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CHAPTER XVlll.—(Continued.) A knock was heard at the door; the same maid who had hurried out into the garden came in. “Please, ma'am, the doctor is here.” “But why do you look so white?" the mistress asked, reading the servant's face with quick apprehension. “Is Miss Maud worse ?” “Please, ma'am, the doctor must speak to you.” The maid lingered for a moment. “What is the matter?” Vanity asked. “(hir smallest young lady has got small(k>x,” the servant said, shuddering as she spoke. "Master has seen the doctor, and we don't know what to do.” Vanity Hardware had the terror of that disease which every woman feels, and she turned pale herself. “And the little lady is master's pet,” the servant continued; “and mistress has always made so much of her; and she has always slept beside mistress, and she won’t hardly go out of her sight.” “I daresay,” Vanity remarked, “her mother will nurse her.” “There it is, you see,” ti e sjid said, closing the door, and speaking in a confidential whisper; “master says the mother shall not go near her. You see” —closing the door more impressively—“master is so proud of missus’ looks; and he says the risk shall not be run.” “Can't they get a nurse?” Vanity asked. “Don’t you see,” the other replied, “that's where it is. This little lady is so used to mistress singing to her, and being with her, that she will not allow any nurse to come near her; and we only keep her quiet by the five minutes saying: ‘Mamma's coming, dear;’ and even then she bursts out times and times. And if you please, doctor says the little lady must be kept quite away from everybody; ami your room is the best in the house for her; nnd will you please come down stairs? Your room is made dark, and the little lady is to be taken there at once.” Vanity came out upon the gallery over the large entrance hall, out of which several doors opened and one or two short flights of steps ran up different passages. At the top of one of these fligh’ts stood the redoubtable old lady in a most excited state. For some inexplicable reason, she had gathered up her skirts; and rhe first idea her figure suggested was that of a stout elderly lady, of inflexible purpose, who was about to wade a river. “I always said so,” the old lady called out. “This comes of your Sunday school tracts. But Maud never would listen to advice —not since she was four years old!” I’oor Maud, pale and crying, sat upon a chair. Beside her stood the doctor and her husband; the wail of the sick child was plainly heard. At the sound, the mother started to her feet. “Augustus!” she called out piteously, “I must go! Doctor, do say that I am to go! Baby will die if she frets on in this way. It is cruel to keep me. It is my duty to run whatever risk there may bo. Do let me go. I cannot bear to hoar her.” "Maud.” her husband said, drawing close to her. “I cannot permit it. We must get a nurse. Baby will soon cry herself to sleep.” "Oh, it is cruel!” she said; “it is cruel!” At this point the soldier brother spoke. "I feel for you, Neville,” he said to his brother-in-law: “but I do think my sister is right. Her duty is with her child. Let her go. and leave, the rest in the hands of God.” “Mind." the old lady called out. “I don't agree with either of you. Remember that hereafter.” “Now. Augustus.” the wife cried, “now you will let me go!” Neville, feeling the tide running sharply against him, saw that he must speak decidedly. Like many easy-going people, he could, on occasion, assert himself irreeistibly. “There must be an end of this,” he said. “'Doctor, let us have a nurse at once. 'Maud, you must not go near the child; your life is too valuable to us all.” Vanity had watched this scene with a remarkable look on her face; and now she hurried down stairs, and crossed the hall to the lady's side. "I will nurse the baby,” she cried. “I am not afraid!” g The whole company stood transfixed. The young soldier acknowledged the power of beauty by gazing for a moment at the stranger with a possibly too obvious admiration, but he soon recollected himself. Maud Neville looked up. “Oh. thank you, thank you,” she said. “It wouldn’t be the slightest use. Baby will have no one but myself.” “I know,‘l know,” Vanity replied almost impatiently. “Come with mo.” | Maud looked up in wonder; as for the I rest, they stood in silent amazement; ; even rhe old lady was at a loss for a sen•■Come with mo.” Vanity repeated, ! tn a decisive voice. “Bid your servant follow US." To the surprise of everybody. Maud Neville rose and walked across the hall with Vanity. The servant followed, and till three went out of sight. Then the maid-servant was seen flying Into the sick child's room, where the sound of closing shutters was heard. Thence she ran up stairs and disappeared. Then again she darted down to the doctor and whispered to him. After this she drew down every blind and closed every shutter of the hall windows, reducing the place to darkness. Then, without explaining these proceedings, she disappeared once more. The whole party still remained motionless, none daring to speak, and in the darkness and.suspense it seemed that several minutes passed away. At last, low. soft, sweet, in the most soothing lullaby note, they heard a voice singing: “Now the day is over. Night is drawing nigh, Shadows of the evening Steal across the sky.”

