Til K TBlES NEW H LOOM FIELD, l'A., MAY 21, 1881.
The Disappointed Heirs.
pr.NEUAL SIDNEY was In tnauy
VJ rpppvots a Blngulur old nmn ; luit for
nil this lie was noble, tiue-lieurteii and
generous. Though only flfty-flve, he
lias survived lila wife and three children
Kiid whs alone lu the world, unless two
rival nephews, who were contending for
the hundred thousand the Ueueral had
to leave, when he died, might be regard
ed as the companions of his pilgrimage.
They ferKlnly were very devoted to
him, and everything which friends
vould do for Ills comfort except love
and esteem lilm.
The existence of a hundred thousand
dollars Is a sad damper upon any feeling
of disinterestedness which pious heirs
desire to exhibit. John Bidney and
.losepli Boyles no doubt tried to be ills
interested In their devotion to their rich
uncle, and If he had been a poor man
they might have found it quite easy to
be so. They were cousins, and both
members of the same church. If they
tried to love each other, lu obedience to
the divine command, they did not suc
ceed very well, for even a superficial
observer might have seen through the
shallow protestations of affection which
were constantly Interchanged between
them.
General Sidney was not a very close
observer, and probably knew less of the
real character of his nephews than any
man lu their circle of acquaintance.
But, superficial as was his observation,
he had succeeded in finding out John
Sidney. Either the pious heir expectant
lacked In shrewdness, or fortuue desert
ed him, for his rich uncle suddenly
turned against him. In vain John tried
to conciliate him the General was as
ntubboru as a mule, and would not In
terpret any of his kindly ofllces as the
evidence of genuine esteem.
When the heart of the rich man had
banished one of his nephews, the other
more perfectly filled it. As John Sidney
was hated, so John Boy lea waa loved.
The former presevered in his attempts
to win back the lost favor, and the latter
as persistently labored to defeat his
intentions.
The old gentleman '8 health began to
fail him, and as he was denied the
privilege of going abroad, Boyles was
untiring hi his t-flbrts to make him
comfortable and contented at home.
Every forenoon he went up to the in
valid's room and read the morning
papers to him, informing lilm of the
condition of stocks and the market gen
erally, and related all the gossip and
scandal alloat in the street. In the
evening be visited him again, read the
evening papers, told him funny stories
and never left him until he had seen
him comfortably in bed for the night.
Joseph Boyles was a shrewd person, and
fully comprehended the nature of his
position.
It was surmised that the General had
recently made a will, and the favored
nephew was satisfied that he had won
the victory. His uncle seemed to . dote
upon him, and he certainly needed no
assurance of the esteem in which he
wag held.
The General grew worse, and Boyles
spent nearly all this time with him.
Professing the deepest solicitude for his
health he urged various remedies upon
him, all of which hla uncle adopted
with implicit faith In their efficiency;
but In spite of Boyles' specifics, and
even the prescriptions, he continued to
fall, and finally dropped off. suddenly
so unexpectedly, in fact, that no one
knew when the breath left his body.
The work of Joseph Boyles was fin
ished. His uncle was dead, and he had
every reason to suppose he should In
herit his princely fortune. There was
no longer any occasion to dissemble,
and after I had put the body In the
coffin, on the evening of his death, I
was not a little surprised to be Informed
that the funeral would take place at
eleven o'clock on the following day.
Boyles said the heat of the .weather
would not permit us to keep the corpse
another day, and though I differed in
opinion with him, I made no objections.
Boyles was a stingy man, proverbially
so, and the arrangements for the funeral
were very simple. Even the coffin was
a cheap affair, and only four carriages
were provided for the occasion. But
General Sidney was dead and could find
no fault with the simplicity of his burial
ceremonies. He was put in the family
tomb, and the friends turned their atten
tion to the important matter of the
distribution of his property.
As many had supposed, Boyles waa
the sole heir. A paltry legacy waa all
the notice taken of John Sidney, who
had expected "something handsome,"
at least, at the decease of his uncle.
