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\Vg E \ {" . 'v‘ W T 4 MWE“ W\ i 3 7 ) s T : 34 PLER Ao~ g 1 T @’ Bel [}l i ‘-::;“4’_ e oty ﬁ,) o/ ’ \ S, 7/ A" =am B 77 /18 @?tu‘”‘ %!39 5 CF[APTER Xill—Continued. That's baby! What a bother she is! Could Janet go to her?” “I will,” said Silence, and vanished from the room. ‘““That wife of yours is the very kindest of women, Rody; but I hope she will not overfatigue herself,” remarked DBella, politely, though making no effort to prevent the fatigue. She always had a trick of never doing for herself what another was willing to do for her. And as she sat in the arm-chair, her feet on the fender, she locked the very picture of luxurious easge, except for the haggard, refsﬂess look so sad to see. S Resits bbl N Se o e B R R A S ' -e .t=‘: '~!:—' *:‘ﬁt T e e . “Yes; he can't get it, mercifully; mamma tied it up too safe. But neither can I unless she choose. She will do nothing for me unless I stay with my husband “like a respectable woman,’ as she says. 1 doubt if she will ever forgive my running away—even to my own brother.” “Who, I suppose, is not respectable,” said Roderick, bitterly. ‘“Nevertheless, she must be told. Shall I telegraph to her for you this morning?”’ He spoke firmly, having already made up his mind to this; but he was not prepared for the agony of terror and misery which eame over the unfortunate wife. “ell her, and she'll tell my husband, and he will come and fetch me. Not that he carves for me—not a/pin; but only for the sake of appearances. Oh, Rody, don’t tell anyvbody. Keep me safe—hide me. If you oeuly knew what I have suffered!” “My poor Bell, my Heather Bell,” said he, tenderly, using the old pet name he lad invented for her in the days when they played together “among the broom." At that she quite broke down. “Oh, T wish I were a girl again. T wish—J wish 1 had never married. Some- ! body once said to me thaf a woman has _always a future until she is raarried, then _she has none. Tied and bound-—tied and bound forever. And I am but seven-and-twenty.” ’ " That look, half appeal, half despair, it svent to Roderick’s keart, for he knew it ‘ was only too true. She was “tied and | Pound” with the chains she had herself | “piveted. Even her own brother, however e pitied her, was powerless to set her e \ ek 100, | " “Only seven-and-twenty,” she repeate, “Buch a long life hefore ‘me—how am I to bear it? “Till death do us part.’ _And I can’t die. And he—he won't die; _ these sort of people never do.” .~ Uigeh!” said Hederick, turning away sighast. *“You don’'t know what you are ‘ sayvinz.” & do know it only too well. Many a | time, when, after raving like a madman, | lie has sunk to a mere drunken dog, and Jain asleep on hig bed like a log of wood, 1 have thought of Jael and Sisera, or Judith and Xolofernes, and-others of these holy murderesses. 1f it would only please God to take him, as our minister cave! Jie would be much better in heavu:‘, jle couldn’t get any drink thers.” FThis ghastly mixture of the b eribile a=ad lndierous, added to what he knew of {he ntiter recklessness of Bella's nature swwhen ronsed, was almost 100 much for Boderick to bear. Ile lookod instinctivev round for the one who was always at hand, helping him to bear everything; but Silence was still absent uj stairs. Then, laying a sum haud on the poor, violent wonian, at once vioient and weak —_it'i¢ 5o often thus—he placed her back thio CRair. m“ch are talking nonsense, Bella; you know you are; the most arrant RCNSENSE, oF worse. Don't be afraid; you have a brother still, who will do his best to take care of you; but you must let me do 1'... in the right way. Nothing cowardly, nothing underhand. Your mother, at least, must S told where you are.. My wife says so. ~Q aud I were talking it over this mornrrav e rente. Silen cT IS THE wisest-woman T RAow.” | Ayl 1 the most foolish! 