Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1887 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL-.WEDNESDAY, A PEIL G 1887.

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DOCTOR TRIFULGAS.

T JCLES VERSE. I. "Vhiffl" vrtnstles the rising gale. 'Swash!" beats the raia as it cornea down In torrents. Low sway the trees under the blast that sweeps the Volsinian shore and dashes its fury against the slopes of the mountains of Crimma. The rock bound coast is rent and riven by the tempestuous billows that surge and foam aloDg the vast Megalocrida 25c & Whifl!" "Swash!" In the depth of the bay nestles the little seaport town of Luktrop. It boasts a few iundred houses, with greenish miradorea sheltering them from the Triads of the main, and four or five streets that look more like the beds of a mountain torrent than public thoroughfares. Not far oil smokes the Yanglor, an active volcano, Which by day belches forth thick volumes of sulphurous vapor and by night fitful Hoods ot flame. This crater, visible fully 130 kertsea out at sea, answers the purpose of ft beacon, and guides home to Luktrop the coasters yawls, snows, hoys and do?cers that plow the troubled waters of the lesalocrioa On the other side of the town are heaped up extensively ruins ef the Crimxnerian era; while the suburb, of Moorish aspect, with its white wall, round roofs and terjaces calcined by the sun, seems a huge pile of equare stones thrown together at haphazzard, and afar otT reminds you of a casbah or Algerian fortress. The whole mass, In fact, looks like a cluster of dice, the dots of which have worn away with age. Anions other structures peculiar to the place may be seen an old-looking building called 4 bix Quatre," from the number of its windows, six in front and four in the rear. A steeple rises above the town, the square steeple of Saint Philfilene, with its bells visible through the open stone-work, and when these are swung as they are at times by the Tiolence of the storm, it is accounted a bad Bign, and the good people of the place are filled with fear at the omen. Such is Luktrop, with a few stray houses on the heath beyond, scattered amid the Jjroom and furze, as in Brittany. Luktrop, however, is not in Brittany. Is it in France? I can not say. In Europe? I don't know. At any rate, it would be tisekss, perhaps, to look up the place on the map, even in Steller's Atlas. II. A discreet rap ia heard at the small, narrow door of the ' Six Quartre," on the leftLand corner of the Rue Messagliere. A comfortable house is the "Six Juartre," if such a word is known at Luktrop, and one of the thriftiest in the place, if to earn on an average a few thousand fietztrs a year be a sign of thrift A ferocious yelp, something between a lark and a howl, has answered the rap. Soon a window above the door of the "Six Quartre" is thrown open, and an angry voice from inside the house bawls out: "To the devil with all intruders!" A young girl, shivering in the rain, with a eeedy, worn-out cape thrown over ner shoulders, inquires if lr. Tnfulgas is at home. He is or isn't, that depends " "I come for father, who's dying," "And where is he dying?" "By the Val Karniou, four kertaes hence." "And what's his name?" "Vort Kartif." What, Vort Kartif. the herring-carer?" "Yes; and if Dr. Trifulga3 would only Come? "Ir. Trifulgas isn't at home." And the window is brutally closed in the Toor girl's face, while the whiffs of the wind and tbe swash of the rain outside mix their vo.'ce s in a roaring and deafening din. III. A hard man is Dr. Trifulgas, with but little feeling for a fellow creature, and one who attends a patient if handsomely paid in advance for his services. Uisold dog, liurzof, a cross between a bull and a spaniel, might be said to have more heart than he. The door of the "Six-Quatre" remains Invariably closed upon the poor, and opens only to the rich. Moreover, Dr. Trifulgas Las a whole scale of fees; typhoid fever, so much; brain fever, so much; so much for a pericarditis, and the same for as many more diseases as doctors choose to invent by the dozen. And Vort Kartif, the her-Ting-curer, is a poor man with a penniless brood. Why, then, should Dr. Trifulgas bedevil himself, and on such a night? 'Bousing me from my sleep," snuffled YlPl. a he went to bed a?ain. "is alone worth ten fretzera!" Twenty minutes had scarcely gone by tvhen the iron knocker again woke the Echoes of the Six-Quatre." Grumbling, the doctor got out of bed, and from the window growled: "Who's there?" "Voit Karlirswife." "The herring curer from Val Karniou?" "Ye; and if you don't come, he'll die." "Wtli, you'll then be a widow." "Here are twenty fretzers." "Twenty fretzera!" muttered he, "what a windfall to be sure. Bun the risk of catching a cold and lumbago for such a Bum, when I've got to attend to-morrow morning the gouty, but wealthy, Edzingov, - at Kiltrens, whose ailment is worth to me fifty fretzers a minute. Kot I, Indeed." And with this pleasant prospect, Dr. Trifulgas sought his bed, and went to sleep pgain as soundly 3 before. IV. Whiff! splash! and then rap! rap! rap! Three blows from the knocker, struck with a firm hand, added their rattle this lime to the noise of the storm. The Doctor, startled in his slumber, got up in a towering passion. On opening his Window the storm swept like a whirlwind. " 'Tis for the herring cuer." "What, that wretch again? "I am his mother;' "May his mother, wife and daughter die rithhim!' "'Tis a fit " "Aye, and a tight one, no doubt," chuckled the Doctor, in his rage. "We have a little money," said the old Woman, "aa inst'Lent on the house sold to Dan trap, the drayman of the Bue Mesgaglierre. If you dont come, my grand daughter will be without a father, my daughter without a husband, and myself without a son!" It was heartrending and horrible to hear the old woman's voice, and to think that the icy wind froze the blood In her veins and nipped the very bones under her skin. "A fit, say you? then the fee is 200 fret zers." rejoined the heartless leech. "We have only 120." 