V
CARE OP THE SICK.
Ilew to Take Cure of, nnd What I Feed
lavnllds.
Persons who have never unffeied,
nays the Prairie Farmer, can twcaly
realize the weak state to which acute
illness or slow disease will reduce one's
nerves, else they would not so often
wonder why an invalid bhould be so no
tional, so childish, so fat, tic! ions, really,
"o unreasonable. It should be remem
bered that trifles are magnified in the
eyes of a sick person ; his world lies
within the walls of his room, so let this
sick-chamber be the plearantest, quiet
f it spot in the house, r id the sacred
portal, past which domestio trouble or
anxiety cannot pass. Whatever else
may suffer for lack of attention, watch
jealously that nothing is amiss in the
care or appointments of this one room,
and bring with you as you enter it a
pleasant face, a cheerful word, and a
goodly stock of patience, gentleness and
forbearance. The sick room should be
kept well aired, the bed linen Iresb. and
clean, and the medicines out of sight.
If the disease is of a contagious nature,
sliced onions should be placed in the
room, and changed once an hour. They
will absorb the poison rnd prevent the
spread of the disease.
The ingenuity of love and tenderness
will suggest many soothing arts by
which to while away the tedious hours
of oonvalesence, and ease the burden of
enfeebled mind and body. Doctors are
more lenient now-a-days than they were
in older times, and not only allow wat sr
for fever-parched lips but milk also ;
and if any one is hungiy they let him
eat, provided always he pai takes pru
dently of proper food. Oftentimes ap
petite has to be coaxed by means of
agreeable vnrietj, and pleasing sur
prises. The preparation of food for the
sick, end the proper manner of serving it
should be the study of every woman in
the laud. Let the dishes used in Berv
iug the invalid's meals be the pretti-it
the house affords ; sound and spotlessly
clean ; the glass, silver and cutlery clear
and bright, and the napkins whole and
immaculately white. Bring only a small
quantity of food into the patient's sight,
and let the details of the arrangement
be dainty and in good taste ; avoid all
lukewarm insipidities. As soon as the
meal is finished, remove the empty
dishes from the room.
BEAT TEA.
Chop a piece of lean beef, from the
neck is best, and pnt it into a wide
mouthed bottle. Cover tightly and set
the glass into a kettle of cold wat sr.
Heat to a boil, and cook stea 3ily for
three or four hours, then straii and
press the juice from the meat, and season
with salt. This is the most concentrated
form of nourishment, and should be
used when the patient is able t take
only a small quantity. Another way of
making beef tea is to chop the beef, and
allow to a pound one pint of cold water.
Let this simmer very slowly in a sauce
pan, and press the scraps of meat until
all of the blood and juice is extracted and
nothing left of the meat but tough white
lumps. Strain and season to taste with
salt. A little celery simmered with the
meat gives a pleasant variety.
INDIAN MEAL GRUEL.
Mix half a enpful of Indian meal with
enough cold water to make it into a
smooth paste, then stir this into a quart
of boiling water ; season to taste with
salt, and, if admissable, a little pepper ;
boil slowly for half an hour or longer.
Oat meal gruel can be made in the same
way.
DRIED BEEF BROTH.
Simmer chipped beef in water until
the goodness is extracted, then season
with pepper and a small piece of butter ;
strain out the beef and serve the broth
with toasted bread.
BEEP SANDWICH.
Scrape a little raw beef from a tender
juicy piece, and spread it on a thin slice
of buttered bread, season with pepper
and salt and cover it with another slice
of buttered bread ; divide it into small
pieces of equal Bhnpe and size, and trim
off all the crust. Raw beef is very
nutritious and easily digested, and, if
scraped very fine, ia exceedingly nice.
CHICKEN JETTjY.
Crack the bones of a fowl and put it
into two quarts of cold water. Boil it
slowly, removing the scum us it rises.
