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CHAPTER XXVl.—(Continued.) This ended, the crowd drew back and stcftjd swaying together, leaving a clear space in front, across which first one and then another rushed forward to their priestess to make petitions for success in love, for wealth, for recovery from sickness, to all of which Genie seemed to turn a deaf ear. But when the last had come from the gathering, Jaeaine took the hand of his companion in the wretched superstitious mummery, site placed one foot on the altar, stepped lightly up. and j from thence to the box containing the . serpent, whose essence was supposed to | be communicated to her. Amidst a thrill j of horror, which was vented in low mur i murs, she stood there with her hands extended above her head, her eyes began to roll, and undulations passed from toot to head as she imitated the movements of the serpent beneath her feet, the' crowd shouting wildly in ecstasy at every paroxysm, till the glistering perspiration shone'in tiie dull light, and she suddenly stood there rigid, as if in a cataleptic state. The gathering yelled with excitement, clutching each other and leaping up. the smoky lamps swayed, and a tit of delirium si emed to be seizing upbn all there. In the midst of the wild and increasing excitement, a fierce looking black, one of ■ two who had entered with a woman almost the last, leaned towards the latter and whispered: “This mummery sickens me. You must 1 lave been mistaken." "Hush! Your life is at stake," she I whispered back. "Well." he replied, as the wild yelling and shrieking went on around. "Aiid mine,” she said. "Be patient, I am not sure yet. Look, we shall soon ■ know." She pointed toward the alQir toward which the crowd now pressed, and among the heat and smoke a faint mist now rose ; to make the proceedings more indistinct. "Is this a nightmare?” whispered tin' | other back. "Paul. old fellow, it makes me feel sick. 1 can’t believe we are ’ among human beings. Good heavens! Look at that.” For as Genie stood, like the mystic god- ■ dess of the place, silent and motionless, upon the altar, Jaeaine grew more and more excited, and signing to two of the | blacks in front, these two almost wild i with the honor done them, sprang on to I the stage and stood crouching one on ‘ either side, while Jaeaine darted back behind a screen of brushwood, ami reap- i peared. dragging forward a white goat and brandishing a keen knife. A wilder yell than ever burst forth, and Nousie pressed heavily upon Paul Lowther. so that he could feel her heart beating against his arm. He forgot her the next moment, as he ! saw the strange sacrifice prepared, ami to him it also seemed like a dream of one of the ancient worships, as one man ; seized tiie goat, the other a cup, and with ; one wave of the knife, Jaeaine plunged it • into the struggling goat, while I’aul grew . pale beneath the disguise he had adopted ! at Nousie’s wish, and felt his senses reel i as he saw the yelling, excited throng । press forward, forming a procession eager to be honoreel in the sacrifice, as after j the altar had been sprinkled. Jaeaine ■ came forward with the cup and branded each of the serpent's followers with a i mark of blood upon the brow. The touch of the blood seemed to rouse the people to a pitch of madness. Amidst the wild yelling, a shrill voice rose in a weird, strange chant, which was caught up directly in chorus, one which rose j and fell in waves of sound, as the mystic dane-' of the Voudoux was begun, its rhythmic beat keeping time to the strain of the song. Arms were swaying, bodies undulated, and the madness increased, while the great black, as he towered above them, incited them to fresh efforts, till all at once song and dance ceased as if by magic. In tho midst of a low. excited buzz now drink was passed round from hand to hand, and partaken of freely before a fresh chant was commenced, the beat of feet was heard again, was taken up By nil. and amid the heat, noise and excite- j meat. Pan! Lowther leaned up against the side of the building, and felt ns if he must be going mad. Just at his worst Bart placed his lips close to his ear. "I'm sick of this." he whispered. "It's nil a hallucination on her part. Let's I’aul made no reply, for Xousie was holding his arm fast, ami trembling violently. He l ent towards her. “YntUsTve it up?" he