Walkerton Independent, Volume 27, Number 8.000000, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 September 1901 — Page 3

“true as steel 0 < X A STORY OF rabfARMY LIFE p®lp Western Fort. 1 । = BY MAJOR ALFRED ROCHEFORT | I Copyrighted, 1881. by Robert Bonner’s Sons. i | — — 1 "

4 1 CHAPTER XII. The Cascade Mountains are a continuation of the range known in California and Oregoa as the Sierra Nevadas. Sierra Nevada is Spanish for "snow mountains.” it was the daring explorers Lewis and ■Ciftrk—after the latter Fort Clark was named—who in 1805 called these marvelmountains the Cascades. The name suggests the cause. 'The Cascades fully equal the Sierras in general altitude, but they have more lofty aai commanding peaks. Mount St. Helen. Mount Adams, Mount Ranier and i Baker—the latter a more recent smtie —rear their white summits into the ■ fthi*? air, and look over one hundred and i miles of intervening forest, bay and psuirse far into the vast Pacific. The mountains take their names from tbt? many cataracts or cascades that leap i ■down their sides, and cleave their way ; ito Puget’s Sound, or become tributaries | of the mighty Columbia, the greatest and : grcaddst of all the rivers that pour into । ill? Pacific from any land. Tie home of Judge Loring, or “Lor- ' tn^’s Factory,” as it was called, though it : was not a factory as we understand the j word in the East, was situated on the shares of a clear lake at the foot of the Cascade Range, and due west from Fort dark. Fmr<mec Loring and Jennie Ford were stliTding by the lake, watching the Infishing from their canoes, and ^rl&Ttiag in the mountain air as if every inhalation were an intoxicating draught, were both in riding dress, and as they looked frequently in the direction of Übe stables, it was evident they were waiting for their horses. “l?t> you not think it is time Solon was back from Fort Clark?” asked Jennie She had just been going into raptures over the swaying streams, the Ssrowta uplands, the dark green forests,

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ghe snowy pinnacles, and the wonderful <3epths of blue in which not a cloud floated. ■“Yes, Jennie, he should have been here three hours ago.” “Do you think any harm could have befalien him?” “No; and yet there is no knowing what to expect from the lawless element by which we are surrounded. However, Solan is faithful and well able to care &»r himself.” "The last news we had was that Mr. Morton had gone with Mr. Reynolds up the Sound ” “Yes, Jennie,” said Florence with a shy laugh, "and that Mr. Bracebridge was Lack at the Fort disconsolate)” At this juncture a red man appeared, Sending two beautiful horses, equipped with side saddles and groomed til! the (reflection of the sun on their glossy sides was- quite dazzling.* Florence the next instant was secure in the saddle and with the bridle in her left hand. Jennie Jord Iliad not had her cousin’s practice; nevertheless she found the saddle without trouble, and sat with the easy grace that si ly perfect confidence can give on horseSmeJ:. “The judge, he ask if you be back, soon, dinner,” said the red man, as the girls turned to ride away. "We will be back to dinner, Eli,” replied Florence. “And wich way will de leddies go?” “Up the Sugar Loaf, and back by the Fort Clark trail.” With the last word Florence touched the* whip to the side of her horse, so gently that it might have been a caress, -hut the animal did not so understand it. He wheeled, tossed up his chestnut mane tend galloped away for the hills, with Jennie Ford’s horse close alongside. At the foot of the elevation known as (the Sugar Loaf, Florence spoke to her (horse, and the animal at once came down to a walk, an example that Jennie lord’s horse immediately followed. The scenery around them was magnifieent beyond the power of words to de- i scribe, but they had seen it and com- i •juented on it before. Now they looked down at the great sea of evergreen forest, through which ran the trail to Fort (Clark. Florence had a field glass, and .after taking a survey of the woods and the road leading up to the factory, she i landed the glass to her cousin, saying: "I cannot see him." "Then.” said Jennie, waving the glass ■away, "it is useless for me to try.” "Solon is faithful. I never knew him I -So tarry before.” "1 feel,” said Jennie, “as if something fearful may have happened.” They came down from the mountain and reined in their horses to look at the j 'Fort Clark trail, which entered the dense I •woods near by and was lost to sight. I when Florence’s attention was attracted fey the pounding of hoofs. "Tbm-- is a horseman coming this way en the na.il,” she saidE "1. hope it is Solon,” The expression had but pass 1 Jennie's Eps when a Cayuse horse. bearing an In- i -dian rider, came out of the woods. "Solon! Solon!” called out Florence. On seeing the ladies the young Indian | .3rew in his horse and sprang lightly to | the ground. “What is the news from Fort Clark?” tskcl F;or< nee. and. in her eagerness. «ii ■ :■ .• •d out her han I for the expect- I ed I -tn .. "Ma h news,” replied Solon. “But the’ fetter of Mrs. Phelps will tel! you all.” | She opened the letter and read it aloud ■far JeunA’s benefit, an 1, as she read, she

