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L* f j CHAPTER XIII. Two years have dragged their slow awa.r. Two years! 1 have but

<>rief records of them here and there— so hriof and so far het ween that it seems to mo they must have been very unprolific of / events. / I have had two seasons in London. and '

a winter in the South of Eranee. 1 know j that the boys are flourishing, and that Moorlands is still our own; that Darby is mj’ shadow as of yore, a sweeter, gentler and more tender shadow than even in her ■childish days. I know. too. that my hnsband is devotion itself to ns both; that every good and beautiful gift of life is showered upon me, and that Joan. Lady Ferrers, is a personage of no small dignity and importance in the county. It is night, and late night too. Monk’s Hall has been gay with guests and festivities, but they have ail departed now. It is the first night of the new year, and I have been sitting alone in my dressing room, gazing into the fire—alone, yet not ■alone. for a host of memories peopled my solitude and gazed at me from out the flickering flames. As I so looked back and thought, a knock came at the door, and. in answer to my “Come in!” a pretty girl figure advanced and dropped into the chair beside my own. “I thought you would not mind." she «ays, apologetically; “and it is my last night.” She is very pretty, and she is the only £tirl I have ever called friend, though many bestow that name on me. She is no other, in fact, than that same Nettie ■Croft of whom I was once so jealous. She has been staying with us for this Christmas week, but to-morrow she has to go home—to a very dreary home, poor girl! with the soured, embittered old worn- i ■an who is her only living relative, and j whose tongue and temper are proverbs in the neighborhood. “I am glad you have come.” I said, cheerfully; “I thought you would.” “I am sorry to go home,” she said, with a plaintive accent in her rich young voice; ■“so very, very sorry. I think you spoil me, Joan; every time I come it is harder to go away. But are you tired—you look so pale to-night!” “Not more tired than usual.” I answered; “this has been a very fatiguing week.” “I envy you,” she said suddenly; “oh, I envy yon! What would you do if you had the empty days, the dreary round of commonplace events, the wretched beaten i track to tread that I have?” “You will have other chances,” I said. ■“You are young yet. I—l think it is a mistake to marry young.” “I shall never marry at all," she said, paling to the hue of her white wrapper. "“I —I put that idea aside long ago." “You mean,” I said, looking gravely, nt the sad young face, “that you have cared for some one too well—to forget.” “Yes,” she said, very low and with a pained, drawn look of the pretty brows; “I suppose most girls have had an. experience of that sort before they are twenty. I can’t help it if mine has taken a deeper root than most. You don’t mind any speaking to you?—it is a relief at I last.” "Mind ?—no. The experience of one season, was it not? And you think it will last ?” “It will last,” she said solemnly, "all ■my ’life.” The fire flames died down for a moment. I think I was glad^of the sudden gloom. I bent a little nearer to the flames, a shiver esemed to chill my veins. "Did he —did he love you ?” I asked. “He made me believe so,” she answered, the faint color springing into her face. “And then he forgot.” “Suppose he returns?” “He will never return to me,” she said, the slow tears rising to her eyes; “even If ho did ” “I know,” I said, in that broken pause, “it is never the same thing. One may join the thread, but there is always the ■knot to mar it.” She looked at me quickly. “You have not escaped either,” she said tenderly. “I—l feared it. But it is over, is it not?” "Oh, yes!" I answered. "It was over I Mse Song, long ago.” “I wish I could say the same,” she said brokenly. “It is so hard- so terribly hard I to bear. Sometimes I think, if we meet ; again suddenly, face to face, without I warning or preparation, I—l should be- i tray myself. That”—with a sudden shud- ; ■der —“that would be terrible. I should die I of shame.” "You think he does not love you, then?” "I am sure of it.” She n>rered her face

