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1882.
NO-
47.
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T IL D E S N I » » W * A t l l l T K T .
ACXIUART.
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sarily inc
A n d while I
I sprang down the passage to the twenty minutes past 12, and stepped graph instrument.
the aentem
watched
him
he
was
telegraphing
front o f the bank to call the driver, out. It was a terrible night. The
Samuel J. Tilden has just done
0 X 8 ,
As theae th
Mr. Hoxy believed he had struck
and when I looked up to speak to wind was a gale. The rain was a over and over again: “ Help! Mur
I Antlion.aiii a bookseller,
th at H e has had his old residence it at last. He bad studied the thing through hia )
der!
Help!
Murder!
torrent.
The
lightning
was
over
him
I
saw
the
face
o
f
the
man
who
j Arnold Percy, is a casli-
on Gramercy Park and a building for year», bad spent no end of mon exhibition of I
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•
•
•
•
had struck down the one at the and the sky was blackness.
*k Our friendship dates
iliary. I t was a
Arnold Percy fell asleep late that next door thrown into one and met ey in experimenting, and had here this was the awful
A livery stable was within two
»treet corner that afternoon. And
^ ^ ^ ^ T y lio o d . and will last as
amorphosed
into
the
most
elegant
tofore
only
»ueeeeded
in
turning
bit
when lie saw me he lashed his blocks; a police station a block be evening, with the window open and
I W A U 1 iff ' * • lit » does. We are not very
mansion, except Stewart’s and the “ study” into s junk shop, himself can't live long,
horses into a run and went down hind that. I t was a terrible walk hia head on tho sill. He knew no
Mr*. Hoxy won’t
l“ I am thirty and he is two years
Vanderbilt houses, in the metropo into the ontwsrd similitude o f s re
the street with a rush over the to the stable, but I got there at last. more until we had him free from
markable seedy tramp, and Mrs. Charley Snowdon, who t
lis.
When
it
is
finished
it
w
ill
•pon her, you kno»
pavement that made a noise like The owner knew me, but said I the influence of the chloroform
nUJLltn tthe world. There is scarcely a
have cost more than either o f them. Hoxy’s smiable disposition into a take herjustassoon
couldn’t have a team on such a which had been given hitn^rhilehe
temper
quite
as
n
a
s
e
r
w
t
as,
and
far
thunder.
ieme tbr the material advaijtfa-
I f you were not looking for it you
This was the straw
mere more dangerous than, the Ve-
Yes a noise like thunder. For I night; no driver would go oh such slept, and again from time to time,
-ut o f tin: city in which we live
might pass it without knowing it
the camel’s back, the
as
thu
robbers
feared
he
would
gain
suviau
crater.
an
occasion.
I
was
desperate,
and
awoke,
then,
and
awoke
with
the
1,1,1 P t'«..which we h it '• I'.' ,t ¡1 direct money
was there. The park in front, how
But that was all past jio w . Hoxy •ounded the death knoll <
noise o f real thunder from the storm asked him to name some price, any consciousness.
ro each own a little—
ever, displays it once you get away had struck it at last, or at least that Far Auxiliary.” W ith one convul
The
burglars
have
more
than
ten
price, for which he would furnish
outside sounding in m y ears.
utli—-of tho stock o f the
from i t Then its double pile of is what he said and believed, and sive greap be tore the bated thing
I lighted my gas, went to the me a team and driver for the rest years to serve yet before they w ill three-story bay windows, capped
liich m y friend liolds a
indeed he seemed to have good and from bis ear, throw it to the
break
open
another
bank.
In
an
o
f
the
night.*
I
hail
no
theory,
no
watercock
at
my
washstand
and
ft,is is our oldest ven-
with a bronze rail, its gables and sufficient grounds for the faith that ment and*ground it to dust
swer
to
questions
which
I
asked
-te .. Etc», ,j
took a drink of water. I was not definite thought; I only knew that
hia heel. Then he turned about,
pays well. W e each
its carved chimney pots stand out was in him.
I home, doffed
do
hie old clothes,
frightened. I was not more than I must and would know why Arnold them, they said m y friend “ kept
more, this time— in the
The thing that Hoxy bad "struck”
in
proorf
display.
I
w
ill
not
at
tupied by A. J. |
1, combed and dressed himself
I gave up an infernal racket with tne
“ A mistake of a few cents somewhere startled. I studied my dream for a Percy was not home yet.
orks and pumping ina-
was nothing lass than "H oxy's Ear
tempt
to
describe
the
booae.
