Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 38, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 March 1875 — Page 2

THBMA.IL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

[Written for The Mall.]

SUNDAY IN THE YOSEMITEVALJjEY. ay c. H. P. i.

ITU mors lag, calm and eleitif, All nature*!* Instinct with life and Joy In Joyful glee the laughing water* U-ap, From tbelrgtddy height. Into middle air, As If an untried way to test- In turn The aladsome air receive# and la pla rui Triumph bears off the spray. Rock—spires &nd domes, Now. touched by rodlent fingers of rising Day, glow with haea celestial. Now shadOreo playfully bat quietly adown The rocky ramparts of the valleys side, And soacross the rale, chased bv morning Light, 'till they are willing captive* taken. There ix, to ear attuned to silent praise. In the blending of such sweet harmonies, A grand anthem to tiod the Creator. jr.

Stand stllL ir the fast flowing waters^cast Themselves headlong over Yo-wl-ye sorinK, And again down Into Pi-wy-ack gulf, TIs that In the wUley below they rest. May find. How restful

JIX kUcic nvunv

Tu-tuck-^nu-la?

Chief of these mountain splrwlsof the vale, How firm and rest-giving Is Tls-sa-ack? If there's a sense of rest and protection,

v"v

—,

Ht&ndlng near »on^e istuniy oak of tne for Or massive wall reared by human hands By so much the more is thin realized, Standing at the base of these mountain rocks.

HI.

Tls night. As

every

earthly day must close,

Ho this Monday of rest. Larly, evening Drew the curtain of night. The stars so ,^lml p1UBr .iV

ra nnchi my mma so enwrc.y

No but seriously, now, did you ever see anything in me that made you tbWfc —that made you suspect-—--

Nonsense, Tom! what his got WW) your head*" ... That's exactly what I want to Wk to yon about. I want you to feel my piiUie—" here ho stretched out an arm

that would have been formidable, in deed, had a mad-man's mind controlledIts action. "Does It run along furiously?

Look

Sabbath

I don't know as I can trnst you, Tom," said I, laughing. ^ou doubtless, as mad as aMarch harei but, probably, there Is nothing here to excite

TIs noon, all is light and rest. Fit emblems Of that promised day when darkness shall flee Away and earth be filled In Its deepest Depths with light.

mv friend. "I want to know exactly

what

UUCU iu lio MW|fvu» Tlie shadows of rocks

you think whether you see anything strange about me." "Dear old fellow," said I, at last, a little troubled, "your head is sound as a nut, and don't you go to crack it with such botheration. There is no surer way to get the hypo than to think about it

Well, I believe you," said Tom. "But that settles the question. If I not going crazy, I know what I am.

What's that?" ,, "Floored." Eh?" "Smitten! Smashed! Done up entirely Spooney on a ghost!" ejaculated Tom, as it to exhaust the synonyms ol slang in aiding my comprehension.

Now, as neither Tom nor myself was even approaching that condition of material prosperity which is thought a neo-

Ap^'Korth., great depth Wg. U» E S S E S in.St'of heavens near.^ {^fo^nd discretion on his part to fell in love, if fall he roust, with a creature so inexpensive and intangible ac^ ghost, but the statement was more the less strange and possiblv alarming. It cer tainly required explanation. "That's about the long and short of it," continued Tom, leaning back his head and sending the smoke through his nostrils toward the ceiling. "ITI subject to illusions and that sort of thing, I'm all right it is only an insane imagining. If my head is clear, as you sav it is, then I won't answer for mvself.

£vea so to tho humble heart the heavens Bow themselves and (Jod comes down. All Is dark, And still. Even the moaning of distant Waterfalls makes stillness more still. But tifirlc! A weird sound strikes upon the enr. *It Is Music of human voices, the singing Of the guides. Hitting under tho branching Live-oak, they pour fortn their sweet alpine notes, .. Which linger In the vale or ascending Verberate from deep cavern and lofty peak.

[Hcrlbner's Monthly.]

AIRY LILIAN.