'Good night, then!" and once more the Window was closed. On second thought, however, he came to the conclusion that, after all, for an hour's walk and half an hour's attendance, 120 Xretzers made CO fretzers an hour 1 fretzer & minute! It was small profit at best, but not to be entirely despised. So, instead of getting into bed aain, the tloctor this Urne slipped on his velvet sua, "hurried down stairs ia a ps.'rof stout boots, znniiied himself up in a thick waterproof Dvercoat, put on his gloves and sou'wester, and leaving the lamp lighted on the table near hi Codex. ODened at ta?e 197. rushed back the door of the "Six-Quatre," and ap peared on the threshold. The old woman was there, leaning on a Click, her form emaciated by eighty yean 01 toil and misery. "The money?" said he. "Here It ia," muttered the wretched woman, "and may God return it to you a Lundred-foldl" "God? The money of God?" sardonically grinned the doctor, "ilaa any one ever . seen its color?" He thereupon whistled forllnrzof. tint a fcmall lantern in the dog'a mouth, and bent hli step seaward. The old woman trudged on behind. V. Good heavens, what a tempest of wind nd rain'

fro under the headlong fury of the storm, an ominous portent, as we know, bat Dr. Trifulgas eschews all superstitious notions. The fact is, that the doctor believes in nothing at all; no, not even his own scienceexcept for what it brings him. What weather, to be sure, and what a road! Nothing but shingle and slag; the shingle slippery like sea-weed, and the slag crisp and clinker. And no other light to see by except a tremulous dicker from Hurzofs lantern. At times strange, fantastic figures ssem to toss and stir in the flames that now and again swell from the mouth of the Vanglor. There is really no telling what lies hidden at the bottom of those inscrutable craters. Terhaps the Bonis of the underworld that volatilize oa reaching our atmosphere. The doctor and the old woman follow the line of coast that runs in and out of the fmall bays along the shore. The sea is of a livid whiteness, and sparkles as its billows hurtle the phosphorescent fringe of surf that seems to pour waves on waves of glow-worms upon the beach. Thus both walk on till they reach a bend In t&e road between two swellmg downs, where the broom and sea-rushes clash their blades together like so many bayonets. The dog has drawn closer to his master and seems to say: "Well, what do you think? A hundred

and twenty fretzers to be placed under lock and key in the -sale soon as we get dsck home! "That's the way to build up a fortune! 'Tis another piece of ground added to the vine inclosure! Another dish added to the evening meal! Another bowl of wash for faithful Hurzof! Nothing like attendiag patients who are willing to unloose their purse-strings!" At this point the old woman stopped. She pointed a finger palsied with age toward a red light Borne way off in the gloom, the house evidently of Vort Kartif, the herriDg eurer: "There!" laconically put in the doctor. "Yes," nodded the herring-curer's mcther. "Hurrah-wow-wow!" struck up Hurzof. Just then Vanglor, vibrating to its foundations with a noise like thunder, threw up one huge mass of fuliginous Haines that rent the clouds. Dr. Trifulgas was thrown to the ground by the force of the concussion. Begaining his footing, howeyer, hd swore like a trooper and looked around. The old woman had disappeared. She must have falten through some deep crevice in the ground, or taken flight oa tbe tloaticg fog clouds of ocean. The dog, cevertheless, was still there, upright on his haunches, his mouth wide open, but the light of the lantern was blown out. "Never miad," mambled the doctor, let's go on." The honest man had pocket?d his 120 fretzer?, Ld now felt that he must earn them. VI. A lone light was visible in the distance, half a kertse away. Doubtless it was the lamp of the dyiDg, or, perchance, dead ma-, and yonder must be the herringcurer's abode. There could be no mistake, for the old woman had pointed it out. And so thinking, under the whistling whiffs of the wind and the driving swash of the rain, with tbe whole noise of the storm in his ears, Dr. Trifulgas hurried on in the direction ot the house which, standing in front of a wide heath, became more distinctly perceptible as the wayfarer approached. It was a singular and noteworthy fact to observe how much the house of the herringcurer looked like the doctor's "Six-Quatre," at Luktrop. There was certainly the same arrangement in the front windows, and the little vaulted door at the side. Dr. Trifulgas strode oa aa far as the driv ing gusts of wind and rain would allow. He reached the door, which was ajar, pushed it open, and entered; the force of the blast closed it behind him with a bang. The des outside howled or was silent by turns, as when choristers chant the verses of a Forty Hours' psalm. How very strange! It might almost be affirmed that Dr. Trifulgas had come back to his own place. This, howeyer, could not be. He took no wrong turning on the road, nor did he lose his way.