1t looks like st.. Very well. Cast me off if you like. Tarn me out-of-doors. I'll take the child and go.” But it was only a hysterical impulse which ended in a flood of hysterical tears. Utterly bewildered and perplexed, Roderick went to the foot of the stairs and called “Silence” in the sharpest tones he IFad nsed since his marriage. “Why do you leave me? You know I can’t do without yow,” he said. Then added. as she descended with the wailing child in her arms, “it is hard for vou, too my wife. Our peaceful day , ;,j'; (one, “Not quite,”” she said, smiling—it was wonderful the sweetness of her niil whenever she had that baby in her arm “I see,” when she perceived Bella, k, o heard her frantic sobbing. “My friend” the loving mon ami which she ‘,\.J;H used gometimes), “you are of no use hLere, J.eave her to me—womnien understand women. She will be all right soon. Take yvour hat and go. Outside work is quite hard enough for you. Good-by, my dearcst—dearest!” She lifted up her face to be kissed-—the pale, firm, peaceful face, such a contrast to the other one—opened the docr, shut it aftor im, and watched Lim safe away. Then, with a great sigh of relief, she went baek to her unfortunate sister-in-Taw. CHAPTER XIV. When Roderick camé home at night, not without a certain masculine apprehenwiveness of domestic worry plainly written

R LRSS TR : N SRR G e, on his face, he found the household settled into surprising peace. = In the first place, baby was not erying, but asleep, Janet’s young sister being installed as temporary nurse-maid, and a very clever one; and baby’s mother, her grand silk dress replaced by a seft woolen one of Silence's—the two women were nearly the same height—sat by the parlor fire. Idle, certainly—Roderick remembered how Bella would sit for an hour “teasting lier toes,” with her hands before her—but apparently quiet and content. He went up and kissed her with brotherly affection, saying something about his pleasure in having her in his house. © “Then you'll not send me back to mine? You did not telegraph to mamma as you said you would?” “No"’ “Nor write?” “How could I write to my=mother?” said Roderick, with a mixture of pride and sadness. “No; whatever is done, you must do it, not I. We will talk of it after dinner.” TFor he saw that Silence had given herself the unwonted irouble of a late dinner, just to make Bella feel th;ng?‘ “more likgahe;‘ own ways.” It was a little matter, but it touched the young | 1 s henut. While be aut batttaan: | f ‘%‘:\‘;\\u (;- ‘ E% e, MRS RE /T ’ & X % ks i e ] 1 able, RN L niarto "Avid ahe | 1 4 o clever, so inventive, really quite a treasure in a small household. In mine, now, I never could do anything myself as % 1t must be very pleasant.” ~ “Only, perhaps, very fatiguing. My wife, come here and rest, just for five min- | uteé’ And as he kissed the tired face he felt sure that the “comfort” which Bella so enjoyed had cost Silence something. Dinner passed, and the half hour afterward, during which Roderick tried hard to admire his new niece, and to make things as easy and cheerful as possible with his sister. When Silence—always Silence—had put baby to bed, the three gathered round the cozy fire, listening to the howl of the wind aad the patter of the rain outside, which only made mosi peaceful the deep peace within. l “What a quiet, pleasant life yon must have here, you two!” said Bella, with a sigh. They looked at one anothes and smiled. “And are you so very poor? What do you live upon 7"’ “First, there is Blackhall. Then, my wife has her income whieh consin Silence left her, anda I earn mine. We put the | two together—marringe should be a {ulr | partnership.” g “But it is not.,” broke in Pella; “it is | mere slavery, unbearable slavery. le.! ! that mine was ended! Oh, that I \\'«-r.