A3i A THE GREEN PATCH. | ®e grr [Arthur yor chien Math), " Beven or ¢ ears ago large n Finck letters on a white ground, was nailed up over a store door on street, San Francisco: JOHN AMBLER, DRY GOODS. The establishment was a small one, but it was neatly kept, and had the un: mistakeable look imparted by prosperity. 1 passed the store every day in ing to and from my work. It was just like many other stores in the neighborhood, which, with the rest of the sidewalk throng, 1 went by daily as unconscious of their individuality as that of the separate cobbles in the street's pavement, The eyo secs wn thousand things where the brain takes cognizance of one. 1 have no doubt tht 1 did glances often into the show windows and store doors as 1 hur risd slong day after dey, but there was nothing in them that the eye thought | What caused | worth while to telegraph. me to note the place of John Ambler more than the others was that Mr. Ambler ware a green patch over his left eye. 1 did not think this Mr. Ambler might have been mar ried. died or {alied in business, should have felt no more interest either of the disasters than if had the red on his shonlder-blade, un known to anybody but himself. bly it my ove to ol serve the had Lefuilen one of its kind and to de mand my stiention. If Mr. Ambler had had bit ane leg, no doubt my eye we ] indifferent to his mis t of me to the of my gradaally in self whenever in affliction lad hv 1 ¢0n BR orn wis But the ieitude blor's hin, cangnt my wond rn fran Ff WAY. eye feres Pratésect + slorn, v he had com thie Hrs which had disfieured conntes ordinary had roscon which wi to who Olrs of their sex and patron sorbed one evening in ¢ which 1 had cance bottle as I consumed my cheap and lonely dinner in a stroet restanrant. | chanced to loc ¥, my saluted Mr. Ambler's green patch. He had seated himself on the other side of the narrow little table at which I was eating. We presently ex changed a few words, and then fell conversation. What we spoke TOW. stuck up against Ke snd ove three 12-cent dishes for 25 contg a pleasanter meal to have some one to talk to. even if the discourse was neither profound nor amasing, Mr. Ambler and I beeame ft that is, each would seek th Y other rather than feed alone. this to the intimacy of walks around ths r the air with the dear hh eustomer by the motive tat ross noe I patch began fo to 1 wl me continually to ir By man) stratagems | to entrap him into a revelation. my misfortune to have a clu S71] hts be deprived of the narrating instances in which my formity bad caused me to suffer mortification, He ecipressed hearty sympathy. but, fo my chagrin, did meet confidence with eonfidenec. green patel covery! penetrable mystery But the most conning sometimes off their gaard, at Mr. Ambler's door one evening. My halting footstep and knook had grown familiar to him, and it was in an ab stracted tone that he called to me to come in. He bad been absorbed in the study of a new stitographie prize, and as I entered he raised his eyes and smiled absently, I say eyes, Yor he green pateh was thrown up against his forehead, and for an instant-—-and an instant only-—both his eyes met mine. In aflash he flipped down the patch over the left one, Mr. Ambler was confased and agi de great an apparently im may as well tell punch and a pie while I am at it.” It flashed down upon me that he had mitted nn crime, and wore the green as a disguise, We sat down faor to face, ein and gloss in baad, Mr, or d forward a little, and then lifted tf consciously about | a boil | wis a tellow feeling which caused ! which | into | about 1! ean't remember, but 1 know it made my | he | The | { bler, Possi- | | a scene | I dwelt upon the distress it gave one to | full use of the body, | {| not addressed a word, would | temper and tell me not® to keep making i them what they were going to buy; that patch and gased edly ct me. , I have mo purpose,” 1 said. hastily, ** A cod know why you Wear " “Mere idle curiosity, that 1 am now ashamed of," 1 said. “Yes," I said, *'1 do feel iy I have no right to pry into your secret.’ “I assure you," 1 said, “‘that I shall bold it in the strictest confidence." “I can't imagine, I'm sure, what the ponsequences would be if I divulged it," 1 said. “Oh, you may rely upon me," I suid. v1 give you may word of honor." r. Ambler replaced the green patch, and, leaning Bix jn his chair, gave a short laugh that had more pain than mirth in it. Then [ awoke to the fact that while I' had been answering ques tions with eager rapidity, Mr. Ambler had never asked one! ‘It affects every one the same way,” he said, draining his glass, and setting | “Look at it once | replace | it down with a sigh. more, and don't the patch.” I looked again. ingly at me. speak until 1 It glared question such a blaze any human eye “It is purely