- No, he was certainly at al Karniou, and not at Luktrop. Yet how came it that his eye dwelt on the same low, vaulted corridor, the same winding stair-case, and the same massive wooden railing, band-worn like hla own? He mounted the stairs, and stopped on the landing. A faint light came from under the door, as at the 'Six-Quatre!" as it a snare or a delusion? By the unctrtain glimmer of the lamp he vaguely recognized his own room, mere was tne vtllow eofa: and there, on the right, was tbe old oak chest; and there, on the left, was the iron-bound safe, In which he purposed placiDg his 120 fretzers. Yonder, apain, were his armchair, with its leather tassels, his table wl h its convoluted legs, and upon it, by the flickering lamp, his own Codex, still open at page 107. "What ails me? ' murmured the doctor. What alls you? Why you are palsied with frieht, Your eyeballs start from their sockets. Your body contracts and dwindles insize. An icy sweat chills your skin, on which nameless horrors silently creep. Quick, or the lamp will go out for the lack of oil, and the sick man die. Yes, the bed is there his own. one would think, with its pillars and baldaouln a bed as broad as it is long, and !the closed curtains with their large inwrought flowers. Cnn this, indeed, be the bed of a poor herring eurer? pulled the curtains aside and peered within. Tbere, outstretched on his dying bed, the sick mar. lay, with his head drooping over the counterpane and his body motionless, like one about to breathe his last. Tbe doctor leaned forward. Ah! what a horrid scream was that which rent the air and was taken ud by the dog outside with his sinister ... i. It is not Vort Kartif. the herring-curer. but he, Dr. Trifulgas himself, who is the dying man. He is smitten down with brain fever. Full well he knows the symptomsit is cerebral apoplexy, with sudden accu mulation of aerosity In the cavities of the brain, and partial paralysis of the body on the tide opposite that where the lesion exists. It was for him, and no other, that assistance was besought, tnat 120 fretzers were paid ! He who, in the hardness of his heart, refused to attend the poor ner nng-curer! It is himself, then, who is now dying' Dr. Trifulgas raved like a maniac. The daneerous symptoms increased every min ute. Not only were all the functions of relation dead within him, but tne beatings of.hia heart were nearly gone, Bke the breath of his Iubsts. Y et he had not lost all consciousness cf his desperate strait. What should he do? Diminish thejnass of the blood by bleeding? There must be no hesitation, or Dr. Trifulgas wonld be a dead man. 1'hlebotomy was still prac ticed in those days, and then, as now, the doctors rescued from apoplexy all those who were not to die of its esects. Dr. Trifulgas seized his case of instru ments, took his lancet, and punctured the vein of his own arm. ho blood, howeyer. epuried from the incision. He frictloned with all his might the chest of the dying one, but found that the pulsations of his own heart diminished; he burnt the other's feet with hot bricks, but felt his oirn feet growing cold. Euddenly his own duplicate self started np in bed, struggled wildly in the last throes of suspended breathing, a rattle came Into his throat, and Dr. Trifulgas, with all his science, fell back dead in his own arras. Whifl! blew tie wind, and ewasa went

he rain outside, as the storm gradually

abated. VII. On the following morning a corpse was found in the house known as the "SixQuatre," the corpse cf Dr. Trifulgas. He was placed in an oak coma and con veyed in great pomp to the cemetery of Luktrop, afttr the manner of the many he had already pnt there. As for old ifursor, l am told tue laitciai beast may still be seen, with his lantern relighted, scouring the heath at night and howling for his lost master. If this be true or not, 1 really can not sav : vet so manv stranze thinn do in fact occur In this Volsinian country, especially round about Luktrop, that I see no reason to doubt the statement. At any rate, let me ask of you once more . not to look up this town of Luktropon the map. Our best geographers sre still uncertain as to its exact position ia latitude, and even longitude. RASCALS IN DISGUISE. How Two Toang Men. Worked the Pious Backet tn a Pennajlranla Town. Weaverstown (ra ) 8peclal.l For several days past two well-dressed and, and to all appearance, highly educated young men, have been canvassing this and adjoining towns for the sale of a prepara tion warranted to cure chronic rheuma tism. The young men wore the conventional suit of broadcloth with immaculate ties. They were fluent but persuasive talkers, and told the plausible story of their desire to complete a college education already begun, but which had been Interrupted by sickness, and thenceforward devote themselves to the salvation of men. They quoted chapters from the Bible and dwelt particularly on the reward that was in store for those who were charitable. This eloquent appeal created profound sympathy for the young students, and they were most cordially welcomed wherever they went, receiving not only the price of the medicine, but additional urns to help them to