Terre Haute Daily News, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 May 1891 — Page 7

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Silent ilspmi gather faft— Where the h*ppfe«t of nMoemlmuios Flays the m^tto of th* nit, And the utftNn soMy rising

Wake* tbe gfaoct 61 lcng-tbed tear* With the trembling chant reeponding Prom the choir of by-gfeoe yean.

And the burit of reootyection* Toning from tho tuu$ of time Is translated Into music

And the cadence of the rhyme From old memories awakened, 'Hid the shadows of the post, Loving finger* gently feeling,

Find the melodies at last.

Faintly flow the fading ecboes From the laogbs of long ago, And the old familiar made

From the days we used to know. Tenderly old joys and sorrows Into symphonies are wrought, With rt'Riebr&nee softly playing

On the trembling chorda of thought. Swelling, irfnklng, softly fading, Barging, tender in refrain, And tie musio, growing fainter,

Enter* silexfce once again. Aye—our human hearts responding To tho music—keeping time— Find their throbbing* oft translated

In the cadence of the rhyme.

BURIED ALIVE.

The guests filed slowly into the great dinlog-ball of the hotel and sat down at their places.

That evening, then, every even intr. we awaited the entrance of unfamiliar face.**.

Tli ere eatne only two, but very strange one*, those of a man and woman—father and daughter. They reminded me at once of some of Edgar IWb characters and yet there was an attraction about them, an unpleasant ». ttmction I »et them down as the victims of some fatality. The gentlemami wfw very tall and spare, slightly bent, with hair quite white, too white for his still young countenance there wa* in his carriage and about his person the serious air of austerity that bespeaks the l'uritan. The daughter was, perhaps, about twenty-four or twenty-flve years of age. She was small and emaciated, and her exceedingly pale face wore a languid, spiritless expression. This girl wm pretty, with the transparent beauty of an apparition she ate with extreme slowness. as if she were almost incapable of moving her arms.

It was rfhe undoubtedly who came for tho benefit of the waters. They happened to be opposite me, on the other

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diately noticed that the father hud a very singular nervous affliction. Whenever ho was about to reach for anything, his hand, with a quick jerk, described a sort of a fluttering zigzag before he tva* able to touch what he was after. If a few moments this motion annoyed me so much that I turned away my head in order not to see him

I alrto observed that the young girl kept a glove on her loft hand while she ate.

After dinner, I wont out to take a turn in the park belonging to the wator-eure establishment. It. extended to tho little statiou of Auvergno, hid den Sn a gorge at the foot of a high mountain, from which run so many efntufd, Itut. frotit tttu ilwip furnaces of old volcanoos.

It was very warm that evening. 1 was walking back and forth in the shady path, listening to the musio pourlug forth from the casino on a mound that overlooked tho park.

I poreeived the father and daughter coming toward me with slow steps. I saluted thorn. as. in watering-places, one salutes his hotel companions^ tho gentleman, stopping Immediately, inquired of mo:

Tardon me, sir, may I ask if you can direct mo to a short walk, easy and pretty, if possible?" 1 offered to conduct them myself to the valley through which tho slendei river flows—a deep, narrow gorge bow eon two groat declivities, rocky and wooded. They accepted.

And naturally enough, we spoke of tho virtue of tho mineral waters. "Ah, yes.*' said he,

t*my

daughter

has a strange malady, the seat of which her physicians are unable to determine. She suffers from incomprehensible nervous symptoms. Sometimes they think her afflicted with heart disease, sometimes with liver complaint, and sometimes with spinal difficulty. At pres'ent they attribute to the stomach* which is the great motor and prime regulator of the body, this Proteus-like malady of a thousand forms, a thousand modes of attack. That is why we are here. I am myself rather of the opinion that it is her nerves. In any ease, it is very sad/'

That reminded mo immediately of the violent jerking of his hand, and I asked "But is that not hereditary? are not your own nerves a Utile affected?*1

Tranquilly he answered: "Mine? Oh. no I have always possessed very eiflm nervee."

Then suddenly, after a pause, he remarked: -Ah, yeel You refer to tho action of my hand whenever I reach for an object that Is the result of terrible shock once had. Imagine* si*, this child has been hurried alive!"

