Marshall County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 19, Plymouth, Marshall County, 7 April 1859 — Page 1

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BRANCH AT PLYMOUTH, IXD. H . S. ORG AN, TVes. IT. EARLY, Cashier EASTERN EXCHANGE, Draft os Cincinnati nj Ch:eagfc;.GolI 'aud Silver, Uncurrent Moncv and Ismd Warrants .f f BOUGHT AND SO LD. O Deposits Received and Mjney Loaned. JLTExcharrge oa Europe bought and sold. D" Attention given to Collections, and General Banking-iBusiness Transacted. June 23, 1S53. 31? WHEls .WILL. WONDERS CEASE! IN PLYMOUTH? II A HTM AN & CO If ave started a new Harness and I Saddle Shop two doors north of I J Brownlee's store, on the East side of Michigan stiect, at No 6 where they Intend keeping on hand, Saddles and Harness of all kind?, and will sell as cheap as thechespest. Call ai:d examine "tlieir stock and work. All repufring tlonc in order and on short notice. 14tf II. X. DICKSON. 4 ........ .J. C LEONARD DICKSON DEALT.R3 IN & CO. of ev.'ry description, also, Stoves, Tin, S'teet-Iron and CopperWare BtoM1-"-"-3 ' TLYMOTITH, IND. Edwards & VanvalkenbTirgh, DEALER3 IN ;PLYMOUTU IND. H. COEBIN , - M. A. O. T ICKJRD. CORBIN & PACKARD Attorney and Counsellors at Law. Western Cnlicrtlon JgentH. PLYMOUTH, IND. Rffcr U Arcclarias, Rjnxett, i co., N V City; Town, S.hjtii & Shelden, Detroit, Mich.; Secor, Rkrdan t co, To!elo, Ohio; M II Somtijt & co, Chicago, Hi; , Hon C A StactY Tccumsh, Mich; Hon Tirs S Stanfie-ld, South Ben!, In ! IInov5-51tf C. II. REfl H. A. C. CVFRON. : . REEVE & C APRON, . Plrmoutli. Marshall County, In 1., Practice in Marsh.i!! nnl adjoining counti'-.. . REFER TO. Ribcock i Co.. Tlielm, D lere i Co , N. Y. CooIcj,F4rtreIl i Co., Gould ti Bro C'lioaso. Ixudon & Co : riiil d., GnT.BenTjott i C .. Pitt. Hon. A. L. Osborne, Circ't. Jude, Liporic, Ind. HmJZlTW NOTICE. TANFIELD & JOHNSONT. S. SriNriRLD, of South Bond, Tnd., and A Johnson, of Plymouth Indiana, hare associated themselves together for the practice of Ijuw, in all the Courts of.Marslull County . .Mr StanfieM will personally assist ia the Tnanaemcnt of all litigated business- O.Bce In Coroin's block. nl3v4 J. G. OSBORNE ....D. T. TillLLir. OSBORXE & PHILLIPS OFFICE First door north of Bovd'f Furniture Store. PLYMOUTH, IND. DEALER IN III I 111 II II 1H I Plymouth, Ind., KEEPS ronstantlv on hand Clocks, Watches, BREAST PINS, EAR RINGS, FINGER RINGS, LOCKETS, tc, &o. ttTClocks,WAtchei,' &c, repaired jn the best maimer posfiikle. . . . ' jan 7 '53 7-t." PAEKEE HOUSE, H M. HOPKINS,..-. PROPRIETOR, LAPÖRTE, INDIANA. V. V. AXTEIjL, Cuerk. jnl8 331y J. H. CASE, J USTICE OF THE PEACE TTAS moved Ins ofSce one door north of Pierce I Clothing store, near the Democrat printin if 011 Michigan street, where he will git it. 'ytpt ""Btion to alleUiius entrusted to Lim fo .wolhction, Vraa Jnsiice of the peace or in hi:h er courts. 1a . ing &c, promptly attended to Plymouth, Ind , s-pt- 9. lS-42t. SHAVING, G AND Slininpooin? Saloon, - On Michigan s, opposite Pierce's Clothing store hcTC the rubscriber is ready at all times, during business hours, to da up Shaving, Hair cutting &c., rn less time and better style thancTerheibre known jo this vienvty; anI he hopes that hereafter, by a strict attention to huincss, to merit a liberal pattronage frora the citizens renerallT.' . ALFRED BILLOWS. auz. 5, 37-tf. J. J. "TIIVALIf, HOMEOPATHIC PHYSIC I A N. Pa rticular attention paid, to Obstetric Practice, and Chronic diseaa of VVomen.and disease of Children. Office over C Palmer's store, corner Michigan and Laporte streets, where he can be consulted atall hows. .: . ; . ,: i3tf. rÄ DR. A. O, BCRTON, SURGE IT A DENTIST, TTA'i located in Plymmth where he will be on I jarci at all times. ( Mondays and Tuesdays cexc,7tcd) to p2rfirm all operation? pertaining to the Dental profession. Special attention piven to cleansing tlu teeth. Diseases of the mouth treated Ith success. . ; 3t'tisfaction will be giTen to all who may favor 15 n Mtii a call. . -v - . SXKvai in Pershing's building, up stairs c.itrance firs, hall door. ' -' may 20-26.f. DR. T. A. B0RT0N, 7:vPIpslnan:rtWdI Surgeon, OiScQ o cr Pershing's Drug Store, in Dr. A0 Borton' Dental, Rooms, Mi chigan street, east side come oTGano, where he may be consulted dur. in office hears. Dwelling two doors north of theCx)urt House, Center st. west side, Plymouth, lnd TRÜP a prime articlc,at ID (33) Rice i Smtuis.

