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hook Unaided.- Not having brought my
repeater with me I could not even soy how
—-......, long I had bean yenning. It might lime
. . . beep ten neinittes, it -night 41aVe bten an
, iii lobar und.,WItte. , hour sineel 49.vs: up uouutpg. mrstopti.
.re judgieg by the number •-, cif ' thine' had
Rearecince logeiter : .
It's the strangsul thing that layer I knew, • thought Of since thatrapturous exaltation
A lad the most provekingetwix, ine and you, ' of mind oominenoecl it seemed morelikely
For a woman who's get a Manlike me, to be the latter. Now that I had come
With all her follti with bands salted clown, Aco.cetth I must be content) 10
A good provider, and -steady ant/free. - - • , , t0 the
And as fine a house as any in. town reMain oanhis pertioular spot of it until I
To be lamenting 'cause ono child i'n ten ' heard the step of it polioeman or some one
Ain't quite so go .•1 043 he might has% been, else who might happen to be Abroad at this
4./0 a potty goo1 showing, it seems to me, ULMSUal hOnr;-1111tisnal, at leastin this
That only a tenth of the lob should be . quiet pert of Loudon. , I leaned my baols
A little off color, and that's wrist I say - againet the wall and waited patiently.
Bat I can't make hor see it in that light, I soon heard an *apprciaching stop; but
To their mother t
thwentY tioaes hi a. (16).And she listens and waits night after night. such 4 staggering, unuertain, lurghieg kind
For tne soma of 1li3 step,, till r grow se wild of stip, then ' from the sound of the feet
That I almost curds both mother and child. slope I was elate to determine the condition
" She right to live for the other, you,know,of their owner; and; I wee obliged to decide
An,d let the tom silting vagabond go' 'that he was not the Mau I wanted, ' I must
Aud fellow hie wAys aria take the pain- But lee him paps and wait for another. But the I tin] him o it aud she calls him again,
feet staggered up to me, and stopped near
This makes a hal duess between h.er and me,
And the worst of it is, the ehildren agree Inc. whilst a Voice, jolly, but like the feet
Teat I'ra in the , ;gilt. You'd pity her then, unsteady, cried- -
Such times I Minh nu the meanest of men. " 'Nether feller woreh than me 1 Can't
"I've argued and ROoldea and coaxed without get on at ail -eh, old chap? Comfort t'
ead ; think some.one'e head'll ache • worsh than
Her s,nswer is always ; • ny boy has one friend Mine eel:nor-row 1" •
As long as IL live, an I your charge is untrue
That my heart hdids hot edual love for y,ou,,, "Can you ten -me the Wry to Walpole
And all the rest. Bot then,, gone astray . street ?" I asked, standing creak%) Snow
Needs me tne m.)st, and you'll iind 'tis the,way him I was sober. • - ,
Of all mothers to Loid close to the en.e .
Who hurts her the most. StI love,'s work is done.' ° 0 hird to. Walpele t.fstreet--nourse I can-olosh by
. .;--tleI think." . . . - •
" Now what can 1 liay to snob words as.those ? • "11 you are 'going that way would you
rm not nonvisee Li, us che history, shows,
But I often wonder which one is right, • lead' we to thecorner of , it. Unhappily I
As I hear her light stsp night after night, , am blind and have lost noyi Way."
Fiore and there, to the window and door, , poor „ beggernot screwed. then,
As Bile waits witl, alaoterip thatithee7" 134°
Vrand.se or '
r, wish tuctjay (Luna virlraelittO.gimitkAir We- GlieSeltd m'etinilee state to teed any Mae;
To save hen froin aine There's husbasid,and Blind 'leading ' blindboth tumble into
wife." , • ditch.' I shay, though," he added witla
-Youth's gemination. drunken greenty,- 44. make a bargain -I lend
you .eyes, you hand rile legsh. 'Good idea:
p A.T.J-raisTE. come gong2,... - . , . - ." ;•
Efo took my arm and we wont yawning
up the street. Presently he stopped.
Presently a sudden, fierce longing to be. e Walpole street," he hiccoughed. ".13hall
out of doors orime over me. It was night Ttake you to your house I" .
-very few people would be about.. There " No thank you: /lease put my hand on
was it -broad pavement in front of the row the railing of the corner house. I Mall be
Of houses in one of which I lodged., Up all right then." •
and down this I might weekin k n perfect "Wish I were right. Wish I could bor-
eafety. Even if I only eat on the door; row your legs to -take me home," said my
step it would be better than lyireg in this bibulistio conductor, " Good'night-Blesh
dose. hot room, teasing from side to side you." .
unable to sleep.I heard him tack away, then turned to
The desire took . full posseadon of me complete my journey. _ _....
that I was on the point of calling old Pris- I was not quite certain as to Which end
cella and making her aware ofib;; but ecifeWalpele. -street .. I --wite-- starting from-e-
kaowing she wes sleeping soundly, I best- that mattered little. Either . sixtiy-two or
toted. I had been unusually mattes% eixty-five paces would leave me in front of
cross and exacting 'during the day, and my .my door. I counted Baty -ten, and then,
old nurse -Heaven reward her 1 -was serv- felt,for the' entrance between the railings;
ing me for lova, not for money. Why • not finding it, I•went on a step or until
should I dieturb her? Let me begin to I came to it. I was glad to have *abed
learn to help myself like others inneY home without moident, and, to -tell the
wretohed plight. I had already acquired truth, was beginning to feel a little ashaneed.
