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HER PRESCRIPTION.
A LITTLE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T BE
BLUFFED BY THE CLERK.
In Answer to His Customary Big Scare
. Talk She Said “Fiddlesticks!*’ and Car
ried Her Point lt Is Well to Know
Tour Kiglits and Then Befend Them.
About one iu ten of the persons who
take prescriptions to drug stores to be
filled ask for a copy of the formula.
Nearly all pharmacists famish the de
sired copy without comment. Some of
them may add 5 or 10 cents to the cost
of the prescription to pay for their ex
tra trouble in copying the physician’s
hieroglyphics, but they raise no objec
tion to the customer’s request. There
are druggists, however, who are averse
to making copies of the prescriptions
which they fill, and now and then some
spirited disputes are overheard at the
prescription desk.
Not long ago a quiet but self reliant
little woman stepped into a drug store
near the Grand Central station and pre
sen ted a prescrijjtion written by a well
known specialist.
“Eighty cents. Please pay at the
desk, ” said the prescription clerk ten
minutes later, aa he handed the pack
age of medicine over the counter.
“But I want a copy &t the prescrip
tion,’’ said the woman in a tone that
implied that she thought it ought to
have been given to her without the ask
ing.
“Oh, but we couldn’t give you that, ”
replied the clerk suavely. “This is a
special prescription, and we would have
no right to give you a copy of it with
out an order from the doctor.”
“But I must have a copy of it,” per
sisted the woman. “I do not live in
New York. My home is several hun
dred miles from here, and I want this
remedy for use during the winter. Now,
don’t keep me waiting, please, for I am
about to take my train.”
“Well, my dear madam, yon can send
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prescription for you. It will remain on
our books, and when you write you need
mention only the physician’s name and
the number. You see, that is a special
prescription of Dr. ’e, and he would
not want it handled by every village
druggist”—
“Oh, fiddlesticks!” exclaimed the lit
tle woman, bristling up. “That is my
prescription. I bought it and paid lib
erally for it. Now you either give me
a copy of it or take your medicine back
and give me my original prescription.
Dr. knows where I live, and he
knows that I would not leave New
York without taking a copy of that pre
scription with me.”
“But, my dear madam, you must un
derstand our position in the matter. We
have got to protect ourselves. Now, if
Dr. says that you can have a copy
of this prescription we will be glad to
give it to you. ”
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man, now thoroughly aroused. “If you
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copy of my prescription or the prescrip
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The prescription clerk looked as
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but after a few seconds’ hesitation con
cluded that it would not be worth while.
He withdrew from view and presum
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latter came out from bis little office in
the corner and after looking the little
woman over sharply turned to tbo clerk
and said, “Give it to her.”
“You see, madam,” said the clerk in
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later as be handed her a copy of the
prescription, “we desire to accommo
date our patrons iu every way possible,
but we have to be careful with special
prescriptions. Why, it was only last
year that we were threatened with a
suit for big damages by a noted special
ist because we gave one of his patient’s
a copy of the prescription he wrote for
her. He claimed that she took it to a
small town in the south, where an ob
scure druggist got hold of it, and, find
ing it to be an effective remedy, at first
mixed it for local distribution and aft
erward put it on the market as a specific
with his own name and picture as a
trademark. So you see”—
‘‘Oh, fiddlesticks I” said the little wo
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DEVOTED TO JACKSON COUNTY AND TEE DEMOCRATIC PARTY,
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 15. 1898.
WORST DROUTH IN
NUMBER OF YEARS
The Spring Planted Oat Crop
Suffers Greatly.
WHEAT NOT SO UNLUCKY
Commissioner Nesbitt Reviews the
Agricultural Conditions In an Inter
esting Better to Georgia Farmers
and Once More Points Out the Im
portance of Thorough Preparation.
Department of Agriculture.
Atlanta, July 1, 1898.
THE OAT CROP.
