The Press Democrat. (Hennessey, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, July 5, 1895 Page: 2 of 8
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N6EWNATIONAL PftESS A66N
CHAl'TEIt IX. — (Continued.)
Tho rain fell in sudden showers on
liis cap and shoulders, the wind swept
toward him iu hoistrons gusts from
time to timo, and he was wholly in-
different to both. The sea was
roughened by tossing surges, and of a
leaden tint, the sky was gray, while
the countryside had assumed the yel-
low hues of wet roads and drenched
gardens. Tho scene was ugly, and
even dispiriting-, robbed of sunlight
and a blue heaven, but the heart of
the young oflicer rejoiced. He stepped
along briskly and hummed the Swal-
low waltz Had Dolores slept soundly
after that dream of dreams, dancing at
a real ball? Would she be glad to see
him? How would the old man re-
ceive him? The near future unfolded
before him clearly, as he rashly imag-
ined, composed of stolen in-
terviews, engagements for the next
day on shore, letters, and all the idle
and delicious dalliance of a love affair
with a charming and innocent young
girl, whose dark eyes had opened wide
with astonishment when he entered
the garden gate, with her grandfather
for the tirst time. He was prepared to
develop a thirst for archaeology, and
stock his cabin with headless idols,
and terra-cotta jugs, if necessary, in
order to further propitiate Jacob Deal-
try, and establish a footing of inti-
macy in the house.
These meditations brought the young
man to the garden door in question.
He rapped on the panel. There was
no souud of movement within the en-
closure. He repeated the knocking,
for their was no bell on the premises.
Florio uttered a shrill bark in the in-
terior of the tower. The visitor
waited with a smile on his lip, and
eager expectation iu his eye. Dolores
must have heard the summons, and
would hasten to open the gate,
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"LAZV uikl!" 1IE exclaimed.
companied by her faithful dog-. Lieut.
Curzon felt a sentiment of affection
for the little animal awaken in his
breast for announcing so promptly his
arrival.
No lijfht footstep approached the
boundary and the succeeding- still-
ness seemed to denote complete deser-
tion.
The sanguine countenance of the
young man lengthened. Apprehen-
sion seized him. llis sensibilities
being highly wrought by a new and
absorbing life interest, and therefore
prone to swift extremes, a fear of
some accident or misfortune smote
him. He pushed the sunken door
vigorously, and some slight obstruc-
tion of fastening yielded to the blow.
Then be entered the enclosure and
gazed about him. The aspect of
melancholy desertion of the Watch
Tower struck him forcibly, and re-
curred to his mind on a subsequent oc-
casion. The grey sky lowered above
the structure, forming a fitting back-
ground for the dilapidated masonry,
which was furrowed and stained by
the storms of many years. The very-
garden, borrowing, a sombre shadow
from the temper of the day, appeared
unusually unkempt and dishevelled.
Moisture hung on the tendrills of
.vines, and dripped from the twigs of
the ' trees, like human tears. The
water in the fountain was stagnant,
opaque, and of a greenish-yellow
hue.
"What a dreary hole!" thought the
intruder, with involuntary repug-
nance.
How had Dolores thriven amidst such
surroundings? Unconsciously he made
comparison between the maiden and
a cactus flower, blooming in rich,
scarlet tints amidst the gnarled and
spiked branches of a plant on the wall
as he traversed the narrow path to tbe
door. He tried to open the portal,and
Florio again barked shrilly in the halL
The door was locked. He knocked
and shook the knob of the handle.
A window was slowly opened above,
and the head of Dolores thrust forth,
Her hair was iu disorder, clinging in
little curls about her forehead and
temples, and her eyes heavy. She
y a wiled witli the aspect of rosy con-
tentment of a baby. She uttered a
drowsy exclamation, resembling a coo,
on recognizing the visitor.
'•Uood morning," said the officer
removing his cap, and stepping back a
pace, tlie better to devour her with his
gaze.
