Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 7, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 August 1873 — Page 2

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Yoa mast eome the folks I 1 reck m«y clined 10 come, tKimiwbmyt'vv mind to, there meet always some one tu about— I'm sorry It happened so to-day, that both the gais waa out.

Ye needn't be partie'lor about our home, We're In and out consid'able, and over to

Father's mft. *. »Bat the gal* you'll And gad company, esrxwhTy Hairy Jane: 2i uiink they'll both oa be *ladto have ye eome again.

Jerushy, she's mote quiet like—hain't been so much to school But I tell ye what, ef I do aay it, abeam nobody's fool: Bbe's more "domestic,** aa they aay, but she know* what she's about, 'N most likely you'll find her to home, ef .hairy Jane is out, ., "She's quleter'n Balry Jane?" Wal, should say she was You'd think ao 'f yoa should bear the way that gal goea on—O laws 1 She ain't so showy nigh as Sal {I sometimes call her Hal For short, though she don't like it much.) bat she's my favorite gal. Our Hairy Jane was dowa to Brooklyn, goin'on nigh two year, _ft(t school there at the Packard —U was her ma'sidear. She thought our deestrick school wa I quite enough for Balry Jane, 'N wu

did

talk a Uuie this spring 'v

her there again.

I kinder hate to have her go—not that I mind the expense, But In all this -flnlshln'" business, there don't seem to me no »eu*e— Iwhat with French. Dutch and Italian, and thumpic'the pianny, QaJs now days ain't of no account, at least .5 mot much If any. ^11 fa **ii tSk

Hairy Jane

:'N

Wal. wal, youug woman, where've ye btH'.n, and what d'ye think that John »8hwn tcllln' me about ye here and your sly guius on

And ye never said ft word to me—ye what?

J,uspoke

to mother

I must say she kep' it dre'ful secret somehow *n' other But it's all right, Ji-rushy—though I hate to let ye golfs Just me way with blessln's we count most on here below." AVal, John, von tnko«0od care of her, she'll make a m*t-rau» wife I reckon you love hot—love's 'bout all there

Is worth much in life: And rtehm, you know what the Scriptur' says of thieves and moth— I wish yejoy, Jiroshy-John—aud mny Uod bless ye both.

StSiK

JERUSHTM ne 'nsee us ogtri, Ma, ii alii' heme a uk« to ae ye, 'f ye ft ye feel in-

send

Mother and me waa beth oh us brought up to like to work, I've alintwrt always had to, and nsy woman ain't no stilrk And both our gals is use to it, but somehow

Don't take to it so nai'ml as Jerushy, that is plain. And sfcnce she's Been to board In.' bchool she kinder thinks It ain't Quite so genteel to cook and wash as 'Us to read and paint, Or ih'I In the best settin' room dressed up afternoons,

prnctlsln', on our new pianny, all her fancy tunes. But Jem shy somehow* always busy *t One thing or another, A seelir about llie housework, or a helpln of her mother Bfie never hires no sewlu' done, she runs her own machine, And yet with all her workiu' reads a good deal In between.

You've uoticed what adiflVirence there was In tljem two gals?" Wal, yes, Jerusha's face, to moat folks, ain't so fair as Sal's And Sally Is more showy, with her city ways and clothes, 'N It's nat'ral that of the two»he'd take best wit^ the beaux. ..'-*.,-5^-^ ,»«-« ,** Wal, Balry Jane Is Wight antf sinari "and 1 pretty, I'll allow, „'N if she ain't so useful-What don't tell me, John! Wal, now!

You like Jerushy better and-and what's that yo say? You've come to ask for my consent to give my gal away 1 Why, John, 7 I'd seen the angel Gabriel comltt' through the skies, 1 really think I couldn't a been more chook full o' surprise: And yet, now that I think on't, it kind er

Mtrtk' Ji me, too,

]'re hoered Jerush' say so'ihin' about her llkln'you. Wal, John, so far as I'm concerned, I can't say's I object. ... And her mother won't donothln'tohinder, I I expect But It's so kinder sudden, it most takes my breath away, 'When Sutry Jane hews,011*11 wogider what onaJrth -he'll say. Don't go yet, John set down a spell-it aln 1*0 very late Here Is Jerushy eoinln* now through the back garden gate.

