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trace, and sadden death generally implied
self-slaughter.
how JEViirs "weitt otjt."
"I judge no man this weather," said Tlum
jnil. "He had a touch of the sun, I fanoy,
for last week, after you fellows had left, he
came into the veranda and told me that he
was going home to see his wife in Market
street, Liverpool, that evening.
'1 eot the apothecary to look at him, and
we tried to make him lie down. After an
hour or two he rubbed his eyes and said be
believed he had had a fit hoped he hadn't
Raid anything rude. Jerins bad a great
idea of bettering himself socially. He was
very like Chucks in his language."
"WellT"
"Then he went to his own bnngalow and
began cleaning a rifle. He told the servant
that he was going alter buck in the morn
ing. Xaturally he fumbled with the trig
ger, and shot himself throngh the head ac
cidentally. The apothecary sent in a report
to my chief, and Jevins is buried some
where ont there. I'd have wired to you,
Spurstow, if you could have done any
thing." "You're a queer chap," said Mottram.
"If you'd killed the man yourself you
couldn't have been more quiet about 'the
business."
"Good Lord I what does it matter?" said
Hummil, calmly. "I've cot to do a lot ol
his overseeing work in addition to my own.
I'm the only person that suffers. Jevins is
oat of it by pare accident, of course, but
out of it. The apothecary was going to
write a long screed on suicide. Trust a
bahu to drivel when he gets the chance."
"Why didn't yon let it go in as suicide?"
said Lowndes.
"JSo direct proof. A man hasn't many
privileges in this country, bat he might at
least be allowed to mishandle his own, rifle.
Uesides, some day I may need a man to
smother up an accident to myself. Live and
let live. Die and let die."
"You take a pill," Baid Spnrstow, who
bad been watching Hnmmil's white face
narrowly. "Take a pill, and don't be an
ass. That sort of talk is skittles. Anyhow,
suicide is sbirking your work. If I was
Job ten times over I should be so interested
in what was going to happen next that I'd J
siay on ana waten.
"Ahl I've lost that curiosity," said Horn
mil. "Liver out of order?" said Lowndes, feel
ingly. "Xo. Can't sleep. That's worse."
"By jove, it isl" said Mottram. "I'm
that way every now and then, and the fit
has to wear itself out "What do you take
for it?"
"Nothing. "What's the use? I haven't
bad ten minutes' sleep since Friday morn
.ing." SPECTBAl 2UELODT.
"Poor chapl Spurstow, you ought to at
tend tq, this," said Mottram. 'Xow you
mention it, your eyes are rather gummy and
swollen."
Spurstow.ctill watching Hummil, laughed
lightly. "I'll patch him up later on. Is
it too hot, do yon think, to go fora ride?"
"Where to.' saia .Lowndes, wearily.
"We shall have to co away at 8, and there'll
be riding enough for us then. I bate a
horse when I have to use him as a necessity.
Oh. heavens, what is there to do?"
"Begin vihist again at chick points (a
"chick" is supposed to be eight shillings)
and a gold mohur on the rub," said Spur
stow promptly.
"Poker. A month's pay all round for
the pool no limit and 50 rupee raises.
Somebody would be broken before we got
up," said Lowndes.
"Can't say that it would give me any
pleasure to break any man in this com
pany," said Mottram. "There isn't enough
excitement in it, and it's foolish." He
crossed over to the worn and battered little
camp piano wreckage of a married house
hold that had once held the bungalow and
opened the case.
"It's used up long ago," said Hummil.
"The servants have picked it to pieces."
The piano was indeed hopelessly out of
order, but Mottram managed to bring the
rebellious notes into a sort of agreement,
and there rose from tbe tabbed keyboard
something that might once have been the
ghost ot a popular music hall song. The
men in the iong chairs turned with evident
interest as Mottram banged more lustily.
"That's goiji!" said Lowndes. "By
Jove! the last time I heard that song was in
1879 or thereabouts, just before I came out."
"Ah!" said Spurstow, with pride, "I was
home in ISbO." And he mentioned a song
ot the streets popular at that dc te.
Mottram executed it indifferently well.
Lowndes criticised and volunteered emenda
tions. Mottram dashed into another ditty,
not of the music hall character, and made as
if to rise.
"Sit down," said Hummil. "I didn't
know that you had any music in your com
position. Go on playing until you can't
think of any more. I'll have that piano
tuned ud before you come again. Play
something festive."
Very simple indeed were the tunes to
which Mottram's art and tbe limitations of
the piano could give effect, but the men
listened with pleasure, and in the pauses
talked all together of what they had seen or
heard when they were last at home. A
dense dust storm sprang up outside and
swept roaring over the bouse, enveloping it
in the choking darkness of midnight, but
Mottram continued unheeding, and tbe
crazy tinkle reached tbe ears of the listeners
above the flapping of the tattered ceiling
cloth.
ASD A aiCEDEK OP HYMNS.
In the silence after the storm he glided
from the more directly personal songs of
Scotland, half humming them as he played,
into the Evening Hymn.
"Sunday," said he, nodding his head.
"Go on. Don't apologize for it," said
Spurstow.
Hummil laughed long and riotously.
"Play it. by all means. You're full of sur
prises to-day. I didn't know yon had such
a gift of finished sarcasm. How does that
thing go?"
Mottram took up the tune.
"Too slow by half. You miss the note of
gratitude," said Hummel. "It ought to go to
the 'Grasshopper's Polka' this way." And
be chanted, prestissimo:
Glory to Thee, my God, thit night,
For all the blessings of the light,
"That shows we really feel our blessing.
How does itgo on?"
If in the night I sleepless lie,
lily soul with sacred thoughts supply;
May no ill dreams disturb my rest
"Quicker, Mottram."
Or powers of darkness me molest!
"Bah! What an old hypocrite you are!"
