The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 4, 1898, Page 24

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1898. IGH up in one of San Francisco’s great bulldings, in a private WL G55 == % llfli/]{ll;/_‘)r()fy z A e office all to itself, stands a typewriter. Just an ordinary instru- With the magnate were allowed to enter. ment,- one of the old-fashioned pattern. It is the surroundings would which are extraordinary. The room is richl the floor; carved oak chairs, luxurlou the frescoed wall But these are mere acces the writing machine, enshrined upon a polished oak table. No ever touches it, for a glass case. elaborate air tight cover. Its nickel plating is No dainty feminine finge thing of rest In thick c } polished. A heavy brocaded curtain keeps the room in semi- t enters, and the air is he vy wooden door he th t comp A hand now arrang: entrance to this mystical shrir from the factory. and white keys. But the strange: ch it is insulated. The leg: v of sunlig e mo . . . . RS . . I do not know why he chose me as the s story I wa perhaps because I had shown some and to help him in lent him rare volumes of black magic, hat tles of the sev always thoug t business men in th s d to natural be never heard of him, Research the slighte aided, he made. They w world to discover a tithe business in his offic the greatest magnitude, Arth up In his steel protected sa strange w merce never realized the dual character of nes: men. Tall and thin, ascetic looking, ‘'with a high intellectual forehead and de- y’'s work with a vigor and pre- e highest degree of resolution and training. Mill- hands daily through his agenc; 10 man who came to him for a termined mouth, he went through his clsion which bespoke fons change his probity if he y were given into his char either be sypreme or have notl who placed’ confidence in his z riend’s It s this trait in my f) when ne once began to con ervation. Late one wintet's aft coming to business. [ X @‘:\‘/@-9‘&@@@@@“)4/@'9@@@@@@\"@@@'é/@@@'?/@@@@@@@@ CUTTING THE HUMAN SKULL HE operation performed upon the head of Mr. Frank Collier at the Cook County Hospital in Chicago has been apparertly a succe: Ten ¥y ago Mr. Collier was a prominent Jawyer of Chicago, standing very high in his profession. He had no symptoms of insanity, nor was he even eccentric. A me - of the School 3oard from the ern Addition he took a very prominent part in the de- liberations of the council and was in- strumental in obtaining many costly improvements for the section of the eity in which he was interested, Going home one night from the city he was sandbagged by a thug and left on the street for dead. He did not die, but recovered and went about his business just as he had been In the habit of doing. Then he be- gan to exhibit many remarkable ec- centricities. His friends wondered what could be amiss, but few suspected that his conduct was caused by the injury to his brain which he had sustained at the hands of the footpad. Mr. Collier himself, however, main- tained that his head had been injured by the blow. The physicians who ex- amined him said his head was all right. Mr. Collier then went to New York and consulted Dr. Spitzka, one of the great- est authorities in the United States on nervous and brain disorders. Dr. Spitzka advised the operation which has just been performed. It was not done until ten years later, when it was found that Dr. Spitzka’'s diagnosis was correct. In the meantime Mr, Collier's experi- ences have been varied, and include in- carceration in about every insane asy- furnished. There is a thick, soft carpet on upholstered, stand round room, were tir t oties, the central object Is 5%j,Shatting onmany topics: but mainiy eck of Suddenly we came to a pause, and Arthur, resting his chin in his hand, choice. Now I will tell you the history of this typewriter. Did you ever mounted in gold, closes regarded me seriously for a minute or more. sked, growing impatient under this fixed scrull!‘lyi_ »u believe succeeded {ng at the foot of Howard street. She was lying half in and half out of a comparative stranger mpathy for his.ps study of ¢ and had guided him through the ma it strange that a practical Califo city, should become lizéd this himself n his sanity if his nd a commission a secret. In agent, dealing with another, 1 absolute confidence in his agent, for one of Maudesiy principles was his insistence upon complete control of whatever int He would have no g to do with tt ity never lost money. character which doubt de in me, to do so thoroughly noon, just as the heavy day's work was I happened to drop into the office on a small matter of steadily and quickly. sly saw me at the clerk’s desk