1 Wish I Were

Dead.

Twenty years ago Loudon waa a much Jollier flMHi In every way than It la now. it bad an individuality of its own then Ua big hotels were unbuilt, Its Houses of Parliament wero unfinished it

whs

just a bitf, brown, busy

eity, with a splendid river running slap through it. for it had a river then, with shores and noble bridges now It has a stone trough, with iron drainpipes arrow it. One rode on the top of 'otWR then, or darted a boat in handsotm:novr, I declare, when I visit London, 1 ajx'tui Rll my time in a coal-col-lar, where there Is an escape of praa, aud where nil the hot cinders from tbe kitchen are emptled—l mean 'the Metropolitan Railway.

Twenty years ago 1 was in London, iiviug on a slender pittance, and much troubled In the matter of dinners. Aa a rule I dined In the middle of theday. on a chop, sent in bv a neigbtorii»K publican, aui tuade out with broad and heese and boer at night. But there were times when the soul craved more luxurious living. Those times generally coincided pretty accurately with tbe advent uf quarter day, and then one would go in for a cut of Simpson mutton, or, II more reckleee, for a dinner at the Wellington, at that timejuat opes* el vi« "Crocklbrd,a.,,

Sundays were the worst days for din* nor nranffement*. By brwkftotlBt *t nmo, Inilewrt, on© avoided the neceealty of any iunebeoa but, at about five o'clock, a desperate craving would come over tiie, a gnawing vulture In the stomach would ceaselessly cry /or food. Frequently, I confess an empt|V purse coincided with an empty stomach and the vulture cried In vain: but aometlmw* one had a few shillings in one's pocket, and then, even then, tbe problem waa a difficult one—when to dine on Sunday.

I went otten, onsueb ocewdon*, to an underground chamber called Ute Ile«eest#, not far from Long-acre. Tbe promise* of that establishment were excellent. Soap, A*b, and joint—all for the modset sum of eighteen pence. Tho performance, however, was eomewhat feeble. I don't mean to my "wasn't an excellent dinner for the money—it waa. But It wasn't an invigorati u« dlu ner. Tbe soup was somewhat thin, tbe fish were generally "freah" herrings, and they'd nave been better (or a little salt originally. The

the aoup the 1 and

the stronger

succulent tbe joint,

iBlllSISi

On® Sunday, I rsmeinber, my funda were getting low, very lout. I hsd datar mined to remain Inw lodgings and support nature on tobacco atnok* but my hunger waa too atfong. I bad a few shilling* left, arid as the evening wore on and tbecraviug of my appetite increased, resolution broke down. I put on my hat an&Jbnrried out in qoeat of a dinner.

How is it that everything looks ao ghastly on Sunday? Don't tell me about the pricking* of eonaolenoei misspent day, and all that. Good lack. I wish, I'd nothing worse than that to reproach myself witb. But I believe It to be a physical fact, that on Monday the air ii looded with b»l«. I don't think it rises above a certain altitude. I've escaped it on the helgbtt of Hampstead! on tbe hills of Surrey but, within a certain distance above tbe level of the sea, I believe the air, between eleven o'dook In the morning and eight at night, on Sunday, to be overwithbile.

wastlshy the joint w«e.redUC(Kl to a stump. Walter," I cried, "can I dispense witb the other courses, and dine oft the soup "It you wisb, of course, sir," said the

Waiter.

I had three helps of that excellent pea soup, and iu each plato I put a spoonful of dried mint. But the after result was not exhilarating it rather clogged the pores, I think, that soup. Miserable and depressed as I went into (he Recesses. I felt still more miserable, more depressed after ray dinner. I bad spent my prescribed allowance. I couldn't go anywhere or da anything. I could only go back to my gloomy lodgings through the sloppy street, and sit, ana lonely chew the cud of bitter meditation.