When the lawyer had left with the will
It wag the day after the funeral the
two cousiug were left alone. It waa not
the nature of John Sidney to rest con
tent with the provlsiong of the will.
He had failed to detach hla rival, but
he was not prepared to be virtually dlB.
Inherited.
" You may think It is Just," said he,
In a surly tone to Uoyles.
" That Is not for me to decide," re
plie'd the heir, modestly. "I can only
say that I had no hand In making my
uncle's will ; neither did I know its
contents until now."
" Humph 1" sneered Sidney.
" He was my uncle, and I did all I
could to make him comfortable during
his last hours," added Boyles.
" Yes, aud you put him in the ground
beforo his body was fairly cold."
" What do you mean by that I1"
" I mean all that I say. People won
dered that you should order the fuueral
the very next day after his death. 1
suppose you were lu a hurry to get hold
of his money."
"No more of this; you need not Insult
lue."
."I suppose not, now that you have
got the fortune," sneered Sidney.
" Well I have got it," replied Boyles.
" If you don't like It, you can't help It,
you know."
The taunting lone of Ibis remark
aggravated the disappointed man more
deeply, and he uttered some violent
threats, which, in turn, roused the ire
of Boyles. Hot words ensued, and there
was a moment when physical force
seemed to be the only resort for the set
tlement of the dispute.
While they were thus angrily re
proaching each other the door opened,
but no one entered. Boyles laughed at
his cousin, and as much as admitted
that he did not care a straw for his uncle,
aud taunted his rival on being beaten ill
the "squabble" for tho fortune.
"We shall see," said Sidney. "If
there Is any law in the land the will
shall be broken and the fortune divided
between us."
" Break it if you can."
" You as good as say you did not care
for Uncle Sidney that you coaxed him
till he made the will in your favor."
" Grant that I did ; you would not be
a competent witness in the case," sneer
ed Boyles. " Go home and get recon
ciled. The money is mine, aud I shall
hold on to It."
" Not yet," said a deep hollow voice at
the door which had opened before.
The disputants started. The derisive
curl which had played upon the lips
of Boyles disappeared, and his cheeks
blanched. Sidney looked cooler, but
was evidently much disturbed. The
voice sounded strangely natural, and
they both ga.ed nervously toward the
door.
A form tottered into the room, in the
presence of which both of the cousins
retreated to the farthest corner of the
room while their lips were livid and
their cheeks ghastly pale with terror.
" This Is the way you treat the dead,"
said the form, which the terror-stricken
nephews had no difficulty in recoguig
iug as that of General Sidney.
It was either him or his shadow, and
he certainly looked more like a ghost
than a living man. Boyles waa par
alyzed with fright, as one of stronger
nerves might have been in the presence
of such a sight. John Sidney, perhaps
because he had more to hope for in the
reappearance of his uncle, had the cour
age to advance a few paces toward the
apparition.
"Begone, both of you I" said General
Sidney, as he staggered to a chair, and
sank heavily upon it.
I had witnessed the scene from the
entry and now hastened to his assist
ance.' " For God's sake, Mr. Mortal, what
does this mean," exclaimed John Sid
ney, hla teeth chattering in the extrem
ity of hla fear.
"Drive them out of the house I"
gasped the General.
I told them they had better go, In
forming them at the same time that
their uncle was not and had not been
dead. After they had In some measure
recovered from their terror, they left,
the one with his cup brimming full of
bright anticipations dashed down, and
the other satisfied at least with the
confusion of his rival. I have no means
of knowing what passed between them,
when they got Into the btreet, but I
venture to assert that John Sidney did
not lose the opportunity to retort severe
ly upon his companion.
I called the, housekeeper and servants
to render assistance in getting the re
stored General to hla chamber ; but it
was some time before I could convince
them that it was not a ghost which had
come to the house. We got him into
lied again and the doctor soon joined
us.
Now, curious reader, I must go back
and relate what Emmie would not per
mit me to tell in the proper place.