I
t
U
Y ou r
o il
which the city is sup- is giving I » lots of trouble. I shall let minute; certainly not more than him twenty-tive dollars tO* moment watercock all the time.”
hot o f afiy set schopl o f design. Auxiliary,” whiah wa
i, OK1KOON.
the rest go in a little time, but I must stay
water. W e areigquiet until tho books are all right. Go witbout two. A n xiety for my friend— need it was demanded, and I put ten humble servant, Roscoe Anthon, Mr. Tilden was in a great measure fill a long-felt want and the exterior
human ear at the seme time, and by his affectionate
less. though natural; the blow I dollars into the hands o f the driver, dear reader, has his theory o f this
in our habits. I have
his own architect. H e wanted two means of which the wearer should felt better in his life and thorough
whole
matter.
H
e
w
ill
not
insult
implóte, ami as I bsj
ion of being a good bus.
I sent one of the clerks out for a had seen given; the liands I had when I ordered Yiim to the police
vour penetration and intelligence things especially— a front o f his be able to distinguish the slightest ly believed that he should live to a
in books; lie— in money, carriage, and drove out into the seen at the window; the situation station..
own choice and a library that should whisper in the largest apartment green old age,as his father and grand
l o r Ca«|
by stating it at greater length than
I
did
not
tell
anything
at
the
of
things
at
the
bank;
it
was
cer
men have some enthusi- country. I got away from the hot
not have its equal on the continent. and hear with accurate distinctness father had before him.
the
story
itself
has
done.
N
or
station, more than that Mr. Percy
superior imluccnu.' (
o f business. W e have, air of tho city. I saw the green tainly an easy dream to explain.
A t last advices Hoxy
xy had not a p
The front is, i f I may use the ex all sound» made within a half-mile
will
he
offend
you
by
a
solution
I looked out toward the bank, a had not returned, and that I wanted
patent for his Ear Auxil-
liavp two. And they grass and the pure water, and tho
pression, alive with carving— vases, of him, either under cover or in the plied for a pate
rary, but in bis confidential moods he
logy and electricity. We flowers and the blue sky. But I good three miles from w liefe I stood, to go to the bank and find out why. which might differ from your own. flowers, wreaths and tracery follow open air.
\ COUNTRY PRO P8-
T w o of the burglars were the
sometimes says the happieit man on
ic same house, on the was too busy thinking to enjoy and sent out a wish for tho safety I could not relate a series o f dreams
Hoxy
had
worked
out
the
problem
r
the door and window frames, enrich
and Save Money b
two men who quarreled at the
earth is the deafest man.
as
a
rtason
for
sending
a
police
of
my
beloved
friend.
to
his
own
satisfaction
and
had
con
and
on
exactly
opposite
them much. I was running over
ê
tho ashlar courses, hide the sills and
The storm was coming. Great oflicor three miles in a terrible corner. To all questions that may
i hall. My room is open in my inftid the points which I in
lintels, and run along even the stoop ceived and constructed hia working
A v v irrv - fleson .
ny time, and his is to tended to include in the next two gusts of wind roared nround the storm, and- as fpr the message, I arise because o f the fact, I can rails and baluster posts. Between model. A ll that remained, was to
only
answer,
coincidence.—
Clarence
Yesterday’s
meeting of the Bapfist
secure his patents and count the
house. The darkness was intense. knew I had heard, who would be
n the interests of elec- or three chapters of my book.
the bay windows in as many niches ducats which of necessity must flow ministers was opened with prayer by
M.
Boutelle.
lieve
it?
And
where
did
it
come
H . J. B U T lj
I
took
another
drink,
thought
o
f
ce we have each a tele-
1 returned to the city at 7 o'clock,
are life-size heads o f Milton, Frank in upon him from the bands and Father Stimaou of Kansas. Father
vttnber SS. 1881.
strument o f the most and aaW one of those unfortunate mv stock in the waterworks,thought from? -
THE M IVO R’ S ADVICE
lin, Shakespeare, Goethe and Dante. pocketB of an appreciative and grate Stimson in 80 years old, and has
I expected to make little or no
on our respective tables, things occur which aro altogether that there might not be another
The main enfranje— for there are ful world.
preached for fifty years. Stories are
e ” between our rooms, too frequent in large cities.
I O L M
A citizen called recently at the two, one to each of the original
A watercock open in the whole city impression on the officer in charge.
But before filling his application, told of him in which those who ex
for
a
I
was
disappointed.