realize their fherished hopes. The venture proved successful; ia fact they were reaping a harvest. The true character of the pious young men was not revealed until it was announced to-day that they had robbed Jonas Long, a man who had taken special inter est in them, and who had contributed lib erally toward raising money to enable them to complete their studies. So surprised were the inhabitants hereabouts by the announcement that they would not believe the story until the truth was learned from Mr. Long himself. "The Tonne men called last night," said Mr. Long, "just after dark, to express their fratitude and thank me in person for the ind interest I had taken in their behalf. Their success, they said, was mainly due to me, and they intended to leave town in the morning, and said they would go with tne deepest regret. Then, assuming a most reverential attitude, and raising their eyes toward heaven, they invoked its choicest blessings on me and my family." Mr. Long, who is a devout christian, was almost overwhelmed at the manifestations of gratitude and evident sincerity of the young men, and be asked tnem to name tne total amount of money realized daring their short stay. mety dollars, sir," was the quiet re ply. T . a. . a a a 1 a W I I V ill Very well. tnen.saidMr. Bong, "i win give you ten more to make the even $100." He arose from his chair and went upstairs for the money, but had hardly reached into the drawer for it when he was seized and struck several times on the head witk something that appeared soft, but powerful enough to daze htm. Atter this he remembers nothing, except that the bands that grasped him were those ot a powerful man. He was then bound and gac-ged. ... Mrs. Lonz says that the moment her nusband went upstairs the light was extin guished, and she was bound hand and foot, and a cloth or handkerchief tied over ner mouth. As far as she can recollect, one or two men came in and went upstairs. The couple remained bound umil re leased by neighbors this morning, who, seeing the house open and no one around, went in to investigate. Mr. Long can not say exactly what amount of money was taken, but $000 to $S00 may coyer it. A gold watch is also missing. The opinion prevails that tne mission oi the pretended students was to find out who had money, andthat confederates, by prior arrangement, were on band to do tne work. It is thought that while the students were entertaining the old couple, down stairs, their confederates gained an entrance to ti t up stairs apartment. Car a Husband Open ma Wife's Letters? St. James' Gazette. J The Tarisian advocates discussed ths delicate question "Has a husband a right . . . a . . . A,a . . a to open his wile s letters" atneirias; conference, and they decided that he has A journalist who has consulted several extra legal luminaries on the point findi them, with a single exception, in substan tial agreement with the lawyers. An en lightened priest, whose name is not given, answered that the doctrine oi the cuurcn was that the husband is master in the house, and that he had, therefore, a perfect rieht to open hia wife s letters. M. de rresseuse, the leadinz Protestant pastor In Paris, was somewhat less affirmative ; though, as regards wives who had any thing to fear from the exercise ot the rignt, he supported the decision of the barristers, while in the case of a goo 3 wife he could not see bow it mattered either way. Alex ander Dumas, looking at the question from the historico-philosophical standpoint, con tended that what we know of tbe relations of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden early establishes the right of the husband to inspect his wife a correspondence. Mme. I'eyrebune's answer was also in the affirmative, though she added that the ouestion was of no practical lmpor lance, as compromising letters are never sent through the post. Mme. Adam was the only dissentient, in her opinion, tbe hus band who opened his wife s letters was nothing more or .ess than a blackguard. Decrease of the Public Debt. Wafhisgtox. March 30 It is estimated at the Treasury Department that there has been a decrease of about $12,000,000 in the public debt during the present month. The receipts so far this month amount to $33,23ö,2'.K$, and the expenditures to 3GS.500, including f (i,735,2iu pension payments. The net gain of receipts over ex penditures IS $ll,BWi, i is. Th Ounce of Prevention. The satisfaction of feeling safe from catching any disease from drinking water, from impure air. from a sick person, from cod tact with foul clothing, infection or contaeion from any source, ia complete and all anxiety allayed by the use of Darby's Trophylactic Fluid. A bottle will give more safety, cemfort and confidence than all the doctoring in the world. Amone other things. Dr. Bansom'allive Syrup contains Equilis, loin, Bonena, therefore, excellent for coughs, colds and croup. It is pleasant to take. fits. All nts stopped tree ty Dr. KUne'i Rnn nptt RpKtrer. bio Fits alter first day's tm. Marvellous cures. Treatiie and 1 trial bottie free U rlt cum. tma m vr. ansi. tu ran tU Faiiaaaipaia. O J. 53. 1-, are tuflorits rrcaa r-e r.-or ant ii..-:-:iiiocf y.u'.h. nTvor: veaVr rir :-.--. coC wanbnM. kr.. I will bc-v! i.reclptt ..i t.icuMjrTJ vftEF CF CILiHaE. This jroil Jr was discovered by a m'-sf'mary m Scath 4raericik ?nd a eeli addressed envelope to tin tZT. Jo3?a T. I.xiUJf, Statim D, y Turk CV

FANNY.

