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L Mg e(N . S 2N NN ,\ e ¢ B\ ! & e . = loroat GART MRS’ G @ CHAPTER Xll—Continued. There was a dreary lapse of silence, but during its reign the gleaming, scintillant eyes of Beatrice Mercer told that their owner was not idle. She was thinking, plotting, preparing to act. Her quick mind grasped the situation readily, the situation she had auticipated, and which she had come prepared to meet. Sheheld the remedy —gold. To befriend the father of the man she loved in his dire exiremity, to+save an honored family name from re- | proach—would it not win the gratitude | of the delinquent son, and gratitudcl pity, and pity love? \ She hal other final resources in reserve. She had prepared plans calmly, systematically. This was but the first step. Oh! she could not fail. She arose and stole to the door;. she peered in. There sat the stern-faced, implaeable lawyer, the fatal documents spread out before him. There, " too, wan-fazed, wretchel, lost, shrank the father of Raymond Marshall. She stepped boldly across the threshold of the room. Not until she had reached the tab!e and her shadow felll

neross it did lawyer and vietim glance up, with a vivid start. “Madam!—why——" began the former. “I have come to purchase those documents.” : Her hand pointed to the pile of notes'! and se urities, ulmost touching them. In profound wonderment the lawyer regarded her. With a gasp of hope, suspense, dread, Colenel Marshall stared at hor veiled face. © “You have come——" repeated the lawyer, vaguely. “I'o buy those documents!” “Why—l do not understand—by what right.” “Are they for sale?” Her voice rang out sharply. “To Colonel Marshall or his authorized agent,; yes, but {o a stranger——" Beatrice Mercer turned to the bewildered Colonel. “I am no stranger, but a friend,” she half-whispered in his dumfounded ear. “I came to save you,” and then aloud: “Colonel Marshall, you authorize me to , act for you?” ! The half-stunned CGolonel could only | nod like an automaton: ' “Ten thou=and dollars is the amount, I believe,” went on Beatrice, : calmly. I “There is the money. See that it is right.” ; b . _ She had flashed a heap of bank-notes of large denominations before the lawJ s sight, She took up the papers on | USSR i ——— R ORI, = lieve?” she said, selecting one from the many papers, “Colonel Marghall, it shall never trouble you again.”! *With, two twists of her dainty tut supple wrists, she severed the fatal doec- ‘ ument in twain. : “These othef papers I shall keep for a day or two. The amount is correct?” ’ she demanded of the lawyer. “Colonel Mvaishail, you are free from debt and ! dread alike. Itrust we all know howi to keep a seeret. Lwould like Lo speak a few words to you aione.” The lawyer had witnessed some strange scenes in his professional career, but tha denouemenst of the present | inexplicable one left him speechless. Colonel Marshall, like one in a dream, ‘ followed the woman who liad mysteriously saved him from ruin and dis- ’ honor from the room. 1 Then, realizing that he had been snatched from the brink of a precipice, . he reeled to a table in the outer office | for support, and burst into tears. | “Woman, angelic deliverer!” he fairly l sobhed. “Who sent you here? You! have saved to me all I hold dearon ecarth, My tears, my prayers shall be yours till my last breath. I shall teach | my own to reverence you, I shall re- | pay you dollar for dollar. What can I | say, what can Idoto acknowledge, t()' repay this stupendous obligation that ] crush s, stuns, nystifies me?” | “One single favor.” ‘ “Name it—oh! name it.” | “Ask no questions, feel poobligations. I only ask that to-morrow evening at dusk you come to the hotel and to the apartments of Miss Leslie, and bring your son Raymond with you.” She was gone like a flash with the words. The Colonel stood staring after her as if she were some wraith. His eyes closed and he swayed-like one in a dream. He hasterned after her a minute later to demand a more lueid explanation of her strange intercession in his behalf, but when he reaehed the sireet, like the fairy in the story-books, she had disappeared utterly. Beatrice Mercer had hastened back to the hotel. Her face was flushed, her eyes hopeful, exultant, as she laid aside her wraps. ; “So far all is well,” she murmured, confidently. “Now for the most difficult part of the plot.” When Dr. Simms came, she led him to a sofa, and for over an hour in low, carnest tenes she conversed with him. She told him all her plot, all her desires. She startled him with her boldness and shrewdness, she dazzled him with the promise of munificent rewards. “What a scheme!”. he ejaculated, avising at last, “and all for the iove of a man whose heart is buried in the grave of-that lost, drowned girl. Beatrice, is the game worth the candle?” “I will have it so!” she cried, wildly. “Without Raymond Marshall, what is wealth to me! You will help me?” ‘To the last!” “You can give me the medicine to produce the effect I desire. You will help me carry out the imposition?” “Yes. Wait till Igoto my office.” In an hour he returned. Deep and subtle must have been the plots of the fair and false siren, for, as he handed her a t'ny phial, he said: “You can rely upon it. When Raymond Marshall comes to see youa tomorrow, it will be as you desire. All the pity of his heart cannot fail to go

