Scio weekly press., July 22, 1892, Image 3

Some awful moments passed. My
AN ABIDING MYSTERY.
THE BRIC-A-BRAC RETAINER.
but not until I had time to notice the
HE HELPI .D THE TRAMP.
AN OLD LADY TAKING NOTES.
strong resemblance he bore to Buck­ strength was beginning to fail, and
In Invention Intended to Check the De­ What the Cogitations of a Petit Jury Will
my
grasp
was
becoming
fainter.
Then
Case
of
Doubj
e
Gratitude
Observed
in
The Streams She Crossed on the Chatta­
land as I had seen him in Scotland
predations of Robber Guests.
Bring; Forth.
Weste •« New York.
nooga to Atlanta.
Yard. 1 went back to my seat feeling came a second deadly crack! I was
The shabby man who had gained
wounded
in
the
band;
and
immedi
­
Any. man who should attempt to
As we stood i h a group in the depot
bewildered and uncomfortable, and a
“Now, Mr. _ Conductor,
________ , ” said a
horrible idea took possession of me ately my nerveless, shattered -fingers waiting room a t Elmira, there was a snappish looking old lady as she reluctant admission to the Connecti- amuse his hearers nowadays by telling
that 1 had been tricked and caught relaxed their hold, and I was at the scuffle and loud words, and we turned boarded the sleeping car at Chatta- _“ut avenue mansion sat down on the a story of a jury who brought in a
ruffian's mercy. As I let him go I to see the depo; policeman shoving ■nooga, “I want you to tell me the edge of a damask covered fauteuil and verdict “Not guilty, but if he does it
like a rat in a trap.
It did not last long, happily, for I reeled back in a half sitting posture on tram pish lookin; ;• man out of the place, names of all the places of interest we waited patiently for the appearance of again he will get the full penalty,”
would be greeted with cries of “Chest­
set to work and reasoned with my­ the seat; while he, with a blood stain­ It Was a scene - to make most of the pass on the way to Atlanta, for this, I •he mistress of the house.
’’Madam, ” he said.-rising respectful­ nut, chestnut,” and would be assured
self on the folly of my suspi­ ed and most ghastly face, glared at me crowd smile, asj ; the officer was a big believe, is the road along which Sher­
ly as she entered, “my only apology that thing was credited years ago to
cions.
Despite his evil mouth, with the expression of a fiend. I knew, man and his vil ictim a small one, but man inarched.”
my companion looked harmless that if he recovered strength enough before he had : aim outdoors a well
“Yesm’m,” replied Mr. J. B. Jack- for this intrusion is that I have some­ the far west, was immortalized by
enough; and, besides I was armed to fire again he would kill me; and, dressed, fine looking man stepped for­ son, the conductor, as he cast his eyes thing of exceptional value to offer— Mark Twain in one of his book, and
and on the alert. Somewhat reassured, weak and wounded as I was, I resolved ward arid demanded:
at two pretty girls with the old lady.. something that in the course of a year that nobody believed that it ever did
“Officer, has this man been guilty of
I set to work to make myself com­ to make one more desperate bid for life.
“Jane,” said the old lady to one of will save you both loss and annoy­ happen anyway. Yet the newspapers
fortable. The valise with the gold I -We were out of the tunnel now, and any offense?”
the girls, “you get a piece of paper ance. The article in question I have reported, and what the newspapers say
“He’s no business in here, sir,” was now and take down the names the just patented. It is a novelty cheap must be true, that only a week ago a
took from the netting opposite and the speed had slackened a little. If, I
at many times its actual price, and is jury at Newark, N. J., trying a case at
I
placed beside me on the seat. Then I thought, I could but let down the the reply.
gentleman tells you.”
“Why hasn’t life?”
readjusted my rug over my knees, glass, open the door, and by stepping
“Yes, ma,” replied the girl with a called the ‘bric-a-brac retainer.’ You, quarter sessions, brought in a verdict
I had not been very long in the po­ and, in doing so, partly covered the past or over Buckland get out on the
“Because he’s a tramp. My orders smile that made the conductor’s heart I dare say, have suffered more or less of “Not guilty, but wedon’t want him
from the raids of predatory guests to do it again,’’and the verdict was ac­
sition of confidential clerk to Messrs. bag. Then 1 ostentatiously, and per­ footboard and make my way along it are to put ’em oufc”
ache
“Just wait.” *
Friar Brothers & Bowman—we are haps foolishly, took the revolver from to another carriage, I might yet be
“What stream is that?” asked the who carry off from your receptions cepted.
He brought out his wallet, handed old lady, as the train passed over a and parties ornaments and so forth as
In the court of general sessions in
now Messrs. Friar, Bowman & Knox the pocket of my great coat, and saved.
if they were lawful spoil.”
I was dizzy and sick with pain; but the forlorn looking stranger two crisp, trestle.
this city last month, a jury, after
(I gm Knox)—when one of those unex­ placed it also beside me, but outside the
“It is true, I must confess,” replied spending an unusually long time in
nerved with the determination of de­ ten dollar bills, and then turned to the
‘ ‘That’s Chickamauga creek. ” replied
pected and most perplexing crises oc­ rug.
the lady. “During the last four years considering their verdict, came into
‘’Hallo 1 you’ve got a ‘barker,’ I spair and the mad longing I felt to out­ officer with:'
the conductor.
curred in the financial world which
I suppose I have twice filled my house court and the clerk asked:
“Now, let him alone. A man with ■ “Take that down, Jane.”
try even cautious and steady going see,” said Buckland, who was watch­ wit the cunning of the thief, I man­
aged to get hold of the strap of the $20 in his pocket is no tramp.”
