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very much worn
I naked her where she wished to be
carried. She named a locality not of
the best fame, and with a trembling
voice, as if ash limed of it. I climbed
on the box and whipped up. Although
it was nothing to me where my fare
wished to go, I felt a sort of curiosity
as to who nnd what the lady might be.
I had observed that she (teemed to
have a pretty face, although the veil
that she wore over it did not let me
see her features plainly. During the
trip I was driven by my curiosity to
peep through the carriage window be
hind me, and saw that she had put up
her vail. She looked frightfully pale
and thin. Her skin was like wax,
and one did not need to be a doctor to
know that she was consumptive.
She held in her handssomethingon
which her eyes were fixed, nnd there
came over her face an expression of
thankfulness and satisfaction. What
the object was I could not tell exactly.
1 only saw* that it was light-colored,
and had no decided shape. 1 had only
two seconds of time for my observa
tion. I had to see to my horses in
tlie crowded street.
1 gave them a lash with the whip,
and at a quick trot we -oon arrived at
the part of the city Indicated. As soon
as 1 found the number which the lady-
had given me, I stopped, got off the
box and opened the door to help her
out. She appeared to be in great agi
tation, as if an unpleasant Interview
was before her. I received from her
over the price of Iht fare, which she
evidently knew, a littledrink-money,
thanked her. and she hurried away,
while 1 turned my carriage toward u
neighboring saloon to invest the
drink-money Immodistoly In a glass
of Ins r.
Hut before I went in, I proceeded to
straighten the carriage cushions, and
see that all was right Inside. As soon
as I opened the door again, I saw an
object lying on the seat. It was a
small linen sack—without doubt what
the lady lmd held in her lap. I took
it in my hand, and its weight aston
ished nie. With not a little curiosity
1 looked at It again and again, and at
lust tried to open it. It wns easily
done, for the bag was fastened only
by a litttle piece of string.
One can imagine my surprise when
I found that it was tilled with gold
pieces! 1 dared not look at them fur-
teuts, but I Always carried the bag
with me, and with feverish anxiety
and trembling hand I felt in my pock
et from time to time to see that it was
still there.
Strangely enough, I had during
this time unusual good luck. My car
riage was always occupied, and learn
ed a good deal of money. When I re
flected on this fact, I believed that
Providence thereby gave me a plain
hint. I had always been a .little re
ligious, and not free from supersti
tion, and this idea came to me^ The
result was that on the tenth day I
came t<^ the resolution to return the
lost property. The money had become
a curse to me ever since I stretched
my hand out toward It. I had no rest
by night or by day; I felt weak and
wretched, and visibly pined away.
I liad noted tlie address given in the
advertisement, nnd so I drove at noon
on tlie tenth day to No. 75 Grattau
street. It was the place where I had
driven the young lady. The door
stood wide open. I called a boy to
bold my horse, and went up the stairs.
1 asked a girl I met for Miss Berkeley
anR she thought that such a person
lived on the attic floor. I went up
higher, nnd knocked at tlie door I
presumed to be the right one. I could
not help feeling that I had been a ras
cal, and only the consciousness that I
was at last going to do right gave any
case to iny conscience.
At my knock a weak voice called,
"Come in!’’ I opened the dr or and
entered.
For a moment tlie darkness pre
vented my seeing tlie interior. Tlie
windows were dim with dust, smoke
and dirt, and some broken panes were
pasted over with paper. A table and
two chairs, with a miserable bed,
made the whole furniture.
“Step softly, Death is here," said a
trembling voice, in which I only too
well recognizee the young lady whom
I lind brought there ten days before.
But how she had changed in this short
time! Her cheeks were hollow, her
face was pale as death, and her eyes
lind an unnatural brightness.
When I lind gained the necessary
self-eouimnnd, I said, with my face
turned away—for it was Impossible
for me to look on myself as other than
n cowardly villain:
“I bring the bag of gold which ”
and then I muttered something about
... nthemlL
We ahull know a* n are known.
Never more to walk alone.
away.
ther m this place ns a policeman , ,. flvinKOnIyJufit ^ the notlca .
might possibly notice, and ask how I »»▼*?„ t i nf „p? 0 i_ A -i,. A
came by the gold, Meanwhile I tied It * to ° ,ate she whispered,
* - . ... .. IV. ‘‘Ha fill' U'liAni Hint in Aiioi*
tlie sack again, nnd put it in tlie wide
pocket of iny coat. Instead of indul
ging myself in a glass of beer, I drove
to the nearest back stand, und took
my place in tlie rear of the line of car
riages, so that I Mould be sure of not
being wanted for tlie next half hour.
I got into iny carriage, as hnckmen of
ten do when they want a little rest,
and 1 examined for the second time
my new-found treasure. I shook the
contents of tlie hag on tlie seat, and
sat with duxled -eyes tx*»re quite a
pile of gold.
After delighting my eyes with it for
a while, I counted the money, partly
twenty, partly ten-dollar pieces, sing
ly again into the sack, and found that
sad
ly. “He for whom that money wns
destined is no longer living. Here he
lies. He died some hours ago. Yes
terday you could have saved him—
saved us both—but now it is too late,
too late!’
And she went on murmuring to her
self, “too late!’’ as if she had fallen in
to a heart-rending stupor.
Suddenly the poor woman slowly
rose from the chair where she sat by
the death bed, and, alter walking up
which thrilled me to the marrow of
my bones,
“It is. only right that you should
know- w-lint you have to answer for,”
she said. “That is your work. You
In the daw nine of the moraine
Wheiuho mute have cleared
If we arr in human blindneu.
And target that we an dust;
1! we miss the law of klndncaa
When we struggle to he Just-
8dcwt wings of peace shall corar
All the pain that cloads our war;
When the weary watch la orar.
And se«« the break ot day.
We shall know as we an known.
Never more to walk alono.
In the dawning of the morning.
When the mists hare cleared away.
