THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFIELD, TA. AUGUST 10. 1880.
One Day Too Soon. 1
IT 18 nil over! I am not yet thirty
years bid, bill ihy li&lr In Btreaked
with gray, tuy heart lies like Ice In my
bosom, and my life seems a long, dreary
waste a punishment. ' ! ' , ' .
Ah, If my sin was great, I was sorely
tiinpted, and my punlshment'wlll only
end with my life I
When was it I first loved my cousin
Kate? It might have been when Aunt
Carrie offered her soft cheeks out of a
handle of flannel for my boy-llps to
"kiss the baby." School holidays were
days to see Kate, and as I entered man's
estate my boy-love was only deepened
to the one absorbing devotion of my
heart.
I Was wealthy, my father having left
me a fortune when I wa9 six years old,
that had been nursed carefully by my
conscientious guardian, till it was nearly
trebled in Value when I came of Hge.
Aunt Carry, my mother's sister, had
only the smallest income from her dead
husband's estate, aud lived in a wee
cottage not far from the great house
that Would be my home when I choose
to occupy. It was therefore, a kindness
on the part of my guardian to consider
my aunt's home as mine, aud to pay a
most liberal board for the privilege. My
own mother bad died when I was a
baby, and all home affection iu my
heart centered iu Aunt Carrie and
Cousin Kate. ., , ,.
Yet it never was a brotherly love I
gave Kate after I was old enough to
think of my own home aud future hap
plness. I knew that my beautiful house
would be to me desolate and empty if
Kate refused to share it with me, and
although she laughed at me that I had
made love of her, I never ceased to hope
until ah me! until Gerard Hopklnson
came to Barton.
Gerard Hopklnson was, without ex
ception, the handsomest mau I ever
saw, and with his stately figure, a noble
face and gentle courtesy of perfect breed
ing, the varied conversation of a culti
vated mind, and the candid expression
of a pure heart. Yet Gerard Hopkln
son was without one dollar in the world,
excepting as a clerk in my guardian's
manufactory, the Gordon Mills. "
I had been in New Orleans all winter,
visiting my grandmother, . who had
written me a most imploring letter,
begging to see me " once more before
she died," and seeming so heart broken
whenever I proposed to leave her, that I
remained Until she died, early in May.
I had left Barton in November, and one
week after my departure Gerard Hop
klnson came from New York to take a
situation In my guardian's counting
room. There was nothing of the Bnob about
John Gordon, my guardian, and finding
his new clerk to be a gentleman he In
vited him to his town house, and intro
duced him to Barton society. 'Every
where he met Kate, the belle of Barton
by universal consent. ' When I came
home in May, Aunt Carrie told me that
Gerard and Kate were engaged.
I will not dwell upon what I su ffered.
My whole life seemed to me a blank ;
but I had no word or thought of blame
for Kate. I had never been able to win
my answer to my love, but I had hoped
against hope that it would come. She
was so young only eighteen and I
thought she did not know whaf love
meant. Some day, I hope, I would
teach her; but before that day came
Gerard Hopklnson won her whole heart.
I hid my pain as best I could. . I was
true to my better nature in those long
summer days that followed my return
to Barton ; and when I tried to win my
rival's friendship there was no hypoc
risy In my heart. Aunt Carrie knew
all, for my heart had been an open book
for her loving eye all my life, and when
we were all together ' she accepted my
attentions as a matter of course, leaving
the lovers to take are of each other.
To . Aunt Carrie only I confided my
plan for opening my own house in the
winter, and she consented to come and
share my home after Kate's marriage.
. ,: In October I went to New York to
nerve myself by absence for; the wed
ding, and to purchase many additions
for the modest (rousaeau Aunt Carrie
was making for my cousin. It was like
a thunder clap to me when my guardian
wrote to me that Gerard Hopklnson
had robbed him !;
" It was a very clever forgery," he
wrote, "and it had been traced directly
to Hopklnson. Evans, who has been
wltb me tnirty years, ana nas my per
fect confidence, detected the forgery and
traced it up. Of course, Hopklnson
, denies it, but it is too clear a cose. Still,
lor bis rattier's sftfie, l snail not prose
cute him. He is the son of one of my
' dearest friends, dead many years, and is
, spared this disgrace. I have discharged
Gerard, of course, and he has left Bar
ton, but I shall keep the affair secret
I have told your aunt and cousin no
one else. . . - .". j
Kate knew, then I My heart ached
for her, for I knew she had loved Gerard
even a I loved her. I wrote to Aunt
Carrie and 'received letter after letter,
telling me of Kate's grief and her firm
fall h in her lover's Innocence.
