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THE REPUBLICAN.

Published by W. B. MOSTOOHJEBY.

•BXVMFIELD INDIANA

Discussion in Amcrica.

Discussion is so universal in this country, that it may be set down as an American ••institution." In fact, it is an outgrowth of the very form and spirit of our governmental system to *V uss" and discuss. Here the people being the scource of power, and every topic which arises having-more or less ^bearing on public jilfairs, such as the Monroe doctrine, and when to put ou winter flannels, for instnce, they are naturally prompted to inquire into it In other words, to discuss it—to sift it to the bottom. Young American in his swaddling clothes, is ready, in hia "sovereign" dignity, to take a turn at argument nor can you persuade him that this is out of place, and that he should use his moutli chiefly for feeding purposes. Were you to attempt such a thing he would swell up, in hia sovereignty, and inform you that he is •'ready to argue the point," and he would do it, too. He might also request you to go and sotik your head. Go where you will, in the country, you will find people—the high and the low, the cab-driver, the plumber, the •congressman, the learned and the ignorant, the young and those who have been young, all ready to discuss any question, from the '-whichne.ss of the is" to "how to rim a newspaper."

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the stage, the steamer, the car, the hotel, debate is the order of the day. And you shall iind comparatively as little difference in the source of the arguments presented, *s between the •espousers of the une side. They all "read the papers," and are prepared to quote "facts and "argue the point." Great is the country where the people investigate for themselves, and do uol take anybody's word *r anything.

NICOTINIZED NERVES.

The Tobacco H'bit Qaiolcly Broken and Nerre Force Ssstoreil-A Boon to Huinanity.

A numbsr of our great and mo9t inveterate tobaco smokers and chewerj have quit the use of the lihhy wee.l. The ta ismanic ar-icle that does the work is no to-bac. The reform wa»: started by /aron Gorb r, who was a coa:.raied place for many years to tho of tobacc.). tried the us? of no-to-lao, end to his great surprise and. delight it cure.i him. lien. C. W. Ash com, wh haJ en smoking for tixty 3-e:+rs, tried no-to-ba.^ and it cured him. Col. Samuel Stouteiior, who would eat up tola co ii a cow eats hay, tried this wonderful re edy, and even Samuel, after all his years of slavery, lo thi ire. ,1. C. Coble-r, Lest»ingEvans) rank Deli, Gejrge JJ. May, C. «.. Skillingtnn, Hanson l-lobinett, Frank Her.-h orger, John Shinn, and other* have since tried no-to bac, aud in every casj they report not only a cure of tb« toLacco habit but a wi.ndorful im( provement in thei^ general physical and mental condition, all of which goes to show that the u»e of tobacco had been injurious to them in xnord ways than one. No to bac is populari with the druggists, as they all sell under absolute guarantee to cure or ro fund the money.—From the Pros*, Lverett, Fa.

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CHAPTER IIT.

JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET.

Three weeks had passed since Jef-! usages, ferson Hope and his comrades had and this, departed from Salt Lake City. John Ferrier's heart was sore within him when he thought of the young man's return, and of the impending loss of his adopted child Yet her bright

Yes, a dangerous matter so dangerous that even the most saintly dared only whisper their religious opinions with bated breath, lest something which fell from their lips might be misconstrued and bring down a swift retribution upon them.

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At first this vague and terrible power was exercised only upon the recalcitrants, who, having embraced the Mormon faith, wished afterward to pervert or abandon it. Soon, however, it took a wider range. The supply of adult women was running short, and polygamy, without a female population on which to draw, was a barren doctrine indeed. Strange rumors began to be bandied about rumors of murdered emigrants and rifled camps in regions where Indians had never been seen. Fresh women appear in the harems of the elders—women who pined and wept, and bore upon their faces the traces of unextinguishable horror. Belated wanderers upon the mountains spoke of gangs of armed men, masked, noiseless, who flitted by them in the darkness. These tales and rumors took substance and shape, and were corroborated and recorroborated, until they resolved themselves into a definite name. T. this day, in the lonely lanches of the West., the name of the Danite Band, or the Avenging Angels, is a siuister and ill-omened one.

Fuller knowledge of the organization which produced such terrrible results served to increase rather than to lessen the horror which it inspired in the minds of men. None knew who belonged to this ruthless society. The names of the participators in the deeds of blood and violence, done under the name of religion, were kept profoundly secret. The very friend to whom you iiommucicated your misgivings as to the prophet and his mission might be one of those who would come forth at night with fire and sword to exact a terrible reparation. Hence every man feared his neighbor, and none spoke of the things which were nearest his heart.

