Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 11, 1905, Page 9

- Since NO WONDER IT DIDN'T WRITE. Woman Bought Fountain Pen—Forgot to Fill It. Manufacturers of fountain pens have their troubles as well.as those who use them. One of the most prominent makers of this style of pen has a com- plaint clerk to whom those ‘who have trouble are sent to have their difficul- ties righted. Sometimes the clerk will find that it is simply a case of dirty pen, and the thing is soon adjusted. A woman came in the other day and went at the clerk like a Turk. “I bought this pen some time ago and I have never been able to use it at all. I thought this was an honest firm, and if it is not, I should at least think it would not attempt to cheat a wom- an. I want my money back.” “Let me look at the pen,” said the mild-mannered clerk. ‘Here it is,” snappishly said the woman. The clerk looked at it and with only a causual observation saw that the pen had never been filled. Then he said: “I think, madam, if you would fill this pen that you would find it worked all right.” He then filled it and handed it to her, and she said sheepishly, the snap having all disappeared: “Oh, I didn’t know you had to put ink in them.”— Brooklyn Eagle. Many a man who thinks he is smart outwits himself in trying to outwit others. THERE IS JUST ONE SURE WAY. Dodd's Kidney Pills build up Run- down People. They make healthy Kidneys and that means healthy people. What Mr. and Mrs, J. L. Duffey say: Nora, Ind., Feb. 6th.—(Special)— That the sure way of building up run-down men and women is to put their kidneys in good working order is »wn by the experience of Mr. and Joseph L. Duffey of this place. were weak and worn and dis- ed. They used Dodd’s Kidney and to-day both enjoy the best of health. ‘ Mr. Duffey says: Both spiri “I was very weak and almost past going. I tried every- thi which people said was good but got no benefit till I tried Dodd’s Kid- ney Pills. They helped me in every way and I am strong and well now.” Mrs. Duffey says: “I was so bad that if anybody would lay down a string I felt I could not step over it. taking Dodd’s Kidney Pills I can run and jump fences.” Healthy kidneys insure pure blood; Dodd's Kidney Pills insure healthy kidneys. Wildcat Jumps on Engine. While Engineer Ed White and Fire- man Harry Ahern were speeding through the Palisade canyon with a freight train at night, they were star- tled by a large wildeat landing sud- denly on their engine froma near by cliff The animal emitted a blood-curdling as it landed, and when the dust ery was cleared away they saw the angry beast only a few feet away glaring at them. The two men seized weapons with which to beat off the animal, but it made no show of fight, leaping from the flying train to the ground. It roll- ed a dozen feet before it stopped, but apparently it was unhurt, as it scam- pered away immediately.—Winnemuc- ca Correspondence Sacramento Bee. 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These fa- mous pills are sold by all druggists. A book that every woman needs is pub- lished by the Dr. Williams Medicine Oompany, Schenectady, N.Y. It is en- titled “‘Plain Talks to Women,” and will be sent free on reauest CHAPTER I!.—(Continued). “God's mercy!” he exclaimed, shud- dering, and in a husky voice. The hun- dred and two hours are passed! If she be indeed dead, God pardon me, for I meant not her death!” He muttered a bitter malediction upon the delay caused by the storm. Capt. Osred, pale and eager, was aid- ing Sosia to remove a large portion of the upper part of the lead casing. Martha, amazed and _ astounded, stood in the background, gazing at the scene with more of horror than of terror in her hard gray eyes. Two of the four men who were in sailor’s guise also stood aloof ,pale and disturbed in visage, evidently ignor- ant of the work in which they had shared. The other two of the four tremblingly held and gave such tools as Sosia and Capt. Osred from time to time demanded. “So,” said Sosia, as he cut through and removed a gréat shred of lead; “a case of Brazil wood within, as I ex- pected. Her body, alive or dead, my lord, is within this coffin of Brazil wood. The shears—give me my shears, in my portmanteau there, man.” Bashfort took a huge pair of tinner’s shears from the doctor’s square leath- ern case and gave them to him. With these Sosia quickly divided the lead covering which enveloped the real coffin, and a few moments later saw Bashfort and Capt. Osred lift and cast gently aside the entire wooden lid. There could be seen in the coffin, with the face upward, the motionless form of a most beautiful young wom- an—the marbly brow crowned with a wreath of freshly withered orange blossoms, and the form clothed in the snowy white and. glittering habili- ments of a bride. The white, cold and wax-like hands were crossed upon the bosom, and the absence of the wedding ring denoted that she who lying there in the garb and with the crown of a bride had died unmarried. Martha advanced stealthily and peering keenly at all, noted the dress, the floral crown, the rich misty veil, and the absence of a marriage ring. “Ah,” thought Martha, gliding into the background again, and crouching to the floor; “the hand of sudden and unexpected death must have snatched her from the bridal altar to the tomb! Who is she?