in the outer room, and “‘Hor to do."” 0, ¢ bright as the day it came ever play upon its black ut the ystal bowls able is the way beautifully all 2 v with some strange reinforced by an in- ted combination lock ind cold, held the zling series of letters d the p e el e R fdant for his strange fave in California chical resea cult phenomena. the mys a taught him an, one of the from me. ticipated the re- t for the Theosophis Soctety for Ps which n tim: the fir: nanclal inter “What is it?" I “I think I can trust 3 me if 1 told you that I where all the psychical in I replied that my studie hy of belief. you shall see for yoursel ned on the best F am not altogether unselfish in this matte coffee and chartreuse. ‘‘Hitherto I have guarde now I know that the den mysteries of nature than alty all along, but the gain was worth it. executor, some one whom I Or structions. “Nonsen “I am not asking you to take the ri zes of occultism. <that would be fatal. But what is th ou will see. Come.’ We walked over to the great bullding and took the elevator. time “Sit down,’ 3 soft, rose colored glow around us. e day time, doing of the place ams 1 agreed readily, for my own evenings, spent chiefly in a dismal bed- office for an hour or was always the case, our talk at in the darkenin some enough. We spiritual and uncann ou, Horace,” he said, slowly ad made a great discover tigators of the ages hs had taught me at leas ancisco could fur: ord to do things well. , and could 4 end is ne; I have penet; ‘Will you accept the post? , 0ld man,” T said I'll do whatever I can for one of their most trusted busi- and the typewriter in its crystal case. ce ever went astray. That is, any v's fixed case crests We w alf measures. He must matter. And the man ne nd without res- You are on the threshold of a great secret,” stepped up to the machine, remain there. A tiny gold ke: Now, you know, on this cl: A fe TO SAVE THE MIND. Cases Like the Late Famous One in Chicago Were Frequently Practiced by the Ancient Peruvians According to Their Records. lum and sanitarium which his friends could get him into. About fiye years ago he had been try- ing some cases in court. He probably overexerted his brain and it olted. Mr. Collier met a bread wagon such as are very common on the streets of Chicago. He accosted the driver with: ‘“‘Here, I want those rolls.” “You cannot have them, they are sold.” “‘Sold, eh? Well, I want them.” He paid some fabulous sum for the rolls and loaded them into a hack which was near. Then he drove through the streets pelting the passers-by with the rolls. After this a determined effort was made to put him into an asylum and keep him there. He applied for a writ of habeas corpus, and was brought be- fore the court. After a long but not monotonous trial he was declared by Judge McConnell to be not insane and was dismissed. At last he decided to undergo the op- eration which Dr. Spitzka advised. He made a very characteristic will, giving his property to two daughters and cutting off a third with $1. He gloried In the fact that, as he had been declared not insane so many times, his disinherited daughter coyld not break his will. Po Dr. Davis, chief of the medical staff ¢f the Cook County Hos- pital, he willed his skeleton; to Dr. Fortner, his brain and heart, and to Dr, Brown, his skull. The rest of his body was to be cremated. He was perfectly indifferent about the operation, although as he is not a young man it was a simple case of life or death. He was attended by a young lady to whom he will be mar- ried whenthe operation has proven successful. The operation lasted two hours and was performed by Dr. Davis, being ended at 2:30 in the afternoon. That same evening he wrote to the editor of the Chicago Tribune: “I am an absolutely changed man, quiet and decorous, and can already feel thé absence of that terrible pressure on the brain that has been there for the last ten vears. I am feeling O. K., pulse normal and tem- berature and respiration just as they should be. I can't say I Jook handsome done up in anti- septic gauze and plaster, but I feel well. It is a pity the doctor will not allow my friends to come and see ‘the new man’ h his ‘once mighty intellect.” FRANK HOWARD COLLIER. Mr. Collier rallied from the operation and is now well on the road to recov- ery, and those attending him say he was quite right in saying that he is “a new man.” Dr. Davis found that the skull had been indented and was pressing upon the brain, and this was probably the cause of Mr. Collier's mental derange- ment. Trephining, cutting out a piece of the skull, is one of the major operations in surgery and a-very old one. It is the only major operation practiced