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w® IWH •W&4 *SO W^ rK- z ®^- '>KL2rW_ iu? Jg* WB wit —, r-.<i3Mn/^^l O/S iy Q DM' h>TO ^gg-ga _____ . '"'s /sf/W ^^l4/zwi CHAPTER XIII. “What sort of people were we to meet to-night? Pleasant people, yon said.” “And elever people from Edinburgh and London, visitors in the house. Lady Symington brought one or two of them to call here to-day. I liked them.” “And I am sure they liked you, my darling," said Roderick, with a tender pride. “Well, it will be rather nice to go back for an hour or two to the old life, and rest one's ears from the endless buzz. , of machinery. Though I am fond of ma- i ehinery,” added he, hastily and cheerily. I “It is like presiding as a temporary providence over a cosmogony of one’s own making; taking care that all the wheels are kept going: doing one’s utmost, and waiting calmly for the final result, as one must in all things. Yes, 1 enjoy my work, and I mean to enjoy my play, if 1 am not too tired.” He had come in very tired—he often did; but, refreshed with tea and tender words, had now begun dressing for the Symington dinner, putting on his diamond studs, brushing out his curly hair, and his wife ■could see he rather liked the proceeding. He was a young man still. She was young, too —not at all above the pleasure of “making herself pretty”— as he told her she looked in her white wedding dress, with her wedding veil transmuted into a shawl. He admired her—they mutually admired one another —and took a childish pleasure in the same. “I wish I could give you a carriage,” sighed Roderick, as he mu filed her in hood and plaid for the ten minutes' walk under the fir woods, through he clear | frosty December night. “I am content with my own two feet, ' •dear. Lady Symington offered the carriage. but I declined.” “Quite right. The poorer we are the more independent we will be. Always stick to the principle, ‘Owe no man anything.' ” “Except ‘to love one another,’ ” Silence added, gently. “I can’t help loving her—that sweet old lady—however rich she is. And she is so cheerful, too. How she laughed at my thick boots, and showed them to the two young ladies she had with her—most gentlemanly young ladies, who dress almost like men, and pity themselves for being only women! Now, it may be very conceited of me, dear, but I never wished to be a man in all my life!" “Thank heaven for that," said Roderick, with such energy that they both burst ■out laughing, and so started merrily, '.anS s3 ~ a f?hf in hand, through the solemn fir wood, and across the open, breezy, star-lighted moor. Silence clung to her husband’s arm. “This feels like the old days—the days when you used to walk home with us at night.” She paused, and then continued in the low smothered tone which he had learned to understand now. “Did you ever think then that I loved you —that it was heaven to me just to walk beside you for a quarter of an hour? And now we walk together always—through life—into eternity. No —I shall not lose you even there." Ho pressed her little hand nearer his heart, but said nothing. They walked on, watching the round, red moon, which was creeping up slowly through a cleft in the hills. Neither said, “How beautiful,” just as neither said, "I am happy, but they knew it without speaking. So they reached, two humble pedestrians. the Symington hall-door. “Are you afraid?” asked Roderick, as they paused to let a carriage pass them—the Castle Torre carriage, full of very resplendent McAllisters. “Not afraid of my host and hostess, but very much afraid of the butler, the^ footman, and the groom of the chambers." “Nevertheless, let us face even them,” said Roderick, gayly, “for I am determined to have a pleasant evening. It felt like it- when, having passed bravely through the ordeal of the entrance hall. they found themselves in the fine oid drawing-room, rich with the relics of a dozen generations of Symingtons, where Sir John and his wife received their guests. There was once a popular song. “If I had a thousand a year,” wherein the singer described what he would do with that noble income—counted but a small one nowadays. But ten thousand a year —what could one do with that? I think prcnwoly wksd. Sir John Syiuiuglou did. A rich man. of cultivated tastes, with every risjlit to gratify them, knowing -enough of sorrow to humble his heart toward God and soften it toward his neighbor; gifted with not only the power but the will to do good, and having lived long enough to reap the fruits of an honorable youth in a calm old age; such a man is, spite of his riches, not unlikely to enter tlie kingdom of heaven. Ay, even in this world, at you could see by his contented look and quiet, stately bearing. They were Indeed quite a picture, this old couple: be tall and thin, she round and rosy, with a cheek like a girl, and a smile like a child, as they came forward to meet the young couple, to whom life was only at its beginning. ‘Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake thou not.’ Mr. Jardine, it is kind of you to come here to-day. I hope it will not be the last time by many that Blackball honors Symington by entering its doors.” These words, spoken with antique formality. and in rather loud tone —Sir Jolis was slightly deaf—were heard by everybody. Everybody saw, too, how Lady Symington kissed Mrs. Jardine on both ' cheeks, foreign fashion in cordial welcome. This might have been chance, or wise and kindly intention, but It had its effect. Tiie MacAlisters, and all the other neighbors, came forward at once, ignoring both the poverty and the mill- ' work, and added their greetings. These I “old families,” as well as the clever Eng- j

lish guests, were much simpler, Silence found, both in manners and toilets, than the Richerden people. Very soon they made her feel thoroughly “at home.” The more so as she saw’ her husband was “at home” likewise. There is in some houses an unconscious atmosphere of domestic and social ozone, which brightens everybody. Wealth can not give it, nor poverty take it away. As they went into dinner, Mrs. Jardine leaning on Sir John’s arm, as the stranger and the bride, she and Roderick smiled at one another, satisfied. It was a recherche rather than a sumptuous meal, not one of those where the guests are evidently far less important than the food. And it was short an hour and a half being, the host said, quite enough to spend over eating and drinking. Also, not long after the ladies retired the gentlemen followed them. “lou see, having been much abroad, we have adopted the best of foreign cm; toms,” said Lady Symington, smiling to seo Mrs. Jardine’s smile, at the unexpected apparition of her husband behind her chair. “Sir John likes a pleasant evening, good talk and good music, quite as well as a good dinner; and 1 like it much better. Indeed, I am afraid 1 am very fond of society.” “So are we,” said Roderick, booking down on his wife’s happy face. And just as his host called him to join a group of men, every one of w Imm was "somebody,” or had done "something,” he found time to whisper: “You were quite right. Silence; 1 am glad we enme." After that she watched him. talking, listening and being listened to, holding his own always with his habitual eonrtesy, but nevertheless with the firmness and self-respect of a man who has ca n his lot in life, whose fate is fixed, ami heart is at rest, so that he is now ready for the work of the world. He sm d good way from her. scarcely looking t.ward her what need? This mingling with others made both feel only the more keenly and securely the sweet inward tie “my own, my very own!" And sho sat in her quiet corner, that passionate ambition, not for >■ r. but a dearer self, which in some women’ hearts is as strong oven ns love, wok- up m . it. had already wakened but it s .■ : Ito make itself felt to the very depth ■ j her soul, until there came added to it an . I other feeling, roused by a few elmm ■ words sho overheard. "Yes. a fine fellow, a very fine fell w. indeed. What i pity he is married." "Do you think so?” “Just swamped; every man is, m.h - . he can get that rara avis, a wife who s a help and not n hindrance, not only at home but in society." "Hush! there she is that <pm t little j thing in the corner." "Eh?" Silence had sharp ears; at b ast. sb seemed to hear by instinct every xx .w! that was said about her bus],an 1. A the two gentlemen passed her thex row ; only the composed face, the quietly folded ' hands, but she had heard. Half an hour afterward Roderick, a little surprised, but glad, saw her th" center of a circle, talking to all wlm talked to her, not only in her pretf , pre eise English, hut in French and G.rm.m —there were several foreigners in this cosmopolite house. Also, when request ed by Lady Symington she went ; -me to the piano and sung. It was a very simple song: their fax r ite, “Oh, Nannie, wilt thou gang wi’m-?” but after it came a hush, and then al m of involuntary delight. "Yes, that is my wife," Silence he rd her husband answer to some one, very briefly, but she caught both the look and the tone. She went back to her ' .c. all her nervousness gone. She could save ■ the world now. He was not ashamed . f her. Human nature is human nature after all. Many a good man loves w ith patient tenderness a wife very inferior to himself; many a woman upholds faithfully before the world the nlnn she has married, whom ail the world sees, and w ciders sometimes if she see.