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The Beautiful Gate of the Temple.
r \ . ? -l liiVi : ?
Little familiar gate {
Gate of the home bj tho way ;"
Hour for which daily to wait,
Hour at the close of the day.
Hand ha hand closo pressed,
Ar? never trusted in vain !
Hearts in caoh other at rait,
Home, all homo again I
II.
Gats through whieh all must pass,
Qato at the cud of the way ;
Men call it a Gate ef Brass;
A prlssn-gate, they say t
They think it can only divide,
Pitiless, heavy, and strong;
But we who hr.vo looked inside
Know they have named it wrong.
Know it not Btrong, but wtak,
Its bars all shattered and slight;
Mere ban; of shadow, that streak
And prove the inner light,
Gnte where all bonds shall break,
All severed hearts units,
111
Terrible, Beautiful Gte*!
Gate of the Temple ot God!
Well through the day we may wait
Till it open for us aur abode.
Hand in hands cleae prest,
Hearts pist&U parting sad pain,
In God and each other at rest;
Home, ail Home again]
Beautiful Gate of Life!
Gate at the end of the Way!
We!l worth Day's tail and strife,
For that hour at the close of the day !
?By the author of *The Sehonberg-Cotta Fami.
The Unknown Death.
A DETECTIVE 8T0RY.
Murder lias b**?*i done in Philadel
phia?or, at loose, so it was supposed ?
and the papers weiokjull of it. The
journals were divided in opinion nbout
tho tnatti-r, some maintaining that it was
a care of ?hupte suicide, others inclining
to tho belief that there had been foul
play, aad ?tili other.* arguing i:i favor
of -death front nnturui thuHgh unknown
eatiaae Iud.ed, it wuald appear, at
first si^ht, a* if the Utter wero the true
supposition, and tho majority ot super
ficial readers and thinkers who talked
?over the affair at home or in the streets
the nest day; seemed to have very
little trouble in Jarriviag at a like con
clusion.
All that was known was this; au es
I teemed citizen?a man of wealth and
high standing?had reti red to rest the
night beforo apparently in sound health
and good spitits, and at two o'clock tho
following morning had bom found dead
in bed, without one visible mark of vio
lence upon bis person. His son, who
had rot umed from a pleasure party at
that hour, had entered his father's chain
ber to doposit the from door key thoro ,
and had made the horriblo discovery
This young man, a steady, reliable and
devout church member and Sabbaih
school teacher, had then aroused the
bouse, and had communicated the ill
tidings to the terror stricken fami
At tho coroner's inquest I was pros
cut, and there tho sou, after repeating
substantially what has been said nbovc,
called the attention of the jury to the
following additional aad important faots
that on entering the chamber he had
found everything undisturbed and as
usual, that, that the bed clothes even
were not rumpled, and that the position
of the deceased, as he lay, was so natu
ral und easy that it was not until he h td
noticed tho ubseaco of the docp and rc
gular breathing of tho sleeper that he
suspected, for an instant, that anything
was wrong.
I was not on the jury, but was there
at the request of the family, in my
official capacity of murder detective
and it is needless to say that I subjected
the body and its surrouudiug to the
clostst scrutiny. I oould discover noth
tag, however, that appeared in tho least
suspicious, as to warrant a supposition
of foul play. Tbopost mortem ezamina
tion failed equally to satisfy, and de
vclopcd no indications of poison in tho
system, but one thing it did develop)
and that was, that up to tbo timo of
death the internal organs of tho dtceaa
ad bad all been in a state of healt by and
vigorous set ion .
For'once in my life I was at fault,
aad must confess-that I did not know
how* to proceed, bot itill, for alt the
absence of proof, and tho seeming regu
larity of things, I felt in me a deep mis
trust that murder had been done in the
premises and by no unskillful hand.
Whilst I was deliberating how to act
the son came over, and began a conver
sation. He talked on the all absorbing
topic of the moment and was as nervous
restless, and agtitated ru man oould be.
