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p. BOHWEIER,
THE OON8TITDTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor &nd Ioprtotor.
VOlT XLV.
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. SEl'TEMBER 2. 1891.
NO. 37.
THE COOb OLD WAY.
From the Brooklyn Kaele.
... m nice young fellow
t.,j5 .i nu-e w;uii lady,
Hi mt s good .n he;
Pl 1 'i r cwmvd ..no day to mef
K 'of o-urf.0. tlio lell hi We
lMi-odolJ-ay-
o,firi l" should not got her,
. EX .ho was In conniption fits
r J fear h d M,,t- ,,K,i
,f, wh th!.. ti. nble did noi last.
I VinrfaUIS'l s-'v:
IM "ki married Brm and fast,
lhe gooJ 'd
Thf0 were to.1 watching.
V ttil"t P-ri 'eo,
inJMf. CniM.iy .lolling,
.hat wa-sconiln; next:
K.ieWklrtJ,,,""'"lJ' Jy. ,
Xtfj rnd ten children, yea, they did.
The? li'd ho! I"1'! each other,
Mtlioyi'isree.t before s .
. ,l v. i;.l l.levli.g came to the
in basket and lu store i
them.
Ther knew eno.ich to save a com
lilt for a r.i:ny dav:
tij n;icolul!v through life they
lie go.4 o'.d way.
went.
ine? Mvod lnnu. uoful Christian lives,
In'ail "d h..net prirto,
Tilo d Time Kinged thorn with hla scythe.
And thon, ofco.ir e. they died :
They hid ijreat, splendid funerals.
I I.e best worrls folks could say ;
Tr.m side by s de we burled them.
ine good old '
XhH is nnE ftnf! s.'rmon too,
tnd true nieinoital rhyne;
Ami folks who live sout and true
re b-ed. a'l 'he time :
A Tplcud'd loving, useful life,
-u.-b :vw.vs find It pay,
H'howlk like these., n.y kith and kin,
'Ihe good oul way.
Their grave" are green, they may be seen,
Ttielr monimviits 1 s,-e:
And memory kivos ttiem back again.
For ll tlflr iove to me;
Lute rules the m.rid with power and might,
L,.ve i$uules us home to stay.
And heaven shines liright to kindly light
T;. g-H'd old way.
THE BINI'LE OF LETTH11S.
FBoM THE HfNHAIilAjr OK MOniTZ JOKAU
One of the celebrated medical prac
titioners if I'esth. lr. K , was one
BorumK, at on early hour, obliged to
receive a very pressing visitor. The
ma, who was waiting in the ante-room
tent in word by the footman that all
delay woul 1 be dangerous to him; he
bad, theref. re, to be received immedi
ately. The doctor hastily wrapped a dress
ing gown nb. .nt him, and directed the
patient to be admitted to him.
Be found himself in the presence of
I man who was a complete stranger to
hini, 'jut who appeared to belong to the
best society, judging from his manners.
On his pule face could be discerned
traces ot (.rent moral suffering. He
carried his right hand in a sling, and,
thongh he tried to restrain himself, he
now and then could not prevent a
itifled sigh escaping from his lips.
"Yon are Dr. K ?'' he asked in a
low uJ feeble tone of voice.
"Thiit is my name, sir."
"Liviug in the conntjy, I have not
the honor of knowing yon, except by
reptitut .m. Hut I cannot say that I
am delighted to make your acquain
tance, because my visit to yon is not a
very agreeable one."
beeing that the sufferer's legs were
hardly able to sustain him, the doctor
invite J him to be seated.
"I am fatigued. It is a week since I
had anv sleep. Something is the mat
ter with my right hand; I don't know
what it is whether it is a carbnnole or
cancer. At first the pain was slight,
bat now it is a continuons horrible
horning, increasing from day to day.
1 could bear it no longer, so threw my
elf info my carriage and came to yon,
to leg yon to cut ont the affected spot,
for an hour more of this tortnre will
drive tne mad."
The doctor tried to reassure him, by
living that he might be able to enre
the pain with dissolvents and oint
ment, without resorting to the nse of
the history.
'No, no, sir!' cried the patient; "no
plasters or ointments can give me- any
relief. L must have the knife. 1 have
come to you to cut out the place which
cans s me no much sufferiuir."
The doctor asked to see the hand,
which the patient held ont to him,
grinding his teeth, so insutlerable ap
peared to be the pain he was enduring,
nd with all imaginable precaution be
nnwound the baudages in which it was
enVelc iped.
"Above all, doctor, I beg of yon not
to hesitate ou account of anything you
may pee. My disorder is so strange,
that you will be surprised; but do not
let that weijh with you."
Doctor K reassured the stranger.
As a doctor in practice he was UBed to
sec everything, and there was nothing
that could surprise him.
Whut he taw when the hand was
freed from its bandages'stupefied him
nevertheless. Nothing abnormal was
to be seen in it neither wonnd nor
graze; it was a hand like any other.
Bewildered, he let it fall from his
own.
A cry of pain escaped from the
trarger, who raised the afflicted mem
ber with his left hand, showing .the
doctor that he had not come with the
intention of mystifying him, and that
he was really suffering.
"Where is the sensitive spot?"
"Hero, sir," said the stranger, indi
cutinc; on the back of his hand a point
'here two large veins crossed, his
whole frame trembling when the doctor
lightly touched it with the tip of his
finger.
''It is here that the burning pain
makos itself felt?"
