Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 4, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 21 July 1894 — Page 7

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THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.

Very peac*fully they rest, Who, In life by peace unblessed, Caught tb« warcry, fierce and shrill* Felt the battle's shock and thrill. Hoard the dreadful cannon's roar— Death behind and death before— Fisht in? on the sea and land. Foot to foot

And

hand to hand.

Very peacefully they restNorth and south and «.«a&t and west— While the heaven descending dew Fails alike on gray and blue, While the cheering light of day Shines on blue and shines on gray. Weary march and battle oore Past for them forevermorel

Very peacefully they rest. And the babes whose cheeks they pressed In a last (roodby have stood O'er their (graves In proud manhood. And in hoiy wedlock true Plighted hearts of gray and blue In the light of hearthstone fires Tell the deeds of soldier frires! —Zitella Cocke in New England Magazine.

THE GAME OF LIFE.

Shining through a cloudy sky, the last Tays of the sinking Bun faintly lighted a room in which the gold frames, the bronzes and the weapons hanging on the walls broke the dim twilight with bright reflections.

In the center of the room stood a woman In a poor, plain gown. Poverty spoke from her drooping mien, as well as from the troubled expression of her pale face, as she drew her thin mantle more closely over her shoulders.

Her great, limpid eyes gazed intently at a slight, gray haired man who stood, with his back turned toward her, at one of the long windows. Breathless silence filled the room, and the roll of wheels and the monotonous sound of hoof beats could be beard from the street below. Sadness deepened on the young woman's face. Her lips trembled, and tears rolled slowly over her choekB.

With a weary, supplicating voice she at last broke the long silence. "Leo, have you no kind word for me? Have I really oomo in vnin?" "Yes, in vain," ho answered harshly. "I have often told you plainly that we are separated forever and that you have nothing to hope for from mo. You alone have brought alxmt your loss—against my will —and now you must bear it alone." •'You know how I lovod you—like brother and father both—and how gladly I did and gave everything to make you gay and happy and keep the shadows from your life. And you, for thanks, you left ino left me to isolation, to an unhappy old ago: left me to follow an adventurer— and why? Because one night at a ball he had softly whispered,

lovo you.' But

now you havo found out what this love meant—sadness and sorrow. Is it not so?" A beautiful flush spread over the young wife's face, and she proudly drew herself up. "Yes, Loo, Morrow, bitter sorrow, but also unspeakable happiness. You cannot understand that, as you do not know my husband. You havo hated him from the first and will not realize his worth. Ho could earn a Iwtter living for me, but I honor him doubly because nomisfortuno can induce him to dogrado his art. lie aims at the highest and will attain it— tbo great future after all his bitter struggles. Believe mo, Leo, my heart has always yearned for reconciliation with you. Still, I should never havo come here today —but—but the child, Leo—my child is 111."

Tho last words broke from her Hps like a pained cry. Her brother shuddered, but still stood nt the window, gazing angrily out at tho dark sky.

The noiseless minutes passed, and still ho made no answer to the woman's ph-a. She waited, eagerly, but at last turned and moved slowly away across tho thick white carpet.

In a few moments a servant came and lighted tho lamp. Attracted by tho bright light, tho man turned from tho window and stared about him with astonished ejm "Whom is"—passed his lips, but ho did not llnlsh tho question.

In tbo meant imo tho servant placed the chessboard-under tho light, brought a polished box, which held tho carved ivory men, and started from tho room. "Joseph," called his master, '*1 will now see that visitor again." "As you wish, llerr O be rat," nodded tho servant aud let tho heavy, portiere fall behind him.

Tho man sat weakly down on a couch and covered his faee with his hands. Alter sitting thus for awhllo Itemised bin head slowl.v and murmured: "I am growing old Every excitement overcomes me. in a few years tho unbidden guest, with his scythe and glass, will overtake me."