-:, is altogether ■ unworthy of her. This is right, noble: but it is also a little sad. The perfect bond, the true marriage, inns! always be between those who not only love, but are proud of one another -as were these. The evening slipped by fast, so fast that the guests were already leaving; bm j Lady Symington begged the .Jardines to ; stay a few minutes more. “Weil, the moon is full, and our hors--. 1 will not catch cold by standing.” said Roderick gayly to his wife. He was so thoroughly enjoying himself that, for the first time, he did not notice the little tired face. But Lady Syminton did. and put Silence in her own arm-chair, s- cured round by curtains, above which hr,ng the sweet picture of the long-dead boy. I’pon it the eyes of both women, the young and the old, met tenderly. “He must have been so pretty," Silence said. “Yes. Almost like an angel, or it seems so now. He was a Christmas child. This Christmas he would have been thirty-nine—no, forty years old. How - 'rhe'old lad; spoke calmly, as old people learn to do. And then, like one habituated to repr ss herself and think of others only, she added: “Your husband is not near forty yet; he could not be, for Henry Jardine married late in life. Sir John lost sight of him after that, but he was always very fond of him. We thought him so clever, so sure to make a name for himself one day. Perhaps his son will.” “I hope he will; yes, he shall.” The words were brief, but there was a sudden Hash in the eye, indicating the faith which creates the hope, and the will which brings about both. And then, startled at herself, Silence shrunk back behind the curtains of her pleasant nook, glad to hide for a few minutes after the efforts even of their nappy evening. She. strained her ears to catch her husband’s voice, but instead she only heard the idle buz;: of conversation behind her, little heeded, until her own name struck her ear. “Jardine? Surely 1 met a Mrs. Jardine at Richerden last week. Could she be a relation, a mother or aunt, to that young fellow? Impossible!” “Why impossible?” “Oh, Mrs. Mac Alister” (tho speaker was one of the Symington guests), “if | you had seen her! Astonishing in accent, | and still more astonishing i i dress; clanj nish, as I suppose you Scotch would call

it—always talking of her ’family,’ and evidentiy considering it the most important family in till Scotland. She had three daughters one married to a man named Thomson -ugh! a nice son-!n-lnw to have! You should have seen him in the draw-ing-room after dinner. But she never spoke of any son.” "You don’t say so! That coarse, ignorant, vulgar woman?” At this talk heard quicker than it takes to write, and impossible not to hear, I for the speakers were behind the curtain —Silence looked at her companion, whose eyes were cast down on the carpet. Making some remark quite foreign to the subject. Lady Symington rose, then, seeing the poor little scarlet face, she let all polite pretenses drop. “My dear, ’les absens out toujonrs tort.’ Let it pass; we will move away.” "How can I let it pass? It Is not true. I And she is his mother. It can not bo true.” "If it were.” said the old lady, quietly, "it could not affect any right-minded people. Your husband is what he is, a Jardine of Blackball, and the very image of his father.” "Still, a mother is a mother always. I had one once.” In another moment, putting aside Lady Symington’s detaining hand she stood before the two Indies. “1 I eg x o ir p . rdo i. but I oV< litcard you. 1 could not help overhearing. I You mis- i take. Mrs. Jardine, my motheTin law, is a wry good woman. Her cwlren love her much, reeducated she tiy be her father was a ‘coarse,’ , ■vol- W t-m ■ "W heeler or no." said the yfmlg Ixm- | don lady, equally touched and surprised, "I .nm sorry I said it. It is a {ertificate of merit to any woman that iter son’s wife shcr.bt !>c so fond of her.” i The poor little face, pale viith pain, flushed visibly. “It is pot timl|- it is because of the injustice. Due shxjild never let an injustice pars if one can ielp it." The eager voice, pathetic <u>n in its imligimtu pride, the manner io simple and straightforward Mrs. Mac Alister -ai<l m xt, d.tx that young Mrs. Jardine was the odd) st ami in • t “uncmiventional" young lady she ever knew; but there we no usisiakiug her meaning. Both ladics felt themselves, as the younger expressed it, “quite shut up.” and made no end of incoh-’rent aisdogiea. Silence pcepted them smiling. “It does not matt'T. since only 1 heard you not my husband." Jest th- n. turning around, shos.tw Rodcrick 't.in-ling b< : :..;e Lmly Symington, ami u is quite e< rtaiu. by the expression of his face, tiiat he l ad Imani, or guessed, everything that find passed. He :utid imthing wlmt was there to •my?