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Tvixt Life and Death ‘ OR UNDER MEDICAL ADVICE. A Story of the Francor Prussian. War. — BY ROBERT BUCHANAN. CHAPTER XII. THE MEDALLION. As the night advanced, the wounded man continued to sleep tranquilly, only I now ayd then turning on his pillow and murmuring to himself. A clock on the mantel-piece of the little sitting-room sounded the half-hours, and as each struck clearly Blanche rose and administered the anodyne. Blanche felt no desire to sleep. Her heart was too deeply stirred, her mind too troubled, for her even to close her eyes. She sat watching patiently, thinking of all the sad fortune of war. of the strange events which had brought the young oilicer to that house, and, above all, of her father. She thought of the home beyond the Rhine, where the soldier's sist< r, a girl like herself, was waiting for him, perhaps praying on her knees. She could almost picture her—a child, as he had said, with golden hair. Ab, yes, her dearfather was right. War was an evil thing, ‘ and even the enemies of France had loving homes, with dear ones to watch fondly their coming and their going. Suddenly she was startled by a wild cry, almost a shriek, from the sick bed. Rising to her feet, she saw that the wounded man had started up from his sleep, and, leaning upon one elbow, was wildly looking round. As she bent toward him he spoke rapidly in German, and gazed upon vacancy with the expression of one seeing some hideous sight. “Monsieur, what is it? Ah, try to compose yourselfshe cried. “Who’s there? Who speaks?” he cried, > in German. "Look, look—that face! Can i you not see, there against the wall?” Terrified and trembling, she followed ihe direction of his gaze, but saw noth- ’ ing. “Is it you. Mademoiselle Blanche?” he • moaned, this time in French. “I thought it was her voice, my little Annchen’s. How long have I been lying here?” “Since this afternoon, when you were wounded.” “Yes, yes: I remember. You brought me here. Am lat the Chateau of Grandpre?” “Yes; but do not question any more. Lie down, I beseech you!” “Come closer,” he murmured; “closer still. I think—l think—that I am dying?” “No, no; you will live! ’ “Whether I live or die, I have a duty to fulfill—a solemn duty. Something warned me in my sleep—a voice—his voice. Bend down your ear; I must speak to you. ” “Not now—to-morrow.” His face became almost stern in resolve as he replied. “Do me this last service. Let me ease my heart, let me keep my promise.” He reached out his trembling baud and ' grasped her by the wrist. In her horror and pity she could say no more. He went on: “The war! Ah, what a curse is war! It turns men into devils. Even I who speak to you have blood upon my hands. One night, up yonder in the north, I killed a 1 Frenchman.” His expression was so terrible that she would have shrunk away had he not held her. “Listen, Blanche. We were detached to storm a cottage, held by a handful of the French. As we crept forward in the shadow of the trees we saw one of the ' enemy standing like a sentinel in the full moonlight. His back was toward us; he didn’t seem to hear us coming. I was upon him before he could turn or fly. I cut him down with my sword; he fell without a groan. ” "Let me go. for God’s sake!” moaned the frightened girl; “I cannot listen.” But though his hold upon her was weak and trembling, she had not the strength to draw herself away. “We sacked the cottage,” he continued, ' in a hoarse whisper. “ Then, sick of the : slaughter, I stepped back into the moon- | light. Suddenly I heard a voice faintly calling to me. Stooping, I beheld the officer I had cut down, not dead, but ; dying. Touched with compassion, I knelt down beside him and tried to raise him up. ’Too late!’ he murmured; ‘but if you are a man—a gentleman, perhaps—promise I me one thing: if you survive, to forward : this to the French general, and tell him — : tell him ’ Here his speech failed him; but with a last effort he drew from his breast a locket and a golden chain, and, j thrusting them into my hands, fell back lifeless and cold.” With a tremulous effort lie opened his 1 dress and drew forth a chain and locket which had lain concealed upon his heart. At that moment a convulsion ran through his frame, and, with a deep groan, he sank back upon the bed. His hand still held the locket. White as marble, Blanche loosened his fingers i and took it from him, and held it up to the bght. Her head went round, her ' eyes dazzled, but -with the strength of despair she pressed the spring and made J it open. A cry of terror burst from her lips. She : saw her mother’s likeness—side by side with her own as a little child. It was the ! gold medallion which she had given to her father the night before he went away. CHAPTER XIII. BLANCHE’S AGONY. With a low scream frozen upon her lips j in the very act of utterance, Blanche de Gavrolles, still clasping the medallion in her hand, fell senseless by the bed. How long she lay thus she could not tell. Presently, however, she stirred, and opened her eyes; then, rising on her knees, she crawled, drawn by some fatal fascination, to the bedside, clutched the coverlet, and gazed wildly at Hartmann, who lay upon his back, breathing heavily. Clinging on and panting, with eyes wide open and dilated pupils, she looked and looked, as a doomed creature looks on the : apparition of death. Then, struggling to her feet and rais- , mg her arms in the air, she uttered a moan most sad and pitiful, full of horror and infinite despair. “Father, father!” It was a supreme mercy for her that in that awful moment her reason did not snap, like a silken thread. Gradually she began to realize it all. Her heart was b oken, stabbed through and through by a sharp and fatal horror. Not only had she lost the ■ane being she loved in all the world, but she hau lost him by a fatality so dire and dreadful that it made hope impossible, despair inevitable. He had been slaughtered in the full flush of strength and manhood, as-