A half mile further another stream with articles of a decorative nature,
‘ ‘Are you agreed upon your verdict?”
firms, such as ours was and is, most ing me. And he grinned.
buying
them from time to time, and
“God bless vou, sir!” whispered the was crossed.
Finally, I took out a pair of smoked window and let it down. Again the
“We have agreed,” replied the in­
severely, and bring less well balanced
yet
I
have
left
at
present
scarcely
one
“What stream is that?” again asked
telligent foreman.
houses down with a sudden and awful spectacles, with which I always pro­ sudden rush of cold night air revived recipient of this bounty as he looked
thing
of
the
sort
that
is
worth
carry
­
tect my eyes when I make a long jour­ me; but, alas! I could see that it also at the money in the greatest astonish­ the old lady.
“What is your verdict, then?” said
crash.
revived my companion, for, as I put ment. “I’m no vagabond; I’m simply
“Chickamauga creek,” replied the ing away. Everything readily port­ the clerk.
I may say now, without fear of be­ ney, put them .on, and then searched out
able
seems
to
have
gone.
I
don't
know
my arm and turned the handle of down on my luck. I was wanting conductor.
“We find,” said the foreman, sagely
ing thought boastful, that I was some­ for my cigar case in order to smoke. the door,
how. Only this I am sure of, that and with deliberation, “that we stand
he was trying hard to steady to get to Buffalo, where I hope to hit
“Take that down, Jane.”
what a favorite of Friar Brothers: the I could not find it, and yet I could his arm and
after
every
ball
or
reception
certain
fire at me again. I might, a job, and I’m willing to work at any­
seven for acquittal and five for convic­
“What stream is that?” interrogated
fact that William, the senior partner, have sworn that 1 dropped it into the perhaps, have
pieces of my property have been found tion.”
the pistol from thing and for any price. ”
the old lady.
used to ask me down to Henley from right hand pocket of my great coat be­ his hand; but knocked
missing.
In
the
chamber
used
as
a
I
might
have
failed
to
Some one ventured to ask the gen­
“Then you have not agreed at all,"
‘ ‘Chickamauga. ”
Saturday to Monday, and allowed me fore I left the city.
The old lady began to look suspici­ dressing room for ladies I have had said the clerk testily.
“Want a weed?” said Buckland. do fo, and I knew that it would have tleman for an explanation of his liber­
to take his pretty daughter out on the
four
sets
of
silver
backed
brushes
and
been
foolhardy
in
the
extreme
for
me
ality,
and
he
replied
:
ous,
but
said
:
“I guess you have agreed to disa­
“Here; help yourself.”
And he
river, speaks for itself.
combs—such luxuries cost from $20 to gree,” said trie judge, “but you had bet­
ig'ht,-in one of
to put myself at close quarters with
“Just a year:
“Take that down, Jane.”
At the time of which 1 speak hot a handed me a case. “I’ll answer for it him
order to step out on the foot­ the towns
'JíríeM
“What stream is that one yonder, $30 apiece, you know—and they have ter try it again.”
» - v ’oad, ■ a tramp
day passed without some failure or that you never smoked a finer in your board. in Besides,
the door was stiff, and struck me for a quarter and got it. He running’ into those woods; now we are all vanished. The last set I fastened
A poor fellow who was on trial for
threatened stoppage, and I knew that lif& ’
to the bureau with heavy silver chains, his life in the same court not long ago
I tried the cigar, and after a puff or resisted the feeble push I gave it. So must have gone off on a freight train crossing it?”
Friar Brothers &_ Bowman were un­
but they wdre bitten off with pincers, ■'got a terrible shock by the sudden
1 ‘Chickamauga. ”
easy about the Liverpool branch of two 1 acknowledged that it was first I left it and determined to try the win­ right away, arid he got a lift of twen­
chains and all. ”
dow- at the other side of the carriage if , ty odd
____ miles,
_ _ ______
before he was
__ bounced.
__
“Take that down, Jane.”
change from keenly anxious hope
their house. They were, therefore, not rate.
“It is really dreadful, madame; but, to glad certainty of release, and then
An ominous silence followed until
Buckland lighted one also, and we I could drag myself over, although I' Four hours later I took a train, and
wholly unprepared when one after­
sure that the door on that side was ‘ while passing from one coach to an- the same creek had been crossed four as I was about to remark”——
back again to black despair, in the
noon news came that if left without smoked in silence while the train flew felt
“Yes, as you were saying, nothing course of one minute, brought about
locked.
' other lost my footing and was thrown additional times. -
immediate help its doors must close. on through the darkness.
But even had it stood wide open I off. I struck on my head and shoul-
Another stream was seen babbling seems to escape these people who take by the precise and exact pomposity of
Suddenly I gave a great start. A
The help needed was not more than
things. They must simply grab. One the jury which was trying him. They
not reach it. The exertion I ders and was rendered unconscious, over the rocky bed.