The drouth which has prevailed for
several weeks throughout the state is
said to be the most severe known, at
this season of the year, for 20 years.
The wheat crop, which is much heavier
than usual, escaped with comparatively
little injury, but the oat crop, particu
larly the spring planted fields, and more
especially those in which the seed were
carelessly put in and imperfectly fertil
ized, has suffered severely—iu some sec
tions of the state may be denominated a
total failure. Wo need no better illus
tration of the importance of thorough
preparation and fertilization than is
afforded by the yields of this crop
throughout the state. The results of
the long continued drouth have most
fully confirmed the oft repeated asser
tion that success;ul cropping depends,
in great measure, on thorough prepara
tion of the soil before the seed are put
in. It has been fully demonstrated that
if we take the precaution of providing a
well stored reservoir in a deeply pre
pared seed bed, then when the demand
for moisture comes, and the growing
plants begin to droop for lack of neces
sary rain from above, Mother Nature
will come to our rescue, and through
the power of capillary action will pump
np from the reserve supply, which we
have stored in lower depths, the life
giving, revivifying moisture so neces
sary for plant growth. Here we have
beautifully illustrated the manner in
which the intelligent farmer may, on
the very brink of failure, wrest
SUCCESS
from adverse circumstances. If ho has
studied nature’s laws he knows that
when the upper soil becomes dry, if
there is a reserve supply of moisture
stored in the subsoil, the power of capil
lary action will dra\y iFfo the surface.
But his knowledge must not stop here.
He must also have learned that it is im
possible to keep this moisture in reach
of the growing plants if a crust is al
lowed to form and remain on the sur
face. When that crust remains and is
unbroken, no power can prevent the
evaporation of the moisture which comes
to the surface through the capillary
tubes. It is the farmer’s province and
privilege to so break up these tubes that
the moisture may be held in chefck and
in reach of the growing plants long
enough for them to absorb its life giving
properties before they become dissipated
into the atmosphere. To do this he
must by constant
SHALLOW CULTIVATION
keep a thin mulch of finely pulverized
surface soil spread over bis fields. The
man who thoroughly understands the
importance of this principle will never
allow a crust to remain on his land
longer than he can run a shallow, broad
furrow to break it up. The need of this
rapid work accentuates the importance
of wide cutting plows and expanding
cultivators.
JULY
has often been called the “pivotal
month,” because if the work is not
carefully planned and adjusted much of
our previous effort will count for naught.
In “laying by” our crops we should re
member that the network of delicnto
roots just beneath the surface perme
ates the entire field and that we should
be as careful to avoid injuring these as
we are to prevent the breaking apd tear
ing of the leaves and stalks above the
ground.
DURATION OF CULTIVATION.
Plowing at this season should be reg
ulated very much by the habits and
condition of the different crops. Fox
instance, work in the late maturing,
large growing varieties of cotton may
cease sooner than in the shorter limbed,
early maturing kinds, because when the
growth of these large varieties is thus
checked they begin to take on fruit,
which they would not do to the same
extent if their luxuriant leaf growth
were encouraged by continued cultiva
tion. On the other hand,if the smaller and
quicker maturing varieties are develop
ing favorably, a shallow center furrow,
even well iuto August, will be of bene
fit. We should always keep in mind
that the object of plowing at this sea
son is not to break tbe soil to any depth,
1 inch is enough, but to keep down any
incipient weeds or grass, to check evap
oration and to promote the access of air
to the plant roots.
OTHER WORK FOR THE MONTH.