Salt lightly, and, when the chicken is
well done, remove the nice meat from
the bones ; pound the latter well aud
return them to the broth ; boil until the
liquor is reduced to a pint ; add a very
little pepper ; strain the jelly into a
bowl, or into small cups, which should
first be wet with cold water. When cool
remove the scum from the surface, and
put the jelly on ice. Serve very cold.
The chicken nan be made into a salad,
or. a little of the broth can be removed
with the chicken, and some gelatine dis
solved into it. This turned into a mould
with the chicken picked in flakei, will
make a very nice dish of jellied chicken
for the family table.
CRACKERS AND CREAM.
Split six Boston crackers ; plase them
in a soup plate and pour boiling water
over tlieni ; as soon as tney are soiteneu,
drain off all of the water and sprinkle
the crackers lightly with salt, then pour
over them sweet cream. Tins is an
especial favorite with little children who
are not feeling very well, and is often
relished by older people.
FRUIT BLANC MANOE.
If the fruit is fresh or canned, use the
clear juice ; if preserved or jellied, re
duce it with water. Add sufficient corn
starch dissolved in a little cold water to
the boiling hot juice to make a quaky
iellv. but not enough t3 make it firm
like blano mang. Let all boil together
for two or three minutes, then turn into
a dish to cool. Serve cold with sweet
cream and powdered sugar.
TAPIOCA JELLY.
Soak a cup of tapioca over night in a
pint of water. In the morning set it on
the back part of the stove and add a
cupful of warm water: let it simmer
slowlv. stirring it often to prevent burn'
iug. Cook until it looks clear, and if too
thick add a little boiling water. Flavor
with aucar and lemon juico. and turn
into wet moulds to cool. Serve with
sweet cream flavored with vanilla and
sugar to taste, and a little grated nut'
meg.
BICE AND BLANC MANOR.
Mix four tablespoonfula of rice flour
iu a little cold milk, add a pinch of salt
Stir this into a Quart of boiling mUK
and boil and stir for ten minutes. When
partly cool, add the whites of two or
three eggs oeaien to a irotn ana cook
acain until almost boiling, then turn
into a wet mould. Serve with cream
sweetened and flavored. Farina, or ar
row-root, mav be oookel in the same
manner, omitting the eggs and the sec
ond boiling.
FLAX SEED LEMONADE.
Pour a quart of boiling water on hulf
a cupful of whole flax seed, aaa a dozen
. of raisins, the iuioe of two lemons and
little liquorice root shredded fine,
fjweeteo to taste; let all oonjetqn toil,
then set away in a covered pitcher for
a couple of hours. This is an excellent
remedy for colds and very palatable as
well.
JELLY WATER.
Currant, raspberry, wild chei.. t,
blackberry or oraubeny jelly dissolve V
in a little hot water, then put into ice
water, forms a refreshing drink for per
sons Buffering from fever.
COOOA SHELLS.
Put two tablcspoonfnls of cocoa shells
into a little cold water; add to them a
Eint of boiling water and boil for an
our; strain, and a Id a pint of rich
milk; let it come to a boil, and serve.
This makes a delicious drink, and very
acceptable when coffee and tea are
found to be injurious.
COUGH SYRUP.
Put five cents' worth of pine pitch
into a pint of water. Let it simmer
nntil the water is well impregnated with
the flavor. Dip out the gnm which re
mains undissolved and add honey
enough to sweeten, and make a thick
syrup. Strain this and bottle. Dose, a
teaspoon ful four or nve times a day
a?oording to;-" ""verity oitne cough.
It will pffor J speedy relief.
Taking It Coolly.
Some of many instanoes of extraor
dinary ooolneBS in the midst of danger
and otherwise that have been recorded
are here offered to our readers, together
with some amusing sayings aud doings.
