Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1891, Page 7

>= 4 a), - Se — ’ THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES. 7 i we This is what happened: The song went | tal serenity. The change was complete. With | the flames have licked up this tenement, will] “Miss Clegg, replied Vokel calmly, “I alone aR AM W EL L y OK E « | superbly for a few lines, but then the singer's | a single stroke nature had delivered herself from | readily, completely and julely for the | can be Say gre for the acts of this your yh A 4 voice suddeniy trembled and died away. Theo-| the shacklev with which accident had hamp- | earthiy # of Dr. Septimius Siege man. Iam his legal and lawful keeper ani dora had risen, and, walking to the mantel, | ered her free action. Wirt's lips fell apart, and he fixed his dear | have been ordered to restrain him of his liberty Or, stood there with her head bowed and her face | The moment I could pull myself together ‘upon my face with « most painful look. | lest bis violent acts covered with her hands. Wirt laid his guitar | after the shock occasioned me by this wonder- in that old oaken chest standing ther, so | stroying human life 2 STRANGE EXPERIENCES OF DR, | down, and, stepping up behind her, reached | ful happening, I besought Wirt to give me an| quaintly and curiously carved, whic! you,asa| “Infamous wretch!” shrieked Wirt; “your ae sae over her shoul ler and drew one of her bands | account of his return te life, asit were, Boy, used to beg me to let you look into, lie | day is near at hand. Don't listen to him, Theo: SEPTIMIUS CLEGG. from her face. “Yokel did it, father!” he whispered, glanc-| the remains of a human body. They have one ae ea on would a viper! His lips are he tried to whisper, but it was more | ing furtively at the door. never been articulated. I shall now proceed to | dripping with falsehood. Goat once and_in- like a gasp. “Thee!” ¢ would be idle for me to attempt to give you | arrange them, skeleton-wise, by means of cat- | form our friends what the man is doing. Tam WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING STAR BY | ,,She turned around and raised her eves to his, | an idea of the pang which these wordscansedime, | gut, and at the proper moment! shall wrap|no longer a madman, Theo. My reason has . aes He was almost startled. It was not the face of | for I interpreted them as the trump of a de-| them in my long gown, set them in this easy | come to me again. Father is not dead. He is INGERSOLL LOCKWOOD. the sweet maiden he had been wont to look | stroying angel, announcing the second crumb- | chair and make my escape. only hiding under the ground. He is not dead, upon as asister. She was transfigured! There | ling down of my boy's reason. Tsank intomy | “Escape?” gasped Wirt; “why, dearest father, | I tell you; he is not dead ! Was a piteous look of yearning, of interrogation | chair in a state of utter collapse. ‘Poor, | what can you be thinking of—a man so well| At the sound of these wild and frenzied words in her wide-opened eyes which he had never | wretched mortal that I am,” I murmured to| known as you are—" Theodora covered her face with her hands and sey there: Could it be she loved him? | He | myself, “itis after all a dream. Wirt'smind| “Yes, yes, my dear boy,” Icontinued, “you're | sank with a groan into a chair, and, as the form haf often in his day dreams pictured Theodora | is still unfixed.” right; but don’t be alarmed. I have a hiding | of my poor boy disappeared behind the oaken as his wife and conjured up blissful scenes of | He appeared to divine my meaning, and with | place where I shall be safe from all intrusion, | door, she sobbed ou! rather curious tale | contentment that would be sure to gladden his | a smile he repeated: lieve me. To your grandfather's scientific Wirt, Wirt, God help you, God help question my statement | Journey through life, if blessed with the pres-] “No, no, dear father, it is not the working of | acumen am I indebted for the discovery of this | you! 7 nt it is founded on fact; but | €R¢eand devotion of such a sweet and lovable | a disordered mind, but solid, substantial truth. | strange and mysterious abiding place. While | Skilled as he was in the strategy of villainy when I tell them that re woman. But he never could bring himself to | Yokel did it. conning over ‘the pages of your great grand- | Bram Yokel pushed on with resistless energy toall such doubters I make answer that the | think that she bad any other than a sisterly af-| “In heaven's name, my son, explain your- | father’s journal Dr. Septimius Clegg the second | from one victory to another. The very next jould again result in de- CHAPTER I. gland family and that | fection for him, and_partict y in the last | self.” came upon this passage. It is dated June 22, | day Theode~a was informed of the failure of my grandfather, Dr. Septimius Clegg the first— | year had she seemed cold and distant. “There is very little forme to explain, dear | 1770, and reads as follows: ‘Crowds of gup-| the woo! mills. ‘The news fell like a thun- for I'm the third—was Kenedict Arnold's staff || But that look now fixed upon him! What | father,” said Wirt, “for what preceded my re-| toothed old crones and frightened children | derbolt upon many a widow and orphan whose vkleasly brave as | €¢,Could it mean save love—deep, ardent, soul- | turn to reason is only known to him. I can | have been v one of my farms sitnate in | little fortunes were invested in the concern at as recklessly brave 88 | fu) love! only inform you where it wasand when it was |the parish of juonock, Western Windsor, | supposed to be the stanchest in the land. To that great leate 2 that I have in my pos | With a courage that astonished Wirt himself, | that I came to myself,like one waking up out of a | during the last few d lays to inspect a sinking of | Theodora it meant poverty-—absolute and session a pair of very handsome silver-mounted | he threw his arms around Theodora and drew | deep sleep. I was suddenly concious of a hu- | the ground, which the old women solemnly as- | abject poverty—for. no'matter how much Bram holster pistols, with which he amused himself | her upon his breast. man hand clutching at my throat. Tighter and | sert portends the near-at-hand destruction of | Yokel might be inclined to make provision for Lappe hen he should have been |, “Iheo, Theo. my darling!” he whispered as | ever tighter became that grip. It seemed as if| the world. About half an acre has settled sev- | Theodora and her mother out of Witt’s prop. firing at red costs when be sha he set his lips upon hers, “you're dearer to me | I was only being awakened from my sleep tobe | eral feet below the common level, and as we | erty, the law would not permit asingle penny of attending to his hospital duties. And that this | than my life!” strangled to death. And atonce my ears were | have had no reports of seismic undulations I | a trust estate to be so applied. Hence mother being the case it will not be It task for dh. I'm a wicked woman. Wirt have com-| filled with ringing sounds, and by degrees | am forced to the conclusion that this subai-| and daughter must make choice between the any one so inclined to apply the litmas of in-| passion on me,” murmured Theodora, ‘I these sounds arranged themselves into words. |dence in the result of the action of water | bard alternatives of taking their departure : 0 this relation and satisfy himself |"hould not have listened to you; my life be- | Atfirst they seemed miles away, so faint and | charged with carbonic acid gas upon the lime- | from my roof or accepting charity at the hands ‘watigation to iis i vid of fic longs to another —” tremulous they were. but gradually they be-| stone which abounds in this region uniting | of Bramwell Yokel. of the absence of any of the acid of fiction. At that instant the lovers were interrupted | came perfectly distinct. and 1 was enabled to | with the limestone and carrying it away in the | Need I assure you that it seemed as if the Of my father. more anon, but I may say here | by the noise of some falling object in the ad-| recognize the voice. It was Yokel’s. ‘Curse | form of carbonate of lime. ‘This action would | fair form of Wirts bride must bend and broek that he t country doctor, a very in-| joining room. I heard it, too, and stepped out i idiot.’ he exclaimed. ‘Why | naturally produce large fissures and caverns | beneath this crushing load of sorrow and mis- telligent man whose ample means made prac-| into the hall. It was only dimly lighted, but I y Imade some sort of out-j/and the weight of the superimposed earth | fortune? But the sight of the silver hair nest- tive gunecestary, andl that his Ieisure time; of | Was quite positive that I caught glimpses of a ery." continied Wirt, “and he hurled me|might very easily crush in such a cay-| ling upon her mother's brows and the sound of which he had am abundance, was devoted to| man’s figure in the doorway. Could Yokel | against the pile of wood lying behind your | ity, with "the results. above mentioned. | my words ringing in her ears, "'Itemember $ou y of science with a view to the preven- | have been playing the eavesdropper? The idea | laboratory. As he walked away I became|I” shall complain to the selectmen unless | must live to watch over ont poor Wirt,” stecled ther than the cure of disease. seemed preposterous to me. At any rate I was | aware of ihe fact that my hands were filled with | this trespassing ceases.’ ‘This curious memor- | her tender heart against these dire calamities, ather all over a perfect | so overjoved the next day to learn from Cousin | matches.” Dae andum passed quite out of my father's thoughts | “Miss Clegg,” murmured Yokel, with 1 faint sical replica, even toa| Myra of Wirt declaration of love thatsucha| “Oh, infamous wretch, thrice infamous | until one day while sinking a well on this farm | glint of impish satisfaction in his small, deep- le in tearing paver and | possibility never occurred to me again. Yokel | wretch!” I exclaimed, striking my clenched | he came upon a bed of calcareous tufa in which | set eyes, “it is true you are penniless, and I ridiculously short, almost | seemed more devoted to my interests than ever | hand against my brow. were contained fossil remains of eyeless craw- | know how useless it would be for me to offer ms and more serene in manner and amiable in be-| Wirt looked at me inquiringly. fish, positive evidence of the existence of lime- | you and your mother assistance; but there's 4s the Clegg farm is de- | havior. , ‘It all breaks upon me, dear son,” I con-| stone caverys in the immediate neighborhood. | simple way out of this didiculty. Ihave asked nd being in the par-| I now, to the great delight of Theodora, | tinued. ~That cup of coffee was drugged, | Now more than ever was he convinced that | you to be my wife. Now that you and your qquonee snip of Windsor, com- | abandoned my design of sending Wirt to Eu- | drugged hy Yokel, too, and it was his intention | this subsidence of the half acre of land described | mother stand helpless and_ alone in the world, wealth of Connecticat, comprising 30 pe and directed him to return to college. I | to lead you to set fire to the pile of kindling | by Septimius the first marked the presence of « | will you not listen to me? Will you not believe oz les: but upon my father's death | had gained imy point and was quite satisfied to | Wood you speak of. The flames would have | vast cavern, and without making known the me when I come to you as an honorable man the greniac pection of thie i jet Wirt push his suit with Theodora, which [| reached my laboratory in a moment, and I | object of his survey he set about the task of | with the offer of my hand and my fortune and woolen mills 3 hor foundry which be | was very confident he would at once’ proceed | should have burned to death while sitting here | effecting an e tothe subterranean cham- | say that I love you? If my love for you werg nd in the management of which | to do and with such ardor, too, that the dear | stupefied by this drugged coffee.” ber. Ashe was aided by a single workman, a | not as strong asit is pure I should feel the aaa ing interest were a| girl would end by tossing her scruples to the | _ Wirt's eyes filled with tears, and he threw his | trusted oversecr, long since dead, the fact of | hurt which your disdain and contumely have upon time and attention | wind—the proper place for such dust of logic | arms around my ne the existence of this cave perished from human | given me. But, Theodora, look about king the old farm. At the date of | as was blinding her. “Merciful heaven,” he whispered, “what a | knowledge with the death of my father. For | every side you see desolation; your uncle dead, Clegg residence was} Although years have passed since terrible | narrow escape, father! But how often have | reasons of his own he destroyed all records of | your fortune fone, Wirt a hopcless lunatic. | In pa wil. i f the finest specimens | mischance in single instant struck joy and | you saved my life’ Thank God Ihave been | its existence and its whereabouts. I say all, | a few weeks I shall transfer him to the state of colonial arch in the old commou- | hop» out of ms existence and wrapped in it | permitted to unmask this man's villiany in time. | but one scrap escaped his notice, diagram of |asvlum and put this property up at public wealth. [took great pridein keeping it in| the cerement of woe. yet my hand trembles as | How shall you proceed, dear father?’ a stone wall upon two stones of which were | sale.” ir, but in spite of ite exterior and | I make ready to tell of i I made no reply to Wirt’s question. Icould | chiseled rude marks of a cross. While rum-| Theodora gasped and it grew black before and grandeur, like my fatker, | It seemed to me that Wirt had scarcely been | not. My mind was otherwise occupied. A maging in the cellar of this laboratory I came | her oyes. lubabit a smaller building stand | gone more than afew hours before they brought | thought had flashed through my brain, which | upon these crosses. 1 found to my delight that | Calm yourself, Theodora. I do not press redrods from the mansion, | him back to me with a vacant stare on his face | set every fibre of my body tingling with satis- | the stones were removable. A low narrow pas- | for an answer. You and your mother may aly known as Dr. Clegg | and a dull, far-away look im his eyes. He had | faction as well as amazement at the wonderful | rage led me in the cavern, which is about Afty | think it well over. It's an important decision ratory. been injared ina foot-bali_scrinjmage. ‘The | result of Yokel’s famous conduct. feet square. Hix love of’ the curious and ec- I will not hurry you.” ‘ul little world of my own, | accounts were conilicting. Some of the play-| ‘Raise your chin, my boy!” I said. centric had moved Septimius the second to fit it doubtless you are noise and bustle of exist- | ers maintained that he had gone to the ground | _“‘A. I sée you still think Wirt is not a trust-| the chamber up as a sort of philosopher's re- | asking yourecl! why I didn't hasten to the res. surrounded by my books, papers and | and that afoot had been planted upon_ his | worthy witness,” he replied, with one of treat, with an antique lamp, table, bookease, | cue of iny children? Why I did not burst upon alia I lived a life whi ne, while others insisted that he had been | old-time smiles. couch, &ec. Here I found the record of his | this keen and refined rascal and put a speedy ed in the neck just below the larynx. | “Oh, fool, fool, what a simple-minded, unrea- | discovery of the cavern asI have briefly related | end to his cold-blooded villanics? Ah, we pre was in fact over the upper rings of the | soning fool I was not to discover at once the | it to you, but more wonderful yet, while grop- | cropers after scientific truths are oftentimes, chea an abrasion of the skim, accompanied | cause of your cerebral disturbance !” ing my way about [came upon the body of an | throngh the very pride of our intellects, made a slight extravasation of blood, which | “Why, father, whatdo you mean?” asked | Indian chicf stretched full length upon a rocky | more liable to err than the untutored son of the ar more than usual | shortly disappeared. Wherever the poor boy | Wirt. i shelf. From the symbols embroidered upon | plain, whose very instinct marks the poisonous competence and trustworthiness. In one, | had been struck and whatever had been the| ‘Mean, my