“Why,” whispered Neville to his brother, “that is Maud singing to the child. - She sings that hymn to her, night by - night.” Then, in the semi-darkness of the hall, the husband saw his wife, dressed in a ’ long, loose morning robe which he knew well, bearing the child in her arms and I chanting as she slowly moved across the • hall. The effect of the song on the sick । ■ child soon appeared. The little weary | voice caught up a word or two here ami j there, and sung it in a drowsy, satisfied / • tone. . I , “.Maud,” the husband whispered, m a low, reproachful voice, "I am grieved. He felt a hand in his own. Maud had stolen up to him from behind. “Hush," she said. “Can’t you under- I stand?” The sweeping gown touched his feet, and the muffled head of his child was close to his own, as the mysterious figure glided by, still singing: “Jesus, give the weary Calm and sweet repose; With thy tender blessing May mine eyelids close.” “Why, Maud!” whispered Neville, clasping his wife’s hand, "I could have sworn it was your very voice!” “Is it not wonderful?” she whispered I back. “Baby believes sihe is in my arms. I and she is quite happy.” In the darkness Neville fek his wife । leaning her head on his shoulder, and ’ pouringout the mingled sorrow and thank- I fulness of her heart. Meanwhile the dusky figure was seen | slowly moving up the wide stairs toward ■ the room where the child was to be laid. Low, sweet, the lullaby sounded: “Grant to little children Visions bright of Thee, Guard the sailors tossing On the deep blue sea." “But, Maud," 'the husband said, “when ‘ she loaves the child in the room, ‘how much better shall we be?” “Dear, dear!” exclaimed his wife, but in the lowest of whispers, “the is going I to nurse baby through the illness. The 1 room is dark. Baby will never know, till ' she is well again!” Vanity had reached the door of the sick room. They could now see her figure | plainly, and she turned round, as if to give the mother one last glimpse of her darling. “Through the long night watches May thine angel spread Their white wings -above me. Watching round my bed." The song was over. The dark threshold was passed. And the brave actress was shut in with her task and her danger. CHAPTER NIN. The housemaid understood her business. । Without waiting for the word of command, she let in the light, once more, and the whole party saw each other. “Maud,” the husband said, breaking the silence, "what does all this mean?” "Really, Augustus, you are stupid! । Don’t you see? Little Maud thinks 1 am with her, and going to stay with her! Rut such a clever girl! 1 really thought ' it was myself singing. She asked me. ‘Have you any little thing you sing to : the child?’ So I sung her a verse of 'Now the day is over.’ The verses, the music, the very tone of my voice, she caught on ; the instant. And then she went in to baby—in the dark and took her up, singing all the while, and baby put her little ■ head against her shoulder, and was quite i soothed and still.” The motiher's tears fell as she spoke, ' and the husband was moved himself. "What a brave act!” he said. "1 should I have thought a woman would as soon •have walked into Nebuchadnezzar's fur- ! mice. For a poor and lovely girl—for a lovely girl she is—to risk her beauty for the sake of a sick child is real heroism. • I shall never forget what that girl has < done. And if she were to catch the small- I pox, and her face were spoilt, 1 should never forgive myself.” “No more should 1!" the soldier called • out. “Never!” “Really, Mr. Pembroke,” the old lady ; said loftily, “will you be good enough not ; to be too absurd? Providence did not ex- । pect you to nurse the child.” “I feel,” Augustus continued gravely. ! “that I must take the whole responsibility ' of the young woman's future upon my- j self.” “Not the whole of it. Augustus!" the • soldier called out earnestly. "I ought to help you. Share and share alike, you know. No, I don’t exactly mean that; but really, old fellow, I could not let it all come on you. you know.” “Liston. Tom,” his brother-in-law remarked; “if that girl were to pay the j I price of her bravery with her face, I i ! don't see what I could do for her. It | j would be an awful result of so gallant a I deed. If that happened ” “If that happened,” Tom Pembroke I cried, interrupting, with great excitement, j “if her face were spoiled, it would not be your business, Augustus. As you say, you could do nothing for her. In that i case, sooner than sho should die of a . | broken heart, I—l—l would marry her ! 