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THOStNS.
"The lic.art Hint In soonest awake to the flower
l.inlwayx tlm t'.rnt to Ijo touched by the thorn a,
Tlio hi-nrl Unit anukeiiM to low's lil;CMt po ern
In always t tin Una that to bitterness tnouriu.
ColJ hraits that to raslon can never aw&kfn
Kscsihi all the 111 disappointment caa bring,
Thvy gather uo rowi tho leave they Lave
taken
And never a thorn fur theru leaves a stlujr.
Tb acme of bliss, and the vale of true Borrow,
Are known but to heart refined to excess.
The sunlight of love some shadow vaunt borrow.
And tear drops oft follow love's fondest caress.
Yet who would forego the thorns of our sorrow.
When row! may scattur their jjeUils of lovef
If prlcf coiiih today, Joy waits for the morrow,
And amines on enrtti puds in gladness nhove.
'(JweudoUno" la Ouce a Weolc
TIIUKE HOURS OF TERROR.
It was about tlx years ago. I recall
the scene and the circiiinstuncea vividly
to in I ad. I can Bee now the large square
room In an old fashioned rambliug hotel
ia tho quaint little town of Ij , in Ger
many, where I ttat that night. It -waa
w inter. Without it was dark and deso
late. Tho naked branches. or the trees
swayed and tossed aa If tortnred by the
cruol blasts from the north; the tiny river
that erstwhile danced bo gayly over the
stones in its bed at the foot of the garden
was stLIled and stiffened in an icy em
brace, and the wind moaned and rattled
at the casements like a belated wanderer
bee-fring for shelter.
Within thcro was warmth and light
and luxury. The monumental porcelain
stove placed close up in a corner, as if,
like a superfluous piece of furniture, to
pet it out of the way, had nnobtrusively
diffused a delicious, languorous summer
warmth throughout the room. A softly
ehiidod lamp burned upon the table, and
I. wrapped in a cosy tea gown, was half
reclining on a quaint old chaiso lungee.
I had been reading the "Lotus Eaters."
The liucs
IIow sweet It were
With haJf shut eyes ever to seem
falling anleep iu a half dream 1
were etill runulng through my head. I
was fuil of the spirit of the poem. My
old nurse find constant companion sat in
the next room, whore I could see her
through the open door, nodding, nodding
o sleepily. The cathedral tones of the
old clock on the shelf fell upon my ears.
I counted the strokes one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
eleven.
Is wr.s t ime to send nurse to bed, but
lazily I watched her head drop again and
aaiu, too idly content to find will enough
to speak to her. The house was pro
foundly still. I could hear the regular
breathing of tho nurse, and even my own
Jjeai't tLrob3.
Suddenly I was aroused by tho light
steps of slippered feet ou tho stone floor
of the hall. They halted, there was a
hurried tap at my door, and, before I had
time to assume a sitting posturo, the door
was flung open and there stood a gentle
man. I roso to my feet and begged to
l:nov to vbst chance I waa indebted for
no untimely visit. lie closed the door
gently, then with his usual superb man
ner salutod me: "I beg your pardon, mad
am, if I ha vo intruded. I was going to
;;iy r u. and, seeing a light under your
ik..;r, t bought I might venture to stop
1' r a ftw moments' chat with you."
J h.iil been in L a year, and had met
iS.c intruder, Mr. II , frequently at his
i .tor's i?ousc; ho had also called upon
i :-- so vo Vt.re not strangexs. IIo was a
!un of rather Attractive personal appear
ance, about medium height, slender and
i.-rj-cfi-.l, with tho m?4ii?er3 of an old
courtier. He was a fiuo latisician and
linguist, and well versed iu tie history
and literature of the several courrUles
v. hosts language Iwt spoke, and was also a
iiiilutnt conversationalist. StilL, not
withstanding all these accomplishments
and his charming manners, there was
something repcllaut about the man, some
thing uudeliiuible, that made every oue
half r.fraid of him.
Well, in reply to tho implied question
.,- -v tr ho might remain or net, 1
i.l :'. : l.ii bc--va in tho land of the
. -.--? . ; .i.i-ln.ral the bume time to
". f ' i L. l L-.id upo:. the table; thiit
i : -..v.-:! I ho ictus leaves had almost
"i ::iy r yelids, that my old nurse xvns
r.ud 1 feared I must ask that tl
' ; m-.-ht be brief.
"A l:rief cs you desire, madam." Bfi
ie; "only there is something I should like
to tell you before I go. "
lie eyed oie curiously as I sat down, and
k felt a hivr of repugnance go over me.
