The State Democrat. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 25, 1897 Page: 3 of 8
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BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
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INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION
CHAPTER HI.—(Covtinubd.
"Truly," replied the Doctor with a
shrug, "you have your finger on the
hitch He will be strikingly antipa-
thetic to my beautiful Anastasie. She
will .never understand him; he will
never understand her."
Anastasie controlled herself. "You
know how willing I am to humor you,"
she said, "in all reasonable matters.
Hut on this point—"
My dear love," interrupted (he Doc-
tor, eager to prevent a refusal, "who
wished to leave Paris? who made me
she up cards, and the opera, and the
boulevard, and my social relations, and
all that was my life before I knew you?
Anastasie was aware of defeat! she
struck her colors instantly. "You will
break my (heart," she sighed.
"Not in the least," said he. "You
will ieei a trilling inconvenience for a
month just as I did when I was first
biought to this vile hamlet; then your
admirable sense and temper will pre-
vail, and 1 see you already as content
«s ever, and making your husband the
happiest of men."
^ on know I can refuse you nothing,"
she said, with a last flicker of resist-
ance .
"I think not," replied the Doctor.
Hut do not suppose me so unwary as
to adopt him out of hand. I am, I
flatter myself, a finished man of the
world; 1 have had all possibilities in
view; my plan is contrived to meet
them all. 1 take the lad as stable boy.
If he pilfer, grumble, if he desire to
change, I shall see I was mistaken; I
into the inn garden where there was a
convenient bench beside the river. Here
he sat him down and made the boy
place himself on his left.
"■lean-Marie," he said, very gravely,
"this world is exceedingly vast; and
even France, which Is only a small
corner of it, Is a great place for a
little lad like you. Unfortunately it is
full of eager, shouldering people mov-
ing on; and there are very few bakers'
shops for so many eaters. Your master
is dead; you are not fit to gain a living
l>y yourself; you do not wish to steal?
No. Your situation then is undesir-
able; it is, for the moment, critical.
On the other hand, you behold in me a
man not old, though elderly, still en-
joying the youth of the heart and the
intelligence;' a man of lhstruction;
easily situated in this world's affairs;
keeping a good table—a man, neither
as friend nor host, to be despised. I
offer you your food and clothes, and to
teach you lessons in the evening, which
will be infinitely more to the purpose
for a lad of your stamp than those of
all the priests in Europe. I propose no
wages, but if ever you take a thought
to leave me, the door shall be open, and
I will give you a hundred francs to
start the world upon."
"I shall be very glad. I do not see
what else I can do. I thank you, sir,
most kindly, and I will try to be use-
ful," said the boy.
I hank you,' said the Doctor warm-
ly, rising at the same time ami wiping
his brow, for he had suffered agonies
while the thing hung in the wind. A
refusal, after the scene at noon, would
form of introduction, adding, for fne
benefit of both parties. "Yoii must try
to like each other for my sake,"
"He is very pretty," said Auastaaie.
"Will you kisg mo, my pretty little
fellow?"
The Doctor was furious, and dragged
her Into the passage. "Are you a fool,
Anastasie?" he said. "What is all this
I hear about the tact of women?
Heaven knows, 1 have not met with it
in my experience. You address my
little philosopher as If he were an in-
fant. He must bespoken to with more
respect, I tell you; he must not be
kissed and Georgy-porgy'd like an or-
dinary child."
"I only did it to please you. f ahi
sure," replied Anastasie; "but I will try
to do better."
The Doctor apologized for his
warmth. "Rut I do wish him." he con-
tinued, "to feel at home among us.
And really your conduct was so idiotic,
my cherished one, and so utterly and
distantly out of place, that a saint
might have been pardoned a little ve-
hemence in disapproval. Do, do try— if
it is possible for a woman to under-
stand young people—but of course it is
not, and I waste my breath. Hold
your tongue as much as possible at
least, and observe my conduct nar-
rowly; it will serve you for a model."
Anastasie did as she was bidden, and
considered the Doctor's behavior. She
observed that he embraced the boy
thi^fe times in the course of the even-
ing, and managed generally to con-
found and abash the little fellow out of
speech and appetite. But she had the
true womanly heroism in iitlie affairs.
Not only did she refrain from the
cheap revenge of exposing the Doctor's
errors to himself, but she did her best
to remove their Ill-effect on .lean-Ma-
rie. When Desprez went out for his
last breath of air before retiring for
the night, she came over to the boy's
side and took his hand.
Vie held up his face, and she took
him in her arms and then began to
cry. The woman had spoken in com-
plaisance; but she had warmed to her
own words, and tenderness followed.
