Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1885 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1885.

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THE CONCORD PHILOSOPHERS.

At ('uncord the rhiloxtIi -r Have very nearly rot" Iwn to the verve-cnce of The WhU'buvo of tlie What. They've tried to inaJte it plain to us That what they 11 don't know I bardiy worth a tossM cent TotindouL Yet'tx That nfnie of them, bo worship aad iu! Emerson a saiut. Ci.it larii'y the clouds about The Notuev of the Ain't. -Lif THE MESSAGE. Temple liar. J I. It was midnight, ami two women awaited JUilerent mesners under one roof. Ty the -cider, the slow-paced hours were bringing death; to the younger, a bridegroom. The faded mistress of the rich parvenu's home had lain down to die, facing the doom of all with the cold stoici-ra of the neglected ar.J the unloved. Kealy to take her place, impatient to clutch at the gauds the other de-.-spled, anl to parade a triuru ph which should liave been her dishonor, was her rival. fche was a young woman of course. .Subtler feminine charms than bright eye, rosy lips always parting in a smile, a slender figure, and audacious, girlish ways, were hardly likely to fascinate a man of John Harden' 3 Character a man who had risen, from the meanest ranks of life, sjx'nt his years in money -rettnifr, and shunned rather than ..sought good company iu the true sense of the word. To W put out of countenance by no one. had leen a leading maxim of tiie money-maker's career; whilst therefore surrounding himself with all the glitter of opulence, he remained the blunt, plain-spoken, homely John Harden of early days. He was just sixty, and the girl busied with such affectation of demureness on some foolish boarding-school lead-work could hardly be twenty. The pair sat opposite to each other by the fire, only interchanging a word from time to time, betraying nothing of their secret thoughts to chance caves. tropjiers at the door. Yet despite such guarded steeeh. a quick observer must have seen at a glance how it stood with both; the girl's Hu-hed cheeK and sparkling eye, the man's look of suppressed satisfaction, told their own story. The dread mes-enger whe name is Death. as lie tassed through this hushed house. made way for a joyotii successor whom, under various gniscs men call Love. The hand of the costly time-piece on the tiiantel-shelf inted to 1:, a not t Lip in ?"? M?cmcd to chill the air. Mr. Harden ruse to make up the tire, as lie did so letting one hand fall on Iiis companion's. ''It is Frowins late and cold. Uetter go to bed. -"or-tance." he said, in a voice of tender concern. The girl, allowing herself for a moment to he carried away by impulse, leaned forward, her bright brown curls ju-t touched his scant rray locks, her softly-rounded ( heck jn.t came in contact with his own. lined and corrugated with care. "Should I leave you alone at such a time?'' she whispered. "He said nothing, but kneeling before the fire, making it up after methodical fashion, contrived at tne same time to transfer from Ids waistcoat ket to her not unwilling "linger, a minute x of crimson leather lined with velvet. "Within gleamed a wedding ring, and as t'onstam e Kmery gazed upon it furtively, her lover's face showed exultation equal to her own. To this shallow girl, the first glimpse of her weddin' ring meant everything that life itself could mean. Hie was nothing. rosssed nothing; the ring would give her all she set store by, and render h-r exactly what she wished to become. It would throw the responsibility of her own existence upon another' shoulders, relieve her from the odious burden of breadwinning, afionl her luxury, social lower. and the kind of sway over an rdinary nature that by such women is made to do duty for affection. The ring, in short, was to oien wide the portals of a career after her own heart, without it, unattainable as a crown. To the man also the ring symbolized the aspect of life most agreeable to hira. In one resject money-making had not rendered him tallou. To his mind a certain feminine tyie ever remained irresistible. Of ideal loveliness, of spiritual or intellec tual beauty, it was not at all likely that he should have the remotest conception; but he owned the sway of frolitsoniegirlhood, the ea-y assurance of your.g, handsome, reckless women. To surface charms of look or manner he was ever ready to do homage, liut the ring had other and graver meaning for him. His lirt marriage had been childless. The enormous wealth amassed so laboriously la' ked an heir. Might not a young wife make him the proud father of blooming children? The tiny lox consigned to its hidingplace, Mr. Harden fetched from the lobby tlose by. a carriage cloak lined with rare fur. und bestowed it carefully about the girl's shou!d?rs. He next went to the sideboard, and. Lalf-fi Hing a glass with wine. "Do not let yourself cet chill or faint then." lie said softly, standing over her, glass in hand. She just sipped the wine and put back the glass, smiling irratefully. He returned to tne sidelxjard, swallowed the remainder of the wine, then t down in his old place by the fire. Just then the d.or was tapped lightlv and an elderly, homely woman-servant made her appearance. "If you p'eao, sir," she said, without looking at the girl, "mistress is herself again, and asks for you.'' Such a rummon, unwelcome although it might be, was imperative. With a lingering look at the vision of life, youth and jollity left behind. Mr. Harden followed his hushed conductress to the chamber of death. II. It was a sL-i kingly luxurious room, hung 'with rich arra of crimson silk, and carpets to match, in which the feet sank noiselessly. On each side of the Venetian looking g!as ' were haivlsorne French carulelabrjs, supported by little loves in tinted txjreela'.n. On the lressing table glittered silver-topjed scent bottles