St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 29, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 February 1897 — Page 7

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CHAPTER VL Anne's voice was a wonderful one by - pature, and had been developed by the highest culture. To-night she was tired, and her voice was a little tired, too: but its tones had lost none of their exquisitely searching, melting quality, and fatigue made them ounly softer, not less tuneful. She sang twice, and then was obliged to rest. Mrs. Dumaresq looked round for Michelle. . “Where is the child?" she said lightly. “Have you seen her, James? I want her to come and play something now.” “I think I saw her on the veranda,” gaid Mr. Eastlake. “She would hear it " there as well as in the room.” : “Oh, do go and look for her, Mr. East- ~ lake,” Mrs. Dumaresq imflored him anx- . aously...“She’ll take co paughty child, R Then Tim wil cagedl io <l-in~ fault.’ - "Mr. Eastlake departed on his errand. e caught up a soft gray shawl from the divan, and looked out of the open front door. Moonlight such as we never see in : our northern c¢limes poured in a flood of radiance over aM the land. Eastlake was / moved by the beauty of the night, as he had been by Anne Carteret’s singing. He walked slowly down the long veranda and back again before he discovered the young lady of whom he was in search. | There she was, curied up in a long bam- » boo chair like a white kitten. She neither moved nor spoke as he came near. “I was looking for you, Miche,” he said. He had known her as a child, and used her pet name still, often thinking of her as a mere child, and not a woman. She made no answer. “I am tired,” said Michelle, in a-low, strained voice; and her little hands clinched themselves until the knuckles turned white and the nails left their impress on ¥ her palms., lam tired of everything and everyhody.” He glanced down at her, struck by the tone. “What is the matter?’ he asked, smiling. “Has Chico escaped again?” Chico was Michelle's favorite parrot. “Or | ~ have you been walking and dancing too much? Mrs. Dumaresq is right; you don't take care of yourself.” “What is the use of taking care of my- ; self 7’ she said rapidly. *“Why should I? If I were dead and buried nobody would be any the worse.” ; “My dear child, you know you don't |, mean that.” : . “T do mean it,” said Michelle, with a’ - sob. She had covered her face with Ler | hands. > “What would your mother and father | P say?!’ “They don’t understand. Nobody un- | ¢ derstands,” said the girl passionately. 1 ~ “Come, Miche, tell me what is the mat- I: ter,” said Eastlake kindly. “Something |, has gone wrong with you to-day.” ] o . *“No,.she:said, slowly. “Atleast, it's | B “What was it?” s, Michelle leoked up at him and met the #miling kindness of his eyes, then hung |, her head and made her confession. “Anne | - sings so beautifully,” she said, “and is | l . 80 good; and everybody will be fond of i 3 - her; and I don’t feel fond of her at all. | ( ~ s it very wicked? But I wish so much '[ : = that I were tall and grand and dignified, | , & too.” ‘ ‘ & “My dear little girl,” said Eastlake, | 4.*‘ “nobody will be less fond of you because ! 1 ~ Miss Carteret is here.” i * “I don’t know that. Os course I don’t 1 - mean papa and mamma; I mean mhori - people—my other friends.” S “You must not think of such a thing, i . or you will make yourself miserable. Don’t you think your parents’ and your | friends’ hearts are large enough to hold | ‘two people? Besides, all that we know of l’ Miss Carteret at present is that she sings -well and is handsome; but we have known ! Miche, oh, for centuries, ever since she | ‘wore short frocks and came up to my elthow!” “You are tired of Miche.” “1 never was less so in my life,” said f Rastlake, with a teasing pressure of her | hand. i CHAPTER VIL ‘ Anne passed a lazy morning in company with her cousins. At twenty min- | utes past twelve the whistle of a train s was heard. “Is papa coming out by this train?” Michelle asked. “I @on’t know,” Mrs. Dumaresq an- | swered. “Oh, there is Harold, and Mr. Rulies-} ton with him.” The two young men were upon them al- - most before Michelle had finished her sen- - tence. . “Is papa not coming out?”’ B —nromimE by the one o’clock train. The | Rubattino mail is in, and T have brought | you some letters and papers. And here | is the Egyptian Gazette. Nothing in it.” | “Our best Egyptian paper—lL.'Egypte— ‘ was suppressed last month, Miss Car- | teret,” Mr. Rolleston explained to Anne. E “It published an extract from a book | which called Omar—the Omar who burn- | ed the Library of Alexandria, you know-- | the false prophet. Three weeks after- | ward it ot a warning that the Govern- | ment wouldn't stand that sort of thing, | and next day it was suppressed. The | editor had a narrow escape. The Egyp- | tian Government refused to guarantee his safety from assassination, so he thought he had better go by the Messa geries’ boat to Marseilles. He was taken down to the steamer with an escort of soldiers, and kept in his cabin until the boat went off at two o’clock. Then a salute was fired to give notice that the cne my of the faith was out of the country.” “You will frichten Miss Carteret,” said Michelle, mischievously. “She will think herself in a barbarous place.” “Qo we are,” said Rolleston, more seriously than usual. As if in comment upon his words, he stood aside to let three Bedouin Arabs pass him in the road. They were men of fierce aspect, strong, lean, muscular; their picturesque white swathings revealod broad brown breasts and brawny limbs: each of them shouldered a musket, and looked as if he could use it on occasion,

One of them muttered in passing a few words which Harold interpreted to mean ¥ | “dogs of Nazarenes.” ? “Ig suppose you are going to Mrs. Her- » | on’s to-night, Miss Dumaresq?” Tom Rol- | Joston asked. “May I have the pleasure " | of the first waltz?” | “Never make engagements beforehand,” | said Michelle a little sharply. *“Wait till | the evening, and then we'll see.” Mr. Dumaresq came out by the next train, grave and reserved as usual, but very kind and considerate. His first question was how Anne liked Egypt so far, Very much, Anne replied, so far; but she did not think she had been there long enough to make up her mind. , Callers took up the rest of the afternoon, ! | and throughout the whole time Michelle’s | tongue never seemed to rest. Dinner was served earlier than usual in order that the ludies might dress for the dance after, aud not before, their evening meal; and Michelle begged to be excused even before dessert was on the table. Her eyes were on fire, her cheeks glowed with excitement. - At a quarter to nine the whole party ~was ready. Anne was dressed in white —she had yielded so far t¢c Mrs. Dumaresq’s representations—and wore white t flowers in her hair. Michelle came down last of all, radiant in a dainty pink dress and ornaments of filigree silver. A light shawl or handkerchief thrown over the head was all that was needed byway of protection against the cool night breeze. Five donkeys—ordered beforehand from the station, with their respective donkey boys—awaited them at the door. There was no other way of going to a house at any distance in Ramleh! There were no carriages to be hired, and one could not walk comfortably through the deep, soft sand in evening dress. Anne was amused and a little startled at seeing what was expected from her in what may be called horsemanship only by courtesy; but she found her steed's paces very easy, and was forced to admit, from her afternoon’s experience of the desert sand, that riding was more comfortable than waiking. They dismounted at the door of a house from which ecame sounds of music and moving feet, In five minutes they had removed their cloaks, drunk their cups of tea or coffee, and been conducted into the dancing room, where, in a lull between two square dances, they found their host and hostess. But as Anne came forward she caught sight of another figure, the appearance of which dimmed her eyes and took away her |- breath with surprise. Then she recovered herself. Why should she be astonished? After all, there was nothing in itself very remarkable in the presence of the man who had asked her to remember him, and whose name, as he had told her himself, was Dawmer Lawrence. CHAPTER VIII. Lawrence, who wore an impassive and rather weary look upon his handsome face, was talking to the lady with whom he had danced the last quudrille. As | Mrs. Dumaresq's party entered, he sud- ‘ denly lifted his head, gave his long mustache a sharp pull, and asked his partner the name of the new arrivals, She fa- | vored him with a short history of the | Dumaresq family in reply, and told him | that the young lady with them was :1‘ Miss Carteret, Mrs. Dumaresq's consin, | who had just come out from England. i He had been persuaded to stay for a few days in Alexandria by Mr. Caleott, a voung Englishman