Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 14 March 1891 — Page 6
I.—FOUND AT LAST.
By w. H. BALLOU. Illustrated by FERNANDO MIRANDA.
-'C^pyrt^bt. "Ali Mjrhts ri'Pi'rrotl.l*
••Uaiipy I may not call 11 ion until I loam that tny life has been happily ended."
Thus snliUxiuizeil 'young Mr. Honrv Hinshull as he n-dinvO. day divaiuitii:. against tlio cushions of his seat in the forward section uf'a Wagner car.
The Niw York Central train was fjvwliug him un and on, to which fact he was utterly oblivious.
He s-curei the forward section to escape observation. He sat with his back to the iMimsenp-rs. Himself was companionship enough. He desired only to think and to drunin.
He hail but a few days since put Columbia college, so to speak. aiming his stock of reminiscences, with her highest honors in his trunk.
He had mentally given over his father's great manufacturing interests, which invited him to take immediate jxissesrion and give the aired sire his desired retirement, to the devil and the deep blue sea.
He loved his ideal best, His art next, the devil take what was hindmost. The ideal was now his quest art he could achieve between times. It was of her he dreamed—his ideal.
As he sat there gazing at the end of the car, deep
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the contemplation of
this yet unseen but ever clearly outlined celestial ideal girl, with .ill the glamour of youth, the words of the gTeat Solon to envious Cnesus would thrust themselves between his thoughts and seize him like some grim specter. "Happy I may not call thee until I k-,.rn that thy life has been happily ended." "Why need what old Solon or any one else ever said concern me?" he mused. "What difference does it make what people say or who says it? A fact is a fact, and a theory a theory. One man's theory is as good for his own purpose* as another's theory. The fact in my case is that I am satisfied to paint, notwitlistamling dad's wrath and the business he would thrust
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me. Let dad earn
the inonev, or who will—I desire only to spend it. "So much for the fact. My theory is. and I prefer it to Solon's, that to marry my ideal will be the acme of happiness and will iusure a happy ending to my lifu. If 1 nev.tr find her more or less of my life will !w miserable and will end unhappily."
The young man failed to see that he liad exactly conformed his theory to Solon's, that he hud expressed the same theory precisely with variations in form only. Youth is deluded and ignores resemblances. those trifles which made Darwin immortal. He continued to 111u.se: "As an artist my preferences run to browns. They are mv favorite colors, because tome they are most beautiful, most ijuiet. most sincere and the least (suggestive of either gaudiness or glooiu. 11 ideal, unseen, unknown love is a symphony in browns—brown hair, brown eyes ami a complexion tinted brown Tather than white or red. "She is very small in stature, hence sure to be puperbly p-rfi-ct in form. Her little head is beautifully rounded and symmetrical, likewise her dimpled arm and her sweet little hands. Her little feet are incased in child's boots, not larger than a child's No. 12, She is"
He paused abruptly, startled, for lie Raw her. His tve had been wandering among the gorg«us tapestries of the car. the beautifully wrought woodwork, the superb French plate glass panes in the windows, the oil painted ceilings and the blue and gold woven velvets of the cushions. .• At. hist it rested on a mirror in front and above his head that slightly inclined from the top toward him sufficiently to expose the entile car and all it* occupants in dim image, dim because his curtain was drawn, darkening the light from the window at his side.
He thought several times to change his jposition to obviate the annoyance, lint he unconsciously seemed deterred from so doing. He was being slowly fascinated by a shadow as yet undefined, but un iinentarily growing more startling. He stared through the dim light at the mirror until his eyes became accustomed to the shadows alsive, and the picture among the other images graduallv defined itself.
What he saw, that which wound romid and round him silken threads of fascination, might have been rejected through a dozen mirrors from side to side and from end to end of the car.
Suddenly he turned and attempted to discover the original among the passengers. Failing in this he again sought the mirror, giving himself entirely to the study of one dim outline.
What he saw was the head and bust ol a young girl. It so exactly.conformed to the ideal of which he had dreamed so long that he concluded the image fnnst lie a conception merely—a psychologicarghost, u» it were.
There was his dream face, surely the symphony in browns: the brown hair, every thread as delicate as the dewcatching gauze of a spider the large brown eyes, in which was the very sou) of the loftiest conceivable intellect, the highest genius of music, jx-rhaps the complexion slightly tinted brown, but cut. by the sweetest red lips the evidently small stature and perfect form
Oreat 5omposit(^
THE JOtNT WORK OF
W. H.Ballou, Ella Wheeler Wilcox Maj. Alfred C. Calhoun, Alan Dale, Howe & Hummel, Pauline Hall, Inspector Byrnes,
John L. Sullivan,
Nell Nelson, Mary Eastlake. P. T. Barnum. Bill Nve. the beautiful iy rounded and symmetrical head and dimpled arm.
