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CHAPTER Xf—Continued. From that time Constance S^ 11 ' I ’, rmt aside all outward token of e Brief, sho wrote to the gayest and । most pie «sure-lo\ ing of hm^b^ । ancos—jy’^^hroo parties on the s; m' I evening, and a few who woe still epinstehs, from no lault or foolishness Ot their >. wn, sines they had neglected neither plans nor a"t in the endeavor to teeu.e an eligible partner for the dance of life. To these Constance wrote her letters of inv.t ition, and the first sentence in each let er was sufficient to insure accepta ce. “Dearest Ida—M v husband is filling the house with men for the hunting season. Do come, and save me from being bored to death by their sporting talk. Be sure to bring your hunting habit. Gilbert can give you a good mount,” etc., etc. Whereupon, dearest Ida, twisting about the little note, meditatively remarked to her last b s< m friend and confidante, “Odd that they should ask people so soon after the death of Mis. Sinclair’s baby—drowned, too —it was in all the papers. Davenant is a sweet house to stay at, quite liberty hall. Yet, I think I‘,-hal go, and if there are planty of people i can finish oat my ball dresses in the evenings.” Before another Sunday came Davenant was full of peop e. tnc attics noi-y with strange ladies -maids, the stables and harness 100 ms full of life and bustle, not an empty stall or an unoccupied 100 e box in the long range of buildings, the billiard-room and smok-ing-room resonant with masculine laughter, unkn >wn dogs pervading the outbuildingsand chained up in every available corner. Constance Sinclair had put away her somber ro' es of crane tu.d cashmere, and met her friends with welcoming smiles, radiant in black silk and lace, her gracefu figure set < ff by the latest Parisian fashion, which, being the newest, was, of course, the best. “I thought she would have been in deeper mourning,” sad o e of Mrs. Sinclair’s dearest friends to another during a whispered chat in a dusky corner at afternoon tex "The men were so noisy with their haw-haw talk, one could say what one liked,' - remarked Mrs. Mil amount afterward to Lady Love all. “Looks lather heartless,doe n't it?— an only child, t jo. She might at least wear paramatta instead of that black silk—not even mourning silk. 1 suppose that black net trimmed with et she w ire la t night was fu m Worth. ’ “My dear, you couldn’t nave looked at it properly. Worth wouldn’t ha’, e made her such a thing if she had gon' down on her knees to him. The sleeve was positively antediluvian. Nice house, isn t it? Everything in good style. What matches all these Clanyardes have made ” “Is it true that she was engaged to Sir Cyprian Da.enant.-” “They say so. How sorry she must be'. He has just come into quite a heap of m ney. Some old man down in the

Lincolnshire fens left it to him—quite a character, I believe. Never spent anything except on black-letter bo ks, arm vYicw - Yxavo Vwn sold for a fortune at taotlieby s. All. Mr. Wyatt how a y,do?” as the solicitor, newly arrved that afternoon, threaded his way tom.uwv. ; oo "d o comu an i Davenant has come into a lortuue. “Nothing can be m >re true, unless it is that Mrs. Millamount Icoks younger and lovelier every season.” * °

"You horrid flatterer. You are worse than a French milliner. And is it true that Mrs. Sinclair and Sir Cyi rian were engaged? But no, it would hardly be fair to ask you about that. You are a friend of the family.” “As a friend of the family, I am bound to inform you that rumor is false on that point. There was no ensafement.” ° “Really, now?” “But Sir Cyprian was madly in love' with Miss Clanyarde.” “And she-—” “I was not in the lady's confidence; but I helieve that it was only my friend’s poverty which prevented their marriage.” ”Ho,v horridly mercenary!” cried Mrs. Millamount, whocameof an ancient Irish family, proud as Lucifer as Lazarus, an 1 had been sacrificed in the blossom of her days, like Iphigenia, to raise the wi .d—not to Diana, but to a rich stock-broker. I J erhaps as that was a long time ago i she may have forgotten how much I moi e 1 utus had to do with her mar- i riage than Cupid. CHAPTER XII. THE SHACKLES OF AN OLD LOVE STRAITENED HIM. Cyprian Davenant had inherited a fortune. Common rumoi had not greatly exaggerated the amount of his wealth, _ though there was the usual ; disposition to expatia'e upon the truth. ' Needy men looked at him with envy as ho Went in and out of his club, or sat 1 “UuLrtm-?^ the iasti qjUdl telly or Edinburgh ” and •<! I most wondered that he wasao won ab .' to contain his spirits, and was' not ; tempted to perform a savage dance of Che claw character, or to give expression to his raptute in a war-whoop. “Hang it all, you know, ” remarked an impecunious younger son, “it aggravates a fellow to see Davenant take