Tbe idea seemed to me horrible and yet now, as ever,' there appeared to be no escape for tne from the embraces of this dull melancbolly fiend. I couldn'X help saying to mysolf, as I sat with my chin resting on my hands, "I wish I were dead!"

I didn't mean to say It aloud, but I suppose I must have whispered it audibly for a man who was sitting opposite me at tbe table—who had been sitting opposite me at the table— wbo had been silting there smoothing bis heavy red mustache sli the time I had been dining, his eyes fixed on bis plate—looked up of a sudden, and gave me a quick and searching glance.

I knew him then, it yr*a Med hurst, an old sohoolfelLow. As a boy he baa always been a mystery, to us that quick, sudden glanco of bis bad always bad such a strange effect upon all whom it fell. We used to say he bad the Evil Eye, and wonderfol tales used to be told at school about the effect of Medburst's look. Still, I was glad to see him any relief from.theloneliness and monotony of my life was pleasant. He recognized me also, and came over aud sat beside me.

Well," be said^aiter we had shaken hands—he had a etrange, flabby, chilly band, which somehow sent an ley thrill to my very heart—"well, and so you wish you were dead.!" "Did you hoar met" I asked. Oh! it was nonsense of course. I often say so. A foolish babit I have. I don't menu it."

It was nonsense!" be said, he tslked in a low, monotonous voice, intelligible enough to tbe ear for which it was intended, but not to be overheard by others. "It was nonsense, but a very rational, prndent wisb. I wish so mysell and wbat is more," he said, "I have the means to carry out both our wishes."

I laughed uneasily. "Yon are jok-

I never joke. Until now," he went on, "the great deterring influence which has restrained those wise men.

WutOn uflfl ITrl talilrU ILIUow Wlw IlltSfl^

I threw

"abo,"

Perhaneit's owing in church er

charged to so mauy people being chapel, and that they leave their bile outside, as tb^y do tbeif umbrellas on

ay.

a wet da,

When I made up ray mind to go,to ,u»e I tbe.

pti

who see the follv and emptiness of life night waa atortny, and the

—wbo mcutsurinp their feeble capacities for enjoyment with tholrcapabilitl suffering, would gladly resign a pos session which has no advantage for tbeun—the great deterring influence has been, tho doubt whether death be really a complete severing of tbe body ana tho soul whether, indeed, there is not a lingering capability of feeling still banging to tho relaxed nerves, a lingering consciousness in tbe decaying brain that, In addition to the bitterness of death, one may taste, also, tbe gloom of the grave, the horrors of tbe charttal-bouse."

-wbo maasurlng their feeble capacities

for enjoyment with thelrcapabllltlesfor

Good heavens Jn I cried. "What a horrible idea Ho fascinated me, this man. I would gladly have risen and gone away but eye.

Listen," he said, "I have overcome this Impediment 1 have opened the gates 01 Death to all mankind. To you my young schoolfellow, I will reveal the secret} lest tempted so tne day to the boundary, I should die, and ,vt mankind as wretched as ever. You nee this powdered herb It is like mini, is it not? the smell, the taste, everything Is like mint—you womld not know them apart? and yet In small quantity of this powder lies lease frntu all the miseries of life. Don't sb. nk back It is Innocuous In smalt dom «, nrodoww merely a pleasing langour but In such a quantity a teas}oonful, it produces lethargy twice the quantity brings on syncope thrice inevitable

dkatb.

I bave often

ventured es far as the eeoond stage, but have always stopped short of tbe third. Bet I have brougBt back tbns much assurance from tbe world of shadows consclonsness comes altogether at the seooml stage. There are no dreams in the sleep of death. 'The preliminary stage of lethargy is delightful—I often Indulge in but I have bad a doubt sometimes whether I might not poesses an exceptional phya&ai organisation whether the herb would produce exactly the same effect on a large scale. 1 come here tonight to dolt. I have noticed thateeeh frequenter of these rooms, on psa-ooop, nljthta, which are

takes one

plate bf aoup, to wbfcb he adds one spoonful of mint. Well, I watched my opportunity. I «*««ihere^ tbe room was opened, and while lbe waiter's book woe turned, I emptledthe contents of tbe plate of ah* lato*my pocket and filled the plate with my own powder. Tbe experiment was a bold one. I might have caused tbe death of innocent persons. However. I peraevered tbe interests of sdenoe overpower considerations of humanity. The experiment has completely succeeded. Kacn babitne of tbese rooms has swallowed bis plate of soup, hia spoonful of preelous herb: each has gone through tbe stage of lethargy. There are some now, you observe, passing through tbst stage."

