The herald., April 27, 1883, Image 3

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W CAPITAL CONVENTION.
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the Dakota. Capita! Cotttmls
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J&owiOflrftoni Canton of the ifith,
1 to the Pioneer Press.]
nventlon last i
•a city. Fiftc i
jhes were flaud
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commission.
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ght was the largest ever
counties were re present
by Kellatn, Pettlgrew,
Taylor, in opposition to
and by Jercel), Drown,
Ivor. The sentiment of
by the vote on the
ador
ations introduced by A.
ie committee on resolu
s taken, and but seven
adoption, while fully
resolutions:
used by the legislature,
e the capital of this
nt location at thecitvof
:itral and accessible tlac)
icreas the said act nru
of commissioners to lo
!, whereas li- said corn
1 atul entered oil the
s such therefore, ty the
ikota, in mass meeting at
led, bo it
opjiosed to any unlawful
It vu exprcs
frfoi lowing rr
.yiairman of
finding vote
«|ed against tl
Were cast for
An act was
to rem
from Its pre
ftsome more
el
v'y
Jloutital:
tory and, v
e apnointu:
at
I quabtl
•tl
fdtlljr
their
dutie
utheaatern I1
i *,aiiton asset i,
4L That we are
w, in any mui
fl to obatrnc
lawful
ir
ijpany was
n. s.
whatsoever, calculated
hinder the said coinmis
•hark'a of their duties:
sliere any unlawful or unjust jweats
3f taken to obstruct the said commission
ules, as aforo^aid, to bo
•'ss interest aim nnaticial
ry that as yd wo behave
aot committed any act to
attacking thorn: that wo
o condemn any man or
which tlit*..* have not com
last year immense sams I
en expanded in ad
v' for the purpose of
liereto, and that as a result
se best advertised country
ie lof immigration which
'ore to the Southwest and
territory, and that wo are
of the t'l'i'.irest immigra
bv a Territory that it is
citizen of Dakota to jeal
sure calculated to injure
any way or ruannfr that
tnd scandalizing of any of
blic press is calculated to
sperous outlook and to
ur competitors to take
nir immigration to them
vintr tiuj said commission
nity to fait
charge of theii
ft to the bum
of this Terri'
fnuaissioQ lias
ouWic pre*s
Crossly wronu
in for my a."
aat during the
1 have i
SnhisisTerri'
Immigration
ory to-day
ld: that the
[irected here:
aing tothi
|be isidst of
i ever enjoy
brest of eve
llnize anv
imigration
defamation
by the i
present
avenue fci
jof and turn
i in favor of
i
honestly and impartially
heir duties.
ute denoun nztho legislature and the
n was offers! by King of Chamberlain,
ived less thai i dozen votes. The sonti
is convention was overwhelmingly in oi
the party in v/Jiose interest the meeting
he 11--- ^Rfmav PACIFIC LAND.
Important Case Now Awaiting
lecislon of tlio Interior liejiart-
HQTOK, Special Telegram, April 18.—
Teller ie n-'W engaged on a very im
ileci&ioQ »Cfee! ing tlio mtereats of a largo
of aettlera n! ng the line of the Nortu
Sc Bailroa i comyany, as woll aa tbo-e
fompany. Importaut legal questions
i the oomvanv's grant are iuvolved,
i argued bt re the secretary several
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by Roscoo ojililiug in the interest of
Keildingt n, a land office
i.:us ft large number of cli
the railroad, iu a eouver
•••rrospotidt'iit to-day, thus]
i .o qtii-rttiona tg. be aettleil
.:irtiou:
the Northern Pacific Hail
twenty
Mr,
.* here, whi
jave
iiK the Iifu
fith your
...i:w. .ijly esplaim
i. n secretary'a i
vij.pf-.figinal grant
miles
in
the States
... Territories
with
an imlemtn-
|f ten mile .t :d:ti-u il in both fcjtate^ and
los. Afterw.ir Is :h»T- W.IH abother grant
ineti and jonal ten n.
