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4®^ CHAPTER X —Continued. The quick, sharp stroke of a Rieherden hall bell—Roderick had started at the long familiar sound, and even changed color a little. But It was no visitors, onl.v the post “Just business—Mr. Maclagan, our lawyer. He might have written sooner, if only to apologize for finding us such a wretched ‘flat’ Instead of the furnished house I ordered.” And Roderick, looking first disappointed, then vexed, was going apparently to tear up the letter, but meeting Silence’s eyes, he stopped, and passed it over to her to read. “It is such a comfort to me that I can tell you everything,” he said, tenderly. “You are sure never to be vexed or cross, or hurt —oh, rny darling!” If she had been either of the three, that last word, and the tone of it, would have healed all. Yet the letter, read aloud, was a little hard to bear; for both. “ ‘Dear Sir,’ (he used to call me dear Mr. Roderick; he has been our man of business these forty years): ‘Perhaps you were not aware that the furnished house you wished me to hire would have swallowed up half your income in mere rent, so I took the liberty of getting something more advisable, which I hope will please you, during the time that Blackhall is being finished. I forwarded the address, as desired, to your three sisters here, and to Mrs. Jardine in England. My wife will do herself the honor of calling on young Mrs. Jardine. I wonder how the old lady will approve of .that?’ ” “Os my being called Mrs. Jardine, or of Mrs. Maclagan visiting me, does he mean?” said Silence, with her smile of grave simplicity. “It is a pity for the lady to come, if she fears to displease your mother,” added she, with a slight sigh, which went to her husband’s very heart, “The ‘lady,’ indeed!” said he, bitterly. “Oh, my mother does not know her. She does not belong to our set at all. Iler calling upon my wife is quite unnecessary, rather a liberty.” “Had you many friends here? Is it I who have lost you them?” asked Silence, mournfuly, and then looked sorry she had said it. “My husband, I did not mean to regret; and it is too late to suffer you to regret. We can not " alter ahylEing now." “We would not if wo could,” cried Roderick, passionately. “We know, if no other human creature docs, how happy we are, how entirely we belong to one another.” “Thank God!” “I know now, I have found that blessing which my father said was the greatest any man could get, a sweet-temper-ed wife,” cried Roderick, fondly, as they stood together at the window, watching the rain sweep down. “Mamma was right And papa loved her. I mean, not exactly as you love me, because he had loved some one else in his youth; she told mo that herself, one day. Still, he entirely respected and trusted her; they were very happy in their way. But, oh!” She suddenly turned to her husband with such a look in her eyes—a look that none but he had ever seen or would ever see. “My first love, my last love! God is good to have let me marry you.” “I am very cross to-day, Silence, and I know it.” “Yes, so do I,” she said and smiled. “But, if you know’ it, it is half conquered. Go and take a good walk, and walk it off, as in the days -when you were in love, you know.” “As if those days had ended, or ever would end!” answered Roderick, parting her hair and looking passionately down into her eyes. “My good angel! But don’t you see how’ much of the devil I have in me still? How do you mean to make me good?” “I moan us to make one another good, she answered. “My mother used to say”—it was strange and touching this way she had now of speaking of her mother, as if not dead, but only absent somewhere, and still mixed up with all their daily life—“my mother said, it is better to use one’s feet or hands than one’s tongue when one is vexed about anything. Therefore, go." Roderick went, and his wife stood watching him down tho rainy street w’ith eyes he saw’ not, and a heart that in its deepest depths was, even to him, not wholly known—or showm. “I think, though you had never been mine," she murmured, “so long as you were yourself, I would have loved you just the same. But, since you are mine —oh, my love; my love!” Roderick came back in quite a cheerful mood. “My walk has done me good, spite of the rain. And I have actually found a friend—Tom Grierson, lately married too. He and his wife are going to the coast the day after to-morrow, but they insist upon ‘making up a party’ (that is the phrase, love) for us tomorrow. She will call first, and invite you w’ith due ceremony. And you shall wear your wedding dress, and the diamonds Cousin Silence left to my future wife. Little she thought it would be another Silence Jardine! You will look so charming, and I shsll be so proud. We must go.” “Must we?”

