St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 44, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 May 1894 — Page 7

Last: M,ss M E BR MD^ ?

W( JE^Jx M 4fco\ •w ^R® w wFIkW m 17 W 1 / #/W / I J CHAPTER IX—Continued. “Isn't he? Too much of the watchdog a' out him, I suppose. As for <ast friends, there s not much friendship between Wyatt and me. He's a useful fe.low to have about one. that's all. Ho has served me faithfully, and has got Well paid for his services. It's a matter ot p unds, shillings, and pence on his side, and a matter of convenience on mine. No doubt Wyatt knows that as well as I do. ” “Don't you think friendship on such a basis may be rather an insecure bond?” said Constance, gravely; “and that a man who can consent to profess friendship on such degrading terms is likely to be half an enemy?” “Oh, I don t go in for such high flown ethics. Jim Wyatt knows that it's his Interest to serve me well, and that it's as much a* his life is worth to play ne false. Jim and I understand one another perfectly, Constance, you may be sure. “I am sure that he understands you,” answered C< n-tance. But Gilbert had gone before she had finished her sentence. Baby, christened Christabel, after the late Lady Clanyarde, was nearly a twelvemonth old, and had arrived.' in the opinion of mother and nurse, at the most interesting epoch of babyhood. Her tender cooing *, her joyous chucklings, her pretty c tick-clucking noises, as o. anxious maternal hens calling their offspring, her inarticulate language of broken syllables, which only maternal love could interpret, were an inexhaustible fountain of delight She , was the blithest and happiest of babies, j •and every object in creation with j which she i ecame newly acquainted ■was a source of rapture to her. The flowers, the birds the insect life of that balmy pine forest, fi led her with •de ight. The soft blue eyes sparkled with pleasure, the rose-bud lips babbled her wordless wonder, the little feet danced with ecstasy. “Oh."cried thede'ighted mother, “if •ne wou'd always be just like this, rnv ■tel^^hing, my darling! Os course, 1 ■■^b^justiis dearly when she " lanky girl j n a '“Tirown holland pinafore, always inking her fingers and getting into trouble «’out her lessons -like my sisters and me when we were in the school-room; but she can never to so pretty or so 1 ■sweet again, can she, Martha?” “Lor', mum, she’ll always be a love.” replied the devoted nurse; “and as for her arms being long and her fingers inky, you won't love her a bit less — and I’m sure, I hope she won't be wor- : Tied with too many lessens, for I do think great folks' children are to be . pitied, half their time cooped up in •school rooms or stretched out on b’ackboards, or strumming on the piano, while poor children are running wild in the fields.” “Oh. Martha, how shocking." cried Mrs. Sinclair, pretending to be horrified, “to think that one of my favorite pupils should underrate the value of -education.” “Oh, no, indeed, ma'am, I have no Buch thought. 1 have often felt what a blessing it is to Ite able to read a good book and write a decent letter. But I never can think that life was meant to be all education.” “Life is all education, Ma-tha,” answered her mistress, with a sigh, “but not the elucation of grammars and •dictionaries. The world is our school and time our schoolmaster. No, Martha, my Christabel shall not*be har--assed with too much learning. We won't try to make her a paragon. Her life shall be all happiness and freedom, and she shall grow up without the ■ knowledge of care or evil, except th© ; sorrows of others, and these she shaj.l : heal; and she shall marry a man she loves, whether he is rich or poor, for I ' •am sure my sweet one would never love a bad man. ” “I don't say that ma'am,” reiterated Martha: “looks are so deceiving. I’m sqsa-^there was my own cousin, on the -father’s side, Susan Tadgers. married ! ' the handsomest young man in March- 1 ■brook village, and before they’d buen "two years married he took to drinking, ■and was so neglectful of himself you wouldn't have kn wn him; and his whiskers, that he used to take such pride in. are all brown ami shaggy, like a straw Scotch terrier." The day a’ter that s mewhat unpleasant tete a-tete between husband and wife, Gilbert Sinclair announced his intention of going back to England for the Leger. “I have never missel a Leger,” he said, as if attendance at that race wore i a pious duty, like the Commination j service on Ash-Wednesday, “and I shouldn't like to miss this race.” “Hadn't we better go home at once, then, Gilbert? lam quite ready to return. ’’ “Nonsense. I’ve taken this place till the 20th of October, and shall have •to pay pretty stiffly for it. I shall come back directly after the Doncaster.” “But it will be a fatiguing journey lor you.” “1 d just as soon be sitting in a railway train as anywhere else.” “Does Mr. Wyatt go back with you?” “Nc; Wyatt stays at Baden for the next week or so. He pretends to be here for the sake of the water, gees very little to the Kursaal, and lives ■quietly like a careful old bachelor who wished to mend a damaged constitution, but I should rather think he had ■acme deeper game than water-drink-ing.” Gilbert departed: and Constance was