n arose in t:
Lor:. *li"*
indemnity limit. In lSTl
•I'eiiordepartment whether
not in itself a legislative
Is within the granting limits
ely upon the tiling of the
ute. Secretary Delano held
Uuii of the act already
o withdrawal of tho granted
Jfal of all la
''e" "fleet imme:
•r:ster v^lio general
thji-le aixth
•iter ti'd™ a legisla'
mt this aeci
^.miinisaeci.- n did not affect the indem
|ts under either of tlie acts. Au executive
uiise i#al, however, was made on the States and
ffit. i'4e«o( Ijhe indemnity limits not covered by
•ron: -Wative witl.!: iwal under the act. Three
vv
»s now atiae:
'•..i-Where the a't itself operated as a legisla
Thdrawal of amis within the indemnity
(in
nl yarid—Whether the executive withdrawal of
^muity limits were authorized by law, and if
4 CuPfr''
y lliW wliet er tli9
laud should be
^-aP'i-Wheiherthe'-c is any power in the secre
nc- the interior to now withdraw any of the
old BilthiB the indemnity limit.
VVat
to |Reddington says tnat thou.san^ls of pec
intereeted in tlio forthcoming decision,
him he is in rece j»t every day of a largo
wilici |r of letters of inquiry regarding it. The
rroffi |ra8an imm
wane,
and, although thero
'a ^,] great many settlemeuts within the in
limits, still the fact that the decision
•e ^-'Hieerelwy of the interior ia 1«72 held
•were withdrawn by legislative I
tV!i
keej) people off the land'
w waiting to take them it'
cjie:'® Mram open. Mr. lieddington ia of
ais
p'on ,l,!C^Rr
jquid
n
^ie decision of the sec-
they will be thrown open to settlement
that o»t UPuo to Dakota Xewspa
to Lor- pers.
the Offlcinrntti Times.
ntpid development of Dakota,
chfsi wonder of the day, is more
jihai: y doe to the newspapers ofthe ter
than to any other cause. A town I
»r niaa^06^
maP!'e^
out
before a weekly
y Basse* i® es'fcblished, and a population of
"a wesi'USand souls is sometimes eonaid
meaf:%ufficient justify the publication
generally are the benelits
[or of!'
re
I*2,
,ved fitf
A Hewsyiiper appreciated that
!jerstfrtWChanta often offer a printer in-
a
nd ^nento by way of a bonus or sub
iron *'ions for a cetain number of copies
paid P«$er,and in all cases the.v lib
je doci®" patoh&Bize the printing offices.
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to which Dakota merchants
wis the newspapers and by cir
at tbt" JlitOpishiny. A Dakota town
9jW#i|*tper is not literally filled
&dvortU)euieiitH isicotisidered dying
•an btiad, alko toot a desirable place for an
nown' prisinfr and tiergetic man to iocate.
theof some of the Dakota pa
111th® ''boom" editions, which
y every few months,and which,
ovlir
country, and also
K top* have given every town in the
":nrj°*ytyde reputation. It is not to
PPgl|-that the newspaper pub
wealthy men of Dakota.
f-eivcJ OWi«ld others reap, but theirs is
l.I-jef Of love, and usually it is enough
rilled1y are able to afford t&eir families a
nd. «)rtabio living.
I juit!
pe^ rro Journal: Tally one for the Pi
lady lawyer, Miss Cynthia Kloise,
dand. She was assigned bv Judge
rton as counsel for Ada Williams,
)00 I»
indicted for selling liquor without a li
cense. The opposing counsel were
Holmes Dillon, and the way that Miss
Cleveland vanquished these gentlemen
of the Pierre bar was a caution.
f'akota's Territorial University
YANKTON, D. T., Special Telegram, Anvil 1G.
—Saturday aud to-day the Dakota uuiversity
U Vermillion, Clay county, was formally or
ganized, Gov. Ordway being cx-oflicio pres
ident of the board of regents, and (Sen. Beadle
superintendent of public inetruction, also ex
orticio member of the board. The other mem
bers are N. Burdtck, Vernxillioti, N. D.