success- fully by savages. The Kabyles of Northern Africa frequently resort to trephining to cure neuralgia, vertigo and other disorders. The operator is an hereditary medicine man, and the mortality among his patients is not great. Our own North American Indians practiced it frequently, as is proven by the skulls found. Dr. Manuel Antonio Muniz, formerly surgeon general of the Peruvian army, explored the ancient tombs in Peru and made a collection of the skulls he found which had been trepanned. come and have some dinner first.” sh, for Maudesly was a they have long since abandoned their efforts to unravel the myster: " he said to me ovi my secret jealously, but ated further in r our thing was impossible, as you will see. allowed to mortal man. I took,” went on ) You will never know the whole secret, at leas: R And I warn you, if you follow in my path, and find the d in such a pe- the mystery yourself, you will share my fate.’” tremendous mystery, tell me something more?” Then, for - ; 1jlearned the existence of the mysteriously guarded room. your typewriter, sir.’ 1 reallzed for the first time that there was a world ald my friend, as he turned on the electric light, casting & i The strange but luxurious appointments prehension of my darkened Intellect. T did not, of course, put the idea 1 me, and I waited in silence for Maudesly of There was no black magic about the affair at all. i ly was one man. At night, locked nor incantations, no mys and the world of com- ing but the room, in its Noth- light, as he ic circles nor strangely perfumed ince: modern setting, illumined by the soft electric i, ) said Maudesly, and if you take my advice you will always v hung from his watchchain, and wi yet none cast a doubt upon top of the case, which worked on hinges. In a ma(rsr:}é?-f‘:'{c}tmw?x,;'enje\ittgg erator might have done, he inserted a ¢ ’ nd sat down agai; ited for sheet of linen paper, shut the v minutes, and then I became aware of an invisible A cold shudder ran down my back, something intangibie fileg Don’t feel nervous,” said my friend. *§| et 5 s induced him, Presentl A asnon through the thickness of the glass case, ck. The first key had heen struck, and, cticed hand of an expert machinist I heard a slight vi- £ guided by the , the instrument began to write, ass of machine the letters are not visible as PL0O0P0CCOPOOOPOPOD PP90000000000000 pewrer. 8. Fose So{ey. you write them, you have to raise the platen to see what you are d:: ?ng. Y’:fin thedfl{st lal‘rlxe was completed this happened, as it seemed, a tomatically, and I read: g 5 “Your friend is very welcome; is there anything he would like to leflrn;: “Nellie kpew you were coming,” explained Maudesly. ‘In fact, she gave me permission to bring you. I think your aura is ts’vorable. or you would not have been granted such a tremendous privilege.”” *Is there anything you would like to learn?” he went on. ‘“Nellie knows everything.” % I'put one or two of the trivial test questions asked at ordinary seances, such as my mother’s christian name, the date and day of my hlrth,de(c etc. - They were answered with absolute correctness, when Maudes stopped me. i on’t do that sort of thing, you might offend Nellie. She is not an infantile spirit, like those you méet at a half-dollar seance. She doesn’t want nonsense of that kind. Nellie is omniscient. Ask her something gensible.”” I thought for some minutes before I hit upon a really satisfactory test. “Well,” 1 said, “the London Times ought to be ready for press now, yet no news of its contents can have reached here by any human agency. Now if Nellie will copy ggrb:s thel flt‘st editorial in the Times of to-morrow's te, I think it woul conclusive.” f “I should say so,” nnsw?'ed Maudesly, “but I have known Nellie to do things even more wonderful.” 5 The‘typewrlter clicked, and the ca.rriafe moved rapidly. We read: “The editor is just look{)ng th;ough the proof. I can read it over his shoul- er. Give me a clean sheet of paper.” > 3 “Have a cigar,” said Arthur. “It will take a little time to transcribe. ‘Without pause, line after line, the typewriter moved on, at the rate, I should say, of about eighty words a minute. Suddenly the bell on the ma- chine gave a sharp, clear ring. 1 had not noticed it sound before. “Wants another sheet,” sald Maudesly, rising. *I should have thought of it. Nellle, like most expert typists, never uses the bell on the machine which shows when you have reached the end of the line, so she has hit upon this plan of reminding me when the paper is exhausted. I looked at the clearly written sheet which he took from the machine. Viewed merely as a piece of typewriting, it was an exquisite specimen of work. There