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(Jr LOLA PULASKI; The Victim of Circumstantial Evidence. A Story of Nihilistic Settings and Crimes. BY LEON EDWARD3. ' CHAPTER XVn. , T?E WOUNDED M.VN*. So prominent was General PauT as a soldier, a noble of the empire, and an i attache of the Czar, that his attempted assassination spread the greatest alarm ? and consternation through the capital. "They will not hesitate to strike at the Emperor next," was the exclama^ tion with which the higher classes greeted each other, when they stopped i to discuss the news. . When the Czar heard that Lola Pulaski was General Paul's assailant t he could not credit it. Either the report was false, or else Count Lin wold's story of the General's attachment for the girl was. Even General Paul himsulf had de' clared to the Czar that he loved this girl, and it was only reasonable to be lieve that she knew of thia love and (returned it. The pistol had been placed directly against General Paul's heart, and fired. That it would have killed him instantly there cannot be the slightest t doubt. 1 ut the force of the ballet was checked by a portrait, in a case, of the 1? 9 WOnipn AVUO WU3 ?>U^p*-'OCi.i i? | the pistol. | \ The fact soon became known, and it 3J|^;foimed a subject for general com unent. ^ As it was, the bullet struck through (the breast, and lodged in the muscles, ijpst above the heart. The shock would have killed most i jmen, but the General was young and strong, and alter the bullet was ex: 'tracteii, lie regained consciousness, and "began to rally. He had a vivid recollection of everything that happened, up to the moment the shot was fired, but from that time on, till the bullet was removed ifrom his breast, all was a blank. Whether prudently or not, he was told that Lola Pulaski was his assailant. It was understood by the General's attendants that the Czar ordered that this be done. The General insisted with all the emphasis he waB capable of, that it was a man who fired the shot. He did not attempt to explain why he was found in front 01 Lola's house, and that she was arrested in the act of bendiDg over him within a minute after the shot was fired. "It is my wish," he said to the phycl/v?<inc omnnof xrlinm T)r_ Mlllfk. "that the Countess be brought here at t -once." "My daughter, Elvira, your betrothed!" exclaimed Count Linwold, who happened to be standing near the vounded man. "No, sir," replied the General. "I i want to s^e the Counte3S Pulaski." "The Countess Pulaski!" cried Connt Linwold, and the physicians looked 1 wfrom one to th? other, as if to indicate ?1Ihat their patient was raving, and 1 echoed: "The Countess Pulaski!" "Aye, gentlemen," said the young ^ ^oldier, "that is as jcnuelt h&r-title as_ f -CzaT is-tkat-of -Alexander the Second, 1 -jour most gracious sovereign, B"t, aa jthe name seems to shock, jou into' -doubting jnj sanity, I'll be plainer, if you desire it." "We do desire it," said Count Lin& wold. H "Count Linwold I" aT "Yes, General." ff "Pray, by what right do you adopt W +.hr? vnvfll wp ? Snertlc for vonrsfll f. sir I. and do not ape your master by intimating that you are more than one . man. i'ou have angered me enough, , sir " "I am sorry for it, General; pray - calm, yourself." '"These men say I may not live; it is my wish to see Lola Pulaski, Countess -of Warsaw, before I die. I should also like to see her old father, the ; noblest and most deeply wronged man in the empire; but I suppose that I, too, will be charged with treason if I1 . ask for too much." "I shall see that Miss Pulaski is brought here at once," said Count Lin" wold, leaving the wounded man's .room, with wonderful courtesy of manner and malignant bitterness of heart. That Lola might be conducted with safety, the Count went in his own sleigh for her. I He was Count in rank, but in cuni ning he wai a very prince of shrewdness and foxy craftiness. He was determined to find out Lola's ^^eelings for the General. He knew the General's feelings for f her only too well. f He was unfortunate in the way he approached Lola in the cell, and as we ' have seen he stung her into madness. He* determined to be more politic ; when they got into the sleigh, for at once, with well-feigned sorrow, he be* gan to deplore the misfortunes that " had come to the poor girl. "I am indifferent to your sympathy or your hate," she said, with spirit. "But if you are capable of feeling the i pity you profess, go to your master, 1 ? r* a 1- iL.i i.1 V tne czar, ana leu mm mai my laiutr, now -within the walls of the Neva K prison, is an innocent man. Even if he were capable of thinking treason, the age and infirmities brought on by 5 years of cruel tortures in the mines ol Siberia would incapacitate him from V raising his hand against the Czar." "Miss Pulaski, I want to help you, and I will promise to see that you and I your father are freed on one condition," K.' said the Count, with a manner that H< allowed he did not believe what she had just said. HWI "What is the one condition?" she Igflasked. "That you and your father leave the HBemp're and never return to