"Don't be an ass," said Lowndes. "You
are at fall liberty to make tun of anything
elre yon like, but leave that hymn alone.
It's associated in my mind with the most
eacred recollections "
"Summer evenings in the conntry, stained
glass window, light going ont, and you and
she jamming your heads together over one
hymn book," said Mottram.
"Yes, and a fat old cockchafer hittingyou
in the eye when yon walked home. Smell
of hay, and a moon as big as a bandbox sit
ting on top of a haycock; bats, roses, milk
aud midges," said Lowndes.
t "AHo mothers. I can just recollect my
mother singing me to sleep with that when
I was a little cbap," said Spurstow.
The darkness had fallen on tbe room.
They could hear Hummil squirming in his
chair.
"Consequently," said he, testily, "you
sing it when you are seven fathom deep in
hell! It's an insult to the intelligence of
the Deity to pretend we're anything but
tortured rebels."
"Take two pills," said Spurstow; that's
tortured liver."
' ''The usually placid Hummil is in a
vile, bad temper. I'm sorry lor his coolies
to-morrow," said Lowndes, as the servants
brought in tbe lights and prepared the table
for dinner. "
As they were settling into their places
about the miserable goat chops, the curried
eggs and the smoked tapioca pudding,
Spurstow took occasion to whisper to Mott
ram, "Well done, David!"
"Look after Saul, then," was the reply.
"What are you two whispering about?"
said Hummil, suspiciously.
"Only saying that you are a -poor host.
Shis fowl can't be cut," returned S'purstofi-,
mmmmmjmgSln
' with a sweet smile. "Call this a dinner?"
"I can't help it. You, don't expect a
banquet, do you?"
HTJMMIL'S hospitality.
Throughout that meal Hummil contrived
laboriously to insnlt directly and pointedly
all his guests in succession, and at each in
salt Spnrstow kicked the aggrieved persons
nnder the table; but he dared not exchange
a glance of intelligence with either of them.
Hammil's face was white and pinched,
while his eyes were unnaturally large. 2ft
man dreamed for a moment of resenting his
savage personalities, bnt as soon as the
meal was over they made haste to get away.
"Don't go. You're just getting amusing,
you fellows. 1 hope ,1 haven't said any
thing that annoyed you. You're such
touchy devils." "Then, changing the note
into one of almost abject treaty, "I say, you
surelv aren't going?"
"Where I dines I sleeps, in the language
of the blessed Jorrocks," said Spnrstow.
"I want to have a look at your coolies to
morrow, if you don't' mind. You can give
me a place to lie down in, I suppose?"
Tbe others pleaded the urgency oi ineir
several employs next day, and, saddling up,
departed together, Hummil begging them
to come next Sunday. As they jogged off
together, Lowndes unbosomed himself to
Mottram: " And I never felt so like
kicking a man at his own table in my life.
Said I cheated at whist, and reminded me I
was in debt! Told you you were as good as
a liar to your face. You aren't half in
dignant enau&h over it"
"Uot I," said Mottram. "Poor devil!
Did you ever know old Hummy behave like
that before? Did you ever know him to go
within a hundred miles of it?"
"That's no excuse. Spurstow was hack
ing my shin all the time, so I kept a hand
on tnvself. Else I should have
"Xo, you wouldn't You'd have done as
Hummy did about Jevins; judge no man
this weather. By Jove! the buckle of my
bridle is hot in my hand. Trot out a bit
and mind the rat holes-"
Ten minutes trotting jerked out of Lown
des one very sage remark when he pulled up,
sweating from every pore:
"Good thing Spurstow's with him to
night" "Ye-es. Good man, Spurstow. Our road
turns here. See you again next Sunday,tlf
the sun doesn't bowl me over."
"S'pose so, unless old Timhersides'
finance minister manages to dress some of
my food. Good night and God bless youl"
"What's wrong now?"
"Ob, nothing." Lowndes gathered up his
whip, aud as he flicked Mottram's mare on
theMlank, added, "You're a good little chap
that's all." And the mare bolted half a
mile across the sand on the word.
A TOBMD 1TIGHT.
In the assistant engineer's bungalow Spur
stow and Hummilsmokedthepipeof silence
together, each nairowly watching the other.
The capacity of a bachelor's establishment
is as elasttc as its arrangements are simple.
A servant cleared away the dining room ta
ble, brought in a conple of rude native bed
steads, made a tape strung on a light wood
en frame, flung a square of cool Calcutta
matting over each, set them side by side,
pinned two towels to tbe punkah so that
their fringes could just sweep clear of each
sleeper's nose and mouth and announced
that the conches were ready.
The men flung themselves down, adjur
ing the punkah coolies by all the powers of
Eblis to pall. Every door and window was
shut, for the outside air was that of an oven.
The atmosphere within was only 104 degrees,
as the thermometer attested, and heavy with
the foal smell of badly trimmed kerosene
lamps, aud this stench, combined with that
of native tobacco, baked brick and dried
earth, sends the heart of many a strong man
down to his boots, for it is the smell of tbe
great Indian emoire when she turns herself
for six months into a house of torment
Spurstow packed his pillows craftily, so
that he reclined rather than lay, his head at
a safe elevation above his feet It is not
good to sleep on a low pillow jn the hot
weather if you happen to be of thick necked
build, for you may pass with lively snores
and gurglings from natural sleep into the
deep slumber of heat apoplexy.
"Pack your pillows," said the doctor,
sharply, as he saw Hummil preparing to
lie down at fall length.