He only lacked a glimpse of the feet to complete the spell of fascination, except of cour. the realization of his absorbing des:.re—possession. He closed his eyes an instant to more completely imagine it all a dream. Again he looked to revel in the picture, but madness—it was gone.
Startled, the young man turned in disma\ when, to his almost, uncontrollable joy, the. girl in all her ideal beauty slowly approached him in the aisle. His quick, artistic eve encompassed her form in a glance, completing the picture. She 'had exquisite feet incased iri^ittle boots not. larger than a child's No. 1-.
The girl hesitated, looking at him shyly, as if in doubt whether to proceed. Why. he could not for a:i instant imagine, but he afterward attributed it to the fact that he actually devoured her, so far as one can devour a girl with the eyes. Her hesitation was' but momentary. then she approached a small silver water tank in the corner of the lobby near him.
He was on his feet in an instant. He sprang to the tank, his tall form bending until his eyes were
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a level with
her, and he gazed at her with that eagerness and intensity with which a starved iv in.vl might look through a windov.- on an er.'cure's dinner at Delmonico's. •Teraiit me to you." he said gently, with d^fficafi^ a desire to grasp her .jU.•wstrolling "Thanks, you are very kind." ventured the maiden, wondering at his eagerness and intensity of gaze.
He placed the silvA goblet under the faucet, letting the liquid ooze out as slowly as possible while he continued his gaze like one in a dream of delight. "The water is overflowing the goblet." suggested the girl with an amused smile.
The man awoke omfusedlv, turned the water off and handed to her the cup. "Conldn't you let it run over a little while?" he asked half impatiently. "The carjvt will absorb it. I have been looking for you so long. 1" "Oh, certainly, if you wish," she interrupted. "But then I am so thirsty, Vou know."
stored .thrnu'ih the dim Ifrjlit at the mirror.
"And so am 1," the man said wearily. "I was never so thirsty in my life." "Then 1 advise you to take a drink." retorted the girl with a laugh, and she abruptly turned and left hitn. "It is not for water I am craving," inunnnrtld the wretched man but if she heard him she gave no sign of it. lb watched her move down the aisle and enter the drawing room at the other end of the car. The reason of his inability to see her among the passengers was now evident. But how could lier inuc be reflected in the mirror in front of him?
His eye caught a quick solution. The transom over the door of the drawing room was open. Some mirror
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the in-
side reflected the images of the people to some mirror
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the outside and thence
into the one over his head. Hungry and dissatisfied he seated himself again to contemplate the picture and scheme to get acquainted.
Xow he recognized other people in the drawing room also reflected in the mirror.
There was an old man with a sober, dis-satisfied face who looked as if he might be a disciple of Henry George deep in contemplation of land theories a woman with a just then unreadable countenance, who might, lie the ideal's instructress in music or other studies, or her governess, perhaps: lastly, the face of a younger man. sav of :j."i years. that bore in it cunning, malice, suavity and other chur.-icteristicH which denoted a shrewd schemer and |ierhaps a villainous nature.
Was she traveling in security with an aged, absorlx-d parent and trusted friends, or was her father, if such he 1h, oblivious to the machinations of a villain, who had an accomplice in the supposed governess?
Hi.- resolved to probe,this mystery to the bottom, if he had to*rav, 1 around the earth to do it—if he had to employ detectives, had to squander his whole fortune.
Poor man! He little knew how much fonr of his contemplation was to be realized in his future existence.
Alarmed by the workings of his brain lie suddenly resolved to paint the group as they appeared in the mirror.
He raised the curtain near him to increase the effect of the scene in the mirror. but it only dulled out the picture mud he drew it down.
From his valise he took a palette, his paints and brushes and a small square ot canvas with a heavy past board back designed for use in the absence of an easel.
He began sketching on his ideal. It was a joyous task, so much so that his whole soul became concentrated in the work, and the lines in which he drew the lovely face rapidly grew into a facsimile of life.
Of course the best he could do during the remainder of the day was to prepare studies for more finished paintings later.
Still be lingei-M* long and lovingly on tlio faca of his ideal until the study, under the intensity of his love and longing, became not a bud picture.
