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The campaign brought honors and promotion to many, but for me it •had nothing but disaster and misfortune. I was removed lrom my brigade and attached to the Berkshires, with whom I served at the ratal battle of Maivvand. There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. I should have fallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines.

Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships which I had undergone, I was removed, with a great train of wounded sufferers, to the base hospital at Peshawur. Here I rallied, and had already improved .80 far as to be able walk about the wards, and even to bask a little upon the veranda, when I was struck down enteric fever, that curse of our ndi^n possessions. For mouths my life was despaired of, and when at last I came to myself and became, convalescent, I was, so weak and emaciated that a medical board determined that not a day should be lost in sending me back to England. I was dispatched, accordingly, in the troop-ship "Orontes," and landed a month later on Portsmouth jetty, with my health irretrievably ruined, but with permission from a paternal government to spend the next nine months in attempting to Improve it.

I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air—or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit men to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that groat, cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the empire are irresistibly drained. There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as~T had considerably more freely than I 1 ought. So alarming did the state of ,1 my finances become, that I soon realized that I must either leave the metropolis and rusticate somewhere

In the country, or that I must make acomp] te alteration in my style of living. Choosing the latter alternative, I began by making up ray mincl to leave the hotel, and to take up mv quarters in some less pretentious S and less expensive domicile. I On the very day that I had come "_to this conclusion, I was standing at

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ly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man. In old days Stamford bad never been a particular crony of mint, but now I hailed him with enthusiasm, and he, in his turn, apI pearcd to be delighted to see me. In the exuberance of my joy, I asked t""-"' him to lunch with meat theHolborn, and we started ofl together in a hansom. "Whatever have you been doing with yourself, Watson?" he asked, in undisguised wonder, as we rattled

through the crowded London streets. "You .«re as thin as a lath and as ^brown as a nut."

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destination. "Poor devil!"he said, commiseratingly, after he had listened to my misfortunes. "What are you up to now?" "Looking for lodgings," I answered. "Trying to solve the problem as to whether it is possible to get"comfortable rooms at a reasonable price." "That's a strange thing," remarked my companion "you are thesecond man today that has used that expression to me." "And who was the first?" I asked. "A fellow who is working at the chemical laboratory up at the hospital. He was bemoaning himself this morning because he could not get some one to go halves with him in some nice rooms which he had found, and Which were too' much for his purse." "By Jqve!" I cried, "if he really wants some one to share the rooms and the expense, I am the very man

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PART I.

35eiaj reprint from the reminiscences of JOHN H. WATSOS, M. D., late of the Army Medical Department.]

CHAPTER I. SHERLOCK HOLMES.

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In the year 1878 I took ray degree 0I Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the array. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as assistant surgeon. The regiment was stationed in India at the time, and before I could join it the second Afghan war had broken out. On landing at Bombay, I learned that my corps had advanced through the passes, and was already deep in the enemy's country. I followed, however, with many other officers tvho were in the same situation as myself, and succeeded in reaching Candahar in safety, where I found my regiment, and at once entered upon my new duties.

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for him. I should prefer having a partner to being alone." Young Stamford looked rather strangely at me over his wine-glass. "You don't know Sherlock Holmes yet," he said "perhaps you would not care for him as a constant companion."

Why, what is there against him?" "Oh, I didn't say there was anything against him.. He is a little queer in his ideas—an enthusiast in some branches of science. As far as I know, lie is a decent fellow enough." "A medical student, I suppose?" said T.' "No I have no idea what he intends to go in for. I believe he is well up in anatomy, and he is a first-class chemist but, as far as I know, he has never taken out any systematic medical classes. His studies are very desultoi'y and eccentric, but he has amassed a lot of out-of-the-way knowledge which would astonish his professors." "Did you never ask him what he was going in for?" I asked. "No he is not a man that is easy to draw out, though he can be communicative enough when the fancy seizes him." "I should like to meet him," I said. "If I am to lodge with any one, I should prefer a man of quiet and studious habits. I am not strong enough yet to stand much noise or excitement. I had enough of both in Afghanistan to last me for the remainder of my natural existence. How could I meet this friend of yours?" "He is sure to be at the laboratory. He either avoids the place for weeks, or else he works there from morning to night. If you like, we shall drive round together after luncheon." "Certainly," answered and 'tlfe conversation drifted away into other channels.