Peas for forage may be sown until
the last of July, and if encouraged by
an application of acid phosphate and
potash, will store up in the soil for our
future use the third and most important
as well as most expensive element of
plant food—nitrogen. As we have time
and opportunity we should also decide
on our fall campaign, what crops we
will plant and what fields apportion to
each one. Any successful
SYSTEM OF ROTATION
must recognize certain fixed laws. Tho
most important of these is that crops of
like growth and habits, extracting
the same elements of plant food
from the soil, in similar proportions,
should not follow each other, but should
be succeeded by those which, while de
manding the same elements, will absorb
them under different conditions and in
different proportions, thus iu a measure
equalizing the draught upon the re
sources of the soil. In considering the
FALL CROPS RYE
should be given an important place. It
not only furnishes firstclass green food
for the cold months, but as a renovator
and accumulator of humus, can
not be too highly prized. It is
hardy, and besides performing the
above important offices, it acts
as a stay to the winter floods, which
otherwise rush over our bare fields.
September is early enough to sow any
of these fall grain crops, but July is
none too early to plan for our wheat,
oats and rye fields. A pea stubble is a
firstclass beginning for either wheat or
oats, as both demand a full supply of
nitrogen. If rye is sown on the pea
stubble it continues the work of reno
vation begun by the pea crop, and when
turned under in the spring lays the
foundation for bounteous crops of either
com or cotton.
R. T. Nesbitt, Commissioner.
CONDITION OF THE CROPS.
Dry Weather Injures Corn and Cotton
Is Somewhat Retarded.
COTTON.
Throughout the state the cotton fields
wall worked and free from grass.
I The stands are fairly good and the
j plants as a rule healthy. On account of
i the dry spring the growth has been
somewhat retarded, and the weed is not
as large as it should be at this date. No
reports of lice or other insect enemies as
yet, and with plenty of rain for the next
six or eight weeks the crop may turn
out well. The cotton plant needs but
little rain in the earlier stages of its
growth, but as it takes on fruit abun
dant moisture is required for its proper
growth and development, and a further
continuation of the dry weather of the
past six weeks would prove almost
ruinous.
CORN.
This crop has been injured by the dry
weather, particularly so in the southern
portion of the state. The rains have
been very partial, some localities being
favored with an average fall, while oth
ers iu the same neighborhood have seri
ously suffered. There has been no gen
eral, heavy rainfall covering the entire
state, during the year; consequently
rivers have been low, branches and
creeks have dried up, wells have failed,
and in some places it has been difficult
to get water for any purpose. Of course
the crop has suffered more or less under
these circumstances, and will he un
doubtedly cut off to a considerable
extent. The fields, however, have been
well worked and are clean and in good
condition, and with abundant and im
mediate rains, Middle and North Geor
gia may still make good crops.
OATS.
This crop has been a disappointment
to those who planted in the spring, the
want of rain rendering the crop, in
many cases, worthless. Fall planted
oats did very well, as a rule, though
they would have turned out better with
more rain in April. I again advise
farmers to plant at least half of their
oat crops in the early fall. The chances
of their being winter-killed are less
than the chances of the spring oats
being ruined by a dry May.
WHEAT.
This crop has been harvested, threshed
and I hope sold. Iu many years the
state has not made a better or more
abundant crop, and I trust that the
farmers of the wheat section of Georgia
will feel encouraged by this year’s ex
perience to engage still more largely in
its cultivation. Sines harvesting com
menced the price has steadily dropped,
but I trust that the wheat growers of
Georgia received not less than $1 a
bushel for their crops.
MINOR CROPS,
such as corn, sorghum, sweet potatoes,
rice, etc., have all felt the bad effects of
a hot, dry spring. General and abund
ant rains are required all over the state
to bring these crops out so that an aver
age yield may be expected. Gardens
and pastures have been badly injured in
every county in the state. Recent
showers have caused a little improve
ment in both, but general and heavy
rains are necessary to bring about any
marked improvement.
FRUIT.
Peaches and watermelons are being
marketed, and the prospect is good for
an abundant crop of each. Watermelons
so far are small, for want of rain.
Peaches will be small also for the same
reason, and because of overbearing.
The berry crops have all been injured
by dry weather. Grapes promise to be
abundant. Apple crop poor.—State
Agricultural Department.
INQUIRY BOX FOR~MONTH.
The State Agricultural Department
Replies to Questions.