"Ciood morning," replied Dolores,
stilling a second yawn.
"Lazy girl!" he exclaimed, laughing.
^ ou have been asleep. You are not
yet awake."
"I was so sleepy after breakfast,"
she admitted, smiling. "What is the
matter with Florio? Do you not find
grandpapa in the garden'."'
"No. The entire place seems to be
deserted."
"l'erhaps he has gone to the town
while I was asleep. Wait, and I will
come down stairs."
She passed her hands over her small
head to smooth tile tangled hair, and
withdrew from the casement. The
next moment she returned with a lit-
tle, mutinous grimace of vexation.
"My door is fastened," she ex-
plained.
"Fastened?" he repeated, in surprise.
"Do you mean to say you are a pris-
oner in your chamber"
Dolores nodded.
"Grandpapa is often like that. I can
never find the key, and yet he locks
my door on the other side at night. If
I ask the reason, he is very angry."
"Perhaps he fears you may fly
away," Arthur Curzon suggested.
"Oh, no! I have no place to fly to,"
she answered, with unconscious
pathos.
"Then he suspects that some lover
will carry you off, true Corsair
fashion."
Dolores dimpled into smiles, and
rested her anus on the ledge of the
window.
"1 here's no danger of grandpapa's
losing me like that," she said demure-
ly. "The Corsairs do not want me,
either."
"Oh, Dolores! if I were a Corsair, I
would carry you off in my arms to my
ship, and we would sail away to tile
Happy Islands."
1 lie Happy Islands," she echoed,
lialf-dreamily. "Our Knight would
not permit it, for he guards the
Tower."
"Your Knight? My dear girl, who
on earth are you talking about now?"
She raised her Unger with a warning
gesture.
"Our Knight of Malta. Have you
not seen his portrait on the wall?"
Oli! ' said the young man, relieved.
"And, you know, the grand duke
spoke to me in Spanish, and I could
understand him very well, although I
seemed to have forgotten all," she
continued in a tone of confidence.
What did he talk about?" inter-
posed the lieutenant, with a slight
frown.
'About Spain, the churches, the
pictures, and the ladies "
Ah the ladies," with a sarcastic
emphasis.
I lien I knew that the knight spoke
to me in Spanish in my dream," said
the girl. "You see, he must have
been one of the Spanish knights."
The sailor sighed.
"Am 1 not even to shake hands with
you this morning, dear Dolores?" lie
demanded, tenderly. "I could climb
up to you with the aid of a rope or a
bench."
"Or I could jump to the ground,"
supplemented Dolores, merrily.
\Y e might have made a turn of the
Swallow waltz together around the
garden," he said, regretfully.
"Yes."
How pretty she was up there in the
window, just beyond reach, and how
tantilizing!
"I have brought you some sweets.
Can you catch the package? Well
done, little girl! That is not all. How
would you like to go to the opera on
Thursday night, when a new singer is
to make her debut?"
"Oh!" exclaimed Dolores, while the
color in her cheek ebbed and flowed
rapidly.
She had caught the package
• f sweets, but paused before
unfolding the paper. The good
age of the fairy tales had surely re-
turned to the earth. Supreme delight
of her imagination! To be present at
the debut of the Signorina Uiulia
Melita seemed the very summit of
happiness to the girl at the moment
"Grandpa will not like it," she
added, with a sigh.
"He shall like it" said Lieut Cur-
zon, resolutely. "I will order the
idols of the twelve children of the sun
of him, with or without heads."
"How good you are!"
Dolores sighed again, and opened
the paper, which contained an almond
confection, more or less tough of tex-
ture, and insipid in flavor, and closely
related to the Mediaeval honey paste,
the torone of Cremona, and the turon,
fabricated in the half-Moorish town
of Alicante from Saracenic recipes, to
be eaten with the Christmas turkey at
llarcellona.
