Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1882 — Page 7

AFTH Tfll BATTER. £ Wlwn all la lost we count the cost, | « saddest melepchh|r;f% >* F H But, all top late we reach the gate _ Through which th* triumph wended. We feel the sting defeat doU| bring, But do not taste the honey, Audio ver all the shadows fall, WJiere it should have beep sunny, If hare and the e•’the rose* wear The b ush they once had for us,' Their pleasure brings the darkened wings That hang a shadow o’er JMUm Ah well! we say, some other day We’ll strive and be victorious, Our errors now but make us vow For a success m >re We dot the slopes of life with hopes. And cry, O, L«nd of Promise! We yet shall taste the grapes whose waste Of wealth has ne’er come to ust

THE COUNT’S DAUGHTER.

“I have come to your country to live,” eaid the Count de Cassel, with deliberate emphasis. He leaned, elegantly on the mantel. “You have answered my advertisement,’’ the count continued, “for a private instracton in English for my daughter. I desire her to become as well acquainted with the language as I am.” “I obseive,” replied Mr. Frank •Chariton, “that you speak the pure tongue.” • “You flatter me. You are just from college, you say.” “And teaching is an oceupatlon that I resort to as means of present support. I shall study for the bar some day, I hope.” “That is in accord with the English way. Well, your recommendations are excellent, and I will introduce you to my daughter.” The count left the room. He was staying at a West End hotel. Presently he returned with a beautiful girl of 18, dressed with elegance, but with refinement and good taste as its chief characteristic. She received Mr. Frank Charlton with distinct courtesy, and the arrangements with regard to the course of study were made in a business like way. From day today as he met her in the count’s private apartments, he felt himself compelled to avoid social topics altogether, net only because her father was always in an adjoining room, but because of his pupil’s continued reserve. But with respect to the lessons hedid not restrain his utterance, but spoke with enthsiasm and eloquence. On one occasion when Frank was more than usually eloquent, he suddenly raised his eyes to hers, and found that she was regarding him with an expression that seemed responsive to an emotion that had long been consuming him. This was one of the few’ days when the count was not visible. He ceased speaking. “Speak on,” she said. “Why, mademoiselle?” ‘.Because I have learned to love to hear you.” Frank’s heart leaped Into his throat. “Is it possible?” he said, speaking as though to himself. “I thought nothing that I could say had proved to be of interest to you.” “A woman knows how to conceal her thoughts,” was the reply. “Now I am rewarded for my efforts, and this appreciation is fitly expressed on this, the last day on which I may instruct you.” t, “The last day? Why should you go?” she exclaimed, suddenly; and with an instinctive movement she extended her hand slightly toward him. His hand met hers also by an instinctive movement; and in that instant their hands clasped in the embrace of thj long hidden love of each for the other. In anot >er instant they were clasped in each other’s arms. The “ next they became aware of the presence of the count, who stood in the door calmly surveying the scene.

The count stepped into the room and taking his arm led her away; and placing himself between them he looked at Frank with the efcine calm, deliberate manner that marked all his movements. “Have you friends?” he asked. “Yes,” replied Frank. “Close ones, I mean; living relations who would miss you, or be alarmed at your absence, should you decide to accept the invitation,which I now extend to you, to visit me at my new country seat in Hampshire, to-morrow. I have Just heard your declaration to her. and before this affair goes any further I desire to become better acquainted with you.” “My dear count,” cried Frank in ecstacy, “from my heart I thank you.” “What I ask now is that you hold no further conversation with my daughter just at present. Do you promise?'' “I do.” * And during the ride into Hampshire the next day the two lovers said not a word to each other. Arrived at a certain station a handsome awaited them and they were conveyed over a country road upon which was situated many handsome country seats. Presently they entered the spacious grounds of the most stately mansion they had seen. Evidences of reflnment and wealth, lavishly expended, abounded all around. As they drove up to the grand entrance the count said *. “Eugenie, this is the surorise I have promised. This is our new home—the finest estate in this country of fine estates.” As they alighted from the carriage Edgenie expressed her delight In enthu&siastic terms. Tne imperturbable