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Better than Beauty. . .1 would not give the kiudne, -. The grace that dwells in her, r For all that cupid'j blindness, . . In others might prefer. I would not change hcrsweetnes , For pearls of any eca; Far better, far than beauty, Is one Kind hart to tue. My love is not a beauty To other eyes than mine. My love is not a beauty, To other eyes than min; Her curls arc not the fairest. Her eyes are not divine; Nor yet like rosebuds parted, Her lips of love may be. But though she's not a beauty, She's the dearest one to me. My love is not a beauty To other eye3 than mine. Saleratus. None can make a shortened cake So good as could my mother, And I think I know why 'tis so As well as an other.. Because, since then, some wicked men, ' W ith a kind of apparatus, . - -- '- Have made of stuff the bread to puff, - -And called it saleratus. Don't ask why so many die ' That some should lire's surprising Wince now our food is made of wood, And salt is used for rising; " I ltope the cooks, with their good looks, "Will not exterminate us With cakes and pie mixed up with lye, ' Reduced to salaratus. May every pot in which they've got The stuff, be burnt to atoms ; May everj thing in which it's been Be minus top and bottom. Mav every store on sea and shore, (What else could more elate us?) 'By fire or flood, or in the mud, Lose all the saleratus. And now ye fair, a little care. What else may bo the diet, Thouh nude of rye and had and dry, ; The big brown loaf I'll try it. With 'bilcd and cabbige piled, You're welcome to come at us Yea, any tiling but poisoning, With blasted sahratir. whatItas it? - A MYSTERY. It is,' I confess, witb consiJeral!e"difideuce that 1 approAch the narrative which I am about to r-ihUt. The events which

I ptupose d'?Jäiii:i are of so extraordinnrv 3ununl:onrJ-wf a trjiaractertli.it I am prvpnreu to meet wkh an unusual amount cf iaeryduiity and scorn. 1 .-ecept all such bjf.rrha;i j. I I.:;vf, I :rui, tho literaiy fourno to f;t e unbeli-.-i. 1 have, after matur - ronsiderr.tion. resolved to narrt, io as ?injp'a and straightforward a manner as I cm rompass, s"me facts that passed under my observaiwn in the month of Ju ly last, and which, in the annals of tin mysteries of physical science, are wholly unparalleled. . I live at Xo. Twenty sixth Street, in this city. The house is in some respects a curious one. It has enjoyed for the last two years the reputation of being haunted, It is large and stately residence, surrounded by what was once a garden, but which is now only a green inclosura used for bleaching clothes. The dry basin of what has been a fountain, and a few fruittreee, ragged and unpruned, indicate that this spot, in past days, was a pleasant, shady retreat, filled with fruits and flowers and the murmur of waten. The bouse is very spacioui. A hall of noble size leads to a vast spiral staircaise winding through its centre while the vari ous apartments of imposing dimensions.It was built some fifteen or twenty years since by Mr. A , the well-known New York merchant, who five years ago threw tho commercial world into convulsions by a stupendous Dans iraua. mt. a , as overy one knows, escaped to Europe, and died not long after cf a broken heart, Al most immediately after the news of bie decese reached th's country, the report spread in Twei ty-sixth street that No. - was kaunted. Leal measures had dispossessed the widow of its former owner, nd it wai inhabited merely by a care-taker and his wife, placed there by the house-agent i.i to whoso hands it had passed for purposes of renting or sale. These peopta declared they were troubled with unnatural noises. i?oors weru opened without' any visible- agency, the remnants - of furniture scattered through the