l)c tmc0f New Bloomftclir, )a. " I don't know. I was up In the nursory eating my supper out of a new silver bowl, that grandma gate me on my birthday, and mamma came up all droned to go out to ride; and he took me In her lap and kiss ed me orer and over 10 many times, and she orled poor mamma t she used to cry a good deal; and she sal A she was going otit to ride, and she told the nurse to not leave me t'one after I went to sleep but to sit with me till she eame home; and nurse said she would, but she didn't; for after mamma and Grandma had gone In the car riage, and I saw them go, she said she was going down to have her tea, and she told me to keep very still and she'd soon bo back; but she was gono, oh, ever so long! and I got tired and fall asleep; and then I thought nurse came back and put me Into , bed; and the next I know I was cold, and I waked up, and some body had me in their arms and was running very fast, and I was frightened, and began to cry; and the man that had got me squeezed me tight, and shook me, and told me to stop that or he'd be the death of me, and so I stopped it. And ho ran very fast a good ways, and we came to a railroad, I guess it was, for ' there were lights, and some cars stand ig there, and be carried me in the car and sot me down hard in a seat up in the corner, 'and told me not to speak or move till he came back with the tickets, for if I did ho'd out my ears off. And in a minute the cars ' began to move, and then they stopped again, and then the people made a great cry, and eame running up with lanterns, and 1 heard them say some body was killed had both his legs cut off I" said the child shudder ing, his pallid face growing, if possible, a shade more colorless at the terrible recol lection. " Oh, I saw the blood 1 and they talked aud talked of it till they mado me sick; and then at last the cars went on, and the cross man did not come again. I was glad of that; and I was so tired and frightened crept down under the seat, where nobody could rite me, and then I fell asleep, for it was a dark night, and mamma always had me put to bed at seven. And the next I knew it was morning, and the cars were empty, and one of the sweepers pulled me out from under the seat and told me to go about my business, for I had no right to got into tho cars to sleep, ho said, and they won't let boys do that, you know. Well, It was here in New York, and I kept hid for some time for fear the bod man would oaten me; but be never came again. All the boys were very good to me, and I sold pond lilies, and berries, and papers, and matches, and candies, and on I ever so many things for them. They said folki women folks always bought of me because I was so littlo. And then this lost summer , I was oflice-boy to a lawyer that was prime 1" He spoke with a full sense of the dignity of this last position. " You do not hapiien to want an office- boy, do you, sir?" " Yes, perhaps I do," said Dr. Grafton who began to pity the desolate crumb of humanity thus washed to his very door- , steps. ' But wo will talk of this in the morning. I see you are sleepy now aren't you? Don't you want to go to bed?" " Yes sir," said the child rising do. Hay 1 go out into the porch It you please ?" ' No," said tho doctor, gravely; " I can. not let you sleep in my porch any more." The boy's face fell. " But I can fix you up a littlo bed in this warm room. I think with some of the sofa-pillows and a thii rug, you could do for one night, couldu' you?" " Lord bless you, sirl I guess I could don't take that trouble. I can sleep any. where round o the floor, if you are only willing." And ourling himself up in the orner of the room, like a dog or oat, the poor little waif was soon lost iu that calm, deep slumber of youth and innocence. When the doctor opened his eyes the next morn tntr, be found the boy seated at the foot of his bed, with his great dark eyes fixed full upon his face. " Good morning, sir," he said. " I hope you have slept as well as I have." ' " You could not have slept better," said kUbost. "All right, then, sir. Bee, I have got all your things in order for you. Very nice rooms these are of yours; everything Is so onveuiunt. I had a capital warm bath, and feel all the better for it. Want water to shave sir?" "Well, I couldn't find your razors; but it was no great matter for me, for I did not intend to shave to-day myself 1 " Ridiculous monkey 1" said the doctor, laughing; but be saw that the child's face and bands were clean aud shining, and that his long bair had been washed aud rubbed till it was a mass of