He looked unspeakably weary as ho took his seat In front of the chess table and arranged a problem with trembling hands. Placing his elbow on thetablo, ho rested his chin on his hand ami glanced meditatively over tho men. Somehow ho ooukl not keep his mind on tho game, and hljs eyes constantly gazed over tho board into space. "How site lovea him, that that" murmured he.

Shaking his head fiercely, he turned his thoughts to the game again, but the excitement was stronger than his will. An inward struggle disturbed his peace aud finally caused him to fall into a state of dull relaxation. The chessmen swam before his «yes and became weird figures— grew to enormous rise and diminished again.

The lamplight flickered and almost died out, filling tho room with a pale twilight, in which black balls sending out

many

colored flashes danced up and down. Suddenly these balls burst and flooded the place with a green light. Gold shudders ran over tho chess player's limbs, for right tn front of the table stood tt sinister presence, who hold a scythe in his bony right hand and an' hourglass in his loft. Through the rents in his worm eaten garments gleamed the white, fleshless bones. Be shook his death's head, from which fluttered a single gray K*k, and his empty eye sockets stared no horribly and his jaws parted in so ghastly a grin that the old soldier, who had stood fearlessly in the thickest of many a fight, felt the blood curdle in Ms vei ns. "DeathI Death!" gasped he, without moving his lips or stirring.

Death laid his scythe and his giMs by his fctdo, drew a chair to the table and •aid: ''Come, old man. We will play a game together far year life."

Paralysed with fear, Obcrst stretched out his hand Cor the color with which he usually played, but Death raised a bony itoger''Stopi That it my color!" cried be and drew the black mm toward him. As if by magic they moved in their right placet mi the board. **Life has the fin* met%" Ofcssa* heard

his fearful opponent mutter, and as he raised his arm over the table to move a pawn a little white hand was laid hlnderingly on his arm.

Death laughed so heartily at this performance that one of bis loose teeth fell out and roiled to the middle of the board. •'Ho, ho, you tiny Life!" he shouted. Do you think you can play against the only invincible master?" And he rattled his bones loudly to frighten her. Life gazed at him with astonished eyes, as though she did not know who Death really waa

This appeared to anger him, for he roared, 'Begin!" Yes, yes," laughed Life, In pure joy, and moved a piece so foolishly that Oberet's hair stood on end with fright, for he feared that this first play would lose the game. But, strangely enough, although Life had played so incautiously, Death seemed to be blind and made no use of the advantage given him. Moreover he played hesitatingly, as though he felt himself .no match for his laughing adversary. The latter appeared to learn with each move and played always better and more skillfully, so that Oberst sighed tvith relief and even entertained bold hopes of victory. He followed the game so closely that he scjircely noticefl that the burden in his lap grew constantly heavier, and that the child had grown to a beautiful girl.

This young woman, with the joy of living in her bright eyes, moved her men boldly, almost too boldly, gaining upon Death minute by minute and pressing him so hard that he seemed already half beaten.

At last Life overlooked a single more, and Death pushed his knight into the opening. A second poor play, and Life lost her queen—the most beautiful piece of tho game and its principal strength. Oberst glared angrily at tho now mature woman saw her alter move by move saw tljp color leave hor face and the wrinkles appear one by ono saw hor eye dim and tho gold of her hair change to dull gray. Tho littlo mother moved hor men slowly, deplored each separate play and wept and lamented over her mistakes, constantly giving the advantage to Death, who drew nearer with each move and pressed hor relentlessly in spite of tears and prayers. '•Be merciful, cruel Death I Let me take back his one play. You will always have time to win. I will not lose just yet. I will not dio." "NeverI" roared Death, glaring from his empty eye sockots. "There is no hope for you, useless Life. You can do nothing more in tho world." "Oh, so much—still so much!" pleaded old Life. "You gain nothing from me, and I can still be of use in the world. If my own happlnoss is at an end, I can givo others joy and add to their pleasures."