I could find nothing to say, except "AhP with emotion and surprise lie went ©a: "Here Is the story. It is simple. Juliette had for some time seemed subject to disordered aotion of the heart. We wens sure she suffered from some disease ot this organ and expected the worst "Oiae day she was brought la lifeless—dead. She had fallen dead while walking In the garden. The physician issued a certificate of death. I watched beside her for a day and two nights. I myself placed her in the coffin, which I followed to the cemetery, where she was laid in the family vaultIt was in the country, in Lorraine.

I had wished thai she should K» buried with her jewels, bracelets, necklaces, rings, ail the prwsenta that I had given her, and her tnrt ball drees.

Tou osa Imagine the state of heart on returning home. She wa 1 had. my wife having been deadlier many years. Stunned and half mad. I shut myself alone in my room and fell into an arm-chair, almost senseless, unable to move. I was merely wretched, braathlxur wvwak.

"My old valet. Prosper, who had helped me plaej Juliette to her oofBa aad lay her away for her last rest, entered noiselessly and said:

Monsieur, will you not ea£ sometiling?' I shook my head, without speaking. "He persisted:

Monsieur is wrong. This will make him ill. WouM monsieur like me to put him to bed?" "I answered: 'No let me alone.1 '•And he withdrew. ••How many hours may have parsed. I know not Oh! what a night! What a jiight! It was eold my fire had burn eel out in the great fire-place and the wind, a wintry gale, charged with icy frost, was howling without and rapping at my windows with a peculiarly sinister sound. "Long hours rolled away. I sal there, wide-awake, prostrated and overwhelmed my eyes were open, but my body was nerveless, dead, and my soul was engulfed in despair. Sud denly the great hall-bell rang out ••I gave such a start that my chair creaked under me. The slow, solemn sound vibrated in the empty house. I looked to see the hour byjthe clock.

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Who—who—who are you?' A voice answered: 'It is I, father. It was my daughter. Really. I thought myself mad and I shrank away, retreating backward before the spectre as It entered, gesticulating with my hand, as If to ward off the apparition. That gesture has never left me. "The phantom spoke again

Have no fear, papa I waa not dead. Some one- has stolen my rings, and has cut off my finger the blood began to flow, and that has revived me.'

And I observed, then, that she was covered with blood. I fell to my knees, gasping, sobbing hysterically. "As soon as I had partly recovered my senses, so dazed still that I hardly comprehended the terrible happiness that had come to me, I made her go up to my room and placed her in my arm-chair then I rang sharply for Prosper, that he might rekinalo the fire, prepare a warm drink for her, and summon a physician. •The man entered, gazed at my daughter, opened his mouth with a spasm of fright and horror, then fell on his back, stark dead,

It was he who had opened the vault, who had mutilated and then abandoned my child, for he could not offace the traces of his robbery he had not even taken pains to place the coffin back in its case, certain, moreover, of not being suspected by mo, who trust«vi him fully

You see, monsieur, that we are very unfortunate people He was silent

NIght had come on, shrouding with Its gloom the sad and solitary little vale, and a kind of mysterious dread seized me at finding myself alone with these uncanny beings—this corpse come tp life and this father with his appalling gestures.

I could find nothing to say, but stammered: "What a horrible thing-!"

Then, after a while, I added: "Lot us return! The night has grown chill."

And wo walked back toward

hotel.—Translated from the French.

"Welt r*» blow«d.w

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was two In the morning. Who could be coming at such an hour? "And, abruptly, the bell rang twice again. The servants, certainly, would not dare answer it. 1 took a candle and descended. I was about to demand

Who is there?' Then ashamed of this weakness, 1 slowly drew back the heavy bolts. My heart throbbed I was afraid. I opened the door brusquely, and descried in the gloom a shape like a phantom, dressed in white. "I recoiled, impotent with anguish, and stammered:

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for the Argonaut

The Smartest of Parrots. A wonderfully clever parrot talks every pleasant afternoon to large audiences beforo a little bookstore in New York. The Sun says: At o'clock it Invariably terminates its matinee, crawls down to the bottom of the cage, and sticks one foot through tho wires so as to shako hands with every departing auditor and say

How

are you?'' At 5 o'clock it begins shouting "Extry Sun! extry Sun!" and keeps this up tilt tho proprietor of the store takes It in. The bird whistles several melodies, repeats sentences of ten and twelve words, and h&ls every passing school girl with "Ah. thereP' and every loitering messenger boy with Get along there!"

