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•Ma bj -
*M««, iKmm nulro;
■eastern WMM Sod above.
Asd M aba lay.
“A bttla dm.k&>* &r •
Slowly the
“ LM ma
While I M drip."
A look of #».-.
Firm and pala^M^mea;
A iXiMW 'W** ;
“ TaU re rw jp «■
A attire
did."
And ona aaarrenfcSawfflrl v'•agjH
from Um heart m that wnunood Ueom hid.
'•i'isA/STum* oar* M*U;
tae r* liar«.yea 00V 4ua;
bat Ui ttxM tpaaru of tuortal pain
Bb« »;• to berwlf: M1 ™ RR *>< > 1
Day by day. a* the and drawn (JL i 1 £1
To gr®Ue una»t:«n oajU.’i daiuaiMi
cl
WHr'T w r : -•*•“•*•►« ■*.
haff
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ran:’?®
' : - wr jt^ ;/ h
ti feM m
won BtoreOf
n\t'iill^ -wiL-e rAbtd flk tia
‘"1 ’r- ’
ajrpw
ai aaw
of i- 'iiibldwFaKdiint of Jff'fioo more
I remained untouched.
I Two clerks, both young mrn, usually
B rlept in too stona Yrrkea
■ been in tho-qp|i|b]rf of Mi Hjtrriiotf
B Purvis about lour years and enjoyed the
■ confidence of lite employer. Pembroke
■ Bharon, the other clerk, had only re-
■ oently been taken, but the manner in
■ which he took hold of the btmineHs im-
■ pressed Mr. Purvis s<> much in his fav r
■ that he predicted a successful future f. r
■ the laqarwri ee a very salesman
■ s:. i«il::rn. l |e flik.miuegt a-uMuum-t. I u
■ der thia impression he placed implicit
■ trust m Sharon, and select.*! hirft a., a
■ companion of Yerkes in the store ai
■ night
■ Both of these young men were in the
■su re on the night tlie robiwry oecurr. <l,
■ 1 ut when the place was opened in the
■ 1 tuig tvuiroi! i 'i- :>-..
■ lay on the floor near the safe with •
■severe gash on the side of his head,
■which had been bleeding profusely,
■judging by the amount of blood cm the
Koor. «!1 / >
BB lYie unfortunate young m . ui had evi
■di Fitly enfeivwred V staunch the
■p a . h «
his clothes. By the disorder in tin
and the numerous blood starun
on the floor and Wails itwas ew
■iett turn .» de..perate struggle must ’. >v
place,
BB It was wt*enr*d fro*a this that
keys, had opened the sat ■ a:. 1
by his fellow clerk in the
of his work, who, in turn, dealt
tlie blow near the tempi- . a:, i then.
»'■<> between thorn
-UTKAaitr.SB lose of : k> d. an i
robber fled with hia booty.
Varnoe, the detective, and a piivel imi
at onr-? uid wjnia l>r ibd-
attended’to ffs patient the detective
■luuiiij the premises with hn usual
B? patUfenlariy lue a- -.’urtt* ■ -
tn the lower fl »T f r
Yerkes had recovered an 1 sat a;.
with a jwg*<e ar nuai
■ *' Well, Mr Varncie. what have you
HB”! find tost tbs robber has tw»n to
■'"nd floor replied the
ho has taken some vain-ibl--*
there aa veil."
merchant hasten..! up stair-. I -.!
HV'' ■* ■ ■ w r -Jun., J
dufcirbgd or removed aa Ur -v- :.e ,
UH * W*«h»«r|B-..>.wt: : . < -.
n poartraw that lie vtfe... . t ■
U** Uk: ti:e b. 04y att .p. me
Yerkee «>*• the fallowing *•
aw, te : f.uad th*; .
|V*' itMj Uanni- «».»«
l , tw, - L. u * r
a<U iwypu. V> anarch fur !..i~
IBM*' ■■'. „^ f ... »,e ..
♦-• '.!•>£! 1 1* ~~~
fintamta Mediwr
•Imcendod to th* first floor, £d fiound
hi® bi fore the open safe, iffr.r «»
’ itch other at *„ game -<||r">. and
Sharon wws sprl; Ueund at bejffg ff:
ered ua Ms . rmjjml act 'ftesvi-gu
the struggle, the iftideaee of Wrftite WHH
•o plainly Sharon the
stronger of the twatoqtofitepre. r. d )lia
opponent, and ihrejr him |t> vilmtly on
the floor that ho -muiA imen jtle
Varnt ■> listened With
to the end, than marie a fJTIJLvi in his
book, after which ®wm efl <*:. of the
store with his eyesb|pCoiM|> floor lie
fore him until he i th- street ;
bb.a, Mtn rredim; his eye* eearchftffh
on the ground, he walks* Nfoer to the
dock and gax».«l for a few mefinr-tu*. jnto
the water in a thoughtful manner. When
he returned to the store and rejoined
the others in the office it was with a grave
co rm ten an oe.
