Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1894 — Page 11

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MOHNING. NOVEMBER 14. 1894.

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WZARD'S

The broad white road swrers downward In Ions curves round the hillsides toward the valley in which the little provincial to,rn of St. Zite lies well out of the way of the rest of the world. On the government maps of the derartment this road Is called the "route de Toulouse;" but about Toulouse, which lies fifty long leagues to the southward, the Inhabitants of St. Zite know little and care less. To them the road is, and always has been, the "route de St. Antoine." in honor of the monastery and chapel which stand overlooking it from a. rock eminence about a mile out of the town. One of those whose memory stretches back the farthest is old Martin Neyrac.the garde champetre. wha is al. landlord of the inn "Au bon St. Antoine." which stands at- the Junction ct the path to the monastery with the high-road". The pere JJeyrac is a garrulous old man, and the former glories of St. Antoine are not likely to pass from remembrance as long as he lives to recall them. A single question unlocks his hoard of reminiscences, and unless one wishes to be absolutely uncivil to him ons must compose one's elf to listen until he Is weary of talking. And I had asked him a question as I eat in front of his inn with him, drinking a bottle of the best little wine of the country. I had mentioned a cross on the hillside behind the Inn a stone cross with an illegible Inscription, at whose foot grew some red and white roses. "Tiens!" cried le pere Neyrae, "is it possible that monsieur does not know the etory of the Croix du Sorcier?" "No," I replied; "I did not even know that among your legends you had such a treasure as a wizard." "It Is not a legtnd. monsieur," said the old man earnestly, "it Is all plain fact facts which happened urler my very eyes; and a t" his beir.g a wizard well, that was only a 'fa con de parier.' lie was no more a wizard; than you or I, though he dli wonderful things which made people call him so. However. I had better begin at the beginxün, for it is a story worth harlri;r." "It happened fifty years ago, monsieur, and fifty years agoi things were very different from what they are now. The monastery was full of monks, and the little chapel up yonder was the favorite pilgrimage between Limoges and Toulouse, Lourdes and Ttocamadour have put it out of fashion now. but I can remember the time wh.e:i pilgrims at St. Antoine were as plentiful as flies in August; and when pilgrims wer plentiful this inn. drove a rattling good trad,1, and thi landlord, Francois Savariaud, was a well-to-do man. Savariaud's father and grandfatht-r had kept the inn In-fore him, as tenants of the reverend fathers; but Savariaud's son was not likely to succeed him; he had other views, andi hk father was quite as well pleased perhaps better than if youn;.r Francois had beta going to stand in his shoea one day. "Francois Savarlar.d was about my age, and what bit of learning I have I got along with him at the school which the monks used tr keep for the benefit of the children of the neighborhood. I never took much to reading and writing, and as eoon as I had made my first communion. I left school and began to earn a bit of a living as odd boy at the inn; while Francois, who was the favorite pupil of the monks, kept to his books. Ilo was a queer sort of lad, with a dreamy face, and dark eyes pet far back in his head, and a thin, determined mouth which scarcely ever mlled or uttered a merry word, lie did not care for play, and he had no friends of his own age. He seemed to care for nothing and no one tut the monk?, his books, and the church services; so we g ive him the nickname of the 'Abbot, and every one felt sure he would either study for the priesthood or take the vows of a mimk. His teachers were very proud of him; they held him up as a model to all the school, and In private. I expect, they worked on his enthusiasm and encouraged the bent of his mi. id. Anyhow, when he was about eeventee.a ho went away to Clermont to the seminary, and Savariaud and hi.-i wife vued to tell every one that the ab!ot had Insisted on thir son's studying to be a missionary In the Kast. No one regretted his going, for, I said, he had no friends; and his father and mother, who were very devout people, were delighted with the step he had taken. So the year slipped by and fce only came home once of twice for a few days. He seemed, indeed, to have passed out of our ken altogether. But in the last Flimmer before his public profession and ordination th father superior of tha seminary ordered him to pend the long vacation at home, and to rest. "He had not changed much during his five years' absence, although his face was paler and thinner, his eyes more runken and mysterious, his lips narrower and more inflexible. And he was no more gonial than of old; he used to ramble a'.l day on the hi IL with a lok in his hand and a rosary hanging from his linger.0. He looked more like a. sh.nbw thaiv a creature of flesh an.l blood. And yet one day he surprised himself and every one else by the discovery that after all he was but as other men are. and that his human passions had survived all the penaners and severities with which lie had thought t- destroy them. "You understand, mmsicur. He fell in love. The protege of the monies, the ascetic student, the invincible -oldier of the Church, foil in love, as madly and as deeply as the most giddy-pated of us might have done or rather more madly and more deeply because it was his nature to exaggerate his emotions, and because his nature had been so long perverted and repressed. "Perhaps it was n winder that he fell a victim to Hort he IMazWe. Half the lads in the place were in love with her, without her .seeming to rai.se a finger to make a conquest of any one; and though he had not a. penny of dowry, she might have married jus: wh im sho pleased. She made no choice, however, but tisej a'.l her lovers alike, until the unlucky day when, after I had pTsuadl him 1 1 go down to market with m I-Ymcnl Savariaud saw her fitting b.side ;l T,iie of melons whieh she had bought to s 1! "Who is she, Martin? he ake.f m. eagerly, as I greeted her in passing i toid him she was my cousin, Herthe !