I
asked
at
that
time,
and
that
the
great
we have telephonic com- large man, with a very peculiar
W ater Registrar’s Office and intro houses-isa wonderful affair. Heavy Hoxy thought it would be as well to pected to raise a laugh at the old
A queer freak, you face, which I need not stop to de pumps might he working for me policeman • to go with me to the duced himself and his business by columns o f polished granite support give the Auxiliary a trial; a sort of dominie found the tables turned
to Iloluian Bros.j
;e it. W e enjoy it, we scribe, stood on a street corner. alone in the silenee of the night. I bank,'and I got four, including the saying: “ I ’m Misther Jerry Mul- a great porch o f lavishly carved dress rehearsal, as it were. So with against themselves in the most unex
iftbrd fit, and we have it.
doon, and I carries fifty votes. M y brownstone, from each side of which out saying a word to Mrs. H ., Hoxy pected manner. One runs as fo l
Another man came up.
Words did not shut o ff the water, but officer in charge at the station.
“ Mr. Percy has not come lioyie. cellar is full of water* and my hins
tucked the Auxiliary into his port ear lows:
E I 7! H ir e bloks, old and new, which passed between them. The large looked at m y watch, which indi
protrudes an ideal figure represent
Father Stimson owned a good
and went down to breakfast. Aside
of A c tr ic a l or psychological man knocked the other man down, cated ton minutes past 12, and then There are suspicious characters in will be drowned if it isn’t fixed; so ing one o f tho seasons.
from the fact that Mrs. H .’s shrill horse, but the keeping of the beast
oionsliind their w av to our and ran away just as the police ar got into bed again without turning the city. W e w ill takeevery chance.” I want you to fix it.” Mr. Muldoon
On one side of the double man voice was magnified into the horrible was somewhat of a drain on the
I told the driver that if he got us was informed that nothing could be
out the gas.
V V
S A t . « d are read and discussed. rived.
sion is the library, a hall sixty feet potency of a steam whistle and the dominie’s pocket, and he was in the
I remember of thinking of some to the bank within a certain time done for him there ..when he again
"*■ *
e amfi.se ourselves for hours to-
A window flew up, and sonic one
long and a third as wide, the lower olashing of the knives and forks was habit of dropping a hiut once in a
of
the
many
incidents
w
ith
which
which
I
named,
he
should
have
ten
;r witli our instruments. Then inside (a woman, I judged, although
remarked: “ I carries fifty votes, half of whose walls is hid behind painfully suggestive of a machine while that a little-hay would be ac
dollars
more.
He
got
us
there
in
ill ■ e t . i n the room of one or the curtains hid all hut the hands) I meant to fo rtify m y position and
— AND-
d’ye inoind, and I want the wather carved rosewood bookcases that are shop in the midst of the busy season, cepted. One day a church member
'tlierKo read, to smoke, to talk stood with hands tightly clasped arguments with reference to the less than the time I had mentioned. out o me cellar.” “ But we have to contain the thousands o f volumes nothing remarkable occurred until asked him to bring Mrs. Stimson to
The front of the bank was closed nothing to do with such matters,’
, let me confess it— to for a moment. Then, beating them increased acuteness o f the sense of
which go to make up the most val Mrs Hoxy stepped out into the dinner.
we arc each at work up and down in the air in a frantic hearing, during some dreams. Then and dark. The officer in charge said the official; “ you should em uable collection o f legal and histór the kitchen to whisper to the cook to
"C ertainly,” said Father Stimson.
I smiled as ho thanked me for the ploy a plumber to attend to it, Mr.
Mine is not a book- manner for a few seconds, tho per I slept, and dreamed again.
ica works and one of the most ex gather up the fragments of H oxy’s "and, as its haying time, I guess I ’ll
iogue. I t is not a guide son disappeared with a shrill cry of dreamed I stood in the pumping- trouble I had taken and the inter Muldoon. This suggestion did not tensive private libraries in the meerschaum while he was at break put some hay on the wagon when I
Dallas,
works and watched the ponderous est I had shown.
study. I w ill confess
appear to strike the caller favora States. The room that is most ad fast aud bury them deep in the ash go buck botno.”
Help! Murder!”
“ A ll right, Father,” replied the
machinery
move.
Only
there
was
“
Your
friend
has
doubtless
gone
a
book
oil
dreams.
And
bly, for he again declared: “ I want mired is the dining hall, which is barrel.
It wasn't murder, though. The
P1IA8ED THIS WK1
Hoxy was sure, from what he church member, “ but bring a one-
it, wo propose to eoiuii
y, who w ill never write man was senseless for a few min no regularity, now, as there had been elsewhere to sleep,” he said, “ and you to understand that I carries left just as it was before the other
rtf in rcadiuet**,
knew of her, that Mrs. H . uttered horse wagon.”
markable on finance, is utes, but befoie I drove on was well in the day time. The great piston we have come here for nothing. I fifty votes,— fifty votes, ye see— and >arts of the houses were remodeled.