I'imi'ing, Jamestown, E. C". Erickdon, Elk
I'oint, Jo!m L. Jelly, Vermillion E. T. Oresxy,
Huriiu, and D. Elwell, Sioux Falls, all of whom
were present except the two latt-jr. The tirst
le-i-dature passed a lwil loeaiing the State
ujiiveiRitv at Vermillion. Nothing was done
till si year ago, when the people of Vermillion
incJI'u irated the university under Territorial
la\v!«, wi'li a board of trustees, etc. Clay
county voted $10,000 bonds and citizens
giv. i}C»,000 iii earth and land,
lluilding was begun, and laat
fad, under Rev. l)r. Epstein, the ltnivi ity waa
opened for pupils and Something over fifty
have attended. At once, the pc-op'e of Ver
million. not fully satisfied with their
title to the university, pioeured the passaco of
a bill last winter locating ami endowing ttie
Dakota university at Vermillion, and
appropriating ?0,0(K) in bonds for
the completion of tin* building. The
institution thus came under the patronage
of the Ten'itory, and ttie old board turned
over all tbu property and records to the new
board of rt gouts. 1). \V\ Iumau waa chosen
treasurer, and (-Jen. l'.eadlo Becretarv. Tlio
board made arrangement:* to complete the
building and purchase apparatus. Dr. Epstein
is to continue in charge for the present.
Dakota now Iku a free university iu full
operation.
Sioux Fait* «l list ice.
Sioux FAI.T.S, Dak., Special Telegram, April
10.—The April term of the district court for
this county adjourned t.-dav, having been in
Bession ten days. no pri-oner, Thomas
Golden, waa Hent -ncod to the Territorial poui
tontiar.v for one year, convict *d of grain! lar
ceny. The RL'grejjato of the lines imposed
amounts to $
1,-100, !jS)0( being from the
gambling caees. doe of the most important
cases—that ol" Surah 1). i a'dsouof Minneapolis,
vs. The Estate of T. T. ('ochran—was settled
before trial, and the famous title suit of Shil
lock vs. l'etngrew, involving title to a largo
^art of tlio land upon which tho city of Siour
'alls ia aiuiatod, was continued.
Bismarck has voted $25,000 for the
purpose of building a new school house
The concentration of troops at central
points in large garrisons will result in
the abandonment of a number of the
smaller posts »n the Northwestern fron
tier, and it is understood that Fort
Stevenson is included in the list of those
to be given up by the military author
ities. Application has already been
made by the commissioner of Indian af
fairs for its transfer to the interior de
partment to be used as a school for the
instruction of Indian youth. The appli
cation has been favorably considered,
and the change will be made as soon as
the date of abandonment has been fixed
upon by the war department. .Some de
lay may, however, be caused by the fail
ure of congress to appropriate funds suf
ficient to enlarge those selected to be
permanent posts.
J. J. Patent is the new mayor uf James
town.
Jensen, the largo city treasurer, is
Sl'j.oOo short. His bondsmen, twenty in
number, are good for it.
David Calhoun committed suicide at
Yankton by cutting the arteries iu his
arms with a pen knife and by cutting a
gash in his abdomen. Whisky did it.
Scott Uiggins,a disreputable character
of Yankton, is in jail for attempting to
ravish an elderly lady named Bancroft.
There is a rush of immigrants over the
Hastings & Dakota road this spring.
From liftv to one hundred car loads of
stock and household goods per day have
been coming for the past three weeks.
The passenger trains run from six to ten
coaches tilled with land seekers.
Judge Carville, one of the original set
tlers at Bismarck and the first judge
of probate and treasurer of Pitirleigh
coun'v, died at Manchester, N. 11., a
short time ago.
A new road from Yankton up the Mis
ouri valley, to a point near Fort .1 Ivi
ford, is soon to be built. The road is to
be called the Yankton, Okobojo & Fort
lluford. The articles of incorporation
have been tiled with the secretary of
Dakota Territory.
A Yankton dispatch says: Inasmuch
as the capital removal bill stipulates that
the territory shall receive not only a bo
nus of at least $100,000 in money, but al
so a bonus of at least 1(10 acres of land
wherever the c.ipitol is fixed, which Kit)
acres is to be mainly laid out in town lots
and sold for the benefit of the territory,
it is assumed that the location to be fixed
upon will not be any considerable town
already established, but will, be rather,
some place easily accessible but removed
from present towns. It is understood
here that the committee will not be in
fluenced by mere proffers of money over
and above the $100,000 to locate the cap
ital at any other than the best point.
