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YOL. XIX.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1877.
306
FATHKKI KVAS.
‘ Father Hyan has written many very popu
lar and very beautiful things. Among the
most popular is his “Conquered Banner,"
perhaps, and among the most beautiful, in
our estimation, is his
“SKNTINKI. SO NOS.
“When sinks the soldier brave,
J Dead at the feet of wrong.
The poet sings and guards his grave
With sentinels of song.
‘“Go, Songs!" he gives command,
'Keep faithful watch and true;
The living and dead of the conquered land
Have now no guards but you,
’•‘And Ballads! mark ye well.
Thrice holy is vour trust;
Go out to the Helds where warriors fell
And sentinel their dust."
“And tiie Songs, in stately rhyme
With softly-sounding tread,
March fortli to watch, till the end of tin;*
Beside the silent de^d.
“And when the foeman’s host.
And hate have passed away;
Our guard of Hongs shall keep their post
Around the Soulier's clay.
“A thousand dawns may glow,
A thousand days may wane.
The deathless Songs where the dead Hi
low, .
True to the last remain.
“Yea, true! They will not yield,
To tyrants or to lime;
At every grave and every field
Where man died deaths sublime—
"P,
“hone vigils they will k
Obedient to their hard:
And they will watch when we shall sleet
Our last and only guard.
“What though our victors say,
'No column shall he built
Above tlie graves where the men in gra;
J„ie mouldering in tlieir guilt •*'
“All! let 1he tyrant eurse
The dead In* tramples down!
Our strong, leave Songs, in their swee
said verse.
Fear not the tyrant's frown.
“What though no sculptured shaft
< 'oinmemorate t he bra ve?
What though no monument epitaplied
Be built above tlieir grave?
“When marble wears away.
And monuments are dust.
The songs that guard our soldiers' clay
Will still ft 11 til their trust.’’
From the Galaxy,]
APPLIED SCIENCE.
A Love Story in Two Chapters.
BY CHARI.ES BARNARD.
C’llAPTKK 1.
The village of Salmon Falls, in
eastern New England, consists of ;
number ot mills and factories,the rail
road station, a store
hundred dwellings,
the I leiiny mansion
hill, where the road
the station and the i
square house in the
or two, ami two
Among these is
at the top of the
elimbs up from
■iver. It is a large
old colonial fa.-h-
>'s at
rear and a
ion, with t wo win
garden in front.
It was a warm July morning; when
Mr. John Denny, mill owner and pro
prietor ot the homestead, had his
chair rolled out to tin* porch,an»l with
some assistance from his servants,
reached it on hi* crutch and sat down
in the shadow of the great house and
out ot the glare of the hot sun. The
vine-eovereil porch and the wide pi
azza opened directly upon the garden
and gave a full view of the road.
Beyond there was an outlook over the
open fields, the mills, the stream,and
the village in the valley. By the
road there was a stone wall and a
wicker gate opening upon the grassy
sidewalk outside. A table had been
laid with a white cloth in the port'll,
and^Mr. Denny sat by it and waited
for the .coining of his daughter and
breakfast. While he sat thus he
turned over a number of papers, and
then, altera while, lie began to talk
to himself somewhat in this wise:
“Expense! expense! expense!
There seems no end to it. Bills com
ing in every day, and every one larger
•hun was expected. In my young
days we built a shop and knew to a
dollar what it would cost. Now the
estimates are in variably short. The
batting mill has already gone a thou-
■sand dollars beyond the estimates,
and the roof is hut just put on. Even
the new chimney cost four dollars a
foot more than was expected. Thank
Heaven, it is done, and that expense
is over. Could I walk, 1 might look
utter things and keep them within
•bounds. With my chruslied foot 1
sit a prisoner at home, and must
leave all to Lawrence. It is fortu
nate that I have one man I can trust
with my affairs.”
Just here, Alma, his only child, a
bright and wholesome girl of nine
teen, appeared from the house. Fair
ly educated, sensible, and affectionate,
hut perhaps a trifle inexperienced by
reason ot her residence in this quiet
place, she is at once the pride and the
light of the house.
“Good morning, father. Are you
well this happy summer’s day?"
The old gentleman kissed her t’ond-
P a "
quiet
ep much.
lay is
Elmer
T had
Is his
1
ly, and asked did
night.
. “Oh, yes. T didn’t >
that is all—for thinking.’
"Thinking of wliat ?”
“The expected guest. T<
the Gth of July, and cousin
tomes."
"Ah, yes—Elmer Franklin,
almost forgotten him.”
“How docs he look, father?
hair dark, or lias he blue eves
hardly know which 1 like best.”
I do not remember. I’ve not seen
the boy since lie was a mere child,
years ago. He has been at school
since.”
‘He must he a man now. He is
past twenty-one, and, as for school,
why, it’s the Scientific School, and
I’m sure men go to that.”
“You seem greatly interested in this
unknown relative, Alma.”
“He is to he our guest, father—for a
whole month. Come! Will you have
breakfast out here on the porch ?
“Yes, dear. It is quite comfortable
here, and it will save the trouble of
moving.