whispered. "Shall we go?” "No.” she said, in a voice he could j hardly hear in tho awful din around, "it is very near the time now. Are yon ready?” “If you are right,” he replied, after a glance round to see that the people were too much intent upon the choral dance to hoed them —a portion of the spectators, or resting performers of the rites. “I am right,” she said, slowly. "I know these people and what they do. It may mean all our deaths, but you will be brave and try.” "Have no fear.” “Look!” whispered Xousie. “Thore, on I the other side.” “Well, I see two blacks,” said Paul “You mean those leaving the place?” “Saintone—Deffrard his friend. They would help us. Ah! be ready? They will risk it now.” “Risk? Risk what?” said Bart, angrily, pressing towards them. “Madame Dulau, this is too much. We have come at your . wish to this diabolical orgie. What can it ! have to do with that we want to dis- I cover?” Nousie's eyes looked wildly in his, and ahe held up her hand. “Don't destroy my hope of saving her,” , tie whispered, piteously. “Can you. not j trust me a little wh’le?” I

Paul laid his hand .upon his friend's arm and Hart murmured, but he drew back as the wild scene went on. More drink was partaken of by the actors in the strange drama, and as the dance was resumed there seemed to be more wild emulation as to whose acts and gestures should be the most extravagant. Wo men took off their kerchiefs and waved them in the hot, foul, smoky air. Men spun round and round, and others grinned and gnashed tbeir teeth ami bit them selves. Twice over, close to where they stood in the shadow, women fell shriek ; ing with hysteria, and wert* borne out. ’ but Xousie paid no heed to aught that went on around her. Iler eyes were fixed upon the altar, where Genie stood motion less, and with her eyes half closed, while Jaeaine towered over the furious half ma<l crew raging in their diabolical revel, his arms folded across his broad breast, and a mocking, triumphant smile upon his thick lips, as if he triumphed over those who debased themselves before him. All at once Xousie drew her breath with a spasmodic catch, and thrust her hand into her breast. For the savage din ceased, ami moved by one impulse the people pressed up to ward the platform, stopped half way, as if checked by some invisible barrier, and one only approached depreeatingly and with outstretched hands, preferring some petition. Jaeaine's teeth were bared, ami he turn ed ami approached Genie, whispered to her. ami she slowly went through a kind of pantomime, as if resuming conscious ness. She gazed wildly round, pressed i her hamis to her temples, ami taking Jn i caine’s hand, stepped slowly down, and ■ stood with her back to the people, her ; hands upon the serpent's cage and her I head bent down, in adoring supplication, • w hile a low. expectant panting rose from the heated crew, who were waiting for ; their request to be granted. The silence and heat were aw ful, and • darkness was beginning to add to the I horrors of the scene, for two of the lamps ■ were extim t. and the others grew more ’ smoky ami dull. Suddenly Genie rose erect, her eyes > glittering as she turned upon the crowd I and drew herself tip. her lips apart, and i her teeth showing in a tierce manner. : She made a sign with both hands, as if i she were scattering the serpent's gifts to ; them. Then a wild excited shout rose j from the people, followed by a dead «i- --[ fence, us the woman turned slowly to I the back of the platform ami disapimarcd, . while, as if to excite the hideous passions ‘ of his followers, Jncaim* stood watching | them, nud slowly drew a glittering knife i from the blue scarf which girded his | waist. Nousie glanced quickly at her two , on, i panions, ami saw that they were well | forward, watching eagerly tor the next stage in the proceedings, I’anl being now I almost spellbound, and the doubts which I had troubled him before, giving place to : a strange exjiectaney that lie could not have analyzed had be tried. The next mimite. in the midst of the । painful hush which had fallen upon the i place, his whole manner changed. ami ।