out to the woman who has saved his family from penu'y and disgrace, for, tc all seeming, through the agency of that potent drug, you will be adying woman!" CHAPTER XIII, A SULTLE PLOT. “All is ready:” “Evervthing. M y housekeeper, whom we can trust, will act as nurse and is in the next room. I will receive the Mar‘shalls when they arrive and pave the way for you.” “Make no mistake!” It was the afternoon of theday succeeding that which had witnessed Beatrice Mercer's strange act of generosity, Beatrice herself, in propria persona, the disguise she had hitherto adopted ’now abandoned, lay upon a couch in one corner of her sleeping apartment, ~ She was no longer disguised, but there was a change in her from hep ordinary appearance that was most remarkable, m ?::é;gg%uhin and wretchedly W ) 2 i e r hac on the pillow, her laborem}-%,lzi‘ﬁ“ hectic cheeks seemed to indicate a hot. burning fever. s A hfﬁ, burning fever she had, but produced by artificial means. T}us ruthless schemer had paused at nothing to acecomplish her ends. To further her schemes an assumption of mortal illness had been necessary, and her worthy coadjutor, Dr. Simms, had not | prevaricated when he told her tha.t_ the contents of the little phial he hat given her th : day previous would bring about the result she desired. : : These two had plotted well in unison. and as he entered the outer room of the

suite he assumed that grave, serious expression of face that the average physi- | cian wears while attending a patient in the last extremity. : I.{c opened the door with warning | hoiselessness as there came a tap final- | ly. A servant stood there, two persons at his side. | “Gentleman to see Miss Leslie, sir,” he announced, withdrew, and Doctor Simms ushered his two visitors into the 10om ¢nd pointed to chairs, his serious manner evidently surprising them. | Colonel Marshall was the one, his son Raymond the other. The former was all curiosity and excitement, As toRaymond, as he sat gazing vacantly at’ the floor, his hollow cheeks, haunted eyes and dejected bearing generally | told that the present visit had no inter- | est for him. ( “Doctor Simms!” ejaculated the Colo- | nel: - “Whyl I came to see——" ) “Miss Leslie?” :‘ “Yes.” i l “Miss Le:lie is a dyng woman, Colo- | | nel Marshall. . | “What!” | l With an incredulous gasp the Colonel | started to his feet. | I “Yes, she has been ill for some time. | L was summoned yesterday afternoon. ! 1 found her tevered, almost delirious. | She asked me to receive you,” | “Doctor, you amaze me! This strange | lady —" i Aronwill eyven in death. She insists up(_ 2 :*W son, even N MOFUAGUZETOUS CON L:tion. i told her that the sho:k might kill her, | but she insists.” ; “Doctor! I am a' a perfect loss to | understand this lady’s remarkable gen- | erosity in my behalf—the mystery sur- ' rounding her——" i “Here are the notes she took yesterday. She bade me desiroy them in your iipresence.” i ‘ “Wait! Don’t! I really cannot accept all these favors from a stranger.” The Colonel spoke {oo. late. The documents were blazing on the hearth. | He was a free man! A stranger had i liberated him from all the financial entanglements of the hour. | “Doctor!” he panted, “this mystery is madden’ng. Who is this lady?” | “You will be surprised when jyou know. Come; you, too, Mr. Marshall,” to Raymond. | He advanced to the door ¢f the sleep-ing-room and tapped lightly. The nurse opened it. Awed, startled, Col. l Marshall stood‘ in the center of the l apartment, gazing dubiously at the fig{ure lying on the couch, its face turned i from him. ' Quite as eurious and interested for the | moment, Raymond Marshall lo,ked up, | too. | “Miss Leslie has asked me to explain | to you why she has interested herself in your behalf,” syoke the Doctor, in calm, measured accents. “Her act has been one in a measure of atocnement, of compensation for 2 wrong done a member of [ your family.” “Ha!” exclaimed the Colonel with a start, “she must be, then, some relative of the wretch who robbed me—who encompassed me in all this froubie, my former partner!” “Not at all. She simply deceived a ma2mber of your family. She is familiar with the troubles of your son, as well as yourself, and she desires me to impart gome mournful information to him. Mr. Marshall, will you kindly read that | article?” : The Doctor hal handed to Raymond | Marshall the newspaper which had first l set Beatrice on the trailof Edna Deane. i It chronicled her death at the snowladen bridge. So accurately did it describe Edna and her attire, that, as | Raymond Marshall perused it, with distended eyes and ashen face, he could » l not mistake the truth. With a wild ery | he sank to a chair, the paper fluttering to the floor. ’ “Dead! dead!” he wailed. “All hope, | then, is lost!” | “What may all this have to do with ! the lady here?” Legan the astounded and | } mystified Colonel Marshall. .\ “Much. This ordeal is trying, fatal |to her, but she insists. Nurse, turn up | the lamp. Colonel—Mr. Marshall, your !bem:t‘actmss, the lady who makes an { atonement for a great wrong, is——" .| “Beatrice Mercer!” | In surprised accents from the Colo- ! nel’s lips, in a gasp of incredulity from -ithosc of Raymond Marshall, rang the I name simultaneous-ly, as the pretended j invalid turned her wan features toward ! Ihi‘ln. | Dying features they were, to all sem- | blance. The Doctor’s art and her own | deft acting carried out the intended l effect completely, . : “Raymond!” she fluttered, in a wealk, : | wailing voice. “Say that you forgive | me. I did wrong in deluding you. I | even sought to find Edna and restore

