Indianapolis Leader, Volume 1, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1880 — Page 3

A DRKAM OF LONO AOO.

BT AM AXDA M. BEI OOS. Soft ilff p th earth In Night' nibrsc, Tbrir murmur low, Whil softly Fancy" flncer trscs Th newt of loog ayo; gnrot-how. In ft illy oigbtn lik tbli, Thst parting In the lan Comet back in alllta dn-ary blli And all Itn bitter pain. How well I ran recall the scene, Tbehanatiog picture fair, Th flitting ahade, the ailvery aheen, Athwart Nell'a golden hair! J oit how the laiy rirer awept Down pt the rained mill. And how the moonbeam softly alept Upon the distant hill. Th starlit flld, the deny grs, The meadow lark' aweet song; The pnrple hill, the narrow pawn. The rier winding long; The ring.doTe calling to hia mate, A-iown thediuky lane; The cooing notes with aadneM freight The night-bird low refrain. I eonld not poak the word "Farewoll." Oh! Why hd we to rart? And in that weet5t starlit dU, To aeer hart from heart. We T4wedbeid- the mn stream O'tr loe should nver die. Thongh ana and moon should ceane to beun. And earth forsaken li. BnV when the year crept on apace, And J, too tired to roam. Came wandering to the daar old placw Back to tha dear old home. Why did they tadly lead me to Tho City of the Dead? Wh grave an this where daisies grew. V boea name was it 1 read? Ah, well! the suuuy locks so fair. Time ran not silver now. Nor leave such marks of withering care As shadow mj worn brow. And all the yars have left to me Ja a trees of golden hair. A drkened lif, a memory, Aud a hope of heaven so lair. THE MYSTERIOUS MESSAGE. The 6:20 evening train. No. 39, wa over an hour late that night. Cause enough. Heaven know. For 12 hour the torin had raged, and now, instead of showing any signs of breaking the rain carne down in torrente from an inky sky, and the thunder rumbled ominiouly overhead. A bad storm to drive an engine through, as anybody would have known, and the wonder that No. 39 was not three hours late, ißstead of one. Old Luke Granger, the trustiest, nerviest engineer on the rad, rounded the curve just below Red Ravine Station at 26 mirrütes past 7. I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw the headlight cut a hole in the darkness. The second ttation-bridge might have given way in a turm like that, and I was beginning to get nervous over this thought. Somehow everything made me nervous that night. It was just the kind of weather when things look all out of gear, any way, Then, I suppose, the knowledge of that money-package being due and it" failing to come on the 11 :30, as it should have done, had its effect on me. I didn't relish the idea of keeping $13,000 in cash untU the next day. Eldridge & Ricketson had been down themselves to meet the morning train. and, if the package bad come, i vnid - 3 have turne! it over to them at once, and that would have been the end of the matter, But it didn't come. That's a way things have in this world when you most want 'era. TheTe wasn't a soul at the station that nTsrVtt arrTt miraelf and thre were onlv two pasvneers who got off the tram. I speakof Mn;n,t.tuili4rKivxi.. ful or make light of solemn things; only it's a habit, I suppose; for most people would say ithere was only one passenger that got off at Red Ravine, seeing that the second of 'em was carried out of the express car in a wooden box. Usually, when a body was coming on, I got word of it beforehand, but this one look me quite by surprise, and added not a little to the nervousness I already felt. "Who was it?" I asked, as the box was carried into the station. The passenger who had got off the train, and who was a stranger to me, answered my nquiry: "The body is that of my sister-in-law," said he. "She was the niece of Thomas Eldrid ge doubtless you know him. Her death was very sudden. She is to be buried in Mr. Eldridge's lot, here." Then I suppose the body is to be ieft in my charge until to-morrow?" said I. "Yes," answered the stranger. "Do you suppose 1 can get to Mr. Eldridge's myself to-night?" "Well," I replied, "it's a good four miles, and in such a storm as this ' Til wait until to-morrow," interupted the stranger. "There is some sort of a hotel here, Isn't there?" O, .VM a. o-ood one- You'll have to foot it. tthouh; but it's only a matter of a quarter of a mile, and you can't mis? your way, ior me road up the hill leads straight to the house. Here 1 made my way out onto the platform again and made "my way to the express-car, where the money-package, which all along I had wvrctly hoped wouldn't come, was delivered to me by the messenger. As he gave it to me. he said: "You want to keep a aharp eye on that, Rillr. There's enough in it to make one of rnni Red Raviners put a bullet through hd and never irive vou the chance to object." I'll l.Mllc out for the Red Raviners, and the package, too," said I, confidently enough. But, if the truth had been told, I didn't like v unrvMtinn which the messenger had made. The train moved off quietly, and I swung my lantern, as was my habit, by way of bidding good-night to old Luke Granger. 