various rooms wre, during the night, piled cue upon the other by unknown' hands. Invisible feet passed up and down .the stairs in broad daylight; accompanied by tho rustling cf unseen silk dresses and the gliding of viewless hands alon the massive ba!u3tera. - The care-taker and his wife declared they wo'd live there no longer. Tho house-agent laughed, dismissed them, and put others in their plabo. The noises and supernatural manifestations-' con timied; '": The ei"hborhopU caught up the story, and the house remained untenanted for three veant. . Several parties negotiated for it; but somehow always before the bargain was closed,' they heard the unpla3int rumors, and declined to treat an v further. . " . . . . ... It was in tin state of things that my landlady--who at that time kept a board-ing-houso in Bleecker Street, and who wished to move further up town conceived the bold idea of renting Nc. Twenty-sixth Strict. Happening -to have in

her house ratlnr a plucky and philosophical at of boarders, sh laid the matter before us, stating candidly everything she had heard respecting the ghostly qualities of the establishment to which she wished to remove trs. With th& exception .of one or two timid persons a sea-captain and a returned Californian, who immediately gave notice that they would leaveevery one of Mrs. MoSat's guests declared they would accompany her in her chivalric incursion into the abode of spirits. Our removal was effected in the month of May, and we were all charmedwith our new residence. The portion of Twentysixth Street where our houso is situated between Seventh and Eighth Avenues is one of the pleasaniest localities in New York. The gardens back of the houses, runniRgdown early to the Hudson, form in the summer time, a perfect avenue of verdure. Theairis pure and invigorating, sweeping, as it does, straight across the river fronv the Weehawken heights, and even the ragged garden which surrounded the house on two sides, although displaying on washing-days rather too much clothes-line, still gave us a piece cf greeu sward to look at, and a cool retreat in the summer evenings, where we smoked our cigars in the dusk, and watched the fire-flies flashing their dark lanterns in the long grass. Of course we had no sooner established ourselves at No. than wo began to expect the ghosts. Wc absolutely awaited their advent with eagerness. Our dinner

conversation was' supernatural. One of the boarders who had purchased Mrs. Crowe's "Night SiJo of Nature" for his own private dolect&iion, was regarded as a public enemy by the whole household for not having bought twenty .copies. Tho man led a life of supreme w reiche lnss while he wa? perusing the volume. A system of espionage was established,' of which h wa? the victha. If he ibcauliously laid the book down for a a instant and left the room, k was imme liilv sc-iz-ed arid read aloud ir "crot places 10 a s ; Ivct few. I found my-oli a person of rr.ens- impor:a;.ce, it having loaU-d oat ihat I was to!o;aliy vll vened h super naturalism, and had etice written a story, entitled "The Pot' of Tulips," for Harper JScnthfi;. tho foundation of tvKich was a gl. est. If a table or wainscot panel happened to warp when we were assembled in the largo drawing room, there was an in utant silence, and every, one was prepared for an immediate clankinc of chains and a spectral form. After a month of psychological excitement, it was with the utmost d'ssatisfac tion that w were forced to acknowledge that nothing in the remotest degree approaching the supernatural had manifested itself. Once the blaek butler asservattd that his candle had been blown out by some invisible agency while undressing himself for the night; but as I had more than once discovered this colored gentleman when one candle must havo appeared as two, I thought it possible that, by going a step farther in his potations, he might have reversed this phenomenon, and seen no candlo at all where he ought to have beheld one. , Things were in this state when an incident took place so awful and inexplicable in its character that my reason fairly reels at the bare mention of the occurrence. It w.