Question. — I would like to know
something more about vetches. Some
time ago I read your article on this sub
ject, and as I wish to experiment a lit
tle on this line I write to ask if it is
advisable to sow now, or would it be
best to wait until fall? If we can get a
certain crop that will give us green food
in the late winter and early spring one
difficulty that the farmer has to con
tend against will be overcome, and if
this can be done with a nitrogen gath
ering crop, which will at the same time
benefit the land, farming at the south
will have made a long step forward.
Answer. —ln the southern states
vetches should be sown in the late sum
mer or early fall. The hairy vetch is
preferred for our climate and should be
sown from the middle of August to the
middle of September, according to sea
sons. Spring vetches seem more par
ticularly suited to northern latitudes,
indeed, have proved a signal failure in
our climate. Hairy vetch will stand a
good amount of cold and drouth, but it
does not like a damp soil—any excess of
water is very injurious to it and it
seems to prefer a sandy soil. At
the Mississippi Experiment Station
heavy annual crops have been realized
from a peice of land sown in 1888, which
has never been reseeded. Stock is
taken off and cuttings cease in March,
the plants mature and scatter their seed
over the ground, which begin to germi
nate with the first fall rains. If the
crop is intended to be cut for forage and
is sown broadcast, about a bushel of
winter oats, or rye or wheat should be
sown at the same time. These will
furnish a support for the vines and pre
vent them from trailing on the ground.
The difficulty of cutting the crop prop
erly will thus be obviated. When cut
for hay the plants should be in full bloom.
The kidney vetch is another variety,
which is recommended for poor, thin cal
careous or very sandy soils, which will
not support clovers or better forage crops,
hut from the result of experiments with
ft it cannot he recommended as of much
Value. The hairy vetch, however, has
a high indorsement. Stock axe very
fond of it. It has a high feeding value.
It may lie cured for hay, or pastured,
and is a most excellent plant for soiling.
When once fairly established it with
stands drouths and extremes of temper
ature. Most of the seed are imported
from Europe and as yet are high priced,
which is the chief present difficulty in
the way of its general introduction. Its
cultivation is, however, increasing, and
we hope to see the day when the much
needed green crop, to fill up the hiatus
between late winter and early spring,
will be found in the vetches of which
so little is now generally known. We
would like to know the result of your
experience if you decide to try the ex
periment this fall.—State Agricultural
Department.
Sorghum as a Forage Plant.
Question. — Is sorghum a good plant
for feeding green, and for making hay ?
If so what variety would you recom
mend, and how to plant and save ?
Answer.— Sorghum is a most excel
lent forage plant to feed either green or
to save as hay. It does best on rich,
loamy soils, but will do well
on any soil that will produce fair crops
of com or cotton. Prepare the land
well, and bed as you would fear cotton
in 3feet rows, using from 300 to 400
pounds of a complete fertilizer. About
cotton planting time open a shallow fur
row and drill the seed—from a half
bushel to three pecks to the acre. Cul
tivate shallow and often. When grown
for forage it is not necessary to thin
out, though thinning is very essential
when the sorghum is grown for syrup
making. The “Early Amber” and
“Minnesota Early Amber” are excellent
varieties, as are also the “Early Orange”
and “Kansas Orange.”
Sorghum will do better on thin soils,
and will stand drouth better than corn.
For making hay, cut soon after it begins
to bloom and put up in small shocks
until cured. For feeding green, cutting
should be begun as soon as the plants
begin to form heads. Stir the ground
with a cultivator or plow immediately
after harvesting a crop, and the sorghum
will continue to grow and make a
second and third cutting. Feed but
little at first, increasing the amount
day by day, until the stock become ac
customed to it. State Agricultural
Department.
About Subsolllng*.
Question. —Is it not injurious to land
to subsoil at this season? lam a young
farmer, but I have always heard that it
was dangerous to bring the clay to the
surface after the late fall or early
winter.