_ 2' robber has evident
■y escaped of the river, as the
blood tracks resell to the dock.
eyes Weranqw diracUvLpWardU. i'
wfcai.. i mA, wtii kM M- iiienf i jnAu*
’™£jP -H»< £ W¥U as if
to Btf but'TMl back m ju
Seal wdH h groan atid fiainted Wwrr. «
While the doctor was applying ri ,top
•time to hip charge the dotcctWe dFew
Mr. to the rear of thb stare
•nd remained tiiere for half an hour In
conversation with him, and. judging by
Ilia frequent exclamations, he must have
been greatly ashmiahed at what the de
tsetive told him.
Be-entering the office, they fowul
Yerkes still unconscious, and, at the
suggestion of Varnoe, he was conveyed
in that condition to the hospital.
"Now, Mr. Purvis,” said Varnoc,'"
•‘ yon win please jioint out to me whiob
are tha clothes usually wuru by Mr.
Sharon while on duty at the store."
"Certainly, sir," replied the genth*
man; “that is readily done," and ho
went to a closet where, the clerks kept
their enter gHrmentaaad o«M>uad U. Hs
took piii-e after piece from tbejlooks,
an i fclamatioti hb if of
him aa he did so.
“ What is it?” asked Varnoe, when
Mr. Purvis laid the garments on the
bed.
“ Why, as I live, Sliaron has not only
left his coat and vest behind, but also
his pants I" said Mr. Purns, with a look
of Ix-w ilderment
' That ia singular, ” remarked Mie de
tective, exchanging significant glances
w itli the doctor ; 1 ‘ the more so when
you bear in mind that Mr. Yerkes, when
found, had ou his coat, vest, pants and
boots, while the roblier even left his
boots liehind him,” pointing to a pair
beneath the bed.
"You will now please see whether
Mr. Sharon lias left anything of value
in his i>ockets."
Every pocket was instantly divested
of Its contents. There was found a valu
able gold watch and chain, a wallet con
taining a trifle over 8-u, a penknife, pen
cil and meiu inmduiu Imok, etc.
“ifrtiuu the articles, Mr Purus, and
restore the clothes to the closet,” said
Vanme. “ I have another surprise in
you, I think.“
WTicn this was done, Varnoe took off
all the bed-clothes and threw them on
Mr Hour, knvujg the pmUruas baqjg Au
eyclamatiiwi of aftrpriae burst irtak. Mr.
Purvis as he pointed to the mattrew*
•rfiere a aunilier of bloody finger-marks
stained it along a scam aliout ten inches
in length.
“ No> I see what you are driving at,”*
eri< d 'Mr. Purvis, ac.iuaing the seam.
“ You mean to say that the robber has
hidden his booty in the mattress?”
•‘I think so, a* all sveata," was hte
reply, as he took out his knife and
opened the seam.
lutotWopen-
ing, he pr»*cntly drew forth Mie p Cclv
age of greenliscka. They were intact,
so Mr. i‘sm> aunouaoed, ah. r cxamin
lag fiie fastaUngs and seals.
What am I io dunk of this ? " asked
the gentleman, in a helpless tcuo, “I
declare that my head aches trying Io
divine ths motive of this most extraordi
nary robbery."
"Think aa I do.”
"What ia that?”
■'Why, Pembroke 11h<o», !■
I «tea<l of l<eing the robber, ia the rictini
: M tha rr bbar. which acconnU for hut
leaving all hia outer rarmenU behind.
He evidently aurpriM* the robber at
hie work, and in th***> winter that took
place fan murdered pocrWiar, mb, dragged
him acrOM tba atrent, aa the trail abowed
i u> uie, and tcaaed him into the river ”
"Than yon renßy anapeot Augnat
' Yerba* aa the robber ’ ” aaked the mer
I grrwily agttau-d
“J am aure he ia not only the robtier,
bat poaibly abkj a murderer,” waa Ibe
1 "-Hy
Devoted the Interests of Columbia County and the State of Georgia
HARLEM, GEORGIA. TUESDAY, MAY 3, ISBI
“Oh, the wreteht" med the mar
chant, paaainnately ; " and in my heart
I admired hie bravery, while I pitied
him for what he had endured for on
deavormg to protect mV property."