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I sassinated, murdered; and as if that was 1 i not enough, as if that were not excess of > sorrow, the eruelty of fate had brought ' the murderer to that house, had put his hateful life in her bands, had planned all with such hideous cunning that she, the bereaved daughter, had succored and j saved the man whom she should have I hated and destroyed. It w: s horrible, most horrible! She beheld the dying face uplifted in the starlight, the feeble hands clinging around the murderer; she heard the last sad words, the piteous message, given in | the voice she knew so well. And the murderer lay there—there on J her father’s bed, brought there by her I compassion, saved twice from a miserable death by her ministering cure. She tottered to the bedside again and gazed upon him, her hands clinched, her i face like marble. Her whole soul sickened Ito behold him. She longed to drag him I from that shelter and cast him forth into the chilling snow. Meantime the German had begun to 1 ; breathe more painfully. Half opening i and shutting his eyes, and moving his head restlessly from side to side, he ' seemed struggling with some sharp internal p >in. His right hand, lying upon the coverlet, opened and shut convulsively. He murmured faintly, as if talking to himself. It was w-ell for him that he was uncon- | scions, th 4 he could not see the look still frozen on the girl’s sac look of concentr.it; d cruelty and pass on, horror and pain! Was he dying? Blanche asked herself. Yes—God was good after all—he must be dying. j Then his life was in her hands aMer ; all. She had but to stand still, not 1 lifting a finger, and still avenge her father. What she had done already she had done in blindness; but it was not too , late to justify herself, to redeem the wick- ■ edness of having sheltered and succored him! She could h» ar the wind crying without. Scarcely conscious of what she did, she io-e to her feet, and with convulsive : hands threw open the window. The cold blast rushed into the room, large flakes ' of snow floated in and glimmered in the I dim light. Glut hing the window-sill, she leaned I out into the night. And the snow fell thickly upon her head, while the wind loosened her golden hair. Still with that stupefied, despairing look, she gazed out into the darkness. Hark! A feeble cry. like a call for help, came I from the sick-room. She start:-d. but kept her place. In a few moments the cry was repeated, I but still she did not stir. She strained her eyes up at the dark heaven. Her father was there, somewhere beyond those troubled clouds. Ah! that she might go Io him—that he could beckon to her out of the shadows of the grave and call her to his side. The cry camo again. She turned from the open window and staggered rather than walked back to the sick-chamber, pausing at the door like a ghost and gazing in. The man had changed his position, and with both his arms thrust up above his head was lying back without the pillow, which had fallen to the floor. His mouth was half-open, his eyes looking straight j at Blanche. She saw that he had partially recovered I consciousness, and recognized her. Was I j it fancy, or did he call to her in a faint, | j low voice, entreatingly? She stood like stone; then, taken by a ; i sudden thought, and fixing her eyes oa his, she raised the medallion, which still ' lay in her hand, and kissed it. He watched her, and seemed to under- ! stand; but the next moment his eyes I turned away in pain, and a convulsion ran ‘ through his body. How lurid, how death- : like his face appeared in the faint glimmer of the night-light! The small timep ece in the adjoining room struck one. Nearly an hour had passed since she had last administered the anodyne. Already her vengeance had begun. He was sinking, and she had not put out a hand. : ' All at once, as if by a heavenly inspiration, she seemed to hear the voice of uer father speaking to the ear that is in the : soul. The voice was low and gentle, just as it had always been, but it sounded like a warning. She knew the Chevalier’s deeply humane nature; she knew- that he, of all cieatures, would have been the last ; to approve an act of vengeance. ; An act, not merely of vengeance, but of j murder—none the less murder because ; the victim was a miserable sinner, guilty ' of unnatural bloodshed. If she stood by, with the power to save the life that was fast going, she was as responsible for ! the loss of that life as if she had used knife or poison to destroy it. She would have to answer for a sin before the Great ; Judge of quick and dead. Then she thought of her God. She re- I j membered the divine precept of her religion, “Love thy neighbor as thyself.”] I Alas! it was a mockery. How could she | ! love the slayer of her father? But love ; was one thing, and obedience to the com- ■ mand of the Almighty was another. The clock ticked out the moments, I while she watched the agonized struggles I of the sinking man. In. a few minutes it | would be too late—perhaps, indeed, it | was too late already. Tortured between hate and duty, Blanche now underwent the great trial of | i her life. God in His mercy gave her j ■ strength, rnd at last she conquered. Come I what might, she felt that she could no: ] let the man perish without making an at- । tempt to save him. “Father, forgive me!” she moaned, pite- I ) ously, while now lor the first time the I tears began to trickle down her cheeks, i “Forgive me! I cannot let him die!” Moving quickly to the mantelpiece, she | took the vial, and with a trembling hand j measured out the life-giving drops; then, 1 holding out the glass, she approached the | bed. And now, once again, the horror came upon her to think she must approach ’ so near and even touch the being she loathed so much. She paused and prayed for strength; it was given to her. Steeling all her soul