' The night light was trimmed; the shadow
of tbe punkah wavered across the room and
the flick of tbe punkah towel and the soft
whine of the rope through the wall hole fol
lowed it Then the punkah flagged, almost
ceased. The sweat poured from Spurstow's
brow. Should he go out and harangue the
coolie? It started forward again with a
savage jerk and the pin came out ol the
towels. When this was replaced a tomtom
in the coolie lines began to beat with the
steady throb of a swollen artery inside some
brain fevered skull. Spurstow turned on
his side and swore gently. There was no
movement on Hummil's part The man
had composed himself as rigidly as a corpse,
his bands clinched at his sides. The respi
ration was too hurried for any suspicion of
sleep. Spurstow looked at the set face. The
jaws were clinched, and there was a pucker
round the quivering eyelids.
"He's holding himself as tightly as ever
he can," thought Spurstow. "What a sham
it is, and what in the world is the matter
with him? Hummil!"
"Yes."
"Can't you get to sleep?"
"So." ,.
"Head hot? Throat
how?"
"Neither, thanks. I
you know "
"Feel pretty bad?"
"Pretty bad. thanks.
feeling bulgy? or
don't sleep much,
There's a tomtom
outside, isn't there? I thought it was my
head at first Ob, Spurstow, for pity's sake
give me something that will put me asleep
sound asleep if it's only for six hours!"
He sprang up. "I haven't been able to
sleep naturally for days, and I can't stand
it I can't stand it!"
"Poor old chapl"
THE HOBBOBS OF INSOMNIA.
"That's no use. Give me something to
make me sleep. I tell you I'm nearly mad.
I don't know what I say half my time. For
three weeks I've had to think and spell ont
every word that has come through my lips
before I dared say it I had to get my
sentences out down to the last word tor fear
of talking drivel if I didn't Isn't thaij
enough to drive a man mad? I can't see
things correctly now, and I've lost my sense
ot touch. Make me sleep. Oh, Spurstow,
for the love ot God make me sleep sound. It
isn't enough merely to let me dream. Let
me sleep!"
"All right, old man, all right Go slow.
You aren't half as bad as you think." The
flood gates of reserve once broken, Hummil
was clinging to him like a frightened child.
"You're pinching my arm to pieces."
"I'll break your neck if you don't do
something for me. No, I didn't mean that.
Don't be angry, old lellow." He wiped the
sweat off himself as he fought to regain
composure. "As a matter of fact, I'm a bit
restless and off my oats, and perhaps you
could recommend some sort of sleeping
mixture bromide of potassium.
"Bromide of skittles ! Why didn't" you
tell me of this befom? Let go of my arm
and I'll see if there's anything in my cigar
ette case to suit your complaint" Ho
hunted among his day clothes, turned up
the lamp, opened a little silver cigarette
case and advanced on the expectant Hummil
with the daintiest of fairy squirts.
"The last appeal of civilization," said he,
"and a thing I hate to use. Hold out your
arm. Well, your sleeplessness hasn't ruined
your muscle; and -what a thick hide it is !
Might as well inject a buffalo subcutaneons
ly. Xow in a few minutes tbe morphia will
begin working. Lie down and wait."
A smile ot unalloyed and idiotic delight
began to creep over Hummil's face. "I
think," he whispered, "I think I'm going
off now. Gad, it's positively heavenly.
Spurstow, you must give me that case to
keep; you ." The voice ceased as the
head fell back.
".Not for a good deal," said Spurstow to
the unconscious form. "And- now, my
friend, sleeplessness of your kind, being
very apt to relax the moral fibre in little
matters of life and death, I'll just take the
liberty of spiking your guns."
He paddled into Hummil's saddle room
in his bare feet and uncased a 12-borc, an ex
press and a revolver. Of the first lie un
screwed the nipples and hid -them -in ( the
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bottom of a saddlery ease; of the second he
abstracted the lever, placing it behind a big
wardrobe; The third he merely opened and
knocked the doll-head bolt of the grip up
with the heel of a riding boot
"That's settled," he said, as he shook the
sweat off his hands. "These little precau
tions will at least give you timeto turn.
You have too much sympathy with gun
room accidents." , ...
And as he rose from his knees the thick,
muffled voice of Hummil cried in the door
way, "You fool I"
Such tones they use to speak in the lucid
intervals o! delirium to their friends a little
before they die.
Spurstow jumped with sheer fright
Hummil stood in the doorway with helpless
laughter.
"That's awPly good of you, I'm sure,"
he said, very slowly, feeling for his words.
"I don't intend to go out by my own hand
at present. I say, Spurstow, that stuff won't
work. What shall I do? What shall I do?"
And panic terror Btood in his eyes.
"Lie down and give it a chance. Lie
down at once."
"I daren't It will only take me half
way again, and I shan't be able to get away
this time. Do you know it was all I could
do to come out'just now? Generally I am
as quick as lightning, but yon had clogged
my feet. I was nearly caught"
"Ob, yes, I understand. Go and lie
down."
"No, it isn't delirium, but it was an aw
fully mean trick to plav on me. Do you
know I might have died?"
SLEEP AT LAST.
As a sponge rubs a slate clean, so some
power unknown to Spurstow had wiped out
Hummil's face all that stamped it for the
face of a man, and he stood at the doorway
in the expression of his lost innocence. He
had slept back into terrified childhood.
"Is he going to die on the spot?" thought
Spurstow. Then aloud: "All right, my son.
Come back to bed and tell me all about it
You couldn't sleep, but what was all the
rest of the nonsense?"
"A place a place down there!" said
Hummil, with simple sincerity. The drug
was acting on him by waves, and he was
flung from the fear of a strong man to the
fright of a child as his nerves gathered sense
or were dulled.
"Good God! I've been afraid of it for
months past, Spurstow. It has made every
night hell to me, and yet I'm not conscious
of having done anything wrong."
"Be still and I'll give you another dose.
We'll stoo your nightmares, you unutter
able idiot!"
"Yes; but you must give me so much that
I can't get away, You must make me quite
sleepy not j ust a little sleepy. It's so hard
to run then."
"I know it; I know it I've felt if myself.