no went

'Andl^KTirent ob.uIcan

upon you—the dilated pupil of be eye, the expression of anxiety in the face. a

expi

Yea, all is perfect tbe "But/* I grasped, T9MI SPOOKFDLLl" "Martyr of seienee! springing tup and ela* hand, "how oarefblly,

manity. Like Curtius, youjiave lea^

MBut

I hi»ve never wished myself dead since then. «f 'v ri"

TCTtwW-HATlTB KATURJM.y EVENING MAIW.UGUST 16, 1873.

N. ii)mi

TAKES

I wo»'l die!" I ahouted, get-

ting up. My llmba trembled beneath

»p. mv iiiMu*

open tbe prices of which would be within uty means. How dismal It looked this Sunday evening, that Ion low room its tables almost deserte save for one or two tnen here and there nodding ever a plate of biscuits. There was pea soup that night, 1 remember VvSm Dva qUUU lllltv UilCliwa A lvillOUIVv(| ,» and it was rather uood, too. Tbe fish odlnth® ifllotj Send for doctor,yow .. 1 VI M/vn

lice man. Quick, qnlrikS I'm poisoned J" All tbe lethargic men jumped to their feet, tbe waiter* came running in, the proprietor appeared pale and wonder Inc. ...

I'm poisoned!" I shouted "poison

fools!do

you

a batter. Poor fellow, those fits. He'll fall look out for him "But *n» not going to have the character of the house taken away for no mad freak. What do you ffleau, sir, by attacking the quality of my victual* sir?"

It wa's he," I shouted, pointing to my friend, "who now seeks to screen himself by calling me mad. Bat, good heavens twill you see a ffellow creature perish, perish,

pkkwh?" jm

There, don't aggravate him,' said my friend. "Put hltn Into a cab and send him to a police station he's sure to bave been advertised for." 1 was dragged and Jiuatled from tta$ room, and hurried iuto a cab. Two or three policemen had come up, and one took charge of me inside, whilst another mounted tbe box. I was quiet now, overcome by u»y struggles, and lay exhausted in tbe corner of the cab, waiting the insidious advances or the deadly narcotic.

Presently the pab stopped. "We've got that chap tbey advertised for," cried the man outside, to a policeman who was lounging at the door of the at "The deuce you have!" said the inspector, coming up. "I'hen J® done a good job to-night. Thertfe fifty pounds offered now. Take blin right off to tbe asylum at onqe. Let'a bave a look at him, though. Why, this ain't the man at all this ain't Medhurst! Low, yon ought to have known better. Red full moustache, drooping eye-lids, aquiline dose—why, tbey're as different as light from darkness/' "What? is Medburst mad?" I said, a light bunting in upon me.

Yes 'as be been playing any of bis pranks upon you, sir ?—making believe to give you poison, or anything ol that sort Lord, he's tbe cunnlngcst chap in creation* that Medhurst. He's a small fortune to the police to bring him back after bis escapes. He's quite 'armless, too, though he's always up to so many tricks. Quite a gentleman, too. I've swallowed a pint or more of hie p'ison, just to please him, and then he'd stand a bottle of champagne afterwards. That's bow you had ought to bave served bitn* sir. There, you won't get hold of him to-night, chaps he's miles Away by this time."

^i —i—IV**i

Dr," Spencerla Cfime.

I was sitting in my office, half doting over an interminable article 011 defective nutrition in tho !H8$ Medicnl Review.'

The fire in the grate was low,

anllt,the

cloc^

wuson

wa"

,nst

the stroke of eleVon, I was just about to turn of! thrfgis artd retire, for, being a bachelor, I slept in a room connected with my office, when there was a pull at the bell.

