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THE WARS ON THE ISTHMUS Suspension of Hostilities Between Guatemala and the Other Republics. In Armistice of Thirty Pays Is Agreed To, and the Guatemalan Legislature Annuls Barrios's Decree. Jnconfirmed Rumor of the Death of the Helß’onstituted Dictator. Ueasons Why a Union of the Republics Is Desirable—The Colombian Revolution Thought to Be About Ended. HOSTILITIES SUSPENDED. An Armistice of One Month— Kn:nor that General Barrios Is Dead. La Listin' ad, April 4. —Hostilities between Guatemala and the allied republics have been suspended, ard an armistice of one mouth's duration is announced. The legislative assembly of Guatemala has annulled the decree promulgated by President Barrios on Feb. 28, in which a union of the Central American republics was proclaimed and Ramos was announced as Dictator and supreme military chieftain of all Central America. The gold hilted sword of President Barrios was found on the battle field of Chalchtiaha. broken. According to the latest 'intelligence received here, President Barrios is dead, but no particulars have teen received. A telegram from El Paso del Norte, sars: “Oflicibl information was received here to-night, via the Mexican Central Telegraph line, that General Barrios had been killed in a battle on the San Salvador frontier.** A Union of the Republics Desirable. to tho Inriiaiaipolis Journal. Washington, April 4. —Major Burke, of New Orleans, director-general of the exposition, is one of the most enterprising men in the South. He is proprietor ot the Times Democrat, State Treasurer of Louisiana, owner of one of the best hotels in the Crescent City, and has interests in ■ dozen other enterprises calculated to build up Ue commercial affairs of the whole country. *fr. Burke is a thorough gentleman and an . enterprising newspaper man, well posted and always on the alort to make his paper more interesting. As soon as it became evident that affair? in Central America were about to reach a crisis, Major Burke at. once dispatched three members of his staff to tho seat of action. One was sent to Mexico, another to Salvador, and the third to Barrios himself. Major Burke has studied Central American affairs very closely for some years, and is perhaps better qualified to give accurate information as to the situation in Central America than any man now in Washington. ’ * “Barrios,” said Mr. Burke, “is a great deal more of aman than he Ls generally credited with being. He is a gentleman, and is bright and active. There cun be no doubt but that his proposal for a union of the five republics is sound, but it is very doubtful if it can be accomplished just yet. The trouble is naturally with the four presidents of the four little States of Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Honduras. These men naturally desire to retain the power which they now possess, as union would mean the dispossession o? at least four of the five. Uutil there is a union of these States they will never amount to anything, from a commercial standpoint. The United States would be materially bent-fitted by the success of the cause of Barnos, as it would be much moro easy to negotiate with oue head than with five.” “Do you think that the Barrios plan is tho best means to accomplish the desired end?” “Well. I can not say as to that, but it seems at present to be the only way. The inhabitants of Central America are, as a rule, ignorant in the extreme. *They are a race of peons, and have no conception of the meaning of the right of suffrage. Consequently it would not do to submit the question of union of tho republics to a popular vote and some other method must be devised for settling the question. Barrios's plan is an extreme one and should only have been resorted to, if at all. when all other means had been tried without result." “You seem to have taken greater pains to keep posted on the affairs of Central America than any other newspaper man in the world, Major, why is it*" “New Orleans is perhaps more interested in he outcome than any other city in the world, -veral millions of capital from our city is in■sted in that region, and New Orleans will -ap a direct benefit—as will the rest of this >untry, in sact —from the union of the five republics.”