Friar Brothers-could give with perfect nod forward woke me up, and I roused could
had already made bad exhausted me, i though not very badly hurt. When I
With a timid glance at the yellow night last January I missed my new too had taken a long time to consider
ease; but the question was how could myself, feeling rather queer.
fire iron, and then I remembered hav­ their verdict and the prisoner, a des­
“Hallo!” I said. “That will never and I once more fell down on the seat came to there was a quarrel over my waters the old lady asked:
the sum of £30,000 in bard cash be
ing seen an unidentified gentleman perate and hardened villian, who had
and within easier reach of the dying body.
’ "
■■" Two men wanted to rob me,
“And what creek is this?”
conveyed from London to Liverpool do. I was just off.”
“Chickamauga,” came the reply in on his way out through the hall a poor case and had looked for noth­
I opened the window and flung wretch—for dying he surely was— I while a third was holding them; off,
within the next four - and - twenty
when they “attacked liim he gave a despairing, tone, and the girls looked swinging a queer looking cane with a ing but the worst, be<mn to think that
hours? The
”” money was all right— away the end of- the cigar. The fresh who meant that I should die with and
them such a drubbing that they haul­ like they, could bite tlie conductor’s brass knob and a crook at the wrong they might, after all,-disagree. The
double that amount, , if necessary, cold air that rushed in refreshed me, him. Twice I saw the shining weap-1 ed
off. Then he ran to a farmhouse a head off as the old lady said snap­ end. I am convinced to this day that anxiety apparent on his face told how
could be supplied; but by
>y whom was and I took up one of the papers I was op within a foot of my head, but he '
it. was my best poker. I have more the suspense had racked him when he
it to be carried? There lay the diffi- provided with and prepared to read. had not the strength to fire, and' I had , quarter of a mile away, routed out the pishly :
than once lost the entire paraphernalia
“Take that down, Jane.”
But very soon I felt that I was going not the strength to twist it from his 1 people, and helped carry me there.
faced the jury as they filed into
culty.
of a mantelpiece or etagere at a single again
While
I
could
riot
speak,
I
heard
all
hand.
The
third
time
he
raised
it,
and
i-
Another
creek
was
crossed,
but
the
off
again,
and,
after
a
few
frantic
ef
­
court and took their seats.
Friar Brothers—Bowman was rarely
swoop.
A
woman
was
once
caught
"'.I heard him say that old lady said nothing. Still another
was said.
In murder cases, as a rule, more for­
in the counting house-held a consul­ forts, I must have succumbed, for at I felt that this time he would not fail. I that
operating at a reception, I have heard, mality
With a superhuman effort I pulled he recognized me as the one who had was crossed, and she asked
is used than for ordinary
tation with their manager, and the re­ that point my memory is a blank.
with
an
enormous
pocket
in
her
dress,
“And that stream is what?”
What woke me thoroughly at last 1 myself together, and jerked up his1 befriended him that evening; and be­
crimes, and so the clerk said: “Gen­
sult was tli.’.i 1 was sent for. Would
into
which
she
could
readily
sweep,
at
fore
lie-
went
away
he
insisted
on
tak
­
‘ ‘Chickamauga. ”
tlemen of the jury, do you find the
I go to Liverpool and take charge of have not the faintest idea; but I arm as he at last pulled the trigger. ing an inventory of my personal prop­
“Take that down, Jane,” was heard a moment’s notice, a whole shelf full prisoner guilty of murder in the first
the money? There could be but one seemed to come suddenly to myself. The bullet hit the ceiling of the car­ erty. I had a watch, a diamond pin,
of
ornaments.
Some
such
wholesale
degree, as charged in the indictment?”
answer. Even if I had bunked the job, And what the instinct was that im­ riage, and at the same moment my, and o ver a thousarid dollars in money; in an almost inaudible voice.
Two more streams were crossed, but robber must have gained admittance
Now, the foreman was a young
which was not the case, I could not pelled me to keep perfectly quiet, as if would be murderer fell back with a and everything was kept safe for me
here
beyond
a
doubt.
”
refuse to help my bmployers out of I were still asleep. 1 do not know to this heavy thud against the door. It flew during the two weeks I was in the the old lady was silent.
lawyer himself, and, he felt that he
“
That,
madame,
is-
precisely
where
open,
and
I
had
one
glimpse
of
his
Suddenly her face brightened with
their difficulty. Accordingly, I said day. All I know is I had a most vivid
ought to show his legal and fine judi­
hew hope as the train pulled up at a the bric-a-brac retainer”-----
I was quite ready to start at any flio- impression that something was wrong, malignant, terrified face as he fell put house.”
cial mind. So he paused a moment,
“
Even
my
table
silver
has
disap
­
“
But
what
became
of
the
tramp?
”
head;
foremost
on
the
track.
little station.
ment, and it was quickly decided that and that my life depended upon silence
evidently repeating the question to
peared
at
such
a
rate
that
I
have
been
‘
‘
I
have
never
seen
him
since.
Alter
When
the
train
reached
Liverpool
11
“What place is this?” she asked,
and quietude. Through my smoked
I should travel by the night mail. '
himself, and 1) finally said complacently,
really
distressed
at
the
loss.