things so quietly. Ho doesn’t even look cheerful. He does m t invite the . confidence of his necessitous frien is. Such a kn'ght of the rueful countenai ce would hardly stand a pony. And . he won t play whist, or touch a biliar< cue—quite an unapproachable beast. A man cannot be lucky in all things. Sir Cyprian had set his life upon a c’st, a id the fortune ot the iamo had , been agaimt him. The inheritance of this unexpected wealt i seemed to inn , almost a useless and trivial stroke of fate. What could it avail him now. It could n t give him Constance Clanyarde, or even restore the good old house in which hi- father and nothei had lived and died. I uno had set a gulf between him and happiness and the fortune that came too late seemed rather the stroke of some mockin' and i onieal Fa e than the gilt of a benevolent destiny. Ho cane back from Africa like a man who lives a charmed < nor of i erus. from

life, escaping all 01 |uh>, ti e grii o of marsh lever t > the jaws of । crocodiles; while men who had valuta ■ existence a erost,. oli Lie sands of the! ouiu Coast or to rot in a stagnant swamp. Cyprian Davenant had returned to find the girl be loved the wife I of the man he m st disliked. He heard of her marriage m ro in sorrow than in anger. He had not expected to find her free. His knowledge of Lord Clanyaide's character ha I assured him that his lordship’s beautiful daughter would be made to marry well. No fair Circassian, reared by admiring and expectant relatives in the seclusion of her Caucasian homo, fattened U) on milk and almonds to the standai d of Oriental beauty, and in due course to be carried to the slave-market, had ever been brought up with a more specific intention than that which had ruled Lord Clanyarde in the education ' of his daughters. They had all done well. He spent very little of his time at Marchbrooke nowada s, his wife ha ing died shortly after Constance s marria e, but dawdled away his life agreeably at his daughters’ winter houses out of the sea-on, and felt that his mission had been ac omplished. ■ No father had ever done in ire for his I children, and they had cost him very I iitt.e. What a comfort t > have been ' bios ed with lovely marriageable daughters instead oi lubberly sons, squatting on a father s shoulders like the old man of the mountain, th ught Lord Clanyarde. whim ho had leisuie to reflect upon his lot. After that one visit in Park Line. Sir Cyprian Davenant had studious y avoided Mrs. S n lair. He ha 1 very little inclination lor s cietv, and although his friends were ready to make a lashionHi le lion of him iqum the strength of his Afri an exploration-, he had st ength of mind enough to refuse all manner of flattering invitations, and innumerable introd, ctions to people who were dyi g to know him. He took a set of chambers in ot e । f the streets bet aeon Lie Strand and th" river, surr unded him-df with the bocks lie loved, and t abi u writing j the history of his tra ois. He had no 1 desir • to achieve fame by book-mak i ing, but a man must do something w it his life. Sir Cyprian felt himself too <dd or too unambitious to ent r one . f the learned pro os-ions, and ho felt hims If without motive for sustained industry. He had an incom ’ t .at sufficed for all his desires. Ho would write his book, tell the worl I the w nders he had s on, and then go back to Africa and see in re w inders. and perhaps leave his bones along the r. ad as some of hi- fellow-trave'ers had done. He heard of Constance Sinclair heard < f her as one of t to lights in Fash ins sider< al system holding her own against all compstiiors. He sav her once or twice, between five and six on a June aftemo m. when the carriages were creeping along the Lady s Mile, and th' high-mett'ed hor.-es champing their bits and tugging at their bearing-reins in sheer desperation at being coiir ell d to this -nai -

pace. He -aw her looking her loveliest. and concluded t mt sho was happy. She had al! things that were reckoned good in her wi rid. Why should he I MipiHw thore was anytiiing wanting to her content? The lawyer's letter, which Hal told him of old Col nel Gryfi n s death, ami , bulk 61’ ; w&athq<ljtT.b’T s he . bi" Cyprian in his quiet chambers near the iver, smoking the cigar of peace

