Bloomington Courier, Volume 13, Number 52, Bloomington, Monroe County, 29 October 1887 — Page 2

THE COURIER. BY E J. gKLTU3v BLOOMXNGTON, INDIANA

Ix few Congresses have the parties been so evenly di vided as they will be in the one which will open a few weeks hence. The Republican majority in the Senate will be only two, providing Riddleberger, of Virginia continues voting with that party. In the House the Democratic majority will be between ten and fifteen, the doubt as to the exact number being due to the uncertainty as to how the four Independents will vote and as to which party wilt secure most of the four- numbers still to be chosen to fill vacancies. In any event the vote will be unusually close in'each branch. - .

Ex Congressman Tucker tells the whole story of the purpose of the Mormons in seeking to secure the admission of D rah as a State when he says that whatever constitution is row adopted by that Territory, condemning polygamy, could be changed so as to reestablish polygamy the next day after such admission to the Union, and Con gress would be powerless to interfere in the matter. The only sale and practical way out of the difficulty, he urges, is to adopt a constitutional amendment making polygamy a crime,4ike treason, in all States and Territories, and investing Congress with authority to provide for its punishment through- the Federal courts. -v - -

FORGIVENESS.

Let Not the Sun Go Down Upon Yonr Wrath.

tovo nd Charity Should Supplant All eoHnps of Revenge Forgive as Ye Would Be Forgiven. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Subject: "Forgiveness Before Sundowni" Text Ephes. iv., 25. He saidt . What a pillow embroidered of all colors hath the dying day !.. The cradle of clouds from which the sun rises is beautiful enough, but it is surpassed by the many-colored mausoleum in which at evening it is buried-, Sunset among the mountains! It almost takes one's breath away to recall the scene. The long shadows stretching over the plain makes the glory of the departing light, on the tip-top crags and struck aslant through the foliage, the more transpicuous. Saffron and gold, purple and crimson .commingled All the castles of cloud in con dagrat ion. Burning Moscows on the sky. Hauling gardens of roses at their deepesc blush. : Banners of vapor, rd as if from carnage in the battle of the elements. The hunter among the Adirondack,, and the Swiss villager among the Alps, know what is a sunset among the mountains. Forgiveness before sundown. He who never feels the throb of indignation is imbecile. He who can walk among .the injustices, of the world, in flicted upon himself and others, without flush of the cheek, or flash of eye, or

agitation o

American inventive skill promises to make India a more formidable competitor to the American wheafrgrower than it has thus far been. India is handicapped in the race for supremacy in the world's markets by the crudeness and cost of its transportation facilities. Its rolling stock has hitherto been largely obtained in Great Britain, and is not adapted to the uses to which it is applied. It is clumsy as well as expensive. The absence, too, of many of the labor-saving appliances which cheapen and expedite the work of handling the grain is seriously felt in India. There is some reason to believe, however,' that a revolution in methods in this enterprise is about to begin. Americans have secured contracts for building railroad bridges in that country on the TJni ted States plan, and locomotives ' and cars oi the American model are soon to be introduced. There is a hint also that

grain eivawre wm pe omit next year,

If, in addition to- these changes, farm machinery like that employed on this

nature, is either in sym

pathy with wrong or semi-diotic. It all depends on what you are mad a? and how long the feeling lasts whether anger is right Or wrong. Life is full of exasperations. Saul after David, Succoth after Gideon, Koroh after Moses, the . Pasquins after Augustus, the Pharisees after Christ, and every one baa had his pnrsuers, and we arc swindled, or belied, or . misrepresented , or persecuted, or in some way wronged, and the danger is that healthful indignation shall become baleful spite, and that our feelings settle down into a .prolong ed outpouring of temper displeasing to God and ruinous to ourselves, and hence the important injunction of the text: "Let not the sun go down upon your wrath."

vvny tnat limitation to one s angei r : animosities

Whv that period of flaming vanor set to

punctuate a flaming disposition? What has the sunset got to do with one's resentful emotions? Was it a haphazard sentiment written by Paul without special significance? No, no; I think of five reasons why we should not let the sun set before our temper sets: First, because twelve hours is long enough to be angry about any wrong inflicted upon us. Nothing is so exhaust ing to physical health or mental faculty as a protracted indulgence of ill humor. It racks the nervous system. It hum the digestion. It heats the , blood in brain and heart until the whole body is first overheated and then depressed.

Besioes that it sours the disposition, turns one aside from his legitimate work, expends energies ihafc ought to be better emploved, and does us more

sunset? Why not stand behind the barricade of evening cloud and say to them: "Thus-far and no further." Many a man and many a woman is having the health of the body as well as the soul eaten away by a malevolent spirit. A boy in Sparta, having stolen a fox, kept him under his coat, and though the fox was gnawing his vitals, he submitted to it rather than expose his misdeed. Many a man with a smiling face has under his jacket an animosity that is gnawing away the strength of his. body and the integrity ot his. soul. Better get rid of that hidden iox as soon as possible. There are hundreds of domestic circles where that which m03t is needed is the spirit of forgiveness. Brothers apart, sisters apart and parents and children apart. s Solomon says a brother often ded is harder to be won than a strong city. Are there not enough sacred memories of your childhood to bring you together? The ribbinB recount ho -v that Nebuchadnezzar's son had such a spite against his father and after he was dead he had his father burned to ashes, and then put the ashes into four sacks arid tied them to four eagle's necks, which flew away in opposite directions. And there aro now domestic antipathies that seem forever to have scattered all parental memories to the four winds of heaven. How far the engles.fly with the sacred ashes! The hour of sundown makes to that family no practical suggestion. ' Again, we ought not allow the sun set before forgiveness takes place, because we might not live to see another day. and what if we should be ushered i nro the presence, of our Maker with a grudge upon our soul? The majority of the people depart this life in the night. ... Between 11 p. m. and 3 a. m. there is something in the atmosphere which relaxes the grip Which every body has on the soul, and most people enter the next world through the shadows of this world. Perhaps God may have arranged it in that way so as to make the contrast the more glorious. I have seen sunsuiny dUya in this world that mUst have been almost like the radiance of heaven. Bat, as most people leave thy earth between sundown and sunrise, they quit this world at its darkest, and heaven, always bright, will be the brighter for that contrast. Out of blacknessinto irradiation. Shall we.then.