tn a muoh, to dens without assistance. If of my esortpade. I hoped that Priscilla
I oould now do this and leave the room had notaiMoveredbey absence and darned
unheard, I could, I felt sure, grope mY the home, and I trusted I should be able
way to the front door, lee myself out, and, to regain my . room as • quietly as I had
whenever I oboes, return by the aid of the quitted it. With all my elaborate calm's -
latchkey. The thought of - even a tempo, tions, I WW1 not quite sun that I bad tit
rary in pendenee was attractive, and my upon the right house ; but if they were
spirit me as I resolved to make the incorrect I could only be' it door or two:
atte pt. ' - _ • ._ - -a-wey-fromeelle--and-the.---MY-ineniy-hand-
',crept softly from my bed and slowly, would be it cornea test. ,
bat Maley dressed myself, hearing all the Iwent•up the doordeps-was it four or
- while the sleeper's regular breathing. Then, fivel had counted as I came out ?-X f um;
mutioue as a thief, I stole to the door bled for the keyhole and inserted the latch-
whitib led from my bed -room to the lanai: key.' It turned easily -a,nd the door Opened'.
ing. I opened it without • noise and stood. I. had not naMe a mistake. I fele an inward
on the thiok carpet outside, smiling ae I. ejew of satisfaction at having hit upon the
thought of the sleeper's dismay if she awoke houseat the first attempt. "It must have
and discovered my absence. I•oloreed the door, been a blind man who first discovered. that
then, guiding myself by the balustrade, necessity is the mother of 'invention," I
passed lightly down the stain and, reached said, as I softly •olosed the door. behind me
the street door without moidente. and ,prepared to creep up to pay own room,.
There were other lodgers in the house! 1 wonderea'•whet the time. was. All I
among them young men who oame in at all knew was that it must be still night, for I
ledurs, so, the door being always left on the was able to distinguish light from darknese.
latch, I had no bolts to contend with. In As I hod found myself so °lose to Walpole
a moment I was on the doorstep, with the 'street I could not have walked for any length
door behind me closed. . • of 'time in my eostatio'state, so I fancied it
I eined for a short time irresolute., almost must be somewhere about 2 o'clock. •
trembling at my temerity. ' This was the . ' Even more anzions than whed1 sterna
first time I had ventured beyond the hems to make no noise which might awaken peo-
without a guiding hand to trust to. :Yet I. ple, I found 'the bottora of the staircase'
knew there Was nothing to fear. The and began my stealthy ascent,
street -a quiet one -was deserted. The Somehow,' blind as I was, the plain)
pavement was broad, I ootild walk up and seemed unfamiliar to inc. Tee beinatrade
down without let or hindrande . guiding e waktouehing did net seem the same.' The
myself, after the manner of . Other . blind .ieryeteitten of the. carpet under my feet
person% by tapping my stiokageinet the 'seemed different, Could it be possible that
curbstone or the •railings. Still I twist I had entered the wrong houselaa„Th,ere are.
take a few precautions to enable me to plenty of instances Oh record of -it key•have
ascertain my latitude and longitude at will. Mg opened a strange leak. Could I, through
I came down the • four steps which led such it oirownetanoe, have strayed into a
from the front door, turned myself to the neighbor's hone° ? I paused; the perepi-
right, and, by aid of the thee of railings, ration rising' on my' brow as I thought of
set my tam toward the end of the • greetthe awkward situation in which Ishoula
There I began to walkand to eount'mY be placed if it were so. - For a mem:tent I
steps, sixty-two of which brought • mY resolved to retrace my steps andity the
eget foot on to a road, which told nae I had next house; .b'ut I could not be quite sure I
reached my limit. I turned, counted •baok . was wrong:, Then '1', remembered that i11.
the sixty-two paoes, and then sixty -fife my Own both* a 'bracket, with a planter
more in the same direction before I toned figure upon it, hung near the top of the,
imyseltagain off the pavement. NY °aka- stairs. ',. I kneev .the exact plane, having
lations were verified by my knowing that been cautioned Many ,i times to keep my
rny house was very near the centre of the head from knocking . against it. I could
row. I was now quite at my ease ; I had settle all my doubts by goiog on and feeling
determined the length of My tether; I tatting landmark; BO 011 I went. . •
Gould Walk up and down the deserted I ran my fingers 'softly along the wall,
'street, yet, at any time • I wished to do 110, but no bracket Muhl tI find. My hand
'could by counting from either end, arrest touched the lintel of a door instead. Thea
my step in front of my abode. I knew, for certain, I was in the wrong
So, mightily prod of my success, for it hoinie. The only thingto be done was to
while I went Op and down -up and down. erne) out as quietly as I had: entered and
I heard one or two cabs pass me, and also try my .luelanext door.. • • • ' •
one or two -persons afoot. As them latter As I turned to grope ray .way book I
seemed to pay no attention to me, I felt heard the murmur of voices -late as it was,
glad to think- that my appearance and gait there were People -talking ha the roomethe
were not mak as ti attract notice. Meet door of vehicle my fingers had so. lightly
men like te mooed their infirmities. ' .' touched. , ' .... .