, over the last treatise on metaphysics by a German philosopher. Lady Davenant haa been a Miss Gryflin, and the favorite niece of this ancient AngloIndian, Colonel Gryflin, who had lived and died a bachelor. Sir Cyorian had a faint reeol ection of seeing a testy old gentleman with a yellow complexion at Davenant in his nursery days, and having been to d to call the old gentleman "uncle,” whe eup n he had revolted openly, and had declined to confer that honor up n such a wizened and lawny- J conplexioned anatomy as the little old gentleman in questh n. “My uncles arc big.” he said. “Y< u're I too litt e for an uncle.” Soon afterwa rd the queer old figure had melted out of the h< me picture. Colonel Gryflin had gone ba-k to the Lincolnshire fens and his ancient missals and incunabula, and had lived so remote an existence that the chief feeling caused by his death was astonishj ment at the discovery that he had been ' so long alive. Messrs. Dott & Gowunn, a respecta- । ble firm of family solicit rs in Lincoln s Inn. begged to inform Sir Cyp ian Davenant that his great uncle, on the maternal side, Col< nel Gryflin. of Hobart Hall, near Hammerlie d. Lincolnshire, had appointed him residuary legatee and sole executor to his 'will. Sir Cyprian wa- quite unmoved by the an- | nouncement. Re-iduary legatee might i . mean a great deal, or it might mean ■ I very little. He had a misty iccollec I lion of being to d that G lonel Gryflin was rich, and was su; posed to squander ! untold sums < n Guttenberg bibles and other amiable eccenti icities of a bookish man. He had never been taught | to expect any inheritance from this kr bim daisies Os his pari>h ch^h-vari' the The residuary kgateerbip th rno<l I out to Ie a very handsome fortune. The missals and'bibles and anti pie Books of Hours, the Decameron, and

the fine old Shakspearo were^tFTw S mXn -by desire of the ^tator — and were sold for twice and three tim^ta| the sums the old Colonel had pa them In a word, Sir Cyprian enant, who had esteemed himself | in<r rich upon four hundred a yeafiM Stood possessed .fa bund’nd and twejKj ty thou-and pounds. it came to > late to buy him the de sire of his heart, and, not being J to win for him this one blessing, seemed almo-t useless. James Wyatt was one of the first C AF = c mgratulate S.r Cyprian upon th^^j change of fortune. q en •• y pity the old gentleman did nos ' die^before you went to Africa,” he said sympathetically. "It wou d hav^ I squared thing for you and Miss Vian^ i J “Miss Clanyarde made a very gooiM marriage.” an we ed Cyprian, tec*" i proud to bare his old wound to friendly || Jame' Wyatt. ' She is happy. w Mr. Wyatt shrugged his shoulders^ dU 'w£know ?’’ he aid. “We’^our < friend-’ live- from the out ide, and,■ ike a show at a fair, the outsi le is ways the best of the 1 erformance 'This ha iienod while Mi. and Mra. i Sine air were at Schoenesthe Som,, li amethe tiding-of Baby Chrxataoel f ite. briefly told in a newspaper para-a g. a >h. and Cypiian Davenant s

bed for the woman m hirfTone dav 1 H.e .AA-niber. an! told him ho was g^BI ing down to Davenant, where therVJ was to l>o. a houseful <>f c >mpuny j “Sos on afti rthe little girl's exclaimed S r Cyprian. -h “Yes, it is rather soon, no doubt. I But they would be moped to death at | Davenant without people. Sack-cloth 1 and a-hes are quite out of the fashion, 1 you see. People don tgo in for intense ' mourning nowadays. ” “People have hearts, I suppose, even in the ninet'onth century, - ’ said Str , Cyprian, somewhat bitterly. “1 should I have thought Mrv Sinclair would have felt the loss of her little girl very ! deeoly.” I “We don’t know what she may feel,” returned Wyatt. “Gilbert likes his own way.” "Yo i d n't mean to say that ho illuses his wife?” asked Sir Cyprian, alarmed. “111 u-age is a big word. We don't employ it nowadays," replied Mr. Wyatt, with an imperturbable smile. “Gilbert Sinclair is my client, and an , I excellent one, as you know. It would i ill Ie ome me to disparage him, but I I must admit that he and Mrs. Sinclair I are not the happiest couple whose do- I mesti • hearth I have cvi r sat by. Sho had some secret grief even before the j death of her ehil I and made up for bo- | ing very brilliant in society by I c ng exe ■ dingly dull at homo. I don’t expect to find her very ivoly, now that ■ she ha lost the only l»eing sh > really | can'd for. Sho absolute y worshiped 1 hat ehild." This conversation gave Sir Cvprian Davenant materia! for much sad thought To know that Csmstatwewas unhappy ■ oonu-d to bra g h<>r nearer to • him. it bro ight back the thought of the old days wh- n t ioso innocent eyes had hs'ked into hi . eloquent with unconseiotis love; when Con-tance t'lanvardo hail given him her hea-1 without thought of tomorrow, happy in the know edge that sh«- was loved, blieving her lover *tmng to conquer 1 sale ami fortune. Ami he had brought I the chl'd. light of worldly wisdom to j ben on this dream of Aready. H<> had i । be"U strong, -e (-denying, and had rei noutv o I hi-own happiness in the hope o' securing hers. And now fate laughed him to -corn with this gift ot vain riches and lie found that his worluly wisdom I ad been supreme folly. "What a s ls-s iffi i-ml fool, what an idiot, 1 'nave le 'n'." ho -aid to himself, in an agony of remorse. “And now what at moment <an 1 make to her for my folly? Can 1 delend her from the *irse-pioud snob -1, ha- been snd to? van 1 save her vv. unded heart one p ng? Can 1 be near her in the hour of misery, or < lie. one d op of comfort from a-oul overllowing with tendernes- and pity? No: t > approach her is to do her a wrong. But 1 can watch at a di-tanee, perhaps. I must use other eyes. My money may be of some Use in buying her faithful service from other.-, t od bless her! I consecrate my days to her servic •: di-t nit or near, f will be her friend and horde-