As we made our way to the hospital after leaving the Holborn, Stamford gave me a few more particulars about the gentleman whom I proposed to take as a fellowlodger. "You mustn't blame "me if you don't get on with him." he said. "I know nothing more of him than I have learned from meeting him occasionally in the laboratory. You proposed this arrangement, so you must not hold me responsible." "If we don't get on it will be easy to part company," I answered. "It seems to me, Stamford," I added, looking hard at my companion, "that you have some reason for washing your hands of the matter. Is this fellow's temper so formidable, or what is it? Don't be mealymouthed about it." "It is not easy to express the inexpressible," he answered, with a laugh. "Holmes is a little too scientific for my tastes—it approaches to cold-bloodedness. I could imagine his giving a friend a little pinch of the latest vegetable alkaloid, not out of malevoleence, but simply out of a spirit of inquiry in order to have an accurate idea of the effects. To do him justice, I think he would take it himself with the same readiness. He appears to have a passion for definite and exact knowledge." I "Very right, too." "Yes but it may be pushed to excess. When it comes to beating the subjects in the dissecting rooms with a stick it is certainly taking a bizarre'shape." "Beating the subjects?" "Yes, to verify how far bruises may be produced after death. I saw him at it with my own eyes." "And yet you say he is not a medical student?" "No. Heaven knows what the object of his studies re. But here we are, and you must form your own impressions about him."

As he spoke, we turned down a narrow lane and passed through a small side door, which opened into a wing of the great hospital. It was familiar ground, and I needed no guiding as we ascended the bleak stone staircase and made our way down the long corridor with its vista of whitewashev wall and dun-colored doors. Near the further end a low, arched passage branched away from it and led to the chemical laboratory.

This was a lofty chamber, lined and littered with countless bottles. Broad, low tables were scattered about, which bristled with retorts, test-tubes, and little Bunsen lamps, with their flickering flames. There was only one student in the room, who was bending over a distant table absorbed in his work. At the sound of our steps h6 glanced round and sprung to his feet with a cry of pleasure. "I've found it! I've found it!" he shouted to my companion, running toward us with a test tube in his hand. "I have found a reagent which is precipitated by haemoglobin, and by nothing else."

Had he discovered a gold mine, greater delight could not have shown upon his features. "Dr. Watson Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said Stamford, introducing us. "How are you?" he said, cordially, -gripping my hand with a strength for which I should hardly have given

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him credit. "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive," "How oh earth did you know that?" I asked, in astonishment. r.s: *T "Never mind," said he, chuckling to himself. "The question now is about hremoglobin. Np doubt you see the significance of this discover}' of mine?"~f ?. r)

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"It is interesting chemically, no doubt,"I answered "but practically-" "Why, man, it is the most practical medico-legal discovery for years. Don't you see that.it gives us an infallible test for blood stains? Come over here, now!" He seized me by the coat sleeve in his eagerness, and drew me over to the table at which he had been working. "Let us have some fresh blood," he said, digging along bodkin into his finger, and drawing off the resulting drop of blood in a chemical pipette. "Now, I add this small quantity of blood to a liter of water. You perceive the resulting mixture has the appearance of true water. The proportion of blood cannot be more than one in a million. I have no doubt, however, that we shall be able to obtain the characteristic reaction."

As he spoke, he threw into the vessel a few white crystals, and then added some drops of a transparent fluid. In an instant the contents assumed a dull mahogany color, and a brownish dust was precipitated to the bottom of the glass jar. "Ha! ha!" he cried, clapping his hands and looking as delighted as a child with a new toy. "What do yop think of that?" "It seems to be a very delicate test," I remarked. "Beautiful! beautiful! The old guaiacum test was very clumsy and uncertain. The latter is valueless if the stains area few hours old. Now, this appears to act as well whether the blood is old or new. Had this test been invented there are hundreds of men now walking, the earth who would long ago have paid the penalty of their crimes." "Indeed!" I murmured. "Criminal cases are continually hinging upon that one point. A fnan is suspected of a crime months perhaps after it was committed. His linen or clothes are examined and brownish stains discovered upon tKem. Are they blood stains, or mud stains, or rust stains, or fruit stains, or what are they? That is a question which has puzzled many an expert, and why? Because there was no reliable test. Now we have the Sherlock .Holmes test and there will'no longer be any difficulty."