- zltre. and ;wn after I saw that he had turned back and va.s buy'ng a melon from her. What was he th-nking of? niS father's vineyard yielded the Lest melons In the neighborhood. Then I noticed the look on his face as Berthe smiled at him! and it amused me to think of the stern young neophyte unbending for a moment to Joke with my pretty cousin. Uerore long, however, we all knew that it was ro Joke, nor just a moment's pastime; for, forgetting nil Ms past resolutions and all the future for which he had beln training ro arduously, Francois began to woo Berthe Maziere in serious earnest, and stranger still. llerthe, who had tossed her pretty head nt the handsomest and bravest lads of St. Zite, listened to him and save him every encouragement. It seemed as If the very strangeness unexpectedness of hi wooing fascinated hr. Francois maJ no secret of his courtship. It did rot seem to enter his mind that any one would blame or oppose it. He went every day to La Pigeonnle. on the opposite side of the valley, where Üerthe lived with her parents; and every one who chose could se him working with her in her father's bit of vineyard, or sitting beside her while she minded the goats on th hillside. Plain as it wan, however, and much as people were talklnar of It, Francois's parents seemed to know nothing about It. until one line day he came home and informed them that Berthe Maxiere had consented to be his wife, and That he had given up the idea of being a missionary. The newj came on them like a thunder

clap, and at first they refused to believe iL It was impossible, they said, after th monks had done so much for him, that he would change hw purpose in life. To that he replied that If he had in his inexperience mistaken hi vocation. It was a good thlag he had found it ou5 before he had taken any Irrevocable step. ThU, however, was but onei of the objections his parents raised. They were very avaricious. Bertha had. not a sou. They were devout catholics, and the pere Maz'ere was an avowed freethinker. But Francois had his answers ready. He could qualify. ! he said, as a schoolmaster, and earn suf ficient to be independent of his parents before he married: and as to the freethinking, he had convinced Berthe of the error of that, and sha had been to mass regularly for weeks. 'Tha abbot, however, would not listen to reasoning of this sort. He maintained, that an irrevocable step had been taken when Francois, after his first communion, had vowed to devote his life to the service cf the church, and that an alliance with atheists would only make hU apostasy the blacker; and then by all th threats of all the punishments in his pwer ha tried to bring hia former pupil back to the allegiance from which be had swerved. "Francois was. as I have eald, no friend of mine, but in those days I felt truly eorry for him. It was dreadful to see the conflict which went on In him between tha great love which had suddenly filled his heart, and the fears which the Father Abbot soon succeeded In raising up in his conscience. All the while, too, he hxd to bear his parents' reproaches, who lived in dread that the monks would turn thm out of the house which had been Ureirt home for nerrerations. Still he would not give in not even when the abbot excommunicated him solemnly after mass on th feast of assumption. If, however, his will held pood, his body and mind were unable to stand the strain of the constant struggle In which he was engaged. Before the end of tho long holidays he was worn to a shadow of "his former self. He could not eat, or sleep, or rest; his dark eyes burned like fires in his bloodless race. Ills strengm Drone his weary limbs up to La Plgeonnie. "Of course Mme. Savariaud forbade Berthe to enter her house, fo the lovers used to meet sometimes on the hillside, under the pine tree where the Croix du Srcler now stands; at otht-r times it Ml to my lot to be the messenger between them,' though in my heart I hated the thought of my pretty cousin giving up all that she might have had to a love which could never make her truly happy. Hut her one word was that Francois was free to marrv if he ch.se, and she bore her share of the trouble bravely, though Iiis failing health troubled her s-vi v. What would be the end of it? Would be die? Was there no remedy? She thought of many things, and one day, aa a last resource, she went to burn a taper in the chapel yonder, and to pray that Fra n .-o!s might reeover from his strantre illness. It is quite Impossible to say whit tho r.d of her .ory would have been if ."he had not gone to burn that taper. "She toll me all about it afterward; how Fhe was so deeply absorbed with her own thoughts as she entered the chapel that she did not noriee whether or no it was empty, and how she went straight to the altar, adjusted her taper, lighted it, and, kneeling down, bejfan to pray. When she had finished her- nrst paternoster, she looked up, and saw that her taper had gone out. She rose, loosened the wick, relighted it, and knelt down again; but as she watched It the flame sputtered and struggled and went out again it seemed as if the Holy Virgin, t- whom she wa praying, would none of her prayers. She persevered, however, but always with the same illsuccess, till at last when, for the ninth time, her taper refused to burn, she d .ashed it en to the ground, and sank down weeping hysterically in front of the altir. " 'Do not cry s j bitterly,', said a voice be.-slde her; 'your candle only went out because U I bally made.' "She looked up startled, and saw standing beside her the man whom we afterward called the wizard. 