I leap over the roaeat bank of sunset int o

the favorite hunting-ground of disease and death, carrying our

with us? Who would

OLD

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side of the Atlantic should be obtained, harm than it does our antagonist.. Paul

India would become an important competitor of the great wheat-exporting

conn tries.

MATTERS OEJLAW.

itwent Decisions of the Indiana Sit-.

pre me Court. . :. RAVRL SCABS.

13&74. samuei w. Black ft at ts. , Francis

Thompson etaL GarroHC. C Affirmed. Nib-

lac. J... .......

Section 5092, Revised Statutes, means

that the question as to whether the pre-

scribed majority of laud-holders have signed the petition for a free gravel road

remains an open question until the

board proceeds to consider and to act

upon the report which. hag been submitted to it, and nntfr that time the

names of persona may be added to the

petition at their leas are and the names of persons who have signed it may bs

"withdrawn by leave of the board, which

ougnt not to be refused on reasonable

terms, except for good cause shown in

the nature of an estoppel. The motions

for leave to withdraw names attached

to the petitions were made after the re

port of the engineer and

ruling of the Board of Commissioners,

ana were entered in time and could be

renewed on appeal, the case standing de

w7 vcuuxb vvuiTi, or treatea as pending motions. The cause being ap-

pealed to this court and remanded, it

stooa in tnat respect as when it first

reached the Circuit Court. The fact

the dissatisfied petitioners permitted the

remonstrants' to move to dismiss the cause in the Circuit Court for want of

jurisdiction does not amount to a waiver

of their rightito press thesemotions. MXBcunoir.

MS55. Jesse Johnson va. ElliasC. Muny, ad-

nunimraior. t a). Gnint C. C. -Affirmed,

tuiott, J. t

r nere a eierx issues an alias writ

waxo muob vrr. t muuua lO QUaFU it. OT

name such direct attack. A suit to

qmet title after sale has been made on

execution will be unavailing. (2.) Where a plaintiff seeks to quiet title to all the

Jand in controversy upon a specific claim that he is the absolute owner of It, he cannot succeed by showing that

he was entitled to partition or to some

relief of an entirely different character.

.... nAUWATSANIMAiS.

13,733. Pennsylvania Comoanv t

vunnaonui u. Affirmed. Zollars

gives us a good, wide allowance of time for legitimate denunciation, from six o'clock to six o'clock. .- Other things being equal, the man who preserves good temper will come out ahead. An old essayist says that the celebrated John Henderson, of Bristol, England, was at a dining party where

political excitement ran

debate got angry, and

Want to confront his God, against whom we have all done meaner things than anybody has ever done against us, carrying old grudges? How can we expect His forgiveness for the greater when we are not willing to forgive others the lessT Napoleon was encouraged to undertake crossing the Alps because Charlemagne had previously crossed them. And all this rugged path of , forgiveness bears the bleeding footsteps of Him who conquered through suffering, andwemurht to be .-willing to follow.

j On the night of our departure from this

lite into the next,our one plea will have to be for mercy, and lit. will have to be

offered m the presence of Him who

has said: "If you forgive not men their

trespasses neither will your Heavenly

rather forgive your trespasses." What

a 8orrv plight if we stand there hatine

this one, and hating that one, and wish

ing this one a daniage,and wishing some

one else a calamity, and we ourselves needing forgiveness for ten thousand

times ten thousand obliquities of heart

and life. When our last hour comes, we want it. to find us all right Hardly anything affects me so much in the untWAriny nf fl.nfip.nt Pfimnuii via rii or

l??igfe m$ tho I i!0unt of the soldier who, after the city while Henderson j jia(j for many centuries been covered

nfoo jnuairiTity nia nnnnnnnt n r w i n r- i . , ,

f"s "io Fivct, uuttulc viintneasnes and BCor; answer his argument, dashed a glass of ; Ta8 foun standing in

n gnard, hand on

oel Donlap.

Ihis case involves the question wheth-

er the act of 1885, p.. 224, repealed the

old law (B, 8., 8ection 4,025, et seq ) and the court re vie v s both acts at length

It is neld that notwithstanding the act

of 1885 the corporation owning the rail

way and the lessees, etc., are iointlv

liable for the in jury or killing of animals

as formerly; that the manner of commencing and prosecuting actions for

injuries or deaths of animals and the manner of collecting judgments obtained is the same as formerly, and that for a failure to fence at all places required by the prior act railway companies are liable for the injury and death of animals as formerly, except as to farm crossings and gates, the duty of keeping them closed having been expressly transferred by the act of 1885 to the land owners. Under the old law the duty to fence results from the liability imposed: under the new law it is positively enjoined as specified. The old law is in force except

as to the farm crossings and 'gates aoove

stated. PBormmiKe

BTTPPLMHSTARY TO EXECU

TION. ;

lt,w4. Tboioas J. Hatcolnson et al. vs. Isaac

Tranesman. -Vllen S. . Affirmed. Ho wk, J.

Under the statute the mode to test

the order and affidavit filed in proceed

ings supplementary to execution is by demurrers-motion to dismiss or strike out. Motion to quash is not authorized. (2.) The plaintiff may amend his complaint in such proceedings under the code. (Sec. 394.) He may also amend his original affidavit (Sec. 342.) (3.) Neither party in such case is entitled to require the court to make a special flndi n and state conclusions, of law.

wme into nis face, when the sneaker

deliberately wind the liquid from his face and said: ''This, sir, is a diszressionj now, if you please, for the main argument. " W bile worldly philosophy could help but very few in such equipoise of spirit, the grace of God could help any man to such a triumph. "Impossible," you say; "I would eitber have left the table in anger or have knocked the man down."1 rUit I have come to believe that nothing ia impossible if God help, since what I sa w at Beth-Shan faith cure in London, England, two summers aero. While the

religions service was going on Rev. Br.