Answer.— You are under a misappre
hension as to the meaning of subsoil
ing. This is not a turning of the clay
to the surface, but it is the breaking up
of the subsoil at the bottom of the fur
row, and leading it there. This may be
done by following, in the bottom of the
furrow, which is made by an ordinary
plow, with a long narrow “scooter,” or
a “bull tongue.” Or it may be accom
plished with one furrow, made by a
subsoil plow, constructed especially for
this purpose. In either case it is simply
breaking up the lower soil, which is
not reached by an ordinary plow. This
plan will expose it to the action of the
air, will drain it of surplus water or
make it more retentive of necessary
moisture, and by thus increasing its
porosity or powers of absorption will
not only regulate the moisture for the
use of crops, but will bring into service
its heretofore locked np and insoluble
elements of plant food.—State Agri
cultural Department.
Kean Rust.
Question. —Last year my beans were
attacked by a disease, which my neigh
bors called bean rust. When I discov
ered the trouble it was too late to pre
vent the damage. It seemed to be more
on the pods than anywhere else, al
though a large per cent of the leaves
eventually became affected. The little
round spots first appeared on the pods
when about half grown and the pods
turned dark and seemed to shrink up
around those spots. Sometimes they
were pink and again red. If there is
any way of preventing this I want to
begin in time this year. What is the
disease, and is there any remedy ?
Answer. —The disease which you de
scribe is anthracnose, and the best pre
ventive after the beans are planted is
Bordeaux mixture,with which the plants
should be sprayed. But a better pre
ventive still is to plant only bright
plump seed. As the disease lives in the
seed from one season to another, all
seed should be carefully examined and
only the perfectly sound ones used. All
which are shriveled or imperfect should
be rejected.—State Agricultural Depart
ment.
Handling Late Potatoes.
Those who have rather late ground
on which potatoes are to be planted will
find it worth while to sprout the seed
now. Merely set them in a warm,
light place and let them send out shoots
about b inches long. As soon as the
ground can be worked plant the pota
toes, handling them carefully, so as not
to break off the shoots, allowing one
sprout to each piece of seed. In this
way potatoes can be raised on late land
as soon as on early land by the ordinary
method.—Exchange.
Chemical Weed Destroyer.
Professor Shntt of the experiment
farms at Ottawa, Canada, recommends
the following very simple compound for
destroying weeds and grass: Two
pounds of sulphate of copper, or bine
vitriol, and 6 gallons of hot water. Dis
solve and apply as a spray, or through
-" ordinary sprinkling not
He Was Training.
One of the oddest little recollections
of training which come tomiud at this
moment is that concerned with Henry
Jivins, who was trying to condition
himself to run 100 yards in 9 1-5 sec
onds. He lived at Little Hoching, 0.,
on the Short Line. The Short Line only
ran one real, true bine and bona fide
passenger train a day on that division,
bnf it eared for the local traffic by ap
pending a coach to a freight train, and
all one living along the line had to do
wa9 to yell rtiree swift shrieks and the
train would stop almost anywhere—al
most anywhere, but not absolutely so.
There is one stretch of eight miles of
np grade between Little Hocking and
Torch, and unless the trains start from
the latter station with a good run for
the hill they are likely to stall. Jivins,
ignoring this, started out one morning a
few hundred yards behind the puffing
locomotive, intending to train np hia
speed by running the accommodation
down.
The accommodation was about mid
way of the hill and laboring hard when
Conductor Perse Morse looked back and
saw the flying figure of Jivins. Believ
ing he had left a passenger, the conduct
or reluctantly gave the signal to the
engineer to stop. The engineer mistook
the signal, pulled her wider open, and
with a jerk out came the drawbar, the
train parted, and the rear half, rushing
back down the bill, crashed into a car
of coal on the open siding, demolished
the station and knocked the water tank
off its piling. The seven male passen
gers jumped, and nobody was hurt.