•with her hands, and for a moment we t were both silent. Then she rose slowly to her feet, and 1 leaned her arm on the mantelshelf, and I bent her head down on it. “It is Yorke Ferrers you love," she said in a low, hard voice, “Yorke Ferrers. And you are his uncle's wife." "It is a complication, is it not?” I said bitterly. “But you should have put it in the past tense. It was Yorke Ferrers I—loved. That was two years ago. Ah,” with a sudden outburst of unreasoning passion, “why did you speak of it? Why recall the dead? It is over-buried —crushed out —stamped out!” “Where is he?” she interposed calmly. “I do not know. I have not seen him for two years. lie—he went abroad.” “And when he returns?” “He will not return hero. He—he dare not.” She raised her white face and looked at me in a strange, dazed way. “Yorke Ferrers dares anything,” she said. “He will return.” CHaFtER~XIV. The next morning while I was sitting

| in the morning room listening to Darby ■ playing on the piano the door opened and |my husband entered. He came straight | over to me where I sat by the bright ; wood tire. I noticed he had some letters ; in his hand. “Go on, child,” he said, as Darby stopped and moved round. She turned and resumed her playing, only keeping it soft and subdued, so as not to drown his voice. "Joan, my dear,” he said, “you remember the new housekeeper is coming today?" "Yes," I answered; “the woman you engaged in London.” "Woman! She thinks herself quite a lady,” he said, laughing. “She is a very dignified and imposing personage indeed. But I thought I would remind you, for you must see her when she comes. I snn-

• ' uvi niifii sue comes, i suppose her rooms are ready ?” I “< >h. yes,” I answered; “I saw about I thorn tins morning. lam so sorry to lose : Mrs. Birket. She was such a dear old I thing.”

i But she is really too old for *o responsible a post," said Sir Ralph. "1 thought it best to pension her off, poor old body! lon see, my dear, you arc so young, and we are away so often, that it is necessary | to have some one trustworthy and capable to look after the place and the servants." "I took Nettie safe home," he went on presently. ’Toor little thing! I wish she were happier. She is such a sweet, good girl. I have always been fond of Nettie. 1 used to think at one time that she and Yorke would make a match. He seemed very fond of her.” “les.” I said quietly. By-the-by, I have had a letter from him at last; he is tired of roving he is coming homo.” i Home! 1 cried sharply; "do you mean I here?" 1 had the letter in my hands. I was | looking at the superscription. How well I I had known that writing once! How I my lit art used to beat at sight of it. Even I now a faint tremor shook me as I held it. This was the letter: “San Francisco, Dee. Ix7 “My Dear I'neb "I am sick of roving. I have been to silver mines, and lead mines, ami oil pits, । and across deserts, and mountains, and rivers, and seas, until I am yearning f r a ; breath of the old pine woods. and a look at I I thu old house. You may expect me ba k I {almost on the heels of my letter, t'ompl; I I merits to my aunt. I trust she can give me a corner at the Hall for a little while, till I can look about and see what I had best do. I am afraid the Bar was a fail ure. I couldn’t stand the dryness and the doubtful honesty of legal complications. But 1 suppose there are other things. However, we will talk that over when we meet. Kind regards to all. "Your affectionate nephew, "Y« HIKE." “He has got over it,” I said to my self, as I folded the letter, and replaced it I in its envelope. “He would not call me j aunt, or wish to come back here, if he I i had not. Oh, lam glad lam very, very I ; glad!" A weight seemed lifted off my heart. I I i looked up at Sir Ralph, cool and uncm i barrassed. “Os course he must have his old room," I I said. "I had bettor give orders for it. । He may return nt any moment." “Thank you. dear," Sir Ralph said I heartily. “1 am glad you don't mind. I —I as a little afraid you might not 1 he it. I don’t think Yorke behaved very politely that time we met him at Saiz burg going off in that abrupt manner, , and throwing up his profession and start- ; ing off to America. He was always a strange boy. 1 do hope he has quieted j down a little." “I have no doubt he has," I said calmly, i CHAPTER XV. A few moments later and the d<>«r I opened to admit the “lady in dnceil circumstances," as Sir Ralph had described the new housekeeper. As I looked up with some curiosity, I saw a dark lace somewhat rich in the coloring of cheek and lip—a tall and very beautiful figure, and surmounting the whole, a head of snowwhite hair. So white and silky and beautiful was it, that the dainty lace cap seemed almost an affront to its beauty, and yet it seemed to me the face looked too young for its framework. The tire so darkly glowing in the heavy-lidded eyes was altogether out of keeping with such signs of age. A strange-looking woman; but, after all, her looks didn’t signify much, and her manners were irreproachable. I told her of her duties, and she expressed herself quite satisfied with her rooms and the arrangements. “I don't think I shall like her,” was my reflection as I sat gazing down on a I blank sheet of paper—blank, save for the । “Dearest Nettie,’ that I had scrawled in my untidy handwriting. "I suppose she I is a laxly; she has the manners and api pearanee of one. But she gives me the | impression of something covert under j hand- watchful. Her eyes look too young j for her face, ami her voice seems forced into those low, even tones." Then I dashed into my letter. I “Dearest Nettie: I “I have some news that will surprise : you. Yorke Ferrers is coming here. He

