Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 26, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 November 1894 — Page 3

€ht§fifef bounty democrat M. MoC. 8TOOP8, Editor and Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. THBOUGH THE WINDOW. BY H. O. WELLS. After his leys were set, they carried 'Bailey into the study and put him on a couch before the open window. There he lay, a live—even a feverish man down to the loins, and below that a double-barrelled mummy swathed in white wrappings. He tried to read, e^n tried to write a little, hut most the time he looked out of the window. He had thought the window cheerful to begin with, but now he thanked God for it many times a day. Within, the room was dim and gray, and in the reflected light thet-wear of the furniture showed plainly. His medicine and drink stood on the little table,

with such litter as the bare branches of i a bunch of grapes or the ashes of a cigar upon a green plate, or a day old evening paper. The view outside was flooded with light, and across the corner of it came the head of the acacia, and at the foot the top of the balcony railing of hammered iron. In the foreground was the weltering silver of the river, never quiet and yet never tiresome. Beyond was the reedy bank, a broad stretch of meadow land, and then a dark line of trees ending in a group of poplars at the bend of the river, and, upstanding behind them, a square church tower. -Up and down the river all day long, things were passing. Now a string of barges drifted down |o London, ' piled with lime or barrels of beer; then a steam-launch, disengaging heavy masses of black smoke, and disturbing ^the whole width-of the river with long Tolling waves; then an impetuous electric launch, and then a boatload of pleasure seekers, a solitary sculler, or a four from some rowing club. Perhaps the river was quietest of a morning or late at night. One moonlight night some people drifted down, singing very pleasantly across the .water, and with a zither playing. In a few days Bailey began to recognize some of the craft; in a week he knew the intimate history of half a dozen. The launch Luzon, from Fitzgibbon’s, two miles up, would go fretting by, sometimes three or four times a day. conspicuous with its coloring of Indian red and yellow, and its two oriental attendants; and one day, to Bailey’s vast amusement, the house boat Purple Emperor came to a stop outside, and breakfasted in the most shameless domesticity. Then, one atternoon, the captain of a slowmoving barge began a quarrel with his wife as they came into sight from the left, and had carried it to personal violence before he vanished behind the window-frame to the right. Baley regarded all this as an entertainment got up.to while away his illness, and ’ applauded all the more moving incidents. Mrs. Green, coming in at intervals with his meals, would catch him clapping his hands or softly crying “encore!” But the river players had other engavements, and his encore went unheeded. “I should never have thought I could take such an interest in things that did not concern me,” said Bailey to Wilderspin, who used to come in in his nervous friendly way and try to comfort the sufferer by being talked to. “I thought this idle capacity was distinctive of little children and old maids. But it’s just circumstances. I simply can’t work, and things have to drift; it’s no good to fret' and struggle. And so I lie here and am as amused as a baby with a rattle, at this river and its affairs.” “Sometimes, of course, it gets a bit dull, but not often.” “I would give anything, Wilderspin, for a swamp—just one swamp—once. Heads swimming and a steam launch to the rescue, and a chap or so hauled out with a boat hook. . . . There goes Fitzgibbon’s launch! They have a new boat-hook, I see, and the little blackie is still in the dumps. I don’t think he’s very well, Wilderspin. He’s been like that for two -or three days, squatting sulky-fashion and meditating .over the churning of the water. Unwholesome for him to be always staring at the frefthy waters running away from the atern.”

They watched the little steamer fuss •cross the parallelogram of sunlit river, suffer momentary occultation from the acacia, and glide out of sight behind the dark window-frame. ‘‘I’m getting a wonderful eye for details,” said Bailey. “I spotted that new boat-hook at once. The other nigger is a funny little chap. He never used to swagger with the old boathook like that.” ‘‘Malays, aren't they?” said Wilderspin. " “Don’t know,”; said Bailey.^ “I thought one called all that sort of mariner Lascar.” Then he began to tell Wilderspin what he knew of the private affairs of the houseboat Purple Emperor. “Funny,” he said, “how these people come from all points of the compass—from Oxford and Windsor, from Asia and Africa—and gather and pass opposite the window just to entertain me. One man floated out of the infinite the day before yesterday, caught one perfecjt crab opposite, lost and recovered a scull and passed on again. Probably he will never come into my life again. So far as I am concerned, he has lived and had his little troubles perhaps thirty—perhaps forty—years on the earth, merely to make an ass of himself for three minutes in front of my window. Wonderful thing, Wilderspin, if you come to think of it” . A day or two after this Bailey had a brilliant morning. Indeed, towards 1 the end of the affair it became almost -ms exciting as any window show very well could be. We will, however, be,gin at the beginning. Bailey was all alone in the house,