The night excursion did me a great deal . I could hot distinguish words, but I was
of good. Perhaps it was finding that I was sure the voices Were those of Mien. 1 steed
not altogether so helpless and dependent irresolute. '. Would it not be '. better to
that changed in a few minutes my whole knogle at the dear aud threw Myself upon
frame of mind. The mental rebound: took the mercy Of the inmatea of the room? I
place. I went from despondenoy.to hope- could apologize and explain. my blind-
extrategent hope -den ,to certainty. Like "need' 'would account for the mistake. Some
a revelation it came to Me that my malady one would, no doubt, be kind enough to put
was curable; that, in spite of my Presenti- me on the right road home. 'Yes, this was
ment, what friends had been assuring nee the heat to do. X could not gem oreeping into
wOuld prove to be the , truth. So elated I strange houses like a niidnightthief. Per,
grew that I threw mY head battik • and haps-each home in the row had an equally'
it walked with it firm, quick step, almost for- common look and my key might open all.
getting that I was Bightlem. I !Ragan to If so, the end would be that some alatmed,
think of many things, and my thoughts househelaer• would put a bullet into re e
,smy innooenee.
were happier ones than I had known for before 1 had time to asert
-months. I gave up oounting my paces, I Just as I raised: my fingiare to tap at the
walked on and on, planning what I should doer I heard another . voice -a woman's
do; where I Should go when. my dankness vone. It seeined to "come from the hack
was removed. I do not know whether I room and was singing to an accompaniment
e. ,have at times guided myself by the played softly on 'the piano. I paused and
e%*: aeiZYttecietireeltetreeeetieie-dge eettite'it See 1 did listened_ , . • .
it mechanically and instinctively, without I haVe been ticooeupied With complaining
noticing the action Or remembering it of the hardships of .my lot I leave not told
afterward.- yowl bad One solace to My Misery ; that mer -
1 minuet say whether it may be possible caul . gift, eo 'dune bestowed on the blind,
for a bland man, who can dived himself of mon. Had it not been for thie I betide
the fear of encountering unseen ebetaoles, thorn *wake of darknese and =Certainty
to walk as straightly and aoeurettly art one -would hag driven me Mad. 'Had it not
who can see. I onty know that, in my been that I could peon many weary hems
preoccupied and deviled State of mind, / away playing to reyeelf, that. I could be
muat have done so. Intoxioated and oar- taken to muerte and• hear ahem play
ried away by the return of hog, I may ana sing, my. days would be tnebeenahle,
bave walked as a somnambulist at 63 0110 and I shudder VS think of what aid I might
in a trance. Any way, forgetful ofidleeave- IriVitierilled-in to render thifedieeriburclen-
my brighter thoughts, I went on and
beedleee of the miesibg muse, until eoming rwalted and listened to the Bong. It
full against a portion walking in the oppo- ewer' takeirfrone an opera neently produced
alba direotion reoalled me trona iny *lone on the continent, an 'era not yet Mil,
and brought Me beak to ney misery. r felt 'Idly known in Englan , and the song was
the man I had encountered shake himself one that few amateurs would afere to
free; 1 heard him putter "Stupidfool 1" attenept, The singer, Whoever she might
mid go swiftly on his way, leaving rate boo sang it -sottly and under her VOilte, all
motionless on the spot where the oollildon though fearing to throw it out with full
had mound, wondering where I was and foto°. The latenese of the hour might well
hat I 'should dei. &COMA for this restraint, Nevertheless,
It WM no UM Attempting to And MY way 'fair ono 'oap,ble' of judgment must have
,
known he wee listening to no ordineey By this Owe I was beginning to reoover quifor a while.. ,A.ea you thirsty?"'
singer. Ili was easy to recognize the trained aelf-posseation and was able ' to Melee a . "Yes, I am dying , with tbirst-egiele OW
ilier , ...,
• , ,
akill and dormant power, end imagine mental note of these feet% water.Who %Itd,. Are Mll eirtri wpee
" • ,' . ' h• '
what, under favorable eirounestanoes, that Thankful for being allowek to quit my ' They did tio. I...areenk griedilyi, and felt, The ody two old. newepeper Pump's* ,
voice might accomplish. I was enchanted. glemitly comb, I rose; As I could think of rennewhat relieved. - -
i,
, If
My idea wen that I had stumbled into e nothing better to do I stood neotionleee, "Now, nurse" I heard the, doctor ecywile have heM tbeir 'own before 'the litilig0are it). B. Lewis, or the Detroie Free Press,
nest of karofessionale-people whom duties "Walk this way -straight on- four "make him some week tea, and when be and Robert J. Burdette, of the Burlington
ended so late, that to enjoy any evening at panes," said the voice. I obeyed, The wants anythlog to eat, let him have it. I Hawkeye. Lewia is a veritable prodigy.
all, night rnuet be greatly encroached upon. •third step brought me in collision with the will look in again later on."
He hen written constantly for ten years,
e
All the better for me.1 : Bohemians them, wall. No doubt this was an extra teat an • Doet ar Deane was shown out, and old
mires, nay unexpected nooturnal inttusmFreebie returning to my bedside patted and he has not weelined in the least.ion to the truth ot my state
ent. Burdette does not write as much, but he
• might not frighten them out of their wtte. A. hand was placed uponmy shoulder and punched the pillows to make we more
Vs '
'The Binger had now commenced. the seed I was gutde4 to a °hair. "Now, has improved. and he has yet to do -the
sir, " oonetoitible. By this time was wide beet work of hie life. We believe Burdett°
deemed mete. I placed my eer close to tbe said the speaker who had before addreesed awake, and the eiperiencee ot the night is drifting toward verae-making ; if this be
door to, °Reale every note. I was. curious to me, " telleus, in as few. words as possible, were coming back to me with a distinct- ' true we may look for Boma exquisite work
knovr what she would make of the effeative who you are -how and why you came here. n:g
nese and detail far above those of a reibe-a at •his hands after lee has learned the di!- trying Analta, when -oh horrible con- Be quick, we have no time to sore." dream. ferenoe between a spondee and dactyl, and
traat to the • soft meet liquid notes and I well knew they bad no time to spare. ' 0' What is, the time ?" I asked. .