he stood gasping mentally stunned, tor j that which followed was beyond his wild ; est dreams. CHAPTER X N\II When Paid Lowther yielded to Nou । sie's wish, and. in accordance with her i instructions, had, in company with his , friend, adopted the disguise she had ongested. he had followed her into the i forest, and along the devious track. ht< i heart burning with the strong desire t I overtake and punish tho wretches who had desecrated the resting place of her I who had seemed more to him than life He was so crushed dow n by sorrow , mi* i ery, and this hard blow which had fallen ■ upon him, that after the first slight op position, he had submitted to Nous •'* ! guidance, too much bewildered to ^ppo'c. ’ and tho more willing to obey as he saw how firm Aube's mother seemed to be . 1 her ideas that she could lead him to the i place where he could exo ute summary t vengeance upon the w retches and recover , the sacred dead. That which had followed had all been ■ a succession of surprises, ami his re ■ sentment at being brought to such a place ! was turm d aside by Nousie's words, and the belief that the people she sought | would come there later ou. For N'onsio had made no open m munteation of her suspicions. contenting herself with praying the two young men to trust to. and have faith in her. The proceedings in the hut. w ith the excitement of song and dame and the wild debauch, had prepared Paul tor some new horror, and he was half ready to believe from Nousie's manner that at last the j people she sought had come; but he stood ■ as if paralyzed, wondering whether he । was dreaming, asking himself if there was, after all. truth in witchcraft and the dealings of the magicians of the past, some of whose loro stilt lingered, and was practiced by these people, for slowly and solemnly from the darkness at the back, Genie reappeared waving oue hand with slow movement over the head of the tall figure she led, a draped figure in white, with pallid face framed in the long ■ black hair which floated downward over I her shoulders, and rippled nearly to the j ground, as it seemed to glide over tho I rough platform toward the altar, the ' countenance fixed and strange, and tho great dark eyes widely opened ami fixed.'’ “Aube!” ejaculated Paul in a hoarse whisper, as Bart stood beside him with his jaw dropped, and the sweat standing in great drops upon his forehead. A loud murmur arose from the crowd. ( which rapidly increased to a roar of ex- | eitement, the people retaining their places, I but craning forward with starting eyes. I the veins in their temples swollen and turgid mm), as it were, with fanatical | excitement ami desire for the culmination i of the horrible function to which they I had come. They swayed to and fro, and i from side to side, but none tried to pass

the invisible barrier stretched betweeji them and the platform, which for the time being, it was in their belief, death to cross; and they panted and shouted, gloating over their victim with bloodshot eyes, while Genie and her partner in the secret rites maintained a studied calmness. Paul stood at tho edge of the little crowd of panting votaries of the \ oudoux worship, staring through what was to him a mist—the strange dreamy mist of one who sees, while every other sense H claimed by sleep. It was to him a wild deception of tin l brain -a nightmare caused by the mental sutfering through which he hail passed. The first thoughts of magic mid witchcraft had gone, and he was simply conscious that he had come there in the belief that he would find Aube, and his super-excited brain had raised her before him, giving her lineaments to the pale, white-faced girl, the Voudoux priestess held there evidently stupefied by some drug. "What is it for? what does it mean. Paul asked himself, as he stooil there, staring wildly, and he shuddered, tor he saw the gleam of tho knife in the hoK'* black's hand, ami noted that his thick lips w<‘re apart, displaying his white teeth in an ugly grin. Then still dimly ami dreamily lie recalled how he hml beard that in these savage riles lht*ro was at times a human smriliee to the serpent god. and he shuddered again, as his eyes wamk rei! over the while ligm-' " ith its pule, set lace ami fixed ami staring eyes. The sacrifice was drugged, he recalled, in ' India, ami in the offerings of the old Mexican priests, and it must be so here - with this maiden who resembled Aube so strongly, Aube, his darling, who was dead. "Now quick!" a voice whispered in his iar "they will kill her. Now! before it is too late." The spell was broken, and the thoughts that must ha\e been