Doardman, glorious man! since gone to his heavenly rest, whs telling the scores of sick people present that Christ was there as of old to heal all diseases., and

that;if they would only believe, their

sicKness won ia depart. I saw a woman near me with hand and arm twisted of

vKfnw4-'nH .1 V. Ji. J2 111

before the SlZT9 "f wr was aery witn

cases of chronic rheumatism which we

have ail seen and sympathized with, cases bevond all human heslin At

the preacher reiteration of the words:

TT7;M n -r. .

ttiu yuu ububyc; uo you DOIieve: Do you, believe now?" I heard this

poor sick woman say, with an emphasis

wmcn sounded through the buildine?

"I do believe." And then she laid her

twisted arm and hand out as straic.it

as your arm and band or mine. If I

had seen one rise from the dead I would

not have been much more thrilled

Since then I believe that God will do anything in answer to our prayer and in answer to our faith, and he can heal our bodies, and if our soul is all twisted and misbappen of revenge and hate and inflamed with sinful proclivity, he can straiehten that also and make

it well and clean. Ave. vou will not

postpone till sundown forgiveness of

enemies if you can realize "that their

behavior toward vou inav be nf. intn

the catatoeue of the "all thina" ht

" vork together for eoo& to those that

love, trod. 1 have had mnlhtnrfii

mends, out-. I - have found in mv own

cApt?r?ijce tnat trou nas so arranged it

that the greatest onnortumties of ura

tumess that have been opened before

me were onenen hv pnmiAa Anfi

-j j . .JV4

when, years aeo,thev :onsnired acainRt

buttb upruKu an unristendom to me

H.neio in wmcn to preach the Gospel

oo you may harness your antagonism

to your best interests and compel them

w- wan yuu oil io oecter worn- nnrt

oipner character. Suppose, instead o

waiting until .. six minutes past five

o ciock: tnis evening when the sun wil

set, you transact this glorious work n

forgiveness before meridian.

xxatttu; y ts UUL'Ill not 10 let Thft aim

go down on our wrath, because Wfi Wll

sleep better if we are at neace with

everyoocty. insomnia is 2etting t0.be

one 01 me most nreva ent of diRordprA

now lew people retire ar. ten o'cloek

o min, ana sieep clear throneh to

six in toe morning! To relieve this

disorder all narcotics, and sedative.

,i i 1 : 1 . . ; . . . 1

ami cnicrai, ana Dromide of no!a.Rhim

and cocaine, and intoxicants are used.

on notmng is more rmnortant than

quiet sp irit if we would win somnolence.

now is a man gome to sleen when he

is m mind pureuiner an enemv? With

what nervous twirch he will start out nf

a dream! That new nlan for

Ki i V. . , r

luo wm Keen mm wioe ft"Wflire

while i the clock strikes eleven.

LWtfive, one. two. threp. fnnr

1 enve vou an iinfailinc

tion for wakefullness: snend the

hours reneareing your wrongs and the

oea& wav 01 avenoriny thAm. Hnin

convention of friends on this subiect in

your parlor or office at eieht or nine

o'clock. Close the evening by . writing a

oirrer letter expressing your sentiments. Take from the desk or pitreon-hole the papers in the ease to refresh your mind with your evening's meanness. Then lie down and wait for the coming of the day, and it will come before sleep comes, oryour sleap will be a worried quiescence, and, if you take precaution to lay flat on your back, a frightful nightmare. Why not put a bound to your animosity? Why let your foes come into the sanctities of your dormitory? Why let those slanderers who have already rxrn your reputation to pieces or injured your buisnefls, bend over yonr midnight pillow and drive from von one

of the greatest blessing- that Almighty

tiod can oner swf et, refreshing and invigorating sleep? Why not fence out

your enemies by the golden bare of the

ol Vesuvius, his place, spear and

helmet on head. Others fled at the awful Eubmergment. . but the explorer, seventeen hundred years after, found the body of that brave fel low in right position. And it will be a grant thing if, when our last moment

comes, we are tound in right position

Flora Httinoa Apponvi in the InglcsMo. Old Dresden paused for a moment in his task of knocking up the gnarled meequite roots, and with a long breath of satisfaction anl the air of a connoisseur viewed the pink-tinted heap beside him. iHilling off his dilapidated hatf he allowed the cool morning breeie to play among the somewhat ragged locks which hung over his forehead The sun, like a great crimson ball, hung sleepily above the Eastern horison, casting a faint glow upon the turretted face of the Florid as, and gilding the distant peaks of the Trcs Hermanas, standing in close-linked embrace, like allied sentinels guarding the Mexican frontier. In the long, level space which stretched between the mountains, born aloft on the curling fingers of the morning mist, appeared a phantom city, its castellated heights and stately domes rearing themselves as if in prophesy of the years to come, when a noble civilisation shall redeem the barren mesas of the Southern territories, and raise its monuments of art and architecture amid the arid plains. The echo of human voices fell upon Dresden's ear, "Oh John, why must you go?" A woman's voice, low and sweet, with a tremor of pain, "Oomenow, Helen, don't be a baby; dear. Three weeks will fly by in no time. And who knows how rich a strike I may make." "But I don't want it. 1 need you, John." Old Dresden addressed himself to the woodpile with redoubled enegry. A flying knot cf mesquite struck his had. The sting of the wound refreshed him and a little later he heard the door of the cottage siam, while the clink of a horse's hoof sounded on the gravelly soil. As he watched horse and rider disappear at length in the direction of the mirage, which had shifted its form so as to resemble a huge beast of prey couched for a spring upon his pray, something very like a hot German oath rolled like stifled thunder from his lips. "A teufel of a fellow," he murmured more calmly under breath an instant later, accenting the qualification with stout blows of the axe on an obstinate root, which had as many contortions as a dying serpent. "A teufel of a fellow. Leaf a little ffaulike dat alone town to Mexico to tig golt in mittel de winder. It might be ferry goot for him," he added meditatively, leaning upon the axehelve, his face screwed into a quaint grimace, "as old Ju should take off his scalp for him but de little frau." With a sudden indrawing of his shoulders and an accompanying droop of the corners of his mouth, he seemed to protest against his own harsh judgment, as he renewed the combat with the obstinate fuel. Old Dresden was not the only one who disapproved of John Meredith's journey through the wild Sierra Madre at that season of the year, when storms Were frequent in the mountains and Apaches fkulked in the valleys and passes. His partner, David Bo well, had entered a vigorous protest, but to no avail. John Meredith hadthe pugnacity of determination peculiar to men of his