-% free!” } Roderick took a band of his wife aud | gister. “Let us have a little talk together. ! and face our position, which is not an | casy one. DBella, what do you mean to | do? ! “I don’t know.” 3 { “Then what do vou wizh mao to do?" | I “I haven't the slightest idea. Bst, oh, | t[‘md}'. why bether me, when I am 8o | \ comfortabla?" i L Just the old Della —easy, pleasure-loving —dwelling only in the present momoent, | acting entirely on her impulsecs, of wiicl 2 both the ;:nml and the bad ones wer . equally transgitory. There ave many soch | women, whe ploase a great many mi 7 as she had done; who genorally find some | one ot other to hear their burdens £ them, and go through life, as sl exs | r ased it guite Yeomforaably” i) ‘ Roderick looked from one to tl t the two beside hiém, he thought—s loyally refused to think—but he instin ively clagped his wife's hand tight y his own. Small as it was, and fonder, | that was the hand for a wan {o ol { | AY, and lean or--ag.goon of lite.men { | | lean on women when trouble ¢o “Bella,” he said, carnestly. “do 3 | ‘."?} utiderstand = { i 1i;,:§<:h~“;l ’ { :’."’. P wWhHat 1S tallea g rrass w riupiced she, with a reckless'| 0. M fma must keep me, or give m sand let me & op myself, My 1 | never give me a half-penny. And & }«;;;A‘M’f“'»-"‘,..‘?\‘», 1 s v 1 i ! Roderick pressed the h ! | “Have yon two been talking er @A Hitle” { “And yvou have told her everything?” I “Eyerything—made a clean breast it. A pretty story, isn't it, Bilence? B | it’s at an end now,thankGod,” said Beila, | settine her teeth together. “Even a worm {will turn at last.” I “Bhall you not go back to your hushand? | —that is, if he will take you back?”’ i “Prust bim feor that. He knows o1 i which side his bread is buttered; ali the !’L‘hou:sous do. They were glad enongh 4 to catch me, a bright, clever, pretty girl— | { ves, I was both clever and pretty once, my [ der—to be a sort of caretaker or keeper Tover Him: Le.nceds 2 KOCper ywhen he *I drank. And a wife i 3 tho best sort of | ONE—SAVEes Appenrances. Thoms as | Lwell ag Jardines would do anything in th ! worid to save appearances.” | Roderick made no answer. Ie knew it was true. The sight of his sisier had ! brought back the memaory of many a bov- ? ish struggle, quixotic as vain, against the i predominant spirit of the family—a famigij' in which the first question that aros i was never “Is it right?”’ or “Is it wrong? t but only “Is it expedient ?” ' I'his law of expediency, not ‘ QEY"'.!"N nee, but petty, worldly wisdom, | , been at the root of Bella's marria { Those who had the making of if, { they not on the same principle o thei L1 t to prevent it Leing unma H Il')' she would sacrifi rather i!“:-??u be “talked about, as tl worla j O bdik, 1] el Vits 3 a 1 {wo people who, in their own 1&l ; | that of their respective families, held such s LdL Very Imuportant pla i BocCrety. . % He knew hisg niother and the rest would i:z;w marriage which resulied in it, solel , from the standpoint of gsociety. No higlh- : i law that what the world would think ‘ ’ and say ever actuated or guided them. In t old times he had dimly gue ‘ed this—- " | secondarily and chiefly by its cffect on _ | hig silent, patient father; but now, when he himgelf came to man’s estate, and viewed things with his own eyes, he sasw it clearly. 4 Still, this affair was, as all such cases - { are, most complicated and difficult; aud 1] in it Roderick’s own position was not the

— T 3 b ward his poor sis e but to aid and ak can,eafwt er | most galling, BEss : & his sense of hoi than cruel, dangero L perament, which wa ent pain as foolishly ‘ any future ris sk_and course, to coni > Boldly ] upon the separation ‘ equally ditﬁg\lﬁ? | Teßpo ~ v | brother, being Limself & ma ; band. s Roderick looked at his 0 : ing closer to “' .i tual dependence which § ] naturally replaces passion, i 4 both that ineffable rest, of 3 | joys, and divided cares. ; 1 “B(‘]lﬂ,” 7;:‘% vou know, my dear, exaetiyy re | doing, or wish to do? Remen what | vour Bible says: ‘What God h# : , let no man put asunder.” " s el “But God did nat 1 devil, T think,” she answered, W it - ter laugh. *“And if all othe® iy, | i e the devil shall help me to get P s ¥ “What do you m,ena_ e “Never mind. Wait {ill V. 8perate. I am nearly alreadyss g could tear off this.”" She took: 4 mariage ring and made as" would throw it 7 : | price, at any cost, I could be - dine agnin, and never more | ’*»?