alone with her child. The weather was delightful—cloudless skies, balmy days, blissful weather for the grape gatherers on the vine-clad slopes that sheltered one side of this quaint old I village of Schoenesthal. A river j wound through the valley, a deep and ' rapid stream narrowing in this cleft cf th 5 hills, and utilized by somo sawmills in the outskirts of the village, whence at certain sea 4ms rafts of timber were floated down the Rhine. A romantic r< ad following the course ! of this river was one of Mrs. Sinclair's favorite drives. There were picturesque eld villages and romantic' ruins to be explored, and many lovely spots to be shown to baby, who, although inarticulate, was supposed to 1 e appro- ; ciative. I Lion the first day of Gilbert's ab 1 sence Martha Briggs camo home from her afternoon promen tde with baby looking flushed an 1 tired, and complaining of sore throat. Constance was - quick to take alarm. The poor girl { t " a3 g°^ n g to have a fever, perhaps, p and must instantly be separated fm m j baby. There wa; no medical man , , nearer than Baden, so Mrs. Sinclair t sent the groom off at one 3 to that . town.. She told him to inquire f< r the , best English doct rin the p’ace, or if t there was no English practitioner at j Baden, for the best German doctor, rhe moment sho had given these in- , structions, howevo", it struck her that , the man who was not remarkable for t intelligence out of his stable, was like- , ly to lose time in making his inquiries, , and perhaps get misdirected at last. Mr. \\ yatt is at Baden,” she thought; i “I dare say he would a-t kindly in such . an extremity as this, though I have no