it." "How long will you give me to think ^Hof that ct;n lition ?" Kb "Twenty-four hours, and I will fur Hcher see that you are provided with jW^noney to pay all your expenses and esV tablish you in a new home." flf "Money!" she repeated, bitterly. fl^UyLet the Czar restore the estates of B|^Kich my father was plundered and KHAb shall have money to help the poor; only in this way can we accept it from the Czar." |By this time the flying sleigh drew H up before General Paul's private hotel, BBsod a line of soldiers at once formed on raH either side. Hra Ignoring Count Linwold's proffered ^^Bann, Lola walked into the hotel by his ^Hjgidej nor did she seem at all confused by the ' attery oi eves iliat w as turned upon her. The Count left her iii a beautiful sitting-room, hung with arms and battle-dags captim d from the Turks and Mongols, whih? ho wvnt in to announce j her arrival to the General. J She had been sitting there but a few minutes when l>r. Mulek came out and ollVre l her his hand, but she did not I appear to see it, though she answered his bow with a cold nod. "I am .sorry for this, Lola," he said, "but you did your work well." '"It is not my work," she replied. ' That's right," he sa'd, with a knowing laugh, "'stick to that, for I can .see it tl;e Ueneral recovers lie is Douna to help you out. I shall see Madame Berger and the fair Elizabeth in the morning. Any message to send?" "Not by you." she replied. '"And have you no word to send to Petrr?" "None, save that I wish he and all like him were under the ice of the Neva." "You are angry " She did not reply, for at that mo- J ment Count Linwold appeared at the door and motioned for her to follow him. So far Lola had been wonderfully; co d, but now, as she was abjut to eomo fa.-e to face with General Paul, her steps became unsteady and her lips grew ashen. When she lirst read of General Paul's engagement to Elvira, the daughter of Count Linwold, Lola feb. that she could strike dead at her feef ilie man J who had won her heart nnd cruelly oast her aside; but now, in his weakness, all the old love surged into her soul with the force of a returning tide, and for the moment her brain reeled and the walls bent and floated like flexible things before her distorted vi don. She would have fallen had not Count Linwold touched her arm and said, in his oily voice: "Mis3 Pulaski, here is General Paul." But auother voice thrilled her heart and restored her to reason. ".Lola, Lola, I here!" It wa3 the voice of General Paul, weaker than when she last heard it, but sweeter to lier tlian all the musia of earth. Suppressing the cry Lhat rose to her lips, she sprang forward, and seizing his extended hand, she exclaimed: "Oh, say that it was not I who did this foul deed I" "I have said it, Lola," he replied; and in the presence of these witnesses, and before heaven, I reiterate, you are innocent." Then turning his face to Count Linwold, and the attending physicians and nurses, the General continued: "Please to leave mo alone with this young lady for a few minuts." The people in the room obeyed him, and Lola drew a chair closer to the bed and let him hold her hand. For some seconds neither could speak; the gallant soldier was more ; unnerved than ever he had been on the j battle-field. He began in a low voice by telling her, not of his wound or his faith in1 her innocence, or even by asking her how she came to be found so close to him when the officers, discovered him, but of his connection with the Countess Elvira Linwold. He declared that the published an- | nouncement of his betrothal to that lady was as great a surprise to himself ; as it seemed to be to the world. "I do not. could not love her, Lola," 1 he said, with, .suppressed passion, i "after J had given my ilearfr to you. "Love and marriage do not necessarily go together among the nobles of i Russia," she replied. "But they shall go together in my j case, for I am determined to wed you at once. Do not stop me, Lola," said ! Mia rionorol raafroininrr llAV "The doctors say it is very doubtful if I recover " "Oh, I pray heaven they may be mis- ! taken!" she cried, and theu added, with j much of her old calmness, "But no more of this subject of marriage." "But I must speak of what is uppermost in my mind. Should I die, I waut you to reap all the security the ! widow of the Prince of Moskeva should ' have under the empire. Should I live, I life will be what it never was before,; j perfected by an unselfish love." "No," she replied, "it cannot be. You are the son of the man who so wronged my father. I cannot help lo'*'" you, j but I can help marrying." chapter xvrrr. at madam berg eil's. Dr. Mulek, Peter the student and Colonel Orloff, the Iovit of Elvira Lin- j wold, met at the Cafe d'Ameriqr.e the . morning after Lola Pulaski's visit to j General Paul. The three men were in a private room and they talked over the subject that was exciting all St. Petersburg that morninsr. "By jovel" exclaimed the Doctor, "General Paul shows more force near the jaws of death than he did when he was a well man." uHow so?" asked Peter, while the