fen-er." Two days later Sir ( yju ianmet Lord Clanyarde at the nobleman's club It was a club which Cyprian rarely u-ed> although he ha 1 been a member ever) -in< o in- maj irity, and it may b’ tha-.j he went out rut <if hi- beaten track ‘ ll J the hope of encount ring Constant® 1 Sinclair s father. J „ ' . "'d'" wn- verv cordial and! complimentary upon ou l ... tered fortune. i-j

"You must feel sorry for having parted with Daienant.” he said, “when you might so easily have kept it.” Davenant i- rather too bio- fora confirmed bachelor.” 1 1 ue, it i ould have been a white elephant, I dare say. Sinclair has improved the pace c msideradv. You ought to come down and have a look at it. I m going to Marchbrook to shoot next week. Come and stay with me,”l । added Lord Clanyarde, with hea ti-« nes , not at all prepared to be taken atJ his word. ; “I shall be charmed.” said Sir CypL rian, to his lordship’s infinite astonish-! ment. Peopl • generally took his invitations; for what, they were worth, and de-/ clined them But 1 ore was a man jusS from the cent «r of Africa, who hardlw un erstood the language of polite sojciety. T [to be continued. | I Could Only Be Answered in LatinJp Little Rastus—Dar’s sumpin', fessahi I wants ter ask yer bout de oceansewDar's moah watah in de cceansea Jit high tide nat low tide. \\ at becomeß^ of all dat extry watah dat wuz at hi <lh tide w’en it gets to be low tide? Prof’’ Johnson I’m—um dat's a questshußh honey, ’at kin on’y be answered Bn Latin. Umpery, trumpery, dixuß-h digit, sockdolog >us. Dat's w'at becurrfcs < b de watah, honey, on'y you'se tßoo young ter un'erstan’. ■ Grasshoppers—sl Per Bushel. B Grasshoppers have become so plentiful in the State of New HampshjSre that a law has been passed providing® bounty of $1 a bushel for the dostrqf P ,. ton of the insects. One farmer has i V-, . ceived S9O for as many bushed of pe^ts. I' JI ‘ out some covering ovS^ you.'T M MB

k SUGAR AND BRIBERY ■Me '.. ' L SENATE COMMITTEE FINDS LITTLE TO REPORT ON. fie final of Newspaper Men to Reveal the Source of Their Information About Democratic Senators ami the Sugar Trust Proves a Stnmbling-Block. b Suggest Wholesale Arrests. IS Senatcr Gray, Chairman of the -select committee to investigate the | alleged operations of the Sugar Tru-t I Jin connection with the tariff legislaI i!^ n ' submitted a pa't al reimrt to the of th > proceedings of that cotn^mitteo bearh g upon the refusal of the ■ ii'wsiaper correspondents, Edwards, I ■Shriver and Walker, t > give the source Jof thei • information to the commiit ee. The printed report of the committee ■ consists of five printed pages, some of : if it 1 eing quotations from that part of nt the testlmi ny where answers were rcwtfused. The committee sta os that it ovorW 'Uled tho cbjectlons t> Avid go Ditton- ■ hoeffer, E Iwards’ conn el. and insisted V upon an answer to the questions. I