—only came forward, bowing with nlm< st more than his usual rather stately <oiiitrsy to the two ladles, drew his woe’s ar a in his. ami making their adieus t > their lmst> «. took her away imtm diately. Not until the;, I- ■ 1 g 1 out ii;t., tlo'dnrk the quiet, so.ithiug, s ditnry night did I he break out in a pussion of auger and grn "t'onrse! \ "Lar! How danM «he s y ; it? Igw rant i’.e i ex |>e, 1 |..v could i she In- «4herwi «• with her np-bringiug? , But she ;s. : s yut; Mty. a thoroughly g«H>d । \> -w.tin. TI. yen I- r -ay;. . it, thank t yen. my darfing. for 1 ■■ g s' gcuorons i to my pox’r innther." "\ >t „c:o , > . x j udiispered 1 b ;-t to any no th’v. h est of nil o yours. They tl.d i ; k pd pie, nnd tiwy xxcre - V'U i> nd t -m s: y so." ' "I beard all: I was cle-e by; mt how < 'd I ■ \ . <:i ■f •. ar |; x\ .m you who xxete brave. Again. Ihfii.k you, my darling." Tbi y xvalked on a’A !■!:■• in total silence, then R-- lerh !; burst cat n mni: "Yts, she i- i y i.. tker. No unkitidiiess ~.. ah.:- that. And she has done । nothing i. ; ''y wrong nothing that can j make me use to respect her. Her xvenknissxs 1 know every one. It is nou.sx use :ny < '.ih'reu .-'lould not see their p.tits’ faults; tiny must mid do. i But lb' .1 there is tlw b" .. that covers till 1 She lox< d me, too, om c. If 1 saw her ;hts miuuti. 1 lii t-xe 1 shotthl forget everything eXci p : bat she was my mother —my dear eld m >;her.” And st great suddiu sob, like a Imy's, betrayed wl.at His wife h I hmg guessed, j tho 1 nl-up grief will- h even she could not wholly bca! (To b • continue,l,l Tiie I. dy, t.'o? < ~:q s > asst! How-Wow The ■■ liter day a la ly ohipp u] her husband’s re.i;a ins at d a dog over the < ’eii- ' tral, ays an I’xclmu; a. At Albany she . appeared til the do>.r <,f the baggage car , to Si-e how they va n .citing along. "How dc.t ; h seem l >b • doing?" sho asked with a sniff. "Who, the ■ r;i- •?" inquired the baggage nttisii r. Itindly. "No, the dog." "Oh. he's comroriah!.'," replied the baggageman. "A:ty!mdy loea idtiing down on him?” "Who, 11:0 dog?" ( "No, tho corps "i’ertaialy imt," a;;, won I tie baggagmuan. | "D'c s it semn cold enough in Here for him?" - - , "I’or wi: i. the i orpse?” • “No, the dog." j "I th ilk so,” grinned the luggage master. • D lostlmj Hing appear to afflict him ' tiny?” "Affect who. tiie dog?” “No. the corpse.” “I don’t believe it doos.” “You’ll keep an eye on him, won't you?" she asked, wiping a. tear away, j “(in who, the corpse?” “No, the dog.” And having secured the baggageman’s promise, she went back to her coach apparently contented. i Among the Hebrews during t^ e the- i oeracy the taxes were very severe. ■ There wa.s a poll tax of half a shekel ! about l;o cents, a tribute of the first ■ fruits and first born of animals a redemption tax of the first-born soil a tit lie for the tabernacle, another for the Levites, anti a third, every third year, for tho poor. It has been computed that the lota! taxation exceeded .’;6 per cent, of the land valuation. The true way to mourn the dead is to ' take care of the living who belong td them. These are the pictures and statues of departed friends which we ought to cultivate.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. SEPiOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY CONSIDERED. | A Scholarly Exposition of the Lesson— I Thoughts Worthy of Calm ReaeedonHalf an Hour’s Study of the Scriptures—, Timo ell Spent. Lesson for February 3. Golden Text.—“ This is my beloved Son, in whom 1 am well pleased; hear ye him.” Matt. 17: 5. The Transfiguration is tho subject this week ot our lesson found in Luke !>: 2S3t>. Prayer again. How frequently in i connectin' with our Savior’s life the spirit ■ of prayer is ineulcnted! How often xvas ' । tho Son of God bowed for refreshment I and enduemeut! Gnu the disciple reach । tho high ends of the kingdom in any better, or indeed in any other way? “Prayer is the key b’or tin’ bended knee To open the morn's first hours. See the incense rise To the starry skies Like perfume from the Howers. Take tho golden key In your hand and see. As the night tide drifts away, That its blessed hold Is a crown of gold. Through the weary hours of day.” Wo!i 10l lows very properly on that of Peter’s confession. It is in fact : the divine confession. Peter had said: ’ ; "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the