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CHAPT ER XIII —Continued. Sitting down beside his wife, he leaned his head against hersa tired head it was —and laid on hers one of his brown hands, not such handsome hands as they used to be when they did nothing. She clasped it fondly, though she said not a word; she, too, was not given to complaining. Besides, hard as things were, both for him and for her, to see him thus, 9^ doing cheerfully what he did not like (through all bis tender fictions she knew he could not like the mill very much), HMF fighting with hardships, submitting to poverty, and proudly conquering any WF shame about either, taking up bis ® daily burden and carrying it without a murmur or reproach—she felt—yes.amidst all her pain, she felt something as the t mediaeval women must have done—the | L noble ladies who buckled on their good ■ knights' armor and sent them forth to || i battle, to live or die, as God willed, but never to be conquered, never ceasing to ||; fight, like true knights, to their last breath. » ■ But Bella could not understand this k : sort of thing at all. She shrugged her shoulders and raised her brows. 5^ “It’s an odd taste. Body, but you nlCi ways were so odd. To be out at work ^B nil dav. and come homo tired ami dirty.

UH ua \ , uuu rvniv uu-.u;. . , i hungry and cold, and then say yon 'like ® .it!—l wouldn’t be yon for the world nor i 'Silence either, shut up in this lonely 4 place all the year round. No wonder mamma would not come to Blackball; 'f it would never have suited her at all;’’ K and Bella laughed at the bare idea. "But K I ought not to tind fault with the poor old house, for I may have to come down R to it. after all. No telegram or letter?” “Nothing.” |f “Well, don’t look so grave about it. I' Plainly they have all cut me; let me fall By” back upon you. M ill you take me in. Body? I’ll sell my jewels—l brought a U lot with me, you know—and pay you tor K my keep. When it’s all gone you can turn ^M| me out to starve, only it wouldn tbe Mb creditable to either Thomsons or JarM^ dines if Mrs. Alexander Thomson and ML her baby had to starve.” „ Mp ‘What nonsense you talk! said Rod■E; crick, turning away and changing the conversation at once. gfc But that night when the household was lly all gone to bed. and they three sat over Ki the fire, listening to the wind howling Kj I and the sleet pattering against the panes. IgS he resumed the subject, and. soim what to Silence’s surprise, began very tenderly, but with unmistakable decision, to m K range what his sister should do . His M arrangement it was-not his wile sas Ml he plainlv said, thereby taking Irom het MM the weight of a difficult and painful bang Ml “I will not promise to keep you alwa.". B Bella, for I think husband and wife are M better left alone together; but we shall ME not turn yon out. my poor girl w m ever IM> comes,” said he. laying a brotherh hand B on Bella's shoulder. “The little we have ||H —ami you see how little it is—you shall B share, 'till something can be arranged be H^M tween you and your husband, ihen. ME with what you have of your own m;. mother will surely pay it over to youBM we will find yon a home close by us. in |||:j the manse, perlmps, where 1 heard to■M d v 'here are two vacant rooms.” Mg “What! to be shut up in a miserable HR' country lodging, with only babj ami Hl nurse! Dreadful! B “Not quite so bad as your other niter ME native —starving. And. Bella, we must Hi look tilings in the face. If you have no ME mariage settlement, ami my mother keeps Hr her monev in her own hands during her HE lifetime, ami both she and yow husband H| east you off. you have only your brother H to fall back upon. I am not rich now. M you know that; but you know also that, rich or poor, I should never let mv sister ||fe ‘starve.’ H^M “No, a thousand times no!” crie SiEt lence, taking her hand—for Bella, seeing H. this was no joking matter, had suddenly M taken fright, and, as usual, burst inl< ■E tears. “It may not come to that; but if gF it does, believe me. poverty is not as bad Ml as it seems. You shall never want for & love. You will live close beside us; our E ' home will be open to you; and the child—the children” (in a timid whisper) “shall B grow up together. Oh, we shall be very HP * happy, never fear.” It the 19 at th ne left I Harter A the end of thn I fW I