physical,” said Mr. Am as he let fall the green patch, "You have noticed, perhaps, that | rather deficient in curiosity than other wise: You know it is not my habit ask questions; yet, if p this shade up, you would sit here and fancy that 1 was devoured by inguisitiveness and go on answering questions which, though | might never speak a word, you imagine | was asking you jus! as you did a moment ago.” ge, 11 1 see of interrogation ' I were Lo Ke would “It is very stra wilderad vent on, Ml was there was wholly un anything pe i] o Was going liar in my apy ve LAL either the worl or that | out of my senses going along the street, thinking y own affairs or nothing at all, men before me and say, ‘Well, I hod asked them some ques when I assured them CHTANCe, An came t« ! Was sire tion as i and had not spoken, they would look sharply at” me to see if 1 was drunk or hoaxing I made everybody uncomfortable; | them without the slightest wish todo so. | stopped a trial in a district court by | simply going in and taking a front seat, and watching the proceedings with the | interest of an ordinary spectator. First the lawyers began casting side glances at me, and hurriedly covered up their papers--it was a will case, I remember; then, with looks at me, they charged each other with hiring spies YICIOns Even the judge could not keep his eyes | me, and finally, after fidgeting about most uneasy way, adjourned ¥ I am sure | wax fol lowed home by a nis of the lawyers yf hureh . der. “hut “ : I used to got WCASIONRIY Was 00 | went late on deacon left the chur Mr. Ambl heas. An man. and to avoid eft the theatre. “My life became ; ; ple were continually dems iI had spoken to the ¢ 0 Dane, ii eye ax | passed, as if 1 had gazed into their souls and plucked out the knowl edge of their blackest secrets I knew their hidden faults. 1 found, too, that my business was suffering. Ladies, to whom | had if it was too much trouble to show goods they would go elsewhere. Others when paying for their purchases would de- mand indignantly how 1 dared to sus peet them of trying te pass counterfeit money. Bill others grew coquettish, nnd gigaled and called me a horrid man in the sight an presence of my best and os: : ible Shutomits, I was - dl to a lovely girl!"<hore poor Mr. Ambler's voice became unsteady and he pulled hard at his s, Jia—sand she threw me over. Ehe told me she would never marry a man who was insanely suspicious, and never an instant in her jressnse but he showed that be doubted wr. | swore frantically that doubt of her bind pover enterod my mind, She was and at ni} Smpiitsload words ; hut as raised her head to coms forward she hack ndignantly, nd eried that my own fos | t that instant belied my I could only by a strong | effort restrain myself from answering | { aloud, as | had done before. and J] | Never did | in | Bin | that 1 | | Huns, Avars and Mongols ding to know | 1 saw men | | somettmes start and turn Pp Je under my tor: | the fresh wound, and then make a goat I saw | | women blush, or loze color, as if my | glance showed that and alert are | 1 knocked | constantly tighter with a lever, oven was at hand they would force their | lose their | | victim into it, kindle a fire in the front x “Had you no friend to tell you th. cause of all this 1 asked. “How could any friend do that?’ an swered the unfortunate Ambler. “Who ever heard of such another case as mine, and how could any one juspoc that my questioning look was merely a physical poculinrity? Most of my friends | lost rapidly. 1 camo to be spoken of every where as a prying, meddlesome, susp! cions person whom it would be well to avold, and I was avoided accordingly! “How did you come to know wha afled yout" 1 asked. “By having my photograph taken. | was thunderstruck when 1 looked at them. My face had become one inter rogation point. 1 saw it all then, and felt as if the devil had taken possession of me. [| was afraid of myself as some thing uneanny, and dreaded to be alone I haunted the offices of the doctors, but none coitld help me, 1 thought 1 should go mad.” Filled with wonder at this sfrange story, | asked the miserable man how he came to adopt the green patch. He re pliod that one Tobias Trotter, a cig dealer on Market street, had life-long friend. They were gether, and had always been Mr. Trotter's eyes having no questioning infirmity, and being ever turned to the main chance, finding a wife. A year riage he dashed one Ambler's store, of his head and hi shouting as he extended his lu dulate nu Mr. Trotler a deen he after his mm forenoon into Mr cont flying op ind ‘It # boy, John! Mr. Ambler gave grasp, and being too oyiul sympathy for t words, tried to look | Mr. Trotter i Hi Congr mist “px alo alo i ft a terrible fear haunts me," sai he, as he mixed another glass of punch Sou know that there is a thy between