He advanced to the table, took up a vol
ume of Mrs. Drowning, and. after turn
ing over the leaves several times, read:
As ODe clone, once not aiond,
I f;it and knock at Nature's door.
Heart bare, heart hungry, very poor.
Whose desolated days go on.
Closing tho book with a sigh,' ho said,
as ho began to pace up and dowu tho
room; "Did j-ou know that 1 was ouce en
paged to bo married? I never see Mrs.
drowning without thinkingof my fiance."
Then for some time he walked to and fro,
sij-u.vmly oblivious of my presence, quot
ing from German, Trench and English
authors, and withal delightfully, until
one stroke of the clock admonished mo
th&t it wanted but a half hour till mid
night. I reminded Mr. B. that a half hour
had gone by and he had not yet told mo
the object of hl3 visit. I suggested that
what he had to tell me might do for a
serial story, and I would take the poetry
.for the introductory.
tie Cashed a savage glance over toward
?uo. One quick step and he was at my.
fiids, raying, in a low tone: "Why does
rhe sH there?" pointing to my old nurso.
t'end iier away,"
J repli?d. "I shall as soon as you aro
r.one." With a devilish look that defies
tiesoription ho stooped till his fs.ee was
close to mine and said peremptorily:
"Send her away, I tell you." I had heard
a short time before that at one time in i
in his life Mr. B had been insane, but
I iind doubted it. It was rare to find a
more cultivated or elegant man or one
who was more punctilious in the observ
ance of all tho conventionalities of soci
ety. That moiiliut his face was like tbo
face of a demon, aucl as I looked into his
eves I doubted it no longer, and my heart
sAnk IMi-i lead within me. What if tLe
old wtichnef s had attacked him again? I
.-. ;.. ! myself. At that hour I kuew that
y fou! iu the hotel would be in bed,
: I iv.trse nd myself were virtually
r ; 1 I -"ijv to call for help? Ills
i : J t:pon me. I think L read
i 'y '-o A:i 'mpulee to protect
i; r - i i--A? ?ce rise tnl move toward
.Ut. Qnbik &a a fiash ho stepped in
f: at i" v- ht-ked tho door, held tha
v -v ? !-;. jvj tno icr sin instant, then
' "t-; ; l is pocket. I knew now
-v . .. .. :u- n:aa to deal with.
' i ,t ell tbo courage
. r ; f r?i-M tuastr to Uo
. . to consider; tf J
.i .. .vi-c tLcra w u no telling
vLit ITiiji t ba the itii'Oit.
The nurse still sat nodding In her
chair. It was useless to alarm her, for I
knew she was too timid to Le of any ser
vico to me; but 1 must act. I quietly
went to her and told her to go to her
room it adjoined tho one In which she
f at but pt to go to bed. as I might need
her. Tl jtx. assuming the coolest manner
possibl ' A crossed the sitting room, opened
the st a door and renewed the lire, and
wlulo Tny face was turned from him said,
"The farce has lasted an hour. Mr. li .
and I fail to appreciate it. However, if 1
still have patienco to listen, will you tell
mo why you aro here?" I rose then and
resumed my seat on the chaise longue.
IIo always moved quickly, but stealth
ily, like a cat; and with some such move
ment ho came l hind me and whispered,
cloao, close to my ear: "Are you not afraid
of mo?" Writh my blood fairly standing
still in my veins t answered: "Not at all.
Why should I be? Vou must bo out of
your mind."
"That's just it," said he. Then re
suming his walk up and down the room,
ho continued: "Did you never hear that I
had onco been hisaue?"
"Yes," I replied, "I did hear something
of the kind; but that was many years ago,
I believe; an illness, was It not? How
ever, whatever you were then will hardly
excuse you for your conduct to-night.
He stopped, eyed me curiously for a mo
ment, then crossed the room swtftly to
where I sat, and stooping, put his hand
about my throat. He clasped it with his
long, slender fingers, gently, very gently,
ns ho said: "What a strange, evanescent
thing life is; I could crush it out so easily
see!" with a closer pressure "I could
kill you with my thumb and finger,"
I disengaged the hand, and pointing to
a chair near me, I begged him to be seated.
He obeyed. I asked: "Do you remember
anything of your life In the asylum?" A
sad, pained look came over his face; the
demon was overcome for the moment at
least. I had struck the right chord. He
replied: "Yes; I remember everything.
Shall I tell it to you?"
Glad of the respite, and hoping to find
a way to control him eventually, I Bettled
myself to listen to his story. I give it in
his own words as nearly as I can recall
them.