and a woman's -mall watch set with diamonds. The tire had len allowed to burn low, and only one small lamp lit up the 'silent room ami its solitary occupant a worn, white Iiaired woman, whose life was n earing its cose It wa easy to see that, like her husband, Mrs. Harden had not ben born to such lux"ry as t!ii: her physiognomy, as well as his own. indi ated a homely origin. Her thin hands still showed evidence of laborious toil. The heavy silk curtains of warm red, and downy uiit covered with satin, were in strange contrast with the look of the mistress. Twenty years of opulence had never familiarized her with it. To the last she looked, as indeed she felt, a stranger in her own house. '(in away. Anna," she said gently to th ' "aithful jeasant woman who had grown old in her service. "Leave us alone." The husband realized at a glance what had .hapjened. SJhe had remembered something. Wen reminded of some thingshe wanted to say to him at the last, and as will often happen jn the case of the dying, abrief return of con--cious.'tess was accompanied by a momentary recovery of physical strength last, bright, tvanestent flicker of the tiame of life. . The servant withdrew, and Mrs. Harden now bftkoned the shrinking, consciencetrkken man to hT l-dside. There had hitherto been no leave-taking Wtween him and the faithful partner of well ni:ih lorty years, r'rom the beginning of her illness greatly to his relief, she had avoided anything approaching to close, confidential talk, any ailnsion to the past or the future as they more immediately concerned thernwives. He had taken care that everything money could do was done for her. A London physician had

been summoned in consultation; all the concern that decorum exacted un ler the circumstances had been testified by him; he was constantly in the sick-room. Dut the solemn connJence. the final un Jerstan ling, thesupreme valediction that might be looked for from two human beings wh- had passed almost a lifetime together had never been uttered. ow it became clear to him that they were not to be separated tlms. The opportunity for a la.st word had t oiu , and sue clutche 1 at it with almost frenzied eagerness. The expression on her face he could not misread she was determined to say what she had to say. She felt confident that death would afford her this grace consent to hold aloof a little while. "John," she began, gathering fire and force with every word, all the pent-up indignation of years poured forth at the last, "I have had something to say to you for years past. Now I must sieak. or not at all." "You ought not to agitate yourself, IVssie," he said, nervously; "it will do you harm." "Harm!" she reiterated with a gesture of contempt. "You speak of harm to a dying woman. But do not interrupt me. My time is short." "John, I am not afraid to die. I have never been what is called a religious woman. I was never so tender-hearted to the poor and afflicted as I see now that I ought to have been. But I have done my duty. As a wife, as a woman, I have acted uprightly. AVhen the same moment comes to you. when the door stand- open before you as" it does to me, between life and death, and you know you must go the dark way. can you say even so much for yourself?" She leaned forward, not lookhin exactly at him, he could have borne that better, "but pcerinsr as if into futurity, seeing, sj he seemed to think, what lay Whind tue trrave and was veiled from his own and from all mortal's gaze. The meanness, the homeliness of the woman vanished indeed then. Something more than ersonal feeling, the indignation born of silently endured wrong. Mashed from her ds'ing eyes and white, almost spectral features. It was not the injured wile, the outraged woman so much that spoke now to John Harden' s guilty soul as the voice of conscience itself, of awful justice, of awarding dooru. "I have been a hyinxrite to you all these years. I have never once openeilniy lips to you on the subject of your conduct to me." she went on in a supernatural voice. "Dut do von suppose I was blind or a fool? Those long, lonj; winter evenings I dragsred out as best I could alone, did I not know how they were spent by you? I was not going to Haunt myself before the world a an insulted wife, to court the neighbor's pity for the slights put utHjn me bv niv husband. No; I sat

alone amid all this show so hateful to me. with unsokeii curses in my heart. What right had you to treat ir.e thiis? Was I the only one of us two to grow old and wrinkled ? If our marriage was not blessed with children, the misfortune was mine as well a yours. These things rest with the Almighty." For a moment, a moment on'v. her voice swaved to real feeling as she continued: "There was a time, when life was a hard struggle to us, and you behaved kindly to me. I would have laid down my life to make you happy. And I was ever a true wife to you, John, you can not deny that. Do you remember when we kept our little shop, how I used to sit up till 'past midnight ironing vour shirts and mending your clothes? An J the lirst time you were summoned to sit on a jury I was so proud to have you go. I never told you that I sold my father's watch, the very watch he left me, to bur your black coat, and turn you out like a gen tleman. And now Yet one tremor more as &he got ont the rest of the sentence. "And now, had von treated me with con sideration due to a wife, had vou cared for me rt all, I should be the first to say to you on my dying bed 'Do not fret, my dear; marry some good woman; try and be happy for my sake. " Then she did indeed look at him, pene tratingly and with a startling fixedness that seemed to search his verv soul. Clenching her hand as if between himself and her stood her deadliest foe, she added: "Do I not know what will happen as soon as I am put in my grave? In spite of your caution, I see weil enough who is waiting to take my