( opinion of his sincerity in a general , way. Stop, Dawson,” sae said to th ■ . groom, "I'll give y u a note for MrWyatt, who is Staying at the Badenscher Hof.^ He will di-ect yon to the doctor. sou will drive to B iden in the pony-carriage, and, if i o«-ib!e br ink the do to • back with vou.” Baby was transferred to the care of . Melanie Duport. who seemed full of sympathy and kindlin »ss for her fellowservants, a sympathy which Martha Hr iggs' surly British temper dis iained. Mrs. Sincla r had Martha's b d rn >ved I from the nursery into thrown dressj ing^room, where she would be able herself to take care of the invalid. Melanie was order ed to keep strictlv to her nursery, an 1 on no account to ’.rater Martha's room. “But if Martha has a fever, and madame nurses her, this little angel may catch the fever from madame." suggested Melaine. "If Martha's illness is contagious I sha l not nurse her," answered Constance. "I can get a nursing sister from one of the convents. But I like to have the poor girl near me. that, at the worst, she may know that she is not deserted.” “Ah. madame is too good! What happiness to serve so kind a mistriss ” Mr Wyatt showed himself most benevolently anxious to be u-eful < n receipt of Mrs. Sinclair's note He made all necessary Inquiries at the office es the hotel, and having found out the name of the best doctor in Baden, took the trouble to accompany the groom to the medical man’- ho U. and waited until Mr. Paulton. the I nglish surgeon, was -eated in the p nycarriage. “I shall Iv anxious to know if Mr-. Sinclair's nur-e is -erioush ill, said Mr. Wyutt. while the groom whs taking his s.-at “1 shall tak. the lib ru, t > call and in pilro m the co mso of t!.< evening." “Del ghted to give you any information," replied Mr. Paulton. v ract. .a-'xc “I'll send you a line if you '.ike. Where are yon sta\ ing “At the Badenscher." "You shall know how the young ■ woman is directly I get back. " “A thousand thanks." CHAPTER X. THE CRUEL RIVER Mrs. Sinclair's precaution had been jiu no wise futile. Mr. Paulton pronounced that Martha's symptoms , pointed only too plainly t > some kind |of fever possibly scarlet fever possiI bly typhoid. In any case there could ' not be too much care taken to guard against contagion. The villa was airy and s atious, and Mrs. Sinclair s dress- | Ing-room at. some di-tance from the I nursery. There would be no n jeessity, । therefore, Mr. Paulton said, for the removal of the chi d to another house. He would send a nursing sister from Baden—an experienced woman—to who e care the sick-room might be safely confide i. The sister came—a middle-aged woman —in the somber garb of her order, but with a pleasant, cheerful face, that well t ecame her snow-white head-gear, j She showed herself kind and dexterous ; in nursing the sick girl, but befo:e she ' had been three days in the house, Mar- ; tha, who was now In a raging fever, ' took a dislike to the nurse, ami raved wildly about this black-robed figure at , her bedside. In vain did the sister endeavor to reassure her. To the girl's ! wandering wits that foreign tongue ! seemed like tin- gibberish of some un- . holy goblin. She shrieked for help, ard Mrs. Sinclair ran in from an adjoining room to s-e what was amiss. Martha was calmed and comforted immediately by the sight of her mistress; and from that time Constance devoted herself to the sick-room and shared the nurse's watch. This meant separation from Christabel, and that wa; a hard trial for the mother, who hal never yet lived a day apart from her child; but Constance bore this bravely f w the sake of the faithful girl—too thankful that hetdarling had escaped the fever which had so strangely stricken the nurse. The weather continued glorioua, and baby seemed quite happy with Me- , lanie, who roamed ab >ut with her charge all day, or went for long drives | in the pony carriage under the care cf ; the faithful Dawson, who was a pattern of sobriety and steadiness, and in- ! capable of flirtation. Mr. Wyatt rode over from Baden ; every other day to inquire about the | nurse's progress—an inquiry which he j might just as easily have made of the ; doctor in Baden —and this exhibition i of good feeling on his part induced ' Constance to think that she had been j mistaken in her estimate of his char- j acter-

“The Gospjl says ‘Judge not,’” she thought,“a. d yet we are always sitting tn judgment upon one another. Perhaps. after all, Mr. Wyatt is as kindfa oarted as his admirers think him, and I have done wrong in being prejudiced against him. He was Cyprian’s friend too, and always speaks of him with particular affection.” Constance remembered that scene in the morning-ioom at Davenant. It was one of those unpleasant memories which do not grow fainter with the passage cf ypars. She had been inc ined to suspect James Wyatt of a malicious intention in h ; s sudden announcement of sir Cyprian’s death—. the wish to let her husband see how Strong a hold her first love still had upon her heart. He, who had been Cyprian Davenant3 friend and confidante, was likely to have known something of that earlier attachment, or at

1 least to have form id a shrewd guess at the truth. । “Perhaps I have suspected him wrongly in that affair,” Constance' th< ught, now that she was disposed to think mo e kindly of Mr. Wyatt. “Big 1 ni mtion of Sir Cyprian might have' - bison purely accidental." I Four or five times in e\e-y day Melaine Duport brought the baby Christabel to the grass-plot under the ' windowof Mrs. Sinclair's bedroom, and : there wore tender greetings between ' mother and child, baby struggling in i nurse’s grasp and holding up her chubby aims as if she would fain have embraced her mother even at that distance. These intervi wa were a sorry substitute for the long happy hours of i closest companionship which mother ; and child hud enjoye i at Schoenesthal* but Constance bore the t ial bravely, The patient was going on wonderfully | well, Mr. Paulton said; the violence of the fever was considerably abated. It had proved a light attack'of the scar- ! let fewr. an 1 not typhoi 1, as the doc- I tor had feared it might have proved. ' In a week the patient would most like- > ly b • on th-' high-road to recovery, an 1 ■ the 1 Mrs. Sinclair could leave her entirely t • the sister’s care, since poor

