r TAKING COMFORT J wouldnt be in tmitor atltr uppers timed I ttwnv 1 1 wouldnt le a Idnp juli II I rotild Bo lcnc its 1ic prt lualtlj and tttuiRth a heme I where 1 an May And a wood shed full of dry and fitted wood For Jimmy Irlnyi tlu bootjack and motlicr trinu the IIrM And fiulla the roller turtalrm ahettln out the stormy nlftlit And me and Jim and mother and the cat art down Oh who In thuoderd hanker for a crown Who wants to spend their evnlni eettln starched and prim and atrnlitht A warmln royal vehet on a throne Iff mighty tedious buinm eettln up no thundrin late With not a mlnlts time to call your own Td lather take my comfort after workln throiiRli the daya iWlth my old blue woolen Moeklna nigh the fires aodal blare Tor me and Jim and mother and the old gray cat Come mighty near to knowln where were at Itolinan Day In 1 cwltton Journal ------- a--- I DR BflLCOE8 PATIENT A Romanco of Iffy story BY SEACOAL a a a I Wo were sitting about Ilnrry Makes hospitable board on Ills yacht Sua Breeze one evening Harry and the doctor regaling us with their adven tures during tlin six months cruise Uicy had Just ended A remark of Harrys suggesting that the doctor should reveal the mystery of The Fair Northron of the Golden Locks set us to clamoring for the story It smacks too much of the Anthony Hope story laughed the doctor Get Harry to spin you another yachting jam But we were not to be denied and Harry Joined vigorously In the clamor The thing Harry refers to said the doctor seems to me remarkable only because of the singular way the person most concerned starts up to view at various periods of my life and the curious way In which lam brought Into passing relations with her pro fessionally The story has its beginning some years ago Just nfter I had received that sheepskin that enabled me to write M D after my name I bad been taken as an assistant in the ofllce by an established physlcinn of large practice In Brooklyn living In Henry street One evening near midnight I was sitting by the office awaiting the return of the doctor from a late call when the oflice night bell jangled furiously I went to the door to llnd a foreigner of considerable distinction of manner and who was evidently much agitated Inquiring for the doc tor without waiting for an answer to his question he demanded that I should Immediately accompany him to attend a patient I made him under stand that the doctor for whom he had Inquired was not In and that I was the doctors assistant Are you a certified physician he nsked sjiarply Understanding by his term that he nsked if I was qualified to practice I answered that I was and hedemanded that I should attend him at once I gathered up a medicine and instrument case and donning my coat followed him into the street where I found a carriage awaiting us The driver was on the box but a man whom from his demeanor toward the one who so Im peratively summoned me I took to bo a servant held open the door of the coach for us to enter and when he had given a few words of Instruction to the driver climbed in after us Our way took us down Henry street at a rapid pace We had gone but a short distance when the one who had called me prefacing his remarks with the as surance that no harm would be done me demanded that I should submit to be blindfolded I protested vigorously declaring that I would leave them then and there Whatever else they were these gentlemen were prompt nnd vig orous for before I was aware of their purpose I was seized gagged and blind folded Having secured nnd rendered me helpless the first foreigner gravely and temperately again assured me that no harm would come to me and that having exercised my skill where re quired I should be returned home safe ly but It was essential to high Inter ests that I should not know whither I was going Notwithstanding I was not a little frightened though not so much that I did not realize that we were driving down Henry street crossing Fulton and turning up to the right But here I lost my bearings though I know we again turned to the left and as I thought Into Main street In time however the coach stopped and I was led across a narrow pave ment Into a house the odors of which did not salute my olfactory nervei agreeably up two pair of stairs nnd Into a room which notwithstanding I was blindfolded seemed to me to con tain a number of people Here the gag and blindfold were taken from me my cases put Into my hands and ray atten tion directed to a bed In the corner of the room If I had been frightened before I was astounded now Here In this dingy ill savored barely furnished attic room were a number of people all foreigners most of whom men and women were not alone fashionably clad but In most costly raiment the fure worn by each being worth a kings ransom Those who were not so clad not more than three were quite the reverse even filthy On the bed In the corner lay a young woman as richly clad as the others strikingly beautiful In form and feature her nbundant golden hair spread out