place. Marry tha ungrateful girl we picked out of the "gutter. Hing the joy bells a year hence at the birth of a son and heir. No good will come of it. Consc ience will crush you, unclean heart, perjured tongue! You will tremble when Death stands near yon, beckoning as he now beckons me. and tremble in vain " "White as the dying woman, the husband leaned forward with a word of exculpation, an entreaty for pardon on his trembling lips. I'ut it was too lme. The force of ebbing life had already spent itself. Mrs. Harden fell bac k unc onscious on the pillow, and as he taught her in his arms he saw that the end had come. The faithful Anna hearing Iiis cry for help, hastened to the bedside of her mistress. nr. so enticing the warmth ol that luxurious fur-lined cloak, so soft and easy the armchair in w hich her tatron had settled her, that Constance Kmery felt ready to drowse. Hut her brain was too busy with the future to indulge in sleep. She must, would keep awake, in order to think out the future as it cqened itself to her enlarging gaze. Perhaps the girl was not deserving of wholesale condemnation after all. Vulgarity may indeed be a piece of ill-fortune, as much äs awry nose or niisshaix-n foot: only to the rarely endowed ones is it jiosible to burst the Chains of custom, bringing up and heredity. In the midst of foolishly bewildering dreams of silks and trinkets, carriages and lacqueys, boudoirs and fashionable recej tions, she was aroused by the abruptest intrusion. Ili'sing to her feet, for she knew well who the intruder must bo, she was fain to clasp his hand, to whisper an endearing word, to greet him lonely as she had done surreptitiously scores of times before. Dut at a glance toward her patron, her heart stood still. Clever she was not, feminine tact she possessed in a moderate degree, yet she realized iu a moment, without knowing thecaue, the nature of the transformation that had come over him. She stood aghast, not venturing a step forward, lacking courage even so much as to utter his nam. He came close up to the table by which she stood, holding in his hand a small strip of pnpvr barred with pink. "Constance," he said in that brief, hard, unanswerable voice she knew so well, though now used for the first time to her "Constance, I can not marry you. I shall never marry again. Here is cointensation for a broken promise." He turned up the lamp in order that she might see what he had given her. There, it was plain enough, nothing could be plainer, a check for xö.ooo. The astonished girl was dumb, and he hardly knew whether as yet she fully understood the meaning of his words. Something else he had to say, however, unmistakably chr and to the purtose also. "It will be tatter for you not to stay here any longer. I have ordered coffee to be ready by f o'clock, and the brougham at half t-ast. in time to catch the early express. William will drive you to the station and givo you a lir-t-class ticket. Mind and be ready." Still not a ward from the scarlet-cheeked, mortified, trembling girl. Had any one half an hour before assured Constance Kmery that she should thus stand silent and abashed in the presence of this man, she would have laughed the prognostication to scorn. Hut with that quick, unerring instinct of the dull, the instinct born of fear and selipreservation, she now recognized the fact for herself. There was nothing she could say to soften him even were she mistress of herself, blandishments, exhortation, tears, would all prove ineffectual a3 children's dams to keep out the tide. Something bad happened slie vaguely guessed the truth to shut him from her, to harden him toward her forever. Whilst she stxd thus, shrinking, irresolute, unable m get out a syllable, yet feeling that she ought to say something on her own

behalf, another significant act told her cleerly enough, were proofs still wanting, of what was in Mr. Harden's min i. The rich fur-lined cloak in which he had so tenderly enveloped her just an hou.-ago, lay on the ground. In her startled surprise, it had fallen from her shoulders. She now saw him pick it up, and, with a gesture not to be mistaken, lay it, carefully folded, on his wife's favorite chair at the extreme en J of the room. That cloak she was not to touch again. Then he left her, in a moment more to return. Constance Emery looked up. and once more her heart stood still. He had repented of this cruel abruptness, this undeserved coldness, and was come to whimper a tender word in her ear, to console her for what he had erhaps been forced into by a death scene. He came back to the table, leaving the door ajar. "Take good care of the piece of paper," was all he said as he pointed to the check. Again the door closed, and this time he was indeed gone. She heard him go to his closet on the same rioor and locked himself in: that was a sign also she had learned to understand. Nothing remained but to do as she was bid. After all, he was master in his own house. She might weep, remonstrate, implore, .she could not stay against his will. Humiliation, mortified vanity and dismay were succeeded by other feelings. On the whole, perhaps, her sudden departure would not create much talk in the neighborhood and in the kitchen. She was young and no relation. Would it not he quite natural for Mr. Harden, in theeyesof the world, be her Wnefactor only, to send her away? And certainly, as far as her own feelings and inclinations were concerned, she would rather be anywhere than in a house with the blinds drawn down, and the hush of death reigning over it. In her heart of hearts, but for the errand, she was really triad to go. And lastly, that check, when she grew calm enough to think about it, altogether altered the asjct of things. She had no idea of Mr. Harden's real wealth, but tue sum he had just given her in lieu of a wedding-ring seemed to her simple eyes enormous. Whatever happened, she was