W her to ycu after my crued eception, ILut she is dead. A distant slative left me a fortune. - The only restution I could make was to aid your fakr. I am dying. The only reward Ik isthat vou take my hand and forgivme for it all.” Raymond Marshall st@ like cne in a dream. All the past fshed over his mind. This woman jad, indeed, wronged him, but still e was not accountable for Edaa’s 3ath.: As he thought -of a!l she haidone for his father, as he fancied he ad a noble remorse in her words and ®ds, a gener--5 . ous impulse drove him fegrard. ) ' He felt her burning nd twitch in t.( hisown. He dil not wmbt, after all ' | the Doctor had said, thahe was a dy- ’ ing woman. £ “You did me no wrong xcept to torlture me with a passingbeliet in the | faithlessness of the wonj I loved,” he L said. g | “For love of you!” prmured Be- | atrice, fervently. “Raymd, I can tell | you now, for I shall egesfe. T was not | toblame for my lova.cgf had not Ed- | na’s gentle nature U‘-e in silence, { I loved you so hop? Sly, yet so | fondly!” , : His eyes dimmed -wil tears. Love | Was surely no sin, evengen hopeless, - His great heart stirr. with honest pity. ¢ |~ “Ican die in pease, r@,!‘ she saids | “for your eyes tell me 9t I am for- | given, Raymond, goodyy—good-by' | Her eyes were rainir tears. Ob, | - actress deft and subtle! h, hypocrite strong and confident! pithg all thcdlii'()\el lifn 1 & < Je "“?vmzimmh gdß fpust ol 85 | sobs causing the sym iec Colonel { to wince with honesst %tf;t)%gio%‘m looked concerned, grievag . | “Can we do nothing 4ovg=A® her hﬂl:_' pier?” spoke”the” Colondy deeply aftected. “Can I not tell ha how grateful I am—how some arragement musi be made for the repayent of the money advanced?” F ‘ “She would refuse to dnsider it,” responded .the Doctor. “Mmt—mo! I had | better not mention it.” * . : l “Spealk, Doctor!” urgd the (olonf;'l. eﬂgpl‘[)'_ “You were ibout to make ‘