" I am convinced that you have hit on
the right man," said Mr. Pnrvw. "11
he knew of this he might give us the
slip. The next thing to be done M to
rise every means in our power to recover
the body of poor Sharon."
" Poor, indeed, since all the dotlies
he has on his back are not his own,"
a joke a voice lieliind them.
All looked at the speaker, who wore
an old uari taokod as as
ho had »aevcro«ixll
of sickness.
Hometiling in the tone of the voice
struck a chord ui the breast of the mer
chant. ißs apjgoaeh*! the nmn and
asked, eagerly ;
" Who are you F’
" My name is Pembroke Bharon.”
In a moment he was surround* I by
the trio, who congratulated him on his
•escape from death He Toqueatdd per
mission to resume his projier dress, after
which he would tell exactly what oc
curred during the past night
His story was very similar to the one
told by Yertes, with this difference: ths
were changed. It was Hbaruu
who surprised the other liefbro v>*
opened safe just in the act of stowing In
his pocket the package of greenbacks
alluded Ux lt.waa tfharon who de-,
nounoed the act, and Yerkes, l>oth angry
pod frightened to l>e thus detected,
picked up a prqx-r-woight and hurled it
at his fellow clerk, striking Bharon on
the head, iuflhiting u ghastly wonnd,
frosn which hofainted, and knew no mors
until he awoke on board a vessel lying
nenr too Navy Yanl. Ho was told that
they picked him np in the river. **’ *.’ <
The Captain uml two of his men lin’d
teen to the theater, and were .'etnrning
in a ixiat to the vessel, when a white
object floating ou the wai«r attracted
their attention, and they male for it,
utid drew the apparently dead man in
the lioat, and took him on lionrd the
vessel, where his wants were at emeu at
tended to.
When Verkea’ V<T-<»*»n cf toe affair was
related to him ho laughed derisively,
mid aiison the jsiintof making a remark
when familiar footsteps ware heard as
ce iding the stairs,
‘•15? lit aven 11 believe it is August
Yerkes I" übu-isinsl Sharori, as ho hast
ily entered tho closet and drew the door
to. He wa« none too soon, for the next
moment Yerkes walked briskly up to
where tho three gentlemen wore stand
ing. Houiething in their faces told him
that something was amiss-—something to
his <l 'iu I vantage, too.
•’Y »u :irs probably surprised to see
me here again?” remarked he, for want
of anything else to any.
“We are, ibdecd,” said Mr. Purvis,
regarding him with an ominous frown.
“ You till appear to be anything but
pl.-ssafl to •? " gOTt nmarksd tlif
roi'l-w and widthl-be ass.-wdu.
“♦>n ow> tvw>tesry, we are verv wtiwi
t > -re jdn ’ fiero apoks Varnov with an
aiii|jp» smile.
(Tttncfng at the detective with a skep
tical air, karksta walked to ths closet
and opened the door, and the next m<>-
rni nt he uttered a fearful shriek and
started back with hia hair standing on
end and hia face the color of ashes.
He liad seen (as his guilty conscience
told him) the ghost of his victim, for
Bharbh remained standing In the closet
perfectly immovable, his eyes fixed re
proachtullf on the guilty wretch.
Tlie hc’rnd vision was too much for
his brain to endure. Yerkes bocatnq a
raving mania? aaj liehoved er> violently
that Varnoe )wa« olfliged to manacle him
hand and foot and again return him to
the fmtn whence ho was short
ly afterward oum«yed to the inaano do
partment of ths afiua house.
Pembroke NUarou Wh geaerouslv reo
onip naed by hia stnpioVSV tor his heroic
attempt to irrnwat the robbery, and
promoted to a nwponaible post Mon to
Use stone, which he filled with credit
lioth to himself and hia grateful em
ployer.
Yerkes lived a year or co after hie con
finement, aad died a raving mania.', a
terrible retribution for hie attempt to
fasten a crime on an mnooent person
ami thus rob him both of his reputation
and life at one fell blow,
A maw who bad brutally assaulted hia
wife was brought before a Justice, and
had a good deal to aay »lost getting
justice, “Justice?" replied ths Judge,
“you can't get it here. The court has no
power to haag you "
Ygrmaswass !,(>■>,bull,tfifi eggs an
Dually.-- Rottun Pott. And yet the im
preamoc has got abroad that Amen<-a
beam ao yolk.— flew Hcwfn Rryuti'
TUK HBIDQ**.