the eves—that when one is affected by any disease most sure to manner. be like my left | business, and God would become of me. 1 should be cut off from my kind Deo you see any sign of it coming on in the right eye J asked Mr. Ambler, pulli the lower lid a little with hi bending toward me, wy Close aVINEO the other is al attacked mn the If my right eye should got t bw SAM only knows what ng down face with the i I said doubt the pacing N-no, ‘Ab spring ng Writ 4 it L6G FEES) wretched man | £4) exclaimed up and his hands, tell in the glass for mio titan to } i fis to believe RINK 10Ur soon Oh.” your eager ingu NO, ] eried Car sh IY wie LO upon UU | the oid chi AVE procuosg Tu ing more [rightful even in regard to th They would unsorew the flint of a pistol and se up the thumb of the unfortunate the place; they would skin the of the foot, sprinkle salt LOWS § in bot in lick the LL) salt ofl; pass horse-hair tongue and draw it slowly up and down; they would bind about the forehead a knotted rope, and draw it would the they through of it, and compel him. to creep cut through this fire. They often bored | holes in the knee-pans of those whom they would torment, or poured disgust ing fuids down their throate, When the robbers had by torture compelled the surrender of hidden treaciros, their lust of plunder was satisfied and their inhuman desires quieted, they completed the proof of their vandalism by destroying that which thoy could not carry off, Bolled Peanuts, A {Exchange Boiled with the Chinese. Long cooking be neath water extracts all the ofl and flavoring principle, and leaves a h fa fan b used in the sdme manner as Hou, Emerson: Sober thought boone'y ona power s0nT and 1s Gay be megus a favorite occupation with scending and ascending been his | boys to | mtimate | | plane with his hat on the bach | bg { Ig | gan that awful would have to qu | | swing when descending, { shot up the slope, BAW BR DEN abyss and | plunged | dashed in the If an | when | ) peanuts are a favorite dish | id 7 WHISPERS, [Marah Rysa) . Whinies, Mogg to my ov, Out wher the night winds lovingly kim Bwoet scen of clover; ly the sweet face fs lifted to mine, htened all over with blushes, ftly 1 bend to her, and-—well, why not The winds kiss the reeds and rushes! A Danish “Roller-Constor," (Harper's) It is called in Danish Rutschban, and may as well be dubbed in English rush- railway. A tower stands at either end of a railway, which is perhaps a hundred and eighty feet wn length, forty feet high at one extremity, and half as high at the other. | climbed the rude star case of the higher tower, and found my self in a room crowded with people wait ing their opportunity fora ride. At the entrance stood a phaecton like car four small hon wheels, the very stout, and holding two peaple with comiort The wheels i grooves and the course extended over the de wlirtaes nay . wore (ITCIL SORES, PINPLES. VIELAS QING WorM on i CAI being | Fwo people would get into a ear and | be strapped 1 by a ear would be started down the by an atiendant, nelined and away it | would go down the hrst slope, atid by its he had no difficulty ir | 5 : g | HB pets { and down and rise 1o the nest height ) Over up pit 8000 b | traveler tu iran | hauled up to i wel its atl down H 1 OOK my sont ammed over my brow, grasped the car with one hand, and no d pale as the my ba nO i il tarned ven and we be that IT hwas m esnent | fest vibration in i which thrilling sensation of pit of my stoma Of b br Ana into it A de ius I Was followed : rast : Gesoent preve fearful face Trout Flaked with Gold. en tr which are and gol Lividuals of caught An Old Bed-MNoom. {Lingle York Css] I am glad to hear an artist say that Americans are developing a sense of color, since it is the moral element of material things. Let us hope, walls and draperies are made beaut. ful and harmonious, that we, ourselves, | may become related to them. It i not wel! to see a wooden soul in a golden house, 1 remember the impression made upon me when a child by the works of art in an old country house, Hanging against # white wall, in a frame of black, was a otch of green and white and black. ' green a weeping wilion, Pe under t a weeping widow in black, a sepul chral hg in white, Jo Then there was a cheerful death bed soone of John Wesley: also the perssen- tion of the martyrs, with all their ago nies realistically wrought. Altogether the finest inspiration to nightmare that ever decorated a bedroom. Yes, we {are in advanee of that, Valuable Amber, wd A et " or bi size of the palm of ol Our eirthern bh Ot; the | vale parts sre often g prwitive cure, Bwayne's ticle in the market, Let Stamps § «Pe Hovw Pui) % toil The oldest and best appointed Institution lor obtaiging 8 Business Education. For circulars address, P. 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