The symptons are exactly as you describe."
"Oh, don't laugh at me, confonnd yon!
Before this awful sleeplessness came to me
I've tried to rest on my elbow and put a
spur in tbe bed to sting me when I fell back.
Loot!"
"By Jove! the man has been rowelled like
a horse! Ridden by tbe nightmare with a
vengeance! Aud we all thought him sen
sible enough. Heaven send us understand
ing! You like to talk, don't you, old
man?"
"Yes, sometimes. Not when I'm fright
ened. Then I want to run. Don't you?"
"Always. Before I give you your second
dose try and tell me exactly what your
trouble is."
Hummil spoke in broken whispers for
nearly ten minutes, while Spurstow looked
into the pnpils of his eyes and passed his
hands belore them once or twice.
At the end of the narrative the silver
cigarette case was produced, and the last
words that Hummil said as he iell back for
the second time were, "Put me quite to
sleep, for if Im caught I die I die!"
"Yes, yes; we all do that sooner or later,
thank Heaven who has set a term to our
miseries," said Spurstow, settling the
cushions under the head. "It occurs to me
that unless I drink something I shall go out
before my time. I've stopped sweating, and
I wear a TTinch collar." And he brewed
himself scalding hot tea, which is an ex
cellent remedy against heat apoplexy if you
take three or four cups ot it in time. Then
he watched the sleeper.
"A blind face that cries and can't wipe its
eyes. H'm! Decidedly Hummil ought to go
on leave as soon as possible, and sane or
otherwise, he undoubtedly did rowel him
self most cruelly. Well, Heaven send us
understanding!"
IMPROVEMENT.
At midday Hummil rose with an evil taste
in his mouth, but an unclouded eye and a
joylul heart
"I was pretty b?d last night, wasn't I?"
said he.
"I have seen healthier men. You must
have had a touch of the sun. Look here:
if I write you a swingeing medical certifi
cate will you apply for leave on the spot?"
"No."
"Why not? You want it"
"Yes, but I can hold on till the weather's
a little cooler."
"Why should you, if you can get relieved
on the spot?"
'.'Burkett is the only man who could be
sent and he's a born fool."
"Oh, never mind about the line. You
aren't so important as all that Wire for
leave, if necessary."
Hummil looked very uncomfortable.
"I can hold on till the rains," he said,
evasively.
"You can't Wire to headquarters for
Burkett"
'I won't If you want to know why par
ticularly, Burkett is married, and has a
child, and his wife's up at Simla, in the
cool, and Burkett has a very nice billet that
takes him into Simla from Saturday to
Monday. That little woman isn't at all
well. If Burkett was transferred she'd try
to follow him. If she left thebabr behind
she'd fret herself to death, if she came
and Bnrkett's one of those selfish little
beasts who are always talking about a wife's
place being with her husband she'd die.
It's murder to bring a woman here just now.
Burkttt has got the physique of a rat If
he came here he'd go out; and I know she
hasn't any money, and I'm pretty sure she'd
go out, too. I'm salted in a sort of way, and
I'm not married. Wait till the rains, and
then Burkett can get thin down here. It'll
do him heaps of good."
"Do yon mean to say that you intend to
face what you have faced, for the next 56
nights?"
"Oh, it won't be so bad, now you have
shown me a way out of it I can always'
wire to you. iiesides, now I ve once got into
tbe way of Bleeping, it'll be all right Any
how, I shan't put in (or leave. That's tbe
long and short of it."
"My great Scott! I thought all that sort
of thing was dead and done with."
"Bosh! You'd do the same yourself. I
feel a new man, thanks to tbat cigarette
case. You're a going over to camp now,
aren't you?"
"Yes, but I'll try to look you up every
other day, if I can."
"I'm not bad enough for that I don't
want you to bother. Give the coolies gin
and ketchup."
"Then you feel all rizht?"
"Fit to fight for my life, bnt not to stand
out in the sun talking to you. Go along,
old man, and bless you!"
COLLAPSE.
Hummil turned on his heel to face the
echoing desolation of his bungalow, and tbe
first thing he saw standing in tbe veranda
was the figure of himself. He had met a
similar apparition once before, when he was
suffering from overwork and the strain of
the hot weather.
J'TMb is bad already," he said, rubbing
his eyes. "If the thing slides away from
me all in one piece, like a ghost, I shall
know that it is only my eyes and stomach
tbat are out of order! If it walks, I shali
know that my head is going."
He walked to "the figure, which naturally
kept at an unvarying distance from him, as
is tbe use of all specters that are born of
'overwork. It slid throngh the house and
dissolved into swimming specks within tbe
eyeball as soon as it reached toe burning
light of the garden. Hummil went about
his business till even. When he came into
dinner he found himself sitting at the table.
The thing rose and walked out hastily.
No living man knows what that week
.held Jor H nunmil. An -increaw oi- -tue.epi-
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PITTSBURG- DISPATCH,
demic kept Spurstow in camp among the
coolies, and all he could do was to telegraph
to Mottram, bidding him go to the bungalow
and sleep there. But Mottram was 40 miles
away from the nearest telegraph, and knew
nothing of anything save the needs of the
survey till he met early on Sunday morn
ing Lowndes and Spurstow heading toward
Hummil's for the weekly gathering.
"Hope the poor chap's in a better temper "
said the former, swinging himself off h'is
horse at the door. "I suppose he isn't up
yet"
"I'll just have a look at him," said the
doctor. "If he's asleep there's no need to
wake him."
And an instant later, by the tone of
Spurstow's voice calling upon them to enter,
the men knew what had happened.
The punkah was still being pulled over
the bed, but Hummil had departed this life
at three hours before.
The body lay on its back, hands clinched
by the side, as Spurstow had seen it Iving
seven night previously. In the staring 'eves
was written terror beyond the expression of
any pen.