When gallant Fonsonby lay grieviously
wounded on the field of Waterloo he
forgot his own desperate plight while
watchincr an encounter between a couple
of French lancers and one of his own
men, cut off from his troop. As the
Frenchmen came down upon Murphy,
he, using bis sword as if it were a
shulelacch. knocked their lances altern
ately aside again and again. Then sud
denly settiug spurs to his horse, he gal
loped off at full speed, his eager foes
following in hot pursuit, but not quite
neck and neck, wheeling roun 1 at
exactly the right moment the Irishman,
rushing at the foremost fellow, parried
his lance and struck him down. The
second, pressing on to avenge his com
rade, was cut through diagonally by
Murphy's sword, falling to the entta
without a cry or groan; while the victor,
scarcely glancing at his handiwork, trot
ted off whistling " The Grinder."
Towards the close of the fight of
Inkermann, Lord Raglan, returning
from taking leave of Oeneral Strang-
ways, met a sergeant carrying water for
the wounded. The sergeant drew him
self up to salute, when a round shot
came bounding over the hill, and
knocked his forage cap out of his hand.
The man picked it up, dusted it on his
knee, placed it carefully on his head and
made the salute, not a muscle 01 his
countenance moving the while. " A
neat thing that, my man !" said Lord
Raglan. " Yes; my lord," returned the
sergeant, with another salute, " but a
miss is as good as a mile." The com
mander was probably not surprised by
such an exhibition of sang froid, being
himself good that way. lie was badly
hurt at Waterloo, and says the rrince ot
Orange, who was in the hospital, " I
was not aware of the presence of ljord
Fitzroy Somerset until I heard him call
out in his ordinary tone, Hallo i don t
cany that arm away until I have taken
oft my ring 1' Neither wound nor oper
ation had extorted a groan from his
lips."
The Indian prides himself upon taking
good or ill in the quietest of ways, and
from a tale told in Mr. Marshall's
"Canadian Dominion," his civilized
half-brother would seem to be equally
unemotional. Thanks mainly to a cer
tain Metis or half-breed in the service of
the Hudson Bij Company, a Sioux war
rior was found guilty 01 stealing a norse,
and condemned to pay the animal's value
by installments atjone of the company's
forts. On paving the last installment he
received his quittance from the man who
had brought him to justice, and left the
office. A few months later the Sioux
returned, advanced on his noiseless moc
casins within a pace of the writing table
leveled his musket full at the half-breed s
head. Just as the trigger was pulled
the Metis raised the hand with which he
was writing and touched lightly the
muzzle of the gun; the shot passed over
his head, but his hair was singed on in a
broad mass. The smoke clearing away,
the Indian was amazed to see that his
enemy still lived. The other looked
him full in the eyes for an instant and
quietly resumed his writing. The In
dian silently departed unpursed, those
who would have given chase being stop
ped by the half-breed with, " Go back
to your dinner and leave the affair to
me."
When evening came, a few whites,
curious to see how the matter would end,
accompanied the Metis to the aouix en
campment. At a certain distance he
bade them wait, and advanced alone to
the Indian tents. Before one of these
sat crouched the baffled savage, singing
his own death-hymn to the tom-tom. He
complained that he must now say good
bye to wife and child, to the sunlight,
to his gun and the chase. He told his
friends in the spirit-land to expect him
that night, when he would bring them
all the news of their tribe. He swung
his body backwards and forwards as he
chanted his strange song, but never
once looked up not even when his foe
spurned him with his foot. He only
sang on, and awaited his fate, Then the
half-breed bent his head and spat down
on the cronching Sionx, and turned
leisurely away a crueller revenge than
if he had shot him dead. Chambers'
Journal.
Newspapers at the White House.