I took up my night lamp and went to the door. A strong gust of damp sleoty wind nearly extinguished the light, but, shading it with my hand, I dimly discerned the form of a woman.

Come in,' I said, holding open the door, but she declined with a gesture of impatience.

You must cotuu out, she aaiu in a sharp incisive tone, 'and bequick about It.

I put on ray overcoat without demur iug,locked the surgery door,and stepped

ie stopped me with his into tbe storm. laid a firm band on my

As 1 did ao the woman and putarm.

tins her ftice dose to mine, said: Dr, Lock wood, cau you keep a secret?'

f,.y

•I think«o, msdatn.' •Swear It.' .• la ibis secret of yours of a pi ofcsslonal character? That Is, Is it anything you wish to eofitlde to tne as a medical man?* *5 •Itls.'

Very well, then, I swear it.' •That is right,'

recently taken by Dr. Spencer, stran ger So every one in Mldalebory. Speu-

VUMVM

•vt W OVW/ v»«w .T T, oer waa a tall, dark, rather diaiinguish ed looking man, who had hung out bib sign In tbe villa*#, only a few doors

sbove mine, but sa yet got no practice. lie was anaoeUl In tbe extreme, avoiding his neighbors persistently, and when he did speak it was in such a curt, half-savage way that one was not likely to attempt prolonging tho conversation.

The doctor had a wife. It was aid, but no ons ever saw ber. She was an invalid, and Mia Melroee, a friend of lit family, presided over the establishment and sat at the head of the table. Mia Melrose was yet beautifol, and won tbe admiration of all who visited tbe Clifton House by ber grace of manner and fascinating conversation.

As we walk along,' aid my companion, "Let me explain to you fust whet is neoeasary you abould know. My mistress is very ill.' ..

I beg your pardon. i» lit Spen cer or Mia Melrose She laughed bitterly

Mia Melrose I wootd sUb ber to tbe hart eooner tban own ber a a mistress. My mistress is a lady—noble, royal, and of gentle birth. It is an honor to serve my mistress.' •And Is sbe ill? How long since

Ever since sbe married him—cara him,' sbe muttered In a fierce tone but I must not get excited. I must tell my story, or rather ber's. Two

the atoly aft||,thi| bojift ig tbin^jiiiftti

•ympUoms of the approaching lethargy fell. Do/ou see enyliing strange III Wow*«-i».y own «ordlar,a»id he, n»nu «f ha AM. that with affected savetv. 'I indt

Not _____ Let m* MUcWen you fkrther. Doctor Spencer was at one time engaged to Misa Lucille Melrose, but be broke the

he cried,' *~J i^eby tbe Miufally I Job's turkey. Mis* Ilernon waa an our de- boiress. and Dr. Spencer was deeply in your debt, and- rery bard pressed by tola creditors. Do you see anything singular in that I,

Perhaps. Qoon.*

useeU4»lt wmo vu»»iu«f "F ed into the chasui for tbe public wea **Bnt Isn't tktere an antidote?" I erasoed—"a reuiedv la none «and weie there,you «»«.. would net co back from the noblo path? thing. She was a gentle, affectionate My dear Mend, Imitate the example ot child, and it would have been easy tor the ancient Roman a' quietude and Soenoor to have won bar Jove. But be serenity in your last hours is indispen- did not care for that. sable for tbe proper noting of your ey *onUd. It paid. Jehb,?.A?,, phenomena, booghihiw

felt the very chills of death upon like a queoa. And all. this time my

w6to*t, I w6n*t!" Herb" I mi*tre«s had been slowly sinking.

hear?" toexptaroto yoa u«»n ui»i»w» »»faVi«quiet voice "mad as eapd and one circumstanoes which have life, I i.*oul Pnnr r«iin« hA'a lubiact to led tne to the belief, for we are almost miserable, ie'i subject to aown directly

•When myoiortrwas murried Spenoer she was only seventeen, aud she had

UflliEUe USUI with nice, costly dishes, and put it in the man was insane, and bad

his power to keep Mia» Melrose robed taken the dose in one of his uusettl

SSSSsSfaS

that ahe is not dying pf disease, but of —here she lowered her voice to whisper as she spoke the word—'poison.'