With the quick intuition, the instinctive thought-reading, learned by those who deeply love, and only those, Roderick detected at once the slight hesitation. “Is it this?” he said, with a glance at her black dress. “Do you very much dislike going?” “I dislike nothing If you like It, and it seems pleasant and good to you.” “Thank you, my darling. Yes, this will be pleasant, 1 think, and good also. The Griersons are among what my family”—he rarely named his mother now—“call ‘the best people in the place.’ Excellent people, too; intelligent, cultivated. 1 like them, and so will you; old Mrs. Grierson especially.” “Do they know anything? About me, I mean.” “I cannot tell; I did not ask. You see, I could not ask,” a<hled Roderick, clouding over. But immediately he drew his wife close and kissed her fondly. “It does not matter either way. Never mind, love. We will go—and for the rest take our chance. We have done the deed, we are married. No human being can ever part us more." Still, with a curious foreboding of what might come, after the note of Invitation and apology which, to Silence’s evident relief, arrived next day, instead of Mrs. Grierson herself, Roderick helped his wife to choose her “braws” for this first appearance in the world such a different world from tho innocent monde of Neuchatel! then he left her to her toilet, and sat reading, or trying to read, till she appeared. Not exactly the angelic vision of her marriage morning; “a spirit, yet a woman loo.” Very womanly, if not very fashionable, for the white dress was high round her throat, and the round soft arms gleamed under a semitransparent cloud instead of being ol> trusively bare. She belonged to that class of beauties who, owing all their charm to expres sion, only look well when they are happy. A disappointed life might have made her quite an ordinary girl all her days; but now, when leaning on her young husband’s arm, she entered the Griersons' drawing-room, there was such a light in her eyes, such a tender glow in her cheeks, and about her whole bearing that quiet dignity, ease and grace which, to natures like hers, only come with the conscious ness of being loved, that very few, regarding her, would have hesitated to exclaim, “What a sweet-looking worn an!” Roderick saw the Impression she made, saw indeed, for the first few de lightful minutes, nothing else; until turning suddenly he perceived sitting close by, splendidly dressed and surrounded by quite n little court, his sister Belin, Mrs. Alexander Thomson. With a bow to his sister, a mere for mal bow, as to any other lady, be drew his wife’s arm through his, and they passed on to the other end of the room. It was a regular Richerden dinner, such as both had been familiar with from their youth upward, but Roderick felt like a ghost revisiting the wellknown scenes. A not unhappy ghost certainly, in spite of Bella sitting there. Through all the dazzle of lights and clatter of voices (how loud everybody talked, and how sharp ami shrill the Richerden accent sounded!) his eager ear listened for the occasional low toned words spoken with a slight foreign intonation, and his eye rested ten s derly on the fair, calm face of his wife. ! She was evidently neither shy nor ' strange, but perfectly dignified and l self-possessed, lie wondered if Belin saw her. “My husband seems charmed with. ’ 1 your wife; I shall be quite Jealous di rectly,” said his hostess, “Where did ‘ you find her? Sho looks different from our Richerden girls. Is she Scotch?" i “Os a Scotch family, but Swiss born. We were married in Switzerland. Iler I father was my father's second cousin, I and her name was Silence Jardine. You must have heard of it before, Mrs. , ■ Grierson?” And Roderick turned to a gentle looking old lady on his other hand, ! aunt to the young people, whom he ■ had told Silence she would be sure to like. “I remember your father's cousin, ! Miss Jardine. And your wife is her ; namesake? What a curious coinci- ’ deuce! But, 1 understood How- ' ; ever, one never hears quite the truth i about love affairs; so, no matter," > added the old lady, stopping herself. • “All’s well that ends well. Happy's • the wooing that’s not long a-doing.” s “Ours was fully six months a-doing," ’ said Roderick, smiling. “We waited I as long as possible; on account of her t mother’s death, and for other reasons; t and then we married. A right and , wise and prudent marriage, as I think a true love marriage always is,” he i i added, pointedly, for he felt his sister i was listening to every word he said, i And he knew that old Mrs. Grierson j was one to whom everybody told everything, though even scandal, passing - through the alembic of her sweet na- , ture, came out harmless; she was no- i r ted for never having been heard to ! r say an ill word of anybody. ’ “You are right,” she answered; and , her eyes, placid with long and patient- i - ly borne sorrow—she was a childless ! - widow—rested kindly on the young j bride. “By her face I should say that i Mrs. Jardine was one of those rare j women who are in the world but not -of it.” 1 “How well you read her. I thought 1 you would,” cried Roderick, warmly. > “If ever there was a saintly creature born But I am her husband, and ought not to speak.”