—and why have they brought her body here? Or did my lord expect to find her alive after be- ing buried? Better for her, perhaps, and for all of us, since she is dead. And so an end to whatever devil’s work Lord Genlis had in mind.” Martha had time to make her un- spoken ‘reflections, for immediately after the lid was remoyed Dr. Sosia made a commanding gesture with his long, thin arms, forcing all who were near to fall back a few paces, while he gazed keenly at the pale and-rigid face beneath the gossamer veil. Removing the veil with a motionless touch, he continued to study the mar- bly face. : “‘Sdeath!” exclaimed Lord Genlis and Capt. Osred, simultaneously, after a moment of restrained impatience. “Is she really dead, Dr. Sosia?” CHAPTER Ill. Returning From the Grave. Lord Genlis and Capt. Osred ad- vanced, as they spoke the same in- quiry. A kind of horror withered the faces of both to a grim, corpse-like hue, more fearful to behold than the wax- like pallor of the beautiful rigid face. The consciousness that ,if the maid- en was indeed dead, her death would be recorded against them in their souls and in the world hereafter, had not so much to do in making these two men pale and affrighted as the knowl- edge that, if she was forever beyond recall to life, their far-reaching and villainous plot must be hopeless for success. Of remorse for the murder, if mur- der had been done, there was far less than of chagrin for want of success in the plot they had carried so far. “Back, gentlemen,” said the doctor, in a quick, stern tone, more firm and commanding than either of the tow had ever heard him use before. “I must be chief here for a time—” “You shall be—you shall be, doctor, in everything, if you say there is hope! Give us hope!” exclaimed Lord Genlis, agitatedly. Capt. Osred, haughty and less easily moved than Lord Genlis, bit his lip, frowned, stepped aside and muttered: “There is no hope—she is dead. Either this chalatan, Sosia, deceived |" us, or Lord Genlis miscalculated the time.” “My lord,” replied the doctor to Lord Genlis, “she lives.” “Ha! she lives!” cried: the noble, suddenly breaking into a hysterical laugh. “Patience, my lord,” continued So- sia. “She lives if not more than one hundred and two hours have elapsed | since the potion took effect. Not a word! Here, woman, aid me to place this lady upon the bed.” “It is all devil’s work!” muttered Martha,’ already in a very nervous atate from the preceding events of the “The Sorcerer of St. Giles By PROF. WILLIAM H. PECK. day, and now fearfully terrified as, for the first time, the hideous visage and prominent eyes of the doctor were turned fully toward her—‘“it is all dev- il’s work, and this is doubtless the devil himself—at least a robber of graves—a human hyena!” she mutter- ed, not rising from her crouching pos- ture, but staring at Sosia wildly. “Up and aid the doctor!” cried Lord Genlis, wheeling fiercely and striding toward Martha with a glittering hand- saw uplifted. Martha instantly sprang up, and evading the angry blow aimed at her by the noble, as she passed him, rush- ed forward, extending both of her hands toward Sosia, and exclaimed: “Since I must serve you, here I am. What am Ito do? She is dead. Only ‘bad luck comes from molesting the dead.” : “Peace!” said Sosia, sternly. me!” And as Martha no longer dared hesi- tate, under the terror with which So- sia’s gaze filled her soul, the beautiful form was soon lifted gently and placed tenderly upon the bed.z “Let all withdraw except those your lordship desires to remain,” said Sosia, returning from the bed to the table, on which was his portmanteau. “Out with you, men!” commanded Lord Genlis to the four who were in seamen’s garb; “and do you, Bashfort, go with them, and see to their refresh- ment. You have that with which you may make good cheer for them. Treat them well, Bashfort; but see that nei- ther they nor you drink too deeply, and that they do not slip away to their boat and sail without my consent.” “Have you paid them, my lord, for their services?” asked Bashfort, re- spectfully. “No.” “Then have no fear that they will desire to depart unpaid.” “A word in your ear, Bashfort,” said Lord Genlis. And then he whispered rapidly in the ear of his servitor. Nothing of the nature of the noble’s communication could be imagined from any change of feature or expres- sion upon Neil Bashfort’s harsh and muscular face, as he listened, with his head bent down, and his small, deep- socketed eyes glaring at vacancy from under his red, shaggy brows. Meanwhile Sosia was silently busy about the motionless form on the bed; the others were eagerly gazing at the rigid, pallid face, so fair, so lovely and so still. When Lord Genlis had finished all that he desired to whisper to Bash- fort, and the men had left the room, he closed the door and approached the “Obey bed. : “What do you think now, Dr. Sosia?” he asked. : “You see,” was the curt reply, in a low tone. And as the doctor spoke he pointed at the bosom of the prostrate form. The bosom, so still a few moments before, was now rising and falling, gently and regularly, and the breath- ing of the still unconscious girl was like that of calm and gentle repose. Sosia has used, in restoring anima- tion to the apparent corpse, a discov- ery of his own—a wonderful scientific discovery, known at that time perhaps only to himself, and of which the world was not to have any general knowledge until many years later, when‘its powers were