liv- ■ ing God.” Now it isGod’sown voice that ; declares; “This is my beloved Son: hear । ye him." Did Peter need any further evi- ; ilence that the voice that had spoken । through b'ln was of God? Glirist bad nls'i been speaking to his disciples about being ashamed of him. and had referred ; t<> tho fact of his coming some time in the glory of his Father and of the holy angels. I Here they arc given a glimps? of that glory. How can they ever be ashamed of hin: io •. ? And yet Peter, who denied 1 Im, xvas one of the three. It was in the midst of prayer that the t ram^gnrntion came. It is in prayer that the le st voices ami . isious reach us. The leghest exaltations of soul, the largest in- j | ■ '-ments of power have been granted in i’:e nttnosphere of prayer, t’hristmn ex- ; r ' Ilex’ is largely the re- "id of o’.u (I’ll- - io of devotion. He xx lio w -Jies to knotv t'.-c im lift of tho transfiguration mount must < limb the slopes of prayer. There is r • such trrusforim ras prayi r. It xvas as Christ km-lt in supplication that the > angels til ,sl the air alamt him. and here, ' । "rs he prayed, the fnshioa of his counten- > unco was altered nnd his rainment was ; j' xx Lite :ml glistening.” There is no face ! ’ s - beautiful to angels ns the face of that I Olli’ of ” limn God "ays. “Behold he' urn..i th," - nd t, put on beautiful gar’i iits in the sight either the holy men 1 f heaven <>r of earth, low in suppliea- ' : ti m, "Two men" apjHnred. They xvere in I '.isliiou os men. They had about them I ! 'he d:-' nguisliiug signs that separate us j ■ne from the other. Ro glad, my soul, xvc . j -.'istll know e;u-h other there. It was “in : •ul"tx : tld yet they spake of grace. Cab try was the theme of their d:s<s)Uise. i They “spake <»f the decease whi< h he , should r complish at Jorusn’em.” Now ' i we kn '• ’he theme of the < eb tlnl on- f , \Ve kl’;.'W XX hat the subjeel of higlo concern riiamg the angels and j anumgst the jest men. made perfect. ' Peter and his <■ oiip anioiis did not • eo the ; :g! ry until "they x. ere awake." And yet 'it V.llS doubtless there long betoH . Ala-. , that our oxxii ex es should oft is- so holdeu, 'and o".- spirits -,o heaxy! The vision ; ' IIS wt* sleep, liiiitH nnd Illu ,traticns. NLik- it a h mci I'loistnin cxpi-ri-ine ■. l' i! oti< the ti. .. of Divine r ■ freshing. Pet !' did not shrink, in after yors, from referring to this b!e- d pas- ■ ■ 'co in life. Re as fro as xvas lie. It ! :: ay put s 'Hie one else in reinembr.ince. i It may h ad some om-«Iso up into a trans- i I figuration mount. Would that this h -son j ! i'seif might b? a hiii top t xpi-riem e to . : li -iuy a m । dy --u! at this lime; "Pi .iiso the nmunt. I'm liv’d up m it, । .Mount of G .J’s unci a:iv ug love." Pi ter never forgot that x ision on the I ! mountain. It gave a। - h-stial coloring to ■ nil hi< thoughts. He wo always talking ! about heaven as near. It is he indeed | ■ that has given us faith’s bridge, namely. > "Receiving the cud of your faith, even | (he salvation of your souls." The mother | ; was complaining about her kids going off I to sea. They had no mariner ancestry. I And yet. one by one. they sought the sea. i ■ The pastor came to console. His eye was ■ aught by a picture over the fireplace. It ■ | uas th" representation of a full-rigged I <hip, gallantly sailing off to the high seas, i 'How long Ikis that picture hung there?" I lie asked. "We hung it there win n wo xvere married." th" mother answered. “1 । understand now," said the pastor, "why [ . (he boys take to the o< san. That picture | has educated them to it." What is the lictureon memory’s wail, what scenes ar ■ most easily rivalled? Those arc the pic- ■ lures and scenes that impress and move. I This meeting on the hill-top xvas a very ■roll ~n-:trnd yet it was ver., large. Con- ' uregations may be measured qualitatively : ■as well as quantitatively. Peter and I James and John and Moses, and Elias, ; nnd Christ and God, and the Holy Spirit. I nnd an innumerable company of ministering spirits. Here was a congregation full •of inspiration and poxver. Do you recall ; (he little meeting where but one or two { were present? Yes. other gatherings of i i larger sort have passed from memory: ' that sweet service holds its place. God i | i\ :IS there. It was at the foot of the hill j ; that the test came. Have you been on 1 (he mount with your Lord? Prove it by going about at the hill's base doing good, j putting forth life-giving energy. Your : best credential, the ability to lead from I ; death to life. Moses is not dead; nor is , Christ. Beware. Next Lesson—“ Christ and the Chil- i : <ircn.” Matt. IS: 1-11. i iie bow is first seen de m-led on Egyp- ! ' tian monuments about 2000 B, C. Its form then did not differ greatly from (bat in use among buys at the present day. It was used in European warfare J ' as late as 1040, and was deemed quite I ' as effective as the arquebuses then cm- i : ployed. ! A gentleman of the court of Pepin ■ had a wonderful pair of breeches that i cost S7OO. They were embroidered I with gold, and all the figures were ; ! traced with chains of small pearls. i