THE COLOMBIAN REVOLUTION. Indication)* that tlic War Ik About Ended— Twenty-Five Men Killed at Panama. Boston', April 4.—The Boston Ice Company, of Aspinwall and Panama, lost between $75,000 and SIOO,OOO by the burning of the former place; insurance, $50,000. Two vessels here for Aspinwall, with heavy cargoes of ice, were held, and a cablegram sent asking for advice as to sending them. A reply camo yesterday, saying, “send all cargoes immediately.” This would indicate that further trouble is not feared there. A private letter dated at Aspin wall, March 24, arrived yesterday, in which the correspondent says: “I have been lying sick in bed while bullets have been flying about mv house for two days. Panama City i.s under one government —that of our friends —and Colon (Aspinwall) under another government—our eneraios. Some seizures have been made by Anarchists, amounting to several thousand dollars. Twenty five men were killed here in the Cathedral plaza. For several days we could not go across the street. Communication between Panama and Colon remains interrupted, and news is meagre and untrustworthy. There are rumors that looting is going on along the line of the railway. In Colon the distress is extreme. Ten thousand persons are homeless and dependent on Panama for food. Refugees are arriving at Panama from Colon. The losses at Colon will probably aggregate $4,000,000, and the foreign insurance companies decline to make payments. It will be months before business can be resumed, and, consequently, shippers will be heavy losers. The fall of Carthagena is inevitable. Failures are expected among the merchants of Colon, as a few only have capital. An Infernal Machine at Joliet, 111. Jomet, 111., April 4.—An infernal machine was found in the new court-house this morning. The machine was composed of a box filled with a composition of giaut-powder and utro-riycerine. The fuse had burned to the dge of thu box, hut there had ceased. The lacing of the machine in the court house is scribed to the striking quarryraen, but no evil* nee implicating anyone lias been disclosed. Beginning of the Mormon Conference. Loo am, Utah, April 4. —ln accordance with the published notice from the presidency of the church, the general annual conference of the Mormon Church convened at the Tabernacle here, this morning, instead of at Halt Lake City, which is the customary place. Neither ot the three Arst presidents of the church were prose-ut. Apostle Richards presided, assisted by four other apostles. A number of leading bishops and prominent elders from Utah, Idaho and California were present. There is a feeling of

confidence that the present opposition will ultimately result for the good of the church. The speakers conveyed this impression, aud predicted the final deliverance of the the Mormons from their preseut trials. There was no intimation of revelations, or anything of an unusual nature by the conference. THE FIRE RECORD. Darning of Business Buildings at Nashville —Loss Estimated at 9200,000. Nashville, April 4.—This morning four buildings on the public square, near the suspension bridge, were destroyed by fire. The buildings occupied by T. F. Murphy & Son, carriage manufacturers; Hollens,' Sons & Cos., boot and shoe dealers, and J. W. Lindsey & Cos., hat dealers, were totally consumed, arid the carriage warehouse of G. W. Sweeny partially destroyed. The aggregate loss is $200,000, mostly covered by insurance. Stores and Shops Hurried. Pottsville, Pa., April 4. —Fire destroyed Enich’s hardware store, at Mahanov City, early this morning, aud ail its contents; also, five other stores and shops. Loss, $45,000; insurance. $15,000. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War DEPARTMENT, ) Office or the Chief Signal Officer, > Washington. April 5, 1885. ) For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley—Warmer, fair weather, lower barometer, southwesterly winds in tho Ohio valley, variable winds, shifting to southerly, in Tennessee. For the Upper Lake Region—Fair weather in southern portions, local rains and partly cloudy weather in northern portions, slowly rising temperature, south to west wind3 in southern portions, winds shifting to northwesterly in northern portions. Foi* the Lower Lake Region—Warmer, fair weather, southwest winds, lower barometer. For the Upper Mississippi Valley—Waimer, generally fair weather, southerly winds, becoming variable. For the Missouri Valley—Fair weather, slightly warmer in southern portions, nearly stationary temperature in northern portions, light, variable winds followed in southern portions by southerly winds. Local Observations. Indianapolis, April 4. Time. Bar. I Thar. Hum. Wind. Weather Rain. 6a. M.. 30.10 28.8 82 N Clear 10 A. M.. 30.11 j 37.3 57 E Clew 2p.M . 30.03 45.0 43 W Clear 6P.m. . 