Martha was now re-tor >d to her right mi- d, and was quite r. ccnciled t > tnat trustworthy attendant. “And the 1. -aid Mr. Paulton. “I shall , send ypu to Baden for a few days, before you go back to baby, and you must , put a.-ide all clothe* that vou have worn in tl e sick-room, a d I think we shall escape all ri-k of infection." This was ag< od hearing. Constance languished so: the happy hour when

wh»-should be ab e to clasp that rosy babbling ch il 1 to her breast once more. Madamois.dlo Dujxirt had ixspn a marvel of go.»dnc» throughout this anxious time. "1 shal never forget how good and thoughtful you have been. Mdnnie." said < onstam-o. from hor window, as the French girl stood in the garden below, hoi ling baby up to be adored l»o. f' re setting out for her morning rambl -. “But it is a plea ur to nerve Madame." shrieked Melanic, in her shrill treble. ♦Monsieur return* thia evening," said C< ndance, who had just received a hurried scrawl from «iiU>ort, naming the hour of hi - arri al: • you must take care that Christabel leks the prettiest" “Ah. hut sho Is always ravl»hing!y pretty. If she were only a ley. Monshur wou’d idolize her," ‘Whore are yog going th Is neiralng, Xfdnnie ” " ~1 “To the ruined capita on the hill." ' “Do you think that is a safe place for ' baby’-" ' Wha’ < < n l t . r<- 'w- »as.-r What jH-ril t an mmiamo forree?” “No." -al i < with a sigh. “I - q p so she is as safe there as anywhere but ’ am a a ays uneasy when she Is awn;, from n e. " “But m.ulanu'- love for this little one is a j assbm." Me an e departed with her charge, an I G-re-ar c went back t- the sickroom to attend her patient while the sister enjoyed a few hour*' comfortable sleep iLeiM ck wa- Ch i-tabel s dinner ■ time, and Christabel\ dinner was a business of no small importance in the mother s mind * hie o'clock came, and there was no sign of Melanie and her charge, a curious thing, as Melanie was metho Heal and j unotual to a praiseworthy degree, and va- provided with a neat little silver watch to keep her ac piainted with the time. Twoo ceck struck, and still no Melanie. < onst uc? began to grow uneasy, and sent 8-out; to look for the nurse and chi d. But when 3 o'clock came and baby hal not yet appeared, Constance became seriously alarmed, and put on her hat hastily* and went out in st arch of the missing nurse. She would n t li-ten to the servants who had ju t returned from their fruitless quest, and who begged her to ’et them g<> in fresh directions while she waited the result at home. "No," she said: “I could not rest. I must go my-elf. Send to the police. ■ any one, the । roper authorities. Tell ( them my child is lost. Let them send in every direction. You have been to the ruind?” "Yes, ma'am. ’’ "And there was no one there? You 1 could hear nothing.-" "No, ma'am, ” answered Dawson, the groom: “the place was quite lonesome. ' Th- r>- was nothing b it grasshoppwi-s chirping.” I |TO BECOXTISCEIXI A Useful Tree. The cocoa palm is the mt st useful tree on earth. Er -sh water is procured from the nut before it is ripe, a single * sample often containing three or four 1 pounds of clear water, almost pure, I save for a little sugar; the nut, when ripe, is very nutritious; the milk from the ripe nut is a good substitute for that of the cow; the young buds make good cabbage and greens; wine is made from the sap and iiower stalks, and its fermentation and distillation produces vinegar and brandy: the nutshells fur- : nish utensils; and from the fibers are made all sorts of clothing, textile fabrics, and even the tails, ropes, and other cordage of ship s; its juices furnish ink, and its leaves pensandpaper. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ’ i Two Surprises in I4f< r In youth one is surprise! that he ' knows so much. When he has reached matured life he is surprised that there are so many things things that he doesn't know. i Ibsen dines every day at Xhe Grand Hotel, Christiania. He sits in aolitu^y I grandeur at a little table, seldom speaking to any one except the waiter, ' but very often taking notes of those around him. Ibsen's wife is alive, but ' they are never seen together. (