Perse Morse, with his coat split up the
back and his left thumb sprained, hunt
ed around for the belated passenger, in
tending to point out to him what the
Short Line Railroad company had done
in order that be miglSget a ride. Jivins
being found, Morse spoke to him with
dignity and told him he hoped now he
wonld lie at the station in time for his
train when he next wanted to ride.
“Why,” said Jivins, “I didn’t want
to ride. ” And he explained that he was
“in training. ”
Not counting the train crew, there
were seven men who whipped Jivins
that morn i uk. —Chicago Record
The Horse-Dealer’s Story,
BY SYLVANUB COBB, JR.
Many years ago, before the era of
railroads, and when highwaymen
abounded along the great route from
Calais to Paris, a noted drover, who
had been to Boulogne with a large
drove of horses which he had sold
for cash, was overtaken by night, on
his return near Marquise. He re
membered that a little distance
ahead was a quiet inn he had never
stopped at, and he determined to
spend the night there.
As he rode up to the house, the
landlord, an elderly persoD, received
his horse and led him away to the
stable, while he invited the drover
to enter the public sitting-room.
Here he found two young men,
one of whom, from his resemblance
to the landlord, he recognized as his
son; the other, somewhat older, from
his manners appeared also to belong
to the family. Immediately after
supper, (during which the drover
stated where he had been and what
good luck he had met with,) the son
mounted a horse, and stating that
he was going to Marquise to stay all
night, rode off The drover, having
looked after the comfort of his horse
soon after requested the landlord to
show him to his room.
As the traveler slipped off his
garments he felt for the leathern
belt about his waist, to see that it
was secure. This contained his gold,
while his paper money was in a large
wallet, carried in a pocket made for
the purpose, in the inside of his vest.
Depositing these articles beneath his
pillow, he extinguished the light and
threw himself upon the bed, when,
overcome by weariness, he soon fell
asleep.
How* long he had been in this state
of forgetfulness he could not tell,
when he was aroused to wakefulness
by the sound of some person endeav
oring to open the window near the
head of his bed. At the same time
he heard suppressed voices without,
as of several persons in whispered
consultation.
Startled by this suspicious appear
ance of things, the drover reached
towards the chair on which he had
thrown his clothes, for his weapons;
but to his dismay he remembered
that on arrival, when preparing to
wash off the dust of his journey, he
had laid them aside within the bar
and had neglected to resume them.
Scarcely conscious of what he was
doing, the defenceless drover slipped
from the foot of the bed and hid
himself in the darkness behind a lot
of woman’s dresses suspended from
the wall, and watched the motions
of a man who was now slowly and
cautiously entering the room. He
even fancied he could detect the re
flection of the dim light upon an
upraised knife as the man ap
proached the bed with staggering
and uncertain steps. But great was
his relief, when, instead of an at
tempt at murder, the intruder care
lessly shuffled off his clothes, and
throwing himself upon the bed be
had just vacated, was soon buried in
deep slumber.
Not knowing what to make of this
strange affair, the drover determined
to dress himself, call up the land
lord, and have this singular intru
sion explained. He had reached his
clothes and slipped on his trousers,
and was moving towards the door,
when steps were heard cautiously
crossing the outer room. Once
more he sought the shelter of the
dresses, which completely screened
his person, and awaited the entrance
of the persons, whoever they might
be. Presently the door of the room
was silently opened, and two men
made their appearance. It was not
so dark but that the drover could
readily distinguish them to be the
innkeeper and the man he had seen
at the supper table.
“Step lightly, I tell you,” whu
pered the landlord, “or you’ll wake
him up, and then we’U have a pretty
mess on our hands.”
“Nonsense!” replied the other
with an oath. “You are scared, old
man!”
“Scared!” repeated the first speak
er. “No man ever told Jean Gar
nier before he was scared! Here,
give me the knife ! I’ll show you
who is scared! You secure the
money—it’s under the pillow—l saw
him put it there—and I’ll do the
rest.”
