.WHEN THE NEW WEARS OFF.
na)'mitl.awlshe,amald, :
Botll hapiiv. ) oimiioilti,y, .
; TkiigrlaoMlHiiKllirinnUiinimabk '
An ous furottminuK May,
Tile croakers Haw tbls lianplnsss,
Ami said, "Ah, liive l, ,i,. i
tm'm liuppr now, but wn will noma, :.-
; Wliaoihsuewwatttii off, you'll find." ,:v:
Tlioy mm led, am) thou (Mr life rink
a With calmer, rtm joy;
They ore aa roan and wife mora fond ''
.':' Than wlioo sirl and boy,
TliiMr "frlr'iidK" could not ewiore Mw ahrbL
r And Mid, Willi worldly wit,
"It will not ba k orient and Una ,
( When the new wears off a bit,'1 v
Ab, well, the now wore off, of oounn,
Aiidthen, what did they flndl ... ,!v
An ddniwa whleh was lietler far, '
: For Love is not so blind :
An selfish Carol and lorinr bearts v
. , New Joys will always meet,
So, when the new wean off, they'll And
Old tore the more complete. - V
"Myrtle Koon Cberrymau in Detroit Free Vttm
LOVE AND POISON.
Old Dr, Sylvester Baird does not prac
tice now. He is retired upon a very
fine income, the result of long yean of
practice, very sttccessfal too, in a med
ical point of view, and being bachelor
lores to gather such of hi old cronies as
time haa spared about him, nnawed by
the presence of petticoats or the domi
neering of grown up children, whose
rapid modern views are intolerant of old
fashioned ways, and who, although they
do not express it in so many words, show
that they are weary waiting the inde
pendence and power that money brings,
and which they know must be their por
tion when hand and brain that patiently
gathered it are hidden away in the earth,
with their lying, griefs cut in the cold
and repulsive graveyard marble.
One night the doctor and a few of his
gray cronies were gathered around the
blaze of Mb fireplace, in his solidly com
fortable sitting room, comparing notes
on a case of strychnine poisoning that
had startled the town. Prom this special
theme they drifted away to a general
discussion of the peculiarities of prisons
and then to poisoners, those who pur
ned the dreadful trade of poisoning
others for lucrative gain or place or
power, in ages gone by. The doctor of
divinity was especially well versed in all
of tlio horrible cases of poisoning by the
Bargtas of olden days, especially that
far famed prelate, Cesare Borgia, who,
as many historians allege, in conjuctirai
with bis father, concocted the plan of
poisoning four of the wealthiest cardi
nals at an evening party in the '"ilia
Corneto; but by mistake the poison,
which was mixed with wine, was ad
ministered to Alexander VI and Cesare
himself. But Cesare wus saved, having
partaken of but little of the drugged
wine All the rest died. Then Ceaara
seined upon the pajial treasures, but was
afterward overthrown and banished.
It would seem from what the reverend
gentleman advanced that lie believed
that everybody connected with the noble
classes in those far back days were pois
oners, and that every ambitious man or
woman made his or her way to power
through the medium of the poison oup.
And then, a natural sequence to the
process of reasoning indulged in by the
cloth, he laid all the blame upon the
theological tenets entertained by the
people in those days, drawing from one
of the retired 'uierdututs present the
cynical observation, "How strangely
like a woman the average clergyman
reasons!" s .
Whereat all present, inclusive of the
good natnred clergyman himself, laughed
pleasantly, while the latter continued in
his bit and miss observations. He was
satisfied from .his reading that as a rule
poisoning was originally confined among
the higher classes of society, and from
this he drew the homily that as a rule
adversity drew families closer together
than prosperity; he was positive that
adversity drew friends together with '
books of steel.
When ambition stepped in the hooks
of steel that bound friends together re
laxed th.-ir grip, jealonsies were fo
mented and the glitter of gold dried the
dewy y of friendship. He did not
think, barring insanity, that case of
poisoning ever occurred among people
in humble life. He bad yet to hear of
such an instance. Talk as you will, he
asserted, the humbler classes are the
closest to (and and are the most obedient
to his will. .
Dr. Baird, who had his eye bent upon
the tire while the not unpleasantly vol- "
able clergyman was talking, looked up
as be closed and suidt "One of your con
clnding remarks somehow reminds me
at strange oaue that came under my
observation while 1 was in practice in
ions of the largest cities of the United
States, A watchman was taken sud
denly ill while pacing his beat at 8:80
o'clock In the morning, and was carried :
home, .i'v.-i '..