K&he sobbed and moaned, and talked or M|‘cnielty.” “hard usage," wished she was ^■“dead and out of the way"—the usual bits^®ter outcries against fate of those who, UMhnvhiy made their own fate what it is, ■Slave not the strength to bear it. K>l Deeply grieved and not a little wounded. |®Koderiek sat beside his sister, his wile not BSnter I'ering— wha could interiore.' -till her ^Srnisery had a little subsided, and then ^■Baid. quietly: -Now. we will sp-mk no more to-n ghl . • I h>ut to-morrow we will consult a lawyer, EHarni find out the right ami wrung m i,.e ^^Hease, and your exact position with re SSH*,., r d to your husband. W ill that do i "No no,” she said. -Don’t be in such, a ^■hnrry.’ Wait till I make up my mind, lib r^^K-«o difficult to make up one’s mind always JWMnnev isn’t everything, as Silence says

i^Hbut 1 never had her enthusiasm lor poy | ; And the drink—which to her is IWwh a horror-why. were used to it at ( Bl Kieherden. Alexander Thomson isn t ■I the only drunkard in Scotland. It I could , but put up with him a little longei. i Both Roderisck and his wife looked exceedingly surprised They made no re- ] mark— they always had carefully avoided , making any remarks to Bella about hei | husband. But when she was .gone and they stood alone together over the dying fire, they spoke of her with a pity deeper than either had ever yet expressed “Mark my words; she wih go back t< him yet. Do you think.„ my wife, she would be right or wrong?" -Wrong'.' was the answer, clear and firm. ‘‘Because she will do it nether for love, nor duty, nor even pity, but only I to • pedUucy. Think! the horror of a mat

t ried life begun and continued for the sake of expediency!” Silence looked up in her husband's face —her husband whom she was ready to live for, however hard a life, ready to die for, and lie knew it. “You are right,” he said. “And yet both erred—both ought to suffer,” “But not more than they. And the sins of the parents shall be visited on the children even unto the third and fourth generation.” She spoke in a low, solemn voice. “I told her once, and I shall tel) her again, if she asks me, that she who makes a bad man the father of her children is little better than a murderess.” Bella, however, did not seem at all to deserve or to desire the epithet “poor.” She appeared at breakfast next morning in the best of spirits, nor did she fall into her usual half hour of despondency after the post went by. She watched the weather with a slight anxiety, but that was all. She even began to take an interest in Blackball affairs, and especially in an invitation for New Year’s eve at Symington, which her brother and sister were discussing together. “Os course you will go and take me with you? I had no idea. Silence, that you had such grand friends. Do you often see them?” ‘ “Not very often. It’s a good way to walk, and besides ” "Walk? You don’t mean to say your busband lets you walk?” A sharp quiver of pain passed over 1 Roderick’s face. “I let her, as 1 am ’ obliged to let her do many things which 1 cut me to the heart, but we bear them. Bella, when you and I were children, we ’ had no need to think of money; now we ’ have—at least 1 have. If I hired a car- ' i riage ami took my wife and you to Sym- . i ington, it would cost me fifteen shillings, , and my earnings are just two pounds a . week. Now, you see? Let us say no '

more.” They did not. for Bella afterwards > owned to being “quite frightened” by her j brother's manner: but several times that ( morning she fell into brown studies, as j if something was secretly’ vexing her. and i in the afternoon was suddenly missing ; for an hour, having gone herself -“for the good of her health,"she said —to the village, and as, by mere chance they afterward discovered, to the postofficc. Had she. after refusing so often, at last written to her mother? They did not like to ask. and she did not tell, but being not at all of 11 reticent nature, she soon betrayed that something was on her mind. For three days after that she was in a ! restless, slightly irritable condition, very i difficult to please in trifles, and noticing more than ever, in that annoyingly condescending way she had, the weak points of the establishment. “And so Cousin Silence left you the house just as it stands, my dear, as it must have been in papa’s time, of course? Well, no wonder mamma did not care for it. Such poky rooms, such shabby old furniture. In your place I would have turned out every stick of it, and refur- I nished it from top to bottom. But you : cun do this by and by. if you stay here." "1 have no wish to go." “Probably not, a quiet soul like you: it ; suits you exactly. But my brother, you surely would not keep him shut up al! his i days at Blackball, he who would be an ornament In any society? Do think bet ter of it. Poke him up. make him push himself forward in the world and get | rich: there's nothing like money, after all. If mamma saw him well off, so that he could come back to Rieherden. and lite in good Rieherden style, such as we have all of us been brought up to, she might forgive him: who knows?" "Who knows?" repeated Silence, assenting. She would have been amused, but for the sting which Bella’s goed-nai iire<i words often carried. Sho did not mean it; it was simply that she should not understand. "Just think of what I say." continued j Mrs. Thomson, as she gazed lazily out of the window, down the winding glen, at the end of which curled upward in a fairy like pillar the smoke of the mill. "1 > wonder you can endure the sight of it 5 that horrid place where Rody works all r day—Rody that used to be such a gentle--1 man." r "He is a gentleman," said the young ’ wife, with a flush of the eye. "And 1 do • not dislike —I like the mill. It has helped r to make him what he is, and show him what he could do; and he does it, doos it cheerfully for me. Bella, if I die —and 1 g may die; who can tell? this spring"—with y a sudden appeal to this woman, so like 0 herself, but yet a woman—"if I die, ref I member we were perfectly happy, my 1 husband and I. We never have regretr ted anything, never shall regret anything, r except perhaps that his mother —I always - feel so for mothers.” 1 Her voice broke with emotion, but it r was with emotion quite thrown away. Bella scarcely heard what her sister-in->So»-w ii.Yi""- fy?e sat listening, as sho Ma^gygyCTS