whose aequaintance he had made in Norway two years ago. A chance meeting with Mr. Heron had led | to his being included in the invitation to | Mrs. Heron's evening party. Mr. Caleott | was =0 well known and so highly connect- 1 ed that a friend of his—especially one so | irreproachable in manners and nmwnr-; ance as Mr. Damer Lawrence—was re- | ceived at once into society with n;n.'n! arms. Mr. Calcott was responsible an’i him. As it happened, Mr. Caleott's friendship for Damer Lawrence had only extended to salimon catching, and outdoor camping in company, and did not involve any knowledge of his antecedents or history. All that Calcott really knew about him was that he was a eapital sportsman and a “good fellow,” with plenty of courage and plenty of money. P3[:‘. Heron observed the direction of Tawrence's eyes, and thought he would introduce him to Mrs. Dumaresq and her niece. But before he could offer to do so, at the conclusion of the duet, Mr. Lawrence had quietly made his way to Miss Carteret's side, and was greeting her like an old acquaintance. He asked her to dance. She refused; she liad not been dancing all the evening. Mrs. Dumaresq was led off smiling by a partner—she would dance all night if she had the op- | portunity—and Lawrence took her place, a low armchair, at Anne's side. “And how do you like Egypt?’ he inquired. It was a tame beginning, but { what else could he say? 1 } “When do you start for Cairo?” was her | question. { He looked at her keenly as he answered. | She puzzled him. He could not tell whethi er she wished him to go or stay, whether she had been glad to see him or not. | “I am waiting here for letters. I may lln- detained several days. Are you not | going to Cairo, too?” | “1 hope to sece it before I leave l‘j:)])l, It has been one of the many dreams of | my life to go up the Nile; but, like most 1 of my dreams, 1 dare say it will not meet | with fulfillment.” | “Why should it not?’ said Lawrence | to himselt. *lf she is as rich as they say, | zoing up the Nile ought to be easy enough | | for Lier.” Aloud he added: “Your expe- ¢ | rience is not like mine in one respect.” | ‘*What is that?” -1 “My dreams always come to pass. I | have scarcely ever made a plan that I o | have not carried out, or wish a wish that 5 | I have not been able to gratify. Every--1 | thing has been so fatally easy with me. : At school, at college, I was lazy enough: - | but what I wanted I achieved. I went . | into Parliament at five and twenty and 1| sat there for some months, I became my . 1 own master, and inherited an estate. I

T s had my own way in other ma short, whether fortunately or - nately, Miss Carteret, I have so long h everything I wished for that lam : ing dissatisfied, and should feel thi was more valuable if it contained ; that I cared to have, which were d me.” e “You are tempting fate when you § ' so,” she said with gravity, * @ e The dance being over and peop ; ginning to stray back into these inner rooms, he rose and stood besi rBO s to leave his chair free for Mrs. Dunaresq. The person who approached it was not Mrs. Dumaresq, however, but Mrs. Leighton, in company with Mr. Heron, who introduced Lawrence at once, and she rush. ed into conversation with,him immediately. Lawrence fancied that she was taking his measure and enjoyed bafling her attempts. o Anne was talking to Mr. Heron, to whom she would have given more atténtion had she not at the same time p listening to the conversation between Mrs, Leighton and Mr. Lawrence. The new light in which Mr. Lawrence Vo himself for a few moments made him interesting to her. e “I have often visited the Campbells,™ Mrs. Leighton was saying. ‘“Poor old Mr. Lawrence of Queen’s Holt—"" “My uncle,” said the young man quieiis. “Indeed? He was most charmingfy® am sure I have often heard him spealy" you; his dear Jack, he used to callLZol Lawrence reddened slightly. “I hi cousin who bears that name,” he S&F, caressing his mustache. “I rather thibk my uncle may have meant him, not me. There is always a confusion between Jack Deazil and Jack Damer Lawrence.” | “Oh, I see. I suppose it was your cop : in, then. It was Mr. Jack Denzil j‘ rence who was engaged to marry Miss Seymour, I am sure.” 2 “He had some pretensions in that quar: ter, 1 believe,” said Lawrence Jfi; “She is now at home with her ier, and he is abroad; in the navy with fi‘i Mediterranean squadron.” o Several of Mrs. Heron's guests left the house together. The moonlight was so brilliant that every stone