One fine morning, John Ferrier was about to set out to his wheatfields, when he heard the click of the latch, and, looking through the window, saw a stout, sandy-haired, the

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BY A. CONAN DOYLE.

PART II.

[Being a reprint from the reminiscences of JOHN H. WATSON, M. D., late of the Army Medlca Depart ment.]

CHAPTER II CONTINUED.

"Thank God!" he said, hoarsely, Ferrier ran to the door to greet the stooping and kissing her. "It is settled, then. The longer I stay the harder it will be to go. They are waiting for me at the canon. Goodby, my own darling, good-by. In two months you shall see me."

He tore himself from her, as he spoke, and, flinging himself upon his lashes, '"the true believers have been horse, galloped furiousty away, never good friends to you. We picked you even looking around, as though up when you were starving in the afraid that his resolution might fail desert, we shared our food with you, him if he took one glance at what helled you safe to the Chosen Valley, was leaving. She stood at the gate, gave you a goodly share of land, and gazing after him until he vanishedallowed you to wax rich under our from her sight. Then she walked protection Is not this so?': back into the house, the happiest! "It is so," answered John Fergirl in all Utah. rier. "In return for all this, we asked but one condition: that was, that you should embrace the true faith, and conform in every way to its

and happy face reconciled him to the Have I not attended at the temple? arrangement more than anv argu- Have I not—?" ment could have done. He had alwa3rs determined^ deep down in his resolute heart, that nothing would ever induce him to allow his daughter to wed a Mormon. Such a marriage he regarded as no marriage at all, but as a shame and a disgrace. Whatever he might think of the Mormon doctrines, upon that one point he was inflexible. Pie had to seal his mouth on the subject, however, for to express an unorthodox opinion was a dangerous matter in those days in the Land of the Saints.

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count, aud persecutors of the most terrible description. Not the Inquisition of Seville, nor the German Vehmgericht, nor the secret soci eties ot' Italy were ever able to put a more formidable machinery in motion than that which cast a cloud over the Territory of Utah.

Its invisibility, aud th mystery which was attached to it, made this organization doubly terrible. It appeared to be omniscient and omnippotent, and yet was neither seen or heard. The man who held out against the church vanished away an :l none knew whither he had gone, or what had befallen hiin. His wife and children awaited him at home, but no father ever returned to tell them how he had fared at the hands of his secret judges. A rash word or a hasty act was followed by annihilation, and yet none knew what the nature might be of this terrible power which was suspended over them. No wonder that men went about in fear and trembling, and that even in the heart of the wilderness they dared not whisper the doubts which oppressed them.

Mormon chief. The latter, however, received his salutation coldly, and followed him with a stern face into the sitting room. "Brother Ferrier," he said, taking a seat, and eying the farmer keenly from under his light-colored eye-

This you promised to do if common report says

truly, you have neglected," "And how have I neglected it?" asked Ferrier, throwing out his hands in expostulation. "Have I not given to the common fund?

"Where are your wives?" asked Young, looking round him. "Call them in, that I may greet them." "It is true that 1 have not married," Ferrier answered. "But women were few, and there were many who had better claims than I. I was not a lonely man I had my daughter to attend my wants." "It is of the daughter that I would speak to you," said the leader of the Mormons. "She has grown to be the flower of Utah, and has found favor in the eyes of many who are high in the laud."

John Ferrier groaned internally. "There are stories of her which I would fain disbelieve—stories that she is sealed to some Gentile. This must be the gossip of idle tongues. What is the thirteenth rule in the

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marry one of the elect for if she wed a Gentile she commits a grievous sin.: This being so, it is impossible that you, who profess the holy creed, should suffer your daughter to violate it."

John Ferrier made no answer, but he played nervously with his riding whip. "Upon this one point your whole faith shall be tested—so it has been decided in the Sacred Council of Four. The girl is young, and we would not have her wed gray hairs, neither would we deprive her of her choice. We elders have many heifers,* but our children must also be provided. Stangerson has a son and Drebber has a son, and either of them would gladly welcome your daughter to their house. Let her choose between them. They are young and rich, and of the true faith." What say you to that?"

Ferrier remained silent for some little time with his brows knitted. "You will give us time," he said at last. "My daughter is very young —she is scarce of an age to marry." "She shall have a month to choose," said Young, rising from his seat, "At the end of that time she shall give her answer."