turned pale, but managed to keep on to the end. Mrs. Phelps told her of the death of Mr. Reynolds, the wounding of Colin Morton, and said that the latter was then suffering from a fever at the Fort hospital, and asking in his delirium for his former gentle nurse. "Thank you, Solon; you can ride on,” said Florence. “I wish we could be near Mr. Morton; I wish he were here," said Jennie, as i they rode slowly back. ' “But he cannot come here,” said Flor- , once, with a set expression about her ; beautiful mouth that made her look old- ; er for the time. “I know that: and then to think that | Mr. Bracebridge is away with Captain I Phelps.” "He must not be left alone,” said Flor- ■ ence, resolutely. i "Will you go to him?” “Yes. Let us go on to the house; my I father must know my purpose at once.” Florence found dinner ready, but for ' the meal neither she nor Jennie had any ; appettie. Iler father was sitting at the ' head of the table reading the mail which I the courier had brought in from Fort Clark. He had in his hand a long letter from Maj. Germon, setting forth, in his own peculiar way, the death of Mr. Reynolds and the wounding of Colin Morton. "The news from Fort Clark is rather startling,” said Judge Loring. “Have you heard from Mrs. Phelps?” "Yes, father.” And Florence handed him the letter. “Ah! She writes like a woman,” said the judge, glancing it over. "You could hardly expect her to write like a man—like the gallant Maj. Gernios, for instance,” replied Florence, with a touch of sarcasm in her voice. “Well. I am very sorry for Lieut. Rey-

I nolds,” said the judge. “He impressed me as beisig a fine young man ” "Have you any regrets for Mr. Mor- ■ ton?” uhe asked. "Os course I have. I am amazed at you, Florence.” The s&tige pushed the papers aside and began to carve. The dinner passed off very q'iietly; and. when it was over, the judge (Fan about to go to his own office, where he usually lay down for an hour after the mid-day meal. "I Wish to speak with you. father.” said Florence, stopping him at the door. “What is it, Florence?” “I am going at once to Fort Clark,” site said, decisively. “Going at once to Fort Clark?” echoed the judge. "Yes, father.” “Are you insane?” “Do I look to be insane?” “I do not see what you are driving at,” said the judge, angrily. "I am simply driving at this,” she said, with a decisive ring in her voice that startled him, and a gleam in her blue eyes that he had never seen there before. "I owe my life to Colin Morton, and others are indebted in the same way. He risked all a man could risk to save me ami others, without any other thought than that we were fellow-creatures. Is not this true?” "Yes; and I offered to pay him and Bracebridge for it.” “To pay them?” with a touch of scorn i in the intonations. "That is what I said.” “You did make that offer; and it was so unlike you that I felt ashamed for rhe father whom I have ever loved—ido'.Ued.” “But this man does not need your aid; you are neither a doctor nor a professional nurse.” "Not a doctor, father; but every woman with a heart worthy of her sex is a nurse by instinct. There is another’reason why I should be at the bedside of Colin Morton." "What is it?” The judge turned pale, I then flushed as if he were spurring himself into anger. "I love him!” “Love Colin Morton?" “Yes; with all the intensity of my soul and all the feeling my heart,” she rei plied. “And you did not tell me this before?” "No, for you put away the subject ■ whenever I approached it. I wanted to I tell you when I found you in an amiable moo i. Y’ou force me to tell you when you are angered ” “That is en gh, girl; I will hear no more. You cannot go to Fort Clark,” said th? judge, with undisguised anger. "I have ever obeyed you, and shall con- ■ tinue to obey yon, while I can do sb with- ! out sacrificing higlu r duties ” "Higher duties! yon shall obey me. Go to yotsr room and remain there till 1 send for you,” “And yon will not let me go to Fort Clark?" she asked, with a calmness that was in striking contrast with his anger. ; j “Never on such a mission. I will order l that no horse be provided for you.” He waved his hand for hey to leave the i room. She halted at the door and looking ; back at him. she said: "When you have returned to your bet- । i ter self you will regret this. Again I say I j I am determined to do what I think is j 1 right.” | “And so am I.” said the judge. “Very well, father; it saddens my heart j i to know that the conflict has come, nor