lor his housekeeper hid prone into the town three miles sway to pay bills and the servant had her holiday. The morning began dnlL A canoe went up about half-pact nine, and later a boat load of camping men came down. But this was mere margin. Things became cheerful about ten o’clock. It began with something white fluttering in the remote distance where the three poplars marked the river bend. ‘‘Pocket-handkerchief,*’ said Bailey,; when he saw it. “No. Too big! Flag, perhaps.” However, it was not a flag, for it jumped about. “Man in whites running fast and this way,” said Bailey. “That's luck! But his whites are precious loose!” Then a singular thing happened. There was a minute pink gleam among the dark trees in the distance, and a little puff of pale gray that began to drift and vanish eastward. The man in whi te jumped and continued running. Presently the report of the shot arrived. “What the devil!” said Bailey. “Looks as if someone was shooting at him.”

lie sat up stiffly and stared hard. The white figure was coming along the pathway through the corn, “it’s one of those niggers from the Fitzgibbon’s,” said Bailey; “or may I be hung! I woncler why he keeps sawing with his arm." Them three other figures became indistinctly visible against the dark background of the trees. Abruptly on the opposite bank a man walked into the picture. He was black bearded, dressed in flannels with a red belt, and had a vast gray felt hat He walked, leaning very much forward and with his hands swinging before him. Behind him one could see the grass swept by the towing-rope of the boat he was dragging. He was steadfastly regarding the white figure that was hurrying through the corn. Suddenly he stopped. Then.with a peculiar gesture, Bailey could see that he began pulling in his tow-rope hand over hand. Over the water could be heard the voices of the people in the still invisible boat. “What are you after, Hagshot?” said some cue. Hagshot shouted something that was inaudible and went on lugging in the rope, looking over his shoulder at the advancing white figure as he did so. He came down the bank, and the rope bent a lane among the reefs and lashed the wa ter between his pulls. Then just the bows of the boat came into view, with the towing mast, and a tall, fair-haire|Rnan standing up and trying to see over the bank. The boat bumped unexpectedly among the reeds, and the tall, fair-haired man disappeared suddenly, having apparently fallen back into the invisible part of the boat. There was a curse and some indistinct laughter. Hagshot did not laugh, but hastily clambered into the boat and pushed off. Abruptly the boat vanished. But it was audible. It sounded as though they were excited and all telling each other what to do. The running figure was drawing near the bank. Bailey could see clearly now that it was one of Fitzgibbon’s orientals, and began dimly to realize what the sinuous thing the man carried in his hand might be. Three other men followed one another through the corn, and the foremost carried what was probably a gun. They were perhaps two hundred yards or more behind the Malay. “It’s a man hunt, by all that’s holy!” said Bailey. The Malay stopped for a moment and surveyed the bank to the right. Then he left the path, and, breaking through the corn, vanished in that direction. The three pursuers followed suit, and their heads and gesticulating arms above the corn, after a brief interval, also went out of Bailey’s field of vision. Bailey so far forgot himself as to swear. “Just as things were getting lively!" he said. Something like a woman’s shriek came through the air. Then shouts, a howl, a dull whack upon the balcony outside that made Bailey jump, and then the report of a gun.