Geo. S. Jiidwcll, of Mitchell, gave a
banquet in honor of Judge Edgerton and
members of the bar recently. Toasts
were given and responses made and al
together it was a very happy affair.
Fred Ilaselton, a homesteader living
twelve miles south of Mitchell fell dead
in the street. The family lived at Water
loo, Iowa. He leaves a* wife and eight
children.
The Grand Forks council has voted to
issue bonds to build two iron bridges
across the Red River to connect East
Grand Forks.
At the government land office in Hu
ron 25,000 acres were taken on the 5th
inst.
A fine flowing well, throwing a three
inch sheet forty feet high, has been
stuck in Mitchell at a depth of i'.OoYeet,
givinsr the town the beet water supply in
Southeastern Dakota. A water power
company will be formed at once to afford
facilties for manufacturing.
Sixty-one instruments are now con
nected with the Huron telephone ex
change.
A lumber famine in the towns west of
Mitchell is seriously delaying building
projects.
The Dakota Central railway company
have suoplied fifteen extra engines for
the transfer of freight.
Miller Journal: Fifteen new locomo
tives have been placed on this line with
in the last thirty days, and still the
blockade is almost as unbroken as ever.
Some of our merchants have had freight
on the road from Chicago for four weeks
nd yet it cometh not.
Seeding is reported to he progressing
rapidly in Southern Dakota, and the
ground is said to have never been in bet
ter condition. This is especially so in
the neighborhood of Sioux Falls, Minne
haha countv *£eports from all points in
the Red river valley indicates that seed
ing will be commenced next Monday.
A contract has been let for the con
struction of a llouring mill at Aberdeen,
I)ak., for ."»o,0(K), Chesham Brothers tV
Gunn, Minneapolis, being the successful
bidders,
Mfs*iHaiieoi:s Matters.
The quaint old town of Boscavveu. X,
H., is to celebrate the one hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of its existence, dur
ing the coming summer. This town
lias given to the world Daniel and Ezek
iel Webster, Gen. John A. Dix, William
Pitt Fessenden, Nathaniel and Charles
G. Green, and other distinguished men.
A southern journal says there are
three seasons in Florida—the orange,
vegetable aud invalid the last paying
the best. In summer the Floridians live
on yams aud sugar-cane, and in winter
on Yankees.
It is estimated that the daily sale of
natural flowers in Paris realizes some
$20,000. Gardenias are the most fash
ionable flower, and sell at $1 each next
come lilies of the valley, at $2 a pot,
roses du roi and purple roses, violets,
carnations. The camellia, at one time
so highly prized, is entirely out of fash
ion.
It is said that the gigantic statue of
Hermania to be placed at Xiederwald,
near the Rhine, is to contain forty-five
ton of metal. The blade of the sword
alone weighed one ton. On the tip ot
one ofthe fingers of the left hand of the
figure is the Imperial Crown of Ger
many, and the body is clad in chain arm
ar. A figure ofthe Moselle is to stand
apposite another, representing the
Rhine, at the foot of the statue, and each
jf those will be eighty feet high. Dif
ferent portions of this bronze Colossus
and its attendant groups are being cast
in Berlin, Dresden, Nuremberg and
other places.
Yankees are supposed to be the
champion advertisers of the world, and
they certainly have restored to some
startling and even questionable practice
in this matter. But they are not the
only people who transgress the rules of
good taste in advertising. The publish
ers of a German novel recently caused
to be inserted in a large number of news
papers a notice to the effect that a cer
tain nobleman of wealth and htgh posi
tion, desirous of finding a wife, wanted
one who resembled the heroine in the
novel named. Thereupon every mar
riageble woman who saw the" notice
bought the book in order to see what the
heroine was like, and the work had an
immense sale.
The annual reunion of the society of
the army of the Potomac will be held in
Washington on May 10 and is, and prom
ises to be of unusual interest. Among
those expected to speak at the banquet
are President Arthur, Secretaries Fre
linohuysen and Lincoln, Attorney-Gen
eral Brewster, ex-Presidsnt llaynes,
Generals Grant, Sherman, Sheridan,
McClellan, Hancock, and Schurz, Ad
miral Porter, Charles Pudley Warner,
and ex-Governor Curtiu, of Pennsyl
vania.