dear boy?” said I, as examined | his buckskin clothing I at once recognized the | berry and needs no analysis to teach ‘him that Bramwell Yokel. Thad found sucha person. | nature of his injury the shock or reflex action | the marks of Yokel’s murderous fingers. “Why | dead chieftain to be none other than the famous | death dealing germs swarm in the limpid rill He was an extraordinary man, of wonderful | of the inward lesion occasioned cerebral dis-| I mean, poor, dear Wirt, that I as well as all | Coggerraossctt, who had disappeared 80 mys- | T awoke at last. Coggerynossctt’s eave waa dark business capacity aud seemed to di y| turbance. Subacute mania of a form of pro-| the other physicians and experts who tre teriously a hundred years before, snatched up | and silent as becomes the habitation of the ‘ily that be spared me the trouble | nounced melancholia, accompanied by a loss | you after your injury in the game of foot | to heaven by the Great Spirit, so the legend | dead. My parched lips and tongue grated upon m, athing which was ex-| of the power of continuity of thought, set in. | bull, are“ a set of shallow-pated empiri-| runs. ‘The truth burst upon me; not only had | each other and my breath came and wen to me. He enjoyed my | Although I had him immediately removed to | cists; that our so-called nce is all hocus | this cavern been known to the Indians, but its | quick, faint puffs. yh, merciful heav » so thoroughly that I can't remem-| New York and plied under the care of the | pocus: that now, when by a strange fatality | atmosphere possemed the rare virtue of pre-| thought I, “am I dying, must I go hence ing added up column of figures | most celebrated alienists, he continued to grow | rogue and’ murderous-minded wretch | venting putrefaction and there lay Coggery- | without another look upon the faces of Wir i arcount. And yet he was | worse, and whenever I visited him he begged | sets his hand upon vour throat and effects a | nessett in the very attitude in which he had | and Theodora and Cousin Myra. without anoth ed man. and was so lacking | so piteously to be allowed to return home with | cure of your ailment, then, my dear son, the | been placed by his braves hundred years | soundof their voices, another touch of their amiability that frequent com-| me that I hadn't the heart to hold out very | scientific men see what the trouble was.” back. Since iny discovery of this rocky | hands?” That would be more than a human But his industry, h y | long against bis wishes. “In heaven's name, father, you mystify me. | chamber, a quarter of acentury ago, I have | heart could bear. In my despair I madea iy d all such ceusure toan| But, although his reason seemed irrevocably | Speak! What's the meanin these words?” | made many tests of its wonderful powers by | sudden effort to sit up in my bed. My hand unnoticeable quantit lost, it was only too plain to be seen that his| “This is their meaning, W T continued, | suspending the carcasses of animals upon its | struck a bottle and it fell to the rocky floor of There was one thing the world was alwarsex- | dreadfully sad face lightened up somewhat | bidding bim to sit down beside me. “If I had | walls and withinits silent depths, like Septimius | the cave. ‘The next moment my nostrils were me todo but which never did, and | wher he found himself ounce more under the | had a spark of the true clairvoyance of the man | the second, [have passed many hours of deep | filled with the stimulating odor of ammonia. It ary. There were two reasons | same roof with Theodora and me. Never have | of science about me I would have suspected at | and restful meditation. hither I shall betake | revived me completely and I set my feet upon . ned {rom taking a wife, one was my | I found deseribed on the page of any book | once that that blow upon your neck had caused | myself, my dear Wirt, when Yokel fires the lab- | the ground, but I shuddered as sharp and far- dread lest 1 should get to love her better than I | made by uninspired hands so tender and mov- | ome injury to the thyroid gland. Years ago 4 a ‘ins leaped from yo to joint. . d the other and the more sub-| inga spectacle as Theodora’s attempt to call | the learned Professor Helvetius of the Univer- how long shall you remain there, | Merciful Father, can it be that I have slept too nitial was that I feared she migh* in he: New | her lover's reasoa back again. Batall in vai ity of Gottingen drew our attention to his he inquired with a slight tremor in his | long? With trembling hands I groped for the orderliness insis- u>on arrang- | Listless and silent, with an indescribably sad | theory of the nature and use of the thyroid matches, but so stiff and helpless were my ad tidying my sta and weary expression upon his face, our dear | gland, which lies just at the head of the trachea, |“ ly , my boy,” said I: “justlong | hands and fingers that it was se" moments that I was in any sense of the | Wirt wandered about the old house, Conscious | enwrapping its first few rings. He held, and I | enough to give Yokel a opportunity to betray | before I could succeed in grasping a match Across the garden in the | that their sympathy could sound but hollow | think ‘bis reasoning is unanswerable, that the | his infamous purposes. firmly enough to strike it. A glass of wine sion I had three hearts | and meaningless our friends gradually ceased | thyroid gland acts asa regulator upon anda| Assoonas Wirt had left the laboratory I helped me to collect my thoughts. My chro- x, three hearts so warm and true | to inquire about him or mention his name. He | diverticulum to the cerebral circulation, and | began the task of articulating the human bones | nometer had ran down. Theil in the lamp that they kept my life filled with the sunshine | was as if dead and yet permitted to wear the |in support of this theory he called our | lying in the oaken chest, making use of cat-gut | had burned out, “Gracious heaven,” I tried to of love.” One belonged to Mrs. Myra Clegg, | guise of the living. Our once bright and happy | attention to the fact that ‘this ductless and | to hold the largest bones in position aud of | whisper, “perchance I have slept too long. reliet of Amos Clegg. a cousin of my fathers. | home became month by month more and more | hitherto mysterious gland is located just | glue to fix the carpal and phalangeal bones | I may come too late to keep him from working Sue had been for yearsat the head of my house- | like a tomb tenanted by the quick in company | beyond | the point at which the cerebral | into their relative positions, Luckily the teeth | irremediable injury.” Taper in hand I went held and was a woman of most lovable charac- | with the dead. arteries branch trom the trunk arteries—a very | bore a marked resemblance to mine, but it was surgeon, and just al h these exp tremely ber ever bi in any one of ability redae r e staggering toward the door of the cave. Twice. le wecond heart reddened the cheeks of | Even my own health, till then exceptionally | significant fuct, for it is just the position which | necessary for me to remove the left upper | thriee the huge stones which closed the open hter a maiden so sweet in disposition | rugged, began to show signs of this ‘torrible ‘would of a necessity be ‘is in order | cuspid, which I had lost, and to file $ round | ing refused to move. My strength wns ray and so tair un fi and form as richly to merit | drag upon it, and seeing in this nature's warn-| to enable it to perform its fanctions of a | indentation in the corners of the right cuspid | idly leaving mer In another instant I felt the same which had been bestowed upou her—| ing finger I bethought myself at once of mak-| regulator. The thyroideal arteries being | and bicuspid to imitate a circular aperture for | thet I should totter and fall, Making a ‘Theodora, gift of the gods; while the third of my | ing ail possible earthly provision for the future | manifestly larger and more ntmerous than that | the stem of a pipe made there ‘while I was a | shnerhanecs omen: I eacee ed ge rts was hung in the breast of my be- | care and comfort of my loved ones, particu- | organ would need for its own nutrition, it fol- | student in Germany. ¥ adopted son. At this time he | larly of my