*r’* s ‘ ' not now; it's nature, 1 suppos i, Bedies, she is my child, all that 1 have ofhmy | own; and even that is half HS I he chooses to claim her. Oh, Rody, what = must I do? what can I do¥’ 1 It was, indeed, a piteous strait. The ! one fulse step, mariiage, unconseerated b; T | love, almost as great a sin as love utiton- ; ( seerated by marriage, had brought its | | own punishment with it. The young pair, { !m whom these things appeared 68 & | ghastly nightmare, searcely comprehen- | sible as a daylight reality, instinetively | i drow closer together, while they regatded ! | the hapless woman, whe had, as sha traly | 1 said, no future. A loathing wife, annn- | | thaukfui mother, what future could she I hia et 1 herself or in “the world,” : I for which =he had saerificed so much and ! | wained so little? i I What could she do? As she put the | question her despaiving ey es supplied the | | answer. Nothing! ] | “I know very little nbout these things,”™ ‘ snid Roderick, sadly: “but 1 believe there | are two ways of parting man and wife—~ { by divorce, enabling both to marry ag&in, | I and by judicial separation. But, oh! the | pain, the scandal of it! Think of your P ehild; think, teo, of your mether!” | While using this argument he knew its ittty Whether from disposition or [ circumetances, Bella had slways been that rather rare chargeter amons women { —a woman who thinks ouly of herself, | With a perplesed longing for help, for ( n=oel, hor brother turued to the other I won 1 beside him, *lWhat de my wifegay?' “I don't eare what shio savs—what any- [ ays”" eried Dolla, violently, Y1 hate Pono love for lm: 1 never hadi 1t is 08I ple gaestion of snenex. H L ron away, m It ¢H I i oand the chiki? she says—tlnt voits of wisdom hure o ¢ f jevve ] | ht ot ("ﬂ\i‘&‘ { oo half-penny from ki, Very welll [ mamma to raaintain we, or clse 'l mainv esve Tt mny ot Be Lt ¢. H ¥ - but Si I we i e KW ) it ST A L s i know that T have nothine th fit 1 § L in, and % awW a i red rainte gown to-day, [ eith sling to mateh. and such a cuie i £] ‘Z bonnet, that lam just dying ' he “lord of the manor' regarded herg ! in silence for a momend, and then :4:;«'&;2'.!; I “It strikes me, Cynthia, that you re ' i quire the servives of & physician.” : “YWhy, what do you mean?”’ ! Syetk-te-nly Mind, ¥ou show nnm b 3 E ¢ ms of s ¥ fove v."' Fnglish Kstates. venteen wills, ench representing sonally above $2,500,000, have been | offered for probate sgo far this year in ! I 1, being the largest unmber in | soven years. rhe Third Duke of ' 5 iand left th t estate, &0, | 76y ), and four other Wors IMore f thak 2200 ) ) )i the seventeen T ' vere left by brewers, one 1 . i chant, three by barnkers, 9 vy a4 colliery owner, a thread ¢ 1107 lark of Paisley), a silk veer (Marshall, of Marshall and Snels sve), an iron merchant (the Eayl of ; . spiuner, a dyer, and ; t. The late Lord Twesd- . as a brewer. Together worn value was over $66,000,000. Austrolia has more places of publio | | worship in proportion to porulation | Abraham Liucoln was undoubtedly t the tallest president; be was 6 feet, 4 i inched in height. Tia shortest was | I pi :'Z:;.Y' 1 '!‘;L!;;;;il H ATison, :(h?,{.i;:h i Van Buaren and John Adams were very i short men. The oldest president wag | William Henry Harrison, who was 68 | years and 1 month old when inaugurat- ' ed; the youngest was Grant, who wag | I not quite 47 years old. ‘:

e e mErLBOPION. S $44 Whese 1t May Be Found— R e e O TS G SR . : . .. Lesson for Feb, 17, : ! “M; hyself.”"—Lev. 19: 18, Ry @ bject this week “The 4 Samaritan,” and the lesson is found ,Practical Christianity. Thank God for he lesson of the Good Samaritan. Tt = tone mo) ¢to mlieve sufferings and 'ﬁ#ﬁgg;{t&e.,_gmsse(} than all the reatises on crime or charity ever writ%W and almshouses, apd Strangers’ inns bave sprung up in its rake. Churches that catch the spirit of S incident are led into paths not simLy of humanity but of genuine divinity Os soul saving. Individuals who have Meditated upon this cxample have come forth int gﬁm estimate of life, and : M,&} &0 ahemt, like their diR s - Aud the parye BmE Y 6 Snishod 315%32»& evum;gi