a great personage now. It was characteristic of the girl, as she dejosited the check at the bottom of her trunk, and sullenly made her preparations for departure, that she never for a single moment regretted the aHection of this man or what had passed muster for his affection. She only thought of his rough flatteries, his unligurative compliments." his homely admiration. Cut all these, and much more surely, awaited her in the triumphant future. Why should she shed a tear for one who could part from her then without a handclasp, a smile, a fond look? She almost felt that in time she should learn to hate him. True enough, punctual to the moment, William waited in the iorch with the brougham; a moment later and a woman's trunk was placed on the top, a slender, girlish figure wearing a small crimson hat with a white feather, and tight-fitting crimson mantle bordered with fur. stepped in, the i. ... i - . it i:..:..: i.:

uoor was snui. aim. as n uiwuwig ins mas ter's wishes, the old man-servant drove the carriage swiit'.v toward the lodge gate. IV. What the rich man did with his inner nie from that time none knew. Outwardly it was clear for all to see. a model of austerenes. rectitude anil rigid adherence to duty. Mr. Harden made no affection of piety, of conversion, as the phrase goes, lie -lid not take to reading his Hible or excessive churchgoing. The exactions ot conscience and custom in this latter respect had ever been fulfilled by him. Hut in his lonely, remorse-stricken widowhood he took to good company. Alike in look, dress and manner, be a fleeted the air of a gentleman. As if to challenge the world, moreover tosava syllable against his char acter, he generally had to reside with him tome needy clergyman, or young man preparing for holy orders, with whom he took his meals and spent his evenings over chess and backgammon. He gave clerical dinner parties, too. delighting to assemble round his luxurious board all the clergy of the neighborhood, well pleased also, in" turn, to accept invitations to their houses and be ini tiated into what is called good society generally. The world of course welcomed the millionaire into their ranks. He might have married half a dozen times, to his social and moral advancement, had lie pleased. From the first, however, it was evident to all that, whatever John Harden might do for the church and society, lie would never marry again. Clerical ladies might get money out of him. No woman won' 1 ever iersuade him to purchase a weddingring. These distractions relieved the tedium of solitude, and if he did not look cheerful, at least he invariably wore an expression of satifaction. He might well look satisfied! He was satisfying himself; in other words, as he thought, balancing his moral affairs, and putting himself on the right side of the banking book. Nor w as the widower forsaken In moments of sickness or when infirmities overtook him. The devoted Anna, whose heart had once turned wholly against him. whose very feminine instincts had revolted against the slights put uron her mistress, now testified even allectionate solicitude for the changed, repentent man. And if there was ce person in the world to whom he ever opened his lips on the subject of the past it was to his wife's faithful servant and only friend. LITTLE FOLKS. A little boy in a public school, who having spelled "sob," was asked to define the word, and said, "It means when a fellar don't want to cry. and it bursts 'out itself.' " Discussion between a wise child and its tutor: "That star you sto up there is bigger than the world." "No, it isn't." "Yes, it is." "Then why don't it keep the rain oilT' "You had better ask for manners than money.'" said a linely-dressed gentleman to a beggcr-boy who had asked for alms. "I asked for what I thought you had the most of." was the boy's reply. "Come, Jennie, come see the man. he's getting milk out of the cow's handles," shouted a little city girl to her companion the other day as their farmer hostess liegan to milk one of his "crack" cows. "My little boy." said a gentleman, "you ought not to eat those green apples. They are not good for little 1hvs." "They hain't, eh?" the boy replied with his mouth full. "Cucss you don t know much fdxnit 'em, Mister. Three of these apples 'II keep me out of school for a week." "John. I want yon to have every weed pulled out of this garden before I get home to-night." "I can't do it in one day." "Yes, you can, if you are industrious. If I was young like you, I could do it in half a dav." "Say. father." "Well?" "Ain't yon glad you ain't young like me?" In a clergyman's house not a thousand miles from Chicago, where there was a bright little 3-year-old boy, seven lovely little kittens had been born the night before. The next morning the dear old minister, in his grace, said: "0 Itrd, consecrate we pra)', the repast set before us, and accept our thanks for the new blessings of the past night. Amen.' The little fellow instantly rcsjtonded: "Seven of them, papa." A South End girl of ' years, whose father was seeking to make her understand that there was but one God for all kids of cople whether black or yellow, or red or white, asked: "Isn't there but only one God for Indian children and white children?" "No, my dear only one for everybody." The girl thought deeply for a moment, and then burst out into sobs. "Oh, papa,"' she said, "I don't like that a bit; I want a Ood all to my own self; won't you get me one." Notice: In another column will be found an article in which all (whether they will or no) are interested. Neglecting to read it may prove a very serious as well as an expensive atlair. We refer to the advertisement of l'ritkly Ash Hitters. A knowledge of Its merits'and the benefit you or your family may derive from using it will save not only health but many dollars otherwise expended OH ''doctors' bills."

MRS. SURRATT'S GUILT.