He was passing through the open door, when he turned, with flushed face and flashing eyes. "It were better for you, John Ferrier," he thundered, "that you and she were now lying blanched skeletons upon the Sierra Blanco, than that you should put your weak wills against the orders of the Holy Four!"

With a threatening gesture of the hand he turned from the door, and Ferrier heard his heavy steps crunching along the shingly path.

He was still sitting with his elbows on his knees, considering how he would broach the matter to his danghter, when a soft hand was laid upon his, and looking up. he saw her standing beside him. One glance in her pale, frightened face showed him she had heard what had passed. "I could not help it," she said, in answer to his look. "His voice rang through the house. Oh, father, father, what shall we do?" "Don't you scare yourself," he answered drawing her to him, and passing his broad, rough hand caressingly over her chestnut hair. "We'll fix it up somehow or another. You don't find your fancy kind o' lessening for this chap, do you?"

A sob and a squeeze of his hand was the only answer. "No of course not. I shouldn't care to hear you say you did. He's a likely lad, and he's a Christian, which is more thon these folk here, in spite o' all their praying and preaching. There's a party starting for Nevada to-morrow, and I'll manage to send him a message letting him know the hole we are in. If I know anything 'o that young man, he'll be back here with a speed that would whip electro-telegraphs."

Lucy laughed through her tears at her father's description. "When he comes, he will advise us for the best. But it is for you that I am frightened, dear. One hears—

middle-aged man coming up the "ne ^saudi dreadful stories about pathway. Hia heart leaped to his those who oppose the prophet someInouth, for this was none other than thms .temhle always happens to the great Brigham Young himself Pull of trepidatioB-for he knew that such a visit boded bun little good-^ dmrinz epithet

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"But we haven't opposed him yet," her father answered. "It will be time to look out for squalls when we do. We have a clear month before us at the end of that, I guess we had best shin out of Utah." "Ieave Utah?" "That's about the size of it." "But the farm?" "We will raise as much as we can in money, and let the rest go. Tc tell the "truth, Lucy, it isn't the first time I'have thought of doing it. I don't care ab

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any man, as these folk do to their darned prophet. I'm a free-born American, and it's all new to me. Guess I'm too old to learn. If he comes browsing about this farm, he might chance to run up against a charge of buckshot traveling in the opposite direction." "But they won't let us leave," his daughter objected. "Wait till Jefferson comes, and we'll soon manage that. In the meantime, don't you fret yourself, my dearie, and don't got your eyes swelled up, else he'll be walking into me when he sees you. There's nothing to be afeared about, ana there's no danger at all."

John Ferrier uttered these consoling remarks in a very confident tone, but she could not help observing that he paid unusual care to the fastening of the doors that night, and that he carefully cleaned and loaded the rusty old shotgun which hung upon the wall of his bedroom.

CHAPTER TV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE.

On the morning which followed his interview with the Mormon prophet John Ferrier went into Salt Lake City, and having found his acquaintance, who was bound for the Nevada Mountains, he intrusted him with his message to Jefferson Hope. In it he told the young man of the imminent danger which threatened them and how necessary it was that he should return. Having done this, he felt easier in his mind and returned home with a lighter heart.

As he approached his farm he was surprised to see a horse hitched to each of the posts of the gate. Still more suprised was he on entering to find two young men in possession of his sitting room. One, with a long, paleface, was leaning back"in the rocking chair, with his feet cocked up upon the stove. The other, a bull necked youth with coarse bloated features, was standing in front of the window with his hands in his pockets, whistling a popular hymn. Both of them nodded to Ferrier as he entered and the one in the rocking chair commenced the conversation. "Maybe you don't know us," he said. "This here is the son of Elder Drebber and I'm Joseph Stangerson, who traveled with you in the desert when the Lord stretched out His band and gathered you into the true fold." ,"As He will all nations in His own good time," said the other, in a nasal voice "Hegrindeth slowly but exceeding small."

John Ferrier bowed coldly. He had guessed who his visitors were. "We have come," said Stangerson, "at the advice of our fathers, to solicit the hand of your daughter for whichever of us may seem good to you and to her. As I have but four wives and Brother Drebber here has seven, it appears to me that my claim is the stronger one." "Nay, nay, Brother Stangerson,'"

cried the other "the question is not --4.1.14.1 *i.u bow many wives we have but how many we can keep. My father has now given over his mills to me and I

am the richer man." "But my prospects are better," said the other, warmly. "When the! LOA] removes my father I shall have his ry. Then I am your elder and am higher in the Church." "It wili be for the maiden to decide," rejoined young Drebber, smirking at his own reflection in the glass. "We will leave it all to her decision."

