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VOL. XII.
NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA., TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 187H.
NO. 13.
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AN ABORIGINAL CHANT.
What time the glittering raye of mora
O'er bill and valley steal,
Chief Joseph's squaw, with dog and com,
Prepares the Indian meal.
And if, with wild, rebellions shout,
The pappoose shall appear,
The chieftain leads the bad child out,
Clutched by the Injin ear.
The breakfast o'er, the daughter strolls
Down glen and shady dell ;
While gay young braves, from wooded knolls
" Look out for the Injin belle !"
Each stricken brave she turns and leaves
Her coyness to bewail ;
Her dragging blanket stirs the leaves
The well-known Indian trail.
A Black Hills miner, scalped and dead,
Upon the ground is found ;
Grim speaks the child i "There's been, I'm
afraid,
An Indian summer's 'round."
What time he rideth forth to shoot,
His favorite horse the dapple is ;
And, when he wants a little fruit,
Goes where the Indianapolis.
When finished are his warlike tasks,
With brazen Incongruity
For overcoats and food he asks,
With charming Indianulty.
At night, before his bed he'll seek,
With countenance forlorn,
He takes hi scalping-knife, and eke
Be trims the Indian corn.
Written for The RlooniHela Times.
MY MYSTERIOUS PATIENT.
ONE evening while myself and several
old friends were seated in Dr.
Blank's office, telling stories of our past
lives, one suggested that the doctor tell
us some of the curious Incidents that
must have corns to his knowledge dur
ing his long practice, in such a city as
New York. He finally consented, and
said he would tell us about his mysteri
ous patient as he had named him. I will
tell the story as near as possible, in his
-own words :
" It had been nearly a year since I
had hung out my sign, and as yet I had
hardly been called to a single paying
case. My rent was long since due, and I
was In daily expectation of receiving
notice to quit or pay up. Just at this
time I was not prepared for either, for if
I left, I knew not where to go, and as to
paying my rent it was impossible. This
evening I had sat until quite late, think
ing whether I had not better give up
trying to secure a practice in this city.
I had finally come to the conclusion to
hold on as long as my landlord's patience
did not give out, and had just arose to
close my office for the night, when I
was surprised to bear a carriage stop be
fore my door, shortly followed by the
entrance to my office of a middle-aged
man, of genteel appearance. He care
fully closed the door, and taking a hasty
glance around the room said, " if you
re alone doctor and disengaged I should
likes few words with you." Telling
him that was at his service, he re
plied : " I suppose, doctor, that you like
to practice where you are sure of a good
fee." Under existing circumstances I
was not disposed to deny this, and he
continued : " I have a case in which
your services are needed, but before en
gaging you I must tell you that I shall
require certain promises from you which
may not be agreeable, but which I must
necessarily insist upon ; but I assure
you that I require nothing that you may
not easily and honorably agree to. Iu
return for your services, if you comply
with my conditions, I shall pay you one
hundred dollars," and handing me five
twenty dollar gold pieces, said, " here is
the pay for your first visit, do you ac
cept V"
" I must know, I replied, " what are
the conditions I am to agree to," though
I needed the money so badly, I was
ready to agree to anything not actually
wicked.
" What I require," be replied, "ls,that
after getting Into the carriage now in
waiting at the door, you allow yourself
to be blindfolded, and so to remain until
you reach the room of your patient; and
you are not to try to ascertain who your
patient is, nor the manner in which his
injuries were received. You shall be
safely returned to your office, probably
within two hours."
" I thought over the proposition for u
few moments, and as I could really see
no reason to apprehend danger from ac
companying him, I signified my accept
ance of his conditions. He then handed
me the sum agreed upon, told me the
nature of the case, that I might know
what instruments to take, and in five
minutes we were on our way. As Boon
as we started, he produced a handker
chief for a bandage, which according to
promise, I allowed him to place over my
eyes. We rode rapidly, for .probably
fifteen minutes, during which time we
made so many turns that I could not
even judge the direction we were from
my office. When the carriage stopped
my companion conducted me into the
house, passing through a long hall, aud
up a pair of stairs covered with a carpet
so soft and thick that no sound of our
footsteps could be heard, and taking me
into a room requested me to wait a few
minutes while he announced my ar
rival. From the rustle of garments, I
w-as sure that a lady was In the room,
although nothing was said, during the
absence of my guide, who soon returned
and informed me that he would now
take me to the patient who was anxious
ly expecting me. He then led me from
the room, across a ball, as I thought,
into an apartment opposite, when he re
moved my bandage, and pointing to
another door,and said, 'you will find the
patient needingyourservlcesin the room
adjoining this."