30.00 47.5 50 W Cloudv 10 p.m. 30.30 45.0 63 S W Cloudy. Maximum temperature, 48.5; minimum temperature, 27.8. ■ ■ ■■ THE CONFEDERATE CONSTITUTION. The Original Document in Possession of a Lady in New York. Nashville Union. A gentleman of this city remarked to a Union representative yesterday, that the gift by Mrs. Vanderbilt to Vanderbilt University of a photolithograph of the “Constitution for the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America,” should be followed by a gift of the original document—say to the Tennessee Historical Society. “This document,” he said, “is for sale, and someone of our Southern societies should fall heir to it. It is valuable as being tho orgauic law of the now defunct confederacy.” “Who has the original?” “Mrs. W. F. de Fontaine, now of New York city, who has had it in her possession ever since the fall of the Confederacy. At that time her husband, Felix Gregory do Fontaine, a wellknown journalist and war correspondent, was the editor and publisher of a paper in Columbia, S. C. After the evacuation of Richmond a trainload of boxes, containing public documents, etc., was shipped to Columbia. De Fontaine needed paper on which to print his journal, but where to get it was a puzzling problem. George A. Tren holm happened to be in Columbia at the time, and to him the journalist explained the situation. ‘Go down.’ said Trenholm, ‘to the depot, and help yourself to some of the Confederate boxes, in which something may turn up that will answer your purpose.’ De Fontaine acted upon this, and one of the boxes contained the Confederate Constitution. Mrs. De Fontaine laid claim to this relic, and has sacredly protected it ever since. “In 1882,” remarked the reporters informant, “I went abroad, and was commissioned to negotiate its sale to tho British Museum. As the custodian of such papers was absent from England at the time, my mission failed. The price asked was SIO,OOO, but I believe half that sum would secure it now.” “Have you seen the sac simile referred to in the Union?” “One of the first copies was sent to me, and it tells a mournful story. Os tho forty nine signers over one-half have joined the silent army, and of the living only oue, John H. Reagan, of Texas, is iu public life.” _ Loves and Fortunes of Mrs. Langtry. New York Citizen. The failure of Mrs. Langtry in London will carry her quickly back here, where she has just been purchasing a house in Thirteenth street. The story of her life’s loves has never been truly told. When she came, a beautiful young bride, to London, it was her fortune to sit for an artist to whose studio Prince Leopold was a constant visitor. He mot her; was struck with her, if not striking, yet peculiarly classic beauty, which grows on you the moro you look, and presented her to his brother, tho Prince of Wales, who was fascinated from the first. It is the custom in society in London when the Prince accepts an invitation to send him a card and ask him to affix the names of any he might desire to meet him. Mrs. Langtry’s was always affixed. She became the vogue. She was for the time the dream of the poet and the painter. Tho Duke of Sutherland said when here that one night at a great ball at Stafford House, as she entered and walked down the hall alone, simply dressed in white, there was a pause in the music and dance to gaze on her superb loveliness. And so her love’s currant ran smoothly along until one of those fancies which will como to women ran in to break it. She had met in society Sir George Chetwvnd. loved him, as Camille says, and felt that ho loved her. There are many who may remember the story of how the beautiful Lady Florence Paget, on the morning of her intended wedding with the wealthy Henry Chaplin, quietly at an early hour got into her brougham, drove to a secluded church, and there mot and married the young Marquis of Hastings. On his death she became the wife of Chetwvnd. She was seized while still young with paralysis. She took to religion when she lost the power to sin, and went through a course of ritualistic curates. Her husband, left the power of sinning, continued to sin, and found that happiness, fled from curates, Langtry, “dwelt with thee.” Society, which could not forgive in a baronet what it had pardoned in a prince, threw up its hands and eyes. Mrs. Langtry found no moro her accustomed place on tho Prince's ticket, and quietly retired. The place of her retirement (near Twickenham) was not far from Mr. Labouchere’s villa 'of St. Anne's. His gentle heart was touched by her woman sorrow. He advised her to seek solace on the stage, tho forlorn hope of the afflicted female, and set his wife —a well-trained actress, Henrietta Hodgson—to coach her. Tho result; She came here, was seen and conquered. An Insane Boy Murders His Mother and Sister. Monmouth, April 4.—lt has been learned that Edward Nash, an insano youth, aged twenty, this afternoon murdered his mother and sister, ages twenty-two and fifty-five years; then, taking a horse aud wagon, he fled. The scene of the tragedy is a farm house, five miles west of here. Addison Na*h, the father, was away from home at the time. Returning this evening he discovered the lifeless bodies of his wife and daughter. Officers are in pursuit of the maniac, lie was taken to an asylum several years ago, being then violent and dangerous. He recovered somewhat, and had lived at home for six months. . Don't fail to attend the Model's formal spring opening this week.