^Mho.o questions vought to uncertain I autSoritv for tho stat nient that IPwpr'MffftTalg'riltied his wiLingn ss him■Rf to prepare an amendment to the ““ugnr sc! odule which he thought eitould lx? fair to the <lover.iment uni fr^et jus t<> his interests who gave tho ■informat on concerning the allo ed ■interviewi lietweon officers of tho Mugar truit. Mr. Havetn yer, Sen^tor Briie, and Senator Smith; k.ho was hi- in'ormant that, on tho ■^y Mr. \o>rheo< t’ctinil any amend■ncnti were pn p sed to the bill, as wrlginally tep r e 1 to the Sen ite, the Hist of sOO i mendtneats. a prepare t by ■senator Jon s, was in the lands of I The br« k -rage firm of Moore A Schley; I ^iat tho dra tof the su;ar .-ched le, 1 & finally adopt d a-a res?lt of a conWreme between Femt r CatL ry and 'Bpr sentative- of the t-us’, meeting o.m nx>n of th • Canit >1 Bu filing. lyiile the comn itte i was ii -e. so i m ; another. ^^ll of tho-e que-tion-, th' romsay. Edwards, a ting upon tho | -w of his to n-01, refu-ed to a®*wer. 9 K.-fmnl Wm, an Hlcgnllty. |«^m*ferring to the b'-timonv of John Lriver. eori.'sp m ,ent <f ‘ the New ^H’'k Mail and Expr«> the <• mimittee . from Mr. Sh iver s b tbsr detail- ■ who’ a ]r> mii.cnt wire mami er was iidcg,-d t > have overheard ^■be Ar Ingbm hotel n a talk bo^■•enccrlain Senator- is d repro onto tHBe- 4 the Sugar Trie •. Shriver -aid that a membe- of gave him t ,• info mation. . ^^felhcotnmit oe-a. - that mioqum-e tt^Kt di*ct quo tio.i he declim <1 togLe n»e o o ther the < ngr --man « r mantifa«'tnr. r t wnom he roln hhie«-di iiit i.e-. In conci'.Sion the commit to vv - ul opt >1 >u of ihr n ' tre cs h of * ■W*ua«iuiti । put i.. e t( a .t 1 w i nci* •-“1 » proper quc-iiin am rvil ".t to ibMiueßtion under Inq ilry bo'nrr the . 00.»i tier and nm * y to * the otAtuinatlou ordervi by ~.<l reoduu n of ttorreaatn and that e, f the -ni l withctiv is i* In C *ntempi of th-' -e ito ,i: I niejlt* to b<> <Jea t * th f r lit* m:- . n i ict l ann that ra--h of »al>l v tti cm-os by l>h rvtu«i'« t • »mw r tho ~uc-t ns avj iur«ta wt fort hnvi.. t t,"i tbc pro- i ns of that .-*ti ,ln , • . ’ < onir. .s In •no i r»<H mid amt irni .o I !•• <• ,p. tea L*e*®n of tne Rev.n d Maluiri of ihi> t'nt kd State. Ihoconmit o'qu b-h. fu I- -t mis 10?llD3 and H of the I e\ised st Jute-, L-yhg the 1.1 t । f IC. . In Hctn» nt I* K ronin’n I <1 iThe ch sing w >rds of th > rep. rt are: tlHi*re-! lent "f 'h- Senate c rtify a- to <-lßi wftnc— id- ls ■"e- u i failure t > test - fyXnd his afor -aid refu-al to answer, and i ;d*l e farts ber.-m miner the -e I of tl o Senate, to the l il ted States lii-tii't AtIpanev forth ■D - rlct of < <>lunibin. to the c i^ that ea li of -aid witnesses may bo üßpo'ded against In manr.er and form l . rovided by law. 1 will be sc n that there is no rvfcr1 to the ease of Mr. Ha r; Walker, f roY respondent if the New York Daily America.