'Tlwn I went into 'the little station-house . with the package clutched tightly under my . i-iirihrwftt. expecting to find the man there who had come on with the body. But he o-rin hr-int anxious, no doubt, to get to t tb hotel as auick as possible. No. 39 was - the last train which stopped at Red Ravine iiiiitil 6:10 the next morning. So my work Sot the night was done, aud I had only to Sock up the doors, ev that things were all riht about the place, and sit down to my newspaper in the little room which served as mv sDping-fluartars. Twntv years bad parsed since I first found . . A-i u mvRPli' Installed at Bed Ravine as telegraph operator in the railway station. Being content wuu tne numarum or oi me, im mimfill in mv duties. I had come bv degrees to attend in all the work which the place wL That is. I was the ticket agent the baggage-master and the keeper of the station, besides acting for the express company and continuing my charge of the telegraph key. These combined labors made it pretty close work for me, but they all yielded a very comfortable income; and, as I was troubled with no unsatisfied mbitum. I counted myself well fixed. As I have- intimated, I slept in the station, partly to keep guard on the company's property, and partly from choice; for, being a bachelor and without kin. I had not hin s: to attract me 1 c here. Mv duties had. erown a sort of second-nature, and I had lived in the little town so long that the younger generation had coma to speak of me as "Old Billy." That wm, I suppose, because my hair was getting gray and mv joints a trifle stiff. f ha Red Ravine Station was a wooden building about 40 feet long by 20 wide. It was divided into two compartments, the larger one being for freight and baggage, and the smaller one for passengers. My own little room was onlv a piece partitioned off from the freight quarter, about 10 feet square, and connected by a door with the box of an office m the passengers room, which served both for selling ti.keta and holdinir the telegraph-ker. In thla latter apartment, ah, was placed the AM.fashioned iron eafe. In which I locked up valuable express packages when any happen--"d to come to Bed Ravine. The village. I rui.fct Tnliin. had erown up entirely

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Kldridge & Ricketson. There were rich beds of ore a few iniles to the north, and these, as well as the big foundry, which eraployed four or five hundred hands, were controlled by the firm I have mentioned. There had b'en some trouble at the works recently a strike or something growing from delay in pacing the men their wages. That is how it happened that the $13,000 money package came into my keeping for a night. "Well, when I had made all snug about the station, and got off my wet clothing, I sat down comfortably with pipe and newspaper, to enjoy. my customary "reading. The storm outside continued to rage more and more fiercely, but within things were cozy as could be. I had a blazing fire in the stove, a cheerful light, an easy chair, plenty of good tobacco the one luxury in which I was really extravagant a fresh" newspaper, and a bottle of good Holland gin, wherewith to make my regular nocturnal toddy. Certainly, these were pleasant surroundings for an old fellow like me, and, as a rule, they yielded as much solid comfort as a man has a risrht to expect in this world. But that r;rr.t ti,inr 11 cpamft.l out nf iAr. 9 1 hftra i said. Mypipe didn't soothe me as was iu wont; try as I might, I couldn't get interested in the newspaper: an uncomfortable feelinir of dread a feelinc that some shadowy but horrible thing was about to happen possessed mv mind: and even when I mixed up a toddy considerably stronger than usual it failed to bring the relief I had hoped for. "It all comes of that pesky money package." I muttered to myself. ""Why couldYt it have got here on the 11 :30, and saved me the job of keeping it over night?" Just at that moment came a terrific clap of thunder, and a flash of lightningvivid enough to make the lamps pet-m dim. 1 had locked up the package in the safe, and put the key there was no combination lock in my pocket. But I had not the largest faith in the security of the old safe. It had occurred to me often that a person could open it, even it he wasn't a skillful cracksman. It was my custom to leave my door open between if Red Ravine was called on the telegraphkey I could hear it. The instrument had "been clicking