Mottram, who had entered behind Lown
des, bent over the dead and touched the
forehead light with his lips. "Oh, you
lucky, lucky devil!" he whispered.
But Lowndes bad seen the eyes and had
withdrawn shuddering to the otber side of
the room.
"Poor chap! Poor old chapl And the
last time I met him I was angry. Spurstow.
we should have watched him. He has "
Deftly Spurstow continued his investi
gations, ending by a search round the room.
"No, he hasn't," he snapped. There's
no trace of anything. Call in the servants."
They csmet eight or ten of them, whisper-
"When did your Sahib go to bed?" said
Spnrtow.
"At 11 or 10, we think," said Hummil's
personal servant.
"He was well then? But how should you
know?"
"He was not ill as far.as our comprehen
sion extended, but be had slept very little
for three nights. This I know, because I
saw him walking much and specially in the
heart of the night"
chtjma's philosophy.
As Spurstow was arranging the sheet a
big, straight-necked hunting spur tumbled
on tbe ground. The doctor groaned. The
personal'servant peeped at the body.
"What do you think. Chuma?" said
Spurstow, catching the look on the dark
face. '
"Heaven-born, in my poor opinion, this
that was my master has descen ded into tbe
dark places and there has been caught be
cause he was not able to escape With suffi
cient speed. We have the spur for evidence
that he fought with fear. Thus have I seen
men of my race do with thorns when a spell
was laid npon them to overtake them in
their sleeping hours and they dared not
sleep."
"Chuma, you're a mud .head. Go out
and prepare seals to be set on the Sahib's
1UL dUU U(Cliut w - uvuw a suuujUCfS,
property."
"God has made the heaven born. God
has made me. Who are we to inquire into
dispensations of God? I will bid the other
servants to hold aloof while you are reckon
ing the tale of the Sahib's property. They
ate all thieves, and would steal."
"As far as I can make out he died from
oh, anything; stoppage of the heart's ac
tion, heat apoplexy, or some otber visita
tion," said Spnrstow to his companions.
"We must make an inventory of his effects,
and so on,"
"He was scared to death," insisted
Lowndes. "Look at those eyes! For pity's
sake don't let him be buried with them
open!"
"Whatever it was, he's out of all the
trouble now," said Mottram, softly.
Spurstow was peering into tbe open eyes.
"Come here," said he. "Can you see any
thing there?"
"I can't face it!" whimpered Lowndes.
"Cover up the face! Is there any fear on
earth that can turn a man into that like
ness? It's ghastly. Oh, Spurstow, cover
him up!"
"No fear on earth," said Spnrstow.
Mottram leaned over his shoulder and
looked intently.
"I see nothing except some gray blurs in
the pupil. There can be nothing there,
you know."
"Even so. Well, let's think. It'll take
half a day to knock up any sort of coffin,
and he must have died at midnight.
Lowndes, old man, go out and tell the
coolies to break ground next to Jevins'
grave. Mottram, go round tbe house with
Chuma and see tbat the seals are put on
things. Send a couple of men to me here,
and I'll arrange."
The strong armed servants when they re
turned to their own kind told a strange story
of the doctor Sahib vainly trying to call
their master back to life by magic arts to
wit, the holding of a little green box oppo
site each of the dead man's eyes, of a fre
quent clicking of the same and a bewilder
ing muttering on the part of the doctor
Sahib, who subsequently took the little
green box away with him.
THE SIYSTEEY OF THE EYE.
The resonant hammering of a coffin lid is
no pleasant thing to' hear, but those who
have experience maintain that much more
terrible is the solt swish of the bed liiieu,
tbe reeving and unreeving of the bed tapes,
when be who has fallen by tbe roadside is
appareled for burial, sinking gradually as
the tapes are tied over till tbe swaddled
shape touches the floor and there is no pro
test against the indignity of hasty disposal.
At tbe last moment Lowndes was seized
with scruples of conscience. "Ought you
to read the service from beginning to
end ?" said he.
"I intended to. You're my senior as a
civilian. You can take it if you like."
"I didn't mean that lor a moment I only
thought if we could get a chaplain from
somewhere I'm willing to ride anywhere
and give poor Hummil a better chance.
That's all."
"Bosh!" said Spurstow, as he framed his
lips to the tremendous words that stand at
the head of tbe burial service.
After breakfast they smoked a pipe in
silence to the memory of the dead. Then said
Spurstow, absently:
"Tisn't in medical science."
"What?"
"Things in a dead man's eye."
"For goodness sake leave that horror
alone." said Lowndes. "I've seen a native
die of fright when a tiger chivied him. I
know what killed Hummil."
"The deuce you do! I'm going to try to
see." And the doctor retreated into the
bath-room with a Kodak camera, splashing
and grunting for 10 minutes. Then there
was the sound of something being hammered
to pieces, and Spurstow emerged, very white
indeed.
"Have you got a picture?" said Mottram.
"What does the thing look like?"
"Nothing there. It was impossible, of
course. You needn't look, Mottram. I've
torn up the films. There was notbiug there.
It was impossible." t
"That," said Lowndes, very distinctly,
watching the shaking hand striving to re
light tbe pipe, "is a lie."
There was no further speech for a long
time. The hot wind whistled without, and
the dry trees sobbed. Presently the daily
train, winking brass, burnished steel and
spouting steam, pulled up panting in the
intense glare. "We'd better go on on tbat,"
said Spurstow. "Go back to work. I've
writien my certificate. Wo can't do any
more good here. Come on."
No one moved. It is not pleasant to face
railway journeys at midday in Jane. Spur
stow gathered up his hat and whip, and,
turning in the doorway, said:
There may bo heaven there must be hell.
Meantime, there Is our liie here. We-ellt
But neither Mottram nor Lowndes had
any answer to the question.
Ills Opinion of Chicago.