had listened a good many tllinu 1. ■■■« few days, to any sound outside. "Hark! What is that? Carriage . wheels?” . . “Possibly. We do have visitors some- j times, even here,” said Silence, with a j smile. But Bella heeded her not. She ran to । the window and watched, in a tremor of i anxiety, the arrival. A large, handsome 1 carriage, with post-horses, postilion and two liveried footmen behind, coming slowly up to the door. : “It is! it is our carriage! Perhaps she ■ has come herself, poor dear mamma'. I did not tell you. my dear, but I wrote to 1 I mamma, and said, if she thought it best, 3 I would come home. And 1 suppose she has sent for me. Look there! look there'. *’ No, it is not mamma. —oh, God help me!

it is my husband." Horror, disgust, despair, were written | 1 on every feature of her face, as she i watched Mr. Alexander Thomson de- ’ scend, leaning on his two foolmen, and ■ in a loud, imperious voice inquired “It ! Mrs. Thomson were here." How she j shuddered, the miserable woman who had j not had strength enough to free herself ' from her misery! But this was its last outcry. In another minute her worldy up-bringing, her love of ease and luxury, and a certain pride to preserve appearances, asserted their sway. , . -Yes that is our carriage; isn t it a j nice one? And he has brought it. to fetch ! me. AV ell, he is not so bad, after all. I I suppose he wants to get back in time lor the New Year; the Thomsons always hive a grand family gathering at tae New Year. They are a highly respectable family, and in an excediugly good posn