We were w&Uiog rapidly up and down
the chamber where lay tho oorpsc, still
fresh from tho searching hands of the
coroner's physiufan, and as we paused
now and then to gazo in its pale, inani
mate face, I remarked that my compan
ion sh'iok with a slight aad well-defined
tremor. I made a mental note of this,
but at tho 'some timo did not attach
much importanco to it, as I considered
it but the natural effoct of the trying
and paiuful scenes through which the
son so recently passed, and whoso rccul
lection was refreshed by tluse momenta
ry views of tho dead. I did not, of
course, for one moment iruagiuo that
tho uiun at my elbow wns a pntrioide,
but a murder detective, from habit, is
always on the alert, and as I hod no cluo
whatever to follow in this matter, I was
meroly searching for ono everywhere?
that was all.
?Ye continued our walk about tho
foom.
'This affair passes my comprehension,'
said I.
'And mine also,' said tho son.
I was about taking my leave when a
small pieoo of red rag oa the floor, just
under tho edge of tho bed; attracted
my attention, and I stooped and picked
it up.
The son observed my motions, and
said
41 wonder how that got the?*e? I
have the rest ofthat article in my draw
cr?it belongs to mot'
'Do you want tho pieoo V I aik
cd
'Not at nil.' he replied ; but if you
would like to hufe the rcwaiuler , I will
get it for %ou.'
He left iuo without waiting for any
reply, find quickly returned with the
rcht of the handkerchief, lie handed it
to me and said as he did so;
I nm at a loss to conjecture who could
have Torn that handkerchief, fei I
thought it was safe in my apartment
when I went out early in tho oven
iug.'
I put tho picoe ho gave me with tho
other I already had and took my
leave.
Once at home and in t'io solitude of
my chamber, I sat down at my table
and, with my faco buried in both hands
fell to thinking and reasoning t though t
of the scene I had just left aud
eouid not doubt that the verdict of the
coroner's jury would be 'death from
causes unknown ' I thought of tho son
and of his'torn haunkerohief, and I
spread out the latter before me on the
table, and fitted it to the p union I. had
found wot and limp under tho hod of
the deceased. Then I took tho wet
piece in my fingers and folb and looked
at it. It did not seem to have been
steeped iu water, and to tho touoh it
was just iu the slightest way sticky I
further remarked that it had a vory
faint whito tinge in Jspota, as if some
kind of foam had recently boon upon it.
Just at that instant I cmight sight of a
paragraph in a daily paper lying in
front of mo and mechanically read
it.
The paragraph was as follows :
'A ghastly scientific discovery is ro
ported from Turin, where Prefesflor Gas
turini, tho celebrated oculist, has fuund
a way of killing animals by forcing air
into their eyed a few seoonds; and almost
without causing pain. Experiment*
were recently mado at the Royal Yetori
nary School, and it is Baid that they
have fully proved tho truth of tho Prof
fespor's invention. Wit bin the spare o
a few minutes four rabbits, three dogs
and a goat woro killed in this manner.
Tho most remarkable fact is that the
operation loaves absolutely no outward
! trace.'
I started up instantly after having
I road this, and began rapidly to walk the
room. 1 was flushed and agitated. Per
i haps I had the key to tho mystery I was
searching to solve?
'Gracious !' 1 thought, 'it ibis para
graph bo true, might not tho method of
destruction be applied as fatally to man
us to tho interior animals V
1 hurriedly roturucd to the houso of
death and rang tho boll.
' The son answered tho summons in
person.
Ho looked uot a little- surprised at
my sudden return.
'What is the matter ?' he demm
ded.
'Nothing/ said I?I was quite cool
and collected by {this tuna?'I merely
wish to tr.ako sucthcr examination of
tho chamber of tho deceased.'
He led mo to it at oucpv
I again scrutinized the body, this tim e
paying more attention to the face and
hend of the dead man. .
There was absolutely' nothing to be
seen there that I had not seen before.