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. noughts worthy of calm reflection. ' A Pleasant, Interesting, and Instructive and Where It May Be FoundA Learned and Concise Review of the Dame. 1 rp. Th ® CbUdhocd of Mose*. I v INT HOI»UCTORY. latS. ' a; ? h ° '»“«»■• ot his life. ! the waters / avotl :, n °t only from ' « nd I religious Ptl Hf,® OCi on aflat’ 8 Vh Bejmed ’ for a W ^ut^S

| tnat are admirable. Ho was nnvZr ashamed of his lowly origin; indeed 1 Htly P / r ? ud of iL Whea Lqid Thurlow was Chancellor of Great ; Britain, a would-be flatterer said to nW* ‘ tu descended from Thurlow was secretary to Cromwell.’’ -No, s® nc, sir, ”w^ the dignified reply, “iniere were two Thurlows; one was ! sefretary, one was a carter. I de- ! tcanded from the carter.” » POINTS IN THE LESSON. ; “The house of Levi." The sons of Levi teem to have been the readiest to respond to the progressive spirit of the ! ■ times. They were, perhaps, the best educated and most cultivated of the Hebrew people. Moses had lowly but, at the same time, lordly ancestry. I "When she saw that he whs a goodly ! child.” The Hebrew phraseology is: : “And she saw that he wa- comely, and she hid him three months.” Not simply because he was more favored

jin beauty than the rest. What mother would not count her child lovely, or seek to save his life! i’erI haps there was a divlneness in his . beauty, some such suggestion as was given to Mary. Moses was doubtless of noble face and figure. Tradition says of him that he att a’ted the attention of people as he walked forth. Josephus says that he was remarkably tall at 3 years of age. Stophen in the Acts -.ays'that he was “exceeding fair' Greek: fair to God or for God . All our pictures of Muses, represent the conceptions of the artists, one of the Moses of the Exodus, alrealy aged, but, in the imaginat on of t 'e painter or sculptor, beautiful with ago And yet th G was rot an unheard-of expedient. The clay tablets of the royal Chaldean Library contained the account of a King Sergon 1., who in Abraham s day, long before, claimed t > have been saved by means of a bull-ru-h a-k. I‘os ibly,.!ochebed had hoard this story: “I am Sergon, the great king, the king of Aguda. My mother was of the ancestors of th ■ land, but I never knew my father. I was born secretly in the city < ( Atzupiranl, on tho barks of the Euphrates. My mijhor put mo m an a k of b dlrushos H|Sd with bitumen, and laid me In the whieh did not enter the urk. It Ui lho of Ekki. the fr! c t*■ he in the goolncss heart lif’< ■! mo from t .<> wat r, ’ought tn-- ui> a- hi* <wn son. Aft»r this ho e3ta!»lued m ■ as a . ard< nSr. and Ishtar cans d mu to prosper, ar.c, after year.-. 1 came to lie king.”