"Ahominal ilv!"
"Lo yon feel the pressure when I
Place n.y finptr on it'
The man mmle no replv, but his eyes
tilled with tears, so acute was his suf
fering. "It IS Mi m r ' SI M ' T gnn arm ,sitl.rp
t that place."
-or can I; yet what I feel there is
terrible that nt timea 1 nm almost
driv
n to dash
wall."
j
Ihe doctor examined the spot with a
""Knifyuistia., t,en 8i,ook nia ueaj.
Ihe skiu is fun 0f life; the blood
'ithia it reulutes regularly; there is
neither inflammation nor cancer nnder
"I It IS as l.oltl.n ., t .1...4 . I
here.
,. "vet I think it
there."
is a little redder
"Where?"
r.J-he.8.tranger t ,ok a Pencil from his
Jin. ; ok aud traced on bis band a
nd Mid-01 the Blzeof sixpenny-piece,
lt is there."
w if doctor lof'ked in his face; he
J!f .Zoning to believe that his pa
Bt s mind was unhinged.
few here'" he "and in a
"ydaysrUoure you."
w.uuoi WI"t. Don't think that 1
a madman, a maniac; it is not m
r' way that von m f
tor IV, whlch 1 h ked with
J J tdYt causa me internal torture.
J f F1 come to yon to cut it away?
That I cannot do." sai.i tia ,it.
"Why?"
"Because your hand exhibits no
pathological disorder. I see at the
spot you have indioated nothing more
bujids unu vu my own nana.
"You .really seem to think that I
have gone out of mv HenK. nr o.s i
have como here to mock you," s.id the
Birauger, iaain irom his pocket-book
a bank-note for a thousand florins, and
layug it on the table. "Now sir. yon
see that I am not playing off any child-
ana that the eervloe I seek
vi you is as urgent as it is important.
I beg you to remove this part of my
hand."
"I repeat, sir, that for all the treas
ures in the world you cannot make me
regard as unsound a member that is
perfectly sound, and still less induce
me to out It with my instruments."
"And why not?"
"Becante such an act would cast a
aoubt upon my medical knowledge and
compromise my reputation. Every
body would say that you were mad;
that I was dishonest in taking advnn
tage of your condition, or ignorant in
not perceiving it"
"Very we'l. I will only ask a small
service of yon, then. I am myself
capable of making the incision. I
shall do it rather clumsily with my left
hand; but that does not matter. Be
good enough only to bind up the
wound after the operation."
It was with astonishment that the
doctor saw that this strange man was
speaking seriously. He stripped off
his ooat, turned up the wristbands of
his shir, and took a bistory in his left
hand.
A second later, and the steel had
made a deep incision in the skin.
"Stayl" cried the doctor, who feared
that his patient might through his
awkwardness, sever some important
organ. "Sinco you have detei mined
on the operation, let me perform it."
He took the bistory, and placing iu
his left hand the riht Laud of the
patient, begged him to turn awny his
face, the sight of blood being insup
portable to many persous."
"Quite needless. On the contrary, it
is I who must direct you where to
cut."
In fact be watched the operation to
the end with the greatest coolness, in.li
cat ng the limits of the incisions. The
orjen hand did not even quiver in that
of the doctor, and when the circular
piece was removed, be sighed pro
foundly, like a man experiencing an
enormons relief.
"Nothing burns yon now?"
"All has ceased," paid the stranger,
smiling. "The pain has completely
disappeared, ks if it had been carried
away with the part excised. The little
discomfort which the flowing of blood
causes me, compared with the other
pain, is like a fresh breeze after a blast
from the infernal regions. It does me
a real good to see my blood pouring
forth: let it flow, it does me extreme
good.''
The stranger watched with an ex
pression of delight the blood pouring
from the wound, and the doctor was ob
liged to insist on binding up the hand.
During the bandaging the aspect of
his face completely changed. It no
longer bore a dolorous expression, but
a look full of good humor was turned
upon the doctor. No more contrac
tion of the features, no more despair.
A. taste for life had returned; the brow
was once again calmed; the color found
its way back to the cheeks. The en
tire man exhibited a complete trans
formation. As soon as his baud was laid iu the
sling he warmly wrung the doctor's
hand with with the one that remained
free, and said cordially:
"Accept my sincere thanks. You
have positively cured me. The trifling
remuneration I offer you is not at all
proportioned to the service you have
rendered me: for the rest of my life I
shall search for the means of repaying
my debt to yon.
The doctor would not listen to any
thing of the kind, and refused to ac
cept the thousand florins placed on the
table. On his side the stranger re
fused to take them back, and, observ
ing that the doctor was losing his
temper, begged him to make a present
of the money to some hospital, and
took his departure.
K remained for several days at
his town bouse until the wound in his
natient s hand s! onld be cicatrized,
which it did without the least accident.
During this time the doctor was able
to satisfy himself that he had to do
with a man of extensive knowledge, re
flective, and having very positive opin
ions in regard to the affairs of life.
Besides being rich, he occupied an im
portant official position. Since the
taking away of his invisible pain, no
trace of moral or physical malady was
discoverable in him.
The cure completed, the man re
turned tranquilly to his residence in
the country.
Abont three weeks had passed when,
one morning, at an hour as unduly as
before, the servant again announced
the strange patient
The stranger, whom K hastened
to receive, entered the room with his
right hand in a sling, his features con
vulsed and hardly recognizable from
suffering. Without waiting to be
invited to sit down, he sank into a
chair, and, being unable to master the
torture he was enduring, groaned, and
without uttering a word, held out his
hand to the doctor.