Rx-MinUter Jtingliaui'a Contribution to the Story of Lincoln's Murder. .sun Francisco Chronicle. J Hesides having a record as United States Minister to Japan for nearly thirteen years, John A. Bingham, who is now in this city en route for Washington, having been relieved by Minister Hubbard, has occupied a prominent position in American political history. He is that typically shrewd man, a "Philadelphia lawyer," but his early practice was chiefly in Ohio, in which State he was made Attorney for Tuscarawas County, in 1S45. Next he was a member of Congress from Ohio from 155 to 1871, and then earned his title of Judge by accepting the position, at Abraham Lincoln's request, of Judge Advocate of the army in ISO!, having been especially appointed to try Surgeon General Hammond. Not long atter this he was made Judge Advocate in the trial of the conspirators for the murder of Lincoln, and wound up that period of his career by being made one of the managers of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson in lo. Such being the varied experiences of the ex-minister, a Chronicle reiorter sought yesterday for a relation of some of the most striking experiences, and as an introductory question, aked him Iiis idea on the projosed monument to Mrs. Surratt. THE M'RRATT OHEMSK. "A monument to Mrs. Surratt." echoed the judge with marked spirit, "and I sup-Io-e the next there will be an obelisk to the memory of John Wilkes IJooth. There i,' be went on. "a good deal of the circus about the American. They always want to be doing something that will look well on a poster. A monument to Mrs. Surratt, indeed! And what for, I should like to know?"' "Hecause of the growing opinion with certain classes that she was innocent, I presume," said the reenter. "Well, I ought to know something about that, I imagine." retorted Mr. Hingham, "and ! ' the schemer, the abettor, or the conniver to an assassination is as guilty as the assassin, and I believe there is no doiibt upon that subject, then Mrs. Surratt was as guiity as ltooth. Harold, Payne or any of the rest of the gang. I speak this authoratively. for you will remember, sir, that I was Judge Advocate for the nation at the trial of the conspirators, and if the gentlemen who polose to put up the Surratt monument had gone through the mass of testimony that I have, they would not waste their time on any such scheme for another instant. The proof of Mrs. Surratt's guilt was direct, clear and iositive. I forget the hour now, but it was sometime in the morning of April 14 that Mrs. Surratt went out to Washington, crossed the Potomac by the East bridge, passed the lines how I cannot say and halted at her hotel at Surrattsville. There, as was sworn to by the servants on the stand, Mrs. Surratt left instruc tions that the "shooting irons" would be wanted that night. The shooting irons consisted of pistols and carbines concealed between the wooden partitions, one of the carbines being found, if I recollect aright, in the ossession of one of the conspirators when arrested. She then set but various articles that might be required by the murderers, including a bottle of whisky, and drove back to her house in Washington. That night the shooting irons were wanted; Lincoln was shot through the head, and llooth, at 10 o'clock, rode through the line, shouting aloud his own name. That incident in itself is sufficient proof of complicity, I should think, to sav nothing of the proofs that were adduced during the trial of the meetings of of the conspirators at Mrs. Surratt's house." Is it not true that Mrs. Surratt protested her innocence?"' "No. sir, it is not trap. It is true that she pleaded not guiltr on her trial, but when once under the shadow of the gallows Mrs. Surratt never once claimed to be innocent. She was guilty, aud it was right that she should have been hanged." obaxt't escape from death. "It has been related in the crowd of inci dents brought up by Grant's death," said the reiorter, "that the (5 leral's modesty saved mm irom a Iikc late t thatol l'resident I-in-coln." "Well, that is measurably the truth,'" said the ex-Minister. "Stanton was aware of the danger which Lincoln was running by visit ing the tneater; in fact, he knew for months before that assassination was in the air, and he begged of the President and the Oeneral of the army not to visit Ford's Opera House. Lincoln, however, refused to be Influenced, but Grant was wiser, ami so, not to offend Lincoln, announced that he. and Mrs. Orant were going on a trip to (ialena to see his mother. Grant did not know it at the time, but be was locked in the special car set apart lor his use, detectives went out on the same train to keep guard over him, and the officials all along the line were telegraphed to keep watch over him. Nor were these precautions needles, for it was afterward stated in a newspaper confession that one of the conspirators, whose name, bv the by we never could and did discover, followed Grant on the same train for the purpose of assassinating him, but did not succeed localise be could get no chance to use his pistol." "You said just now," remarked the reporter, "that Stanton and Lincoln loth knew of the danger that was abroad. Why is it that Lincoln did not guard against this langer?" "Because, sir," answered Mr. Hingham, "Abraham Lincoln was a fatalist, and his firm belief was that he haJ a certain work to j-erform and when that was done he would go, but not before. He knew that there was danger abroad for months before the assassination. It was in October or Novemtar, 1st;."