was not an error in spelling or gunctua.tlon, the Impression was even throughout. But these were merely details. It was the wording of the article which amagzed me. In the vigorous, classical language for which it {s famous, the London Thunderer gave to the world the obiter dicta of the English nation on the great Eastern question which was then vulsing Europe. conn was‘ Just aftetho close of the Russo-Turkish war, when the mighty hand of Russia had reached out over all Turkey, and was even then closin, its grip on Constantinople. Turkey was crushed, and Europe knew that i the Russian bear once got the Golden Horn in its grasp it would never et :a general way I am but an insignificant individua), but I never felt, either before or since, such a sense of my own personal importance. Sit- ting in this little office in San Francisco, at the hour of 9 in the evening, I helfi in my hand the sentences which the rest of the world would read only to-morrow morning. There, in strong, clear-cut English, was a declaration of the policy which was to bring En{and in triumph through this moment- ous crisis, and which was to raise Lord Beaconsfield to the zenith of his e as a statesman. m"} held my breath in awe. Never for a moment did I doubt the accuracy of the transeript. % Maudesly smiled as he noted my amazement. *“It seems wonderful to you, doesn't it? To me it is an every day occurrence. On the astral plane where Nellie lives nothing is hidden from her sight. Past, present and future are as an open book to her.” “Do you know your own future?” I asked. “I do,” he replied; ** a month hence I am going to join Nellie, and it becomes necessary to put my earthly affairs in order, in readiness for my next incarnation.” % ““You don't say you are 50“\5 to die?” T cried in horror, He laughed llgifl.l yv. “Don’t use such inappropriate language. I am merely going to pass From a lower fo a higher sphere of life. I have noth- ing 159 Tegret 1r’1utha ch%nz;;’ “But you will come back?” o wll{. but I have not been told when. It is because of this uncertainty that I have brought you here to-night and intrusted you with the great secret. I will explain it all later. Do you wish for any more tests? I could have gone on all nlsht learning from Nellie, but evidently Maudesly thought the seance had lasted long enough. Reluctantly I as- sented. P | “May I keep the sheets she has written?"" “Certainly, but on one condition. You will not divulge their contents any until after the Times of to-morrow’s date has reached San Francisco. It was a sore temptation, but’l kept my word, and I need only add that, some two weeks later, when the English paper came to the city, I found my copy compared word for word with the original editorial Maudesly never again asked me to enter the strange room with him. He secemed exhausted by his efforts, or perhaps he felt that, now his duty was done, there was no necessity for further demonstration. Whatever the cause, it was plain to all observers that he was rapidly losing his hold on life. His friends urged him to take a vacation, to go into the country for a month or so, to abandon the work which was so surely wearing him out. He only shook his head sorrowfully in response to their well-meant advice, I alone knew the true cause and was able to sympathize with him. The dying man remalned at his desk dally, but with visibly increasing effort. 1 waited, with what patience I might, for the further confidences which T knew were to come. At last, when the day’s work was over and all the clerks had left, he called me into his private office. It was his fa- vorite time for talking, he sald, everything was quiet, aid we had the called me into his sanctum, where only those who had important dealings place to ourselves. “I have only a week left, and have still much to tell you. We will have ’ he sald, “I feel lonely and out of sorts to-night; I wish you one more dinner together, and you shall hear the Whole‘ story. But first and talk to me a while, that is, if you have nothing better let me ask if you are willing to accept the trust I place in your hands, 11 its responsibilities Wflh()’} course lpum." 1 answered, unhesitatingly. “Fully and unreserved! ¥ “Fully and unreservedly. 