away at a groat rate for the Last hour; but as it was note of my business, I had paid no attention to what was going over the wires. I judged now, from the nearness of the lightning and the jerky sounds of the instruments, that Jthe storm was playing the mischief with the massages. I passed into the ticket office, where a light was burning, and stood for some time thinking whether the money package would be less exposed in the safe than it would be under the mattress of my bed; and I finally concluded that the latter place would be hardest for any po&sihie thief t reach. So I took out the heavy brown eu velop, and stowed it away under the mattress Then I took a second glass of toddy, which was usually against my rule, but which I thought the circumstances warranted. Once more I sat down to my newspaper and pipe, but with no better success than before. The storm seemed now to have centered right ever the little station. Peal after peal of thunder rent the air, and the lightning played about the sky like phosphorus on an inky background. If )"" :"yw Bi F orace aunng a inunuer-euirm, m ,a ua seen tue electricity uasn aown me wires in a wav to make timid people nervous. Even veteran operators, like myself, wouldn't want to undertake to receive that sort of message. I was tempted to close the key, but the meani i i-- j a. f r , : : , r, ingless ticking had a sort of fascination me in the mood I then was. It was like he incoherent muttenngs of a maniac, where now and then, at long intervals only, could one distinguish a word or sentence. Maybe the extra allowance ot toddy had made me more imaginative than usual, and given a weird coloring to my thoughts; tor listening to the rapid click-click, I remember of fancying that some spirit-hand had got hold of the key, and was pouring out a wail of woe over the wires. I was too restless to sit still and too nerv ous to go to bed. Besides, even if I hadn t been so upset in my mind, it is aoubttul whether I could have slept through such a storm as that., lo occupy my sell anout something I relighted my lantern, went out into the freicrht-room. examined acrain the bolts of the doors and the fastenings of the windows, and returned to my room more worried and upset than ever. Just as 1 was entering my own nest, the light of the. lantern fell squarely on the wooden box. Oddly enough, until that moment I had forgotten all about tne aeaa young woman. imuMug so steadily of the S13,üOO had, 1 suppose, driven the box out of mv mind. But I can't say it was any comfort to nave it brought back now; lor a corpse is never me most cheerful of company, and, feeling as I did then, I would a great deal rather have had no company at all. . . a m , It must have been the imp ot tne perverse, I suppose, that compelled me, after the box had been brought back to mv mind, to leave the door open so that I coula sit and" stare at it with morbid curiosity, as a nave aireaay said, my sleeping apartment was partitioned off from the freight-room, and was connected with the latter by a door. The body had been placed in such a position that, when this d.xr was open, the head of the box was in sight. Two or three times i got up to shut the door, but some strange fatality drove me back to mv chair, and caused me to keep in view the box with its sad freight. All this time the storm rased, the thunder discharged its mighty batteries, the lightning dashed, and the mad ravings of the telegraph continued. I caught my hand trembling as T trier! to refill mv nine. ervousnesa, no doubt; hut possibly an observer might have thous-ht Old Billv was frightened I had just risen to w ina tue nuie ciock on the ßhelf, when suddenly out of the hitherto meaningless ticking of the instrument sharp ly and distinctly came to my ear tnese sounds: which in spoken word meant: WATCH THE BOX I I started as if a charge of electricity had shot through my frame. I could fairly feel mv lace crow wnue. a kiovu iiiubioiuvsB, clutching the back of the chair and with my eves riveted in a vacant stare at the tabl in the ticket-office. I knew this was no work 0f an excited imagination. The words, to my ... l if i :1 nracticed ear. were as plain as if shouted in cla.-ion tones. There had come no call for i i;avine, anu mv meosaj cuu mn.