Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 September 1897 — Page 7

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IN A uniNA SH£)f*.

A Dresden hep heirless was one day Milking a Bmnll Delft cow When a Serreti marquis came along—

I saw hini smile and bow. O lovely shepherdeMB, hear my song!" I think I heard him say. "For them hast captured my porcelain heart, And by my sword I swear thou art

A star in the milky way." —George 8. Bellman in Morningside.

HIS REVENGE.

Sergeant Dick Doubleday was, I think, •boat the most reserved and reticent man I ever met with, either in or out of tbe service. He was a fine fellow—vigorous, toll and well developed to figure black haired, with eyes full of fire dark, well defined eyebrows, and features sharp and grave—a man with a past, you would say after a slight scrutiny, and a past un doubtedly of the saddest was there in tbe life of poor Sergeant Olok Doableday.

A splendid soldier, attentive and obedient to his superiors and kind*and generous with thpiio beneath him, yet withpl so •tern and reserved was he that many almost shunned him, while others held him In awe and dread, the few sobriquets were given sufficiently Indicating the character the tu»D bore among his comrades, who woro wont to call him Dead and Alive Doubleday, Moody Doubleday, Dumb Doubleday, and a dozen other such appellations.

It was toward the close of a beautiful day that, after a long march along dusty roads, portions of jungle and through a swollen stream, we bad come to a halt, makLng preparations to bivouac in a large open glade with a little sparkling rivulet running along one side of it, a thick jungle on the other und a precipitous range of mountainous hills at the back.

Having left Poonah early that morning, after our long and toilsome march it was with exquisite relief that we gathered round the bivouao fires.

Sitting on a small mound a little apart from my comrades I was basily engaged loading my pipe for a whiff when I was startled and surprised at tbe sudden appearanoo of Dick Doubleday, who, very pale and his large black eyes gleaming with lurid fire, exclaimed as he placed his hand on my shoulder: "Corporal Evans, do you mind leaving the camp along with me? I want some one as a chum, and you are the only one of the battalion that I care about—that's to say, as a friend."

Starting to my feet, I of course expressed my pleasure and willingness to join him, though 1 was as muoh surprised as I should have been had our Scotch colonel asked me to dance a highland reel with him, my astonishment Increasing as be, In a low, hoarse voice, told mo to bring my riilo with me! "You may hove to stain your bayonet before we come baok, Ned." These words ond the deadly pallor upon tho usually swart features of tho stolid sergeant completely astounded me. "What on earth's In the wind?" I thought., as, catching up my rifle ond oarrying It carelessly under my arm, I followed Doubleday, who hud now begun to climb the precipitous side of the rooky eminence at the back of the camp.

No words were spoken until we gained tho summit of tho steep, and then, sitting down upon a bowlder of rock thut was covered and surrounded with tall Indian grass, tho sergeant, pointing to tho fires in tho blvouuo below, exclaimed eenten- jrooeeding Dou tlously, "We ore safe here,- Ned Hftntwr^'away, and just from prying eyes or eager ears!" "You may bet any sum on that, sergeant. There'll be no ramblers from oauip tonight. Tliey are all too tired after the day's march." "You did not allow that to deprive me of your company when 1 solicited it just now." "Only too glad to join you, Doubleday." "Iain suro of that. You are different from all tho rest. That is why I am going to relate dark page lu tho history of my life. Dead and Alive Doubleday they coll mo. What would they havoboen had they beheld tho sight 1 did In this accursed oountry ten years ago?"