., I am not positive as to the month, that the lady in the Fifth avenue stage picked up the letter dropped by Hooth. It was addressed to soaie one styled the 'Charlotte Corday of the nineteenth century,' said that itoison had once failed and that now there remained the pistol and the dagger, about whose use there must be no blunder. The lady took the letter to a lawyer, he took it to the Secretary of State, bv whom it was handed to Lincoln, who indorsed it 'Assassination, A. I' Hut still he went ubout unattended, nor could he be induced to take what were ordinary precautions in thobe troublous time." A CURIOUS CALCULATION. The Knd of the World Figured Out, and the Period Fixed at 18UU. The following singular and very curious calculation, by which the approaching end of the world is determined, has never before Wen made known to the miblic, writes a Waterloo, Kans., correondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal, anil may be of very great interest to those who have Wen studying the prophecies, or watching the progress of human events. Helieve the results or not, as we may, nevertheless here are the figures, which any reader can verify for himself. If these results are here correctly foretold, then the startling fact stares us in the face that the world is within 1 years of its close. In the fall of isicj the final winding up is to take place. Here are the calculations. lt the reader carefully examine them. To begin. There are several Important prophetic eriods made known in the scriptures, and various dates, as well as significant numbers, such as the great period of '2,'i years mentioned by Daniel, the jeriod 1,'jix) years, and the period of l,:iVt years, llesides "these there are in the book" of Hevelation other jeriods and significant numbers, such as the 1,"0 years the jK-riod of the woman's sojourn in the wilderness-, l,0oo years the period of Satan's being bound.' and mW the number of the beast. Knoch's age (IWiö years), who prophesied of the second advent among the antediluvian sinners, is also bevond all question a symbolic number. i'erhaps, like the .3'days which complete one revolution vl the, earth around the sun,

makin? one vear.' his rears mar le

symbolic of the great prophetic jeriol Known as - oays, one graim revolution oi which is to complete one of time's great years and finish the earth's career. "Seven" just one of the significant numbers of sreipture, and a "week of sevens," or 7 times 7, still more so. The student of scripture will readily recall frequent instances of this significant figure 7, and especially the more important one of 7 times 7, or 4' the number of final completion, the finishing of all mysteries, the winding up of earth's atfairs. Very well. Now take these figures, add them together, and see what you get: 2.:5 years, Dan's great period for the cleansing of the sanctuary. 1,'JHO years, measuring the continuance of the "abomination of desolation." 1..aJ years the period of "blessedness" to the saints. I,2j0 ytars, the duration cf the woman's sojourn in the wilderness. 1.000 years the binding of satan. WW years, tlu number of the "beast" who is to go into perdition. 3iö years, the symbolic age of Enoch, the great prophet of the advent. 4'. years, tly number of final completion. Total, 8.'Jv5 rears. Now remember that before all the catastrophes denounced on mankind as the divine judgments against sin there were usually periods of "waiting" before the judgment fell, so as to afford opportunity for rejentance and escape, and these periods multiplies of 40, as, for example, before the Hood. liO years; before the conquest of Canaan. 40 years; and before the tall of Nineveh, 4' days, denounced by the prophet Jonah. Now add together 120 years of Noah's warning before the flood came, 40 years of Israel's warning before the judgment fell on the guilty Canaanites, VA years that the witness laid unburied prejaratory to resurn ction. and three years during which the owner of the vineyaVd came seeking fruit and finding none, at the expiration of which jieriod the tig tree was to be cut down, and you have 160 J a as the sum. Now, to apply these mystic numbers and learn their significance, imagine your life divided into the four eriods of childhood, youth, manhood, and old age, so as to get it m its completeness. Take your age in years, leaving otl months and days, acM to itself three times (one for each of the four periods), add to the mystic number MT2 (the sum of the great prophetic ieriod), in order to ascertain the full sum of time's revolutions, and divide the amount by four (the number of universality, because these calculatons apply equally to every human being). subtr;:ct irom the quotient the other mystic number 1G0J a (periods of warning given to man before the execution of final dixm and from the remainder deduct the number of years you have lived in this sublunary world", and you get the number l.S'.rjJ-X. Now it matters not what age you take, that of the little child or the old man, the result is the same, the ominous 1,VJ1X always remains as the one fatal period when the human life is to close. But the one year in which every human career is to terminate and everr life close must be the final year, the winding up, the conclusion of all sublunary things, the rear oi doom. A singular confirmation of the calculation is to be found in the fact that, according to an old Jewish tradition, the world was created in the fall of the year, of which the old trumpets, occurring in October, was supposed to be the memorial. And it would be natural to supj ose that it would be very appropriate for it to close its career on the completion of one of its annual revolutions ;in other words, in the fall of the year. And sc this remarkable calculation 'plainly indicates. The three-fourths singularly points out that fact. Hence, if these conclusions are not erroneous, we have the startling prophecy before us that when the