Father Stimson took his wife to
this precaution in her softest whisper
which I watched would make now don’t mind that. The way for a I want you to fix me cellar. The F
.very
readable
book
on
enough
to
walk
away.
The ceiling is formed by a blue-and hut, thanks to the Auxiliary, it struck ■upper in a wagon with an ample
l>
T E
man
to
rise
is
to
always
do
his
duty.
a
long
sweeping
stroke,
and
again
communication.
wather is iu it and me hins w ill be gold canopy, which has for a center H oxy’s tympanum with the force of hayrick that would hold a haystack.
I went home. Arnold had not
do good friends to be airived yet.
LOW*KATES.
I ate my supper, went a stroke like a flash o f light. And The policeman who does not hesi drowned if it isn’t got out.” There piece a miracle o f carving in sandal an engine blowing o ff steam. He
“ See here,” said the parishioner,
A ri lold w ill talk an entire to my room, and spent the early the long and short strokes, trans tate to go on Jthe merest chance, is was some further conversation of wood, wherein flowers, leaves, rep heard every syllable, distinct and as he helped Mrs. Stimson out of the
on whatever pleases me evening w riting in my book. I re- lated into dashes and dots, said over the one Who w ill find baffled crime this kind, and Mr. Muldoon was tiles, insects, birds and animals are clear. Under ordinary circumstan hayrick, "you said you were going
.ttcutlon I’ «I<1
H c o n ls his dreams for me, member'that I wrote on the remark and over and over again, “ Help! and personal promotion at the end finally recommended to see the heaped and tangled indescribably ces Hoxy would have been "u p a to bring a one-horse wagon, and now
•lent Stock.
M urder! H e lp ! M urder! H e lp ! of his road some day. I thank you Mayor in regard to tho matter, when
you’ve appeared with the most capa
^■¡plain them. That is, able sensibility of the ear in
Behind and between all these ob tree” in a moment’ but so pleased
NAT. ho :
again.”
when he has any dreams, and on thu interpretation M u rder! ”
ho departed.
T w o or three days jects is a giound of gold that pro was he at this proof of the Auxiliary’s cious hay apparatus I ever saw.”
“ Oh, I ’ve brought the one-horse
“ W ill you bear with me one later he re-appeared.
I could see the movement as I
arc both too sound of a series o f dreams. Arnold had
“ I come duces a startlingly beautiful effect. power that ho hardly gave his meer
ream much. I, on the not returned when I retived at had seen the flashes of light, and as minute more?” I asked. “ I want again to sec about that cellar," said The hall is palatial. Its walls are schaum a second thought. Indeed, wagon,” said Father Stimson: “ but
if he thought of it at all, it was but the hayrick— that’s a two-borse hay
help him in every way about midnight. It is, perhaps, no I had seen Arnold's hand, but this to look at a side window.”
he; “ I ’in Mr. Muldoon, you know, of polished granite and sandstone, to congratulate himself that to a rick.”
W
e
went
together,
and
in
another
time
I
could
hear
it,
too.
A
mur
and I carries fifty votSJi Me cellar’s lettered with carving. Its ceiling man who had made such an astound
wonder I dreamed. I remembei
H e drove away after supper with
o f m ii V
y book
there looking out on the hot sultry night. mur or pulse, not unlike the noise moment we knew that we had not worse’n ever.” But we told you is a poem o f color and design. The ing discovery as he had a meerschaum 2200 pounds of hay.
bo
The window tho other day, Mr. Muldoon, that
wo fundamental statements I remember saying to myself that made by a steam engine running come for nothing.
The preacher was Chaplain in tho
very elevator, which is of carved or a hundred meersohaumi more or
I w ill copy here. They are it would rain soon.
I remember almost silently, now long, now next the empty building was wide we could do nothing about it here.” sandals and rose woods, cost 35000. less were as nothing. H e could buy Ninth New York Cavalry in the war.
short,
saving
to
the
ear
what
the
open!
ows:
“ Yes, but °T carries fifty votes, and
closing my window to guard against
The improvements aro to cost a new one every day of his life and The Colonel was fond of leading tho
“ Watch here,” lie said, and was me cellar must be fixed, or me hins
soldiers through deep puddles at
may help in our study of dreams to the coming storm. To help codl- graceful movements o f the piston
3500,000, and are to be completed not feel it.
Murder!” gone.
that they are the results of definite, the room I opened the watercock. said to the eye : “ Help!