Thereupon Alma entered the house
in search of tlie breakfast, and a mo
ment after Mr. Lawrence Bel ford en
tered the garden at the street gate.
The son of an old friend of Mr. Den-
nv’s lamented wife, Mr. Belford had
1 been admitted to the house some
months since as confidential clerk and
business man. He was a rather com
monplace person, about thirty years
of age, and his education and manners
were good if not remarkable. During
his resilience with the Dennys lie had
found time to fail in love with Alma,
and they had been engaged—and with
Mr. Denny’s consent.
“Good morning,Lawrence. You’re
just in time for breakfast.”
“flood morning, sir. Thank you,
no. I have been to breakfast. J am
just up from the station.”
“Seen anything of the railroad
coai’li? The train is in,and it is time
for the coach to pass. Our guest may
be in it.”
“No, sir, but 1 saw the express
coming up the hill with an extra large
load of baggage.”
Just here Alma returned from the
house bearing a large tray of plates
and breakfast things. The young
people greet each other pleasantly,
and Alma proceeds to lay the table.
“Now for breakfast, father. Every
thing waits upon a good appetite.
Will you not join us, Lawrence?”
Mr. Belford replies that lie has been
to breakfast. Mr. Denny takes a cup
of coffee, and while sipping it re-
ma rks :
How many more window frames
shall you require for the new mill,
iwience ?”
“Ten more, sir. There is only
part of the fourth story unfinished
“Alma, dear, do you remember how
high we decided the new chimney
to he ? Yes, thank you, only tw
lumps of sugar. Thank you. You
remember we. were talking about it
when the Lawsons were here.”
“Don’t ask me. Ask Lawrence
never can remember anything about
such matters.”
Just at that moment the express
pulled up at the gate, and there wass
knock. Alma rose hastily, and said
“Oh ! That must be Elmer.”
She opened the gate, and young
Mr. Elmer Franklin of New * York
entered. A man to respect: an open
manly lace, clear, blue eyes, and;
wiry, compact, and vigorous frame
A man with a sound mind in a sound
body. He was dressed in a gray trav
elling suit, and had a knapsack
strapped to his hack; in his hand
stout slick looking as if just cut from
the roadside, and at his side a field
glass in a leather case. Immediately
behind him came a man bending un
tier the load of an immense trunk
'Alma smiled her best, and tire young
stranger bowed gallantly.
“Mr. Denny, 1 presume?”
“Welcome, cousin Franklin,” said
Mr. Denny from his chair. “I knew
you at once, though it is years since
any members of our families have
met. Pardon me if I do not rise
I’m an old man, and confined to my
chair.”
Mr. Franklin offered his hand and
said politely:
“Thank you, sir, for your kind re
eeption. I am greatly pleased to—
Hullo! Lookout there hoys! That
baggage is precious and fragile.”
Another man appeared, and the
two brought in trunks and boxes,
bundles and parcels, till there was
quite a large heap of baggage piled uj
on the grass. Alma and Lawrence
were properly amazed at this array of
tilings portable, and Mr. ftenny laid
aside the breakfast tilings to look at
the rather remarkable display.
The young man seemed to think
apologies essential.
I do not wonder that you are
alarmed. I do not often take such a
load of traps. I wrote you that my
visit would he one of study and scien
tific investigation, and I was obliged
to bring my philosophical apparatus
and books with me.”
It is indeed a wonderful train of
sage fora man. One would have
thought you intended to bring a
wife.”
Then Mr. Denny bethought him of
his duty, and lie introduced his newly
found relative to his daughter and to
Mr. Lawrence Belford, and then hade
him draw up to the table for break-
last. The young man made the mo
tions suitable for such an occasion,
and then lie turned to pay his ex
pressman. This trifling incident de
serves record as happily illustrating
the young man’s noble character.
“Thank you, sir. Breakfast will
he a cheerful episode. I’ve a glorious
appetite, for I walked up from the sta
tion.”
“There’s a coach, Mr. Franklin,
and it passes our door.”
“I knew that, sir, but I preferred
to walk and see the country. Fine
section ol conglomerate you have in
the road cutting just above the sta
tion.”
“Eli! What were you saying?”
“I said that I observed an interest
ing section of conglomerate—water-
worn pebbles, I should say—mingled
with quartz sand, on the roadside. I
must have a run down there and a
better look at it after breakfast.”
Mr. Denny was somewhat over
whelmed at this, and said doubt
ful ly :
“All, yes,
aetly.”
“Are you
Miss Denny?
Alma was rather confused, and tried
hard to find the lump of sugar that
had melted away in lier coffee, and
said briefly,
“No. i didn’t know that we had
any ill this part of the country.”
Mr. Belford here felt called upon to
say:
“Mv dear Alma, vou forget your
self.”
“Why will you take me up so
sharply, Lawrence? 1 meant to say
that I didn’t know we had any quartz
conglomerate hereabouts.”
Mr. Franklin smiled pleasantly,and
remarked to himself:
“My dear Alma! That’s signifi
cant. Wonder if lie’s spoonev on
her?”