genus, From early boyhood his career

SSSfJrvSf LZfjf in rJght P" d been signalized by a series of daring .ution toward fcrod, on guard and. unau- AU y . - y , fi

righted -by -the ashes from the mountain

of death. What is the use of our worrv

ing about our human, antagonism? If we are misinterpreted the God of the many-colored sunset can put the right color on our action. If Ho can afford to hang such materpiieces over the outside wall of heaven and have them obliterated in an hour, He must be very rich in resources and can put us through in

safety. If all the garniture of the Western heavens at eventide is but the upholstery of one of the windows of our future home, whatBniall business for us to be chasing enem ies I Let not this Sabbath sun go down upon your wrath.. And now, I wish for all of you a beautiful sunset in your earthly existence. With some of you it has been a long day oi trouble, and with othors of you it will be far from calm. When the sun rose at bix o'clock it was the morning of youth, and a fair day was prophesied; but by the time the noon day of midlife had come, and the clock oi your earthlv existence had struck twelve, cloud racks gathered and tempest bellowed in the track of tempest. But as the evening of old age approaches, I pray God the skies may brighten and the clouds be piled up. into pillars as of celestial temples to which you go, or move as with, mounted cohorts come to. take you home. And as you sink out of sight below the horizon may there be a radiance of Christian

example lingering long alter you are

gone, and on the heavens be written in

letters of sapphire, and on tho waters in

letters-of opal and on the hills in letters

01 emerald: "Thy sun shall no more trn

J. Sil. ..I. 1 . O

uown. neitner snau tuy moon withdraw

itovrii, iur uue .Lium snail dp mime ever-

and headstrong exploits, and when, as a

crowning feat, he had captured pretty Helen Gresham by an audacious move, if David Rowell felt any soreness of heart over her capitulation he choked? t bravely down and harbored no bitter

ness in his honest heart. A week after her husband's departure, Mrs. Meredith received a scrawl from Mesilla, where he had expected to meet a friend, written just as they were taking the trail. "And don't be worried, ray dear- he wrote, in conclusion, "the days will pass quickly and three weeks will soon be up. But you must count from the date of our departure." She dried her eyes and counted the days from f he 10th of Feburary. On the 1st of March a warm wind swept over the southern table-lands. Under its breath the snow under the mountain peaks vanished as if by magic and the dry bed of the Members became the course of a surging torrent, sweeping onward for a final plunge into the waters of the gulf. The fern-like foliage of the mesquite commenced to cautiously unfold, and the wild vercena and lupine made tiny patches of purple and megenta over the sterile wastes. On the 3d of March Melen Meredith rose with tremulous eagerness at dawn. The morning was calm and still, but a

peculiar obscurity about the horizon

If dnKenlhfc ailf !LhdSys MKm0urn- Presaged the approach of the Newmg shall be ended.'- So shall the sun- v, - . c- - . . aa: nf oorfh K0onma ' SJ . " Mexican sirocee. Stationed at a bull's-

set. of eazth

heaven.

The Pre UU mt ial Trip.

The Presidential party made ajpleasant

call on the widow of Ex-President Polk

while in Nashville,

During the reception at Nashville

while many poorly-dressed people, evi

dently farmers and working men and

women, were passing before him, Mr. Cleveland administered a stinging re

buke to a number of well-dressed people,

who, having been presented, had step

ped back of him and. were making un-

kindjremarks touching the personal ap

pearance of those passing along.

eye window in the attic, with a fieldglass in her hand, the young wife kept her ey es steadily fixed on the wandering, silvery ribbon, attenuated to a thread in the distance, which marked the line of travel pursued by passers to and fro over the Mexican line. For upward of an hour nothing rewadred her vigilance; then a long and blurred mass developed into a train of hay wagons, each drawn by a score of stout-limbed oxen and

attended by a penatat ion of half-clothed

swarthy Mexicans. Another hour pass

ed, and the rough wagon of a Texan

rancher appeared, the horses strolling

leisurely along, while man and wife,

xne tram reached Atlanta at 11:80

o'clock Monday evening. The military perched on the high driver's seat, smok-

were m line, (iovernor Gordon and

staff were at the stopping place, and a

throng which seemed in the lurid glare

of red lights to be a veritable ocean of

human faces, filled every street. Deafen

ing cheers greeted the travelers, who,

amid signs of the most enthusiastic wel

come, were escortoa to carriages in

waiting ana driven to their Quarters at

tne lum ball house. Governor Gordon

estimated the number of Btraneers in

tne city at iuo,ouu.

vyiuie at quanta a local naner is

authority for the statement that a Con

federate flag was among the decoration

of the town. It savs:

At No. 12 Wh at ifret, floats oim mnm tjvt.ha

breez- tlje rwj. -white and red with thirteen s'ars, that emblem of thu d ad confederacy. Some kind hanl decornLed the n'emn f

great eh oftain, ilo-i. Jeff rson Davis, with the Confederate noiox?. Old soldiers when thev

pass 0 taiiO off their hats, and iu fcbeir hearts afl Southtjratra do hi in reverence.