New I ork Press.
Judge Thomson has recently been in
Chicago, where the intense heat and grime
ol bituminous coal smoke filled him with
disgust He told me that Chicago is grow
ing as dirty as Pittsburg was reputed to be
belore natural gas was discovered and put
into use. "As for beat," said he, "it is
awful. When the thermoneter is reported
at 90 degrees it is from instruments in the
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SUNDAY, JULY 20,
MIDSUMMER MUSINGS.
The Peculiarities and Methods
the 'Ministerial Tramp.
of
MISTAKE .OP A TEMPERANCE HAN.
A Good Yankee Parson's Over-Dose
Plum Podding- Sauce.
of
SDICIDE PE0M THE L0FTT TOWERS
rwnrrrBX fob the dispatch. 1
A famous humorous writer, in a recent
interview with a Dispatch reporter, made
the assertion tbat the most difficult part of
his work was to find a new subject to write
upon, and that a good suggestion was worth
around sum of money. Nearly every new
literary aspirant imagines that his mind is
co prolific that it will be a perpetual spring
of effusive ideas. When he gets down to
hard work he finds that somehow or otber
his brain, does not pan ont to the full meas
ure of his expectancy. At this season of
the year when tbe newspaper reader is apt
to be suffering from inertia it is peculiarly
difficult to find a subject that shall at the
same time be neither ponderous in propor
tions nor so frivolous as to have no lesson in
it When the aforesaid difficulty presents
itself is it not well to do as does the econom
ical housewife, and serve up a dish of hash,
made as palatable as possible by pepper and
spices? i
No class of men is so easily .gulled as. the
country parson. Very often he knows but
little about the worlcUand its many shams.
A long face, a glistening tear and a doleful
voice will generally open his slender pocket
book. This is the season when the minis
terial tramp takes the road, and with a list
of printed recommendations supposed to be
from clergymen of different denominations,
manages to eke out a living from the soft
hearted, if not soft-headed, rural ministry.
He is glib of tongue, is this tramp; well
versed in the Scriptures, and is snre to have
a leaning toward the denomination to which
you belong, although he himself is not de
nominational, but evangelistic. He strictly
follows tbe scriptural injunction in not pos
sessing a second coat. His collar is usually
a second-hand celluloid that looks as if it
had been exhumed from tbe tomb of old
Barneses II. He can pray like a seraph,
and "brother" and "sister" the country
folks till they look upou him as an un
washed angel. He generally has some
physical trouble which keeps bim out of ac
tive pastoral service. A little collection
from the people, and a few square meals
from tbe minister's larder, and he is cone to
gull some other verdant flock,
Little Ministerial Falling.
The outside world ia probably not aware
of the fact that there is a vast amount of
jealousy among ministers. I do not mean
ministers of different denominations espe
cially, bnt those who are of the same
feather. The inside doings of some minis
terial conferences, if revealed to the general
public, would create astonishment at times.
If tbe angels are permitted to look down
from their exalted abode in high heaven,
assuredlv they must often weep. The city
"D. P." will snub the plain country "Bev."
The.tiged patriarch will look with lofty
mien upon the voung minister, and con
descend to give him tbe tips of bis fingers
to squeeze if the pressure is not too
tight Ab, they are human, these somber
robed men. Among a company of
clergymen' of any size will be found
a gusher, who takes everybody Jn his arms;
the cold iceberg, whose clammy metaphysi
cal hand is frigidly forbidding; the portly,
fatherly, vsmiling brother, who kindly pats
the young man-on the shoulder and encour
ages him. Then there is tbe self important
dude who pastors the fashionable church,
wears immaculate linen and talks with a
delightful squeaky lisp. As a class these
men are jovial, good-natured and kind, but
nevertheless there ate circumstances wheu
they become jealous of each other, just as
the disciples did in the old days.
I remember attending an ordination coun
cil in Northeastern New York some years
ago, where an incident took place illustra
tive ot the lack of chemical knowledge on
tbe part of some very intelligent men there
gathered. The subject of stimulation was
the topic of the hour at the dinner table.
One good brother was wonderfully profuse
in his condemnation of anything of an alco
holic character. He did not 'believe that
there could be any circumstance which
would justify a minister in partaking of
alcohol stimulants. He never did and
never would. He did not believe that a
sermon preached under the influence,
no matter how slight, of strong' drink,
would ever be beneficial. He
didn't care about the Bible injunction:
"Give strong drink to him tbat is ready to
faint" When asked what he would' do
when cold, wet and exhausted, he replied
that he would take a good strong dose of
Jamaica ginger. He frequently indulged
in it, and it gave him new life and warmed
him up for the time being. Considering the
fact tbat Jamaica ginger is little else than
plain, crude alcohol, was not this a lament
able display of ignorance? When told that
the thing he condemned constituted about
nine-tenths of bis favorite "tipple," he was
so nonplused that tbe subject of total ab
stinence was relegated to the rear for the
time being.
A Yankee Parson' Pudding Sauce.
Some years r0, while visiting England,
I heard a good story. Our British cousins
are great on plum pudding, a combination
of currants, raisins, flour, suet, candied
peel, and goodness knows what else. Any
how, it makes a delicious dish. It is thecus
tom almost invariably to flavor the pudding
with a sauce in which brandy plays a large
part It was Christmas time, and no Christ
mas is complete in England without plum
pudding. An American clergvman, who
had very strong predilections on the side of
temperance, and who was loud and unspar
ing in his denunciation of those who im
bibed, was invited to take dinner in an old
English home on Christmas day. Alter
tbe national roa.st beef aud South
down leg of mutton had been dis
pensed with, the plum pudding came
steaming hot upon the table. All
eyes glistened. An Englishman is never so
full that he cannot eat plum pudding. Our
American friend was riding his hobby of
total abstinence during the meal, to tbe
evident annoyance ot some of the guests.