Then he said aloud :
“The pursuit of science demands
good dinners. Pardon me if I take
some more coffee.”
“Yes, do—and these rolls. I made
them myself—expressly for you.”
“Thank you for both rolls and com
pliment.”
Mr. Lawrence took up some of the
papers from the table and began to
read them, and the others went on
with their breakfast. Presentlv Mr.
Denny said :
“I presume, Mr. Franklin, that you
I remember-—yes, ex-
interested in geology,
are greatly interested in you school
studies?”*
“Yes, sir. The pursuit of pure
science is one of the most noble em
ployments that can tax the cultivated
intellect.”
“But you must confess that it is not
very practical.”
Before the young man could reply
Alma spoke:
“Oil! cousin Elmer—I mean Mr.
Franklin—excuse me. You haven’t
taken off'your knapsack.”
Taking it off ami throwing it be
hind him on the ground, he said :
“It’s only my clothes.”
“Clothes!” said Mr. Denny. “Then
what is in the trunks?”
“My theodolite, cameras, chains,
levels, telescopes, retorts, and no end
of scientific traps.”
Alma, quite pleased:
“How interesting. Won’t you open
one of the trunks and let us see some
of the things?”
“With the greatest pleasure; but
perhaps I’d better take them to my
room first.”
‘Anything you like, Elmer—Mr.
Franklin, I mean. Our house is your
home.”
Lawrence Belford here frowned and
looked in an unpleasant manner for a
moment at the young stranger, who
felt rather uncomfortable, though he
could scarcely say why. With appa
rent indifference he drew out a small
brass sounder, such as is used in tele
raph offices, and began snapping
in his lingers.
In his mind he said :
“Wonder if any of them are famil
iar with the great dot and line alpha
bet?”
Alma heard the sounder and said
eagerly :
“Oh! cou—Mr. Franklin, what
that?
“It is a pocket sounder. Do you
know the alphabet?”
“I should hope so.”
I beg pardon. 1 meant Morse’s
“Morse’s?”
“Yes. Morse’s alphabet.”
“No. You must teach it to me.”
Thereupon lie moved the sounder
slowly, giving a letter at a time, and
saving:
“A L M A .
That’s your name. Queer sound, isn’
it ?”
“Let me try. Perhaps l could do
it.”
“My dear Alma, your father
waiting. You had best remove tilt
things.”
“Yes, Lawrence. I’ll call Mary.
The maid soon appeared, and the
breakfast things were removed. Then
Mr. Denny drew Mr. Frauklin’satten
tion to the new factory chimney that
stood in plain sight from where they
sat.
The young man promptly drew out
his field glass, and, mounting one of
the steps of the porch, took a long
look at the new shaft.
“Not quite plumb, is it?”
“Not plumb! What do you
mean ?”
It is impossible,” said Mr. Belford
with some warmth.
“Jt looks so,” said the young man
with the glass still up at his eyes.
I tell you it is impossible, sir. i
built it myself, and 1 ought to know
Oh ! Beg pardon. You can take
the glass and see for yourself.”
i need no glass. I took the stage
down only yesterday, and I ought to
know.”
Allow me to take your glass, cou
sin Franklin,” said Air. Denny. Hi
tooil the glass, but quickly laid it
down with a sigh.
My eyes are old and weak and tin
glass does not suit them. Iam very
sorry to hear what you say. 1 would
not haveoneof my chimneys out of
line for the world.”
L am sorry 1 said anything about
it, sir. I did not know the chimney
belonged to you.”
\lma was apparently distressed at
the turn the conversation had taken,
md tried to lead it to other matters,
hut the old gentleman’s mind was dis
turbed, and lie returned to the chim
ney.
“I designed it to he the tallest and
finest chimney T ever erected, and I
je it is all correct.”
“It is sir,” said Mr. Belford.
‘Everything is correct to the very
apstones.”
“It is my tallest chimney, Mr.
'Tanklin—eiglity-one feet aiid six
inches; and that is two feet taller than
mv chimney in the whole Salmon
Falls valley.”
Mr. Franklin, in an innocent spirit
of scientific inquiry, put his glass to
his eyes and examined the chimney
igain. Alma began to feel ill at ease,
and Lawrence Belford indulged in a
muttered curse under his black mous
tache.
“Eighty-one feet and six inches—
the tallest chimney in the valley.”
No one seemed to heed the old gen
tleman’s remark, and presently Mr.
"ranklin laid his field glass on the
table, and taking out his brass sound
er, he idly moved it as if absently
thinking of something.
Alma suddenly looked up with a
little blush and a smile. Her eyes
seemed to say to him:
“ I heard you call ? Wliat is it ?”
He nodded pleasantly, and said :
“\\ ould you like to see some of mv
traps?”
Oh, yes. Do open one of vour
trunks.”
Mr. Franklin took out a bunch of
keys and went to one of the trunks.
As lie did so lie said to himself:
“Deuced bright girl! She learned
my call in a flash. I must teach her
the whole alpha bet,and then will have
some tall fun and circumvent that tool
of a clerk.”