'He did not look the least like a wizard. He was a tall, well-built man of about five and thirty, with a kind face and large gray eyes, which seemed to l,Kk you through and through. He explained to Berthe that he had 1e?n sitting by the door as she came in. that he had been watching her, and that he understood exactly why the candie lud gone out. But Berthe could not accept the explanation. It eeemed all of a piece with the rest of her Ill-luck that the taper she had brought to the shrine should go out In. that mysterious manner; she said a3 much, and went on crying. Then tho stranger, little by little, she could scarcely tell how, drew the story of her trouble from her, and when he had heard It he told her that even If her taper had not burnt her vi&It to the shrine need not be fruitless; that he was a doctor from Paris Jacques Iteynaudlo by name; that his. doli- Jiy chiefly In deatine with rucr "caaes as Franc;'. and that he was etayrng 1n .St. Zita Iqntj enouRh to mike an attempt at lert to help him. The end of It was that Berthe brouKht her new acquaintance down to the inn. and while he explained himself to the Savarl.iuds, she ran round to find me In the stable, where I was milking, and to tell me the whole story. " 'Fancy, Martin,' eha cried, when she had told me, 'fancy a great doctor a real gentleman coming and talking like that to a ioor girl like me and fancy if he cures Francois of his fever and sleeplessness, which I firmly believe he will. Oh. Martin, come and have a look at him, he is so handsome. I never saw any one s handsome.' "My pail of milk was ready to carry to the house, so I went, nothing loath, to see this monsieur alwtut whom she was so excited. But as I reached the threshold of the houseplace, I stood still, and so did Berthe; for what we saw was quite beyond our experience or our comprehension. There sat Francois in the corner of the settle, leaning back in an attitude of repose, while the strange doctor stood In front of him holding his hand and gazirijr fixedly Into his eyes, le pere Savariaud and his wife tood near the window with astonished face. Xo one was moving, and the only sounds in the kitchen were the ticking of the clock and the buzzing of the file. I knew but little of doctors, still I felt that this doctor, with his c-nlm, masterful face, was something quite out of the common. The minutes slipped on; still nothing moved, and no one spoke; the doctor never turned his eyes from those of Francois. I begat to fetl quite uncanny. Then all at once I saw that nn extraordinary change had come over Francois's face, lie hd not looked i'D peaceful and untroubled for many a day. The emotion, the mental augulh whk-h had tortured him so long seemed to have burned themselves out, the calm restfulncs of the stranger seemed to be taking possession of him. Ho was leaning his head tranquilly against the back cf th settle, every nervous movement stilled, while his eyelids drooped softly over his eyes. He raised them once or twice, und tnen was ft possible? He was asleep, asleep a3 a child lulled by mother's cradle song. "Then the stranger looked round. His face was pale, and beads of perspiration i stood out on his forehead. j " 'So far so good.' he said, smiling at I Berthe. 'Now some one come and help me carry him to his bed. You need not be afraid of waking him; he will sleep till . tomorrow.' ! " 'What have you done to him?' asked I le pere Savariaud angrily, as he obeyed. I 'It U not natural to send a man to sleep like that by looking into his eyes. You are a sorcerer.' " D in't call bad names, mon brave, paid the stranger, laughing, 'and keen your displeasure for those who deserve it,' and then he went on to explain to us that a few doctors in Parte, of whom he was one, had discovered a way of making a ' man sb'ep by Influencing his will, and this, 1 he paid, was a very good remedy In cases of mental disorder, such as that of Francols, where the brain was becoming exhausted for want of rest. 'And now, he added, I will give a few directions which mu3t be carefully obeyed. My patient

must be allowed to sleep undisturbed till I come to rouse him tomorrow, and when he is awake all agitation mur.t be avoided for him. For instance, it will be well, mademoiselle, that you should not see him for the present. I will take, care that you have news of his progress. My cure requires three weks. AVill you allow me

that besides the gain to your son, which ..!!.. -1 .I . kl. juu uii rasuy ee uiiu aii fi-iair, uia cure, if I bring it about, will.be an extremely Important step In my career.' "So It was settled that Monsieur Reynaudie should do his best by his mysterious process to restore Francois to health, and Berthe went home, feeling very pleased with her afternoon's adventure. "Iurlng the next three weeks Berthe never came near St. Antoine, nor did I happen to met her when I wa3 down in the town. I suppose Monsieur Reynaudie carried her all the news of Fran.?ci3, which was certainly very womd?rful news, livery evening he came to the inn, and in a. shorter time every evening he east Francois into the deep, dreamless sleep which we had seen settle down on him that afternoon; and every morning Fran cois awoke refreshed and calmed in mind and body. His appetite returned, hi nervous irritability almost disappeared, his step grew firm again, his eyes lost their wild expression, and his face regained its natural outline and color. Every one was talking of his cure, and Monsieur Reynaudie was already famous in St. Zite under the sobriquet of the sorcerer, but the father abbot denounced the cure as impious. In fact, Francois was not likely to find his position less difficult as he recovered, and many people thought that ther monks would tarry the day after all. My own opinion waa that Francois would hold out. "The allotted three weeks was nearly over, when one day at market I (found Berthe sitting at her fruit-stall, looking paler and gloomier than I had ever se.m her. '"Bon Jour, Berthe,' I cried; 'what on earth, is the matter? I thought. I should see you radiant with happiness. Has not your strange doctor told you what good hLs spells have worked for Francois?' " 'Yes.' she replied, 'he has told me; besides, I have seen it for myself. Francois has been up at La Plgeonnie.' " 'Then, why don't you lok more cheerful?' I asked. " 'For the best of reasons,' she rejoined. 'Certainly, Frances's visit was not calculated to make any one cheerful.' "There were tears in her eyes as fhe spoke. I wondered if Francois had begun to weary of hLs strange betrothal. " 'Martin,' she began again, 'his Francols been talking to you lately talking about me?' "I shook my Ihead. " 'I have seen but little of him lately,' I said. 'lie has been so occupied with his migioaJ cure.' " 'He has been occupied with something else,' she replied. JIe has got rid of one fever and caught another. lie Is mad with jealousy.' " 'Jealousy!' I exclaimed. 'And who is he jealous of?' " 'Ahl' she replied, 'that you would never guess never I' " 'I sha'n't try,' I rejoined. 