-.s tho 10th of July. After dinner was over I repaired with my friend Dr. Hammond, to the gardtn to smoke my evening pipe. Independent of certain mental sympathies which existed between therPoctor and myself, we were linked together by a secret vice. We both smoked opium7 We knew each other's secret, and respected it: We" enjoy ed together that wonderful expension of thought; that marvelous intensifying of the ;; perceptive faculties; - that boundless feeling of existence when we seem to'have points of contact : with the whole universe; in short,' that untma-'tna-ble spiritual bliss, which I would not, surrender for a throne, and which I hope you, reader, may never never taute. ä - ' fri'' "" ! e '- -'' ''-v;'; Ihcso houj-3 of opiuaahsppmess which the Doctor and I. spent .together in -secret were regulated with seien ti He accuracy. - We did not blindly smoka ' the'drug of x arauise ana leave our dreams to chance. While sm'obVg we carefully steered our conversatjou through the, brightest ; and calmest channels of thought.- ( Wo Ctalked of the East, and endeavored to recall -the magical panorama of its ghiwing scer.ery. We cruicLs J the most sens jous.. poets, those who painted life ruddy r with health, brimming with passion, happy, jn the possession of routh, and strength; and beauty. If we -talked 1 of Shakspeare's "Midsum-' nor Nihta .Dream. Lwa lingered over Ariel and avoided Caliban.' Like the Gebers, we turned our faces to the East, and saw only the sunny side of the wo'td." This skillful coloring of , oar train of ...... - thought produced in our subsequent ?isions a corresponding tone. The splendors of Arabian fairy-land dyed our dreams. - -

We paced that narrow atrip of grass 'with the tread and port of kins. -The song of the Huna aborea while ho clung to the baik of the ragged plum-tree, sounded like the strains of divine orchestras. Houses, walls, and streets melted like rainclouds, and vistas unimaginable glory stretched away before us. It was a rapturous companionship. ; We each of us enjoyed more perfectly the vast delight because, even in our most ecstatic moments, we were ever conscious of each other's presence. Our pleasures, while individual, were still twin, vibrating and moving in musical aoeord.-

On the evening in qucstion;the 10th f July, the Doctor And myself . found ourselves in an unusually metaphysical mood. We lit our large meorschaums, filled with fine Turkish tobacco, in the core of c which bunted a little black nut of opium, that, like the nut in the fatry tale, held within its narrow limits wonders beyond the reach of kings; wo paced to and fro, conversing. A strange perversity, dominated, the currents of our thought. They would not flow through t!iel sun-lit channels into which we strove to divert them . For some unaccountable reason they constantly di verged into dark, lonesome beds, where a continual gloom brooded. It 'was in vain that, after the old fashion, we flung our selves on the shores of the East and talk ed of its gay bazaars, of the splendors of the time of llaroun, of harems and golden palaces Black afreets continually arose from the depths of our talk, and expanded, like the one the fishmerman released from the ropper vessel, until they blotted everything bright'from our vision. Insensibly we yieldtd to the occult force that swayed us. and indulged in gloomy specula. ion. .We had talked seine time upon the pronenews f the human mind to mvstieism and the almost universal love of the Terrible, when Hammond suddenly said to me: What do yon consider to be the great est element of Terror?" The quesion, I own, puzzled me. That mxrty things were terrible, I knew. Stum blingover a corpse in the dark; beholding, as I once did,: a woman floating down deep and rapid river, with wildly-lifted arm un'' nwful. upturned face, utterirc. as she sank, shrieks that rent one's heart, while we, the spectators, stood frozen at a window which overhung the river at a height of sixty feet, unable to make the slightest effort to save her, but dumbly watching her