burnished curl. , " Do you take a morning paper, sin I will take it in and dry It for you, while you dress." .... After a plentiful breakfast the dootoi held a consultation with his new Inmate, proposing to keep and feed him for the present (if lie behaved well), and promising In the meantime to set on foot inquiries for the child's mother, in return for whiul the deliuhted and grateful boy offered hi earnest services as effioe and errand boy. " I can sweep the office," be said, ," and t dust the books, and tend the Arc, an4 run errands, ..and answer the, door, ..and tell you who calls when yu are out," .. . , "I don't know how you can i do Utftt, aid the doctor, as the boy pressed the eager offor of bis services. "Can you write down the names of the people who call ?" "No," said Franco. "But can't I re-1 member t or can't I have a slate. Hod ask them to write down their names and streets I themselves?" . "But what if they can't write them- selves?" ' I "Then," said little Franco, with cool, practical shrewdness, "I dont think tbey would be paying patients, and their ens- torn would not be much of a loss to us." The compact mado, the doctor went out, bidding the boy to follow bim; and taking bim to a ready-made clothingestabllshment fitted him to a whole new suit plain and serviceable, front cap to shoes. ' ' Not more costly than the silver mug and coral and bolls," said Dr. Grafton to himself, as he paid the bill, and looked with pleasure upon the work of his hands. Then taking the boy to his office,he installed him there, and left bim to his own devices, while he made his professional calls. The doctor felt strongly tempted at once to visit the beautiful and interesting patient to whom be had been summoned the night before but wisely concludingshe would not be ready to see him at a very early hour, be decided to visit some of his less stylish patients first; when he reached the botel Mrs. Vaughln received him, requesting him to wait with ber a few momonts, as her daughter was rising. "She has had a much more quiet night, doctor," she said, " and is decidedly better to-day." Is she less excited than she was?1 asked Dr. Grafton. " Yes, I think so, but very nervous and excitable still; very anxious to go out." "What Is it (that tbt wants to do?" "1 will toll you," said the lady, "If I give you some outline of my daughtors sad history, you may, porhaps, bo better ena bled to form a judgment of her ease." "As you please," said the doctor, bowing and tho lady went on. "About ten years ago my daughter, who is, as you see, still young, met, while at a watering-place, with Garcelon, the come dian. You have seen bim, doubtless; for at one time he was the rage." I have seen bim repeatedly," said Dr, Grafton, smiling involuntarily as he recall ed the imimitable drollery of the once pop ular favorite of the stage, " You know, then, how wonderful his imitative art was ?" "Certainly; I never saw it equalled." "Then, perhaps, you will not wonder when I tell you that, assuming with master ly art the role of a perfect gentleman, he won tho affections of my beautiful, young and inexperienced child. ' She had wealth, and he kept up tho do- ception until she had married him; then he threw off the mask, and stood revealed in all his native mcanuess and habitual pioili- eacv: and from that timo our lives were made miserable by his exactions and ex cesses, for my daughter hod no father or brother to protect her. " They had two children, but the young est fell a victim to his father's violence and obstinacy; tho child was threatened with croup, and Garcelen scoffing at our fears, persisted in taking him out to ride, and tho littlo one died the next day. Beneath this heavy blow my poor child's health and reason reeled, and, half frantic with her grief, she accused her husband of being the murderer of her child; and from that mo- mcnt he was her bitter and implacable eno my. "At lost an appeal to tho law freed her from bim; they were divorced, and soon af ter he was killed by an accldont on tho railroad. Blessed as this release was to us all, you can understand how its awful sud donness shocked and excited her; and the loss of her only child about the same time brought on, as I have told you, a brain fever; it is a return of thir. that I so much dread; all this restlessness and wild excitement seem to roe the sure precursors of it. It is a sad story," said tho doctor, sym pathizing. " But I think opposition to her actions are the worst things for her. What is it she wants to do? Where does she so much wish to go? I think