iitNS- XNt> tI.MSTIIITbiXS, If the princip'o, urged so forcib’y by Dr. Harix-r an I other-. Is tru - namely, that t" b ■ a ! io t > teach and preaeh , prophecy, w<- ned t ir.dcrstand the vircumstunvi tmt « ccu.-ioned the prophetic u'to i n e, how much more m ee-^ury G it for us, de-dting to exp"im 1 isiuv litish history. t > have a rl< ar ill a of the -urroundinz incident- am; s that _ave character Ito the day A large study of Egyptian j hi-to y, itself m st interesting, should m company a perusal of the ehapte s new under study. Ebers, ,-tanley and Geikie may be m mtim e l as the authors most avaiia <le an i entertain- , ing. and periodical literature abounls with new light on the subject. In Iced there is no reason why we should not now, letter than at any time before in the world's history, comprehend the period under sc utiny and the signs of the times that gave it a di-tinct place in the development of the nation-. The childhood of Moses falls in the days of the nineteenth dynasty, the Egyptian kings having again ci me to power. It was still a day of splendid national advancement, and wo are to picture the youthful Moses in the royal household and nursed in the very lap of luxury. Ebers dercribes the palace of Rameses as more like a little town than like an ordinary house. Here ' the boy Moses could roam and enioy 1 himself at his will. The strength’ of his national predilections may be judged from the fa> t that he did not renounce ’’all connection with the de- ! spis d people of Israel, and that, b ar- ! ing the diplo na of the great university at <Jn. his delight was still in the law of the Lord. That first psalm—-perhaps it wRS Moses' own. “Do you take ca e of yourselves, lit- i tie pnes?” exclaimed the benevolent visitor to the two children she found, I alone in the bare tenement. “God ! takes care of us,” sa d the older of the two. “And are you not very cold? no tire on a day like this?” “Oh,” was the answer, “when we are very cold we creep under the quilt, and I nut mv arms around Tommy, and Tommy p ts his arras around me^ and we say/ Now I lay me,' then we get warm.” ' "What have you to eat, pray?" "When Granny comes home she fetches us some- I thing. Granny -avs God has cot I enmgh, and she calls us God s sparrows, and we say, ‘Our Father’ and ' daily bre id every day. God is our rather. ’ les, if we will come as ! i hildren. "All things work together for good to them that love Ged.” Next l esson.—“Moses Sent as a Deliverer.” Exod. 3: 10-20. The “Jiklj-s’h” Wisdom. . A DRUNKARD is a beast minus the instinct. Deceit is a cockatrice and its eggs are suspicion. Healthful, amusement is the oxygen of the soul. A man who is honest from policy is not an honest man. SEWING is a lazy woman’s work and a smart woman’s play. Love our enemies, indeed! when it is as much as most of us can do to love our friends.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. An Interesting- Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors-Wed. dings and Deaths-Crimes, Casualties and General News Notes of the State. Hoosier Happenings ’ S ^ N ' Postmaster at Van Buien, Grant County, is dead. VoHtnn D r^ lßS ?* N S farm house near Gal--I®?°^“"’ y ' w “ dMtro - red n P irM»ii INK ’ 11Vi ? g in an 01,1 shanty near Madison, was found nearly starved to death. Food was taken to him, but he ate too much and will die. IHE blacksmith shop, paint shop and wagon shop of Carl & Daniebon and shoe shop of William Zufall at btockwell, were burned by an incendiary. Loss, $2,000; insurance, $1.200. T t lS ar Bloomington, on a Albany and Chicago fl eight tiain, < arl Henchman, brakeman, was struck on the head bv a bridge and died a few hours later His home was at Cafayette. A HORSE was found in a pond near Sullivan and a spring wagon on the bank. The outfit is supposed to have | belonged to George Vonderhide and j sou of Terre Haute, and it is feared they have met with foul play. i Work of rebuilding the Whitely , reaper works at Muncie. will begin at ' once. Several factories in that city have offered Mr. Whitely space in their building- to make machines to fill this season's orders and a largo j force of men has been put to work. Burglars made a raid on the town of New London the o:her night, secur- j ing several hundred dollars worth of Ixioty. seven residences were burg- i