New York Herald. It was 8 by the clock of the Dime Say ings Bank S o'clock Saturday night. Which Saturday nlgllt it was is of little consequence; enough it is to know that it was not last night, yet recently,-when It chanced to be an exceptionally fine winter night. Well, she got off a horse car at the ear ner of Sixth avenue and Thirty-third street, and hav-'rg teetered that is, having indulged in tl-f physical titter, or anatomical double 6liuHle peculfar to the fair sex before Klvhtig from a vehicle upon arising fro a sitting posture, done for the purpose of shaking down a wayward bustle or recalling to their places the truant folds and draperies of the costume she stepped to the sidewfii. lhe conductor and a youth watched her; the wisdom of the latter's observation was lost by the noise of tbe rushing train overhead. In the shadow of a post close to the news stand a very tall policeman stood swinging his club. She nodded to him in nassin and hurried along, slanting a side glance into the vestibu!e of the theater. He watched her until ehe had passed out of sight, then, swinging his stick under his arm, moved awaj, t-jftly whistling tojhlmself. Stopping for a moment on the north side of Thirty-second f-treet to wait for a car riage to pass, tue glanced up at the clock, then the hurried on for a couple of blocks and went into a tobacconist's store. She asked for a packas of cigarettes from the man, who evidently knew her. "Here is a Eote for you. Miss Fanny." said the tobacconist, handing her a letter. "lie Faid you would call for it. The gent eman icoked ate scarecrow. 'curpjfe he did: whu'a that to you?" said tie girl, hotly. "W ell, if 1 had known It was this way." the little man remarked, with a grin. "I would not have spoken, Miss Fanny. I thought only rica dudes and ciab men were your friends nowadays. I thousht you drew a line at retail dealers wholesale people were your kind. But, cf course, I am mis taken, lhere was a;sneer in the speakers voice. 'I draw a line at you," she said, and flounced ont into the street. "Dear, dear." muttered the litle man. she is stuck up and has a bad temper in the bargain. Bat who caa that fellow be?" It is well for me to Elate iaathere that the conversation related is precieely what 1 was told by I anny and the tobacconist. I report it as accuratelv as I can. The ciil is no stranger to "neü dude3" or "club men." It is not an entire uicture. onlv snr.h paits segments of porUa'ts as belong to the Listorv of Fannv mon a sinpleevenin. Why should you be interested intheh'.story oi tannj r ny : Shall I tea you why ? Fanny walked briikly down the avenue a few blccks and then turned west oa the south side. "I hope he won't be drunk,' she mur mured. Borne distance down the street approach ing her was a man. He was about the avert ge height, but, being slight, appeared taller. His spare hgure was attired in clothes which suggested slight pretensions to the fashions of past years. They met. When within a few feet o! her he raised his hat, the brim of which curled between his finger and thumb, and said, "iliss lanny, 1 believer' "les, Tom," she said, scanning his face as her hand went out to his, which was cold and inert"The same. I was somewhat distressed lest you might not have gone for tte note. It is so kind of you to have put yourself out for me," he said in a well tied sort of a way. "Tb&t is all right," she said, "but where sLall we go to talk?" "Let me see. I really don't know." "Well, we will walk and talk." "I can't walk much." he replied. "I am just out of the hospital and very weak. I must sit down before long or drop. I was laid np for a long spell this time." " hat was the matter the old trouble?" she asked, somewhat more gently than she had spoken hitherto. "es;to be candid, I bad tue delirium tremens. On the next corner there is a saloon with a place for ladies. Will you go?" "I will if you won't drink beer or spirits." "All right. Iam off drink now. The doctor says next time I will be either hope lessly insane for life or it will kill me. Cheerful outlook for a young man, eh?" he said with a laugh. "This is the place?" So saying, he pushed open a door, and they found themselves in a little room whose partition wails were eight feet high, furnished with four rane bottomed chairs and a round table. The sound of the clos ing door brought a bartender from the saloon proper, where rough men were talki mall panel in the partition and looked in. "I will take a whisky," Baid lanny; "what will you take?" "Lemon soda," said he, with a grin. Presently the slide of the panel was raised, the whisky and the lemon soda were placed upon a little shell, and the bar-tender went off to relate at the bar how "a gal stood her fellow a lemon soda and drank whisky herself." "ion got ray letter about ituth s sad death," said Fanny. "In that I told you all there was to tell you. Your wife never said a hard word about you. She forgave you the misery you had caused her and for the lire you drove her to lead by your brutality," ahe said steadily. Tbe man