on the pillows nearly concealing their grimy and coarse texture She was apparently unconscious Not then an experienced physician I was confused fairly stupeUed but in obedience to the haughty gesture of an Imposing personage who stood at the head of the bod and to whom all prep cut gave most ret pectful deference I approached the bed She who lay there senseless was a magnificent specimen of womnuhood who however I Judg ed to be not more than 11 She was In a syncope It Is nothing to my story by what means 1 restored her to con sciousness When she opened her eyes and a beautiful brown they were they first rested on mo bending over her nnd with a dazed confused expression quickly followed by one of fear Turn ing her head she saw the others stand ing about her and there swept over those glorious eyes n gleam as If she comprehended the situation She start rd up with outstretched arms toward me the while lips trembled as If striv ing for utterance but the Imposing per sonage quickly placed his hand on her lips and she fell back on the bed with a moan making no further effort Satisfying myself that her pulsation was now practically normal I turned to nsk the Imposing personage what had been the cause of this syncope or the events Immediately preceding It Whether this grand person did not deign to reply to so mean n person as myself or was unncqualntod with the language I used I coud not determine What he did do was to summon the one who hnd called me and turn me over to him This person said he could tell me no more than that the lady hail re ceived a severe nervous shock and a groat fright I wrote a proscription and intimated my desire to leave as my duties wore ended My first acquaintance of all this sin gular lot hnd a word with his high haughtiness who hnd never stirred from the head of the bed Then lie thrust a roll of bills Into my hand and with the assistance of another gagged and bound me ns before I was led out of the room down the stairs and placed In a carriage but this time I had not been so well blindfolded that I was not able to catch n glimpse of my surroundings in the street nor to observe that It was not the same driver ns had driven me there As we turned Into Henry street the bandages were removed nnd my first Impulse was to make an outcry but refiectlng that It must be 2 oclock In the morning thnt no one was In the streets nnd thnt two prompt nnd vigorous gentlemen snt op posite I maintained silence consoling myself with the thought thnt at least I had Impressed on my memory the fea tures of the driver and possibly could find him again Arriving the door of the coach was opened for me to alight and as the gentlemen courteously bade me good night they rapidly drove away Within doors I displayed my first foe to my chief and I can say now that In all my subsequent practice I never received a fee for n single visit so large as this my first one The old doctor and myself sat by the fire a long time trying to make out the meaning of my experience but all we could deter mine on was that the people were Rus sians A week later I crossed the Fulton ferry nnd saw on the boat the driver who had brought mo home on that night of my first call nnd fee He could tell me nothing but that he was paid liberally tulo what he was told and to keep his mouth closed He did not feel bound thereby to decline to take me to the house whence he had driven me for a fee and so I wns soon in Green lane near Front street where I recognized the house The visit how ever served no purpose for no one could tell me anything more than that for six months a Ilussinn family of whom no one knew nnythlng hnd occu pied the upper floor and had gone on a day which I found to be the day after my visit No one could bo found who had a recollection of seeing many peo ple going to tills floor the night before the removal of the family Two weeks later I had a caller a foreigner using the best of English who satisfying himself that I was the Dr Balcoe who had been called to at tend a young lady In Green lane nsked me for the details of ray experiences At first I supposed he was anxious to secure knowledge but finally It occur red to me that his anxiety was to dis cover how much I knew However I told him all I did know without re serve nnd as I mentioned the young lady and the Imposing person he made a gesture each time that seemed like a salute When he hnd finished I took a turn at the pump handle but I brought no water He was polite nnd courte ous but ns evasive as an eel When I pressed him too hard he said My dear doctor be content with the honor of having had so distinguished a patient Ask no more but accept this which I nm Instructed to give you In appreciation of your prudence reserve and skill In the affair Best content He laid a package on the table and quickly left the room I opened It to find it was the valuable gold watch nnd chnln I yet wear with a card bearing only these words For Dr Balcoe With this the episode ended I heard no more of It A mystery It