f ETfWHi CAPITAL.
jjv INDEPENDENT FAMILY TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE STATE, CITY AND COUNTY.
VOL I. NO. 4. \ ANNAPOLIS, MD., THURSDAY EVENING. MAY 15, 1884. PRICE ONE CENT.
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THE POET'S FAITH.
t- God is good, an l will not leave in?,
W hen I die;
[ love, 1 know, w.ll not deceive me,
cruel doubt* He will not grievnine.
W r tea cn death* bel I lie.
-•God haa don<- too much for me
For death to end
l|jo< tny n ght upon th * shore,
■vhope heg ves forevermore
To foe and friend.
p Ik at < ray soul on lake* of ligh^
In *p rit land,
|g;>nd th* -h uif.w and th? blight,
i*r L-d the len'-h of human sight.
By angels famid.
|jjp inakee my spirit all devout ?
Who 1 ends my knee?
Rk dwells w.t.i n an 1 guards without,
% save* m y s jul from wayward doubt
By ail I h e i
ypnount'iin'H nol, the val/s embrace.
The vault at ove !
®kouJ which lids the b Mind less spac *.
myields me thought and 1 gjucs,
111 Ochl's sweet
J|j in spirit, if mm pray,
‘|*| And 1< o*i to <
art of conneic nflp will Ik* gay,
its sway
|| Pi %$£ _ IMM ~ lipliSlS
yrsJf unmolested, until I began to dis
regard the danger altogether. During
th;jl time I became accustomed to
eveiy phase of my situation, and al-
uiy lonely life gave me a very
silejpt and taciturn habit, I enjoyed my
days at LO3 Angeles, or at Santa
M<SwP a * sea-bathing, as much as my more
fortu§b' ite friends, who ran north over the
Tch'Jkhapi pass, and were at home every
nigh§’ enjoyed their rests.
'TrJiin robberies had lately been fre
quent* and while I did not expect to be
Httatjpked, I learned to be on the lookout.
I hJfd a set of signals with the l>cll rope
to the trainmen know when I was in
dpj'ger. Robberies were often made
w jJile the trains were in motion, and the
vx ji>ress messengers were either bound
ba#*d and foot, or killed, the robbers
bc/ n L desperate men who hesitated at
u Jothing.
/ Occasionally, however. I did relax my
Jigibrace, and slept as soundly as at the
jJiotcl where I boarded. Finally my turn
lame.
" The train arrived at Tucson one night
l early an hour late. There was a great
deal of express matter to exchange, and
far fifteen minutes 1 was kept “busy load
ing and unloading bundles and boxes.
The passengers walked up and down the
platform to stretch their legs; the en
gine's safety-valve hummed with escap
ing steam, and the long train of cars,
reaching the full length of the platform,
presented a picture of bustle and activity.
the last bundle was piled away,
banee to talk a few minutes w ith
then the train started,
|m( kim 1 .and 1 i;t n<
that were
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Before they had gone five miles farther I
had some nails in my poc Viet, and a care
less glance showed me a hole in the side
of the box through which the robber was
undoubtedly watching every movement
I made.
I did not go near the revolvers or rifles.
It would have taken but a second for
him to have raised the lid and shot me,
and I knew he would do so if I ap
j proached them. Instead of that I care
| lessly assorted a pile of express matter
! near the box, with a view to what I was
! about to do.
I was terribly excited, though I tried j
to appear cool. When I was all ready,
I threw several heavy packages on the
lid, sat down on the box. and hastily
nailed down the lid* I heard a noise
within, and felt a pressure us my prisoner
endeavored to raise the lid. The weight
was too great, and I soon had all the nails
driven in to hold him fast. He was
secured, but to make sury of him I sur
rounded the box with heavy bundles,
and piled upon it the heaviest boxes the
car contained.
I sat down for a minut|to recover my
self; then taking down ii rifle, I cocked j
it loud enough for him to hear.
“How many more are there aboard the
train?” I asked, placing 4iy mouth to a
crack between the bricks.