When the -livery mists have veiled ns
And we trend our path alone;
\Vt» should nee them near And truly.
We should trust them day by day,
Neither lore or blame unduly,
11 the mists were cleared away.
We shall know as we are known,
Never more to walk alone.
In the .dawning of the morning.
When the mists hacre cleared away.
When the mists have risen above us.
As our Father knows his own.
Face to face with those who love us.
We shall know us we are known.
Love beyond the orient meadows
F!«H(s the golden fringe of day ;
Heairlo heart we bide the shadows.
Till the mists have cleaaed awav.
We shall know as we are known.
Never more to walk alone.
In the dawning of the momlnr,
nists have cleared a
When the mists have cl<
L away.
The liquor license in Eatonton is 13,000.
Columbia, S. C., now has about 13,000 popula
tion.
From Memphis to Madison, Ark., the river is
40 miles wide.
Potash Farrow is the big “Injun" of the coali
tion movement.
Mr. Stephens wants to give us some more olco
rn argerine money.
Must a man, who has no front teeth, necessa
rily be a back-biter?
Mobile has gone Democratic. Coalition did
it with its little hatchet.
of Mexico Letter.
The road from this city to Ban Juan
del Rio used to be the worst part of
the journey to the Interior, when one
was obliged to travel by diligence,
and was the part most infested by
highway robbers. The highway rob-
liers are by no meanB extinct as yet,
but with the railroads one hears much
less of them. When I arrived in this
country for the first time some nine
teen years ago, I had the pleasure of
being robbed two or three times, both
on the road to San Juan del Rio and
on the road to Vera Cruz. I am rath
er glad of it now, os being robbed on
the highway by the genuine Mexican
bandit, is a sensation soon • to be a
thing of the past, and I like leaving
he track occasionally and being slia-
en by new emotions. I was doubly
shaken that time, I remember, by the
awful motion of the diligence and my
fright at meeting the “companeros,”
as they call them here. .
It is a picturesque sight to see a band
ofjti&lcan “banditti’’ galloping ‘lawjjltablv'-aw-angeil. ~M<
a mountain path on magnificent ^
“Another word for opaqueness,” an
swered bis customer, with a faint re
membrance of bis Webster.
“Yes, but jvhat are the qualities of
opacity?” he Insisted, bringing the
p stle down with emphasis.
“Its qualities?” came the hesita
ting reply. “WeU, want of transparen
cy, thickness, imperviousness to
light—what do you call it, eh—den
sity—”
“Stop there,?’ ike said, covering the
mortar with both hands, “density is
your best word. Still I see you do not
know—that is you have not given the
subject so close an attention as I,” he
added, correcting himself with nice
delicacy. “Let me tell you something
I have learnt.”
He was a nloe dapper looking little
fellow, a Southern Israelite from his
accent and name and a dru;
occupation. The store whi<
eral years ho bad kept on
nab was small but nicely
A well to do fanner and his wi/e were mur
dered in their house in Virginia.
Bills to the amount of 12^000 hare been sent
in for cooling off Garfield’s rooms.
The Independent-Radical coalition movement
has broken out in South Carolina.
There is one of two things: Hither the Parson
is afraid or Potash is bloodthirsty. * i
Dr. Taylor has discovered the remains of a
huge mastodon in Wilcox county, Fla. f ’•,
The South Carolina Republicans have decided
to aid the Independents In that State. ^ ~
Miss Mary Herman, of Jeffersonville, Ind.
has passed her fiftieth day without food.
The Methodist churcl at Columtjus, Miss., is
connected by telephone with thirty-six houses.
In Crittenden, Lee and Phillips counties. Ark.,
there are 15,000 negroes in a destitute condition.
Judge Bleckley is entirely too {esthetic for a
Governor. His first message would doubtless
be In verse.
The old battle ground of Chlcaraauga, Tcnn.,
abounds with small game, and furnishes excel
lent quail shooting.
“Docs your Wife play euchre?* asked one.
"No," replied the other, rubbing his head, “but
she's death on poker."
Mr. Stephens will do very weU as a sort of a
balance-wheel in Congress, but. he is entirely
incapacitated for Governor.
Wc will answer the Southrou’s conundrum
about Mr. Speer’s record as soon as we receive
some documents ordered out.
Hon. Henry Persons, of Talbot,, proposes that
the pcmocratic party settle all nominations by
primary election. We second b is motion.
Remember, that President Arthur is openly
backing the Independent party im Georgia, and
gggssaw pgaHBBB
Mr. Lamar, ol Mississippi, and Senator Brown,
ot Georgia, voted to place General Grant on the
retired list. Only a taw other Southern Senators
voted, j, • ' : ~-
U amounted to exactly the sum of lif- cau l )roua of >‘: it has been a com
teen hundred dollars.
I could not think otherwise titan
t lint this money belonged to the pale
young lady whom I had last carried.
Mow site came by it, and wliat, site
plete success.”
She laughed wildly—it was more a
mingling of laughing and crying—
nnd looked at me.
“He was my husband,” she went
The old gnano-horn otthe 7th district has
been crushed out ot tho public print by a digni
fied yet ocsthing ventilation ot hia political rec
ord.
But one clergyman In Washington seems to
have thought Guitean'a soul worth, saving, and
has prayed tar him without conning. He is a
colored man.
was going to do with it, was another I °«. af,or n while. “We lived apart,
tiling. 1 had found it, and it wns a
great temptation to me to keep it.
What eould I not undertako witlt sucli
capital? I eould buy myself a car
riage and horses, and instead of being
a miserable hired coachman, would
myself own carriages, or establish a
livery stable, which would make me
independent.
The picture of the future which I
painted in this way was alluring, but
along with it wns the consideration
that 1 should be a thief if I retained
the money. My selfishness had a se
vere struggle with ray conscience.