she spoke of some review some exhibition. Would it not be practical to indulge ber by taking ber there?" ; "No," said the niothor, sadly. "It would involve too much fatigue aud expos ure. You did not understand; it is the an. nual exhibition of the school she so much wishes to be present at.' " What sort of Interest can that have for hor?" " Oh, it Is the hope to find her lost child; she goes every where pauper boys are." "Can she not be mado to realize that the child Is dead?" , . " But we do know that he Is dead, sir, Ah 1 1 forgot you didn't know tho circum stances. I sometimes think all this trouble has affected my own memory. At the timo of the divorce tho child, by the decree of the court; was given to the mother, but Garcelon threatened to take it from her in revenge. Of course it was only a throat, as he' bd run through all the propeity he could lay Lis bands upon; and the child, whom be never loved, would have been a beavy burden to j,ra ;n us 0W waudering, dissolute life. BtlU the threat kept her in constant terror. At last she received letter from bim, staling he would oe giaa to leave the country, but was without the means, and If shq would meet him that night at a I place which he named, about ten miles! from us, and brine bim a certain amount of I money, be would never trouble her again. I " Bha went, I went with her, taking her uncle Bturdevant, who had been her legal counsel, with ns as a protection. But Garcelon was not there. We waited for him two hours, and as he failed to come, we returned home; but only to new trouble, Tho child had been taken from his nursery (whether by the complicity or carelessness of bis nurse we nevor knew) and carried away. At first, of course, our suspicions fell upon the miserable father, but we learn. ed the next day that he had been killed that very night upon a cross railroad, probably on his way to keep his appointment with us. There in that one Instance, I suppose we had done bim wrong. " This new and overwhelming blow, to gether with the terrible circumstances of Garcelon's frightful death threw my afflic ted child into a brain fever, as I have al ready told you. Since hor recovery we have journeyed everywhere In search of the lost child, but no trace of our poor little Franco bos ever been discovered." " Franco I" said the doctor, whose fast- growing suspicions this name seemed al most to confirm. " Is not that a peculiar abbreviation for Francis?" "The child's name was not Francis," said the lady. "Uarcelon s name was Francisco." At Una moment Mrs. Uarcelon s nurse summoned them; and not daring to disclose the hope that was growing into conviction until it ceased to be a doubt; the doctor said kindly, " I am deeply interested in this sad story of yours; but I will only repeat to you the advice I have already given; keep up your own spirits, and try to keep up your daughter's." " I confess I havo takea an opposito course," said Mrs. Yaughan. "Feeling more and more tho uselessness of our search, I have tried by every discouragement to prepare her for what I felt must be the fl nal disappointment." "All wrong, madam," said Dr. Grafton, "Excuse me; but don't you know If it were not for hope the heart would break ?" They went into the patient's chamW, and found her sitting up, and much mote composed than on the previous night, though still evidently very weak. ' ' Why, you look a great deal better," said the doctor, encouragingly, after he had received the nurse s report of the patient's night. " You are doing bravely. Only keep on as you are doing now, and you will soon be off the sick-list. You have very little fever. "But, doctor," said the patient, anxions- ly, "how soon do you think I may ride out?" ' ' Possibly to-morrow, if it is fine," said tho doctor, cheerfully. " Your mother has been telling mo of tho object of your search," he said, boldly; "and who knows if I may not bo able to help you? Wo doctors know all sorts of persons, and go to all sorts of places.". , - "Oh, doctor !" said the invalid, "do you think there is nny chance ?" " Every chance in tho world, madam, if you will only control yourself, and keep up your spirits. I will call again in the coarse of an hour, and bring you a new medicine that I am almost sure will do you good ; and then, when you are stronger I will take you all over the city, if you wish. As a medical man, and one of the ' Board of Health,' I have the entry to nearly all our public institutions. Only keep yourself quiet and get well, and you shall sue what we cau do." ,' " Oh, doctor," said the patient, her