'
earned. words of passion'ate love 1-I They had much to do -whole to bide. Ob, "Nigh • upon Oben, Mader Gilbert." is brave enough to pat hie thonghts into
heard a gasp, a epesmodie, torn' gasp, for the gift of sight for one moment 1 I Prisoilla spoke in a eorrowful, injurehes aborted Many &beautiful poem 'd rhyme. The foolish fear of being laughed
et et
that could convey but one meaning. -.I would' purohase it even, if the price were manner.
e Noon 1 what has been the matter with
,
Of the more recent laumorists, the best
heard it euemeded by a long deep. groan. Tema of darkness!
which terminated in a gurgling •sound • Shortly and simply as. I -could, I told me ?" are Jeel C. Harris, E. W. Nye and OpieReed. Nye is the most popular, but Reed
which frieze my, blood.. I heard the music( them what had brought me into such The old servant was weeping. I aould is undoubtedly the most versatile. Harris'
stop suddenly. and the ory, the piercing strait% The only thing I concealed was hear her. She made no answer, so I work is simplY perfect in its way, but the
cry of a woman. ring out like a frightful ray true name. Why ahoulcl these meas. ;Oriented my question. faet that it as largely confined to dialect
change from melody to discord, and then I sins know it? If I revealed it they might • "Oh, Master Gilbere 1" she sobbed, eketcihes preecrilmasIthe extent of its popu- •
heard a dull, heavy thud on the floor 1 set a watch upon me and at Any moment "how could you do . it? When I came larity, awe this extent of popularity will,
I waited to bear no naore. I knew that their ertfety demanded it I might she nm m
are into thoand saw the empty bed I we believe, diminieh year by year. James
eotne dreadful deed had been perpetrated the fate of him who lay within a few fethought I should have dropped:"
et "i'Vhitoomb Riley ie beyond all que.stion- the,
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within a few feet .of where I stood. My. of my chair. So I gave a fictitious name, When 'Me saw the empty bed 1, I trere. bed orour humorous poets, Thomas B. .
heart heat wildly and fiercely. In the but everything else I told them r
was true. bled. The heroes of the night were real! Chrystol., of thu New York Morning journa.l,
exeitement of the moment I forgot that All ehe- while I was speaking I heard "How could you do it, Master Gilbert ?" is the most promising of the young' Verse.-
I was not like: diverge -argot, that that distressing 'Mind at the other end of conetinued Priecilla.• "To, tee out without writers, aria he is nudeniably the most
strength and courage could avail me noble- the room. It drove me nearly mad. I A word, and Wander halt over London, all prolifio end Most fashiomble ; it is bard
ing-forgot everything 'save' A doge to believe could I have made dire of reaching alone and to see a thing 1" tis .
prevent the moontplishment of orime-the through mto determine as o the versatility of y darkness and catching one et "Sit down and tell me what you mean- humor, as his verses bane hitheeto be n
wish be do a man's .duty in saving lite and those men by the throat, with the certainty what has happened ?" wholly confined within the limits of co i-
ewlooring the ones in peril. I threw.open of crushing life out of him, I should have She had not quite aired' her grievance.
..• •• ....malty. When' tve come to. oonsidet t e
the'door ' •and-rushed-beadlong- into --the. - cloncispeeven,..had-eteell an .tteteilealed my "It you wanted to get tipsy or to take any demand for humor ' which exists in
of -Mine= :Min- tie-Aancle you aeleepeance. -rt:
presence of etrong light, but light which -. When inin'xplenittioti -Wiiiietiver-Alicith'er- -tratke-ydrencrensiblee yoirmight-bayerdote
. fina that • there ', are .1 BO few- ' writs
Leaut. ...cenutry, ' .we 'a an '• • amazed. to
• aaa
room. Thence ae-,,-1 ' beeame-awere of the . own fate. . • •
revealed nothing to me, the foley and rash-, whispered obneultation took plaoe. Then it at hoine, Masteg Gilbert. I :shouldn't capable of answering that• demand. It is
Immo! my, promedingie oame fully horge to the spokeaman .debaanded the key whioh have minded it once in a way:" complained that the humorist writer3 him-
me • awl IMO a 'flash ,ili eross'ed my mind had -so -nearly cost me my life. ' I support° " YOu're a kind old fool, Priscilla. Tell 'self out, but we do not believe it neamearili
the're 'wearneed„ blind and- .lielpless, I had they tried it a.od found it gated BA ',said. Pe all About lent night". • lows that because one has a talent he '
rwilled into • that room' to meet my' death. It was not returned to me, but I heard the, It was Mt until she saw I was getting.