winced, and his bancs clasped on the table were pressed more firmly together. "Uut she excused all on tne plea that when you are drunk you don't know what you do. Here are a few things she left to be sent to you in case she should die," con tinued the young tlrl, handing him a racket, which he took with trembling bands. "Everything else the miniature of you and your Iluth as you were when you were married and some oiner tuings have bten put away for the child." "It Is about the child I wanted to see you," he said, his black eyes growing brighter; "I want to see my little one." The slight girl took up her whisky and drank a portion of It, making a grimace. Then, supporting her chin in her two hands, the elbows resting on the table, she said: "I supposed you would say this. Now, Tom, I am a straight girl, and, I think, just about as kind-heirted a3 a girl like me can be." There was a rattle of thick glasses on the counter outside. Lowering her voice, 6he continued : "I don't want to hurt your feelings, man, but I must be true to Ituth. You cai't see your child. That is all there Is to It." As she spoke she pressed her fingers so upon her temples that they left momentary marks. "All there ia to it? ' he Baid in a halfstunned sort of way. "All there Is to !t! To my own child I Why, now she is d-?ad ehe certainly expected me to look nt.er n little girl? Bhe never Bald that, certainly." "But she did, though, isow iook nere, Tom, don't you be looking like that at me. It frightens me. I say atop staring at me that way. If yon can't be reasonable I'll go. Yes I will." The girl seemed unnerved. The man had a far-away 6lare, and the lines about his mouth had a hair look. "Go on," he said, wearily. "Ituth. your wife, told me you mast not see the child. She gave up for that baby everything she had to give even her life. I have heard her moan and moan for all she lost through you, but never blame you mind. She skimped and saved for the baby, and what ahe hoarded up the baby will get When she was dying she said to me, 'I am glad I am going to die, Fanny, for then baby will never Know what her mother was. The pictures are as we were,

not as we are; she will think we died like that," The girl loosened the lace about her white throat. Then glancing at the man she was seized with compassion, and knowing nothing the to do, pushed the half drunk whisky to him. He moved it away. "ow," she continued, her lips growing firm, "Buth watched over that child's welfare while ehe lived and arranged for her care in the future. She said, 'Keep her away from her father.' I won't lie to you. I will be fair. Tom, you see that glass. Tell me upon your most sacred word, yea or no. do you believe you could live the remainder of your lite without touching a slnele drop of liquor if you should see your child?" The girl's eyes were flashing. There was a hectic epot on either cheek and her finger was drawn with a strain upon every muscle. She stood between the miserable dead and tha miserable living. The responsibility of her action terrified her. She was trembling between her duty to the dead and her sympathy for tbe living. He looked at her. There was war ia his mind. His head tank down on his chest She stretched across the table and raised his head with her hand. His big, black eyes looked at her mechanically. "Yes or no?" "No," he muttered, faintly. "Then you can't have her," ehe sighed. "Let us get out of here." He did not move. H13 looks frightened her, and she called through the hole. The bartender came in. "I guess he has faiuted." she said. The man shook him and smelt his breath to see if it was liquor. "It comes from drinkin lemon solSj" he said. The bar-room loafers crowded in the doorway and roared at the intended witticism. After sundry efforts had been made ti restore the fallen man to consciousness a policeman arrived. He slapped the man's face, his hands and asked the girl questions. "Xo relation, eh? well, that is bad," he said. Finally an ambulance dashed up and a young surgeon bustled In just as a second ambulance from another hospital put in an appearance. The first surgeon claimed the subject He asked a few questions. "Well, I guess it is only exhaustion," he said, as the man was put into the ambulance, " but I can't tell until he is examined." The bell rang, the horse started and the crowd made a move to disperse. Fanny, in great distress and excitement, started to walk off. "Look here, young woman," said -the officer, "I will have to ask you to walk up to the houte until we hear what the decten say the matter i9.". And, eicorted by a policeman, she walked at the head of a procession to the Twentyninth Precinct station now the Nineteenth where the Eergeant took her address and said the could go, and should she te weeted he would send for her. "ITT" ANTED RE3PKCTABLE WOMAN' OH VT ftiamily, with no children, to take little girl of four years and give her good home lor few yetrs: will require reference; state terms; would prefer location convenient to New York City or Jersey CUy. Address , Herald ofiice.