Colonel knitted his bushy brows and pulled with more vigor on his cigar. "Why. the Czar sent to know if there was anything he could do for him, and he sent b.iek word that he wanted Lola Pulaski and her father released xintil an examination could be hell." "And did the Czar comply V" asked Colonel Orloff. "By the mass, he did; and this morning old General Pulaski was released." "Where are they now?" queried Peter. "1 clo not know, but 1 should not be surprised if a search discovered them at their old quarters." "bee here. Dr. Mulek," said Colonel Orloff, sp< aking like a man who is giving utterance to something th.it he has been deliberating over for some time, "vou are one of the physicians attending on General Paul?" "I am; I have to take two hours with him every night," replied the Doctor. "I need not tell vou that certain peo pie do iiut pray for the General's recovery. " "I am well aware of that." "i'o.i administer medicine to the General '1 do." fcAnd while in attendance, you hold his life in vour hands?" "les, Colonel." "Then if this man lives you will be false to your oath," said Colonel Orlofl", striking the table. Doctor Mitlek gasped and looked from one to the other of his companions. as if he did not comprehend the full import of the words he had ju3t heard. At length he managed to say: "I?I fully comprehend you, and I thank you for the suggestion." "But will you act on it?" asked the 1 Colonel, reaching out his hand. i "1 will." replied the Doctor, with emphasis. Alter this they sj oke in low tones about Ivan Berger, and the Colonel but little knew that his wish was already complied with when he said: "I would give my left hand if that fellow were dead or in prison." Then followed a discussion of their | plans for th^ assassination of the Czar ! which Colonel Orloff had perfected, but which he seemed reluctant to take direct part in. Colonel Or'off hated the Czar, not because he hated tyranny, for at heart he was himself a tyrant, but because the Emperor had decided that certain I estates that were in litigation beI longed to Count Orloff, the Colonel's cousin. But these plotters well knew that there were scores of desperate men in ; St. Petersburg ready to kill the Czar, I if cooler men only provided them with I the certain means, and showed them i the opportunity. Dr. Mulek and Peter left Colonel { Orloff in the Cafe d'Amerique, nnd I walked together to Madame Berger's. I'eter had not yet given up th2 hope . n( on.Mirinrr fha linnrl if not the love, of I Lola Pulaski; but if he failed he was ! prepared to crush her through his as! *ociatos. the Nihilists, in the event of her escaping from the meshes Count ! Linwo!d was carefully weaving about I her. It was the belief of these men that I Ivan Berger had lied from St. Pe'ersi bnrg after the last meeting of the { Nihilists, but they were certain that, J even if lie were in the city, he would J not or could not interfere with their j scliernes. Lceza, the patient attendant at the | house, was surprised when they asked | for Lola and her father. She had not hoard of their release. I She b. lieved they were still in the Neva prison, and she wept at the thougljb. "les," she saiu, in reply to Dr. Mult'k's question, "Madam Berger and Miss j Elizabeth are home?they are always i home. But, heaven help them, the fact that Mr. Ivan is a fugitive is crashing them in'o the priv.vo." "I will seo them, and I think I can I che^r them up," said the Doctor. As neither Lola nor her father was in the Louse, Peter declined to go up, so his companion went aloue. Of late Dr. Mulck hid not attempted to conceal his kne for the fair Elizabeth. He made it a point to talk of his lonely life and fc'll of his own ability to care for a wife every time he saw licr. He found Ma;lam Berger m l Elizabeth with red eyes, that spoke of recents tears, and pale faces that told of a deeper anguish, still bending over their st wing. Th y met the Doctor with what to him seemed warmth, so eager were they to karu if he knew anything of Ivan. "With a mysterious manner he told i.1 T.,.-,r? woo lr\ aAstnr/i V? i /I i n rr in U1UIU L1IU.L HUU w?*0 1 u c the city, and t'rnt his friends would sonn send him to a place of safety, but before doing so the mother and daughter would li..ve a chance to seo him. This vague information bad an exhilarating effect on tho madam ::nd Elizabeth, for they could imagine no reason for the man's lviug. Having placed them in better spirits, the Doctor, with consummate skill, presented his own suit. Elizabeth nervously parried him, till at length lie dropped all diplomacy aml -a'skrd her boldly to-become his wife. "I cannot, I cannot!" she replied. * "But why not?" "It is impossible!" '"Why should a thing so natural as marriage be impossible?" asked Dr. Mulek, trying to take her hand. Elizabeth drew back, but did not answer. From behind a curtain a man's voice 4.1 ^,,4- . WLi UUU.UJL CU UUV. "Because, you dog, that ladr is mj betrothed!" With the words the man leaped out, and Dr. Mulek was felled to tbe floor. He looked up aud saw the heroic form of Count Orloil' towering above him. [to be cojrrruuKD.l ' Brief But Significant. Fanner (to Sportsman)?4 * Di<l you ; shoot my mule?" Sportsman?