LRIR et e e .M' "nn}‘ ' B i Jase hd vt prayed T thank e. 8 REWY -3N yod, 1 EAPSEOngN 1 f, m ord of heaven and earth, that theu hast lid these things “from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes,” Now comes one of these “wise and prudent” to testify to the truth of this by his own word ‘ and example. If any one mizght natural1y be supposed to understand, it would Ef’mm to be a lawyer. Was not he a professional interpreter of the law, set for (its understanding? But it was to his disciples that Christ had just turned and said, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see; for 1 tell you that } many prophets and kings have desired to i gee these things which ve see, and have ;' not seen them; and to hear these things - which ye hear, and have not heard them.” ;\'erily, “if any man will do his will he shall know the doetrine.” t The motive was markedly wrong. He ' “tempted him.” The word means to test or sound, as of something that requires serutiny. It implies doubt. Christ had - alreaddy said (1: 12), “Thou shalt net ?t(‘mm the Lord thy God,” and the dis- - approvel of such testing was shown at - Rephidim or Massah, where because the people put God to the ocular test, distrusting his ordinary providence, God . was displeansed (Deunt. 6: 16; Ex. 17: 2). l . And that this was essentially the same thing is hinted at 1 Cor. 10: 9, “Neither | let us tempt Christ, ag some of them also l tempted and were destroyed by serpents FANum. 21: 5). The lawyer's test question | wag, “Master . e.. Teacher), What shall | I do to inherit efernal lLife?’ and ‘»_\' his tolltale guery he tested bimself rather than the Christ. And ke was found wanti, Doing was his emphasis, being was t Christ's, In the Greek the question gtands. “Deoing what shall 1 inherit?” z work rizghbteotisness apain. And the Lord “tnkes Bim on his own terms. Ylg it do- ¢ Ing.” he says in offoet “that you ore thind e about? As for doing. whatl more do you want than the Seripturo enjoins? t Swhat s written i the lnw? " In other word abwed s to Coul's el o 3 mand is o1 ot d . W1 gfield for something {7 o {3 £ "{..'.' ! vlt ! i £ i 3 $ \ MS e 100 % } i v i LI 3k v N 3 you hHave done ali you ! o fiin{s and {llnstrations, For practicai purposes push the i1 guiry. “Who is my neigl r:’ The an Pavor ig plain. The cone i needs me, i And who acts most neighborly? The Ipwver himaclf tells us—would that he michit but lHve up to his knowiedge of the Ldvath, . “ile that showed mercy?’ Now B what iz it to show merey? Get responses. B Maniiesily it iu to relieve the pressing Eteant, the present distress. But this is Bt & parable, o hint of the lorzer blgssB 0 - that may be hestewed: ~ Spintual res @%;gm;mafmme can impars, but istrely we can help. And this is Christian Jﬁghbm}inﬁss. to lilt up, and comfort and L got as far as the inn. Then it is the good 1 Samaritan ;V‘:A! !" » good Sheph rd in one i Wwho pays the price and gives guide and i suard for all eternity. The lawyer, get“fing past and beyond the law, as if he had bserformed it all, and needed only to be s;’;:(2\‘,'l) something eige that he might as f eusily do, is like the silly passenger ob t the boat, who left a little while to tend i the wheel and guide by a certain star Uawaked the mariner presently to say thi ihe had “sailed by that star, would the ! saptain please, pick cut another one.” ¥ We are too much disposed to treat men a8 types or in classes, rather than as tsingle individvals npecding instant aid. # We speak too much of “interesting cases,” i yather than of neighbor-souls to be helped . or saved. I Next Lesson—““Christ and the Man Born { Bund.” John 9: 1-il. i Z ; Crrains of Gold. i Jlave saneitified desires and God will give you whatever you want. I “God has never tried to make a man i who could please his neighbors. ‘" The man who wins heaven is the one who is willing to lose this world. E The man who is satisfied with him- | golf is much disappointed with other i folks. § It requires less phiiosophy to !“..E:(‘ ! things as they ccme than to part with ! them as they go.