momentary in their pus-age through Patd's brain were gom» with the nightmare like fancies. For it was Nousie’s tom h upon his arm, her words, too, in his ear. By some strange juggling Aube hud been brought then', and she vias to be the victim of these unlrnly rites. Paul's hand grasped his friend's arm, and he. too. started as if from some i strange spell. It was only a matter of moments. Genii' still waved her hand alwixe the ' victim, and seemed to deduating the । offering t<’ the sirpeut. before whose I altar they were, and the black stood, ' knife in hand, his eyes bloodshot and ' wild, us he swept them over his followi ers, silently asking their jsanetiou to his . died. And then, as a low murmur again । arose, increasimy to a shout from a huni dred throats thirsting lor the victim'* blood. Jaeaine swung himself round, i threw his right arm back, with the glittering knife dimly teen in the smoky light, and caught the victim’* other arm. Genie aiding so that the victim swnyed | forward and hung toward the excited | throng sustained by her piijom-d wrists, i her Io ml thrown back, and m-ek and ! bosom bared in one soft white curve. A him! rear of , x. dement now arose—- , the ell ns of 11 herd of Wolves, but It ; changed into a yell of aavage nstmushment. n< a dark figure seemed to hurl itself upon the huge black, who wax i Imrne bnekwnrd. Taken n* -hr was |>y I surjirise. Gi ttir was dnshrd aside to go staggering i gnirnq the rough wall i Aube wits .aught in her mother* arms, ■ Nou»?o ehisping her tightly to her breast. | ami tlieti snatching um httmi fr e. thrust- ' ing it into her besom, and facing round. knife armed, ready to slay the first who should tri to rob lor of her .Mid, Word* w ere uttered, tierce < ties, mid ' passionate adjurations, but till w era : elruwned in the savage roar of disappointment. a- rublM-d of their prey, the ever* ' wrought crowd «d w..rshijqM rs *mgcd torn urd in awa v« . Tin r< uns no shrinking now, for they fighting in tho i serpent's cans, ami tn tin tier.- -trugg'a | , which followed, men wta.iwl here and ■ ’ there, the platform erneked. the altar, with its serpent .irk, was on rturm d, and ! a lamp fell from its hold, and eru-h<<l on the makii g the c o rivr s'.II more ’ dim. The em'mtnter wn- fierce but «h.,rt. The great bln k moded. and a dozen I hands wo re the!. to help him; donbi. that i numlwr were trying to i luteb the interrapiers of the rites, and in ti t«ry few minute- Paul and Bart w.tc । -a.. r«, j roughly bound, and thrown ti|nm tin- tloor, While N.msie was torn awa,'. *! ■ kmg, from her in*etislb|e < hild. i l o ue contitiucd I I lie' I phruitn's W i-dom. • Flaps de wotl wah made fo' do j saints, but dey'a mighty -lev. n- Hikin' [>cr>e>ldu, ' Hit am er dawg s bouu'en deofy tor be ci da w .; but ii daw . - imm , ain't no man'* priv• rlidge. Hit am e kui'ly dlsperslshhi ob him wa't made us tm we kain't s.-e our own meannesses lief ez. phthi ez our neighburs' lectio faults \ i i f some ob yo . breddren bustles, y o s got time it! Io 1 | ter homo. "Es some ob us trus'ed < mm h ter । wuk < ' we does ter Im k. wi wouldn't , hnb s' much cause ft/ cuss de hu k “I s'pose <le same man w’at m-bbah I •prri iate- hnppiness nit hit nm on do : ' wimi, ati' metin'* io’ hit well hit tun 1 i done gone erway. w im't know hit by I sight es de good Low d sell'a It he way I I 18-'”' "Lbbery man Links lie am . r oh 1>«- ■ : ophah w'tii t ings aiu er runuin’ ‘ sinoove; but watch folks w ell dey life ' goes wrong, tin' de ph'h soplmhs am erplowin’ anuddah cawnlier. । •■] dtinno w'at plctrzbah kin be. 'less hit am happiness, an' happiness ain't ] finin' ‘long o' ihasin' ahftah yo' own pletrzhah.” ] Killed a Shark. • A curious thing oe< urrisl on the last 1 homeward voyage from Australia of ■ the Pacific and Oriental Royal .Mail steamer Himtilaya. when the ship, while steaming up the Red Sen, ran . into and kill’ d tin enormous shark. The > sea was dead calm at the time, am] the .' brute must have been basking in the ' sun upon the .surface, as they often do, 1 when the ship struck it. New Goins for the Scots. New silver coinage, of the value of $750,000. has Isen sent from the mint to the Scottish hanks, tn view of the j detieieney of silver in the north. This [ is the largest supply of new coins ever । introduced into Scotland at one time. I India yellow is procured from the i camel.