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THE LION HAS HAD ENOUGH. A Report Indicating Abandonment of tbe Nile-Khartoum Expedition. Rumor that General Graham Dag Been Ordered to at Once Open Peace Negotiations with Osman Digna, And Obtain Terms on Which He Can Evacuate the Country Immediately. Russia’s Reply to England Concerning the Afghan Boundary Question Said To Be Conciliatory-Cable Notes. THE LION TURNS TAIL. Wolseley Paving; tho Way for Withdrawal of the British from Egypt. London, April 4. —General Wolseley has forwarded to tho War Office a significant report made out by the medical staff attached to the Khartoum expedition. The subject of the report is the results of the exposure to the desert heat to tho British troops stationed along the borders of the Soudan desert. The report states that if the present British military stations in the Soudan be maintained fully ono-half of the troops will die or be disabled by the heat before the arrival of autumn. The whole tone of this peculiar report, which was undoubtedly directly inspired by General Wolseley himself, indicates that, a decision having been reached to that effect, the public is being prepared to witness an early withdrawal of the whole British force from tho Soudan, and a complete abandonment of the Nilc-Khartoum expedition. It is announced that General Graham has been ordered by the government to at once open peace negotiations with 03inan Digna, or the Sheikhs between Suakim and Berber possessing the power, to control the natives. It is stated that General Graham has been instructed to secure such terms as will enable him to evacuate the country at once. It is not known whether it was in pursuance of these particular instructions, but General Graham to-day withdrew his whole force back from Tamai to Suakim, leaving only a small contingent at General McNeil’s zeraba. It is believed that no operations will be undertaken against Taraai Nieb. The heat is practically intolerable in the desert west of Tamai, which is itself almost beyond the influence of the water of the lied sea. The officers and men belonging to General Stewart’s force are completely disgusted over the negative results of the expedition, and are all anxious to be at once recalled home. The disgust of the magnificent fellows who have come ail the way from Australia to help maintain the mother country's prestige is simply supreme and indescribable. GRAHAM’S CAMPAIGN.