I caught my breath norvously and fairly quivered with pnin and excitement. I was about to hoar tho secret. Tho poor sergeant had selected mo as the one In whom to confide a relation of his past. Ho was going to roveal some dread incident in his career hitherto burled with deepest rctlcence in his bosom. Then, as I gazed at the stern, set face, tho oompresscd lips, tho knitted brow, and reoalled tho words uttered shortly before, "You may have to stain your bayonet before we oome back!" Iaskod myself whaton earth was the mystery. Tho sergeant knew I was bold and daring to recklossness, and also tbi»t 1 felt a closer friendship for him than any oue in tho regiment. Evidently there was some dangerous project in view, and I felt proud and exultant, I admit, that I. of all uur follows, should havo been chosen to join In his enterprise and be trusted with tho relation of his past. Ruminating thus as 1 gnsed at the bright xuoon and then down below at tho ruddy, flickering wntch fires, I was aroused by my companion from my temporary reverie, as, in a low, hoarse voioo, be began his dread tale. "It Is six years slnoo I first saw you, when you came out with that draft from England and joined us at Bombay, and it was ten years this very month, Ned Evans, since I beheld my young bride of a few hours only, and a young ond loved sister vilely maltreated, dishonored and douo to death before my eye*."

A stifled sob hero choked the unhappy sergeant's utterance, who, as I was about to condolo with him, placcd his hand upon my arm and resumed: "We wore lying at Bangalore, ily sister, who had been ailing slightly, was well and happy on my wedding day. My young bride was an orphan, the daughter of Indian parents, but with no relatives living to soy her nay gave mo her hand in preference to accepting as a husband a native who long bad pressed his suit upon her. This demon, as I was strolling with my loved sister and my young wife a mile or more from Bangalore on the night of my marriage, set upon tit, and, aided by a doaen of tbe tribe, succeeded in overpowering and binding me to a tree. Then, while one of his allies seised in his arms my shrieking sister, Zadah Tiuiour, my accursed rival, with a shout of fiendish glee, secured my loved Xourtnahal In his detested embrace. What followed I dare not tell Several times in wild ami uuid horror I elated my eyes ou tbe devilish teen*?, but even this mercy was denied me, knives being thrust deep into my tleah until I again in frenxy aud mad rage gnsed upon the suffering* of those two poor girls, ail I loved on earth. After the lapse of a terrible hour, to me year* of agony, the Indian devils, pilicg dry brushwood round the tree to which they had bound «»e, were about to fire this improvised funeral pyre when loud shout? iu the distance oansed tbe miscreants to take to flight, but not before

they bad hacked to death tbe poor girl* they bad so hideously and barbarously misused. "When my comrades, who, alarmed at our absence, bad left the barracks in search of us, arrived, tbey found me in a raving delirium. I hovered 'twixt life and death for many weeks, but recovered, registering a vow to heaven that I would have a fearful revenge upon the wretch Zadah Timour. For ten long years I have waited, and now tbe time has oome!" "The incarnate devil then lives, and yon this night purpose to consummate your Vengeance upon him!" I exclaimed excitedly. I now understood all and guessed why poor Doubleday bad asked me to join him. He bad feared that alone perhaps his prey might escape him. "Within tbe hour I shall avenge the wrongs of my sister and my bride."

There was a sharp, hissing sound in tbe voice of tbe sergeant, whose eyes now gleamed like tongues of flame. "Where is be to be found, Doubleday?"

I here began to see if tbe charge of my rifle was all right, and, with a meaning smile upon my companion, fixed on my bayonet. "Zadab Timour and his friend and half brother, Ackfear Khan, tbe-destrpyer of my sister Adele, are now, with some half dozen Afghans, camped in the hut by tbe Well of the Serpents." "I know tbe place. A better spot we could not have. But you aresureof this?" "As that tbe sun they will never see will rise tomorrow." "You beard of their close vicinity when?" "Two days back. I have had a native spy I can rely upon watching every movement of the demon brothers tbe past week, and when we bivouacked at the foot of the bills my spy paid visit to my tent and told me the time bad oome." "All right, sergeant. You look after tbe two brothers ond leave the others to me." "That would be too long odds, Ned. I have six lives here." Doubleday here produced a revolver, the barrel of which glistened ominously in tbe moonlight. "Oh, with that six shooter our job will be on easy one, as we shall have tbe advantage of taking the black scum by surprise."

"As I was taken that terrible night ten years ago. But come half an hour's walk will bring unto the end of our journey. And now mind, whatever you do, if by any mischance Zadah Timour should fall into your hands, slay him not. His life belongs to me." "Rest easy, sergeant. I will secure him and leave yoa to give him bis coup de grace."