Louise Chandler Moultonsays that the
French never seem to think it worth
their while to learn English. Even tne
professor of English in a French college
put his objects before the verbs, and says
lov-ed aud wish-ed. Sometimes, for pe
cuniary benefit, they wiil pretend to a
greater knowledge of the language than
they actually possess. A little flower
boy: "You my fiowers buv?" "you give
me a penny--poor little English boy'."'
As the dirty little gamin says the words
he proves himself only French and noth
ing else.
The Boston Herald produces statistics
to prove that while pneumonia is on the
increase in New York, it bus been stead
ily declining in Boston for some years
past. The number of deaths from pneu
monia was absolutely less in 1882 than
in 1SSI. The Herald attributes this fav
orable showing to the increasing cleanli
ness of the one city, and the filthiness
of the other.
The reappearance of thr Star of Beth
lehem is predicted by astronomers foi
this year or the next. On the 11th of
November, 1"»72, Tveho de Brahe dis
covered a star in Cassiopeia which
equaled Sirius, and even Venus, in
brightness for a month, and then fell
back into its former insignificance. Con
jecture has sought to establish a connec
tion between this phenomenon and two
similar apparitions in 1 ."84 and LM5. A
not unnatural inference was that the
same increase of volume of this remark
able star occurred before 94.1, which
would bring us to about GoU and 310, and
to the date of the Nativity. This star ia
now again due.
Dr. Gatling, the inventor ofthe famous
gun, is a Southerner, but looks like an
elderly German. He is still iiard at
other inventions, and promises to
again surprise the world.
A young man died in Rome, Ga., a
few days ago, after an illness of forty
eight hours, and his physician said his
death was due to congestion of the lungs
caused by smoking cigarettes.
Dr. A. E. Baldwin of Marshall paid $2
and costs for assaulting County Clerk(r at
terson.
KOBLE VICTIMS OF OPIUM.
A Hifjh I life Sensation, True In all
Particular^ Kxcept Names.
London Lile.
Very recently a rising young physi
cian in the West End of London was
summoned to attend a very urgent case.
As the carriage drew up at the door, he
observed that there was nn awning and
a carpet extending from the portal to
the curb, and on reaching the hall he
found that the house was thronged with
people in evening dress. The messen
ger, speaking to a white-haired, mili
tary looking gentleman who sat alone
before the tire-place, said
"sir Hugh, this is Dr. Fielding/'aud
withdrew.
The gentleman addressed rose from
his chair, and as he stood in the blazing
light of the sea-coal lire be seemed a
man in w hose splendid physical pres
ence the doctor at once recognized tho
person of a famous naval commander
whose deeds of personal prowess iu the
Pacific and in the China Se s had won
for him something more than a national
reputation.
"Be seated, doctor," he said, pointing
to a chair, "My daughter was to have
been married to-day. I have sent for
you because I know your re nutation for
the treatment of nervous diseases is very
high."
"My professional skill is at your ser
vice,"* said the doctor.
"Your answer is frank and to the
point," returned the baronet. ,,The
marriage of my daughter has not taken
place. To-day she passed from a state of
vivacity and apparent happiness .int.)
one of stupor. All our efforts to arouse
her have proved unavailing. In order
that you may comprehend the entire
situation, I shall be forced to detail some
of mv own ami of mv family history.
Her mother was a native of the East In
dies, I married her after a brief court
ship when I was a Flag Lieutenant in
the East India squadroon, many years
ago. She was a daughter of a missionary
who had given over his zealous ambition
to convert the heathen of Burmah and
gone into trade. In a short time h's for
tune had reached an incred
ible amount. Tin?re were vague rumors
that the greater part of it had been
gathered by transactions in opium. The
young lady" herself was beautiful and tal
ented, and the sole heiress of her fath
er's enormous wealth. Among the
many suitors who came I was the suc
cessful one, and our wedding was in
many respects a most remarkable affair.
Our only child was born some years later,
and shortly after I was ordered to an ar
duous service in the Coriscan waters. On
its completion I returned to England to
find my wife broken in health and the
victim of the most painful complication
of disorders. It was necessary to allay
her pain and to do this morphia was re
sorted to. She lingered on and died.