. If He Could Only HSat. It.

PhilRdelphin Hecord.

A man may build his house of paner,

eat hie dinner from paper plates, wipe

his face with a paper handkerchief, uy

rris wife a paper piano, am go to his

grave in a paper coilin. The coffin may

be paid for with a piece of paper, and the death published on another piece

There are few things more useful than paper.

ad tbeir clay pipes in placid content.

Absorbed in her anxious watch, little

Mrs. Meredith had not observed that

the wind had risen, and for a moment,

was almost appalled to aee road and

landscape disappear from view beneath

a dun colored cloud, which, as it drew near, effectually concealed every trace of the cottages across the street, and

swallowed up the form of a passer-by on

her own sidewalk. Shreds of cloth, bits of pasteboard, and great sheets of paper

were caught up by the wind, along with

the clouds of dust and gravel, and home

onward in its mad flight. In a lower

latitude tho great velocity of the wind

coupled wi h the force of a weightier at

moephere, would, have given the storm

the force of a cyclone. As it was, it

would do little mischief beyond arous

ing the tempera of mankind and uprooting sundry out-houses built upon inse

cure foundations. Mrs. Meredith, with a coolness and patience born of oxperi-

ence, oore this assault upon ner oomicile with charming equanimity. Moving

about the house, she proceeded to col

lecfc a number of lon and slender sand-

haj'B, indispensable adjuncts to the tidy

New-Mexican housewife, and to arrange

thtoa in their accustomed places over

door and window sills, thus fighting the intrusive element on the homoeopathic principle. All that day, and the next, she Waited in melancholy expectancy, not knowing what minute the familiar step might be heard on her little porch. On the third da the storm subsided, and the tearless eyes of the despairing woman beheld only a desolute plain, flanked by pitiless hills and intersected by the white road, along which no sign of life Could be detected. The mountains in all directions had renewed their crests of sriotf. Succeeding days moved by in torturing suspense. As time progressed, the sun's rays beat ever more warmly upon the earth, and, by the middle of March, the heat at noon-day was like a foretaste of summer. Passers-by, as they neared the small cottage, learned to expect a vision of a pair of imploring eyes at the door or windowj or at nightfall a woman's form enveloped in a worsted shawl, pacing up and down behind the double row of cacti and trio of sickly cherry-trees which constituted the sole verdure in the garden. "Mariana in the moated grange," quoted a few of the more mischievous, in willful travesty of the situation, for his wife's anxiety over Meredith's prolonged absence was the subject of general comment, meeting with little sympathy among those accustomed to the uncertainties of frontier life. Two men failed to share in the prevailing apathy. David Rowell, on his regular horseback ride before breakfast each morning, never failed to circle about his partner's house, and as the sad, questioning faco presented itself to him a jocular inquiry left his lips, "Well, Mrs. Meridith, has that missing lord and master of yours turned up yet?" A faltering negative would greet him.

"Exactly as I prophesied. You might

as Well make up your mind that you'll

never see him again. Some of those

pretty Mexicans down there have led

him captive. At which the lady he

addressed, moved by her wifely fealty

and love, would break out in passionate

protest, and lose her anxiety in wrathful

indignation, while the horseman, as he

turned toward the country, changed his

gay look of banter to one of savage fe

rocity, and madly anathematized the

recreant spouse.

At twilight an insignificant figure with

bowed shoulders and a shock of bushy hair, going silently about his chores in

the back yard, stole furtive eiances at

the sad eyed young matron and returned

to his lonely shanty to sit and brood

over a weighty project incubating in his

troubled brain. It was generally understood throughout the community that

some dark mystery attached to old Dres

oen, tne concealment 01 his"- proper

appellation and adoption of the name of

his native city being regarded as most

criminating evidence. But the old fel

low kept on the even tenor of his way, attending to his small stock of poultry and selling his eggs and chickens at an

advance of twenty-five per cent, on the

market price, wholly indifferent to the praise or blame of the rest of humanity. Early in the third week after the young prospector's promised return there began to be a little stir in downtown circles. News of a fresh Apache outbreak had been received, which augured ill for any unprotected propectors in their vicinity. From laughing indifference the business men began to discuss the chances of Meredith's safety. "He was a gallant fellow," remarked one. It was noticeable that he em

ployed the past tense, "It seems a pity to be inactive," observed another. "If any of the men want to go out and look for him, I'll be one of them." But it was generally conceded that the time for help was past. David Rowell, who was a silent auditor on these occasions, persevered in his daily rides, and never flinched in his established programme; but the face he turned to the plains after these recontres had lost its savage expression and was fixed and stern in its pity for the young wife, over whose head was suspended a Dainocelean sword, liable at any moment to fall, 11. One evening, at sundown, the doctor was summoned in hot haste to the Meredith household. At midnight David Oowell, retreating with cautious footsteps f ram the door, whither he had gone to hold a whispered colloquy, was

startled by seeing one of the row of I

twisted cacti in the yard apparently moving toward him. Drawing nearer he recognized the stunted form of the German. " Will she be bedder?" "No change, Dresden." It would have been rank injustice to hold the clear night air accountable for the huski

ness in his tnroat. "uniy one tning can save her. God pity him if he's

dead, and curse him ii he's alive," he

piously added. Simultaneously with the intelligence

of Mrs. Meredith's serious illness it was bruited about that old Dresden had disposed of his chicken ranch and, buying a scraggy burro, set off with a pack of notions to visit some of the Mexican

villages lying contiguous to the border.