count -stood and" listened Wlthoht a smile, and then paid: “This is ours. Wealth and refinement the Awn grand in As they ascended the grand staircase EOtrlhrk: ln " ply 10 her “But wealth is not all that is necessary to make life endurable.” And then she whispered in his ear—- “ What ii wealth and refinement without the of those we loveJ' , toJyour room,” said the ment and then said: “This is your mistress, Phoebe—conduct her to her apartm nts.” Then, turning to Chariton, he bade him follow him; and Frank followed up a flight of stairs and through a large corrdor t, an apartment apparently situated remote from the place whence they started. “Please be seat: d,” said the count, and then calmly sat down himself and said, abruptly: “You see, now, what my daughter’s social position is?” “I do, sir,” “I appreciate the fact, sir,” continued the count, “that two young persons, enrown togetner ror some time, are likely to conceive for each other an affection which they would < all love. I have expected my daughter to fall In love w th some one; but I Intend to regulate that matter myself, and to see to it that her affections are placed upon a person whose position is such as to render him an appropriate match for her. You see by this time that you are not such a person. Now, I will offer you a fair sum—£2,oCo—to depart from her forever.” Frank sprang to his feet, his eyes sparkling with indignation, and exclaimed : “Do you think I am to be bought?” “But X2,uuu is a large sum. Mere is the money. It will start you well in life.” “Never, never, never,” cried Frank, pacing the floor excitedly, “I will double it,” saiu the count. “Good heavens!” cried Frank, his whole frame shaking with passion; “what do yon think! am?” “I will give you £50,000 said'the count, with the same imperturable calmness as before. “I will not bld a penny more. I give you one minute to decide, will you give her up?” “Never!” almost shouted Frank, “Sircoutinued he, I am a gentleman. I am capable of teaching your daughter and I am therefore her equal You are her father; but love is yet a higher authority. I will not give her up. I will marry her, she being willing,with or without hercensent.” “But I have interposed a barrier,” replied the count, with provoking calmlness—“a barrier of distance. Whilst we have been talking, she has been riding. I have sent her away in charge of trusty servants, and you will never see her again till she Is In love withone whb is ner equal in social landing. Meantime you will remain here at present.” With these words the count suddenly stepped from the room and closed t:>e door.

Frank sprang to the door. It was locked. He flew to a little room adjoining. The only door leading from that was also locked. He tried the windows. They were securely fastened with iron shutters. He was a prisoner. In despair he threw himself on a chair under the chandelier. He had not been there a moment before he became aware that the light was diminishing in brilliancy. He sat and wailed in dumb despair. How long he could not tell. Suddenly he became conscious of a presence in the room, and with startling distinctness he heard a whisper in his ear. “Follow me,” said the voice. “Who are you?” said Frank, putting out his hand to grasp the unseen visitant. “I am Mademoiselle Eugenie’s maid.” “Well, what would you do with me?” “Conduct you where you may join her, and escape with her.” “What assurance can you give me that you are not playing me false?” “Only my word, monsieur.” “Go on, I wi'l follow. Anything is better than this imprisonment.” He felt his arm grasped, and he suffered himself to be Jed away—whither he could not guesh, as darkness reigned supreme. Presently he was stopped and his arm was released. He whispered for the guide. Again he felt a hand on his sleeve, and a voice that thrilled every fibre of his being whispered his name. “Eugenie!” he almost cried a'oud, as he clasped her in his arms. “How is this?” “I do not know. I was brought here in total darkness by that woman.’ “Where are we?” “Heaven knows. The house is new to me as to you.” Suddenly there was a flash of light, and a brilliant, dazzling brightness filled the room. The count approached. Not a smile on his face; still deliberate, easy, elegant. Looking at Chariton, he said: “Chariton, I have tested you. That is all. I have wished my daughter to marry a true man. whom she should love, and who would truly love her. This is better than wealth. I have wealth enough for us all. Take her and God bless you both. Here is the clergyman. Marry her.” And the two were married on the spot ■ Colonel NoalTlirrTof Marysville, Ohio, known throughout the country as the Union county giant, who has been confined to his home by inflammatory rheumatism for several months, has,been stricken with paralysis and his condition is regaided as critical** • w < { a ■ .A / i ■. i