1 myself.” , ' "Thomas Pembroke,” exclaimed the old ‘ . । lady, “I am horrified. But while we stand • । j talking here, that complaint"—here she I , pointed to the closed doors of the sick chamber —“may come down those stairs , and take some of us into eternity." Not a thought about the little sick child I ; upon Miom Death seemed to have laid his hand; not a thought about the brave . young woman who had taken the poison- , ed frame to her own breast. She retreat- . ed precipitately, flew into her room and shut her door with a terrific crash. CHAPTER XX. D Vanity was alone in the darkened sick I room. Her little charge was satisfied with the low song of “Now the day is over;” and as often as the small sick voice plainted out its “Mamma.” the reply of a chanted voice assured the little

— —- —-qjgj sufferer that her best consoler wag a t hand. . But the generous glow died out, as n i] •emotion will. Now, in the dark rot^m, Vanity had time to think what she had undertaken; and, it mast b- cunfes^j^ she began to feel afraid. She t'^ved to stay at her post, however, and, wh eu ■the sick-nurse arrived, she announced her resolution of sharing the duties and keeping up the kind illusion which gave tranquility to the little sufferer. On the whole she was calm. Now, upon the subsidence of the terrible excitement of the last few weeks. Vanity knew the state of her own heart. The awtul end of her father had been a stunning stroke of Fate. Vanity had never known ifhe facts of her father’s life. The robberies of which he was suspected were never, with her. matters of positive knowledge. Still she knew that her father was a bad, unscrupulous man; his conduct made it evident that some terrible danger was ever hanging over him. His death, appalling as it was, forever' hid the worst facts she suspected from discffi’cry or from legal proof. But M'iHie Snow had broken poor \ unity's heart. In spite of his weakness, which she could not but despise, she loved him still. In her secret heart she still caressed the dangerous memory o hand- ' some Willie Snow. The secret thready I which bind the heart of a '^.“i^to^ ' man are inexplicable. She tho”- ret . a u ! winsome ways, his handsome at ■ , I ed fhoir love scenes, hated her mal. In the darkened room of sickness, witlh peril hard at hand. Vanity Hardware talked thus with herself: "1 have exposed myself to fearful danger; if my life is sacrificed, shall I much regret it? But if 1 survive, anfi leave this room with beauty unimpaired—then. Mistress Nancy Snow, beware! You stole my lover from me. I shall repay you. I know my power. I shall steal your husband from you. Then tear your hair as I tore mine, and sob and cry for death as, under you-r cruel hands, 1 sobbed and raved and cried! If lam not to make Willie my own—why, here 1 have exposed myself to danger —let me be struck down; but if 1 come forth hence un‘hurt, then 1 shall treat my life as my own. Willie! Willie! by your weak, impulsive nature and by my beauty yon shall yet be mine! After that, come what . may!” From the hour she took this resolution, • all her fear of infection or of death was ‘ gone. She even courted danger. There i was her fatalism again. “Dare anything; give Fate every chance of wrecking your scheme; and if you pass unscathed, then call your life —call Willie’s life—your own!" So she went about her self-im-jH>sed task no longer with the tenderness of her first impulse, but with a stony calmness, under which lay a secret sense of approaching triumph. Time went by. The attack of smallpox was not severe, and the child soon began to mend, \ anity in the dark room still played her part of motner, and the child would never be still unless her “mother” was al hand. She grew fond of her little charge. The child was the most patient of sufferers; would tVhisper “Thank you, mamma.” with a grace nnd prettiness every time she was tended; Vanity began to feel a new affection in her breast, n tenderness for this little child. Had this story been narrated in the shape of a comedy, a pretty scone might have been arranged here. A well-ordered flower garden, toward the end of October, in a genial year when summer lingered long. In the midst of the garden a low house, w th a long veranda hi Front, and above the veranda a balcony, Neville standing below, talking wirhi Vanity Hardware in half whispers. k«t by any chance the small ears inside snould hea r. li Maud Neville's husband was prom, of her looks this was not to be wondered at. As io