IN' THE ODD CORNER,
SOME STRANGE. QUEER AND
CURIOUS PHASES OF LIFE.
A l.oai Treasure Wluml I'ror. K< riptnri
ou l-iltlrr May llallueliiationg A \Vluity
Well Where In the t'li2 „f
land ?
N*l the wiVls of
the world made
answer.
North, south and
east and west;
Wherever t here's
wealth to covet,
Or land that can
In* possessed;
Wherever are sav-
erc<
To cozen, ci
i and scare,
Te shall find the vaunted ensign,
For the English flag is there!
A>e, It waves o'er the blazing hovels
When African victims ti;,.
To tie shot by explosive builets,
Of tn wretchedly starve or die!
And where the beach-comber hartl <
The Isles of Ih. southern sea,
At the peak of (Ms hellish vessel,
Tls the Kngllsh flag (lies free.
The Maori full off. hath cursed it
W ith his bitterest dying breath;
And the Arab has hissed his hatred
As he spits at. its folds In death.
Tin* hapless fellah has feared It
(•n Tel-el-Keblr's parched plain,
Anil the Zulu's blood has stained it
With a deep Indelible stain
It has floated o'er scenes of pillage
It has flaunted o'er deeds of shaine.
It has waved o'er the fell marauder
As he ravished with sword and flame
It has looked upon ruthless slaughter
And massacres dire and grim;
it has heard the shrieks of the victim!-
Drown even the Jingo hymn.
Where Is the flag of Kngland?
'ands where the natives rot;
W here deea> and assured extinction
Must soon l.i- the people's lot.
Co: Search tor th( one, -gla.l islands.
Where diseases and death are rlf- .
And the greed of a callous commerce
.Now battens on human life!
j accwnpanW by a faint tone of soun*.
which would every time Increase in In
tensity. Every time lie heard the tone
he was to touch a telegraph key, so
that the operator in a distant room
who originated the sounds would
know that the apparatus w is working
satisfactorily. After the first few oc-
casions it was sufficient to work th
sounder only, the person experimented
with being firmly convinced that he
yet heard the extra tone as well. Ex-
periments of a similar nature wera
made on o.ner senses. For example
a metronome was set In action, and
at each recurrent heat a p.th-bali waa
dropped on the back of the patient's
hand; but after a few times the ball
was not used, the patient feeling its
touch all the same by pure hallucina-
tion. It was found that, the tasta
could be deceived with equal success,
P> dropping on a patient's tongue i
solution of sugar and water, followed
j by pure water, the sugar was still ap-
parent on the man, although no sugar
was there. Experiments with the or-
gans ol hearing and sight gave much
the same results, showing at least that
j this deception of the senses, called
j hallucination, is a thing which must bo
; recognized and allowed for. It must
1 be noted that the persons who offered
j themselves for experiment were per-
i fectly sane, and were not drawn from
| any one class, nor did they know the
purport of the experiments, further
j than that they were to undergo certain
I tests for sensation. Professor Scrip-
ture believes that (lie experiments may
be valuable in their application to men-
ial pathology and also as a beginning
j to the scientific treatment of Uypuu-
! tiaui and suggestion.
1 pli
v ' j / • ?
If
n
TOOK HTM IN HER ARMS
Where is the flag of England?
vvViv I L*horf' ll<'1' galleons come
With shoddy and "loaded" cottons
And beer, and 1:11,lis, and rum:
C.o, too, where brute force has trl-
umphed.
And hypocrisy makes its lair-
And your question will find its Answer
1'or the flag of England is there!
-London Truth
ball recognize him for no son of mine,
"id send him tramping."
^ on will never do so when the time
comes, said his wife; "I know your
jood heart."
CHAPTER iy.
BOUT four of the
afternoon, the
mountebank ren-
dered up his ghost;
he had never been
conscious since his
seizure. Doctor
Desprez was pres-
ent at his last pas-
sage, and declared
the farce over.
Then ihe took Jean-
Ma n by tbe shoulder and led blot out
have placed him in a ridiculous light
before Anastasie. "How hot and heavy
is the evening, to be sure! I have al
ways had a fancy to be a fish in sum-
mer, Jean-Marie, here in the Loing
beside Oretz. I should lie under a
water-lily and listen to the bells, which
must sound most delicately down be-
low. That would be a life -do you not
think so, too?"
"Yes," said Jean-Marie.
Thank CJod, you have imagination!"
cried the Doctor, embracing the boy
with his usual effusive warmth, though
it was a proceeding that seemed to dis-
concert the sufferer almost as much as
If he had been an English schoolboy of
the same age. "And now," he added,
"I will take you to my wife."