Continued Desertions from Osman Digna’s Forces—Praise for the British Soldiers. Suaktm, April 4.—A spy who has returned from Erkowit reports that Osman Digna, with 000 men, is at Shakateb, which is a strong position between Sinkat and Erkowit. The spy says that Osman Digna’s followers are openly deserting him. Gen. Sir Gerald Graham telegraphs from Suakim to the government an account of the behavior of the British troops during the trying marches between Suakim and Tamai, He describes the manner in which the soldiers bore the heat, the thirst and the fatigue of the two days admirably, and warmly praises the alacrity and readiness with which, after such a march, and before taking rest the men went to work to build the zeraba on Tessel’s hill. General Graham also praises the troops for the readiness and discipline which they displayed and maintained under fire. The soldiers from New South Wales, Gen. Griham says, bore their share of all these hardships in a manner entirely worthy of their British comrades in arms. ft Deserters from tho rebel army at Khartoum report heavy fighting between the Mahdi and a portion of his army which wishes the campaign concluded. The Mahdi was severely handled and compelled to retreat. El Mnlidi Proclaimed an Outlaw. Constantinople, April 4.— The Grand Ocherif of Mecca has issued a proclamation declaring El Mahdi an outlaw, and notifying- all true Mohammedans that the English have the right to treat him as a common murderer. The proclamation goes on to .declare that El Mahdi has massacred hundreds of true believers, aud caused the murder of General Gordon, for whom prayers had been offered up at Mecca as a friend of Mohammedans. THE AFGHAN BOUNDARY. Russia’s Reply to Englaud Said To Be Very Coneiliatory. London, April 4. —The Pall Mall Gazette this afternoon states that tho reply of Russia to England's proposals concerning tho Afghan frontier line dispute is most conciliatory. The Russians earnestly wish the joint commission would commence the work of settling the frontier as soon as possible. They accept the principle of the definition of a zonb of survey but instead of drawing the southern boundary of the zone, or what they consider the north-line frontier of Afghanistan, which is an imaginary line drawn across a desert steppe, they propose that the line of the zone of survey be carried up to the only natural line of demarkation existing, namely, the Borkus spur of the Paropamisus. The difference between the English and tho Russian proposals, tho Gazette says, is that tho zone propose by Russia would include a triangular piece of steppe twenty to fifty miles wide, which would be excluded from tho zone of survey, within which the English propose to confine the work of the boundary commission. THE NEGOTIATIONS AT KAWUL PINDKB. The reports which are received from the Earl of Dufferin, British Viceroy of India, indicate that the negotiations in progress at RawulPindee between him, for Great Britain, and Abdurrahman, the Ameer of Afghanistan, are satisfactory' to the Indians and apparantly to the British; and they also indicate that the negotiations tend so strongly towards a joint military alliance between England and Ameer, tfiat their very success may be accepted by Russia as a menace. The Earl of Dufferin, for instance, to-day reports that the Ameer has obtained from India a special subsidy for the maintenance of an Afghan garrison at Herat, of sufficent strength to insure the integrity of that entire district. In addition to this, it has been decided to give Abdurrahman the services of an English officer to superintend the work of constructing a series of fortresses, which have been decided on as a line of defense along the northern frontier. Os course, it is stipulated that these fortresses are to be garrisoned and defended by Afghans exclusively', but Russia may find cause for irritation in the scientific and professional assistance openly and officially given by England. Again, Lord Dufferin reports that on the part of Great Britain, it has been agreed that the English shall construct a railway from Bolan to Candahar, and a military road l rom Candahar to Herat; and, in addition to all thi?. link the line of fortresses between Bulkh, Herat and Candahar together by a telegraph system. H la feared by careful observers that Russia may at least | continue .to

juggle with the Afghan question, under the assumption that the Rawul-Pindee council is really arranging a conpact with England as the controlling spirit of a firm of which the Ameer is but a dummy. An. English Cabinet council has approved the agreement made by Earl Dufferin and tho Ameer. The Russian army organ, The Svet, published at St. Petersburg, renews its menace against England. It declares broadly that if the English advise that Herat be fortified and the fortification follow as a result of English counsel, and with English assistance, it will constitute a casus belli WALES’S VISIT TO IRELAND. Troubles of the Lord Mayor of Dublin Over a Stolen Flag. Dublin, April 4. —Lord Mayor John O’Connor is in another dilemma about tho civic flag of Dublin. The Lord Mayor, being a strong Nationalist, at first declared in a public speech in Phoenix Park that if the Prince of Wales came to Dublin tho flag would be lowered from the Mansion House, his Lordship’s official residence. Mr. O’Connor had some prudent friends, who induced him to reconsider this threat as boyish and unwarranted. Then he manfully declared that when the Prince came the flag would be officially flown, although the Lord Mayor would personally hold aloof from the ceremonies of welcome. This angered the leaguers, and they attempted