some suggestion?” . | “It concerns your 50, This morning this po. r ereature wai!ﬁ her heart-sick- ' ness over her love forim. She cannot _survive the n'ght, andfet I think she “would b> infinitely hapy for that brief period of time if she kew that y . u—m- ' Forgive me, gent'eme, my task is tco difficult to complete.” ! “If she knew what? demanded Ray- - mond, softly, # “If you would cosent to wed her. | Nay, sir, do not start, A dying child’s wish; you need not gatify it, only she has left all her fortun¢ to you.” i “I will never accex it!” dissented Paymond, indignantly ~ | “The law will maks you. This poor - girl’'s devotion is ypitiable. Give her ! your name, render ter dying moments | happy. It is not much to do, for before morning yeu will bea widower. | The plot was ou’. This was the deft . design two clever schemers had planned. | The unsuspecting Raymond Marshall " never dreamed of a new deception. | “Raymond. do it; it will quiet talk ! when her will is read. Poor creature! ~her devotion is indeed pitiable,” spoke | the Colonel. ' Raymond Marshall thought of the ! woman dead and of all his love for her; " of the woman dying «nd his pity for her | fcrlorn helplessness, o | “What docs it mattg‘!" he murnmr{-d. | delectedly. “My lifggais gloom—the fu- ! ‘o aiadews. ([ i B ! coremony e i "qu", Fhio iy : "l‘m: PP actress jon jihe cquch thrilled wildly. Atlast, reward; at dast, | success! Her hourof triwiphhad come. {TO BE CONTINUED.| t Too Busy for Enmity. | When 1 hear men or women attributing a lack of success in any di- | section to the machinations of their " enemies, I involuntarily smile at the | egotistical assertion. People are in . general too much engrossed, each by . his own affairs, to make any very ac- | tive war against each other. Jealous, | envious, rancorous they often are, but | to wage positive hostilities, they are { for the most part too indifferent. i This proneness to attribute our mis- ' chances to eremies is merely one of | the refuges of our self-love. Ad- | mitting pcssible exceptions, it may *be said emphatically that we are none of us anybody’s enemy but our rown. We are all, kowever, our own | enemies. The tongue that truly dei tracts from our credit and glory is - our own tongue; the hand that most | mercilessly despcils us of our progper|ty is our own hand. All the real . murders in this world—tbat is, apart i from the mere commonplace killings | of men and women-—are self-murders. | Conceit tells us a different tale, and | we are too ready to lay on the fiatter- { ing unction. But all great successes, ~ all the grander triumphs, will be in | proportion to our seeing the truth as |it really stands; namely, that the ! hardest obstacles. the most real danL'gers, liec in the perverse impulses of | own nature. :

‘ 1 —_———— e ———————— : ! Is the Colonel Veracious? | ~lfoughta battle once with wooden - cannon, and I won it, tco,” said Col. J. | . Gailor, at the Laclede., “It was dur- | | ing the Mexican war. I was sent out . from Santa Fe with a scouting party of | twenty-four men, and we were headed 1 off near the Mexican line by 200 of the | most villainous-looking greasers tha~ > | ever cut a throat or shot a brave man -in the back. We got into a wooded l | gorge and threw ap a breastwork of " loose rocks and earth across the mouth . ofit. Ifelt sure the Mexicans would § make a rush for us that night under » | cover of the darkness, and decided to ; fix up a surprise for them. We carrvied L | a small chest of tool with us, and in the { 1 outfit was a long-stemmed two-inch | augur. We felled six tough cak trees, ' sawed off a section of the stems and ) ' transformed them into cannon. We "+ Joaded them with pistol balis and flint L gravel, mounted them and waited. Just ‘ before daylight the Mexicans came. We i waited until they were within fifty yards, - | then opened on them with our battery. L | You never saw such a hustling for tall ' | timber in your life. Artillery was the 1‘ { last thing they expected to encounter, t | and when those wooden cannon opened on them they scattered like sheep.”— : ] Giobe-Democrat. 1 e e S e e { ! TaE Benbow’s 110-ton guns are to be | sent back to Elswick to le strengthi ened. Another monster, a 67-ton gun , | on the Anson, developed a crack and : I had to be taken out and, upcn further ' » | trials, it became entirely useless.