While I now looked more closely at
the bag, I found written in ink upon
il the address, “Miss Mildred Berke
ley, No. 4, Madison Place.’’ This ad
dress, which had hitherto escaped me,
I read with as much disgust as aston
ishment, for there now remained to
me, as an honorable man, but one
way. I meditated ov^r it a time, but
eould come to no conclusion. “With
honesty,” said one voice, in my soul,
“you will earn no bread; with honesty
you can go, in your old age, to the
poor house.”
At lust selfish interest and con
science came to a compromise, and 1
resolved to keep the money till the
following day. Then, I thought, there
v ill bo a reward offered, and no one
can blame me for at least profiting by
that.
I remained all day iu a fever of ex-
eilement; and, when night came, I
l'c.i really ill. I could not sleep. Next
morning I was pale and wretched,
went to breakfast where haokmen are
in the habit of drinking their coffee,
nnd eagerly looked {for the morning
pa per. Sure eifough. at the top of tlie
column tor lost and found'articles I
found this advertisement:
l.osT.—Yesterday, in a hack, a bog
of gold. The finder Is earnestly en
treated to bring the money to No. 75
<: rat tau street, three flights up, where
lie will receive a liberal reward
I knew well what this last passage
signified, fori had already in many
cases learned that this common ex
pression allowed great latitude. Allb-
crul reward meant perhaps from one to
five dollars and a glass of beer. That
would be fino amends for resigning
fitieon hundred dollars. I laughed in
scorn, and my chagrin was great. My
heart hardened toward the person who
had inserted this notice, and I no
longer fety the least desire to part
with the money.
I went about all day with the sack
of gold in my pocket, like a madman
which caused me once or twice nearly
run over people. My night’s rest was
disturbed phantoms, and the morning
brought me no relief. I felt misera
ble, and what is worse, even in my
waking hours the phantoms did not
fade from my eyes.
To my grest surprise, the advertise
ment wss not repeated. I could not
explainable to myself, but began to
fear that the police were on mj^tracfc,
and that some fine day X must walk
into prison. -•‘"St"
why nnd wherefore is nothing to you.
For three years I heard nothing of
him. During this tiijpe I Jived out as
governess, and earned that money
which you hold in your band.,^Mny
God forgive you for what you' have
done!” , ,
Here she had it severe fit of cough
ing, and when she took the, handker
chief from her mouth it was wet with
fresh blood. The hectic flush on her
checks burned deeper than before,and
I could plainly see. that she bad not
much longer to live in this world.
“At last he found me,” she contin
ued. weakly, “and wrote, begging me
to come to him. I came. He lived
in this hole in sickness nr.d poverty.
Had I not lost my gold then, I would
have taken him away, and cared well
for him. He died of hunger. We have
had no food for the last three days,
and there is no other fate for me but
to follow him. Oh, you have done
manly deed! Look there—your work!
Yours!”
She drew a cloth from tlie face of
the corpse; it looked almost a skele
ton, and the sorrow of the sight over
powered her. She threw herself over
It, and sobbed violently. This emo
tion brought on another fit of cough
ing, with a frightful torrent of blood,
during which she expired. Her dis
ease had gone too far for her to sur
vive the shock of herhusband’s death
and if she could not die in his arms
she died by his side.
Terrified I spread the sheet over the
two dead forms, and hurried to call
the landlady. I still held the gold In
my hand; it seemed to burn like fire
and I would have hurled It from me if
I had not a duty to fulfljl. ' The land
Jady was very Indifferent about the
fate of the unfortunate pair. She
merely said {hat nothing different had
been expected, but she was much
pleased when I asked what they owed
and proceeded to pay her.
I went to an undertaker, and arrang
ed with him for a fitting fttneral for
the couple united In death. I could
hot and would not seek for their rela
tives and friends to draw suspicion
upon myseif. It was now clear to me
why the advertisement for the loss of
the money appeared- but once. Tho
poor souls had not the means to pay
for a repetition.
I followed the coffins to the grave.
No stone marks it; butl know it well,
and it often follows me In my dreams
The very same day I drove to the
hospital for consumptives, and pat
the rest of the bag of gold lit the col
lection-box, for I Would rather have
died of hunger than have kept a pen
ny of it. ' ■
A man in Lincoln county, Kv., has just been
fined 146 for beating bis wife and one cent tar
driving hia mother-in-law out of hla hottae “by
force of guns.”
A little girl, who bad been with Iter mother
shopping, told her brother, win in the got home,
that slie“went Into abigatore nnd rode up stair*
on an aiilgator. ”
Mr. Stephen* hat declared, bimaelf onto! poli
tic*, and will apend the balance of bit day* in
attending to hia private bu tlneu. He will not
accept office again.
Mr*. Polk, Mr*. Tyler -and Mrv Garfield will
doubtiee* each get a p* ,-nalon ol $.'>,000 a year.
Wonder if they will be aaaeaaed for campaign
pnrpoaca by the Kadlcr .la? a
What can be 'espeol .edof acenntiy when ita
Chief Magiatrete av* .wedly lay* aside Juatlce
and rung tho govern ment in tire interest of and
strengthen a polF.leal party?
George Hendrix, the fellow who defaced the
monument to Map or Andre, should be decorated
with a coat of tar and faathereand made to peck
on a rock pile far twelve month* In Sing-Sing.
The Democrficy of Georgia haa ho compro
mise to make with the "New Movement,” at
aome of the co nilituenta now ask. You had a*
well try to mi x oil and water as Democracy and
KadtcaUam. j r' /' \ T
The iiooao committee on Agriculture has
agreed to import favorably the biU to make the
Agricultural* Department an Executive Depart
ment an ExeenUve Department and its chief a
Cabinet officer. /
horses; their large Mexican hats
trimmed with gold and silver, shad
ing their faces; tlielr pantaloons but
toned down the side with large silver
buttons; their pistols In their belts
behind, their swords at their side, and
their “scrapes”—a sort of plaid of
bright and variegated colors—artisti
cally thrown over one shoulder and
hiding their entire face with the ex
ception of one eye, which glares fero
ciously on the unfortunate passengers
of the diligence they are about to rob.