" thee pressed open tho mouth slightly
with my fingers, and as - I did so felt
or fancied I felt, tho same slight stick
ness I had detected on the limp piece of
handkerchiof. 1 looked into the mouth
and nearly trembled for joy to see there
the clearly defined white tinge of dried
foam !
Eor a moment I could hardly contain
myself, and my heart boat so toudly
that I was almost afraid my companion
would hear it and grow alarmed.
However, I did control mysolf, and
as soon as I could trust my voico,
said:
'Is thcro no wny by which this house
might be entered except by tho first
story 7'
?Oh, yes,' returned the sou, as compo
sedly as eTer, 'there is a door in my
apartment opening on an old, unused
portico, hut that has been locked and
double bolted all winter/
This observation was juj?t what 1 wan
ted, for it pointed out to me a way to
obtain a view of this man's private room
aud that, too; without exiting the loast
fm- ji cion.
'Will you let me see that door?' I
asked.
'With the greatest pleasure,' said ha
'I have already examined it myself and
found it as secure ns of eld?but per
haps your mo o experienced eye may
detect ea no sign'tharc-AJ^-h-jj escaped
me i
I followed him, and without the plight \
est hesitation he led ma to his bed chain '
ber.
There was the d ?nr fastened ns he
had .said, md I made a show of lookiug
at it?but thvt was nut what fasci
nated me aud rivited my attention at
unco !
The walls were full of shelves, and
the shelves were crowded with philoso
phical instruments !
I left tho portico door finally, and as
I was going carelessly remarked!
'You seem to take an interest in soi
ence;' |
'Why, yes', said he, smiling, 'I do
and I flatter myself that few men here
or elsewhere have a larger or better col
lection of apparatus than I have.'
I had touched him on his particular
vanity, and knew now that I might
search unmolested, and nrt only that,
but with his own proper aid, for the in
strumeot of death.
I turned bank, as I spoke, sud picked
up a pamphlet from the study table in
the centre of the room.
The book was written iu tho Italian
I language.
I have some slight knowledge ot the
tonguo of modern opera, and I read on
the title page that he work wa< one on
the various modeo of the destruction of
animal life, and that it was by Castu
rini.
And Casturini was the name of the
Professor spoken 4of ia the newspaper
paragraph.
I felt that I was working on the rtght
track.
I laid down the volume and gradually
turned tho conversation to the subject
of pneumatics, in the course of which 1
asked if my companion had Casturini's
air pump. Ho told me no, but that ho
bad his air syriogo.
I asked to look at it.
For ths first time the son turned on
mo a hurried wlancc of alarm*
Hut I mannged ta appear as if I sus
peoted nothing?as if nothing more dan
gcrouB than love of soience actuated me
in my investigations.
And my oompanion was satisfied, for
he at once produced the air syringe.
It was a strange instrument; iu 'shape
it was like an ordinary syringe, suoh as
is daily employed in meiioine, only Ur
gar, perhaps twice as largo as any of
that hind I bad ever seen. It was ineun
ted on a stand of polished walnut, like
aa elcetrio machine, and? indeed, pook
ed like one?thatia.a oyiudi'ieal odd. It
was furuished with a orach, by which it
was worked, and bad two large, funnel
tbaped niouthpiovcs Tneie latter wero
not stationary, but oould bo moved?
brought nearer togethor or " more widely
separated, as circumstance* required.
This, then, was the instrument of
death, and it preformed its droad work
silently and surely, and left no external
trace.
I touched it with a feeling akin to
horror, and asked: ?
'Has this no other use than to deprive
animals of life?'
'None,' was tho iniiling response.
'C?n you operate it?'
{Better than any I ever mot.'
I was standing facing this man as he
made this'boast.
I hud my head on his shoulder.
He started and seemed not to know
what to make of my conduct.