This remark was applied to Mr.
Belford, and was eminent for its
touching truth.
W bile the young people were open
ing the trunks, Mr. Denny and Mr.
Belford were engaged in examining
the business jtapers spread on the
table, and for several minutes they
paid no attention to things done and
said almost under their eyes.
Such a very strange trunk. Instead
ol clothing, it contained the most sin
gular assortment of scientific instru
ments. Each was carefully secured
so that no rude handling would harm
it, and all shining and glistening
brilliantly as if kept with the most
exquisite care. Mr. Franklin unfast
ened a small brass telescope, mounted
upon a stand, with a compass, levels,
plumb line and weight attached.
“That’s my theodolite. There’s a
tripod in one of my boxes. I’ll get it
and mount it, and* we'll have a shot
at the chimney.”
“What do you mean?”
“Oh, nothing! I’m going to mea
sure it. Wouldn’t vou like to help
me?”
“With all my heart. Tell me what
to do.”
in
“Presently. Wait till I’ve screwed
things together; then I’ll tell you
what to do. Oh! By the way, I
must tell you an amusing episode that
happened at the railroad station
while I was waiting for my lug
gage. There was a young man send
ing off a message at the little tele
graph station, and I overhead the
message and comments of the opera
tor.”
Alma didn’t appear to enjoy this
incident.
“Not listening intentionally, you
know. It was the telegraph I heard,
not the people.”
Alma felt better.
“It was all by mere sounds, and it
ran this way: * ‘The old fool is here
again.’ That’s what she said—the op
erator, I mean. ‘To Isaac Abrams,
1,607 Barclay street, New York. 1
have secured the will. Foreclose the
mortgage and realize at once. Get
two state rooms for the 25th.—L. B.’
That was the message, and it was so
very strange I wrote it out in my
Oil! Beg pardon, Miss Denny. Are
you ill ?”
Alma’s face had assumed a sudden
pallor, and she seemed frightened and
ill at ease.
“’Tis nothing—really nothing
shall be better presently.”
Then, as if anxious to change the
conversation, she began to ask rapid
questions about the theodolite and it
uses.
Mr. Franklin was too well bred to
notice anything, but lie confessed to
himself that he had said something
awkward, and, for the life of him, he
could not imagine what it might he
He replied briefly, and then went on
with his preparations for sometime in
silence, Alma meanwhile looking on
with the greatest interest. The theo
dolite having been put together, Mr
Franklin opened another box and
took out a womlen tripod, such as are
used to support such instruments
He also took out a tine steel ribbon
or measuring tape, neatly wound up
on a reel.
“You shall carry that, Miss Denny
and.I’ll shoulder the theodolite.”
“Wait till I get my hat and the sun
umbrella.”
“To he sure; it will he warm in the
fields.”
Alma was soon arrayed in a dainty
chip. At least she called it a chip,
and the historian can do naught but
repeat her language. Besides this, it
was not bigger than a chip, and it
looked very pretty tied under her
chin. Over her head she carried its
real protection, an immense Japanese
paper umbrella, light, airy and gene
rous.
Where are you going, Alma?”
said Mr. Denny."
Oh! only to the fields for a little
walk. We’ll he back presently.”
The confidential clerk thought it
strange that the daughter of the house
hould be so free with the stranger.
But the young people were distant
cousins, audit wouldn’t have been po
lite in him to have objected to the lit
tle walk.
8o the two, under the friendly shade
of the big paper umbrella, went out to
see the new chimney, while Mr. Den
ny and the confidential clerk staid
behind to talk business.
The new chimney stood at the
southeast corner of"the great four-
story mill, and close beside the lit
tle brick engine house. Alma led
the youthful son of science out of
the gate, down the road a few rods,
and then they passed a stile, and
took the winding path that strag
gled over the pastures to the mill.
Of course they talked volubly. This
being the stern and prosy record of
applied science, it becomes us not to
report the cliatterings of these two
till they readied tiie base of the vast
brick chimney,towering nearly eighty
feet into the air above them. Its long
hadow Jay like a stiffened snake upon
the fields, and Elmer, observing it,
said.
Good! We can use the shadow,
too, and have double proof.”
How?” said the bright one, in a
beautiful spirit of inquiry.
"If an upright stick,‘a foot long,
asts a sluulow three feet long, the
shadow of another stick beside it, at
the same time, is proportionately
long.”
I knew that before. That isn’t
very high science.”
“Why did you say ‘how’ ?”
“Because I didn’t think. Because
was a goose.”
“Such terms are not choice and
are devoid of truth. Here! stern du
ty calls. Do you hold one end of the
tape at the foot of the chimney, and
I’ll measure off' the base line of our
triangle.”
Alma was charmed to be of use and
sat on a stone with the brass ring of
the tape on her ring finger next her
engagement ring, and her hand Hat
against the first course of bricks. Tri
fles sometimes hint great events. Lit
tle did she think that the plain brass
ring on her finger was tiie hard truth
of science that should shiver her gold
i ng to fragments and pale its spark]in
diamond.Being a wholesome creature,
and not given to romance,she thought
nothing about it, which was wise.