The weary Winter passed, and Kate's
health failed, In her pain- and humilia
tion. All Rarton knew of her engage
ment, but no bne knew the cause of her
lover'B desertion, so that there was the
bitterness of appearing to be Jilted In
addition to the burden of knowing the
truth. "
I was shocked when I returned to
Barton to see the shadow of my bright,
beautiful cousin in the pale, languid
girl who greeted me with Blsterly affec
tion. ' I consulted bur old tlootor pri
vately, and lie strongly advised "change
of scene." ....
' She is fretting here," said he, !'and
everything reminds her of her faithless
lover. If she went away for a year, she
would come back herself again."
Armed with this opinion I laid siege,
to Aunt Carrie, and the result was that
we went abroad, no time being set for
our return. I was of age, with an
Income far beyond my wants, and we
went to Europe without any definite
plans, save the one object of restoring
Kate's health. It was a labor of love
with me to win my cousin back to
cheerfulness, and if I was lover-like in
my attentions I was as sincere in my
devotions.
I believed Gerard Hopklnson to be a
forger, one who had robbed not only his
employer, but his friend ; and I honest
ly held the opinion that Kate's happi
ness would be best secured if she could
forget him. With this conviction and
my own love, I hold myself blameless
that I tried to gain Kate's heart, even
though I knew I never could be first
there. I left no stone unturned, and
Aunt Carrie was my faithful ally. Yet
it was two years before I could venture
to ask Kate to be my wife.
We were in Paris when she put lit r
hand in mine, saying:
" You know all. I will be your true,
faithful wife, since you love me in spite
of knowing that my heart was given to
Gerard." .
She had never regained the old saucy
brightness of the past, but she had lost
her heavy sadness, and I think she
loved me as one who hod helped her to
overcome her sorrow.
There was no reason to delay our
wedding, aud I made every preparation
to be married on the 12th of May, and
sail for home early in June. Aunt
Carrie banished me to another hotel, for
a week before the ceremony, to have
Kate's undivided attention in the trous
seau, and other details of the wedding,
for we had many friends invited, and
had resolved to have a grand breakfast
after the return from church.
My pen lingers, and heart sickens, as I
write what follows. On the 11th of
May I received a letter from my guar
dian. He wrote:
My Deati Boy : You will be as glad
as I was to hear that Gerard Hopklnson
is annnocent man. I cannot be too
thankful that I never openly accused
him of the forgery. Evans died, last
week : committed suicide. He has been
robbing me systematically ever since I
took him Into my full confidence. The
foreery was committed to cover a loss
by speculation, but he has gone from
one venture to anomer, unui discovery
was inevitable, and suicide &eemed his
only escape. He left a full confession,
and fortunately I knew where to find
Hopklnson. I wrote to him at once,
and he is now at Barton, in Evans'
place, and with his salary. Need I say
he is faithful to KateV I inclose his
letter to her."
There it lay, the letter that was to
destroy my whole scheme of happiness.
Only a day later it would have been
powerless, for I should then have been
Kate's husband. Only one day I I
spent hours of torture trying to be true
to myself, true to Kate, but the tempta
tion was too strong.
I put Gerard's letter, unopened, Into
the flame of the gas-burner, and watched
it burn to ashes,' Then I folded my
guardian's letter, which had some busi
ness details I intended to copy before
destroying It. ... , .
What excuse could I make for delay
ing our return to Barton t Worn qut
already with mental excitement, I left
that question open, undecided whether
to take Aunt Carrie into my confidence
In so far as to tell her of her of Gerard's
return to Barton.
I heard more than one comment upon
my pale face at the wedding breakfast,
but everything passed off well, and Kate
was my wife! I thought my happiness
must be perfect when I could call her
Dy mat saoreu name, witn ivate my
own, I bad thought to defy fortune to
injure me, but before the honeymoon
was over, I knew that my wife would be
dutiful and faithful, but never loving.
I had not thought before of my wealth
In connection with my . marriage, ex
ceptlng that I was glad to have it in my
power to give every luxury to my wife ;
but Aunt Carrie confessed to me, only
yesterday, because she did think of
fortune. I do not think she would have
urged her a merely mercenary marriage;
but when all else was favorable, she
thought It 110 harm to secure a rich
husband as well as a loving one.