^UBA MAY BE FKEE.' HOW SPAIN'S RECALL .OF CAMPOS IS REGARDED. Hie Veteran Spanish General Is SnKeisedcd by a Man Who 1h Deeply Hated for His Former Cruelty on the Isl'nd. Situation Is Serious. Fuba may be free! The recall of Gen. Martinez Gampos by the Spanish Governnient and his replacement by Gen. Wevfi’f is a strong indication that the situation on the island is critical and that tho insurgents are stronger than the Spanish authorilies hitherto admitted. Ihi the outbreak of the revolution it was intimated by Spain that the disturbauce wtis merely local and that a few months would see the end of the'trouble. But the revolutionists gained strength every day, and then Spain decided to send her veteran and most experienced general, Campos, to take counnaud of atlnirs on the island. Ho was given absolute authority to Call upon all the troops needed mid ever the bravest mid Ilie best of the solos Spain have been sent to the unLvlunate island. Gen. Campos announced that he would quell the rebellion in three months, lie had subdued the former rebellion of ten years IStiS '?S and his nnnounceinent was accordingly regarded as well founded. But the three! months elapsed and Gen. Campos had! made no progress. On the contrary the;

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insurgent* were making headway. forcing their way iw h week a little nearer to .th- |i<4it«-n! capital, Havana. Then said that winter would *<•.■ the '* M• • . 1 ifa- i ■<■'-du* Winter in Cuba, which mean* the rainy wttnnn. has <w, but th- • til«. tn-f. ad of t'ampo*. made progress. They f<<r<—d their way over «ix »itm!< g:e Jim -of defense ralnli halted In <’nmpo> nnd n week ago np peared wilhm -inking dhtnmv -d Ha num. This starlh d the Span »h Gvrrn unut and it han ju»t resolved n|am n change of hadets Get Catto-.a i* re cnli.d and Gen W.vbr. a man wh- made himself notorious during the hist rebellion in Culm for hi- .rm by. i* it. I to take hi* pin e and will mH from Spam to dM G-, W. . I .11. t! • hr Mol U.t tin of t'ahipis but will meet warfare with warfare. With spies and p. r*. n* aiding the in-urgent a he w ill be inexor he will -ImW di-tmto . Hew ill at <m' e endeavor m .ompbt.iy b» bl- kade th. // \ M- “ I M 4 4>4 fl i U^t b \■ A 111 ■ Gt X. MA XtMO GOMEZ. coast as to prevent the further importation of arms ami munitions. Gen. W-y ley snys emphatically that in his course he 1 will be mere., <s. but just, lie is of tin i opinion that two months ago it would I have been easy to have dealt the rebellion a death blow; now he fears it will be more difficult owing to the strength the movement has gained and the losses suffered by j the Spanish army. Spain is still sending । reinforcements to ('nba, and soon hx.mii, . more men will leave Spain for the seat of wa r. ■ At first it was supposed that Gen. 1 Campos had resigned, but it is now ! known that the Government removed । > him. purely, as Campos himself says, be- ' , cause he was not cruel enough and spoke of conciliating the rebels instead of butch- ’ ering them. He now believes that Cuba is lost to Spain and all through the political parties in Spain, who thought to frame । a policy for the island, ignorant of the ’ conditions there existing. The politicians in Madrid wanted a butcher in the field * and probably have secured one in the peri son of Gen. Wevler. ' Over the change id" generals the Cuban patriots rejoice, for they believe Campos to be an abler commander than Weyler, ‘ while the cruelties of the latter will alienate those now friendly to the Spanish

cause. In any case it is not likely that Weyler will make nay greater headway than Campos against the insurgents, led by the veteran warrior, Maximo Gomez. Th(- latter is one of the ablest militaryleaders of his time—a man of iron nerve and astute judgment. He has led the insurgents victoriously from one end if the island to the gates of Havana, -100 miles distant, and this in the face of a soldiery. greater in numbers and better I equipped than the patriots. When Weyler meets him ho will meet a veteran, acquainted not alone with the science of warfare, but with every pass and road and vantage point on the island. BUNYON PASSES AWAY. Hjart Failure the Cause of His Sudden and Unexpected Death. Tho Hon. Theodore Runyon. United ' States ambassador to Germany, expired in Berlin suddenly and unexpectedly at 1 o'clock Monday morning of heart failure. Mr. Runyon had been in somewhat feeble health for some time past, but no immediately fatal results were anticipated. No longer ago than last Tuesday evening he was present nt a dinner given in his honor by ex-Empress Frederick, mother of Emperor William. I.ast suiuiuq^h^, had planned to make an exteiiduL3Hn^ through Norway, but on the advic^^Tis physiciun ho abandoned this trip, □id instead wont to Carlsbad, where he took tho curt'. Ho subsequently went to Axonstein, in Switzerland, for the purpose of taking an after-cure. Since that time, however, he has manifested great activityin the discharge of the duties of his office, which have been more than usually onerous on account of the complications in European affairs, and have more or less