The Boston Herald's Washington
correspondent says: The white house
is liberally supplied with newspapers,
only a few of which are kept on file.
urant used to have one 01 his secretaries
cut out the leading editorials on political
topics in the New York daily papers, and
occasionally from papers published iu
other cities, which cuttings were handed
to him in a bunch for his personal per
usal late in the afternoon or in the even
ing. Mr. Hayes does not follow this
system; or, rather, he has materially
mouinea it. xt ih me uuij oi uuo ui
the clerks at the white house to take
charge of all the newspapers received
Enough of them to fill a bushel-basket is
received every day. Many 01 them are
unimportant. The newspaper clerk
cuts from most of the influential papers
such editorial and other matter as he
thinks of interest to the President,
which he afterwards pastes in scrap
books, of which a series is kept. The
President, from time to time, runs over
these scrap-books and sees what the
newspapers of the country are saying
about him and his administration. Mrs.
Hayes takes a number of religious
weeklies, mostly of the Methodist de
nomination, and these, with an illus
trated paper, and copies of daily papers,
containing matters of special interest to
the family of the white house are usually
to be !ouq4 eoattered over the library
tables.
African Witchcraft and Cannibalism.
Paul Du Chaillu. the well known
African explorer, tells the following
about witchcraft and cannibalism in
Africa The great curse of that country
is its superstitions, and it is very hard
to get at the bottom facts about their
religious belief. They have two names
which represent our ideas of God and of
Satan. The latter is the source of all
evil and witohcraft. When a person is
Bick he is bewitched by Borne one,, and
like sorcerer or Borceress has to be killed.
The doctors point them out. and they
have to swallow poison to prove their
innocence. This poison is the root of a
tree called bundo, belonging to the
Btrychnine order, but these doctors take
it and do not die. Here, if a man sees
the new moon over his right shoulder,
or his left, it is lucky or unlucky 5 but
there it is unlucKy if he sees tue new
moon at all, and on the day of the new
moon nobody dare go out of his nut.
The queen of witchcraft lives in the moon,
nnd the people of the world are the in
sects on which witchcraft feeds, and
when witchcraft is very hungiy she
sends the plague and kills more people.
Those who have any connection with the
spirit in the moon are women, and must
be iu a trance. The people are hoLest
in their beliefs, but of course tuere is
ingglerv among them. Among many
tubes cannibalism exists, but 1 think it
is a sort of religious feast, as they do
not kill people purposely except pris
oners of war. As among the Indians,
they have no mercy on those taken in
war. I made inquiries about this can
nibalism ; I wanted to know which were
best eating, women or men. They all
agreed that the women were best. Their
war dance is perfectly terrible. They
cover themselves all over with war paint
and with clay that has been saturated
with the decayed flesh and brains from
the heads of their dead warriors, which
they always keep in a particular house
in 'every ' village. Then they have a
dince. and when morning comes each
man cuts his hand in several places and
lets the blood flow into a large wooden
dish, and they rub themselves with that
blood and then go to war.
Oswego's Romance.
The Oswego (N. Y.) Palladium gives
the following pleasant- little story, in
which Oswego, Franklin and Jefferson
counties have a share: Memoiies differ
on the point, but it w?s either twenty or
twenty-five years ago that Mr. George
Adams, a rising young lawyer of Molone
and a widower, was married o Miss
Tre.idway of this city. Miss Treadwoy
was at the i; time a handsome woman of
perhaps twenty-five, and Mr. Adams was
an imposing-looking man, some ten years
his wife's senior. The'r tempers were
incompatible, and after a couple of years
of married life tbey were divorced, Mrs.
Adams coming Done to her father's
house and Adams continuing his law
business at Molone. A few years after
this Mr. Adams went into t-.o Eastern
States and married a lrc!y named Jones,
who, we understand, has relatives living
near New Haven, in this county. This
maniage was without issue, and about
two years ago Mia. Adams No. 3 died,
About this time Mr. Adams had risen to
the prominence of a judge, and was
working gradually up. Three months
ago Mrs. Adams receive 1 a letter from
bar former husband, tue purport of
which can be surmised only ; but a cor
respondence was begun between them,
and day before yesterday Mrs. Adams
accompanied by a coup'e o' lady friends
fron here, met Mr. Adams in Mansville,
at the residence of a sister of his first
wife, where the Jong-separated couple
tA.a nnm'n istinf ir li A ll mi (I r9 TPOll
lock, which is hoped no man can again
put asu&uer. lur. auuiuh uub twu
daughters by his wife living, one of
whom is married end resides at Sandy
Creek. All's well th?t ends well.