to coerce Mr. O’Connor to resume his original proposition, but he would not be coerced. At this stage of the squabble, the Mansion House flag was stolen. Theories were at once started about the robbers. Some people said the Nationalists must have done the stealing to prevent a League mayor from j>aying homage to a British Prince. Others asserted that the theft must have been inspired by the Loyalists for the purpose of making sure that the flag would he displayed on the day of the royal visit Mr. O’Connor himself, a class of cynics insinuated, put away the flag and shouted theft in order to escape from his embarrassment and conciliate both Loyalists and Leaguers. The Prince and Princess of Wales will arrive in Dublin on Wednesday morning next. As the Lord Mayor has made no attempt to secure anew flag to replace tho one stolen, the Mansion House is imperfectly equipped to make asuitable demonstration. Mr. O'Connor this afternoon again called public attention to the fact of his alleged innocence in the matter, and has issued a sort of proclamation about the civic flag. He announces that if this flag is flaunted on Wednesday next, during the presence of the Prince and Princess in the Irish "capital, it will be seized, and, if necessary, by armed force, and that the person found in possession of the emblem will be arrested and prosecuted. FOREIGN MISCELLANY. The Jews of Vienna Excited Over the Abduction of a Hebrew Girl. Vienna, April 4. —The Jewish community of inis capital is at present profoundly agitated over the alleged abduction and conversion of a beautiful Jewish maiden named Rachel Stielitz. Two years ago the girl dis appeared. A most vigilant search has been prosecuted by the police and the girl's family, but no trace of her could be found. The other day, after her parents had been for some time mourning her as dead, they were thunderstruck by the receipt of a letter stating that their daughter was in a certain Catholic convent, aud about to take the veil. The letter was signed hy Rachel herself, who begged to be released from a life which she described as one of captivity. The authorities have been consulted, and have determined to interfere for the recovery of the girl. Brisson Invited to Form a French Cabinet. Paris, April ± movement has developed in favor of a ministry under the presidency of Henri Brisson, and Constans has therefore abandoned the task of forming a ministry, and urged President Grevy to summon Brisson to form one. Brisson will see President Grevy on Sunday. Ex-Marshal Bazaine’s Poverty. Paris, April 4. —Due d’Aumale’s recent remittance of 5,000 francs to ex-Marshal Bazaine was made in response to the exile’s piteous appeal for relief from the horrors of absolute poverty and want, from which, he said in his letter, he was actually suffering. Thirty Lives Lost. London, April 4.—The steamer Mariupol has founded in the Sea of Azof. Thirty persons lost their lives in tho disaster.

Mr. Dawson Would Like to Let Go. Philadelphia, April 4.—Daniel D. Dawson, who- entered security for John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, in $5,000, to keep the peace for thirty days, today took out a bail piece for the surrender of the pugilist to court Dawson had been informed that Sullivan had been on an extended debauch for the past few days, and fearing he might commit a breach of the peace by assault and battery, lie (Dawson) was desirous of being relieved of bis respofisibility. _ Serious Illness of Ex-Secretary Frellngliuyseu. New York, April 4.— Ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen is much ‘worse this morning, and may die at any time. He is suffering from liver trouble and nervous prostration. Later.— Ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen is somewhat easier to-night, but no hope of his recovery is entertained. —^ — Thirteen Votes for Morrison. Springfield, 111., April 4.—ln the joint assembly Morrison received 13 votes; scattering, 4. Adjourned. The Governor’s Signature Attached. The Governor yesterday signed the following bills: An act to prevent the officers of agricultural societies from permitting gambling on their grounds; an act to amend an act authorizing the employment of short hand reporters in certain cases of record in this State; an act repealing certain drainage laws and prohibiting the obstruction of certain drains established under the law, au act to prohibit base ball on Sunday; an act providing for the relief of certain township trustees of Marion county, and an act to legalize the incorporation of the town of Washipgton, Wayue county. New Military Company. A number of prominent young men held a meeting yesterday for the purpose of organizing anew military company. The officers elected were as follows: Lieutenant, William J. Kercheval; major, 11. N. Kelsey. Wirt Hallam and William Wallace, jr., were appointed the governing committee. The members of the by-laws committee are Lieutenant Kercheval, Harry Atkins, Dorman Davidson and Vance Noel. The Amy Gordon Company Attached. The Amy Gordon opera company was attached, last night, fora board bill, contracted some time ago, by a Mr. Philbrook, of Richmond, lnd. The amount, $35, was paid, and the attachment removed. • There will be a meeting of the Union Veterans or. Monday evening, at room No. 3, Courthouse. All old soldiers are invited. Business of importance. Rev. J. M. Washington has returned from I’ittsburg, Pa, and will preach his Easter sermon at Blaekford-street Church at. 8 o’clock p. m. Don’t forget that we carry the largest stock, show the greatest variety, and have the lowest prices by fully 25 per cent, of any hat store iu the city. Model.