inis is preciuus aaru uu au iuvalid," said Bailey. But mof-e was to happen yet in his picture. In fact, a great deal more. The Jdalay appeared again, running *U7>w along the bank up stream. Bis stride had more swing and less pace in it than before. He was threatening some one ahead with the ugly krees he carried. The blade Bailey poticed was dull—it did not shine as steel should. Then came the tall fair man, brandishing a boat-hook, and after him three other men in boating costume, running clumsily with oars. The man with the gray hat and red belt was not with them. After an interval the three me n with the gun reappeared, at ill in the corn, but now near the river bank. They emerged upon the tow-ing-path, and hurried after the others. The opposite bank was left blank and desolute again. Bailey sat and grumbled. He was still grumbling when his eye caught something black and round among the waves. “Hullo!” he said. He looked narro wly and saw two triangular black bodies frothing every now and then about a yard in front of this. He was still doubtful when the little band of pursuers came into sight again, and began to point to this floating object. They were talking eagerly. Then the man with the gun took aim. i “He’s swimming the river, by George!" said Bailey. The Malay looked round, saw the gun, and went under. He came up so close: to Bailey’s bank of the river that one of the bars of the balcony hid him for a moment As he emerged the man with the gun fired. The Malay kept steadily onward—Bailey could see the wet hair on his forehead now and the krees between his teeth—and was presently hidden by the balcony. “it’s worse than Edwin Drood," said Bailey. Cher the river, too, things had be

come an absolute blank. All Mm men had gone down stream again, probably to get the boat and follow across. Bailey listened and waited. There was silence. “Surely it’s not over like this,” said Bailey. Five minntes passed—ten minntea Then a tug with two barges went up stream. The attitudes of the men upon these were the attitudes of those who see nothing remarkable in earth, water or sky. Clearly the whole affair had passed out of sight of the river. Probably the hunt had gone into the beech woods behind the house. - “Confound it!” said Bailey. “To be continued again, and no chance this time of the sequel. But this is hard on a sick man.” He heard a step on the staircase behind him, and looking round saw the door open. Mrs. Green came in and sat down, panting. She still had her bonnet on, her purse in her hand and her little brown basket upon her arm. “Oh, there!” she said, and left Bailey to imagine the rest. ■ “Have a little whisky and water, Mrs. Green, and tell me about it,” said Bailey. Sipping a little, the lady began to recover her powers of explanation. One of those black creatures at the Fitzgibbon's had gone mad, and was running about with a big knife, stabbing people. He had killed a groom, and stabbed the under-butler, and almost cut the arm off a boating gentleman. “Running amuck with a krees,” said Bailey. “I thought that was it.” And he was hiding in the wood when she came through it from the town. “What! Did he run after you?” asked Bailey, with a certain touch of glee in his voice.

“No, that was the horrible part of it,” Mrs. Green explained. She had been right through the woods and had never known he was there. It was only when she met young Mr. Fitzgibbon carrying his gun in the shrubbery that she heard anything about it. Apparently, what upset Mrs. Green was the lost opportunity for' emotion. She was determined, however, to make the most of what was left her. “To think he was there all the time!” she said, over and over again. Bailey endured this patiently enough for perhaps ten minutes. At last he thought it advisable to assert himself, “it’s twenty past one, Mrs. Green,” he said. “Don’t you think it time you got me something to eat?” This brought Mrs. Green suddenly to her knees. “Oh, Lord, sir!” she said. “Oh! don’t go making me go out of this room sir, till 1 know he’s caught. He might have got into the house, sir. He might be creeping, creeping, with that knife of his, along the passage this very—” She broke off suddenly and glared over him at the window. Her lower jaw dropped. Bailey turned his head sharply. For the space of half a second things seemed just as they were. There was the tree, the balcony, the shining river, the distant church tower. Then he noticed that the acacia was displaced about a foot to the right, and that it was quivering, and the leaves were rustling. The tree was shaken violently, and a heavy panting warf audible. In another moment a hairy brown hand appeared and clutched the balcony railings, and in another the face of the Malay was peering through these at the man on the couch. His expression was an unpleasant grin, by reason of the krees he held between his teeth, and he was bleeding from an ugly wound in his cheek. Bailey’s first impulse was to spring from the couch, but his legs reminded him that this was impossible. By means of the baleony and tree the man slowly raised himself until he was visible ~~t© Mrs. Green. With a choking cry she made for the door and fnmbled with the handle. \ Bailey thought swiftly and clutched a medicine bottle in either hand. One he flung, and it smashed against the acacia. Silently and deliberately, and keeping his bright eyes fixed on Bailey, the Malay clambered into the balcony. Bailey, still clutching his secqnd bottle, but with a sickening, sinking feeling about his heart, watched first one leg come- over the railing and then the other.