'Vour crime is discovered, sir!' Faid I
sternly. 'You are a patricide, and I ar
rest you for the murder of tho man who
lies in the other cunmber !' m
His face turucd fairly purplo with
rago and fear, and then grew inky
blaok.
Ho sat down in the chair without a
word.
His courage, and above all things,
his incomparable audicity, had altogeth
er abandoned him at this terrible crisis !
I spoke to him again and agaiu sever
ul times, but could get no answer.
Then I rang the bell and sent for the
coroner's physician.
He came, looked at the man still sit
ing on tho chair, spioohless au I blao'x
iu the face, and shook his head.
'This man has lost his reason!' were
his fearless words. 'What has oaused
it 7'
I told him, and showed him Casturi
ui's nir springe.
We took our prisoner into custody and
pnnrsvfid him. in n nlonn rarrinern fn th?
- j . " - o" *
police station.
The rido somewhat restorud him, but
he was still altogether overwhelmed and
crushed.
We left him ia a cell and went our
various ways.
In the morning I was the first to call
to see him.
The officer in charge told nie he had
been up the greater part of the night .
and was then sleeping.
I waited half an hour, and then, in
company with tho doctor, who had by
that time arrived, went to the coll.
The man was there ou the bed. lying
in his shirt uud pantaloons, with his face
downward, and motionless.
The doctor touched bim?he was cold
and stiff. The parricide was dead.
By his side lay a paper, crushod and
rumpled, as if iu his last agonie3 ho hud
endeavored to tear it up.
I took it and read, written ia lead
p.jucil, tho following :
?The Hhrewduess of tho detective has
been too much forme. It was night
when I did it, and 1 fancied tho means
put it beyond roach of discovory. t was
mistaken, and 1 pay the penalty ofthat
mistake freely now. That doctor is a
?hrewd practitioner. A man docs not
counterfeit madness with hitu with im
puuity. Had ho boen as wise iu his
way as the detective was in bis, tho law
would not have bcou cheated ofits prey.
I had my reasons for tho deed, fully as
potent as those I have for this.'
Here followed the signature of tho
suioide, tracod in a full, bold baud.
I turned to the physician and officer
who wero with mo, and had read tho
lettor over myshouldor.
I must confess that I think my face
showed triumph?triumph at having sue
ceeded iu tracking and taking a crimi
nal so adroit and calculating?and
possibly I had some good ground for
bcipg ola'cd.
I did Dot ask the family of the mur
dered man for u reward, but I carried
away the air syriDgo, and 1 have it to
this day. I have mndo repeated experi
mcnts with it since it outnu iu my poa
session, and < ach succeeding ono but con
vintes mo tho more of its deadly and
dangerous character,
There is another thing I must say be
foro 1 clo&o, and that is this : 1 have 6olv
ed the mystery of that limp piece of
bar.dkerohiof 1 found on tho duy I under
took the investigation of the affair I have
just beon speaking of: it was employed
by the murderer to repress and keep
back the slight foam that always flies
from tho mouth oi the subject whenever
submitted to the action of the syringe.
1 look back upon this adventure now
as ono of the most important events in
my career, and I take pride in telling it
over and over again. It shows what
:ci?uce \a ecuo/cted who the dotectioa
..-.?1 ./ I it ' M * ?
of crime, and it also shows from what a
slight link a massive chain of conclusive.
ovidence may be forged. I say I look
back to it with pride, and I can only
hopo that an intelligent public will hear
nod approve my recital?the story of the
Unknown- Death.
Queer Proof.
Some time ago, bein' in company with
a medical innu, whom I will call Mr. B.,
wo fell into conver*ation on the uses of
the niicroscopo, in the management of
which he was an adept.
?Now/ said be, 'I will tell you a story
of what happened to myself?one of
which, I think, well illustratos the
importnnce of this instrument to society,
though I was put in a very unpleasant
position, owing to my acquaintance with
it.