-'I ? I?yes. ?Most un! fortunate accident!" Farmer?"Two hundred dollars." Sportsman?"Nonsense; fifty's enough ?and, besides, that won't leave me any ' money to get homo." j Farmer?"Two hundred dollars.young man, or vou won't need anv fare home!" 1 ?Pud. ' ? a_? ir..i ?\ 11^?.-, i lip uriuocu niii-vnrui-m. The Uitnharibo* Indians, who live on j the Orinoco River. South America, are j a peculiar race of beiusp. Their liu's HI TS OK THE OrAlIAIUUOS INDIANS. are rude shelters of leafy canes tied at the top; they are nrranged in a circle around a central fire, and the Indians squat under their huts, thus making themselves very comfortable. -'-"V drove out the detested royal family and released the prisoners chained to the benches ol' the galleys. For under that horrible dynasty of the Neapolitan Bourbons. almost all the galley slaves were political offenders, meu who had written or printed something in favor of free institutions. ?>r had criticised too openly tlie unwisdom of the Papal authorities. In Frauce the system had been abandoned because it was a glaring absurdity, an utter anachronism of which that enlightened natiou was ashamed. But in Italy thc galleys were abolished because they had been made the instrument of the vilest oppression. It was notorious that on the detested benches of those modern ! IN COLUMBUS'TIM I j HOW AVAR A\I? OTHKIl SHIPS W E11E CON STI: L CT ED. I The Santa Maria, in Which Columbus Visited This Hemisphere? Komaii Triremes Manned hy Galley Slaves. j The Santa Maria, the caravel in which Cristobal Colon made his astounding dis, covery ot this hemisphere, is generally described by writers as a mere cockleI shell, but this is an exaggeration. We possess very full particulars of it,through the pride of Spain in having wrought so j great a work, which led them to record j minutely all the details of the expedition i of 1402. The Museo Naval of Madrid I l.-v- ? ? + r\f +lw? VOCCftl j IlilS UL1 UUIUVIJUU |IIV.kUlV %'M. vuv ivucvi^ | which is copied for this article, and there ! can be no doubt that it was as good a j ship as the Spaniards could build, of sufi ticient size, perfectly sound, well-fitted. I and with a numerous crew. It was 90 j feet at the keel, and somewhat more I than 100 feet from stem to stern, with : a complete deck, and at the stern i a poop-deck 2fi feet long, under i which were the heavy guus of the SHIP OF COLVMBUR. peri'-1. Forward there was a small )?lati on whieli were smaller pieces, falcons and shakers, for the discharge : < 1?i. i n oil , I UI grapc-suoi uuu siuuu oiuut-o. 1UUC : were four uiasts, two of which were j rigged with square sails and two with sails shaped _ like a swallow's wing. ; These are still used in the .Mediterranean and bear the name of lateen sails, from the belief that they are similiar to those used by the ancient Latin peoples. It will be seen that the navigators of that period had partly seized the true idea of how to utilize the winds from almost every point of the compass save those rom its very eye, which is done now by I -quare sails aided by stay sails, and the atter are the old lateen sails so modified >s to offer no obstruction to the other anvas. The Santa Maria was, in fact, a i raditional vessel, built at a time when I he influence of Roman traditions was j -eginning to yield to the necessities cf 1 icean voyages. For a long time mechanically inclined i people puzzled themselves extremely over j . lie Roman war-ships, which were called j riremes, and this was understood to mean | v essels fitted with three banks of oars, j \no over the other. Practical seamen said j lint tms was :i pnysicai lmprosiuiiiiv, | tad, between them and the scholarly, . ROMAN TRIREME.there wis an active war of argument, which was decided by the discovery of Roman medals on which were figured triremes. This made it evident that the i banks of oars were not placed in tiers above each other, but that they were behind each other. The first tier was of comparatively small oars, the second tier ! was raised higher than the first and aft i of it, and the third tier higher still, and ; on the poop, which word is of pure Latin : origin. This system gave to the triremes 1 inordinate length, and they were in comi parison to the vessels of commerce what ! the six-oar shell of n college crew is to ! the broad, comfortaole, safe-looking I wherry in which young ladies at Mount : Desert and elsewhere act as boat-steerers without any undue excitation of the nervous system. For this reason the Roj mans callcd all their war ships "long ships." The triremes naa no masts nor A MEDITERRANEAN GAJ.LKY. f-aila of any kind, their motive power being the arms and hacks of slaves generally faptiired in war. Obviously the galleys of the French, Spanish, and Italian nations were a survival of the I'-miai; trireme. Iu some of lhc.se then- were sails, but in others there i i? . . were cit'uu ih,uk>'1 ;i>* in mu viujo u m u tlx- Liburnian trireme* of Octfliranus won the great victory of