It was through an atmosphere hazy and laden to tho saturation point with nicotino that I looked at length with a sort of annoyance at Tom, who sat with bis feet on tho other side of the little open grato stovo which, by a bold liction •t the imagination, was supposed to warm my office. His silenca ought, perhaps, to have been construed as a tacit rovorence for tho argument's which I had been advancing with considerable fluency during tho past fifteen minutes. They were certainly Incontrovertible, sustained as they were by the only too material and acknowledged facts about us. Cortainly, had he been disposed to asaaii tny proposition, that tho work ol establishing a practice by a young physician without connections was one of poverty and misery and long-suffering, tho auction-room furnituro would have creaked a denial, my unused instru# moats would have snapped their joints with indignation in the drawer at tho other side of tho little room, and the gray ashes that so nearly crowded out the coals from tho grate would bavo glowed again in remonstrance. This last ovont could not have boon wholly disagreeable, since wo had been smoking for warmth rather than for enjoyment, and my pipo had gono out in tho ardor of discourse.

But controversy was not what my heart sought rather sympathy. And Torn, to whom my plaint had lost its soul-moving quality by frequent repetition, replying at first with words that became inarticulate in tho struggle to pass his pipo-stem, had then punetuated v-iy remarks with meaningless gutturals, and finally subsided into tho quiet of abstraction. It was not speechless conviction, then, but quite another state of mind that I saw portrayed on my friend's countenance and there fell upon mo that senso of loss which comes with the conviction that a well-express-ed and forcible grumble has been thrown awav on doaf ears.

Whether it was the unnamed influence which popular suporstition assigns to the gare of the human eye. or whethor It was tho abrupt cessation of the sound of my voice, something caused Tom to raise nis glance, and, as it wero, to gather himself together again from the scattered condition into which he had lapsed. From vacancy, his eves enlarged tho visual anglo until probably my figure came in sight, and he spoke:

"Too bad. Didn't you collect any- The street lamp shone brlgnuy, or tne thing

"Collect your senses, Tom, said I, amtg

with spoech. So will: so I will," was Tom's unoffonded rep y, as ho drew that long through breath which accompanies a change of

mental occupation—or, to speak with another fligl more scienUtfc exactness, which is cans©d by the involuntary respiratory cles relieving themselves from rest "I was thinking of something else."

ment to, out not wnouy as »uw.«v«.w

hls mind

whose

ble, I shut mv eyes to the tact, flicked myself upon him more persistently than ever.

Roger, what are the signs of incipient insanity?" Tho inconsequence of this remark made its substance rather startling.

What in the world jjo you ask about that for, old fellow?" said I. "There's Maudsley's treatise will tell you *11 about it, if yob really want to know but. von see, when everybody is more or l« insane, bp aoitOf wajs. You h*ve

The street lamp shone brightly, or the

,. modest tin plate tacked on one of the

of til6

ith so mo indignation at this irrelovaut 1.Madamo EstelleL'Astra, Clairvoyant would have been invisible. Tom preceded me up tho stairs, turned to the right through a close darkness that 3 make itself smelt, and climber flight at tho top of which swung a dim kerosene lamp, shedding oily rays on two cards of the showcase order, one of which read: "Madame Estelle L'Astra, Business and Healing Mo dium and, the other, "Seance To •W"i jr. lVi dium anu uio oiriiur. owwiiw been growing on lom of late. His oe-

night

essional visits offriendship and, coiido- ^fnal'iotterer had added in rickety print

lence at mv office had fcen given up g££,£^{5J? more completely to that fumigation As I followed my which is so admirable an accotnpani- .. door which he ment to, but not wholly as substitute

for, sympathetic companiomhip and knob and the rattling latch, there the ovidenoo that he had something on

absorbing than even the P^ij^ofmy

thoush perceivtug that he had trou- jJJJJj other family i, I shut my eyes to the tact, and in- «,int flavor of

