Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 41, Petersburg, Pike County, 23 February 1894 — Page 3

NATURE* To be wltn thee. O Mother Nature dear. Through glowing days of summer sweet sad kind. . s • In rarlshment to note the wonders near, Is magic song and music to the mind! To roam thy hills, thy valleyvstretchlng far. To follow rivers reaching to the sex To nurture flowers or watch the evening star, { May be the soul of art and poetry! So lives the lark that warbles all day long: So blooms the lily (air, so breathes the rose: So willows list the brooklet's babbling song. So quiet stars in peace of Heaven repose! As showers feed the rippling mountain stream As seeds give birth to beauty all divine, ■So life with thee foeds hope and love and dream, Till their immortal perfumed blossoms shine! « f Surpassing what our eyes delighted see. Perfecting pleasures senses faintly feel. Grand pictures rise above the verdant lea. Of what new worlds .Ifcfore would fain reveal! So time with wings robs earth of treasures rare Yet seeks to teach the while her mystic word Its whispered blessing-charms the trembling air. Till poet hearts like ocean depths are stirred! Such soul afield, whoso homo Is palace fa}r, • May pluck wild weeds enticing as the light: He’ll let them go when once ho enters there. When to the king love's kingdom comes to sight! So near to Nature’s heart I’m near to Gpd; . My l'ife a bird on paradisal tree, It wings its way where golden sunshine trod. It sings the bliss of all eternity! —William Brunton, in Springfield (Mass.) Kopulican. _*_

{Copyright, 1893. by J. B. Llppincott & Ca, and published by special arrangement.] , IX.—Continued. •‘What swells you fellows are, j Terry!” he said, laughingly, as the youngster came dancing down. “Even j •old Doyle gets out here in his scarlet plume occasionally and puts us dough- j boys to shame. What’s the use in ■trying to make such a rig as ours look soldierly? If it were not for the brass , buttons our coats would make -us loo|i like parsons and our hats like monkeys. As for this undress, all that •can be" said in its favor is you can’t " spoil it even by sleeping out on the levee in it, as I am sometimes tempted ■to do. Let’s go out there now.” * It was perhaps quarter of two when they took their seats on the wooden bench under ,the trees, and, lighting their pipes, gazed out over the broad sweeping flood of the Mississippi, -gleaming like a silvered shield in the moonlight. Far across at the opposite shore the low line of orange groves aud plantation houses and quarters was merged in one long streak of gloom, relieved only at intervals by twinkling light. Farther up-stream, like dozing * -sea-dogs, the fleet of monitors lay • moored along the bank, with the mas^ und roofs .of Algiers dimly outlined against the crescent sweep of lights that marked the levee of the great southern metropolis, still prostrate from the savage buffeting of the war, yet so soon to rouse from lethargy, resume her sway, and, stretching forth her arms, to draw once again to her bosom the wealth and tribute, tenfold augmented, of the very heart of the nation, until, mistress of the commerce •of a score of states, she should rival even New York in the volume of her - » trade. Below them, away to the east j "towards English Turn, rolled the j "towny flood, each ripple and eddy and j swirling pool crested with silver—the | twinkling lights at Chalmette barely distinguishable from dim, low-hanging stars. Midway the black hull* of some j big ocean voyager was forging slowly, | stehdily towards them, the red light of : the port side alreadj' obscured, the white and green growing with every | “ minute more and more distinct, and, | isave the faint rustle of the leaves over- j head,- murmuring under the touch of i the soft, southerly night wind, the ; splash of wavelet against the wooden i pier, and the measured footfall of the ! •sentry on the flagstone walk in front ! ' of the sally-port, not a-sound was to be j heard.

For awhile thej* smoked in silence, •enjoying- the beauty of the night, though each was thinking only of the -storm that swept over the scene the Sunday previous and of the tragedy that was borne upon its wings. At last Kinsey shook himself together. “Ferry, sometimes I come out here -for a quiet smoke and think. Did it -ever occur to you what a fearful force, what illimitable power, there is sweeping by us here night after night with ©ever a sound?” “Oh, you mean the Mississip,” said Ferry, flippantly. “It would be a case of mops and brooms, I fancy, if she were -to bust through the bank and sweep at out into the swamps.” “Exactly! that’s in case she broke loose, as you say; but even when in the shafts, as she is now, between the levees, how long would it take her to -sweep a fellow from here out into the --gulf, providing nothing interposed to •atop him?” “Matter of simple mathematical eal•orvlation,” said Ferry, practically. “They say it’s an eight-mile current easy out there in the middle where she’s booming. Look at that barrel scooting down yonder. Now, I’d lay a fiver I could cut loose from here at reveille and shoot the passes before -taps .and never pull a stroke. It’s less -than eighty miles down to the forts.” “Well, then, a skiff like that that old Anatole’s blaspheming about losing wouldn’t take very long to ride over that route, would it?” said Kinsey, reflectively. ‘‘No, not if allowed, to slide. But •aomebody’d be sure to put out and haul it in as a prize—flotsam and what-you-may-oall-’em. You see these old niggers all along here with their skiffs tacking on to ev«ry bit of drift wood that’s worth having.” “l*ut, Ferry, do you think they’d venture out in such a storm as Sunday last?—think anything could live in it •abort of a decked ship?” ‘No, probably not Certainly not >’» boat'* %'Mk-v.:

0 “Wei], that’s just what I’m airaiA of, and what Cram and Reynolds dread.” “Do they? Well, so far as that storm’s concerned, it would have blown it down stream until it came to the biff bend below here to the east. Then, by rights, it ought to have blown against the left bank. Dut every' inch of it has been scouted all the way to j quarantine. The whole river was idled j with drift, though, and it might have j been wedged in a lot of logs and swept ; out anyhow. Splendid ship, that! Who is she, do you suppose?” The great black hull with its lofty tracery of masts and spars was now just about opposite the barracks, slowly and • majestically ascending the stream. “One of those big British freight steamers that moor there below the French market, I reckou. They seldom come up at night unless.it’s in the full of the moon, and even then they move with the utmost caution. Sec, she’s slowing up now.” “Hello! Listen! What’s that?” exclaimed Ferry, starting to his feet. A distant, muffled cry. A distant shot. The sentry at the sally-port dashed through the echoing vault, then bang! came the loud roar of his piece, followed by the yell of: “Fire! fire! The guard!” With one spring Feny was down the levee and darted like a deer across the road, Kinsey ’lumbering heavily after. Even as he sped through the stoneflagged way, the hoarse roar of the j drum at the guard-house, followed instantly by the blare of the bugle from the battery quarters, sounded the stirring alarm. A shrill, agonized female voice was madly screaming for help. Guards and sentries were rushing to the scene, and flames were bursting from the front window of poyle's quarters. Swift though Ferry ran, others were closer to the spot. Half a dozen active young soldiers, members of the infantry guard, had sprung to the rescue. When Ferry dashed; up to the gallery he was just in time to stumble over a writhing and prostrate form, to help extinguish the blazing clothing of another, to seize his water basket and

•gain and bact to their beds, and the silence of night once more reigned over Jackson arracks. One would suppose that sut h a scene of terror and excitement was enough, and that now the trembling frightened women might be allov; id to sleep in peace; but it wan not to be. Hardly had one of their number loscd her eyes, hardly had all the flickc -ing lights, save those at the hospital .nd guardhouse, been downed- again, when the strained nerves of the oce ipants of the officers’ quadrangle were jumped into mad jangling once more and all the barracks aroused a s;cond time, and this, too, by a woman’s shriek of horror. Mrs. Conroy, a delicate, fragile little body, wife of a junior lieutenant of infantry occupying a set of quarters in the same building with, but at the op-posite-end from, Pierce and Waring, was found lying enseless at the head of the gallery stairs. When revived, a aoid tears and tremblings and incoherent exclamations she declared that she had gone down to the big ice-chest on the ground-floor to get some milk for her nervous and frightened child and was hurrying noiselessly up the stairs again—the only means of communication between the first and second floors—when, face to face, in front of his door, she came upon Mr. Waring, or his ghost; that his eyes were fixed ; .nd glassy; that he did not seem to sec her even when he spoke, for speak lie did. His voice sounded like a mot a of anguish, she said, but the words were distinct: “Where is my knife ? Who has taken my knife?” And then little Pierce, who had helped to raise and carry the stricken woman to her room, suddenly darted out on the gallery and ran along to the door he had dosed four hours earlier. It was open. Striking a match, he hurried through into the chamber beyond, and there, face downward upon the bed, lay his friend and comrade Waring, moaning like one in the delirium of. fever. * ~w~ Lieut. Reynolds was seated at his desk at deportee ;nt headquarters

“this letter cams to braston bt hand, not bt mail.”