Vanity, sho had never looked half s<> lovely. Her recent illness had loft a transparency in her complexion and her < yes shorn' with softness and brilliancy. The scene is not yet complete Besides these two pretty women, a third figure often appears. Tom I’embrokf liked a morning cigar, and his habit had been to smoke it while walking in the kitchen garden. All of a sudden Tom took a fancy to the flower garden. So sure as Maud began to talk with Vanity about the sick child, so surety would 'J’om b( I seen idling round the garden with hit ■ cigar, and taking an opportunity of rais ; ing his hat to Vanity, whom everybody : there treated as a lady without knowing why. Maud felt that she must warn hei i brother to be careful. She loved het | brother above every human creature ex- ■ eept her husband and her children; but' I still Maud knew what men are, and sat I was a plucky woman who always said I her say. She determined to tell Toac plainly that this sort es thing would neve) l do. (To be continued.) Sensitive About His Age. An attorney from Springfield. Ilk. i was at the Capitol the other day. and : the subject of sensitiveness about age I came up. “The most remarkable inI stance of that." be said "was a man—not a woman—and a very able man i mentally, too. Judge Sydney Breese, • for many years one of the justices of the Supreme Court of Illinois, died at a very advanced age, but no one eyer knew how old he was. Upon one occasion the judges of the Supremo Court of lowa visited the Illinois Supreme Court. .Judge Wright, of lowa, was at that time very old. and he had gone । west from Ohio, the State of Judge Breese's nativity. At the banquet table .Judge Wright said to the venerable Illinois jurist: “ 'Judge, we must be about the same age. We left Ohio in the same year. We have served on the bench an equal length of time. I wonder how much | further the coincidence extends. I ■ would not be surprised if we were born during the same year. If not an im- • pertinence. I would ask how old you , are? I am 78.’ | “Judge Breese arose from the table, j his face livid with anger, and savino- - ‘1 would consider it the height j of impertinence, sir.' left the room and : would not appear again when Judge I M'right was present.”—Washington । Star. Enormous Supply of Bibles. The American Bible Society issues from the Bible House in November were 80,475 volumes, and since April i 015,244 volumes. As a rule a man’s hair turns gr ay • j five years sooner than a woman’s.

DUNKARDS IN EXODUS twenty colonies go from the east to the west. Members Ar c from Six Different States and They Pass Throuah Chicago on Their Way to Dakota-Britain to Kecosnize Cubans. Seek New Homes, Twenty colonies of Dunkards from six different States passed through Chicago on their way to new homes in North Dakota. The colonists, numbered 1,500, and they expect to settle along the line of the Great Northern Railroad in North Dakota. The Dunkards arrived over the Baltimore and Ohio, Wabash, Nickel Plate, nn-llahdle and Monon roads. They are from colonies in half a hundred towns rginia, West Virginia. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. The special trains were slow in arriving. As fast as sufficient cars were on hand a new train was made up in the Wisconsin Central yards and started lor the Northwest. In order to carry all the emigrants four trains f.-ere necessary. The composition of these trains was twenty passenger coaches ami 102 freight cars. In the freight cars were families moving their household goods, farm implements and live stock. In the coaches were families having sold out most of their goods, thinking it cheaper to pay cash for what will be needed in their new homes than to pay freight rates on the vid. A number of. women used the coaches while their husbands and elder sons looked after the goods in the freight cars. Their Second Exodus. The present is the second exodus of Dunkards from the East to North Dakota in the last three years. They come from old-established colonies which have been sending out members to the West for half a century. Often children grow up, have families of their own, and leave the parent colony much after the nature of bees, which swarm when their quarters become too crowded. Such is the case in this instance. The fathers of large families have left their Eastern homes, where land is high, with a view to establishing large famib - estates in the West. These emigrants are not of the poorer class. Many are well-to-do ami ail are industrious, desirable