-nSS^ff'n* 'H.m thought hinuielf lMklnglnmntmrtty white PfrTOttting exlaUrtlOM of •on* domn me to unbusom mv»elf and offering tne

nothing of his own In return: or, perhaps. the time and the occasion were peculiarly appropriate. Whatever the cast) may have been, he was silent only for one moment, long enough to blow a a large ring of smoke, thick as a ship's cable, and then to send another, slim as the bracelet of the dalnliiwt wrist, whirling through the exact centre of the first when ittst as they broke on the ride of the stove bo continued:

of the name—J uncommon ini

at my eves, are the pu

pils dilated and glaring? Is there an thing bloodshot and feverish thoreT I avoid your glance? Look me straw in the eye. Now give me your profe atonal jadfpneut."

rht

fea-

I must have grinned in a manner mow exasperating to an earnest inquirer as I gazed into Tom's honest faoe and calm blue eyes, and felt a pulse full, strong, and perfectly regular In its beat, as my sense told me, quite below seventy-

0—-

The first time I saw her at Maaame L'Astra's You don't mean to say you've been running after that sort of humbug,Tom," I exclaimed, in amazement.

I mean to say exactly that," replied he "and I don't know about its being a humbug, cither or, that a lawyer hasn as much right to investigate psychical phenomena as a physician. But I was going to say that tne first time I went to one of those meterializing seances, I fell in love with that gin.

Then she isn't a ghost Oh! you know what I mean. The_ call it a materialized spirit.^ I don't mind talking to you about her, Roger, and I have been bursting to talk to someone. I find I can't keep it to myself she is really growing very fond of me."

A true spirit love!" And isirt that the truest kind? She always wears my flowers now when she appears and Madame says that if I am not there, she seems more shadowy and sad. Two weeks ago. she let me kiss her hand, and when I had a private sitting, she really put her cheek against mine. If it were not for those touches, I should think with you that it is all a humbug but they thrill me now. Then thought, perhaps, I was not all right in my head. Perhaps you can tell. Are you sure? But your brain is clear enough, and you shall oome with me and see for yourself."

When ?r' This evening," answered Tom, pulling out his watch. "Madame begins her seance at eight. We shall have just fifteen minutes to get there."

The door-way befpre which Tom halted me was the entrance to one of those semi-public buildings in whioh rooms may be hired for any conceivable purpose on payment of rent weekly in advance, whether one may wish to use them for preaching, for manufacturing, or for lodging. There was evidently a photographer's room in the upper story, for padlocked shutters hid what must have been a remarkable display of "art just inside on the walls of the passage. Tho words "Intelligence Office" mocked tho passer in brilliant letters on one side and opposite swung a flattened representation of a portion of the human ieg, which, when viewed in profile, illustrated the legend of "Gaiters made to Order," and when seen edgewise, painfully suggested a victim oi the torture of the iron boot. There was of course a dentist up one flight, and the sign of a patent invention of some sort was very Ntsh at the foot of the staircase.

door-way, announcing

mjke

mus-

restrnint.

Now, this mood of abstraction had

while the hand of an unprof

my companion through he opened as if fhmlliar

lU»

wRh tU

pecUnM weaknesses of the

Upon my

senses that odor, inde-

contemplation was more words, which is found only

apartments

woes, had at «hare of tho burdens of daily human 1 have no hesitation in saying that I was more selfish than my firiena. Miserable egotist that I was, my own affair* Ailed my mind so entirely that, al-

bearing more than their

share of the burdens of daily human existence. There was a suggestion of tea and toast in the air, with possibly something Wed ft sofa-bed and a cur-

noesn, which was doubtless a lav-

1WIU,

uses of tho

a fklnt flavor of wet gingham

floated in from the umbrella-stand in

the

Fifty cents admission, if you pieaso,, said a large and not unkindly-looking woman aa we passed into this home of mysteries, advancing with an assumed dignity ludicrously out of keeping with the nature of her demand. "Ah! Mr. Bolter, I am glad to see you. We had a beautiful seance last evening. They were allao harmonious. We don't often get the conditions so perfect harmony & so essential. There was a lady here who received a wonderful test. It was her brother, killed two years ago by the Indians in Arizona. I was under the control of Big Mountains, and he do

lor It," scribed it exactly. He gave thejniiials

During the progress ofthls professional monologue, I had opportunity to regard the person who baa such familiar relations with the unseen. She was a frame implying considerable physical power, dressed plainly in black that showed signs of wear and of careful preservation her hair, which gave intimations of gray, arranged close to her head, and. her free, while not yet what be called aged, showing the hardness whioh generally .precedes the wrinkling of the skin. Her figure was full, and her teeth, when she smiled In welcome of Tom, appeared preternaturally reg-