We had been married nearly two
months, when one morning Kate came
Into the private parlor of our Loudon
hotel, where I sat reading. Upon one
pretext and another I had delayed our
return to Barton, and we had been some
weeks In Loudon. ( I looked up as Kate
came in, and her ghastly face and set
Hps, absolutely frightened me. Before I
could speak, she held out to me my
guardian's letter. .
" You asked me to clear up your table
drawer," she said, "aud this was folded
in another paper, but so that I read one
line, 1 Gerard Hopklnson Is an Innocent
man I' Then I read the letten I only
ask one questlen : Did It reach you
before we were married V
I could not lie to her, Willi her eyes
riveted on my face. .
" Before," I said. ,
'Andyou destroyed the inclcsure ?"
She uttered no reproach. She Blmply
put the letter upon a table beside me,
and left the room. ...
But It killed her. . For months she
faded away, coldly dutiful to hie, gentle
affectionate to her mother, but crushed
by the weight of her misery. Her only
hope of happiness was gone when her
quiet affection for me turned to bitter
contempt, and I faltered in every
attempt to win back even the dull sem
blance of love she had tried to show
me.
I am writing in my own home at
Barton. Kate's dying wish was to be
burled here, and we brought her home
to place her beside her father in the
Barton cemetery. Yesterday the coffin
that held my heart was lowered Into the
grave. Aunt Carrie knows all, and has
forgiven me, and will share my home.
It was her hand that burned the fatal
letter, and no one has questioned us
about it. My guardian thinks it reach
ed me after my marriage, and Gerard
Hopklnson shares this belief.
But I know that my treachery has
killed the only woman I ever loved,
and that my life will be oue long agony
of remorse.
A SUCCESSFUL MESMERISER.
rpilE other morning while the Bwell
J. barkeeper at Baldwin's was putting
an extra polish on some pony glasses, a
couple of strangers entered, and, as they
ordered drinks, one of them, a long
haired cadaverous person, in a faded
ulster, said:
'Oh, Its very easily done, I assure
you."
" Easy P" exclaimed his companion,
with much animation : " why it's the
most remarkable the most astounding
thing I ever saw. What did you say
you called it 1" '
"Mesmerism," said the long-haired
man, holding his glass up to the ilght.
The principle was discovered by a
German scientist named Mesmer, al
though It is, unquestionably, identical
with the animal magnetism known to
the early Greeks. Tacitus says "
" But you don't mean to say," inter
rupted the other, who was making a
formidable demonstration on the free
lunch, "you don't mean to say, Profes
sor, that the person subjected to the
Influence hasn't the faintest idea of
what's going on"
" Exactly," said the Professor. " The
person under the Influence of mesmer
ism has no more self consciousness than
a cane-bottomed chair. For illustration,
do you see that man at the corner over
there V He is evidently waiting for a
car big hurry to go somewhere and
yet I could bring him into this saloon
in a perfectly unconscious state In less
than two minutes."
"Bet you five dollars you can't dolt,"
said the other man. producing a some
what dubious looking V.
"Ya-a-s," added the barkeeper, ar.
ranging hia diamond pin in the glass,
"and I'll go him twenty better he can't
dolt."
" Well--er gentlemen, I don't want
to rob you and ahem I'm not eure
I have that much with me," faltered
the professor.
"Oh! you haven't, eh V"-said the
cock-tail mixer, winking at the by
standers, who were also eagerly fum
bling out their coin. " Well, we'll trust
you. Just fire away, and, if you win,
you take the pot."
" Well, gentlemen, I suppose I'll have
to try anyway," and, amid a variety of
significant winks from the gathering
crowd of bystanders, he walked to the
window and began making a series of
mysterious passes in the air, with the
eyes fixed on the party at the corner.
" Did you ever see suoh a blamed
idiot V" said the barkeeper. "Looks
like a Santa Clara windmill, doesn't
hello I by Jove, the feller's coming!"
The man on the corner had slowly
faced - the wlndew, passed his hands
across his eyes in a bewildered manner
and then began walking in an uncertain
way across, the street. . V It will ' have
more effect on him .when . he gets
closer," said the Professor., ; .
The man entered the saloon and stood
still, looking straight ahead with
, vacant expression. :
" I'll make him ask you for ft drink."
whispered the disciple of Mesmer.