earth reaches one of her great milestones on the highway of time in October, is:, a mighty hand will belaid upon her and she will stop. Let the world look out for ls;r,. CURIOUS, USEFUL AND SCIENTIFIC. Vegetable life in France is retarded four days for every noo feet of latitude, and the coming of the chimney swallows is delayed two days. A nearly perfect skeleton of the mosasaurus was recently discovered in a quarry tiear Mohs, in the Province. of Hainaut, Hefgium. it has the extraordinär length of fifty-five feet nine inches. It is to be preserved in the National History Museum, Drussels. Contrasting hot spells of weather, it is stated that in LH and l'Ml the Rhine. Loire and Seine ran dry. Much later, in 17iJ, vegetables were burned up and fruit dried upon the trees. The furniture and woodwork in dwelling houses cracked and split up; meat went bad in an hour. Of all the states in the Union, Georgia brings the most fantasti c things to the sur face. Its very latest oddity is a spider as big es a hickory nut, the long, curved back wereof. shows the human face in profile. The face is like that of a man of the malar type, the brow, the eyes, the nose, the mouth and the chin being imitated with a precision quite startling In its waj. Probable the fastest cruiser afloat is the Hrit'sh vessel Mercury. She has attained an average speed of IS" Knots an hour, while the average speed of the Chilian ram cruiser Ksmcralda is given at Ls knots, and that of the French cruiser Milan also at IS knots. The Mercury is CO" feet long ami 4o feet in lireadth. and has '22 feet draught of water. The Chilian vessel is l!:J feet shorter, but although the French ship is 3 feet longer, her breadth of beam is only feet. At a recent meeting of the Society of Arts, London, Mr. Parker said that petroleum had been accidental! r discovered at a place near (irenoble by a chance visitor who had resided in the American petroleum districts. The whole of the land about the place has been bought and the working for the oil are now in progress. At a depth of a Li') meters the quantity of gas was increasing, and hopes were entertained that Orenoble and other towns can be lighted with it. Crinoline seems to be exceedingly ancient. Hesiod. who wrote in the eighth century before Christ, must have observed something of the kind, for he advises young men not to be led astray by c ertain women of his day v !:( wore their clothes putted out behind. If dress improvers were actually worn by the Greek women of Hesiod's day, it is not improbable that they were also worn '2 years earlier, ami that Helen, when she tied with Paris to Troy, wore some primitive kind of crinoline. One of the young men who pass the summer roaniing on bicycles round the country found a roadside curiosity the other day in the shape of a sparrow-hawk's nest w ith eggs and young. The eggs to the number of four, were of tints varying from yellowish buff to reddish brown." Returning that war two days later he found and seized upon the young hawks. They were fluffy balls, and not an eye was open. There was the softness of swan's down about them, but, nnlike swan's down, there was a touch of pink as faint and delicate as that in a lady's cheek. Herr Mohs, of the Madeburg Society of German Engineers, says that the deepest boreholes in existence is' the one made in searching for coal near the village f Schladebach, on the railway between Corbetha and Ixipsic, at the instance of the rmssian Mining lepartment. It has been driven by hollow diamond-jiointed rock drills, and water flushing to a depth of 4.5.VJ feet in three and a half years, at an exenditure of $'J-",Och Its diameter at the bottom is 1.872 inches.and at tlie top 11 inches. The thermometer registered at the bottom 11S.40 Fahrenheit. In the most prosaic descriptions of Atlantic storms the phrase "mountains high" is not unusually applied to the waves. The Hydrographie Bureau, Washington, has published certain facts which may possibly contribute to greater accuracy oi statement: The most careful measurements of the height of waves give from 44 to 4S feet as the extreme limit; the average height of great waves Is . '50 feet. The largest wave hitherto obscryed is said to have a, length otluUa

mile and to have spent itselt in 23 second. During storms in the North Atlantic wavesometimes extend to a length of 500 feet and 000 feet, and last from 10 to 11 seconds. It is a curious fact that wasps' nests often take fire, as is supposed by the chemical action of the way ujon the materiil of which the nest is composed. Many of the fires of unknown origin in haystacks and farm buildings may thus be accounted for. The Advantage of Heinga Blopile. Chicago News. Every year we get the cry from fashion writers: "Dlondes are no longer in style; they hare been superceded br their darker sisters," etc. Now that's ail bosh. Y'ou can't do away with the blonde, and you can't do away with frizzled banged hair. Preeminently the blonde is the beauty of civilization. She is amonjc us to sta- as such and you can't drive her away. A brunette now and then may rise supreme orer her by reason of wonderful loreliness. but I'm speaking collectirelr. A woman can dress more eflectively with blonde hair than one with dark. It lights up better and is more youthful. A well kept olonde has ten years' advantage in point of youthful looks with the average brunette. Mind you. once In a lifetime or so there arises a miraculous brunette who completely surpasses her. but for steady going, ordinary good looks that make no pretentions to great beauty the blonde carries the palm. You can't expuntre her in favor of the brunette, even in literature. In the.novels turned out in the pat year there have been Ü72 blondes to each 100 "brunettes.