This is my Iriend Mr. Atkinson," said Tom, introducing me "I hope Lilian will appear to-night for I wish him to see her very much."

I have no doubt she will," said the seeress, addressing me. "She told me she would come and bring your flowers, Mr. Bolter although the weather is so bad that the conditions are not very favorable. I don't know as we shall got the flowers."

I mentioned my gratifiestion, and referred to the interest which her name had awakened in me.

That is my spirit name," was her reply. "They gave it to me. Estelle L'Astra—it is Alwato language, and means the Starry One. They say I have great influence among them."

There had been several fresh arrivals during our conversation, and after collecting fifty cents from each, Madame L'Astra, whote name, as interpreted seemed sufficiently inappropriate, an nounoed that she felt the influence coming on, and that harmony would be gained if some one would sing. Song was quaveringly furnished by two ladies of«elderly habit, in whom I thought I saw habitues of the entertainment. Nor was his harmony disturbed when, on the entrance of a tardy disciple, the medium, aroused from the magnetic sleep that was rapidly possessing her through sighs and gasping and contortions, calmly made change for fifty cants, and was speedily under "control" again.

Soon the spirit spoke. It wfcs an Indian warrior who claimed possession of the Starry One. He announced his presence by a whoop, and he chuckled and grunted as he pictured the spirit forms which he saw standing in that close and stuffy chamber, now over the shoulder of this, and attain by the side of another. One he summoned to clasp the hand of the medium and listen to a revelation from a guardian angel giving bis name as John, to tho effect that perseverance in the right will bring happiness, and that the future has changes of importance in store. A woman, in whose dress there is a conspicuous absence of bright color, is compelled to ply her handkerchief freely as she hears what to her is the lisping voice ol her child, assuring her that heaven is much nicer than she expectedj and that dear papa is there by her side, anxious to speak with dear mamma at a private sitting with this excellent medium, price two dollars. A substantial business man hears, witli staring eyes, the assertion of a spirit giving nis name as William, to the effect that the enterprise in which be is now engaged is in danger of failure through the treachery of a man with dark hair and his alarm is only partially quelled when the spirit promises to influence him toward the right course, especially if he will inquire again through the medium. A young man, with resplendent scarf-ring and huge dangling locket, is inclined to skeptiprone to indulge in scomng le raillery, until startled into ig faith by the spirit's revelation of the fact, known only to the young man himself, that his appetite is not good in the early morning, and that lie frequently feels it necessary to take bitters. When the Indian warrior adds that chamomile flowers are not as beneficial as thorowort, the youth gives a conscious start, thrusts something into his cheek with his tongue, and slides away to his seat astonished.

During all this and much more, I was occupied in watching Tom's expression. It was that of one bored, half-contempt-uous, and on the verge of disgust. Neither did he display evidence of a truly harmonious spiritual frame of mind when Madame L'Astra, shaking off her possession, stood with one knee nnder tho piano and summoned by her word stout spirits, who lifted and bumped the heavy instrument in time to music. It was only when she Btretched too heavy shawls across one side of the room that a spark of interest seemed to flaph iij his face.

Now, Roger," said he," "you may think what you like about the Indian and tho piano. I know you could do as well as that yourself. But you must believe this."

My friends," spoke Madame L'Astra, "the spirits that have been with us this evening have not all acquired the high development necessary to enable them to become visible to earthly eyes but I have the promise of Lilian, one who has reached a higher plane, that she will materialize so tar as the conditions permit."