"What has happened?" asked K ,
stupefied.
"We have not cut deep enough," re
plied the stranger, sadly, and in a
fainting voice. -lt burns me more
cruelly than before. I am worn out by
it; my arm is stiffened by it. I did not
wish to trouble you a second time, and
have borne it, hoping that by degrees
the invisible in fbimniation would either
mount to my head or descend to my
heart, and put an end to my miserable
existence; but it has not done so. The
pain never goes beyond the spot, but
it is indescribable! Look at my face,
and you will be able to imagine w hat it
must be!"
The color of the man's skin was that
of wax, and a cold perspiration beaded
his forehead. The doctor unbound the
bandaged hand. 'Ihe point operated
on was well healed; a new skin had
formed, and nothing extraordinary was
to be seen. The sufferer's pulse beat
qnickly, without feverishness, while
yet he trembled in every limb.
"This really smacks of the marvel
lous!" exclaimed the doctor, more and
more astonished. "I have neve before
seen such a case."
"It is a prodigy, a horrible prodigy,
doctor. Do not try to find a cause for
it but deliver me from this torment
Take your knife and cut deeper and
wider: only that oan relieve me."
The doctor was obliged to give in to
the prayers of his patient fle per
formed the operation once again, cut
ting into the flesh more deeply; and,
onoe more, he saw in the sufferer's face
the expression of astonishing relief, the
curiosity at seeing the blood flow from
the wound, which he had observed on
the first occasion.
When the hand was dressed, the dead
ly pallor passed from the face, the
color returned to the cheeks; but the
patient no more smiled. This time he
thanked th doctor sadly.
"1 thank you, doctor," he said. "The
pain has once more left mo. In a few
days the wound will heal. Do not be
astonished, however, to see me return
before a month has passed."
"Oh! my dear sir, drive this idea
from ycur mind."
The doctor mentioned this strange
case to several of his colleagnes, who
each held a different opinion in regard
to it, wi hont any of them being able
to furnish a plausible explanation of
its nature.
As the end of the month approached,
K awaited with anxiety the reap
pearance of this emgmatio personage.
But the mow h paused and he did not
reappear.
Several weeks more went 1 y. At
length the doctor received a letter from
the sufferer's residence. It was very
closely written, and by the signature
he saw that it had been penned by his
patient's own hand; from whioh he
concluded that the pain had not re
turned, for otherwise it would have
been very diffloult for him to have held
a pen.
These are the contents of the let
ter :
"Dear doctor, I cannot leave either
you or med cal science in doubt in re
gard to the mystery of the strange
malady which will shortly carry me to
the grave.
"1 will here tell you the origin of
this terrible nialadv. For the past
week it has returned the third time,
and I will no longer struggle with it
At this moment I am only able to write
up pmuiug upon ine sensitive spot a
piece of burninr tinder in the form of
a poultice. While the tinder is burn
ing I do not feel the other pain; and
what distress it causes me is a mere
trifle by comparison.
"Six mont hs ago I was still a happy
man I lived on my income without a
care. I was on good terms with every
body, and enjoyed all that is of interest
to a man of rive-aud thirty. I had
married a year before married for
love a young lady, handsome, with a
cultivated miiid, and a heart as good as
any heart could be, who had been a
governess iu the house of a countess, a
neighbor of mine. She was fortune
less, and atta?hed herself to me, not
only from gratitude, but still more
from real childish affection. Six mouths
passed, during which every day ap
peared to be happier than the one
which had gone lefore. If, at times, I
was obliged to go to 1'esth and quit my
own land for a day, my wife had not a
moment's rest She would come two
leagues on the way to meet me. If I
was detained late, she passed a sleep
less night waiting for me; and if by
prayers I succeeded in inducing her
to go and visit her former mistress,
who had not ceased to be extremely
fond of her, no power could keep her
away from her home for more than half
a day; and by her regrets for my ab
sence, she invariably spoiled the good
humor of others. Her tenderness for
me went so far as to make her renounce
dancing, so as not to be obliged to give
her hand to strangers, and nothing
more displeased her than gallantries
addressed to her. In a word, I had for
my wife an innocent girl, who thought
of nothing but me, and who confessed
to me her dreams as enormous crimes,
if they were not of me.
"I know not what demon one day
whispered in my ear: Suppose that all
this were dissimulation? Men are mad
enongh to seek torments in the midst
of their greatest happiness.
"My wife had a work-table, the
drawer of which she carefully locked.
1 had noticed this several times. She
never forgot the key, and never left
the drawer open.
"that question haunted my mind.
What could she be hiding there? I
had become mad. I no longer believed
either in the innocence of her face or
the purity of her looks, nor in her
caresses, nor in her kisses. What if all
that were hypocrisy?
"One morning the countess came
anew to invite her to her house, and.
after much pre slug, succeeded in in
ducing her to go and spend the day
with her. Our estates were some
leagues from each other.and I promised
to join my wife in the course of a few
hours.
"As soon as the carriage had quitted
the courtyard, 1 collected all the keys
in the house and tried them on the
lock of the little drawer. One of them
opened it. I felt like a man commit
ting his first crime. I was a thief about
to surprise the secrets of my poor wife.