to be discovered by Galvani and Volta, in the eight- eenth, and by Faraday and others in the nineteenth century—the galvanic battery. Sosia had taken a small machine of this kind from his portmanteau, after first dropping some fluid between the livid lips of the girl, and by his skill and knowledge of the battery produced speedy revivification. “She lives! she breathes!” said Lord Genlis. “Yes, my lord,” replied Sosia, “there has been no touch or approach of death here, save in suspended respira- tion. Shall I awake her?” “Yes,” replied Lord Genlis; “but gently, or too great and sudden return to consciousness may be fatal.” Sosia smiled scornfully under his drooping mustache ,as he bent over his machine, and carefully returned it ; to a small box, which he placed in his portmanteau. “This ignorant lord,” he thought, “would advise Zeno Sosia in his art.” He then bowed to the noble and said: “Your wishes shall be obeyed, my lord; but remember what I told you when I consented to act as your agent.” “What?” demanded Lord Genlis. Is it possible that your lordship has forgotten this, which I now repeat? ‘I will stake my life pty the drug will not be fatal to her life ,if at any mo- ment I may be able to use my power of revivification upon her, within one hundred and two hours after it shall have produced apparent death; but I will not assert positively that her mind will be perfect as animation returns to her body.’ You assumed that2risk.” “I did,” replied Genlis, imperturb- ably. “So she becomes the wife of my son, I care little whether she be sane or not—since I have no doubt that he whose skill has given him power to re- | Man should look up to woman restore health to her mind hereafter. Awake—arouse her.” While speaking thus, Lord Genlis touched Capt. Osred significantly upon the arm, and glided behind a tall screen which ‘stood near the bed. Capt. Osred, understanding the touch, instantly followed him. Martha, sinking into her habitual posture when much disturbed in mind, crouched down at the foot of the bed. Sosia dipped a small piece of sponge into the vial which contained some kind of pungent liquid, and then held the sponge to the nostrils of the un- conscious maiden for a moment. She gasped slightly, moved her arms quickly outward, as if she imagined she was about to fall from some giddy height, ‘and then opened her eyes, started up upon one elbow, and gazed wildly at the object upon which her sight first rested—the doctor, seated in a chair, to which he had glided ere she awoke. : The light of the candles fell .square- ly, also, upon the face of the maiden. She seemed about eighteen years of age, and was exceedingly beautiful; her complexion of a dazzling fairness, its deathly pallor having vanished as she awoke, and the soft warmth of life and health returning to her as if by magic, the cheeks as fresh and fair and delicately rosy now as if she had just opened her eyes from a balmy and natural slumber. As yet there was only a slight ex- pression of wonder in the large and superbly beautiful black eyes; and the vermillion tinted lips were slightly parted by the same expression of gen- tle surprise, barely revealing the pearly tips of her charmingly perfect teeth. The vivid contrast of her raven black hair, eyes and exquisitely arch- ed eyebrows, and of her long, jetty eyelashes, with the snowy fairness of cate rose of, her cheeks, and the ver- cate rose o fher cheeks, and the ver- million hue of her pouting lips added much to the wonderful perfection of feminine beauty, remarkable in every feature of her young and artful face. Not yet fully restored to reflective consciousness of the circumstances surrounding her, her lovely counte- nance showed no expression save that of maiden purity and girlish surprise— as innocent and childlike as it was charmng. But doubt and alarm flashed out in strong and somber lines upon her brow as she gazed steadily at Sosia’s repulsive visage. A pallor swept the color from her cheeks, and placing her hand upon her eyes she sank upon her pillow, shuddering. Sosia made no movement of lip or limb, but gazed steadily toward the bed. Yet, having read aright the expres- sion of her face, he muttered: “She is perfectly sane. She has rec- ognized me.” The thought had hardly gained place in his mind ere the young lady again started upon her pillow, and, gazing in afright at the doctor, said, huskily: “It is not a dream! I am awake! I live! You are Zeno Socia, the Sorcer- er of St. Giles!” “I am Zeno Sosia, young lady,” re- plied the doctor, coldly, in his sharp, thin, reedy voice. “Some call me a wizard—I would I could command a tithe of those fabulous powers fame ascribes to what fable terms a sorcer- er; but I am simply Zeno Socia, a stu- dent of science.” “Where am I? How came I here? Why am I here? Where is my moth- er?” exclaimed the young lady, now flashing her glances around the apart- ment wildly. “Your mother?” repeated Sosia, in a tone of contempt. “When you last saw her was she not forcing you to a fate to escape which. you preferred suicide?” (To Be Continued.) “WRESTLIN’ WID A RANKO.” Office Boy Knew What Levi P. Mor- ton Was Smoking. Levi P. Morton, banker, diplomatist and politician, is a “rational smoker.” He says so himself. He knows the time to smoke, the price to pay for the cigar, and the proper places to buy and burn it. 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