In rtvpouse to the inquiries of a cor
respondent, the Niagara Falla </<urO»
gives the following interesting sketch of
the history of the great suajiecuuiMi
bridges: In 184.8 Charlie Ellct, a brill
iant rather than a professional engineer,
built tho first suspension bridge over
tho Niagara, on the site of the present
nulruid bridge. The bridge was only
for carriages and foot-passengen. The
tower* wore of wood, and the roadway
wan only abont six fest in width, just
wide enough for one team. Mr. Ellet
tn the liegintnng had offered a reward ta‘
fi." to* tho first p*r*>t» vho almtfld gets
string over tlm river. The next windy
day u large number of boys mwemblod
on the bank with kites, and before night
ope of them, a former M<>-
innti J. XVslidi, then a>SAj| oft) of
»g", landed his kite on the Canadian
aid» and reciuved the promised reward.
Hy means of this string larger cords,
their, ropes, and thru iron wildes, a»idl
at tunst, but incrriising in silky wuw
drirwn ncn«s, until the large cabhw wore l
thus stietehi-d. Thia structure served I
os a most exoidhmt auxibary in the con
struction of tho present bridge. Thia
was Jimlt by America's great eng'uner,
John H. Itoobliag, an<l has always beei
wuiCjdi-rrd rw»w x>f ‘tM *ptoatiu4 AC- in
worfr. It wvbi cosnfnsmwxrfti 1892, and
the first IrwVinfntfvw er.seed it to 18fii
Tho iron basket now hanging under the
railroad track near the American end
of tho bridge was flrat used by Mr. Ellet,
and in it ths first person who ever crossed
tiro chasm alive, and of his own will,
was crossed over. Thera is an old Indian
tradition that a resisting chief was once
ciiniad to tha opposite aids by a largo
bidfl-hooded eagle who swooped down 1
on Ui» groat warrior as he lay in ambush
‘on the ground ami lairs him *bvcr
Lade s have also crossed to this baakot.
Ths suspension bridge by Brook's uum
umpnt woh built in 18M by T. E. Bcrret.
Ths ica jam in 1860 tore tho gnya from
thw rocks to which they were fSc toned,
and before they wore req,laced a terrific
gale broke the railway, severed the sus
jxtodwni, and left too structure dangling
in the «ir."‘ The new Hitspemnon tiridfs,
a* it is ciiTlod, was bftflt hi IH/W, the
cables liumg carried over in tho winter
on tho ieo-hridgn, Its length is over
1,200 feet or a toll quartarof n mile from
outside to outside of the towers, and it is
the longest sus]ienaion bridge in the
World.
A UKSMKHIHrH TKICK.
Tlie French courts have allowed
themselves to lie humbuggi-d by the
ui< -mt riziTH, when they admitted as
prix if of somnambulism the evidence of
a needle being thrust into the na|s> of u
man's wl Without his feeling it. Many
yearn ago I went to a pulilic mosnicrio
seance at Brighton. The meemeriqur
thrust Doodles in the foreheads and iirms
of a number of girls who sat with him
on u platform, and whom ho hud mes
merized. I thought tiiat I recognised
the practitioner, and, on speaking to him
after the seance, I found that he had
lieeai a butler in the family of a relation
of mine. Ho showed me how to iusorta
m-edle into any ono without pain. Noth
ug is more easy. It has only to be dons
very slowly. Proceeding <rom lecture
to practice, ho inserted into my fore
head two or three needles without my
feeling anything beyond a alight prick.
- 1a >ndon TrulK.
rAnmoXAULK AFjrKCTION.
There is occasionally a good deal of
mutuality in |ieoplu not wanting to see
each other. Yesterday a hsndsoinely
ilr wH-il lady called at a fashionable rssi
denco on (hiiveslon avenue. Thorn was
the inevitable small boy playing in tlie
front yard.
” Your mother is not in, is she ?”
asked tlie visitor.
*' Yes, she is in the parlor.”
“I ih<-ugiit aha always want otjl sbpuf
this tune is the ilkiruoin.”