Their captain gallops at their head
and shouts imperiously to the driver
of the diligence to “stop.” In one trip
in which I encountered them there
was a lady among the passengers who
wore a nandsome diamond ring, rath
er tight for her finger. In her fright
she could not get it off, and one of the
brigands spid to his leader:
Captain, the lady cannot get her
ring off. What are we to do?”
To which the Mexican, “Fra Dia-
volo” answered very * ooly, “Cut her
finger off.”
You can easily imngine the cold
shudder that ran through us all. For
tunately she managed to get the ring
off, and we were not forced to witness
an amputation.
In another journey a more amusing
incident occurred. There was a Bish
op in the diligence and they robbed
him of his ring. When they had got
through their operations and taken
everything of value wo had, they
knelt down and asked the Bishop to
give them his blessing. He told them
it was impossible to bless them with
out his ring, hoping in that way to
get possession of it. They returned
him the ring and he solemnly blessed
them, but when he had done so they
again took his ring and galloped off
with it. leaving his grace in the mid
dle of the road, exclaiming:
“Bandidos perversos! they have
robbed me of my every blessing!
ibl
9
the brigands possessed themselves of
the passengers’ clothes I have very
often seen, from my balcony in the
Hotel Iturbide, man and woman ar
rive completely naked. An English
man said to me once: “I generally
travel with two or three copies of the
London Times. You know it is a very
large newspaper, and in case of these
confounded blackguards takingall my
clothes, by Jove! the Times might be
useful.”
think it stood but little
trading custom compai
rival establishment respls;
colored bottles and gas jet,
away on Broad street. Bui
shop was not a dead instituZIon,
though in one sense it was a deadly
one, for its owner was an enthusiast
in toxicology, and in that little room
there was a collection of subtle drugs
and quick essences of which most
apothecaries had never heard since
dropping the Materia Jlctlica for ice
cold soda water. Poor Baldwin, of the
boss shoe store, he who went to Ja
cobs’ one day and got a drink of soda
water and then went to sleep on a
shoe box, used to say it was only at
Jacobs’ he could get his prescriptions
filled, prescriptions which usually
contained agents that had not been
heard of since the days of the Borgias.
It was the desperate resolve to get rid
of an infliction of moths, of rats, that
had brought the writer to the College
avenue drug store.
THE ACH-EMIST.
But Jacobs was not alone a dispen
ser of strange drugs. He was a con-
eater, a distiller, a practical chemist,
and it was owing to the hours spent
over fires and fumes that he had grown
to have a positive alchemetic un-
healthiness of look. What he did at
nighttime could only be judged of
from his weary, wasted look, but in
the day he was incessantly pounding
something or other in a mortar, and
had a fashion of punctuating his re
marks with vicious jobs of the pestle
which sometimes brought a respon
sive crackle from the compound he
was at work upon, and which always
resulted in an increased evil smell
It was with an emphasis of th
that Jacobs gave his views on
Although in doing so he
ly enough, he maintoii
elded reserve concei
of his discovery, and
selfwlth decrying_the
oy and
of his declarations is
because of its audacit;
“You know,” he sail
riously, “you know that wli
of glass in your windows y°Ljg
will be In light. With sheet'
in the sash your house wf
JUST THE GmL.
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
William U. L. Gruner, the celebrated German
engraver, ia dead, at tlie afefra sl yetre.
Langtry’* term* to English manager* are (0
per cent, and foand tar henelf and company.
Hr Bayard will deliver the addreaa at Darta-
moutU 'College next Jane, in honor of the
Daniel Webster centenary.
Dr. La Mourner, of SlV Orleans, hat bitten
off tlie nose of Dr. Biley, of that city, in a math
and hnnbie light.,
A marriage la talked of in Madrid between
the lnlauta Enlalie, yoaneett abler of King AJ-
fonao, and tve aon of tho Due da Mrntpenatir
Governor Cameron, of Virginia, ia reported
ill with rhanmatiam contracted on bit re *ent
uava. expedition again! the eyater pirate*.
The New York Truth, alluding to Pinchtiaek,
aaya <a gentleman in whom tho odontof A fiioa
an aweetly blended with the fragrant* ot th*
Loal*iasa|*ngyr case.’ i
Juatice Miller, of th* Supreme Coart ia ill
agaiu, indication- beini* that another operation
similar to that performed by Dr. Smith, of Sal-,
timore, a year ago will have th he made.
Professor Praetor; th* astronomer-d*a)ea> th*
story that he predicted the world woolo come to
an end In 1897, and say* it *i* mors I Ik sly to last
tUtaen million* of year* than to be liearwi.pai
in fiftSsf”
Mr. John Kelly. with hia party, .reached N ew
York, Tuesday. on hia return from Florida. Ha
expnaaot naUiticiion with hia trip, tad li’ao
with th* trade made by Tammany with thal-o-
uabUeaiM during his abaanca,
It a reported of the Preaidant that haclafce
under aocial restraint, and that he would Ukett*
be more free in hia action*. Th* WaiMngtaa
gmip* say that he is leneeccae hi the Whit*
! TMfMv. Ward Biathar haa or. foUyraeom*
ed from hia Chicago lUniwa that ’a* lactared last
evening In Ottawa, Ul., spatkinr an hour and a
half and allowing no aign* of d» Slning rigor,
lymniiiilffliq trailfk H’H'tpglothii'Loodop
’World, ia to b* mad* by the Duchess Of Edin-
‘ Tgh and other leaden of f ashioo this season
ssessfgiiss.ssi
is nri thought th* thing to appear.** * dance
If you want to make a printer blind,
crazy’mad, just gt> Into the composing
room, stand behind him. while he is at
work, look, over hia shoulder and
Ms i'copy” while you engage)
conversation. Tf this doirtrfct
you moyknowhohaa taken a home
stead on his religion. .> j- >
His name was Augustus Smytbc; he
was a clerk in a dry goods store, and
didn’t earn enough money to starve de
cently on, but with that sublime assur
ance which distinguishes the lah-de-dah
young man of the day, be was paying
attention to the prettiest girl in the city.