"It must be nice to be a singer,
and wear lovely dresses, and have
Mr. Hrown's pockets full of fresh
(•loves," mused Dolores, nibbling
the delicacy with sharp, white
teeth. "She was very kind to
me in the dressing-room at
the ball. Oh! how I should like to
hear her sing!"
"Heware of the glamour of the stage,
Dolores.''
"Will you have a piece of the paste?
It is so delicious," proffering a morsel
of the delicacy, coaxingly,
"No, thanks. I am not fond of
sugar," said the masculine votary of
tobacco.
She glanced over her shoulder into
the chamber, darted back, and reap-
peared with a small, golden orange in
her ringers.
"I have nothing else," she said,
with graceful depreciation. "If you
would be so good as to accept it I
gathered it this morning."
He received the gift in his out-
stretched hands
"l'erhaps grandpapa was vexed be-
cause I climbed on the chair, and told
the knight about the ball, and the
prince who spoke Spanish." continued
Dolores. "Can he have locked the
door for that reason?"
"I do not understand his motive for
SCIENTIFIC NEWS.
THE LATEST INVENTIONS AND
DISCOVERIES.
I'rogross In the Life-Snvlng Service of
France—The Wooden Kallroad of
France—Investigation a* to the Cause
and Effect of Grief.
HE society to aid
shipwrecked sailors
at Boulogne,
France, has recent-
ly adopted two im
proved life-saving
appliances for use
along the coasts.
One Is an apparatus
for launching life-
boats beyond the
surf line and the
other is a new line
device for carrying baskets in which
shipwrecked men are pulled ashore. In
the launching apparatus an Incline is
built, as the accompanying illustrations
ffom L'lllustratlon show, from the
shore a good distance out into the water.
The lifeboat is held in a horizontal posi-
tion on a carriage which is let down to
the water by means of a cable coiled
around a drum. If the water reaches
the boat in this horizontal position when
the end of the incline is reached, the
boat simply floats off. If the tide is out
the boat can be made to incline by
depressing the supports which hold it
In a horizontal position, and the launch
is almost as easy as when there is no
necessity for this action.
The carriage for the boat slides down
two rails. The life savers take their
places in the craft before it starts down
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"INSISTED ON" SHAKING HANDS."
locking the door. Dolores, I have so
many things to tell you, and now I
must run away to the ship."
She gave him a roguish glance be-
neath her long eyelashes.
"You cruel girl! You are laughing
at me," he exclaimed, ruefully! "I
believe you are glad to be a prisoner
so that I cannot reach you.'1
"Perhaps," she said, with bewitch-
ing gravity.
"Ah, I should know how to punish
you for your naughtiness if I could
gain your side. 1 fear I might kiss
you."
"Would you?" with dimpling smiles.
"Dolores, do you love me?"
"I think so. How am I to help lov-
'no you -a little?" The moisture of
unshed tears softened the luster of the
dark eyes.
Then there was silence between
them, a mute gaze eloquent of all un-
spoken possibilities, that rendered the
brain of each a trifle giddy, and
caused tumultuous heart throbbings.
Space no longer divided them, and
lliev circled softly together amid the
roseate clouds of a boundless im-
agination to the measure ot divine
harmonies.
Jacob Dealtry entered the gate.
Lieut Curzon turned to him, and in-
sisted on shaking hands, a ceremony to
which the old man submitted with
singular limpness. Then the visitor
repeated his invitation to the opera on
Thursday evening. Jacob Dealtry
listened without consent or refusal, his
features remained vacant and ab-
stracted, and he rubbed his lingers
slowly together.
"Would you like a stone slab, with
a tolerably clear Phoenician'inscription
carved on it?" he inquired abruptly.
"Oh! Grandpapa! What can an
officer do with a tombstone on board
ship,' cried Dolores, reproachfully,
from the window.
1 should like the carved stone very
much, said Arthur Curzon, seriously.
"I could make a gift of it to the British
museum when I return home."