Before her death she told
me in a lucid moment that she had
learned the use of opium in her child
hood, and that, while she bad never be
come a slave to it, she had nevertheless
taken it with regularity, and she had no
doubt that her illness resulted from the
habit. In this view the physician who
attended her concurred. Now, sir, mv
child appears to me to have been using
some drug. I have no reason to believe
that she is a slave to a habit of taking
opium in any of its horrible forms, but
my heart is ourdened with the gravest
apprehensions. Should you discover
that she is. the wedding ceremony,
which otherwise is only postponed, shall
never take place. The bride-groom is
the son of my dearest friend, and I can
never permit that he shall
have the prospect of a life
of misery, such as mine lias been
the more so for the reason that there ia
no way to insure a life happiness for
her."
They passed out through the hall, up
the staircase, encountering the guests
who had been bidden to the marriage
feast taking their departure. Some of
them gave looks of curiositv, but all of
them had a word of sympathy or a pres
sure of the hand to bestow upon the
stricken father as he passed by.
On reaching the landing, the Baronet
stopped for a moment to recover his self
possession, and then gently opening a
door, ushered the doctor into the pa
tient's chamber. The sight that greeted
the doctor's eves embraced as its central
feature the form of a young lady clad in
a dress of white s.itin and lying on a bed.
A bridal veil of delicate lace trailed its
luxuriant length over the back of a chair,
on which also hung a wreath of orange
blossoms.
In a moment the man of science saw
that the father's worst fears were justi
fied. A mere glance at the swollen eye
lids. whose unnatural yellow color was
heightened by the dark blue veins that
traversed them, showed that the young
lady was not only the victim ofa larger
portion than she iiad been accustomed
to take, but that the custom itself was of
old standing.
"Well, Doctor," asked the baronet,
anxiously, "is it opium?"
"We must first save her life," replied
the doctor evasively.
Proper remedies were administered
so successfully that in a few minutes the
victim was aroused from the state of
coma into which she had fallen, ati(l
brought to her feet. Then began the
heroic treatment. She was beaten with
hands, pricked with sharp points and
subjected to repeated shocks from a
galvanic battery, while her stomach was
attacked with the most powerful emetics,
and all the while she was kept walking
up and down the room, despite her
pleadings to lie allowed to lie down and
close her eyes. It took many hours be
fore the danger passed away. Then the
doctor sought the Baronet in his library,
and said without preface: "Your
daughter, sir, is a confirmed opiumeat
er not only has she used the drug in
that form, but has taken it sub-tyitane
ouslv."
"This is horrible news," moaned the
father. "Can not this frightful habit be
checked and finally stopped? It you
can stop it, or if you think you can, re
linquish your career to devote yourself,
to the task, and I will give you my
whole fortune nay, even my life."
Dr. Fielding shook nis head gloomily.
"No," he said, "science has not done
that. Even in paradise appetite reigned
and ruined."
That night the doctor pored over his
books and finally, asif possessed of some
new impulse, he hastened to his labor
atory, and selecting from its shelves a
bottle, carefully measured out a portion
of morohia. He was about to conduct an
experiment of which he himself was to
be the subject.
It does not require many months
for
opium to assest its swav. Within a year
the subject bad become a ruler, and the
student was enthralled probably beyond
the power of escape. Meanwhile he de
voted himself to the care of
tie baronet's daughter, He
sacrificed his own career, shunned bis
old associates, gave up all practice, and
either passed his time by her side or in
the retirement of his own rooms, dream
ing in blissful, fateful sleep.
Into the morbid brain of the doctor
came visions of lands in whose glorious
confines a goddess dwelt aud ruled. Into
his heart there came a new sensation of
pleasure and pain. And besotted by
the drug, or wrapped in the slumber of
its creation, one thought alone pulsated
in his brain. He was in love with his
patient. And for a time his efforts were
crowned with encouraging results.
Devoting all his attention
to her case, he at last checked her crav
ing for the drug, and loosened the fet
ters of habit, though, unfortunately,
without being able to break them. The
father, noticing the first" results, was
transported with joy, but seeing that the
improvement was not permanent, be
came the prey of a renewed anxiety.