His departure aroused little comment, although some of the more enterprising of the masculine gossips hinted a the dark and mysterious reasons which ruled his movements. A few days later a curious meeting occurred in the pass of Sierre Madre, A stubby little man, hobbling nlongjbeside a deminutiye burro, with a towering pack, at a point where the narrow road wounVfebout the side of a precipi

tous gorge, heard the well-known

whistle in the distance, the usual signal warning travellers of approach from art

opposite direction. From a note of

warning the whistle glided gayly into

the strains of a popular operatic air.

The small man with the burro gave a

sharp shout and pushed on to find John

Meredith awaiting his approach at a

place where a crescent had been hoi-

lowed into the rocky wall.

"Veil, Mr. MeredH?" The little man sat down on a rock and

eyed ihecarelesa young horseman with the eye of a Nemesis.

"Helloa, Dresden, What are you up

to now? Going to turn the heads of

those Mexican women with a lot of fluV nil

ery, enr

Drt len ntifled a savage imprecation.

By a srear effort he composed himself.

1 vas thinking you been hating a

fery fine time in de moundains, Mr.

Meredit?"

"Oh, so-so. A bit too much rain and

snow, jsuti nave some, nne specimens

here. People will open their eyes when

they see them. Copper and native silver till you can't rest but of conrs c

you don't know any thing about such

things" he broke off with a compas

sionate lauge.

"You vas not afraid the little frau

would djfobie herseli? and indeefc, dat is

fery goot, as a voman should not make

herself drobble ven derisuotting wort."

The man's voice was dry and measur

ed, but the swelling Veins on his fore

head betrayed a severe inward strain.

The young nlan observed nothing of

this. "Not a bit, Dresden. To tell the truth," he said, in a burst of confidence and with

a mild air of triumph at the recollection of his brilliant artifice, "I flatter myself

I managed that pretty well. I told her to look for me in three weeks, I know a woman. They are all right to long as as they have something to take up their minds. I know looting for me would sort of break up the time and give her something to think of."

"And what tink you dat occupation

will he already, Mr. Meredit? And indeet it is fery nice for a voman to be tinking how de tarn Apaches hai may be got her man's scalp, or he ia fery likely to fall in under some big rook, or blown in pieces by aplast." Thesoeake had risen to his feet, and his bowed form straightened as he confronted Meredith in his wrath. "Sir. Meredit, when your wife lifs and your child is of -fight mint, you need not tank yourself. 'V. The man he addressed stared straight before him, as if he saw a phantoim. His easy confidence had deserted him and he trembled from head to foot. The possible results of his adroit strategy marched in spectral procession before him. "Good Lord, Dresdren!" he faltered. "If anything has happened to her, I had better go over this precipice now." "I know not dat de loss vood be fery great," answered the other cooly. He could not forgive the fellow in a moment. "Only dat Bhe is a fool all vimmen are fools," he remarked, sententiously, "and if she life " Striking his spurs deep irato the flanks of his horse, Meredith dashed around the bend in the road, and in a few seconds the clatter of hoots had died away in the distance. Old Dresden, with a queer smile on his plain face, touched up his lazy animal and continued his journey southward. At daylight the next morning David Rowell, prowling about like a wraith in the dim light, heard a horse coining up the southern road. Meredith checked his gait as he saw the tall figure approaching. "Don't say it, Rowell," he protested. "There is just one thing left to do." He drew a revolver from its case in his belt and deliberately cocked it, David Rowell knocked it from his hand, and it exploded harmlessly in a clump of sage, brush a couple of rods away. As he viewed the pale face and staring eyes, and the gaunt figure, stiff and erect in the saddle, the words of reproach, if he had any ready, died on his lips. ' . "Courage, John," he said. "She's alive. I wouldn't have answered for another day."

INDIANA STATS NEWS.

"Dresden," said John Meredith, one morning a few months later, as he strolled into the back yard; bearing in his arms a small bundle which he handled with awkward tenderness, "you haven't done anything in the chicken Line this summer, I hear." The little man was wrestling with a root shaped like a two-headed dog. "Not much," he repliied shortly, and brought down the axe with a force that cleft the heads in twain. , "Sorry. We miss the fresh eggs and spring chickens. I say, Dresden," he went on musingly, "you didn't make so much out of those gimcracks as you

thought you would, now, did you? I've

always wondered what in time sent you

down into that forsaken country, any

how."

From beneath his bushy eyebrows

Dresden stole a queer glance at his

careless questioner. Meredith sprang

up as if he had been shot. "What? Confound you."

Dresden nodded. Meredith stretched

out his hand. Two palms, one grimy

and hardened with toil, met in a stout

clasp over the sleeping: babe. Shocking Tragedy m Xowa.

A shocking tragedy occurred at Max

well, Story county, Iowa, Saturday

nieht. Perrv Ackers started out about

6 o'clock, bent on destroying somebody.

He borrowed a revolver from a hardware store on pretext that he wanted to

shoot a doer. but he went straight to the

office of Justice of the Peace SchraeHzer,

and, asking him if he was ready to take

his medicine, administered it without

further explanation, shooting him ia tho

left lower jaw, the ball passing down

and out bv the shoulder blade. He next

entered the office of Mayor French, and, stealing up behind him, sent a bullet into his brain. The Mayor nover uttered a word, but died within an hour. The murderer then passed into the street, his crimes as yet being unknown, and meeting several citizens he talked in a threatening manner about evening up

old scores and oranaiching nis revor.ver freely. Passing on to the entrance to Odd-fellows1 Hall, he said good-bye to the postmaster on the way, remark ng that he was going to hell, and-then shot himself, dying immediately." Ackers

was a shiftless fellow, who had be&n t or some time an object of suspicion, but no one expected any wch start! ing tragedy as came. A. Cabinett Change. It is reported that the President will appoint Secretary La mar to iho vacancy on the Supreme Bench within a lew days. Assistant Secretary MuUirow is looked upon as the coming Secretary of

the Interior, and Meads of Mr, Stockslager, of Indiana, at .preonfc Assist-in t Commissioner of the -General Iuul Of

fice., are working ic his in tar fist lor

Muldrow s place si?. ncooioKaiir- in one of tl?e moat popular official1? in - ;.he Interior Department, and his experience in the Land Office would be of great

value in the high position his friends are tryicg to secure for him. It is said that he has excellent backing for the place, and his record in the department will be cf great value in inducing the President to promote him.