You
see,
________
seeing
me
safe
at
the
house
he
started
was
found
half
fainting
upon
the
floor
confidently.
“Not guilty.”
By one of those fortunate coinciden­ glasses, which were, luckily, still upon of the carriage, and tlie body of Buck- ■ off, saying he would send a doctor
owing
to
my
husband
’
s
position,
I
am
“Chickamauga!” came the monoto­
ces which sometimes oedhr, a large sum my eyes, I could venture to look at my
There was a stir of surprise all over
obliged
to
entertain
rather
more
indis
­
land
—
or
Foreman,
as
his
name
turned
from
the
nearest
town,
and
I
never
nous
reply.
had been drawn out that very morn­ companion; and very cautiously I did
the court, and the prisoner almost
criminately
than
I
should-
otherwise,
even
had
the
chance
to
thank
him.
”
-
out
to
be
—
was
found
dead
on
the
line
“Jane, throw that paper out of the
ing to meet bills that would fall due so. He. was now seated in the other
fainted with joy as he heard the words.
perhaps, and you know what that But
window. That horrid”-----
next day; so that nothing remained corner of the same side of the carriage, with the bags of gold upon his per­ New York Sun.
the jurymen began to remonstrate
means.
Not.
only
do
many
people
son
;
so
the
credit
of
the
branch
house
“
Hold
on,
madam
!
”
exclaimed
the
for us to do but to dispose of the gold and before him, on the opposite seat,
with their foreman, and he conde­
come
to
my
house
by
invitation
whom
was
saved.
Foreman
was
a
detective
The
Destruction
of
Forests.
conductor;
and
to
save
his
scalp
he
in bags; the notes 1 was to place in a was my revolver. By a slight pres­
would scarce regard as belonging to scended to explain.
locked leather case suspended round sure of my arm against my side I also; but he meant, if the robbery was
“We are daily wasting one of na- had to explain that the state road I my
mean, of course,” he said, “that
set, but my receptions—even some­ we “I find
successful,
to
abscond
to
America,
crossed
Chickamauga
creek
fourteen
my neck by a steel, chain long enough found I still, had the smaller one in
ture’s richest gifts to us in our whole­
the prisoner not guilty of mur­
times
my
parties
—
arc
not
infrequently
He
and
Buckland
were
close
friends,
times
before
reaching
the
station
by
to allow the.case to hang at my back, my inside pocket. Beside the stolen
sale destruction of the forests, ” said
der in the first degree, as charged in
attended
by
guests
who
are
not
invited
and
the
latter,
it
appeared,
wanted
to
the
same
name.
hidden under my coat. As soon as weapon were a number of bags exactly
Theodore B. Baselin of the forestry
the indictment. That was the question
It took the old lady some time to re­ at all. No pains are taken to turn in­ asked me. But we do find him guilty
the money was put away Mr. William the. same as those I had in my valise get off the job and spend the night in I commission to a New York reporter.
truders
out,
for
reasons
strictly
offi
­
another
fashion,
and,
not
having
the
her
spirits,
but
she
did
after
a
cover
Friar ’gave me a revolver, which he filled with the gold, and I at once
“Andit is destroying what nature was
cial. High public office may have its of murder in tlie second degree.”
generally kept in his own desk. This jumped to the conclusion that these slightest suspicion of his comrade, he hundreds of years in building up and while, and the smile and the sweet advantages,
The prisoner burst into tears over
but, for my part, I would
sent
him
to
travel
with
me
to
help
to
'
words
she
and
her
daughters
gave
the
handy weapon 1 placed in. the pocket bags were duplicates belonging to the
which cannot be replaced for many
the disappointment, though he at one
prefer
the
independence
of
common
­
guard
the
£30,000.
Conductor
on
leaving
him
in
Atlanta
sham
detective. Also, that tliey were
of my own coat when I was ready to
years to come. Year after year has
with
mediocrity. My husband seems., time contemplated a worse " result
But, through some mysterious chan­ seen
start; and for greater security, and filled with some heavy substance—
our people cutting down the cheered him for many miles along his place
tio¿ of his
to
have
a
passion
for
serYiri^fhdtink-
nel,
a
warning
was
conveyed
to
Buck-
i
way.
—
Atlanta
Journal.
lead,
probably
—
in
order
that,
when
prompted also by An impulse I could
x dVJK’VTfnow a more disagree- profession for exactitude and verbosity.
woods for almost the sole purpose of
ne Waited to Take Lessons.
neither account for nor resist, I placed they were placed in my valise, I land of Foreman’s intended treachery, ' getting them ojjt of the way,a**d wire
able master, and I would rather be in
The recognized locality at present
too late he had seen how culpable no thought of
today,
a much smaller revol ver of my own in sho< .1 not miss the weight. The and
A young South Sider approached the employ of somebody who had not for, story tellers to lay tlie scenes of
he had been to trust him in such a with the exception o^heAdirondacks, Ned
the breast pocket of my ordinary coat. money that was to tide the Liverpool serious
Williamson, the big Brotherhood the right to invade my home at will. jury dramas is in the new south,
He reached Euston in New York is almost deplete of its
“I hope you will have no occasion house, over the fatal morrow the per- time to matter.