MISCELLANIOUS. Ex-Vice President Wheeler Is sooi to marry. John Hay is going to Europe so. two years. Robert Bonner has $382,030 worth d< fast horses. There are 1,150 convicts in the Ohk eultentiary. Robert Bonner has $382,000 worth »f fast hOrses. There are 23,000 public school teach - ers in Illinois. It costs only 60 cents to cremate a body in Japan. Texas has nearly 2,400 convicts in her penitentiary. M. Zola has made $70,000 by the •ale of his books. General Sherman has Served forty years in the army. The cow population of the United States is 12,611,148. It is estimated that there are 50,000 tramps in Chicago. Middle Florida will ship 200,000 melons this season. 4 . i. There are 4,0 5 German Odd Fellows in Philadelphia, Pa.' ' j?n ordinary flour barrel will hold 678,900 silver dollars. Rutherford B. Hayes Is hoeing corn and enjoying himself. In New York hardly one family in fifty has a whole house. In 1875 the number of horses slaughtered in Paris was 7,000. Floridians are already harvesting their sweet potato crop. The Utah mines yielded in gold bub lion $15,000,000 last year. The “Langtry” bonnet is little of crown and large of brim. Queen Victoria is the sole survivor of her first Privy Council. Membership in the Chicago board of trade are held at $3,000. Tennessee turns out nearly 3,000,000 pounds of copper per year. There are only thirty-five Jewish families in bait Lake City.

There are 7,000 homeopathic physicians in the United States. In a single school in Charleston, S. C., there are 1,400 pupils. Turtle eggs sell at ten cents per dozen at Key West, Florida. New flour is on the market in a number of Tennessee towns. Over $15,000,000 of the old fractional currency is still outstanding. The mines of Utah yielded $12,000,000 in solid bullion last year. Connetiout complains that armies of tramps infest her bordees. Roots of trees are very fond of old bones, especially if pulverized. Montana has 39,000 inhabitants, of whom 11,500 are of foreign birth. Parasols are now called “Portable backgrounds for young women.” The Ohio lawers who fought the Pond bifl pocketed $35,000 in fees. A Georgia item facetiously allues to a saloonist as a “gewlip slinger.” Philadelphia wants to imitate Berlin, and have an electric railway. Eight-tenths of the clergymen In New York either chew or smoke. A pair of jeweled garters sold in New York the other day for $2,000. The majority of New York Criminals are boys from 12 to 20 years old. Protestants in India havp increased in the last thirty years 400 per cent. Ross R. Winans, the Baltimore capitalist, is to build a $200,000 residence. Georgia bas probably the smallest foreign-born population of any state. A great exodus of colored people from Mississippi to Mexico has beguh. A Florida paper estimates that there are 165,C00 orange trees in that State. An opera founded on “Rip Van Winkle” will be produced in London. It is said one-third of the New York Central stock is held in England. Chicago has a Tally-Ho Coaching club, with Mayor Harrison as president. A recent authority says there are 1,209 different dialects spoken in the world. The most shapely Lis’e thread gloves are those which come from France. Mr. W. H. English pays taxes at Indianapolis on $352,355 personal property. The stage fever is said to be raging among the St. Louis girls in the most violent way. The xylophone was suggected by a small boy scraping, a stick along a picket fence. In North- Texas’ cotton fields are being burned aud blasted by a peculiar hot wind. Mobile, Ala., makes female violators of the law work out their fines on the chain-gang. One hundred ear-loads of tan-bark have been shipped from Tracy City Tenn., thie year. * , There are 125 newspapers 11 the country edited by colored men only one of them dally. ’ ’? Howgate’s stealings, as finally aud-

THE ARTS AND SCIENCES.