poor, dear boy, Wirt. Of course, | lows that nature, which never creates without| ‘The next day [had everything in readiness hort distance of the twenty- | it became necessary for me to have a new will | a necessity of creation, obviously intended that in the journey of life, and a | drawn and I gave many hours of reflection to | the secretions of this gland should through the | coffce to put the skeleton in position. I dation and crawled out into the blessed manlier, eleverer young man would | this most important subject. medium of the clo-ely interlocking arterial | not long to wait, for the third day the poisoned | light of day. ‘The cellar of my laboratory had been hard to tind. Wirt had bat one| Bramwell Yokel had served me so faithfally | channels be brought into intimate and sympa- | beverage was set before me and ir a short half | been cleared of ashes and debris Teluniersd feait, if F may call it such. and that was his | and I had such implicit confidence in the man | thetic relation with the gray matter of the | hour Cheard the crackling of the flames and | up the stone stops on all fours, for I'dared not shyness of women. Yet. strange to sax, he en-| that I proceeded to name him as the guardian | brain. Knowing of this iutimate relationshiy, | auw ominous wreaths of smoke make their way | attempt to try to stand erect, “Aw I reached the joved the reputation of being a hievous, | and trustee of the person and property of my |I should have at once suspected that the per- | through the crevices between the window garden walk a newspaper lay in the path. I “king fellow among bis classmates in col} son and my sole executor. To my beloved | cussive blow received by you just below the thy- | sashes. Setting the skeleton in my. easy chair | stooped and picked it up. It’ was dated Jane leg Theodora, whom I wished to have stand by | roid cartilage had, through its injury to the | I placed several jara of inflammable chemicals | 91. ‘My brain reeled. 1 stagzered to a rustic I half suspect all this was my fault. I had | herself, independent of the world in every re- (ergy brought about a disturbance in the cere- | by its side, 80a8 to have the combustion as | seat. “God help my dear one I cried ont. made him even in early boyhood a lover of | spect, i gave my mill property, to her and to| bral circulation. But, my dear boy, I failed | mplcte as possible, and, lifting the trap door | “It is three weeks since I entered Coggerynos- given his mind thet peculiar twist | her heirs and assigns forever. To Yokel I| utterly to fathom the mystery of your case. | leading into the cellar, disappeared from the | gett cave!” Suddenly an carpicreitng shriek w had good r to deplore. willed not only a good share of my estate abso- | And now, by the will of heave@ comes this per- | face of the earth. caused me to spring up. It was the gardener. man reaches 1 had. and sees | Jutely, but Lalso named him as one of my re-| fidious wretch, and, by a sudden and violent —— He had caught sight of me and had fallen in a s.it is quite | siduary legatees and devisees. All the rest and | Compression, puts an end to an extensive and CHAPTER TIL. swoon. Ipaid no heed to him. Other beings ts con- | residue of my property I gave and devised to | dangerous congestion and restores you to per- — were in my thoughts. I turned my steps toward put the tenor | Yokel in trust for my son Wirt, said trust to | fect reason. ‘Iruly, God moves ina myster-| The conflagration was sudden and furious. | the house. They were uncertain, but every it. cease and ietermine immediately in case he | ious way when he performs His wonders.” Bram Yokel had arranged that there should be | stride gave me new strength and unlocked my - gf hal s large for- | should recover his reason, and in the event of | | “But, dearest father,” urged Wirt, “you| so rescue, for no one save the maid servants | stiffened joints. As I rounded the corner of iL uit my earthly house | his departing this life and_ leaving no issue his | surely will not continue him in favor merely : Zs the house a deep, measured, solemn voice fell plete order, so that if [ should be taken | share was to fall into and form a’part of my re-| because he was thus made the instrument of | Were about. Even Cousin Myra and Theodora upon myear: “Do you, Theodora, take this there would be no confusion, no dread of | siduary estate. God's mercy in restoring me to reason und lift- | were not at home. As I was replacing the | man to be your wedded husband-——~ tastrophe. only tears and regrets at my | Yokel was extremely grateful to me when I| ing the shadow of woe from our home? His | stones in position I could hear the terrible roar | "With e bound I reached the low verandah and : eee sweet calm and ennobling | made ——— him bere provisions of my will, —_— wa ot the nse vilest. in of the flames, accompanied by the crash of fall- | pushed open the outer door, and in another votion to my memory. and promised in a solemn manner to regard | the man only too well anda year ago I made | % te! a sate eat i To this end I soughtan interview with Cousin | the trust as the most mered duty of his ie. | bold to warn you aguiust him. "© ha ih sak Seine, Rrery ing Os See | eee eet Se Sears a ss Seg, Misra. « woman of extremely serene and logical | Instead of lifting # little. as at one time it] ‘True, my darling boy, you did,” was my an- | stessing finely. Ina brief space of time the CBttop ( Leried outia.e tone which echoed intel Ly anne TH amt plans to ber, | hal seemed they might, the clouds of sorrow | swer. And then, after a moment's reflection, I | laboratory would be a mass of glowing embers | gureweh the aid manwion with w ditinereee which were to bestow my entire property upon | now settled down more ‘thickly than ever upon | added: “Listen, Wirt; I wish to think this mat- | and only a few charred bones would be found thut startled me. “Stop, I say; put an end to TUES nd Base ‘him make Theodora his wife. | our ill-starred fireside. Wirt grew worse, and | ter over. Give me until tomorrow and then | amid the ashes for the coroner's jury to sit | (Bat startled mo. “Stop, I says ‘This de ould take on a new charm for | his mania took on a more dangerous character. | I'l make known to you what action Tintend | upon. ‘The teeth would, I knew, be lost likely | infamous business’) happened, me. and se na snug corner of the dear old | He required constant watching, for he ap-| taking. Meantime, my blessed boy, you are to | to go through the intense heat unscathed, and | 1.4 Ghats eee ke eee et es Cpereed Breplace [shouldn't die, but should merely | peared to take delight in tearing into abreds lay @ part and not divulge to living soul the | they would be silent but unanswerable witnesses | ent. My even were fastened upon the wretched Fabrice wee the sweet Sauces of these best | the hangings and draperies of the house, and | fact that you are now in the fullest possession | that Dr. Septimius Clegg was now numbered | $"y or" ifs ‘staggered back and turned his face loved on earth growing fainter and fainter in | so wresistible was this strange tendency to de- | of your reasoning powers.” with the dead. Guay TiGalusd ke tt “Gs TGATGR Wat say Geen mag cary like Music on the water as the boat | stroy that it led him upon several occasions to | “But, father, think of our loved Theodora,” | I felt a strange satisfaction glowing within | “¥2¥ from meas if he feared that my ey which bears the singers drifts gently down the | et fire to the out buildings. This exacerba- | pleaded Wirt, coloring deeply. my breast aa I entered the silent biding place | “°°G4 tT exclaimed. “Away with rou! Take stream. i Sa tion of his symptons laid a leaden hand on | “All in good time, ull in good time, my son,” | of Coggerynossett and I recollect I made a pro- | sone vile body with ite ‘viley heart from tae ‘To my more than astonishment Cousin Myra | Theodora’s heart. She went about the house | I made reply. and then I proceeded to instruct ud said: “With your permis- | 7°.th my root lest I hand you over to the offi Proceeded to inform me that Theodora liad, | like some poor, pallid creature escaped froma | him, to the minutest detail, how he should bear | sion, brave chieftain.” ‘Then lighting the cu- cer of the law. and