demanded the attention and care of the diplomatic representatives of all nations. Theodore Runyon was U.m at Seiner vd!-. N. .1., O< t. 2.'>, tsJ2. He gradnatisl from lain College in 1542. and in IMG was admitted to the bar. In 1X53 he was made <ity attorney, an.l in ls.lt; city uic :i >r of Newark, N. .1., a position he r taim I until ISGI. when he became May or of the ei'y. At the outbreak of ivil war he wa- placed in command of a New .1 r-. v brigade of volunteers. In Ist;.*, io- was 1»> moeratie candidate for Gov O' ot ht- St.ee. but Wits Dot elected. In is,;; to IssJ he wa- chancellor of New .li*ey. In March. ISU3. he wns appoint cd by Pr-ssd-nt < dexe’and I nited States m"c-'er to G. ti atiy, and shortly afterward wns made ambassador. HARD HIT AT TURKEY. Hepburn I rue- that the Minister of the Porte Hr Given Piissports. I he national llmt-e Monday, after an ntmesnag : r hours’ debate, adopted ■h. r. -olut eM j, ; ,--ed l the Senate hist ; week calling on the powers signatory to ’he treaty .n Berlin to enforce the re(•irin* nt Turkey guaranteed to the Christutu Arn ■ nisns. and pledging the support • d • mt. ■ -. and the President in the most i vig t> i. m t jou I e might take for the prote ;oti , ; iid - nt ~f American citizens m 1 : u. '. The House committee had iprcpaied some resolutions on the satm -üb_;e. but it was de. ni"d advisable afte: th Semite I, - iuti.'tis reached the Holts, to b-iitute them for those prepared by M t.migg. of New York, who had , c of the resolutions, made an aid. i ■ .’ion of the case. There was a di'j-isition on the part of some of th ■ members to go further than the resoln I;- , d;d an i Mr. Hepburn, of lowa, prop" '-I to give the i’urkish mini-ter hi* l>a- ;»,rt- and sever all diplomatic relai ■ . w ith Turkey. His remarks denoitnc- ; g the Turkish outrage* and charging ■ I' u v ere a mated from political '.in ■■ of p v. er" iii eastern Hii; ( ^ r-reived with great enthusiasm ~t lie time it looked as if the HotiN* might be carried to his way of thinking. But the counsel of Mr. Hitt not to take i'h action, in the course of which he pointed out the dire consequences that might result trom a .severance of diplomatic relations with a friendly power that had fulfilled her treaty obligations to us, prevailed, and the Hepburn proposition was overwhelmingly defeated. Mr. Bailey opposed the resolntious on the ground that it would be improper for its to •■insult" the parties to the treaty ! of Berlin by intimating that they had not carried out their obligations. Mr. Turner of Georgia took a similar view and Air. Grosvenor of < »hio characterized the resj olutions as "incomplete, inefficient and unworthy," and requested the committee |to withdraw them. They were finally passed, how ever, by a vote of 113 to 2G. . after a motion of Mr. Bailey to semi them \ to the committee bad been defeated 55 ' to 10.1. It was reported at Philadelphia that ‘ tiideon Marsh, ex-president of the defunct । Keystone Bank, whose vast embezzle- ■ meuts wrei ked that institution, is back in ’ the city. He tied in ISDI, when a price ■ of ss,l)fM( was set upon him by the city. It was said Marsh has been in the ?4ills j Eye hospital and is about to surrender j himself. The Benedict Paper Company, whobt- | sale paper dealers at Kansas City, Mo.. | has failed, with liabilities of ^ob.otftj and । assets about the same. 4

INDIANA INCIDENTS. t RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Flinty-Hearted Landlord at Burling- ■ ton—Mr. Hayca Indifferent to the Concord of Sweet Sounds, but Succumbs to u Poker. A Hard Law. A sensational case of ejectment is reported from Burlington. Andrew Isaacs owed two months’ rent, and failing to pay it his landlord proceeded by law to have him and his family ejected. His wife was sick at the time, and there were live little half-starved and half-dotlied children set out in the road, along with the few pieces of household furniture the family possessed. Before night, under an order of a justice of the peace, all tin- family belongings were soM at auction to satisfy hungry creditors. Even the family Bible, containing the record of the family births and deaths, was not spared. Young Lutz Is Released. Charles Lutz, who was sent to jail at Terre Haute for thirty days and fined $25 for kissing girls on the street, was released by Mayor Ross on payment of the fine, which was paid by the Order of Red Men. of which he was a member. His fellow members still contend that the young women who identified him in court were mistaken. His employers are to re- ' store him to his position, receiving clerk in a large wholesale house. A picture of