-;u, signature or mark, but abruptly, as it had begun. More than that, it was not the writing of any operator on any section oi the line. I would have sworn to that with as much positiveness as you would to the tones of a voice with wnicn you are laminar. In the dot-and-dash alphabet we learn to distinguish who is handling the keys almost with as much accuracy as otners aioiinguwu handwriting. And in all my experience 1 had never heard the sounder click off a mes sage like that. While 1 stood dazed anaaimohiparaiyu for you must remember that Old Billy's ... !tl. Ii V. iL.t nerves were strung to a tern me pucu ma nighttho rapid and unintelligible cuck click was resumed as if a demon again had got hold of the key. It was I ally five minctes betöre 1 mustered couragw w pae the ticket-office and sit down at the table myself. Not once in that time had I turned back to look at the box. Almost on the in stant of my sitting down at tho table the clicking stopped short, as it had done before, and then those word were repeated: WATCH THE BOX I Every dot. every dash, every letter, every n-ifb neb horrible distinctness that it seemed to send a sharp pain tingling through my ears. penng or some M broke out the iareron the clicking into meaningless confusion. I sprang up from the table, and with the now strengthened conviction that it was no delusion, no fancy, but that the sound had com plainly over XU wires, I fait my cour-

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age returning, and resolved to heed the mysterious warning. The rolling of the thunder and the mad roar of the storm no longer depressed me. I stepped boldly back into my room, and rested my eyes unflinchingly on the wooden box. what was its mysterious freight? Why had the phantom of the storm sent those startling words over the wires? "What unknown hand had reached out from the very lightning itself to warn me of some impending danger? These questions rushed through my mind as I felt the dread fear disappearing, and found myself of a sudden grown strangely calm. - The clock struck 10. I turned to the shelf and with a hand that no longer trembled, inserted the key, and wound it composedly. "Would it be the last time that I should r perform that simple task? No matter. Happier than most men, because content with my humble lot, it should never be said that Old Billy flinched in the face of duty. For that night it was my duty my one, sacred, allimportant duty to guard the treasure left to my safe-keeping. And guard it 1 would while life remained.

When I had finished winding the clock I took down from the shelf an old rusty pistol which had lain for years undisturbed. It was not loaded, nor had I either powder or bullet anywhere in" tho station. But the weapon was ugly-looking, and carried a sort of silent force in case of too agressive argument. After examining the rusty lock, I put the pistol on the table, made a fresh glass of toddy, drank it, lighted my pipe, and closed tho door that opened into the freightroom. Now that I was thoroughly myself again, I found it easy enough to shut out the sight of that ominous oblong box. It was not until the clock struck again that is, II that I made up my mind to go to bed. All his time the storm held on, although the thunder had begun to rumble more distantly. I threw off my coat and slippers, put out the light in the ticket office and turned that in my sleeping-room down to a low flame. Then I drew the money package from under the mattres3 and pinned it securely to my woolen shirt under my vest. This done, and with the table bo placed that I could reach both the lamp and pistol, I opened the door into the freight -room some three or four inches, and then threw myself upon the bed. Just as my head touched the pillow the instrument, which had grown quiet now, clicked ofT for the third time, loudly, distinctly, slowly, its words of warning: WATCH THE BOl! Thio time the warning was not needed. I had not gone to bed to sleep, but for the very purHe of watching the box. Standing" is it did, with the head close to the door, nid therefore close to the box itself, the bed 5iti"orded the very best point from which to keep an eye on the suspicious freight. Had my faith in the telegraphie clicking been less, or had my own sense of a great respon sibility deserted me for a single moment, I certainly should have given up the job of watching as foolish; and, in that case, it is not likely that this narrative would ever have been written. But I believed in the thrh-e-repeated message, and I did not M drowsiness overcame patience. Twelve, one, two how very slowly the hours seemed to drag themselves 1 The low flame of the lamp went out, as the oil had run dry. What a relief it wa. to hear the clock strike! At last, soruewhere about midnight the storm had broken. I could see the stars as they came out, through the window in the freight-room, which was on a line of vision with the box. How strangely still it seemed after the mighty roar of the storm and the sharp claps of thunder! Not a click from the instrument now. Not a sound save the steady ticking of the clock, Still I lay listening, watching, with faculties all alert, and my eyes always on the oblong box. A little past 2 perhaps 10 minutes. The