DEATH AND THE SOLDIER. Eugene Field, in Chicago News. A soldier, who won imperishable fame on the battle-fields of his country, was confronted by a gaunt stranger, clad all in black and wearing an impenetrable mask. “Who are you that you dare to block my wayf’ demanded the soldier. Then the stranger drew aside his mask and the soldier knew that he was Death. “Have you come for me?” asked the soldier. •‘lf so, I will not go with you; so go your way alone.” But Death held out his bony hand and beckoned to the soldier. “No,” cried the soldier, resolutely; “my time is not come. See, here are the histories lam writing—no hand but mine can finish them —I will not go till they are doneP “I have ridden by your side day and night,” said Death; “I have hovered about you on a hundred battle-fields, but no sight of me could chill your heart till now, and now I hold you in my power. Gome!” And with these words Death seized upon the soldier and strove to bear him hence, but the soldier struggled so desperately that he prevailed against Death, and the strange phantom departed alone. Then, when he had gone the soldier found upon his throat the imprint of Death’s cruel fingers—so fierce had been the struggle. And nothing could wash away the marks-r-nay, not all the skill in the world could wash them away, for they were disease —lingering, agonizing. fatal disease. But with quiet valor the soldier returned to his histories, andfor many days thereafter he toiled upon them as the last and best work of his noble life. “How pale and thin the soldier is getting,” said the people. “His hair is whitening and his eves are weary. He should not have undertaken the histories —the labor is killing him.” They did not know of his struggle with Death, nor had they seen the marks upon the soldier’s throat But the physicians who came to him, and saw the marks of Death’s cruel fingers, shook their heads and said the soldier could not live to complete the work upon which his whole heart was set. And the soldier knew it, too, and many a time he paused in his writing and laid his pen aside and bowed bis head upon his hands and strove for consolation in the thought of the great fame he had already won. But there was no consolation in all this. So, when Death came, a second time he found the soldier weak and trembling and emaciated. “It would be vain of you to struggle with me now,” said Death. “My poison is in your veins, and, see, my dew is on your brow. But you are a brave man, and I will not bear you with me till you have asked one favor, which I will grant.” “Give me an hour to ask the favor,” said the soldier. “There are so many things—my histories and all —give me an hour that I may decide what I shall ask.” And as Death tarried, the soldier communed with himself. Before he closed his eyes forever what boon should he ask of Death? And the soldier's thoughts sped back over the years, and his whole life came to him like a lightning-flash —the companionship and smiles of kings, the glories of government and political power, the honors of peace, the joys of conquest, the din of battle, the sweets of a quiet home life upon a Western prairie, the gentle devotion of a wife, the clamor of noisy boys and the face cf a little girl—ah, there his thoughts lingered and clung. “Time to complete our work—our books —our histories,” counseled Ambition. “Ask Death for tune to do this last and crowning act of our great life.” But the soldier’s ears were deaf to the cries of ambition; they heard another voice—the voice of the soldier’s heart —and the voice whispered: “Nellie—Nellie —Nellie.” That was all —no other words but those, and the soldier struggled to his feet and stretched forth his hands and called to Death; and, hearing him calling, Death came and stood before him. “I have made my choice,” said the soldier. “The books?” asked Death, with a scornful smile. “No, not them,” said the soldier, “but my little girl—ray Nellie! Give me a lease of life till I have held her in these arms, and then come for me and I will go!” Then Death’s hideous aspect was changed; liis stern features relaxed and 4 look of pity came upon them. And Death said “It shall be so,” and saying this he went his way. Now the soldier’s child was far away—many, many leagues from where the soldier lived, beyond