He managed, by not paying his washer
woman and tailor, to take her to thea
tres, but as times were getting hard he
concluded to marry her and save the ex
pense of boarding. By some, process of
mental arithmetic known to the genius,
he discovered with great difficulty that
'bat was not enough for one was enough
for two, and forthwith concluded to
pop.' He knew that his persistent tits
had kept all other young men away, so
he had no fear of a rival. When the
time came and he found himself in the
company of Ills Laura in her papa’s com
fortable parlor, he leisurely seated him
self by her side on tlie sofa, took her
dimpled little hand, used pnly to tinkle
the piano with, and said in a bretaze
voice:.
“Dear Hiss Laura, I have concluded
to marry.”
Laura started, as he intended she
should. Then he resumed grandilo
quently : “I want a dear little girl about
your size, with a great big heart, just
like your’s to share my lot.”
“Is it on Court avenue?” murmured
Lsura. ' , ■ If)
No; dearest, but what are localities
to hearts that love? I want a girl that
Is good-tempered, sweet, economical,
and who loves me! .Darling, do you
know of such a one?”
Laura faintly: “Yes, oh yes, I am
sore I do.” '
“One who would rather live with me
in poverty than dwell with some other
man with riches? Who would esteem it
a pleasure to serve me, cook my meals,
keep the house tidy, and listen for my
footsteps—who would rise early and sit
up late for my sake?”
•Oh, how beautiful I” murmured Lab
•ra. “Just like a dear self sacrificing
man.” • ■
“Do you know ol such a one, my an
gel?”
“Yes, I do,” responded Laura fervent
ly “but you must riot call me your an
gel, for she might not like it; she’s in
the kitchen now washing the dishes,
and she told mother this morning she’d
just as leave get married this winter as
Jive out, if she only felt able to support
a husband. She’s just the girl you
want, and she’d love you within an inch
o.'yoL’rlife.”
But Augustus Smyttae had'fled into
the outer darkness; the too mhcltneaa
the occasion overcame him. like a
.jauma
Un
lead-
darkness, and that, though Lg
be five times as thin os glass,, why?
You will answer as a school boy does,
•Because glass is transparent and
iron is not.’ Exactly so. Take your
place at the head of the class. But
what makes the gloss transparent
and the iron opaque? A moment’s
consultation of your text books and
you come up smiling with the an
swer, ‘Because the rays of light pass
freely through the glass, but cannot
pass at all through tho iron.’ Right
again, but now comes the staggerer.
A STARTLING DISCOVERY.
“Why cannot the light pass through
thairon as well as through the glass?
Dodge this as you will, you are not
able to answer it, but do not fear be
ing sent to the foot, for that can
scarcely happen when all your class
/mates are there already. Yonr text
books cannot tell you; indeed they
shirk the question in toto. Hunt the
library shelves; take down Stillman
Ohm, Bird, Loomis, Deschanel, and
as many others as you will, and you
will come away as wise as you went.
To them it Is a secret and that secret
I have discovered. Now, then,” he
concluded, “with this knowledge in
my possession it is just as easy for me
to give transparency to any body, no
matter how opaque, as it is for a child
to soak a sheet of paper iu oil, and
then look through R, or for
“One moment,” said his listener,
rising and moving quickly away from
I promise you it surprise inside of half an
hour. Fifty cents. Thank yon. At 10
then. ■■ *
There wns someth! ng ao matter of fact
about Jacobs, so very unlike the manner
of a man with a erase that the appoint
ment was made and kept. The druggist
was putting his shutters up betimes, and
as he lived but a short distance from liis
store it was just 10 when they reached
the little cottage in Cobbliam where he
resided. A sleepy looking colored men,
Grif Johnson, by uame, opened the door
and was turning away witlt a yawn to
shuttle along the passage, when Jacobs
called after him that he need be iu no
particular hurry. The negro turned and
held the lamp above his head, so that
the light falling on us, fell too, on his
black wooly crown, the broad bent shoul
ders, and dark weazened face. He wore
a heavy, dazed look which the visitor
first attributed to want of proper rest,
but which was soon seen to be in conse
quence of its wearer’s dull wits. The
njfvous young apothecary luul chgaen a
rvlng man in the person of the half
;ed negro. ’
More ’sperements I s’pose?” said he
ith ait odd twist of the mouth.
“Yes, Johnson,” said Jacobs quietly,
“but nothing to speak of, and here’s a
gentleman come on purpose to see what
ails you.”
At this simple fib, Johnson laid the
lamp upon a chair, clasped his hands
over his digestive organs and doubling
himself up emitted such a series of yells
that one would have thought he had a
fit. At length sitting up on the floor
where he had been rolling in apparent
agony, Johnson gasped:
“ IVhat—ails—me?” (more yells)
“why I’se got a pain in my stomach?”
Johnson’s Juki:.
“That, sir,” said Jacobs, stopping
what threatened to be another convul
sion on Johnson’s part by a quiet,“there
that will do for the present.” “That, sir,
is Johnson’s great and only joke, the dia
gram of which you shall at once sec.”
'•Johnson, take op your Tamp ime IQtff
the way.” The negro did as bid and
slouched aloug down a stairway which
must have been intended for the kitchen
but which had been converted by Jacobs
into a laboratory. A retort had been
fitted up on the range; there were all
sort of pipes and tubes connected with
the hnt water boiler; the sink was filled
with dirty bottles and crucibles and the
slielvcs were crowded with more, while
just in the eye of a lamp with a powerful
reflector there stool what looktd
suspiciously like an operating chair.
