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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1883.
THE BAD BOY.
He and His Chum Dissect His Pa.
“I understand yonr pa has got to
drinking like a fish,” said the gro
ceryman to the bad boy, as the youth
came in the grocery and took a hand
ful of dried apples. The boy ate a
dried apple and then put up a terrible
face, and the grocery man asked him
what was he trying to do with his face
The boy caught his breath and said:
“Say, don’t you know any better
thc.n to keep dried apples where a boy
can get hold of them when he has got
the mumps? You will kill some boy
yet by such carelessness. 1 thought
those were sweet dried apples, but they
are as sonras a boarding-house keeper,
and they make me tired. Did you ever
have tire mumps? Gosh, but don’t
it hurt? You have got to be darn
careful when you have got the mumps,
and not go out bob-sledding or ska
ting or you will have your head swell
up biggern a milk pail. Pa says he
had the mumps once when he was a
boy and it broke him all up.”
“Well, never mind the mumps, how
about your pa spreeing it? Try one
of these pickles in the jar there, won’t
you? 1 always like to have a boy en
joy himself wheh he comes to see me,”
said the groceryman, -winking at a man
who was filling an old-fashioned tin
box with tobacco out ot the pail, who
winked back, as much as to say, “it
that boy eats a pickle on top of them
mumps we will have a circus here sure.”
“You can’t play no pickle on me,
not when 1 have the mumps. Ma
passed the pickle to me this morning
aud I took one mouthful, and like to
had the lockjaw. But ma didn’t do it
on purpose. I guess she never had
any mumps ami didn’t know how dis
couraging a pickle is. Darn if I didn’t
feel as though I hart been hit in the
bur of the ear with a brick, lint about
pa. He has been fuller’ll a goose ev
er since New Years day. I think it
wrong for women to tempt feeble-min
ded persons with liquor on New Year’s.
Now, me and my chum, we can take a
drink and them let it alone. We have
got brain, and know when we have got
enough, but pa, whenever he gets to
going don’t never stop until he gets so
sick that he can’t keep his stomach in
side of himself. It is getting so they
look to me to brace pa up every time he
gets on a tear, and 1 guess I fixed him
this time so he will never touch liquor
again. I scared him so his bald head
turned gray in one night.”
“What under the heavens have you
done to him now,” said the groceryman
in astonishment. “I hope you have’nt
done anything you will regret in after
years.”
“Regret nothing,” said the boy as he
turned the lid of the cheese box back
and took the knife and sliced off a piece
of cheese and took a few crackers out of
a barrel, aud sat down on a soap bosf
by the stove. “You see, ma was an
noyed to death with pa. He would
come home full when she had company
and lay down on the sofa and snore,
and he would smell like a distillery. It
hurt me to see ma cry, and I told her I
would break pa ot drinking if she would
let me, and she said if 1 would promise
not to hurt pa, to go ahead; and I
promised not to.”
“Then I got my chum and another
loy, quite a large boy, tofhelp, and pa is
all right. We went down to the place
where they sell arms and legs to lolks
who have served in the army, or a saw
mill or a threshing machine, and lost
their limbs, and we borrowed some
arms and legs, and fixed up a little dis
secting room.”
“We fixed a long table in the base
ment. big enough to lay pa out on, you
know, and then we got false whiskers
and moustaches, and when pa came in
the house drunk and laid down on the
sofa, and got to sleep, we took him and
laid him out on the table, and took some
big trunk straps and a circingle, and
strapped him down to the table. He
slept light along through it, and we
had another table with the false legs
ami arms on it, and we rolled up our
sleeves and smoked pipes, just like I
read medical students do when they cut
up a man. We put hickory nuts into
our mouths so onr voices would sound
different, tjo he wouldn’t know us, and
I was telling the other boys what a
time we had cutting up the last man
we bought, when pa woke up.”