into resolution, sho bent over the man, raised his head •with one hand, and with the other placed the glass to his lips. His eyes were halfclosed, but they opened for a moment and looked gratefully upon her as he drank the anodyne. Then, overpowered by that sublime | ! effort, Blanche uttored a heait-broken ■ i cry and sank, wildly sobbing, upon her j | knees. | Her face looked quite old and dreadful ■ as she stole shuddering toward the door. Before she reached it a cry from the ! bed startled her so that she almost shriek- ■ ed. Turning involuntarily, she saw him ' gazing at her with outstretched bauds. “Fraulein,” he moaned, “what has hap- ! pened?” Then he, too, shuddered, adding, “A.h! I remenaber, ” She s'tood like marble—her eyes dilated, her face ghastly—looking at him. He uttered a groan of pain, crying: [ “Whvdoyou look at me so strangely? I thought—l thought that I was dying; ! : but I am stronger now, I think. That ] ; draught you gave me—but for that I j

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should have died. Ged bless you, Blanche! God bless you!” Blessings from him! It seemed too horrible. “Silence!” she said, in a voice so faint and low as to be almost inaudible. “Do not speak to me; I cannot bear it!” And she hid her face in her hands. “One word—only one,” she heard him moan. “Is it possible you knew him—that Frenchman?” The question recalled her to herself, brought back to her all the agony of her loss. With a face set like steel she walked back to the bedside, and gazing into the man's face with tearless eyes, replied: “He was my father!” He shrank as if from a blow, and u‘tered a cry full of sorrow and compassion. At that moment she felt a touch upon her arm, and, turning, sho saw the aged housekeeper, who had entered the room unperceived. “Mademoiselle, it is I; I thought I heard you call. Mon Dieu! what is the matter?” Blanche did not reply, but, shivering as if with cold, turned her face away; then, followed by the dame, she walked into the outer room. The window was still wide open, the snow drifting iu and lying j in white patches upon the floor. “Mademoiselle, look, the window is ; open. Ah! you will catch your death— | it is a bitter night.” But Blanche stood bareheaded in the window recess, heedless of wind or snow. ■ Appalled by her look and manner, the old woman questioned her again; but still she returned no answer. “Mademoiselle, are you angry? What has happened? Why a’e you so strange?” At last, recalled to herself by the cold breath of the night, Blanche pointed to the inner chamber and bade the woman go there and take her place. With tenible resolution she conveyed to her the Doctor’s instructions, word for word. “For,” ^ie thought to herself, “I will be justi- | fied before God. When I go to meet my father up yonder (and may it be soon) ] he shall know that, even to the last extremity, 1 have returned good for evil and fulfilled the written and unwritten law. ” But what she had already done in bitter- : est mercy she felt that she could never do ] again. Without sayingone word of the horrible ; truth she hastened away, leaving the old dame lost in fear and wonder. Flitting through the dark chateau, while the wind shook the walls and the snowdrift heaped itself at the door, sho reached her own chamber, threw herself wildly upon the bed, and sobbed hysterically. still with her father's name upon her lips. [TO BE CONTINUED.] (<ui!d< iii China. Speaking of employer's unions, all classes of Chinese men have their guilds and these a’-ealmost asohl as the country, One of the finest Club Houses of China is that of the Canton merchants of Foo Chow. It is made up of a great number of liuelv finished rooms elegantly furnished in Chinese fashion and located in the best part of the city, j Here the merchants come to drink tea and to chat. They have a temple and a theater connected with it. and the club consists of live hundred members. 1 visited at Shanghai some of the finest specimens of Chinese architecture I have seen. They were guild halls belonging to tea and rice merchants, and they had wonderful gardens of caves and rocks built up in the busiest part of the ci f y. These guilds regulate the commerce of China. They fill the rate of interst, the time on which goods may be sold, the weights and the standards of goods. A member using different scales than the one prescribed is fined, and a man acting contrary to the guild can, in many instances, not go on with his business. Oue of the druggists’ guilds has just adopted some new rules which lie before me. These prescribe that accounts shall be settled three times every year, and that a discount of 5 per cent, may be allowed on cash transactions. No member in the guild shall be permitted to trade with the others while lie is in debt to a member of the guild, and any member who violates these laws shall pay for two theater plays for the guild, and for the drinks and a feast for twenty members. Some of these guilds prescribe that promissory notes shall be dated on the day of sale, and all of them fix the rules of giving credit. The bankers’ guild fix all matters relating to interest. and these different organizations make the dealings of foreigners with the Chinese more safe than such dealings would be in other countries. The Cinnamon respects hi- contract, and if he does not his guild makes him.— Frank G. CarpenitFs letter from Pekin. The Lime-Kiln Club. “Ar’ Brudder Lightfoot in de hall dis evenin’?” asked the President as he looked anxiously around. “Yes, sah,” answered the brother as he hobbed up with energy and dispatch. “Please otep dis way, sah. Brudder Lightfoot, 1 understands dat you has lately been callin’ yo’self purfessor?” “Yes, sah. I plays on de fiddle.” “Oh, dat’s it? You has also been wearin’ mighty high collars.” “Yes, sah.” “Got good clothes?” “Yes, sah.” “Talkin’ ’bout rentin’ a box in de pos’ offis, I h’ar ?” “Yes, sah.” “An’you is smokin’ reg’lar cigars?” “Y-yes, sah.” “Ar’ data dimun pin you has on?” “N-not. quite, sah.” “Am’ dat watch chain all gold ?” “N-not all, sah.” “Now, Brudder Lightfoot, look-a-yere. You is behind in your rent, head ober heels in debt, an’ your chill’en hain’t got shoes to go to school. I hear of you loafin’ ’bout saloons an’ standing jon de co’ners. I’m gwine to gin you : jist one week to drap dat purfessor bizness an’ hunt fur a job. If von do it, well and good. If you doan’ do it, dis club kin dispense wid your presence. A purfessor ar’all right when he purfesses, but a purfessor who saws a fiddle fur beer while his wife rubs a xvashboard fur grub am about de moas’ onery critter on airth, De meetin’am now disjourned.”— Detroit Free Press. The population of St. Petersburg ] has diminished by 85,0 DD in the last seven yearn, but that of Siberia has in- [ creased.