Mr. Ruskins has sold Mesonier’s Napoleon for $30,000. He gave $5,000 tor it as an example of bad art. M. Munkacy is engaged on a draw* Ing for the “Cricifioti >u,” which is to be as large as the ‘.Christ Before Pilate.” In the scientific gunnery experiments at Woolwich the flight of a shot was measured to within the mil lion th part of a second. In Berlin it is customary to have ananalyaisinade of the air in the cellar defore hiring a house. One can tiine form some notion of whether the house is healthy or not. Before sailing for Europe, Mr. W. M. Chase finished his portraits of Mr. W. M. Evarts and ex-Presldent Hayes. The former is to hang in the State Department building at Washington, the latter in the Harvard Memorial Hall. Mr. J. Q. A. Ward has received the commission for the statue of Washington to be placed in the sub-treasury building at Washington. At preseut he is engaged upon a statue of Lafayette that is to be placed in the grounds ol the University of Vermont. Mr. John P. Howard is the donor. Cassell’s Art Journal: “Seven thousand pictures were offered for exhibition at the Paris Salon. As only 2,600 were admitted, there were 4 500 disappointments. 01 9,000 submitted to the English viewers at Burlington House, 7,000 were rejected. Room for an exhibition of rejected pictures in both, Paris and Lcndon.” The collection ofcoins, medals, etc., of the late Charles I. Bushnell, announced forsale by Messrs. Bangs & Co., June 20 and 24, is of usual value, many of the coins never having been offered for sale before. Among the best known pieces are the famous “Good Samaritan” shilling, valued at $1,000; the Lord Baltimore pOnny, for Which Mr. Bushnell paid SB7O, and the Ephraim Brasher doubloon, valued at SI,OOO. Some Interesting and successful ex pertinents have behn made recently at the laboratory of the international Ice Machine Company,at Green Point N. Y.. on a new method of making ice This is called, the "low pressure binary System,” and its noval features is the liquefaction of theamonia employed at low pressure by glycerine. The system is called ‘‘binary” because two liquids are_employefi instead of one. Do you want to grow’salt, and at the same time have an interesting, handsome ornament? The proceed ing is a novel chemical experiment that may be tried by anyone. Put in a goblet one tablespoorful of salt aud one spoonful of bluing; fill the goblet two-thirds foil nf water, and set in a position where it will have plenty of warmth and sunlight. In a little while sparkling crystals will commence forming on tne outside of the glass, and it is both a novel and interesting sight to watch it gradually growing, day by day, until the outside of the goblet is entirely covered over with beautiful white crystals. Another variation of this beautiful experiment would be to take a goblet with I the base broken off and fasten it in the center of a thin piece of board, which may be round, square or oblong. After the crystals nave formed on the glass, set it on' a tiny wall bracket and place a bright holiday or birthday card in front of it; this will hide the base, on which no crystals will form. After this is done fill the goblet with flowers or dried grasses, and you will have a vase which will cost comparatively little, and In reality adds to the bric-a-brac of the room.—[Troy Times. Munkacy’s “Christ Before Pilate,” exhibited at the Conduit-street Galleries, London, is one of the most remarkable of modern pictures. Its method is so powerfol and cofopletS as to make it, in respect to mere technical quality, almost a work of genius. It is over thirty feet long, and lofty in proportion; it is crowded with lifesize figures; it is full of notable effects of light and shade, and mass and line, and the artist seems to have got over the enormous difficulties of his work without an effort.. As a composition, for instance, it is a kind of masterpiece. There is not a detail but is necessary to the general effect, not a part but is of vital importance to the rest. The thing has been conceived as a whole, and, as produced, is organic throughout. Again, it is painted with the breadth*, freedom and assurance of a great painter, and it is finished after the artist’s own manner and lo the point at which he thought fit to stop, to absolute perfection. The coloring is strong, daring and true; the draperies are argely handled and finely realized. In texture and in mass »t is the same with the marble of Pilate’s chair, the steel of the soldier’s nelmet, the stone of the wall behind; the effect of the whole is singularly vigorous and lust. Nor is the picture less remarkable in respect of character and type, and of action and gesture every figure is in 'kerne sert human and personal—is representative of one or other element in the scene, of one or other of the many passions proper to the drama that is taking place; each is strikingly invented and not less strikingly produced; the Christ and His fierce accuser, the snouting ruffian, the stolid and indifferent governor, the massive and stately soldier, the testifying rabbis—all are individual and appropriate. “It is needless to quarrel with the picture as to archselogy or to history, as needless is it to debate the typical fitness and beauty of Its central flgUre - . Black measles and scarlet fever are fegingfearfoliy among the children of the Russian half breeds in Alaska.

INDIANA.