A Hopeless Case. "You haven't paid the last premium on your wife's life-insurance, I'ncle Hastus," said the agent. "I knows I hasn't. I got dat ole 'oman's life "sured foah yeahs ago. sab. an' she hain't ben sick er day sence. Dis mawnin' she kicked me out ob bed wif wun fut. She weighs sixty poun's mo'n she ebber did. 'Bout er iiour ago she eat a fo'ty cent watermillion an' drunk er quart ob cider, and she am now sleepin' off the effec's, wif de presp'rashun rolhn' down her face that am de perfec' pictur' of health. Wot's de use 'suring an ole 'oraan like dat? She hain't nebber goin' ter die; 'deed she ain't. lou't yo' go fd' ter ask fo' no mo' premyums." Perhaps She Would He Really "Not at Home." "Will eyerbody know everybody else in Heaven, mamma?" "I supjKJse so." "Audis it wicked to lie in Heaven?'' "You awful child and after all I hare tried to teach you'. Of course it is. Haven't I taught vou that it is wicked to lie anywhere? Those who lie will not be allowed to go to Heaven." "Then what ever will you do there, mamma, when teople call to whom you are 'not at home"? Hut" (thoughtfully) "perhaps you won't go there, atter all. and then you can do the same as vou do here." Horsford's Arid Phosphate. r.EWAEE 01 IMITATION'S. Imitations and counterfeits hare again ajpeared. Be sure that the word "Horsford's" is on the wrapper. None are genuine without it. Allen's Brain Food. Botanical Extract, positively cures nervous debility and all weakness of generative system; either sex. SI; six for $-5. Druggists, or by mail, from J. H. Allen, 315 First avenue, New York. Vital Questions! Ask the most eminent physician Of any school, what is the best thin? In the world for quieting and allayiug all irritation of the nerves, and curing all forms of nervous complaints, giving natural, childlike refreshing sleep always? And they will tell you unhesitatingly "Some kind of Hops : ! I" CHAPTER I. Ak any or all of the most eminent physicians: "What is the lest and nly remedy that cn be relied on to cure all diseases of the kidneys aud urinary organs: such as Bright's disease, diabetes, retention, or Inability to retain urine, and all the diseases and ailments peculiar to Women"' "And they will te'.l you explicitly and emphatically "Bucha:!!" Ask the same physicians "What Is the most reliable and surest cure for all liver diseases or dyspepsia; constipation, indigestion, biliousness, malaria, fever, etc., aud they will tell you: Mflnllral:e!orl)andelion!!:!, Hence, when these remidies are combined with others equally as valuable, And compounded into Hop Bitters, such a wonderful and mysterious curative power Is developed, which is so varied In Its operations that no disease or ill-health can possibly exist or resist tu power, anil yet it is Harmless for the most frail woman, weakest Invalid or smallest child to use. CHAPTER It. "Patients "Almost dead or nearly dying" For years, and given up by physicians, of Bright's and other kidney diseases, liver complaints, severe coughs, called couaUiDliou, have been cured. Women gone nearly crazy!!:!! Krm BKony of nci'7a!?ia. nervousness, wakefulness, ami varioti- diseases peculiar to women. People are drawn out of shape from excriu iathfl lungs of rheumatism, inriamuiatury and chrome, or suffering from scrofula, KrvsijH'lns'. "SHltihec.m. blood poisoning, dyspcps-a. Indigestion, and. in fact, almost all diseases frail'' Nature is heir to Have been cured by Hop Bitters. rnvf of which can be found in every neighborhood in the known world. 1 fc None -genuir.e without a bunch of green Hops on the white label. Shun all the vile. iisotioiis stuff with "Hop" or -Hops'' in their name. iiinunuih. wmmiiitiimiuini.nl It is a fact that remedies almost without emnbor, already content tba claim to core all the ilia that afflict aufferuur humanity. Tbouaauda har found them powei wa to wo.k a cor for them. No diseases have so baffled all attempts at permanent relief i have Rheumatimn and Neural ina. A kmjr auoceemon of diaaopoiotmenta haa Diade their avtmzed victim deapair of the possibility of cure. For centunea they have been considered beyond the power of medical akill to cure. And yet we say both can be cured, and that Athlophobos wtl do the businem. The best proof that it can do it la that it haa duat It S. R. Dennen, D.IX, pastor Third ational Church. Ke Haven. Conn. Rheul had kept bim worn the ridrit four or five ConpTtpatinnal Chn month at a time. De ayi hbtd auffered all that one could, and live. He took hia flrnt dwe of AthloPHonoe on Friday ; Sunday he ww la hia rulplt ; Monday he was well, and has remained eo auice. Rev. William P. Corbit, D.D., pastor Oeonn St M. E. Chnrrh. New Haren. Onn., waa laid up for two moutha With TnOanntory Rlumaum, ufTerlua- most excrwiatm torture. Athlofhomos cured nun, and he believes it to be Infallible. TT Q m.-.ll- (la K V Tndortcn. dent," ear ATHlorHoana cured him of KberrmaXiem from which he had Buffered for a year and a half. Rer W Tl TVnna ashinpton. ü. UI eooaider tta work aUnoat In the lif ht sf a to be spread throughout Üie Una. it is a moKv woiKien tit mci ..no. .ttfutu The preat question Is, Will it cure met We beb ere it will. Is U worth trying 1 You mart decade. If you cannot get Athlothoros of yonr drnmrtst, e will send H exprw paid, on receipt of retrular we rrioe one dollar per ootue. w e prerer tnai you ou j t from your drugviat, but if he haunt It, do not be rrsuadad to try aoiueUung eise, but order at onoS) from us as directed. iTKLCPKcr.es ca, o cm st., m tcrx. i :i

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