quite • angry that her . tongue would must exhaust that talent in two; five or ten
I heard an oath -an exolarnation of Bur. voice once more. ' s
prise. In the distance I heard . the•oryot " Fortunately for you we, have decided to ' eionsentto run pretty straight. and whenel years. We do not ee why that talent
should not endure, a life -time. Put it must ;
the woman, but it sounded . muffled arid believe your tale. Stand up." I aide m
go' heard her ,account of what hedourred my
be nursed and, teetered and cultivated and
faint; it seemed to me that a struggle was. and was led to anOther 'part of the room ,head was whirling. ' This it What she told improved. '
going on in that part of the'room. Power- ana again Placed in a ohair: As, after the me : . • The trouble with the average writer -be
less though I was to aid, I turned itnpula Manner of the blind, I stretched Out my . It mud have bees about an hour after he hilmorouely inolined or not -is that ho
eively and . took a couple of steps in the .•hande, rfound I was th
ih a corner of e my stealthy exit that dSh
ie awoke. e put spends the principal of his ability instead
direction w,hence the ory came ; my foot nein, my face tuned to the angle. of the her ear to the door to make certain that 1 of husbanding that prinaipal end aubsisting
caught in.something and I fell 'prostrate on- 'walls. . , , .. , was asleep and eventing nothing. Hearing. upon the interest. • The graveyard"' of jour -
the body of a man. .Even . in the midst of .." ltyou move or leak 'around," said the, nci sound of life in my room she entered it,' nalista are full of intellectual. paupers -
1 fele my heed, lying on the fallen man, vanish."
theborror that awaitid -Me I shuddered as voice, "our 'belief in your blindnese will and found • the bed untenanted and me e
. • . _ ___ .gene, _ Probably she even more fright- - tte9Attiewhehad,alLthat genius amid 'give 21, -- -
• • • ..
grow evet- with s'eme-eivarm --fluidwhich- --IliwaseimPossibleeto7reireindiarefand the. ened then she owned man, but who fooliahlyand eitravagantly to being. She knew laviehed•their wealth of brilliancy, with no
-slowly trickled over it. . , grim threat conveyed by the last words. I; all about my despondency and complain- thought. of the profeseional to -morrow, till
Before I 'could rise strong mueoular liv.. could only •sit quiet ' and listen with all my hags of the last few days, and I have no
doubt but her firet fear was that I had they eceind themselvea suddenly bankrupt
ing hands Were . upon nay throat, holding eare. .
inc down, ' while a short . 'dietonee. .off -I Yes, theyhad much to do. Theyinnved destroyed Myself. She stattedlite-tertreh and benighted and objeoes of universal
.00mpassion.-Begene Field. '
heard, the sharp oliok of e pistol look. Oh, about busily and rapidly. .I. heard imp. of me, and at once recognizing the impos-
tor a light for a moored 1 'If only to see boards and ' drawers ?paned. • I detected sibility'of finding me without aseista,noe,
s „
those who were about to take' my life, if the sound :of papers • being torn end the turned to that 'first and last remora° of an Henry M. butane'servani.
Me.,Stanley has with bim his favorite.
only -strange fancy -to'. know in what- smell of papers burning. I heard them Engtishwothan in such a diffloulty-the
advent,' Dualla,' a slim Somali et 23,
part of me to expeot the fatal bullet. And raise some dead weight hone the floor- police. Having told her tale at the nearest.
picked up at Aden, who has aoted as his .
I, who some hour or two ago lay arid dared heard a. seeind as of rent ' °loth and linen station, and by entreaties, and by enlarging
oonfideetial attendant for the last five or
to wieh tot death, felt at this moment that -7-heard the jingle- of money, even the tick on my infirmity. Made known the urgenoy.
six years, saye the Pall Mall Gazette'..: No '
life, even my darkened life, was as dear to of a wateh as • it was drawn trom mule- of. the ease, and seoured sympathy, tele -
one eould.fe.il to be attraoted by hie °right,
'me as to any creature , wider the sun. , lie where and lata on the 'table near ree. Then graphic messages were Bent tootlier Olio°
intelligent face, his genial smile' eta Ins
I cried aloud, and my voioe Bounded to nie I felt a breath of air , and knew that the stations asking if any one answering to my
"ansWers to Borne pleased,. badinage which
like the vowe of a stranger: ' ' ' • doer had been opened. •• I heard heavy foot- description had been' found. •• Priscilla
hiamaster esehangedwith him at lunokreon
Spare 'me 1 I am blindl blind! blind 1" stepreon the stairs -the 'steps of men bear. waited upon thorns .until About 5 o'clock
ing a weighty burden, and I shuddered ag I. in the moraing, 'when 'a replyoatee from ehowed a s.urprisieg readiness And grasp.
. -VHATTERTIL .. -thought_what_that burden must be. . • the other end cif the• town. .It stated that With the various points Of the' Congdquese
' -.11.efore the last tonic Was completedethe- a -youeg--man--who_.:appeared_to .be _blind, _U011..1108 therouguly conversant, :express- .
.• Mum mi Ditssoluna I . ing his •opinione "with muolie-droisienle-otee .
. women's radan had exalted. For some and who was. certainly drunk and'ineep.