From the time I was 10 years of age I
wo3 a sort of wanderer. 1 was educated
partly in Germany and finished at Oxford,
England. Thence I went to France,
where I spent two years, and after that I
lived for some time in Australia. I finally
landed in India, where I expected to go
Into business with my brother-tn-iuw. A
short time after my arrival there I suf
fered a sunstroke which almost cost mo
my life, and utterly dethroned my rea
son. For six mouths I was a great care
to my sister, but at the end of that time
I was entirely restored, both mentally
and physically, and we determined to go
to St. Petersburg. It had been our child
hood home, and shortly after our arrival
there we were in the fashionable world,
meeting old friends and making new ac
quaintances. Among the latter was the
Countess L-, a lovely girl of 19 years.
Sho had soft dark eyes, full of passion, a
complexion like a ripe peach, and a mouth
ah! I dare not recall her face. It makes
me mad even now, and J sun old and gray,
and sho is dead.
Enough. I loved her, I won her love.
Tho formalities of a betrothal were gone
through with, our friends had congratu
lated us, and within a few months we were
to have been married. I was wild with
happiness. Alas! why did I not die thenl
I had unbounded faith iu her, my lady
love, but I became absurdly jealous. I
was haunted by all sorts of fears. It was
as if sorno evil" spirit had taken possession
of me, which neither my reason nor her
devoted affection could exorcise. I would
lie awake at night and imagine I heard
her calling to mo for help; at another
time some fiend would whisper to me that
nv leva was untrue. So 1 doubted and
trusted her by turns and almost broko her
heurt with my foolish fancies. I knew
that all my trouble was but the effect of a
sickly imagination, and I would determine
again aud again to light off tho weakness,
only to become rnoro and more a victim.
f?o my nights were spent in torture and
rv davs in agony lost some one should
.j! -.-.vW my condition.
' vky I becamo possessed with tho
thit my fiancee had need of me; 1
: ..iii hoar her t-igh and weep. I hurried
; j tLe house, gained admission, and when
. lij ca:nj to meet me I fell at her feet and
i'-np! r-4 her to tell me the cause of her
tronbH She coyy repelled me; told me
I -va jealous of phantoajsj that I had an
noyed her greatly and she would decline
to seo we again unless I could bcaave liko
a sane man. "Jake a sane man." Was I
insane then? Whether I was pr not. she
had aroused a demon in me. I Jumped to
my feet, sprang at her like a tiger and
clasped her in these arms so savagely
that I crushed and frightened the poor
darling out of life. She uttered a de
6phFt,g pry and the next moment she lay
at my feet iike a frozen flower. Can you
conceive of my agony as I )ooked at her,
dead, quite .dead, as' I supposed. J had
killed the woman 1 adored, aud I knew I
was mad. Yes, a Junatic. She had seen
ii. and I had half realized it myself for
boui time, but I had kept the secret from
my friends with all the cunning of a. lu
natic. Well, they bound me and took me to
my home. I was adjudged insane and
was sent to an asylum, where for ten
years I lil upon the rack, conscious of
my surroundings, recalling daily the part
ing scenes with my fiancee, the hurried
seizure of my person, my bound arms and
the final turning of the key of my prison.
All sorts of fancies kept my brain In. a
whirl. At one time, I thought that tbo
fiies in my room were soldiers and I would
try and marshal them in line, and because
they would not obey I would go into vio
lent paroxysms of rage which would al
ways end in a straight jacket. Then a
long blank would follow, and when an
other lucid moment would come I could
remember distinctly all that had oc
curred. The one Illusion that was with
me ever, even in my sanesioinents, was
that when I killed my beloved' that her
spirit had entered a dove which had found
its way into my room and hovered above
me always. Yhn I lifted my eyes I
could see her ever with outstretched
wiugs, and my ears were filled with her
soft cooing.
My recovery was retarded because I
couM not eat. Try as I would I could not J
m.ike myself ewallow. I knew that food !
:v? placed upon the table for me to eat, ,
ar.d I would try again and again to lift it
10 my lips, but my will was not BtrGng .
enough to compel obedience of my hands.
"Vbcn my keepers forced me to swallow it
sccmci Jo me that I could hear tho dove
uttering ths most paintive cries, and upon j
Lvr white breast would appeap a oVoo pf
biood, p if I had wounded her. Tiers '
were intervals rh?n I realized that these "
splits and eouuJs were only illusions, aoJ
i-uit if I ropH only control myself I could
frr-e. I dreaded tho horrors of th-:--.rai.,Iit
jacket, and knew well that if 1
uid uot keep quiet I should have to weaz
it. Alas! In another moment all my tor-;
PLATTSMOtJTIl -WEEkiLV iict5n.iL, intmSDAV, NOVEMBER 15,
meeting fancies would return and the old
experiences were lived through onco more.