! may arrive to day to-morrow next ! week. I cannot say decidedly when. Tell i me if you will come over and dine and > sleep hero, the day after to-morrow. “Yours, JOAN.” I scaled it up and addressed it, flien left it on the table till the letters should be collected for the post-bag. This done, I turned once more to my favorite chair by the fire. The flames leaped merrily up; the dark, glowing colors in and about the room stood out in rich relief. “It all looks very comfortable,” I said to myself. “I wonder Darby has not come. It must be nearly time for tea.” I leaned forward towards the flowers, ( and smothered a little yawn. Just then I heard the door behind me softly'open. “Is that you, child?” I said lazily. } “Where have you been all this time?” The flames died down and left the room in sudden darkness. Wondering at the silence, I looked round. A figure stood there outlined against the pale tight from the windows, and the faint, glow of the wavering fire. For a second my heart stood still. J 5 did not rise. I felt ns if turned to stone.

Thon suddenly the light leaped up. an<S the figure came forward from the shadows, and the deep tones of a remembered voice spoke to me: “I fear I startled you. I told them not to announce me. I have come sooner than I expected.” I rose then. The calm, measured tones, the absence of any formal greeting, nerved me to play my own part. Me claspisl hands, coolly and conventionally, as friends might have done. But platitudes did not come easily yet. "We- we expected you," I said, “but not so soon. Your letter only arrived this morning.” “Did it?" he said in the same quiet, oven tones. “I hope I have not put you to inconvenience. How are you all?” looking round the room, bright now with treacherous glow from the flaming logs. "How is my uncle and Darby? You took me for her, did you not?" “Yes, for a moment. We always have tea here together about this time. 1 will ring for it.” I added mechanically. "Do," he said. "It will be likejthe old days in the school room. Foor old days! How far back they look now!” The lights were brought, ami the tea. and with their entrance came Darby, flitting, pure and spirit-like, into the room, pausing as if some prescience warned her of uh intruder <>n its dear loved solitude. I "IVho is thereY" she asked quickly. I “ Yorke?" I led her up. nnd placed her hand in his. "She nt least is not changed," 1 said as our eyes met. "Except to look more like an angel,” he said very softly, and his lips touched her brow. A great peace and calm seemed to settle upon us with the child’s presence. She I took off the restraint and hardness that we had both betrayed. 1 looked at I orke’s changed fa - e with a sense of wonder, for it was changed, ami something seemed to toll me not for the better. And 1, looking at him, felt that I had changed too. A sort of numbness was upon my heart. It thrilled n > longer with the old vivid joys, and hopes, and fears. It beat on quiescent, and at pence. 1 could m>t have gone back n >w to the old foolish times, or stretched out quick arms, crying: "Come back! Oh, fill my life again!" for, suddenly, without warning, • or reason, or preparation of nny sort, a ■ truth shot home to me, barbed nnd sharp, ; but wholesome in its pain a feeling that i he never had tilled it; that 1 had only j dreamt he did. In the iinuttercd consolation of that | thought, I grew at ease with him. When last we had parted, there hid linen a । lover’s plea in eyes and voice; but now, ! by might of two cold, barren jests, it was changed nnd silenced. I looked life nnd its necessities in the j face from a calmer standpoint, nnd he - I almost thought he must have forgotten altogether. His composure accomplished my own. Not one (race was there in voice or look of the oW love, । r the old sorrow. We had fought the bailie Iwout | respective ways; we met. and ciaitmdl vie tory. When I w ent to my room 'i > cveuiaM to dress for dinner, 1 said gl । ily, w.dnl^®* ingly: - "Ho is currd, an !11 have conquered, ( Heaven has boon kinder to rue than 4 d# ’ served!" (To be continued. I LEARNED BUT CAN T READ. A Brcckton Woman totmntr I by Lite teninu* The wonderful del<’lopmcnt »»f certain faculties in the I'ase.s of penvons who have lost the use of some of their natural functions, or of others whose J faculties have not been fully developed, has long been n matter of remark. buU5 it is not nione the outside observers w hiW .ippreehite the provisions of nature foW the benefit of the unfortunates. Tl« sufferers themselves often appn’elay this fully, says the New York Sun. a fl ; In some Instances, after years, grow I depend so much upon their aequh’’ 1 | faculties as to Ie afraid of a chujs l ', I even if they have the chance of oua An illustration of this is given l» « woman in Brooklyn who never Anis learned to read or write. In nov'ay could one discover this except by her own admission, or by putting her !o a direct test, for she is one of tie educated women in the countr/. conversant with languages, art, literature and all the current topics of the day. Sim Is rich, too, and could'affon. all lie services of the b< st teachers if she but chose to learn to read, but she refuses to do so. When this woman was a child 1 er parents lived far from schools, so she had no chance then to read or write. As a mere child she began to earn her own living, nnd again the riiain'p-fpr schooling slipped away. Then she married and the care of a family took up her time. By time the babies were off her hands her husband had grown rich, and then she began her rent education, and now, as a widow, she continues tr“" Her companions read to her about n] the topics which interest h r. Years of such work have stored her mind with a rich treasure of knowledge, ami there Is md a page of a book that has been road to her that sho Is not familiar with; her stores of knowledge are at her Instant command 'Vhy will she not learn to read? Because, she says, she fears that this wonderful memory, which Is now sm'h a treasure-house to her, might, be impaired if she wore to do anything to weaken the demands upon it. AVhat such a memory can do Is well Illustrated in the ease of a tailor of this city yyho cannot read or write. lie Is probably the most widely known man in his business here, as for many years ho has done business with New York's firemen and policemen. Almost every man of these two bodies has dealings with this tailor, and each month between the first and the tenth days he visits every station house ami engine and truck house io I his city to collect his dues. He has acquired considerable wealth, and it is said of him that in all the years he has dealt with the firemen and policemen | w never was . known to make a mistake of a cent in any man’s account, although all his reeords of t raosaetions have been kept . In bls head.