last supreme agony and disappearance. A. shattered wreck with no life visible, encountered floating listlessly on the ocean, is a 'terrible .'object, for it suggests a huge terror, the' proportions' of which are veiled. Uut it uow struck me for the first time that there must be one great and ruling embodimant of - fear, a King of Terrors, to which all others must succumb. What might it be? To what train of circumstances would it owe its existence? "I confess, IIammoud,M I replied to my friend, "I never considered the matter before. That there must.be one Something more terrible than any other thfng. I feel. I cannot attempt, however, oven the most vague definition." "I am somewhat like you,' Harry," he answered.' "I feel my capacity to experience a terror greater than has ever been conceived by the 'human mind. Something combining in fearful and unnatural amalgamation hitherto supposed incompa'ible.elements: The calling of the voices in Brockden .Brown's novel of .'Wieland' is awful; s? is the picture of the Dweller of the Threshold in Bulwer's 4Zanomi;" but,".he added gloomily, there is somethin8ti!l more horrible than these.' "Look 'here,. Harnmotid," I rejoined; let us drop this kind, of talk, for Heaven's sake . We shall suffer for fjt, 'depend on it: "I don't know what's the matter with me to-night,'', be replied, "but. my brain is running upon all sorts of weird and awful thoughts. I feel as if I could writ a story like Hoffman to-night, if I were 'only master of a literary style.'? , 'Well, if we aie going to be Hoffmanesque in our talk, I'm off to bed. Opium and nightmare should never be brought together. How sultry it is I Good-night; Hammond.? : - ' . I Good-night, Harry.' Pleasant dreams to you." "To you, gloomy wretch, afreets, ghouls aud enchanters.'' . . ' . - We parted, and each sought his respective chamber. I undressed quickly and got into bd, taking with me, according to nr usual cus'om, a book, over which, I genrally read myself to .sleep. 'I opened tlie volume as oon as I had laid ray head upoti iho pillow, and instantly flung H tto the other si Jo of the room. ' It7as" Goudons ''History of .Monstersl'a curious French work, which I bad lately imported from Paris, but whieh, m the state of mind I wai then in was anythinir but? acreeabb. 0 1 ! resolved to go to sleep'at once; so)

turning down the gas until nothing, but a little blue point of light glimmered on the

top of the tube; I composed mysalf to rest once foore. J ; f 1 The room' was in total darkness. The I ! - 1 -- atom of gas that still remained lighted did not. illuminate a distance of three inches around the burner. I desDeratelv drew ray hands asross'my eyes.' as if -to' shut out even the'darkness, and tried to think of nothing. It was in vain. Th'e' oonfounded themes touched on by: Hammo.pd in the garden kept obtruding themsel?.-is on mv brain. I battled against them. " ' I erected ramparts of would-be blanknes3 of intellect to keep them out. While I was lying still as a corpse, hoping that by , a perfect physical inaction ! would hasten menial repose, an awful inctjent.occurred. A Something dropped, 'a it seemed, from the coiling, plumb upon my chest, and the next instant I felt two; bouy hands ncircling my throat, endeavoring to choke me. I am no coward, and am possessed of con siderable physical strength. The sudden ness of the attack instead of stunning me strung every .nerve to its 1 ighest tension. My body acted from instinct, before - my brain had lime to vealiz the terror of my position. In an ins-ant L wound two muscular arms around the creature,and squeezed it, with all the strength ot despair, against mv chest. In a few moments the bony hand that had fastened around my loosened their hold, and I was free to breathe once more. Then commenced a struggle of awful intensity.v Immersed in profound darkness, totally ignorant of the nature of the Thing by which I was so suddet.ly attacked, finding my grasp slipping every raotient by reason, it seemed to me, of the entire nakedness of my assailant, bitten with sharp teeth in the 8houldet , neck, and chest, having every moment to protect my throat against a pair of sinewy, agile hands, which my utmost efforts could not confine these were a ...... combination of circumstances to combat which it required all the strength and skill and courago that I possessed. At last, after a'siHnt, deadly, exhausting struggle, I got my assailant under by a series of incredible efforts of strength. Once pinned, with my kuee on what I made out to bo its chest, I knew that I was the victor. 