Viae rover* Uae Books. One of the most expensive books brought out this year has failed to sell because it had a dull colored cover. It was very richly Illustrated and elegantly printed, and as a further effort to make it unique the idea of binding it in leather was adopted. That killed It. The booksellers offered it to their lady Customers' but the ledies listened to nothing that was said for It They brushed it aside with the remark, "It's not pretty,*' or "It will not match anything In the house.M Vastly inferier books with a splash of red on the cover or with gold or silver chasing on the binding were sold a* fast as they could be printed,—New York Sun.

BULGARIA

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STAMBOULOFF,THE "BISMARCK OF THE BALKANS."

Mbm Ml* Seventeenth Year He Btf Been (be Here or Plots aa«t Cout* (erplola, Dtrlus Adventore* mud

Halr-Breadtb Escapee.

The bullet of the midnight as&tssin that missed its billet the person of Prince Minister Stambouloff in Sofia came very near igniting xhe powder mine of southeastern Europe, and precipitating that war which, in the drastic language of Prince Bismarck, will satgner a blanc tbe nations that it involves, writes Stephen Bonsai in Harpers* Weekly.

Stefan Nicolof Stambouloff, who since 1884 has shaped, more than any other man, the destinies of the turbulent Balkan peninsula, claims to be a fatalist. In his heart he must confess that he lias been greatly favored by the Fateful Three. Siuee his seventeenth year when he ran away from a theological seminary in Odessa, where he was being educated for the priesthood, be has been the hero of plots and of counterplots, of daring adventures and of hair-breadth escapes, until now, as he looks about him, scarcely entering upon his &Sth year, there does not remain a single comrade of the patriot band who, with Luban Karaveloff to lead, and with M. Katkoff and the Moscow Pansiavists to supply the sinews of revolutionary warfare, commeuced, in 1870, the crusade against the Crescent, which led to the atrocities committed by the Poraak highlanders, the Russo-Turkish

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cipation of Christian Bulgaria from the mastery of the Ottoman Turk. Some of Stambouloff's comrades died as Bulgarian volunteers in the war. Some, sad to relate, have been sent into exile with the sign-manual of their quondam friend and comrade, Stam bouloff, upon the warrant of their banishment. Some have been broken in heart and spirit by the bastinado—such as Petko Kara va I off—administered by StamboulotTs order som6 by long im-

risonment in the Black Mosque, like Stanchoif. Others have been shot for treason, as Kosta Panitza, though in his breast there lodged already a score of bullets won in fighting for the father-land.

Of all the band Stambouloff alone survives, with a smile upon his face that would seem to indicate a quiet conscience, an ambition that is wellnigh satisfied, and a magnificent confidence in his star which cannot fail to impress. He has a constitution of iron, and considerable physical strength, the happy heritage of the years of hardship ana exposure he spent with the shepherds in the bleak fastnesses of tne Balkans after every unsuccessful revolution, with the Turkish zaptiehs on his heels, and with but a sheepskin between him and the weather—his clothing by day, and his couch by night.

I spent a week in daily intercourse with the Bulgarian Premier in the lit-

STEFAN STAMBOULOFF.

tie towa of Sistova on the Lower Danube. A battalion at least of infantry camped upon the lawn, and watched vigilantly over his sufety by day and by night, On the table of his study were quite as many pistols as pens, and close to his hand hung a repeating rifle —amusing indices of the rudimentary stage of political life in the principality.

