Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 43, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 March 1894 — Page 3

NEARER TO GOO AND TO TWEE. Go make thee a mark far above me, Near tbe top of the temple of fame: 1 Say that thoult endeavor to love me. When there I have written my name. Think not of the hearts that have fainted While striving for what I would be, For I shall be better for striving. , And nearer to God and to thee. No burden could e'er be too heavy, No task ever seem too great, No Journey too long or too lonely, No hour too early or late. For my matchless love would be thriving , On the hope of the bliss to be. And I shou’d be better for striving,' And nearer to God and to thee. All the long way from noontime till midnight, And back from the midnight to noon: jjy the bright light of love I’d be toiling., And hoping the end would be soon. . And when time of hope had bereft me, „ ^ Tossed wildly on life’s troubled sea, * I should know the struggle had left me Sti'd nearer to God and to thee. —Cy Warman, in N. Y. Sun.

$ * {Copyright, 1893, by i. B. I/ippincott & Ca, and published by apecial arrangement] XI.—Conti ntteh ,“1 was their guest; I had no money. What could I del? It was then after eleven, I should judge. M. Philippes, or whatever his name was, gave orders ■to the driver. We pulled up, and then, to my surprise, I found we were at Doyle's. That ended it. I told them they must excuse me. They protested, but of course I couldn't go in there. So they tohk a couple of bottles apiece and went in the gate and I settled myself for a nap and got it. I don’t know how long I slept, but I was aroused by the devil's own tumult. A shot had been fired. Men and women both were screatulng and swearing. Some one suddenly burst into the cab beside me, really pushed from behind, and then away We went through the mud and rain; hnd the lightning was flashing now, and presently I could recognize Lascelics, raging, i ‘Infame!’ ‘Coquin!’ ‘Assassin!’ were the mildest terms he was volleying at somebody, and then, recogn icing me, he burst into maudlin tears, swore I was his only friend. He had been insulted, abused, denied reparation. Was he hurt? I inquired, and instinctively feltl for my knife. It was still there where I’d hid it in the inside pocket of m3’ overcoat. No hurt; not a Ydofv Did I. suppose tliat he, a Frenchman, would pardon that or leave the shot until satisfaction had . been exacted? Then I begged him to be calm and listen to me fora moment. I told him my plight—that I had given tny word to be at the barracks that evening; that I had no money left, but I could go no further. Instantly he forgot his woes and became absorbed in my affairs. ‘Parole d'honneur” he would see that mine was never unsullied. He himself would escort me to the maison de Capitaine Cram. He would rejoice to pay to that brave ennemi- Behold! here is thy lieutenant, of ho*4or the most unsullied, of courage tDc most admirable, of heart the most magnanimoua The Lord only knows what he wouldn’t have done had we not pulled up at his gate. There I helped him out on the banquette. He was steadied by ■ his row, whatever it had been. He would not let me expose myself—even under Pierce’s umbrella. :He would not permit me to suffer ‘from times so of the dog.’ ‘You will drive monsieur tb his home and return here for me at once,’ he ordered cabby, grasped both mj’ hands with fervent good night and the explanation that he had much haste, implored pardon for leaving me—on the moyrow he would call and explain everything— then darted into the gate. We never •could have parted on more friendly terms. I stood for a moment to see that he safely reached his door, for a light was dimly burning in the hall, then turned to jump into the cab, but it wasn't there. Nothing was there. I jumped from the banquette Into a berth aboard some steamer out at sea. They tell me the first thing I asked for was Pierce’s umbrella and Larkin’s hat.” And this was the story that Waring maintained from first to last. ‘-‘Pills” ventured a query as to whether the amount of Krug and Clicquot consumed might not liave overthrown his mental equipoise. No, Sam declared, he drank very little. “The only Bacchanalian thing I did was to join in a jovial chorus from a new French opera which Lascelles’ friend piped up and I had heard in the north:

“Oui, buvons, bwons encoro! * S’il est un vln qu’on adore Po Paris a Macao, C est le Clicquot, c’est le Clicquot” Asked if he had formed any conjecture as to the identity of the stranger, Sam said no. The name sounded like “Philippes,” but he couldn’t be sure. But when told that there were rumcft-s to the effect that Lascelles* younger brother had been seen with him twice or thrice of late, and that he had been in exile because, if anything, of a hopeless passion for roadame his sister-in-law, and that his name was Philippe, Waring looked dated. Then a sudden light, as of newer, fresher memory^ flashed up in his eyes. He seemed about to speak, but as suddenly controlled hfmself and turned his face to the wall. From that time on he was determinedly dumb about the stranger. What roused him to lively interest and Conjecture, however, was Cram’s query as to whether he had not recognized in the cabman called in by the straflger the very one whctn he had “knocked endwise” and who had tried to shoot him that morning. “No,” said Wartag, “the man did not speak at all, that 3 noticed, and 1 did not once see his face, he was so bundled up against the etorm.” But if it was the same party, suggested he, it seemed hardly necesCary to look any further in explanation <fi his own disappearance. Cabby had pdmply squared matters by knocking [him senseless, helping himself to his jwatch and ring and turning out his rackets, then hammering him until ^Tightened off, and then, to oover hie

tracks, setting' .Him afloat in Anutoie s boat. “Perhaps cabby took a hand in the murder, too,” {suggested Sam. with eager interest. “You say he had disappeared—gone with his plunder. Now. who else could have taken my knife?” Then Reynolds had something to tell him; that the ‘ lady” who wrote the anonymous letters, the belle araie whom Lascelles proposed to visit, the occupant of the upper floor of “the dove-cot,” was none other than the blighted floweret who had appealed to him for aid and sympathy, for fifty dollars at first and later for more, the first year of his army service in the sonth, “for the sake of the old home. ” Then W aring grew even more excited and interested. “Pills” put a stop to farther developments for a few days. He feared a relapse. But, in spite of “Pills,” the developments, like other maladies, throve. The little detective came down again. He was oddly inquisitive about that chanson a boire from “Fleur de The.” Would Mr. Waring hum it for him? And Sam, now sitting up in his parlor, turned to his piano, and with long, slender, fragile-looking fingers rattled a lively prelude and then faintly quavered the rollicking words. “Odd,” said Mr. Pepper, as they had grown to call him, 'T £eard that sung by a fellow up in Chartres street two nights hand-running before this thing happened—a merry cuss, too, with a rather loose hand on his shekels. Lots of people may know it, though, mayn’t they?” “No, indeed, not down here,” said Sam. “It only came out in New York within the last four months.and hasn’t been south or west at all, that I know of. What did he look like?” “Well, what did the fellow that was with you look like?” y But here Sam's description grew vague.' So Pepper went up to have a beer by himself at the cafe chantant *

towering on his right, the little party came upon a group of stringers—three gentlemen, one of whom stepped courteously forward, raising his hat in a • black-gloved hand, lie vas of medium height, slender, ereet ar 1 soldierly in bearing; his fack was d .rk and oval, his eyes large, deep and full of light, lie spoke mainly in English, but with marked accent, and the voice was soft and melodious. “I fear I have intrude. Have I the honor to address Lieut. Waring? I am Philippe Lascelles.” For a moment Waring was too amazed to speak. At last, with brightening face and holding forth his hand, he said: “I am most glad to meet you—to know that it was not you who drove down with us that night. ” “Alas, no! I left Amand but that very morning, returnin':- to Havana, thence going to Santiago It was not until five days ago the news reached me. It is of that stranger I come to ask.** It was an odd council gathered there in Waring’s room in the old barracks that April morning while Ferry was drilling the battery to his heart’s content and the infantry companies were wearily going over the manual or bayonet exercise. Old Brax had been sent for, and came. M. Lascelles’ friends, both, like himself, soldiers of the south, were presented, and for their information Waring’s story was again told, with only most delicate allusion to certain incidents which might be considered as reflecting on the character and dignity of the elder brother. And then Philippe told his. True, there had been certain transactions between Armand and himself. He had fully trusted his brother, a man of affairs, with the management of the little inheritance which he, a soldier, had no idea how to handle, and Armand’s business had suffered greatly by the war. It was touching ^to see how in every

‘why, what is it, waking?’