siler.ee almost painful in its profoundness. Nothing but the tick-tick of the clock, which to my eager ear had taken on this sound, which it kept repeating over and over: " Watch the-box ! Watch-the-box I" What was that? Not the clock, not the telegraph instrument. Ko, it wa the sound as of the grating fag .f iron Faint, very faint, yet still audit,le to my ear. Breathing regularly and deeply as one breathes in sleep, I lay and listened. Another interval of silence, and then the grating sound came again mistime a trine louaer man neiore. ine light of the stars shining through the window made the objects in the treight-room just visible. Almost simultaneously with the seond grating noise I saw the cover of the wooden box rising slowly from th end furthest removed from the bed. I could feel my heart thumping away like a sledge-hammer, but I continued to breathe heavily and to watch keenly. Gentiv and noiselessly the cover was pressed upward until it reached an angle which completely shutout from my view the window beyond. A moment later the figure of a man came out from the shadows while the bcx-covcr was let down as noiselessly as it had been rai.-ed. This, then, was the burden of the box. This was the meaning of the mysterious warning which the sounder had spoken. With cat-like tread the figure moved toward the door of mv room. Still I lay as in deep sleep. On the threshold the figure paused, and a moment later a single ray of light like a silver thread pierced the darkness and fell upon the bed. Luckily, it did not strike my face, and in an instant I had closed my eyes. As I had anticipated the ray of light was directed toward my pillow, and by the sense of feeling I knew it rested a moment on my face. Satisfied that I was in deep slumber, the figure still witn cat-like trea(j $xfo through the bedroom and into the tirkot-offire. Mv eves were wide open again by this time. The light from the darklantern had increased, but its rays were now turned toward the safe. Obviously the robuvr m-iiocu tue I waited until he had knelt down to examine tne locK, anu inen, wim Mp aa uiscjob o bis own, I slipped from the bed and toward the halt-open door. &o intent was ne in examining the sale mat it was not until i was within reach of him that he heard me. He sprang to hi3 feet, bringing the glass of the lantern full in my face, and reaching for his revolver, which he had laid upon tne top oi the safe But h e was too late. V ith the rusty old pistol held by its long barrel, I deflltbim a cnihhinf blow on the head lust dealt him a crushing blow on the head just as his fingers grasped his own weapon. He foil heavily, without uttering n groan. The lantern was extinguished as it fell, and with trembling fingers I struck a match and lighted tho ior in th nflW A its rv fell unon hat A 1 hA In. flicted, and I saw too that the man's face was delicate in its outlines and intelligent in ex5ression. I had time to notice no more, for L felt now that the long, nervous strain was over now that the langer was past the need of aid. So, after hurriedly binding the unconsciou man' feet and arms and bathing his head in cold water, I pulled on my boots and overcoat and started in hot haste for the hotel. Halfway on the road I met a covered carriage, drawn by one horse, 1 took it to be the turnout of Matthews, the hotel proprietor and wondering where he could be out lor at that hour, I shouted his name. I got no response. Then I cried out at the top of my voice: T't-ö L-U1el a ViiirirlhT down st the station !" Whoever was in the carriage must have Vai ma tha hnrsa onlv nuiokened hi ehum tmt snd iliKJixineared in the darkness fl peopl venture. them for laughing at how things came out. carriage, which I bad met on th road, bad drawn up tt th platform. WbotwM In It? Well, I couldn't swear, but I have a notion tvt It contained- the tentleman who - had' corns on with thi dd body. At all events,

They give me a great aeai more creuu, tne aw iow wagee. i am nca auj mu

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neither he nor the body was ever seen in the