But Hoxy could eat no more the regular drill, and the Chaplain
w ill all be drowned.” “ W ell, Mr. next spring. Meanwhile the sage
,rGet Dallas, Ore' not understood, causes, and that
H e was back in a half minute Muldoon, did you see the Mayor
I started wide awake in a mo
breakfast. Tho meerschaum episode one day rode around the puddle and
lives at Greystone, in Yonkers,
idy of A dream should include the I remember looking at my watch,
had so wrought upon him that his thereby fell out of the regular order.
ment.
I
hope
no
onfe
w
ill
be
cruel
with
all the men but' one, that one about the matter?” “ Indade and I
which
pointed
to
five
minutes
to
_____
of the «guy betore the night during
where he has a magnificent country appetite was forgotten,and behurried The Colonel noticed it, and at the
the dream occurs.
12, nncl I am certain o f nothing enough to joke when I say I seemed having been stationed at the front did,” replied Mr. Muluoon. “And house, and where.despite tho rumors
out for further experiment. H e had close of tho drill, when the officers
IcKNTLY BOUGHT Tl it ifl d i«c u lt to tell just when sleep
to be all ears. I t is certainly no door of the bank,
what did the Mayor say?” “ W hat that are insisting he is broken
lid Carriage* in tho New fr0»seq«M
^ ^ i n ] t l y dreaming) begins and more, save the getting into bed, un
not long to wait, for just r.s he come together, said, with a sneer:
“ W e must be ready and follow did lie say, is it? ‘ Misther Mul-
ami
rn, u
iiu added
v - thereto^ . I ■ B i d study all events which til I awoke again. T o be sure, it jok in g matter.
down, he tired a friend o f mine the emerged from his front gate these
“ I f Cliuplain Stimson is afraid to
.ins, wo arc prei>ared W •sely ^ ^ « K n c c icil with a dream in the
one
another
as
closely
as
possible.
The
storm
had
come
at
last,
and
seems as though I laid for a time
doo,’ says lie ‘ phy doant you kape other day with running up and words came sounding through the ride through muddy water for fear
Jm illcnce of dreams.”
f th
Have
your
revolvers^eady.
Don’t
was
dashing
in
fury
against
the
in luxury of perfect restfulness, and
ducks ?’ *
down stairs and through the park Auxiliary: " I Bay, B ill, there’s old of soiling his clothing I will carry
ja m a a t L o w ' 111 commence, then, with the then sank slowly asleep. But as window and wall. I put the real allow a man to escape, but k ill no
H oxy!” Hoxy looked around quickly him across the puddles myself."
like grounds.
CATrill.VU A CITIZEN.
mg o ^ l certain day, and relate, my dream was of something hap dash o f the rain for the movement man unless absolutely necessary.
to see whence came this slightly
“ Thank you," the Chaplain said:
A DESPERATE N O B k l l U H l'N E REDMAN disrespectful language, but nobody
.................. ■ i nsiderah; .I.•tail,'some of the pening in bed, I shall not attempt o f the piston I had heard in my A ll ready. One.inoment first,” and
obody but, as the Government provides
t
h
e
proprietor
o
f
a
W
oodward
he turned to me. “ Do you suspect
dream.
obligiii)? hotft.ers arc on hg Of
(lay. Arnold had to say when it began.
was in sight excepting two boys horseB, I don’t see any reason why I
Avenue store which had been finely
E v a n s v i l l e , Ind., Oct. 11—r The some twenty rods down the street. should ridu on a jackass.” — New
i rcaa, to nerve ih. pui.rjie tfe ip ig h t before that lie
But I heard a dozen mice in the Mr. Percy?”
I thought it was morning. I
“ Nb, sir; a better man never decorated in honor of the Knights mob which took Hutne Redman “ Another success for the Auxiliary,” York Sun, September 2G.
----
d rise early to write a few opened my eyes. I wondered why wainscot in different parts o f the
of Pythias, was at his door yester from the ja il and lynched him last murmured Hoxy swallowing bis
; NEW STABLE i in his§bouk. _ W e had retired the birds were not singing. M y house. I had not heard them be liv e d !"
MOW TO J flIL D I I * A PLACE.
“ I think so, too,” he ' said; “ but day, when an old man lounged up night, were opposed in every possi vexation.
ind had left our doors open in door slowly opened. A flood of fore, and the noise of the storm
W alking down town, the successo*
ble way by the jailor and sheriff',
Speak well -of the place where
O ver in the there is this to remember; we are and began:
M , L I N E to get« more air during the light poured in. I t lessened and seemed deafening.