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During this dialogue John Ferrier had stood fuming in the doorway, hardly able to keep his riding whip from the backs of his visitors. "Look here," he said at last, striding up to them, "when my daughter summons you, \ou can come but until then 1 don't want to see your faces again."

The two young Mormons stared at him in amazement. In their eyes this competition between them for the maiden's hand was the highest of honors both to her and her father. "There are two ways out of the room," cried Ferrier "there is the door, and there is the window. Which do you care to use?"

His brown face looked so savage, and-his gaunt hands so threatening, that his visitors sprung to their feet and beat, a hurried retreat. The old farmer followed them to the door. "Let me know when you have settled which it is to be," he said sardonically. "You shall smart for this!" Stangerson cried, white with rage. "You have delled the prophet and the Council of Four. You shall rue it to the end of your days." "The hand of the Lord shall be hea.vy upon you," cried young Drebber "He will arise and smite youl" "Then I'll start the smiting," exclaimed Ferrier, furiously, and he would have rushed upstairs for his gun had not Lucy seized him by the arm and restrained him. Before he could escape from her, the clatter of horses' hoofs told him that they were beyond his reach. "The young canting rascals!" he exclaimed, wiping the perspiration from his forehead "I would sooner see you in your grave, my girl, than the wife of either of them."

"And so should I, father," she answered, with spirit "but Jefferson will soon be here." "Yes. It will not be long before he comes. The sooner the better, for we do not know what their next move may be."

It was, indeed, high time that some one capable of giving advice and help should come to the aid of the sturdy old farmer and his adopted daughter. In the whole history of the settlement there had never been such a case of rank disobedience to the authority of the elders. If minor errors were punished so sternly, what would be the fate of this arch rebel Ferrier knew that his wealth and position would be of no avail to him. Others as well known and as rich as himself had been spirited away before now, and their goods given over to the church. He was a brave man, but he trembled at the vague, shadowy terrors which hung over him. Any known danger he could face with a lirm lip. but this suspense was unnerving. He concealed his fears from his daughter, however, and affected to make light of the whole matter, though she, with the keen eye of love, saw plainly that he

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He expected that he would receive some message or remonstrance from Young as to his conduct, and he was not mistaken, though it came in an unlooked-for manner. Upon rising next morning he found, to his sur^ prise, a small square of paper pinned on to the coverlet of his bed just over his chest. On it was printed, in bold, straggling letters: "Twenty-nine days are given you for amendment, and then—"

The dash was more fear-inspiring than any threat could have been. How this warning came into his room puzzled John Ferrier sorely, for his servants slept in an outhouse, and the doors and windows had all been secured. He crumpled the paper up and said nothing to his daughter, but the incident struck a chill to his heart. The twenty-nine days were evidently the balance of the month which Young had promised. What strength or courage could avail against an enemy armed with such mysterious powers? The hand which fastened that pin might have struck him to the heart, and he could never have known who had slain him.

Still more shaken was he next morning. They had sat down to their breakfast, when Lucy, with a cry of surprise pointed upward. In the center of the ceiling was scrawled with a burnt stick apparently, thv number 28. To his daughter it waunintelligible, and he did not enligbv en her. That night he sat up with his gun and kept watch and ward. He saw and he heard nothing, and yet in the morning a great 27 had been painted upon the outside of his door. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

A Chinese Newspaper.

November Century.

In Canton, by the way, is produced the only independent Chinese newspaper printed in the Empire, Others printed in Hong Kon*f, which is out of the jurisdiction oi the Emperor, sometimes criticise His Majesty's government most severely, and use terms, which, if employed within his dominion, would probably result in the proprietors, .the editors, the statr, the compositors, together with their families,

proved' though inelegant gradations of Tartar barbarity. I had a long interview with Mr. Ivwong Ki Chiu, the proprietor and editor of the Kwong Pao (News of Canton), who initiated me into many of the de-

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Houses iu Can ion.

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Teacher—What do you intend to be when you grow up, Johnnie? Johnnie—A prize-fighter, ma'am "I am surprised and pained at your ignoble ambition. We all live but for posterity, Johnnie remember that. The architect leaves bis mighty works, the poet his poems, the painter his pictures, and so

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Bobby—What's the differerence whether I eat it now or to-morrow in the bread pudddng?

Figures won't lie, but give the figures to one who knows how to use them to advaa* taxa and he'll do tho rest.

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