douse its contents over a third—one yelling, the others stupefied by smoke —or something. In less time than it takes to tell it, daring fellows had ripped down the blazing shades and shutters, tossed them to the parade beneath, dumped a heap of soaked and smoking bedding out of the rear windows, splashed a few bucketfuls of water about the reeking room, and the fire was out. But the doctors were working their best to bring back the spark of life to two senseless forms, and to still the shrieks of agony that burst from the seared and blistered lips of Bridget Doyle. YVhile^ willing hands bore these scorched semblances of humanity to neighboring rooms and tender-hearted women hurried to add their ministering touch, and old Braxton ordered the excited garrison back to quarters and bed, he, with Cram and Kinsey and Ferry, made prompt examination of the premises. On the table two whisky bottles, one empty, one nearly full, that Dr. Potts declared were not there when he left at one. On the mantel a phial of chloroform, which was also not there before. But a towel soaked with the stifling contents lay oh the floor by J im’s rude pallet, and a handkerchief half soaked, half consumed, was on the chair which had stood by the bedside * among the fragments of an overturned kerosene lamp. A quick examination of the patients showed that Jim, the negro, had.been chloroformed and -was not burned at all, that Doyle was severely burned and had probably inhaled flames, and that the woman was crazed with drink, terror and burns combined. It took the efforts of two or three men and the influence of powerful opiates to quiet her. Taxed with negligence or complicity on the part of the sentry, the sergeant of the guard repudiated the idea, and assured Col. Braxton that it was an easy matter for anyone to get either jn or out of the garrison without encountering the sentry, and taking his lantern led thd way to the hospital grounds by a winding footpath among the trees to a point ip the high white picket fence where two slats hsfd been shoved aside. * Anyone coming along the street without could pass far beyond the ken of the sentry at the west gate, and slip in with the utmost ease, and once 'inside all that was necessary was to dodge possible reliefs and patrols. No sentry was posted at the gate through the wall that separated the garrison proper from the hospital grounds. Asked why he had not reported this, the sergeant smiled and said there were a dozen others just as convenient, so what was the use? He did not say, however, that b| and his fellows had recourse to them night after night. It was thi-ee o’clock when the officers’ families got ftirlj settled down

about nine o’clock shat morning when an orderly in light-battery dres»s dismounted at the banquette and came up the stairs three at a jump. “Capt. Cram’s compliments, sir, and this is immediate,” he reported, as he held forth a note. Reynolds tore it open, read it hastily through, then said: “Go and fetch me a cab quick as you can,” aDd disappeared in the general’s room. Half an hour later he was spinning down the levee towards the French market, and before ten o’clock was seated in the captain’s cabin of the big British steamer Ambassador, which had arrived at her moorings during the night Cram and Kinsey were already there-, and to them the skipper was telling his story. Off the Tortugas just about as they had shaped their course for the Belize, they were hailed by the little steamer Tampa, bound from New Orleans to Havana. The se;. was calm, and a boat put off from the Tampa and came alongside, and presently a gentleman was assisted aboari. He seemed weak from illness, but explained that he was Lieut. Waring, of the United States artillery, hud been accidentally carried off to sea, and the Ambassador was the first inws td-bound ship they had sighted since crossing the bar. He would be most hankful for a passage back to Ne w Orleans. Capt. Baird had welcomed him with the heartiness of the British tar, and made him at home in Ms cabin. The lieutenant was evidently far from well, and seemed somev lat dazed and mentally distressed. He could give no account of his misl »p other than that told Mm by the officers of the Tampa, which had lain to when overtaken by the gale on Saturday night, and on Sunday morning vhen they resumed their course dov astream they overhauled a light skif f and were surprised to find a man aboard, drenched and senseless. 6“The left side of his face was badly bruised and discolored, even when he came to . s,” said Baird, “and he must have beei: slugged and robbed, for his watch, his seal-ring and what ! little money he bad were all gone.” The second officer of the Tampa had fitted him out with a dean shirt, and the steward dried Ms clothing as best I he could, but the coat was stained and clotted with block Mr. Waring had slept heavily much of the way back until they passed Pilot Town. Then ; he was up and dre sed Thursday afternoon, and seeming ! y in better spirits, when he picked uj » copy of the New Orleans Picayune which the pilot had left aboard, and vas reading that, when suddenly he i ‘ arted to Ms feet with an exclamati n of amaze, anu, when the captain ti ned to see what was the matter,*Wai mg was ghastly pale and fearfully c :cited by* something he had read. lvi Md the paper under Ms coat and sp vng up on deck and paced nervously W and fro for