RS s oo i g sS S b r*&“*;‘;’ APIANA LEGISLATURE. Y it T 2 oeed &WL in the Fof Gov Arare YrGrawn at the suggestion’ Vo eenait it o o oy Gl wWhighls. s a«sr fdlans, administrators, &e., | 8 bond, and pay for the cost out of the | trustdunds commiited to their care, E mw@ggwﬁm - SIOO.OOO for the g:fmw aS¢ eﬁem*&m at Lafayette | The bill providing divers and sundry | amendments to the Evansvilie charter, was mmwd_ﬂ 5 4 ol | Committee reports and bills on second reading were the order of business in the House. The bill authorizing ecities to purchase and operate water-works plants was favorably reported by the Committee on Cities and Towns, : | The Dill for the reorganization of the Indiana militia, and appropriating $75,000, encountered opposition when it came up in the House on second resding. When the House adjourned there were three amendents pending, one proposing to reduce the appropriation to $30.000, another to $5,000, and another to $50,000. l | By a vote of 74 to 15the Touse, Tuesday, kiiled the bill ereating the ofiice of State Boiler Inspector. The military bill was | agzain before the House and was finally recommitted to the committee to reporta | gmaller eppropriation. It is probable that | portioned whenever losses of sheep have: heen incurred. N e Bozeman’s good roads law authorizing county comnissioners to issue bonds for the improvement and building of gravel, macademized or turnpike roads was also passed. Senator Baker called for tle third reading of his bill establishing a Superior Court | in Madison county. The bill was passed by a vote of 283 to111. 1 Senator Watson’s bill amending the law ; for the appointment of justices of the peace was called on its third reading. The ’ hill provides that the acts of all justices of | the peace appointed before the election of ‘ IS, and whose suceessor have been chosen, shall be declared veid. The bill passed. ‘ The Judiciary Committee of the House, Wednesday, reported favorably a biil investing the Governor with power to remove a Sheriff who refuses to use his power to i preserve ordcer. The judiciary committee also roported! faverably upon the bill to make it unlawfue! to discharge an employe because he belongs 1 to a labor union. | The elections committee reported adversely upon Mr. Moore's bill pruviding' for a separate ecanvassing board to act while the votes are being cast, but the house refased to conenur and the bill went o the adendar for second reading. The Miller-Bowers election contest was | before the House. A motion to withdraw the matter from committee and todecide the ontest in the house was pending when the House adjoarned. The Senate passed a bill regulating the construetion of suburban railways and another regulating the appointment of special justices of the peace. Bills were introduced in the Senate to make it unlawial forany one to actasa detective Imnless a eertiticate and powers are obfained from the chicis of police of cities or from herifis. v bill aimed azainst the Roby race track was introduced. 1t anthorizes the Governor ‘to ask ior a roceiver for any corporation ir saciine an il ;fl! 1 ISiDess, ' By the eonsent of the House, Thursday, Representati Holioway, Chairman of % he ¢ iittes on Cities and Towns, subi raitted a o t reccinmending the passage ! ihe amendm s to the charter of the | ity of L.vansviile ter some ehanges have | beens made. The bill had passed the Sen- | Representative Holloway gave reasons t for the changes asked tor. i The » suspended for the passage I i Hotel was on fire, and adjourned { Ipthe Senate, Senatur Crumpacker ofi sered ioint I iution orderingz the State : ntot 1 over to the 15th Insiiana : 1 lo tlne prosented so it by the ':: ' i £te ‘i‘u[:si‘: forth 3 g)s valor at Stone Biver. The Veteran's ‘ wssociation of the 15th Indiana infantry is FlO DE CUSTORIAN 016 W€ 37, Wikl INUst pe tkopt in Indiana. The resolution was { adopted. i In the Fousi-Llinear contested election ; rase the commiitee reported in favor of the | Word was received of the fire at the | Denison Hotel, and the Senate hurriedly djourned. | T