see the train steaming out of timber growth. This is an evil in shortstop, the other day, called him You know how well the notion has where' the “darkies” furnish ample
to defend yourself,” my kind employer soriator of Buckland had transferred the
and, feeling convinced many ways. The clearing away of aside and whispered: My boy, when gone abroad that in Washington it is material to draw from. In Florida a
said; and then he' added that he to his own pocket. This is,’ he had se­ that station,
life would probably be sacri- , wood growths gives a sweep to high you begin your out of door practice not necessary, if one wishes to attend jury in the Indian river country not
thought it would be as well to lessen cured the gold. The notes were still fi'ced, my
he.telegraphed to the authorities ' waters and heavy rains, which washes for the season I should like to have an entertainment, to wait for a bidding, long ago found that “the diseased died
the risk as much as possible by getting safe on my person; but how long at Liverpool
to have Foreman arrested away much of the rich1 surface soil 1 you give hie a few lessons in accurate But, goodness me 1 how it would grat­ by the will of God dr some other dis­
a detective from Scotland Yard to would they remain so—that was the on the arrival
of the 10 o’clock ex- I and depletes in a marked degree the throwing. I have so often seen you ify me to snub such interlopers, if I ease unknown to this jury.” Another
question ?
travel with me. ’
>
press
if
I
was
not
safe and the money fertility of the land. And this waste nail a grounder and send it shooting were only not a semi-public personage. dusky panel, bound to show that they
When quickly and quietly the thief
More to please him than myself, for
into Anson’s hands- that I know you The incidental loss of small furniture
intact.
not going to shield one of their
of fertility increases each year and would be a good tutor. Now, I’ll tell is only a trifling part of the affliction. were
I was not nervous, I agreed to the had finished his task, he rose and ap­
—— color,
--- c found
—- a negro prisoi
“’isoner
But
nothing
could
undo
the
damn
­
own
proposition, and drove at once to the proached my corner, valise in hand. ing fact that he had passed on his duty must in time render the jland almost you why I want to get points on It is bad enough,, however.”
“guilty, with considerable doubt as
“Yard” to secure my man. It was I closed my eyes and began to breathe to another man without permission, sterile. Then, again, the destroying of throwing. I’ve had sickness in my
“I sympathize with you heartily, to whether he is the man.”
the .forests has a marked influence family lately, and the other night I madame; but this invention of mine”—
soon done. I was to be accompanied heavily as if asleep; but, in spite of
A man had shot his neighbor’s hog
in my journey by a detective in plain my pretended calm, a tremor passed and Buckland was dismissed; but, at upon the rainfall, and one of the heard a cat yowling around the front
“Indeed, it is almost too much for
the
earnest
request
of
myself
and
wife
greatest arguments for the preserva­ of the house. I went out on the front endurance. My plan for putting a and the owner had him prosecuted for
clothes, called Buckland—a slight, over me. Suppose the villain were to
wiry looking man of about five-and- make all secure by quietly shooting —for as soon as I recovered from my tion of the Adirondack^ its protec­ steps and saw the dark object on the stop to the nuisance, if it were only malicious injury to property and
thirty. He had full dark brown whisk­ me as I lay there at his mercy 1 But wounds I became not only partner in tion to the great watershed of eastern sidewalk. The howling was something practicable—and I don’t think any wanted him fined heavily, buttlie jury
ers and beard, and gave me the im­ murder as well as plunder had not ap­ the firm but son-in-law of Mr. Friar— New York. Scientific meh claim that frightful. I sneaked in and got a lot other could be so—is to put a chain on found “the defendant guilty in the
pression of being disguised. Our train parently, up to that moment at. least, a post was found for him in the count­ the forests exercise a great influence of coal and began pegging at the dark each guest upon entering the house, sum of $1.50 in favor of the hog.”
“We find the man who stole the
left at 10 p. m., and we arranged to entered his head. He leaned over me, ing house; and I must say for him also upon the public health by the object It didn’t move, and the yowl­ allowing them a reasonable range,
mule not guilty,” is another verdict
meet at Euston five or six minutes be­ I suppose, to ascertain if I were really that, from the hour he entered the ser­ proper distribution of carbonic and ing continued.
and
have
him
or
her
rigidly
searched
fore the hour in order that we might asleep; then he replaced the valise un­ vice of Friar Brothers, Bowman & other gases and regulating the equi­
After I had scattered about half a by specially employed private detec­ ■vouched for on good authority, and-a
der the rug, went back to his corner, Knox, he did everything in his power I librium of the atmosphere. So far no ton of coal around the neighborhood tives before departure. As things are weary judge in despair over the tardi­
not attract attention.
I dined at a chop house in the city, -and, closing his eyes, feigned sleep. I to atone for the unlucky evening that state in the Union has done much in the cat walked up from the area be­ now one is altogether, defenseless. If ness of his colored, jurymen, who de­
and went back to the counting house say “feigned,” for I am sure sleep was he failed to catch the Liverpool ex­ the way of protecting existing forests neath me, looked up at me and howled I caught any one in the act of carrying light to spend hours and hours “ar-
press.—Detroit Free Press.
and but little tending to ’the creation worse than ever. I had been throw­ off my property it would hardly be guefying” among themselves over the
for the money and my great coat. The far away from him at that moment.