on Chartres street, and didn't return for nearly a week. ’ , Meantime came this exquisite April morning' and Sam's appearance in the pony phaeton in front of Battery “X.” Even the horses seemed to prick up their ears and he glad to see him. Grim old war sergeants rode up to touch their caps and express the hope that they’d soon have the lieutenant in command of the right section again “not hut what Loot'n't Ferry's doing first-rate, —an<^ f°r a few minutes, as <nisiahrcEbrioteer drove him around the bakery, ip his weak, languid voice Waring indulged in a little of his own characteristic chaffing: “I expect you to bring this section up to top notch, Mr. Ferry, as I am constitutionally opposed to any work on my own account. I beg to call your attention, sir, to the f^ct that it’s very bad form to appear with frill dress schabraque on your horse when the battery is in fatigue. The red blanket, ear, the red blanket only should bo psed. Be good enough to-stretch your traces there, right caisson. Yes, I thought so, swing trace is twisted. Carelessness, Mr. |Terry, and indifference to duty are things I won’t tolerate. Your cheek strap, too, sir, is an Inch too long. Your bit will fall through that horse's mouth. This won’t do, sir, not in my section, sir. I’ll fine you a box of Partagas if it occurs again.” i | .1/ • j But the blare of the bugle sounding “attention” announced the presence of the battery commander. Nell whipped up in ah instant and whisked her invalid out of the way. „ “Good morning, Capt. Cram,” said he, as he passed his smiling chief. “I regret to observe, sir, that things have been allowed to run down somewhat in my absence.” “Oh, out with you, you combination of cheek and incapacity, or I’ll run you down with the whole battery. Oh! Waring, some gentlemen in a carriage have just stopped at your quarters, all in black, too. Ah, here’s the orderly now.” >. And the card, black bordered, handed into the phaeton, bore a-name which blanehed Waring’s face: $}. g*scettc$, JTlle Orleans “Why, what is it, Waring?” asked Cram, anxiously, bending down from his saddle. For a moment Waring was silent. Mrs, Cram felt her own hand trembling. “Can you turn the battery over to Ferry and come with me?” asked the lieutenant. “Certainly. Bugler, report to Lient. Ferry and tell him I shall have to be absent for awhile. Drive on, Nell.*’ When, five minutes later, Waring was assisted up the stairwav. Gram

word the younger strove to conceal the fact that the elder had misapplied the securities and had been practically faithless to his trust. Everything, he declared, had been finally settled as between them that very morning before his return to Havana. Armand had brought to him early all papers remaing in his possession and had paid him what was justly due. He knew, however, that Armand was now greatly embarrassed in his affairs. They’“ had parted with fond embrace, the m<#st affectionate of brothers. But Philippe had been seeing and hearing enough to .make him gravely apprehensive as to Armand’s future, to know that his business was rapidly going down-hill, that he had been raising money in various ways, speculating, and had fallen into the hands of sharpers, and yet Armand would not admit it, would not consent to accept help or to use his younger brothers property in any way. ‘“The lawyer,” said Philippe, ‘“informed me that Beau Eivage was heavily mortgaged, and it is feared that there will be nothing left for madame and NIn 2s in, though, for that matter, they shall never want,” What he had also urged, and he spoke with reluctance here, and owned it only because the detectives told him it was now well known, was that Armand had of la~e been playing the role of galant homme, and that the woman in the case had fled. Of all this he,felt, he said, bound to speak fully, because in coming here with his witnesses to meet Lieut. Waring and his friends he had two objects in view. The first was to admit that he had accepted as fact the published reports that Lieut. Waring was probably his brother’s slayer; had hastened back to New Orleans to demand justice or obtain revenge; had. here learned from the lawyers and police that there were other and much more probable theories, having heard only one of which he had cried: “Enough,” and had come to pray the forgiveness of Mr. Waring for having believed an officer and a gentleman guilty of so foul a crime. Second, he had come to invdjgahis aid in running down the murderer. Philippe was affected almost to tears. “There is one question I must beg to ask monsieur,” said Waring, as the two clasped hands. “Is there not still a member of your family who entertains the idea that it was I who killed Armand Lascelles?” And Philippe was ^deeply embarrassed. “Ah, monsieur,” ho answered, “I could not venture to intrude myself upon a grief so sacred. I have not seen madame, and wlio is there who could—who would—toll her of Armand’s—” And Philippe broke off abruptly, with despairing shrug, and outward wave of his s ender hand. “Let us try to see that she never does know,” said War; ag. “These are the men we need to fii d: the driver- of the cab, the strong or whose name sounded so like yours a tall, swarthy, black-haired, black-eyed fellow with pointed mustache—” “C’est lui! c’eSt bier Ini!” exclaimed Lasa^Hes—“the veryj uut who insisted

ob entering the private office where, Armand and I, we close our affairs tliat morning. His whispered word# make' my brother all of pale, and yet he go off humming to himself.” “Ola, we’ll nail him,” said Cram. “Two of the best detectives in the south are on his trail now.” And then came Ananias with a silver tray, champagne and glasses (from Mrs. Cram), and the conference went on another hour before the guests went off. “Bless my soul!” said Brax, whose diameter seemed in no wise increased by the quart of Roederer he had swallowed with such gusto—“bless my soul! and to think I believed that we were going to have a duel with some of those fellows a fortnight or so