with some show of reason, too, I must ad- | fever wart and wandering aimlecely bith vnd | himself, how look, how ac In_ particular, 1 | rious old brass lamp which Septimius the sec- ‘did nuit, reached the conelusion thet Wirt disliked | thither in the continuing stupor of a narcotic. | impressed upon hima tay desire that he sbould | ond had suspended from the wall I opencd my | 1, Hé Uid not wait for a second command, that it was idle for her to indulge in any | Tsuw that it was necessary for cousin Myraand | lead Yokel to think that he was still impelled | desk, took out some loose sheets of paper and ee ton tmasian eee ce ered dream of “ever becoming his wife. and that | me to turn our whole attention to her in order | by ® mania to destroy things by fire, and to | began to write down these experiences as you from the shock of seeing the dead return to theretore she had by her silence, at least, given | to save her life. I finally succeeded in in- | this end I bade him set the collection of wood | find them here. iitk shia Hisbw Maceall ta ale Atos bad tor sn: Se Nee le the suit of Mr. Yokel. | spiring her with a hope which found no place | in flames at certain hours, I promising to have | One, two, thres days went swiftly by, as my | life, Sle throw hers together. But suddenly I stammered out. in my own heart, and at the same time I im- | @ servant at hand to extinguish it. He looked | chronometer made known to me, and I began | tant our tars tan togothe! ? im. it seems that one day last | pressed upon her the necessity of bearing up | at me wonderingly, but said nothing. Seeing | to look forward with somewhat of regret to the me, come, dear uncle, and eet our saved Theodora’s life. ravely against this terrible misfortune in | Yokel now approach the lakornancs directed | time when [ should be called upon to take my | wire tree” » = Degora’s ied’ repeated as ina dream. | order that our poor Wirt might be sure of | Wirt to lie down on the sofa, as was often his | leave of Coggerynossett. ‘The deep stillness of | Witt free." ped; “why, kas "Sokel daxed So I have heard nothing of ¢ having a kind and loving hand ever ready to | custom, and feign tobe sleeping. The man en- | the place was most delightful balm to my taind, akiere ‘ onsin,” continued Mrs. Clegg, | minister unto his wants. tered the room and began describing what he | so lately racked and torn by cracl fate, as Lhave Fea tntiss 06k s00e8;”” “akbamawenca: “hats Rae eee ee Ee, ents lars kept it from | "It was my custom to take my after dinner eup | called Wirt's attempt to fire the building, | related to you. But now whxta golden vista | . | rein the onk root,” ‘she answered: ‘he's ae eee PCT Cisiting the woolen | of coffee in my laboratory, where I never faited | which he atsured me was only saved from de- | opened before my eyes. The fair ‘Theodora | Prisoner in the oak had Guly balloeea ‘ates mille the skirt of her dress caught into the | to bring my brein to the molecular quietude so | struction after « violent struggle with my rose before me with a heavenly smile lighting | Pie told wa that ie acre Aire ty and that Mr. Yokel's presence of | favorable to thought. But on this particular | who seemed to be growing daily more up her glorious couutenance, and Wirt, my be- facial us : 4 alone saved her from ix death. afternoon my pipe tasted Lad to me and the | and violent, he suggested to me in his | loved Wirt, came, too, into that dark chamber | , With halta are sell O ecryecay ad <d_he has now asked Theodora to be his | coffee seemed to have a most extraordinary | calm and respectful manner the necessity of |and spoke to me in tones sweeter than ever | (Or open ao caug! Pee be a son in my ame from me in a tone which sounded | effect upon my nervous system —tirst stimulat- | transferring Wirt to some institution in which | emitted by organ pipes. I was profoundly, in- orms. on Sit of Wists baoe lees Gna tke my own voice that I wasstartled by it. | ing, then depressing and finally narcotizing it. | this dangerous form of mania could be prop- | tensely, completely happy. Day after da beee ti one ih Balogh ys it ted up with replied Cousin Myra. Ifeel intoa deep but unnatural sleep and sat | erly tr went by. The end was almost there, when sud- eer eed edb er thshe Feige igence. I turned quickly away to conceal my emo- | there for a long time listening to my own replied that I would consider the sugges-|denly 4 strange faintness came upon me. I ae turn ten dears 8 out chair | invitingly tion. One would have thought that this action | stertorous breathing without being able to | tion. By the following morning my mind’ was | pushed my book aside and drank a glass of tera oer nr ter hero on Yokel's part would have opened my eyes to | rouse myself. completely made up as to the manner in which | water, but still the beat of my heart grow | ber hand as if to say it must ee his true character. But ic did Tattrib-| Tatlast became conscious that some one’s | I intended to mete condign punishment to this | fainter und fainter. I rose, staggered toward | 20D! Sina elaine cit capone bese He Ried his failure to infocm me of his love for | hand was resting upon my shoulder. and then [| most perfidious of wretches, who I now saw | my bed, fell upon it and tried to speak, but it | drew the blushing girl upon reast as he ‘Theodora and his suit for her band to my own | heard Wirt’s voice sounding soft and sweet and | only too plainly had but one thought, and that | was too late—my soul seemed to have fled. cried out: k I repellent and ungympathetic nati However, | gentle just ax in the olden time. Ob, what a| was to get rid of me ax soon as possible in| Every member of the coroner's jury waa a Pago my hte can well im- Inoue the less firmly resolved t ignore his | delicious thrill those dear, familiar tones sent | order te enter upon the execution of the trust | friend ‘or neighbor of mine, and as their eyes | *8ine that when you heard what seemed to you proposal completely and exert myself to the | through my frame. canated bey tay will, Placing, | the smaller of | the stones. (he wight of the sun's rays lent me new cour- gnd only awaited the arrival of the dragged Jago, I worked the other block of stone out of the fou imp ‘hich, in fact, put my en-| rested npon the little heap of charred bones | the li of # madman you should have Utmost to accomplish my long cherished pro- | I began to pray and then I stopped praying | tire estate in h bigazie ich had been raked fromthe ashes the tears | deemed yourself set free from a pledge as yet So of a union detween Wirt and Theodora. I 1 commenced to weep. Vell, m yy,” said I, laughingly, “‘as | trickled down the cheeks of many of them, for | U2spoken.’ observed them both with the trained eve ‘Oh, heavenly Father,” Icried with a this man. Bram Yokel, is so desirous of mur- | I had always tried to do my duty and men were | | But when Wirt and 1 now for the first heard of a specialist and was thoroughly convinced wate outburst, stretching my arms dering me I propose to let him do it.” pretty generally constrained to speak well of | the ee record of Bram Yokel's villanies, that they loved each other, and yet I realized ok down upon our ravished fireside. Give | “Ob, father!” burst ont Wirt, “what can | me. his juggling with the accounts of the woolen Row that Thad noeasy tuk before me, con-| him back tous, we implore Thee. Turn aside | you mean by such a proposition?” After making the findings usual in such | mills 900s to make that concern seem insolvent fronted as I ihe dittidence of the one | Thy rath. make this dream real.” “Don't be frightened, Wirt,” I added, “Pogs- | eases the jury recommended very strongly to| and his threat to sell the old homestead, a aud the sense of duty of the other. I therefore | And then again I could hear Wirt's voice: | sibly it would be more correct if I said to let | the guardian of the person of the lunatic the | thing specially forbidden by my will, in order had recourse to a little ruse. T pretended that | “Father. beloved father,” it murmured, with | him think that he has murdered me. Briefly | necessity of restraining said Innatic of his lib- | thst he might force Theodora to become his certain matters made it imperatively necessary | all