"A quick survey of the furniture and
ornaments, around the room, showed it
to be the home of wealth and refine
ment. I had no time now to think
over the singular manner in which I
had been brought there, though the
questions, why all this secrecy r would
force Itself upon me.
" I found my patient to be a young
man, probably about twenty-three years
of age, and to be suffering from a severe
fracture of the thigh, and a severe cut
on the head, with some internal injuries
which I Judged came from a fall. It
was apparent that the injuries had been
received, a day or perhaps two days
previous, and I wondered greatly at the
delay in securing surgical attention.
After attending to his injuries in a
proper manner, during which time
I saw no other person except the gentle
men who had come for me I signified
my readiness to leave when I was
again blindfolded and returned to ray
office accompanied by my former com
panion. He removed my bandage as
the carriage stopped at my office, and
said : " I suppose, doctor,we can depend
upon your services, as we may need
them." I assured him that he might,
and wishing him good night, went into
my office to think over the singular cir
cumstances attending this visit.
" After I returned it was long before I
could sleep, and then I dreamed uch
strange dreams, that I awoke in the
morning uncertain whether the whole
affair, was not a delusion, and nothing
but the gold received for the visit con
vinced me of the reality of the transac
tion. Although I had promised not to
try to discover who my patient was, I
must acknowledge that nearly my
whole thought through the day, was,
' who is this mysterious patient.and why
all this secretly,' but I arrived at no sat
isfactory conclusion. About ten o'clock
in the evening I was again called for by
the same person who came the evening
previous, aud again he paid me the hun
dred dollars for a visit, requiring the
same precautions.
" In this manner I had made four
visits, receiving each time the same fee,
and as yet was as far as ever from arriv
ing at any solution of the mystery. I
could but wonder, ' why they should
pay me so large a price for a secret visit,
when ten dollars would pay for the visit
In the regular manner of the best sur
geon in New York,' unless there was
some crime connected with cace. What
I saw of the premises showed every evi
dence of wealth and refinement, and I
was unable to think In what way to con
nect any crime with the parties.
" The morning after my fourth visit,
in looking over a paper, I read n para
graph which at once explained, as I
thought, the whole affair. This you re
member was lefre the days of telegraph
and often quite Important events would
not be extensively known by the public
for some days after they happened. The
article read as follows :
" On last Monday night, Charles Gor
don, who was confined in Hacken
sack j nil , awaiting his trial upon the
charge of killing Abner Henderson,
made his eseae. By the aid of some
friends he had procured tools with
which he had cut the bars to his cell,
and by tearing his bed clothes into strips
had made a rojte long enough to reach
the ground. The rope was found to be
broken near the top, and from appear
ance of the blood on the pavement he
must have been badly hurt by the fall.
It is probable that some of his friends
were there to help him, as lie could hard
ly have escaed after reaching the street
without their aid. No clue to his where
abouts has as yet been discovered. He
will probably nave to apply for medical
attention, and this may lead to his de
tection." " Charles Gordon, to whom the above
referred, was the son of a wealthy broker
in the lower part of the city. He had
been exceedingly dissipated, going on
from bad to worse, until In a drunken
fight, a companion was killed, and he
was arrested on the charge of murder.
" All was now clear to me. Mr. Gor
don to Btive his son the risk, and his
family the disgrace of his trial for mur
der, had aided Charles to escape. The
injuries received by the fall had made It
necessary to bring him home and care
for him in this secret manner.
" I was undecided, whether when ask
ed again to visit my patient, to state my
suspicions, demand an explanation or
else decline to visit him again, or to Bay
nothing and continue my visits as lie
fore. I finally decided, that as I might
be wrong in my conclusions, and was so
well paid for my services, that I would
not relinquish so profitable a rase, on
mere suspicion.
" I therefore continued my calls when
ever required, and it was not until I
had made eleven visits that I thought
my patient sufficiently recovered to dis
pense with my services.