Her cousin, the knight of the theodo
lite, set his instrument upright upon
the grass,and then ran the measuring
line out to its full length.
“All right! Lot the tape go.”
Alma took oflT the brass ring, and
the steel ribbon ran like a glittering
snake through the grass, and she
lowly followed it and joined her
knight.
“Once more, please. Hold the ring
on this bit of a stake that I’ve set up
up in the ground. ”
Alma, like a good girl, did as she
was bid, and the ribbon ran out again
to its full length. Another stake was
set up, and the theodolite was placed
in position and a sight obtained at the
top of the tall chimney. A little fig
uring in a note-book,' and then the
son of high science quietly remarked:
“Seventy-six feet four inches—short
five feet two inches.”
Just here several urchins of an in
quiring turn of mind drew near and
began to make infantile comments,
and asked with charming freedom if
it was a circus.
“No!” said Alma, from under her
paper tent. “No! Run awav chil
dren, run away.”
It was too warm for so much exer
tion, and they wouldn’t move.
“Oh! never mind them. They
don’t trouble me; and if it amuses
them, it’s so much clear gain.”
“They are some of the factory chil
dren, and I thought they might both
er you.”
• 1“Inelegant, but thoughtful.” He
didn’t say so. He only thought it,
which was quite as well.
During this little episode the im
pressive facts that all this scientific
exertion had brought out con
cerning the chimney were lost upon j was treading upon uncertain ground
Alma. It was small consequence, j and he wisely held his peace. After
She knew it well enough before I a brief and awkward pause, Air. Bel
ford rose, and pleading the calls of
business, went out and the unhappy
night.
Now for the shadow by way of
proof. The theodolite, paper umbrel
la, and admiring crowd of children
trotted severally and collectively over
the grass till they reached the chim
ney again.
“The tape-measure, Alma. You
hold the ring, and I’ll unreel the
string.”
It was surprising how quickly these
two made each other’s acquaintance.
By the time the long shadow was
measured, a stake set up and the two
shadows compared, they seemed to
have known eaeli other for weeks.
Such is the surprising effect of pure
science when applied to love.
Had it come to this already? She
was engaged to the confidential, the
chimney builder. His ring glittered
on her finger. True all of it !
See them sauntering slowly (the
hermometer at 87°) homeward under
the friendly shade of an oiled paper
umbrella. They are indeed good
friends already. They enter the house
together, and the cheerful dinner
hell greets their ears. She folds her
oiled paper tent and lie sets his in
strument up in a corner of the great
shady hall. She leads the way to the
chamber that is to he his room during
his stay, and then retires to her own
to prepare for the frugal noontide
meal.
The exact truth records that the
meal was not severely frugal. It was
otherwise, and so much nicer
The entire family were assembled
and conversation was lively, consul
ing the weather. Near the close of
the meal it grew suddenly warm. The
innocent son of science, proud of his
accomplishments, made a most incau*
tious statement, and the result was
peculiar,
“Oh, uncle, you were saying this
morning that my science was not
very practical. [ tried a hit of it on
your chimney this morning,and what
do you think I found?”
“I’m sure 1 can’t tell,” said Mr,
Denny.
“I measured it, and it is exactly
seventy-six feet, four inches high.
If lie had dropped a can of nitro
glycerine under the table, the effect
couldn’t have been more startling
Mr. Lawrence Belford dropped his
fruit, knife with a ruinous rattle, his
face assumed tiie color of frosted cake
(the frosting to he exact,) and lie
seemed thoroughly frightened. Mr,
Denny looked surprised, and said,
“Wliat ?”
Alma said nothing, but fished for
the sugar in her strawberries and
cream.
What did yon say, Mr. Frank
lin?”
‘I said that 1 measured the new
chimney, just for the fun of the
thing, and found that it is exactly
seventy-six feet, four inches high.”
"It’s an abominable lie.”
Lawrence!” said Alma with an
appealing glance.
“Are you sure, Mr. Franklin? Have
you not made some mistake?”
“You are utterly mistaken, Mr.
Franklin. T measured that chimney
with a line from the top, and 1 know
your statement is entirely incorrect.’
I hope so,” said the old gentle
man.
It is so, sir,” added Mr. Belford;
md then waxing bolder, he said,
‘How could this young person, just
from schooLdvnow anything of such
matters ?*. fiy^he build a staging, or
didhVclimb up’fclie inside like a cliim-
ney sw&p ?”
Young M}* .Franklin saw that he
had in some innocent fashion started
most disagreeable subject. Why
Mr. Denny should he so disturbed
md Mr. Belford so angry was past
his comprehension. At the same
time Mr. Bel ford’s language was of
fensive, and he replied with some
pirit:
There is no need to climb the
himney or use a line. It is a trifling
ilthir to ascertain the height of any
building with a theodolite, as you
probably know.”
1 tell you, sir, it is false—utterly
false. Besides, you have made some
mistake in the figures. You—you—
hut I’ve no patience with such hoy’s
play. It’s only fit for school chil
dren.”