. B rid .Bon Buttwv. Ben Butler has been retained attorney for tfie anarchists before the United States supreme court for a retainer of $u,600 m& 1260 a day.

There is not a vacant house iriNobieaville. Wabash has satisfied itself that it is not in the gas belt. Thieves raided the railway depot at Mitchel, Sunday night. ; . Fire has burned an area of nine miles square along tho Kankakee marshes. Porter county's cranberry crop ief good. The fruit commands $2 per bushel in the local market. . , . .,. There have been more than 15,000 bushels 01 apples shipped from Waterloo this season, : - James A. King, a Madison fireman, was thrown from a reel hose, Sunday, and instantly killed. ... - The first gas well north of the Wabash was struck at Auburn Thursday. It is said to be a gusher. Jackson county corn, it is reported,

so far turns out but eight bushels to the

acre. Last year it was forty. There was a considerable snow fall, the ftrst oi the seasoc,at Goshen Friday, At times the 'ground was white with

snow, out it au meltcu on. The Grand Ixidge I. 0. G. T., met at Indianapolis, Tuesday and Wednesday.

The reports show a healthy increase in membership, and a large increase in the

number of lodges.

The postoflice at Columbus was robbed, Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, of f.7fi in money; the contents of several registered letters, stamps, etc., in all amounting to from $125 to $ 150. Miss Ida Stark, of Oayugaa, a fifteen-year-old daughter of Thomas S. Stark, took a large dose of poison Thursday evening and died in half an hour, because her father wouldn't lot her keep company with her best beau. The investigation of tne Scott county books 3 evea 1 ed th at various officials have, during the last ten years, made clerical errors against the county aggregating $1,766,60. This sum is made up of small amounts from a few dollars up to $500. all of which have been, or are being made good. , Patents were Tuesday issued to the following ludianians: Hancock, Matthew S., and J. Johnson, French Lick, burglar gun and alarm; Neisler, Oscar L., Indianp-polis, harrow attachment for cultivator; Raines, Warren L , Monteauma, saw-mill dog; Welch, John M., Annapolis, mole trap. This is the season of the year when the streets of the city used to be full of wagons loaded with wood and coal. Now a coal wagon is a rarity and a cord of wood will soon be considered fit for exhibition in a dime museum. Natural gas and plenty of it has worked the change. Anderson Herald. The deposition of a number of the Leading residents of Laporte are now being taken for the purpose of using them as evidence for the defence of Emma Molioy in her coming 'trial for complicity in the murder of Sarah Graham. The testimony to be taken is to be usd mainly in establishing her reputation previous to the tragedy. The Hendricks Club, cf Indianapolis, will celebrate its second anniversary on January S, (Jackson- Day), and it is proposed, on that occasion, to hold a massmeeting of the young Democracy of the State in Indianapolis. Invitations to be preset? and deliver addresses will be extended to Governor Hill, of New York; Hon. Allen G. Thnrman, or Ohio, and other stare then. There are 193 Presbyterian inini&teTs in the Indiana synod, aud 811 churches: 147 women's foreign missionary societies, and 5S mission boards. These societies have paid in over $92,000 to the Board of th North wosr, an average of 5,000 a year. Dnriug: the last synodicai year Indiana Presbyterians gave $14,844 to foreign missions!. The nest synod will be hold i Rushvilie. A verdict of hanging has been returned in the Macy Warner, case. He murdered Frank Harris. April 15, in the

State prison. It was a cowardly murder; he sneaked up behind Harris and stabbed him with a thoe knife. ' He was sent to the reform school from Indianapolis when a boy ; killed a policeman at Indianapolis and served .six years in the Northern penitentiary. He

then kill ed a saloon-keeper at Vincenues

and was sent for twenty one years to the Southern prisoft. Corn husking is iii progress. In the rich farming districts of this county

the crop is a srjat aesi better than was

expected during the J ry weather. The potato crop is, much to the surprise of many farmera, but litt le below the average. A gentleman who planted extensively of the tuber this year remarked that he-estimated his crop before it was dug at not over S00 bushels, but he has already dug twice that amount. Michigan City News. The warden of the Michigan City prise n has submitted his financial report or the month of July, August and September. The report shows a cash balance of $1,572.85 aj the beginning of the quarter. The receipts and earnings for the three months were $26,552.12. The expenditures, including 1 8,000 remitted to the Treasurer of State, were

$31,961.70, leaving, therefore, a balance

cf $10,018.98 on hands for the mamtain-

ance of the prison. The excess of re

ceipts and earnings over expenditures are thus show a to be $2,200.42. j

A sad occurrence took place foul miles

west of Monon, at Wm. Duncan's house,

where the neighbors had gathered, en

joying a birth day patty. Joseph Oleary

and familv were in attendance. Mr.