Suddenly an expedient occurred to
of new ones. It is a subject that must ing coal at a shadow. I got another worth making a rumpus about. At most trifling points and often ending
case containing the notes I disposed of
He Should Have Nine Lives*
around my neck by the chain; arid me, and I hailed it as positive inspira­ George W. Keene, of- South Boston, de­ receive attention some of these days half ton and threw it at the cat. He the worst the verdict would.be ‘klep­ them by tossing a penny, is said to
the bags of gold were placed in a small tion. If I could but get my hand on serves to live until he is 99 years old, in and upon which the legislative bodies looked at me and howled louder. tomania, ’ that being the word in vogue have blurted out in his wrath: “If
can’t find a verdict of your own,
valise. When I lifted it, it fairly drag­ his throat ! I was younger then, and order to complete his regard of nines. His must act.”
Now, when I can’t hit a cat with a ton in polite society for stealing. Why, I you
take the one the last jury used.”
ged me down; and it was with the stronger, you understand, and more father died in 1859, at the age of 69, and
of large egg I begin to think that the have actually seen ornaments of mine Whether
these clear instructions were
In tlie Azores*
greatest difficulty that I was able to athletic, so there were several chances was buried on Jan. 29. Mr. Keene him­
coal dealers are getting even with me, on the mantlepiece of somebody followed explicitly
or not, the records
walk along1 as ifz not burdened by a in my favor. But to get him into po­ self was married May 29, enlisted in the
Balconies in the Azores are as uni­ and I want some lessons in throwing. else’s house, but! said nothing.”
sition for attack I must employ a ruse.' civil war July 19, 1863, was mustered out versal as in Havana, Lisbon or Mad­ The big shortstop said he would be
weighty object.
“But, madam,” said the shabby man, do not show.—New York Tribune.
I reached Euston at 9:45; tipped the The first act in my little drama was to June 29, 1865, and was discharged July 9. rid. Some project from supports of pleased to give him a few points and “this bric-a-brac retainer of which
Treed by Panther».
guard to give me and my companion wake up from my long nap artistical­ His son was married Oct. 29. On the 9th carved stone; others rest with airy in­ show him wherein baseball was an im­ I have been speaking will solve the
a compartment to ourselves—it wanted ly ; so, calling all my histrionic pow­ of August -he received an injury which security upon fancifully wrought tim­ provement over “one old cat.”—Chi­ difficulty. Permit me to attach it to
Robert
Warren,
who has a logging
but three minutes to the hour, and ers to my aid; I made a sort of half necessitated his removal to the city hos­ bers ; and still others may be seen in cago Herald.
so peculiarly shaped an article as that camp out on Little river, had an expe­
Buckland had not arrived. The.guard strangled sound between a sigh and a pital, but he was discharged on the 19th. the daintiest patterns into which brass
vase on the
chimney
shelf. * It . is made,
rience which he will not soon forget.
A jfootw
a
Poet’s Lot iS'noi
Is Not a
A aioneyea
Moneyed une.
One.
» ,
■»
v ■*
,
•.
and iron may be wrought. All are
began to bang the doors; then the yawn—^turned half over, righted my­ He is 59 years old.—Exchange.
you see, or steel ana vulcanized rub- He had gone along across the river to
latticed,
and
in
this
lattice
work
are
whistle sounded and the train had ac­ self; threw up my arms with a vigor­
I
was
talking
a
few
evenings
ago
be
r
.
I
have
now
with
a
single
motion
look at a brake of cypress timber with
Combination of Fiddles.
tually begun to move, when I saw ous- stretch, sat up broad awake, and A new A invention
odd little slides and gates.
with a young poet whose name is fa-1 applied it, and I will defy you to move a view of buying it. Night overtook
in musical instruments
From
these,
as
you
pass,
you
will
■him on the platform. With a dexter­ took off my glasses.
to every magazme reader, and tfie vase an inch. The device is readily him and he lost his way, and in order
been brought out by a German which catch glances from fair eyes, and often miliar
The noise I fnade woke up my ene­ has causing
ous swing of the door and an agile
whose work the editors of periodicals; adjustable to bric-a-brac of any and to attract the attention of the camp,
a good deal of interest. This is
see
smiles
and
coquetting
looks
from
spring lie was in the compartment and my in the corner; or rather started is
receive
with more favor than that of . every shape, and nothing to which it hallooed.
called a bowed piano, but is really a case
threw himself panting on the seat, | him in private theatricals on his own resembling a pianoforte frame, and con­ lovely roguish faces. The Fayal maid­ any other of the young school of ver-1 is fastened can possibly be removed,
Warren was seemingly answered
I
saying that it was a “close shave this account, for, of course, he had not taining six violins, two violas and two ens must not look itpon you in the sifiers. In fact, he is accepted by the1 unless with a hatchet and cold chisel. by a human voice, and he continued
■time.” Then, as soon as he recovered I slept a wink.
violincellos, the strings of which are tuned Street; but social custom gives them public' and recognized by his brother I It may be that guests would bring to halloo while the answering voice
breath a little, he asked if I had the
“Hullo!” he said, lazily nibbing his to different notes. The instruments are the blessed right to flirt with you des­ authors as one of the most successful those instruments'with them, but for rapidly approached, until ■ he discov­
cash all right.
eyes. “Been asleep? Well, I rather i connected -by circular bands, which are perately from the lofty qpcL-safe out­ young poets of today. Now, what' the fact that the noise they make ered
an immense panther within a few
I nodded and glanced up at the net­ think I must have dozed myself. I brought into contact with the strings by posts of their balconiuJ’lrfrasw.'
does this mean in dollars and cents? I would be too great. However, this feet ready to spring upon him. His
means of the keyboard, the hammers of
ting. He followed the direction of wonder how the time goes?”