: does it ease me to know that 1 have not | ■ brought it on.” Florence went to her own room, whither Jennie followed her, and together they consulted and wept by turns till the sun went down. It was near daylight when Jennie Ford dropped off to sleep, ami Florence rose quietly. She put on a pair of moccasins and about her waist she fastened a beaded belt, a present from an admiring hunter. A pistol and a gold-hilted knife accompanied the belt. She fastened a small hunting bag over her shoulders, and then took down from the mantel a small rifle that looked like a toy, but with which she had often shown her skill as a shot. She went to the kitchen and tilled her haversack with cooked food, and then started for the Fort Clark trail. She waited in the edge of the woods till the dawn began l to creep down from the mountains, and then she began her long, love-prompted journey. Brave of heart and light of foot, she went on at a speed that would have tested the powers of a trained pedestrian. She sped over rocky stretches where the unpracticed eye could see no sign of a trail, but she never once made a mistake. but always came upon the tracks leading to Fort Clark —whenever she reached softer ground. After the sun had passed the zenith, she halted, bathed her face and hands, and partook of some of the food in the haversack slung at her back—then away again. She knew that she could not reach Fort Clark before dark, and that she must remain in the woods ail night. Ordinarily the thought would have been alarming, but the object of her mission and the fear that Colin Morton might die before she reached him overwhelmed every feeling as to self, and made her indifferent to danger ami superior to fatigue. Just as the sun was setting she came to the banks of a rock-bordered stream and began to look around for a place that held out the promise of protection from wild animals, if not rest, till morning. She clambered up the rocks and saw just such a place as she desired, down closer to the water. Florence was in the act of descending, when she was startled by hearing a yell across the stream, and then a chorus of yells. She looked up, and great was her horror at seeing Fish Hawk and four other savages leaping into the stream and hurrying towards her. (To be continued.) NEW LANGUAGE IS LAUNCHED. Esperanto, or the Universal Tongue, Started in France. Undeterred by the fate of Volapuk, i which is dead, buried and almost for- j gotten, a body of enthusiasts in France | have taken up the glittering idea of a ' new universal language; and. thanks to i the support of an organization with ; ramifications throughout th \okl world ; and affiliations in the new, their pros- j peets are perhaps more brilliant than is i usually the ease with schemes of tl.e j kind. It is the Touring Club of France, I probably the most powerful organiza- ; tion of cyclists in the world, whose sup- | port has been enlisted for this new uni- i versal language. There are about a j hundred thousand members of the T. C. | F.—the initials by which, for brevity's sake, the club is generally described—and an effort is to be made to interest these by means of free lectures on and lessons in the language, near the Place de la Bourse, Paris. The T. C. F. has a further means of action in its monthly bulletin, which is circulated not only m France and elsewhere in the continent of Europe, but in England and to some extent in the United States of America. With this much assured, the new language has already gone farther and fared better than Volapuk or any other of its numerous forerunners. It remains to be seen whether it will answer to the hopes placed in it. To begin with, its name is not co«spueuously lucid. It is called Esperanto. Possibly its originator. Dr. Zamenhoff. a Russian, realized that the finality of hopefulness was that most conspicuous in the launching of a universal language. He has borrowed the most familiar roots of the principal European tongues, Latin or Teutonic, for the basis of his language. For instance. “am” conveys the idea of love, "land” that of country, "attend” that of waiting, “daur” that of duration and “goi” that of joy. Any root can be converted into a substantive, adjective, verb or adverb as desired by the simple addition of a termination. Thus “am” gives “amo,” the noun love; “ama” is the adjective loving; "ami” is to love, and “ame” the adverb lovingly. In distinguishing the tenses of verbs “i” stands for the infinitive, “as" for the present, “is” for the past and “os” for the future. ; Altogether, according to the enthusi- ; asts of Esperanto, the simplicity and precision of the language are extreme, and it does not err by excess of rules, as all its mysteries are embodied in sixteen. It would perhaps ha e been remarkable if Esperanto had failed to secure a word of approval from Count Tolstoi, whom future generations may be tempted to look upon as one of the most consistent promoters of bubble schemes the world has known. Count Toistrrideclares that, having received a grammar. a dictionary and a paper printed in Esperanto, he was able to read the articles in the paper with ease after two hours’ study.—New York Telegram. The Giddy Thtnß-<. Mr. Manhattan —I hear you suburbanites go to bed every night at 8. Isolate (of Lonelyville, indignantly)— It’s no such thing! Why. I have an alarm clock to wake me up in the morning, and you can’t wind its alarm up till the hour hand is past 9 o'clock, so we have to sit up that late every night except Sundays!—Brooklyn Eagle. A Practic H Adviser. Miss Romancie—Oh, I just adore | music. 1 old Baldie —You play, I believe. Miss Romancie —Play and sing. both. I What sort of a man ought a woman j who loves music to marry? Old Baldy—Well— er—l really can’t । say—a deaf one, I suppose.—New York ; Weekly. A Cynic's Views. Muggins—Diogenes was the old feli low who used to go about with a lan- ■ tern looking for an honest man, wasn't : he? I Buggins—Yes, that’s the legend. Muggins—Well. I’ll bet a big apple he stole that lantern.—Philadelphia Record.