INDIGNANT WOMEN. Excitement at St. Stephen's (Formerly Dr. SlcGlvnn'e) Church Sunday, New York SpeciaLJ While the organ was playing and the choir of St. Stephen's Church were singing tbe closing of the high mass to-day, and when nearly ail the congregation had passed from the church into the street, aa uproar broke out at the west side of the Twenty-ninth street entrance which caused a panic for a few minutes among those who remained in the church. A crowd of several hundred parishioners were gathered at tbis entrance, near which stands Dr. McGlynn's confessional. Since Dr. McGlynn left St. Stephen's Church the confessional has been kept decorated with flowers and vines of smilax. A frame engraving of the former pastor occupied the center of the confessional. As the present week is Holy Week al) the paintings are covered aad Dr. McGlynn's frierda removed the brighter bits of color from the confessional and replaced them with drapings of white and callas. As the usual throng gathered about the confessional after high mass to day the fact that the decorations and picture had been removed excited indignant comment, and whilelthe discussion was at its height several women entered the church with bouquets and another picture of the former pastor, and began a?ain to decorate the confes sional. They were ordered out by the ushers, but no attention was paid to the oraers. Then the men seized the women, who resisted, and then a struggle ensued. The women were pushed and dragged to ward tbe doorway, and one of them said that a man struck her and injured her shoulder. The most persistent of the women was a former servant of Dr. Mc Glynn, and finally one of the ushers be came so anry that he struck at her with his fist tnd tried to force her through the doorway. The woman screamed and one of the parishoners caught the usher by the throat and threatened to knock him down if he touched the woman again. The indignation of the women became so great that they now lost all control of themselves and made a mad rush at the usher. One of the men was caught by his long beard, and other women pressed in from behind until the men were forced from the church into the street Father Colton. the present pastor of the church, and several of the priests who were still in the church, tried to pacify the crowd, but the women were now thoroughly excited and gesticulating wildly. Their denun ciations became more and more unpleas ant and finally the priests left them. The flowers had been torn in tbe struggle, but the women found the picture and restored it and then proceeded to re decorate the confessional. Other parishoneis now returned to the church, and an exciting rush was made for the baptistry to demand the return of the first picture that hed been removed. The door was pounded on but it resisted these efforts, and a throng of the women then went around to the rec tory to Bee the priests. They rang at the bell, but no one responded to the call. In the meantime the police had been sent for. A number of the ofilcers arrived and quieted the trouble. At last accounts a delegation of women were still watching the confes sional. The excitement in the parish Is as great now as it was when Dr. McGlynn was nrst removed. How Omaha Was 'amU. TlitrA r, rn .pvpral leeronds as to how this city was siren tte name of "Omaha," By some of the old-timers It is claimed that tbe camp was suggested by jcs3a Lowe. "nmoW wan the name of a tribe of In(Vuir.n In the immediate vicinity. The meaning of the name, it U claimed, is 'dhova tim wntpr." The tradition is that two tribes of Indians had. a great many years ago, met on the Missouri Tdver. and had engaged in a hostile enn crVtirh all nn fins side were U IUI1 ,1 v . kiiled but one, who had been thrown Into 1 b? T'vt-r. Piislng suddenly from what was .i . t ', in ha n wntprv crave, ha lifted his L. i above the surface and pronounced the woid "Omaha," wnicn nau never Deea t... KofA-o Thnsfl hn hoard it adopted t a. v,a nnmo nf ilipir tribe. Another A b J tue v. Rtnrv is that the town was named ff wtitt man xchn was an Indian doctor, end who took the name of Omaha from the tribe of Indians oi mat name. Mr. James C. Savery, who, In early days, was a prominent citizen of Iowa, and built the Savery House at Des Moines, tells an interesting story ia connection with the naming of this city. Mr. Savery, who is cow a resident of Montana, while oa his way East recently, said to a membcrof the Öoe stall: "Colonel James Ked field, of Albany, was really the projector of Omaha. He and eleven others; went Into the Council Bluffs and Omaha Ferry Company, eaca putUss la fiWi QqI

Bed field borrowed $t00, and got me to Indorse for him. The company then plotted the town. When Redfield'a note came due he couldn't pay it and he then 0 fie red me his share of the town bite, but 1 declined to accept it There was a white crank, with long hair, who claimed to be an Indian doctor, and went by the name of Omaha. One night at the Pacific House, in Council Bluffs, while the town-