town again. I had the satisfaction of de livering the money-package safely to Eldridge & Ricketson, but the check they gave me was really not merited. For what would have happened had it not been for the mysterious message which no man sent? A Discontented Bbj' Diary, fjndy's Almanac. 1; January Just born. Here's a larkl Papa does not seem very pleased, though. 1. February Every night pa walks about up and down the bedroom with me when I squeal, l always squeal, i must ao some thing. 1. March Nurse is a spiteful thing she sticks pins into a fellow on purpose. 1. April. After all one may even weary of the bottle. 1. May I wish I could cut a tooth, I'd bite nurse. 1. June "What a nuisance it is to have relations who keep on saying "Ketchetty, ketchetty" and dig into your ribs with their forefingers. W hen I grow up I'll doit to them, and see how they'll like it. 1. July There are three babies next door go.t the measles. I get nothing. It's awfully dull. 1. August One of the babies from next door came in to see us to-day; and I heard ma say, "He hasn't. got the measles, now?" "No," said the babe's ma, There's a greedy sneak for you. Left 'em at home! 1. September Nurse drinks something out of a black bottle. I've caught her at it. It isn't the same that is in my bottle, either. If I were a bit bigger I'd change 'em, 1. October Blessed if this ain't a nice go, neither. Some one called to-day to see ma and pa, and they said it was uncle, and gave me to him to kiss. He didn't kiss me though with what you might call a good wilL Then they asked him again, and then they gave me to" him to nurse, and he pinched me. 1. November This is worse than ever. Why, here's another baby,now, and they say he belongs to our house; and they're not going to send him away. Don't even know how to feed himself out of the bottle. Well, of all never mind. 1. December Got to sleep in the same crib with him now! Wait till he goes to sleep; 111 give him such a onerl Here's a beast of a babv! He won't go to sleep, and not a soul in the I same mo can get a Diessea wine. Henry Clay's Wager. In 1814, when the peace commission, com posed of Henry Clav, John Quincy Adams, T r i ".i ii w. n..: uuiues i. uavaiu, suu iviuti iuaiiüiiu uu tiio part of the Ünited States and Lord Gambier and Mr. Goulbourn on the part of Great Britain, were endeavoring to come to an understanding on the important questions of the navigation of the Mississippi river and the fishery privileges, the British pi en lpotentiaries sought to alarm the Americans by iiiiurmuig vueiuoi m uiviiiciuiearuij uitu was moving on New Orleans, supported by a powerful fleet. They dwelt cn the gallantry and daring of Fackenham, laid much stress upon th superb character of his troops, which they 'truthfully declared were the flower of tne British army, veterans of the victorious Peninsular campaign, and Lord Gambier gleefully remarked: "New Orleans will sHn be in our possession, and the free navigation of the Mississippi assured to us." This greatly nettled Mr. Clay, who had determine! never to concede the point as to the great river, which, with prophetic eye, he saw must one day become tho grandest commercial highway on the globe, and so, with tho instinct of the true Kentuckian, he at once offered to wager Lord Gambier that the British army would never capture New Orleans, and that Fackenham would be disastrously defeated. "For," said he, "I am informed that General Andrew Jackson, from Tennessee, has gone to New Orleans, and I have the most implicit faith in his ability to cope with your army." Lord Gambier joyfully accepted the wager, which he fixed at 100 guineas. "When the news of the route of the British armv at Chalmette and of the death of Packenham vas received in Europe, Lord Gambier approached Mr. Clay at a grand ball given, we believe, in honor of the success of the negotiations at Ghent and handing him the lOOgumeas, said: "Mr. Clay, I believe there are three kinds of beings under the special care and protection of divine Providence lunatics, drunkards and the American people." How Bismarck Once Resigned. It will be remembered that about the end of March, 1877, a report was current that Prince Bismarck had resigned, and that his resignation had been accepted by the Eraeror William. In M.Hausen's "Coulisses de a Diplomatie," the following account is given of the event: The Emoeror William spent the evening ofThursdav. the 27th of March. ;n tho house of Prince Anton Radziwill, who is distantly related to the royal family, and there met the Count N., who also is an intimate friend of the Radziwill family. ,4Well, Count," said the Emperor, "are vou going to dine off the Easter lamb with Prince i erdinand on Easter Sunday?" "Certainly, your Majesty," replied the Count, 4 Unless Herr Falk confiscates the lamb.' "In that case, replied the Emperor, "you need not be under any apprehension for your dinner." "I am, however, not quite certain," replied the Count; ''for how can your subjects feel when even her Majesty the Empress has to hide her charitable acts to avoid being annoyed?" "How so, Count?" asked the Emperor. "Why, Sire," replied ths Count, "the Empress gave officially 200 marks (about 10) to the Ursuline nuns who had been expelled from Berlin; but secertly her Majesty 1 .000 marks." Encouraged by the hmperor, Count N. cited a exeat number of other PCtty veiatious acts of Herr Falk, acting aeCordins: to the orders of