in the plthml lay clearly defined with its patch ofd“;ii shadow at its side, and every waving frond of the palm trees was as dilfinefifl visible as at noonday. The D\mm] on their five donkeys, Mrs. Leighton on hers, escorted by a friend who was staying at her house, and several other gentlemen on foot—Eastlake, Calcott, Tom Rolleston and Lawrence, among the numj ber—struck across the sand in much the same direction. Anne's steed was an obstinate brown creature, which lagged behind the rest, in spite of the donkey boy'-; objurgations and repeated blows. She was glad when one of the gentiemen turned round and came to her assistanece, It was Mr. Lawrence. | “I shall see you again before Igo to Caira?” he asked. | i “Yes,” said Anne; “I bhope—ll think | 50."” | She was a little bewildered by the brfl-i liancy of the moonlight, by the joyous laughtereof those around her, by the soft. ness of his tones, She hardly knew whas -she said or how much her words impl’s ‘ “A sweet-natured, lovable woman'g said Lawrence to himself afterwardg “Why shouldn’t I teil her everything§ But she is a bit of a prude, 1 dare ; 1 should lnse all the pleasure of her (v lineas if she knew., 1 can’t Jdo her #l% \: harm in the two or three days that 1 shallk !be here; and I'll go to Cairo next weekd letters or no letters. Why should 1 nofl amuse myself in the meantime? 4 Perhaps the person who most of all en joved Mrs, Heron's “evening” was Mi! chelle Dumuresq. She had danced every dance: she had been taken to supper by Mr. Eastlake, she was escorted home ‘3"l Tom and Mr. Bastlake again. And she had one seeret source of satisfaction which she would not for the world hl!‘o% - breathed into any mortal ear; Mr. East- | Inke had not, during the whole evening, - spoker half o dozen words to Anne Cars ! teret. Michdlle's exacting little heart way i (juite content. }. {To be continned.) ‘ - i Anccdote of Lowell, ! The art and tine spirit of James Rus- | sell Lowell are still quite frequently { spoken of in the literavy circles of Lon- ’% don, and anecdotes of him are told with { keen enjoyment. On one occasion at a | large banquet the peculiarvities of | American speech were discussed with ! English bluntness. Lord 8. called to [ Mr. Lowell loudly, so as to silence all | other speakers: 2 *There Is one new expression invent- | ed by your countrymen so foolish and l{\nl;;xv' as to be unpardonable. They | talk of the ‘ashes of the dead.” We | don’t burn corpses. No Englishman l would use a phrase so absurd.” ‘ “And yet,” said Mr. Lowell, gently, “yvour poet Gray says, speaking of the dead: “I2en in our ashes live their wonted fires,’ “And in the burial service of th church of England it is said: ‘Dust t dust, and ashes to ashes.” We sin i good company.” A cordial burst o applause greeted this prompt rejoinder. A c¢lever New York girl made an \ cqually apt rejoinder last winter ml | London. She was invited to meet the l Prince of Wales at breakfast with some other Americans. During breakfast | the Prince rallied her countrymen zoodI humoredly on the liberty taken Dby 1 Americans in “clipping the king’s En-

‘ glish,” robbing words of letters in pronunciation. After they had risen from the table he found the shy little girl in a corner, and asked her Kkindly: “What in London has most impressed \ you?’ “Sinpul, your Highness,” was tha | timid reply. ‘ “Sinpul ¥’ said the puzzled Prince. | “Oh, yes! There is nothing in tha town as wonderful to me.” ‘ “I am afraid,” he said, with a slight ' | expression of annoyance, “that you E know my London better #han I, Sinpul? Is it a theater—a case—what is {t%” “A church, your Highness. We Ameg- | icans would call it St. Paul; but as you [ | eall St. Jobn, Sinjun, this if seems, t | must be Sinpnl.” > The Prince laughed heartily, and de- - | clared himself fairly worsted,. : e e 1 The Peculiar Nile. g For over 1,200 miles the Nile does I | not receive a single tributary stream,