Impossible! Thla is a grave charge

led me to the belief, for we are almost at the door. It Is n&ver the case that Miss Melrose arid Spenoer are out at tbe same time, or I should have oaijed Another physician, before to-night they are called awiv by th€l death of Miss Melrose's sister, and will not be back till tO-inorrow. With tho consent of ray ml9tr«ss I come for you, and oh! Dr, Lock wood, I pray you, save ray dear mistress.'

Mrs. Spencer received me In her chamber. It-was on .the seoond floor and was furnished witb exquisite ele ra» iuiuienou

Sbe was a woman who, when once seen, could never bo forgotten. I had met in my life many beautiful women, but never one so lovely.

She was tall and slight, with a purely oval face, liquid brown eyes, and a dash of hectio In her cheeks, which Is never seen in perfect health.

A* for mysolf, I laid aside all false delicacy, end questioned her plainly as to ber symptoms. Mrs. Hurd, her nurse, remained in the room, and added many little important items of information.

When ahe spoke of her husband it was with a sort of hopeless sadness, which distressed me greatly. Not a breath'of suspicion against him In her answers to my questions, and I felt sure that at present sha knew nothing of what Mrs. Hurd had such serious apprehensions of. I was glad that it was so, for with her llnely strung organisation, it might b*ve. produced serious results. I made my examination of the patlefat as closely as I could, and drew on my cottclunions. I could bave sworn that Mrs.Speneor daily swallowed arsenic in small quantities, and tbe deadly drug was telling fearfully on a constitution nevey very robust.

Elbe said, answering my question, that sbe had no physician exeept her husband. He bad thought himself better acquainted witb jier case, and tborefore better qualifled to treat it. He never left medicine with her to take be always brought it fresh from his ofcee, and administered it promptly.

A charge, of course, I could not make against Dr. Spencer without the amplest proof. If I hinted a suspicion every one would set it down to my professional prejudice and if I could not substantiate my statement, the doctor could make me pay dearly for such slander uttered against him.

The only dependence seemed to be In Mrs. Hurd. To her 1 unbosomed myself freely. I told her without reserve that I oelieved Dr. Spencer was killing his wife by slow poison, and besought her to bo constantly on the watch to save the victim, aud to discover some proof by which we could fasten the guilt upon hltti.

Sbo smiled grimly aud promised obedience. I gave ber a powerful antidote for tho poison 1 suspected, and went home purturbed n»d anxious In mind. I did not sleep that night, and all tbe next day I was in a high fever of excitement.

Dr. Spencer returned home the morning after rav visit to tbe Cllfton House. He looked wretchedly the nurse saidappeared depressed and gloomy. Mies Melrose came with him, and was decorously sad over tbe death of her sister. Women of ber stamp always do mourn to perfection. They neither overdo nor underdo the thing, as women of feeling are likely to do.

Dr. Spencer oame at onoe to bis wife's chamber. He thought she looked ill, and preicribed a cordial at once, saying that he would go and fetch It.1

You are always ordering cordials for her,' ssvs Mrs. Hurd, musingly. 'Why not take something yourself? Yon look like a ghost.'

He eyed ber very keenly, but replied composedly 1 VI think I will take seme of the cor-

Whit ber are you taking me, and tor dial myself, for I do not feel quite well. English what purpose?' Alicia/dear, ihall I bring it her* and b^lng, anJ parboiling of Friar Stooe To tbaCiiftou House to see tbe mis- drink your health at^nterbury,,n trnim Mrs. Spencer smiled sadly in assent ton of timber to mike

Clifton Hotise was the old mansion —she never disputed her husbsnd—and lows forto bang

fl»U

deelreof tatriwMt|,eoWl.W*led ft»r SHORT TfiHPElUNQ* SERMONS, [«rnd|p» heeame phi«MM i| to tbe lips of

ibtowi*.