its old time tenderness; “it is real, it is not | outlined my scheme is this: Yokel, with an in-|erty in accordance with the statute in such | wife or go out into the world with her mother for me to wand a ‘rusted agent to London and | a dream. Wirt is here, in front of you, wake, | genuity a8 fiendish as it is profound, noticed | eases made and provided. penniless wanderer our indignation reached I directed Wirt to hold himself in readiness to | wake and look upon him! He is cured, that your unsettled reason was characterized | | Heaven in its inscrutable wisdom often be-| fever heat. Be Sob Pen 8 lay snotice, and that possibly | himself again! ‘The dreadful weight has been | by an inclination to set fire to inflammable ob- | friends the evil doer so that he may be led to| , “He must not escape the meshes of the law, be would be obliged to remain over there for | lifted from his brain and his mind is no longer | jects and had he been a little more gentle with | rush on the more —— and surely to his de- | father,” exclaimed Wirt. gx months or a year. The effect upon Theo- | oppressed with a bewildering gloom. Here he | you yesterday it is quite possible that my lab- | struction. Brain Yokel was not slow to act| ‘We'll consider that subject tomorrow, my dora was just as I bad anticipated. Icould | is, dear father: all well again, look upon him; | oratory would have been consumed and I with | upon the recommendation of the coroner's | boy,” I replied, encircling my children wit see that her beautiful eyes were constantly | ob, look upon him!” it, for you remember you found me stupefied— | jury. The very next day, accompanied by a| my arms. “For the present I've all I can doto filled with tears. ss At these words I felt two hands set against | the effect of a cup of dragged coffee. Now, | stalwart constable, he fell my poor boy, care of myself,” I sided, laughingly. T ought to say that Wirt had never been | my cheeks and my head pulled gently down. | Yokel, under the provisions of my will—being | who was sitting quietly in his apartment, and | “ ry old away from home, for although a Yale student, | Stricken with amazement, I opened my eyes | my sole executor and the guardian of your per- | dragged him to the farthest end of the house, | mering away altogether too rapidly for safety. the college was so near Windsor that he always | and saw ray beloved boy 5 ig in froné of | son and estate--becomes invested with large | where there was located what we called the oak | I must go and take a little bromide.” spent bis Saturdays and Sundays with us. Wirt | me with his handsome face lighted ‘up with that property interests. He will become one of the | room, a low ceiled chamber, walled with hea The next day came news of Bram Yokel’s had a charming tener voice full of natural | smile so dear to us all. It was too much for my meu of the county, and you see how | oak and having but one small window, to wi flight and also a voluntary confession from one sweetness, for Lhad made a point to keep him | poor old heart to bear. It came to a stand- motive is to make away with me, fn iron grating. for some reason unknown to of our operatives that Yokel's assertion that he out of the hand of so-called voice trainers, but | still. I only remember cl my arms | especially when it will seem to be xo incontro- | me, had ited. Wirt made a hard fight | had rscued Theodora from death the day her it required almost a command from me to get | around Wirt's neck and then fo ‘lipped ouny vertibly your act, the act of a disordered mind, | for his liberty, but his geben. 4 | skirts had caught in the machinery at the @ song out of him. However, when once | from me. of which the law can take no cognizance. While | been sapped by long-continued inactivity, and | woolen mills was without any basis of fact. warmed up to bis work he was quite as ready ee the world may deeply regret my death|he was soon powerless in the hands of Theard afterward that he had died in Lon- to pour his soul out in melody as many a young CHAPTER IL it will be ob! to classify it among | captors. don after wring up in wild diesipetion the ready man with only a tithe of his vocal power. pints those deplorable casualties which “come | ‘Theodora had been absont from the house at | money he bad carried away win him. ae! wa incl mene amet p another eedp ar arr at | Seenaight oto reat the world in this br ncnatig i appeale ones are evening im from one song to an bending over me, bathing my head snd hands. tof man; but mercy and| Mr. Murphy entereda bar room and called for until I could see Theodora'seyes ever and anon pp ah, bd will felicitate itself in having so worth; frantle repetitions of her ham, she hed rashed glass of . After drinking it he said. turn toward the singer's face with a world of | eached out my hand and clutched his ‘man as Bramwell Yokel to tread upon the scene in breathless haste. — i i uk E i ae i i EF love in them. Aftershe had unraveled a piece | for it seemed tome it must be a dream, of embroidery for the third time I slipped out | that he woald, unless I could hold him. fade a1 the, metning of this outrage eewso | ‘ty name i Murphy.” of the roomand motioned to Cousin Myra to | into nothingness again. But no; it was and I shall so arrange matters Let this infamous no| The ihloeme ve | samtany, i was qhecioee vesiiey- Wit. wen bnee-| todiomeci ay dexe Wakes oes taiy farlker. “Ti be reapounibie Sree quired. “Is My Murphy food toe ere Tae few moments [heard Wirt singing one | self again.” He bad wakened as from a dream, | his conscience im the of setting fire to| “Theo, Theo, eave me.” pleaded Wirt. “My | “Hiss he hed it?” of his own songs—a charming little composition | He ha swpped from. the gloom of cerebral | my laboratory, but shall provide him with a | reason haa returned to me.’ Go and rouse ont | vane ina full of untutored art. disturbance, out into the clear sunlight of men- | bony structure of the human body, which, after | friends, go, go quickly, Theo “Bis ia” —Shoe and Leather Reporter. /probably be knocked down instante- or — —————————_—_”__——EE————~=*#=&=[=[==***={{[VUH2&x—_——————— yonets. Things looked pretty dark for the GAMBLER AND GENTLEMAN. TWO GREAT FESTIVALS | #53, te. Susrnst Mennet's Rowing _aa a mob, but they squared their backs against | He Calmly Listened to an Insult for the Bake a wail, doubled their fists and prepared to fight of Sentiment. till ag on gasp. At this alarming Jancture a | prom the New York Tribune Which Werg, Witnessed in a Peru-| it hisveisitvurs und known to all to bern good |_, “Lam 8 believer,” said the colonel, tilting hie ies) 0 and pions citizen as well as the representative | Chsit and resting his perfectly polished boot vian Village, of one of the “first families,” sprang between | 00 one of its rungs, “‘in man’s natural goodness the soldiers and the undaunted Englishmen | I had the pleasure once of knowing an honest plea ind proceeded to harangue the crowd. Seid | gambler. I liked him, too, for he was s gentler SAN JOSE AND CORPUS CHRISTI) tharct eee tN, an | man. ‘The dave of this class of gamblers ane for such a scene as Are we bar- | MAN 4 barians, that foreigners cannot come among us | P8*t, however, and today they seem to be @ Mithout being assaulted and perhaps murdered? | scurvy lot, ‘The Processions and Who Composed Them— | These gentlemen who have come to view our| “Moore, when T knew him, was a Missiasippl The Heverence Paid by the Populace— | iY kuow nothing of our language, have <if-| river gambler. He traveled. in fact lived, om fe Strangers Must Also Pay the Proper Homage paket uctoas teenies oat oUt tis | the big river steamboata. Ho never attempted or They Will Get Into Difficulty. rocession. They do not know that they should | t@ conceal the trath about himecif. It war neel, oF that their hats should be removed in | simply ‘Gentlemen, I am a gambler by occupa accordance with our ideas. The constitution | tion, and a good one. If you care te have te From The Star's Traveling Commissioner. of this republic guarantees liberty of con- | play At will give me great pleasure. Uf ‘Aurguira, Pen, 1890, | #ience aad religion to all men within our | You don't, it docsn't ‘make a particle of differ WWE AROSE WITH THE LARK’ on the | Dict 1 this the