citizens. For some time the elders of the church have been investigating the desirability for settlement on North Dakota lands. The reports have been favorable and the present emigration is the result. The fate of the present colonists will decide the future action of several times as many who have staid at home and are watching the venture with a view to following should it prove successful. The one great object of the movement Is the desire to possess more land. In the country where they are going there remains a large tract of Government land open to settlement. This was not ready for such purposes until recently, when the Great Northern pushed its road through what is known as the Devil’s Lake country. Within a few years many small towns have sprung up along the lino and the country is rapidly being broken up into farms. Each head of a Dunkard family will homestead on 4<U> acres of land. His sons and sons-in-law over 21 years old will take a like amount. In this way families will absorb entire sections of land. Each family will also be a nucleus around which other Dunkards will settle. In a few generations the big farms will be divided and subdivided among the children, until finally no more land will remain and another exodus will be necessary. A MORTON RALLY. Enthusiastic Gathering of Republicans in the Empire State. Messrs. Depew. Miller, I’latt and Lauterbach will be the four delegates at-large to St. Louis from New York State, and

they are instructed for Gov. Morton. The blot upon the indorsement which New York gave to Gov. Morton consist of 109 votes out of a total of 740, against the election of Messrs. Platt and Lauterbach as dele-gates-at-large to St. Louis. A correspondent says: In reality this vote was a pro-

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test against the leadership of Mr. Platt rather than a protest against the candidacy of Gov. Morton, and in the convention those who at heart favored Major McKinley as second choice numbered at least 400. In the platform no mention is made of State issues, and the expected tight over the Raines excise tax law did not therefore materialize. The resolutions declare for a protective tariff, are unequivocally for a gold standard and against the free coinage of silver, and present Gov. Morton to the Republicans of the nation as New York’s choice for the presidency, lauding his public service, praising his ability, and declaring that notwithstanding his age he is still in the prime of his vigor. BRITAIN TO AID CUBA, To Follow America in Recognizing the Patriots, Aid for Cuba has come from an unexpected source. John Bull will pat Uncle Sam on the shoulder in any proposition to intervene to stop the butchery on the island. An informal intimation to this effect has been received at the State Department and the status of the Cuban question has changed at once owing to this sudden development. While Spain has been preparing for an appeal to European nations against the United States, Great Britain has quietly taken the other tack, and decided to join with the United States in helping the Cuban patriots. Naturally, such a communication was not conveyed in an official letter, but Secretary Otney was given to understand by Sir Julian Pauncefote that Great Britain would not only not object to any action the United States might take in regard to Cuba, but would even welcome any reasonable interference which would tend to stop the butchery now going on in the island. That such an intimation was given semi-officially was learned positively, and the effect of the information when it becomes generally known will be to render almost certain speedy action by this country. Dispatches from Spain within the last few days are authority for the

statement that a definite policy has been agreed upon there. Spain proposed to pose as the champion of European nations holding possessions in America as ai nst the arrogance of the Yankees. Ine European nations were to be sounded in order to secure concert of action, and Mien Spain was to tell President Cleveland to go ahead if he dared in the ace of a formidable alliance which would prevent active intervention by force if necessary. This plan has been blocked completely by the action of Great Britain, and President Cleveland’s hands have been strengthened immeasurably by Lord Salisbury’s government. Great Britain deplored the inhuman Spanish warfare on the island, and English commercial interests could not look on unmoved while . le price of sugar was moving