My hands trembled as I carefully pull
ed out the drawer, and, one by one,
turned over the objects within it, so
that no derangement of them might be
tray the fact of a ttrange hind having
disturbed them. My bosom was op
pressed; I was almost stifled. Suddenly
nnder some lace I put my hand up
on a packet of letters. It was as if a
ll sh of lightning had passed through
me from my head to my heart Oh!
they were Ihe sort of letters one recog
nizes a a glance love letters!
"The packet was tied with a rose
colored ribbon, edged with sil er.
"As I touched that ribbon this
thought came into my mind: Is it con
ceivable? is this the work of an honest
man? To steal the secrets of his wife!
secrets belonging to the time when
she was a young girl. Have I any
right to exact from her a reckoning
for thoughts she may have had before
she belonged to me? Have I any
right to be jealous of a time when
I was unknown to her? Who could
6iispoct ber of a fault? Who? I
am guilty for having suspected her.
The demon agaia whispered in my
cars: 'But what if these letters date
from a time when you already had a
right to know all her thoughts, when
you miyht already be jealous of her
dreams, when she was already yours?
1 unfastened the ribbon. Nobody saw
me. There was not even a mirror to
make me blush for myself. 1 opened
one letter, then another, and I read
them to the end.
"Oh, it was a terrrible hour for me!
"What was there in these letters?
The vilest treason of which a man has
ever been the victim. The writer of
these letters was one of my intimate
friends! And the tone in which they
were written! what passion, what love,
certain of being returned! How he
spoke of 'keeping the secret!' And all
these letters dated at a time when I was
married and so happy I How can I tell
you what I felt? Imagine the intoxi
cation caused by a mortal poison. 1
read all those letters every one. Then
I put them up again in a packet retied
them with the ribbon, and, replacing
them nnder the lace, relocked the
drawer.
"I knew that if she did not see me
by noon she would return In the eve
ning from her visit to the countess aa
She descended from the!
riedly, to rush toward me
caleche hurriedlv.
, as i stood awaiting her on the steps.
She kis ed me with excessive tender
ness, and appeared extremely happy
to be once again with me. 1 allowed
nothing of what was passing within me
to appear in my face. We conversed,
we supped together, and each retired
to our bed-rooms. 1 did not close an
; eye. Broad awake, I counted all the
hours. W ben the clock struck the first
quarter after midnight, 1 rose and en
tered her room. The beautiful far
head was there pressed into the white
pillows as angels are painted in the
midst of snowy clouds. What a fright
ful lie of nature's is vice under an as
pect so innocent' I was resolved, wiih
the headlong wilfulness of a madman,
haunted by a fixed idea. The poison
had completely oorroded my souL J
resolved to kill her as she lay.
"I pass over the details of the crime.
She died without offering the least re
sistance, as tranquilly as one goes to
sleep. She was never irritated against
me even when I killed her. One
s.ngle drop of blood fell on my hand
you know where. I did not perceive
it until the next day, when it was dry.
"We buried her without anybody
suspecting the truth. I lived in soli
tude. Who could have controlled my
actions? She had neither parent nor
guardian who could have addressed to
me any questions on the subjeot and I
designedly put off sending the custom
ary invitations to the funeral, so that
my friends could not arrive in time.
"On returning from the vault I felt
not the least weight upon my con
science. I had been cruel but she had
deserved it I would not hate her I
would forget her. I scarcely thought
other. Never did a man commit an
assassination with less remorse than I.
"The countess, so often mentioned.
was at the chateau when I returned
there. My measures had been so well
taken that she also had arrived too late
for the interment On seeing me she
appeared greatly agitate.L Terror,
sympathy, sorrow, or, I know not
what, had put so much into her words
that I could not understand what she
was saying to console me.
"Was 1 even listening to her? Had
I any need of consolation? I was not
sad. At last she took me familiarly by
the hand, and, dropping her voice, said
that she was obliged to confide a secret
to me, and that she relied on my honor
as a gentleman not to abase it She
had given my wife a packet of letters
to mind, not having been able tj keep
then in her own house; and these let
ters she now requested me to return to
her. While she was speaking, I several
times felt a shudder run through my
frame. With seeming coolness, how
ever, I questioned her as to the con
tents of the letters. At this interroga
tion the lady started, and replied angri-
" 'Sir, your wife has been more gen
erous than you! When she took charge
of my letters, she did not demand to
know what they contained. She eveu
gave me her promise that she would
never set her eyes on them, and 1 am
convinced that she never read a line of
any one of them. She had a noble
heart, and would have been ashamed to
forfeit the pledge she had given.'
" 'Very well,' I replied 'How shall
I recognize this packet?'
" 'It was tied wit1 a rose-colored
ribbon edged with silver.'
I will go and search for it
"I took my wife's keys, knowing per
fectly well where I should find the
packet; but I pretended to find it with
much difficulty.
" 'Is this it?' I asked the couuteis.
hauding it to her.
" Yes, yea that is it! See! the
knot I myself made has never been
touched."
"I dared not raise my eyes to hers; I
feared lest she should read in them that
I had untied the knot of that packet
and something more.
"I took leave of her abruptly ; she
sprang ihto her carriage and drove
off.
"The drop of blood had disappeared,
the pain was not manifested by any ex
ternal symptom; and yet the spot
marked by the drop burned me as if it
had been bitten by a corrosive poison.