The hands pinning me down. did not for time it had been growing. fainter and only ble, had,just been brought ie. . • •- 'De Bram% of the miesionaries, 'Of the •
An instant relax' their grasp, yet they Bounding: at reaming Intervale. Now I! . (Po be continued.). '
• Portuguese. and so on. The' length el the • .
might safely. have done, so. Situated as I heard it' no longer. 'This cessation was a . •••- Congo, from Leopoldville to Banana Point.
avioserrRAN:DIAire SPIEGA,kiERS.., he is known; and when ,he a,ppeare at a
WB I felt that roy only eleatio'e of life was. great relief to my overwrought nerves,
to lie still and eonvinee, if I 'could, the. per- my heart grew siok as I thought it may tie station he is at once recognized as the repro -
lion. Nothing could be gained, but every- , Although at . least . two Men must have characiergiice •ot Clever ..1.2nOrompto , aentative of Mr. Stanley,- as whose ainbae-
. 'Others, acRoino sod ./Lbrand... Sador • in -advance. he, often ads: In
song in the room ' of the truth01my maser- then were two ' victims. instead ef.ciete. • .. -
thing would be hat by resietanee. I was fad Dually. is a diplomatist' of emeutemato.
hone that weight away, 1 know I was' not • Lord 'Coleridge,' at the Irvbare Mequet at
strong, but, even if all the Benne had been tact,. ,whieh does .oreidit. to his enaohing;
left alone. .. I heard • some ono him:.
mine, I doubt if I fbould compete with the 'St. jameseHall; benre our Opular -trap- 'His English is wonderfully good, and all . • -
self lute a ohair With a half weary sieole and
di went 'to 'America, intiinated that. an present he is acquiring the art of writing...
man who. held me down. ' I could feel the
guessed he had • been ' left to gourd Me: I. efter-dinner rneeeoh'" oonsisnd of platitudes
nertrous power of his hands and •arnes. Cer- ",Dualla ie getting whiter 'every- dee,. Do- •
was longing to make my esoape-longing
tainly, now that I was blind and. helpless, 'and anecdotes ;" and I remember • hearing
Ito wake and find I had been dreaming. you use Pears soap, Duane?" asked Mr.
the etruggle would be e, ahcirt Me. Beside's .Mr. James . Lowell; pod, humorist, and Stanley, laughing • out; Duane had net .
The euspense or the iaightinare- was grow-
Ariaerioau Minister at the Court of St.
ing unbearable. i eitia,•witheut turning my tried its virtues. This is not his first visit
he had companions,. how naany I Iced, not, :
ready to help him. • The first movem.ent 1 bead: dames, say that .if huddenly. called upon to . London; though it pessimism great .
Made would-be the 'end of everything to far • ' ' • .. . after dinner to.epeak, hie Iiiind was • more attractions. for hire, I am afraid he I:inters
'as I wag. °deserved. • - • .. • • ' horrors?"
"How .long alit I to. be kept amid these dims a blank, but that on ;the way home the , gayeties of Paris.' Dualla is •getting•
I heard the man move in his .,obair, but •frem threfeed he all/00122 at'ever so•.many homesick, and in going back to Aden, for a •
a I made no further attempt to rise, but . , • . .., ,,
lay as • still end - unreeisting as the prim-
, he 'made no answer. ' " May I not go ?" I good things he would like' 'to have said.
This' implied a look tit' ready wit, but 1 time at lead, to friends... " Ductile thinks
pleaded, "1 have. seenenothing put roe out the. white girls very- Pretty, but . I. knotir
trate • ferm across whigh I had ' fallen.
'Every moment seemed an hour! .' . into the streeteemy , where. I shall • go fanoy 111r. james R: Lowell. dirt himself an there is a dusky Somali•maiderrin the oarie; .
mad if I stay here longer." ' - "' * • eh, Durilli? ee DeAlleblushed, langhed and. •
Thnik of my • eituation. e A blind -men en 'injustice by this confession, as hie sperihes
a etrenge room • in a strange hewn -held usuallY ; have an imp.romptu ' air and beat a hasty 'retreat. That he haa faith in
Still no answer, I eaid ne more. .• ab.ound 'in 'point and intenet. Marlin
'down °Lathe body of a man whose last
1y -and -by the , absent men returned to' . England is evident. from tbe tad that out
'.groan be. had just heard -held down and ; -
vheir:oompanion. I heard the door dose of the £350 he has Bayed out of hie wages
., •
Dickens wag. Aa admirable afterdinnet
after them. Then mane mere whispers,
. tolenbly well befote-hand what he was to of £80 a "year'he has invested £260 in °dee._ .
at the rneroy of thorn who it was certain: meeker, but • I heve no,, doubt he knew
hed just taken part in A 'black arid itowl ' I h,eterd the drawing of a cork and a jingle sole. The odd ' £130 he .has spent in pie- '
of gismos. They were .refreehing them, " Boz " I faney.Gedge Augustus Sala bears .fellow he is.