" It wns about a year after these visits
ceased that a young man, formerly an
nssoclate of Charles Gordon's was taken
sick and died. Shortly before his death,
however, he had duly drawn up and
attested a confession,' which Mr. Gor
don had published, stating that it was
him who had killed Abner Henderson,
and that Charles was perfectly innocent
of that crime. Bince his escape from pris
on no person seemed to know anything
regarding the whereabouts of the young
men ; but it was only a few months
after the publication of this confession,
however, that a gentleman called at my
office and introduced himself as Charles
Gordon, and I at once recognized him as
my former patient. He had been living
in Europe until he found that he could
return without danger of being arrested
on the charge of murder. During the
time he was suffering from the injuries,
occasioned by his fall, he had thought
over the evil of his ways and determined
that in the future he would lead a differ
ent life. He carried out his good inten
tions, making an enterprising and use
ful citizen, and until his death which
happened only about a year ago, he was
one of my best friends.
"I have always considered, that one
of the most fortunate events of my life
was being called to visit this " mysteri
ous patient."
Rather High Plowing.
Boon after Bob Toombs had made his
famous speech on "Slavery" at Boston,
an anti-slavery New Englander ap
proached him in a great crowd at the
llevere House, and thinking to cause
the Senatoi to betray himself, asked :
" You are Senator Toombs V"
" I am," said the great Bob.
" I have no doubt that your eminent
position will compel you to give a true
answer to a question, even It It should
criminate your section ?"
" Try me," said Bob, with a twinkle
In his eyes.
"Sir," said the long-fared and long
haired philanthropist, " I am Informed
that in Georgia, your own State, they
actually wogk negroes to the plow In
the place of horses, and I rely upon you
to substantiate or contradict It."
Toombs said" I will answer you
Yankee fashion by asking another ques
tion : Do you know what a likely negro
boy or matt costs V"
" Oh, yes," said l'hilo, " I am Inform
ed of yow dreadful customs, and the
price of human blood is from $1)00 to
$1,500.
" Will you take $1,000 as fair V" said
Toombs.
" Yes, sir," said the man in search of
his brother.
" We)l," said Toombs, "a fair plow
team is two mules with us. How many
negro men do you think It would take
to do the work of two good mules t"
The man pondered. He thought, here
was confusion. He said :
".I should say about ten to a mule or
twenty to a team."
" Toombs said ; "A mule costs from
$100 to $160. A team, say $300. Your
negro team will cost just $20,000. Don't
you think that is rather high plowing V"
The man gave an angry jam of his hat
over his ears, and went out, ejaculating,
"1 might have known it was a lie 1"
..... )-.BBB. -
A VETERAN DIVER'S EXPERIENCE.
JACK CAMPBELL, who is said to be
" the oldest submarine diver in the
United States," was Interviewed a few
doys ago by a Toledo Blade reporter, and
gave a vivid account of the first steam
ship into which he ever went. It was
about two miles from shore that the
vessel had gone down. He went into
her for the purpose of recovering her
cargo. The bodies were of no conse
quence, he stated. " It is a singular
fact," Bald he in substance, " that the
corpses of women in a sunken vessel
always lie face upwards, while men are
invariably face downward. The cabin
of the vessel presented a horrid appear
ance. The bloated bodies all laid up
next celling. Some were clasped in
each other's arms. One mother had - in
her arms her baby. A husband aud
wife were clasped in each other's em
brace so firmly that they could not pull
them apart.
It's a bad practice among some divers
to go through the pockets of corpses
that they find, and take all the valuables,
I have known divers to make thousands
of dollars in that way. There is a sort
of a pocket in the armor in which tbey
carry their tools, and I have seen divers
come up out of a wreck in which tbey
had been working with their pockets
filled with gold watches, diamond rings
and pins, and all sorts of trash. I dove
once in Mobile bay where I put over 300
chains under an Ironclad. The greatest
annoyance that we-had there was sharks,
They didn't hardly dare tackle us be
cause with our armor we looked more
like scare-crows than anything else,
They would come sailing along and
gradually swim up towards us with their
great big months wide open, but when
within a few feet of us they would stop
and lay there flapping their fins and
looking, it seemed to me, like the very
devil himself.