'* I rocksn ahe would have gene out if
aho had known you wan coning
mid s. -the othw day.* "*'
Jnst then the front door opened and
tlie lady of the house sppewrv'd They
rudiad mn> each otliesr's anas—aniaek I
•mack f yum—yum -yam—how glad 1
am Io son you! Yum—you lucre not
1»W. to see ms for an age I have lisog
wacting lo see you so bed 1 eta.—GoA
trsfcsi Newt.
, •
Tswr are again aspUang ths uss of
vefy light shosa, with tew n«Ua us tharn.
for iknaa. An MhnaJ which esniz
one aad <>ue-quartss pounds of iron on
esch fool as) land eoiuudsrabii
strength avwry day m bsanag that sow
stent oleg.
srits.vwsr
Conductor A. S. Parker, df the Ornnd
Truuk railroad, Who twefdox fk.Bultlu
Creek, Mich., by an accident lost a leg
and an arm at Bkdlwell Statio:..
The members, eevurtxk from Ahn bod),
were left lying l»y too aide of toe tmuk,
wliiie toe body was immediately c<se
vered to South Bend for medical asaxt
ance. As noon as ha reoovured oou
scicmanssa he began to complain tluit hfs
right »rm was to a oramped eoDditiou.
His attendant, knowing hik arm was
many miles away by tho‘aide of the rail
road track, paid no attention to his com-
I Joints, thinking him out of Ida head.
He still ovnbuued his assertions ths I too
lingers at hu right arm were doubled
under his hand, aud askod hu asauUuU
to send aud get lus arm at BUtiwaU. By
Ids si>eeCL they saw that be realu«ol the
accident, and a telegram was sent to
Htillwvll to send tlu> mutilated arm to its
owner. The reqneet wae named out,
. and the erm sent to him by express. Bo
soon as it was taken up off tho gronad,'
i a few moment* after the telegram was
seut, Parker remarked to his assistant*
that his arm was all right now, that they
had poked it up. Every time a person
took hold of it along ths route Parker
I would speak of it, out with pain
when it was roughly litmdled, apd when
ever any of his attendants touched it
wlule it lay in the uext room to him he
knew it sa quickly as though the arm
I were still attached to his Ixxly, Thu
UMuwwnger who got tho arm said that lu>
! found it just as Parker had said it wax,
j with the fingers cramped under it, Tin*
I is one of tho moat singular yet wcll-uu
theOttoated cases on record, where a man
i oonld feel in an arm which waa cut pH
| and lay many mi lea from him, and. which
been cutoff many hours. The physi
cians are baffled to account for ft, ami can
only class it under ths iiead <4 too uevx-
■ plain able phenomena! mysteries winch
' are met with in the study of nature,
Tim way for a bad boy to go on a
bender ispver his mother's kiu-a.
iron
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NUMBER 20.
mow t<> hjkf: a niATtr iTTiun
JNU.
Don't try to record all your thoughh‘
iilid impressions, or eurmouiae. Just
try to note down the leading events in
the day’s personal experience, with ea
iiitia i.wwidiaing as possible, and diady
keeping Ijecemas interesting. Ona likes
to turn over the record of the month or
the year, aud is surpxisad to find out
how many forgotten pleasant oconaions
are brought to mind again. Try this.
keop«| diary, but don’t try to keep a
journal—eomettoug that might be UMued
us your "memoirs'* m a posthumous
pilbhcaUou. If yeu attempt anything
of Ahis sort, tan to owe you will not get j
to tho and of the mouth. It will bore >
you completely.
"Yrs, I know hfm,’’Uio Texas Sheriff
n iuurkixf, when somebody asked him
übout itedhunded Bill; "J never met
' him but once, he came dnwn here last
February, riding another man's mult,
mid h" <*amo In and loft the measure of
his hciik with mo for a lariat" "Did
you fit him? ” asked tho traveler. " Not
very well," said the Sheriff,
thiijg was too tight, hut he never said
anything about it after he tried it on, to ,
1 1 didn't ohaugu it.” A4d thou the oom
mitteo roe<> and roported tho bill to Urn
luiOih.', which shortly afterward took a
recess until the evoniug session.— J9w
d L .
I komnuiTire of the, ribbons wocn ip
i this Oiuntry are of AmeticMi wiasiifaot
uro, and tho hale are nearly all made
In-re,
1 Fahxwki.l is a sad word, but if we '
conM only honfrfve to say it to some of
our bad hriMta we ’ thould be much *
hairier.
Wrttt po lAk>St« ii< to fi>tnaii, shopping
> is to a woman; former work
up the wnrd, the Inltir works up tho
a u rd n ibo. ,
Onio papon are discusieag why quail
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