The Augusta herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1890-1908, September 18, 1898, Image 11
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tha aaatatatKP 4»f EJtaa, aha 4W th*
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(i th la tha lh»*r (hat woman h>-
atlaottvaty ua4*r*taa4 about houaa
kaapinc and that a* l»na »* (bar* aaa
a rattle.atari bain* un-lrt tha rw«f tha
a.»rh In man* myatartona nay arrow-
P't>ha4 itaatf. Of rouraa hr (Irtaly ba-
that aa a h. tiaahrapaf no «»n»
toil 14 -ir |.ar<' with Polly* mot bar. Mt
I could see the back of her head and
her shoulder and one arm, which was
bare to the elbow and looked very white
in the moonlight. She was sitting in a
window and I In the next one. but she
was unaware of my presence.
Should 1 speak to her? Our acquaint
ance was really very slight. True. w «
bad lived In the same house for neatly
a year, but It was a lodging house, ftryl
♦he Inhabitants strayed put Into the
neighborhood for their sustenance, thus
lacking the common sorrow of a board
ing house table to draw them tog.dhor.
MlasCavstly and I exchanged greeting*
when we met at the door or in the halls,
but that hardly )u»tllled me In opening
a conversation from nty window to h'rs
at 1 O'clock In the morning, yet I want
ed to do It.
While I was debating tire question the
lady was leaning far out from her lofty
p.-rob—lt was the top story—and gazing
upon the moon.
"Have a . are, Miss Caverly." said I,
"or you'll fall out of the window."
Nothing could have been more likely I
to precipitate such a catastrophe than
my sudden and startling remark, but
modern chivalrous man will put a lady
to any amount of Inconvenience for the
sake of seeming to perform a service for
her. However, In this instance no harm
came of it. The lady turned about has
tily, but without alarm.
' What!" she cried, "Another victim
of Insomnia?”
Now, as a matter of fact, I had just
come in and had made no attempt to J
sleep, but I could not tell her that. It
would have spoiled a conversation. So
I said that sleep refused to visit my I
pillow. ’ 1
"Sleeplessness is very distressing,
she said, with the air of one who had
suffered much. i
I suggested that the night was too hot !
for sleep, but she averred that she did
not mind hot weather. I might have
had a lot of fun trying to find out what j
d“mon of the mind was robbing this in- i
nocent child of her slumber, but a knock !
at my door interrupted me. The visitor
was Hallett Graves, another denizen of j
the top floor, and he had come to bor- >
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Itia Hhfti »h<f rbi nil. and «]| day ah#
to h# nan#.
'l*«lty RioOkrr'i frrtnluinf Imdi a
(rid# dry.” Mr Cronatnfi would any
wh«*n h# #«m# In at a*on **Tou rnumni
fora* l (hr do wars T«»u know *•» di»-
af»fn**»»i#d ah# would Imp If anything
ahould hap|»* n to (ham.**
**y#a. air I walarrd (h#m at*»ut an
hour Polly would reply, "t*ut white
| row’ matches. Graves was likely to
borrow anything at any hour from any
person and equally ready to lend.
He said that he'd given up trying to
sleep and was going out for a walk with
Mr. and Mrs. Gale—also top 11. air peo
ple who were In the same difficulty.
“That accounts lor us all." said 1. and
th-n I Informed Miss Civwly of the
*,ic»s and asked If she would try tile
efTeet of a midnight stroll, with Mrs.
Gale for chaperon.
She agreed readily, and in a few min
utes we were all In the hall, which was
hotter than an oven. 1 expressed til"
belief that the street wouldn't be much
cooler, and then some one suggested
going to the roof.
"It’s no good," said Graves. "Imt I'll
tell you what we might do. There's a
fire "scape balcony Just outside my win
dow, and half a dozen steps lead up
from it to th° roof of th" n“xt hous*.
That's a fine place to sit. What do you
■ay?"
It looked a good deal like burglary,
and the ladles were timid, but the hall
was too hot to permit of long argu
ment. and very soon we all fled to our
neighbor's roof.
At first we were afraid to speak above
a whisper, and the creaking of a metal
plate on the roof sounded Ilk" heavy
artillery, hut as the minutes passed and
nothing happened we grew bolder. We
brought some chairs from our rooms
and made ourselves exceedingly com
fortable. By and by we even .ventured
to uplift our voices, very softly, in an
old familiar chorus, a melancholy strain
that seemed do make us all very blue.