" Just stand back, gentlemed.V and sure
enough the subject walked mechanically
up to the counter and asked in a hollow
voice for a little old rye. ' . t j ;
Give It to him hurnof him - in
everything," whispered the Professor,
and the victim Solemnly swallowed the
drink and then stood motionless as
before.
" Now, I'll make him think he's an
actor," said the illustrator of will power,
and immediately the other began to
strut about and recite Shakespeare in a'
tragic voioe.r , j ? ';,( .
Make him bark like a dog," suggest
ed the man who had bet five dollars.
Whereupon the man began to imitate a
terrier, and tried to bite a spectator, to
the immense amusement of everybody.
After that he was Caused to do several
things, such as crowing like a rooster,
catching a fly, and pocketing the "pool"
money, which lay on the counter.
" Make lilin think he keeps the bar,"
put In the Professor's friend, and the
subjeot walked promptly around behind
the counter, turned up his sleeves and
compounded a cock-tail, putting the
money In the drawer and counting out
the change, with great deliberation.
" Now," said the Professor, "we will
make him put the contents of the draw
er iu his own pocket, then restore him
to consciousness, and accuse him of
having stolen the money."
Everybody said that would be a first-
rate Joke, and then the five-dollar man
thought it would be better to let him
walk outside and arrest him In the street
his astonlsment would be all the
greater, he said.
The man solemnly cleaned out the
till, walked from behind the bar and
out of the door. As soon as he struck
the pavement, however he darted down
Powell street at a three-minute clip.
" Dear me," shouted the Professor, " I
must have been thinking about running
somehow. Come on, Mr. Smoothy, and
help me catch him," and the soul-sub-duer
and his friend dashed off in pur
suit.
They are still waiting at the Baldwin
for the return of the trio, who must
have dlvy'd about $55 apiece, and the
detectives think they are liable to wait
for a long time. The barkeeper says he
wishes he may be blank blanked . to
everlasting blanknation, while Manager
Tom Magulre, who is out $8 on the
mesmeric proposition f says he's half a
mind to have the whole thing dramatized
for the fall Beason.
The Old Darkey's Belief.
N old colored Presbyterian at Little
L Rock, Arkansas, was met by a
Baptist preacher oue day, and accused
of stealing his saddle. First he denied
it, and at last he said !
" Now ketch de plnt3 ez I gin 'em ter
yer. Dar is jes' so many saddles in nis
worl' what is ter be stole, an' dar's jes
so many men what is ter steal dese sad
dles. Dls is predespernation. Now, ef
yer saddle happens ter be one ob de
predisposed saddles, an' I happen ter be
one ob de predisposed men, kin I hep
ItV"
" I don't want a religious discussion,
Dave." eald the parson. " It isn't the
saddle now that I care so much about,
it is that you told me a lie in saying
that you didn't steal it."
" Well. den. parson, 'spose I takes
back de lie an' keeps de saddle V"
"A lie once told always stands. You
have lied to me, you scoundrel, and I
believe it is ray duty to have you ar
rested.". -,' i . .; .
" Parson, dar's jes a certain -amount
ob lies ter be tole in dis worl', an' ef I is
one ob de men what Is predisposed
to tell one ob dese lies, hits not my
fault, an' I can't hep it."
" You go on now abd get that saddle,
or I'll swear out a warrant for your
arrest."
" I'll do de bes'! I kin, parson, but
dar's jes a certain amount ob stole sad
dles ter be returned in dls worl. Ef I'se
one ob de predisposed men, an? I b'lieves
I Is, you'll fine your saddle bangln' on
de vard fence 'bout sundown dis ebe-
nln." . ' -
"" ' Sightless Pigs. "" '
Mr. Adam : E. Rauck, . of Fishing
Creek-mills, on the Columbia and Port
Deposit railroad, la the owner of three
sows, eaoh of which has, within a few
weeks past, given birth to a Utter of
pigs, and every pig of the three Jitters is
stone blind, several of them having not
the semblance , of an eye .in the , eye-
socket. , In every other respect the pigs
are perfect and healthy. They are
growing finely and seem to be endowed
with unusually ; good - hearing. It is
quite amusing to see them prick up
their ears and listen, apparently . with
the. keenest interest, to any strange
nolne. Tbe.plgs; are of the Chester
White breed, and there are from ten to
a dozen In eaoh litter.. ; The sows, and
boars from which they were bred have
stood eyes. Can any of our, scientists
rive a reason for, this wholesale blind'
nessl : : ' .;. ' - . , ... , .
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