'I have, ns you know, given a gool
deal of attention to comparative anatomy,
especially to the structure of the hair
as it appears under the microscope. To
tho unassis'od eye, iudeed, nil hair ap
pears very much alike, except as it is
long or short, dark or fair, straight or
curly, coarse or fine. Under the micro
scope, however, tho case is very differ
cut : tho while mau's round, the ncgroe's
oval, 'he mouse's apparently jointed,
the bat's jagged, and so on. Indeed,
every animal has hair of n peculiar i
character, and what is morn, this char
acter vurics according to tho part of the
body from which it ia taken?an impor
tant circumstance, as will appear from
my story, which id thus :
! 'I once received a letter by po3t,
containing a few hairs, with a request
that I would examine them, and adding
that they would be called" for in a few
dsybT" Aoj?idi?gly, I submitted the
hairs to the ct^B^??. when I- ofjjj*
covered that they wcfiflkfr?m tne huma?
eyebrow, and had been brufasd.?I maj0
a noto to this effect, and folderf ifc^njj !
with thu hairs in an envclope,.ready for
the person who scut them. In a few
days a stranger called aud inquire 1
whether I had made the investigation.
'Ob, yes',! I said j 'there thoy are, and
you will find them, aud their description,
in this envelope,' banding it to him at
the sutuc ttuio.
'lie expressed himself as being much
obliged, aud offered me a fee, whl-h, j
however, I declined, telling him that I j
could not think of taking anything for
so small a rc:.t'.cr.
'It turned out, however, of m:ro
cousequouce than I had imagined ; for
within a weck 1 was served with a
supocna as a witness on a trial of murder.
This was very disagreeable, as I have
said, but there was uo help for it ujw .
Tho case was this : A man hud been
killed by a blow, from some blunt
instrument, on tho oyebrows, and the
hairs sent to me for examination had
been taken from a bammor in the
possession of the sunpected murderer. I
was put in tho witness-box, aud my testi
mony, 'that tho hairs wero from the bu
muu eyebrow, and had beon bruised,'
was just the link in the chain of evidence
which sufficed to convict tho prisouer.
The jury, however, wore not easily satis
fied that my statement was worth any
thing ; aud it required the solemn assur
ante of the judge thai such a conclusion
was within the reach of scionoo to eon
vinoo tbein that thay might act upon
it.
'One juryman in particular?an old
farmer?was hard to satisfy.
'Does the mean to say,' said he, 'that
theo can tell any hair of any animal V
'I answered that 1 would not lake
upon myself to assert positively th it I
could do so, although 1 believe 1 could.
?NT ell,' said be, Til prove thee.'
'Tho prisonor.HS I said, was convicted,
and 1 went homo, aud in the busy lifo
of an extcnt-ivc practice, forgot all about
my obstinate old farmer. Two years
afterward, ho.vevor, a person, an utter
btrangcr to mc, called on mo with a fow
hairs bcrowod up in a pie jo of paper,
which he ahked me to examine and
report on.
?Is this another murder case ?' 1
inquired ; 'for if so, 1 will have nothing
to do with it] I'vo bad enough oftbat
sort of work.'
?No, no,' said he, 'it is nothing of tho
kind. It is only a matter of curiosity,
which 1 would be much obliged if yon
would solvej aud if you will do it, 1
will call or send for the result of your
examination in a low days time.'
?Having received this assurance, I
undertook the investigation.
'When he was gone, and I had leisure,
I put the hairs under the microscope,
and soon discovered they were taken
from the back of a Norway rat.
'Two or three days afterward, as I
was sitting in my eonsultiug-room, an
old farmer looking man wai ushered
io. * V ' :,T' '' ?*??
'Weil,' said .he, -ha* thee looked at
them hairs*?'
'Yes,' f answered, 'and I find (hat
they are from the back of a Norway,
rat.'
'Well '.' exclaimed he, *so they are.
Thou hast forgotten me, but I have not
forgotten thee. Dost thee recollect the
trial for murder at L. assizes ? 1 said I
would prove thee, and so I .have, for
tho?c hairs come from the back of a rat's
skin my son sent me from Norway.'
