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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.