Oue hesitates to pen the portrait of the man whose sonorous name means so much in Europe, which sounds so meaningless in America. He is below the middle stature of man, and the general impression of his shortness is heightened by his depth of chest and breadth of which are both

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even for this country of

eavy and coarsely built men. His eye is black and very brilliant, and illuminates his whole face. He is without education, his three years in a theological seminary being his only schooling but after five minutes' conversation you are impressed with the Origiual bent of his mind, and his clear, fresh way of viewing men and things. He has back-bofte and mother-wit and easily disposes in debute of his antagonists, graduates of German gymnasia and French lycees though they* be.

He admits, with brutal frankness, that he is ruling the country against the will of a somewhat lethargic majority, aided by an active but a very •mall minority. He admits that every Article of the Constitution has become a dead letter under his regime, and that he only maintains his seat in the saddle by suppressing the liberty of the press, proclaiming the right of public meeting, and "juggling*' with the ballot-box in the "American style," as he remarks, with bland efFrontry. But on the other hand, he claims that the Constitution of the country was bestowed upon the Bulgarians by theCxar for the express purpose of sowing discord and political unrest in the country, until finally, like a ripe apple, the principality would fall into the lap of Mother Rnssin and become incorporated into the empire ofJtha Muscovite as a crown land. He knows that his government is a despotism in comparison with which Russia can claim to be liberal monarchy. He seems perfectly willing to throw Prince Ferdinand over should his own interests in the political game demand it. Such.a thing as personal loyalty or chivalrous consideration is wholly foreign to hi* nature. In the meantime be notices, with evident satisfaction, that Prince Ferdinand is lavishing his fortune upon the country ©f his adoption.

If the Bulgarian premier can coajnm the storm, when Russia, strong in her new French ally, is anxious to descend on the Slavic lands for which she iaaa once generously lavished her blood and treasure, he will deserve the sobriquet «f the "Bismarck

of tiae Balkans,'

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THE DEADLY BACTERIA.

Mlaate Orfmalsmt Tt»*t Caaa* Certain IMseases te the Hunan System. It has been learned within the plat few yeans that several of the most serious diseases known to man are caused by particular species of bacteria,, says T. Mitchell Prudden in Harper's. Some diseases are called infectious* Among those forms which thus originalear® tuberculosis, Asiatic cholera, erysipelas, and some forms of bloodpoisoning, tetanus or lockjaw, and some forms of pneumonia, typhoid fever, and diphtheria. We know the germs which are concerned in the causation of these diseases, and can grow them in tubes in the laboratory, and work mt their life history, f,

Malaria, it has been pretty well established, is due to a minute organism which belongs not among the plants, but low down in the animal series, in the class known as protozoa, and it may be that some or all of the last group above-mentioned may be caused by similar organisms, which, as yet, we can not cultivate in the laboratory or even bring within our vision with the microscope.

Comsumption. or tuberculosis, is largely spread by the specific bacteria in the sputum thrown off by affected persons, which is allowed to dry and become disseminated In the floating dust Typhoid fever is communicated by the gtSrms discharged' from the bodies of those ill of this disease, which, in one way or another, but largely in polluted water and food, get into the digestive tract of well persons. Diphtheria may be communicated in like manner by the germs in the membranes or fluids from the mouth of the stricken ones, and may linger long, wholly dry, In garments and household furniture and rooms.

The bacterium causing tetanus, or lockjaw, is not often conveyed from one person to another, but is exceptional in having its usual lurking-place in the soil of certain regions.

Now, how do these particular species of germs cause these special forms of disease? We have already seen that one of the marked life features of bacteria is that when they assimilate nourishment and grow they set free various forms of chemical substances. When putrefaction occurs in a bit of meat, for example, certain bad-smelling gases, as well as a host of other substances, set free by the bacteria which are feeding on the meat This causes its putrefaction. Each species acts in its own peculiar fashiou in the acquirement of its food and sets free its own peculiar chemical substances.

Now, the same thing happens when bacteria, in one way or another, get into the bodies of men or animals and grow there. But in the large proportion of cases the bacteria which we take into our bodies in vast numbers with tho greatest varieties of uncooked foods and with water and milk, produce, if they grow at all, chemical substanoes which do no manner of harm. It is indeed npt at ail improbable that some bacteria which are constantly present in the digestive canal form,' under ordinary circumstances, materials which aid in the process of digestion.