deli- oate cneeic iiusiung as she spoke, "you have given me new hope, and that to me is new life. Bless you t bless you for this encouragement 1" " Walt till you have triod my new medi cine," said the doctor, cordially grasping her extended hand in his.' "And now good morning." It is needless to say the sympathizing doctor made a quick passage homeward bound to his office where he found little Franco gravely ensconced as office boy, the present duty seeming to consist of sitting on a high stool and doing nothing. ' " Nice set of instruments you've got, sir, bo said, gravely. " I think I'd like to be a doctor myself. I know the use of some of these tools already. . This is to pull out teeth with; I tried it on one of mine, but it hurt me, and I concluded not to do It. But I think I would not much mind pulling out a cat's toeth. I hate cats. Do any cats ever come here to have their teeth pulled out ? If they should, you lot me try, wou't you? I think 1 could do the job that is, you know, if the cat wanted me to, Don't you think I could, sir?" And as the child spoke the doctor re cog nized in his strange manner and expression a strong likeness to Garcelon, thecoinedlan, mimic and buffoon of the stage. That was the likeness evodod hint. . which had so puszled and ' " Get your cap. Franco; I am going to take you out with me.", And lu a moment more they were )n the streets again, ..The doctor stopped at a drug store and bod some simple toula put up, o serve as an excuse " case ins nope naa muiea mm, men nur - rted on at a pace that taxed even franco's young and agile limbs. " If you please, is anybody going to die, sir r questioned the breathless . boy. In wonder at their rapid pace, The doctor was calculating the risk to his patient of a too sudden revulsion of feeling, and answered: , " No, my boy; joy seldom kills" an an swer over which the child pondered In me ditative silence. They reached the hotel, and, mounting the stair unannounced," the doctor made his way to the sick-room. With beating heart he gave the professional tap. The nurse opened the door to him. -, - " It is Dr. Grafton, Mrs. Garcelon." And the doctor, holding the child fast by the hand, walked in and stood before her. He heard the cries, "My Franco 1" "Mamma 1" saw the patient did not faint, and then hurried into the parlor to send in Mrs. Vaughan. Dr. Grafton's new medicine had worked like a charm. A Desperate Adventure. THE following story, narrating how two boys killed a panther and two cubs, is told the Sacramento Union by a subscriber, residing in Colusa connty, California. Permit mo to make known to you an in cident which transpired during the sum mer months at the north fork of Grind stone, in Colusa county. The particulars are related to me by Rowcrott, a gentleman residing in the vicinity of Newvillo, upon whoso veracity you can safely rely. He says two young men with whom he is per sonally acquainted started to the moun- tains, as is customary, with a band of sheep. One was named Orlando Burris, aged four teen years, and the other George Hull, aged eighteen. After getting thoroughly settled in their cabin and the sheep undor good control they started off ono bright morning trout fishing, having with them a sheep dog and a jack knife, the latter in the possession of young Hull, and the only weapon of defense In ease of an attack of any wild animals, They had not gone far when they como to an old moss-grown log, and were about to step or. it, when out sprang a largo she panther and her two cubs. Young Burris hissed the sheep doner on the panther, She Immediately seized the head and was punishing him in a frightful manner when young Burris came to the rescue, catching the panther by the tail and endeavoring to pull her off the dog. In case the panthe let go her bold it would have been sure death to the young adventurer. . i Just in the nick of time young Hull, seeing the danger his companion was in drew a jack-knife and rushed to the scene of the conflict. Running his band over the panther until ho felt the pnlsutions of the heart, ho raised the knife,and with unerring aim, drove it straight into tho panther' heart. Tho animal fell dead between them Thus, by the merest accident, tho lives of tho two young heroes were spared. A few days afterward they hunted up tho two cubs, which escaped during the fight with the old oh, and killed them also. Any person paying a visit to their father's resi dence can see the three skins hung up as a trophy of the victory accomplished. 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