His eyes fairly glittered as he spoke, and he put his hand over his heart and bowed as if to some applauding crowd conjured up by his imagination. "You are to be congratulated," I remarked, considerably surprised at his enthusiasm. "There was the case of Yon Bischoff at Frankfort last year. He would certainly have been hung had this test been in existence. Then there was Mason, of Bradford, and the notorious Muller, and Lefevre. of Montpelier, and Samson, of New Orleans. I could name a score of cases in which it would have been decisive." "You seem to be a walking calendar of crime," said Stamford, with a laugh. "You might start a paper on those lines. Call it the 'Police News of the Past.'" "Very interesting reading might be made, too," remarked Sherlock Holmes, sticking a small piece of plaster over the prick of his finger. "I have to be careful," he continued, turning to me with a smile, "for I dabble with poisons a good deal."

He held out his hand as he spoke and I noticed that it was mottled over with similar pieces of plaster and discolored with strong acids. "We came here on business," said Stamford, sitting down on a three legged stool and pushing another one in my direction with his foot. "My friend here wants to take diggings, and as you are complaining that you can get no one to go halves with you I thought that I had better bring you together."

Sherlock Holmes seemed delighted at the idea of sharing his "rooms with me. "1 have my eye oh a suite in Baker street," he said, "which would suit us down to the ground. You don't mind the smell of strong tobacco, 1 hope?" "I always smoke 'ship's' myself," I answered. "That's good enough. I generally have chemicals about and occasionally do experiments. Would that aunoy you?" "By no means." "Let me see—what are my other shortcomings? I get in the dumps at times and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone and I'll soon be all right. What have you to confess now? It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of each other before they begin to live together."

I laughed at this cross-examina-tion. "I keep a bull pup," I said, "and object to rows, because my nerves are shaken, and I get up at all sorts of ungodly hours, and I am extrmely lazy. I have another set of vices when I'm well, but those are the the principal ones at present." "Do you include violin playing in your category of rows?" he asked, anxiously.

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"It depends oil the player," I answered. A well played violin is a treat for the gods a badly played one—.—" 4 "Oh, that's all right," he Cried, with a merry laugh. "I think we may consider the thing as settled— that is, if the rooms are agreeable to you."

"Whan shall we see them?" "Call for me here at noon tomorrow, and we'll go together and settle everything," he answered. "All right, noon exactly," said I, shaking his hand.

We left him working among his chemicals, and we walked together toward my hotel. "By the way,*' I asked, suddenly, stopping and turning upon Stamford, "how in the deuce did he know that I had come from Afghanistan?"

My companion smiled an enigmatical smile. "That's just his little peculiarity," he said. "A good many people have wanted to know how he finds things out." "Oh, a mystei'v, is it?" I cried, rubbing my hands. "This is very piquant, am much obliged to you for bringing us together. 'The proper study of mankind is man,' you know." "You must study him, then," Stamford said, as he bid me goodb.y. "You'll find him aknotty problem, though. I'll wager he learns more about you than you about him. Gond-bv."

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strolled on to my hotel, considerably interested in my new acquaintance.

CHAPTER II.

THE 8CIENCJS OF DEDUCTION. We met next day, as he had arranged, and inspected the rooms at No,. 221 Baker street, of which he ha 1 spoken at our meeting. They consisted of a couple of comfortable bedrooms and a single, large, airy sitting-room, cheerfully furnished, and illuminated by two broad windows. So desirable in every way

times he spent his day at the chemical,laboratory, sometimes in the dissectihg.room,andoccasionally in long walks, which appeared to take him into the lowest portions of the city. Nothing could exceed his energpr when the working fit was upon him but now and again a reaction would seize him, and for days on end he would lie upon the sofa in the sitting room, hardly uttering a word or moving a muscle from morning to night. On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic, had not the temperance and cleanliness of his whole life forbidden sucfc a notion.

were the apartments, and so moder- sort in July and August. is quite ate did the terms seem when divided between us, that the bargain was concluded upon the spot, and we at once entered into possession. That very evening I, moved my things round from the hotel, and on the following morning Sherlock Holmes followed me with several boxes and portmanteaus. For a day or two we were busily employed in unpacking and laying out our property to the best" advantage. That done, we gradually began to settle down and to accommodate ourselves to our new surrounding.