Bents for hie friends,e like . the thoughtful
aridly -dime 1 . Unable' n look into the faces • talk about; and since the lamented death of
et the murderers , around- him ;and learn 'dolma afterthe night's dark w.ork. • ' away the palm. . When this notable
'Whether their looks meant life or death to
Presently a Curious odor -that of some journalist rises, poises his' chin in the air,
him 1 Expeding • every mornetit to feel .
drug was perceptible. A. hand was litid'on,.
rolls his dark eyes. upward' and sends out •
the 'sharp stab of a knife or the fiery sting ney shciulder and a glees full of some.liquia,
his clear metallic oheat Donee one feels. &Li
'of a bullet 1. Seeing , nothing And feeling.
vias placed between my fingers. . • amine:Aloe that a -clever speech is fortheoni-
nothing save the hands upon ' his "Drink," said the vOice-the only voice
ing, deltv.ered with fleent ease mad felicity
throat • and • the dead'. : bodY beneath '
I had hear& - • .
of expression.. I Moe. heard a • noble Ida,
him!' Even• hearing 'nothing mere • that •
" I will not,"- I cried, " it may be poi -
stifled .morining in the distal:teal , Caaethci „ . who.* very. • frequently . makes excellent
wildest flights of fiction show a. parallel to ' Ei'll.". • . • speeches in the Upper Hens% declare that
, i ' I beard a • short harsh laugh and felt A.
he would 'part with half of hie worldly -.
my cam ? cold:metallic ring laid. against my forehead.:
pomessions if he. could' toll off a speech.
Since that night I have quite diebelided
" It is not .' poison ; it . is an opiate and with . Me faoility of G. A. S. This may
in the possibility Of peoplela hair turning
will do you no harm.' But thin'," and as he.
Intve been a faeon de porter, but it certainly
suddenly gray. If suoh A thing can be I r3poke ',felt., the' pressure of ' a little iroti
implies 'alerge measure ' of admiration for
meet have left that. room. with the looks of 'circlet; "this is another affeir. 'Cheerio 1"
the oratorial ability. of our prime of jour.
An oldinan: •• • . • ' : • . I -drained the glass and was glad to feel
pallets. • To my mina the • meet wonderful -
I can only say. that even how as, Otter the pistol tnoved' from :my heed. • "Now,"
speaker in ' the . world ie • Henry . Ward
tholepin of years, I write this ; even as I' said ehe spokesinan, taking the empty glass
Beecher, the celebrated Brooklyn
see everything domed me safe, still and at
from my hand,'" if you are a' wise man,
divine.. • 'He . oan • ' 'speak. •'• at stry
peciee; even . though /know this ones I love
when you awake tcemorrow you will say; 'I
'time, at any plebe '..and 'on . any sub.
are Mese at hand, my pen trembles, my blood have been -drunk or. dreaming.' You have
nide chilled end e fair:tams steals over me ' jeot. Hie ' pyrotechnic. brain, incessantly
heard us but net seen us, but remeniber we
As the ••reeolleotion of the . mod terrible
know you." - • ' • '. ' .' • • whizzing and whirling,, shoots out 'thou -
Momenta in My life . comes to me with a e left me, and in a eller time, 'do what . mends of liriglit thoUghte, which he ,readily
vividness' cannot describe. • • • I He
to struggle spinet it, heanY drove- clothes in. most musical and expresstve len- ,
It was well tot me thaet" could keep still _
slums came over 'me. ' Thoughts grew guage: The worst speaker r ever heard hi
and or main and again, " I am blind-
Mooherent and .reanon Seaweed' leaving me. eDying " Bouoicault,who, though a orepable•
leek and see 1" My gunneries, the tone 'truth comedian and adapter of French pimp,
of my voice, may have tuned the balance My head fell Ant on one side, then on the
boggles and stammers, hesitatee end tripe
on which my life hung -,May , have 'carried other. The lasktkiing I can renaember is'a
When he " rises. to. respond," and resumes
etrong arm °minting me and keepieg me
convection to my, heaters. Presently the his seat withont having . produced . the
strong light of a lamp was perceptible to .from tumbling . out of. my chair. What -
slighted efface, except' that et diseppoint- .
my obscured vieion ; .94 lamp. placed •so • rthe drug was, its 'action wax strong
and swift. ment. On the whole I think the. Amerniane
dose to me that I could • feel in hot glow an mo,re telling after,ainner speakere than
upon my face; and I was aware that some • For home and. honks it beld • me
the Englieh. - ghere is' Daniel Daugherty,
one was stooping. or ' kneeling dovvn and gametes% and . when . at ' last ' its
'
peering. hito my eyee, His breath 'struck power .. faaed and my mind; strug-
the eminent advocateof Philadelphia ;
St COkley
'against my ,oheek ; a short, quiok, excited • Wing hack to a clouded god ini
of oonseio-
unseox, HA Ben Butler and
a ' ,' "
breath•Lhow meld it be otherwise-- alter nemernade; after Many attempt% tele fact ' Chauncey M. Depew, whosenames are
.side of the ociectio, and
the deed in which he haci juat taken part? apparent to me that I • was . lying on a. bea, well known on this
who„ when thr leg% usually
At last he rose; a moment afterwards and, moreover, as I found, by stretching ey get on thei
coto the Pedificationjiof their.
the reetreining hewn moved from Me, oue my arm .end. feeling around, my own n usoate
hearers.-Iforeard aid ihotel Mica. .
and then, for the fad time; I began to bed, is it to bo wondered' at that I said to
hope that hey life might be "mitred. ' myself, "1 have dreamed the most fright -
As yet none of theme around ' me had ful dream that ever mime to it tormented
spoken. Now I heard voices; but whis- mind."... After -this effort of mind I Bank Wall . Street News : One of the lute
raring sosoftly that • even •ray sharpened back once more into asetinveonsolous date failures in Northern Michigan was that' of
ears could not oatoh the purport of it 'single but fully persuaded I had never quitted a retell dealer in grindstones-liabilitie+.
word, although I could gather that three my bed. My relief et this dieoovery was $385025., assets, . 01,262,18. His enact -
Orions at lout were engaged in that immense' ' • - nations were all _fiest_ouller.
hushed oonetna
ultation. • Yet it niind grew "BY, I eanset eaY " You see, I was earying a stook of 950.