5 “Good! I knew it would be so. You shall have no cause to regret your hear of the Nellle News mystery? No. I supposé pot. It happened years ago, before you came to San Francisco. “Nellie's body was found one morning underneath some old rotten pil- the water, her fair head matted with blood, her skull crushed in by a afled one thing, the philos- brutal blow. I alone knew who committed this foul murder; it was I Who irected the police, by means of an anonymous letter, to the spot where et edy was to be Zound, The detectivos never discovered o elow, mnq U1 never gave them any aid; I never denounced the criminal. The “‘Nellio News was my typewriter, the first and only one I ever had. You ) the hid- have often wondered why 1 did not employ the machine in my business. I knew the pen- Put it down to my old-fashioned conservative ways, I suppose, Well, it And now, before I go, I must was nothing of the kind. I was one of the first to use them in San Fran- an leave behind to carry out my in- cisco. “The writing machines were just coming into vogue when I bought one, vou are not going to die for a long time. and advertised for a girl to work it. Many candidates presented them- Selves, but there was no difficulty about selection. Only one cholce was possible when Nellie put in her appearance. She was a delicately made lit- 1l thing, with a faraway, spirituelle expression in her face. She was not exactly pretty, in spite of her fair curling hair and high white forehead. It Was the soul which looked out of her wide blue eyes which entranced you. T knew nothing about psvchical matters just then—thought spiritualism simply a lot of fraud and nonsense, - %But when Nellie looked at me, and said simply, ‘I have come to be ‘ond me, that there were heights of intelligence far above the com- Mto words at once, the truth forced itself upon me gradually, and then I spells understood that I had known it unconsciously all along. The bond of @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@O@@@®®®®®®®@@@6@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@0@@@@@@@@000 P09 OOOOOS From the appearance of the skulls and from the fact that no instruments ex- cept of stone have even been found, it is certain that the ancient Peruvians trephined with a stone. Dr. McGee, who spent much time studying the customs of the Peruvians and North American Indians, says they trephined to exorcise evil spirits, and it was a religious ceremony with them quite as much as a surgical operation. Among the Indians it was not an in- frequent form of tribute that they cut buttons from the skulls of living pris- oners. Strings of these bone buttons worn as amulets have been found. From the evidence of the bone they were cut from living subjects. Also among the trephined skulls found it is a certainty that the owners of the heads lived and recovered from the op- erations. —_——— TIs fish a good article of food? With the exception of eczematous and arthritic persons, in whose case it often brings on nettle rash one may boldly reply in the affirmative. This, at any rate, appears to be the opihion of Parisians, who consume annually twenty-eight million kilo- grammes of fresh fish, without reckoning eight or nine milllon kilogrammes of mus- sels, oysters and other shell fish. M. Balland, a distinguished chemist, in a note on the composition of a large num- ber of fish, has lately justified this opin- fon by showing that fish is particularly rich in azote and in fat. According to the analysis made by M. Balland the proportion of water is very varlable, and ranges from 59 to 8 per cent. For instance, the shad, the fresh water eel, the mackerel and the salmon, Which have from 15 to 26 per cent of faf :‘l‘:g fresh, have 56 to 64 per cent when ried. On the other hand, fish containing the least fat are the richest in azote. The pike, the dab, the sole, the whiting, the cod, the tench and the perch, which have only from 8 to 10 per cent of fat when fresh, contain 93 per cent of azotic mat- ter when dried. These fish contain as much azote as butchers' meat. Crustacea and mollusks contain less azote than fish. In short, fish are very nutritious for food, and cannot be too highly recom mended. They constitute an almost In- exhaustible .ood source bd\; reason of the immense variety of the edible species, i no inter- sympathy between us made lthseltwfelt at the outset, it needed change of language to strengthen it. 2 et twain, “Nellie was my_ twin soul; we had lived begorL.ciX;:x‘?