The courtyards or sagaos have an will tell you- exactly. This young1 means absolute safety for your orna- only means of escape, and he was un­
my eves, and said, “Ohl up there, is i “Do you often sleep at your post?” I which bear upon the bands with varying inviting look through these carelessly verse builder has sold during 1889 ments; the retainer does not show a armed, was a friendly sapling which
pressure.—New York Journal.
asked.
it?”
kept entradas. There is a suggestion thirty-eight poems m all, and the prices particle, being small and adjusted be­ was at hand; up this he sprang, and
“Lord bless you, we often nod at
I nodded again and then looked at
of snugness in the high inclosing ne has received for them I copy her? ^ind the objects to be protected, and the panther at the same time jumped
Old Trees in Maine.
him. He was slight and wiry look­ Scotland Yard—the whole lot of us, ”
walls. The open court shelters the direct from his memorandum book. I 1 you - have all
” the
■ satisfaction
. - ■• of ....
feeling
the side of an adjacent tree.
John
Plummer,
who
drives
the
stage
home gatherings and belongings of 5 poems to The Century, at $10 and $15.... $60 oo secure in the possession of your on After
ing, but there was not a particle of lie answered with a covert sneer.
in this position for
from
Scarboro
station
to
Higgins
beacb,
A few more remarks passed between .
the average family. All its members 3 poems to Scribner’s at $10...... ’ ........ • 30 oo household decorations. I may put you over an remaining
hair on his face. He caught my curi­
hour, during which time Mr.
that the other day he carried a man are more or less there. •
7 poems to Puck and Judge, in all.......... 53 25 *
ous and inquiring gaze fixed upon us; then, with a shriek from the en- ' 1 ' says
K9
down for two dozen for trial? ( Thank
kept up a wail of distress,
the route who said that he couldn’t
him, and laughed an easy, jaunty lit­ gine, we plunged into a tunnel, and I over
Many lovely flowers and clamber­ 1 poem to Lippincott’s..................... 12 50 you, madam. They will be delivered Warren
see as those big elm trees, which stand be­
with the hope of attracting the atten­
5 poems to The Harper’s periodicals.......... 45 50
tle laugh.
ing
vines
light
up
the
place
in
winter
knew the moment had come. If I did tween the station and the beach, had grown
11 poems to Life.. ....................... 63 25 this afternoon and I will drop in next tion of the camp, the panther finally
“Lord bless you,”" he said, “you not act, perhaps he would;
I any for sixty years. It is thought that as well as summer, days. Frequently 2 poems to St. Nicholas.................. 22 50 week for further orders.”—Washing­ left. When he thought the coast was
don’t suppose they was real, do you? I
interior
galleries
add
to
the
pict
­
4 poems to various other periodicals....... 19 25 ton Star. . ’
I gave a sudden groan—thrust my ' [ their age must be nearly 200 years. There
clear he descended and pursued his
hardly ever wears hair when I’m; on hand under my legs which stuck out are six of them in a line by the roadside, uresqueness, for people live in these
way, and when he again hallooed to
.........................
$305 25
Total.
Au Opinion of Antipyrin,
dooty.”
courts',
and
on
these
galleries
more
and
they
are
fine
specimens
of
the
elm.
—
straight before me, and called out to
attention the panther returned,
“Indeed!” I answered dubiously. my companion that I had got the 1 [ Lewiston Journal.
than in the cheerless alcobas to which
A medical correspondent writes to attract
—Cor. Boston Journal.
time accompanied by his mate.
Somehow, I was not attracted by my cramp so badly I could not move.
they lead.
The London Lancet: “I firmly be- this
a sapling he again went, armed
Cost of a Wooden Leg:.
companion’s look as he now appeared, “Catch my foot and bend it up, like a
Besides, there are none so poor that
lieve that chemistry has in antipyrin Up
Introduction of Envelopes.
with a stout club and determined to
shaven and shorn, for a most villianous good fellow?” I said: “The pain is aw- - I The wooden leg is now made of hollow the gladdening songs of matchless
found
a
most
invaluable
remedy
for
Before Sir Rowland Hill introduced
his life as dearly as possible.
It has very little weight, and is brown Azorean canaries are not al­
and sinister looking -mouth was too ful!”
migranie and other forms of headache sell
'
.
I i willow.
In the meantime the boys in camp
securely fastened to the limb by means o£ ways heard above, or blending with the penny post, envelopes were little that seem to be due to worry and over­
fully exposed. For one moment the
He hastened to my aid at once, and a leather cylinder, which fits securely to
as a double charge was made.
had become alarmed at his absence
idea flashed across me that he was as he stooped
the gay and murmurous undertones used,
for a paper inclosed in another, how-1 work. In those cases where I have and had started out to search for him.