way we carry out its princt- | ence : a ‘I got to kn fiesta day of Saint Joseph, so as to miss ‘TRE CORPUS CHRINT! FESTIVAL. discovered the none of the strange cercmonials, having been as-| On the cay of C. ¥ of Corpus Christi (body of Christ) sured that the best place to view them was the | we went out to a suburban village to witness balcony of our own rooms in the hotel. Pres- | the celebration. Words canhardly do justice | wunderfullr entertaining. talker, On semen ently @ deafening sound of charch bells. every | to the quaint and curions scene, for to fully | nights the steward used to sry bell in the city being beaten, might and main, | appreciate it one should nee the people, the | for those who preferred to have it there. Afte by boys nj the belfries, accompanied by a | blanketed Indians and equally earnest devotees dinner we would go up to the herr terrific fizzing of fireworks, announced that | Pf Bigher degree, the adobe-walled casas and and when Moore was on board pee inh ter : ig, dim church, the glorious sunshine, never | out b ng pen. too hot nor too cold in this favored altitude, Down the narrow street came the procession: | and above ail th tains. At first a brass band playing lively airs, then an | one end of the ‘The Devil's enormous crowd of priests, monks and nuns, “face pene sence Roun cette of | Se . honk, she sfsing om . ushes, representing hanging of Ab- | falling notes t rom his instramen Ten. women end children, completely Ailing | salom by his long hair, a figure being scteally | were ‘gentle enusic so the car. E nover kuow the thoroughfare as far as the eye could see, | suspended in that manner to a tree, while | him te propose a game at cards, He would play and in the midst of all a nuinber of life-size | another image, dressed like a royal robber, ap | there until » mugKented a game, whew wooden figures, each borne upon a platform to | Peared in the act of shooting him with ‘bow he would take bis instrament apart and put a which long poles were Inshed, upheld on the |*"4atrows, On the other side of the street | away in an indifferent manner. Was a huge cross, higher than the houses, upon shoulders of bare-headed Indians. Some of | which appeared all the emblems of theerucit. [etree the images were carried with comparative ease, | ion, inc feding o common two-gallon jag, a dice | _“T Watched him at play one night, when Sateme while others were so burdensome that the bear- | box and a wooden rooster tied to the top. Seetied to throw every card to this calm, self ers were frequently compelled to lower them —— prvneged down the street was another | composed man. nsilctrr y % wooden altar, upon which was dramatically de | fact way about him wh ignominiously to the ground, thus halting the | ji-tod the history of Judith and Holofernes. |e whole multitude. he heroine was dressed in a gown of scarlet | t eaiekri aie ae eee: aud yellow, of rather too modern make. having | luck, At the head. of course, came San Jone, in | * looped-uptpolonaise and a suspicion of panier, | he made his bets fario whose honor was the celebration, in a yellow ros cy érneslocked atetolidly woodes ate | it iar hemenh ie samun” Metco ee brocaded gown to match his yellow curls. look- pECORATED wine Waeaves on mewn. | noticed it, for he ceased to bet heavily against ing as meek as his character is gencrally por-| Every balcony and window was decorated | t¢ Younger man. This angered the other. . Then came a tall and stately virgin, erg de sigh | ie I end every one d in blue satin garnished with h pearls and | "ith wreaths of flowers, mostly artificial, and | aq ar, 7 4 ped out ex: Moore and the voung veiled like a bride. surrounded by billowy puffs | crowded with ladies dressed in their best—ball | man. Moore ad been playing his band like & of pale blue tulle, spangled to represent | dresses to our thinking—being mostly of pale- | wonderful automat ness, but sure the starry heavens. Among @ number of | hued silks, satins and muslins, jow-necked, no- | No man ex perhaps, could other saints and saintessag was a small | sleeved and set off with jewels and flowers. At | doubt that be held tl ag hand. Sud figure, to us unaccountable, but which | length the procession issued from the church, | denly, when his rival received especial respect. and attention. | taking both sides of the street at once, ench | his had, saying Tt was poised in the attitude of | person in it carrying a lighted candle Then | You played that dancing, dressed in a very short, full skirt of | came several young the beans of the town, e youl reached out feverishly for white tissue like that ofa ballet girl, with a | in full evening dress, carrying tall black crosses | the pile of money, and then his band lay on the golden crown upon the long enrls of real hair, | entwined with purple flowers. These walked | tab & pair of scales in one hand and alin the middle of the road, up and down, to| “‘That is not true, he said. ‘You have » short, curved sword held aloft in the | clear the way. Then came a group of little | good hand and you are afraid to play it other. Each figure was preceded by «children, in white satin dresses, white satin | against m ~ number of little girls strewing paper | shoes, white kid gloves and white wreaths on ‘Moore shot a hot glance ‘across the table at flowers in its path from silver baskets, while, | their heads, xtrewing flowers in the path of | him and two red spots flashed into bis checks crowding the pavement on both sides, marched | the priests who carried the sacred symbols, the | “I lay down my hand,’ be «aid slowly, but a multitude of nuns, ail with black mantas en- | mi the cross and the keys of St. Peter, | with a slight tremor in his voice, veloping their bowed heads so that little of | au archbishop’s crozicr, se golden staffs ided the other in a low tone, their faces was visible. Some of them | and a magnificent white satin banner heavily | *th: &@ gambler, aud therefore «cow. wore blue ribbons over their shoulders, | embroidered with Behind these walked | ar¢ meeting on the breast, where a wooden | the arch! ing the host ‘ie cross was suspended; others had crimson rib- | hands, surrounded by a score of priests, bons arrauged in the same way, with brass canops fringed with gold above had ropes tied around the | mpanied by the papal nanci waist. some a long leather strap dangli troup of soldiers and five or six bands of music right-hand fide." One group was composed of | playing gay military airs, elderly women, drewed precisely like the beg ass aici slaiisiaamar weadiiee He is a coward,’ he repented, ‘and I will ging friars of San Francisco, with gowns, cloaks 3 prance’ s answer for my words at the first landing.” and. cowls of rough gray woolen, while the | BY the way, the only American woman who patois good sisters of charity appeared in their usual | over had the honor of canonization lived and! 4 1404. 'aibon 1 hed econ ben oh frocks 0? coarse blue cotton with voluminous | died in Peru, She was Santa Rosa, hereabouts ner orige erage Seeger aprons of the same material and wide white | known as La Patrona de todas las Americas | © burricane deck, a revolver in hand, and, bonnets starched stiff as shingls. “<The patroness of all the American” She was | #*#iter thre apagne bottles over the rail, MONKS OF ALL ORDERS. born in Lima, in April of 1586, of the usual | T#ise his arm swittly and shatter the falling There were monks of ull orders. The habits | poor but honest parents” and was one of a oe 4 Pg soo rawr ae of some were snowy white from top to toe, | very, large family. | From earliest child- | to». bs far about his, deadly aim in ducks. He iiicin; cloaksa hide and al, while Others were aa | BOOd she is said to had displaveda supernatural | sat stiff and motionlow with w terrible fire is fal amount of holiness, but, unlike the usual fate of yes. J was amazed by his next words. gocd children in’ story books, she did | “""Docs the game go on” he asked, quietiy. not die young in consequence. At ed wrong vod meee ae | <p = gowns. There was the archbishop elad in sae! a ae Seif ‘ot until I prove that you are afraid to bet, cardinal, bishops in purple and gold brocade | fq) to the most vigorons conventusl: order |#8d With a sudden motion he thrust bis hand and