1 restöd for a moment to breathe. I heard the creature beneath me panting in the darkness, and felt the violent throbbing ...... D of a heart. It was apparently as much exhausted as I was, that was one comfort. At this moment I remembered that I usually placed under my pillow, before going to bed, a large, yellow silk pocket-handkerchief, for use during the night. I felt for it instantly; it was there. In a few moments more I had, after a'fashion, pinned the creature's arm3. I now felt tolerably, secure. There was nothing more to be done but to turn on tbe gas, and, having first seen what my midnight assailant was like, arouse the household; I will confess to being actuated by a certain pride in not giving the alarm before; I wished to make the capture alone and unaided.' Never loosing my hold for an instant. I slipped from the bed to the floor, dragging my captive with mo. I hnd but a few steps to make to reach tho gas burner; these I made with the greatest caution, holding the creature in a grip like a vice. At last I got within arm's-length of the tiny spck of blue light, which told me where the gas-burner lay. Quick as light tiing I released my grasp with one hand and let cn the full flood of light. Then I turned. to look at my eap;ive. I cannot attempt to give any definition of mv ßensaiions the instant I turned the .... gas. , I supposed I must havo shrieked with terror,; for in less than a minute -afterward my room was crowded with in mates of the honse. ; I 6hudder now as I think of that awful moment.' 'Isaw noth ing! : Yes; 1 had one arm firmly clasped round a breathing, panting.corporeal. shape my other hand gripped with all its strength a throat as warm; and apparently as flesh ly as my own; and yet, with this living substance in my grasp, with its body press ed against my Own,' and all in the bright glare of a large jet of gas, I absolutely be held nothing! Not even an outline a va por ! - . . .. . .'- .; - :i ' I do cot even at this hourr, realize the situation in which t found myself. I cannot recall the astounding fact thoroughly Imagination in vain tries to compass, the awful paradoj. : - . It bteatbed.- I felt its wafm breath upon my check: It ; struggled' fTei celyV - It had hands.- They clutched me, ' Its skin was smooth, just like my own. There it !ay, pressed close up against me.r solid as 6tone rand yet utterly1 invisible ! - ' I wonder that I,did not go mad oh the on the instant. .Some wonderful instinct must have sustained me, for, . .absolutely, in- place Of . loosening nay hold on the terrible Enigma, I seemed : to gain' an additional strength in' my moment of horror, and tightened my grasp with such wendr-

ful force that I felt the creature shivering with agony. - Just then Hammond entered my room at the head of the household. As soon as he beheld my facewhich, I suppose, must have been a terrible sight to look at he hastened forward, crying. Good Heaven, Harry ! what has happened?" ' "Hammond! Hammond!" I cried, 'corre here. Oli ! this is awful ! I have been attacked in bed by something or other, which I have hold of; but I can't see it I can't see it ! " Hamrooud, doubiless struck by the unfeigned horror expressed in my countenance, made one or two steps forward with an anxious yet puzzled expression. A very