KNIGHTS. N CONCLAVE TEMPLARS H( CAMPMENT LD ANNUAL EN ' LOUISVILLE. Thirty Thousan I , Plume 1 Warriors March lurouub ... . the Streets, While len 1 imes That, o . , ~ Nukuber Watch from the Sidewalks— ' _l'he Order Growing. A parade of 3(~; . marching to the u plumed knights brass bands mark tnree score of the t wentv-eightlf 1 " 118 ! opening the grand encamp 11 triennial conclave of Templar in Louisv neat of the Ku,gals Railway officials s die. Ky.. on luesuay. 000 visitors were i Lite that nearly 100,The Gra 11 the cit > ' The parade sta » ’ Parade. Main streets and -tetl at Seventh and , Brook street, whei moved tip Mam to | encampment in c (‘.officers of the giaad marchers. Then t iej'* ,I S es joined the Market street. Si? til panders moved up stmt. Fourth strletl street, Jefferson of honor. Cheatnut s> passing the court Broadway, Fourth s treet, I myd street, the grand arch, Ket t reet ' passing under street, Hill street. Fi tueky rdreet, Third court and to Central fti l street. St. Jam s rade disbanded. Park, ,/here the paThe sidewalke wi spectators, while e^r re a solid mass of course and every otjory window along the occupied to the ihni»»or vantage point was ing stand was at r - official reviewstreets, but there ajThirty-ninth and Hili ers at varied rereaimmber of oth police kept t An^extra force of tained a p in order and mainmarchers. Apath for the spectacle As a magnificent mile of to' olor. Mile after nons and baud a and fluttering penstirring marches h wa band discoursing tators jammed aga >ld the crowd of spe<last knight left t Inst the wires till the manderies of Ulin, ke ranks. The eomIndiana, numberin lis, Pennsylvania ami made up an entire g about 1.200 em h, welcome to the kni division. The formal ghts was extended by

few; n W fw / \VC. ; I / 1 <-^7' j MAJOR JOHNH.LWTHERS I 1< »» 'ri A r \j^ Z Cha* *• >■«a n-e j’t'io h Con-\. . yr i ■ r, ■■■iirT - ~ -■ THREE OFl]I CE11S OF THE KNTG HTS TEMPLAR CONCLAVE.

Judge Barker ofi Louisville, acting for ' Gov. Beckham, atid ex-Congressman W. > C. P. Breckinridgje. A spectacular competitive drill by the ; crack comma udemes of the country at- ■ tracted a crush of Knights Templar con- ' clave visitors to Churchill downs on Wed- I nesday. Following were the contestants i in the drill: Columbia Commandery, No. 2, Washington, D. C. Colorado Commandery, No. 1, Denver, ! Colo. Hanselman Commandery, No. 35, Cincinnati, Ohio. Allegheny/?Vn’*yjQdery, No. 35, Pittsburg, Pa. v St. Bernai * s, °* R Cni- - cn ^ r> - JBCalvary I’.,! I ’, . ■ burg, W. Va. Golden Gate Commandery, No. IG, San Francisco, Cal. California Commandery, No. 2 (mounted), San Francisco, Cal. The competition was the first hel 1 since the conclave of ISS3. While the knights were drilling, the busness end of the con lave —the meet Ing of the grand encampment—got under way at the Girls’ high school. Win n Grand Master Lloyd called the meeting to order there were about 120 knights present to transact business. The gran ! master’s, the grand treasurer's, the gran ! recorder’s and a number of other reports were received and referred to th ir propt r committees. Kunjlit*’- Orde • Grtws, The report of Grand Maser Reul en H. Lloyd contained the following; "The order is in a most satis; : tory an ' > healthy conditio^ ami sn'a .i:, - grow.ng. ; The present ter^i. which began July 1J 1599, commenced with 114.540 members; and close<l with 125. HG. Phe . ; rd,v is it. a much more healthy condition than it i was before the prom .Igation of the tie- ■ j cision that voluritarily remaining a n >n- > । affiliate in lodge dr chapter for s.x monihs | w.)uld affect nn iiiberstup in a ommanuery. for now evary member of the order is sustaining it, root an 1 bran -h. "Since our last session a formal treaty ■ of peace has bein entered into between । the United State's and Spain. By ninety days of actual warfare over 10,0(10,030 people, occupying mitre than 2C0.020 square miles of the earth s surface, were freed from oppression. Where it was