There was a brief silence, during which there was evidently much magnetism proceeding from the medium, whose spasmodic twitchings and flutterings were even painful. "I am not sure that Lilian will be

Here her speech was cut short by a white hand that protruded trom between the shawls, and laid itself gently across her lips. Something glittered on the round arm. A sigh went up from the entire oompany. ««My bracelet I" murmured Tom.

I looked at my friend in Indignant wonder. "Have you been wasting your substance on a shadow in that way

But he was gazing in a sort of ecstasy the swaying shawls. Two hands, id attached to arms whose

llaht—for the lamps

ex-

persons already assembled for the exhibition, it did not seem altogether incredible that from such an atmosphere a spirit having synthetic power could evenly gather the means of materialiiation.

ed down and smelled vilely—permitted only shapes to beseem when suddenly, seeming 10 g*ow aa If by the light of ite own beauty, there sprang out, framed between those musty shawls, a race whose bright, joyous loveliness was better worthy oi the

spirit

TERRE TTAIJTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

V. R.—whioh wre very Initials. Uliau didn't seem

in good spirits last night and wuldn't materialise, only her bands. It was a Seat disappointment. Do you kaow, tells me the is never so strong as when vou are in the roetn. She draws a great deal from you, and that ia a relief tome it is so exhausting to my magnetism to keep upthesupply of her currents when she materializes."

to the lips, and with a movement as If wafting a kiss In Tom's direction, the whole vanished. waa on his feet In an Instant, dragging me altar him. "That is all. Come! oome!" And he ulled me out of the now stiflng den, .own the stairs, past the intelligence offloe, the patent agency and the dentist's, room, dark and dismal enough for the haunts of veritable ghost, into the street. "Ican't stay and hear their doubts and ridicule, or their twaddling belief either, after that," be at last spoke as we buttoned up our coats and turned down the street toward my offloe. "Now, what do you Bay, Roger?"

I should like to see the young lsdy In a less dramatic situation—without so much of stage effect, if I may say so— for it is rather distracting to sober judgment upon her." "But you understand me. I mean, what do you say about me? Am I under an hallucination, or is that tho loveliest creature in the world

Although fully confident that the apparition of the fair young girl with which the exhibition closed was of the same fictitious character as the spirit revelations and the tippings that had preceded, it was impossible for me to dislodge from Tom's mind the ridiculous notion that the purity and beauty of the face guaranteed its celestial origin, and that, where all else might be deception, Lilian was a truth. He tried to explain to me the difference in the feeling which he experienced toward this inaccessible spirit-love as compared with that which he must feel toward one of less evanescent flesh and blood. The hopelessness of all thought of possession, the intangi bility of the object of his affection exoept for a few moments at a time, the brief interviews permitted, all tended to give an elevation to his passion such as no earthly conditions could produce.

I began to fear that my friend was in deed touched with a mania on this subject and as the weeks wore on, this impression was confirmed, and gave me exceeding pain. For Tom neglected his law reading, neglected me, neglected everything, apparently, except the ghostly Luian. He was a constant visitor at Madame L'Astra's and twice, as I passed the door-way, did I encounter nim coming out with a countenance expressive of such exultation of soul that his failure to recognize me,his old friend was no surprise.

My anxiety was at its height, when one afternoon there came a hasty ring at my office bell. It was not office nours, to be sure, but at that time those distinctions had little meaning in my practice. I was wanted by Mrs. Lunt. No other doctor on the street was to be found and I must come at once. The girl who brought the message wore a water-proof cloak—for it was raining— with the hood put up over her head. She waited in the passage while I hastily armed mvself with rubbers and umbrella, and then hurried me along. She led me through a passage, up a staircase, then turning and up again, until she placed her hand on the rattling knob of a door, on which were the words: "Madame L'Astra, Business and Healing Medium."

Isn't there some mistake here I asked, for I was young in the profession, and snore sensitive to possible association with quackery, and to other violations of the code of ethics, than I am now.