Prince Bismarck. me emperor, eviuentiv mucn annoyeu, ieii porlv and the next dav he sent for. Prince Bismarck, who pleaded ill-health. A second megSenger ordered the Prince immediately to app,ar at the castle, unless he were so ill as to have to keep his bed. in which case tne Emperor would call upon him. Prince Bis marck had to obey, and was closeted for more than an hour with the Emperor. On returning home, he at once sent in his resignation o. Woman's Softening Influence. VlrjlnU (Nt.) Chronicle. "It's astonishin'," remarked the old fortyniner this morn ine as he nodded over his ewss to our reporter, "is s astonishin' what a coward a man is at home I a reir lar crawlin' sneak, bv jove: 1 ve trav eled a good bit and held up ray end in most o' the camps on the coast sence '49. I've got three bullets inside o me. I ve shot an been shot at. an' never heard nobody say I hadn't as good grit as most fellers that's troin'. But at home I'm a kyote. Afore I'd let the old woman know her hot biscuit wasn't A 1 when it's like stitt' amalgam. I'd fill myself as full a a retort. I've done it lots o times. Mosto' my teetn is gone xrom tufirerin' on beefsteaks that the old woman had fried. D'ye think I'd roar out and cuss when I eo over a chair in the dark? No, sir. While I'm rubbin' my shins an' keemn back the tears I'm likewise sweatin fur fear the old woman basbeen woke up by the upset, It didn't use to be so," sighed tho poor fellow thoughtfully rubbine his scalp. "When we was first hitched 1 thought I wasthesupI erintendent. but after a year or two of argy- - in' the pint I settled down toshovin' the car . . shoot, knife, stand up or rough and tumble you th itarch comes right out o me. Some magazine writer says: A woman becomes sensible at 25." - Then the woman U a boat 180 years ahaad of some mea.

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The Late Calamity on the Tay A Scotch Agassi a ivo nuance ana lta sad landing, Pittiburg TelHgiapn. Did you ever see a pretty young Scotch firL who had been carefully educated and rought up in the middle class of Scotish so ciety? If you nave never had the good for tune to see one, your life has not yet reached the zenith of its possibilities. A bonnie Scotch lassie with the "lint white locks' that Bobbie Burns loved to speak of, with big blue eyes, that are almost childish in their modesty and shyness, with pretty round cheeks that wear the lovely pinic tints ot perfect health, with a supple, slender figure and neat foot, encased in a sensible, thick soled boot, and a slim hand, slightly browned by tho absence of gloves. A "lassie" with all this i- as pleasant a sight as one could wish for on these cloudy, disagreeable days. Just such a dainty "lassie" could have been seen in a household in Allegheny a little more than a week ago. She is not there now. She does not exist save in the memory of her friends and in that great receptacle of sorrow, the past. In her place there is a woman with nothing of brightness or happiness about her. She has "big blue eyes, but they are dull and expressionless, all their brilliancy being washed away by frequent weeping. Her face is pale, colorless and thin. The sprightly grace that once gave a charm to her walle and her figure, has gone, and she walks about like an old woman who has lost all hope, and has discovered that the world is full of bitterness and care. The first and second pictures are of the same person so far as actual identity and name are concerned, but oh, how they are at variance in heart and soul 1 The change is striking, and it came about so suddenly that the 'writer sought to learn the cause of it all, and this is the story that was told to him: Sometime ago a gentleman who lives in Allegheny went abroad for a pleasure trip, taking with him his wife and young children. Some of the gentlemans immediate ancestow had been born in Scotland, and be desired to spend considerable time in that country, and did so. During the visit of the party one of the children was taken sick at Dunkeld, a little town in Perth shire, on the left bank of Tay. The town bad out few accommodations, but as the child was two weak to be moved, the family were compelled to take lodgings in a hotel and wait for the little one's recovery. The mother became worn out with watching the sick boy, and his father asked the doc tor if he knew of any one who could be obtained as a nuree. and promised libtr! pay r. The doctor said he knew just the riirht kind of a person, provided she would consent to serve as nurse. She was Jeannie, daughter of the clergyman who had ioriiKTly had charge of the kirk, and who had died, leaving his only child an orphan, poor and almost friendless. She had always been irood to the poor and need v durine- her