Vo ¥ » 3%* . eifi SUNDAY SCHOOL.. , [ H’QUGHTS WORTHY OF CALM w REFLECTION, A Pleasant, Interesting, and Instructive Lesson, and Where It May Be | Found—A Learned and Concise Re- '] view Os the Same. | B Lesson for February 7. | Golden Text.—*“Man looketh on the out: Wvard appearance, but the Lord looketh | on the heart.”—l. Sam., 16: 7. | True and False Giving is the subject of | this lesson, Acts 4: 32 to 5: 11. . '} The rapid growth of the Christian com- | munity in Jérusalem between Pentecost | and the arrest of Peter and John was cer- | tainly not checked by the release of the | two apostles and their continued preach- | ing. Soon organization became neces- | 83y, and the name church (ecclesia) be- | gan to be applied to it. The sacredness {of the church was all the more real, per- | haps, in those early days because not yet | associated with permanent buildings es- | pecially erected for it. The sacredness | belonged to the gathering of believers for | worship, not to graceful arches, stained § Blass or stately music. Worship meant | action to them, as well as contemplation. |lt meant giving, as well as receiving. This | lesson shows us a phase of the church life % which was not an incidental and subordi'Rate one, as in our day, but equal in im- | portance to prayer and praise. Just at | that time, gifts were wholly for the sup- | port of the poor, not for the spread of the | gospel to other cities or for the material | support of the preachers. This fact, how- | ever, does not affect the value of the story {ns an example for our own (Thristian | beneficence. : Explanatory. - “Neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own': Stifler says, “To abandon the individual title to possessions is an act contrary to nature. The love of property, covetousness, the sense of need, make men cling to what they have. There is no wickedness in honest possession. By what power did these men trinmph over their natural instincts, so that they gave up their property and made themselves, their wives and children, penniless? Men never did so before, and they have never done 80 since, except a feeble jmitation of these."——"“They had all things common''; a state of things applicable only to a sociaty moved by such s spirit as is deserib. es in the following verse, “great grace was upon them all” “With great power gave the spostles witness': A united church means a successful ministry; the pews make the preacher, “As maay as were possessors of lands } or houses gold them': It geems to have | been a general eustom for the time being: i {and the following narrative wounld indi- ’ cate that when the proceeds of the sales E were hrought in to the aposties at the pub- ! lic meetings of the chwreh, no special ex- | planations were made, A person deposit 4 ing with the apostles a bag or purse con | taining a considerable sum of money was # understood to have disposed of all his g ronl estate, retaining only personal prop ] &sty necessary for his support, " "Kept back part of the price”: it is of fonres anderstood that by their silence R ihey allowed it to be thonght that they 4 ollowing the usual custom and giv--1 Ing hey possessod to the church, The f caure lending to this attempted decelt i was prousably e ¢ for appiaase Ihe : [ Bt was public; not improbabls ‘g‘ ; amount wasx ant o) T lern Hdars when church debis are being paid | off by general subscription. If the con : tribution bad been private, there would | have been no need for the deceit, It is re- | iated that at & Scoteh - ary meeling. | nn -a:‘! ’.i-}) was heard s £, ns 8} Saw the elder approaching to receive the #f- | ferings of the people, “"Jean, Jearn, it's no é n piate, it's a bag. Pt by ye're saxpend®, | a penny ‘il dae.”” If there is nothing to rattle, and no chance for others ’ your Apnsnias ents ‘himself with a | { penny. “RBut Peter said’;: how Peter learned of | the intended deception we are not inform : ed. Pet s through | rect ,“, : x ; from the purchaser of the land, ‘ may ; have remarked sneeringly on the charac- | ter of Ananias; perhaps Peter saw in the | 1 very face of Ananias the proof of his l guilt; perhaps it was directly revealed t | him by the Spirit. At any rate, his words | | must }A:g‘.w- astonished Ananias '!’_~ h»! i | measure: the plan prepared with so much | | cunning had failed. “Why hath Satan [ filled thine heart to lie to the Holy 4 (thost” : Sutan's arch enemy is the Hu"l_\ | Spirit. Both strive for mastery of the | heéarts of men, and Satan's shrewdest | schemes are devised to decelve man as to his relation to the Spirit. But to put l this in the form of “lying to the Holy (host.” brings out with startling distinct- ' | ness the heinousness of such sins. " “The space of three hours after”: just about time enough had elapsed for the | | young men to carry the body of Ananias .“) some cemetery outside the I";[_\, &r- --{| range the tomb for the burial, and return. “Poter answered’’: Sapphira entered with surprise and anxiety on her face, not k”(‘,\\'ing '.\‘.v‘\‘ her 'f!’:‘-}':lll-’l had not resurned. Peter replied to her outspoken N ‘ll.!“:“.'\ . “ell me whether ve sold the land ,iw so much;’ indicating the s:m:‘nmt of Jthe gift. Here was Sapphira's best {Behiance, and she threw it away. \;: “Agreed together”: there was a delibrate plan. This should be remembered t ‘hen we are inclined to object to the se- " | Yerity of the punishment. ‘