“1 saiil he was awful tough, and
when we had got off liis legs and had
taken out his brains, his friends came I
to the dissecting room and claimed the
body, and we had to give it up, but I
saved the legs, I looked at pa on the
table and he began to turn pale, and he
squirmed around to get up, but found
lie was fast. I had pulled his shirt up
under his arms while he was asleep; as
he began to move I took pn icicle, and
in the dim light of the candles that
were sitting on the table in beer bot
tles, I drew the icicle across pa’s stom-,
ach, and I said to my chum, “Doc, I
guess we had better open this duffer
and see if he died from inflammation of
the stummick Irom hard drinking, as
the coroner said liedid.” I’a shudder
ed all over his bare stummick and said,
“For God’s sake, gentlemen, what
does this mean. lam not dead.” The
other boys looked at pa in astonishment
and said, “Well, we just bought you
for dead, and the coroner’s jury said
you were dead, and we ain’t going to be
fooled out of a corpse when we buy one
are we Doc?” My chain said not if
he knewed hisself and the other stu
dent said, “Of course he is. He thinks
he is alive, but he died day before yes
terday, fell dead on the street, and his
folks said he had been a nuisance and
they wouldn’t claim the corpse, and
we bought it at the morgue.” Then I
drew the icicle across him again, and I
said, “don’t know about this doctor. I
find that blood follows the scalpei as I
cut through the cuticle. Hand me the
blood sponge, please.” I’a began to
wiggle around, and we looked at him
and my chum raised his eyelid and
looked solemn, and pa said, “hold on,
gentlemen, don’t cut into me anymore,
and 1 can explain this matter. 1 was
only drunk.” We went to a corner
and whispered, and pa kept talking all
the time. He said if we would post
pone the hog killing he would send and
get witnesses that he was not dead, but
that he was a respectable citizen and
had a family. Alter tve held a consul
tation I went to pa anti told him that
what he said about being alive might
possibly be true, though wo had our
doubts We had found such cases be
fore in our practice East, where men
j seem to be alive, but it was only tem
porary. Before we had got them cm
up they were dead enough for all prac
tical purposes. Then 1 laid the icicle
across pa’s abdomen, and went on to
tell him that even if be was alive it
would be better for liim’to play that he
was dead, because lie was such a nuis
ance to iiis family and they didn’t want
him, and I was telling him that I had
heard in his lifetime he was very cruel
to his boy, a bright little fellow who
was at the head of his class in Sunday
school, and a pet wherever he was at
all known, when pa interrupted me and
said: “Doctor, please take that carv
ing knife oft’ of my stomach, for it
makes me nervous. As for that hoy
| of mine, he is the worst little whelp in
this city, and isn’t a pet anywhere.
Now you let up on this dissecting bus
iness and I will make it all right with
you.” We held another consultation
j aud then l told pa t hat we did not feel
that it was doing jnsticeto society to
give up the body ot a notorious drunkard
alter we had paid out twenty dollars
for the corpse. If there was any hope
that he would reform and try and lead
a different life, it would be different,
aud I said to the boys: “Gentlemen,
we must do our duty. Doc, yon dis
member that leg, and 1 will attend to
the stomach and the tipper part of the
body. He will be dead belore we are
done with him. We must remember
that society has some claim on us, and
not let the better nature be worked up
on by post mortem promises of a dead
drunkard.”
Then I to'dc my icicle and commen
ced fumbling around the abdomen por
, tion of pa’s remains, and my elium took
a rough piece of ice and began to saw
! his leg off, while the other boy took
j hold of the leg and said he would catch
it when it dropped off. Well, pa kick
ed like a steer. He said he wanted to
make one more appeal to us, and we
acted sort of impatient but we let up to
see what he had to say. He said it we
'would turn him loose that he would
I give us ten dollars more than we paid
i for the body, and that he would never
| drink another drop as long as he lived.
I Then we whispered some more and
told him we thought favorably of his
last proposition, but he must swear,
j with his hand on the lag of a corpse
! we were then dissecting, that he would
j never drink again, and that he must be
I blind-folded and led several blocks
from the dissecting room, before we
would turn him loose. He said that
was all right, and ,we blind-folded him,
and made him take a bloody oath with
his hand on a piece of ice that we told
him was a piece of another corpse, and
then we took him out of the house and
walked him around the block four
times, and then left him on the corner
after he had promised to send the mon
ey to an address that I gave him. YVe
told him to stand still five minutes af
ter we had left him, then remove the
blind-fold and go home. We watched
him from behind a board fence, and he
took off the handkerchief, looked ai
the name on the street lamp and found
he was not far from home. He started
off - , saying: “That’s a pretty narrow
escape, old man. No more whisky
for you.” I did not see him again un
til this morning,and when I asked him
where he was last night he shuddered
and said, “None ol your business. But
I never drink any more; von remember
that.” Ma was tickled to death, ami
she told me I was worth my weight in
gold.”
“Well, good day. That cheese is
musty.” And then the boy went out
and caught a passing sleigh.
On Thirty Day’s Trial.