INDIANA HAPPENINGS. EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. An Interestim; Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weil- ! dings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News Notch The Knights Templar Conclave. The Washington Knights Templars are actively engaged just now in making every preparation for the reception and entertainment of the various visiting commanderies which are expected there to take part in the triennial conclave in October. Places have been assigned in the parade to the onnnanderies which have signified their intention to edme, and the exhibition is expected to be one of the grandest civic demonstrations ever seen in this country. There will be in all twelve divisions, and of these the j seventh will consist of the Grand Com- । mandery of Indiana; Raper, No. 1, Indi- ' anapolis; Fort Wayne, No. 4, Fort : Wayne; Knightstown, No. 9, Knightstown; South Bend, No. 13, South Bend: : Lavallette, No. 15, Eeansville; Terre I Haute. No. 16, Terre Haute; Vincennes, No. 20. Vincennes; St. John, No. 24, Logansport; Plymouth, No. 26, Plymouth; Valparaiso, No. 28, Valparaiso; Michigan City, No. 30, Michigan City; Elkhart, No. 31, Elkhart. Minor Slate Item,. —A fine flow of oil was struck at Royal Center, Cass County. —Mrs. Mary E. Terrill, of Kokomo fell dead in her door yard. —The gas well at Henryville, Clark i County, has been given upas a bad job. —The Goshen brush factory is said to be negotiating for a removal to Wabash. Benoni Swearingin, a well-known i citizen of Lafayette, was found dead in bed. - Levi King, of Michigan City, was drowned while fishing in Lake Michigan. - The corner-stone for the soldiers' monument at Indianapolis weighs fourteen tons. -John Dunbar's barn, near Greencastle,was struck by li ;htniug and entirely consumed. — John S. Moore's draft horse, “Scotland’s G lory,” was Killed by lightning at Plaintiebl. —lsaac Joseph, a prominent Vincennes merchant, dropped deal from heart disease. A new Beet, called by its followers “the Church of ( hrist,” has been organized at Terre Haute. — At Jerome. Howard County, Miss Lizzie Voss, a girl of is. received fatal internal injuries while romping with tier brot her. A youth named Garrett has procured forty-five indictments against Lafayette saloon-keepers for violation of the Sunday law. William Biugeiuan, of Logansport, escaped the fatal results of a rattlesnake's bite by swallowing a quart of , whisky. — Two boys who took refuge from rain under a tree, near Evansville, were struck by lightning and were tempor- ' arily rendered unconscious. —Fire of incendiary origin destroyed the barn of Patrick Sheedy, near Har- ] denburg, recently. Four horses and two mules perished in the flames. —Joseph Ault, a farmer living near Columbus, was pelted terribly by heavyhailstones in the storm near Columbus, and now lies in a critical condition. —The Smith bent works at Muncie, ] destroyed by’ fire last week, will be rebuilt at once. In the meantime over 250 employes are forced into idleness. —Bryan Doran, a young brakeman on the O. A 31. road, was knocked from the car at the entrace of the long tunnel ! near Fort Ritner and instantly killed. —The Attorney General has decided that Township Trustees are obliged to : introduce into their districts such school text-books as are authorized by the new . law. —John Sass, of LaPorte County, was thrown from a mowing machine in front j of the cutter-bar by a runaway team, re- , ceiving injuries from which he bled to ; death. I —Charles Walters, of Palestine, HL, was run down by’ a freight train on the ’ I. & St. L. road at Terre Haute and was ; fatally injured, both arms and legs be- ' irg cut off. —James Boden, a saloon-keeper at New’ Castle, attempted to walk the supporting rod of a natural gas arch across a street and fell twenty feet, receiving serious injuries. —One of Lafayette’s bright young men tried the parachute act the other night, using a sheet for a parachute, and leaping from the top of the house. He is laid up for repairs. —Airs. Martha A. Eersonette, of New Castle has brought suit against Dr. J. H. Welsh, of Middletown, for $25,000 damages. She claims to have been drugged and taken advantage of. —William Saber, of Richmond, was seriously, if not fatally, injured by the falling of a shed roof under which he was standing at the time. A rusty nail was driven some distance into his head. —The L., N. A. & C. watchman at the Market-street crossing, in Crawfordsville, lives on 10 cents a day, ’and has done so for years. He has dyspepsia, and takes no nourishment except sweet milk and buttermilk. —lsam Diffy, colored, of Birmingham, Ala., attempted to jump on a freight at Scotsburg and received injuries from which he died. He had sll in money and a check for a trunk on his person. He was a barber and was on his way to Chicago. —Charles Hines, lately employed in Kokomo, who has been a waif as long as he can remember, is making a strenuous effort to solve the mystery of his parentage. With that end in view ho recently went to St. Louis, the home of his earliest recollection.