Men of goo convene. Presbyterian general assembly AT EAGLE LAKE. ^(gacics to B e Expended for Current Work Hereafter Southern Assembly Discussed Women in the Pulpit- Re- I formed Church on the Work in India. | Presbyterian Assemblies. 1 he governing body of the Bresin terian ; liurch, the general assembly, has bet n aiding iis one hundred and ninth annual ' «^mn at Eagle Lake, Iml. This o.im.n•ion :s one of the most in)|Hirtiint religious innvoeations in the eouutrj : It represents OParlj N,(HHI congregations, comprising al most I.tMMJMMt ehureh members. These •re scattered in every State in the Enion. greul a church must net ds exercise a powerful intliience for good. Besidt s its ■Arae church work, it carries on a mis ; •Hungry organization covering tiftten countries, for which purpost* there wits tontributed in ISIMJ the a uui of I Ais home missiounry work is eontlnt tetl b> Bhtbt powerful boards. The nssemltlt ®cs year concerned Itself mainly with; JwNino biisinesM affnir*. The assembly was opened with prayer »y t»r. Arthur.l. Brown, sc.retary of the ■>ard ut foreign missions. The tb-vitiiom U exercises were conducted by Dr. John "b. Withrow, the retiring moderator. The Scriptures were road by Dr. George I. Springing of Ornnge, N. J., ami Ihe as sembly was led in prayer by the Ri v. Dr. “Father" Byron Snmb rland of \Yash.ng ton. The opening sermon by the retiring moderator, Rev. Dr. John L. Withr .n. was upon the "('hiefest Grace of Chris lianity," ami was based on first Peter, fourth chapter and eighth verse. At the close of the sermon, the ns<em I "$ j constituted with prayer by the ret j* moderator. ' iK^hehlon Jackson, the fnited States : commissions r <»f cdm at .in in Alaska nnd ■ one of the most widely known home mis- 1