“ Such ignorance I never saw in but were not deterred by tho actual were so frequently repeated that you live; if you don’t nobody ehe
igh t tlmn was otherwise pos- brightened, and I read from the next street I could hear a man going to find something wrong in
they began to grow monotonous. will. Encourage all public enter
walking. I could not have heard here. Keep your head, whatever all my life ! You see that man firing o f pistols in their midst.
baker and
flashes “ Help! M urder! ”
across there—the one with the white They said when ordered to halt: "H o x y ’s failing fast." " I wonder prises, and, if necessary, go down
him
on
a
quiet
day.
.
Despite
the
pens.”
r eyes just before day-
I awoke to find my door shut, no
how much longer he’s going to wear into your pocket-book to help foster
“ W e are from Posey county, and
hat on ? ”
w ill,” said I; go. ahead.”
Cabinet r l
room, objects which trace of there having been any gas thick walls between, I heard some
that greasy old coat.” H oxy’s still them. Use yoUr utmost endeavots
“
Yes.”
come
after
Red
men
and
we
are
go
A ll ready? Be quick and quiet.
rom the window alone lighted; and I saw that the storm thing fall in the next house. And
under petticoat government, I sup
“ Well, he was having a good deal ing to have him.” When the mob pose.” "H asn 't a cent to bis name. to bavG good schools-but do not ox-
i o n h a n d a fin o lo t
rity. But a floed of was almost upon us. The thunder above the noise of the storm— no, This window doesn't open at once
pect them to come to you without
be w rong -— into the main banking-room. W e to say, and I asked Jiim who Pythias had full possession o f the murderer, Owes everybody in town who’s fool an effort.
d in at my open door could not bo heard yet, but the above it . would
was.
Would
you
believe
it,
he
they
placed
him
in
a
buggy,
which
enough to trust him.” These were a
a in which my friend lightning was very vivid. .W ith but in spite of the noise o f the must enter that together if 'cir
Patronize every man who is tiding
couldn’t answer me?”
was overthrown by a wagofi run few of the Auxiliary’s revelations. to build up his business in your
ork.
such flashes lighting my room at awful tempest there was a sound cumstances will allow. Remember,
“C-couldn’t he?" stammered the ning into it. They then decided to It is safe to say that the success of midst, for <t is like bread cast upon
—ALSO—
the birds, aren’t you?’-’ short intervals, I found no difficulty like a breath— a sob, or the thought no one must escape. • Follow me."
kill him on the spot, and one dealt the thing surpasses bis wildest tho waters.
certainly the birds in accounting for my dream. My of a sob— intangible almost, dream And he'sprang through the window. citizen.
“ No, sir, lie couldn’t. Think of him a powerful blow on the head, imaginings. Y et he did not appear
Consider, the cost o f improving
In a-minute we were all in and
like almost, but real for all that.
in a most pleasant watch pointed to ju st twelve)
to be lmppy, not consumedly happy. your town in appearance, as a pri
I M c t u r c I 'r i i i n c 'g p ^ p
N o w like a memory o f a long-drawn standing where we could see the such ignorance in this enlightened felling him to the ground. A large
fle.
On the contrary be looked sad and
I slept again, and I had another
breath caught quickly, it pulsed on door to the vault, and a little of the age! When I told him who Pythias force o f police arrived at this point,, dejected. More than once he raised vate investment, for if your town
I want to try an ex-
B r a c lio ld
dream.
does not present the appearance oi.
was he called me a liar. N ow , I and opened fire on the mob, which
and on. I was nev.er \yider awake floor in front o f itv
ok toward the door.
his hand to his ear to pull out that thrift you cannot expect capital and
All kinds
There was a knock at my door. in my life. M y mind was never
want
to
prove
that
I
’m
right.
You
retreated,
firing.
The
fight
was
Four men, surrounded by a splen-
long-felt want; but he restrained enterprise to come to you. Patron
I opened it (in my ^ p a m ) and keener. But I could hear, with my dfd outfit o f tools, were at work at come over and tell him all about it.” lively, and none o f the lawless mob
himself and walked on.
ize your home paper liberally, for
W o r k D one
L S ’.' found a note from my friend. It waking ears this time, the pulses the door which held the wealth of
“ But, I — I can’t leave.”
could be captured. The result of
As he entered the post office— he every cent well spent in printer’s ink
seemed as though I left my bed to and quaffs which spelled: “ Help! the bank from them.
“
Then
I
’ll
bring
him
over
here.”
the
battle
was
that
Redman
got
always
went
to
the
post
office
be
u machine» cleaned th#3icrease in brightness
will come back to you, and you thus
“ No, you needn’t— I ’m busy.”
killed. Over 24 balls were in his cause that is the thing for a business build up an enterprise that has yonr-
“ Ready,” in a whisper, “ one, two,
at he had turned his go to the door; but once I was at M u rd er!”