When the corpse of Geueral Sidney
was put in the coffin, I discovered that
It was not entirely cold. I privately
called In the physician to examine it;
but as there waa neither breath, pulsa
tion nor feeling, he pronounced him
dead. He observed at the same time,
that It was possible it was a case of
asphyxia, or trauce. The heat on the
other hand, might be artificial or pro
duced by the incipient sIbk of decom
position, "But, Mr. Mortal," he continued,
" you must keep watch of this corpse.
Do not close the tomb door. Visit every
hour until decomposition has actually
begun."
" We ought not to bury this body,"
I remarked,' placing my hand under the
arm pits, where the heat could lie very
distinctly felt.
" Better not say anythlug ) It would
create an excitement."
And so the consultation ended. The
funeral took place and the corpse was
placed lu the tomb. That night Spade
and I watched it. The lid of the coffin
had been removed and I had provided
myself with articles necessary In case
there should be any further signs of life.
J cannot tell how it was, but somehow
it was Impressed upon me that General
Sidney was not dead. Perhaps it was
because I had recently been reading of a
similar case in England where suspend
ed animation had been restored after the
lapse of a week.
There, was nothing to Indicate .u re
suscitation during the night, and in the
morning I went home to breakfast leav
ing Spade in charge of the tomb. I had
scarcely tasted my first cup of coffee
wheu Spade rushed breathlessly into the
house, assuring me that "the General,"
as he expressed It, "wag opening one of
his eyes." I did not stop to ask why he
did not open the other, but seizing some
clothing I had prepared for the occasion,
I bade Spade go for the doctor, aud ran
with all my might for the tomb.
Both eyes were open. I poured some
wine into his mouth, and commenced
rubbing him with energy. When the
doctor and Spade came, he had moved
his hands aud begun to breathe with
difficulty. By the doctor's advice he
was borne, coffin and all, to my house,
and in the course of the forenoon he
was able to sit up. We worked over
him iueesBantly till noon, when he in
sisted upon being conveyed to his own
house, which we reached Just as the
"will party" left; I held the General up
while he listened to the conversation of
his amiable nephews. The rest the
reader knows.
General Sidney lived only a fortnight
after his wonderful resuscitation ; but
long enough to make a new will, in
which both of hla nephews were disin
herited, and his fortune given to various
benevolent associations.
. .B-
The Western Flood.
A YANKTON, Dakota, letter gives
us these details of the late disastrous
freshet there :
In contemplating the ferocious tracks
left by the flood it seems miraculous that
hundreds of helpless people did not per
ish. For so great a disaster, in the
material sense, the mortality hag been
comparatively trifling. It is estimated
that the whole number of drowned
persona will not exceed a dozen, or at
the very utmost a score. The number
of "narrow escapes" recounted la aston
ishing. It would appear that the people
in general took matters very coolly.
There was no panic, and presence of
mind, aided by individual heroism, ac
complished the work of rescue. Had
the settlers stampeded in wild terror
when the flood first broke around their
homes, many more would have perished.
As it wag, some were cut out through
the topa of houses, others betook them
selves to trees, where they roosted
through one terrible night of March,
and a few were hardy enough to dare
cross the treacherous ice-gorge and gain
safety on the higher banks of the river.
Most of the detailed information relative
to the great freshet has long ago reached
the Times by telegraph, but from Man
dau and McCook, a distance of several
hundred miles by iiver, at least 8,500
people have suffered more or less from
the effect of the freshet. Of these, half
have managed to save something for a
new start, while the remaining half
have been, in most cases, left without
houses, bedding, food, clothing, teams,
plows and even soil. Their wheat baa
been utterly ruined. They have no
seed.
I called upon Secretary Hand, acting
governor of the territory, to day, and
asked his opinion in regard to the situa
tion. He said :
" It is bad, very bad, indeed, but we
are consoled by the providentially small
loss of life, when huudreds, if not thou
sands, might have perished. Fully
fifteen hundred people will have to be
supported all this summer, I fear, be
cause they have saved nothing but their
lives. The season is growing late, aud
they cannot raise a crop unless they
have immediate relief iu the way of
money."