it is Bailey s impression mai wie Malay took about an hour to get his second leg over the rail. The period that elapsed before the sitting position was changed to a standing one seemed enormous—days, weeks, possibly a year or so. Yet Bailey has no clear memory of anything going on in his mind during that vast period, except a vague wonder at his inability to throw the second medicine bottle. Suddenly the Malay glanced over his shoulder. There was the crack of a rifle. He flung up his arms and came crashing down upon the couch. Mrs. Qreen began a dismal shriek that seemed likely to last until doomsday. It flashed across Bailey that he had to grapple with a wounded man, and then he saw the great hole behind the Malay’s ear. He stared at the motionless body lying painfully across his legs and rapidly staining and soaking the spotless bandages. Then he looked at the long krees, with the reddish streaks upon its blade, that lay upon the floor. Then at Mrs. Green, who had backed hard against the door and was staring at the body, and shrieking in gusty outbursts as if she would wake the dead. “I scarcely thought I should see the end of this,” he said, at last “It ended not a moment too soon.” But Mrs. Green drowned this and all the remarks he attempted, until at last they pushed the door open upon her and took her out of the room. * “Easy with those legs,” said Bailey, as young Fitzgibbon and one of the boating party lifted the body off him. Young Fitzgibbon was very white in the face. “I didn’t mean to kill him,” he said. “It’s just as well,” said Bailey.— ' Pall Mall Budget*

ALEXANDER IS DEAD. He Who was Autocrat of AH the Rusaiae is No More, And Nicholas Reigns in His Stead— The Last Hours at Yalta—The Oath of Fealty to Nicholas II. Administered Promptly. A Sketch of the Noted Boom of Romanoff. From Which the Csare Come, with Incidents la the Life of Alexander 111. St. Petersburg, Not. 1.—The angel of death, in the shadow of whose pinions the autocrat of all the Russias has been lying for many days, today beckoned, and the soul of the man who had in his hands the lives and destinies of millions upon millions of men was borne away. Calmly and peacefully as a sleeping babe, he who, by his slightest word, j could have plunged Europe into a war, the horrors of which would defy description, fell into the dreamless sleep which he feared not.

Alexander III. He, though the head of the church whose members number over 70,000,0dG persons, took his last rites a few days before death claimed him from all his greatness. At 2:15 o’clock this afternoon the summons came and a few hours later the thunderous booming of cannon at Livadia and St. Petersburg announced that the czar was dead and that he who had been the Grand Duke Nicholas reigned in his stead. On lightning wings the news of Russia’s loss spread throughout the world, and it is safe to say that everywhere the intelligence created sympathy for the family of him who, by his policy, bad maintained the peace of Europe. From America came words of sympathy, for the dead ruler had always been a friend of the great republic of the west, and Americans have not forgotten how well his father’s friendship sustained the north in the war of the rebellion. Among the peasants of Russia he will be mourned with a deep and abiding sorrow, for was he not the “Peasant czar?” None of the grandiloquent titles borne by him were thought as much of as the one bestowed upon him by his lowly subjects, whose virtues were magnified in him, and whose vices in him were entirely lacking. He who denies the popularity of the czar among the lowly classes of Russia is blinded by prejudice. His kind acts to mothers during plagues and famine will never be forgotten, and tonight in thousands upon thousands of homes, from Vladivostok, in the Pacific, to the fortresses of the Caucasus, millions of people, as they kneel before their Icons, will pray from the bottom of their hearts for the repose of the soul of their “Little Father,” who was to them as great in soul as he was in stature. Shortly after 4 o’clock the members of the palace guard were marshaled in the square in front of the palaoe chapel, for the ceremony of swearing allegiance to the new czar. They took the oath. The grand dukes were the next to swear allegiance, and they were followed in the order 4>f precedence by the high court functionaries, court officials, military officers and civil officials. Incidents in the Life of Alexander HI.— The Honse of Romanoff. Alexander Alexandrovitch, czar and autocrat c* ail the Russias, was of the imperial house of Romanoff. This dynasty is a web woven of the greatest lines of ancestry in northern Europe and the east, and its origin is lost in the labyrinth of antiquity. Russian history properly begins with Rurik of Sweden, who settled at Novgorod in 862, and conquered Russia, and the Romanoffs claim him as an ancestor. But they are also descended from the Emperor Constantine, Monomachus, and the Paleologi. from Kingis Khan, from the earliest princes of NovSorod, and from the last of the Anglo-Saxon ings. In the thirteenth century this house were chiefs and hereditary high priests at the altars dedicated to the sun in Lithuania. The religious zeal of the Teutonio races drove them to Moscow, where they embraced Christianity and were enrolled among the nobles for their services in the wars with the Mongols, who oppressed Russia for 300 years. For centuries they shared the vicissitudes of the empire, and at times were almost exterminated by persecution, torture and exile. On the other hand they were honored by numerous alliances with the imperial family. Their leaders frequently married the daughters of the emperors, and finally, in 1584, Anastasia Romanova, the flower of the flook. became the wife of Ivan IV.. the first of the line to adopt the title of czar, or °^van IV. left children, but their place was usurped by Bori Godonofl, who lived and reigned until 1505, and who, to maintain himself in power, followed the Romanoffs with relentless persecution. But at his death, when the empire was disorganized and in ruins, his son was pushed aside and the boyars elected, in 1513, as emperor of Russia, a Romanoff. This was Michael Romanoff. a youth of 17, whose mothor was a daughter of Ivan IV. and Anastasia and Romanova, who was in exile and obscurity, and whose father, though datriarch of Moscow, was lingering in a Polish dungeon, into which Godonoff had thrust him. This was the origin of the Romanoff emperors.