site men were on a drunk, it was agreed to call the new town Omaha, after this crank Indian doctor. That's how Omaha got her name. In due time Colonel FdLeld sold his interest at cost He was a Colonel in the Union army of the war of therebelliaa. and was kiiled on the field of battle." How'i Your lllood? I Philadelphia Press.! 'Only one man in Europe." said a great medical authority, drawing a long, thia wedge of glass, carefully shaded from white to blood red, out of a case, "can make this regular tint" The shade was even, and faded as steadily and Bmoothly as the glow of the sunset Run into its place in a morocco-covered case, it lay side by side with a little vial which caa be filled with blool. 'W e use this." the doctor continued, "to decide how much rcl mag matter there is in the blood, ßhoving this wedge alon until it matches, and reading the tint on this scale. A patient may look aarcmlc, am this instrument will show that his blood is of a healthy color. It is simply because his skin is pale. The difficulty is with the envelope, and cot with the letter. This instrument tells the stary as far as that is concerned." The little case is one of the nu Tiber of instruments gathered together in the room in the Orthopädie Hospital, which has no like m any other hospital in the world. It is devoted purely tv physical resfarch, and already contains several delicate instruments intended to promote investigation into the condition of patients with a view to the higher study of cures. Moat AH the Same. Detroit Free Tress.l "Hello!" called a female voice through the telephone at police headquarters. "Yes, who is it?" "Same woman who has telephoned you before." "Well?" 'That Earne husband of mine has taken that same jewelry and gone to the same saloon to pawn it for whisky." Well ft v f "Well, this same woman is going over and raise the same row about it." "And what do you want of us?" "Nothing, except that you notify the officer on the beat to keep bis hands off. lie mpy not be the same man." llaolly Accounted For. lOmahaWorlJ.1 Bill Collector See hare, I have written you a dozen letters about that bill you owe my firm and you haven't even recognized them. Country Editor Were they written on both sides of the sheet? "Of course." "A4 such communications go into the waste basket without reading." Cleopatra Drank Pearla la her wine, and captivated Ciesar with her beauty and magnificence. But pearls in the mouth are better, and our modern beauties may have these if they faithfully use Sozodont every day, and captivate all by simply smiling to show their pretty white teeth. A MOST LIBERAL OFFER. Tn Voltaic Belt Co.. Marshall, Mien.. Car to lend their celebrated Votulo Belts and Electrlo Appliances on thirty days' trial to any man aetiicied witn Uervotn Debiuty. Loss oi Vitality, Manhood, etc Illnstrated pamphlet in seal! en velope with full particulars, maiid lr. Writ them at nnna. KASKINE (THE NEW QUININE.) No Bai EffesL No Hsikk No Nausea. No Kinsing Ewi rieasant, Pare. Cares QaicUy. A POWERFUL TONIC That the most delicate utomach will bear. A SPECIFIC FOR MALARIA, RHEUMATISM, NERVOUS PROSTRATION, and all Germ Diseases. Bcllevue Hospital, K. Y., "ünversally successlul." BL Francis Hospital, f SaffiaÄ A,1' (.discharged cured." Dr. L. R. White, ü. S. Examininsr 8urseo3, writes: "Kaskine Is the best mediane ma le." Dr. L. M. Glessner, 3' East 121st St., New York City, has cured over 2J0 patients with Kaskine alter quinine ana an oinerarug naa laueo. lie savs: "It is undoubtedly the btst medicine ever discovered." l'rofcssor W. F. Holcomhe, 'I. D.. 54 East 2Ah st.. N. Y. (lato rrol. in X. Y. Med. College) writes: Kaskine is superior to quinine In its specifle power, and never produces the slightest injury tu lue iieai lug vr lujavuwuuu. Kev. James L. Hall. Chai!aln Albany Penitentiary, writes that Kaskine has cured his wife alter twenty years' suffering from malaria and nervous dyspepsia. Write hiai for particulars. Thousands upon mousanm wrue mai a.aklne has cured thera after all other medicinea had failed. Write lor book of testimonials. Kaskine can be taken without any special medical advice. $1.00 per bottle. Sold by or sent by mail on receipt of price. KASKLNK ia., &4 warren Bireei, inbw ior. i J"! YAfilujl TheOLl HOCHE. r.tabU.hed I94U. JOSEPH R. PEE QLES'SONS, . aiiUi.Jt!V 1 ike nttiiaiaa. ineiaaau, Uuaraatectbelr Para I'rott Flavoring Kilra-t, prodifl from wUeted and perfectly rip trail, belog aitubKM tot aussirth, qaallt and parity. Hot it, Club Cawrera acl Iiontkrf ilioo'.l writ" tuff Ptcbtea' alabwrat aad farticuiarued prka-lut, bailed fr.. Imaand thai ha them return aealn, I mMi l r'r.V, ,Ji h!"nVada the dlaeaaa of tuk BPItdSIHY or PAL LIM kavortt tHciM other baa failed U8."J. ZJ i--a.iTlB ear. -od at o l treatlae a4 1 IKm BotU of my Infant :1 remedy. Ote aprea aaa roej rrVTttlVo .ethluc f . a trial, aad I 1J eora I r7Z AdOreVi Dr. Ji. U. KOUTt Iji r-art Bi f..W

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