Frnit as Medicine.
A London paper remarks upon the
great number of oranges eaten by the
Spaniards, it being no uncommon thing
for tho children of a family to consume
ten or a dozen oranges before preaKiasr,
which is some hours later than in our
hurrying nation. Such wholesale con
sumption of what we look upon as a
luxury appears to have no ill effect.
The testimony of a late eminent phy
sician authorizes the use of f rait as most
wholesome immediately upon waking
in the morning; he, in fact, prescribed
such a regimen to a friend as the only
invigorating and permanent cure for
indigestion, facetiously remarking that
he gave her a piece of advice, which, if
it were known to his dyspeptic patients,
would cost him his practice, as they
might prefer so simple a remedy to his
professional visits.
Innlu r rinA In Vlrl.m Mllvrr.
" A word titlv srjoken is like armies of cold in
pictures of silver." When the body becomes
diseased, the mind is thereby necessarily in
fluenced. National wars, state aisaensions,
: V ; l , :i A.m
are more frequently than otherwise the result
of diseased and disordered constitutions. When
the body is suffering, the mind, acting in
avmnathv. will become irritated and permexed.
Whoa the physical system is in health, the
mind perceives things in their true light, and
the disposition assumes a very different phase.
isothius more directiv tends to oestroy tne
happy, cheerful disposition of a woman, and
render her peevish, nervous and fretful, than
constant endurance 01 uterine disorders.
The diseases peculiar to woman take away the
elasticity and buoyancy of health and reduoe
her body and mind to a mere wreoK. ur.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription is a real peace
maker in a familv. Mo woman suffering from
uterine disorders can afford to be without this
remedy. The Favorite Prescription saves un
necessary doo'or DUis. prevents divorces,
wards off suicides, brings back buoyant joyous
fealincrB. restores tne woman to neaun. and
her family to happiness. It is sold by all
druggists.
from It. Fellows, M. !., of Hill, N. H.
Although I have generally a treat objection
to patent medicines, I can but say in justioe to
Dr. Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry, that it is
a remedy of superior value for pulmonary dis
eases. 1 nave made use or tins preparation lor
Beveral years and it has proved to be very
reliable and efficacious in the treatment of
severe and long-standing coughs. I know of
nna at ient. now in comfortable health, who
has taken this remedy, and who but for its
use, I consider, would not now be uving.
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generally.
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Good Advice. We advise every fanner or
stuck raiser to invest in Sheridan's Cavalry
Condition Powders, and feed them out to then
herds this winter. Depend upon it, it will pay
big interest
it 1. im Pirm.tlv KntAnitl.1.
Then.' nothing like it" " Never oould
nse baking powder till i tried yours." " Can t
speak too highly of it" That's what they say
of Dooley a Xeast Powder.
' niann It is a dangerous thine to
neglect a eough or cold, or any difficulty oikUie
throat or lungs. Lose not a moment in getr
ting a bottle of Johnson a Anodyne Immanent.
xou oan reiy upon 11 hi cure yuu.
Patentees and inventors should read adver-
tABe.me.nt of Edaon ros, V toother column.
THE SHADOW OF FATE.
BV JVnOK JARV1S.
A rider was threading hli war over a road
which lay along the bills at the bam of tbe
Bine Ridge Mountains, in the region known as
tbe riedmont of Virginia, about the sources of
the Rappahannock river.
The man himself might be described In the
tame language, as far m It wonld apply. Be
yond this bis age was about twenty-three, his
hair brown and fall hi lock, his eye of a grayish
bine.