—A club of the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association has been organized in Boone Township, Harrison County’. —Dr. J. S. McMurray,one of the oldest members of the Clinton County Medical Society, has been expelled for advertising. —Relatives at Brazil have received advices that Dock Hedge, who left there a short time ago, was shot and killed at Gordon, Texas. After death his body was thrown into a house and the structure fired. —Elizabeth Husband has sued for divorce from John Husband, at Jeffersonville. It is a matter of indifference to John. Whether the marriage tie is severed or not, he is doomed to be a Husband still. —Near South Bend, the other night, Jessie White, the little daughter of Mrs. D. M. White, of Chicago, walked in her sleep off a Lake Shore train. When the train backed, up she was found, unin- ! jured and still asleep. —Crawfordsville has 130 fire hydrants i for which the city’ pays $41.66 each per ' year. There are but three cities in the ; State paying less—Shelbyville, Terre I Haute, and Vincennes. New Albany pays the highest rate, SIOO per hydrant. —The Board of Health has notified the vinegar manufacturers and dealers of Indianapolis that the vinegar made and sold by them is impure and must be taken off the market. Investigation | is in progress in other cities of the i State. - The officers iu charge of the United ] States Agricultural Experiment Station I at Purdue University have issued a cir- ! cular to the officers of the county agriI cultural associations, asking them to j i arrange for the holding of farmers’ in- ' j stitutes, and giving detailed informa- ; tion upon how to conduct them. ■ . The Jones twin freak at Tipton has been classified by Prof. George Jackson Fisht r of Sing Siug, N. Y., as belonging to what is known as the “ischiopagus,” which means, joined by the seat bones. i There are but eight similar cases on rec- I i ord. One of the tw ins was very sick last ] week and it was feared fatally so. It | I has. however, recovered its usual good ' health. John Wilson, of Port Wayne, paid a ; visit to the Washington monument and i ascended the shaft. When he came ! down lie siw where the names of dis- ] tinguinhed persons had been cut, ] scratched or written on the marble, and he thought it would do no harm to add ■ his name to the collection. He scratched in the marble his mime and place of ■ residence. Just as he finished tbo-in-scription watchman Evans arrested him. He was lined $lO by Judge Miller. I he finding of a bloody hat and revolver near the Pittsburgh track, at Monroeville, has been explained. Trainmen report from Delphos, 0., that Henry ('outs, so years of age, returning from a visit to lowa, became confused and stepped off a Pittsburgh train going nt the rate of forty miles an hour. He was thrown forty feet, alighting on his head, th<‘ force of the fall breaking Ins neck. The trainmen picked up thd 1 body, which was taken to Bucyrus for : burial. — Patents have been granted Indiana inventors as follows: Eugene Bretney, Indianapolis, dust collector; Janies Chambers, Rochester, washing machine; James W. Cheney, Indianapolis, blacksmith's mandrel; Henry 11. Dille, Rich- ’ mond. pawl and ratchet mechanism; T. H, Haberkorn, Fort Wayne, valve for ' ! steam engines; Sylvester Hoadley, Gos- ' port, price calculating device; John E. Little, Princeton, gate; James B. Alersi man. Lagrange, folding washbench. —Secretary Heron, of the State Board ' ; of Agriculture, is gradually adding to his collection of relics, which are dis ■ 1 played in one of the rooms belonging ’ to the board at the State House. The L other day he received one of the oldfashioned flails, which has been super- ' seded by the modern thrashingmachine, '' It consists of nothing more than two ! hard sticks joined together with a strap, : yet it was the only machine for thrashI ing wheat thirty-five years ago. ; ; —A few days since a hog belonging to : i H. C. Drybread, a farmer living about ■ ten miles southwest of Franklin, went ’ I mad from the bitte of a dog afflicted i with rabies. The hog was at once killed, ,i as was another in the same pen. It was ; not then known that other stock on the ; place had been bitten, but in a day or • two a fine brood mare which was running in the pasture began to act ; strangely. She grew violent and in a mad frenzy ran against a tree and killed j herself. A fine stallion, also, of Peter - Heffron, near Greenwood, was bitten by a strange dog a few weeks ago. The horse became afflicted with hydrophobia • and lived only a few hours. —Hon. John W, Lovett, of Anderson, has in his possession a valuable