hours, and begun to grow so til, apparently, that Capt. Baird was much worried. At night he begged to be put ashore at the barracks instead of going on up to town, and Baird had become so troubled about him that he sent his second officer in the gig with him, landed him on the levee opposite the sally-port, ard there, thanking them heartily, but declining further assistance, Waring had hurried through the entrance into the barrack square. Mr. Royce, the second officer, said there was considerable excitef ment, beating of drums and sounding of bugles, at the post, as they rowed* 1 towards the shore. He did not learn the cause. Capt. Baird was most anxious to learn if the gentleman lad safely reached his destination. Cr um replied that he had, but in a state bordering on delirium and unable U give any coherent account of himself. He could tell he had been aboard tht Ambassador and the Tampa, but that ; was about all And then they told Baird that what j Waring probably saw was Wednesday’s I paper with the details of the inquest on the body of Lascelles and the chain of evidence pointing to himself as the murderer. This caused honlest Capt. Bail'd to lay ten to one he wasn’t, and five to^me he’d never heard of it till he got the paper above Pilot Town. Whereupon all three officers mapped the Briton on the back and shook him by the hand and begged his company to dinner at the barracks and at Moreau’s; and then, while Reynolds sped to the police office and Kinsey back U Col. Braxton, whom he represented a* the interview, Cram remounted, and followed by the faithful Jeffers, trot ted up Rampart street and sent in his card to Mme. Lascelles, and madame’s maid brought back reply that she was still too shocked and stricken to re ceive visitors. So also did Mme. d’Hervilly deny herself, and Cram rode home to Nell. [to us coNTixrga.]

WAYS OF HER OWN. ) California Das the Name of Being Unlike » Othfer States. “I have just returned from California,” said a resident of Louisville, Ky., the other day. “It was my first visit to the land of Sunol and Stanford, and I may say I learned something new. The state is so far removed from the center of finance and commerce that the people have set up a little stock of habits and notions of their own, and outsiders who do not fit this standard, no matter what their ability or prestige given them by the' north, south and east, are more than likely to be ridiculed or denounced, or both. I have in mind at this moment an actress whose success in the east was pronounced. She went direct from New York to Chicago, and from there to St. Louis. An ovation greeted her everywhere. From the latter city she went to San Francisco, her coming heralded by the telegraph. On the first night she encountered an audience of graven images. She was nerved to superhuman exertions by the coldness of her auditors, and acted in better form and in greate$ spirit than ever before in her career. At the end of the first act a few scattered bits of applause could be heard but that was all. To the end of the play she continue*! her exertions, but the result was the same. The next morning the papers literally flayed her alive. The critic t cut her up in small pieces with theit> caustic pens; they sneered at the other critics who had presumed to make of her a public ideal, decried her merits where others had pointed out and_ praised them, and in every conceivableway opposed the position taken by those who had preceded them. The actress’ manager had intended a ti^Tee weeks’ stay for his star, but he was glad to get out after the three daysN She returned to St. Louis and repeated her success, all the more significant because of the poor treatment accoried her in the Pacific state. Though this occurred twelve years ago she has not been in California since, and probably will not set foot in ft again during her life. “California an*her people are not in sympathy with the rest of the country and I think it is becaufic of the thousands of miles that intervene between. She is like another nation in man; ways.” _

Temperatures of the Poles. The southern hemisphere is colder i than the northern hemisphere, or rather the summers ara much colder and the winters a few degrees warmer, the reason being that at the North pole much of the ice which forms is held in by the land, while at the south pole, there being very little land, the ico forms and then floats toward the equator, chilling the continents it passes. The greater quantity of water in the southern hemisphere is a reason of it» more equable climate, and the fact that the sun spends eight days more on the northern side of the equator than he does on the southern accounts for the average temperature in the south falling below that at the north. The 01(1 Recipe. “When I go shooting for birds,” said Wallie, “I’m not going to use shot to kill ’em with. . I’m going to catch ’em alive.” “How are you going to do it, Wallie?” asked his undo. “I’m going to load my gun with salt and shoot at their tails/’ said Wallie.— Harper’s Young People. A Good Object 1. ess on. Prof. Lumpin’s clcthes are always i* such a tattered condition that rectxiAr ly, when he saw himsel? in a looking glass, he took out his parse in order to give himself some alms.—Schalk. At Hie Trade. Mrs. Gramm—Go about your business. We don’t want any beggart round here. Tramp—But begging is my business ma’am. —Truth._ Don’t forget that members of tbs family have as good a rigb*. to a plea* ant greeting when met, fcnd will ap predate it as much, aa the business a* qiiaaintance next dee*

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