His way quickly brought the traveler to a
Stream now running over its banks. Slipping
easily from his saddle, he tightened tbe girths,
slackened the cropper, and, gently patting his
animal, addressed a few affectionate words to
him. Remounting, he fixed himself firmly tn
tbe saddle, gathered his bridle In a manner to
impart to his companion his own energy and
determination, and moved into the oreek.
Turning up the stream, he proceeded for
about a hundred yards along the bank, and
then struck boldly across In a direct line, with
tne norse s bead slanted up current The depth
of the water did not sensibly Increase in the
course of eighty yards, and the stranger was
congratulating himself upon the probability of
getting over without a wetting, when the ani
mal in two steps increased tho depth nntil he
oould no longer hold bis footing, and sprung
boldly into the middle of a deep, rushing
channel. In an instant the rider had seized
the mane of tho horse in his lert hand, and
slipped smoothly out of the saddle to the lower
side, where he floated along.
Man and beast battled bravely with the flood
for a moment, when the former was startled to
feel the horse flinch and turn wi'h a terriflo
snort down the ourrent. A quick jerk upon the
left rein served to procure but an instant's
pause in the. precipitate course of the beast,
but in that instant the stranger beoame aware
of another presence by the touch of a slimy
Object against his hand.
Raising his head above the neck of the
charger, bo saw dimly outlined upon the wav
ing and shimmering surface a dark and unde
finable object. The next moment the desper
ate plunges of the beast bad obstructed his
vision, when, with the self command of one
accustomed and nerved to the hardship of
athletio sports aud a soldier's dangor, be
swung his leg over the back of the animal and
gathered himself up in the saddle.
Reaching out a hand, he was about to seize
the object of his horror, when it exposed the
ghastly features of a woman.
For an instant only he hesitated; then, re
covering from the thrill, he grasped the head
firmly by the loose, flowing, tingled mass of
raven tresses, and raised it above water on the
pommol of his saddle.
Turning hid head again up stream, he re
newed the oombat with the tide. Twice it
Beemed as though man, woman aud beaut
must all succumb, and twice the noble struggles
of the animal cheated the turgid grave of its
victims.
Finally, the hoofs once more crunched the
firm bottom of the stream, and ton paces
brought the party safely to tbe shore.
Feeling the forehead, he found it cold: tlte
hands were also chilled, but he thought he felt
a Blight flutter of the pulse. Tearing open the
dress, he pressed his hand against the heart
and found it still warm.
His effortB to resuscitate ber were soon re
warded, and, after a few moments, the woman
made an attempt to speak, which resulted,
however, only in a moaning cry.
At this point he began to look for other
assistance, when be observed a light upon tbe
bill above the creek. Once more raising the
body to the pommel of the saddle and mount
ing behind if, he sought the road.
One stepped around to receive tho wonmn.
and another entered the house to procure the
stimulant ' ,
" What's this ?" said the one wno was assist-
HtffiJSSXn
Thev lifted the motionless but reviving form
Into the house, and deposited it upon a sofa.
The stimulant was soon orougni, ana, upuu
small Dortion of it being administered, the
woman indicated an increased vitality by a
broken gurgle. This, after a while, gave way
to elearer articulation, in which, however, only
syllables were omitted. These were-in turn
succeeded by one or two sharp; cries of pain,
which gradually subsided into a moaning obat
ter of wailing, incoherent sentences.
At this point tne stranger, iu rauuig uu
hand to her head to brush the tangled hair
from her brow, noticed a dot of blood upon
the wet skin of bis finger ; rubbing it off, he
found no trace of a wound.
"She mutt be bleeding 1" lie ejaculated
see if there is a out anywhere."
An examination Boon revealed a ghastly
wound, an ugly, gaping abraBion upon the
left side of the head, aoova tne ear, and jusi
behind the temple. The locks were matted
over it, aud the blood still oozed Blowly from
its mouth.