father's lifetime, and after he hed left her, she naa gone to tne nouse ot a iriena to remain until she could obtain some kind of work. The doctor told Jeannie how matters stood and she at once declared her willingness to nurse the sick child, and accordingly took her place at his bedside. The bright cheerful face of the girl and her winning manners made her a great favorite with the' children and their parents, and when they were about to leave Dunkeld, the mother insisted on Jeannie coming to this country with her as governess iAt t-!ll J" J" 1 14. oi inecniiuren ana a companion ior nerseii. To this Jeannie objected stoutly, and said, with many blushes and much confusion, that she could not leave Dunkeld. Then the reason came out. She was engaged to be married to the young man whom she had known since childhood, and who was to marrv her as soon as he was able. He was a guard on the North British railroad. 'AV by could not Stewart come too? said the father of the boy whom Jeannie had so faithful Iy watched. "I will find work for him in Pittsburg, and you need not be separatea. Then it came outthat Stewart had a sister who was bediidden, and who he had to support, and this was the reason why the marriage had not taken place before. Jeannie was persuaded to go to Dundee to see Stewart and ask his advice, and he was urgent in his counsel that she should accept the liberal offer that had been made to her and co to America. He told her he would follow her here v hen he was able to provide for his sis ter. Stewart added that the doctors said that the sick girl could not outlive the winter. Poor .feannie was all tears and sorrow when she left with her friends, but she heard regu larly from Stewart, and on arriving here she soon became accustomed to her new life and liked it greatly. About a month ago Stewart wrote to 6ay that his sister was dead and that he would leave for America about the 1st of January. Jeannie' songs and smiles became more frequent, and she looked forward Un I ucsday last the papers contained the account of the terrible accident to the Edinborough train on the bridge over the Frith of Tav. Jeannie heard about it, and hur riedly read the meager account that had been eent by cable. She did not say much wben she finished the dispatch until her mis tress told her not to worry about Stewart, as he was probably all right. Then she began to sob and cried out, "It ina' all right; it was Stewart's train and Stewart's drowned!" Next morning came the particulars of the disaster, and a list of the names of those drowned. Stewart's name was among the lirt of the trainmen, and when Jeannie read it she went to her room and would not see anv one until the following morning. Then fro Vnt bVip mndo no rnmnlnlnts. and ba not referred to her loss since that first sad day, ana her friends in their pity and warm symnathv are watching her anxiously to see that cV.a A n,M dr herself fu.mA harm. And thus even this far away calamity shows how jone reaching are the shadowy arms of affliction and sorrow. Knew Her Bulne. When Collins went home to dinner Mon day, savs the Detroit Free Press, he found the house tenantlass, the cook-stove cold, and there was a lonesome look about that part of the Monday washing still left in the tubs in L i.ua it : ti 1. of the summer kitchen. Hurrying through the back yard he saw his wife braced against the fence holding to the end of a broken clothesline to keep tue newly-washed garments from the ground. "loii ve got here at last, have you7" ex claimed the wife as she caught sight of him. Yes, I'm here what's the matter t" he repeated. llre i have been Holding this broken line for over an hour over a full hour, sirl she snapped. 4,I was determined to die right there before I d let these clothes downl But why didn't you call some one?" he innocently inauired. "There is that new family next door the woman would have gone over in one minute." "Woman next door, you big idiot, youl " - Hasn't she been peeking around for two weeks to see my wash, and do you think 1 d give her a chance to come over here and 6ee for herself whether the sleeves of my nightgown were pieced down with unbleached cotton! You don't know anything, sir. and you make tracks for a piece of rope, sirl' "Well, I swan I" growled Collins as he "tracked." CHURCH DIRECTORY. Bethel A. BI. Ctinreb, Corner Vermont and Columbia streets. Rev. W. C. Trevan, pastor. Residence, 214 West Vermont street. Hours of service: 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 2 p. Allen si. r, Cnarcn, Broadway. Rev. R. Titus, pastor. Resi dence, 113 Oak street. Hours, of service: 10:30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. school 2 p. ra. Sunday school

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