"Eh! To be sure!" assented Jacob
Dealtry, with animation.
He opened the orange and ate it with
rare enjoyment The spicy fragranco
of the golden rind, tho luscious sweet-
ness anil richness of flavor of the ripe
pulp, seemed to him refreshing, in-
comparable. He had partaken of
strange and tropical fruits in all por-
tions of the world, yet none like this
t:ny ball, which had garnered and
transmuted sunshine to its own uses
in the neglected garden of Jacob Deal-
try. In the aromatic scent of the outer
peel he inhaled the perfume of Dolo-
res' beauty, and in the musky fruit he
already tasted her caresses.
He flung away the rind. The next
time they met he would surely win
from the pouting, red lips a kiss. He
looked no further in advance on tho
path of life than that
(TO BK CONTINUED.)
the incline. A pilot stands in the bow
with a boat hook to shove the craft off
when It strikes the water, and another
is in the stern to guide the rudder. The
Inventor is an engineer named Polly.
The boat and sliding apparatus, with
the crew on board, weigh about ten
tons. It has been tried successfully, and
has secured the commendation of nu-
merous live-saving societies.
The second contrivance is an endless
rope in pulleys which is pulled on board
the shipwrecked craft by a small line
that is shot out to it. The basket is
suspended by the upper part of the
loop and the lower part steadies the car-
riage as it is brought in.
Thkhk is no better fertilizer for the
garden than the manure from the poul-
try house.
Scientific Investigation of Grief.
We are all familiar with cases where
travel, amusements and constant rush-
ing about from place to place have been
recommended as curative agents for
people who have sustained great shocks,
or who have had cause for deep and
heartfelt sorrow. Medical science has
demonstrated that violent and depress-
ing emotions cause many serious physi-
cal ills, and that it is almost impossible
to restore health until the causes are
removed. Wild creatures that have
mourned themselves to death held in
captivity have been carefully examined.
Although their food was sufficient and
of proper quality, and enough was con-
sumed to sustain life under ordinary
circumstances, the tissues were found
to be in an unnatural condition, and
all of the organs had undergone degen-
eration similar to that brought about
by ordinarily Infectious diseases. Grief
generates a poison in the system, and
should be treated like many of the other
ills of life brought about through poi-
sonous infections. The relations be-
tween mind and body are much closer
In some persons than in others. This
state of things is not by any means
confined to the higher orders of life, as
death from grief or loneliness or cap-
tivity is not uncommon among creat-
ures of all grades. It is supposed that,
the sudden and violent depression of
spirits causes chemical changes that de-
velop toxic atoms of great virulence,
sufficient, indeed, to change the char-
acter of the tissues and cause degenera-
tion In the blood and brain and spinal
3ord. It is believed by some excellent
authorities that what is known as soft-
?ning of the brain may originate in a
longing for something that the patient
s unable to secure. Science has wrought
many changes that are little short of
miraculous, but in no particular has it
ione a better work than when it proves
that baffled ambition, disappointment
and sorrow are real causes of physical
Us. In olden times, nervousness and
sorrow were things to be punished
Thank Heaven we have lived past that
period.
taking up a large amount of the mate-
rial from which It derives its existence.
Clean and carefully handled manure,
with a fair amount of old sod and earth,
grow healthful plants, but in some large
cities garbage and filthy matter of all
sorts is used in the preparation of the
beds. Microscopic investigation has re-
vealed the fact that the cap of the
mushroom Is so constructed that it can
absorb from the manure vapors which
are dangerous poisons. The little
fringes underneath the cap are there-
fore little more than storehouses of
poisons. It would be well worth while
for consumers of mushrooms to find
out from where they receive their sup^
plies, and if other than clean and whole-
some materials are used, to discard
them altogether.
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A Wooden Railroad.