| THE SUNDAY SCHOOL a UNDAY S¢ j DAY SCHOOL. : —_—— ! AN INTERESTING AND IN TIVE LESSON STRUCL |4 . * |. Reflectlons of an : ’ Wikillisong & Elevating Character—- , % I ood for Though : g the Seript Sht —Study- ‘ pltural Les | and Profitably, son Intelligently Returning from ‘ c The lesson for Sunda athMty' i found in Ezra 1: 1-11 Y, ¢an. 1, may be i _ POINTS IN 1 b 5 Begin - right, It was Gy | year” at Babylon angsh Oyrus’. “first f career there Ly doi e opened hi fir Y doing the fir o rst—a good beginnin o s C.}'rus was “stirred & i do it. Buppose ho 1111};101’ the Lord to postponed. I¢is an RO g sist the strivings o't' “a\wtul _thing to re- | is nothing more 1} 10 Almighty. There | world of to-day leartsickening in the | 1 : ay than to tehold tl e al ent indifference { 6110 d the prevsions and Prol)ulsioxlo g g ’ y nlse withstood becos. VO wood fan- | Bl orneon tae mes a smooth pav- i Back of all \‘\";} tf;;\:tm‘nal death J ST n vas “the FOY g a@g&ﬁmmfﬁfﬁ‘ Wiil visit ycu; and per- I form my good woid toward you, in ! : causing you to return to this place. For | I know the thoughts that I think toward | | you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace and not opwevil, to give you an expected | end 2 {\nd did we think evil of thee, O ! avd? Forgive us. Let us now fall in‘o | the hands of the Lord; his mercy en- ‘ } dureth. “Who is there among you?” It isstill | ft‘;x‘lec.t:vo_ as well as elective call ' Thero is ytl but a remnant of the remnant that seem purposedto do God’s ex press bidding “) e 8 10d S express bidding, Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision”—few, indeed ! ‘ m}‘t on the hill-tops of endeavor. Who | wnl‘ return tp-d:;y for revival blessings | to the hill of the Lord? The call con- t l tinues 1”(. go forth even amongst “his l?cf)‘p\ln:v “Ho, every one that thirsteth, | ‘ come ye to ﬂ}\g‘\\':}}qrs. ; ‘]t is for those | WR, S e eDt are lan st i

that longfor it; itis stil a voluntary | matter. Zion, in its beauty, is for those ~who have beauty in their hearts; the . l Lord for the Lord’s. - | «0 who is there among us, the true and the | tried, 5 ‘ Who'll stand by his Captain—who's on the Lord’s side?” | Helped—lifted up is the Hebrew of it __“with silver, and with gold, and with goods” is the man wlio steps out on | God’s way. Why not? The gold and | silver, the cattle on a thousand hills arc ine Lord’s, and we know that “all ; things work together for good to them that love God’—a blessed eonspiracy for advancement on the road to Zion. ‘ Yes, even the apparent calamities help | out and lift up, for “tribulation worketh : patience,” and that sometimes is our greatest need, and its coming Go:l's} greatest blessing to us. Let us ba careful to read this passage at verse four aright. The word *© remaineth” moans surviveth, and refers to all the Jews left from the long captivity. The gifts were not for those who indolently stayed behind, but for those who courageously went forth. Where else, indeed, does blessing lie? “And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of Cod met him.” The king’s laden messengers | are 1o be found on the king's highway. It was all dene by men “who=o spirit | God had raised.” True en mgh, it takes | a raised people to secure for us raised | walls., Jerusalem had to bo first builded - . Kenrte within ere it atood forth