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, w “ rk r I fI ; WS« pr. . M ‘- .01 : ■ ,x I B I! ftp <>n b- . I > Mcn« ti<»n. au«l the moders’ >r rcj md in V « uh > ■ Tie tinam d <.c, * • w*-i i c t** taal r. iibd a*ii Hit. I ' I ' «• “• Mal rental vahte in *ut r. bid ' g >4 ?IWi.3’«3. or .ver «K* per «wr <hi d> ■? .. »»«& im’ .IM* a • v % 1 * -I i. - ' - uev. i>n. jacksox, mouek x roi:. a l" <>f s7u7 ov ; of Vd.’",' 5 , '■' ' , 2.4 w a> Sl.itio.o. " - *®c annual report of the board of mm- । relief shows receipts of the la- ' I)a f to be SGICOO with । xp> ndituri s of While the permanent fund now i :nmdWt- to over SI..V KUMM. it i- eondd- I cred too small owing to the increase in the ; number of applicants. < ollections from । cher' lo * ami Sunday schools are gradn- ■ ally falling off, being decreased nearly I S2S.(MMi a year since ISSS, Hmwiiiv ail the worse whin it is considered that the ehttrch is one-fourth larger and the of lections one-quarter h -s than nine years ag . The avmage gifts of communieanls hate fallen from 13 cents to about «*■; cents each in tha. time. What makes the slowing still worse is the fact that in ISxs but alii familii - were under the chip of the bo,aril ami last y> ar it had S. ... 'Th? entire cash receipts I rom nil sources, imfmliug interest, is $ I!>7.'-•!*■>. b I n>r cent of the sum being used for ex poises. The board is compelh'd b> report an indebtedness of s:iO,o<M> due to the permanent funds. Jfter reviewing the work of tile year the committee recommended approval ol a dtange of rule by which legacies will beexpended tor current work ms'cad ol being invested in tin* permanent funds. Efforts were recommended to increase eottributiotis to this fund. Ihe si-mrlmn of Dr. Benjamin L. Agnew ol I’hiladel pha as secretary of the board was ap pHycd. Southern Assembly. ”he Southern assembly at Charlotte, N. (1. after the usual devotional exersls>B, received and referred various coin- j

mnnications. The committee on Bible and overtures imide a partial report. It recommended that women be forbidden the use of pulpits for public addresses to mixed audiences, and that it be pronounced improper to give notices of such meetings. This precipitated a lively debate. Dr. Pitzer took the position that wl-ile the { Bible absolutely forbade female ordinaI tion it did not forbid all kinds of public M ■ » ".“SniVINKs WHO lIAVF. IIEF.X .MOPKHATOIIH. Hr Craig tlKtKil. i l>r Johnson (issjj. I >r Marquis (isstl). I testimony by woman. Dr. Wahlen ami Dr. Smoot strongly advocated the adop- ' tion of the report. The order of the day I put an end to the debate. Dr. Mr Lean of the American Bible Society ma<le a stirring appeal in behalf ■>f the institution, whose labors, he snid, were essential to the doctrine and activities of the ehureh in America and abroad. I lie assembly then listened to Dr. Daniel ••n polity and worship in connection with Westminster celebration. REFORMEIJ I RESin TERIANS. Onicrnl Synodl of the Church Cote venr* in Pittsburg. At the session of the general synod of ; the Reformed Presbyterian Church in P.ttsbnrg. Rev. Thomas Peebles of Min- : ncapdis was nmtnitmmsly el •cted modC rator Rev. Janns Y. Boyer of Phila-