larued, when the citizens gathered and drove the burglars from the village. Ihe marauders were supposed to be gypsies. i Rec ently Charles Summer, whoresides mar \\ inchester, and is almost eighty-eight years old. drove to town in a hand-made, single buggy nearly fifty years old. tie was driving a horse which he very appropriately styles his “war colt," and which was foaled on his farm in BGI. AT Muncie. < bark's Willis attempted to throw a half |>ound dvnamite stick in Buck Creek to kill fish. The explosion occurred too soon and his left I hand and arm was torn in fragments • alxive the wrist. Dr. Bunch amputated the arm. The inan is believed to be fatally injured. eorge G, Murphy, aged 8<», and , grandfather of Deputy Postmaster Horace Murphy of Wabash, was instantly kille l being run down by a Panhandle freight train at Converse, where he resided. Mr. Murphy was endeavoring to cross the track in advance of the locomotive, and was struck and hurled some distance. De-rea-ed wa- a pioneer of Northern Indiana. The last Legislature made an appropriation of *2.b00 to pay for a new foundation and pedestal for the Morton monument. The contract has been h-t for rl.goo, and it is now proposed by tio- Morton Monument Association to use the -so) remaining of the ap- I prepriation and the proceeds from the * sale of the old pedestal to ornament I the new pedestal with scenes from the 1 life of the <iovernor. । AT his home in West Columbus ■ Georg- Gunnells, aged 29, died in great 1 agony. Four weeks ago he stepped on I a rusty wire nail that entered his foot ! through a shoe. The wound soon 1 healed, but a few days ago the unfortunate man was seized with cramps, first in his stomach, but which soon extended to his entire system, and when death came his spine was curved backward like a rainbow. The John Williams Camp. No. 106, Sons of Veterans, of Kokomo, is making elaGirate preparations for the proper entertainment oi the boys at the State Sons of Veterans' encamp- ’ rnent, to be held in Kokomo. July 3,4, 5, and G The lo al camp is com para-| tively a new organization, but through ! the stimuloiis of the approaching State 1 meeting is growing rapidly, having now nearly 2H> members. July 4 there will be a grand military and civic , parade. Kokomo’s new City Hall will i also be dedicated on that day, making . the occasion one of moment. Burglars forced an entrance to the . Postoilice at Orleans, blew open the safe, secured $153.93 in money, 3,000 one-cent stamps, twenty six’ fours, twenty tens, fifty-three fifteens, thirtyseven special delivery stamps, and $11.26 worth of newspr ier and period- ' ical stamps, together with sixty blank I money orders numbered from 2*5,445 to 25,500 inclusive and postal notes 5,242 । 5,400 inclusive. Thev also took the ' dater, so they could till out the money i orders. The safe was wrecked, and ! the concussion caused by the explosion | broke the large plate glass in front. It is presumed that ‘‘home talent" did , the work, as the large safe of the Bank । of Orleans at the next door was un- • touchea. ; There are about 500 old soldiers in ' the county infirmaries of this State. and George W. Steele, manager of the National Home for Disabled Volun- ! teer Soldiers, at Marion, has written to Governor Matthews asking him to notify the county officials that where there are soldiers in the infirmaries i application can be made to the National Home, and if the applicants are entitled to admission they will be reI eeived within reasonable time. Mr. : Steele says there have been more soldiers in the home recently than there was appropriation to take care of. An appeal for additional funds has been made to Congress through Senator Voorhees, and it is thought that the financial aid will soon be extended. The Home at Marion is one of seven in the United States. A tehribij; boiler explosion occurred at Sprag's tile factory, four miles south of Frankfort. The proprietor. \\ illis Sprag, was instantly killed, and James Durbein fatally scalded, other employes badly injured, and the factory completely wrecked. At Lebanon, Miss Ethel Campbell, daughter of G. W. Campbell, ex-Presi- j dent of the Gas Company, placed a pair of gloves on her hands to wash them in gasoline. They caught fire ' trom a gas jet, and her handsand arms > were frightfully burned. In her efforts to tear the gloves off her hands were laid bare to the tendons.

CURRENT COMMENT. Playing With Fire. Better a coal strike now than next December.— Chicago Tribune. nart°Li?h A n,er !«“ l - b orn citizen took Toledo Blad^ Mo,e, ' S “ The State cannot afford to pander to owzed lawlessness. - £a?ves t on If the Alabama coal mines be»in to the great° coal phia Pt^s 1300 U cona P se -—PhiladelThe attempt of the Cleveland mob to stop a mail train shows that its leaders are not honest workmen.—Buflalo Express. Wha; have the strikers gained bv to dS 1 l oter3 . and goiQ ® cut a3 a to drive honest men from their work? —Cleveland l eader. lk * 9 B iat a F e going on in the est seem t) be strikes against industry an i law and order for the most part. New York Times. < <its at Congress. Senator Peffer is threatened with opposition A natural-gas well has been struck in the Grasshopper State. —Louisville l ost. <: on K ress m a n was reprimanded for calling another a liar. Being a Congressman has its disadvantages— to truth.—Chicago Post. The fact that two I’nited States Senators have died since the talk on the tariff began should bo an awful warning. -New York Herald. If Congressmen c n’y received pay for what they earn, many of them would have to .-end home for money to pay tfaeir boa d. bills.—Kansas ( Ity Journal. Congress has been sowing a great deal of wind of late years. It is hoped that the Coxey movement is not the harbinger of the harvest.—Washington Star. Now that the base-ball season has