'I'm not good at guessing besides I know you've given him no reason to be Jealous.' " 'Don't you be too sure, mon cousin; his eyes are sharper than yours but whether or not, we shall never be married now. I don't know why I ever promised to marry him. I suppose his wild, strange passion fascinated me. I thought I cired for him; but now it all seems false ar.d unnatural almost hideous. I feel as If I had come to my sense? after being dizzy. I told him so; so I told him It must all come to an end. You aren't sorry, Martin, I know.' " 'I'm not sorry,' I answered. 'But how did Francois take It? Does he consent to set you free?' " T don't know. she said. 'I scarce know how he took it. .My heart beat so fast as I told him that I felt qnite faint. I thought at first he was going to strike me; I hut my eyes and covered my face with my hands; when I looked up he was walking away fast. He never even ltxked rounc.. And our bethrothal is over and done with. And now guess of whom he Is jealous.' " 'I don't think I could.' I replied, as I thought of the number of Berthe's admirers. "rihe came nearer to me and lowered her voice. " 'It is 'Monsieur Reynaudie, Martin.' she whispered. 'He declared that Monsieur Reynaudie has been making love to me. But It is not true; it is a cruel lie. (Monsieur Reynaudie only kept me from going to St. Antoine so that he might ueeeed the better with his cure. His one idea is to complete the cure and secure th? credit for this strange method of his.' Then her voice and h?r face took nn expression I cannot possi'hly describe; It was so wistful and so weary. 'If he only did care for me if he only did love me ever so little, how happy I should be! Terhaps I ought to be ashamed to rray it, but I'm not. I don't care If all the world knows that I love Monsieur Reynaudie's little finger more than Francois's soul and body put together.' " 'Berthe!' I cried In dismay; 'my poor Berthe!' " 'You needn't pity me,' she s.oJd. I am free to love him, I am no longer (bound to Francois. I shall love him forew even If be never peak to me .gain. I told Francois so last night. That was when he raised his hand as If to strike me.' "That evening Francois came to m at my work. " 'Martin,' he said. 'I want you take a message up to La Plgeonnie when you go home. I want Berthe to come to our trystlng-place under the pine tree tomorrow evening after sunset.' I stared nt him in amazement. 'Don't you understand me?' he went on. 'Tomorrow evening at dusk.' " I understand,' I said slowly, 'but I do not think Berthe will come. I saw her yesterday. She told me all. I think it would be better for her to stay away.' " 'But she must come,' he replied imperiously; 'she cannot refuse me this. I have a last word to say to her; I have loved her more than my soul, and I went away without a word when she had dealt me that terrible blow. I have thought it over ever since. We cannot part without any farewell. That would be too much to expect of me.' " 'And then,' I said, 'shall you go back to Clermont?' " 'To Clermont?' he repeated, 'to Clermont? How can I tell? What does It matter?' Then a bitter smile came over his face. 'Does she think he will marry her? Does she think that because he hns made a fool of her he will make her his wife? No, Martin, the likes of him may trifle with the likes of her. but he doesn't want to marry her; and if he did, he should not. I would take care of that!' "He looked so cruel and vindictive ns he spoke that I made up my mind not to be far away from their tryst the next evening. I scarcely knew what I feared, but It seemed as if Berthe would not b? pafe with him alone, i turned to go, when he called me back. " 'Stay,' he said, 'here is a note for Monsieur Reynaudie; there is no answer. I suppose,' he added, more to himself than to me. 'that some pe3ple might say Is that I had far rather have died than that he should have come here to cure me with his spell.' "I carried my messages, and the next evening at dusk I went down toward the town to meet Berths, and we walked back together to St. Antoine, and then on up among the rocks to their trystlng place. Just before we came In plght of it I sat down and Berthe wen; on alone. She had barely had time to reach It when her voice rang out in a piercing shriek, which echoed from hill to hill. I sprang up with trembling limbs. Why had I let her go alone? What had befallen her? Why did I hear no further pound? I scarce dare pass the last boulder which hid her from me. When I did I saw her standing with outstre:ched hands against the fading evening sky, while at her feet lay a man's figure motionless with uplifted face. It was not Frincols. I could see that by the clothes. Who. then, was it? " 'Berthe!' I cried. 'Berthe, speak. What has happened?' "Then she turned and paid In a voice I hardly recognized. It was so full of horror and despair: " 'Frmcols has spoken his last word to me, Martin. See what I have found waiting for me,' and stooping over the prostrate fjgure she tenderly raised the

head of Jacques Reynaudie with the pallor and agony of death upon it. 'Put your hand on hi heart, Martin,' she whispered. I dare not.' "When I obeyed her I drew it back hastily, dripping wdth blood. "The trial of Francois lavariaud for the murder of Dr. Jacques Reynaudie created a great sensation, not only In the neighborhood, but all over France. Great and learned men came to bw burial, and we learned that one of the devest doctors of tha day ha.1 been cut off at the outset of most promising carer. "The accused made no attempt to deny the murder, nor did he offer any defence; still h? was not punished according to the full rigor of the law. for the doctors, after some demur on the part of the judges, pronounced him to be of unsound mind, lie died shortly afterward in a prison for criminal lunatics. Tho trouble and disgrace completely broke down the poor old pere Savariaud; he gave up the Inn and went to end his days somewhere a"hfr-a his story was not the common talk of every one. "It was Borth? who put up -the cross under the pine tree, aixi who planted the rose trees round it. She might have married later on, but she never wavered In hfr constancy to the love which had cost her so much; and, 'though she is now quite an old woman, she climbs the hill o;ice a week to tend the flowers that grow by the Croix du Sorcier." All the Year Itour.d. THE CAPTAIN'S PARROT.