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cult man to live with. He was quiet really becomes a necessity. A gar in his ways/ and his habits were reg- ment that will meet, all these reular. It was rare for him to be up quirements is of Scotch tweed woven after ten at night, and he had in-| for the purpose.in pretty variably breakfasted and gone out before I rose in the morning. Sotne-

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A GIRL WHO HUNTS IUTTLERS.

She Has Killed Twenty-Eight Snakes So Far This Season. The Highland cape is just as fash ionable for very young girls as for PhiladelphiaTimes.^ their mothers and older sisters, and

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killed a rattlesnake in her father's yard and cut off the rattles. Since then she has developed a craze for collecting the rattles of these snakes, and spends her time in hunting the venomous reptiles. Up to date she has killed twenty-eight rattlesnakes and from them has obtained twenty perfectly matched sets of rattles. Each set has nine rattles or segments. The other eight sets are odd ones, ranging from four to ten rattles in a set.

The women in this part of the State seem to have taken an amazing courage in dealing with snakes this season. A report from Hancock says that Mrs. Frank Tower of that place was on her way home after dark the other evening when she heard a rattlesnake sound its rattles in the weeds at the roadside. She hurried home, said nothing to anyone, got a lantern and a club and returned to the spot where she had heard the rattle. It was there still, and sprang its rattles as soon as Mrs. Tower approached. She turned her light on it, saw it lying coiled ready to strike, and smashed its head with the club. The snake was an immense fellow, measuring over five feet, but it carried only ninerattles.

Farmers on Long Island have some of their lighter work done by chil dren. Peas, beans and berries arc thus picked, the youngsters being paid for the amouut of work they do. Sometimes a farmer drives to the nearest village with a hay wagon provided with temporary seats, takes on a load of children, drives sets his passen

A young girl named Henrietta Quickj across the Delaware in Laxa- bonnets, except for the very few, the waxen, Pa., heard a noise among her chickens. She went out and saw a rattlesnake maneuvering to capture one. She cut its head off with a hoe. This one had thirteen rattles.

back to the farm, gers to work and at the Vnd of the

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NOW THE AUTUMN GIRL.

Graceful Fall Fashions Set Off Most Charmingly Her Vivid Color and Elastic Step.

N. Y. Sun. An occasional crimson leaf makes bright spot on the paths in the long walks that are now becoming a delightful possibility and .the pie clumps of wild asters, the sides sunny with golden rod, a distracting glimpse of Indian paint brush in the hollows, all tell that the gypsy autumn has bestirred herself, and will very soon outshine the most fascin&ting of summer girls. The autumn girl, after all, has the better

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time of the two. She feels and looks fresher than was possible during the languid heat of summer. The long strolls which are now in order bring more serious and effective conversation in their train, and what was simply a flirtation of the frothiest

likely to deepen into a lasting friendship in September. Maybe one of the agents in producing this state of affairs is the jaunty coats and wraps that become necessary in the cooler season. Who could resist a smiling girl buttoned up to her rosy face in a smart tweed jacket, tight fitting, with horn buttons, which, by the way, are the only thing this fall for coats of any kind? Then the cape, which will be sufficient protection against any change of temperature, and which is at the same time light enough t-o be comfortable under any circumstances,

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mixtures, with reversible tartan linings. It has double shoulder capes and a rolling collar.

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the champion rattlesnake hunter in more convenient. The long coat, the person of sixteen-year-old Mary reallyf_ effective ^and^ novel, ^cut Burton. Early in the season she

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something after the style of a man's Newmarket coat, the front and bftek cut in one piece, and the lapped seams coming just below the waist,

giving the appearance of along back. The skirt splits up behind to the waist, and the loose fronts are double-breasted. This for traveling is perfection.

rage being for large hats. An attempt will be made to introduce the Empire bonnet, but its success is doubtful. A modified version is exceedingly becoming. Many of the ',arge hats are tied under the chin with ribbons. Coarse straws were always chosen for fall wear, but never so coarse as are shown this season. The pretty little lady bugs are imitated and used to catch ribbon and lace in place. The arrangement of feathers on a hat. is quite an nrt tyi itself, for some of them have from six to eight, small and larflfe. Several rows of ruching about the

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THE fAIB SEX.