The day gradually lengthened until he recognized that lie must, turn his attention to the others of the group or miss them by nightfall.
They might, get oil" at some destination north of Xew York, lie must hasten. Witii feverish anxiety, intensified by the thought of her possible escape from him, he put away the paints.and took-to his iH'ncil.
By nightfall he had sketched the group, so that all its characters might be recognized by the detectives whom he already purposed putting on the ^asc if he should miss them.
Mr. Henshall corelwftd 'hat in the dining car at dinner is skoa have the pleasure of sitting at luti frible next to the group. To his utter disappointment dinner was served to the party in the seclusion of the drawing rom.
He entered the dining car 011 the last call and resorted to stimulants to urge Ilia brain into some suggestion for his relief. He returned to his section and called the conductor, having evolved
£10."
"Very well, sir." But that was the last he saw of the conductor.
When darkness set in the brilliant electric lights of the Wagner palace in creased the intensity of the picture in the mirror.
At last Henshall observed some movement in ihe drawing room. The girl took a violin, and tuned it to suit her practised little ear. Soon there began to float through the car the ravish ing arias of Chopin, Schumann and other masters
If she was exquisitely beautiful to him before, what could describe her when pouring her very soul into music? It was then that the beautiful brown eyes vindicated his sense of the artistic and his love of their color.
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the mystic spell of that entranciti music he could see clearly through tin perfection of her fingering, bowin technique, finish and grace into her very soul, which was mirrored in her eye
He had listened to Ole Bull in times past, to Sembrich i.nd even to Christine Xilsson when she had chosen to seize violin and charm her friends but in love as he was the music of the maiden for whom he was hungering seemed to pale the efforts of those great artists.
The very motion of the car was in harmony with her time. Passengers threw away their novels and*listened. The old man in the drawing room closed his eyes as if in rapturous sleep. The villainous looking man, as if fascinated, thrust his face as near to hers as he could without disturbing the player, and his looks showed passion, longing, and a malicious intent which maddened Henshall.
As suddenly as the music commenced it ceased. The girl arose and put awav her violin softly and with a caress. Evidently she was tired and wished to seek her couch.
Had the young man heard what was said within, his anxiety would have been increased to a fever heat, but he had not that privilege, much to his later disadvantage.
Soon the lights within the drawing room went out the group had retired. Long in contemplation the youug man sat. At last, merely to relieve the porter. all the remaining passengers being in bed, he betook himself to his couch. It was hours lefore his tired brain would rest, and it was broad daylight before he awoke to violently spring to the floor ami dress himself. The car was standing in the yards of the Grand Central depot. The berths were all made up. and the open doors of the drawing mom showed that his bird had flown, fie sought the porter in a rage. "Where have they gone—the people in the drawing room?" he almost shouted. "Don't know, sail. Don't know notliin* 'tall about it. Train get heah at 4 o'clock dis mawnin'. De passenges get up when da pleases. 'Specs de folks got up when da pleased."
Mr. Henshall sat down a moment t: clear his brain. He was stunned. Most of the night he had tossed in bed liopiug for r.11 accident, a crash, afire anything, that he might spring to her rescue. Nothing of the kind had hap pened. Instead he had gone to sleep like a stone and let her escape
It was now 10 o'clock. Six hours had elapsed, sufficient for the party to have escajted by Kuroixvan steamer or to tin south, or worse, jievhaps to their home in the vast city of New York, where one individual is a mere drop in the ocean, a grain of sand in tlio Sahara, a moth on a great sequeia of California.
The man arose and sought the quar ters of the cabmen. They could tell him nothing. No one had taken a party of
They might have taken a street
car or carriage of their own or walked
to some near hotel, or worse, taken the uli-vatcd railway direct to the dock of vome morning sailing steamer.
There was ubsolut*!v no hope.
despair tlio tmin wandered awav, violently clutching liis pniuted portraits, tlio only possible clew. |To lie continued. I
Paying Oows.
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other scheme. "Canyon tell me the names of the party in the drawing room and their destination?" he queried anxiously. "I do not know their names." replied the official, "as the room was merely marked off to a party of fonr. However, I know that their destination is New York, and that they have transfer tickets either for some steamer or railroad. In case of the latter they should be bound southward if .'.broad, their course is but a wild conjecture." "Find out for me where they are going and I will pay you
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There are two essentials to the making of mouev in tlio dairy business. First, good buttor coA'ti,
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feed.