anti-pass-bill was before the Hlounse, | Friday. The committee oen Richis and | ; Privileges reported in favor of the passace ; i the bill, but Bepresentative Moore moved | its recommitment so the Committee on | Railroads. Atter a‘hected debate it was 50 ‘ ' reconmmaitted, by a vol.ol4dSßonSß s s | Fhe ¥oust passed the following bills: . { Providing that railroad eompanics and . | strect ear companies shall net run their ; lines through cemeteries. Legalizing the | ineorporation of Grand View, Spencer | County, and Alton, Crawford County. The : E Bill ereating a Beard of Park Commission- | ers for the ¢ity of Indianapolis was passed | under suspension of rules. The military | reorcanization bill ppropriating $45,000, | was passed, and Dinwiddic’s prize-fight j ' yil! was ordered enorossed. '} The Senate killed a couple ¢f insurance § bills bearing ¢n what are known as valued | policies. : ‘ | The Senate heard and adopted Commits fee reporis and then adjourned until Mon- : Ic!‘::‘ morning. Among the bills recommended for pacsace were the followinge: : Senator Barnes’ bill to establish peraia- ' | nent meridian lines. : The bill to reimburse certain person= for | diseased steck, killed by order of the Slate | Beard of Health, Senator Crumpacier’s bill providing for -!{a ysiem of public parks in }e city of In- | dianapolis. i The bitl of Senater Kern, providing for :‘ .: '{ ELRNeTaI teil 1 U= i - = i ! Training for Circus Performers, ; [Kkverv circus has some sort of trainDo L oF T G i e and thess llng sChoot 107 1S P PAS, t nlaces are always at the winter quar-‘in-;s of the show. DBarnum’s is at Bridgeport, Conn.; Forepaugh’s at Philadelphia. 'There are a few retired cireus performers who train persons for the ring. The best-known of these ! is Robinson of Nutley, K. J.

A EsrbeEg e AT S P R o e o ‘:;m‘»ﬂg}f%i'&g‘@;'%l@ S e FANDIANA Db AT %Lﬁ SEIVEAde e e el o - portant Doings of Cur Neighbors—Wed. ~ General Neus Notes of the State. ticosior Ilappenings TELEPITONE rates Lave boen cuttosl a month in Elwood. : e Tre White River iron and steel comrany of Muncie, has resumed operations. e TrovsaNDs of fish, killed by the ice, are fleating in White River, ncar Noblesville. JorL J. Casnm of Boone County, was 2 probably fatally injured in a runaway accident. . Morr snow has falicn m Southern Inaiana this year, than any previous winier in twenty years. - A cmp of John Roberts of New Ross, died from buwrns received while playing around an open grate, Gus Rorre’s 18 menths-old Child fellinte 2 bucket of beiling slop at Petersbure, and was sealded to death. : ; THE price of Lread has been placed at three loves for 5 cents at Cra-viordsvilie, o1 sixty leaves for a dollar. . Scorrenunc merchants have agreedte stop haniling cigevettes as soon as the R i eTR s R R e e s e st eet sehfargo it {F.;« éf» e -“ - ~:, ’ s ? : . v,‘ F =]{ e | has Loen forend to close their mings on ae< | count of the bis rednetions in coal. ' Five Loys were coasting at Bloomington, when S\eir sled eollided with a heavy wagen. They were seriously injured. e ' Tre new direetery of Logzansport, just issued, places the population at 22500, an increase of two theusand in two years. : AT Logansport, Inez Malone, 15-month-cld dauzhter of Joseph Malone, a barber, was so badly burned that she died in two i hours. ’ J. B. Peprick, fereman of Reeves & | Co.’s manufacturing establishment, at Co- - ' lumbus, lost his finZers of the left hand on account of a bhuzz saw accident. ’ FrED BAKER, a leading farmer of Lagro i Township, Wabash County, died of heart i disease at his home near Urbana. De- | ceased was a veteran and 67 years old. ; l Two dynamite carfridges were found ‘nnder the Pleasantdale Baptist Chureh. { The ends were burted off, but the stuff I failed to explode. Tremendousexcitement. | Tae RicavMoxp NATURAL (GAS com- | pany. on aceount of the low supply of gas i is making a redoction of one-fourth on all | January bills, except where the mixers l have been bered. : AT Muncie, Company G, Forth Regiment ' whichreeently disbanded, hasbeenreorganized. William