With theso .words Death mado a clover movo and cried, "Check!" Oborst's heart almost stopped beating, for ho know his own life was tho stake.of the game.

Ho felt the color leavo his cheeks and his eyes start from tlioir sockets. Ho would holp Life with his skill and prevent another foolish movo, but his tongue was paralyzed, and his arms seemed turned to stone. Ho saw tho end approaching move by movo, Death constantly throwing out that fearful threat, ''Check—a check to Life."

Life's king was in peril, and there were but two possible moves—a wrong one, which would loso the game, and a right ono, by which tho king could save himself behind tho three remaining pieces. These three pieces beckoned tho solitary king and seemed to havo human faces—ono the features of a lovely child, tho second of a sad faced woman, and tho third of a man, with a thoughtful, earnest expression— tho face of that hated creature on account of whom Oberst had lost his well loved sister. With fear and anguish ho watched the frightened.XIfo'a trembling fingers. Which would she play? If thoy were only both'good! But look! Sho grasped the king and pushed him toward tho dangerous square.

In malevolent gleo Death laughed outright. By a powerful effort Oberst freed himself from tho charm which held him. "For heaven's sake, not that play—tho other I" ho cried, and throwing'his arms over tho tablo to prevent tho play he knocked the figures to the floor.

Bright light filled tho room. Tho sleojwr awoke from his ghastly dream and stared about with wldo opened eyes. He was alone tho chessmen scattered over the carpet. A horror stricken servant rushed into the room. Ho had heard his master's horrible cry. What In heaven's namo had happened? "Nothing, nothing," gasped Oberst, brushing the cold drops from his forehead with a trembling hand.

He sprang up, and his knees gave way beneath him, but without hooding this weakness he cried: ''My hat, Joseph, and my coat! Make haste and come with mo! Bo quick!"

Shaking his head, the puzzled servant hastened from tho room. A few moments later, when ho lighted his master down the steps, he saw tears in the old man's eyes and heard him murmur: "No, it is not too Into. I jjan still bo of use and give others pleasure. Check —a check to death."

A thousand shining stars lighted their way as they hastened out into the cold night together.—Prom the German In New Orleans Times-Democrat.

Matter Indestructible.

An essential property of matter, but which does not commend itself to superficial observation, like those of extension wad resistance, is Indestructibility. So far as experiment and observation can discover, matter can neither be created nor destroyed. On the surface facts seem to contradict this assertion, for any particular portion of matter may be decomposed and resolved into its constituent parts, so that It scorns to have disappeared, because the form under which we knew it is no longer present*

In reality, however, no diminution in the quantity of existing matter has taken place. One proof of this Is easily afforded by combustion. If wo allow a piece of wood or coal or any combustible solid body to "bum away," there will, as we all know, be ashes remaining. If while the combustion lit going on we take moans to preserve not only tho ashes, but also every part of the body which would ordinarily be distipated, as smoke and steam, and tienVwlgh all tJto different substances, solid, liquid or gaseous, that we have obtained, w*» shall find the combined weights •qual to the original weight of the body Unit—Goad Words,

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Startled, be looked around and saw a beautiful little girl standing by his chair. Her fac« was round and rosy, and her golden hair and blue eyes were much like big sister's when she was a child. "May not play for you?" begged the little one, and then without waiting for an answer climbed into his lap and made herself comfortable,

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, JULY 21,1894.

FACTS ABOUT RAILROADS.

Interstate Commerce CommfasMWi Gathers Interesting Statistics. The interstate commerce commission has made its sixth statistical report.

The total mileage of railways in the United States on June 80, 1898, was 176,461.07, being an increase during the year of 4,897.55 miles. The corresponding increase during the previous year was 3,160.78, from which it appears that there was some revival in railway construction during the year covered by the report. The number of roads abandoned during the year was 19. The total length of line, including all tracks, was 230,137.27, which includes 10,051.36 miles of second track and 42,043.40 miles of yard tracks and sidings.