was and a mystery it remained Shortly after this I was appointed on the staff of a medical institution to the head of which I subsequently came and ten years after needing a rest I took a trip abroad I visited London and was present at a celebration of an event that drew people from all parts of Europe A spectator on the street I found a good point of view from the front of the French embassy and while standing there saw an equipage pass down the street a singular sort of barouche drawn by four horses one of each pair mounted by postilions with two outriders In front There were two occupants of the barouche a young woman who occupied the rear seat and an older one on the front seat with her back to the horses I paid less heed to the occupants than to the turnout for It was a novelty to me and I did not know then ns I did Inter that it was the equipage of royalty By Borne means I know not how one of the unrldden horses clipped and fell IHm 7issSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS TUB NORFOLK NEWS FRIDAY MARCH 8 1JI01 lnnnodlatoly the four were thrown Into fright and Ixgn to roar and plunge In so alarming n manner thnt others wore Infected and finally a team attached to a heavy carriage bolted and In their run collided with the barouche over turning It lnnnodlatoly there was n call for a physician and I plunged for ward crying that 1 was one Way was innde for me by a policeman and I found the younger of the women lying on the pavement the blood trickling from a wound In the bond A hasty examination assured me thnt It wns not fatal or very serious 1 said to the policeman that the should be carried somewhere whore she could be treated properly nnd hod hardly so expressed myself when servants enme from the French embassy requesting that the lady bo carried there This was done I following Once within I soon brought the lady from her fainting fit and hnvlug bathed the wound in her bond which was merely that of the scalp I cut her golden locks from about It and dressed It By the time this was done I made n discovery My patient wns the one of the attic room In Green lane In Brooklyn If 1 had thought her beautiful then she was glorious In her loveliness now She smilingly and gratefully thanked mo for my attention In French and I had but received her courtesies when In rushed n man In groat agitation Bo hold It was his high haughtiness 1 iHit iilii Iltn nn i ront i1fitillr i Ullv done and of my service he expressed his thanks In fairly good French and I wont my way That evening ns I finished my din ner at the hotel nl which I was living word was brought to me thnt a gentle man desired to see mo I directed that he be taken to my parlor whither 1 went nt once Imagine my surprise when the gentleman wns ushered In to discover thnt he wns the one who hnd left the gold watch nnd chnln It Is nn extraordinary meeting agnln Dr Bnlcoe he said Again 1 attend on you after jou have attended on the fair lady Again that gesture that seemed so like a salute This time his visit was first to tender payment for my serv ices which 1 so peremptorily declined that he would not renew Its tender and probably the chief reason to dis cover If I had curiosity to know the persons or a disposition to recall the affair In Brooklyn Assuring him I had neither curiosity as to the one nor dis position as to the other after some suave and graceful compliments he took his leave A few days after and the day before I left London on my re turn home I was walking In Itotton row with our consul general of that day His high haughtiness pranced by on a black charger which In my eye was the more valuable of the two I asked the consul general If he knew him I cant master his name replied our representative He is a Russian prince and of royal grade I believe some say left handed but a power both ns an officer of the realm and as an enviously rich man He hns a beau tiful daughter about whom there Is a mystery of which no one knows any thing but who is carefully guarded by the prince So ended chapter two of this singu lar experience Two days after I was on the high seas Five years Inter Ilnrry here persuaded me to throw ev erything up and go with him on a six months cruise In the course of our peregrinations we found ourselves In the Bosporus with the minarets of Constantinople In sight There were other yachts flying the flags of nearly every maritime nation and among them one of an Englishman we had met at Gibraltar and with whom we had had good times One lovely evening we were dining with this Englishman on his yacht when a barge pulled along side hailing us with a request to know If a physician were aboard Ills serv ices were required on a yacht lying out some distance Of course I volunteer ed nnd descending into the barge was pulled away to the yacht in question The petty officer In charge of the boats crew could tell me nothing for I could not understand him As I climbed up the ladder to the deck I was met by my friend of the gold wntch episode and to our mutual