When the song was ended, Gale,
whom I had long suspected of being a
hypochondriac, began to tell us how
much he suffered from Insomnia and to
describe the Ineffectual attempts that
he had made In the last four or five
years to bring sleep to his pillow. It
appeared also that Graves, who was a
healthy looking young Englishman, had
had only a wink or two of sleep since
the first of the year. He admitted that
he was in love, but doubted that that
accounted for the phenomenon. As for
THE AX7QUBTA TIMES HERALD.
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era. and tit# <4d tody aak#d:
"Arp you aur# rou d«*n'( to wu
t#r »h# flow era. !*«•!!>? l#ittP stria ar# i
* i Hi. n*» m I wat**r Ihrm #v#ry day. *
Folly aaa#rt#<« *1 n#v#f f«m*« Udt"
Walt, pu{>|x)«p I n»m# In and look a(
ft*, t hr* n#ar*iftht* d old lady pr#r#d al
th# plant# and aa th#y a*-**tn*d damp
1 don't know unlaaa Isa worm* I
at th# r*nda I n#ver waa mu* h «»f a |
hand lor kt#|iing rt«»a#ra In th# h*»ua#.
but your mx will h# horn# In a day or
j air*. Qtl«. ah# almply could not al##p at
all. 4*h# lw*!i<*v»**l that th# locality waa
I unh.Mllhful and Intimated that F'W
! avenue and It. vicinity, especially If
I one owned a residence there, would
I probably solve the problem of slumber.
Now. as a matter of fact. I sleep bet -
! ter than the avarajte of my species, but
j I have a natural disinclination to ap
| l« ar tnrsp ilrnced In matters that are
j under discussion In a general company,
I go I told a few fanciful yarns that put
me within the. pale of sympathy, and I
was very much gratified to observe
that they Impressed Miss Cavrrly.
This young woman, whose beauty as
! she sat there In the moonlight I then
1 appreciated for the first time, was tue
only one of us to exhibit any reticence.
I Dlls circumstance led me to the eon*
fusion that she was the one who c-aily
i knew what Insomnia was, and I felt a
I strong curiosity regarding her case. She
j se-med to he In good health, and I could
I not believe that the childlike Innocence
I of her face was a mask for any weighty
! secret, much less for any deep regret.
! It was an Interesting problem.
VVe sat on that roof till I o'clock In
j the morning. I do not know how the
others fared during the remaiprter of
the night, but. aB ,l,r ,n, ‘- 1 Bl <Pt like a
dead titan, and when the servant waked
me us U! uni at s o'clock I threatened to
; shoot him.
However, when the Insomnia club, aa
| ileaves had named It drifted Info a
I meeting on tno following midnight I
... quit ready to take my place. They
Pie. t,.,| rnc president of the elub, and
j then I had to keep awake If It killed me.
Yet I am free to 'confess that If the
I lender sentiments with whlrh I was
beginning to regard France* Cavrrly
: had been lacking 1 could never hnve
kept awake during that session.
A whisper of our doing got abroad in
j the house, and for the third meeting we
; had guests—a young man and two
| young women from the second floor.
I They expressed « great enthusiasm for
i the ( lub. but they wore not on hand for
the fourth session. Instead they retired
I about half past H, presumably to make
up for lost sleep, as I was informed by
Mrs. Cale, who had a woman's faculty
for knowing sll about everybody else
in the house.
For that fourth meeting I fortified my
soul with black coffee at dinner and
strong cigars In the course of the even
ing. I had begun to realize thal the
club would be the ruin of my health if
H continued to flourish, and yet I was
willing to make even that sacrifice for
the sake of those delightful hours with
Frances Caverly.
I couldn't get any other chance to see
her. She taught in a summer school and
spent her evenings in study that the
work required, a most laborious life.
How she could bear It without sleep by
night was a problem that began to en
gage my serious attention. On the oc
casion of the club’s fifth meeting I sug
gested to her about 2 o'clock In the
morning that she ought to retire, speak
ing of her health in solicitous terms.
"I couldn’t sleep anyway,” said she.