It Took Its Part la the Auction and Changed Owners. "Going! goinpr! for the third and last time, gentlemen! Are you all done? Sold! sold to the colonel for J1Ö0. It waa a good rn gentlemen, and we will all have a bowl." These were the clcsing word of the auctioneer at. the sale of a parrot In the apartments where the bird had been a conspicuoua llgure for yenrs. lie belonged to a man about town whose be3t-known name was "Captain." It seems an enormous sum to be paid for a parrot, but this la no ordinary bird, and the purchaser thinks he has a bargain. The captain has the reputation o being one of the best entertainers In the city and his apartments have been the ecene of many a merry gathering of the "good fellows" of his long list of acquaintances. They have also been the rendezvous of a select coterie who have gathered there many time to play draw poker. The parrot occupied a prominent place In the card room, and, when th game was In progre.sd anil a player passed or dropped out, h usually gave some moments to conversation with him and It 1 reasonable to believe true his statement that "h has a vocabulary that is a wonder." Some time ago "Cap" announced he waa going to desrt the ranks of the "undomestlcated" and Join the ranks of benedicts. Ho also announced that ha would desert hi old quarters, and that if any of th? crowd who?? faces were familiar in them pirticulir desired any object contained In th roomi In the way of a memento or for a more practical reason, he might obtain the wme by making known his wants. At this announcement there was a g.-neral request for the parrot. KverylxHly wanted him. The requests became fo numerous and decided that the captain began to pet worried. He consulted one of the crowd. "You see, I can't give him to everybody, and one is as welcome to him as another." said the captain. "Why not niction him off, then?" tho friend suggested. "The very thing," cried the captain, "we'll do that." He proceeded to notify tha interested ones to the effect that on the following Friday the bird would be auctioned 01T, the proceed of the sale to go to liquidate some outstanding indebtedness for wet goods used in a recent memorable supper. The parrot, whose name Ij Falstaff, sat pompously on an elevated perch as the crowd assembled. It was the gold end of what had been a gold-headed cane. Its ends rested on two champagne bottles that sit on a champagne cooler, battered and looking much the worre for wear. 1M1 was engaged in dissecting an old champagne cork when the captain came in at a f-ide door, followed by his colored boy, who took Toll over to the end of tho room near a st.ituette of Venus. The captain then turned from a sideboard, suspiciously wiping his lips, walked over to where Falstaff stood, climbed upon a little box and faced the crowd. Then the biJdinjr betr.in. Poll chipped in his say every now and then, causing1 outbursts of merriment ami a more spirited contest for ownership. Finally, just before the last bid, when thera was a lag in offers, he shouted: "It's your ante, colonel!" nodding sagely at a fat man whose bank account resembles himself. The colonel laughed outritht. Thon he paid: "I bid Jt.'O." And he took the bird away. Chicago Tribune. How Gerard Got m. Verdict. The late James W. Gerard used to tell a story something as follows: He was trying a casa In Winchester county. He had put in his proof, the defendant had submitted his evidence, the arguments of oounsel had been made, the charge of the court had been delivered, and the Jury directed to retire for consultation end a decision. Mr. Gerard expected a verdict In a very ehort time. Hour after hour vent y and the Jury had not returned. Mr. Gerard at last said to the sheriff: "Mr. Sheriff, what Is the matter with tho men?" "Well. Ill tPll you, Mr. Gerard." replied the sheriff, "there Is a man on that jury who ays he will never find for the plaintiff because he wears a gold-headed cane." "(Jo back," eaid Gerard, "and tell him It Is brass." The sheriff went back with the mesrnpe, ani Gerard, according to his own version of the affair, got tho verdict In five minutes. Whether the etory Is true or not. It illustrates the Impression that & Rreat lawyer had of the susceptibilities of the jury', and a proper way to play upon, them. N'. Y. Sun. Wholly Hecovered. "I haven't heard anything about old Wopperj.iw Utely. He iLs:d to have a way of dropping a ten-dllar-blll in tha contribution-box every Sunday at church. miking a present of a. house and lot to newly married couples of hü acquaintance, giving a silver dollar to tha bootblack whenever ha got a öhlne, and s.mdln? a lot of sehoil ma'ams to Europe every summer at. hl3 own expense. Folks said he was gv'ing crazy." "Ye, he did seem sort of queer." "Did. he over gt over It." "0 yes. He's perfectly sane now. lie doesn't throw away his money any more. He's building' a monument for hlm.-elf in. the cmetery that's to otst 5270,000." Chicago Tribune. i:si:- .Settled. Pit never would admit that there was any subject tint he did not know something about. ): day a gntlcmin said to him: "Well. Pat, do you know anything about thd home rule bill?" "Ol do, sor; Oi know all about it." "Well, whit do you th'nk about it?" "Well. Oi'll tell ye." said Pat with an air of profound wisdom. "Oi think thot If them home rulers anything av gentlemen, they'd pay thot bill." Pearson's Weekly. .ot 1 De Missed. She "Do you think the time will ever come when women will propose?" He "I don't see why it shouldn't. Suppost you proposed to me tonight and I eald yes, what She "Oh, Henry, this Is so -rudden! But never mind; it Is Just as well and mother, I know, will be delighted." N. Y. I'res. The Coming Type. "Why, Mr3. Jones, what a beautiful new hat you have!" "S-sh! My dear Miss Smith, don't tell. Dut It's only my last year's one newly trimmed." "And he did it so nicely! Ah, Mrs. Jones, that's the beauty of having a husband." NT. Y. Recorder. He Gets There. The man who keeps the middle Of the road, through time and chance, Is the man who hears the tlddle And who g-eta the plrl to dance. Atlanta Constitution.