upward as the result of the destruction of Cuban canefields. Therefore came the informal intimation that Great Britain would gladly stand aside and see the United States ta.ke^the initiative in Cuba. No promises were made that could bind Great Britain in any way, and the Queen’s goveinment was not put on record in any way, but Secretary Olney has been given to understand that if the President decides to recognize the patriots as belligerents Great Britain will not be far behind in doing the same thing. mills is for war. Texas Senator Says the United States’ Duty Is to Free Cuba. Senator Mills spoke Tuesday in defense of the Cuban resolution introduced by him. He said the resolutions heretofore before the Senate were steps in the right direction, but very short steps. The people of Cuba had far greater claims on the United States than mere recognition of belligerency. If Ireland struck for liberty to-day the hearts of the American people would beat in sympathy, and so if Poland or Hungary asserted the right of liberty. But the United States bad much closer relations to Cuba than to Ireland or Poland or Hungary for it was part of the Western Hemisphei over which the JV - SENATOR MILES. Monroe doctrine extended the influence of this country. Mr. Mills declared that the Monroe doctrine was a law of protection and that as such God was the author of it. It was the same right of self-pro-tection which an individual exercises in abating a nuisance or destroying a powder house near his premises. Jefferson had used plain words in threatening to join England and sweep the French fleets from the seas if France persisted in holding the mouth of the Mississippi river. The same spirit had brought fortti President Cleveland's Venezuela message. Cuba stood as the key to the gulf, and our unvarying policy, said Mr. Mills, has been to resist any transfer of Cuba to another monarchy. Th© United States has stood by as a jailer and prevented Cuba from going to France or England. And, if we insisted on keeping Cuba in the possession of Spain, was it not the moral obligation of the United States to see that Spain gave Cuba fair government, to see that the hell of all hellish despotism was lifted from the Cuban people? “The day will come,” said Mr. Mills, “when the American conscience will be aroused to its guilt in permitting the oppression of Cuba, and when that consciousness conies the American people will fill this chamber*with Senators who will stop that oppression.” The Senator read of atrocities attributed to Gen. Weyler and added: “This is the work of that atrocious scoundrel. He could not be in Cuba to-day if the United States would draw her sword. How the cheeks of our American women must be suffused, how our children must blush to know that this government stands idly by while Spain, with the keys of her dungeons dangling at her side, permits such an atrocious villain to raise his hand against defenseless women.” BOOST FOR M'KINLEY. Eighteen More Votes Go Into the Ohio Column. Just before the Minnesota State Republican convention was called to order it was announced that Senator Davis had

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wired Congressman Tawney withdrawing from the presidential race. This action was due to the refusal of three of five Minnesota district conventions to indorse bis candidacy. Before an adjournment the following resolutions were adopted by a rising vote; “Resolved, That

the well considered and pronounced preference of the Republican* of Min’ for presidential standard bearer in 1896 is William McKinley, and this convention expects the delegates and alternates-at-large to-day to be elected by it to do all in their power honorably from now until that object is accomplished to bring about promptly the nomination of M illiam McKinley for President of the Lnited States.” Telegraphic Brevities. Col. Thomas I*. Ochiltree is seriously ill at his home in New York. His valet says he is unable to see anyone and his physician has ordered absolute quiet. Capt. W. II- Bradbury, deputy warden of the Missouri penitentiary for thirty-six years*is dead, aged 75. He had a remarkable record for personal courage. John Jones, who is wanted by Gov. Altgeld for kicking Mrs. Susan Mendenhall to death while he was town marshal of Anna, HL, has been arrested in St. Louis. The barn of Seeley Y. Mason, five miles from Monmouth, HL, burned. Louis Dutton, a farm hand in the employ of Thos. Hays, who rented the place, was sleeping in the barn and lost his life.