tion, I assure you, my dear,” added she, with a mixtute of haughtiness and deprecation, as if she thought her sister j would blame her. But Silence merely I said: "Shall I go and receive your husband, I or will you go?” “You. No; perhaps I had better do it : myself. Send him in here. I’ll manage my own affairs.” And she did manage them —how was never accurately known. But half an hour after .Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Thomson were seen sitting together on the drawing-room sofa, as comfortable as it they had never been separated. And most likely half the world would ; say the wife was quite right in thus fulfilling to the letter her marriage vow, condoning everything, shutting her eyes ] to everything, making believe that wrong ] was right, and going back in the most j respectable manner to her husband's j house, there to sustain the character of a blameless British matron. She did it “for ; tin* best," as many women wotdd argue, , or “lor the sake of the child,” which is the । ] argument of hundreds more who deliber- i ately continue in wealthy dishonor; for j what dishonor can be worse than mar- j riage without respect and without love?” j But, as the proverb says, Bella had j “made her bed, and must lie in it.” No- J body had a right to interfere or advise. J Silence never attempted to do either. Sheri sat with the child in her lap. the poor ■ pitiful little creature whom she had grown fond of, and was almost lose, till site was sent for into the draw ing-rooni. anil I ben. to «nnKy 1 liiliienh, she entered with baby’ in her ■ arms. i j Its father civilly noticed it and her, , ami there was a slight gleam of pleasure I , in his dull fishy eyes, as if he wore proud, after a fashion, of his good-looking, clever j wife, and of his now paternal dignity. “Nice little thing! And Mrs. Thomson tells me you have been so kind to it and | to her. Mrs. .Jardine. Accept my thanks, ’ my very best thanks. It was quite a good I idea of my wife's, this coining to you ■ for change of air.” < "Yes, Blackball is an exceedingly’ healthy’ place," said Bella, with a laugh—her old careless laugh. If there was a ring of mockery, even contempt in it, the man was too dull to find it out. lie eyed her with extreme respect -nay, ad- j miration —and put his arm round her | waist with a pompous demonstrativeness, ' as if to prove to all the world what an I exceedingly happy couple they were. The tragedy hail melted into genteel comedy, nay, almost into broad farce, w»re it not for the slender line that so often is drawn between the ludicrous and the ghastly. “I suppose we had better leave at once. By changing horses we shall post fast p enough to reach home to night, and go to | I ymir lather's on New Year's eve." said ■ Bella, hurriedly. "So, my dear Silence. ’ we won’t wait till my brother comes j home. Mr. Thomson is decent enough ; now,” she added in a whisper; "but, by , and by. after dinner 1 don't want Rody j to see him after dinner. We shall post i all the way ." she said aloud, "and by mid- > night we shall Im* at home. "Where 1 hope soon to have the pleasure of seeing Mrs. Jardine.” continued ; Mr. Thomson, with ponderous politeness. "Assure your husband that he will f bo always welcome at our place, and I 11 i : give him the best glass ol wine, or whis- I ky. ii he likes it. to be found in ail Scot- 1 land. And and *” I "I'erne away. Silence. I'll get my things , ready and the child's in ten minutes. ’ Make haste.” But even when the two sisters Were alone together both carefully avoided ; any confidential word. Bella made no | ex pin nut ion. and never nnmod her husband but once. when Silence proposed to give him some refreshment. "Oh. be has tak n are of himself already; trust him for that. lio always takes care of himself. Why, my dear, if there is one creature in the world whom that man never forgets, it is Alex- ■ under Thomson." N > answer. None was possible. And i Bella kept up her hard. gay. reckless num* : m r. neither shedding a tear nor uttering ' one grateful or regretful word all the time Silence was dr* -sing the baby. Only at the v< ry last minute, v. hen she saw its aunt press a last tender kiss on the poor little pin. hed up face, the woman in her could not help showing itself, oven through the "grand air" which had now wholly I returned to Mrs. Alexander Thomson. "God ble-s you. and give yon one of your own." said she, pressing her sister's hand. "You have been very kind to me, and mine, and always would have been; 1 know that. But it's better as it is. I couldn't stand poverty. 1 always did I enjoy life, and I always must. He is in very good circumstances, and he promises ' ■ me I shall have every thing I can wish for. Sc good-by, Silem c. I suppose nobody! is ever very happy, except you.” Bella went down stairs, the other fol-f lowing and accepting mutely her volumin-| ! I mis public thanks for the "great kindness”: she bad received, and how she hoped ox t come again soon to Blackball. ‘ "And. my dear, mind you clear then all Cousin Silence's have thehoe-e th., I / ST ' I y 'CT

len who will do it well; Rody knows him-^Bg i-v 1,, bv. i, l| Rody turned a shad pj.,'.,-. ■> Iwr lip quiver>M<»tf^n»onu‘nt^" "N >: tell him nothing: he wonT will be only to glad to find his house emp^A^ i'y. and have his wife all to himself-JH ^.,’iue husbands are. tome, Mr. Thoml^B < .11" Mie alwavs called him Mr. Thom^B son "if we don't make haste we shall bM beiiv'h’ed. and you will have to dine 1 Ri . ( ,me horrid road-side inn. which yoi» know you couldn’t stand on any account Good-by Silence, a thousand thanks am ( h/j,],;’ New Year’. H's elose at hamig. now. 1 suppose 1 shall dance the oU E i year out and the new year in. as usual | ^^ tho Thomsons house, la-ta. good-by She kissed her hand out of the earil^jß

window, ami thus, in the most comn| place ami cheerful manner, departed \<nfti<. h-r husband, as if there had never cd® a cloud between them, and as if he wen ' the best husband in the world. Not d poetiealordramatie denouement certainly! but scarcely unnatural to her. She wai one of those who have, and must havei! the good things in this life. Sht^j found them once more about her, amL possibly they satisfied her; at any ratß she could not do without them. B But young Mrs. Jardine, poor all hq * days, a poor man's wife this day. wit little prospect of ever being anything elsi »’ as she saw that splendid carriage drix £ away, felt almost as sad at heart as j she had been watching her sister-in-law * funeral. 1 (To be continued.) 1 [ The Tartars tr ? a man by the ear ’ i invite him to eu Jr drink with themJ A