h 2in on ‘lll;; Tlls and i:lrl ““‘,c&‘.»cs (}f 1 ; heart so is he”—and so doos hie, But iu | is well to note here that in the original this is preeisely the same expression that is used in the first verse regarding Cyrus, there translated, and more .| closely, “stirred up.” “Cyrus was stirred | up to send und the people were stirred | up to go. Thus God accomplishes his | blessed purposes. The preacher or ! ‘| teacher, wio plays usually the Cyrus L | part in the new and enlarging work of 71 church and s7hool, will accomplish little . | er nothing without a people or class re- | | sponsive to his spirit. L A Bring fo:th the hidden vessels, the .| cehargers ¢f sliver and of gold that have | been out of sight so long. Our property * | is much greater than any of us suprose. - ' There is muct unrevealed as yet, while 1 we romain in janguid, captive condition. [ | Where are those * basins of gold” (we' r | have, forsooth, vrcu uziu, pewter long » | enough}? 3‘Where are tiiose “basins of - | a second sort fonr hundred and ten, and : other vessols a theoazand?” Yes, and look up the “nine and twenty knives,” | "| of which we have hieard bLut the rumor. ! > l There is usec for 2!l the Loid’s furnish- | ) | ing in the blessed enlargement of Zion, | - | Believe it, childven of God, the Lord is ! ]| on our side. Things ccen and things ! £ | unseen are ours, as we own him-and s | «laim them with a royal faith, in his " | name. The stars iln their coutrses | | -fought against Sicers when he was | | against GoM The earth helped tho' - | woman who was for God. Walk with , | him. Mundane “assistance, celestial 1| enduement, “things present and things | g | to. come, all are yows; and ye are: o | Christ’s, and Christ is God’s!” l - HINTS AND-ILLUSTRATIONS. l £ There is no better way to study the lesson than by beginnine at the bottom ! and building from tihe ground up: (1) |

Gather the facts. (2) Put them to- | gether. (3) Draw lihe conclusions. l Consequently, make your own indue- | tive study. To this ond it would be ! well, first, to read the lesson straight through as it ‘stands, then, dividing the Scripture up inlo cenvenient parts, | - study the separate verses or portions, ! - getting the meaning of each word and ‘ following out, by side read.ng and com- | - parison of Seripture with Seripture, the historiea! allusions. At this point take ‘ a penzil and =cot down the essential Inets ascertained. Then, forming a meortal imace of tho whole, state tho ¢ cne central icsson of the Seripture in a single propusitlen. Floally, and this | will 2alway3s prove tho most interesting ' and perhaps mest prefitalle part of the class exercise, call up the subsidiary leszons, text by text and point by point. | Next Lesson—“ Rebuilding the Tem- I ple.”—-Xzra 3: 1-13. l WHEN a person wishes to leave a Japanese theater temporarily he is not | given a pass check, as in this country. | The door-kecper takes the person by the hand and stamps on it the stamp of the establishment. i INn Swhzerland, it is sald, they will | pay higher wages tea milkmaid who ! can sing to the cows than to one who | cannot. This is done on the principle | that bad treatment of a cow injuriously affects its milk. l Tue first clectric machine, a globe of | sulphur, was made by Guericke, 1647, |

1: e s 7 ACTU ' . THESE ACTUAL FACTS | “ —_— - LL F OUND WITHIN THE BOR- : DERS OF INDIANA. —_— : An lntorestlng Summary of the More I portant Doings of " Cri of Our Neighbors — ines, Casualtios, Deaths, Etg, : { A Minor State Items. | ’ N incendiary fire at Bedfor | | azed the | S A edford, §dm- | | #I.OOO, umber stock of W. J. Jordan | ' J. N, GREGORY, cy | . GREGORY, cx-treasurer of Mor- | gan County, died ; sl | lyn, aged 66. 8¢ Ble Rome ot Biook- | THE residence "' . s 3 coos. F : Greentown, was burneilen\ﬁ,thß;u?k’ ?’t i property loss. . e GRAVE robbers st ! >t 4 ers stole : Emma West, an 18~s'cav;’-l:>?c§gl;flSsvgt 1(\11'185 | recently at Brazil. ot HENRY Wiskn ; | “s : SEHART, a pioneey 5 gomery County, fell dcacli from h(‘)efll?tf('t)i';t' ease at Darlington, e -,:ATVLeba’nQn. *f"'ﬂhfh" TR 3 S e . Mres. Minerva WricHT bas filed suit against the Richond street railway fgr ; ©5,000 damages for injuries received in an accident. ‘1 Cor. J. H. JorDAN of Murtinsville, has been appointed aid-de-camp to the] commander's staff of thre national organ- | ization, G. A. R. ! Tur First National bank. Terre. Haunte, and the Terre Haute brewing | company have gone into court to fight | the state tax board. i Axsox Hives was awarded SSO from the L. E. & W. railroad in Muncie, as damages for having been cjected from a train by a couductor. i D. M. Kixyey, Terre Haute. fell over | a high embankment at Columbus, strik- | ing on his head and causing a serious, | perhaps fatal injury. | ~ TuEe railroad employes declare that a | f ol ° B e T B Se, S R P SRS A 2SS S