\ Sparks from th" Wires. t The Eastern Indiana Dental As o findon closed its sixth annual meeting at ■j-rEiwood. Dr. C. S. Wilson was elected President. ■pfN unknown young woman from ChiSj^ro, accompani d by hor in ther, visJFmd the penitentiary at Joliet, 111., and flva- married to a convict. f First District Dmo rats of Indiana

^adopted resolutions denouncing Hill, . Brice and German as “Bene i t Ar,nold' of the Demo •rats. " William sm- 'LEt: was awardol 15,003 damages at Muncie. Ind., for the loss of an eye v bile working at the Comm m Sens ■ Engine Works. Investigation-hows that farmers , ’ ot the Northwe-t ha c abandoned: : wheat as th i ■ only crop. The decrease this year will be L’> per cent. T AO Burlington f eight trains collided at Galesburg, 111. wrecking an engine and several < ars. I ngine r . Rodecker wa seriously l.u-t. | Dr. Charles Winn and Joseph* I Sparks are und"• ar cP at Neosho, Mo., on suspicion of being the mm who rol bed the Southwest ( Ity Da ik. j The Sioux City Traction ( ompany. i with a capital stock o . j ceed- the street rar way company n ! the operation of the foity mile; of I road. i ■ The authorities at I'ater.-on, N. J.. 1 have inform ition i egaruing a fact ry i for the manufacture of dyi a nite bcmb;. Several anarchists will be ar- I rested. Miss I.ee Jones, diugl'.ter of a Texas banker, won a piano valued at sl,ot>o in a contest at Hardin Coll g.*. Mexico, Mo. She was one of nineteen contestant;. At RcChester, N. Y., F. L. Dowc; mmitted suicide by taking P ’ison. He was a heavy stockholder in the Minneapolis Hosiery Association. A- ompany has been organized at Dubuque, la., to operate a coal mine in । Cook County, Wyo. The vein is sail j , to be o"C of the largest ever discov- j ■ cred in the West. Lord Rosebery offered to John. • Burns. M. I’., the labor leader, a posi-r-Mon in th' Government when Mr. | jj^^dstone re igned and again when Mundeda resigned. Mr. Burns I on~both occasions to accept