No, sir," answered the girl, in a voice of rather coarse and metalio quality. "This is where Mrs. Lunt lives. Her other name is Madame L?Astra. Com© right in."

It was the same room, with but a slight change in appearance, while the odortpf a stew of some medicinal herbs was added to) the compound scent which I had analyzed on my former visit. The sofa-bed was in its bed form, and en it lay Madame L'Astra, evidently much nearer the spirit world than she ever before suspected herself of being.

As I raised my head from a brief examination of the sick woman to ask a question of the girl, who had thrown off ber cloak and was standing at the side of the couch, I was conscious of a puzzling reminiscence. The fece I had certainly seen before, yet I utterly failed to recall the circumstances. It vas youthful and fresh rather too fresh and obtrusively rosy for refinement, in feet the texture of the skin seemed healthy, but coarse the oxpression was that of self-consciousness with a tinge of boldness and in the manner of dressing the hair there was a somewhat unpleasant suggestion of frowsy display. The features were in their shape not without beauty of a rather striking character, and this was what agitated my memory.

As I looked I became conscious that the feeble eyes ot the seeress were upon me, evidently with recognition in their gaze. I bent my head to hear what she was struggling to utter.

Do—you—know—her?" rolling her eyes in tne direction of tho girl. At once it flashed through my mind. Here was the original of the spirit Lilian, in her permanently materialized form, as seen without the accessories ot shadows and flowers, and probably pearl powder and chalk.

land than of dull

earth. The folds of the drapery were gathered close beneath the chin. Slowly they parted downward for the space of two or three hand-breadths, giving a glimpse of a throat as white and as round as was fitting for such a face. In her hair were flowers, and a spray bung down toward her bosom. The vision seemed to melt rather than to draw back within the curtains and now, for the first time, I noticed that its eyes had never been diverted from my fiuiclnatod companion. They were still upon him as tt shawls seamed about to close ovor the fair face, when, by a sudden movement, the full head and bust came

Don't—expose—her. I—did it all— for her. She—will not—starve when I'm gone," gasped out the old womad. "Lucy!" "Well, mother?"

But whatever the poor woman had to say to her daughter was left unsaid. Her strength was exhausted by the short effort to excite my sympathy for her helplessness. The maternal instinct was strong oven to the verge of death, and would have employed the last breath in the service of the child.

When I returned to my office there was Tom. Had he at this time put to me the question regarding his sanity my answer would have been less confident than it had been a month before. His delusion had grown apace. He had indulged in fancies that were actually wild at times. One of these was, that since he could never possess Lilian In this world, he would serve his own happiness by getting himself in the spirit world as quickly as possible. He would become restive under opposition and when, as I met him now, he advanced with the statement that be bad come to good-bye, wished nfte to take the key offals room and deliver in the morning a package I would find on the Uible, as he was to take the night train and would not be back

for some

into view a band carried what riment that will either kill or cure. Tom would not yield hi" morbid fancy a small bunch of flowers

days, I thought

the crisis had come. It required a aharp awakening, or his mania might indeed push him on to suicide.

Have you bade

good-bye

to Milan

and the Madame I asked, with as close an imitation of pleasantry as I could summon up. ... ..

Lillian, Lilian said T»m, with the strangest yearning in his voice and eyes. "No Madame has been too sick to give sittings for a fortnight past. But I hope to see Lilian before I return.

When does your train leave Oh, it makes no difference—I mean, wlk.'bed

Uttle way with me. nave a p»i

to reason, be must to startling Cact. "Here? You'n» surely nw going up here said he,as I turned Into tne doorbe,as I turned Into oftbe passagft leading to Madame xa*s apartments. "Yes, I replied. "The Madame la my patient. Come up with me. It Is a curieus case, and I know she won't object to my bringing you in for a minute." "It makes no difference! It makes no difference now 1" I heard Tom mutter, as he followed me along the dim passages. 1 presumed npon my profession privilege for a purpose *f my own, and entered without knocking. Madame lay as before, and the filial Lucy was engaged in ministering, with camphor and other such oommon medicaments, to the sick woman's fancied comfort. She was tender enough in her care, but outwardly she was even less attractive than when I had seen her a few hours be* fore. Rie had changed her gown for one of calico, which, without being absolutely slatternly, had a leaning In that direction. Her hair, which she had wern loose, had become tangled mnd was askew over her forehead. Her face looked redder and coarser than ever and, but for those large and brilliant eyes, 1 doubt if Tom would have recognized the Lilian of bis fancy.