Pending the arrival of a doctor, tho stranger
clipped tbe hair from around the wound, and,
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gave tbe patient over to tbe charge of the
ladies of tho house who were in attendance.
I nreanme von are the host sir." said he.
at once, addressing tbe elder of the two. "If
vnn will be kind enoiiL'h to let me have a bed.
until I can get rest for an hour or so and dry
my clnt hmu. 1 anail resume my journey uuuur
great obligation to you. Matters of importance
urge me to lose no time, and I shall only de
lay until my horse can recruit for the balance
of my ride. In fact, but for the incident of
finriincr tiiA nnTonunaie i&uv iu uw ureeo. &
should have continued on the road without
snnnnltinir my comfort SO far."
will you tell me now you uappeucu upuu
the adveu'ure, and now you acuuum iur iua
lndv'a wnnnri and rjresent condition?"
The traveler gave a brief aooount of the
events, without, however, throwing any light
nnnn hm nwn identity or business.
" May I ask your name, Bir ?" inquired the
host, whom we will introduce to the reader as
Mr. Thornton, or Squire Thornton, as he was
dubbed by his neighbors in honor of his being
a justice or tne peaoe.
T hAor nardon for the misconstruction.
My name is Qaspard Durer, a short while sinoe
a soldier in the French service. Do you see
iivttiimr in my aocearance or anything else
about this case which justifies you in interro- 1
gating me officially t -
" Until one who is found with a body that
has been murdered or dangerously assaulted
v, uvmnnted satisfactorily for his presence
there, there is a legal suspicion nxea upon
him.
.1
If I must be detained to aatiHiy the law, I
yield to the annoyance with as little iinpatlenoe
1 1 1 I . . I . .. A ll.A lfLOf I...
ciaeH hia dutiea bo courteously."
A ti nr a few more remarks were paaaea. tue
v,Aa hia mn F.ri.lin nnndllct the eeutla-
man to his room and aoe him well provided for
theniRht it L
Aftar tne traveler naa leu. iua vaKr&ut nut
lingered. Shifting his hat reatlesaly but me
chauxally, he seemed to resume a conversation
vhich had probably been interrupted by the
stranger exit irom tne gtame.
'Paara to me now u expression wmca
indicated the result of some mighty reflection
for hia calibre " 'Fears to me as be ain't tellinsr
the truth. He am t named Uasper Deray, be
cause he'd a said so fust, 'Fears to me he
looks like old Baoul Dupuy, and Uaston afore
him; and, if 1 am t mistaken, ne s oeen ut these
parts afore.
" I have been looking at her, but 'pears to
me I never seen her afore leastways, she don't
come from about here."
The resemblance of Durer to the Dupuys ia
striking, and I thought at first he was the son
of Gaston, who has been absent so long. What
think you my son ?"
Oan't say, father, but his resemblance to
Mr. Dupuy at the manor would be noticed by
any one."
"FerhaDS." suggested the vagrant, "he's a
son of Dupuy himself, if half they bring from
furrln parts is o'reot y 'pears to me he must
have more'n one."
" And your friend Baoul ain't too good for a
fraud or a lie," chirped tbe vagrant.
" We will dispense with your comments on
the cbarftoto, of my friend," retorted the.
moire,
"No offence, sqnlre.bnt 'spense or no 'spouse,
I knows tbe laws, and alien take ear to hay
proof afore I says a libel on any man."
" What do you know of Baoul Dttpuy, villain,
that you dare maintain suoh a thing concern
ing his oharaoter, which is polluted by your
mention of It ?"
"Nevermind what I know, sqnlre, to long
as I ain't said it," answered the tramp,
" What Is your opinion, doctor?" asked the
squire.
" It is rather early to ask an opinion abont
the patient squire. The skull is fractured, and
it may be necessary to trepan It, it any portion
is bearing on the brain."
"Do you think the blow will permanently
affect her brain, or that she will be sound In
mind should she recover ?"