én?n (;vaertnmm“s_: through the ages, through who knows how many succ - Taana fo And our Karma hiad brought us together on this plane, o. v hfully; “Nellie was a splendid operator; she did her work oIl ?,22,,’{’}','@ et but if she had not known how to write a line, it would happiness, with her All through the long busy days I lived a life of secret happiness, WA GH% by my side, and when she rose with her pretty ‘Good evening, 5., 18 Foy went from my life. That is to say, at first, rg;;-‘ftlfgward our s to commune even though our bodies were separated. % - There was nothing coarse or degrading in our love. Nellie was P itselt. She lived alone with her widowed mother, whom she supportec GV of her salary, which was as large as I dared make it. No spot of scanfa’ ever rested on that blameless life, none dared sully her character Wite even a breath of suspicion. Perbaps, had she lived, T might have martied her; 1 do not know. Her stay with me was too short; we were fmo %“r {:1 our spiritual relations to risk the introduction of a new element ves, £ ~Naturally Nellie had plenty of sultors, attracted by her swect fa':’t‘c:;}g pros?erous position. The most ardent of them all was a han ,\«:;n';‘? yours cashier, one of my most trusted employes. Hamlyn had been with m A years, and I never had occasion to doubt his faith. He handled large :;nm_ of money, his books were always scrupulously balanced, and he lef gpt parently an irreproachable life. I was lulled into a sense of security, bu Nellie's keen eyes saw more than mine. z a “I shall never forget that morning, when I entered my office and no Nellie was there to greet me. Usually she was-at her desk half an ’hm:r earlier than I was, but for the first time her seat was vacant. A car accl- dent, I thought, or perhaps a trifling illness; she will word or come herself in an hour or two. The morn ==, and still no Nellie ap; peared. It was impossible for =z work, an_ indefinable feeling: o restlessness crx Gver me. I could not concentrate my attention on any of the matters which required consideration. 4 z “When lunch time arrived I felt that I must do something, and T dis- patched a messenger to Nellie's restdence. The aged motner returned in weeping anxiety. Nellie had not been home since the previous night. After supper she had gone out for a walk, and had never returned. Where was Nellie?” “I was almost mad with apprehension. I summoned the smartest pri- vate detective in the city and bade him spare no effort to find the girl, to use all the resources of his bureau in the search, regardless of expense But the skill of the sleuth was of no avail. All that day and the next the search went on, reports being made to me every hour or so. I could neitheg eat nor sleep, and work was out of the question. Real estaté matters o the greatest importance awalted my decision, but though millions de- pended on the deal, I waved my*visitors away with scorn, and shut my- self up in my room, refusing to see any one except the detectives. “It was the third night after Nellie's disappearance, and 1 sat alone in my office, hopeless yet expectant. Nellle's typewriter stood on the table close to my desk, just as she had left it when she passed from my sight. Something impelled me to take off the heavy wooden cover, and gaze lov- ingly on the Instrument so often handled by my angel It was only & mere inanimate construction of wood and iron, but to me it had a Soul, it was part of Nellle. I carefully dusted the keys, polished the nickel work, oiled the bar, and saw that the mechanism was in perfect working order. Then I inserted a sheet of paper and went back to my seat. “Now, I thought, everything will be ready for Nellie when she comes in the morning. I had done this almost mechanically, more as an occupation for my wearied brain than anything eise. I had no premonition of the mar- vel which was to come. “Without warning, as T sat there, my whole mental force concentrated upon the desire to find Nellie, she came. : “Through keeping my gaze fixed for so long on the typewriter, I must have brought myself into a kind of auto-hypnotic state. My brain was perfectly clear, but I scemed powerless to move, or to make a sign of any kind. All T could do was to watch the typewriter with a fascinated gaze. I saw the keys, as if touched by an invisible hand, move up and down, very slowly and gently. I saw the carriage slide backward and forward. I saw the handle raised as each line was completed. The invisible writer was evidently weak, because the force employed was hardly sufficient to de- press the keys, and the type bars struck the paper with only enough strength to make a faint, though clearly readable impresssion. “I never: questioned the fact that Nellie was writing, even before I read what was on the paper. I realized from the first that the influence now being exerted, weak though it was, had only to be fully developed to secure the most marvelous results. Nellie was dead, I knew that instinct- ively. But Nellle still lived, and had found a way of communicating with me.” T could feel her sweet presence near, though my imperfect vision could see nothing. I knew that her dear fingers were playing, oh, so gently on the keys she had touched so often in life. ‘“The machine seemed to have become part of her, to have absorbed so much of her personal