Finally we devised a way to scare them
off that never failed to frighten them so
that they would stay away an hour or
longer before they dare to come back
The armor that we wear Is air-tight, you
know. Ourjacket sleeves were fastened
around our wrists with an elastic, so
that the air could not escape. By run,
ning my finger under the sleeve of my
jacket I could let the air out, and as It
rushed into the water it would make a
sort of a hissing noise and a volume of
bubbles shoot up. So whenever those
infernal sharks would come prowling
around me I would hold out my arm
towards them, and putting my finger
under the elastic of my jacket sleeve, I
would let a lot or air out, and send a
stream of bubbles into the shark's face,
with a hissing noise like stream from a
gauge-cock. The way that those sharks
would go scooting oft was funny to be
hold."
"Jack," said the interviewer, "It is
said that the submarine diving is very
profitable business; what was the largest
salary that yot ever made V"
" I was working for Otis & Brothers,
getting out bates of cotton. I was to
have $5 a day, work or play, and $5 for
every bale of eotton that I got out. I
worked about six hours one day and got
out 485 bales of cotton. My Income
that day was $2,430. I tell you, I have
made enough to buy and sell many a
rich man in this town ; but bless you 1
I could never keep It."
" I have had several narrow escapes
from drowning," said Jack, as he re
lighted his ancient and much-tanned
pipe, " but about the closest call was
when I was workin' In the waterworks,
crib in Cleveland. You see, much de
pends on having a good signal tender.
I can tell when some one else besides,
the regular signal man steps up and
takes hold of the line. So can any good
diver for that matter. There was th
diver that worked for the Lake Shore
Railroad Company when they were
building the abutments of their new
bridge here across the Manumee. He,
by the way, was paid $40 a day for 100
days. He was working one day shortly
after he had begun on the job, and I
went down to see him. The signal
tender asked me If I would take hold of
the line. I did so, and gave it three or
four little shakes that a good diver al
ways understands.
He immediately answered back and
let me understand that he knew I was
there. But I was going to tellyou about
that narrow escape. I had a signal
tender who didn't hardly understand
his business. The mouth of the crib had
become stopped up with dirt and I was
cleaning it out. I had crawled through
the entrance, which was a sort of a door,
aud was outside of the crib. My life
line and hose chafed against the top of
door, and all at once, when I went to
turn around, I pulled my helmet off.
There I was out In the water, where in
a short time I knew I would drown. ' I
pulled twice on the life-line for the sig
nal tender to pull me up, but he didn't
do it. I felt that I was filling up with
water fust and I pulled again. But still
he did not understand.
Of course all my armor had filled with
water, and as there was no air in it, I
was held down by tons weight. Suddenly
George, who I was telling you about,
and who had just come down to see me,
stepped up and took hold of the life-line,
shook it and asked me what I wanted.
I had just strength enough left to give
two hard pulls, which meant, " Pull me
up quick." George, I afterward heard
them tell, yelled to tho signal man and
told him, " Help me pull in that life
line, and pull for all you're worth for
Jack Is drowning." They hauled me up
out of there mighty quick, now I tell
you, and it took lots of strength to do it,
because my armor was full of water.
When they got me to the surface I was
clear gone, and it was more than an
hour before I came to enough to speak."
The deepest water that I was in was
108 feet. When one is down so low it is
hard work to getalr. I have had the air
pump manned by six men, working
with all their might, and still I've been
obliged to keep pulling on the life-line
and calling for more air."
In his day the hero of this brief his
tory was a prize-fighter of much repute.
He fought many battles and, it is said,
came out the victor in most of them.
He states that his hardest fight was in
184o with Matt Langdon. They fought
101 rounds In two hours aud fifty-one
minutes. Jack came out victorious, but
with a broken Jaw.
The old residenter has a wife and
fumily living in Blackwols, England,
none of whom has Been him for years,
aud from whom he lias not heard in
some time. Out of hi- vast earnings he
has saved but little a farm of wild land
near Manistee, Michigan, being about
all bis possessions. But he is happy,
and what more can be desired f
CJ" A German, while crossing the
Alleghany mountains during the past
winter, states: "Datven going up de
mountain, hish foot slipped him on de
ioe, and he come down oh de broad of
hlsh back, mit hish face sticking in de
mud, and dere he shtcot."
t3" If you wish to get rich, get mar
ried. When was honey ever made with
only one bee In the hive.