Perhaps tho eyes themselves would have been insufficient, had not a startled look oome Into them* as their glance fell upon Tom but that he saw it all, and took it all In at once, I was conscious.

It was, in my opinion, and even diarioe whether his mania would burst but into evident insanity on the spot, or whether his physical strength would collapse, and then probably a run of fever to work oft his trouble. But Tom neither yelled nor fainted. All the man in him rose up at once and saved him. half crazed though he had l)Ben. This is what he said, speaking lo\v in my ear

Don't hurry youreelf. Roger but when you get through witn your patient you needn't wait for me. 1 want to speak with that young woman.

What was spoken at that interview Tom never told me exactly. It was enough to know, from the manner in which Madame sounded his praises at my subsequent visit, that he had behaved both handsomely and discreetly and, from Tom himself, that hlsjdelu sion was over.

Madame L'Astra, perhaps I ought to say unfortunately, paid tribute to Lucy's nursing ana my medical skill by recovering and if tne spirits that have gone beiore thus lost by the postponement of what would doubtless have been a distinguished arrival, and materialized ghosts visiting this sphere endured perhaps greater bereavement, for Lilian never reappeared. I think this must have been one of the conditions imposed by Tom for his silence on the subject and whatever may have been Maaame L'Astra's ambition for her very substantial familiar spirit, it could hardly have been that of which Tom shortly brought me the news, in the announcement of the marriage of Lucy Lunt to the keeper of a small restaurant around tho corner.

CHINESE TOOTHACHE. Hap-swap, a Chinese washerman at No. 91 Michigan avenue, awoke tho oth er night from his bright dream and ut toreda crv which was heard across tho street. He is getting along in age, and the toothache had come skulking down upon him in that soft, sly way, peculiar to nothing else. He stuffed the sheet into his mouth, pried around the tooth with a hair-pin, and drew the clothes over his head and tried to remember all the dogs and rats he had ever eaten, but it was no go. The Polar wave had worked itself under a double tooth, and HapSwap was seen danoing before the uncurtained windows at midnight and doubling himself up in the shape of O's and SA and D's.

All day Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday he roamed up and down,

giacustomerssighing,

roaning and ana the shirts of hung against the battered walls, neglected and forgotten. Such nights as Hap-Swap put in were enough to turn his nair gray. He sat by the red-hot stove, got into bed, got out, walked around, but there was no rest for him. Yesterday morning a grocer advised him to go to a dentist's and cure relief, ana the Chinaman put on his hat and followed a boy to a tooth-

uller's. He was as brave as a lion, and jumped into a chair, leaned his head back, and cried: "Come alongee—pull 'em quick!"

I'll have that out In a York minute," replied the dentist, getting his tools together. "Take a tling! Take a tling!" cried the Chinaman, as be rose up and caught sight of the tools.

We don't pull teeth in this country with a string," waa the reply. "You just hold still for minute ana you'll be all right."

Hap-Swap fell back with a groan, shut his teeth haid, and it took five minutes of soft talk to make him open bis jaws. The dentist then inserted a lance to cut around the tooth, and at the first dig his patient slid over the arm of the chair to the floor, shoutinj^j^ in the mouth—

Hap-Swap sta

ooh! oosh!" The dentist explained to him that the cutting would make the tooth pull easier, bat as he talked a soft ana beautiful smile came over the Chinaman's face, and he said: "Toothache alio gono—alle gone

a^tie

skipped arour/fi the office and bolted down stairs, but aa soon as the cold air struck it he uttered a yell and came back on the bound, leaped Into the chair and exclaimed: "Git him out, quick!"