Without further converse we now pursued the path to our destination, an open spuce upon the edge or verge of the jungle distant from our bivouao three miles or a little .more.

It was with a quickening pulseand beating heart that I at length, in tbe bright moonlight, cuught sight of the old hut near tho Well of the Serpents, a place known to tho soldiery at Poonah as a spot where some 60 whites had been set upon by a fierce set of Afghan clans some years before and slaughtered too man. "As I felt assured, Evans, they have a sentry. Do you see him there leaning against the door of the hut?" "Yes, and too motionless and silent to be on the watch. He is reclining upon a mound or something. Sergeant, that fellow has fallen asleep at his post—a sleep that to him shall be eternal."

Drawing his sword from its sheath, before I could utter a protest against suob a Dpuhledny had glided swiftly before I gained his side bad burled his bright blade deep in the breast of the doomed sentry, who, with a groan and bubbling, gasping cry, fell with a crash against the door of the hut outside of which he had kept suoh faithless guurd.

In a moment a dusky little crowd appeared before us who, with loud, hoarse cries, yelled out, "Death, death to the Faringhoes!"

Taken by surprise, however, with no firearms, the Afghans wero, like tbe unfortunate sentry, doomed men. Rushing forword with daggers, spears and scimiters upraised, they were received by a succession of bullets fired upon them by the infuriated 6ergeant, who, emptying his revolver, then dashed upon a tall, gigantic warrior, who, spared by Doubleday from bis leaden messengers of death, I conjectured was his dastard foe, tho man to whom he owed the loss of his wife and such bitter wrongs.

Five human forms lay by the threshold of tbe hut, dead and dying, while another, covered with blood from bullet wound in his head, his jombea (dagger) raised on high, standing forward, mado a blow which I avoided by darting aside at the Same timo that, swinging my rifle round as I did so, 1 caught the Afghan on the head, my weapon coming with a sickening, dreadful crash full on his skull, which splintered liko glass from the force of the blow, the wretch, with a stifled groan, falling senseless at my feet.

Looking round now I beheld Sergeant Doubleday, with eyes that g'leamed like Are, kneeling upon the chest of his victim, who, half stunned and incapable of further resistance, lay supine and helpless at the mercy of his conqueror.

I could not suppress a shudder as I heard the hissing accents of the infuriated sergeant as he dragged the maimed, bruised, bleeding villain toward tbe old well: "I havo waited ten years for this, Zadah Timour! Oh, oh, your time has como at last! I'm going to hurl you alive into the Well of tho Serpents! My bride, my sister Adele, ore avenged at last!"

Close beside tbe open mouth of the old well tbe sergeant had now conveyed tbe doomed Afghan, whose swarthy visage 1 perceived in the brig'^t moonlight had turned to a leaden g*^yas be had recognised bis assailant and heard bis doom pronounoed.

Instinctively, without thought, the miserable villain raised his bands as though in an attempt to fight free of that fearful grip of pent up rage and bate. Then a mournful wail rang on the night air as head first tbe doomed wretch was hurled 80 feet down Into his horrible grave.

Standing beside tbe sergeant, I gased with a shudder into the dark abyss. There was the dull echo of a heavy crash below, and then a horrible hissing noise followed.

Infested by deadly serpent*, oould he have been drawn up from his horrible tomb tbe villain Timour would still have ultimately perished.

Without a word Doableday now hastily examined the features of the dead, pausing for a moment as he gased upon my late assailant, now no mora. "I fancy you gave this dog bis coup de grace, Evans!" "Who is it, sergeant?"' "My sister's destroyer, Ned. Come, let Us go. All Is finished!"

Sxaotly one year after tbat night upon Which he had carried out his revenge poor Doubleday perished, the leader of a forlorn Wop*.—Boston (Lincolnshire) Goardlaa.

TO HELEN.