acolytes in scarlet and lace swinging | thon known, that of St Catherine of Sicenes |#cross the table und, seizing Moores baud, burning ‘censers, Several brass band: were | taking vows to eechew the worl and all the | farmed the cards face upward om the table placed at intervals along the line and now and | ono and pleasures thereof, never toeat ment | ason my feet at that instant to arrest jen the monks and friars chanted « miserere, | POPS AN Pitas re ae oot ET cclibeet att | Moore's right arm, for I felt that be. woubl assisted by the shrill voices of nuns and aco- | Stuer’ promises whoxe fall meaning « child | daw his revolver at the iusult. But s buss lytes, while the rear was brought up by a regi- | Could hot have understood. Whee fifters |fell over those around the table and the hot« ment of soldiers with drawn bayonets march- | Years old she was examined bY six noted thealo, besded Young man was gazing stupidly at the ninety Tnever touched He was ® vil over the 1g the pamen ro that it brashed feverish eve nly to lowe every It soon became evident that he wn jus,” T said, lay ang man's sleew ou don't ki mare saving. He is not a coward by any young man shook off my hand vebo- black as so many ravens. There was a multi- tude of gray friars from the Resoleta and a few with large ‘scarlet crosses sewn on their sable ing with a pecular swaying motion of their , * | cards before biin, Four aces lay there —an in- bodies in time with the musi:. Finnoy oP Lime: who crane? te toe’ waeiptni | sincible hand, for straights. were not played FLAGS AND FIRE WorEs. oncinsion that she had. "never once iu ber ie | Tere was a blue tinge in. Moores white lips Flags were flying from every house top aldng | departed from the right path, in thought |“! the young man looked bewildered. Pi alg pa ar rahe constant deste ort dood, ‘After tite he chtored the, third ac | fellow burst into tears heeded crackers and other fireworks was kept up, ac- | Oder of St. Dominic, that of Saint Catharine, toon play together any more, — companied by the incessant clutter of belky and | 2% thenceforth never censed to exhort the | ‘You threw money into my pocket becanse ante al | was losing too much. Ican't take it,’ be wid, the booming of eannon, On overlooking bal- | Brent to go forth and seek, martyrdom among | Te ng from his chit, conies und the flat roofs of the houses stood a (odes 4 ‘ou can,” said the gambler in an even men and women with long poles in their hands. | {Xtdem for, herself aud others seems. to have |... hand. The money is To the end of each pole was tied a small basket, | {Tyugch, squadron was reported to be off Callen ided with a little abiver, the latter edged with a wreath of tissue flowers | tie fervently praved that ther might take and d out an ace on you.” and filled with dried rose leaves, bits of tinsel | Pillage Lima, fo that she micht avtain. to the 3 table knew that Moore and bright-colored paper cut into bits, and as | Ponors of a "martyr. a petition which, to say | ed lied. We ali got up and left the young mam the figures passed beneath the poles were thrust , ape sitting there before his money. ound Moore out and the contents of the baskets emptied on | *He least of it, was somewhat selfish. shortly afterward on deck, looking into the their heads. SUED OF THINTT-ONE. * darkly whirling water. Se SS, But she died peaceably at the age of thirty- | “" me your hand,” Teaid. “What in the Atfrequent intervals along the route ropes | ue, and her funeral was made the occasion of | world di You never « i i orda "ds in your life. had been stretched ucross the strect, from | €#traordinars pomp, not at all im accordance | Car liin Nour MTe Ss a siete tamels house top to house top, a dozen ropes ina | With the austere life whe hnd led nos the eu | ees was alusiitis baren the is only « bey wud b group, evch closely hung with tiny flags of | toms of her sisterhood of Saint Cathar: | loved his mother once i i i 1 buried uncoftined, at dead of night, = see. a a ee cae see rope ‘he meek San Jose looked in imminent | Ple” might be able to iden’ The reiguing | From Judce. jceroy, Prince de Exquilach: danger of being beheaded, and was more than ; chbishop once caught fast by the chin: while the stately | and all the dignitaries of Lima followed her Virgin had her crown knocked off, which was | corpse to ite last resting place: and in the aickly rescued from the dust bya ragged | Church of St. Dominic, whose tall,graceful tower ndian, who reverently knelt, kissed it, crossed | is one of the most picturesque objects in the old himself and then climbed like a cat with his | Peruvian capital, by the si seid its great high dirty bare feet up over the pale blue satin train | altar, may today be seen a beautiful statue of and spangled billows to replace it. Thus, with | La Patrona reclining on a bed of marble. At all “pomp and circumstance,” the sacred efti- | the suggestion of Cardinal pny Pope Clem- gies were carried from their hom: in theeburch | ent TX proclaimed her « saint, and her canon- of San Domingo to the cathedral, where they | ization was completed by Pope Clement X in were set down among the effigies of the latter | the year 1671. The 26th cohen god was set sanctuary while mass was said, and then they | ##ide for her fiesta throughout the Roman were solemnly carried back again. Catholic world, and the day has ever since Gisksiwe Veal ane been celebrated in Lima by a splendid proces- aaa eee FoR sion, participated in by all the clergy, monks, Another procession, dependent upon no | nuns and thousands of the faithful, who leave fiesta day, is often seen in the streets of all Pe- | her shrine laden with fowers, oi ruvian cities, viz: the holy host being carried | _ Pera has supplied one other mint to to the bedside of some dying person. First — calen —_ insta de Pores, who comes a boy ringing a hand bell, as for an auc- pra ck ween aa 4 = ey tion. Then comes in acolyte ‘in scarlet and | slwars represented with broom in one ham lace, swinging a smoking censer, closely fol- bg se aap “ palieate ‘wo —_ in lowed by other acolytes, each carrying some ee aah s 4 sacred emblem or device, whose use or | 22d his charity, as well as his life of servitu ‘i nifieation is known ae all good Lathe and alms asking. Faxsre B. Warp. lics. Then comes priest, with the SEEGER wi LESTE holy ark containing the sacrament, HOW TO WRITE DATES. followed by more priests, more acolytes and burning ingense, the rear being brought up by Many Modes of Putting Down the Day of a squad of soldiers with drawn beronets. Over the Month. the holy ark and the of inti ‘ a a priest i held a gorgeous canopy of eloth-of a = Boston Trans- gold. When the frst tinlling of the bell is | cript “January 3. 1891,” is @ date which looks heard men, women and children fall on their | picturesque, distinguished and fin-de-siecle on knees in the streets, in the shops, on their bal- | paper. Itreminds one that the world is getting conies, no matter for rain or inud or whatever ee : mav betide kneel you must, wherever you are, | Particularly old. It will bo very interesting to das if you meant it, too, unless you do as | ¥rite down “1900” at the top of one’s letters, sume of the heretical “Gringes” (a declaive epi: | when the year comes around; it would be still thet applied to Anglo-Saxons), turn acorner, | more interesting to write “2000” there. Few run down a side street, or dodge out of sight at | of us will ever doit, though if science does its tee aes ieeee duty and finds a way to prolong a civilized per- a ¥ to the term of a California Mission To remain standing while the host is carriea | *2%'* life * by would certainly entail serious consequences, bee for man or woman, citizen or stranger. ting drake agecriomcgr hemtoessened l E ! i j i marched off to jail, if not actually shot or | #days in the writing of date. Looking over a Meabbed by some danatic. “T have kugwire fou | number of private letters the Listener’ has stich cases myself from the cobbler who was | found como yg following ways; killed in the City of Mexico because he knelt on 1) Denes . his bench instead of on the floor—Roman| (2. Catholic | th he was—to an a Lifes pp +4 lr Hl is i existence by blowing out my with o Mies De ‘2idn's know yon had any.” Mr. De I anew ff |