dangerous to be a Mason, our order may now securely sprea<l its humanizing and elevating influences. The school house and the lodge can labor together to brush j aside ignorance and superstition an I । teach the down-trodden people the blessings of civil and religious liberty. We should indeed feel proud—as we do —that a Templar was the guiding spirit in bringing about this happy change to so many human beings. Sphere of Usefulness Enlarges. “The sphere of our usefulness is gradually enlarging. Our labors are but commencing. We must press onward until liberty and enlightenment shall iliumir.e the world; until every land and every people shall have heard and rejoiced at the fulfillment of the proclamation, made by the angels at the coming of Him whose followers we are. ‘On earth peace, good-will toward men.’ ” Report of Grand Treasurer IT. Wales Lines showed receipts of 8H,0G9 and net | cash resources of 847,25 G. Gain in em bershi p. The report of Grand Recorder William 11. Mayo contained these figures: Net gain iu membership in 1899, 2,444; in 1900, 2,308; in 1901, 4,301, the year endng July 1. There are at present 1.059 commanderies, with a membership of 125,108. The States having over 2,000 are as follows: Californa, 3,550; Connecticut, 2,(596; Illinois, 9,587; Indiana, 3,767; lowa, 4,378; Kansas, 3,361; Kentucky, 2,395; Maine, 3,590; Massachusetts and Rhode Island, 13,112; Michigan, 5,880; Minnesota, 2,739; Missouri, 4,606; New Hampshire, 2.234; New York, 12,163; Ohio, 5,945; Pennsylvania, 13,288; Texas, 2,270; Wisconsin, 3.149,” The office^ of the grand encampment were in the^ity. These officers are as follows: Reuben H. Lloyd, San Francisco, Grand Master; Henry Bates Stoddard, Bryan, Texas, Deputy Grand Masl ter; George M. Moulton, Chicago, Grand j Generalissimo; the Rev. Henry W. Rugg, 1 Providence, R. 1., Grand Captain Gen- ■ eral; William B. Melish, Cincinnati, । Grand Senior Warden; the Rev. J. C. W. I Coxe, Washington, lowaWiran 1 Prelate; : 11. Wales Unes, Meriden, Conn., Grand j Treasurer; William 11. Mayo, St. Louis, Grand Recorder; Lee S. Smith, Pittsburg,

Gran l Standaril Bearer; Arthur MacAr- ! thur, Troy, N. Y., Grand Sword Bearer; ’ Harper M. Orahood, Denver, Grand W ar- । den; Charles C. Vogt, Louisville, Grand. [ Captain of the Guard. decorations of the City. | The entire central portion of the city I was at night flooded with light from myI riads of vari-colored incandescent globes. । Great Templar crosses and shields adorned the entire fronts of office buildings an 1 I business houses. Crusaders and prancing war horses of heroic design, constructed of cathedral glass behind which were placed electric lights, were conspicuous figures on some of the public buildings. Festoons of colored lights spanned the thoroughfares of forty different blocks in -the—lieaxt of the city. A climax to the decorative effects was reached in the quadruple electric arch at Fourth avenue and Broadway and in the Court of Honor in front of the Jefferson County Uo.tr; house on Jefferson street, between Fifth and Sixth. The magnificence of the former sirueture was not realized until its 5,000 in -andes-ent lamps were lighted. Each commandery upon arriving in the city was met at the train by an escort committee of a Louisville cominanderv. After exchange of greetings the viOt- rs and hosts fell in behind the band, and with swords drawn and colors flying matched through the streets decorated in their honor. As the delegation swung into Main street "Dixie" invariable was | struck up. "The Star-Spangled liana -r" i anl "My Country. "Tis of The" w.-re i greeted with enthusia<ti? applause from i the crowds lining th.- streets, but "Dixie” i was easily the favorite. Told in a Few Lines. Witlie Bockower. 12, Brooklyn, stole ; sl.l '>') from his father am! went to the I Buffalo expositi m. C. E. Minor, traveling passenger : gent ! ! of the M- xican Central, was found dead ' |in his room”, St. Louis. Thought to be I ; suicide. All-ert Wetzel, 11, Undercliff, l'a., ; i hanged himself. IL- suffered from an ; j injury on the head. Coroner said he was i : insane. The Natchez (Miss.) and Vidalia (La.) j telephone cable has been laid across the > river. It has twenty-four wires, and ! weighs 38,000 pounds.