Tlie floor was strewn with ashes which
crunched under foot at each step; dust
lay on everything; nnd it was clear nei
tlicr master nor servant held cleanliness
at so high a rate as did tlie apostolic hero
of Tarsus.
“Light the fire Johnson,” said Jacobs,
id theft take off your coat and shirt,
this morning,” lie continued,
jng a space to sit down on the lit-
jtable, “that you considered me at
tile odd—off myjbase as it were.
nt was but wild
'and that my boast of having dis-
a secret hidden to others was an
>ie. 1 can confidently assure you
ou arc mistaken. Strip Johnson/
concluded with energy. ‘-Strip and
’iow us the pain in your stomach.
Griff slowly divested himself of his up
per garments and stood in the full glare
bnlylfywHHp .
that l consider the nature of thot process
my. secret.”
Of coni s<* his visitor stayed, and as the
promise had been given not to pry over
much, only generalities can can be writ
ten of. This much may be said, howev
er. Johnson lay in the operating ehair
with his back facing outward. On hia
hack wns a square piece of green silk,
which Jacobs rolled up like a window-
blind, discovering a cleared patch of an
equal extent to that in front, only, in
stead of being transparent, the skin wss
like horn. A robber tube, which led
from the nozzle of the retort, was at
tached to an oblong case, lined with felt,
and this just fitting over tlie space to. be
operated upon was held there firmly bv
leather bands, buckledaround Johnson’s
body.
VIEWING THE MECHANISM.
“Then,” said Jacobs when this was
done, “half an hour’s—steaming let us
say—and the thing will be done.” Then
he commenced talking: spoke of the
painlessness of the operation, of tlie
years of investigation he had given tlie
subject, of the disappointments lie had
met and Overcome, of the stickler he was
now struggling with, of restoring an ar
tificial transparent body to its normal
capacity, of 111* bel-ef he could do it, and
so oh, interesting enough to listen to bnt
not enough so to repeat. The half hour
was soon up, and rising, ho unbuckled
the case from the still sleeping Johnson
and looked anxiously at the treated sur
face.
“It’s all right,” he cried, glancing
around w ith a great look of satisfaction
on his face. “Brlugt- e lamp, and while
1 hold it back here, you look through
from the front.”
Look through” was just the exjiresr
sion, for, with the lamp behind, John
son could be seen through and* through.
It was like gazing into a clock with the
light placed ill the workings as we have
all seen repairers do. Tlie height and
depth of the man’s mechanism wns re
vealed; the hidden springs of action
were seen, and the construction of a
body in action was discovered. Just as
Jacobs was about to point out some mus
cular movement, there wns a contraction
of tlie stomach: the cheese and sau
sage flew furiously at each other;
there was a tumult and heaving below
and Johnson awakening with a yell,
fled from the room. Bill Dadd.
ron of the lamp not with a pm’n bnt with a
SP00PENDYKE *IN THE ROLE OF A
- SPORTSMAN.
“Say, my dear,” said Mr. Spoopen-
dyke, as he drew a gun from the case
and eyed It critically, “I want yon to
wake me up early in tlie morning. I’m
going shooting.”
Isn’t that too sweet!” ejaculated
Mrs. Spoopendyke. “I'll wear my
dress and my Saratoga waves. Where
do we go?”
I’m going down to the island, and
you’ll go as far as the front door,”
grunted Mr. Spoopendyke. “Women
don’t go shooting. It’s only men. A11
you’ve got to do is to wake me up and
get breakfast. When I come home
we’ll have some birds.”
“Won’t that bo nice!” chimed Mrs.
Spoopendyke. “Can you catch birds
with thot thing?” and Mrs. Spoopen
dyke fluttered around the Improved
breech loading shot gun, firmly im
pressed with the idea that it wua.some
kind of a trap.
I con kill ’em with this,” exclaim
ed Mr. Spoopendyke. “This is a gun,
.mwriiaaaaifr Isn’t -A noati-.wlth, tjffijjj
^HjHUPpToii. m
-calf” is near the sanjc v.'cinity,' nnd
occasionally approaches its dead mother,
and the whalers are confident cf captur
ing it, as it camo sufficiently (dose on
Saturday toils mother to have been
killed. The men werg,- however, not
enabled. to use tlieir l>oats nt the tirno
and It escaped. The “calf” is of large
xizc, and it is estimated will produce 15
barrels of oil. The presence of these
“Jonah swollowers” In our waters
promises to prove a bonanza to some
cruisers, ns it is estimated that the oil
from an average size one wilt yield aliout
$:i,ooo.
Since the capture of the one above no
ted tve learn that on Wednesday last a
whaling schooner, which has been cruis
ing around Brunswick aiul St. Simon’s
Island on the lookout for these lcvin-
•haiis of the deep, succeeded In coining
across a huge fellow near the Island,
which they killed and captured, and are
now busily employed reducing the flesh
to oil. We are informed that it is ex
pected fully 100 barrels of oil will be ob
tained.
The method employed in dispatching
these monsters now is more rapid and
attended with less danger than formerly.
A harpoon is driven into the body w ith
a small torpedo attached which explodes
insh’e, making a fearful wound that
quickly produces death. The lifeless
body is then hauled to the side of the
vessel, when ropes arc tied around it
near the head and tail aiul secured to tlie
masts. The carcass Is cut in large square
pieces with a sharp instrument ,-liapod
like a spade. These pieces arc hauled
upon deck with a block and tackle anil
the Sesli boiled down to oil.
Large numbers of people from Bruns
wick went to St. Simon’s in boats to get
a look at the dead monster, nnd some of
them were towed hack to Bruns.vick on
her outward trip by tlie steamer David
Clark.
A DANCE OF DEATH.
scourge which has swept over the
country occurred about three weeks
ago. A gentleman living in Rich
mond gave a ball, nnd Tom Taylor, a
famous negro fiddler In these parts,
was called upon to furnish the music
A large company of ladies and gentle
men attended the party and dancing
was kept up until the morning hours.