“Lawrence,” said Alma, “you are
unkind. I’m sure we meant no
harm. I helped Mr. Franklin and
I’m sure he’s right; besides we meas
ured the chimney by its shadow, and
both statements were alike.”
“Oh, if you’ve turned against me,
I’ve nothing more to say.”
Mr. Denny meanwhile seemed lost
in a deep study, and he hardly heed
ed what was going on.
“What can the hoy know about
sueli tilings? I tell you it’s—”
“It seems to me, Mr. Belford, you
are unnecessarily excited,” said Mr.
Denny. “Mr. Franklin is a much
younger man than you, hut he show
ed a knowledge of this matter, and if
his figures are correct—”
“They are, sir,” said Elmer warm
ly. “I can show you the base line,
and the theodolite is still at the same
angle. Alma saw me measure the
base, and she can tell you its length.
There are the figures in mv note
book.”
Mr. Denny took the note-hook and
examined the figuring out of this
problem, and Elmer went to the hall
interview came to an end.
It was a strange room — its
belongings stranger still. A large
square chamber, with windows on
three sides and a door and a fireplace
on the other. Just now the fireplace
had fallen from its high estate and
had become a catch-all for the wrecks
of much unpacking. There was
s nail single bed, two chairs, and an
indefinite number of tables. Impos*
si hie to say how many, for they were
half obscured by numberless things
scientific microscopes, a retort, small
furnace, two cameras, galvanic bat
tery, coils of wire and rubber tubing
lantern,hooks,photographs,andpapers
on a small desk a confused pile of pa
pers ; on the walls a great number of
pictures and photographs.
The very den of a student of sci
ence. Hardly room to walk among
the wilderness of traps, boxes and
trunks. At the window, the young
man, just dressed, and taking a view
of the mill and its new chimney.
“Gad! how mad the fellow was
over my little measurements. Won
der what it all means ? The girl’s in
trouble, the lather has a grief, and
the clerk—1 can make nothing of
him. What matter ? My duty is with
my hooks, that I may pursue pure
science. The moment things become
practical I drop ’em.”
Then he turned and looked out of
the next window.
“Fine view of the river. I must
have another try at it with the cam
era.”
He crossed the room, and standing
in the bright morning sunshine, he
looked about to examine the other
L that had been thrown out from the
hack of the main building.
“That’s Alma’s room, and the next
is the clerk’s the chimney man. Tiie
window is open, and the place looks
as dark as a cave. I’ve a mind to
light it up.”
8o saying lie took a small hand mir
ror from a table near by. Holding
it in the full sunlight, he moved it
slowly about till the dancing spot of
reflected light fell upon the open win
dow and leaped in upon the opposite
wall of the room. The observer with
steady hand moved the spot of light
about till lie liad probed the room,
mil found till it contained, which was
nothing save a bed and two chairs.
Applied science reports the man
is fit for treason, spoils, and that sort
of thing. He has no pictures. His
room is a sleeping den. The Man is
Hallo! Steady there!”
The door in the room opened, and
the student of applied science turned
quickly away with his hack to the
wall beside his window. Cautiously
raising the mirror, he held it near the
window in such a way that in it lie
could see all that went on in the oth-
room, without being himself seen.
Suddenly he saw something in the
glass. Some one appeared at the win
dow, looked out as if watching for
something, and then withdrew into
tiie bare little sleeping room. Then
the figure in the mirror went to the
bed and carefully turned all the
clothes back. The student of science
watched the mirror intently. The
figure bent over the uncovered mat
tress and quietly opened the sacking
and took something out. It sat down
on the edge of tiie disordered bed and
proceeded to examine the box or bun
dle, whatever it might he, that it had
found in the bed.
Just here there was the sound of a
distant door opening and closing. The
figure crouched low on the bed, as if
fearing to be seen, and waited till all
was quiet again. Then it slowly
opened the box or package, and took
out a folded paper, ’file student bent
over the mirror with the utmost in
terest. Wliat did it mean? What
would happen next? Nothing in
particular happened. The figure
losed the box, returned it to its hi
ding place in the bed, and then crept
out of the range of reflected vision.
Why should the confidential clerk
hide papers in his bed? What was the
ature of the documents ? A strange
affair, certainly, but it did not con
cern him, and perhaps he liad better
Irop the subject. He turned to liis
books and papers, and for an hour or
more was too much occupied with
them to heed aught else
Suddenly there was a brisk series of
taps at liis door, like this:
room and examined its strange co
tents with the greatest interest.
The moment the focus of the gla
was secured, Elmer hastily took the
little camera, and adjusting a slide in
it from a table drawer, he placed it
before the telescope on the table and
close to the eye hole. Then,by throw
ing a black cloth over his head, he
looked into it, turned a screw or two
and iff a moment had a negative of
the distant couple.
“Aren’t you almost ready ?”
“In one moment, Alma. I mu
fix this first. I’ll lie right hack.”
So saying he took the slide from
the little camera, and went out of the
room into a dark closet in the entry.