ALEXANDER S PREDECESSORS. From this period the Romanoffs have been as much German as Russian. Michael Romanoff died in 1645. and his successors, mostly his lineal descendants, in order, were Alexis, died 187tt- Feodore, died 1682; Peter I., called the Great, died 1682: Peter II., another son of Alexis, died ITae, at the age of 14, and Peter tit, who was the grandson of Peter the Great, his mother being AnnsfTeodorovich, the daughter of Peter the Great, and the duke of Holstein. Peter III. married Sophia Augusta, princess of Anhalt-Serbst, in Upper Saxony, who took the name of Catherine, and who, having dethroned her husband, reigned from 1782 *°Catherine was succeeded by Paul Petrovich, her son, but of doubtful paternity, who married Dorothea Sophia, princess ot berg, and was assassinated in 1801. On his death he was succeeded by his son, Alexander Paulovich, or Alexander L. who married liaise Charlotte, daughter of the Emperor Frederick William III. of Prussia, and died in 1826. lt was during this reign Napoleon invaded Rusaia On his death he was succeeded, according

to a family compact, by his youngest brother. Nicholas, skipping his next younger brother. Constantine, on account at imbecility. Nicholas, whose reign was distinguished by the Crimean war, was succeeded in ia» by his son, Alexander IL, who was the father of Alexander IH., and who was assassinated in 1881. The brothers and sisters of Alexander IL, are Nicholas. who died in 1886, Vladimir. Alexis and Maria, who married the duke of Edinburgh. Alexander was the second son. He was bora March 10, 18*5. The death of his brother. Nicholas, left him cxarowlts, heir apparent to the throne of the Russian empire. In 1888 he married the Danish Princess Dagmaret. sister of the princess of Wales. The first child. Nicholas AlexandroTltch. who will be czar of all the Russias, was born May IS, 1868. When the nihilists killed Alexander IL. in 1881. so severely was the Russian monarchy shaken that no attempt was made to celebrate the coronation of the new emperor until two years later. But in 1883 Alexander III. was crowned with most splendid ceremonies. There were fetes for days and days through all Russia.