| THE SUNDAY SCHOOL 11 ’ LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 8. Jacob at I‘etheU Genesis 28:10-22. Memory verses, • 13-15. Golden Text—Surely the Lord is in I this place.- Gen. Nothing is gained by trying to < x«'use I the sins of good men. l*artieulaily in I the case of Jacob is the real lesson to be I learned—a lesson of reformation in later I life from an unprincipled youth and man- I hood. Jacob, urged on by his mother Re- I bekah, sought from the first to supplant Esau. He took advantage of his brother's hunger and heedlessness to win the I birthright. Later, when his lather was I old and blind, he followed the cunning scheme of his mother to get the paternal I blessing on which so much depended. The I story is told in the twenty-seventh chap- I ter in great detail, with not one of its I details suppressed. Not deceit alone, :n I the wearing of the kid-skins, but a direct I lie (“And Jacob said unto his father. 1 am Esau thy first-born”) led to the ob- I taining of the “blessing,’ which was in 1 the nature of a prophecy of supremacy. I After the trick was discovered, Esau s I anger was terrible, and there was dangei I of his murder ng his perfidious brother. | So Rebekah persuaded Isaac to send Ja- I cob away to the home of her brother La- I ban. beyond the Euphrates. Her argu-1 ment was that Jacob might marry a Hittite woman and thus bring trouble on the I family. Therefore he was sent to Mesopotamia to marry one of his cousins. Be- I fore his departure Isaac gave him anew a blessing—" God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a company of peoples; and give thee the blessing of Abraham. to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings, which God gave unto Abraham.” The Dream at Bethel.

Jacob started from home, an exile in I reality; driven away by his own cupidity I and trickery. It is doubtful if he felt I remorse or even the recognition that he I had done wrong. Jacob at this time a I grown man —was far from being what "we I should call a godly man. Jehovah he knew as the God whom his father and I his grandfather had faithfully worshiped. But that the sacred name meant little to I him is shown by the glibness with which I he used that name to cover the miserable I cheating of an old man by giving him venison manufactured out of a goat ( How is it that thmi hast found it —the venison—so quickly, my son? And he said. Because the Lord thy God sent me good speed,” 27:20>. A man who could drag the sacred name into a lie like that was | not very far advanced in the spiritual life. It is necessary to remember this and to bring it out in temhing the lesson. because it makes of the dream a gracious promise that served as a warning and a reproach to a smtul man; rather than a vision of God by one already holy. Jacob's journey from Beersheba on the southern border of Canaan to Haran lei him over the ancient route traversed by his grandfather long before. At Bethel, north of Jerusalem, near the site of one of Abraham's altars, he paused for a night. A stone served him for a pillow. As he lay there under the solemn sky. the deep silence of the night all around him, it seemed to him that he saw a staircase sloping up from the plain, higher than the mountain tops, higher than the stars, up to the gates of heaven. Angels were there, passing between earth ~~ —D. -v- -i sn 1