astonishment Again the fair lady V I nsked Again the fair lady he replied gravely It is fate fate And ho again made thnt queer gesture so like n salute He seemed somewhat embarrassed and reluctant to go forward but I said that If the lady had need of service nt nil she probably needed It quickly and upon this suggestion he led the way t the 6nIoon There we found his high hnughtlness He regarded me with blank astonishment and without deign ing me a greeting said in French to the other How Is this The other replied In Russian nnd ap parently apologetically For myself I was angered I broke In on the conver sation and must ndmlt with no little arrogance Sir I said I am here by request to make use of such skill ns I possess In behalf of one needing skill My act Is a voluntary one of courtesy and be nevolence Your reception Is discour teous In a high degree and demands an apology He faced me with nn angry frown but when he snw that I did not lower my crest he altered his manner nnd apologizing led me to a hnndsornj stateroom where the fair one waB sur rounded by attendants bathing nn ugly wound In the arm which to me ap peared to be n saber cut delivered by nn arm uplifted but which she de clared came from a fall ou tho weap on However I dressed It Adminis tering some medicine I left Instruc tions nnd took my leave saying I would call lu the morning I did not see his high hnughtlness J but the other stopped uie on the deck to sny It wns to be hoped thnt I would bo reserved In my communications as the matter was n distressing accident and again tendering a fee which I again declined saying that I was not now practicing my profession Hardly had 1 returned to the yacht I hnd left when I wns railed to another one whore lay n young fellow badly cut lu tho shoulder I connected the two events but asked no questions Later In another port I learned that the young follow was a Russian noble n lover of 15 years of the fnlr one nnd that on tho night in question ho hnd nt tempted an elopement with the daugh ter having been cut down In the at tempt by her father Whether the affair In Green lane Brooklyn had n similar relation or not 1 have boon tumble to tell but 1 have a profound suspicion Hint then It was an elopement which had succeeded lu es caping to tills country whore n capture of the fair one was effected by the fa ther 1 am looking for anolhor mooting lu Mime other part of tho globe-Brooklyn KngH MnkltiK n lnnn Lawninnklng Is not so difficult ns most persons seem to think You must begin right If you would attain a sat isfactory degree of success The first thing to do Is to grade tho gioiinil evenly Most persons prefer n lawn that slopes away from the house to road In an almost Imperceptible In cline of surface Such a lawn Is easier to make than a level one because any little departure from a perfectly even surface will be far loss noticeable To secure the necessary slope earth will have to be filled in near the house If me mi is a comparatively level one Wherever there has been nn excava tion made for the house walls or a collar there will generally be enough earth near the house to furnish nil tho filling needed lu making tho required slope This soil which Is almost al ways hard should be worked over un til It Is ns fine and mellow ns possible for n good lawn cannot be ninde from n soil that Is coarse and lumpy If the soil Is not rich It should be made so I would advise the use of bonomeal In liberal quantity In prefer ence to barnyard fertilizer because It never Introduces the seeds of weeds Into the lawn as manure from the sta bles Is very sure to do Coarse bone meal In the proportion of a half pound to each square yard will give a soil of ordinary quality strength enough to produce an excellent growth of grass New York Times ASKS ROOM FOR CONVICTS Nilirimlin May Send IIiiiihIckh lrlsoniTu to I nun IVnileiitliirlea Dos Moines -March 1 Governor Dietrich of Nebraska lias written to the state board of control linking if it can arrange to furnish space lu some of the Iowa penitentiaries for a num ber of Nebraska convicts who wore burned out by the conflagration nt Lincoln Friday The governor said that n new build ing will be erected but it will take some time In the Interim It Is nec essary to furnish quarters for the con victs lie asked how many the Iowa penitentiaries could accommodate and what the price per capita would be Judge Kliine has referred the letter to the wardens of the penitentiaries It Is thought that Iowa will lie iblu to accommodate the K persons with out diflleulty by placing two In a cell All Hut tlin Captain Itmciiril London March I Tho British steamer Chamois which was in colli sion Wednesday near Newark light ship has arrived in Gravesond in tow She Is considerably damaged and her forepoak is full of water The vessel with which the Chamois collided was the British steamer Samuel Lalng The latter foundered and her captain was drowned The rest of her crew are 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