ATTEMPT UPON BIS LITE. The “White Father*’ has not passed the thirteen years of his reign in peace and quietude. His days were troubled by the different attempts made to efface him from the world of the living. Notwithstanding all the care that was taken to prevent the slightest mishap, the czar came more than once very near meeting his doom. The most serious attempt to kill him was ma :e in the beginning of April. 1«87. He was tired at in the park at Qatschfna by an officer, but escaped uninjured, although the pistol was discharged at close quarters. The would-be assaassiu was arrested. Personally his majesty was always unaffeoted by fear, so that the terrorists never attained their object—that of frightening him into accession of their demands by attempts on his life. He was on this point almost a fatalist. He has said that if it were the will of Divine providence that he should fall the victim of a bullet or a bomb in the hands of one of his own subjets, he must submit; but se long as he lived he would continue to devote his life and work to what he termed the maintenance of the dignity of Russia. The czarina, on the other hand, was always anxious for her husband's safety. March 13 following the attempted assassination, three persons were arrested in the streets of St. Petersburg with explosive machines in their possession, and from them the authorities obtained disclosures respecting the ramifications of the conspiracy. Some of these men were confined in the Schusselburg fortress, while others were placed in the citadel of St. Petersburg. On this occasion two women—one the wife of a general, the other of a doctor, who were compromised to some extent in the murder of the preceding czar in 1881—were parties to the plot, but they refused to give any information to the police. Traces, however, of the conspiracy were discovered at Charkoff, Kieff. Warsaw, Moscow, Odessa, and Novo Teherkask. Abotu the same period a military plot was discovered in the Caucasus, and as a result of the discovery over a hundred officers were arrested. The chief conspirator in this case was an old officer who had served more than thirtyfive years, and whose breast was covered with decorations. They were all tried by a courtmartial at Tifiis over which presided Princa Dondukoff Korsakoff. •A MAN OF COURAGE. These nihilist murder plots excited the police agents of the imperial government belonging to the famous “Third Section” of the administrative system to extreme activity in preventive and detective measures, and it has been said as many as 800 persons were arrested on suspicion of being concerned in this conspiracy. the widespread one under Alexander III. Five hundred of the arrested suspects were subsequently released, there being not sufficient evidence against them, and the days are past when they could be sentenced without a regular trial. Alexander III. saw his own father mutilated and bleeding to death. His own train and carriage were blown to shreds, and as a result his own nerves were no longer of iron. He was many a time portrayed as a coward. The impression was a strong one. and the elaborate system of espionage and the immoral practice of employing agents who sometimes organized the crime which they discovered, contributed to impart consistency to a charge which his creditable career as an officer should amply suffice to refute. Personal courage is one of the most striking characteristics of the Romanoffs, and of moral courage the czar certainly possessed enough for a hero or a martyr.