He was in turn helped to the pudding and
sauce quite liberally. His eyes soon began
to sparkle. His praise of the dish was very
flattering to the housewife. A second and
a third time he was helped, and eagerlv
partook of the toothsome dish. Finally,
being asked if be would not take a little
more, he replied: "Well, no, I guess not;
not any more pudding, but I would not ob
ject to a little more of that delicions sauce."
He got it, and while not lully under
standing why the guests shonld be so much
amused, he felt so jolly himself that he for
gave their frivolity, and when it came to
singing "He's a Jolly Good Fellow," the
Yankee parson sang as loud as any of them.
Tjluc Knots and Preaching Funerals.
Life is crowded with anomalisms and in
congruities, many of which are beyond
human comprehension. Only about 18 per
cent of tbe people of this country are pro
fessing Christians, or in any way contribute
to tbe spread of the gospel, except as they
tacitly consent to its utility or acknowledge
its moralizing and peace-giving propensi
ties by implication. Apropos to these facts,
here is an anomaly: For marrying a couple
of unn-prolessors the preacher gets from 55
to $10 as a rule. Ho can perform the cere
mony in five minutes. Called to officiate at
the funeral of a person whom he has never
seen before, and who has no more intimate
connection with- him or his church than the
1890.
man in the moon, he gets nothing, although
the preparation and the journey may cost
him, as it often does, a whole day's labor.
One would almost tnink that dealers in
Western mortgages conld hardly spare
either the time or the money to indulge their
love ofhumor, aud yet they are wonder
fully prodigal in this respect Almost
every week tbe rural pastors receive from
these concerns propositions to invest their
spare funds in enterprises that net all tbe
way from 6 to 10 per cent oThere is some
thing peculiarly ludicrous in the supposi
tion that tbe average country parson has
anything to invest His salary, too often
grudgingly paid, is hardly large enough to
keep the wolf from the door. Tbat some of
these investments mav be profitable there
can be no doubt, but that a minister should
have surplus cash is where the smile, if not
the laugh, comes in.
Fads and Facts In Salclde.
Talking about fads,I noticed in THE DIS
PATCH tbe other day that a new one has
come ont in tbe suicide line. A man in
Lima tried to shuffle off, etc., by grasping
an electric light wire. 'But for the gentle
solicitude of his wife he would probably
have accomplished his object This is cer
tainly as decent a way of committing sui
cide as any yet invented. A man jumps
into the river, ruins a good suit ol clothes
and spoils his watch. If he shoots himself
or cuts his, tnroat he generally makes a
bungling job ofit, but to wire himself off
seems to be far more scientific, and has an
aesthetic cast about it that noi other system
possesses. And then on the score of economy
too much cannot be said in its praise.
Years ago it used to be fashionable to jump
from the Yendome column in Paris. This
was the very height of fashion in suicide,
but now as electricity plays so important a
part in the everyday economy of life we
may expect to hear more frequently of cases
of electrocide.
As to the supposed suicide of people
jumping from great altitudes I have fre
quently questioned whether or no many of
these events were not purely unintentional
on the part of the victim. While traveling
in Europe a few years ago I took a notion,
with others, to visit old castles and cathe
drals. We had some ambitious climbers in
the party, and invariably part of the pro
gramme was to mount tbe time-worn stairs
into the tower of tbe building. When we
had reached the highest point mostoi the
company would stand in wrapt admiration
of he country, which for miles around
presented pictures of pastoral content and
verdant beauty. As for myself, ,1 always
found the safest place to be in the very cen
ter of the root of the tower, and a recum
bent position the most comfortable. While
affording an endless amount of amusement
for my friends I could not help this weak
ness. An almost irresistible desire to jump
off possessed me, and I was always glad
wben tbe signal was given to descend to
terra firma. May it not be tbat many of
these supposed suicides were caused by this
peculiar nervous affection? v
A COTJNTEY PAES02T.
A GUN WITH A TOSTOBY.
Considerably Over a Hundred Years Old and I
Still Ready for Business.
Punxsutawney Spirit,
"That," said Elias Cochran, of Bell town
ship, as he exhibited a rather handsome
rifle, "that.is perhaps the oldest gun in this
section. With it my grandfather, Isaac
Cochran, my father, Joseph Cochran, and
myself, have done all onr hunting. It is
considerably over a hundred years old.
Many a bear and deer and wolf has bitten
the dust simultaneously with its discharge,
and it came mighty near having one human
victim. Abont 65 years ago my father,
who was then a young man, was going
out to watch a deer lick in the north end of
Indiana county, and while on the way
he learned that his father's brother, David
Cochran, had just been killed in a quarrel
over a settlement by a man named John
Sbarrah, who was then the terror of the
neighborhood. Sbarrah had struck him on
the back of the bead with a piece of stove
wood, breaking his neck. My father had
this gun with him at the time, hut fearing
that be might be tempted to shoot Sharrab,
he stood it up against a tree and leit it
"When he reached the scene of the tragedy
Sharrah began abusing him, and he was
comDelled in self-defense to give Sharrah a
good licking. In' the meantime my grand
father came along, saw tbe gun and took it
with him, and when he saw Sharrah and
learned how he had been acting, he drew up
to shoot him. But just as he pulled the trig
ger my father shoved tbe gun to one side,
and Sharrah's life was saved. He served
several years in the penitentiary for his
crime, however." That is the story of one
gun.
ABH0TJB AND THE BOOTBLACK.
The Boy Borrows n Dollar to Par It Back
on tlio Intallmcnt Plan.
Chicago Tribune.:
A bootblack walked into the office of Mr.
Armour. He had none of his outfit with
him, but the bootblack was stamped in his
face and all over him. He went to the gate,
where tbe guard stands between his post and
tbe greatest packer iu tbe world.