Wagner, has been elected | captain. The merchants and business men | tof the city are pushing the organization. = | | Trr damage case of Charles A. Myers | l against the Pan Handle Railroad waseom- © | promised at Logansport by the paymentof = | $2,600. Myers was a brakeman and lest = i an arm. He got a verdict of $5.500, wmenw; | was reversed by the higher eourt. : "z% | WmLe at work in P. W. Smith’ssan- = | mill, at Decatur, Elmer Smith met with am - i aceident H.;:!t will will prova fat i was assisting in unicading a lorge log,"i { when the ehain broke and the log starteéM | to reli, eatehing Mr. Smith by the feet 2ud erushed both legs to the hips. | SuvrrHurß Serixes, Henry County, pens | ple are very happy over the discovery there { of nataral gas in paying guintities. The = | well was driiled in on the iMesherleyfarm, and after being shot with nitro-giyeerite shews a big flow. This is the third attempe |to get gas in that port of Henry County. : ’ YiiLe a nember of farm hands were I enzaged at cutling fodder with a steam cufting machine cn the farm of J. L. Clapper, tcn miles northeast of Neweasile, the boiler burst, and as a resulé three persons wers instantty kiiled and several injured. The killed are Nathan Taylor, a grown soun of Mr. Tayler, and John Welker. Tur Board of Publiec Works of Indianai palis. composed of James A VW ildman net | Andrew I°. Cramer, Republicans, and F. J. Meyer, Demecrat, have tendered their [ resignations to Mayor Denny in a bodye The retivement of the Board is the result ¢f { an investization orderd som¢ veeks ago by the Council, and which has Deen in pregress up to within a few days ago. Mayor Tienny states that he is eenvinced that the Board is honest, but the resignations wi¥ be accepted. t FRrRANK GEORGE, Wnho was received ab the prison south recently from Vanderbarg | County, for larceny is the most remarkalie ‘ looking prisoner ccnfined in that institai tion. On his body are representations ola ship, cross, man, spear, two anchors, girl, i sailor. flower girl, 2 number of stars, mora- | ment, trees, arms of the United States a | ehair and the letters L and G. Parts of his | body are entirely cc.cored with ne@i‘%’ i points. Ie is the greatest Otz % ing attheprisowfor Yeats.... = o . 4 A FATAT railway accident cecurred at ! North Judson, on the Indianiz, Illinois & ! Towa raitway. The through freight train ° i westbound was taking eoal, when thesceond | section ran into the first. In an attempt to | escape conductor William Vincent was erushed to death between the caboose and !the ear ahead. Drakemen Pangluarn | juraped into a pile of ties and received a gsevere runture, besides several minor external bruises. Ceal heaver John Lain was thrown fromn the top of the cabof theengine and was badly searred up. He will recover, as will also the brakeman. TuEe spiritualists of Anderson, are ar- ? raneine for a series of revival serviees at { the Temple, which promises to carry the | warfare of spiritnalism into the strong- ! holds of Anderson churches. Thery are { nearly one thousand avowed spirituzlists 'in Anderson. Leading mediems, slate i writers and materializing agents ol na- | tional reputation have been secured for this work. It is proposed to hold Scances | at private houses, te which prominent - | ¢hurch people and leading eitizens viil be invited free of charge in the hope of converting them to spirituaiism. | Tne Ornee night ire B. Tillotcon, @ rrominent sealoon keeper of Chesterion, ‘ iked out of his saloon and quit the business forever. RBev. Robert L. Jones, ( .' 1 -:jw‘_ has been bholding revival | meetings in the Methodiss Churchi as Chesterten. and amenz his converls was Tillotson. who will devote the remainder of of his life in reclaiming vietims of the Grink | hahit and preaching the gospel. Tilletson is thirty-five years old, weil educated and a good talker. Ile wiil accompany tlie Rev. Jones when he leaves Chesterion and assist ; him in hisevangelical work. 3Mr. Tillotson | has won and losi foriunes at the gambling j table. and wiil stort out a voer man,