souvenir of Lincoln’s first administration, in the shape of one of the three pieces composing a water set used by the President during that time. It is a solid silver I goblet, rather over size, very plainly engraved with the word “Lincoln” ; across the front. This piece was given i to ex-Governor Will Cumback on account of his intimate relations with the lamented President, with the understanding that it was not to go out of the i family, and by Air. Cumback given yesterday to Mr. Lovett, his son-in-law. i The relic is highly prized by the latter gentleman, and is attracting considerable attention froA friends and admirers of the great war President, -—Airs. J. H. Hartman, aged 55, went . to sleep on the Lake Shore and Alichii gen Southern track, near Alillersburg, and was struck by a train and instantly killed. She had been insane since the । death of her husband, two years ago. j —The Physicians’ Association of j Crawfordsville is still in a flourishing ; ; condition, and every member seems to | be living up to the schedule prices. The j new officers are: President, W. L. ! • Alay; Vice President, N. H. Jones; Secretary, C. E. Rankins; treasurer, B. F. Hutchins.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.! AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE LESSON CONSIDERED. Reflections of an Elevating Character— i Wholesome Rood for Thought—Studying tlie Scriptural Lessons Intelligently and Profitably. The lesson for Sunday, August 11, may be found in 1 Samuel 12: 1-15. WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. And Samuel said. The people are assembled at Gilgal where the formal corona- I tion of Saul has just taken place, A better i paragraphing, accordingly, would make this I chapter and lesson begin with the four- ■ teenth or fifteenth verse of the preceding chapter. All Israel. It was a public proclamation, a word intended for all the people, and doubtless conveyed to them till in some way Harkened unto your voice. The self-abegnation of these words is apparent. While crowning Saul lie was, in a sense, deposing himself from official leadership, Maile a king. Saul stands before them at lust the stalwart embodiment of their kingly conceptions. Walketh before you. In the sight of all. I There is an implication here of the whole- • some public scrutiny to which all delegatee. ' authority should be subject.—— -Old and gray-headed. Samuel was about seventy years old, and probably the troublous years of his leadership had told upon itim. My sons are with you. Among you, they hav- ' ing laid aside, along with him. their official 1 dignity and come down among the people, i 1 Have walked before no a. The same ! test spoken of above. Could Saul have said the same at the end 'of his career? Childhood. He was brought to the temple when but a babe. (1: 24.) WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES, A king over you. Saul is king. But he ' has not leaped at once to his throne. There were, in fact, five calls to 'io kingship be- j fore at last its responsibilities and honors I ! were his. 1. There was Samuel’s quiet ■ work at the gate of Ramah (!): 20); the call of Providence. 2. There was Samuel’s anointing oil (10:1); that was the called God’s messenger. 3. There was the spirit . of prophecy which suddenly came upon 1 j Saul as he journeyed homeward (10: 6); : that was the call of an inward monitor and a personal gift, as our fathers were wont to eall it. 4. There was the public presentation at Alizpah (10:24) that was the formal summons of the church. But Saul was not yet king in the acceptance of the people till, at Jabeash Gilead, ho proved his prowess in batile. And so (5) there camo finally the enthusiastic coronation at Gilgal (11- 15). which was the effectual and irresistible call of power. God grant all his servants such i ordination. Behold here I am. Prophet and people looking into each other's eyes. Samuel loved Israel: there is no doubt of that. It is proven alike in his remonstrances and in his concessions. It speaks all the way through his remarkable farewell address to the people. How vividly Israel, in the trou- ( blous days that came alter, would recall ■ that pious countenance, tearful it may be, ' full of affectionate solicitude for the people of God! Uould they ever meet in public j assembly without thinking of it? Yes, they : might say. we understand now his grief—he loved us. The Emoeror William I. of । Germany always had placed at the side o' his plate a little bunch of violets. They ; asked him once why he ea ed so for the little flower, and he told how. when but a lad fleeing with his mother in