Helen, thy beauty Is to me Like thcne Nicean barks of yore That gently o'er a perfumed aea

Hit! weary, wayworn wanderer bora To his own native shore. On desperate seaa long wont to roam

Tbe abu puffed a cloud of blue smoke againBt tbe lantern that flickered among tbe sickly trailing vines about tbe lattioe of tbe veranda and shook his head slowly from side to side. "The Ingelees is fighting with Allah. Tbe kol-ira, the black deatb, came straight from tbe band of Allah, and these eyes saw it when it came. Let tbe presenoe have it well in his mind that it will not depart until tbe word of Allah calls it away. The presenoe has frowned? Let my master be not vexed at the word of the worm, his servant. My eyes have seen what they have seen, and my soul knows what it knows, and it will not be otherwise for all the frowns on tbe high and serene brow of the Ingeleez bey." "You say that you saw it, abu? And what did you see?" "My eyes saw tbe kol-ira coming into Aden, and I know what I know. Allah is praised I"

For several minutes tbe eyes of the abu stored into tbe hookah bowl as tho ember glowed and reddened with each puff. Then he took the mouthpiece from between his teeth, rested one hand upon bis knee and smoothed his beard wearily with the other. "The presence wishes to know? What good will that be if his soul d"cs not believe? Am I to turn liar in my old age? Besides the Ingeleez has been gracious to me. I have basked in tbe light of his eyes and have smoked many hookah pipes at his expense. So that I have dwelt in gardens of pleasure. But tbat is the way with the unbelievers. Tbey come here and they tear up the streets and throw much lime about and build fires In the market plaoe to burn tbe refuse of the earth, and then tbey rub their hands and say to themselves, 'Mashallab, masiiallah, in an hour, or a day, or a week tbe kol-ira shall be no more and we will laugh in tbe beard of Allah.' As for me, tbe presenoe knows that I shall

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days. Another hookah? May the mercies of the presenoe be remembered! All unbelievers are not dogs, and tbe Ingeleez bey is better than some Moslems."

Tben came another period of silenco, broken only by tbe gurgling of the hooKan and the wheezing of the abu'B breath. Presently the muezzin wailed out tbe evening prayer from the platform of the mosque that stands in the mc/ket plaoe over against the fountain tbat is now dry.

The abu looked up at me and said musingly: "Abulbn Homish bos heard the muezzin oall tbe faithful to prayer from cbHdhood to old age, ninety and three years. I shall hear him only a short time more."

He laid down the hookah mouthpieoe on the mot and oounted thoughtfully on bis fingers, "I shall hear him only six—seven —eight times more, and then"—

The sentence was left unfinished, and tbe abu replaced the mouthpieoe complacently between bis teeth, purring to himself: "Ishallah, ishallah, as it is written, so shall it be. I have dwelt in paradise because the presenoe bos thrown the light of his eyes upon me, and has caused my hookah bowl to be filled with a free and plentiful band. And now I will tell him a word of wisdom tbat be may be guided by it and sleep tbe sleep of the fearless. "The blaok deatb is going away. How does my soul know it? Did I not tell the presence that my eyes saw the death ooming into Aden? It came as an old woman who rode in the rear of a caravan. Your servant, tbe worm, was sitting where be Is sitting now, smoking his hookah pipe and thinking of many things tbat he bad seen in the desert and upon the sea. The kahvedji—may tbe evil eye strike him because of tbe many half filled hookah bowls tbat he has given me for just and full measure—the kahvedji lay on bis bench sleeping the sleep of a donkey, and tbe place was empty save for tbat thief and liar and unbeliever at heart and myself who am now basking in the radianoe of the presenoe. "It was just before tbe first crowing of tbe cocks and the moon was pouring down white upon tbe desert, even as it is now. The presenoe may think that my eyes bad closed in slumber or tbat I bad partaken of tbe heavenly drug. Let not tbe Ingeleez bey scoff at tbe words of bis servant when he tells him tbat be was watchful and that his eyes looked out upon the desert as tbey do now. My ears heard the tinkling of camels' bells, and in a breath there passed before my eyes and up this road that tbe bey is looking upon now a caravan covered with the dust of tbe desert and clothed in tbe rags of many days. Each badji sat in his saddle muffled to tbe ears in bis burnoose,looklng neither to the right nor to tbe left. There was no sound of treading, but only the tinkle of the bells, and tbe caravan passed straight into the market plaoe, although tbe gates of tbe city bad long been ckwed upon Its sleeping bappi-