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•non aa ahr had datlvatwA all tha maa
aa*aa and prcaant* (mm Aunt Hatty.
-h«w arr my lloaar#’ I hop rw didn |
for*al lo watar thamf'
-Mn.” vultthtaarad I’ollya fathar.
1,1,.. nine h.rw dlraptMlniad and m.wtl
tbni tha uttla *iri frit ovar har failura
"Polly ha* tandad |.> your llonrra real
(allhful rarlhrr. but I gu-m. on airount
of lha »aalhar bam* ao warm, thry
aaam aort of dmpj.”
• Oh. I'm a.rry! 1 think 111 *•» la nml
look at tham."
Har ayparlanrrd ajrr pan nail tha
plnnta. Htaa fait tha earth In one of lha
pota with bar Bnger.
“1 might better be here, wher* I can en- '
Joy myself
Hhe laughed nervously as she spoke,
and her manner made me even more
anxious about her than I had been be
fore. Though I was deeply sensible of
the obligations of delicacy. I could not ,
help regarding It as my duty to offer j
some advice and aid, bul I couldn't do
It without knowing what was the mat
ter. She did not resent such efforts aa
I made to solve the problem, yet she
would tell me no more than that there
watt a secret at the Isittwin of It What
(Or,l secret could be 1 was unable to ’
gueas.
1 felt very confident however, that
she would reveal It lo me if I could get
u chance to talk with her alone, but
the Inaomnia dub did not provide that
opportunity. Mrs. Gale was the most
■
WE CREPT BY HIM UNOBSERVED.
efficient ehaperort that it ever was my
ill luck to encounter. She would not
have me lead Miss Caverly into any
nook or corner for a tete-a-tete.
Every New Yorker must remember
the extraordinary succession of hot and
cloudless days. With nights of breath
less calm, that made this particular
September a meteorologicaj phenome
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A remei Hud • tuil to lon*
T«« cekbrdtcd quite in tons.
And all the people gA/cd on high
To •« the cook! in the bky.
Some Mid the toil wn only dtt*l
And thut some lime it Aurely mu»t
Fall in the Min And be comumcd.
(1 hr«e people thought the comet doomed.'
Some said. " Tt» btit illumined Air
ThAt gleam* behind, like ttreatning hair,
Bccauac," they «aid. perhaps in (un.
It never could swing round the *un"
And some looked wise and notliing said.
But gravely shook each learned head,
As though each knew but was afraid
To tell of what the tail was made.
non My recollection .does not supply
1 toe with a time when the Insomnia dub
could have mot for so many consecutlvo
nights In a whole week we did not
inlas one, and It wo* upon the eighth
night that the Incident happened which
brought affairs to a climax
The meeting was proceeding as usual.
There was one guest, a young lady to
whom Graves was devoting hlins df w itn
as much assiduity as the vigilance of
Mr*. Gale would p-rmlt Ml** *'overly
and I were sitting on the edge of the
hatch that covered the stairway leading
up from the garret
Suddenly I felt it tremble under us.
I thought at first that It was giving
way. Then I heard the rumble of a hu
man voice Itelow. We all heard II and
the Insomnia «lub was In a panic.
"Hold the villain down'”crled Graves,
and, gathering th" belongings "f the
club with wonderful celerity, he hurled
them upon the tire escape balcony.
Thither the Gales and the guest had al
ready fled.
“Go it, Graves!” said I. “We’ll fol
low."
Miss Caverly had remained loyally
by my side.
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| ‘ We'll never get to that balcony after
j we let go of this thing ' ahe whtspeied.
1 "We'll he discovered "
•'Hun for It now.” I replied. "I H
j take my chances.”
• I will do no such thing.” *he re*
I turned with energy.
"Then we'll both try a run for that
chimney." I whispered. "Now!”
\vv released the hatch and Ib'd on
! tiptoe for the shelter I had Indicated,
i ii was lucky that we didn't try to go
1 farther, for within three seconds that
i hab-h rose Into the air aa if a bomb
i had exploded under It.
A head appeared, and a voice said:
'•Adi' Gut!"
A man climbed out upon Hie roof.
| He waa of ample proportions and of a
i German type so pronounced a* to lie
unmistakable even In the faint light
of a waning moon. He brought a camp
chair and u huge pipe with him and
Immediately proceeded to make himself
comfortable.