£ef«n that ahe drabk tl^KooittentK. awaJlow** little

was a healthy, Mooiiing^i^iniipedl* or witter b» bi§ broii^t f»d

She

e*id

witb affected gayety. 'I Indulge my self in something a little stronger a he spoke be tossed off the mixture.

It made me stone cold to my fingers'ends to see bim do It,' aid Mrs. Hurd, relating tbe circumstances to me: 'bat Haven is my witnea, I felt not a single twinge of concience. I argued like ibis: If it was a simple cordial, es be bad aid, it would do htm no barm. If it wa -poison, bts blood would be on his own sinful bead.'

He went to bed hs|f an hour afterward, oomplainlug of fatigue. In the morning tbey found bim dad!

I was ailed' to tbo post-mortem examination, and we discovered in the stomach of tbe deceased a sufficient quantity of the deadliest poison known to modern science to kill half a dozen men.

My brother physicians agreed that

fits of mind. I did not dispute them, but even before Mrs. Hura told ber

There was no public exposure, however. Mrs. Hurd and 1 agreed that it

g.oro would profit no one to make the wretch-

OI pobtbn given kcr by hajr husband ed affair public, and ^o we kept our own have sole con- counsel. wbo at her depth, will trol of ber propertyi Mid bo free «v mu» waoi.wov, marry Miss Melrose. There Is no time tion that sbe had been an active psrty to explain to you in detail the thou- in tbe cons-'

to Miss Melrose, In spite of my convlc- ..

spiracy against Mrs. Spencer's ldnot help pitying. Such a haggard faoe a id When they

ra (arable, worn and hers I bave never seen an burled Dr. Spencer sbe wa confined to ber chamber with fever.

I attended ber in ber illnea, but although she recovered ber health she never was herself again. Sbe wa# harmless maniac, whose delight was in

Soctor's

atheviog flowers and decorating, the grave with them. She is living still, and she Still gathers flowers and lays thein on that grave, singing to herself man while a sort of low lucantation which no ore

sv" v'

sance. Everything in the room be* ever pretends to understand. »the tastO ana delicacy of the oc- Not until Mrs. Spencer mi. at. M.M fMrveen* *M*n.. mo ufffttt Anil th

spoke oupant. The warm air was fragrant with the faiotodorof heliotrope, and glancing around I saw the purple blossoms and green leaves in an alabaster case on the ledge of the south window.

days my wife,'and tbe faithful

many

Mrs."Hurd slept under tbe violets, did

Alicia ever know tbe perfidy of ber fortner husband.

HORRIBLE CRUELTY.

J«4a {OU- Kit A Boy Tortured for a Crime 0/ which he teas Innocent.

•i (Prom the Des Moines,jlowa) RegUterv

A few weeks since, a wandering, homeless boy of twelve or fourteen took up bis home with one McKialek, a raruier, of Linn township, Warren county. A few days since, two young men from Pennsylvania stopped on a visit with McKiaick occupying the same room during their stay. On Monday morning lat, they claimed to have been robbed of their pocketbooks, containing about 900, during the night. The boy wa a once accused, and with pistol and knife in the hands of his persecutors, was fiercely threatened with dath If he did not confess. Failing to extract any confeaion, one Hsrt was cslled In to try his hand at torturing tbe poor boy. Again aud again the raw-bide wa mercilessly applied, at short intervals, till Monday night. The boy wa taken to a well, Bome ten fat dap, witb about Ave feet of water lu It, ana, with a rope around bis neck, was lowered repeatedly, head foremost, in to the water, until nearly drowned.

On Monday evening, he wa taken up stairs, in McKlssick's house, by McKlssick and Hart, and there laid on his ftice on the floor, his fat bound with a rope, passed over the rafter, so as to draw his foet some twenty incba from the floor. His hands were tied behind bim, and drawn up in tbe same way to about the same elevation, and bis head lashed to abed post by a oord from his neck. In this condition he wa left until about ten o'clock on Tuesday, when some of the neighbors discovered bim, and released bim from his painful position, more dead than alive. The boy bud neither food nor water, save when ducked in the well, from Sunday evening until Tuesday uoou.