The dentist went to j»ut in the forceps, but "John" grabbed them, sat up, and bogged that he might stand up to have the tooth drawn.

If you want that tooth out you must stop fooling and lean back," replied the

'"IS^^wapc^ttied his mouth, hut before the forceps could reach the tooth he sat up again and called:

T^ke a tling—put Mm around—pull hard T* "I can't use a string. Oome—lean a llap-awap loaned back, opened nis mouth until ft hat would hardly have covered It, but snapped his jaws together the next instant and beggvd:

Git something—tie up his eyes so he oan't see it hurt. Tue dentist blindfolded the man with a towel, got his mouth open and the formes at last clasped the tooth, Hapswap began to move around, but with a sudden pull the tooth waa brought out with a gallop.

W-o-o-s-h—o-u-s-h!" howled the Chinaman as be danced around, and aa soon a* the tow« 1 was removed be grabbed the tooth and his bat, went down as be ran up

th,tooth

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me I have a patient to stairs with a whoop, and

avenue he

™ow7n'bMgbt to mysei^ for aa expe- pullei r'—[Detroit Fn. Pre-.

held the molar up to ev-

i« h. tooth

A CLERGYMAN TAKEN IN. [Troy IYwa.3 A rather amusing incident oeeuned recently to a teveruid gentleman, who is a popular preacher in a city not mote than twenty miles awn. Bo went to have his likeness taken at s, andput on a surplice room. When ushered into the manipulating room, he was not a little disconoerted on seeing a Circassian beauty, in 1bll costnme, chained and on her knees, her countenance exgressing the pleadings of a broken-hearted girl on being

Etver's

dragxed before the Mussulman proprietor of a happy harem family. The reverend gentleman, aa soon as he had recove«d from his surprise, took an interin the high proceeding, and ventured to suggest that the veil fell too fhr across her free. "Would you kindly show me ^, what you mean?" said the man of shades and shadows. The reverend gentleman was kind enough to do so. The flash of the light was wickedly employed for, ^, to his"horror, it may be related, if he sees this anecdote, that the popular preacher was taken In dramatic attitude with a Circassian slave appealing to him 4 to release her from her thraldom. T)ie feelings of the reverend gentleman whuti ho afterwards saw the picture exposed at the entrance to the photographer's, establishment as a "high art" product may be better imagined than described.

IN olden time it was the fashion for suitor to go down on his knees to a lady when he asked her to become his wife, which, with very stout gentlemen, was an uncomfortable proceeding. The way in which Daniel Webster proposed to Miss "Fletcher waa more modern, being, at the same time neat and poetic. Liko, many other lovers, he was caught holding a skein of thread or wool which the lady had been unravelling. "Grade," saia he, "we have been untying knots. Let us see if wo cannot tie one which will not untie in a lifetime." With a

iece of tape he fashioned half a truo knot. Miss Fletcher perfected it, and a kiss put the seal to die symbolical bargain.

NO EXCUSE FOR BEING SICKi No person can use Boscheo's German Syrup without getting immediate relief and cure. We nave the first case of Coughs, Colds or Consumption, or any disease of the Throat and Lungs, yet to hear from that has not been cured. Wo have distributed every year for three' years over 250,000 sample bottlos by Druggists ih all parts of tho United' Stales. No other Manufacturer of Medicine ever gave their preparations such a test as this. Go to your Druggist and get a bottle for 75 cents and try it—two doses will relievo you. Sample Bottles 10 cents each. mar20-eow

A PAIR of Tho Mail's now «hr6hios may be seen at the Postofflco Lobby. These pictures are not given to patrons who get the papor of carriers and nowsboys. They can be had by taking tho paper through the Postoffiee, by calling for it at The Mail office, or by sending the paper to a distent friend.

Traveling Men

Engaged in any business can uuiko their traveling expenses, by putting in an occa-, ional word for The Saturday Evening Mall, where they may stop. ,.....

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School Teachers u^i

Can employ their leisure time profitably by canvassing for the Saturday Evening Mall and its Chromos. Send for circular ol nstruotlons.

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