magnetism during life that, affer death, it was still responsive to her will. I had only to supply the current, the animal mag- netism necessary to operate the instrument, its movements were controlled from beyond. On that first night, as you have heard, I did this uncon- sciously, in obedience, doubtless, to some spiritual prompting. Afterward 1 did it purposely, and found that my power developed with practice, so that, under proper conditions, I could make the machine write whenever I chose. These conditions I have brought to the hi st_state of perfection in the room you visited last night. In return, Nellie has told me every- thing, about this world and every other world. I have learned more than man, In his present stage of partial development, is permitted to know. “The machine had ceased writing for a long time before I summoned courage to look at the paper. Reverently T drew it off the roller, and read: “‘Love to my dear master. Do not grieve for me. I passed over three days ago, but I am with you still. You will find my murdered body at the foot of Howard street. Hamlyn met me while I was out walking, and tried to tempt me with the offer of wealth. He begged me to elope with him, confessing that he had embezzled $5000 of your money. I refused indig: nantly, and told him that I would inform you first thing next morning. Then he threatened me, but I was firm, and to save himself he killed me. 1 am weak now and cannot write more. Use your powers well and I will come again.’ *“Next morning I found that Nellle's assertions were absolutely correct. 1 sent a line to the police, without signature, and they discovered her body at the place indicated. Hamlyn had been receiving large sums of money from the sale of land, and his defalcations-amounted to at least $5000. ““What was I to do? I could not denounce Hamlyn without disclosing the source of my information, and nothing on earth would have induced me to confide my secret to another. It was a sacred bond between Nellle and me. Besides, I knew that my darling’s gentle spirit would never bear the thought of cruelly punishing another. She bade me herself, when she came to the typewriter that night, let the villain go. So I sent for Ham- lyn, and-told him to get out of this country, and never to show his face in America again. Like a coward he cringed and went. Now you kmow the whole stor, Maudesly paused and drew a legal looking document from his desk. I have written down for your guidance the conditions of your trust. Or rather Nellie has done it on the machine.. I am going from here in a week. You will find that I have left you in my will @ block of real estate on,Mar- ket street which at present brings in $3000' a year, and which 18 likely o in- crease in value. This money will enable you to live in ease for the rest of your life, all you have to do is to see that the room with the typewriter is preserved infact. Here is the combination which opens the fron door; commit it to memory and then destroy the writing. I have bought a per- petual lease of the room, but if, from any cause, it should become unten- able, you must provide a similar apartment elsewhere. Every night, ex- actly at 9 o'clock, you will visit the place, but on no account will you allow any one else to enter. “This duty you will perfort all your life, unless there should come to you a person, be it man or woman, beggar or millionaire, who holds the secret word.” Bending low cannot disclose. ““When you hear this word you may consider your trust at an end, and hand the Keys to the individual who utters it. Should no one ever come the trust on to the fittest person, man or woman, you ; p a sheet of paper always in the machine, and you will be told when it is time to make your will and select your successo; ST AU e s T IR B SR G A e . There is little more to add, except that Maudesly passed quietly away a week later. The doctor called it heart failure. I have falthfully fulfilled my trust, living a life of studious ease on the ample income bequeathed me, The machine has a strange fascination, which grows as the years roll by. Daily I sit and watch it for Lours, but it never writes for me. Nor has any one appeared with the pass word. Will those Keys ever work again? I know they will, and, although I know the first writing will seal my fate 1 am watching anxiously, hoping, yet fearing, for the day when it will be necessary to render an account of my trust to Maudesly and Nellie, Per. haps as a reward for faithful service I may be allowed to share their hap- piness. (Copyrighted 1888 by J. F. Rose-Soley.) audesly whispered a word in my ear,. which, of course, 1 EXAMPLES OF ANCIENT PERUVIAN TREe PHINING.