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will send Dr. Dye’s Uelehhatiid Electro-
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on trial for thirty days to men (young or old)
who are afflicted with Nervous Debility,
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thirty days’ trial is allowed. dec2l-ly-
Thc withered leaf is not dead ami
lost. There are forces in it and around
it, though working inverses order, else
how could it rot? Despise not the rag
from which paper is made, or the litter
from which the earth makes Corn.
Ayer’s Cathartic Pills nre suited to
every age. Being sugar-coated, they
are easy to take, and though mild aud
pleasan in action, are thorough aud
searching in effect. Their efficacy in
all disorders of the stomach and bow
els is certified to by eminent physi
cians, prominent clergymen, and
many of our best citlz ens.
A SISTER’S REVENGE.
A TERRIBLE OATH WHICH A SIS
TER SWORE AM) CARRIER OCT.
YY’liat a Flirtation at a Theatre
Disclosed to a Detective —“Do
You Know This Dagger?”
—Career of Dissipa
tion and Vice.
On the night of January 21, 1880,
the authorities of Pueblo, Mexico, were
notified that a murder had been com
mitted in a quarter of the city known
as “Calebria.” This locality was
known as the resort for characters of
the vilest stamp, and hardly a day
passed that police interference was not
necessary. -When the official arrived
at the rickety dwelling where the
crime had been committed, tho crowd
of people had become deuse. Ascend
ing the steps, he entered a small room,
which contained but a few articles ot
turuitura, the most prominent of which
was a bed in one corner of the room.
To this a young girl with disheveled
hair, and wild staring eyes, rushed as
the officer entered, and pointed to some
thing which lay thereon, while with
the other hand she held the candle over
her head. Her look was wild and fear
ful, and her form trembled from head
to foot.
The officer started back at tho sight
which met his gaze. There lay a
woman covered with blood, her face
upturned, aud her eyes fixed and glassy
in death. The contortion of her fea
tures told that she had died by violence
and in terrible agony, while the simi
larity with that of the girl beside her
was still visible on her face.
“She was my sister,” said the girl,
“and her paramour murdered her.”
The words came hissing through her
pale, culled lips, and her eyes gleamed
with a fiend-like fire. Placing her hand
in her bosom, she drew forth
a beautiful dagger.
And a cold, derisive smile overspread
her features as she remarked, with her
dark eyes shooting shafts of mocking
scorn at the officer when he asked the
name of the villain who committed the
fatal deed.
“Never mind his name; I’ll be her
avenger. No mock court of justice
will deal with him. His family are
rich and have influence. I loved my
sister very much, and this terrible deed
has almost crazed me. 1 will soon be
myself again, and then, by the Al
mighty God! I will take a vengeance
that will be terrible to relate, in con
clusion, I will ask you to see that she
is decently buried, and I will repay you
at some future time.”
\\ T heu she had concluded, she left
the room, saying that she would return
directly. But that was the last seen ol
her. The body was subsequently bur
ied in accordance with the wish of the
sister, and though the case received
the strictest investigation, no clue to
the murderer of Scnora Barberia or the
whereabouts of her sister Angelique
could be obtained.
Time passed on, and amid the muta
bility of affairs the matter was gradu
ally forgotten in the midst of the public.
Some two years later the same detec
tive who had investigated the murder
ol Senora Barberia was instructed with
the charge of arresting a notorious for
ger who had recesntly been plying his
avocation with great success. Taking
his seat one night in the Folly Thea
ter, he quietly awaited the opening of
the performance. YY’hile thus seated
his attention was attracted by a strik
ingly beautiful woman in one of the
boxes. There was a slight boldness
in her manner, and an abandon in her
dress which stamped her to the initiat
ed eye as one who was not accustomed
to the paths of rectitude.
The detective thought he recognized
the countenance, but for the time could
not remember where or under what cir
cumstances he had met the woman.
She was accompanied by a young and
handsome girl of about nineteen, and it
was quite evident that her sphere was
of the higher order of society. Accom
panying the ladies was a man fashion
ably attired, but having the traces of
excessive dissipation. Having satis
fied herself that she had attracted the
attention of the detective, the eder of
the two ladies smiled as if in recogni
tion. She then took a card from a
portemonnaie, wrote a few words upon
it, returned it to its place, and, looking
significantly at the door, drew back
into the box.
When the curtain fell the detective
hastened out, and taking his stand at
the lobby awaited developments. As
ibe trio passed out into the vestibule
the handsome lady lingered behind,
and as she passed the detective she
HANDED HIM HER PORTEMONNAIE,
and smiling sweetly, hurriedly walk
ed out into the crowd. To the detec
tive’s surprise, he found S2OO in the
portemonnaie,and a card, upon the back
of which was penciled the following:
“Please accept this small sum as part
payment for the burial of my sister.