Florida is soon to have a novel method
of transportation in the form of a
wooden railway. The Railway Age re-
cently gave an account of its history
and construction:
Some time ago the citizens of Avon
Park and Haines City, Fla.. believed
that a transportation route connecting
them would be of great advantage. The
country is sandy and nearly level. It
has been decided to build the road with
wood rails, which are large enough to
be laid so that they will be half im-
bedded in the sand, without other bal-
last. They are to be held in position
by woodon pins two inches in diameter
and eighteen inches long, while the ends
are connected by plank couplers placed
underneath and held by pins. Not a
pound of metal will be used in the con-
struction of the track, although the line
will be forty miles long. Most of the
"rails" will be furnished gratis by the
property owners along the right of way.
The company believes that in a few
years the fruit, vegetable, and passen-
ger business over the route will pay for
regular steel rails, when the others will
be used for ties. A small steam dummy
will furnish power for yio road.
An Unsuspected Source of Danger.
In many households kerosene oil is or-
dered by the barrel, and when the oil
Is consumed, the barrels are used for
other purposes. There is great risk afc
tending this unless the greatest care is
taken In cleaning them. This is best
done by very strong soda and potash,
which should f>e allowed to Remain in
them for some time. An illustration of
the danger of using these barrels with-
out proper cleaning is given. A barrel,
with one head removed, had been
placed in the cellar and a quantity of
kitchen utensils were put into it for
storage, the Idea being that they would
not rust on account of the oil. Some ar-
ticle being needed, a match wa's light-
ed, and held over the barrel in order
to see to take the piece out. It
chanced to touch the edge of the bar-
rel, and insiantly the flame ran all
around the inside, setting the barrel on
fire, completely destroying the contents
and tilling the entire house with black
and thick smoke and soot. In another
instance a wooden alcohol barrel took
fire in the same way and exploded,
throwing a quantity of iron with which
it was filled with great force in all di-
rections, killing one person and severe-
ly injuring several others.
Cost of Ocean Commerce.
Statisticians who are fond of mathe-
matical problems have ligured that the
treasures sunk in the sea, especially
those of gold and silver, are of more
\alue than all of the specie at present
In circulation. Gold and jewels have
been the prey of the pirate, and these
in stress of weather, and under unto-
ward circumstances, have been con-
signed to the deep.
Chinese Woman's Foot.
The picture here reproduced Is from
a photograph of a Chinese ladv It
shows the effect of tight binding a
method resorted to by the women of
I Li Cf ' f ke"P th6ir feet Sma!l-
Large feet are looked upon as a sign of
vulgarity in China.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
The eyes of birds that fly by night
are generally about double the size o
day birds.
Sonic Mushrooms I'oisoiioiiH.
The greed of gain, regardless of con-
sequences, is one of the dangerous ele-
ments in business life, and is never
more clearly brought out than In the
culture of mushrooms. It is well under-
stood that mushrooms grown on old
pastures are wholesome and delicious
-of course, taking It for granted that
they are freshly gathered and properly
prepared. The London Lancet has an
Interesting article on the subject of
growing mushrooms, and calls atten-
tion to some points that are worthy of
the notice of health authorities and
housekeepers. The mushroom is a very
, low order of organization. It nourishes
' an old manure heaps, and is capable of
When the Gulf Stream passes out of
the Gulf of Mexico its temperature is
about 70 deg. ls
The water of the Medlterannean con-
ains a greater proportion of salt than
that of the ocean.
Some students delving in old
libraries, now wear muzzles to prevent
inhaling the book microbe.
The French government discovers
through recent investigation, that ml'
crobes are to be found in common ice.
In Africa a constant lamp filled with
palm oil, and provided with a rag wick
furnishes all the light needed by the
natives.
In the Loo-Choo islands, though there
fh6 "Jel!hu,r vehleles nor Public lighting
the inhabitants have letter-boxes and
telephones.
th<> vulture is so construct-
ion, 1 ,a 'liKh-P°wer telescope, en-
abling the bird to see objects at an al-
most incredible distance.
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