. Bai’tists <d Franklin are making arrangements for an eight days’ meeting in the fair grounds at that place. A stranger, supposed to Ie William Cain of Terre Haute, died and was buried in the potters' field at Bloomfield. Albany, in Delaware County, has secured a large paper-mill and a plant costing SIOti.ODO will be erected at once. Two-n:av:i>s assaulted a railroader at Peru, and in eighteen hours they were on their wav to the pen to do two years’ time. Monroe City has called an indignation meeting to protest against “so much indiscriminate Jawing” around til ere. Horace Peacock ot AVhcattieid, was found dead in his bod at the house of a relative, near Rensselaer, where he was visiting. A Peculiar disease afflicting Wilson Cruder of English, lias caused a scare in that town by some people calling it leprosy. The Anderson glass workers' union is kicking against non-unioi' made glass being used in Indiana’s World’s Fair building. Prof. George C. Hubbard, recently principal of tho Madison High School, has accepted the chair of science at Moore’s Hill College. Ei-o x< \x- of (minty, was -t.in I tig days ago. Lightning struck Hie (4^.^ killing him and his dog. A wai.i. gave way at Lafayette, dropping the stock of three floors of the Dienliart Harness Company into a cellar filled with water. Loss SI o; o. A ci ithox is in circulation in Davies Connty for the pardon of Ledgerwood and Harbin, who were convicted of trying to burn the Court House. A si,: ~mi;oat has been built i Lafayette for service on the AVabasli River that is eighty feet long, a double decker and will carry 300 passengers. At Hawpatch, near Goshen, a sixfoot splinter in a saw mill was driven through Summer Dowell's intestines into his left arui. It is thought he will live. Muncie “tanglefoot’’ has such a peculiar efiect on Anderson men that they can't turn around on the commons after making a deposit of it under their A 12-yeae-old daughter of John Brandt was drowned in the AYabash, near Huntington, by a wagon overturning in which tne family was fording the stream. Vernon and North Vernon are to be connected l.y a street railroad, the line passing through a picturesque strip ot country along the banks of tlie Museatatuck. Evansville has had five of her inhabitants drowned in one week while they were bathing. The people there should be warned against the evils of bathing. Mbs. Margaret Bogan, of Marion, has brought suit against the electric street railway company, of Kokomo, asking SIO,OOO damages for the killing of her husband recently. AVhii.e breaking a colt to drive. Scott Richardson, a well known farmer and stockman, of Stockwell, received fatal injuries from a kick by the animal. He died soon after tlie accident. AVhile Mayor Zern, Peru, was watching a race at the track, his horse started down the home stretch. The crowd expected to see him killed. The buggy was wrecked, but the Mayor was unhurt. Albert Toby, a boy, escaped from the Reform School at Plainfield, and was discovered at Gosport. Officers attempted to arrest him, but he evaded their grasp and ran. They pursued him and the lad, Lecomlng overheated, fell dead. While returning from Chicago, Dr, J. T. Mercer of Arcadia, was instantly killed at that place in attempting to alight from the cars before they stooped, lie struck the platform and rolled under the train, the wheels passing over his body just Lelow tlie shoulders. The Evansville and Indianapolis passenger train collided with a freight at Brazil and AAL P. Davis of Brazil, received several painful bruises and ancthor passenger was badly cut about the head and face. Katie Smith, an s-year old girl, an inmate of AAernlee Orphan sHome, Richmond, was instantly killed by the falling of a swing. The little girl was sitting in the swing, when one of the posts supporting it broke off just below the ground. It fell, striking her on the head, crushing the skull and causing almost instant death. She was a native of Fort AV ay ne.