audible titter buret from the remainder of my visitors. This suppressed laughtex made me furrms.' "To !aurh a: ?. hun:au being in my poV-tioiv ! h was t:o cpe-jies of crutley. Xif, I rvkr u !crstand why lh ; appearanc-.. of a man s'..uggling violoutly. n ouM sem. with an ai-J IV nothing, aiui calling 'for assis aura against a vision, should have appeared tidiculous. ; Then, so great was my rage against he mucking crowd thai had I tht power I would have stricken them dead where th y sud, Hammond! Hammond!" I cried agaia. despairingly "for God's sake come to me. I can hold Ithe the Thing but a short while longer. It is overpowering me. Help me. Help me!" "Harry," whisperad Hammond, approaching me, Vyou have been smoking too mu' h opium to-r.ight. I swear to you, Hammond, that this is no vision, I answered, in' the eame low tone. 'Don't you see how it shakes ray whole frame with its struggles? If you don't believe me convince yourself. Feel it touch it.' Hammond advanced and laid his hand in the place I indicated. A wild cry of horror burst from him. He bad felt it! . In a momest he had discovered somewhere in my room a long piece of cord, and was the next instant winding it, end knotting it around the unseen being that I clasped in my arms. y Harry,' he said, in a horse, agitated voice, for, though he preserved his presence or mind, tie was detrplj moved, 'Hairy, it's all safe now. You may let go, old fellow, if you're tired. The Thing can't move.' I was utterly exhausted, and gladly loos ed my hold. Hammond stood holding the ends of the cord that bound the Invisible, twisted round his handsbefore him, self support -ng, as it were, ho beheld a rope laced and interlaced, and stretching tightly around a vacant space. I never saw a man look so thoroughly strieken .with awe. . Nevertheless his face expressed all the courage and determination which I know him to possess. His lips, although white, were set firmly, and one could perceive at a glance that, although stricken. with fear, ho was not daunted.- : Tho con fusion; that ensued among the guests of the hoQse, who were witnesses of this extraordinary scona betwesn HarnmosJ and myself who b-shcll t'.io pr;n:omiiiiöof binding ihia fciru-'i'liiig Something who beheld', me almost eii.kinLT fiom physical exhaustion when my task of j iil. er was over the confusion and terror thai took possession of the by -Standers, when they saw all this, was beyond description. Many of the weaker ones fled from the apartment. The few who remained behind clustered near trie ' door, and could not be induced to approach Hammond and hi Charge i Still incredulity broke out through thttir terror. They had not the courage to satisfy themselves, and yet they doubted. It was in vain that 1 begged of some of the men to como near and convince themselves by touch of the existence of a living being in that room which was invisible. They were incredulous, but did not dare to undeceive themselves. How could a living, breathing , fcody be invisible?, they asked. My reply was this. 1 gave a sign to Hammend, and both of us conquering our fearfnl repugnance to touching the, invisible" creature lifted it from the ground, manacled as ft was, and took it to tay bed. Its weight was aDout that of a boy of fourteen. Now my friends, 1 said, as Hammond and myself held the, creature suspended over the bed, I can give you self-evident proof that here is a solid, ponderable body which, nevertheless, you cannot see. Be good enough to watch the 'surface' of the bed attentively:' : ' ; - ' j was astonished at my own1 courage in treating this strange affair so calmly; but 1 had recovered from my first terror, and felt a sort' 6f scientific pride in' tho affair which dominated every other feelinc. .The eyes of. the bystanders were, im mediately filed on my bod. At a given signal Ham bond and I let the creaturo fall. There was the dull sound of a heavy body alighting on a soft mass. The timbers rfj

the bed creaked. A deep impression marked itself directly on the pillow, and on lh bed itself. The croud who witnessed this gave a ort of low, universal cry, and rushed from the room. Hammond and I were 1 rft alone with our Mystery. We remained silent for some time, listening to the fow, irregular breathing of the creature on the bed, and watching the rustle of the bed-olothes as it irnpotenily struggled to free itself frum confine. nent. Then Hammond spoke. Harry, this is awful.' 'Ay, awful 'But not uuacoountable.' No? unaccountable I What do you mean? Such a thing has never occurred since the birth of the world. 1 know not