ami neavem U UHL 11 angels he had thought little of hitherto. They had had far less interest for him than a sharp bargain and a promise wrung by stratagem from an unwilling giver. But now earth, where he lives, and heaven, where the angels are, are seen to be very close together. The chasm is bridged. More than this was given to him. A still greater privilege Jacob had in his dream. Jehovah stood above the head of the staircase, and uttered great words the like of which but two men had heard before. Doubtless they were words held sacred in that household at Beersheba—the words of this great promise, spoken to Abraham and Isaac at great crises in their lives. First, Jehovah is the God of Abraham and Isaac. The man is listening to the words of the being who has guided so strangely and kindly the lives of his ancestors. Then, the laud is to be given to Jacob's children, spreading in ah directions from the s?a to the desert, from the ‘northern mountains to the southern sands. Third, in Jacob’s children —in association with them, through participation in their blessing—all tlie families of the earth shall be blessed. How the dream broadens out, and the fugitive dreamer with his petty schemes feels himself rebuked before high heaven! This is his destiny—and he has been scheming for a few extra sheep and goats and tents that did not belong to him. The promise goes on; Jehovah is with him, will keep him, will bring him back to the laud, will not leave him forever. The Dream’s Effect. Jacob, the unspiritual, has received a message from the spiritual world. Jacob, who knew not Jehovah save as a distant deity having some relation to th** family history, has met Jehovah in th rocky wilderness of a lonely land. Jacob, who has been trying to lay up treasures for himself by crooked methods, finds that God lias great treasures all laid up for him—if only he shall prove himself worthy. That is the un**xpresse 1 condition. If Jacob continued to be just the same kind of man that he had been, he must have realized in the darkness of that fearful awakening, the birthright he had won would be of no avail, the promise could not be fulfilled. It was a summons to nobler living, a call to repentance and humility and faith. Jacob was afraid. He had met God, and it was a shock. He was not prepared for it. It had not occurred to him that God could be here. And so, like the true oriental tha*- he was, removed b it a few steps .om paganism, he did as pagans did to express his gratitu ie and sense of awe and wonder: he set up a pi'lnr, and poured oil on ir to commemorate the occasion. But he di 1 not n fuse his pillar with hi- (^d as a p ; _ n might have done. It wits^a si mb 1 so: । him: nothing more. The jla p he calle . I the 11->use of God. An I a covenant he I made with G >d that mm'ning. prmi.isgig i service, allegiance, ami a gift of tit.: s in return for tin pr enised divin • p, - I tec'lon. It wa< Jac-b’s way of being i I grateful; an l if his -. .\v - ni- s;T; a I little like a bargain. !e’ us rem mi • :■ that । even a dream of heaw-n cannot tr. nsform a Jaeob in om night. Titis vision at Bethe! was but tie beginning, and the I other vision at I’eui.d many years la; -r I but the middle ■ f a srruggl, th.rt w.is । lifelong and brought Jic a ti;, Tv h , ■ to his father's and his God in pear - . nl | siintliness, -> that even the Egy: ims I wept for him three score and ten days. ! Next Lesson “J icob, a Prince with I God.” —Gen. 32:1-32.

———■■m ■■■!! 1 » INDIANA INCIDENTS. RECORD OF EVENTS Or THE PAST WEEK. “Insanity Trust” Is (.ensured—Scott County Chickens Have Gold in Their Crops—Scorcher’s Fatal Fall Young Woman Disappears f.-om I’eru. The State Board of Charities til-d a report with tile Governor on the result of its investigation of the insane hi.spitals. The report says no sane persons ure confined and have n >t bt en within the last eighteen months, "unless it be in the easa of John Ross, er Morse, < r Jame- Haywood, who probably recovered att r he was found insane and before he was received at the hospital, a period of fiftythree days.” The board says the blame rests on the persons who conducted the inquests ami suggests that it is the duty of the officers to recover that part of the 815,000 in fees wrongfully taken from the county treasury. The report says such a conspiracy as shown by the AtI torm y General's report renders th • memI bers liable to severe pr isecution. Ilie I board suggests that an entirely new inI sanity law be enacted by the next Legislature, providing that all commirm uts be made by a Circuit or Superior judge. Gold Found in j cott County. Gold has been discovered in Scott I County. A short time ago Mrs. 11. W. I Brandt of Scottsburg found a nugget in I the crop of a chicken. She took tue nugI get to an expert, who analyzed it ami I found it contained a‘large per cent of I gold. Another discovery has been made I in the same manner on the same farm. I The people in that community have the I gold fever and will begin prospecting at I once. The find was made on the farm I of Prosecuting Attorney S. B. Wells. Mc'enger Boy’s Mishap. Harry Mills, an American district mesI ............ K.w thrown fr.im his Wheel