garasat oTR S g7 00 [, Teaching Hints, It is not merely a lesson against lying, though our ordinary use of the names Ananias and Sapphira is simply to indieate untruthful people. The sin of these two persons was a sin against the Holy | §pirit; an attempt to deceive God as well ‘ as man. It was an attack on the sacredness of God’s church by attempting to make it the means of gratifying personal vanity., Therefore the selection of verses and the title of the lesson are well chosen and should be adhered to. let the true giving be emphasized just as much as the false—even more; for most people, even children, are familiar with the fact of the smldon death of Ananias and Sappi#ra, while most of them think this was a punishment merely for an ordinary falsehood. The solemn warning against hypocrisy in the church must not be allowed to pass unnoticed. It is eminently applicable to-day. Personal applies tions are to be deprecated in any particular church, but the lesson must be taught fearlessly and honestly. Next Lesson—*The Prison Opened.”— Acts B: 17-32. A

THE INDIANA SOLONS e Gov.. Mount Wednesday signed the bill authorizing an investigation of the Vandalian: Railroad Company, and the joint committee to oversee the investigation was appointed as follows: Senators La[Follette, MeCord and Drummond and Representatives Henderson, Randolph. Willoughby and Eichhorn, Attorney General Ketcham will at once make demand upon the railroad company for an accounting from 1846 to 1873. The Senate Committee on Prisons has returned from the State institution at Michigan City, considerably exercised over the condition of affairs, and it is said that the committee, as a result of its investigation, has urepared a bill to make the management } non-partisan. Senator Duncan says that the State’s property is deteriorating, the discipline bad and the management open to ®éare criticism on aceount of the loose methods that are in vogune. Members of the committee say that Warden Harley is wholly incompetent for such a trust. There was a demonstration of disapproval from the Demoeratic members of the Senate Thursday when Uriah Culbert of La Porte County was led down the aisle to receive the oath in place of Senator George W. logers, the Democrat who had just been unseated. The unsenting process was performed by a strict party vote. No other business of importance was transacted by either house, ~ One of the most intd e ' before the Legislature is the proposition to legalize Sunday baseball in Indianapolis. It has already developed as many enemies in outside towns who send in petitions for preserving the honor of the State capital as the anti-cigarette bill has friends, Senator New, who introduced the baseball bill, is editor of the Indianapolis Journal. He is a man of liberal potions and privately favors the bill, but has done nothing to help it along. Hardly a day passes that he does not present a petition against the biil, the petitions being sent to him by church organizations i and women societies who are there lobby- | ing for the anti-cigarette bill. Mr. New., ! being thus placed in the position of oppos- i ing his own bill, affords rnnsii}c-rnhlni amusement for his brother Senators. But | the friends of the bill in Indianapolis are ! legion, and they have not been idle. The colleges are getting together against lhq-! bill intended to stop feotball playving. Gov. ! Mount has indicated to members of tllv‘E Legislature that he is opposed to the prin- | viple of the numerous bills creating sep- ! arate judicial conrts for many of the | connties now applving for the same, This l ia the nearest to anything like a dir:-«-?; suggestion from the Governor to the Leg- ; islature, and as it is made slong the line | of economy it will have weight with those | who are seeking to have these \l‘p:ll‘:t'n‘% courts createdd, The Governor believes | that this movement is the result of actiy g ‘ty on the part of lawyer politicians who | are desirous of ereating mare judgeships § aisd vonrt offices for party spotls, l( weans an additional expense of many | thounaand dollars to each county securing } ] separate court Momday Nenator Newby introduced n | resaintion to throw out two moere Demo- | eratic representatives because they were | clocted from swhat i= called a double dis trict, and which the Sapreme Coart had | already declared wax ap unconstitutionn) i district. This disteict is made up of ;the i three Ununties of Clinton, Montgomery, and Boone, and the Renators elected were the Popnlist Willlam B GitL, the only }'!r. : s 3 the Nenst i the ITh rat i Tan k 4 i ill P his ineogstitution E alle . 