- real female ghost without a head and ~ wearing a Mother Hubbard gown pre- | ambulates along the railroad track near l | Brazil. ‘ i TuE winter auarters stable of Wm. M. | | Akin burned in Evansville, and several | | valuable horses perished in the flames. | Akin’s loss on horses is £13,000, while his | total loss is $20,000. =| | Tre Hemingray Glass Company at, | Muncie is doabling the capacity of its factory, with the addition of a new con- © tinuous tank, which will be used in the new factory bLeing vuilt. - This: is one of i the firms burned out last summer. . ‘ PARTIES representing a construction : company of Chicago were in Kokomo recently, after an overland tour of the gas belt. Their purpose Is to build a | railroad through the gas territory, the ‘ terminal points being Redkey, Jay | County, and Kokomwo, a distance of fifvy- ‘ five miles. A company is formed, they | say, to push the project to a speedy con- , summation. | At Grandview, a small town on the i Ohio River, Peter tiregory accidentally { shot and killed John Gordon, toth of - Grandview. It was Gregory’s birthday, | and himself and several others were in- | toxicated and were in Gregory's saloon ' at the time of the accident. Gregory ' was carelessly handling a revolver when b it was discharged, taking the life of his t friend and neighbor. ; | Rurus DEXNNIS. an old soldier about

sis g-five years cld, a farmer by occupation, attempted to eross the C., C. C. & CETltravieenear-thocdliiford Lumber Company’'s oftice, and his buggy was struck by the south-tound passenger, throwing Dennis fifteen feet high in the air, and when he alighted his head struck the sharp corner of a2 tie. He never regained consciousness, and died in an hour. Tuie Secretary of the State Board of Charities has compicted hisannual flnancial report. 1t shows that 4hc cost of maintaining the charities of the State for tihe past year has teen $£880,050.17. 1t is areduction of $200,000 from that of last yvear, the erection of builaings not having entered into it. The cost of food has been less, the reform schools have cost more and prisons less than preyiously. ~ GoVvERNOR CuAsrk has issued a parole to John Campbeli of Crawfordsville, and a pardon to .John D.Miller of Evansville. Campbell was sentenced for life from Crawfordsville, in 1872, for the murder of a man named Little,during a dranken spree. e served twenty years last May, “and has been a trusty in the prison for fifteen vears. His prison record was very much in his favor. The pardon was - secured largely througzh the devouted efforts of his sister, who lives in Crawfordsville. In the trial Senator Voor- - hees appeared as ccunsel for the defend"ant and President Harrison conducted ' the prosecution. . Both signed the peti: tion ifor executive clemency. Miller’s erime was manslaughter, committed in 1885. His sentence was for fifteen years. : His prison record has been first-ciass. ' His vietim was a local desperado, whc was threatening Milter’s life. Miller had ’ previously borne a good character. | ANoOTHER very serious: acecident oc- . curred at Muncie as a result of careless. ! ness with fire about natural gas leaks. il"he Muancie Land Company has a gas i well two miles north of the city. A ! small shed is built over the well and an other small building, twenty feet distant, is occupied by the regulator. Lee Scott, . a well-known farmer, is in charge ol the well, and he was at work packing 8 large leak in the shed over the well. Ir . the other building a fire was burning tc ' keep the regulator warm. The leak o zas kept increasing untll the air wa: filled and it ignited from the opposite building. A terrible explosion at once occurred in which Mr. Scott, hi: .nephew, James Pyle, and Thomas Bus i fington were horribiy burned about the | face and hands. Buffington was blinded, his clothes were burned off and he nar rowly escaped being burned to death in ,one of the buildings. The injuriesof all | are very serious. There is little hope !of Buffington’s recovery, 23 he inhaled the flames. l J. C. KerLLy, employed at the Ameri can Strawboard Werks, Kokomo, fel from a step-ladder while oiling the enginc ' under the piston head. At cvery revo lution of the wheel he was struck in the tace, producing frightful and probably f fatal injuries. IKelly has a family a { Richmoad. | Frep HArER, an emplove of the brewery at Peru, was dangerousl) | burned by inserting a lighted lantern «ir | a ninety-gallon tank coated with tar and l piteh, © see if it was dry. -It was dry but filied with gas, which exploded with l terrific force, damaging the building { consid «'r:j.b_li:

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