Cleary's nibe-year-old

panv

into tho yard to play He attempted to

caress Duncan's laige Shepherd, dog, which, no sooner, than the boy had touched him, sprang at and gathered the boy by the throat, threw him to the ground, and, before help could arrive, killed hint. ? The dog was known to be vicious.. . . ," ; '" S Reports made to t he State Bureau of statistics show that'5;n Indiana this year thert. havri been t 5fi, 19 1 . 775- gallons of; milk produced, 83 42,802 pounds of butter, 612 2'84 pounds of cheese, all of which show an iucr3ase over last year. The poultry products were as follows: Dozens of chickens, 720v950; of turkeys,

56,941; of eeose, 27,833; of duc&s, 29 447,

of eggs, 24,096,387. Ioundt? of feathers, 20734. Tlie.ro were lt227.555 gallons of sorghum molasses and'45.943 pound of sr.rghum supar made;; The maple urodnct wa-n 29 i 955 gallons of molasaes and 123,49 pounds of eur . The Rielimond Pulladuiui tells the story of a handsome woman who, was granted a (Uvorce from her husband a

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few days ago in thatcity. She answered his advertisement for a "lady correspondent" in the Cincinnati Enquirer, A

cofrespondence followed, which in time resulted in their marriage. She was the daughter of a wc ll-to-do farmer and inrherited $4000 from her mother's estate

This money- he ran away with, abandons

ing her in New York City, after ia wedding journey of some' months, paid for put of her fortune. Her husband whdrepresented himself as a rich speculator with an orange grove n FioridaJ where thev were to make their home, turned

out to be a bill poster with Barnums j An organised effort,1 headed :pf:."ti eral of the most prominent and wealthy t men of Evansville, has been inangurat- V ed for- the suppression of all violations of the whisky laws of tliat city. Two of: the police commis3ion3rs are prominent V, .j Germans, and the sflloon-keeperia iee t J 'J cpnf dent they will not be molested byd their verdict; on the t other hand, 4ha &f' prominent citizens iwho have under- v 4 ; . taken to have the la w: onforced have dei-? : " clared their intentihu to resort ;.ior;"e', ' treme measures. It the comnjissionera ;

fail to d their duty they;. wiJI either file mandamus proceedings in-the conrtii or proceed against them bemretth Ooy' ernor for their impeachment. -The Mission Board of the M: Er

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Church has finally accepted: the munifi-mi,'f-" cent gift of Elijah Hsiyes and -wife f - "

valued at $130,000 in chat city; and: .vi--' cinity. Among the n umerons proyisions made with the gif t was one ttoai the property should remain intact for fifty years, and that the rents and profits only should be used for that period. The Board feared that the property would? depreciate in value after the demise of Mr. Hayesi and desired that the object

tionable clause be abrogated with hig ;

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death; Messrs. Fiisgerald and BeiK v members of the Board, were sent out to Warsaw two weeks ago to consult with- J j; Mr. Hayes and secu je a change in .die--'-..: provisionF,in accorcance with the wishes

of the Board. It is understood that Mr.Hayes agreed to thu .change. Chaplaint?

McCabe writes that the Hayes gift is the moat magnificent o;ae (Be;;tsietoV:M society. ' . '. ; .-1 -S . ? J& y

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netroit Free Press. -' "-.!. The man who pu& itf two months atv -the seashore without feeing a waiter? can be told half a Block away: He lfrfO 7 ' thin that you can $e through him. . ' :i; The man who takes the most eomforfc -f: in this world is the chap who booted his. thermoneter out of doors ten yeara; 3agp' and hasn't looked? at ..once since;- -t!? t?

It is said that Edwin Booth's private secretary has read more love letters than any other man in America. Fifty jr 'week is cailed7a very (lo,w ayerago, i 1 - $ An Jinstanetms: :plmtophVof " dude's smile is on exhibition m Chicav: v go. . It closely resembles a npe toma' which has been stepped on, lty a spotted P. T. fernum 8ays the day of the eir cos clown has passed, and that nosucli

iniviiliial . will uccomoanv his shown

next season. Mr. Barnnm has' great deal ior this connfty hpg his master-strotee. - v

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forai) whocan't the?lawjers. f

A man died in Bostonf the otheir ,- day who for over thirty yearn, greased j his nose every tbne he went out on thev.;'' street. His idea was that sonieonei: might want to t?reak it; - and -ymgi greased tinfingera wonjisUp pj The moon, as yiewed frpn KFew Jer-r sey last few wefksi had a woman-s face ? in it. Xfemate who will ;'cctd;ujK' there when there iB good; winter hog ging on earth csn'tbeftnxtfsQ' a cross eyed oW aahi ; C

; Wm, Hines, an old Kansas pachelor, - ; walked twenty- two miles, to offer Abra- : ham Jones $25 and a cow for his wif f and great was his astonishment at beingi turned onfc doors and kicked acro-three mile3 of prfccpuntryv v; -'h:M: . S.. . :. ' ..'v;'!? " 'V. A n Indian ajent has made m mil ection v of 22 Indian legends and 8ttperetationsfv end found all but two were roriuded on . deceptioo which any white chiki pug

to see through at once. . The tw w - ; , that there was a flood and a plague. A j-" l After sparking for thirteen yeais and

after the marriage day had beerieet five, times and postponed; George Swift anf Emma Iicdon, of New Hampshrrei, fin ally eat xhh matter over wit h this 4

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The Mormons are keeping very

th3se days. 3?hey didn?t believe Hnclo J Sam had any backbone, an found he hadplenty and yaris to :ar th ay knuckW. Polygamy k a thitt m

the past, and the old elerhaye f JKftm

p it with onji wife; -j

A Minneanalis woman' was fined f 10? - ;

for hreakinf her umbrHaoyer Ute . " of a street in8sher,-but the public Sfintl .; her over $toay-.,.thfe tb .-. She ought? !r distribute vfl oiv.Ano ittl&ihar Women and "lets- thiili Ml : c

s mne-year-oui son in com- :.T - 'JS'&tM 1 ; ! . ' i witK .the other children, went f4 fill ' M. 'A

Illinois, hai a case of a U.",

routed out his best girl and went ofl? and

got marrien to her:': He came out of hiM, V- .

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sleep threeeksiater when her fathi

told him helled either got to go t o work

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New 'York letter carrier say a ihat

the result of sending s many (ifercuiaiSi 'K

and business icards by mail is a gest

falling off in woman's interest aad curir

osity about tier letters. She used to b$

so excited ti at shed open theni; on the.

door step. 3Tow she throws Ihetti aside

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