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. 1 ue order of business in the House Mondaj, xvas reports from committeis. The committee on national resources reported ^ le l ,aSi >age of House bill No. lb. for the repeal of the law providing for the appoinment of a natural gas inspector. । Ihe report was concurred in. The follow- ! ' n, j "’ere introduced: To appropriate $4w,500 lor home for feeble minded; concerning grand jurors, restricting their inquiry; for an act relating to construction of roads; to provide for a Canvassing Board tor the canvassing of votes at elections; concerning mechanics’ liens, to regulate the charges for consumption ot natural gas. Relating to granting of charters; an act to abolish office of county assessor; tor an act concerning the incorporation ami government of cities and towns with a I population of less than 80.000; for an act : fixing the time of election of county super- ' intendents ot schools; a bill concerning public offenses and their punishment; fixing the age of consent at eighteen years; to regulate the employment of women in factories: to abolish contract labor in State prisons and establish public contract system: defining desecration of Sabbath; to prevent the killing of quail between "now and January 1. is'.hl." I in; House of Representatives. Tuesday, defeated the bill for placing Hags on all the school-houses of the state, and also refused to appropriate for the Gettysburg memorial. Representative State- man ottered a resolution condemning the foreign policy of the national administration and favoring the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands under the terms of the treaty adopted by • the Harrison administration. He followed । the resolution xx ith a speech intended as a ' caustic review of the present policy. A | motion was made to lay the resohit ion on the । table, but \\as voted doxvn and the resolution xx as adopt d In a xohvf 7'l to 15. all the Democrats present voting against it. Ihe bill of Representative Stotzenberg । requiring the application of parties formarriage heel's, s to be signed by one freeholder. was favorably reported from the Judiciary Committee. The lull aimed prim ipnlly at eloping eonples, who have found it soeasx to < \ ade the laws of Indiana and get married In justices in the Ohio : River towns. Repn entative Dinwiddie's bill, repealing the section of the McHugh law under which the ( olnmlu m Athletic Club grew up and nourished as a prize-fighting re--ort. wa . faxmably reported bx the Judiviarx Co'mmttee: also the bill providing for the incorporation of tobacco ware- ! house companies. I he re- Jut ion fm call in ; a constitutional convention was adversely reported and the ; report voncm;ed in. By a v< te of 2'J to pl the Senate refused to concur in th.* report of the Judiciary Committ's- to indetinafely postpone (he bill ! providiug for from S-'o to?s!M> fine and from ■ ten dnx s’to six months’ imprisonment for •■:rx mg (■'■iw.ded .> a pons. A long debate fol low ed tie committee’s report, but • the maioritx be'' v.| that a more stringent ( •" \ io ' b-d an-l tl; ■ bill went to a seeond i id n,, thus m heating its final passage. >• i- :'oi Cmmer in!r<>duced a e ngressjonai app"' ionmenl bill which givi s the ib’publix in- -exen and the Democrats .:ix distriets. but ><• will '..ubtle-- be set aside bx the i aucns mw.’Uio jet to be reported. Ihe prof--lx of the people of Imlianpolis arainsi liie method- vhich hare been in ro.ue in tfiec tj Seimol Board for the past ; tv.o years found an echo Wednesday, in a ; resolution in the Hous;' to inquire into its attair- \ n Tfnportanl depart uro from the 1 original purposes of the common school । sjstem, and one that will provoke bitter opposition, was suggested in a bill offered I ro< filing for the teaching of < lerman in all I public-ehcols w I ere twentj -five patrons shad >r.r a petition reqw.