5 thas t that neither of tlhese ! i ugh popuiation for a sep | arate Senator, by three together have !, ! WW e A\ . ¢lv, the Demo | erat ) thres togetler, giving each | &4.i S G B b g i Monday after !. t Eikhart County leading g th : Fend iX feet long Wome i " e ¢ : d e The I ¢ e ¥ v ¢} A;. 1: ;= } Ditive 14 I Varllid never b i | ; roed, I e od in favor of making it | el to s to minors., Finally, a sub- | . v form to minors was accept- | t : tlie W t Hlprolis Imeastire, J‘f.‘i " vas passed by a toof B2t 6 3 'The | NSenate also passed a straight anti-cigaret il prohibiting its sale and use in the | Nt -'.‘ Fach House has now ;-I{\~|‘\l IwWo ! hills on the stthiect, one each lice I':‘%!l2.'i the sale of cigarets and one each pro ‘ hibiting use to minors. It is expected | that they will agree on the one preventing the sale and vuse of cigarets to minors. How Fast Do Birds Fly? It is not easy to reckon the speed with which a bird can fly at its fastest. With wateh in hand to note the moment at which a horse, or a man, or a dog, or a cyclist starts on a race and the moment at which he reaches the \\':““i_n'_'u’l-n\T_ one can H’” to the .\'h}l‘L ow of a shade of a second the time that has been taken to cover the ;:xum.n«L With birds the case s guite otherwise. | Caleulations of a kind, however, have been made upon the flight of some of the smaller birds. According to these, the swallow holds the record with a flight of 106 miles to the hour, the homing pigeon does SO miles within the same time, and the American golden plover 60 miles an hour. 'l‘l}is result will put the Americans on their mwn!':'. Doubtless they will see to it that their golden plover will go in for hard training with a view to beating the record. Air in the Arctics. The air is so clear in the Arctic resions that conversation can be carried on casily by persons two miles apart. It has also been asserted on good au thority that at Gibraltar the human voice has been distinctly beard at a distance of ten miles. The World’s Sweets, By the year 1770 sugar had become a sthplo product of Louisiana. Some writers say that there is a variety of sugar cane indigenous to America. The longest run in candy has been made by chocolate creams and caramels. Icing or pow dered sugar is I'(‘(|H('(‘('l to the consistency of fine flour by passing it througl. heavy roclers, set very close I together. |

e st e et RECORD OF THE WEEK INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD., Supreme Court fays an Indianapolis Concern Caused a Death and Is Liable for Damages—Sensation in Or~ phans’ Home at Decatur, : GCas Company Is Liable. The Supreme Court held in the case of : James B. Coy against the Indianapolis Gas Company that where a gas company having the monopoly of furnishing natural gas to the people of a town undertakes to furnish gas to a consumer and afterward, through its negligence and without sufiicient legal excuse, fails to furnish the gas at a time when the weather makes a fire necessary, and the consumer is unable to obtain other fuel, and this faect causes the consumer’s children to become sick and die, the gas company is liable to damages for the death of the children. Mr. Coy's little daunghter was taken ill, and he notified the gas company of the insufficiency of fucl and demanded a larger supply. It was not furnished and the child died from the effects of the cold. Faith‘/Cure Was Not Relished, Berne Orphans’ Home at Decatur, was arrested for applying the faith cure to one of the inmates and not obtaining a physician's services. One of the little children in the home swallowed some poison by mistake and almost died from its effects. Mrs. Sprunger prayed for the child’s recovery, but it grew no better. Nome vis- . itors to the home noticed the child’s dangerous condition and called a physician, who soon restored it to health. The authorities were notified and g warrant for the matron’s arrest followed. i All Over the State. ] William €. MeMillan, aged 75 years, l died st his home at Charlestown, of