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POINTS OF SUPERIORITYINDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL SEWING MHCHIWE Ha the lateft desifrn of bent woodwork, with nkcleton drawer cases, made in both walnut and oak, highly finished cd tha most durable made. The stand is rizid and etronz, having bract from over each end of treadle rod to table, has a large balance wheil with belt replscer, a very caey motion of treadle. The head is free of plate tensions, the machine Is to oet that withont any change of upper or lower teneion you can ew trom No. 40 to No. 130 thread, and by a very slight change of disc tension on face plate, you can eew from the coarsest to the finest threat!. It baa a self-setting needle and looso pullej device on hand wheel for v indicg bobbins without running ihe machine. It is adjuxtablo in all its bearings and Lm lees eprinjre than an other pewin machine on the market. It is the quickest to thread, being pelf-threading, except the eye of needle. It j0 the eaftirst machine Ja chinking length of stitch, and is Tery foiet and e&sj running..

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ACHIEVEMENTS OF SCIENCE What the Inventor Have Keen Doing; of Late. AVonderfnl I'rnsrrosi Vntlc in the Mnniifnctnre of iliii KletMrlcnt Experiment of the AYJziirri, ikola Tmla Dldcnvcry of it ( liU-itico A-tronomcr-r.illmm' MnrvcIoiiN Invent lou, the KiuetoKeope. The manufacture cf glass ha progressed so rapidly in the lasi twelve years that I: may now pertinently asked. What cannot h3 dona with this material? M. Henrivaux, a prominent French manufacturer and an original and enthusiastic inventor, has recently proved, by means of a veritable museum of curious sample?, that everything is becoming post-ride to the modern g!a..- ma leer. Even conducting pipes of large diameter have been made of it, tiles, drains, tubes, curtain?, furniture, chimneys and even houses. Glass Is now blown mochanlcally. IT. L. Appert, vice-president of the society of civil engineer.3, fame years ago substituted for the human breath an injection of compressed air. This was a great advance in the perfecting of glassmaklng. The work of blowing was painful and injurious to the health of the workman. Today It Is the machine which blows, while human lungs rest. As this machine has the "breath of a giant, . it has become very eay to manufacture .objects of great size. This Industry has been still further revolutionized by mechanical molding. This was formerly done by placing the glasg, which had been made plastic oy heat, between two metallic surfaces. Put these surfaces cooled so quickly, and the glass with them, that It was impossible to obtain large pieces. Mr. Appert went resolutely to work to find some way oC molding while the glass was in a ma'leable condition, so that larger pieces could be made. At a chort distance from the melting ovon is fixed a post, to whlh a vertical mold Is attached, which opens In two or ihreo places, on hinges. Thij mold Is of very thick cast Iron and retains the heat. A vertical core moved by a machine crosses the mold from side to side. The melted glass !s poured Into this mold lu suitable quantities. The rvre is turned rapidly, driving the glass againct the walls of tho mold and compelling it to take the impressions. Several moldj are grouped and form a battery. If pip?s are to be molded a length of two incurs !s given to each one; the battery i.-; comprised of eight molds and cores; tht?e easily perform fifteen operations in nn hour and produce thirty meters of pipe, which, with the waste, gives a production of T.00 meters a day. Iy ib'n method glass pipes :ire produced which rival tbisi of sandstone and even of cast iron, and which have the advantage of not being affected by the soil. The resistance of tdass is very great. GlaFS slabs can easily support carriages of great weight, and champagne bottles are veritable explosive machines, charged with a pressure of twenty-live atmospheres. For certain experiments in physics, gas with a pressure of li'O atmcspherea has been sometimes placed In Klas tubes. M. Henrivaux hopes to have a houso made entirely of glass as one of the sights of the next International expifsition. The walls will be constructed of an Iron skeleton, on which will be placed slabs of glass in such a manner as to form a double wall. In the Interior of which hot air will be circulated in winter, and in .summer compressed air, which will cool the walls. The roof will be of glass on a network of Iron, and also the walls and the staircases. As glass lends itself readily to all kind? of decorations, brick, marble and other materials can be readily imitated. Flat surfaces are beincr manufactured which are verv pretty. On one of the surfaces are shown, in relief, various dsslpns obtained at the moment of cooling by the action of a stamping roller. These can be gilded or j t-Uvered In various combinations. They ( are to be used in decorating walls and ceillnpa. It Is said that there will soon be glass hangings and tapestries. M. Henrivaux draws on glass with an aluminum pencil. The metal remains on the glass and the designs appear in very soft tones. Kdlaon'n Woiele rfnl Kinetoseope. There are thousands of people probably who have heard of the kinetoseope, but have not seen it, and thousands of others who have seen one in operation, but do ! not understand what it is, and it is safe . to say that many hundreds at least have j not even heard of it. To begin with, says ' the Brooklyn Standard Union. It is an Invention which Thomas A. Kdison has been fcr years trying to perfect, and has ( finally ueeeeded, alter spending nearly '