-iing the same. A bill whose object is to overcome the rigor M the Grubbs'libel law was introduci d in the Loa-o and was recognized as ; oiiewhi' h iias In , i, before every legishiCt Lu- the past ten year.;. It provides that be;.? ;j suit shall lie tiled for libel th" a^grie' , 1 partj shall notify the pu’oj lisher of the paper of the injustice done him and shall give him an opportunity to retract the .statements. If this is done w ithin three daxs. where the paper offending is a daily, ami in ten dA s, where the paper is a weekly, the plaintiif shall recover on!j actual damage sustained. A Lull making Laporte County a separate i circuit, and providing for the election of a ' judge and prosecutor, was introduced. Th- following bills pa-sed the Senate, Thursday: An amendment to the libel law, which pres ided that where justification is the defense in a case for libel or I slander, it shall be sufficient to prove the j justification by a fair preponderance of the । evidence, instead of beyond a reasonable ■ doubt, as under the present rule: proliibit- । ing railroad or street car companies from , building their lines through cemeteries in ■ cities having a population of a hundred ! thousand or over: providing that streetcar companies shall construct vestibules on the I fronts of their motors for the protection of i motormen in cold or inclement weather; legalizing Sheriffs' sales in cases where the rents and profits hate pot been appraised: fixing the number of employes of I the House and their salaries: appropriating SIOO J UM) for the erection of a Soldiers’ Home at Lafayette: fixing the salaries of Coroners in counties witii a population of 100.000 or over at $3,000 a year. In the House a number of bills were on . record up on second reading, ami were ' passed to' eugrossmeul. Among themeas- : ures thus advanced were the following: The bill holding Hie railroad that receives i freight responsible for its delivery regardless of transfers: for the reorganization of the State militia under the nameof the In- ' diana National Guard, to consist of fortyeight companies of infantry and three battalions of artillery: appropriating $75,000 for militia purposes; providing for the abolition of the office of Natural Gas Inspector: lor the protection of motornien, requiring street railways to provide screens for cold and stormj weather: requiring the signature of a resident free-bolder to an application for a marriage license. A-- soox as the House assembled Friday amotion prevailed to postpone further consideration of Hte .Miller-Bowers contest till Tuesdax next, and make it the special order for 10 o'clock that morning. Bills introduced provide for the appointment of police matrons in cities of 5,000 people and over; for moving in.-aue convicts from the state prisons to the insane hospitals: for the appointment of a state inspector of countx offices; limiting interest e arges by building and loan associations to 6 per cent, ami premium charges to 2 percent. A bill placing the appointment of trustees of tl:e benevolent, reformatory and penal institutions in the hands of the Governor, < Secretary, and Auditor of State was also ; introduced. The bill will practically take , the appointing power away from the Governor. The session of the -Senate lasted scarcely 1 an hour, and aside from the introduction of ! a lew unimportani bills, no business was I transacted.

INDIANA INCIDENTS. — SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITHFULLY RECORDED. An Interesting Summary of the More Important DoUgs of Onr Neighbors-Wed. clings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties and General News NotesCondensed State Nows. Tekki: 11 a i te I’rot?stant churches will erect a new hospital. Elwood bent-xvood works have been purchased by C.K. D. Ross, Elwood. The Indiana Midi md Railroad, from Brazil to Anderson, w ill Leopened Feb. 3 Sot th Bexd is putting in a new telephone service that costs subscribers but sl2 a year. Mus. F.mma Beony, aged Muncie lady, was probablj fatal'j injured by falling dow n stairs. William Shay was knocked from an oil derrick near Boylestcn, and probably fatally injured. Mi:>. Lt ( y Day, colored, Rushville,was fatally burned by her dress catching fire from a gas stove. Mis. William Hi i se, Crawfcrd villa, attempted suicide bj taking morphimu Doctors saved her. CiiAiti.F.s Sina rt. r.