“Who is to speak for us If not T ~ husbands, I should like to kU° w ?” <75 young Mrs. Grierson. “And w there are actually three brides $ |cn ent. By the bye, Mrs. Thomsop. I r®" not know till a few minutes ago'tha fly was your own sister-in-law I was fit viting you to meet; but I shall lea P" the ins and outs of Richerden peoj F n in time. You and your brother mw‘ c have married within a few weeks one another.” “No, some months,” said RoderWJ with his eyes firmly fixed on his^M^JgJ. Bella, with some smiling word of tw^? turned back again to her next neighf^ bor, with whom she had been C conversing all dinner-time. So th® ( difficulty passed, seemingly unnotice® * by everybody. When the ladles rose, and be was forced to let Silence pass him without! a warning or explanatory word, catch- > Ing only the bright smile which showed she was at ease and happy, because ' underneath this outside show was the sweet inner reality that they two were everything to one another, Roderick 1 vexed himself with conjectures as to ’ what was happening in the drawing- 1 room, and blamed himself for what now seemed the moral cowardice of letting his young wife drop ignorantly j into the very midst of her absorbed was he with thesj>/ f that he quite started w Wnhsinj) * / the back roused him to the ness of his new brother-in-law, Mr. Alexander Thomson. “Didn't see you till this minute. Very odd—my wife never told me we should meet you here. And was that your wife?—the uncommon nice girl that sat beside Grierson? Phew!" with a slight whistle; then confidentially, “the women are all fools, we know, old lady cuts up rough still? Never mind; what’s the odds, so long as you’re happy? Glad to meet you again, my boy. When are you coining to see us?” Had it been possible to frame a speech more calculated than another | to set every nerve tingling in Roder- I lek's frame, or touch to the quick his i pride, his sensitiveness, his strong i family feeling, these wonts of Mr. I Thomson would have accomplished It. I He had forcibly to say to himself that they were Well meant, and to shut his j eyes in an agony of brotherly pity to j the rapidly reddening face, thickening j siieech. and always coarse manners of : the person you could not say gentleman whom BHhffhad chosen to marry before he could bring himself to reply. Even then it was as briefly as possible. “Thank you. Wo hare only just ar- ! rived at Richerden, and an* going to ! Blackball as soon as possible." "But we shall see you before wo go. | Bella will Is' delighted, and if she isn't i 1 shall: ami I hope I'm master In my j own house. Depend upon It.” drop- ! ping his hand heavily upon the table, i and looking round with a triumphant gleam in bls fishy eyes, "the one thing । n huwl-nnd should try for front the ! very first is to be master in his own house." “if be can be he will be without ' need to say a word about It; and if ho : can't be, why, it’s no good trying." The laugh went round at this naive reply of y<>uug Grierson's,but Roderick never said a word. Ami when the gen- j tiemen fell into gentlemen's talk, polities ami so on, though he liked It. having been long enough absent from England to feel an interest in that was going on there, his mind continually wandered not only to his wife, whose happiness he knew he made, and felt it was in his power to make, but to the ’ sister who had thrown away her own happiness, and over whose lot, be it j good or ill, he had m> longer the smallj est influence. |TO BE C OTiyi'CU. I r POOR MARKSMANSHIP. * - ’ I irhi£ tn Botti Army ami N.tvy Less Ac* < ur;j^ T/mn Formerly. The tiai/dng of naval artillerists has, in recent \ears, ben given a good deal of attention, and no end of ; owder and sh t has b en expended in tari get practice designed to serve a more telling purpose in actual warfare should tho occasion present itself. It vo.ild seem, thereto.e, that the float- ; irg equipments of naval powers of to-I day ought to give good accounts of themselves in p int < f n arks manship i I if called into acti n, th ugh, according to Cassler's Magazine, i' would be I resu uptu us to undertake to fore-; sha io.v possible results. If. on the > other han I. past o p rience counts I for anything, the e would seem to i hav? been a notable decline in accuracy ! in naval gunnery, growing with sac- i I cessive improvem nts in naval archi- ' tect re and naval armament. It was estimated some yea s ago, fro n data furnished by target practice at sea, that a heavy gun must be discharged fifty times to make < ne effective hit. The old smoothbo es weie credited with killing a man by the discharge of the gun’s weight in shot; in other words, three tons of 32-poundcr shot was required for the purpose. Actual i service test with modern high-power | guns, however—guns weighing