It has, however, come about in the lflDse of aaraa that a very few, an innnitely small p« uporxxon, ui an tne bacteria which are about us produce chemical substances in the body, which, in one way or another, act as violent poisons. These substances, produced by bacteria, are called ptomaines, and here, at last, our plummet seems to be striking bottom. It is the ptomaines, or peculiar vegetable poisons produced by these germs, which usually do the damage Sometimes these ptomaines are produoed in some special part of the body where the bacteria grow, and gaining access to body fluids, are carried all over the organism, inducing in the most vulnerable parts those changes which are characteristic of the disease and which give rise to what we call its symptoms. This seems to be the case in diphtheria and typhoid fever, in which the bacteria are confined, in the former usually to the mouth, and throat, and air passages, and in the latter to the intestinal canal. But the soluble ptomaines are carried^ everywhere, working kavoc.

a Oreen Hemorhage*

He was walking along the sidewalk, and at a point where a scaffolding was obstructing the way he stopped and looked intently down on the pavement A painter had evidently let fall a bucket of green paigt and it was splashed and scattered about most lavishly. As he looked at it another man came along, and be, seeing the first looking so intently, began a close Inspection for himself. In a city and a crowded thoroughfare it does not take long to collect a crowd. In a very few moments there was a complete circle around the paint spatters, and ftfil they kept on-doming. The outside ones began to crowd and push to get inside and see what title trouble waa. No one had spoken until at last ft man on the very outside, standing on tiptoe and craning his neck to get as good a view as possible, asked: 'What's the matter in there? Any one hurt?" "Oh. no said the first man whe had stepped: gtiess^not only an Irishman has had a hemorrhage.11

9I*rcl*x« mm*. Kajiptoe**.' On the ground of sociability alone, most men should marry, though it is hard to lay down any general rules on that subject. I should say emphatLoaily, however, that a man should marry a woman who would be to him ft real helpmeet a companion in fact as in name. The tendencies of our social life are all against the education of the young women to be the wives they ought to be, and there are few young men who have the proper conception of the responsibilities and duties of a husband.—P. T. Bertram.

In 1!egrap%r.

"Character revea|«d in a face* la a taoiiiar enough phraa* bat -ftwe ra,vealed in tele, iphy~ mo does not often hear ot

telegraph operator

who works the New York end of between that city and Philadelphia waa charting ?,v writer Hie other day, aays a reporter. Ths machine commenced lick. Sc4d*n1*

"stmt-

ne asjcea tne writer whether he knew Mr. Rapid, the operator at the Philadelphia and of the line. Receiving an answer in the afSrmative, he went an to say that he had been telegraphing to him every day for years. "Now," he continued, "I have never seen him, nor have I seen his picture yet I have got such a good idea of his character from our daily telegraphic intercourse that I feel as if I knew exactly what he looked like..1' Strange to say, he gave a full description of the man. his stature and his countenance, which exactly tallied with that of the one he waa attempting to portray,

WOULDN'T HAVE THOUGHT IT.

Of all the southern states it Is said that Kentucky efone has mad© no provision foe bar ex-ooniideratee.

Iceland, letters from that Island state, had a phenomenal winter with never a Sake of snow or an hour of frost.

Gen- Butler lives on a scale that most millionaires would regard as extravagant, keeping: up establishments in Washington, Boston and Lowell.

In the crystal palace, London, there is a h&ppy family of twenty in one cage. It includes lions, bears, tigers, panthers, ponies, goats and boar hounds.

It is said that all along the coast of the African possessions of Germany gibbets are erected, and it is a common sight to see an Arab strung up, as a warning to others.

Charts* Tappan, who built the famous New York Tombs prison, is still living in that city, at the age of ninety-five. He has seen the metropolis grow from town of less than 100,000 inhabitants.

Of nearly 1,500,000 citizens who registered as voters for the election of last year in New York state only a few more than 1,000,000 cast their ballots. This falling off from the registration by nearly onethird is a striking fact hard to explain.

Under recent pension laws marriages contracted since last June do not entitle the widow thereof to draw a pension. A large part of the pension payments is that going to the young widows of old soldiers who married shortly before their deaths.