INDIANA INCIDENTS. RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. A Man with Too Much Money—Rivals for a Girl’s Affections Fight a Bloody Battle — Sim pie Ceremonies Over the Body of Pearl Bryan. They Find SSOO in a Satchel. A brakeman on the Peoria division of the 5 andalia Railroad, named Reed, was handed a satchel containing $.500 the other day, and the man who gave it to him evidently wanted to be rid of it for all time. A passenger who boarded the train at Decdtur and left it at Mount Zion banded the satchel to Reed as he left the ears, saying: ‘‘Take care of this for me.” ’the trainmen decided to open the satchel, because the man had acted in a peculiar manner, and in it they found SSOO in bills. Jealousy Leads to a Fight. Henry Wilson was a suitor for the hand of Nora Xli-lntyre. daughter of 'Thomas Mclntyre, living near the Franklin-Kush County line, but he was supplanted in the young girl's favor by Samuel Templeton, a school teacher who recently came into the neighborhood. The other night file rivals met- at a country dance, and when Templeton ventured outside the house he was attacked by Wilson, armed with a knife. Templeton used his revolver, and mutual friends joined in. When the smoke cleired away Templeton was found dangerously stabbed in the breast and back, while Wilson had a bullet in his thigh and Charles Bolster, a friend of Templeton, was shot in the neck. The condition of all three mon is alarming. During the tight, which was general, brass knuckles, knives, stones and clubs were used, and everyone of the participants is bruised and battered. The participants art' all members of prominent families, and dispatches from the quarter indicate intense excitement in the neighborhood. The young woman whose charms caused the melee was borne to her home in a prostrated condition. Pearl Bryan’s Funeral Services. Several hundred people were attracted to Forest Hill Cemetery in Greencastle Friday afternoon by rhe announcement <>f the funeral of Pearl Bryan, the Fort Diomas victim. The body was brought home on Feb. !», and has been kept in the public vault in the cemetery awaiting burial. The family have hoped for t! ■ finding of the missing head, but they abandoned that idea and decided on interment. Six young men, former classmates of the deceased, took the white casket from the vault ami carried it to the Bryan lot. A quintet sang two songs. Dr. 11. A. Gobin, of De I‘auw University, read Bible selections and spoke of the life of the deceased, and offered a fervent prayer. This was followed by more music, after which the remains were lowered to their last resting place. Numerous costly and beautiful floral offerings were placed on the casket and grave by classmates and friends of the deceased. All Over the State. The fifty-ninth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. L. 11. Noble was celebrated in Goshen. Both are in excellent healtht. John Robbins, of Moscow, accidentally shot himself with a revolver. The ball plowed through the skull above the temple. He will die. A wreck is reported to have occurred on the Indiana. Illinois and lowa, between North Judson ami Knox, in which four mon were smothered by the overturning of a car of grain in which they were riding. At Danville, the jury in the ease of the State vs. James A. Dungan, for selling liquor illegally, returned a verdict of guilty. The verdict practically means the overthrow of the liquor power in Hendricks County. Joseph Conway, of Anderson, receive 1 a check for SIB,OUO from the Big. Four, in payment in full of a verdict for that amount for damages. He was caught in the big wreck near St. Louis a year ago. He sued for $25’000. Residents of West Liberty are satisfied that the foundation of the Chinese wall is just beneath the surface of the ground there. For several days men drilling a gas well on the farm of J. J. Lord have been exitending energy and tine drills upon some substance at a depth of SIM) feet, which resists all efforts to penetrate. At the last attempt a 2,000-pound drill dripped from the fastening and fell over flat, as though it had landed at the bottom of a cavern lined with boiler plate. Another drill was sent down, but curled up like pot metal against the hard bottom of the cavern. J. W. Diley. a Chicago traveling man, met Miss Alice Kilme. of Cleveland, by appointment at Laporte, and the couple were married in Michigan. Diley lives in Adair County. Missouri. In his travels he met Miss Kilme at Medina. 0.. and he parted from hi r with the promise to write to her. AVhen he reached Chicago he changed his mind, telegraphed her a proposal of marriage, which was accepted, the appointment being made by wire to meet in Laporte. Miss Kilme answered his proposal favorably and the romance had its sequel by a marriage ceremony performed in Berrien County. The little town of Albany is much excited over a death which occurred there Thursday. Two weeks ago Lewis Levelle. aged 32, was taken sick with a mild form of mal trial fever. His ease was not considered dangerous by the attending physician, but the man contended from the start that he was going to die, having had a dream which so informed him. Monday all signs of the fever had disappeared, but the patient was at times delirious. Physicians were called to examine him. but no ailment could be diagnosed, and the cause of death is a great mystery. Except when the delirious spells were on. Levelle would talk and say he had no pain, but that he could not leave his bed, as he was going to die. C J Wood, aged DO. and Miss Maggie Bar-er. aged IS, were married at GreensImr^. It was IVood's sixth marriage, and he urgs'd a reduction of the license fee. as he had been such a good customer, and he also said he might come again. The Chicago and Nashville limited train •ui the Chicago and Eastern Illinois road, dashed into an oil tank ear at HilisdaH while running tbirty-tivs miles an hour, igniting the oil, and for a time it was thought the train would be burned. The passengers were badly shaken up. The engineer and fireman jumped to sav» thair lives.