Actiuin. Tii American readers there can be 110 interest in the minute differences between the galleon. tin uallea*. ami the gnlera of Spain and Itaiv. :md tin* yoelette and <r;deiv ol France, tm' they were ail modiI lieatinn- of the Roman long ship. The . benches of the oarsmen were manned by prisoners condemned to serve in the King's ! galley* for different periods of time, and i thi.i will explain to the readers of Moliere, j and La Sage, and other French writers of ( the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries I innumerable allusions to the galj leys. At the French revolution i tlu; system was abandoned torever, I and it ceased under the Napoleonic regime in Spain, nor was it renewed when Joseph Honapartc was expelled and the I rightful King, Ferdiuund, came back to j Araujuez and the Escurial. But it sub- i sisted in the two Sicilies until Garibaldi - *> - I r ... triremes there were chained two classes only, murderers of the foulcsl type and the purest and noblest patriots. Not for centuries will the black shadow which the galleys cast upon thousands of families pass away from southern Italy. ' ' ' "" FRENCH W.Ml SHU'. It is a singular fact that there existed in the time of Julius C&'sar a type of vessel used in the northwest of France and Britannia, which was decidedly superior to the Roman vessels of every class. Ca-sar, in the third book of the Gallic campaigns, describes them with some detail, and it is evident that they astonished him and terrified Brutus, who was the ofliccr in charge of the Romau fleet. It is clear that there was considerable discussion as to the power of the Roman " vessels to copc with them,'and if wc read between the Hues, which must be done with Ca'sur, for he is far from ingenuous in his statements, we shali come to the conclusion that perfect information was obtained about these vessels, and a regular plan lormcd before the campaign was opened against the Yeneti. Caesar describes these vessels as being of great height and of immense strength, so that the nrcliers ana slingers on tne uonian triremes could (lo nothing when the fleets should come to close quarters. And the brazen prows were also powerless, because of the extraordinary solidity of these ships, whose knees Caisar de scribed as being a foot thick. Aud they were bolted, he writes, to the other beams with iron spike*3 as thick as the forefinger. They were propelled by sails, which must have been lug sails, like those still used in the English Channel by French fishermen and by the boatmen of the channel islands, and their anchors were provided with iron chains instead of ropes. Caesar got the best of this fleet by his quick-wittedness. He ordered towers of wood rigged upon his triremes over the head of the oarsmen, and placed upon them numerous engines called scorpions for throwing out darts. Then when the vessels closed he had legionaries who were armed with sickles fastened to long poles, with which they cut the rigging of the enemy's ships, so that their lug sails dropped to the deck and they remained na^tiouless on the water. The triremes then rowed all around them and poured in a raging fire from the scorpions, besides clouds of arrowc and stones from the archers and I ? *i? uiu su luuiuuguii ui^ut?v.u had beeu the great Julias that he massacred all of the Government of the Veneti he could find and sold the entire nation into slavery. When we read of stout oak ships, and iron spikes as big as the forefinger, and iron chain cables it is impossible not to believe that this unfortunate nation was in correspondence with some other nation vastly more advanced than itself. Had such a type been elaborated either iu Britannia or the French Britany, there would have been a corresponding civilization, which would have made the Veneti more than a match for Cttsar and his ferocious, gore-loving legions. The deduction is inevitable that the iron objects used in the construction of these vessels came from a foreign source. What was that source? Hitherto this passage in "Ca'sar's Commentariesv has been an enigma, but it is certain that fVioro urnrA nt tVmt t.imA shins nf a snne bUVIV ?*V I" -rrior type to anything recorded in history, and that the vessels of the Veneti were but poor copies of them.?Chicago Times. ,M Tyrolean Farmers. The struggle for mere existence with these poor people (the Tyrolese) is a fearful one, something that an American farmer never even dreamed of. The summer days are so few and so rainy that hay can be made only by tying the grass around poles to dry, free from the ground, and they may often be seen mowing in the rain, hoping that the sun will come out long enough to partly dry out the grass when cut. The men, when mowing, general!) hare on white aprons, looking much like a lot of barbers or waiters pressed into the service. This is due. probably, to the fact that the women do the most of the mowing, and when a man has t?