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE LESSON. Reflections of an Elevating Character Wholesome Food for Thought — Studying the Scriptural Lesson Intelligently and Profitably. The Passover Instituted. Iho lesson for Sunday, June 3, may le L und in Exod. 12: 1-14. INTRODUCTORY. The blood of Jesus Christ—this is ‘ the underlying theme if tho lesson be- I fore us. Profounder or more practical a d i-er.hient sub o t of thought the Bible does n t । ontain. Speak it out plainly, personally. Get its large import, first of all, lor self—then, out of a heart touched with the I lood, give to ot yrs. Newman Hall's last strong wi rd i- < n “Atonement, the Fundament^l. Fact of C hristianity.” Says he: “ v\ e consider that on this, as its strong foundation, stands the church of God. We bu Id on sand, if we build elsewhere. This is th ; groundwork of an u aurnn e of j ardon, the source of our s)i" t nl life. ' Says Dr. Enoch Miller: “ I’his is tho c mtral truth, the denial of which ihriws th.> whole fabric of spiritual truth into di int gration and collapse . . . It is the sun in thg> h avens of rev lation, around which’ ot ho d H trir.es revolve and from which they derive their I ght. If Cod hai m t reveal d this fact -that we are saved by the substitutionary work of Chiist he has r vealed nothing, or the ovelaHon has b en clothe lin such deceptive angu.i e as to n cos it t 1 civil ermen’ and mistak-s. and that w iich should hvv ■ben a stea iy lamp to our feet and 1 ght t > our path only le ids rs into t v.ag.uiro- of error and de-] air." POINTS IN THE LESSON. "The I ord spake,” and we may add, it wa- dore. Ihe L< rd s speaking, I w hii h it: e'.f i • marve’ous. is followed l y m i v. 1 >: s d ing. when he finds a faith ul Mo-e- through whom he may jierf rm. "A anb for a house." Hi us hold re-I ligion g O'back to the beginning of things. Tne church of the homo is p/riuij-the first church (fid ever or-; dai: e l । n eart , an I the sacredne-s of , th- do-ni'-tic establishment should ever j b' r yarded. The v< luntary principle do - not nb it.- but rather suengtnens t ii- divine elai i. “Mu to your count for tho lamb." M hat UiHer picture < f the household of-Hints What a glim; so of communinn joys! How dies the pastor m ike his count for the lamb? How the p<rcn ? How did Gixl make his count when tho -e itico was offered, “once so ■ all?" The e are grave questions ‘ I'he blood hill 1 e to you for a token. ’ T 'ken not so much of death to of life, of lif • "ut t f death. Thusall life c >mos to iw, "The life of the fesh," -ay. 1 e itleu-, "is in the blood,” a d imm iiiatelv follow the significant vv id-, "it i- ti.o bloo I that maketh at r.oment for thi soul." 1 ov. 17: 11. All th's munife-tlj looked forward to the “blood of JesiisChri-t.” The b'ood of the-lain I*-i-t was a token of life nt'-rdv. the 11. od of Jesus Christ is itself if" from th" dead and snlvatii n from -t i. When Jesus gave his blood h" _'u e : i:n-> f io t e race, and by that .-a. l ific • w.- live. HIN rs \Nl> II.LI STRATIONS. The S,;nda;. -cho >1 teacher -hon’d le.a it i th- I- - on. like John the Bajx t -t standing by the Jordan, po ntjng with his huger and crying, “Behold th • 1 .amb of (lod that tak th ; way the ,-i-i • f the worl I.” If v.e fix our gaze so .-lose y u]>on Moses, or if we Listen t e attenti n s > narrowly up n self as to forbid the eye from b ing lifted to that one who -t >o I amid the throng uu I who -tands there st.ll as the Lamb of Cod. we shall be recreant to our trust and -hall ha.e whol y ignored the word which -ays. “He mu-t increa e, but I must decrease.” Hide behind the er >ss to-day. B t the Lord spoke to Moses an I Aaron for a inn-pose. It wa that they might in truct Israel and lead them I forth. What if Mo es had viewed t e burning b.:-h and h ard the voie ? and : ti e:i put the ex] erier.es away anaujht more than a pre -ious mem ry of the past' Not so. The voie and! vision was hiv a; with every servant ' of Col. in order that he might take it ' to Ged s people, “S i c ik ye unto all the 1 congregation if Israel.” Brother, do not be selfish with your revelat_ ns : from on high. Let them fit you. rather than unit you, so -service. That was a beautiful vision the mi nk of the legend was having in his cell when the hour struck for the feeling of the poor. He would fain, like Peter in thj ; Me unt, have tarried with the marvel. Bu: n >. 1 L work was elsewhe.o: duty called and he loyal y obeyed, triad indeed was he when he returned to find the vi-ion still there, and glad with t embling when he heard ihe voie >, “Hadst thou staid, I must have Hied." > John . ays it in Revelation: “1 lo ked, and 10. a lamb st cd in the Mount Zion." It is what the clean-ed eye always sees. Look heavenward, o k earthward, it is a land that stands in the midst. The writer took some liti tie ones the cre fit of the City of I Brotherly Love tie other day. Toe mi st notewcrihy thing about the rip was that from the four cardinal points i of the compass, looking down the main ' avenues mid across the city roofs, stood j ( ut. distinct and plain, overtopping all. ; the tower <f the City Hall there :at the busy canter. From nort , ! from south, from ead, from west. ! that same famil a • object. So in ' our Bible outlooks, toward Cen- ! esis, t ward Revelation, in the gospeb, in the ep’stles, amidst the com--1 pany of the prophets, or thegloricui I comi any of the apostles, there in the ! m d t stands—“a lamb as it had b en ; s’a n. ” So preach, so teach. Next I.ess n—“ Passage of the Rod Sea.” Ex. 14:19-29. Grains of Gold. Sow good serviees; sweet remembrances will grow from them. Ln the truly great, vi tue governs I with the see] ter of knowledge. The aim of all intellectual training | for the mass of the people should be to ! cultivate common sense. ! The sympathy of most people con- ' sists of a mixture of good humor, curio ity and peU-impoi tance. ’ MISFORTUNE,* when we regard it with the’ eye, is smaller than when entertained by the imagination.