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sejond, cheap
summer blue grass is cheap,
and in wiutor sti jar boots uud maugel moizels furnish tile cheapest let d. i'he high prices of mill feed th-i present winter is euusii'g miiuv it skeptical duirv farmer to set his tbiukiug 1u.1clr.no agoing. Something must bo done to cli.^ipen the cost of food. Something must be done to get letter cow t'' put this feed iut«. 15utli are clear, sharp, d.uiy problems. It solw rightly, they will put dollars wheie cents aro n.c.v, Concerning the lirst, those who have adopted tiki tilo are well on the road towards its solution
But some snbstitut for bruu must bo i'oi.iid. When bran is wArth ton it has le
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in Wiscoueiu, it will pay
mighty tin.? profit to grow
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suU-titine
it can be done. We believe tiehl i« wiii do it, but tuey must be ylaut1 111 less than two incl.es deep. Any, uevicd that will get. Ihein down to a proper 'pth, it' lueclmni •.ally profitable is
right.. Farmers must wake up to a study of these two problems—cheaper eed and better cows.
lii-EOHAM'a 1'ili.s act like magic 011 a Weak Stomach.
THE EARTH.
An
Intcri'itlnc T»lk Alimir t!i« Orlcrin """l lllrtli 1 th. PU11..I IJv» On.
Accepting the theory of astronomers that our sun and the millions of other suns wetvevolvcd from masses of nebulous matter, we should like to know how tint earlii and tMe rest of our sun's planetary brood came into existeeje. The Hibie telis us sonielhinr about tho earth's infancy, and inleientially about the other planets. "The earth was without form and void," we are told. There was no division of land or water nothing but chaos. This agrees witli well-known scientific facts. Geology takes us back to the time when land and water began to lake form as we see them now.
But we should like to know something about the earth's history farther back than the Bible and geology take us. We are satislied with tl.*: evidence as to its chiulliood, but w'eti and where was our dear old earth born? How came the sun's eight planets, nid the little asteroids, to be made itil" balls and placed outward ill space at distances ranging from 35.00U.0DO to 3.000,000.OIK) miles from the parent sun? Kven the astronomers do not pretend to say positively how this mighty work of t'ld-niakir.g was accoinulishe^, but, some of tiieui have a theory that seems plausibie and that fully harmonizes, with demonstrated facts.
What are called spiral nebulas— nebulous bodies which are evidently rotating whirling, have lately been studied with greater care and minuteness than ever before. It seems probable that these spjriais indicate a stage in which masses of nebulous matter began to concentrate and begin the initial work of making a star system after the manner of our solar system.
The attraction of nebuhc. as we know by analogy, would cause a rotary motion, parts nearest the uucleus moving with the greatest rapidity, and other parts moving more slowly in proportion to their distance from tho center. Such a nebulas as this would extend billions of miles in space. The different velocities of the parts would naturally produce spirals, and as the process of condensation went on the nucleus would become a comparativesolid body, like our sun, while spirals, at various distances therefrom, would, by their own attraction, become more closely defined as individual riug.s.
In course of time, perhaps millions of years, these rings would gradually draw together and assume the spherical form that seenis as be the ultimate shape of all heavenly bodies. If this supposition be true, the earth was once a section of spiral nebula. As the suu settled down into comparative, solidity the nearest spiral ring became the pianet Mercury, the next one Venus, the next the earth, and so on out to Neptune, nearly three billion miles away.
And if planets are thus evolved from spiral nebula surrouuding the sun or star then it logically follows that our moon, and tho moons of the other planets, are the spherical outgrowth of nebulous rings. Astronomers who beicve in this theory declare that Saturn's rings will cveutuallv increaso the very liberal allowauce of that planet's moous.
But if tiiis planet-making theory is correct why can not the completed plauets of a star be discerned thremgh the tolescope? Because the stuff of which the planet is made becomes thousands of times smaller when completed than it was in the nebulous state. A woman's dress may not be more than four feet high and two feet in diameter but probably thero are twenty yards of stuff in it. The spirals of which our planets were made mast have been billions of mile* in diameter, but tho diameter of the largest planet is only 80,000 miles.—ttiUadclphia Times.
The offfiflles nl Mrs. Uo er A. Prvnr'a rocupfion.'in Nilw.York City, stand iu caudlosticks 200 years old.
Paelllc Cables.
An English syndicate will soon b# formed to lay a cable from San Frail, eisco to Honolulu, and then to extend it to Auckland and Sydney. It ia thought that the large sums which syndicates are putting into Australia and many South sea islands v. ill make an 0C«au cable to this couotri ueu"".ttry.
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