Now that you have seen again the
avenger of that sister’s wrongs, yon
will in a short time hear of her venge
inee. Angelique.
Just on the main street in Pueblo
here is a row of stuccoed pretentious
villas, all steps and porticos, which
stare down upon humbler neighbors
with vulgar display. About midway
Idown the street, and in this row, is a
dwelling overthe faccia of which is in
scribed, “Senora Presnillo, Cigarette
and Wine Divan.” Here the elite of
the demi-monde rendezvous, and the
midnight orgies which nightly take
place can scarcely be described."
On the morning of February 18th,
1882, the city was thrown into the
wildest excitement by the announce
ment that
A HORRIRLE MURDER
had been committed at Senora Fres
nillo’s bagnio, and that the whole mat
ter was shrouded in the deepest mys
tery. The victim was a young and
handsome girl, aud she lay upon the
bed with a dagger wound upon her left
breast.
Upon investigation it was found that
the girl was the daughter of a rich and
prominent gentleman of the city, and
bad been brought to a life of shame by
the machinations of a woman who was
well known throughout the whole city
by' the name of Angelique. The
whereabouts of the latter could not be
ascertained, and this fact alone pointed
strongly to her as the murderer. When
the same detective viewed the body he
immediately recognized in the murder
ed girl ihe same whom he saw in com
pany with Angelique in the box at the
theatre. After a fruitless search for
the murderer the matter was final
ly left in abeyance, and for the time
forgotten.
Home months later the detective re
ceived one morning in his mail the fol
lowing letter.
“Yon were recently' reminded that
you would soon hear of the veng'ance
of the sister of Senora Barberia. The
girl who was recently murdered in the
house of Signora Fresnillo was one of
her victims. She was the sister of the
wretch who betrayed and then murdered
my sister. The same dagger that was
buried to the hilt in my sisters heart
did the work in the other case. But
my vengeance-is not complete. My
next vietim is the villain, Miguel
Soares. Justice shall be satisfied, and
iufamy avenged. Angelique.”
Soares was a well known libertine,
whose
CAREER OF DISSIPATION AND VICE
Had bowed his family with obloquy.
He still pursued his course of ignominy !
and shame, not knowing how soon the
fatal dagger was to fall on him and
send him to meet his victim in another
world. The mystery of the murders
and the attending circumstances were
never known by but three persons—the
General of the Police, the murderess
and the detective.
One night in the latter part of No
vember last the detective happened to
be passing through one of the leading
thoroughfares of the city, when he met
Mignel Soares, accompaniel by a tall,
commanding woman, dressed elegantly
and heavily veiled. His suspicions
were immedietely aroused, and he de
termined to follow the couple.
Taking the opposite side of the street,
the detective followed the two until
they reached a small park in a fashion
able quarter of the city. Concealing
himself behind one of the trees, he
breathlessly awaited developments.
“I positively refuse to go any furth
er,” said Soares, “until you tell me
who you are and what your business
with me is.”
“Probably you will not be delighted
to know who I am.”
“I will satisfy my curiosity how
ever,” said Soares, as he tore the veil
from the woman’s face. The bright
rays of the moon fell upon a pair of
black eves which glared on Soares with
a fiendish fire and he started back as
he recognized that face. “Angeliqne
Barberia!” he gasped, “ivhat—ivhat
brings you here?”
“To have your life, Miguel Soares!”
she hissed, in a tone that trembled with
passion.
“DO YOU RECOGNIBE THIS DAGGER?”
“It is mine!” gasped Soares.
“It is yours, indeed, Miguel Soares?
I found it in the heart of my sister,
where you left it. Now take it back,
but let your heart be its sheath. Thus
do I complete my work.”
The detective sprang from his hiding
place at the same moment that Soares
fell to the ground with a groan. An
geliqne dashed through the shrubbery
and fled across the park. Placing
Soares who had breathed his last, upon
the grass, the detective gave chase, but
after a fruitless chase he was obliged
to give up, and returned to the corpse.
A couple of days after he received
the following note:
“I am now on my way to a foreign
country, and any search for me will re
sult only in a waste of time. I have
fulfilled my oath, and will henceforth
seek to find that repose which seclusion
alone affords. Adieu, Angelique.”
Though a vigilant search ivas im
mediately instituted, no trace of the
murderess has ever since been obtained
and her whereabouts is as impenetrable
a mysterv as were for a long time the
mysterious murders of which she alone
was the key.
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