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All the while, leice a dreary and fitting the same for • the body. My • head seemed grindlatones, all aims, all Of 'ern provided'
amompaniment, I could heat that stifled meaning -a. Woman's Moaning. I would 'dry and perched. Them unpleaeant fads . ,. yde.o .
" 'be ovetritoduotion aepressea the.mar-
, preparing to split in two, my tongue was With holes in the centre."
have given alt I possessed -all eaVe life in brioanie more did :morci netioeeble as oon-
,exahange for a minute's sight, theft might scion -mese gradually returned. I eat up. in ket and sent down prime."
than been able to comprehend what had bed and premed my bonds to my throbpmg
" While the general 'depression in 'all
paged and what was paining around me. 10nd'; of business induced temente sharpen
" Exactly."
Still the whispers continued. • They breves. • . •
" Oh, dear' heart 1" • I heard my , old
their teole on stone walls and put off invest.
°arm thick and fast, running into and nurse pay, 'He is coming round et last."
interrupting. each °Mete as trona men in Then another Voloe-a •Man'e voice, eon leg in grindstonera."
bob but guarded. .disouseion. It neearia" _ ao Aist.-001-. .. '
And, to saa to the . rest, rumors Of a
and bland. , ,
little' intelligenee to guess the subjeot of " Yee, your tauter will seen be well a
that debate 1. Preeently they died; away. again. Kindly let Me feel Our pulse, Mr.
Wheat and the cholera exeiteneent weakened
European Complication, the lo* prim of
altogether, and, for a time, the only Mena Vandhan''' ' ' . the market until grindatones hadn't a
1 beard WM that terrible, matted moan- A soft Anger Wari isia upon my wrist. •
" Who is it?" / asked. ghost of a show."
Oontinued with it dreary monotony. •
A. foot Witched Me., "You inay stand '‘,I ane Doctor Deane, at your aerviera,"
John Bane, for an indeeent assault on
$ • •
up," I heard Mine ono -say. „When I buret eaid the stranger. .. '
so'reeklesely into the roomI fended the' " Heve X been 1112 HoW Jong?' note Maria Wright. & 12-yeatiold girl of Luoan,
exclamation:el.:title Whieh . I was greeted .„ethanY "Ye')
canna hone foreigu lips, but the men who " A finch urs only There is nothiwas eenteneed to !let months be the Central
ng to Prison by judge Davie 6.4 London on
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now Wreaked ine spoke in pure English.
_ . .. • .
he alarmed at: Lie down again and keep
. . Saturday.
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THE HUMOROUS JOURNALIOTO OF AMEOICA.
Easy of Iryiplenotion.
Good Night.
The olook on the matte' tolled 1 a. m.
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and it little past, and Pall the knight ling -
rad, trying to think of something to stkr,
although it was painfully evident that the
baron's daughter was just too sleepy for
anything.
"1 am afraid," he said at last ; " that I
am like an augd." . '
" Wherefore' sir knight?" she asked,
yawning withthat high -bred courtesy
appertaining to the upper classes.'
"Because I bore you,'qee said, stuffing
proudly at his good right mt. . •
" Ah, no, she said e " you remind -me of
• an old flint -look musket:"
":Spoken like a eoldier's daughter," quoth
he; " and as to how,?"
"Takes you so long to go off," ;she said
kindly. '
At 115 le. m. the portcullis fell with -a
clang, the draw bridge was •raised, and the
castle slept-. Away in the starlit distrinee.a.
good knight tramped wearily in the wake
of the last Me which had sailed two hours
ago, and bitterly reproached himself for not
thinking •to tell the haughty baron's ,
daughter that hht joke • was too awfully '
premature, because muskets 'weren't going
:to be invented for nearly 100 years. -
Brooklyn, Eagle.
Not a Pox
New York Star: A Grand street dentist
Was. recently asked by one of bis lady
patients if he Would -Make a set of- false
teeth for her dog, who, being old, had led
hie own. She raid elle Wa9 wilting to have
the expeenned made on her darling, whose
digestion was now greatly impaired, and
that many other people ehe knew would be
glad to have their pet' a absent teeth
replaced if her dogea..'set was a diocese.
The dentist declined to try.
The •big stone tower of the Philadelphia
public boildine, now in process of oonstruo-
tion, will be finished by the end of 18e6,
and will then be 310 feet high. From that
elevation the iron work oommemes and
goes 106 teet higher, until the crown of
William Penn's hat, the height of 636 feet,
is reached. The orowniug piece in the
circle forming the lower part of the Wrier
is a, single stone weighing 82 tons.
Mr. Gladstone returnea 10 Hawarden on
_Sataudayetrona his 13Mteh tour, which waif
a oontinouri series of triumphs. IIre waif •
fatigued yeriterday, but expretased himself
as delighted with his visit and ea confident
that the intim of Lords would recede from
its hostility to the French's° Bill.
In the libel' suit at the instance of Mr.
Stillwelleditor of the gentitzel, Port
Atthur, spinet Mr. Rennie, of the Heraid,
Port Arthur, et 4, ttiea at the Tonnto
oivil anima on Saturday, the jury found a
verdict for the plaintiff ot 0600.
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