> do it he wants to look as much like a woman as possible, so as not to be rec- i ognizcd. Throughout the most of Europe the I peasants, or farmers, live in villages ami j go every morning and evening from two to four miles to their land and hack, at , a great loss of time and thought. It is a rare thing to see separate house* | in the country. In Tyrol and Switzer- j lend the houses are more scattered and one may often see them perched so far up | on the mountain side that it would seem ! impossible to got to them, and frequently I a hamlet of a do/en or twenty house* ! will be found lying up almost in tb?' ! clouds, nearly at the timber line, in the i most unexpected olace-. ? CMch-jj h'> - : i Oeloreiiarians. In a recent essay I'rofessor Max Mtiller i declare* his belief that for practical work | ! a man of thirty is a better man than a man of eighty, ami that the sooner men of eighty learn that lesson the better for themselves and the country they profess to ?erve. The brilliant exceptions which exist at the present moment.both in England and in Germany, he believes are apt to become precedents hereafter and to prove extremely dangerous in less exceDtional cases.?Philnde'.nJiii Timsj. t ' >& . - - :**??ri WORDS OF WISDOM. The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example. When you're right you can't be too radical, and when you're wrong you can't be too conservative. The true reply to the question. Is life worth living is: It all depends on the kind of life you live. Never let a day pass without thinking seriously, if only for a moment, of death. It will rob it of more than half its terrors. To be able to endure honest and kinc". criticism requires quite as mucn wisuom as to be able to make honest and wise criticism. The individual right needs no label, for it exists in the consciousness of doing right, thus proving that the only method one can determine What right is, i3 by doing right himself. Wherever the most individual liberty is recognized, in the same proportion greater progress takes place and greater security to life; also the pursuit of happiness is less disturbed. The persons depending upon external appearance for their respectability would doubtless dispute the importance of being honest, but for the fact that their position can only be maintained by deception. Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive. I Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall of the wainscot, can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied. ?a*? He Did Whip the Grizzly. Colonel Thomas F. Barr, Assistant Advocate-General of the Army, arrived at the Grand Pacific last evening, says the Chicago Tribune. He is going out with General Crook to investigate the Leavenworth prison, but when he met the General in the rotunda of the hotel the trip was dismissed with a word and the j evening passed in discussion of bear hunt: | "I see," said Colonel Barr, by way of j opening the conversation, "that you say i no man ever engaged in a hand-to-hand i fight with a grizzly bear und got away j alive." | "Yes, sir. I said that," the General replied with emphasis. "And I will even I go further. I will state that I don't be! lieve there would be enough left of a man ! who would do that to build a tombstone I over." Colonel Barr smiled and said: "Genej ral did you ever meet Tom Selkirk in the j Bad Lands?" "The Scotch Iudian trapper?" "Yes." | "I did." "Strong man, eh?" "Strong, indeed." "He whipped a bear single handed.' "Don't believe a word of it." "But he did." i "Now, Colonel, I've been hunting beat | for twenty-five years, and you ought to ! know better than to tell me that." "But it's a fact." "How did he do it?" "Choked it to death." ! General Crook arose and frowned. "Colonel Barr," he said, "I have ali ways esteemed you a gentleman and an ! officer," and walked away. Colonel Ban ! sat still and grinned. The General walked j around the hotel for two or three, laps, ! then came back, and with his hands ! buried deep in his pockets stood in fronl j of the Colonel. "Barr," he said, "as man to man. Ho^ | old was that bear?" [ "About two months, I reckon." j The General took the Colonel's arm j without a word "and.executed a right face, J The pair marched due south twenty-fiv< j feet, wheeled, and moved west until thej were lost behind the red cedar partition, and shortly thereafter this conversatioc floated over the partition: "Well, General." j "Colonel." ; And then there was deep silence. .. A Mathematical Prodigy. Sam Summers, the colored prodigy, was j in Shelbyville yesterday, and, as usual, J entertained a large crowd, who were testing him with all kinds of mathemati! cal problems. Summers is a colored | man, thirty-four years old, without the slightest education. He cannot read or write, and does not know one figure from another. He is a farm-hand, and, to look at him and watch his actions, he | seems to be about half-witted, but his j quick and invariably correct answer to i any example iu arithmatic, uo matter ' how difficult,*is simply wonderful. "With ! the hundreds of tests that he has sub' mitted to. not a single time has he failed | to give the correct answer in every inj stance. Some examples given him on yesterday were: How much gold can be bought for $792 iu greenbacks if gold is worth 81 65? Multiply 597,312 by 13$, If a [ grain of wheat produces seven grains,and ' these be sown the second year, each yieldi ing the same increase, how many bushels 1 will be produced at this rate in twelve years, if 1000 grains make a pint? If j the velocity of souud is 1142 feet pet ! second, the pulsation of the heart seventy per minute, after seeing a flash of lightning there are twenty pulsations counted before you hear its thunder, what distance is the cloud from the earth, and what is the time after seeing the flash of lightning until you hear the thunder? A commission merchant received seventy bags of wheat, each containing three bushels, three peeks and three quarts; Iir>?