This pain grows from hour to hour. I
sleep sometimes, but 1 never cease to
be conscious of my suffering. I do not
complain to auybody: nobody, indeed,
would believe my story. You have
seen the violence of my torment, and
you know how much the two operations
have relieved me; but concurrently
with the healing of the wound, the pain
returns. It has now attacked me for
the third time, and I have no longer
strength to resist it. In an hour I
shall be dead. One thought consoles
me; it is that she avenged herself here
below. She will perhaps forgive me
above. 1 thank yon for all you have
done for me. May heaven reward
you."
A few days later one might have read
in the newspapers that S , one of
the richest landowners, had blown out
his brains. Some attributed his sui
cide to sorrow caused by the death ol his
wife; others better informe I, to an in
curable wound. Those who best knew
him said that he had been attacked by
monomania, that his incurable wound
existed only in his imagination.
The man who does all his praying
on his knees, prays very, little.
If thou dost love thy friend well
enough to forego his friendship for
sake of his larger perfecting, make
known to him his faults.
This Lapps have the Bible in their
own tongue, and few stories are more
interesting than the acconnt of its
translation. Over thirty years ago a
series of religions riots took place in a
number of villages in Lapland, and
among the rioters was one Lars Haetta.
During the riots several homicides oc
curred and Lars and some other of his
companions were committed to prison
on a charge of murder. They were
found guilty and several were hanged,
bnt in consideration of his youth
Haetta was condemned to life-long
imprisonment Commiserating his con
dition, his keepers and the prison chaj
lain extended to him such favors as could
safely be granted to a life-long prisoner,
and finding them rewarded by good
conduct took especial pains to teach
him to read and write. Lars became
interested in the Bible, grew day by
day more fond of reading it, and finally
formed the bold project of translating
it into his native tongue. Through
many weary years the labor went on,
for Lars was no great scholar, and the
Lapp language, as may be readily sup
posed, is not fluent literary medium
of thought Bnt finally the work was
done, the Bible translated and printed
in the language of Lapland and the
remainder of Haetta's sentence was
commuted. He was living aa late as
1870, and though aa old man, was still
active, and often served parties of trav-'
she did.
A (V f A Ti AffWAPPTT
" MUiNAKLil.
K1XU OTTO'S MELANCHOLY LIKE
OK 1XSAX1TY
Eaqatreg a Sew Suit of Clothes Every
Day
One of the saddest spectacles which
it is possible to conceive is that pre
sented by the prisoner of Furstenried,
the umd King of Bavaria. Tall aud
iliuost as gigantic in stature as his
brother, the late King Ludwig, his ap
pearance is sufficient to startle any
one who sees him for the first time.
His hair is long and unkempt, and his
bushy brown beard reaches down be
low his waist. There is a kind of
areird, wild look iu his eyes, the gaze
)f which remains steadfastly fixed
itraight ahead into empty space. The
nly person who can succeed in bring
ing a gleam of intelligence to his face
s the iixty-year-old Madame Marie,
ho was his nurse when a child and
a ho has now become one of the prin
:ipal members of his household.
She is the only one who is permitted
x speak to him, everybody else being
mder strict orders not to address a
tingle word to him or to take the
(lightest notice of him when he walks
ibout the park. He is invariably
lresscd in b.a.k broadcloth, and re
pjires c uew suit almost everyday,
for owing to his strange objection to
he use of either pocket handkerchiefs
r table' napkins, his coat-sleeves and
:oat-tail8 have to do service for both.
For hours he will stand, gesticulate
.vildly and talk to the imaginary per
lonage created by his fantasy, aud
:hen again for several days together
le will Remain in such a state of
ethai-gjt and lifelessncss that his phy
dcianslecome afraid that he will pass
vay .without eveu their becoming
iwareoflt. All day long, except
when overcome by one of his bi-week-iy
or tri-weekly tits of apathy, he will
puff away at cigarettes, of w hich he
iuiokes almost a hundred a day. His
:ousuuiption of matches is still greater,
for whenever he lights a fresh cigar
ette he delights iu burning up the en
ure box of lucifers and iu seeing the
whole bundle blaze up at once.
Two physicians, Drs. Suell aud
rtaiike, spend. In turn, a week at the
Palace; They have supreme control of
Ihe entire establishment, and not a
thingj. done either by the aidea-de-:amp,
the orderlies or the servants
without the sanction of the physician
for the week. Every Sunday the
Royal patiei.t is visited by Dr. Grashey,
he director of the principal insane
isvluui of the Kingdom, who confers
tvith both the physicians and takes
.-artful note of their reports.
At diuner King Otto when he con
sents to appear at table takes his seat
it one end of the table. A round the
)ther end are seated the doctor, the
lides-de-cainp aud the chaiubeilains
ill the little court, in fact. King Otto, '
however, never takes the smallest no
:ice of their presence, but preserves a
sullen silence, which he only breaks
from time to tiuie to shout for cham
pagne, of which, as also of beer, he
Absorbs large quantities.
He uses his knife and fork in a per
fectly normal manner, and sometimes
ippears to be able to appreciate and
iiijoy what he is eating. The apart
ments which he inhabits are all situ
ated on the ground floor, and are
magnificently furnished, and the strict
est orders prevail to the effect that al'
doors should be left wide open
throughout the day.