twelve tons —has, within the past ten or ; twelve years, shown that it t ok about ; sixteen tons of pr > ectiles to ac omI plish the same thing-. It is interesting to not? from what statistics are available that the introduction of rifled muskets into the armies has had a somewhat simi ar result. Tho oldtime muskets, it is said, killed a man by firing at him his own weight in lead b.diets, but the n odern rifle in ; the hands of the average soldier, so it I has been figured out. does not effect a i fatality until it has discharged twice | the man’s weight in lead. Both here, । as well as in naval shooting, then fore, i there has been shown to be an im- ' portant demand for greater skill and j care. Whether this has been met in any measure, future hostilities only will tell. _ _ Book sewing machines, to do the work of fastening together the sheets of which a book is composed, were introduced in 1872.’ Before that time all books were sewed by hand. The book sewing machine icdu .ed the cost about one-half.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. an INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE LESSON. Reflections of an Elevating CharacterWholesome Food for Thought— StudyInR the Scriptural Lesson Intelligently and Profitably. Lesson for Dec. 9. i^- Text—“ The seed is the word of ~Luke 8: 11. sJyhe lesson this week is found in Luke q I’-10, and may be entitled “Christ ■g jicliing by Parables.” The parable of mi I ® ower one of the most popular and S wiliar of all our Savior’s published utu lances. It has a basis of appeal that is pd-wide and heart-deep. Everywhere H are being sown, and plants are growand so everywhere this lesson is # 'aking. Everywhere hearts are open to luences, good and bad, which tell for i rmity, and so everywhere the seareh|tW. teachings of the Scripture have Ijw'sht and potency. It is only needed l!vt the word be expounded to bo caught and be received ns the very truth of and nature everywhere. What men IF ‘d is a right interpreter of God’s cease- ' s parables. Christ himself is that in- ( Jpireter. I,ot His voice go forth to-day afcmigji this timely lessoti to the ends of c lWth, carrying like the dawn, pierct ^ ie d ar tpeople gathered together." came they? Tho first verse of ®l la Pt ;er tells. Christ was going Rwpad “throughout every city and vilpreaching and strewing the glad tidil‘r* , of the kingdom of God.” Is not the hj art of man still yearning for “glad tidiMts?” Th^y “were to come to him out ®f every city.” It u worth noting that ’he had previously himself gone to then^'.'throughout every city and vilOno is reminded of the saying, ^'use-going pastor makes a churehRoiMlliooiiJc.” Are the people coming to us ft|pn all houses and hamlets? It might be vFII to impure further, how we go into houws and hamlets after them? “He ^’9 a parable.” The word parable 1 lOfiTs to put beside; it is a method of i chwing up by comparison or illustration. sower wont out to sow his seed.” An 1 op^iome of life, Ei ry man is a । sowipr of seed, good or bad, good ami bad. With the beginning of his intelligent career he goes forth as a sower of seed. Be does not sFo where the seeds fall, he does i not oven know, nt times, that lie is sowi ing; but God knows, and hence ho bids us to walk carefully, to go through life circumsp<>< tly. Every man is a sower. In a particular and large sense the teacher mid preacher is a sower of seed. He Is such deliberately and purposely, in a degree. professionally. Sunday is a groat sowing day. God only sees the harvests that come from it. But there are other times of sowing. Throughout tho week, ’ in chance meetings, by business integrity, i professional faithfulness, in home temper i and demeanor the seed is being sown, nlWit we are not always aware. The Christian is called to be a ceaseless sower j of the seed which is the word of truth. M nysido-hoarers. We hare them in our : classt's and our congregations and our ac- | quaintaneeship. The little birds of vaj grant fancy innocent api»oarmg, but de- ■ structiye to good impreHsions, are flying - ev^fWuore. Emissaries of the deiil j Jesus calls them. Ib-wnre of them, pre- ' pare f>r them, make allowance for them j - -am! sow accordingly. Wo may also add, receive accordingly, for the responsibility is a dsublo one. Take hoed, also, how ye I hear. Stony-ground hearers. They are nil nlaut us. There is some rocky soil in j every heart. Be on guard. Mere flashes of interest on emotion what do they amount to? Root Work means hard work; ; it hat to do with sweat of brow, inside aa.l out. Instruction that abides because of rootage, means painstaking and watchfulness on the part of both giver mid receiver. Temptations are everywhere Dig deep. Turn out the stones, get down to the soil, plant the seed well. Hints and