M
“ I see you are, but when a man body. David Murphy, brother-in- man to do— more evidenee of the good at heart. Nothing speaks
For one terrible moment my three,” and we were upon them.
it not quite out. He the dpor, It was the door o f my
ruler I temizkr office!
There were heavy revolvers on calls me a liar I want to prove that law o f the murdered woman, was beautiful perfection of the Auxiliary well of the prosperity of a place'
again, then off again, stdre. I t seemed to be bright as heart seemed to stand still. A fte r
■
The irrob separated revealed itself. " H e llo !” whispered the healthy appearance of your local
netimes slowly, some- day in the store, but dark night that I never failed in sense and the counters and desks, but fo r I ain’t. I ’ll have him over in a also killed.
looks, paper.— Ex.
quickly when Murphy fell. Tw o onn, "h ere’s Hox. H e
r, the light would be outside. Some of the darkness of courage during the whole of that tunately for all concerned not one minute.”
more like s baboon than ever.”
the
night
seemed
to
d
rift
in
around
Ho
hadn't
crossed
the
street
be
men
were
arrested,
but
one,
a
heavy-
was within reach o f the burglars.
terrible night.
¡guisbod. I saw in
The incidents of Congressman
"W on d er what’s his hurry,” said
me as I stood in the open door and
I sprang from bed and dressed
“ W e surrender,” said a sullen fore the merchant slid into the store set man, was released. I t was another; " ’fraid the ragman’ll get Starin’s only speech in congress are
ugh the idea was
Calling a slow cut- read the note which the messenger with a rapidity o f which I should voice, and I turned to look for my and hurried up stairs to keep out learned later that he was the leader. him, I guess.” And the third re related by his friends as follows: A
.1« of Mun Strtsrt, IttUal
:" gas a dash, and a had brought me. The note was an have thought m yself incapable, and friend, leaving the officers to attend of sight for an hour, and it was only Dave McFadden, the brother o f the marked upon the benefit that would bill was under discussion for the sale
after he was certain that the old murdered woman, was also arrested. accrue to the earth were Hoxy out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard forabout
Sot, my friend was say- exact copy pf the one which I had that terrible message was repeatwg to the men they had captured.
$200,000. A syndicate of the poli
realfy received from my friend that itself in my ears all the time. I
They of it or under it.
H e was fastened • into his office- man had departed that he slipped A ll were heavily armed.
Good
morning,
my
IF MT OI.O FIMFNDS A j
day, when he made the*appointment dropped mv revolver into my pocket, chair by a rope passed around his down and consulted Webster's Dic numbered some fifty in all. The
Hoxy didn’t terry long at the pjst ticians were to be tho purchasers.
cnfnd, I would anneunfe h
iscoe.”
da of wagon and carriage *
office. There waa somethin j in the Mr Btarin rose in Lis seat, pale as
him by a series of for the ride into the country. I took my lieavy cane, put on my waist. H is hands werefestened be tionary to see if he could find out arrested w ill not be allowed bail
c mannfcr and at the rrJ
air of the place that made him feel a ghost, and said earnestly: “ Mr.
said to the messenger:
whether
Pythias
was
a
town,
a
tve on hand a good »tock c
hind
him
with
a
cord
slack
enough
water-proof
coat,
shut
o
ff
the
water
all. H e went on with
A grave and dignified D. D. after sick. So ne sought the street again. Speaker, I am not familiur with all
man,
or
a
temple
on
a
hill.—
Detroit
“
But
he’s
bSing
murderedl
He
from the watercock, and the sounds to allow them some freedom o f
I rose and dressed,
-n so n o d I n m )
listening to the recitation of the cate But it was no better upon the street. your rules here, and I do not know
member much about wants help! I'll go to the bank!' stopped. I opened it, and the mes motion. He was hacked up against Free Press.
chism by a class of children, was From evey side came fresh evidence whether or not I am in order; hut
I sent for a carriage and drove to'! sage*began again
Help! Murder! the watercock which served to sup
t after breakfast we
asked to make a few remarks to of the peculiar esteem in which he you have a property horo which you
"H
o
w
is
your
son,
who
went
to
ING MADE A SF
p ly the officers o f the bank with New Mexico, coming on?” asked them, whereupon Le arose and said was held by his friends and acquaint are going to sell for $200,000 and I
to the new pumping the hank. The shutters werii closed j Help! "Murder!”
action Ouaranteod,
I bent over and looked at the drinking - water.