. 1 SUNDAY SCHOOL. B FORESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE ( LESSON. — flections of an Ele vat i ng Character t-Wholesoine Food for Thought— j Vjidying tlie Scriptural Reason In/liscntly and Profitably. I Lesson for March 3. mjfllden Text "I am the resurrection J 1 the life."—John 11: 25. ]4he lesson this week is found in .John jp 30-45, and lias for its subject the ]/uising of Lazarus. It is a lesson of . >ve in delay, we might say. love in de-

link The opening text id’ Scripture sets he thought graphically before us: "Now Jesus was not yet come into the town." ^omebody sick, "n certain man." like unto Jis all. How quietly they go about the souse! Presently an added hush, broken j>y sobs. Death has entered the home. j\.h. what a typical earth scene is this! mud over there in Perea is .Jesus the Lord *f life. He is busy at his work, teaching Kind performing miracles. If he will he

-wan speak life into this poor smitten Alamo. Will be do it? B iiere was much ground for hope. *rd,” they said, "behold, he whom thou vest is si< k.” Yes, but there were othfs whom he loved; others who. perhaps, jUifaytsMlTi There. The last chapter gos: “And many believed in him there.” ■wftl was sufficient reason for his tarry, ng. He was doing a great work and otild not come down. But there was a Hber reason for the delay. In the last esson the disciples asked about the man torn blind. Jesus said it was that the fork of God should be made manifest in im. Now ho quiets fears by saying, likevise of Lazarus: "This sickness is not into death, but for the glory of God that he Son of God might be glorified there>y.” Brother, sis;er. have you ever been ick tp the glory of God? Yes, it was Lazarus. "And Jesus loved lartha and her sister, and Lazarus." And le loves you, shut in one. he loves you rtillf though he seems to long delay his joining. Will your love for him stand he test of waiting or of delay? We do lot fear his love; that abideth faithful in sickness or in death, for it is everlasting. But your faith ami your hope and your love. Here is the place of eom-ern. Lazarus is dead, and .Jesus has "not yet Come into the town.” It is a picture of the militant not yet triumphant church Ml earth. We look toward the heavens . for <mr Lord. We are sick, dying: one by ; Mie We pass away. Why does our Lord i JeJay his coining? Christians have patience. As of old. it is love that delays him. "Therefore." it is. says the Scripture iverse th. because .Jesus loved him. I "he abode two days still in the same place , where he was.” Look up. He will come. I “Surely, I come quickly," he says. “Amen, i so come Lord Jesus. There is to- i ibit. and there is to-morrow: and there is th> day after to-morrow ." Watch. F And now he is standing by the tomb. ■ esus at the grave, life confronting death: vhiit will be the outcome? Can there be any doubt? Doubt ’here was the trim- ! ble, the hindrance. It was all hopeless i grief and doubt. The Lord himself had to supply all the faith, as nil the power, on ■ f liis . , , ii. B. .i 'W. -aj Jieving is seeing. Note his words here: - ^Said I not to time that if thou wouldst I Relieve, thou shouldst see the glory of Bod?" Lord, increase our faith. I And now they close with ca< Ii other, the Ipowers of heaven and the gates of hell. ! ■Just a moment. "Come forth." commands , •the Lord of life. "And he that was dead i came forth." Briefly, strongly told. ' Words would take away from the majesty and power of it. It is God. He is i Lord of all. He rules in the h- ivens above and in the earth beneath. Life is ’ stronger than death. And now. “loose I hint and let him go." There is something * fur the human to do. There was some- j thiim before th:- miracle: "Take ye away [ the’s’oiic." Get the conditions ready for I the divine demonstration. Knd now after ; I the.net of divine power. "Loose him ami let him go." Set the rem wed soul free to do for himself and for • lod. It is a voice out of the heavens to the church. l-^Ooso the new-born soul. Do not leave i j him on the edge of his old entombment, j boo,ml. as it were, in grave clothes. Loose I ! Sim and let him go. So shall God be glorii lied and many shall believe. Hintsand Illustrations. K Theissuesof lifeand death are presented I n this lesson. Il should be approached f soberly and deliberately, but not gloomily. ■ Dhrist has lifted up even the sepulchre, B md the Christian can contemplate death 1 tself with equanimity. Perhaps we are s oo slow to speak <d the groat change, f-this Scripture opens up the subject for I ill Let it be free and frank. It (w^fey^Sco^’ « r:,c< ‘ ot God, in Jesus t Joyous. Some day wo who fe will all come, like the lost K '"-'A ' ts &??^a little while delayed, t., _ •/(.. welcome in that other a vi-it. robbed ■|ji7 B ^’'“'‘"ht life and ' Me- freedom that tfimP^oked forward t. ater death, the : apostle could hopefully exclaim: "I'or me ■ to live is Christ, and to die is gain." They ■ tell of a bishop of England who. walking i forth one day. saw a little bird rise from the ground upon its tiny pinion--, and then suddenly drop to earth again, as by some unseen constraint. Again it rose, ami again fell. On looking more closely he ■ discovered that a boy had a thread at- ‘ tached to the limb of the bird, and that as ; often as the little thing tried to fly away । into the heavens the lad would draw it back. So with the soul in mortality. ! Death delivers us from earth's cords and I fetters. Think joyfully, or at least calmly, of death. It is but translation to the ’ soul that trusts. ‘ Next Lesson —"The Rich Young Ruler.” ! —Mark 10: 17 21. Signals used by ships at sea date from 1665. They were invented by he (Duke of York, afterwards Janies 11, i md, so far as known, were the only I things he ever did invent, i ■ Janies Willis of Mount Sterling. Ky., has been struck by lightning four different times and still lives. I Lake Actibo. Chili, has an area of forty-five square miles and is 12,530 • feet above sea level.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. The House, Monday, passed the resolution providing for an amendment to the constitution requiring that foreigners shall reside in the country five years before they shall have the right to vote in the State. A resolution for another amendment to the constitution providing for the use of the j voting machine was also adopted. ! The firemen's pension fund bill as amended and passed by the Senate, was considered and the amendments were concurred in. The joint resolution for a constitutional amendment providing that the General Assembly shall not pass local or special laws reimbusing public officers who have lost public money, was adopted. 1 he bill defining prize fights and prohib