If King Otto happens by any chance
to come across a closed door he imme
diately fulls into a kind of epileptic
and maniac fury, and seeks to dash it
down with his still powerful fists. It
is, moreover, impossible to induce him
to permit himself to be bathed, and he
displays almost a hydrophobic antipa
thy for water. He likewise absolutely
refuses to enter any carriage, and dis
plays signs of terror whenever any ef
forts are made to induce him to enter
one for the purpose of taking a drive.
It is impossible to predict how much
longer he may live, lie may drag on
his present miserable existence for
years; while on the other hand, it is
likely that the failure of the natural
functions of the body may bring on a
malady which will carry him off in a
few days. As his madness is of an alto
gether incurable nature, bis death can
jnly be regarded in the light of a happy
release.
From a Tnlpit to a amhling House.
"Speaking of the mysterious disap
pearances," said Captain Nelson, the
racing man, ut the Girard House last
night, "a case of that kind tore up
Savannah society a few years ago.
Due of the most popular clergymen
n the city kissed his wife and chil
lren after supper one evening and
eft his house to go to a sen-ice at his
:hurch. He never appeared at the
:hurch, and was never seen in Savan
luh again. Detectives were employed
o search for him and a large amount
if money was expended on the iuves
igation but all to no avail, and with
n six months the conclusion was
eached that he had either committed
uiciji; or hud been ' murdered
ear or so later a
young physician 1
'rout Savanuuh who had been an at- j
euduntupon this clergyman's ministra
j ion, was iu Paris and was making tha
rounds of the city with some friends.
They went into one of the swell gam
bling houses, and had not been there
Jiany minutes before a man entered
nhoiu the Savannah doctor iinmedi
itely recognized as the fugitive
preacher. The physician accosted him
jy name, whereupon the ex-clergy-uaii
drew him into a corner and
legged him to be silent and discreet.
'I am," he said, "one of the proprie
:ors of this house, and I am making
money here. The profession of the
ministry grew utterly abhorrent to me.
( could do nothing but abscond from
he town iu which you knew me. I
rely upon you not to expose me."'
"The facts," continued Capt. Nel
lon, "were told me by a physician,
who is now one of the most eminent
tnd successful members of his piofes
tion in Savannah."
LEUAL DOVTS ABOUT WILLS.
Don't leave anything uncertain in I
will.
Don't uieution people by their nick
names.
Don't try to devise real property t
an alien.
Don't let a person interested in it tx
a witness.
Don't make a will without two wit
uesses; better three.
Don't neglect to declare it to be youi
last will and testament.
Don't make a new will unless yoc
revoke or destroy the old one.
Don't make a will that does not pro
vide for children that may be born.
Don't try to force a wife to accep
certain property instead of a dower.
Don't fail to specify which one if
meant when two bear the same name.
Ikm't neglect to make your witness
es write their full name and addresses
Don't add a codicil unless you exe
cute it in the same way as the original
will.
Don't forget that if a woman youi
marriage will invalidate a will alread)
made.
Don't make a new will without
specifically revoking the prior one anc
physically destroying it.
Don't allow a minor to will awa
personal property, unless eighteen il
male, and sixteen if female.
Don't imagine that the coutents of t
lost will may not be proved by gooc
evidence. Lawyer Lock wood.
Using; Shakespeare's Dust as aa "Ad."
The Vicar of Stratford recently an
nounced from his pulpit that he "doet
not object to his church being com
monly called Shakespeare's Church
nor to receive gifts for it iu honor ol
his immortal memory." Apparently
not. I should say, from ihe following
fly-leaf recently distributed auiong hit
congregation, that, so far from "oh
jecting" to the use of Shakespeare'
name, Mr. Arbuthuot regards the poe
as a veritable gold mine:
SI KATFOKD-OX-A VOX CHURCH.
I'LEASE HEAD THIS IN' THE CHURCH.
The chancel contains the ctust of the great
est poet of the Anglo-Saxon race. We art
anxious to make it more worthy the wonni
ot Uod aud of its Ulualrtou dead. What wi
ii.teud to do :
To repair thoroughly the stall (estimated
cost, 2'H) ; to replace the ancient oak back'
to the heiifbt of the iiidow silla (estimate.'
cost, 3of ; to repave the chancel, substitut
inp, if possible, marble for stone (estimate.!
cost, U2s0 ; to cleanse and repair tbe walla
etc-, (estimated cost, oo I ; to erect a new
Teredos,- Including sculptured figures (eati
muted cost, 1,771) ; to alter and improve tn.
altar rail aud (fas tlttlngs (estimated cost
i.11'3); to readjust the warming apparatu
estimated cost, 1!) ; to repair the parapet
outside, and replace tbe old pinnacle (estl
mated cost, 217).
The estimates have been approved b
Messrs. Boil lev & Garner, who are the arch!
tects for the work, and amount in all t.
3.535. I shall be thankful to hear from anv
body who will undertake any part of thh
scheme, or w ill give substantial help. Jf yoc
cannot do this, will you at least give sixpenct
or a shilling towards its completion by plac
ing it in one of the church boxes r
O. Arbcthxot, Vicar.
Puzzles the Scientists.
It is remarked on the Vienna-Leipsic
telephone line that, while the speakei
at Vienna is heard with remarkable
clearness aud accuracy at Leipsic and
at all points along the route, as at
1 rifue and Dresden, a speaker at
either of these points is heard with
much more ditlicultv at ienna. The
electricians of the company are as yet
unable to furnish a satisfactory ex
planation of this phenomenon. Why
sounds travelling from east to west
should be clear and distinct, while
those travelling in the other direction
arc more or less blurred, is a puzzle.