senger boy, was tnrown irom lat Muncie and fatally injured. He was I found unconscious in a pool of blood and I when he partly regained consciousness he I became delirious, imagining that a footI patl is pursuing him. The boy was ridI ing down a steep hill at terrific spei’d. His wheel struck a gutter at the foot of the hill, breaking the forks and throwing I young Mills on his head. Peru Girl May Be Dead. Miss Nora Dinsmore, aged 23 years. I disappeared frqm her home in Peru. When last seen she was in a dry goo is I store. Suicide is feared. A letter was I received from her dated at loledo, Ohio, Iby Ernest Thomas, her friend. In it she I said: "I leave for the great unknown I Good-by to you all, who have smiml off I me, and get all from life you can." Find Deal Body in Canal. Albert Patterson, aged 35. wr.s f ninj. I dead in the < anal by the Indianap >as pell ice. He lived at MmrNt . Mi .'... I was traveling i r; n advertising firm. A | telegram arrived at the Circle Par ; H -■ ' tel signed by Mrs. Patterson at Mamsr-e 1 I asking if Patters .n was still ther, L’ne suicide theory is accepted. Within Our Borders. 1 A fine gas flow was struck six mi.es • | southeast of Morristown. ‘ | Lead ore in paying quantities has been I found near Oakland City. I Covert Anderson. El wool, son of Rev. j I U. S. Anderson, is dead from a fail from . I a toy wagon. a I Citizens of Aj^^iunjAndrews and Crom--11 well will start ’ ‘ banks to replace

those wrecked by lleys^mtfl^ Charles Maguire was nominated for Mayor by the Democrats of Indianapolis at the first primaries under the new law. He defeated William Moore two to one. Nearly 1O.(.H» votes were cast. The Indiana Central Railway Company has been incorporated with a capital of $1,500,030. The company will build an electric line from Indianapolis to I’eru, seventy-five miles. At Kokomo Andy and Nelson 11 r-h---berger, orphan brothers, ag ' 12 an i years, were thrown from a horse which objected to "carrying double.” Nt son died from his injuries. An ly is baT.y hurt. 5 ' 'Tnr Twelve sheets of plate glass, each 140 by 274 inches, ami weighing 1,800 pounds, werj cast at Kokomo for a New York building. They were without flaw or blemish, and are said to be the largest ever cast. Lightning struck the Hendrick- monument in Indiamipolis. tearing awav a p rtion of the base. The bolt tore off the shoe and stocking of a boy taking r- .uge from the storm under the statue, but did not injur** him. A Baltimore and Ohio freight train, while switching in Nappanee, derailed and demolished four cars an l crash nd into the passenger depot, overturning the structure. The damage will amount to several thousand dollars. John Rho les and Jam s Harrison, miners at Seeleyvill 1 een fighting for half an hour without inflicting serious injury on each other, when Mrs. Thomas Jones, with a year-old baby in her arms, stepped between them to stop the tight. Just then Rhodes got held of a stick, an i. not seeing the woman, struck wildly at Harrison, hit the baby on the head and crushed its skull, causing a fatal injury. A man supposed to be William Riley of Riverton. 111., was struck by a Big Four passenger train at Marion and instantly killed. A few minutes before the body was found a Clover Leaf freight train went sour’*, and several Mari n people say they saw two men on top of one of the ears. One uxan was swinging a club in a threatening manner. It is believed that Riley was knocked off the freight car, that he fell on the adjoining Big Four tracks, gnd s killed by the train. J. E. Black was ■•aught in shafting and killed at rlie American Ir?n Company’s works, Mun ie. About <lta> glass workers wi'.’. g West this fall to man two new green b< trie factories start 1 near San Fr . is Isaac Humphrey. Joseph Berg r, G sh* n. has sued Miss Mary E. S : . .--on, for slander, al.> ging ’Lat she a : him of swindling .’;er father. Stat- G" 'i >g:-r Bl i'-mloy wins In- « diana f.:rm*-r ; to ■■h-s k tic’ -r-wth of the | Texas thistle, a which lias been j found in Hendrick< U unty. I*- ; i:y (.’nas-gU; JMm F. H muinger, • of In iiauap'-!:s, ■. .. t e■ ’ — fa: iky shot Iby William xVak< fi M. co.ori d. wild trying to s.-rvs a writ of r* . :a Patrolnuji Georg ’ II And rsou, was -eri '- Jy •■ ’ ; ■ Tym-t t-> make an arrest. K :::. al R:y Stanley attacl -. d him. He ■ ;pt ir-d •_ue of William love, of 8.. •<■. -• ir* d m his thin! attempt to commit ; getting incox: -ated. He then pa: In < 1 a quantity cf paris green, we: : t . < metery and lay d iv:,. Il time afterward eating the i - ’ •K of his hands. <L ve is 25 yr old an i had been married but two weeks.