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5200,000 in experiments. As the phonograph which every one knows is one of Kdison's wonderful productions reproduces sound, so the kinetoseope reproduces motion by a succession of photographs taken at such rapid intervals that not a single movement is lost. The process of photographing i in itself a wonderful Invention. A subject is taken, say. for Instance, a person dancing. The operator stands with a small cam- .a having a strip of sensitive plates, whu.i take impressions so rapidly that 2,000 pictures can be produced in one minute. The size of negatives are not much larger than a ten-cent piece, and these negatives are printed on a strip of celluloid ii!m so thin that it is almost transparent. The strip, which contains KQ impressions, is formed into a belt which is placed on spools, which are set in motion by a storage battery, and magnified about fifteen diameters. As the strip goes round at the rate of 2,ooo revolutions a minute, motion 1 photographed as perfectly as the act is performed by the living subject. In the barber shop scene a man enters, takes off his coat and sits down, after hanging it on a prg. He is handed a paper by an employe, an! every motion of the barbt-r, who is in the act of shaving a man, I scon In th blacksmith s:i.j even the sparks from t he anvil and to -smoke from the forga are seen as tru to life as though one were looking hl the livins subjects. Then, again, Iii the serpentine dance the movement of the folds of tlv drapery and every motion of the limbs is brought out as plainly as though on? were looking at the performance in a theater. Fach view gives the Impressions, taken in twenty sections, theref-re it only takrs twenty second. t " look at one subject. Tht? features of the living subjects are brought out as clearly as in a photograph, an.1 one would recognize an acquaintance quite easily. All that is needed now is to combine the phonograph and the kinetoseope and it will be passible to bo;h se and hear the actions and words of the past as accurately as when originally performed and uttered by the living subject. Nikola Teal a' Experiment. Nikola Tesla has demonstrated that the phenomenon of light la producible in four different ways by the action of high-frequency electricity upon suitable mediv One of these methods Is the incandescence of a solid, consisting of a small carbon button mounted upon a platinum wire in an exhausted blub. When Mr. Tes'a connected his body with one of the terminals of a hlghly-tenslon transformer, and took an arrangement of this kind in his hand, the button became luminous. Next he took a highly exhausted buU, containir g a strongly phosphorescent body, above which was mounted a small plate cf aluminum on a platinum wire leading to the outside, a.nd the current." t'owing through his liody excited intense phosphorescence in the bulb. Thirdly, he took in his hand a simple exhausted tube, nd In tho samo manner the gas inside t! e tube was rendered highly Incandescent or phosphorescent. Finally, he took in his liand a metallic wire, which appeared covered with luminous film through the Intensity of the electrical vibration. Mr. Tesla Is now engaged upon the problem of producing these effects with less expenditure of energy than was employed Pi the operation as first arranged by hon. Kithor method of converting molecular bombardment into light without heal, piovkicd that it could b done economically, would be a considerable step forward in the direction w'.ere "the light of th;' future" H supjHse to await its fortunate discoverer. Ycgllndoit on the Moon. Ixmis Ca thir.ami, a Chicago astronomer, believes he has discovered vegetation on the moon. In looking at the moon through his telc-scop? the other night lie saw a spot of vivid green. "Tl. siot," he says, "was shaped much like a spool, lying in an easterly and westerly direction, and was, I estimated, about forty by seventy miles in extent, frr about four timed the size of Tycho. I made no stocurate calculations of cither its size or its exact position on the lunar surface that evening, and the next night when I attempted more elaborate investigation it had disappeared. I have not seen it since. To my mind the green spot could have been caused by nothing but vegetation in perfection of development ierhap grass, perhap3 forests. That it has not since been seen may be due to causes unknown on earth, but theoretically, quite familiar to the moon." Flexible Stone. It may be. safely said that no specimen in a geological collection Ls more curious than the bar of flexible sandstone, which can be bent with less pressure than that required to bend a piece of wet leather of the same size. In an article upon the subject in tha Mineral Collector, i: Ls explained that "when a thin plica of the stone is looked at under a lens by transmitted light, the fragments are seen to bo locked together like the parts of a sectional puzzle toy, fixed, but only loosely. The simplest way of explaining how this stone was formed is to say that the grains of sand were once cemented firmly together by another material, which has

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Shirrer Plate, Hemmera, Feller, 1 Attachments In bracket are all interchangeably into hub on prester b& Fix Bobbin, Feven Needles, One Iree Screw Driver, One Small Screw Drivor, One Viench, One Instruction Book.