'■ i <■ i W|<* again chosi ans stated clerk u tlb ' -I II Kemlal f Tarentum. Ph.. ““ < . k Idle subject of foreign - i - ■ ik. , up, । 1 lb v 1 >r. •• ■ go W S rt Hp k. .igai u on the work ! ■ S .me of Cie stations, he said, "'H o-d supporting, ami the Christian lb -i> •’ S eiy had been started with I ; • p ■: ■ . ‘ •he ■i» a sorer of the board ■’ < 1 ■' o- ; . wh:.di was next ri-s.nted. w d r. ■ ■ p-s of .<5.21G.(U. <if this S| । < m> was ।he G ibson bequest for • • i <ri iieit ।। e d!< go The comtnit- ■ o? Imato'o tppoiiihd to raise tin ' itbe . t defray the expensu g.i ' r .' s> m J advised that each gl' ■ to |„|y the ex ipe s .f ttn- ; 'legates, and that a spe- • '■ tix.it' .. he mndi pro rati up>>n the <1 MISI.RI.Wt> PR TIIR 1 A N!S. The Si x t y-seven tli General Assembly Me ts in ( h tea go. T • - •' ■ s- i. .. • h g, ; era' a ~sembiy of Ci|t 1., r r d Pre- 'l ter, 1.. Church met । igo a ith ri' at k'.’ti delegates pres- : g I w .-Il y lix . <■ , t , 1 r:.totos. mi si ( ,f th.'iti. however, comig from the South. I i- the first time m tie history ot this d< tiomtmiti.m that as < otio ~ far n ;■ a as Chicago to ' i 1 ' a'lici ii a-- mb... Kotiring Mod- • iv r Rev. A W. Hawkins of Decatur, I' . 'ai -d the is,emb!y to order in First t'umberiatid Pre^oy t< rian Church at I St'-warf avenue and Sixty-fourth court. I One the features of the assembly was ! the liedivalion of the church iu which the ’ im ci mgs were held and w hich was reecnt- ' iy eomp'eti d. Sparks front the Wires. The Spanish recapture of the port of Banes is .again denied. I urk' y. after many I tit Ie । fforis. has j ■ 'i r- I i '..io ■f > .'ii a >.i li ». । !>p.r। on I. I I pan of which w ill be applied to war ex- | la-uses. B'eyler has again informed the war eor- ! respondents at Havana tha! the rebellion I is in its last throes ami predicts a speedy ' end as the result of bis latest plans. An Indian tribe, which has been for I twelve years (•ngaged iii war w ith Mix i ico. marched into Ortez Sunday and made a treaty of peace with great ceremony. George Hopps, a wealthy farmer living near Warsaw, Ind,, while in tt tit of despondency. took a dose of morphine and then hanged himself. He was dead when found. By a favorable turn iu the rate of foreign exchange the Treasury Department is relieved of the fear of further large shipments of gold out of the country, at least for Ilie present. Il is again stated that the resignations of the German eham-cllor and minister of foreign affairs are in the hands of Emperor William, but that no action has yet been taken in the matter. 'Die Secretary of State has issued a warrant for the surrender to the authorities of Germany of Carl X'olger, who is wanted in Prussia on a charge of arson, and is now held at Keokuk for surrender. The present royal family of Greece are not the first Norsemen to figure in Greek affairs. The tottering Byzantine Empire was upheld for many years by , the Varangian Guard, composed of Danes, Swedes, Norwegians and Saxons.