- tnniir lnishpls (lid lie ri'dHVc' And so on. With Robinson's,llaysand other higher arithmetics before them, those who have tested him us yet have been unable to find any example that with a few moments' thought on his part he is not able to cor rectlv answer.?Louisville Commercial. Painting With Sand. Parisians have lately been entertained by a remarkable artist, who displays wonderful skill in Iut peeular form of painting. With plates of various colored sand before her she takes the sand in her right hand and causes it to fall in beautiful desijxus upon a table. A bunch of grapes is pictured with violet sand, a leaf with green saud, the stalk with brown sand, and relief aud shadows by other sands: when the work is brushed away a bouquet of roses and other objects are represented with the same dexterity and delicacy. - ..-v." iiawJLSn . \;?; SABBATH SCHOOL. 1 INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB JANUARY 12. Lesson Text: "The Song of Mary,** Luke i., 10-55?Golden Text: Lake i.. 40-47? Commentary. 16. 'And Mnry said: My soul doth magnify the Lord." Hannah said in her prayer: 'My heart rejoiceth in the Lord;" and David calls upon us to magnify the Lord in him" (I Sain, ii., J; Ps. xxxiv., $). The spirit of * Antichrist i.s to "magnify one's self above all else," but the spirit of Christ will cause one to desire with Paul that "Christ may be maguilled in our bodies, whether by life or by death." (Dan. xi., 36, 37, Ph. i., 30). Mary had submitted herself cheerfully and wholly to the will of God, and in these ways we, too, uay daily magnify Him. It does not seem difficult, and yet who does it perfectly. Since God is truth and love, let us heartily believe all He says and cheerfully accept His will in all things. 47. 'And ray spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." The only way to* be full of joy is to believe God, even as it is written, /~i ?.1 XT All nri + h A 11 -irxxr otirl -L Lie UUU UI ilUjJO uu JUu niiiu ?u jur ouu peace in believing" (Rom. xv., 13). Notice that Mary says "My sod." "My spirit;" her whole being rejoiced in God, her waole heart believed Hini; it was no outwad, formal, or lip service merely, but she meant it every word, as when Jeremiah's soul said: "Tho Lord is myporlion" (Lam. iii., 34), and added, "therefore will I hope in Him." So it was with Mary, her joy was in God, not in His mcrcies chietiy, nor in her circumstances, but in Him, the unchanging and the unchangeable God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel. When our joy is in Him, it will abide, <or He abides ever the same. But she adds: "My Saviour," and here is the foundation secret of all joy and peace to be able to say from the heart: "My own Saviour." Jacob said: "I. have waited for Thy salvation, 0 Lord." Simeou said: "Mine eyes have seen Thy salvation." David and Isaiah said: "The Lord is become my salvation" (Gen. xlix., 18; Lukeii., 30; Ps. cxviii., 14; Isa. xii., 2). May each one say with the heart: "God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid." " 13. "He hath regarded the low estate of . Ilis handmaiden." "Not many mighty, not many noblo are called," but "God hath chosen tho poor of this world rich in faith." "Though tho Lord be high yet hath He respect uuto the lowly; but the proud Heknowefch afar off." He loves to dwell with the poor and contrite spirit that trembles at His word (I Cor. i., 2(3; Jas. ii., 5; Ps: cxrxviii,, K; fsa. Ivii., 15; lxvi., 2). So it was in the case of Gideon, David, Amos and many others, and so to-day He passes by those whom wo would call the likely peoplo and selects some obscure, unheard of one as His cnoice. "Behold from hcnceforth all generations shall call me blessed." The Spirit through Elizabeth had just said: "Blessed is she that believed," and so it has come ringing down all the ages since. Most honored among women no doubt May was, but lest we should think too highly of her, let us remember what Jesus said to one who had spoken of her blessedness: "Yea, rather, blessed are fhey thai hoar the Word of God and keep it." And again, "Whosoever shall do tho will of God, the same is My brother, and My sister, an 1 mother" (Lu. xi., 28; Mk, iii., 33). "3? 