iting such contests in ibis State, came up on third reading, and passed almost unanimously. It provides for the arrest of spectators, as well as principals, seconds, and timekeepers.

The bill providing for the teaching of the effect of narcotics and intoxicants on the human system in the public schools was passed. Senator Ellison's oleomargarine Dill eamt up in the Senate on second reading and was advam-e.l to engrossment. The bill as it stands, and as it will probably be passed, is a stringent measure, it provides that oleomargarine shall lie stamped and .-old as oleomargarine, and that restaurants, hotels, and boarding-houses that serve it shall announce the fact on a playcard, conspicuously posted. The Soldiers' Home bill was before the Senate for some time, and a numlier of amendments were offered, relating to perfecting title, Ac. The bill was referred to a committee of three to make changes suggested bearing on this subject. 'lm: majority entered upon its -long delayed political legislation Tuesday in the House, and within an hour committee reports had been received upon two measures, the const it ut tonal rule suspended and the bills passed, all discussion being cut off by the operation of the previous question. The first bill abolishes the soldiers' and sailors monument commission, created in for the erection of a state soldiers' monument' and establishes in its stead a regency, which is to consist of three persons to be appointed by a board of state officers. The second bill rushed through under the previous question was for a legislative apportimnwent. being' the measure introduced early in the session, but permitted to lie dormant in commitee till acted upon by the party caucus. Five republican representatives Howe. Dinwiddie. Melendy, Harriot and Gibson voted w ith the democrats against the bill. The interest the Nicholson bill has engendered thronglmut the state was clearly manifested in the House when its consideration was resumed, by the presence of men and women from different sections of Indiana, and ihe discussions were listened to w ith the most marked attentmn. The bill was still under discussion when the House adjourned. In the Senate the apportionment bill of I Senator Wishard w as made a special order lor Thursday. The day was spent in discussing the building as-ueiation question. senator Newby - Lill was up for passage, which was finally referred to the Hommittee on Corporaliotis. there to die. Till House. We 111.-day. passed the fol- ' lowing bills: • Riving the Governor t| ; .> power tosusi pemi -hcriiJ- and appoint temporary slierill - and prosecuting attorneys; appointing : two five holders by circuit judge- to e\ ery j e,‘Unty board to review taxes; making eom- ■ mereial paper due on holiday s payable the nreeeding dm : allowing counties to pav