The old man was now in advance,
and as he stood between the win
dow and the drover, the latter could
see his form bent over the bed, while
his hand seemed to be searching be
neath the pillow.
“Here, Henri, take it. Here’s the
wallet and here’s the belt. How
heavy it is!” and he passed the mon
ey to his companion before the
other had yet reached the bedside.
The old man then put his hand to
his bosom, and the trembling drover
saw him draw forth the long blade
the other had given him. For an
instant the murderous weapon was
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poised over his head, and then de
scended upon thb person of the poor
wretch in the bed.
The murderer paused in his work
for an instant, as if to satisfy himself
that life was extinct, and then moved
quickly from the room.
As soon as the sound of his foot
steps had died in the distance, the
horror-stricken drover escaped
through the window and ran with all
his speed to Marquise, where, arous
ing the people of the hotel, he told
his fearful story. A crowd soon col
lected about him, and accompanied
him to the scene of the foul murder.
All about the house was still, but
on approaching the stable a light was
discovered within; and moving noise
lessly to the door, and peering
through the cracks, the two murder
ers were found in the act of digging
a grave beneath the flooring. A
rush was made upon them and they
were arrested.
At sight of the drover, who was
the first to confront the guilty
wretches, the landlord uttered a
shriek of terror and fell to the
ground, while his accomplice, pale
as a corpse, gazed upon him with
affright, not doubting it was the
ghost of the murdered man who
stood before him.
The party now proceeded to the
house, dragging the two murderers
along with them.
Lights were procured, and still
keeping the prisoners with them,
the people entered the room where
lay the body of the man
so strangely murdered instead of the
horse dealer. The wife and daugh
ter followed.
When the covering was removed
from the face of the corpse, and the
full light of the caudles flared upon
it, a wild cry burst from the lips of
the landlord’s wife.
“My son—my murdered son! Who
has done this?”
And with a hysterical scream she
fell to the floor.
“No, no! it can’t be so, mother!”
exclaimed the daughter, as she
struggled to reach the bed. But the
terrible truth burst upon her as her
eyes fell upon the mangled form of
her brother, and she also swooned
upon the body.
The cries of the broken-hearted
females seemed to arouse the old
man for a moment; and gazing wildly
at the sight before him, he also rea
lized the terrible truth. He had
murdered his own son!
On investigating the facts before
the magistrate on the following day,
it was ascertained that the son of
the inkeeper, who was a dissipated
young man, had visited Marquise
the previous evening, where, with
some of his associates, he had been
engaged in drinking and gambling
till a late hour; being too much in
toxicated to remount his horse, and
ashamed to meet his family, some of
his fellow gamblers had accompanied
him home; and supposing the room
in which the drover had been put to
be vacant, they had assisted the
drunken man into the window. It
was their voices the lodger had
heard; and thus it was that the help
less youth met his death, and our
friend escaped.
The accomplice of the landlord
proved to be his own son-in-law,
Henri Legrand.
From that awful hour the wretched
mother of that murdered boy, mur
dered by his father’s hand, remained
a raving maniac.
It is only necessary to add, in con
cluding this tale of horror, that the
drover recovered his money; and
justice claiming her due, the two
murderers paid the penalty of their
crime upon the guillotine. Shortly
after this last event the people of
Marquise, to whom the scene of the
unnatural murder had become an
eyesore, assembled and leveled the
buildings to the ground. The spot
is now covered with brambles and
thistles, and pointed out to the
stranger as a place to be avoided;
for the ignorant assert that it is
haunted by the ghost of the mur
dered son.
An exchange speaks of a man who,
it is said, always pays for his local
paper in advance. Asa result he
has never been sick a day in his life,
never had any corns on his toes, or
the tooth-ache, his potatoes never
rot, his oats never rust, the weasel
never kills his chickens, the frost
never kills his beans, his babies never
cry at night and his wife never
scolds.—Ex.
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