। begun, the interest in the doings of (. ongress will wane. But, to come to । think of it. there are no doings in j Congress.—Boston Globe. Woman Suffrage. The sub.ect of weman suffrage is evidently becoming more prominent throughout the country.—Nashville American. Ohio is <oming up to date on the woman suffrage question. Unlimited suffrage f r women is next in order.— Mansfield News. Mr. Depew has added his name to the woman suffrage petition in New York. Such a susceptible Chauncey! —Boston Herald. The anti-suffragists of New York City have selected a strong committee of ladles to carry on the campaign against granting the ballot to women. — Boston Transcript. The New York and Brooklyn women oppo-ed to suffrage are organizing an ’ active crusade against the crusale fog j the ballot. A lively tight is on, and the men, who have the casting vote, are standing meekly aside to watch the outcome. —Baltimore American. Coxey at the Capital. Ma'hington is- more tickled than . hurt.—Boston Herald. 1 Gen. Coxor'c petitions with boots on Bonn to*be>largely on theTr uppers I^*^. i Boston Herald. " I The prospect of having to feed the Coxey army is not a laughing matter j to Washington.—Baltimore Herald. I There seem to boa number of brutal | Nordrums on the Washington police I force, judging from the way clubs are , used there.—Chicago Times. ! The region surrounding Washington will not bo well adapted for raisi ing chickens this summer.—Chicago Dispatch. A few more arrests of Coxeyites like those in Washington would wind up this "commonweal” imbecility for good. —St. Lcuis Globe-Democrat. The Carnegie Frauds. Overhaul the present inspection system of the navy. There, if anywhere, is the danger to our new war* fleet.— New York Journal. A thorough investigation of tha whole alleged crookedness is absolutely called for. The country should have the whole truth.—Scranton Truth. The more the matter is investigated the less likely it appears that there were any frauds cf which Mr. Frick was not fully cogni ant.—Troy Standard. The men making the charges are very s ecific in their details, and it is alleged that every one of the defective plates and even the hidden defects in each-plate can be located. —Portsmouth Times. Tillman and His Toddy. Governor Tillman Is now in the dry dock foe repairs. He will remain there indefinitely.—Buffalo Express. It was a long time between drinks in South Carolina, but they seem to be making up for it now. —New York I Journal. Tillman has enough rum on hand to last the Governors of the two Carolinas for the next bundled years.—New York Recorder. The Governor of North Carolina to the Governor of South Carolina: “What are you going to do with that whisky?” —Chi. ago Tribune. The Base-Ball Season. For the next six months base-ball will hold the attention of the country. —Baltimore American. Perhaps even base-ball will be a welcome change frem the tariff and financial discussions. —St. Paul Globe. A Pittsburg paj er calls Anson's men hobos. This Looks like adelibe ate attempt to inflame the Commonweal armies to acts of violence, —Chicago Tribune. It is the national game of the United States, just as cricket is the national game of Great Britain, and extends into every town, country village and hamlet.—Exchange. Kartl q lakes in Greece. Europe is exhibiting no jealousy over Greece’s earthquake monopoly. — Washington Star. In the number of fatalities the Greek earthquakes will rank among the most disastrous seismic disturbances of modern t:mea.—Exchange. Four hundred people dead and 2'\doo starving is the record of the earthquake in Greece. If equal fatality had been caused by a cholera epidemic the world xvould have been horrified. But earthquakes are not infections.—Buffalo Express.