After midnight it was noticed that
Fiddling Tom, who had complained
early in the evening of feeling bad,
had seemed to grow wild and his mu
sic grew quicker, so that the foot of
the young dancers, nimble though
they were, could not keep pace with
the rush of his music. He sang out
the figures in a stentorian voice, and,
seeming imbued with the wildness of
his own music, swayed his body to
fro like one bewitched, while his eyes
became bloodshot and his voice hus
ky. Suddenly, just before ttie hour
for breaking up tho party arrived, the
SAiHq* fin l,UlAfm ..n.l I,, ilnll*-
tarasty yemaf-o
. AUlaoo, W od?
Republican member* -
ey war* all poor at
tin* ia now a millionaire
the Senate, i* sooUki
i* treble a millionaire;
time—rtnr poor.
Aliiw*.
ittflSSrtGsx
Wednesday. The amount xiren to each of the
contestant* VS*** tallow*: Hatael. tt.wm gate
:*: Fitzgerald, 43732
Hufcboi,solU- you appear to ha-
la Biqu ;.HX tirest in what l bavfe«al£
the wheeling pestle, “Did I
stand you to say you could see
any body, substance, article, yi
or through anybody, person, ij
al, as it were?”
“Why, that I can glvetrans;
to any object, animate or inai
of course. Do you thlnkldhoul
spent my thoughts and time for years
trying how to knock the opacity out
of a thundering block of wood? No,
sir,(A lunge with the pestle Id the cus
tomer’s direction); I can, by the ap-
pllcation of my process, see through
you by it. ’ I can give transparency to
any one, from a Bones- to a Kentzed. I
tell yon, sir, Professor Bell’s electric lu-
puctor is a child’s cheap toy compared
to my discovery. You don’t believe mo
of course. I haven’t found any one who
did, except one other fool and he only
because of the Irresistible force of per
sonal experience.”
Bnt if all this is true, why don’t you
give publicity to what most be the dis
covery of the age?” hazarded thecas-
tomer, smiling at the young lunatic to
keep him qniet.
Who knows bnt that I am doing
now?” answered Jacobs, returning the
smile. ‘’I’ve MOD talking (the last bait
hour to a newspaper man, I believe.”
THE PROCESS HOT PERFECTED.
“But, speaking seriously,” and he
paused a moment to tip ont the powder
from the mortar. “My reason for not
having sought publicity is that I have
riot yet perfected my process.
I’ie only 'geri halt way. S jAn/wSket
what Is opaque transparent but I cannbt
bring back the original opacity. Bpt jt
will come, it will come. Talking about
an In
jxmrinhis stomach. Talk about the
windows of the soul, this man was like
a walking camera or ’an animated con
servatory. As Mr. Spoopendyke says he
only wanted a notice of Looms to let and
a pair of darned Nottingham curtains to
be a regular boarding house. Com
mencing just below his throat and ex
tending as far* down as the abdominal
region, with a breadth of say, fourteen
inches, was a rectangular surface, from
which Johnson’s colored epiderme seem
ed to have been clearly cut out, while in
its place was whatat first glance looked
liked a sheet of plate glass, with a alight
yellow tinge,'through which tho whole
of Griff Johnson’s internal economy
coaid be seen. ' On looking more closely
at this Ethiop’scleaucd skin, it was per
ceived that its yellowish tingue was due
to the net work of capilllaries which
crossed and recroossed it in countless
meshes and in a manner most woiidcrful
to behold. The course of the blood eould
not be appreciated in these, but iu the
veins and arteries the red fluid could be
seen flowing along with a sharp, leapiug
motion, white as the heart threw its
septure with a soft thud against the
breast-bone the valvular system of the
marvelous pump was made clear and the
arteries pulsated like a fire hose. With
each pulsation the lnngs, which looked
like a sponge of the finest quality, cover
ing a beautiful spray of coral, flushed
and filled, and then paled and flabbed.
The esophagus lay quiet but the stom
ach was in violent agitation.
TIIE CAUSE OP THE COMMOTION
there in all its common a plain-
: In one corner was a lump of Myer
Yn’s Swiss cheese and In another was
Tib remains of one of McDowell’s sausa
ges. For one moment the two evidences
of a late supper lay there quietly, as if
exhausted; then suddenly the stomsche
was strongly convulsed, and cheese and
sausage flew at each other, banged them
selves desperately at the door of tho
pyloms, only to be repulsed and to en
gage themselves viciously anew. All
this time the stomach trembled in pain
and vexation, the liver seemed worried
and nneasy, the lungs looked oppressed
and even the heart stood still a moment
to watch tlie conflict; and then went un
steadily ahead to nuke up for a lost
beat. It was a lesson to post-prandial
darmanadizere which,if once seen would
not be without its lessons. “Well, sir,”
.said Jacobs, breaking a silence which his
visitor had occupied ip looking through
this marvelous peep-hole, with all the
power of hiS widely-opened eyes, “And
what do you think of my diaooVery
now?”
Ifris simply astonishing; simply pro
pitious. But,” he added in a baU whis
per, for he saw that Griff Johnson bad
gone to sleep daring the inspection,
“Are you apt afraid something will
break?”
Jacobs laughed quietly. “You think
because it Is transparent It is brittle,
he said, "Ob,not at all! Griff’s flesh is as
bard and firm as yours.” And to prove
the truth of his assertion be tapped up
on the window-pane with such a sharp
rap that it rattled under his fingers a»d
‘.a start.
iTaiS*"'
speckled eggs in it, nor is it a barn
with a hole in the root. You stick the
cartridge in here and pull this finger-
piece, and down comes your bird every
time.”
Isn’t that the greatest thing!
suppose if you don’t want a partridge
you can stick a duck or a turkey in
that end, too, or a fish or a lobster, and
bring it down just as quick.”