In t his way almost ten years of my life
passed away. In all that time I had never
voluntarily swallowed a morsel of food.
At lengtu niv puysicial condition was
such that my sfster determined to bring
mo to South Germany, where there was a
celebrated insane expert. I remember
distinctly the first time ho came into mv
room. I was conscious of no physical
presenco, I only hvlw a pair of enormous,
persuasive, compelling eyes, wliicu were
following mo about tho rooin and enforn
ing obedience. I was their captive, their
slave. A cup or bread and mule was
placed upon tho table. Tho eyes bade me
eat of it. I tried to lift tho cup but coulu
not. The eyes came toward me, I felt the
touch of tho spoon upon my lips, the
taste of food lu my mouth, and I swal
lowed it. You cannot guess the joy 1
felt. No strait jacket confined mo, the
dovo moaned no longer, I was free at last.
So for days and weeks these watchful
eyes, which seemed to burn into my very
soul, came to conquer me, and 1 grew
strong and restful. I could think, 1 could
reason. I knew some mighty change was
taking place In me.
One day the eyes came as usual, and
stopped just opposite me, where a flood of
iignt from the window fell full upon
tneni. budaenJy thero appeared round
about them a luminous mass, which, as 1
gazoa, iormea it set r siowiy into nrst a
forehead, then a chin and cheeks. Oh,
heavens! it was a man's facet I was too
fascinated to move. Gradually I saw the
shoulders forming, then the arms and
body, and finally the feet, which were ad
vancing toward me. A voice said: "Come,
Mr. B , will you not have some break
fast?" I was utterly submissive, and we
sat upon the edge of the bed while he fed
me the contents of a bowl he held in his
hand. From that day I knew only his
will, and as my health improved my
reason was gradually restored. I slept.
ate ana uvea UKe any other man.
One day in June, ten years from the
time I was first locked up. I was invited
to tako tea with the doctor's family. You
can imagine mv sensations when X was
received by thedoctor's wife in the family
room. I knew that I had been insane and
that I was cured, and hereafter I was to
be free. I resumed my relations with my
ramuy oerore a great while, and was per
mitted to go home. I have lived a wan
dering life ever since, but, strangely
enough, never daring to stay away for
any length of time from my dear doctor
of the eyes. There have been times durinj
the past ten years when a very devil wouli
seem to enter my body, but a couple of
weeks under the doctor's care would al
ways rid mo of it.
I am at this moment not entirely sane.
Ilavo you not seen it? My abrupt en
trance into your parlor to-night and my
threatening to kill you should have
alarmed you. Why did you not call as
sistance? Why, even now, with the
slightest pressure upon your throat, I
could stop your breath.
I was quite alone. The fire had died
down and my teeth were chattering with
tho cold. The lamp had almost burned
out; the whole house, tho village, even.
was wrapped in slumber. With a super
human ettort l rose to my feet and said,
coolly ana distinctly: "lour story was
most interesting. If it is not all told let us
have it 'to be continued, and sunlinirlv
I stepped to tho door aud took tho kuob
in one hand, while I held out the other
one for the key. He handed it to me and
I unlocked the door, never taking my eyes
from his for an instant. I opened the
door; bo bent over, and, like a courtier of
the olden time, lifted my finger to his
lips, and with the remark, "Vou aro a
bravo woman, passed out into the hall.
I closed tho door, locked it and drew the
bolt. I glanced at the clock. It was
about to strike 3. For three hours, then.
I had been locked in that room alone with
a maaman. x tie strain was over; my
strength was gone; my knees gave way
under me; my head swam. I tried to call
and then all was oblivion. My nurse told
me I was lying against the door stone
dead when she found me. I never hear
the sljuOe of slippered feet that I do not
shudder. It always recalls that night of
terror.
As soon as I recovered from my fright I
i.as toia tnai aoout iu ociock m the
morning tho "doctor of the eyes" had
come and taken Mr. B to the asvluni.
Ii.' V.
The above story is true in every detail.
Boston Globe.
A Boy's Periods of Growth.
Based upon liis measurements and an
notations, MallingrHansen framed the fol
lowing rule: The weight pf a hoy ranging
rrora the ago or y to lo undergoes threo
perioqs annuaiiva maximum, a me
dium, and a minimum period. Tho
maximum period lasts four aud a half
months, commencing in August and end
ing tho middle of December; the medium
stage lias the same duration, from the
middle of December to the end of April.