Then entered “Pills” and ordered Waring1 back to bed. He,was sleeping placidly when, late that evening, Reynolds and Cram came Waring up tiie stairway, full of greats news; but tiie doctor said not to wake him. Meantime, how fared it with that bruised reed, the lone widow of the late Lieut. Doyle? Poor old Jim had been laid away with military honors under the flag at Chalmette, and his faithful Bridget was spending the days in the public calaboose. Drunk and disorderly was the charge on which she had been arraigned, and, though she declared herself abundantly able to pay her fine twice over, Mr. Pepper had warned the authorities to keep her under lock and key and out of liquor, as her testimony would be of vital importance, if for nothing better than to send her up for perjury. Now she was alternately wheedling, cursing. coaxing, bribing; all to no purpose. The agent of the Lemaitre property had swooped down on the dove cot and found a beggarly array of empty bottles and a good deal of discarded feminine gear scattered about on both floors. One room in which certain detectives were vastly interested contained the unsavory relics of a late supper. Three or four empty champagne bottles,*some shattered glasses, and, what seemed most to attract them, various stubs of partially consumed cigarettes, lay about the tables and floor. Adjoining this was the chamber which had been known as Mrs. Dawson's, and thfk too, had been thoroughly explored. ’Louette, who had disappeared after Doyle’s tragic death, was found not far away, and the police thought it but fair that Mrs. Doyle should not be deprived of the sdfvices of her maia. Then came other additions, though Confined in other sections of the city. Mr. Pepper wired that the party known as M. Philippes had been run to earth and would reach town with him by train about the same time that another of the force returned from Mobile by boat, bringing a young man known as Dawson and wanted as a deserter, and a very sprightly young lady who appeared to move in a higher sphere qf life, but was unquestionably his wife, for" the officer could prove their marriage in South Carolina in the spring of ’05. As Mr. Pepper expressed it when he reported to Reynolds: “It’s almost a full hand, but, for a fact, it’s only a bobtail flush. We need that cabman to fill.” , I TO BE CONTINUED. I ADVANTAGES OF SLOW TRAVEL. The Old-Style Transatlantic Journey and That of the Racing Liner. The slower-going steamer, say three hundred to three hundred and fifty miles a day, has decided advantages over the racer. To attain a high speed enormous propelling power is required and the ocean greyhound is like a great machine shop, the pulsations of that machinery jarring every portion of the boat. To double the speed, says the Baltimore Sun, of a vessel at sea the power must be cubed. The vessel to plow through the water at twentj*four miles per hour must displace twice as much water in an hour as it does when going at twelve miles per hour. That would require twice the power. But in addition to this the water must. be displaced in half the time, and tha|| requires the power to be doubled agajfp So that a vessel which would consume five tons of-coal in an hour going at a rate of twelve miles would consume, all other conditions being equal, twenty tons per hour if the speed is increased to twenty-four miles. After all there are attractions in the old style of going to sea, with its leisurely gait, its perfect rest, its absolute change from all the conditions of life on land, which are superior in the judgment of many people to the five or six days of hotel life between New York and Liverpool on one of the “liners.” .

Measuring the Inilnitesimal. The capacity of human comprehension is not a little tasked at the conclusion arrived at by scientists, wha it now appears, have succeeafed in measuring1 the thickness of the, envelope of soapy water inclosing1 the air of the bubble when it has become so thin as to produce rainbow tints. Thus, when showing the shade of violet, it was one-fourth the thickness of the length of an or*liriary violet wave of light—1-60,000 of an inch—athickness, that is, equal to 1-240,000 of an inch. As the bubble continued to expand a black patch was found to be only onefortieth of that of the violet section, or just about 1-10,000,000 of of inch. His Fate. Mr. Dude—I was thinking how much I resemble your carpet—always at your feet, you know. Miss Sly—Yes, you are very much like my carpet. I am going to shake it soon.—Judge. Used to It. “Did Mr. Slowpay seem annoyed at your calling with his bill?” asked MrGaskett of his new collector. “No, sir,” replied the youijg man; “on the contrary, he asked me to call again.”—Boston Globe. A Foiled Diplomat.. Husband—You look splendid in that hat. ^ - Wife—You always diaco<*er I look splendid when the time oodles for ma to have a new hat.—Texas Sifting*

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