" What will they most need to make a
new begiuning with V" I asked.
" Well, material to put up some kind
of a house to shelter them, the govern
ment has sent some tents already an
ox-team and plow, a milk cow, and a
few other things indispensable to a
family on a farm. I think the sooner
thsyare made self-sustalnlnir In that
way the better. Nothing so demoralizes
people naturally Industrious as to be
rendered dependent entirely on publlo
bounty for any length of time. If
they can have teams and plows at once,
they can still raise a corn crop and some
vegetables."
I went down to the temporary supply
depot on the main street and found
there Tom Cosby, of the quartermaster's
department, up to his eyes in business,
distributing military clothing to the
sufferers. The pantaloons were all
infantry "No. IV the smallest slzo
and on six-footers, of whom there were
many, presented the bare and desolate
appeaiauce of Georgs "Washington's
knee-breeches, minus the stockings, on
exhibition at the National capital. One
German, with an aldermanlo corpora
tion, cried out : " Dot bants no vit one
of mien legs!"
Cosby, however was equal to the situ
allon. "Here," said he to the corpulent
Teuton. " Take two pairs, and put one
on each leg."
This satisfied the applicant, and he
retired rejoicing.
Many of the poor people were nearly
naked some had not even a change of
underclothing, and all felt rather dirty
and miserable. .
The ladies' relief committee received
by the steamers Niobrara and Beck,
from Sioux City and Omaha, several
bales of female apparel, which they soon
found ample use for. If possible, the
women and children more nearly ap
proached a state of nudity than the
men.
The relief committee, including Sec
retary Hand, Governor Edmunds and
Mr. Hudson, who was the first to relieve
the unfortunate town of Vermillion, are
unanimous in praise of Quartermaster
Wheeler, who acted with the prompt
benevolence which becomes a brave
soldier and a true gentleman. He has
been relieved of duty at this point, much
to the regret of the entire community,
whose respect and confidence he has
worthily won.
Although the more prominent flood
marks are disappearing under the sun
of early summer, enough remains, to
show the stranger the terrible nature of
the late visitation. Piled on the levee,
near the railroad tracks, are cakes of ice
of gigantic thickness, some of them
hundreds of tons, and strongly resem
bling in color and formation the "pedri
gal," or cooled and broken lava, that
disfigures the neighborhood of the Mex
lean volcanoes. One can easily conjec
ture how the river, having, to use the
expression of Secretary Hand, "broken
up wrong end first in Montana," found
it impossible to burst this formidable
obstacle when it extended clean across
the bar and compelled the water to
obliterate Green Island and other low
land settlements.
In the vicinity of this Icy pedrigal
may be seen a sight without parallel, I
believe, in river history. Close togeth
er, lifted high and dry by ice and water
and set down at several rods distance
from the river, are the steamboats Black
Hills, Nellie Peck aud Butte, all of
them badly scarred and shaken, and
now undergoing repairs in this extra
ordinary species of dry-dock. It will
take considerable time and trouble to
replace them in the channel. This will
be done ultimately on the house-moving
principle so familiar with Chlcogoans.
Near by He the rent and ruined rem
nants of the unfortunate boat Western
torn limb from limb, as it were, by the
fury of the storm and flood. Her decks
have been carried away. Her boilers
and smoke-stacks strew the beach for an
incredible distance, and what is left of
her bull is burled in sand that also
covers the railroad tracks to a depth of
many feet.
Vermillion has had the Pompeii of
the flood. The business part of that
thriving town of nearly 1,00 people has
floated down to the Gulf of Mexico.
Merchants are beggared, farmers are
ruined, and the prospect is really appall
ing. Still the people are cheerful, aud
are camping on the bluffs above their
desolated valley. To add to their mis
fortuue the cutaway, caused by the
gorge, has removed the site of the settle
ment three miles inland, and it is not
likely that the channel will ever be
re-established on the old line.
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