'So the old gentleman was quiCO'SatiS'
fied with the proof to which he had put
me. and I, as you may suppose, was Weil
pleased that my skill and sagacity had
stood such a queer proof a? this, and
more convinced than ever of tht value
of the microscope.'
Here the doctor ended his story, which
I have given as nearly as possible io his
own words, and upon which, I boliova,
that a thorough dependence may be
placed.
"Jess sol Je?? so!'*
Ilxnv Times.
'It's mighty hard times, I toll you 1'
We took a short walk yesterday, nut
this was the salutation we heard op?
man give another. The speaker wa? a
tall man, in hU shirt sleeves, und a
slouched hat, and he stood holding in
his strong hand a rope attaohed t? tfc*
horns of a stunted juvenile steer, that,
wit
consumptive little companion,
looked aTuS^^?}* *?? superfluous ;
for there wasThot1r*(S more foreign to
tMeU ta. ?._^\ta than mnnin-j
whiclinrWlttenuatod o.tttle were bitched
groaned iu its oillcaa joints under oiua
sticks of green wood, unsplit because i
t o thin. The wood looked like English .
h >p poles, and the min who rowed the
times wore hard oould have carried the
load easily. In the back part of the
Wagon, secured by a strap, was a glaze 1
oartbon jug with a corn cob stopper <
supplemented by a piece of red rag. Wo
did not wait to hoar more of the stale .
platitudo, but wont on; tho sight of .
such teams, such loads, such, moo smd
such statements hare become too com
mou to excite comment. - Late in tho
afternoon we saw the team again, going ?
home through tho mud, rain add in areas
iug darkness. The driver had tb>3gl*?si.
jug under his head, as ho lay on the two
planks that formei tho wagon's bed.
We do not know what the jug contained,
but whatever it was the man had given
all the contents he could, an inside pass
age. The little steers had visibly
shrunken since morning,looking, poor ,
things, as if thoy were gradually wash (
ing away, and loogl?g for tho jol) to bo
over. This man was not a type of the
yeomanry of this land. Uufortunately/
it hus no cluss corresponding to the yeo
.nan. He was a poor, ignorant white
man, wi'h a wife and a large family, no.
doubt, and he lives in a wrotched ono
roomed cabin, on a piece of water-washed
and, unknown and uocared for, withtt?
mpulse, aud no aid to rise to a nobler
ife. 'Hard Times?' Who are making
them ? The* poor wife, wttti h?r little
ones huddled about her last nighfajllMstr
what brought 'hard times'to horwrotoh
cd abode, when the famished brutes
stopped, with hanging tongues, totfcs
darkness, und she heard tho oaths of the
greater brute as ho staggered iu with the
lazed jug in his hand.
'Hard times!' says tho man who uaver
did a stroke of earnest, honest work to
make them better. 'Hard times I* tsays
the young man, too proud to labor with
tho whito hands which ho folds as .ho
waits tor chance to give hiui an UMj
job. 'Hard times!' says the plaato#,aa
ho begs tho merchant to give hint time
for tho food ho ueods, and paying 50 oy
10(1 per ceut. fur hid advances, hagoeS
back over barbarous roads to A4 *"*ftfYi
fortublc homo to bo.t his remaining time
and credit on that game of ohanoo?cot
ton. 'Hard times V cries tho meTohani
as notes fall duo and not one dollar of
the thousands owing him comas iu ia
moot them. Yes the times are hard and
tho cause lies at our own door, Our
meroh tots are the slaves of Now York,
aud our farmen tho vassals of the 8$?r
ehauts. There is too little earnest, ?*"
ly offort, too many uf heavoaa b'ossia^s
to incite to persistent labor. Six msaths
from now will toll tho story, aad ifca far
tnor who from neglect U forced than, t?
buy his iood, deserves all tho hurl ti. uea
\t will be passible to in?i'r?g