a broad, tempestuous ocean. She was not, as you might suppose, a little child, although the soldier spoke of her as such. She was a wife and a mother; yet even in her womanhood Bhe was to the soldier’s heart the same little girl the soldier had held upon his knee many and many a time while his rough hands weaved prairie flowers in her soft, fair curls. And the soldier called her Nellie now, just as he did then, when she sat on his knee and prattled of her dolls. This is the way of the human heart. It having been noised about that the soldier was dying, and that Nellie had been sent for across the sea, all the people vied with each other in soothing the last moments of the famous man, for he was beloved by all and all were bound to him by bonds of patriotic gratitude, since ho had been so brave a soldier upon the battle-fields of his country. But the soldier did not heed their words of symp atnv; the voice of fame, which, in the past, had stirred a fever in his blood and fallen most pleasantly upon his ears, awakened no emotion in his bosom now. The soldier thought only of Nellie, and he awaited her coming. An old comrade came and pressed his hand, and talked of the tiimes when they went to the wars together; and the old comrade told ofjthis battle and of that, and how such a victory was won and such a city taken. But the soldier’s ears heard no sound of battle now, and his eyes could see no flash of saber nor smoke of war. So the people came and spoke words of veneration and love and hope, and so, with quiet fortitude, but with a hungry heart, the soldier waited for Nellie, his little girl. She came across the broad, tempestuous ocean. The gulls flew far out from land and told the winds, and the winds flew further still and said to the ship: “Speed on, O ship! speed on in thy swift, straight course, for you are bearing a treasure to a father’s heart!” Then the ship leapt forward in her pathway, and the waves were very still, and the winds kept whispering “Speed on, O ship,” till at last the ship was come to port and the little girl was clasped in the soldier’s arms. Then for a season the soldier seemed quite himself again, and people said “He will live,” and they prayed that ho might But their hopes and prayers were vain. Death's seal was on tho soldier, and there was no release. The last days of the soldier’s life were the most beautiful of all—but wliat a mockery of ambition, and fame, and all the grand, pretentious things of life they were! They wore the triumph of a human heart, and what is better, or purer, or sweeter than this? No thought of the hundred battle-fields upon which his valor had shown conspicuous came to the soldier now—nor the echo of his eternal fame—nor even yet the murmur of a sorrowing people. Nellie was by his side, aud his hungry, fainting heart fed on her dear love and his soul went back with her to tho years long agone. Away beyond the western horizon upon the prairie stands a little home over which the vines trail. All about it is the tall, waving grass, and over yonder is the swale with a legion of chattering blackbirds perched on its swaying reeds and rushes. Bright wild flowers bloom on every side, the quail whistles on the pasture fence, and from his home in the chimney-corner tho cricket trie* to chirrup an echo to the lonely bird's call In this little prairie home we see a man holding on his knee a little girl, who is telling him of her play as he smooths her fair curls or strokes her tiny velvet hands; or perhaps she is singing him one of Jier baby songs, or asking him strange questions of the great wide world that is so new to her, or perhaps he binds the wild flowers she has brought into a little nosegay for her new gingham dress, or —but we see it all, and so, too, does the soldier, and so does Nellie, and they hear the blackbird’s twitter and the quail’s shrill call aud the cricket's faint echo, and all about them is the sweet, subtle, holy fragrance of memory. And so at last, when death eame and the soldier fell asleep forever, Nellie, his little girl, was holding his hands and whispering to him of those days. Hers were the last words he heard, and by the smile that rested on his face when he was dead you might have thought the soldier

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