Through the Mountain.
M. Wautweller, a Swiss engineer,
las applied for a concession for an un
lerground railway up the Jungfrau
Mountain. He proposes to reach the
lummit of the mountain by means of
i tubular tunnel. The Eiffel tower as
i curiosity w ill have to take a second
lace should the scheme be successfully
:arried out.
Liked Toe For Supper.
An Indian boy was wading iu the
Feather River, iu California, near the
liolJen Gate Mine, when a large fish
:arried off the great toe on his left foot.
The little boy wants to die, just because
lis companions will call him "Nine
:oed Jimmy."
A log r .ft compcaed of sixteen cribs,
each sU y feet long, forty feet wide and
wlneteeu itnet deep, Is presently to be
uwaiu iroiuoi. ionn, .ewDlUDllci,
to Brooklyn. Theciibs are to be eich-
ty fret apart, making tu tow about
u i eel long.
1:L;0D0R KAMEXSKY.
LOKIUVS KVKKOLADKS TUB
llOJlE OK A lCl SSIAN AKTIST.
"The First Step" His Greatest and Most
Celebrated Work.
For a number of years and until re
cently there lived in comparative ob
scurity at Clear Water Harbor, Fla., a
sculptor, whose name- Feodor Kainen
sky is well-known in European art
circles, where a score of years ago ho
was a prominent figure, writes a cor
respondent of the Chicago Tribune.
The story of Kamensky's life reads
like a page of romance. He was born
in 1836, near St. Petersburg, Russia,
and is descended from the Russian no
bility. -At the age of thirteen young
Feodor entered the Academy of. Fine
Arts at St. Petersburg, where he re
mained as a student until 1859. In a
competitive exhibition of work done
by the 6tudents he won tbe "grand
prize," which gave him the privilege
of six years of travel and study at th
expense of the Government.
His first original design was the
"Little Sculptor," which was highly
com mended by art critics as strong
and realistic. It represents a rustic
lad iu the simple garb of the peasantry,
absorbed and self-forgetful, while
working intently on his first model.
Alexander II ordered it reproduced in
marble.
His next iuiportont production was
oy him entitled "The Widow." It
was suggested by the sad scenes w hich
attended the suppression of the in
surrection in Poland in 1863. This
subject has been erroneously styled
"A Mother Nursing Her Child." The
widowed mother holding her infant
child and mournfully contemplating it
presents a perfect picture of sorrow,
blended with the most tender love for
her innocent cTiild. The model was
sold to the Imperial Academy of Fine
Arts at St.Petersburg.
But Kamensky's greatest work is en
titled "The First Step." It is grand
both in design and execution. The
story, written iu marble, is a simple
one. A mother, manifesting all the
joy ot one supreme moment, guides,
then watches her child as, with an ex
pression of exultation and half-matured
self-confi.lence it ventures to
take its first step alone. The emotions
of mother and child are delineated iu
a manner that is s.uiply inimitable.
The original of the "First Step"
Tvas bought by Alexander II, and is
now in the art gallery of the Czar'?
Winter Palace.
Referring to an article which ap
peared some mouths ago iu Harper's
Magazine entitled "Russiau Bronzes,"
Kamensky said iu a recent interview
that outside of Russia people iu
general are not well informed iu regard
to what has beeu accomplished by
Russian artists.
"Over forty years ago," said he,
'Baron Klodt, who was born in Si
beria iu 1805, became famous by cre
ating groups iu bronze and particularly
by his life-like representation of
horses. The four colossal bronze
horses which every observing traveler
sees at the bridge of SnietchkotT in St.
Petersburg were modelled by him and
reproduced for the King of 'sVssia, to
whom they were presented by Nich
ihis I."
The story of Kamensky's life in the
diked States is briefly told. He came
to this country in 1870 or a liitir
later. His best model that he brought
with him was broken in ship
ping it. Knowing but little of our
language or customs he failed to ob
tain the recognition here which to
merited. For a number of years he
lived on the frontier in Kansas, and
the beautiful designs in clay that he
made there were the wonder of his rus
tic neighbors.
Being in straightened circumstances
he could give but little time, however,
to his favorite pursuit. After strug
gling for years to secure a home he re
solved to seek a more genial clime.
From Kansas he removed toCleurwater
Harbor, Fla., and with the discerning
eye of an artist selected one of the
most picturesque places in the Statu
for his home.
Kamensky has recently been called
from his humble home in Florida to
resume his work as a sculptor in con
nection with the "American School of
Art" in New York Citv.
Do Something; Well.
I would say to all young girls,
whether rich or poor, educated or un
educated, make some one good thing a
particular point: In your life. If you
will be a cook or housekeeper, be
thoroughly good. Have a general
knowledge of all matters of interest
and importance; but have one particu
lar branch perfect so that, if the time
comes when you must face the world
and carve your own fortune, you will
be able to do that something well. No
matter how homely the duty, its value
is enchanced tenfold by being well
done. It is as creditable to be a thor
ough housewife as to be a good te.icher
or accountant Oood Housekeeping.
Domestic economy consists in doing
without things. It was first practised
by Adam and Eve. Xwtha's Vim
yard Herald.
It takes two to gossip.
News is historical fact.
Time Is tbe rider that bri aks youth.
A fool's money is Ilka hla bra'ns, verj
uneasy.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Russia talks of running the drug
stores.