He questioned the doctor closely. The
answers gave him no satisfaction. Sail
experience had given him a keen in
sight. One day the thought flashed up
on him that the doctor himself betrayed
symptoms of being an opium slave. He
bluntly put the question:
"Do you take opium?"
The doctor's pallid face, his trembling
nerves, his lusterless eyes, gave one an
swer, but the honor of the man made
him pause before he opened his lips—
and lied. He had been devoting so
much labor and time to the study of this
case, he said, that bis health bad felt
some ill effects but he had now become
more hopeful than ever, and he felt
that the future was bright with almost
assured hope. He said it was clear that
the father himself had become the prev
of his unfortunately morbid surround
ings, and that he solely needed change
of air. "In short, you should go on a
sea-voyage, hope for the best for your
daughter, and when you return you will
receive good news. 1 assure you that
you will."
Reassured by this con (blent tone and
manner, the baronet acted upon l)r.
Fielding's suggestion. He was away for
a considerable time, and, being con
tinually advised of the rapidly progres
sing recovery ot his cnuu, returned at
last, improved in health and full of joy
ous anticipations. His arrival was quite
unexpected. The butler admitted him,
hut he pushed rapidly by and entered
the room where it was indicated he
would find his child. There he encoun
tered the doctor, who was just arousing
himself from an opium sleep. His
daughter half awake, half reposing in an
armchair, her eyes half closed, the lines
of her face softening and changing as her
mind swayed in tne elysium of the opi
ate. Horror-stricken, the father dashed
toward the doctor, with a look upon his
face that told of murder. But at that
moment nature's hand stayed him, his
heart ceased to beat, his eyes closed, his
form tottered and he fell to the floor.
Apoplexy, brought on in the moment of
wild excitement, had claimed a victim.
The doctor made a feeble effort to re
store him, but his vacillating mind
could not grasp the necessary treatment.
When the servants came inthey found
him by the body, gibbering idiotically.
They carried him away, leaving, for the
time, the beautiful victim of an incurable
malady asleep in her chair.
The JHrrr.y Makers.
A satisfactory answer "Young man,"
said a grave-looking gentleman, "are
you prepared to die?" "1 am a freight
brakeman on the X. Y. k Z. road," was
the prompt response.—Boston Trans
cript.
One of the great actors: "Yes," said
Brown, "Stalker is a great actor. He is
possessed of real talent." "And he
hides it so perfectly!" added Fotrg, in
sympathetic admiration.—Boston Trans
cript.
Too heavy to carry: "Bah Jove!" ex
claimed young Dudiboi, "the weatbah is
getting so mild, yer know, that I must
have the ferrule taken off'my cane. It's
too beastly heavy for a^warm day, yer
know.''
A tint from the art world: She had
just visited the studio of an artist famous
for painting interiors and she was going
into raptures over this work. "Then
you think him a great painter?" "De
lightful! So much fee'ing. Such good
color. His insidos are jast too charming
for anything."—Life.
"Speed the parting guest:" Things
one wou rather have left unsaid.
"We've had such a pleasant evening,
Mr. Jones. May I beg of you to ask one
of your servants to ill a hansom?" "With
pleasure, Mrs. Smith."—London Punch.
The first quarrel: Philip Fogy, Jr.,
(who has refused, after prolonged dis
cussion, to get gaudy raiment and take
his wife to the Derblune's fancv ball),
morosely: 1 wish I had mar'ied a sen
sible woman. His recently-acquired
spouse (to vviio^1 the said ball is for the
moment much more attractive than
heaven), vindictively: She wouldn't
have you!—Life.
"I have made one human being hap
py to-day," said Fred Blanks lo Bob
Belt, an Austiu lawyer. "Did you 'send
a barrel of flour to a poor widow?''
"No my means ilo not allow me to be
so extravagant, but I told an apolicant
for a position in the legislature that
knew he would get it." "Well, that w
one of those little courtesies that casts a
rav of sunshine into the troubled life ofa
feilow-fraveler in this vale of tears, and
which does not. cost anything." "The
mischief it di ln't cost anything! I !«or
rowed two dollars from him on the
strength of it."—'Texas Sittings,
as
Sir Philip Rose, the legal adviser of the
English Tory party, is dead.