pneu- ! monin. } At Hobart, I'red Klanson, a saloonkeep- | er, committed suicide by taking poison in the presence of his two sons, 10 and 12 t vears cld. | A patural gas explosion occurred in the | saloon of Willinm Alberts of Upland. The i building was a two-story frame and was i a total wreck. | Smallpox has broken out near Brook- | ville, The health officers certify that i Mrs, Charles Davis and her small daughi ter are both victims of it. | On Monday evening robbers relieved ‘; Frank Mayr, a South Bend jeweler, of a | number of dinmonds and other jewelry | worth SI,OOO or 82,000, The Mayr store i, is in the very heart of the business dis- § trict. Nome choice stock has been dis- | played in a glass case in front of the store. | Between 6 and 7 o'clock the lock on the { case was broken and neariy all of the | precious stones were taken. i Fire broke out in the north wing of the | Denison Hotel at Indianapolis Friday i night almost over the dining room, which ; was just ready to be opened for supper. | Inside of an hour nearly 820,000 damage | was done by the blaze and the flood of water that was poured into the building. g 'PM‘“W‘[ Smis w e LWO years ago tho souln T " half of the hotel was partly destroyed by T During the fire Friday night the i new standpipe machine of the fire departCment fell because of poor management. P It cost recently $5,000 and is said to be ruined, i At noon Friday a Big Four passenger | train at Easton ran into an open switch and its locomotive dashed into the engine of u Big Four freight train standing on the siding. Both engines were dismantled { and the mail and dining ears badly wrecked. The engineers and firemen escaped by jumping. Engineer Lamb of the passenger train reversed his engine before leaping. No one was seriously injured, though the passengers were thrown from their seats and bruised. The trainmen and mail elerks were hurled to the floor t and stunned. The operative who left the switch open thought the passenger train { had passed. i Muncie firemen to the number of a half i dozen ere suffering from being frozen at % a fire while the thermometer was standing ; 15 degrees below zero., They worked three | hours at the home of (. E. Wiley. and | when done their clothes had to be cut off. i Mrs. \Vih’}' discovered the iire and awoke ‘ her husband, who ran downstairs, leaving { her and the babe. The woman followed § with the babe in her arms, but, blinded ; with smoke, stumbled and fell from the { head to the foot of the stairs. She clung | to the child and neither was dangerously | injured. The dwelling house of Nelson ‘i' Harry was entirely destroyed by fire, with ' all its contents. i An insurance case of considerable in- | teresrt has just been decided in the Circuit i (‘our: at Kokomo. Two years ago the gen- | eral store of Z. Friermood at Sims was | burned. It was insured for $4,300 in th | Citizens®' of Fvansville, the Vernon Trust | and the Indiana. An adjuster settled [ with Friermood for SSOO, taking his receipts. Later the assured sued, alleging that the adjuster, by misrepresentation and intimidation, effected the settlement for one-fifth the face of the policies when l he was on a sick bed. The jury found for the plaintiff, awarding him the full !:nncmm of the policies with 6 per cent l interest. | At Dundee, Joseph Boxell, 25 years old, shot Miss Ora Brotherton, 16 years old, in the temple, then fired a bullet into his own head, killing himself instantly. The bullet fired at Miss Brotherton passed c¢lear through her head. She is still living, but will die. It was a case of unrequited love. At 6:30 Wednesday evening Box2ll went to Brotherton's house and was met at the door by the girl, who told him not to enter, as her parents would not [ permit her to see him. Boxell said, "\\'~‘!?. | we'll die together,” and then he fired the ' bullets. Miss Brotherton belongs to one of the wealthiest families in the county. Boxell was ignorant and uncouth, Mrs. W. B. Hayne, one of the H?xiw,\f; residents of Wabash, died in that city of heart failure. At Linton, fire destroyed one "?" the rsland Coal Company's tenements. Two children, aged 1 and 3 years, were burned to death. A1 Jeffersonville, Mrs. George .\l;:_‘lisnn gave apples to the children. Immediately after eating Artie, 19 months old; James, 4 vears old; Lulu, 8 years old, and a boy .;1" 5 were taken with strychnine poisoning. The first three children d.im], :1.11(] the other is very ill. Mrs. Madison is also iil. The case is mysteripus.