* . . I seized him by
„ the . the stump as near the thigh as it can be of
not Buckland, but a cutthroat who throat, thrust
lazily
done
domestic
affairs.
—
New
tried
it,
its
effect
has
simply
been
my fingers into his neck- i brought. This cylinder is a foot long, and
ever thin each might be; even the.
They had reached a point within a
had somehow got wind of my busi- cloth, and pressed him down with is joined to the. .wooden calf by a steel York Journal.
smallest clipping from a newspaper, marvelous. In one case of a lady who quarter of a mile where he was treed
for
years
has
been
the
subject
of
most
both my knees against the door. Then i joint. A good wooden leg, with a rubber
necessitated an extra fee. The use of
when they caught the sound of his
The History of Pepper.
ness, and meant to rob, and, perhaps, the blood burst from his nose, and he foot, is worth $100.—Cincinnati Times-Star.
envelopes became common after May distressing periodical attacks of in­
murder me during the night journey. I struggled madly to throw me off.
The value of pepper in cooking seems to 6, 1840, when stamped and adhesive tense pain, referred to the occiput, call for help, and, as an answering sig­
Improving His First Opportunity.
have been known long ago. Its use as a envelopes were introduced. The first which defied all ordinary remedies, nal, fired off a gun, which had the ef­
But then the secret was known to
In the tussle our positions shifted
fect of frightening off the panthers.—
no one except the partners, the man­ somewhat; and, with a frantic effort,
Chief (to fireman throwing water medicine was common in the days of Hip­ envelope making machine was invent­ this drug relieved at once, and in this Osceola
(La.) Times.
pocrates, who applied it, moistened with
ager, Buckland and myself.
case
the
depressing
fear
of
impending
he threw out one arm, seized my little into a burning church)—Why are you alcohol,
to his patients. Just as sugar and ed by Edwin Hill, brother of Rowland ' attacks is now a thing of the past. I
The train moved slowly, and I revolver, and fired wildly. The bul­ keeping a stream on after the fire’s
and De La Rue’s machine for
The women of Germany subscribed
turned my head and looked back at let wounded my shoulder, and when out? Fireman—It’s the first time in my tea have been in past times so dear as only Hill;
folding envelopes was patented March presume in these cases it acts as a a sum of money which was presented
the brilliantly lighted station. As I I felt the sharp sting of the shot I life that I ever had a chance to play to be within the reach of the wealthy so 17,
powerful
sedative
to
the
nervous
sys
­
1845. The invention of envelopes
a ±
pepper was in the Middle Ages a very cost-
did so we began slowly to move on pressed my fingers more fiercely than nn +K«. w
~PluladelPhla Saturday fy Xdiment. So much wasit valued that has been attributed to S. K. B:«ver, a tem, and happily leaves no ill effects to the late Empress Augusta as a free
gift on the occasion of her golden
again, and I saw a man rushing wild- i before upon his windpipe, and pushed
^Xgmall packet was at that time deemed a bookseller and stationer of Brighton, —a great desideratum. Ten grains re­ wedding. The fund has been placed
ly from the booking office and along I him once more down against the door.
pea
peated
every
hour
for
two
or
three
suitab'e
present
to
offer
a
‘
great
person.
“Please to give me something, sir,” Common or black pepper is how grown in about 1830. He had some small sheets hours
the platform after us, gesticulating I could not attempt to disarm him ; I
_ _ plan of giving
„ it, . and at interest and is called by the appro­
paper on which it was difficult to hou is my
wildly, and apparently shouting to i knew not where on his person the. said an old woman. “I had a blind many tropical countries. It is a climbing of
then
at
intervals
of
six
hours
£oursfor
for a day priate name of “Frauen Trost,” or
write the address; he invented for
have the train stopped for him. But' other revolver might be concealed, child, who was my only means of sub­ plant some twelve feet high, bearing fruit these
or
two
after,
to
prevent
all
chance
of “Comfort to Women.” Two-thirds of
small envelope, and bad metal
the speed was increasing every mo-' and I felt that if he fired again I was sistence; but the poor boy has recov­ of a bright red color the size'of a pea, which plates a made
a
recurrence,
this
generally
being
at the income can be used each year to
for cutting them to the
ered his sight.”—Exchange.
relieve sudden distress.
pient, and I soon lost sight of hint, probably a dead man!
when dried turns black.—Exchange;
the
desire
of
the
sufferer.
”
I required shape and size.-
" I
WORK
Adown the hill of youth I gayly ran,
Clasping the hands of maidens wondrous fair;
On one side Pleasure, with her golden hair.
And bright eyes that the whole world seemed to
scan;
And at my left sweet Love, strange friend of man
Who banishes the old, but brings new care.
These twain together did my whole thought share
I saw not Work, who walked behind our clan,
But Love was wounded by an unknown dart;
Fainting she sank beside the road and died;
And Pleasure, hat ing my sad face and heart.
Caroled farewell and would- no longer bide.
Then Work crept up and brought me joy again,
And now we walk as comrades through the plain.
—A. W. Emerson in Boston Transcript.