RECORD OF THE WEEK INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. GiHleleso Farmers iu Many States Aro Heavily V’stimized—Sisters of Charity at E'ort Wayne Deny Hiding an Illinois Man's Sweetheart. Gold Brick Men Secure $150,000. Indianapolis authorities claim they have Unearthed a gold brick trust which has been operating for three years from Indianapolis as headquarters. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars is placed is the trust’s profits from guileless farmers. David Murray, one of the accused, is under arrest for return to Sandusky County, Ohio. His neighbors thought him a <'ominen ial traveler for an Eastern firm. The gang is wanted in Ohio for beating John Bright, near Troy, out of on the (tin box scheme; for catching William Jones, near Chillicothe, for by the name method; for swindling Mrs. Dm>ey, near Sandusky, . it of SIJHX) with a g >i>l A* 10 • brick; for catching John ('role, near Toledo. for on the box game, ami a farmer mimed Mercer, near Huron, for Su.tHHt. nnd John Druckenmiller, near I remont. for by the same game. In Indiana they sold a gold brick to a farmer near South Bend for S7,(MX), ami hate swindled the following people by their favorite tin box game: < Hiver P. Brown, Montezuma, for .S7JMMI; John • itt. Greenfield, for a farmer near Bloomington tor SG.OOO. They got William Beck, near Champaign. 111., for t'oJHtO. and have othe- indictments hanging over litem in Illinois, Missouri. Kentucky. \ irginia. P. nnsylvania. New York, New Jersey. Connecticut and Vermont. I liable to Find Hi» Betrothed. I ite habeas corpus of Joseph Slomenski of Chicago against the Poor Handmaids of Christ in Fort Wayne, in which the petitioner stated that the sisters were holding Clara Wagner of Peru. 111., ig.tii st her wilt, came tip before Judge Dawson. Attorney John Morris, representing the sisters, presented an affidavit that the girl is not now nor was she at the commem'etm'nt of proeeetlings with the Poor Handiniuds of Christ and as ihe girl could not be found the habeas corpus was ;uoperntive. Slomenski threatens ■ , ccitinue his search until lie lias fixated his alleged fiancee, who he believi s is not far from Fort Wayne. All Over the State. At Anderson, the Indiana Spiritualists' A-.s.x in t ion took steps toward the erection of a < ollege and was pledged. They need about more to lM*gin buikli'ig. Charles Ghssner. Port Wayne correspomietit for the Kansas City Sun mid Indianapolis People, was sentenced to tw . years in the penitentiary for at- (• mpting to blackmail Valorous Brown. Mrs Helen M Gougar. the female suffragist of Lafayette, appeared at the polls in 1 s'.l l and demiindi d permission to d«'l«>s t her ballot in that election. Bhe was refused and brought suit against the el*x'tioll oflicTs, but was beaten in the lower ' ”'irt and nlso on appeal. She filed a peti(oerrufi I and so r hopes ~f suffrage under the present 1 miimta cimstittifion are blasted I lie court bolds that the privilege is to Iw enjoyed by males only. •I l l has lx I'n missing regularly for the past month from c< rtain boxes at the Anders' n p stefficr. I‘erris Lancaster and Thayer Tlmmas. aged 5 and ti years respei tively, were caught in the act of rifling several letters, which they confessed to having taken from the boxes in question'. There were several checks and drafts, one for sl(Mt, mid many business letters of importance were found. They claim this wits the first time they had indnlged in the thievery. They were taken iu charge by the police, but were later released, their families and age protecting them. The case may . however, be taken up by the (I ivernmimt. Eighteen Anderson property owners, against whom the receiver of the American Building and Loan Company of Chicago has brought foreclosures on loans made by that company, effected an organization and will light foreclosure. A test will be made of the foreclosure against Michael Kenney. He borrowed SSto ami paid back and the 15 per cent interest. The receiver’s demand is for the entire SstMi and interest. The tight will be made on the grounds of illegal interest, th" State laws limiting interest to G per cent. I’he case is of great 'inportame all over the Stale. The same company hud probably o.ihmi loans in Indiana, al! of which are being foreclosed. Insurance companies who carried risks amounting to SJOJMiO on the life of the late Dr. M’. A. Dunn, long a practicing physician in Wabash, whose death occur,red iu March at Naples, Italy, have declined to pay the policies ou the ground of insufficient proof of death. The doctor was seized with Roman fever at Naples. His demise was -uddem .ami Ihe remains were l>la< i d aboard a sti amei and brought direct to America, only two of the ship’s officers knowing that the box contained his remains. Certificates of death were forwarded to the insurance companies, but they decline to pay until absolute evidence of Dr. Dunn's death is furnished them. A ease which will determine the right of corporations to harvest ice from small bodies of water without eompensation to persons owning land adjacent has been brought in the Laporte Circuit Court by M'illiam Zahcrt, who lays claim toslo,ooi> damages for such infringement by the John Hilt lee Company. The Hilt company ent ice from the lake in proximity to Znli'Tt’s land, and this test case has been brought to determine the legal status of such action. Remaking is the great winter industry in northern Indiana, and a decision a warding damages to Zahert will be followed by almost endless litigation, which would affect large Chicago corporations owning immense warehouses in Laporte and St. Joseph Counties. At. Valparaiso, the large lumber yards and mills of Ilenderlong Bros. A O'Neill were totally destroyed by fire, together with the woodwork for the new government building at South Bend, for which they had the contract. '1 he Joss is estimated at. $25,00*.), with $5,000 insurance. The Indiana Supreme Court has denied the defendants a rehearing in the ease of the Auditor of Tippecanoe County against the estate of Job M. Nash, who, it was discovered, had sequestered about $280,000 from taxation for a period of twelve years. The court holds that the Auditor of tin* county acted within his authority