Alma waited patiently for a few
moments, and then she' took up the
field glass, and looked out of the win
dow. Who could they be? They
seemed to be having a cosy time to
gether; hut beyond the fact that one
figure was a woman she could learn
nothing. She wanted to take a look
through the telescope, hut did not
dare to move the little camera that
stood* before it.
Here’s the picture,” said Elmer
as he entered tiie room.
Alma took the bit of glass lie of
fered her, but declared she couldn’t
see anything hut a dirty spot on tin
glass.
That’s the negative. Let me copy
it, and then I’ll throw if up with tin
stereopticon.”
He selected another bit of glass
from a box, and in a few minutes had
it prepared and the two put together
and laid in the sun on the window
seat.
What is that in that iron box,
Elmer?”
Nitrous oxide.”
The same thing that the dentist?
use?”
“Yes. Would you like to try :i
whiff? It’s rather jolly, and will not
hurt you in the least.”
Elmer caught up a bit of rubber
pipe, secured one end to the iron
chest and inserted the other in i
mouth-piece having the proper inlial
ation and exhalation valves.
“Put that in your mouth for a mo
ment.”
Alma, with beautiful confidence,
put the tube in her mouth, and in a
moment her pretty head fell hack
igainst the back of the chair in deep
sleep. With wonderful speed and
skill Elinei* rolled a larger camera
that stood in a corner out into the cen
tre of the room, ran in a slide, adjust
ed the focus, and before the brief
lumber passed had a negative of the
sleeping one.
Oil, how odd ! What a queer sen
sation to feel yourself going and go
ing, off* and off; till you don’t know
where you are!”
“It is rather queer. I’ve often ta
ken the gas myself—just for fun. Now
Alma, if you will let down the cur
tains and close the shutters, and
make the room dark, I’ll light the
lantern and show you the picture.”
Alma shut the blinds, drew down
the curtains, and closed all the shut
ters save one.
“Won’t it he too dark ?”
“No. It must he quite dark. You
can stand here in the middle of the
room and look at that bit of hare wall
between the windows. I left that
space clear for a screen.”
Alma eagerly took her place, and
said with a laugh:
“If this is the pursuit of pure sci
ence, it is very amusing. I’d like to
study science—in this way.”
“Yes, it is rather interesting ”
“Oh, Elmer, it’s pitch dark.”
“Never mind. Stand perfectly
still and watch the wall. There—
there’s the spot of light. Now I’ll
run in the positive.
RAILROADS.
WESTERN RAILROAD
ALABAMA.
OF
COLUMBUS, GA, December G, 1877.
Trains Leave Columbus Daily,
AS FOLLOWS :
SOUTHERN MAIL.
3:45 P. M. Arrives at Montgomery.. 7:52 p M
Mobile 3:00 A m
Now Orleans.. 8:20 a m
’’ACCOMMODATION.”
8:00 P. M.. Arrives at Montgomery... 5:50 a jt
Setma 9:40 A m
Atlanta 7:15 A M
ATLANTA AND NORTHERN MAIL.
7:00 A. M Arrives at Atlanta 2:20 pm
Washington... 6:35 p(>r
Baltimore 8:30 pm
New York 6:45 A M
ALSO BY THIS TRAIN
Arrive at Montgomery 3:50 pm
TRAINS ARRIVE AT COLUMBUS
From Montgomery anil Southwest..11:05 A M
From Montgomery anil Southwest.. 7:40 pm
From Atlanta ami Northwest 7:10 pm
Kir-'This Train, arriving at Columbus at
:40 p m, leaves Atlanta at 11:30 a m.
E. P. ALEXANDER, President.
('HAS. PHILLIPS, Agent deeistf
MOBILE AND GIRARD K. R.
COLUMBUS, GA., December 12, 1877.
Double Daily Passenger Traiu,
M AKING close connections at Union
Springs with Montgomery and Eufuula
Trains to and from Montgomery and Eu-
faulu and points'beyond.
Only line running Sleeping Cars on night
trains between Columbus and Montgomery
Leave Columbus 2:20 pm 10:00 pm
Arrive at Union Springs 5:55 p m 2:00 a m
Arrive at Troy 8:00 pm
Arrive at Eufaula
10:10 i> m
6:00 a M
Arrive at Montgomery..
7: V) i» n
6:45 a M
Arrive at .Mobile
3:00 a M
6:00 p m
Arrive at New Orleans..
S:40 a at
8:40 a M
Arrive at Nashville
7:50 i* m
7:50 p m
Arrive at Louisville
3:45 a m
3:45 A M
Arrive at Cincinnati
8:10 a M
8:10 a m
Arrive at St, Louis
4:00 p M
4:00 p M
Arrive at Philadelphia...