The total number of employees* xii the service of railways on June 80, 1893, was 873,602, being an increase of 52,187. Of this total of employees, 35,884 are assigned to the work of general administration, 256,212 to maintenance of way and structures, 175,464 to maintenance of equipment and 397,915 to conducting transportation, the remainder, 8,627, being unclassified.

The aggregate property properly classified as railway capital was on June 80, 1893, $10,506,235,410, which shows railway capital equal to $63,421 per mile of line The amount of stock outstanding was $4,668,935,418, of which $8,982,009,602 was common stock, the remainder, $686,925,816, being preferred stock. The funded debt outstanding was $5,225,689,821, classified ps follows: Mortgage bonds, $4,504,888,16 2

miscellaneous obligations, $410,474,647 income bonds, $248,182,730, and equipment trust obligations, $62, 699,282. The amount of investment in the railway securities has increased during the year from $1,391,457,058 to $1,563,022,233, being an increase of $171,565,180.

The amount of stock paying no dividends during the year was $2,859,384,572, being 1.24 per cent of the total stock outstanding.

The total of dividends paid was $100, 929,885. Tho amount of mortgage bonds paying no interest was $492,276,999, or 10.98 per cent of the total of mortgage bonds, and the amount of income bonds paying no interest was $204,864, 269, or 82.56 per cent of the total of inoome bonds.

The total number of passengers carried during the year ending June 80, 1898, was 593,560,612.

The number of tons of freight reported by the railways for the year was 745,119,482. Ton mileage was 93,588, 111,833.

The gross earnings from operations ou the railways of the United States for the year ending June 30, 1893, were$l,220,751,874, being an increase of $49,844,531 over gross earnings reported in the previous year. Operating expenses during the year were $827,921,299, being an increase of $46,923,308 over the previous year.

The final net income available for dividends was $111,058,034, being a sum less than the corresponding amount for tho previous year of $4,907,157. After deducting from this amount tho dividends pr.id the income account of railways iu the United States for tho year 1893 shows a surplus of $8,116,745, which is less than the surplus of the previous year by $5,919,811.

The number of railway employees killed during tho year was 2,727, being groater by 173 than those killed during tho previous year. Tho number of employees injured was 31,729, being great er by 3,462 than the number injured the previous year. Tho number of passengers killed during the yeat? was 299, being less,by 77 than the number killed the pl-evious year, and the number injured was 3,229, being two in excess of the number injured the previous year. Of the total number of deaths to employees on account of railway accidents 483 were due to coupling and uncoupling cars, 644 to falling from trains and engines, 78 to overhead obstructions, 247 to collisions and 153 to derailments, the remainder being due to causes not so clearly defined. An assignment of casualties to the opportunity offered for accidents shows 1 employee to have been killed for every 320 men employed and 1 to havo been injured for every 28 men employed. Tho most dangerous service is that of trainmen, and for theso the statistics show 1 employee to have been killed for every 115 trainmen and 1 employee to have been injured for every 10 engaged in this service. A similar comparison shows 1 passenger to have been killed for each 1,985,153 passengers carried, or for each 47,588,966 passenger miles accomplished and 1 passenger injured for each 183,822 passengers carried, or for each 4,406,659 passenger miles accomplished.—Washington Correspondent

Got His Diamond Back.

A nice looking young fellow in evening dross called on a certain physician a night or two ago with a peculiar wound in his face. The physician heard his explanation and then extracted a large diamond from under the ragged skin. This young man was engaged to a society girL He was very much in love with her. One night, filled with moonlight and poetry, he slipped a diamond ring on her finger. The lady a tew days after gave it to another, to whom she was engaged. The original donor of the ring saw it on his rival's finger. He felt badly. He said so. The fortunate young man resented this and proceeded to show it fay knocking the original owner down. The stone staid with him. He is having it set for another girL—Washington Capital.

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TO MEND HIS BROKEN NECK.