the perilous days of I«U6 from Berlin, they paused a little while in a wood, where, with the other children. he gathered some lovely blue violets and laid them tn his dear mother’s lap. Nudly smiling, the good Queen Louise knit the flowers into a chaplet, anil, as she >haped tlie dainty crown, her feelings overcame her ami sho wep’. Taking the violet | crown she laid it on her son’s head, saying to him tenderly and gravely, that, one day soon. God would make him king of Brusda, ami “for his sake and for Iter sake” she imp ored him to be ’ great and good and wise.” , i' .i- emperor’s own words arc too touching to omit: "When she turned away and our com h was announced as ready for us, I stole a littl • aside and took oil tho crown of flowers. I looked at it reverently. I could see shrine 1 in the heart of some of the vio- ] lets, a sparkling drop. 1 knew it was my < mother s tear. Oh ! gentlemen. I was only a little lad of ten. and eighty long years have rolled by since then, with events pi their many and great enough to crowd childish : nr-mofios out of my heart, but fresh as yes- ! teru.iv is the memory of that day, and I ' n icer seo a violet, the ‘Kaiser blume’ as you I call them, but I see shrined in its heart my j mother’s tear, /nd that is why I love ] thorn," Sow therefore stand still. There is a I tone of authority in the word. Saul is king by full and formal ordination, but I Samuel standing there, in his conscious : integrity and in his God-given powen, is a greater man than the stalwart f aul. And lor what he is, truly and inherently, the people hear him. Real wo th needs no : insignia of office. General Grant came to : Washington fresh.from his great victories ! in tho West. From some cause or other, they tell us. his baggage was delayed, and so he chance i to enter the city in the travel-worn, powder-marked garments of the battlefield. But no one looked at them, i few, perhaps, thought, of them. Chief Ma - istrate and legislators hastened to do him honor. Why? Because of that record of victories behind him, because of what ho was in himself. Samuel speaks and the i people attend. He is most kingly who has ! wrought in kingly fashion. i And ye dwelt safe. And yet he has just ' been speaking o wars and oppressions, i That was because Israel turned aside into ways o: temptation and Hazard. His only 1 safety was in abiding close to the Lord. “Ho that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” Only thus can he “cover '.hem with his feathers." And. after all, was there not a sense of security in tho i verv steaßadness of God’s judgments, i When his laws woe obeyed, safety; if disol eved. danger, perhaps destruction. Ho I was'a God of truth,K God to be heard and trusted. There is a lesson lor us in dayso. calamity. “Would you,” says Rev. Warren Hathaway, in his recent, volume on Living i Questions, “suspend the law of gravitation, that secures the beauty and stability of the universe, because if you blunder and stumble you arc liable to be thrown down? » * If the bridge is washed away and the limited express attempts to cross, it will plunge into the swollen liver. If. Mark that little word of condition. God’s promises arc yea and amen, but weak, vacillating humanity introduces the element of uncertainty into life and it records । itself in li e’s vocabulary. “If ye will fear" । —“well," “if ye will not obey’’—ill. We know ] the reason why. God can only bless those I who will receive his blessing. Ours is the sea ful prerogative of accepting or rejecting the divine mercy. There is no doubt of God's willingm ss to help. There is no doubt of God’s readiness to help. There is no doubt of God’s ability to help. There is doubt of man’s willingness and readiness to be helped. Yes, and just on that account there is doubt of his power. But put two passages together, two from John’s profound ijjid precious gospel: "As many as received him to them gave he power to become tho sons of God, even to them that believed on his name.” That and this: “If a man love me he will keep my words; and my Father will I love him, and we will come unto him and I make our abode with him.” Next Lesson — "Saul Rejected by the I Lord.” 1 Samuel 15: 10-23. It is said that the Shah of Persia has learned to use a knife and fork since his I last visit to England, but he still per- । sists iu using his napkin as a handker- ; chief. । It is not putting things in the right I place that bothers . servant girl so j much as finding the right place after I she has put things in it. It is claimed that the tomb of Jonah has been discovered, but many do not , swallow the tale.

NUMBER 7.