! ine-third of the purchase price of tollroads j out of the general fund: tor the division of There was an immense crowd in the . llou.-c when Tie Nicholson bill was re-;-umed. section l>y section. The bill is be- । ing fought inch by inch by its opponents. I':?o foliovmg bills passed the Senate: [Making it unlawful to operate a saloon 1 w ithing a mile- oi a State or national sol- • lie:-'home: providing for free license to ! ‘x-soldic.’ and ex-.-ailors for the jmddling I » handling of goods; requiring township j ti iistees to keep a recur ' of all township ori lets issued; providing that surety compaI nies may go upon the bonds of officers, ad- : ministrators. and executors: providing that manufacturers of oleomargarine shall -tamp it and sell it as -ueh. and that hotels and restaurants that use it shall placard the fa 1: requiring that the manufacturers i >f horse and mule meat shall label the j package.- in which it is dune up; making it | incumbent for courts to appoint court reporters where either party in a suit deI mands it: providing regulations for private detectives ami spies: making it unlawful to • lake fish from lakes, except to stock other j lakes and streams, between April 1 and , June 15: to juevent the padding of school ■ enumerations. i The house, as a committee of the whole, i finished the consideration of the Nicholson j bill Thursday. After adopting resolations of respect to 1 Minister Gray the house adjourned. i There was but little business transacted |in the senate Not more than a dozen i senators were present when the session ' was called. The senate adjourned in honor of the late .Minister Gray. The Nidmlsui bill was reported to the House Friday by the committee of the

whole, and the report was adopted. The bill was then made the special order for Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. The House passed the libel bill. It is ! he bill that was introduced by Representative Statesman, but a similar bill having been passed by the Senate, introduced by Senator Shiveley. the Senate bill was substituted. The bill creating a Superior I Court for Madison County also passed. The Senate was without a quorum when [ it met, but this did not interfere with the presentation of a large number of committee reports. The House. Saturday, adopted a resolution which provides that in future any member who absents himself without permission or good and sufficient reason shall ' be docked his salary for the day he is absent. The bill providing for free text books, and which is compulsory, passed. It creates two new officers in each county in the State, and entails an enormous expense, rendering necessary for the purchase of bookcases alone the sum of $225,000. The bill making railroad companies Hable for tires originating from sparks from locomotives also passed The Committee on Corporations reported favorably an amendment to Senator I.a Collette’s bill concerning voluntary associations. by which the management of the Big Four Railroad Company may incorporate its hospital project. senator B ishard introduced a bill in the Senate giving t i the State Board of Charities power to establish civil set", ice rules in all penal, benevolent amt correctional institutions, and power to enforce Hie rub's.

HUSTLING HOOSIERS. (TEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATEAn Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties, and General Indiana N -ws Notes. Minor State Items.

Dei.phi will have a telephone exchange Bi.ack diphtheria has broken out neai Chesteron. At Oakland City IS pairs of twins have been born in the last few months. ll<>Bi:r. r K r.u --. ::g- '.'. committed sui- j .BM ride in New \lb:e y. lb- va- a rejected ® lover. I fEa Mim IE w ii! pm - forty block.- this year «MB| making about four miles of asphalt in the ' city altogether. j Oe.x Thokstow x Frankfort, got fifteen days in jail and a tine of $lO for stealing 7; Hmm cents worth of corn. Wti.i.i-. Goiaii.t it. Connersville, while f tioS