It is said that Senator Edmunds declined a seat on the supreme court bench at least thrice. Two of these incidents are generally known. On the other occasion, the gossips say, Mr. Justice Hunt, whom Mr. Edmunds was to succeed, changed his mind about resigning.

At the famous charge of the light brigade at Balaklava, immortalized by Tennyson, Lord Cardigan took 673 men into action, and lost in killed and wounded 247 men, or 86 and a fraction per ceut but in one engagement in our civil war, Hawkins' Zouaves, Ninth New York, lost 67 per cent, or nearly double that of the light brigade.

INDUSTRIAL AND STATISTICAL.

Natural gas has been discovered in the Argentine Republic, and proves to bo equal to that of the United States.

Nearly four million packages of seed were distributed by the agricultural department among members of congress last year.

A Connecticut man has gone into the business of propagating sewer rats. He sells their skins to "kid" glove manufacturers.

Spain's floating debt now amounts to 808,000,000 pesetas ($60,000,000) and 171,000,000 have been expended in building war vessels.

Boots with stoiio soles, which are said to be very flexiblo and almost indestructible, are the idea of a German inventor. A thin leather sole is used, a paste of quartz wiu vr tiwr-jnwi" yw-^cicttgujia wAmm it. '"7

The new census shows that Philadelphia Is the greatost manufacturing city in this country, exceeding New York. The value of Philadelphia's animal manufacture is $700,000,000, and New York's $850,000,000.

A Ukiah (Cal.) man, tho owner of a three-story hop house, recently concoived the idea of turning the building into a mammoth incubator for the hatching ol chickens. He has given evidence of his faith in the practicability of the schemes by setting a hatch of :H,000 eggs.

The yield per acre of grapes is just about the same in New York as in California, 1.75 tons to 1.77, but New York grapos yield about 160 gallons of wine to the ton and those of California about 60. California sells 286,000 tons to wineries and nearly 89,000 tons for table use and produces 14,626,000 gallons of wine while New York produces over 2,500,000 gallons.

PRISMATIC PARAGRAPHS.

It is now claimed that the Garden of Eden was situated on a little island in the Indian ocean.

Anew color in sash ribbon is called lobster red. It is very violent, and will "add to the warmth of the summer."

Fistache green is anew color in Paris, and is introduced in both gowns and bonnets. It is said to be particularly becoming to blondes.

Even tho books are afteotod by ths "white and gold" craze, and there are editions de luxe gotten np in that purely ornamental style.

A now species of pottery has been invented at the Sevres manufactory. This new pottery will withstand the effect of rai* and frost It will be in request foi the decoration of-parks and gardens.

A Paris correspondent writes of tht "strawberry bath," anew Parisian erase. The juke of the fruit carefully bottled, "is poured over the form divine and thea removed with heated clothes, damp with strong violet water." This bath is sup posed to Iron out the wrinkles and rejuve nate the skin.

The London flower market in Covem garden Is noted for beauty and interest among the sights of London. It it held in a great armory like building of iron and giaaa, and thither go the retail dealers to select from the tons upon tons of blossom* brought there fey the great grmlehets and wholesalers.

APHORISMS.

lite noblest mind tb© beat contentment has.—Spenser. Man of character are the conscience ot ths society to which they belong.—Emer eon.

Dm certain way to be cheated i* to fancy one's self more panning then others.— Gharien.

If the power to do haul work Is net a talent, ft is tbe best poarihie sahrtftnte for fe—Jatttet A. GarfishL

People generally are what they ore made by edaeattos and company between the ages of IS and 29.—C&eeterfMdL

Ho abilities, kww splendid, can com mandsneeea* itho« fatenee labor and: frecser wring aypitcation. —A- T. fttewart.

Half imt tomfe/ad}'—- *t oar ne&ghbort are bot oar wi*fce». r-m are aahaxaed t» ntter in a*? ^ber form. »~3L IL Laadea.

Whether a bo^Js front etxmtry or d*y, .rich or poor, or strong, talented ot will and erotic an* vsr---1 win. WJdbss

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