Illustrations. Christ taught by parables. He is doing so still. Nature is full of these picture lessons. The nineteenth I’salm ("the heavens declare the glory of God") makes ! mentjun of this fact. Springtime, sumi mer, and winter are, as it were, different ■; chapter headings in the serial books of God’s praise. It is well to cull attention I to this, ami to let the recurring season i but re-echo the word of gospel truth, i Every time a pertinent illustration from nature is given the longevity of the lesson is insured. Wherever the.object reap- ; pears, the pictured truth comes back i with it. Hero let Christ, the great : teacher of teachers, instruct us. Use parables and illustrations. Fre-empt the ground for God. Some i one was inquiring, infidel-wise, for free ■ tlumght and a mind unprejudiced for I good. He was taken to the garden and j saw two patches; one of strawberries, the j other of weeds. The strawberries were ’ the fruits of “prejudiced,” the weeds of i unprejudiced soil. Some one, on being j asked a remedy for temptation, responded j “Keep yourself so full of Christ that sin can find no crevice in which to breed mis- • chief.” ! We are sowing seed oftener and more thnnjsg think. At Ilie close of a series of meetings two ministers who had been i laboring together for souls, parted from i each other, one accompanying the other a short distance upon the way. Just before i they said good-by, they knelt in a little | grove and prayed. They did not know : that any one saw them. But a man in the field had observed it all. It set him to I thinking. The seed germinated. He saw j what a sinner he was, and he came to the church to make public confession of Christ. “Sow in the morn thy seed, At eve hold not thine hand; To doubt ami fear give thou no heed, Broadcast it o’er the land. Thou sb list not toil in vain; Cold, heat, and moist and dry, Shall foster and mature the grain For garners in the sky.” Next Lesson—“ The Twelve Sent Forth.” Matt. 10: 5-16. This and That. In 1890 New York City had 455,233 boys and girls of school age, IHE taxes of the people of this country equal about jAO to each inhabitant. Prof. Goodell, of Yale, has accepted the professorship of Greek in the American School at Athens. The new $20,(00 building of the Oklahoma Agricultural College at Stillwater was dedicated last week. The village schools are doing good work in France. They are free. The teachers are trained and certificated.

WRITE FOR FARMERS THE ANNUAL REPORT OF SECRETARY MORTON Says Wheat Should Not Be Depended On as the Staple Export—More Demand for Barley and Corn—Objections to Our Beef and Pork. Doesn’t Like Silver. The annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture is particularly interesting because of its references to current troubles with foreign governments over the importation of American products. The Secretary reviews the subject of foreign markets and gives figures of our agricultural exports, especially those to Great Britain That country paid during the 1b93 for American breadstuffs, pronsßJWs, cotton and tobacco over $324,000,900. Including about $10,000,000 worth of mineral oils with agricultural exports, the United Kingdom took 54.3 per cent, of all exports of breadstuffs, provisions, mineral oils, cotton ami tobacco. Os dressed beef Great Britain took from 1 us during the first six months of the year 1894 $10,000,000 worth. Australia is our chief competitor for the trade. Mr. Morton deems it probable that the American farmer will find more mlvuntage from the shipment of dressed beef than from the exportation of live cattie. Referring to the frequent allegations tn the part of the European government^ ' that live animals from the United States , are diseased, the Secretary expresses tho opinion that these allegations are some- | times based on fear of infection, but are | nt other times made for economic reasons, j He argues that if all American beef going j abroad were shipped in the carcass, bear- ; ing the government certificate as to ’ wholesomeness, it certainly could not be shut out on account of alleged diseases. He suggests that if certain European nations continue to insist on microscopical ■ inspection of American pork ami veterin- ; ary inspection of beef, with governmental certification to each, the government of the United States in^it well insist upon such inspection and certification by such foreign governments of all importations therefrom, whether edible or beverages intended for human consumption. He reports a very large increase in the exports of beef and hog products over the year previous, with, on the other hand, a markctl decline in the exports of wheat. Better Raise Barley and Corn. Tlie review of the foreign market 1 leads him to certain conclusions as to the future of our