coasting, ran itib-a D im- aa 1 buggy and . IfaM was severely injured. ? mEB NVixfiei.d Ru iAiiPs is puttinginquatz crushing machine-y in Brov. n county. He I « intends to manufacture glassware. i J ,aß Gi:t.i:xF'.i:i.i> grocers arc at war and, as I S a result, granulated sweetness sells for 2 }' Si cents a pound and flour at 25 cents a sack. I — • Je-sE Bailey, well know farmer neat— Bedford, fell from the loft of his barn and struck a cutting Lox. He’s seriously hurt. Fked Heinz. Charlestown, is 19 years Up* old. weighs "40 ]*ounds, six feet and eight inches tall, and strong as an ox. He wears a No. 13 boot. b| Whii.i: working at the box factory a.' Decatur. <ii orgc liilbert fell into a largf^ s vat of boiling water and was scalded to J death. He was marrie 1 and leaves a j family. A ham>-om> new Masonic temple for B| l.ngausport is asstred. It is io Ik* located at North and Fou:ti! street- and will prob- H ably contain an auditorium that w ir- seat H 1 Joo people. fl Wn.:.i;:. the 15-year-old son of Thomas fl Kavanaugh, of the Waba.-h road, while on fl his way to-eho<d was run ''own Dy a locomoti\e in the Wall»a.-h yards and killed at fl Fort Wayne. B A 250-porxt> weight dropped from the 9 top of a gas well shaft near Arcadia, and 9 grazing the -boulder of -I. K. Johnson, bur- 9 ied itself in the ground. All the muscles 9 were torn from Johnson’s shouhler. । 9 Fp.eh St<>< kiMiAimt 1:. Mishawaka. 9 killed a freak in the poultry line, the other ■ day. The chick 11 had three legs, one B growing out from the back. The peculiar- S ity w as not m:tic< d until after its death. ■ The Gas Ik-it Torpedo Company organ- 8 ized at Knightstown. The capital stock H has been subscribed and officers elected. ■ ■ Mr. J. I>. Whitte 1 is president. J. IL Ben- a nett manager, and Mr. C. Beard secretary. I Turn 1 brothers named Pass, in different a parts of the state, are a little taller than 1 the average. Martin Pass measures 6 feet, ■ 3>4 inches. Frank Pass is G feeD) inches and I Sam Pass, the "rsmt" of the family, meas- 1 ures 6 feet 1 inch. I St it has been entered for damages | against the A lex;.ndria natural-gas compa- I ny. by Jean Gienier. Ander-on. He claims that while bis eh Ad was sick the company shut off the gas and the change in the tempcraturo of the ‘ ou.-c Pim ip Lykevs. of Cowan, who was believed to have been murdered, has turned I up all right visiting old comrades in the Soldiers'Home at Marion. His failure to tell of hi.- departure and the fact that he had ju- 1 been paid his pension led to the report. | Jackson Noll's fine farm residence in I the eastern part of Clay County and ail its contents were consumed by fire while the family were attending church. Beside the hcuseliold effects many valuable relics were burned. The loss will reach in the thousands: partly covered by insurance. lx Washington County a married womand and her married daughter each gave birth to a baby the same day. Both were boys, same complexion, size, and weight. When the neighltors came in they, of course, took the babies and in some way’ got them mixed. Now neither mother can tell which baby belongs to her. By order of Mayor Suman of Valparaiso, all saloon keepers vere conii»eiled Sunday to remove all furniture and screens in front 1 of their saloons so a full view could be obtained from the struts. Theorder was issued on account of 1 request of the Citizens’ League. Now some of the saloon keepers say they w ill put in stained glass windows. The Jmsiness center of Anderson was startled recently by an explosion of natural gas. which took place in the basement of the saloon owned by Louis Biest. Hunircls of persons rushed to the scene to find a half dozen perst ns mangled in the debris. Henry Dittmer, a bartender, was the on'.v person injured. His head. face, and hands were pretty badly burned. Dittmer went to the cellar and. upon striking a

match, the explosion followed, although no trace of gas had been previously noted, rhe'plate-glass front was shattered to pieces and blown across the street, the floor ripp. <1 open, bottles broken and pieces of plastering loosened from the walls and coiling. A half doxen person.' were at the bar. all of whom were slightly stunned by the concussion.but none injured. Patents have been awarded to residents of Indiana as follows: Charles F. Bettmann, jr„ New Albany, vehicle bolster: Allen A. Bowser. Fort Wayne, extension step-lad-dar: Sylvanus F. Bowser. Fort Wayne, selfmeasuring pump: John Clark, assignor of oue-haif to S. B Rude, Liberty. tin ere Iron for forges: George AV. Demaree. 11. 0. Smith and J. AV. Ditmars, M hiteland, tire tightener: AA . II• Duncan, hock Lane, wire stretcher: Joseph Leach, Indianapolis, barrel hoop fastener: John F. Miller, Lafavette, burner nor crude oils and steam; Edmund Morris, assignor to Ford. Johnson & Co., Michigan City, crossing needle tor eane weaving: Edmund Morris, assignor to Ford. Johnson & Co.. Michigan '• >, machine for insert tig threads into woven febrics: Edmund Morris, assignor to I ora, Johnson & Co.. Michigan City, maciune for inserting threads into woven fabrics, Francis W. Robinson, assignor to Robinson A Co.. Richmond, straw stacker. • NT< k" am> "Joe" Si.avghteeback, against whom suspicion had rested from the first, were arrested at the home of their brother. John Slaughterback. in Lawrence county. HL. on a charge of being the men who shot John Niblack, at Wheatland, Friday night, in an attempt to rob his father's store. The prisoners were taken into the presence of young Niblack, who identified them both as the men that entered the store. The prisoners were hurried into a earrage, taken to Vincennes and placed in jail just in time m escape the vengeance of a mob which was gathering. Had the prisoners been left there until niglit they would have been mobbed.