the man nm*sted in Evansville for kissing girls and women, ami who said he was from Terre Haute, has been received by the police. It represents a man about Lutz's age and size, but he has different Zidored hair. The young w. men who identified Lutz 'r court had him pull his cap town over his head, because that is the manner in which "Jack tae hugger" wore his cap when he accosted them. Capture of an Indiana Forger. James Dalgarn. who forged William Davis' mime to a note at Coal City Thursday for SSO. was captured near Cory by a ] "Or of citizens of Coal City, headed by ttie sheriff. In the fight with the ofli/ers Thursday night, when tho forger made his escape, lie was shot in the arm, tnd. becoming exhausted from the loss of Mood, he sought shelter in an abandoned house. A slight fall of snow enabled the .itticers to track him. Drops of blood oca*ionally found on the snow was conclusive evidence that the tracks were ■iade by the escaped convict. Dalgarn ;.ttrrendored ami was taken to Spencer, it has since developed that Dalgarn. under the name of Everett, endeavored to pass a forged note for s3<X> at a bank it Worthington a few days ago. but failed in his scheme and quickly left the town to esinp<» arrest. Farmer Is Opposed to Music. William Hayes, an eccentric farmer, lies at hi* home near Crawfordsville, dangerously injured and a warrant was issued for the arrest of his wife as his assailant. Hayes was almost insanely religious, and. being of the old school, did not believe in musical instruments. His wife and daughter did not agree with him, and by saving money secured from the sale of chickens and butter they managed to buy a piano, which was installed in the parlor during Hayes' absence. When he returned home he was terribly angry and proceeded to smash the instrument. While he was thus engaged his wife struck him on the head with a poker, almost killing him. All Over the State. At the Methodist Church in Peru Fred Bickup. who was offering a prayer to be made bet ter. dropped over in his pew dead. Edward Lankford, of Sanborn, who killed Blann B. Williamson, constable, has been sentenced to two years' iiuprisonmeirt. Henry Rensenberger, who set fire to the building* on the Kendallville fair grounds last September, was sentenced to five years in the northern prison. Five tramps are under arrest at Frankfort, charged with passing counterfeit money. Several spurious coins and burglars' tools were found in their possession. It is estimated that burgiars realized $10,tl(M) in money and goods by robbing the stores of George Wandell, Willitim Finch ami August Tonio, of Grandview. The twin daughters of James Davenport, near Fayette, died almost within the same hour, <>f typhoid fever. They were Is years old, and had never been separated for a day. At Crawfordsville. S. N. Warbritton has brought suit against the Yandalia railtoad for SL'M*'. A train took him past h:- s aiion and tiie conductor told him to jump off. w hich he did. and was injured. Prof. Theophilus Robarts. of Perry County, claims to have discovered the lop._ sought rule <>f trisecting any rectiiinea! angle by elementary geometry — that is. by means of a straight line and a circle. He d< < lares that this great problem has at.last been unraveled by a very , simple method, which he expects soon to Mre to the world. "^^rhe faculty of the Terre Haute State Normal School has discovered that there has been cheating in the examinations and other misdoings on the part of students who are preparing themselves for positions as teachers in the public schools, and five students have been expelled. It is understood that more will have to leave school on the same charge. AVhile the family of Robert Kornung. of Napoleon, wa* absent for a few minutes the other night. Mr. Kornung's 7-year-old daughter was left alone at home asleep. During their absence a tramp entered the house and began ransacking rooms. Th<> girl awoke, and, finding a burghu- in the house, procured her father's revolver and fired four shots at the thief as he was entering her apartments. He escaped, b^! was traced ipiite a distance by a stream of blood. The girl followed him to thi> door and fired a shot after him into the 1 darkness. The jail at Greensburg was left* in charge of a servant girl while the jailer and sheriff went to the county convention. Three prisoners escaped. Mrs. Gideon Hauser, a young bride at Kansas <’ity. Mo., lias just learned the whereabouts of her husband, who disapi peared Dec. 9. Hauser was found by her • at Albion, where he is an inmate of the hospital ward of the eount.v jail. He attempted to rob a country residence near Avilla, and. being closely pressed by bis • pursuers, attempted suicide by sending a I bullet through his head. His recovery is doubt fill.