In reply I heard a muffled sound re
sembling a curse, and as all the holes
through which he might shoot were cov
ered with gold and si'ver, I put my
mouth nearer and asked the question 1
again. *
I received no reply, and going to the j
end of the car, I quietly qpened the door
leading to the platform. The night air
rushed in, and the noise u. f *ihe train came
with it, making a din in’my ears. We
were running at a high' rate of speed
the hills that apound in that
the platftjftm of the next
The traiu
at \flrk. Two men,
HgfcMin tiv, f<‘P! of
l>;i' -• n-
A REMARKABLE AFFECTION
rax BTiAiax mozis that dis-
TZVaUZSK VSTTmOPKOBXA.
Person* with m Dislike for Certain
Streets, Places or Objects—Others
who Dread Letter* or Colors,
In the afternoon of one of the sunniest !
days last week two got on a Madi- j
son avenue car going down town at the i
corner of Fifty-fourth street. One was a j
j thin, pallid, rather emaciated gentleman,
i possibly forty years of age, with rather a j
peculiar transparency of the temples, j
restless eyes, and a singular nervousness ;
of manner; the other large, well nour- j
ished, massive and rather corpulent, with
the placid, self-satisfied countenance of
the man who has succeeded in the world,
and feels on good terms with it. The
pair might readily have been mistaken
for a madman and lus keeper, only the !
feebler of the two was evidently not past
the verge of sanity, while the placid com
panion was a trifle less vigilant than the
: custodian of a maniac ought to be, and
i moreover was recognized by at least one j
j passenger as a famous physician.
The thin gentleman shifted his posi- !
tion uneasily, gazed out of the car win- ‘
dow a moment, then studied the faces of
his three or four fellow passengers with
the rapid intensity of a physiognomist,
and glanced furtively at the open door,
i in which the figure of the c6nductor was
J framed like a full-length photograph.
“Fares, gents.” grumbled that func- ;
1 tionary, stalking into the ear. The thin
gentleman paid for two, and again
glanced in the direction of the open
door. His hand shook a* he replaced his
pocketbook, and a shiver passed over
him. His portly companion turned and
spoke to him in a low tone. The words
were inaudible, and the intonations were
soft, soothing, and evidently expostula
tory. Suddenly the pale passenger sprang j
to his feet, pulled the bell violently, and
rushed out of the car, which was uow
midway between Forty-eighth and Forty- I
ninth streets. The portly physician rose |
seat in a leisurely, comfortable
and alighted ut the corner j
'•in'Ct, when* the
T Li*
oynteis To his wonder, as he was about
tp step from the curbstone at the corner
of the postoffice he was seized with a,
lit of trembling and terror, and since
then he has never been able to command
himself to cross at that p~>int, though he
has often tested his selt control by try*‘
! ing it.
Another patient had the same terror of
1 >he Jersey City ferry at the foot of Cort
land t street. The Brooklyn ferries have
no terrors for him. the Desbrosses street
ferry is not objectionable, but if his life
depended upon crossing to Jersey v ii.y
at Cortlandt street hr could not com
mand his ne.'vcs to accomplish it. As in
the other two, there is no as. Ignable
cause for the morbid impression in th’S
case. It came suddenly, and has beer
in existence for lour years. •
; “Sometimes.” continued the doctor,
i “the victim has a terror of a certain
street, avenue, or public square* aod one
i man I know cannot pass the s.atue of
j Lincoln at Union squ re \%ith-A expe^
! riencing a nervous tremoi. But, with
regard to some of our outdoo* statuary,
nervous dreau is natural enougt.”
“One of my patients.” he ••?nt on,
“a literary man ot some reputation, baa
a nervous terror of words ending in or
containing the diphthong *ch.’ This man
will take any trouble to avoid the rela
tive pronoun ‘which.’ lie has not for
years written any one of the words termi
nating in tch—such as catch, fetch,
scratch, batch, latch or patch. For
match lie always writes lucifer or Vesu- '
vian; for fetch either bring or obtain;
for catcl\, he uses capture or some other
proximate. He has often tried to over
come the prejudice; but some how his
haud begins to tremble, his breath cornea
short, and lie cannot form the letters.
For character he always writes disposi-
I tion, reputation, kind, description—any
thing that will pass muster as a substi
( tute.” i
Cases of neurophobia as concerns j
colors are not uncommon. One of the /
doctor's patients—a woman this time-W
i is driven into hysteria by a certain pal/
| cold shade of blue. And a nervoy
j fidgety little man, who called upon
j to be treated for musicians' cramp, buf /]
his e :, rs in his own office for wearing j
, scarf, and begged his pardonL..^/^