"W'ere's ae old man?" asked the urchin.
Tbe guard told the boy to get out.
"You tell de old man dat I want to see
him. I want to see him alone. I don't
want to bodder you ner de old man. Bat I
want to see de old man, an' I want to see
him right off."
Mr. Armour at his desk overheard the
ragged request. "Let that boy come in
here," he called to the young man at the
gate. The urchin approached Mr. Armour
in a business-like way. .No preliminary,
compliments.
"Say," said the urchin. "I tooka nap
out dere in de allev, and while I was asleep
some o' dem kids from de Board o' Trade
come along and swiped (stole) my kit, an'
I'm short I want to borrer a dollar to buy
me a kit, an' I'll pay you back on de "stall
ment plan. See?"
Mr. Armour handed the boy two silver
dollars and told him to go. Bnt the boy
handed back one of the dollars and said:
"I don't want but one. I'm goin' to pay
it back, and dere's no use o a man goin in
deeper'n his head. I alius keep my head
above de water.
HEAT AND MAGNETISM.
Remarkable Conduct of Certain Alloys at
Different Tcmpernturrs.
It is now pretty widely known that iron
suddenly ceases to be magnetic when heated
to the critical point of its "recalescence" or
"after-glow," and that if alloyed with some
12 per cent of manganese, as in manganese
steel it becomes almost completely non
magnetic, says Engineering and Building.
These facts show us that iron is not necessa
rily magnetic under all conditions, for
admixture with a small quantity of another
metal, and even mere changeof temperature,
render it non-magnetic. Stranger still, some
observers report that iron again becomes
maguetic when the temperature readies
whiteness, but this lacks confirmation.
The behavior of nickel-steel is very re
markable. As usuallv received from the
maker, nickel-steel with 25 per cent of
nickel is non-magnetic; and yet it is a
mixture of two magnetic metals, iron and
nickel. If, jiow, we cool this nickel-steel to
20 C (4 Fahr.) it becomes very de
cidedly magnetic, and remains so when it
again returns' to the normal temperature.
If, finally, we heat it, it remains magnetic
till it reaches its critical temperature of
5S0C fl07f,o -PAhr-V when it again be
comes non-maguetic, and remains so
again cooled to 20C.
unti
Sydney Smith's Rrparter.
A thick-headed 'squire, being worsted
by Sydney Smith in an argument, took bis
revenge by ' exclaiming: "If I had a son
who was an Idiot by Jove, I'd make him a
parson."
"Very probably," replied Sydney; "but
I see your father was of a different mind."
ONLY ONE WAY TO ENJOY A SUMMER OUTING.
People Should Own Their Own Cottages and They Can
Build Fine Two-Story Ones for $1,800.
1WBITTIH TOB TOT DISPATCH.
Summer boarders at country farmhouses
vainly struggling to grow fat on thin fare,
and summer guests at hotels packed, at
great expense, in small cells called bed
rooms, should consider tbe advisability of
building cottages of their own.
At some time during their "outings" they
discovered, no doubt, a shady grove, or a
clean stretch of sand, or a knoll or cliff com
manding a fine view just the spot where
they would like to bnild. Why not try to
purchase it ? If the owner appreciates the
value of "improving" the neighborhood,
whichthe would-be purchaser should prevent
Perspective.
with all the eloquence at his command, he
ought to fix a reasonably low price for the
land. Then procure working plans and
specifications of a suitable cottage and pass
them around among local builders for their
competitive bids, informing them that there
is no hurry, all that will be required will be
to have the cottage completed so that it can
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be tenanted next summer. The long limit
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A Launch That Will Store Enonsh Energy
for an Elghl-Honr Cruise.
Electrio launches for river use have be
come very common, but ndw we have an
electrio launch which is stated to have sea
going qualities. The pinnace is 26 feet 6
in ches by B feet 4 inches, and is constructed
to carry 15 people. The storage batteries
with which Bhe is supplied are computed to
hold- sufficient electrical energy with one
charge to propel the boat for about eight
hours at eight miles per hour. A clear
space is left the entire length of the boat,
which is said to be free lroni danger, vibra
tion and the disagreeable odor naturally
associated with steam launches.
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plumbing should be put iu a cottage that
will be closed tbe greater part of the year.
The design presented herewith is a good
type for the purpose referred to. Following
will he found a brief description:
General dimensions: Widtb, including
veranda, 24 leet 6 inches; depth, 43 feet,
including veranda. Heights ot stories:
First story, 10 leet; second story, 9 feet
Exterior materials: Foundation, brick
piers; first story, clapboards; second story
and roof, shingles; gables, paneled.
Interior finish: Plastered for papering.
Floor, trim and stairs, all soft wood. In
terior wood-work finished in hard oil, nat
ural color. ,
Colors: Clapboards, sashes, blinds and
panel work in front gable, light brown.
Trim and outside doors, dark brown.
Veranda floor and ceiling, oiled. Brick
work, painted Indian red. Wall shinzles
dipped and brush coated buff stain. Boof
shingles left natural.
Accommodations: .The principal rooms
and their sizes, closets, etc., are shown by
the plans. Attic is floored but unfinished.
Fireplace and mantel included in estimate.
Cost: $1,800, not including range. The
estimate is based on New York prices for
materials and labor. In many sections of
the country tbe cost should be less.
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Feasible modifications : Heightsof stories,
Bi'zes of rooms, materials and colors msy ba
changed. Cellar, with brick or stone walls,
may be planned nnder a part or the whole of
house. Bathroom, with full or partial
plumbing, may be introduced. Stairway
mav be partitioned off from ball. The side
veranda may be inclosed, making it a hall,
and the stairway start there. Front chimney
and fireplace may be omitted. Clapboards
may be used throughout without changing
general appearance. Veranda mav he re
duced in size. E. W. Shoppell.
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