"Tbe presenoe smiles? Let him not be in baste to take my true talk lightly. "In tbe rear of tbe caravan there rode an old hanum on a camel that bad nothing but bones within its skin and boles where tbe eyes should be. Your servant was about to wake tbat sleeping bound of a kahvedji—on whom may the prophet send thousand and one curses—when tbe old hanum raised her am and beckoned him to her side. Tbe camel that bore ber stopped In tbe middle of the road, just where the presenoe sees that white stone. The hanum's face was covered with a ragged veil, and there was nothing but rags upon ber—nothing but the rags of many days, as your servant lives and breathes and smokes tbe hookah which the bey has commanded to be filled for me in a heaping aaeaspre. Presently s&e «poks: 'Aim lbs

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVEOTG MAIL, SEPTEMBER 4, 1897.

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Lo, in yon brilliant window niche fc v'* How statuelike see thee stand, v»v-% The agate lamp within thy hand. Ah. Psyche, from the regions which

Are Holy Land!

—Edgar AllanPoe.

THE KOL-IRA.

The blazing sun trembled on tbe rim of tbe desert for a moment and then sank into the sand with a sudden drop, sharp and distinct as the click of a MartiniHenry.

Tbe fear of desolation was in the air. For three weeks tbe sun baked streets bad echoed with tbe "Abi, abi!" of the hired mourners as tbey hurried the swollen and pnrple corpses out of the city gate and into three feet of earth lust beyond. "The Christian dogs will not believe my word, but I swear to the presence that I. saw it with my own eyes, and, by Allah, I talk true talk."

turn liar at tbe end of my

Hamish, do you know me? I am tbe kol«Ira, the black deatb, and I have come to carry away half of Aden. I shall be here for a month and day, and you I shall carry away last of all.' "Then tbe caravan moved toward the market plaoe, and I saw It no more. When day broke, these ears beard the 'Ahl, abi!' of the hired mourners as they carried out the first of tbe dead. And I am to be the last. "The presenoe 1s going away? Let him look to the steps of his feet, lest he stumble into tbe well in tbe oourtyard." "Who told you that story, Jenkins?" asked young Stover, who had come out from England two weeks before to fight the plague. "It must be that old booby,

Ibn Hamish. Who is be anyway?" "A harmless sort of idiot, who passes for a wise man among his people," replied a subaltern who was balancing himself on a camp stool and vainly trying to Interest himself in a baok number of tbe London Times.

Thereupon Stover launobed out upon a lecture on superstition. The young surgeon was fresh out of civilization and did not have so muoh as an inkling of the backward and sidewise workings of the oriental mind. His eloquenoe was cut short by the appearanoe of my Arab servant, who salaamed profoundly before me. "May the presenoe be not moved to anger, but there Is a messenger at tbe door who craves that be may be permitted to see the light of your eyes." "A messenger? And what does he want of me?" "May I be forgiven if I speak, but tbe dead dog will not tell me what he wants. He oomes from Abu Ibn Hamish, may it please the Ingeleez bey."

Tbe abu bad been taken with the plague, said the messenger, and would I be so gracious and merciful as to go and see blm? I threw my fatigue coat over my arm, in anticipation of a return during the oold of the night, and followed the messenger.

I found the abu where I had last seen bim, sitting on the veranda of thekabvene which had been his dwelling plaoe apparently for years. He was staring soberly at the smoke that curled up from tbe hookah. "The presence is here? May your servant be forgiven, but I wish to tell you a word and you shall see before tomorrow's sun that I have spoken truth. Ishallah, you shall see." "What can I do for you, abu? The messenger told me that you were stricken with the plague ond I came to you ot onoe. Do strioken men smoke the hookah and make bad jests?" "The presenoe is smiling the smile of tbe unbeliever, but let him bo not moved to anger. My time is coming even now. The Ingeleez bey sees the sun? It is now the height of a man away from the top of the mosque. In two hours it will sink into the desert and tho soul of Abu Ibn Hamish will go out with it."