WARRANTY. Erery Machine is fully warranted for fire yeara. Anf part proving defective will bo replaced free of charge, exscpV ing needles, bobbins and shuttles.

ben partly dissolved, leqvirj counties 7iitural bitl-and-socket Joints of jagrgod shnjio behind." Injury of I,rnte-lloi" to Farmer. Republicans are very busy, says th New York Herald, courting the farmers vote to help th- m arr"t tariff reform ar.il, revive McKinleylsm and the reirn of Urn"protected" trusts. This is th ir chiC issue in the canvas--. It notorious thu the McKinley "pro tertive" tariff m ad high prlc -s for almost every artie farmers must buy, but it. proved powerless to make high prices t'-r their grain, wool and other products. Mr. McKinley increased the duty on wools in 1V.0 move than .10 ) r cent., yet the price of wool steadily declined from .13 cents in IV') to cents in lsy.l. Hut since wool was put .n the free list by Mr. Wilson the dec! in has apparently ceased, ibt-eaus, the demand is Increasing. Mr. McKinley put duties of 15 cents a bushel on oats anil 2T c-n:s on wh't, but) the prices steadily dropped under hU Visionary "protect! n." His tariff pro Voked othr nations to develop nc.v grain growing regions, from the comp -.itlon of whieh our farmers now suffer t-riihly. The only h pe for agriculture is to kill the whol'? "ptMteetive" sys'.- n. Fanners will get better prices for their pr. 1 :cts 1C the cost of transportation is r. daced. a It surely will be if tariff-rc foi t.v rs cjü trol the next congress and can pet iron, cjal ar.d steel rails on the free 1..-U Shopping; for IKcmint. ' Two wonin were Fhoppine. Ore -,; a, pile of goods on the counter wlu'-h th clerk was checking off. Htid when i.e hcil finished he told her the bill was Six produced modest little purse, j n ! I th amount, left lu-r address an 1 walked out ot the store. The other wman had leen watching hrp with a poo bit of Interest. When k- was gone she turnl to the clerk eud said: "I don't understund it. That woman pot so much more for her money th.;n I dl i f p mine. Here 1 have h rmall pack thft t can hold in one r,an. and it co t $7. one. of us does not know how to shop dently." "She bought staple goods," remarked th elerk. Indifferently. "Hut what are staple grxvdsT' "Oh. dornest '.es. pheetingn, towelinc, children's warm knitted garments, h"st' ry and such. You see, she buys for a family and purchases only the essentials." 'Oh. and 1 buy for myself! I see." And! the woman who had paid J7 for a lac flounce went away with a new iJea In her hea. Exchange. Sand Care for Dynpcpsln. A new rrmMy for dyrrppsla anc stomaob trouble has made Its appearance in southern Oregon. It is nothing less than a spoonful of common, r very Jay, river-bottom sand, taken wet. just after meals. William l?ylxe. a well-known eltiz-n and proprietor of Hybee's springs. Is suppos.i to be the originator of this queer remedy, but quite h number of veracious gentlemeiv lentlfy Xo its curative properties, which are supposed to take the f.,rin of mechanical action by carriiig off Impurities from the mucous lining of the walls of the stomach. IS renk Ing; tt Drought. Stranger "Did yon have any drought here this summer'.'" Farmer Mead jw "Yes, sir; we had one that lasted six weeks. livery thing would have been ruined if it hadn'c been fur lien con jMviart." "What Iii he do?" "He advertised f.r funiir.'f lv.ird"-rs and got a houseful. It mlm-d every day after they came." N. Y. Weekly. WrnCli Turned An. Tough Citizen "Are ye callln ine a liar?" Tlie Ollvr Citizen "Well, my remarks. I confess, are fairly open U that Interpretation." Tough Citizen (mollified) "Hy gum, villi got in y ur pol gy j!-"t in time." . ChicigJ Tribune. ev Vurkfr' I'eril. Jenkins "lr?tt Seoltl then comes Jones. Let's turn down this c in-r." Jorkyns "Why, I y u owe him si much as thit?" Jenkins "N t; but he's Just bought a hou-:e in liro klyn. and I'm afraid he'll ask m? over ther. to dinner." Judge. Torrect Solution. Teacher "Now, Willie, if you and your Ifttle sister buy ten peaches and six ot them are bad, low many ar? left'."' Willie "Two." Teacher "Two?" Willie "Yes'm; m? and my little Elster." N. Y. Telegram. A Shrewd tine. Mrs. Goathil! "Phwy does your boy b t'rowin' bricks at moy neat, tell me that, now?" Mr. Mcflab "Pure Oi d jnno. Maybe he can't foind anyfing harrder." Street & Smith's Good News. Round to Wear 'Ilm. " Mother "Why did you get that blcyclfl suit?" Modern Maid "To wear, of course." "Hut you have no bicycle." "1 have a sewing machine." X. T. Weekly. I,oat the Tree n re. "Another train held up!" "Did the robbers g?t anything?" "No; the porter esc3prd them." Atlanta Constitution,