export trade in agricultural products as follows: “Competition of Russia, Argentina, Australia and other countries favored by conditions which enable them to grow wheat at a low cost, and especially by tho proximity of their wheat-growing regions to water communication, warns American farmers to no longer depend upon wheat ns a staple export crop. On the other hand, a good market, at fair prices, is to be found in the United Kingdom for barley and corn, which, owing to the great variety of uses to which they may be applied, promise to be in constant and increasing demand." The work of the Bureau of Animal Industry during the year has been greatly incrcftsi‘d miAWi? -ding the reduction in the appropriation. The Secretary concludes a review of tho Inspection of export ami interstate moat with the recommendation that the I law providing for the same may be so amended as to compel the owners of the meat Inspected to pay tho cost of inspection. If, he argues, the inspection widens the markets, thus enhancing the price of their property, they, as the direct pecuniary beneficiaries, should agree to pay for it. 'I lie inspection of animals received in the United States has been continued in Great Britain, and it was hoped that, having demonstrated that there is no i danger of introducing contagious diseases, the result would be the revoca- ' tion of the British restrictions upon our ! cattle trade. No Flcuro-Pneumonia for Two Years. I More than two years have passed with- ' out the development of any pleuro-pneu- ! monia or other disease in this country i which might be dangerous to British i stock interests. The hoped-for revoca- ; tion, nevertheless, remains unrealized. The scientific investigations of the Bureau have progressed meadily. Special mention is made in the appropriation bill I for the current year of tuberculosis and I sheep scab as diseases the Secretary of I Agriculture is authorized to guard | against in view of the danger to human j life from tuberculosis. The sterilization I of milk has been thoroughly explained in a leaflet which has had a wide circula- I tion. It appears that sterilization of ' milk may be a perfect safeguard wherever milk is used. The Russian thistle is made the text for a suggestion that seeds of new grasses and other plants from abroad must be hereafter very carefully inspected. The report concludes with a statement showing that of the total exports of this country for 1894 (fiscal year) farm prod- j uets aggregated $628,000,000, or 72.58 per ■ cent, of the whole. The markets of the ! world, says the Secretary, demand from i the American farmer the very best quality j of lireadstuffs and materials. The farmer exchanges his products, the result of his labors, which have specific purchasing power, for money having a general purchasing power. Under the heading, “For Prime Pork Give L's Prime Currency,” the Secretary asks: “Would the $600,000,000 worth of farm products from the United States sold last year to foreign nations have been as remunerative to the American farmer if they’ had been paid for in silver as they have been paid for in gold or its equivalent? “If those buyers demand ‘prime’ beef and ‘prime’ pork, why should not the farmer demand ‘prime’ currency, the best measure of value, the most fair and facile medium of exchange, in the most unfluctuating money which the world of commerce has ever evolved?” Seymour Brothers, shoe monos Columbus, Ohio, failed. Assets about $30,000, and liabilities in excess of that sum. They operated two retail stores in Columbus and one each in Mount Vernon and Mansfield. During the day judgments were taken against the linn for $16,092.28 and a chattel mortgage given for $3,000. James Brown, a x ederal convict at Stillwater (Minn.) prison from Alabama, having only five months yet to serve fol a mail robbery, and who was a “trusty.” escaped.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties and General News Notes of tjne Staterfoosier Happenings One of the three schools ct Alexandria has been closed on a count of diphtheria. The .■'-year-old son of Mrs. Cora Baker of Richmond, drank carbolic a -id while at play in the yard, and will die. The 9-year-old son of Mrs. Samuel Batdorf of Noblesville, fell from a horse and received injuries resulting in death. Hon. William H. Coombs, aged 87, old law partner of W. H. H. Miller, late Attorney-General of the United States, died at Fort Wayne. Mrs. Wm. Shipman and her sister, while crossing the Ohio River in a skiff, were run down by a ferry boat near Jeffersonville. Nirs. Shinman was drowned. While chopping a tree in the wooi s, near De atur, Frank Sullivan, a wealthy farmer, UiHctl Y»y a dead limb falling and. striking him on the head. School Trustees. Attorney General .Ketcham holds, must report annually