49. "For Ho that is mighty hath done ma : great things; and holy is His name." In this .song wo havo the pronouns " He, His, Him," , applied to God twice seven times; it is all , about Him and His doing? reminding us that ! we are nothing, but Ho is < very thing. " My meditation of Him shall be sweet, I will bo glad in tin Lord" (Fs. civ., 34). He is the Almighty.before whom we are to walk (G-ejv xvii., I) looking up to Him for evoV/thiji^ - The Almighty God (El Shaddai) does not represent liim as simply having all power, and thorefore abla to do anything, but rather, as tho derivation of the word Shaddai implies, the all sufficient pourer forth of all Llessimr: literallv. the breasted ono (from 'Shad," signifying "breast''), and therefore , representing the power of bountiful, self sacriticiug love, giving anil pouring itself out Tor others. It is ofteu in Scripture associated .villi fruitfulneo, or with emptying, in order to fruitfuluess. Mary was poor in this world's goods, antl poor in spirit, and now the Mighty One comes to her to do great things for her. g 50. "His mercy is on tliem that fear Kim, from generation to generation." The mercy, or kindness, or loving kindness (as the word is often translated) of God, is one of the 1 glorious topics of Scripture, and especially of the Psalms. Then notice in all the epistfes [ how grace, mercy and peace are associated; and all this loving kindness is for all who i fear Him, and that forever. ! 31. "He liath showed strength with His [ arm." Perhaps looking back to the deliverance from Egypt, for the Lord had s&ki to Moses: "I will redeem you with a stretched i out arm and with great judgments." And Moses had sung: "By the greatness of Thine arm they shall bo as still as a stone" (Ex. vi., 0; xv., 16). David sings of the same 1 deliverance that God had accomplished it , "with a strong hand and with a stretched , out arm'' (Ps. exxxvi., 12). "He hath scattered the proud in the imagination ol' their hearts." The proud, self sat! -! --.I t ....ftt/tinnt normnk I'llftlV Hid I lSLIUU UUU 9CU ouiutiv'uu vv??*..v? ~ - I thoughts or His way.. Ho cannot reveal Himself to them. They are' figainst, Jiim<. and all th?ir thoughts" and ways shall be ' v?overthrown. 52. "He Lath put clown the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree." Hannah sang: "Heraiseth up the jtoor out of the dust, an-1 liftcth up the beggar from tha dunghill, to set them among Princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory" (I Sam. ii., 8). "While these songs had reference , to the circumstance and dealings of God . +' with those who sang them, we must not forget that the singers wore Israelites, and the , spirit of God thruugh them was singing of future as well as present things. "vj. '-He had filled the hungry with good things, and the rich He hath sent empty t away." Those who ask nothing shall receivo nothing; thinking themselves rich and increased with goods, because they are blind, they do not Know that they are wrotched and miserable and poor and naked; but 11 * 4-bnf Knncpai* fttlfl f.h 1 r?f. nft^P I U."*5SCU UIO CLIO J vuau uuiihv> ? ? righteousness, for they shall be filled (Rev iii., IT; Matt, v., 6). 54, 55. "He hath holden His servant Israel' in remembrance of His mercy; as Ho spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to His seed forever." This carries us back to the covonants with Abraham and David, and forward to their yet future fulfillment. In Mary's Son all these shall have in duo time a complete and literal fulfillment, for He is the true Isaac and truo David, of whom they were but types. The Scriptures are full of the records of His sufferings and the glory that shall bo revealed as He Himself testified (Luke xxiv., 25-27). His sufferings as an atonement for sin are past; His sufferings in the members of His body, the church, still continue; the glory to be revealed is not vet. When Israel as a nation shall look upon Him whom they have pierced, and with true contrition receive Him. then will He cast their .sins into the depths of the sea, and as it is written: "Thou wilt perform tho truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham which Thou has sworn to our fathers from the days of old" (Mic. vii., 18-20). Then when He remembers His mercy and truth to Israel shall all the ends of the earth sec the salvation of God (Ps., xcviii., JJ). If any one thinks it has yet come, let them explain in what sense Ezek. xxxvii., 21-28, and all similar prophecies have been fulfilled.?Lesson Helper. Both Modest and Businesslike. A Paris paper recently offered an eminent Frenchman $1000 for his autobiography. He accepted this offered, and ufter getting a check for the amount sent | on his autobiography, which was as follows.: ' [ was horn at Lyons in 183!), ami since that time I can recall nothing of any account, except that I have not been killed in any of the uprisings." Hyrmecides. an auoient carver, was also so proficient in microscopic mechanism that he made an ivory chariot with four wools, aud as many harnessed horses, in so smuil a compass that a fly might have hidden them all under its wings. The same artisan made a ship with all her decks, masts, yards, rigging and sails, which took up scarcely more room than , the chariot.