His appearance on yesterday, at the trial or McKUsIck and Hart, beforo Esquire Edwards, of Linn township. Warren county, wa most pitiable, and called expreaions of horror and sym-

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atby ail that saw bim. Not a breadth on limbs or body that is not lacerated and braised, and bis wrists snd neck show plainly tbe marks of tbe ropes witb which he wa bound and bung. These fiends amused themselves by repeatedly hanging him by tbe neck.

An iutena excitement pervades tbe community, as is shown by the fret Xhat McKiaick and Hart, both men of property, had difficulty in getting bail for their appearance at court, while some twenty of tbe solid men of the township stepped forward at the word to stand as "next friend" to the boy io a civil action lor damaga.

McKiaick and Hart were both recognised to answer for an asault with intent to Inflict great bodily Injury, and served with notice in a civil action for $5,000 damages.

Tft* following bill for banging and boiling a friar III taken from an old

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that tbo decisive moment bad oome. dungeon, Is. for a hurdle, wk. for a There was somethiag in tbe gray pallor load of wood, and for a bora to draw in tbe doctor's rigid face that told her him to tbe dungeon. 2s.,8d.{ paid two of a desperate purpose in tbe man's men that at a the kettle rao parboilr— ed him, 2s. to tbra men that carried

He lifted tbe glaa on tbe right 01 tbe bis quarters to the gates1 and at them tray and gave it to his wits. op, Ifc for halters to bang hitn, and •Drink it. dwr,' he said 'It's a pana- Sandwich cord, and for aim, la, facet for all ills. I aleo am going to take woman that aeoured the kettle, 2s. a glaa of It And he poioted to a to him that did execution, 3*. 8d. Toglaa till on tbe tray. tal, 14a. 8d. 7^

Mrs. Spencer accepted it, and wa putting It to ber lipa, when Mrs. Hurd A SciEJmnolectureron walkingays interrupted his "experiment* show thatooe side of 'If yon will bring ber a tumbler of tbe body always tend* to outwalk the water, doctor Mrs. Spencer complains other side.0 It is extremely unfbrtuibat the cordial leaves a bad taste in nate for all of us that this lecturer has ber month, and my old bona are so ailed attention to this singular prober month, and my old bona are so ailed attention to this slngnl full of ebeumatism that it nearly kllis penalty, becaua it would bave ban down stairs. uncommonly Qiaagreable if, some day, loctor turned and bent on ber a when we were walking up the rtreet,

If be would read ber through, one aide of us had started ahead and But efae kept ber fhee paaive. If he outwalked the other and got a doan in advance of it! No man squara in advance or iti no man

ed the poeltion of tbe gl When be cine back—and be wa lone but a moment—the nurse stood not exactly where be had left her, and

Ilka to see half of blmaif prancing along tbe sidewalk without any reterena to the otko* half, aud tbe boys all following bim, studying anatomy and ridiculing tbe action of bis liver It

ji»» would be humiliating. Everybody Mrs. Spenoer wa lying bade la her ought to guaid against such a «lamicbair with her eya moeed. ty now, since this avant boa Indicated

Again be lifted tbe glaos—thla time it ita proabillty.

0 that men should put an enemy in their mouths til steal aw§y their btains! tbst we should witb joy, pleasure and appiaua tanaform ourselves into beasts.—[Shakespeare.

Thoa men who destroy a healthftil constitution of body by intemperance and an irregular 11 ie, do as manifestly 1 selves as

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challenge any mau who understands tbfi nature of ardent tpirlts, and yet, for the "sakfr of gain, continua to be in tbe traffic to ritow that he is not involved in tbe gtiilt of murder.—[Dr. Lyman Bieecher.

Some of the domatlc evils of drunkeunea are bousa without windows, gardens witbHit feneea, fields without tillage, bart without roofo, children without clothing, prlnclpla or manners.— [Frankliu. 1 am deeply convinced that the evils of internperonoe an never ceaso till tbe virtuous in society unite in pronouncing the man wbo attempts to accumulate waltb by dealing out poison and datb to bis neighbors, as infamous.— [John Pierpoint.

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