the County Commissioners as to imes. A city council can compel city school trustees toshow their financial records. An explosion occurred at Prospect Hill coal mines near \ incennes, which resulted in the serious injury of William Bensinver and William Naugel. Neither will die. The explosion was due to pocket gas. The State Sanitary Commission.with the State veterinarian, found four horses in a stable in Terre Haute sick with glanders an lordered them killed The commissio i is making a’tour of the towns near Terre Haute. The 2-year-oid son of William Gossett of Fairmont, while playing m the yard* caught fire from a pile of burning paper and was so badly burned that it will probably die. The mother received severe burns about the hands while trying to save her child. Mrs. Jesse Richards. Miami Indian squaw, daughter of Wa-ca-io-nah, one of the most conspicuous members o! the tribe, died in a miserable hovel on the Indian Reservation, Wabash County, last week. She was the last surviving member of the Wa-^a-co-nah family. Wallace Hall, sent to the Northern Prison so? two years for the crime of assault and battery, has been pardoned by Gov. Matthews. Hall was sent to the penitentiary from Park Co nty four years ago. He was reported dying and the Governor placed the pardon in the hands of the prisoner’s aged father. Mrs Charles Leeds of Indianapolis, discovered the curtains in her parlor aflame, and. in trying to put out the fire, the hair was burned off her head, and she was terribly in ured. Mrs. T. C. Purdy, who was very ill, was dangerously prostrated by the shock, but she was carried out by the firemen in time to save her life. At Anderson. Minnie Forber, aged 7. was plaving with her doll, when its clothing caught fire from a jet. The flames also caught the child's clothes, ar.d in a second she w;s envelopedin fire. She called for help and her aunt ran for aid. While she was gone the little girl ran out into the yard, and ivhen so nd she was burned to a crisp. Jobn Toban. a molder, employed at the Whiteley Malleable Iron Works, Muncie, aged 24, was instantly killed by an east-bound Lake Erie and Western passenger train. He was going to the Maring, Hart & Co. Winaow-glass AVorks to see the men blow glass, and was on the long bridge that spans White River near the fa tory when the passenger train rounded a astw and stru k him. The following patents bare been granted to residents of Indiana: William Lash, assignor of one-half to D. Duehmig, Avilla, combined awniugand j fire and burglar-proof shutter; Jobn P. ; Libey, Lima, scraper: Irvin G. Poston, Veedersburg, paving block: William S. Ealya and E. Coyle, Indianapolis, ; metal straightening machine: Chrisi tian A. Sal, man, assignor of two-thirds ; to E. P. Kennel. Hamilton. 0., and J. I A. Robbins. Indianapolis, combinatior i tool: William P. Stevens, Muncie, com- , Lined label and price card. Gov. Matthews has issued a pardon ♦*j James E. Reed, aged I'.) years, who was sent to the Penitentiary for two years from Elshart County on a plea of guilty to burglary. It was his first offense. He has made an exemplary prisoner and would be free in a few months by expiration of sentence. The Governor was influenced, he says, by a desire to give the young man a j chance to re-enter life with a feeling I that he may yet regain his good name I and be an "honorable citizen. The i parents of the prisoner are quite old. The Globe Tin-Plate Company, with , a capital stock of $150,000, recent’y | organized at New Castle, located the j site of a mammoth plant on the north side of that city. The mill will be equal in size to the largest now in operation in America and will give emp oyment to more than 400. The most of the stock is taken by local business men. including E. E. Phillips, I cashier of the First National Bank; L. i A. Jennings, Treasurer of the Retail I Furniture Dealers' A-sociation of 1 Ame ica: S. P. Jennings, J. S. Hedges, i L. L. Burr, ex-Auditor Joshua I. Mor- ; ris, R. M. Watkins and Hon. C. S. Hernly, County Clerk. The remainder of the sto k is taken 1 y practical tinplate manufacturers fiom Wales. The drilling of two immense gas wells within three miles of this city has added a decided impetus to the enterprise. Clauds McDonald, aged IS. was run down by some freight cars which had been thrown on a side track on the P., C., C. & St. L. Railroad at Seymour. He was taken to the olice of Ur. M. F. Gerrish, and his leg amputated. It is not believed that he can recover and s ould he die it will make the third boy of the McDonald family w o has met with accidental death. About ten years ago a son of Hon. W. N. McDonald was run down and killed by the cars at almost the same place. Two years ago a .-on of Marsh McDonald fell from a load of hay on a pitchfork and was ail led.