"If the pressure of the bona upon the brain
be removed, she will doubtless recover her
senses. But until she is completely well again,
and even after, no risk must be taken in the
case. Absence of exoitement or noise is indis
pensable, as the slightest mental shook might
make her a raving maniac Blows upon that
region of the head have been known to deprive
persons of the power of speech, and if she ia
not kept perfectly quiet she may recover only
to linger out a dumb existence"
After breakfast a servant whom the squire
had dispatched across the oreek upon his first
arising, returned with the information that Mr.
Taylor the goutloman whom the stranger had
left at his gate on the road would be over
immediately after breakfast '
Upon the arrival of Mr. Taylor, he and the
quire rotired for a consultation, to whioh they
after awhile called Randy, the vagrant They
then returned to the traveler, and, after hear
ing his aooount once more, and comparing the
time of his leaving Mr. Taylor with that of his
arrival at the squire's, they proceeded to the
creek in company. .
Upon their arrival the squire addressed the
traveler t
" I have taken counsel with Mr. Taylor
touching this case, whioh seems a deep mys
tery, after all the information we have been so
far able to gather ; the lady seems unknown
even to Bandy, who visits every house in this
and the adjoining counties, and you are equal
ly a Btranger to us, I consider, however, that
yon have been fully discharged from any con
nection with the affair. We must first attempt
to gather something from the lady herself.
At this point the doctor came out of the sick
room. He stated that the lady had greatly im
proved during the night, and that the wound
was, in all probability, not serious ; the lady
bad even recovered, in a measure, the oontrol
of her mental faculties and language, though
she was not fully conscious or coherent as yet.
The squire; Mr. Taylor, the traveler and the
doctor together proceeded to the bedside of
the unfortunate woman, the stranger being
assured of his release by the words of the
squire first ordering a servant to bring his
horse to the door before leaving tbe piazz .
Upon reaching the bed the woman opened
her eyes, and, seeing the kind, manly faces of
the squire aud Mr. Taylor, she faintly smiled,
and ran her eyes over the rest of the group.
She passed the doctor wituout any variance
of expression, and then rested them upon the
face of the stranger.
The eyes becames set In a horrible stare, the
light forsook them, the pupils dilated ; she
raised herself to a sitting posture by a convul
sive movement of the arms ; then, orouohing
to her knees and throwing herself wildly down
on her face, she shrieked out with a curdling
moan i
" Oh, oh, Dupuy ! don't, don't I" and con
sciousness once more left her.
Despite bis self-command, the traveler paled.
He at once retired with the gentlemen, how
ever, to the piazza. Nothing had passed be
tween the group until the doctor broke a pain
ful constraint whioh had fallen upon aU.
" Gentlemen," said he, "the worst mishap
that could befall this unfortunate lady has just
occurred through her having seen this gentle
man, Mr. Durer. She is a raving maniac She
may die, she may recover after a lingering
illness ; but, in any event, she will be fortu
nate if she ever recovers her reason. Darkness
has settled upon her brain for a long night,
which mav never be followed by the dawn."
"To what, doctor," asked the squire, "do.
you atinouie ner shock t
"She was evidently stricken with horror at
the sight of Mr. Durer, whom, from my
knowledge of the laws of the human brain,
she has in some way associated with the vio
lence which has been done her, to her great
terror.
There wat a pause, a painful lull.
xueu mu squire spuse to isurer.
"Tueoase. sir. has taken a new turn. Ton
will not be surprised that t cono'.ude it my duty
to commit you, to await lurtner developments
iu tne matter. .
Upon the last - syllable he strode from the
.
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servant wno noius uis mt with imperial disdain,
and turns his horse at the gate.
The animal dears it with the activity and fire
of his master, gathers himself on he other
Bide, aud before the squire can recover from
the stupor or amazement, is off like the wind,
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sooosss, many hare been offered ; some are most dancer
one, sanslnc piles, etc. ' ' '
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