vuvc nuou x\u.Aauuri n«c* iu »ao walls of the city blazed out one night with posters announcing that the “committee" had declared that at a certain hour two days later tho czar should die. Arrests by the wholesale were made, but the police could get to trail of the persons who had posted the threats. At the hour announced for him to die the czar announced that he was going to the Church of the Annunciation within the walls of the Kremlin. His family and his heads of police begged him to do nothing of the sort, but Alexander said it his time had come he was ready to die like a soldier. So he arranged himself in the splendid uniform of a Held marshal, ordered the police guard dismissed, and walked quietly, unattended, across the parade ground to the church, half a mile from his palace. While mass was being celebrated and the czar was at his devotions news of his rashness spread over the city. Great crowds flocked into the Kremlin. At least 30.000 people were there. After the mass Alexander, having committed his soul to God, walked calmly out of the church and into the throng, which opened a lane for him. His elbows brushed the people as he walked. There would have been no need for pomb or pistol—a thrust of a pocket-knife would have made an end of Alexander Alexandrovitch. But not a hand was lifted against him. Alexander reached the steps of the palace, turned, facing the great crowd, and spoke. He said that he had been warned not to come to Moscow; that since he had come there had been threats from some mysterious enemy: that he had therefore done as all men should who expected danger; he had go&e to the church to ask forgiveness for his sins, and for protection from on hign. This protection, he said, had been given him: his body, like his soul, was in hands of God--he feared no harm. He believed that as long as he governed the empire with wisdom he would be allowed to live. Then, the czar thanked his people for their loyalty, and entered the palace amidst great cheering. LOVED BT THE CHILDREN. At home he was always the essence of kindness and good-natured jollity, and took such delight with bis family and intimates, who were never sure of what was in store for them when the czar was in one of bis “rollicking moods." He was always a devoted husband, whom not even his worst enemies ever accused of a single fault against his wife, and he was such an affectionate father that his children fairly adored him. In fact, all children were fond of him, and during his visits to his wife's parents in Copenhagen he was always the heart and soul of the young people's entertainments. He would superintend all their sports, and was the merriest romp among the whole lot of young princes and princesses. To these children the imperial autocrat was simply Uncle Saska, to whom they all turned for sympathy when any project was on hand that they feared would be frowned down upon by their elders. He was extremely fond of Ashing, so one day they prevailed upon him to take them Ashing. He rowed them himself to a good Ashing ground, where a tine catch of Ash was secured, but instead of returning to the palace the emperor suggested that they land on one of the small islands and play Robinson Crusoe for the rest of the day. Of course the proposition was met with yelL. of delight from the young royal Fridays, and in the midst of this little group of children, who during that day were his only companions, the mighty czar of all the Russias was supremely happy. He gathered dry branches ana built the Are, prepared and broiled the Ash. It is certain never was there a jollier host or a mere noisily happy crowd gathered around an impromptu feast than these children and their royal enterThe czar was a perfect giant in suture and strength until overcome by illness. He then became sadly wasted, end so weak it was pitiful to see him—he who used to challenge the whole crowd to wrestle and whom no one was able to throw, although the princes tried singly and in a body until the perspiration streamed from their -faces, and the good-nar-tured raillery of the czar could be heard for quite a disunce. _ The News In London. London, Nov. 2.—The Prince and Princess of Wales, who are on their way to Livadia, were at the last station this side of Vienna when they received the dispatch announcing the czar’s death. The news did not reach Balmoral until 7 o’clocck. The queen was not surprised, as she had been informed of every phase of the czar’s illness; nevertheless she was deeply moved when she learned that the end had come. She sent a long telegram to the czarina and issued to the court officials the usual instructions as to mourning. . Sorrow In Rome. Rome, Nov. 1.—Premier Crispi and Baron Blanc, minister of foreign affairs, called at. the Russian embassy this afternoon to express their sorrow. The pope has sent a message of MB* dolence to Livadia. ~

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Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. t Office tn rooms6 and 7 in Carpenter BuildIns?. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used tor painless extraction of teeth. NELSON STONE, 0. V. S., PETERSBURG, IND. ; U J . ■: Owing to long practice and the {possession of a fine library and case of instruments, Mr. .* , Stone is well prepared to treat ad Diseases of Horses and Cattle SUCCESSFULLY. He also keeps on hand a stock of Condition Powders and Liniment, which he sells at reasonable prices. 1 Office Over J. I, Young & Co/s Store.

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tWOrd.rlt ofyoor berto W. J. SOUS*. ormdtSwiti fcr litMlii 3 iMMt. ltth Bt., *•» T«rk. TRUSTEES’ NOTICES OF OFFICE DAT. NOTICE is hereby given that I will attend to the duties of the office of trustee of Clay township at home on i EVERY MONDAY. iio Ail persons who have business with the office will take notice that I will attend to Business on no other day. _ M. M. GOWEN, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties Interested that I will attend at my offioe in Stendal, EVERY STAURDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township. AU persons having business with said offioe will please take notice. % J. S. BARRETT. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will t>e at ray residence!. EVERY TUESDAY, To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM, Trustee. OTICE is hereby given that I will be at my residence EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with thl office of Trustee of Logan township. yyPositively no business transacted except on office days. SILAS KIRK, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will attend at my residency EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Madison township. , g^-Positively no business transacted except office days 4AMES BUMBLE. Trustee. OTICE is hereby given to all persona interested that 1 will attend in my office ia> Velpen, _ EVERY FRIDAY, To transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Marion township. AU persons having business with said office will please take notice. W. F. BROCK. Trustee, OTICE is hereby given to all persona concerned that I will attend at my offiew EVERY DAI To transact business connected with the “ of Trustee of Jefferson township. &. W- HARRIS Trustee.