IN CENTRAL AMERICA. news „ PARI w OUR CONTINENT. Preparations m N icai . aß „ a for Wax .^ ol ^ 1 ut.o Read, ness for a Confiict-Ravages of Yellow lever-New Line of Ereneh hteamers-RaUway Closed by Snow. New A ork Aug. 2.—Central and South American mail advices up to July IS are received as follows: ■ Warlike preparations । continue m Nicaragua. Three hundred | men have been sent to Fort Castillo to , incieaso the force at that important point on the ( osta Rican frontier. The fort at San Carlos has also been heavily garris°nnn' A lC mm RUa bas alrea,l y between 3,000 and .>,OOO men massed at the different strategic points on the Costa Rica • nontier. Hope is openly expressed that prompt intervention by the United States may avert an actual collision and secure a peaceable settlement of the questions at , issue. j A conference was recently held between Henry Hall, representing the Nicaragua Coal company, and the national authorities, but they came to no satisfactory conclusion. The government, however, is moie than ever determined, as long as the Menocal Zeledon or Costa Rica contract, which is so obnoxious to the Nicaraguan interests, stares them in the face. The work on the canal will not be allowed to proceed. AH attempts to induce the Costa Rica government to accept the moditication of the Menoeal Zeledon contract, so i that work may go on under amalgamation | with the Afenocal Cardenas or Nicaragua contract, have thus far proved fruitless. Serious trouble is looked for. | . More than half the population of Belijoke, X enezuela, has been swept away by yellow fever. Ihe survivors, who are cut off from outside communication, are reported to be in a starving condition. । The ( Lili government has made appropriations for the purchase of suitable residences for the Chilian government’s legation in M ashington and other cities. I ihe Frence Pacific Navigation company has contracted with a Clyde firm for ten new steamers for the Havie and Valparaiso line. i The recent closing cf the Trans-Cordillera railway by snow bas caused much loss. THE RAILWAY TROUBLES. The Rock Island's Position, as Defined by General Manager St John. [Chicago special.] General Manager St. John of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Road authorizes the following statement in reply to assertions recently made by Vice President J. C. McMullin of the Chicago and Alton in a published interview: Mr. McMullin, in a recently published interview, hag clearly defined the present position ind policy of tlie Alton Road. Itis to “insiston through rates being made on a basis that will live to it a fair share of the traffic which goes to and comes from points west of Kansas City.” He illustrates his meaning by citing a shipment of live stock from Tojieka on the Rock Island Hoad through Kansas City to Chicago. Upon such a shipment the tariffs of all the lines as heretofore adjusted provided for a through rate somewhat less than the sum of the two locals. Tiiis practice was in accordance with well-reco mixed principles of rate-making as universally practiced by carriers, and has been approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which, in a recent case, used the following language: “As through rates were ma le by th J American system of reals, agreed percentages of the total rate, considerably less in amount than the local rates of roads receiving such percentages, are usually a, leading feature, and it is eminently proper as a general rule that this should be so. ' * * * Commerce and trade require it and competition compels it. Such rates, when ' reasonably mid fairly adjusted to local busij ness, are greatly favored in the law, because I hey furnish cheapened rates and greater facilities to the public, while at the same time they give increased employment and earnings to a 1 larger number of carriers. ’ In the rates as adjusted heretofore r.pon livestock traffic from points in Kansas, Indian leri ritorv. Texas, etc., through Kansas (tty to • I Chicago, tho difference between the sums of the- [ locals and the through rates was an entirely i reasonable difference, and the tariffs m ques- • lion were precisely upon the line of the resolulion which Mr. McMullin quotes approvingly.. - Not withslmidingthis. he says that he proposes to get what he calls a “fair share of the tratnc l bv reducing the local rate from Kansas Cuy to 3 Chicago to the amount of the proportionate • rate between these points charged by the Kock ■ Island on the through shipment. , This stat°ment is certainly candid. His line , has no extension west of Kansas City. Jhe hock 1 Island Ims. He proposes to make the latter di--3 vide with him traffic which originates upon the > extension that it has furnished means to coni struct; and this he will do by reducing the e.- > Published rate from Kansas City toLhica„c. , This declaration follows Ins i the commencement of the sama imeiv , < , ‘the Alton does not cut any ^tos; w i ’”‘s raf luces when necessary to meet cut lates. of roads ” Yet the Alton has just forced a lai^e ' reduction in all rates on live stock and pro<iucts ■ from Kansas City to Chicago in accordance w .th 1 the policy above stated. ah-™, w»_ f Naturally and inevitably when i luces its rate from Kansas City to the > of tho through rate charged upon the lines where , the live stock shipments originate.those mes must meet the reduction in th ® lai a ‘gg! same time reduce their thro ?g H j I)reser _ nnn.Hwdv This is necessary for their pieser ■ ! :he lines are doing business a loss and some body surrenders. desire to punish the Tho association has no desire i i ■ Alton for its withdrawal “^ion ' Action necessary for the proiecuu +„i, en I igainst the Alton’s raid will probably be taken, however. -— J TO POPULATE ALASKA,. ’ A Plan to Remove the Icelanders to the Yukon River. * Washington, Aug. 2.—Among persons 1 of a scientific turn of mind a certain project of international importance bas been ' quietly discussed. It is nothing more nor ■ less than the transplanting of the entire । population of Iceland, 70,000 souls to the most habitable part of Alaska. Many of r them, it is said, are willing to move away ’ to a more genial climate or at least to a , more fruitful territory. Their idea i. not f to go to a region wholly differen , alf the conditions of life : but to a land nearly in the latitude of Ice- ' land. The proposition is one of vast importance, ns it involves the removal o I an J entire people, and that an old, len , and cultivated people. It has strong influence in high quarters. Senator , Platt of Connecticut, it is said, has agree ■ to defray the expenses of an I ce * al T minister in making the arian ß - 1 Tho valuable wooded and fertile region the ureat Yukon river is suggested as the new habitat of the Icelanders iffthe c° ns ^“ , of the Parliament of Iceland and of the Danish government can be obtained. 1 | In experiments continued for four years, M. F. Larroque has found that, after eight or nine months copper I wires under the action of electric cur- , rents show signs of deterioration. ■ By mixing chloride of zinc with the pulp, European manufacturers are producing paper as tough as wood or leather. The motto. “Live and let live,” is very good in its way, but.it does not d" for the battlefield.