It is not strange that smokfftg among women should be continual^ increasing when one considers the illlustrious examples set by so many of the European Queens. The Queen of Italy smokes, so does the Queen Regent of Spain, so does the Queen of Portugal—following the example of her mother, the Comtesse de Paris, who smoked long before the fashion set in—so does the Empress of Austria, so does the ex-Queen of Naples, and so does the Czarina. Ik is an almost unanimous habit among the Queens of their goneration.Their Majesties of England and Denmark belong to another generation." No one ever heard of their smoking. Little Wilhelmina. of Holland, woufil probably not be allowed to smoke ff she wanted to. Whether she wMI when she becomcs older can only be surmised.

Besides the woman astronomer Miss Clark, London has a woman lawyer and a woman entomologist, Miss Ormonde, whose work on the Colorado beetle is famous. Missouri, too, has a woman entomologist in Miss Murtfeld, the credit for whose admirable work goes to some one in the Department of Agriculture.

Sarah Bernhardt has not lost all he*4 eccentricities, though she n# longer sleeps in a coffin. She appeared at a London afternoon reception, not very long ago—a very warm afternoon it was, too—in a sealskin coat down to her heels, with bi«h puffed sleeves by way of additioiaI fur.

One girl is partly kept employed in shelling and skinning walnuts for the Queen's table. The nuts have to be extracted and peeled whole any broken ones are discarded. Her Majesty is also very fond of bleached almonds, and a large dish is always provided for the royal desert.

An appeal is being made for funds to be used in educating in English Hindoo widows, most of whom are girls doomed by caste to solitary lives. A new school is to be opened in Bombay.

When a Chinese girl is married her attendants are always the oldest and ugliest .women in the .neigborhoffd,, who are paid to act as foils to her beauty.

Mme.' Jules Perry has recently had' a granite pyramid four metres high erected over the grave of her himbar.d in the cemetery of Saint Paris.

Queen Victoria pays $4,000 a year in doctors' fees.

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Back from tlie Grave to Supper. Alaskan News. Jules Carle1-, of Juneau, is 78 years', old but vigorous and well preserved. Twenty-six years asro he was living in New Westminster, B. C. One moaning, as ho sat in a restaurant awaiting his ordered breakfast, he suddenly died—at least there wasevery physical evidence of death. A competent physician examined him and pronounced him dead, a victim of heart disease, lie was laid out'-j for burial and his friends kept the usual vigil over his body.

All the time he was keenly COBscious of what went on about hire and could realize the fate in store for him, and yet was as helpless as if he, had been really dead. I:» the after noon of the next day his friends bore him in sadness to the graveyard. He suffered untold agonies lying in the coffin with the lid fastened down. He tried in vain to move or make anoise to indicate that he was alive. The trance held him a deathlike prisoner. Finally he could feel himself being lowered into the grave. As the first clod of earth struck the lid of his coffin he began feeling warm blood pulsating from his heart. .«i All at once he could move his hands. He struck the coffin lid and called out for help. The alarmed pallbearers stopped shoveling dirt into grave. He called again. The majority of those present beat a hasty retreat, alarmed over the fact that the dead had come to life.

One courageous friend unscrewed the lid of the coffin and helped him out. He never felt better in his life, and ran about exercising his benumbed limbs. The people believed they had witnessed a miracle. He returned to town and entered the restaurant, hungry for supper, and, when the cook and servants saw hrm come in wrapped in his shroud the? rushed out through the windows and doors, shaking with fright.

1 An Odd Man.

The Argonaut. The eccentricies of nenrv Stephen Fox, an early English minister art Washington" were, the laugh of the town. Fox generally did no arise until other people were about ready to go to bed. When duty compelled him to rise earlicn, Fox was like an owK in the day time. "How strange, said he to*Mme. Calderon,one morning at a state function,"how strange we look to each other by daylight." His debts compelled him to economy, and he rarely gave dinners. He once invited a lanre party to his house Mr. Clay, Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Webster and all the giants—and when they were all assembled,be said: "Gentlemen, now be good enough to put on your hats and follow me." And thus saying, he led the way to a neighboring eating house.,

Gay boy—Is your husband's

yacht a center board? Mrs. Boozeleigh—No a sideboard.