what to think. Hammond. God gra'tt that i R!n rot mad, -.d that thi? m rut ar inS'tT :ö pVarrsv!' 'L- u? ro-r-r. K IT.i-rr. Her is ...!i,l b-.dy whirl, Much, but which w ,-an not fre. Tlu f t. t i so unusual that j- ?TnfcpS uj wi h terror. Is there no par allel, though, for su'-h a pi tnomenon? Take a piece of pure glass. It is tangibh and transparent. A certain eheraical coarseness is all that prevents it from being so entirely transparent ag to be totally invisible. It is not theoretically impossible, mind'you, to fabricate a glass which shall not reflect a single ray of light a glass so pure and homogeneous in its atoms that the rays from the 6un shall pais through it a3 they do through the air, rafracted but not reflected- We do not see the air, and yet we feel it.' That's all very well, Hammond, but these arc iranimate substances. Glass doos not breathe, air does not breathe. This thing has a heart that palpitates. A will that moves it. Lungs that play and inspire and respire.' You forget the slrango phenomena of which wo have so often hard of late answered the Doctor gravely. 'At the meetings called 'spiritual circle.' invisible hands havo been thrust into the hands of those persons round the table warm fleshly bauds that seemed to pulsate with mor tal life.' What? Do you think, thes, that this thing is ' 1 don't what it is. was the solemn rereplp; "but please ih g'd 1 will, -with your assistance, thoroughly investigate it." We watched together, smoking many pipes, all night long by the beside of the unearthly being that tossed and panted until it was apparently wearied out. Then we learned by the low, regular breathing that it slept. The next morning the house was all astir. The boarder congregated on the landing outside my room, and Hammond and mvself were lions. We had to answer a thousand questions as to the state of our extraordinary prisoner, for as yet not one poison in the house except outslves could be ind need to set foct fn th apartment. The crenture was awake. This was evidenced by ihs convulsive manner in which the bed clothes were moved in its efforts to escape. There was something truly terrible, in br-hlding, as it were, thoe sec-onJ-hand indications of the tarrible writhinga ard agonized struggles for liberty, which themselves were invisible. H immond rnd myself had racked our brains during the long night to discover some means by which we might realize the shape and appearance of the enigma. As well W3 could make out, by passing our hands over the creature's face, its outlines and lineaments were human. There was a mouth; a round, smoothfc head of hair; a nose, which, however, was little elevated abovo the choek, and its hands and feet felt like those cf a boy. At first we thought of placing the being on a smoothe surface, and tracing its outlines with chalk a3 shoemakers tra?e the outlines of the foot. This plan wa3 given up as being of no v.tlue. Such an outline would net give, the 6lightet idea of its conformation. A happy thought struck me. We wouli take a cast cf it in plaster of Paris. This would give us the solid figure, and satiafy all our wishes. But how to do it? Tho motements of the creature would prevent the setting of the plastic covering, and distort the mould. Another thought: Why not give it chloroform? It had respiratory organs that was evident by its breathing.' Onco reduced to a 6tate of ins4nsbility, wc could do with it what wo would. Dr. X was sent for; and after tkeworthy physician had recovered from the first eh oek of amazement, he proceeded to administer the chloroform. In three minutes after vr? were enabled te remove the fetters from the creature's body, and a well kno wn modeler of this city wa huilv en gaged in covering the invisiblo form with the moist clay. In five minutes more we had a mould, and before evening, we had a sight of a rourrh fac simile of th Mystery. It was shaped like a man. Dis torted, uncouth, and terrible, but still a