The whole ar Gilbooly of Colonel Yerger, whose " I desire my young friends, to ex ances. The young ladies, whom he will rt this moment draw my cheek
examined the system in front, but a light shone out o f a
jd y , learned how “ fire window on the side which opened j water as it fell into th% basin. I rangement was quite low; the catch son left Austin a year or two ago foi press an unqualified approbation of thought eaten up with envy of Mrs. for it for $500,000.” The bill waa
January 2, 1882.
a t is, the pressure when on a narrow passage between the h alf fancied that the stream was basin was small; the water was let that Territory. "V e ry well .indeed.” this exercise. I regard the catechism Hoxy because of the jewel of a k i l l e d . ________________
are used for tire pur bank and an empty building next | not steady; that it diminished a on by pressing down on a piece of was the reply.* " I suppose he has as the most sdmirable epitome of husband she had secured, now al
Tw o countrymen from Onion creek
he maintained, and to it. I knew this window opened j little and then increased again. I motel which came back to ite place helped beng many ■ desperado?” religious bslief extent.” The super lude to him as "th a t old fool;” the onroe to nn Auetin lawyer to consult
married ladies wondered how “ Mrs. about bringing n joint suit against n
tine w ork of the day from the room in which my friend | could not tell positively anything when pressure was removed. A r "O n the contrary, he is the only man intendent pulled his sleeve end ssked
him to explsin the word epitome Hoxy could live with that slovenly neighbor. The first granger began
Battery 8 t., San
ased idea o f the value would work if at the bank at n ig h t j about it. I could not say that the nold was not gagged, hut he did in New Mexico who never has any
thing to do with hanging criminals.” which he elucidated ss follows: "B y thing,” and the street boys gave to tell the lawyer tbe cause of the
I passed up the narrow passage, [ plash it made lessened and strength- not speak. I saw w h y in a mo
Bt we had in the water-
"H o w 's that?” " W e ll, you see, he's epitome, children, I meen—that is— thrilling proof that they shared the trouble, embellishing it rather " *
tn w r. Wl'l JoSber. of Ihm
^ when, suddenly a hand was thrust ened, nor could I say that it did ment. He was under the.influence
universal contempt in which a party ally. “ Don’t tell him nay lies,
a Sheriff.” — Texas Siftingj.
it is synonymous with synopsis.
■s a busy one. Arnold’s from : the- window.
I recognized n o t I found by seveval trials that o f chloroform. I stopped just be
by the name of Hoxy wee b*ld in the interrupted tbe other. “ I t is
Congrega tionslist.
Jsy one. M y day was the cuff-button as belonging to my . the measage came while the cock fore I reached his side. This is - Christian virtue can only be the
community.
business to put in the lice. Yon
er days, except in one friend.
U p and down, up and was open, and stopped when it what I saw: *
Hoxy was now decidedly miserable. get him confuted if you go to
virtue of a Christian. It can not be
No man is so poor that he has not
Arnold Percy’» hand w *» on the eaught by imitation, but must ex- friends whoa* happiness is linked H e began to doubt whether the Aux your lies with hit.” —Texas
iculars) I had a large down, now with a long »weeping I »loaed. That was all I found out
metal piece which I have mentioned,
ress the character of a renewed with his fats, and whose hearts will iliary was a long-felt want, after all.
looks come by express, motion, now quick and sharp. And then, and it is all I know now.
F ly the pleasure that
eart. To follow Christ we need ba wrung with anguish at hia punish He hod about coma to the conclusion
as much as he
ed to them instead of again the silent message was, “ Help!
I passed down stairs, noticed that and he was using it a
conns ARE WARRAN
that a men's happiness is not neces- morrow.— George Herbert.
key
on
a
tele-1
the
spirit of Christ.— The Watchman. ment or hia suffering.
used
the
I
the
dock
in
the
hall
pointed
to
|
would
have
to
dinner.
W
e
liv
e
d
1
Murder!”
,<t »r. tti. h »t ^.».U for
RANGE TELEGRAM.
siting G«j
u/nnncu u»*°r- r earo boih well t<?'a°
D TOBACI
far out on the edge of the city, and
I could not spare the time to go.
Arnold’s day was quite like other
days, too, as I have learned since.
H e sent me a note from the l,ank
after his return from dinner, saying
that he would come to the book
store after banking hours— that is,
after 3 o’clock, and asking mo if I
could possibly leave my work in
the hands of clerks and take a drive
with him into the country. I sent
back word that I would go. I was
glad he was coming for me, for the
bank was a long distance from the
store, ami the day was terrible hot.
A t .‘I o'clock I was ready, but
Arnold did not como. A t 4 he sent
another note:
Grocery
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