INDIANA INCIDENTS. SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH* FULLY RECORDED. An Interesting Summary of the More Im. portant Dolans of Our Neighbors—Wed. dings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties and General News Notes Condensed State News. Cicero has a I arbor shop called “U. : R. nexty.” Richmond Presbyterians will build I a SIO,OOO church. _ NN OEMS are destroying celery plants in Northern Indiana. New normal school building, Columbus. will cost ?2u,00). Noblesville hopes to locate a couple of factories this year. Many young squirrels are being killed by hunters near Richmond. A Muncie girl wants to know if a storm bolt is not a lightning rod worn about the waist. Jefferson Hardy's 7-year old son, Lebanon, died from lockjaw caused by splinter in hi- so t. Orleans people think that the Seymour bloodhounds are no good for the ; trackiiiix of * riminals. .lossKHli M Hl.ton, a, IC-year-old Uoy ' of NVashington. had a leg cut off by ' i the cars at Loogootee. ' The machinery is in place at Sheri- ■ dan for a hoop factory which will give employment to forty men. I Chas. Rass. near Kokomo, is dead from blood poisoning, tho result of a • bruise received by sparring. Nicholas D hm. agea 11. was run down and killed by a Wabash engine .-witching on the Belt road east of Lafayette. j John Hazzard, who deserted his ■ famil. at Scottsburg thirty years ago, died in Kansas, last week, leaving a S 0.(100 estate. Horace G. Cox. aged 40 years, was round dead in his room, at the National Hotei. Peru, having taken twenty-live j grains of morphine. A Brazil man picked up $25 the other day and after a day’s search found the owner, who was mad because the tinder ha I not returned the money ' sooner. R. J. Lee a wealthy farmer, living near Shelbyville, while leading ahorse to the barn, was jerked an I thrown violently to the ground receiving fatal injuries. Dennis Dunn of Anderson, brakeman on the Big Four Railroad, was instantly killed while at work switching on the Innis-Pearce Company's sidetrack at Rushville. A Richmond woman, who had her : watch stolen last August, found it the other day in possession of a friend, who bad purchased it in Indianapolis after Sit had passed through many hands. A young woman in a NVinamac drug • store refused to ]>ay for so a water she । drank iK-cause the clerk remarked, 1 j when she said she thought it was cool- ■ ing: "I do. too. It's soda-lightful.” AT Peru. William Seigwart, his wife, and four children are seriously ill with trichinosis, caught from eating pack- ( ing ho. -e sausage. The wife and one daughter are dangerous, but the condition of the others is improving. ( >un< ilman Jackson, Kokomo, has come into possession of an old deed dated Nov. L’>. 17sd. and signed by Pati rick Henry, then Governor of Virginia. : conveying to Jackson's ancestors 15,000 acres of land near the Ohio River. An unknown man was instantly killed at Vai] araiso on the Nickle Plate Road by being struck by a । through-freight. He was about 45 i years old. light complexion, black hair I and sandy mustache and whiskers: was I well dressed. Every State, benevolent, and penal I institution has been closed against visitor- and inmates by the State Board oi Health. An invasion of small-pox from < hicago is feared. Neither pa- ' tients nor visitors will be admitted ! without a permit from the board. NVhile a -i-ting in tearing down a la-ge wooden bridge at Mexico. ■ Joseph Wikel fell into the river be- . low. Before he could be extricated j the structure collapsed on him, infiictj ing fatal injuries. The rest of the i workmen had just left the bridge when I it fell. NVhile grinding a plow 7 point with a horse power grindstone. Charles Richi ards, a farmer who lives near the '.Highlands, two miles east of Vin's cennes, was instantly killed. The j grindstone burst, and a piece struck i Richards and knocked off the top part of his head. Jeremiah Musser, private Company K, Second Regiment Missouri Cavalry, ’ residing with his son, A. J. Musser, a ' prominent business man of North i Vernon became affiioted with paraly--1 sis of the throat while at dinner, and ; choked to death before assistance could be rendered. He was 70 years old and । a United States pensioner. Patents have been awarded resij dents of Indiana as follows: Alma F. ' Blease, Hammond, vehicle dashboard 1 and tender: Chauncy H. Jenne, Fort Wayne, clamu sketching camera: j Clotilde P. Thomas, Evansville, pow--5 der box: James J. Wood. Fort Wayne, ’ switchboard for high-tension circuits: ’ James J. NVood. Fort NVayne, electric J current in acator. William Lewis, one of the few’men j living with a broken neck, was removed from the hospital to his home ' in Frank ort recently. July 12, D 92, ‘ he was accidentally shot in the neck by his sweetheart, the bullet severing the spinal cotumn. They were to have ’ jeen married that day in Chicago, the license having been procured. Mr. j Lewis, after nearly two years in the t hospital, was brought home, his head being encased in a rigid steel frame, which extended down the back, with cotton under the steel bands. He bids fair to live many years. NVilliam Kennedy, a lifetime prisoner, has been released from the Prison South, on a conditional pardon issued by Governor Matthews. Kenned.y was sent up in 1871 to serve eight i y.ars for burglary, but in attempting I to escape in 1^74 killed a guard by the ; ' name of Chamberlain. He was twice i sentenced to be hung, but both times secured new trials, and the third time was given a life term in the peniten- ’ tiary. He has served altogether seventeen years. The pardon was on condition that he should not drink any in--11 toxicating liquors and should obey the laws of the State.