A Toons Philadelphian Under Treatment at the Flower Hospital. A novel mode of treatment in an attempt to relieve a young man of the effects of breaking his neck is being tried at the Flower hospital. The patient is enveloped in a plaster oast from the waist up, nothing but his face being left bare. This is to prevent the slightest movement of the head or neck while the muscles and bones are adjusting themselves to their normal relations.

The subject of the treatment is George Menge, 19 years old, of Philadelphia. Last January, while he was exercising in a gymnasium, he fell from the horizontal bar, striking on the back of his head. The physician who was called in said the muscles of the neck were sprained, but after two weeks in bed Menge, although able to sit up, could not raise his head except by using his hands. When his head was unsupported, it fell forward on his breast As he had not recovered at the end of seven weeks, he was sent to the Pennsylvania hospital in Philadelphia, where an examination showed that his neck was broken. An instrument was attached to his head to hold it in places but no improvement resulted.

Three weeks ago Menge started for the Catskills, intending to return to Philadelphia later for further treatment, but while staying with some friends in Brooklyn he was persuaded to put himself under the care of Dr. William Tod Helmuth at the Flower hospital. The plaster cast will be kept upon Menge until his recovery, of which the surgeons are very hopeful, or until the experiment is seen to be a failure. If successful, the patient will still be able to get about with his head in a brace. —New York Letter.

LOST HIS RED BUTTON.

The Former Chinese Minister to This Country Degraded In Rank. In a telegram from Peking published by The Chinese Mail it is said that an imperial edict has been issued announcing the degradation of Tsui Kwo Yui the former Chinese minister to the United States, Spain and Peru, from the post of "tso shu tsze"—senior deputy supervisor of instruction—to that of "chung wan"—undersecretary of the Hftnlin college—as well as the deprivation of the red button of second rank, with which he had been honored by the emperor on the oocasion of his being accredited to the eourts of the United States, Spain and Peru.

The issue of this edict has been the result of Yui's incompetency in the discharge of the duties of "tso shu tsze as well as of his failure in passing the recent special examination for promotion among the members of the Hanlin college. This special examination was instituted at the instanoe of the board of censors with a view to classifying the members of the Hanlin college and to investigate their special conduct and also for the purpose of recommending promotion. Consequently the persons examined have after due examination been divided into three olasses. Those of the first two classes have either re ceived their promotion or appropriate imperial regards of Bilk pieces, but Tsui Kwo Yui, who stands first in the third class, has lost his red button and has suffered the above mentioned degradation in his official rank.

UNEASY ABOUT HIAZINTOFF.

He Attempted to Kill a Privy Councilor and Has Escaped From Custody.

Private advices from St. Petersburg say that groat uneasiness prevails in court circles there over the escape of the young man Hiazintoff, who a couple of months ago attempted to kill Privy Counselor Pobyedonoszeff. When in prison, Hiaziufcoff's demeanor was so strange that he was sent to an asylum for the insane and there kept under observation night and day in special care. On June 27 he pleaded that the terribly hot weather was killing him, and in consequence he was for the first time allowed to take exeroise in the asylum grounds with the other inmates. On the same afternoon he managed to escape, evidently with the connivance of somebody within the asylum, and nothing has since been heard of him.

The uneasiness referred to is due to the belief that Hiazintoff will most certainly be heard from sooner or later in connection with some desperate deed. He is a militant nihilist, imbued with a fanatical belief in the necessity for shedding the blood of tyrants who stand in the way of the regeneration of his country, and he is utterly reckless of his own life. The police are oonfident that he will not attempt to leave Russia and are equally certain that he will not long remain idle.—London Cor. New York Sun.

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Est&bliahed UWL Incorporated 1888,

QLIFT A WILLIAMS OO., Successors to Clift, Williams

J. H. WIT.I.TAMH. President. J. M. Curr,

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Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Glass, Paints, Oils

AJTD BUILDERS' HARDWARE.

Mulberry street, oorner 9Ui.

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