.Washington, Daviess county, has twenty saloons. , “Sang Dlgger’tTltest” is a Warrick county settlement. o h Good kitchen clerkk are said to be very scarce about Princeton. Smallpox has disappeared from Jeffbisonville and New Albany. The wires of the Carthage "And Knightstown telephone lines are up. The Cannelton News has suspended after a career of twenty months. Samuel Wolff, an old citizen of Cass county, was found dead in his bed on Wednesday morning. Mrs. John Ruby, of New Albany, attempted suicide because her seventeen year old boy beat her. Boudebush, a young man of Noblesville, while fishing about four miles north of there, was drowned. The army worm has played sad havoc with the barley crops In Edinburg and thereabouts, many promising fields being almost ruined. ■ Senator Harrison has introduced an amendment to the river and harbor bill, appropriating $20,000 for a steam dredge for clearing the harbor at Michigan City, Henry H. Roberts, of Michigan City, died suddenly. He had held many offices of trust and profit, and among other positions had been mayor of the city two terms. Two chimneys were blown from the county asylum near Indianapolis, last Bunday, and a number of thrirty shad j trees surrounding the building were twisted off. A dwelling and its entire contents, belonging to Solomon Keever, a farmer, a few miles north of Hagerstown, burned the other night, Loss not known; no insurance. Mrs. John Dial, of Plymouth, has just had a piece of glass about an inch in length taken from her foot, where it has been imbedded for a year, giving her very little trouble,[though it had worked its way about two and a half inches from the point where it first entered. A water-spout emptied itself Into Tanner’s creek, near Gullford, the other day, raising the water six or eight feet, aud sweeping away fullgro vn trees and large bowlders. It also swept away the railroad bridge, The sky was cloudless at the time. The water soon ran out, leaving the creek as quiet and as harmless as It was before.

Joseph Lewis and Frank Fowler, two notorious characters, the other day went to a school house near Bartlettsville, in the northern part of Lawrence county, flourished their revolvers, frightening the children, and told the teacher, Miss Norman, they had come to commit an indecent assault. She escaped out of a back door, and succeeded in reaching, a farm house not far off. Reports from all parts of Johnson county agree the wheat crop will be the largest ever harvested. The acreage is forty per cent, greater than last year, the straw unusually thick and the heeds large and well filled. The hay is simply immense, the clover being nearly all cut and cured. In some sections the corn, owing to the wet weather, is considerably injured, but will make a good crop on high ground. A dispatch comes from Ban Antonio. Texas, that a young man named Williams from Terre Haute, was brought there Bunday night from Devil’s River, suffering greatly from a dynamite explosion, that tcre off both arms near the elbows, and mutilated him about the face. Williams says he was fishing with dynamite, throwing it into the water to kill fish by the explosion, when a premature' explosion took off both arms. Tom Marr, a prosperous young farmer living two miles south of Attica, took down his shotgun for the purpose of shooting a hawk that had been preying on his chickens. He had loaded the gun, and, while the muzzle whs pointed towaids him, was in the act of putting the ramrod in place, when the gun was discharged, the entire load passing into - his stomach and out of his right side. When lifted from the ground his entra s were protruding. It is thought he will not live. f John J. C. Schwerin has been a resident of Richmond tor nearly half a century. He came here from Germany. His wife died about a year ago. Although he had reached the ripe age of 73, he felt that it was not good for man to be alone, so he sent across the sea and asertalned that a lady whom he had known in childhood, and loved as a school-girl was single. He gave her an invitation to share the Joys and sorrows of his remaining years. Bhe accepted the 0 proposition and arrived on Thursday, and the coupie were married the same afternoon. The bride is 64 years of age. Twq curious freaks of lightening are reported. Ebenezer Morgan, living in the Morgan neighborhood,about nine mile from Jeffersonville, took a pitchfork and a scythe and went to the rear of his residence to cut down some weeds. Lightniag struck the scythe, throwing it from him a distance of twenty yards, and turning the steel blade to a blackened color. Young Morgan was thrown violently to the ground, where he remained in an insensible condition until his wife resu sc 1 ated him. william Moore, of Veale township, Daviess county, was passing through a field with afhoe on liia shoulder, when a stroke of lightning fell andl knocked his hoe off his 1 shoulder, and sent him whirling back over three rows of corn. He not knocked down, but* was severely shocked.