< while leading a horse at Shelbyville, was kicked in the stomach and died in a few hour-. The Van Buren, Grant County, authorities have ]>tlid $20:) for a pair of bloodhounds to be used in running down criminals. O. D. Bales, former manager of the When clothing store at Muncie, has sued the Munei ■ Times for $lt).o:X) damages for alleged libel. Gi:o!:<;e St:;i:i.e of Wax; rly, went home diunk and abused hi , wife. He set fire to her hair and she was badly burned. He was arrested. Robert Cox.xoi:, employed in a packing house at Hammond, received word that his uncle |,ad died in Ed nburg, and left him a fortune of $185.00'1. David Wilstlcr. son of a wealthy Manchester banker, has been sued for $lO.0 )0 damages for breach of promise to marry, by Miss Sarah E. <tverholtzer. A r Frankfort each child was asked to bring a potato to school to lie given to the poor. In this manner nearlj - 100 bushels of potatoes were donated to needy fain' ilies. Jeffeksonvii.i.i is about to be deprived of its free mail <k livery system, and apetition is being circulated in Clarke Count.', to move the countj seat to Charlestown. A i shelbx \ ilh'. William Reece, promi' nent fanner, sustained fatal injuries in a runawax. Hi; right arm was broken, hip disloi .|"d and internal injuries sustained, which the phvsicians say will result fatally. The ( mom r of Claj Count) in his finding for the death of smallcmub. killed in a caxe-in in a c oal mine at Brazil, recently, charu s the cumpai v with violating tho law in failing to provide timbers for securing the roof. At Kokomo, the 2-year-old child o« David Downhour was fatally burned by building a bonfire of papers in the hous»i while its mother was at a neighbor's. The family lost their residence by fire only a short time ago. Ri i ro- —ehui-ged with horse stealing, broke loose from two officer i at Anderson, ami jumping into IVhite River escaped by swimming to the opposite shore. He was shot at three times, one bullet striking his hand. Tilt: Ban-handle Railroad Company was sued recently at Anderson for SIO,OOO dam - ages for the death <tf R. IL Frank’s son. The jury aw arded tint $2,500. The coni ' pany not. asks that the verdict be set aside, claiming that Frank bribed a juror. Thkee thoi saxd doll a us’unsolicited damages were paid by the Citizens’ Natural Gas Company of I’cru, for the death of John Zelgraft, killed by a gas explosion several days ago. The company xvas liable through escape of gas from mains in street into the cellar of Zelgraft’s residence. Ax immense deal lias lieen completed at Dunkirk by which the Dunk’rk Land Company agrees to dispose of $200,000 worth of real estate and thereby secure the location of a mammoth steel plant, which will give employment to 1.500 hands. The enterprise is backs i 1 > Chicago and Marion capitalists, who expect to have 500 men at work constructing tiie buildings by February 15. Patents have been granted to the follow ing residents of Indiana: Leo F. Berheiden. Richmond, feed cutter: Frederick G. Dokkenwadel. Vnion City, bowling pins: Maurice Howe, Wabash, packer for natural gas or oil wells; Horatio Keyes, Terre Haute, mine trap door; John T. Little. Borden, tmubstone: James E. Mustard, Glen Hall, butler for grain binder; John S. and C. IV. Reid. .Muncie, packing box or crate; Fred W. shacke, assignor to SinkerDavis Company, Indianapolis, centrifugal high-speed governor (reissue;) Simon Vivian and F. A. Rider, assignors to J. H. Bass. Fori Wayne, valve for gas engines; IVilliam W. Wainwright and J. 11. Morrison. Connersville, device Cor producing eyclolial curves: George W. C. Woolery, Bedford, sash fastener. Johx IL Swaix, 98 years old. was brought to Warren from Columbus, Ohio, । recently, lie left his home, w ife, andnine children in Salem. N. C.. about 1840, and for years all tract' of him has been lost. Several years ago the living children, four in numb; ;-, institut'd a systematic search ami at last found him at Columbus. Ohio, but other parties by the same name had a guardian appointed for him, claiming to be Ins heirs, since which time the) have been keeping the old man in confinement. The children yet living are Robert Swain of Jasper ( ; imty. Indiana: Airs. Sarah Jones of Wells County. Indiana: Airs. Nancy Rickerts of Blackford County. Indiana, and Mrs. Synthia E. Crum of Warren, at whose home he now is. The children were all present when he arrived, and he readily recognized them, calling them by name. He retains his mt ntal faculties to a remarkable degree for one of his age. Proceedings w ill be instituted to recover his properly. A slit was begt ti at Peru against the Lake Erie ami Western for $10,0(4) for the death ol Engineer Henry Griffin, who was killed at the Wabash River bridge wreck several years ago. There was also a suit for $2,000 bj- Frank M ade, fireman, who was peimaneitHy injured in the same wreck. William Weiki e, an alleged detective of \ incennes, recently wired a Vincennes undertaker from St. Louis, that he had been killed, using an assumed name. The undertaker prepared everything for the funeral, ami as Weikle hasturned up alive and well, he will be made to pay the undertaker’s bill.