Tbe abu smoothed bis board and stared into the curling smoke of the hookah with the stare of oon viction. Above the kah vene a flock of crows flew noisily by with a slow, heavy flight, as if the birds were gorged with feast of the desert. Tbey were coming from the south wall of the city, where tbe oorpses were being buried under three feet of earth, in spite of all that we oould do to prevent it. "How do I know it?" mused the abu. "Tbe presence has not asked tbo question, but I know that it is between his teeth. I havu not turned liur in tho last doy of my life, and the Ingeleez bey will beliove the true word which I will speak into^'.a ear. A oup of coffee? The presence is gracious beyond the power of words to tell, and it shall be remembered to him when he is orossing over the deep place of Gehenna on the sharp of the Gword of Mohammed. "My eyes have seen the old hanum who rode into Aden on the back of the camel that has holes where its eyes should be. My eyes saw her before the breaking of tbe morning and my ears heard tbe words that came from her purple lips: 'Abu Ibn Hamish, do you know mc? I om the kolira, tbe black death, and I shall pass on to Mecca after tho sun sinks into the desert this night. And you shall be the last to die in Aden, because you have lived many days and your hands are clean with the doing of many good deeds.' "Tho presence does not believe me? The sun is going down even now, and you shall seo that I have spoken a true word— 6yo, as true as the word of the prophet."

I do not remember distinctly all that happened after that. It all came with suoh grew so me suddenness. The sun had hardly gone down when the abu laid aside tbe mouthpieoe of the hookah and complained of feeling cold. "The kol-ira is passing away into the desert.' The presence will see it no more In Aden."

Even while he was saying these words be grew purple about the lips, and presently he bent over with a sharp, asthmatio cough, as if something bad kicked blm in tbe stomach, and before morning I beaxd tbe "Ahl, ahi!" of the hired mourners as tbey hurried the corpse of Abu Ibn Hamish out of the city gate. He was tbe last Victim of tbe plague ^n Aden.—ColMer's Weekly.

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8 0 & E E 5 3 0 am 9 M&TH Loc.10.45 a 1 O & Ev Ex...2.30p 5 & N Lim*.11.55 7 NO&FSpl*.. 2.50pm

C. C. C. ft I.—BIG FOUR. Going East. 36NYaClnEx*1.55am 4Tn&CldEx. 8.00 am 8Day Ex*... 2.56pm 18 Knlckb'r*. 4.31

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SMatt'n Ac. 6.30 pm

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Via Big Four route, account National Encampment Sons of Veterans. Sept. 9-11,1897.

Tickets will be on sale September 8th and 9th, good returning until Sept. 15th, 1897. Full particulars at Big Four City Ticket ~Hcc and BlgFour Station.

E. E. SOUTH. Genera) Agent.

C. & E. E. E.

Will sell very cheap tickets to Charlevoix. Harbor Springs. Bay View and Petoskey and return. To leave Chicago via boat Sept. 4th. 7th, 9tb. 11th and 14tb.

Home Seekers' Excursion

To the west and northwest. One fare plus 12.00 for the round trip. Tickets on sale Sept. 1st and 7th.

For further Information call on J. R. Connelly, General Agent, Tenth and Wabash avenue, or R. D. Dlgf Station.

fgges. Ticket Agent, Union

S-rixso*. STIMSO*& COKDIT, Attorneys. OTICE TO HEIRS CREDITORS, ETC.

in tbe matter of tbe estate of William P. Willcragbby, deceased. In tbe Vigo Circuit court. September term. 1ST.

Notice is hereby gl*en that John O. Hoffman. as administrator of tbe estate of William P. Willoujfbby. deceased, bas presented and filed bis account and vouchers tn final settlement of said estate, and tbat tbe same will oome up for tbe examination and action of said Circuit court, on tbe 13tb day of September. 1S97, at which time all heirs, creditors or legatees of said estate are required to appear In said court and show canse. if any there be, why said account and Touchers should not be approved.

Witness, tbe clerk and seal of said Vigo Circuit court, at Terre Haute, Indiana, this

mhda^ofAu^iy, L. WATSON. Clerk.

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