6:50 p m
6:50 p M
Arrive at New 5ork
10:05 p M
10:05 p M
Arrive at Union Springs
2:40 A M
Leave I niou Springs
3:10 A M
7:10 A M
Arrive at Columbus
7:10 A M
12:00 A M
Arrive at Atlanta
2:20 p m
Arrive at Maeon
3:06 p m
Arrive at Savannah
7:15 A M
Passengers for Eufaula leaving Columbus
it 2:20 p si daily, arrive in Eufaula at 10:10 p
m daily) Leaving at 10:00 p si dally, arrive in
Eufaula at 0:00 a si. W. L. CLARK,
Superintendent.
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my!) tf General Ticket Agent.
CENTRAL & SOUTHWESTERN
RAILROADS.
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for liis instrument. He returned at it?”
“I’m here. Gome in.”
Alima, tiie bright one entered.
“What a room! Such disorder, El
mer.”
“Yes. Tt is quite a comfortable
den. I’ve unpacked everything, and
mind your steps—feel quite at home
—thank you.”
I should say as much. Do look
it the dust, i must have Mary up
here at once.”
Madam, I never allow any fe
male person to touch my traps. Mary
may make the bed, but she must not
weep, nor dust, nor touch any
thing.”
‘Oh! really. Then I’ll go at once.”
‘Better not.”
‘Why?”
‘Because f’ve many tilings to
show ”
“Oh, Elmer! What is that—that
queer tiling on the table? May I look
with the theodolite still secured at the
angle at which the sight had been
taken. As he laid the instrument on
tiie dining table, he said :
“I am very sorry, uncle, that I did
anything about this matter. It was
done in mere sport, and I wish I had
aid nothing concerning it. I would
not had not Mr. Beltord used the
language he did.”
Mr. Denny ran liis eye over the
figures in the book, and then, with
a painful expression, lie said briefly,
“Everything seems to he correct.”
“Damnation! I’ll break his head
for him, tiie intermeddling fool.”
This language was not actually used
by Mr. Belford, but he thought as
much. His eyes flashed, and lie
clenched liis fists under the table.
Alma’s presence alone restrained him
from something more violent. He
appeared calm, but inwardly he was
angry. This unexpected announce
ment concerning the ehimney he had
built cast a heavy shadow over him,
and liis conscience awoke with a sud
den smart.
Alma was greatly disturbed, and
ready to cry for shame and vexation.
She did not, for she felt sure this was
only the beginning of a new trouble,
and she well knew that heavy sor
rows had already invaded the house.
They needed no more.
Mr. Franklin glanced from one to
another in alarm. He saw that he
,Y
“That’s my new camera.”
“How stupid. I might have known
that. Do you take pictures?”
“Photos? Yes. Will you sit?”
“Oil, dear, no. I hate photographs.
It’s so disagreeable to see oneself star
ing with some impossible expression,
and sitting in an impossible palace,
with a distant landscape and drapery
curtains.”
“Then I’ll take a view for you.
Find a seat somewhere while I rig
things. See those two people sitting
on the little bridge that crosses the
race beyond the mill? I’ll photo
graph them without their permis
sion.”
Alma looked out of the window
when Elmer liad raised the curtain,
but declared she couldn’t see any
thing.
“They are very far off. Take the
field glass, and you’ll see them.”
Alma took the glass from the table,
and looked out on the sunny land
scape.
“I see what you mean, but I can’t
make out who they are, even with
the glass. It’s a man and a woman,
and that’s as much as I can see.”
“You shall see them plain enough
in a moment.”
So saying, Elmer placed a long
brass telescope upon a stand by the
open window, and through it he ex
amined the couple on the bridge.
Meanwhile Alma gazed round the
UNfJc
A round spot of white light fell on
the unpapered wall, and then two
dusky shadows slid over it, vague, ob
scure and gigantic.
There are your people. Now T’ll
adjust the foeiis. There—look.”
A heavy sob startled him.
“Oh, it’s that hateful Alice Green!”
Elmer opened the door of tiie lan
tern, and the light streamed full upon
Alma. She was bathed in tears, and
her shoulders, visible through her
light summer dress, shook with sobs.
Wliat’s the matter?”
Nothing! Oh, it’s—nothing—let
me—go ”
With an impatient gesture she
tried to brush the tears from her eyes,
and then, without a word, she hastily
ran out of the room.
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
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O N AND AFTFR SUNDAY, November
11, Passenger Trains on the Central and
Southwestern Railroads, and Branches, will
run as follows 1
TRAIN NO. 1—GOING NORTH AND WEST
Leaves Savannah 9:20 a m
Leaves Augusta 9:15 a m
Vrrives at Augusta 1:15 j> m
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Arrives at Columbus 4:38 a m
Making close connections at Atlanta with
\\ estern and At lan tic Railroad for all points
North and West.
Eufaula Accommodation leaves Macon
daily except Saturday.
Columbus Accommodation train runs
daily except Sunday.
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Arrives at Macon o:-io A M
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Leaves Macon 7:00 a m
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Arrives at Eaton ton 11:30 A m
Arrives at Augusta 4:45 pm
Arrives at Savannah 4:00 p m
Leaves Augusta 9 ; i5 a m
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North and East, and at Savannah with tiie
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad for all points in
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Leaves Savannah 7:30 p M
Arrives at Augusta 6:00 a m
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