The minimum period appears during- the
remaining three months, from the end of
April to the end of July. J ho Increase in
weight during the maximum period Is
three times that of the medium period,
and almost all the gain of the medium
period is again lost during the minimum
rriod. Ft-om the working of this law
follows, that in changing the diet at
academies, schools and asylums, the sea
son shoul4 he considered. A good diet
would give less satisfactory results if ob
served from April to June, than a poorer
diet if noted from August until Decem
ber. Julius Stinde ui Popular Science
Monthly.
. i ' " " '
A Lock of Hair.
It is singular that the hair of the hu
man head should always have been held
as something sacred, and to be associated
with sacred acts. Not to speak of tho
way in which we cherish the lock shorn
from tho dead, or the way in which the
lover treasures his mistress' curl, the hair
has long had place in ceremonial acts of
sacrifice. As the strength pf Camson, ac
cording to the old Bible narrative, was in
his hair, so it would appear that Achilles
felt himself still giving of his life and
strength when he cut off his yellow locks
to cast them on the fcyra p: Fatrovdus.
Constantino had the hair of his BqnJeja'
lius dispatched to tLe pope as' evidence
that he begged the pope to become tho
lad's adopted father. And as late as the
Eighth cenfcy people of rank were in tho
habit of waiting, before cutting the hair
of their child for the first time, until tho
cutting could be done by some fad.jvi4u.Rj
whom they particularly wished to honor,
or whose patronage they desired to e$
cure, the act constituting tho individual
a sort of spiritual parent. Harper's
Bazar.
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Tor Consistency's Sake
For the sake of being consistent a man
Just stupid enough to bo consistent wiil
g and do and say the same fool things Lo j
ha3 done and said before. The fool eannt t j
catch on to any Ideas of progress. No j
Orleans Picayune, ,
THE ELECTOUAL VOTE.
IIAIJISOX. CI.EVKLAND.
Alabama io
Arkansas 7
Call torn in 8
Colorado ;
Connecticut G
Deleware
iioiida 4
Georgia 12
Illinois 'J2
Indiana 15
Iowa ' 13
Kansas 1)
Kentucky 13
Louisiana 8
Maine 0
Maryland .' . . . 8
Mn.ssachusttts 14
.Michigan i;i
Minnesota 7
Mississippi 9
Missousi 1(5
Nebraska 5
Nevada JJ
New Hampshire 4
New Jersey 9
New York 30
North Carolina 11
Ohio 23
Oregon 3
Pennsylvania 30
Rhode Island 4
South Cnroliln 9
Tennessee 12
Texas 13
Vermont 4
Virpinia i-
West Virginia
Wisconsin 11
Totals 239 1G2
Harrison's majority 77
In the good old days when Grovcr
Cleveland was an obscure lawyer in
Buffalo, he has some boon companions,
and they used to congregate in a con
venient saloon in the waning light of the
golden evenings and sing a brave old
song, the refrain of which was: "There
is a hole in the bottom of the sea, fill it
up, fill it up." And as they sung they
would fill their tnuks with beer, and
have a real good time. The people came
very near filling up the hole in the bot
tom of the sea on Tuesday, with demo
cratic debris, aud it's a caution what a
curious mass of stuff was shovelled in.
Broken promises, mouldy intentions and
a thousand other reminiscences were
dumped in. But it's all over now, and
there is no reason why we should not be
happy. In a few mouths Grover can
hunt up his boon companions again and
inundate his sorrows as of old, while the
gay old world wags on. Lincoln
Journal.
A CABINET.
There remains now a lit'le over four
months for president-elect Harrison to
form his cabinet. That the task nmy In;
lightened for him the Hekald suggests
the following :
Secretary of StHte .las. G Blaine.
Secretary of Treasurer. . . .John Sherman.
Secretary of War John J. Ingalls.
Secretary of Navy Gen. J. B. Hawley.
Secretary of Interior. .. .Win B. Allison.
Attorney General. . . .Walter Q. Grtsharn.
Postmaster General. . . .Mathew S. Quay.
The Daily Herald delivered for
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I forgot to ask for a5a Horse Blanket
Just look at my blanket, now.
I buy the 3a Boss Stable Blanket, and
always look for tins Trade Mark sewed
inside."
Ask your dealer to order for
you, either the 5A Boss Stable,
or one of the following 5 K Horse
Blankets :
5A Five Kile.
E&s FIt Miles of Wrp Threads.
5A Electric.
Jut Um thing far Oat-Soor Cu.
5A Extra Test
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On
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ear !Be&,vr-
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