Uncle Sam has 1,000,000 French
Canadian?.
A machine gums 20,000 envelopes
iu an hour.
Illinois now pays two cents a head
for English sparrows.
Hencefotth Mexico will give no
cash subsidies to railroads.
The popu'atlon of Chicago Is, In
round numbers. 1,'2ihi.0c0.
Tbe coinmifai -ner of taxes in Phila
delphia receives $:0o0 a year.
The beet stiji.ir industry promises
to become prosperous iu California.
It costs the American people about
$1,000,000 a year to stop their teeth.
Illinois still leads the list of pensions
granted, with Indiana a close second.
In New Vork the register receives
$12,0C0. He has a staff of 77 persons.
A tomato weighing twenty-seven
pounds has been raised at Bayou Sara,
La.
The gimlet-pointed ecrew hat pro
duced more wealth than most silver
mines.
Philadelphia claims the largest cold
storage warehouse in the United
States.
A part of No-Man's-Land has be
come part of the territory of New Mexi
co. The San Francisco Board of Health
refuses to admit Chinamen to the city
hospital.
Slnre 18.13 there have beeu 610 sui
cides in France, Germany and Austria
combined.
The very tiuMt brand of Havana
cigars fetches l.0J a thousand in
Paris.
The profits of the Monte Carlo
gambling tables are estimated at $6,000,
000 a year.
Harvest reports in Russia are to
(he effect that there will Le no grain for
export this season.
The total annual bullion production
jf the United States is, In round fig
ures, $luO,O00,l'O0.
In New York the county clerk, who
is also clerk of the supreme court, re
ceives SI 5, 03 a year.
A fur buyer of Lewiston snys that
on au average five hundred bears are
killed yearly in Maine.
For sixty years Dresden in Germany
nas manufactured the gas. used for Its
public aud private lighting
A leer has beeu discovered among
tbe paupers at I.isburn, a flourishing
town lu the North of Ireland.
Cheops, the largest pyramid, re
quired 100,0oo men twenty years to
build, costing $2o0,oo.,0o0.
The oldest surgeon iu the world la
said to be M. W. Salmon of Cambridge,
Eng. He was born lu March, 1790.
Cincinnati claims to have tha tallest
policeman in America in tbe person ot a
mau whose height is 6 feet Of inches.
Henry Tschudi, aged 17 years, It
the first blind person to pa.-s the exam
ination of the American College of
Musicians.
Superstitious Europeans, alarmed
ny floods iu Germany and earthquakes
lu It .ly, say that the end of the world is
coming.
A man named Smith, of Greenville,
Me., cut bis hand while strapping a
razor, and died two weeks later in par
oxysms. The annual product of salt through
out the world is estimated at 7,300,000
tons, the larger share coming from
English works.
The library of the British Museum
lias thiity-two miles of shelves filled
with books, and Is visited annually by
900,000 readers.
Between GO.uOo.OOO.CoO and 103,
0 0, 01 0,000 eo.liis.li are taken from
the sea around the shore of Newfound
laud every year.
New YTork paid over $3,000,000 for
the 800 acres of land where Central
Park has since been created, at an ex
pense of many millions more.
The winter rve yield in Prussia la
estimated to be 70 per cent, of the av
erage, and ot winter wheat 83 percent,
while the potato crop Is uncertain.
Philadelphia lias one coroner, who
irets 0v0 a year, and has the assistance
of a deputy at $-'oO0, two physicians at
$1250, two clerks and two messengers.
The hay reservation at Fort Mc
Derroit, New, comprising six townships
a good part of which is fine, natural
meadow land, has been thrown open for
settlement.
A schooner at Provincetown, Mass.,
has just returned from a twenty months'
mackerel fishing cruise in African wat
eis. She sent home 1000 barrels, and
brlcgs fifty barrels more.
Montana is larger than the Empire
of Turkev. Texas is larger than the
whole Austrian Empire by 30,00.)
square miles, and New Mexico Is larger
than Great Britain and Ireland togeth
er. It has just coma to light that of tha
two coins issued by the Confederacy
dt ring the war one, a penny, was made
in Phil- delphla, and it is believed no
samples of it were got south of Mason
and Dixon's line.
Since 18GG Eve lepers are recorded
by the Bureau of Vital Statistics as
having died from that disease In New
York city. The first occurred in 1S73;
the others one r:ich in the years 1873,
1879, lfcSl aud 1S-U.
Alexander Rankin, the Scotchman
who succeeded dohn Prown ashighlanl
servant to the (viie-n of En eland has ob
tained almost as marked an influence lu
the royal household as Hrown p Blessed.
He is the personal Httendaut of the
Queen on every journey.
Switzerland owes a great deal to
the tourists who visit that land. Last
year the Swiss hotels and boarding
houses d's;osed of t'.'i.OOO beds that
were used by 5.724 f 00 tourist?, who
paid oi'er 71 Coo.OOO francs for their
accommodations.
It is said that chocolate is ud in the
Interior of South America for a curren
cy, as are cocoanuts and eggs. Norway
even now uses corn for coin. In India
cakes of tea pass as currency, and la
China pieces of silk.
A man named Hutch, living In Fan
cy Bofom, near Weston, Mo., stole a
wagon load of corn from Mrs. Mary
Bland, a widow, and starUd to town
with it, but got Muck in the mu1 before
he was a mile away, and bad to al-an-d-
n the corn and wagon, both of which,
are now In the possession of the wldo