Mies t’averly and I tk’erc prisoners.
' It I* perfectly dreadful!" ahe wills*
pered.
”11 Is tb* first chance 1 vr ever bad
to say a word to you alone." I replied.
"Thank heaven, we arc now beyond
the reach of chaperon*!''
And I Immediately begun to nttack
the secret of that trouble which was Hi ■
root of her ext rant dinury sleeplessness.
It was necessary to show at the outs t
ttiat my interest In her wus deep and
sincere, anil, so for a* the secret was
concerned* I did not adv.tn* •■ beyond that
point When I hud finished proving to
her lhat her welfare wa* my dearest
concern In Hie world, her head was on
inv shoulder. Then our lips touched,
and 1 forgot that there hud ever been a
weereL
Tho German went to rleep at a Quar
ter after 4 and we er#pf by him un
observed. The other Insomniacs were
anxiously awaiting' us. We all
that this Incident dissolved the club,
and we parted for the night with ex
pressions of deep sorrow and regret.
For iny own part, aside from the nat
ural Joy which filled my soul, I was
greatly relieved by the thought of the
clubs demise. I owed that Gorman a
double debt of gratitude. No longer
would It be necessary for me to steep
myself In black coffee. A fellow can
sec the girl that he Is engaged to with
out so much trouble.
That very morning before day had
fully dawned I threw a small coffeepot
out of my window and laid aside u
brawn paper bag with what remained
of my store erf coffee for my landlady.
When I came out into the hall next
morning, Frances was just ahead of
me. I called to her. and she turned
abottt. 1 tried to take both her hands,
but she hpld one of them behind her,
concealing something.
“It’s nothing at all,” she said, "only a
little coffee I happened to have. I was
go'ng to give It away.”
■■And Is that the awful secret that
drove sleep from your pillow?” I de
manded.
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of seeing, -some one—l—l cared for. You
understand?" . ..
For answer I took • brown paper ba#
of coffee from the aide pocket of my
cost. __ _
Railroad* In Hawaii.
Thetc are three railroad* In the Ha
waiian Island*. The Kahulul railroad,
the Hawaiian railroad. In the Island of
Hawaii. I* about 20 miles long. The*#
two roads are lined principally lo carry
the product* of th.' plantation* to th#
various isdnts of shipment. The prin
cipal road In these islands 1* the Oahu
Hallway and 1-and Company line, which
runs from Honolulu to Waianae, the to*
tul length. Including sidings, being Mhs
miles. This road «us opened for traf
fic July 1. 1890. since which time It#
business has shown a steady Increase,
both In Its passenger and freight traf
-11,.. j ,ust year the road carried 5.,.5J«
passenger*, receiving a revenue of $30.-
<»p:« 60 06.4:10.4M tons of freight were car
ried. earning *69,752.76. Th.' equipment
11 insists of & locomotive*, H pawenger
coaches and 132 freight cars. The road
IS bonded for *2,000.000 at 6 per cent.,
with $700,000 worth or stock, which is ta
be Increased to $1,500,000.
At present Hawaii has to Import al
most everything she uses, having been
heretofore entirely taken up With the
raising of sugar, the entire crop of
which comes to the United States. The
I 'nit i>d States In 139« took 99.64 per cent
of her exports and sold her 76.27 of all
Imports The desire Is that everything
should go from the United States. The
reason more goods have not been bought
f,.„m the United Slates was because the
.tariff only averages 10 per cent, which
is not discrimination enough on soma
articles.
Oldest and Best.
It Is not generally known that the
star spangled banner of the United
States is older than any one of the
present Hags of the great European
powers. It was adopted in 1777 by
the congress of the 13 colonies of
North America, then at war with the
mother country. The yellow and red
Spanish flag came out in 1785; the
French tricolor was adopted In 1794; the
red English emblem, with the union
jack In the upper corner, dates from
1801; the Sardinian (now the Italian)
flag first fluttered In 1848; the Austila-
Hungurlan flag was one of the conse
quenees of the compromise of 1867; the
present German flag first appeared In
1871. and the Russian tricolor Is quite a
recent affair.
The only modification that the Ameri
can flag has undergone since its origin
consists in the addition of a new star
every time a new state is taken Into
the Union.