"The nearest physician, myself as It
happened to be, was hurriedly called,
and hastening thither 1 found the man
in great distress, Administering iSooie
thing to alleviate his pains, 1 came to i
the' oonclusiou that it was a case of
poison by strychnine. 1 put up the
proper medicine, and on inquiry found
that Dr. 0. was the regular family phy
sician, The watchman's wife was a hand
tome English woman, about US years of
age, who stood at the foot of the bed
during ray ministrations to her husband,
with nothing peculiar about her except
a pair of piercing bluck eyes, i do
not know that 1 would have remem
Joered the expression of her eves
but for the fact that the watchman, in
an interval of his paroxysms, groaned
out,' 'Oh, doctor! I was all right until I
ate .that little piece of pork.'
"1 happraiwl to look up at the time and
found the wife's eyes tout upon my face
with a sharp scrutiny of suspicious in
spection. But there was trouble written
in her face, and 1 attributed the look at
the time to the natural anxieties of a
wife. I had a more important case on
hand for that morning, and giving the
necessary directions to the woman, to
gether with instructions to call the fam
ily physician next day, and believing
that the watchman with the necessary
attention was in a fur way of reoovery,
I retired. '
"But the watchman died. I read of
the fact in the newspapers, but found
that no suspicions attached in the case;
poison was not even hinted at. I re
member only entertaining surprise at
the time, but as the time wen); by the
affair grew upon me to snch a degree
that I was constrained by curiosity,
which amounted to partial mania, to in
vestigate. One day I happened in to the
health office, where the record of deaths
and their oausns are kept, and turning
to the proper name found that the
watchman's death was attributed to the
intense heat which prevailed upon the
night when he was found writhing upon
ms oeat.
"It instantly occurred to me that Dr.
C, whom I knew, must have known
from the man's general condition, as
well as the medicine which I prescribed,
that it was a case of strychnine poison
ing, and 1 must confess that it struck
me with a suspicion, which I instantly
repelled, that the doctor was in some
way particeps rriininis. I made it a
point, however, to casually throw my
self in his way, and to raise the question
of the death of the watchman. The
first few words which the doctor dropped
convinced me that he was in no way
mixed up in the mysteries of the death.
"He stated briefly that when he was
colled the man was dying, with only a
few breaths left in his body. The wife
hod informed him that I had been gone
but a short tame before he was called,
and that I had said her husband had
been overcome by the heat and some
thing the watchman had eaten, which
disagreed with his stomach. The fact is
Dr. C had not been called in until the
afternoon. On comparing notes Dr. C.
became interested, and knowing the
people in the neighborhood, where he
was often called, began a course of cau
tious inquiry, and iu the course of time
gave me the following facts:
"When the watchman died, and while
the preparations fur the funeral were go
ing on, the widow gave great scandal to
the neighborhood on account of her de
portment. Her face was absolutely
radiant with the happiest of expressions
and the sound of her voice was as joyous
as the expression of her face. Hhe talked
glibly on the most trivial of subjects and
welcomed people as though a wedding
instead of a funeral were going on. No
ticing finally that jiomeof the callers
were shocked at her actions, she became
demure and aileut, and called np an
affectation of sudden grief, but it did
not lost long: the old radiance came
back, and it seemed that the short time
of her simulated grief redoubled the in
tensity of her broadly apparent happi
ness when her natural feelings tri
umphed. "In due time after the burial of her
husband she drew $2,000 insurance
money from a life, insurance company,
and, disposing o! such effects as she had,
bought tickets lor herself and family of
three children to England. It was only
after her departure that Dr. C. learned
that tiie medicines which I had pre
scribed had not been administered, but
had been thrown iu a closet, where they
were found intact subsequently. She
kold a neighbor that her reason for doing
this was that she was a Catholic, and
would not give her husbandaaProtestant
doctor's medicine.
. "Having started into thc)B-rjstigation
together, Dr. C. and inyseli extended it
to the subsequent career of this woman.
On her arrival in England, where, as it
transpired, her girlhood's lover lived,
she sought him out, and found that he
had entered the British army as a com
mon soldier. But, nothing deterred by
this, she flew to his arms, and they
were married, although she knew him
to be a common drunkard, only saved
from a drunkard's grave by the rigid
discipline of the army. .
"And ere long she also knew that she
was indifferent to his selfish egotism and
swinish character. She loved him and
she was near him, and that was all she
oared. He beat her, but she loved the
band that rained the blows upon her
head. He squandered every dollar of
the money which she possessed, and
when his regiment was ordered to the
West Indies he left without even taking
a farewell look at her as she lay, not
only iu a bed of sickness but in a bed of
poverty, with her three children in the
poorhoiue. She only wept, but never
upbraided her heart's love when she
heard how be had brutally deserted her,"
As the doctor ceased the cynical mer
chant hummed the line, " 'Tis love that
makes the world turn round." J, W.
W. in Detroit News.
Young Henry George Savage, who is
exploring some of the unknown lands of
Japan, is a grandson of Walter Savage
Landor, and an artist of note. He has
traveled into the interior of Hokhoido
and to the Kurile islands, going on horse
back 2,800 miles and walking some 400
miles. For seventy days he lived entire
ly on raw fish, seaweed and rice.
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