Yes, or you can stick a house or a
cornfield, or a dod gasted female idiot
in there, too, if you want to!” snorted
Mr. 8poopendyke. “Who said any
thing about a partridge? It’s a cart
ridge that goes in there.”
“Oh!” ejaculated Mrs. Spoopen
dyke, rather crestfallen. “I see now.
Wherq does the bird go?”
“It goes to night school, if he hasn’t
got any more sense than you have,”
snorted Mr. Bpoopendyke. “Look
here, now, and I’ll show you how it
works,” and Mr. Spoopendyke, whose
ideas of a gun were about os vague as
those of his wife, inserted the cart
ridge half way in the muzzle end, and
cautiously cocked the weapon
“And when the bird sees that he
oomes and pecks it! Isn’t that the
funniest!” and Mrs. ' Spoopendyke
clapped her hands in the enjoyment
of her discovery. “Then you put out
your hand and catch him!”
“You’ve struck It!” howled Mi.
Spoopendyke, who had the hammer
on the half cock and was vainly pull
ing at the trigger to get it down.
“That’s the idea! All you need is four
feathers and a gas bill to be a martin-
gpie! With your notions you only
want a new stock and steam trip
hammer to be a needle gun! Don’t
you know the dod gasted thing has to
gooff before you get a bird? You
shoot the birds; you don’t wait for
’em to shoot you.”
“At home we used always to chop
their heads off with an ax,” faltered
Mrs. Spoopendyke.
“So would lif I was going after
measly old bens,” retorted Mr. Spoop
endyke, who had managed to uncock
tho contrivance;, “but when I go for
yellow birds and sparrows I go like a
sportsman. While I’m waiting for a
bird,” continued Mr. Spoopendyke,
adjusting the cartridge at the breech
“I put the load in here for safety, and
when I see a flock I aim and fire.
Bang! went the gun, knocking the
tall feathers out of an eight-day clock
and plowing a foot furrow in the wall
perforating the closet door and culmi
nating in Mr. Spoopendyke’s plug hat.
“Goodness, grqclous!” squeaked
Mrs. Spoopendyke, “Oh my!”
Mr. Spoopendyke gathered himself
op and contemplated the damage.
“Why couldn’t ye keep still?’’ he
shrieked. “What’d ye want to die
turb nty aim for and make me let it
off? Think I can hold back a. charge
of powder and a pound of shot while a
measly woman Usearing it through
agon barreU?”
If it had been a bird how nicely
you would have shot it.?”, suggested
Mrs. Spoopendyke, soothingly. “If
yon should 'ever aim at a bird you’d
catoh him sure.”
iunt, and the affrighted dancers
crowded around hint until one of their
number stooping over him, saw the
livid splotches of tlie dreaded rod
rash over his face, and cried: “Great
God! the man has got tlie small pox.”
The throng dispersed in a moment.
A few weeks before the party took
place Bob Jackson, a negro who had
been discharged from the small pox
hospital, stole some of the clothing of
the inmates and sold them to different
persons us new. Among tlie buyers
was Tom Taylor, the tiddler, and he
caught the dreaded disease from the
infested clothing. He died next even
ing. Three other persons who bought
the clothing caught the disease, and
two of them died last night. None of
the attendants at the party caught the
small pox because they were inocu
lated that night before they retired.
The only punishment inflicted upon
Bob Jackson, the negro who stole the
clothing, and thus killed three people,
was the initiation of twenty-five lash
es on his bareback.
Help Yourself.
People who have been bolstered up
and leavensd all their lives ure seldom
good for anything in a Crisis. When
misfortune comes they look around
for Something to cling td or lean upon.
If the prop is not there, down they go.
-Onao down, they are as helpless as
capsized turtles, or unhorsed men in
armor, and cannot find theirfofet again
within atisl&tantie.- i 1 •>+& 1 "
aviaj-J will .Jdxih vtito'
Sad Incident of the Flood.
. Little Jtnrt lia:ctte.
Alexander Jasper, nu old man front
Crittenden county, arrived iu tlie city
last night, bringing his wife and two
boys. He seemed to be in great distress,
and when questioned by a Gazette man
lie told the following sad story: “You
know,’! lie said, “that the whole coun
try is under water. I am one of the
sufferers of the flood. I lived in the
Mississippi bottom not far from Madison.
I settled there several years ago and
opened a small farm. I had heard of
high water, but the place where I settled
seemed to be high, nnd I did not feel any
fear. Well, high water eauie repeatedly,
but it never reached me. Night before
last, while myself and family were at
supper, we were startled by a terrible
roar. I went to the door ami looked out
but could see nothing. My wife sug
gested that the noise might bo caused
by water, but I did not pay much atten
tion to tlie remark, for I did not see how
water could break through with such
force. While I stood, listening there
came a mighty rush and before I knew
it tho whole country was flooded with
water. I called to mv wife to help me
secure the children. The house was full
of water. I seized ono little girl and my
wife seized the other. The house mov
ed. The lamp fell and was extinguished.
I called to my little boy, and received a
strangled reply. I rushed through tho
flood toward the place from which I
thought the sound came, and called
again, but no reply. The house went to
pieces, I seized my wife anil struggled
with her to a slight elevation. Tho roar
was deafening. We remained there until
morning. When light eame a rushing
torrent swept over the site of our home.
My little boy was gone.”
An old miner was brought npbefore
a Judge one morning for being drunk.
Tho judge gave tho old fellow a good
wholesome lecture on the si n of drunk
enness.
“Were you ever drunk, judge?”
asked the old veteran. -
“No, sir,” said his Honor, “I never
was.’) . '
The old man hung his head for a
moment and then ejaculated: '
* “Well, ru bed—n! But it ain’t too
late yet, Judge ; there’s fim ahead for
you—heaps of fun.”
The old fellow was discharged amid
roar of laughter.
Charity token in its largest exteut
is nothing elso but the slnCfcre love of
Odd and our neighbor.