The Doctor went through a solemn
I he Doctor, entering, found them en-
laced; he concluded that his wife was |
j in fault; and he was just ! eginnlng, in
j an awful voice, "Anastasie when j
j she looked up at lilm, smiling, with an J
j upraised finger; and he held his peace,
j wondering, while she led the boy ti
i Ms attic.
{TO Kit ( O VTI VlfBfV
* I -onI Treasure IH1UU<1.
The mysterious island of the south-
ern ocean whereon rich deposits ol
guano are t;aid to be has not been
discovered yet, though the little
schooner Moonlight that arrived re-
cently from Mazatlnn searched for it
nil seas over in the latitude and longi-
tude where it is believed to exist, savs
the San Francisco Bulletin. Treasure
Island and its wealth of phosphates
still exists merely as an unknown
quantity for the rough charts of old
< apt. Martin and his adventurous asso-
ciates are either in error or else some
strange seismic phenomenon caused
the lost isle to disappear years ago.
For a number of years the lost is-
land of the South Pacific has been
searched for bj ambitious seamen. The
stories concerning it are various and
romantic, and to a great extent con-
I Hiding, though the narratives ill seem
to center on the fact that the place
exists somewhere about 400 or 500
miles southwest of Olipperton island,
and is a low coral atol which Is cov-
eted with the richest phosphates. The
little unknown also has its legends of
pirates treasures, and according to an
old volume containing mention of Lord 1
Clipperton's voyages, was once the ren- ■
dezvous of pirates.
One of llio expeditions of recent dat«
which have been fitted out to look for \
the island was the Vine expedition.
The Vine's owner, ('apt. Bums, acct/d-
lng to the first officer of Ihat craft,
secured his knowledge of the place
from an old sea captain named Mar-
tin, who died some years ago, and who
left an old ( best among his belongings
which told of a small Island in the
South Pacific not down on the regular
charts, enormously rich in phosphates.
Martin claimed that his vessel was
driven out of her regular course by
head winds and came across the island,
which he described, lie took a note of
the latKude and longitude, hoping some
day to raise enough money to fit out
a vessel to proceed to that spot and
take possession, but death put an end
to his aspirations.
The Moonlight on leaving Mazatlan
was in charge of Oapt. Spencer, and
had a number of local men on board
who still have faith in the theory that
the island is still above water, and
that the old sea dogs who sighted it
In past years simply made errors in I
their reckonings and have caused all
subsequent, failures to find the land
of fortune.
A Wliut.v Well.
Arizona possesses some of the great-
est natural wonders in the world, not
j the least of which Is the phenomenon
i of a current of air Issuing from or going
; into the bowels of ihe earth through
j sundry natural and artificial openings
j made in the earth's crust. Something
| over a year ago a Mr. Coufman un-
dertook the drilling of a well at his
place. Everything went well to a
depth of some twenty-five feet, when
the drill Fuddeuiy dropped some six
j feet and a si rone current of air issued
from the hole. The escaping air cur-
rent was so strong thai It blew oft
ihe men s hats who were recovering
I ihe lost drill. The well was of course
| abandoned and left lo blow, but there
J are some peculiarities a.iout it. that
are worthy of observation. The air
; will escape from the well for days at
a time with such forct that pebbles
| ihe size of peas are thrown out and
I piled up about its mouth until it looks
' verj much like the expanded portion of
j a funnel. Al the same time it is ac-
j compamled by a sound much like tha
i distant bellowing of a foghorn. Thin
noise is not always present, because
the air does not at all times escape
with the same force. Again, there will
be for days a suction current, unac-
companied by sound, in which the cur-
rent of air passes into the earth, with
some less force than li escapes, and
any light object as a feather, piece of
paper or cloth, will, if held in close
proximity, be Immediately sucked into
the subterranean labyrinth of Aeolus,
•lust the cause of this phenomenon no
one has yet been able to determine,
i but it is supposed that there Is an un-
' derground opening between the Grand
I t anyou of the Colorado, which cleaves
| the earth for more than a mile in
| depth, and the Sycamore Canyon, some
| eighty miles to the south of It, of tha
| same proportions, but much shorter.
; I his would seem possible from the fact
I that ihe current of air is always pass-
| ing from north to south or vice versa,
singular Kaln siornm.
In ihe Colorado desert they hava
; rainstorms during which not a single
j drop of water touches ihe earth. The
j rain can lie seen falling from the clouds
I high above the desert, but when tho
| water reaches the strata of hot, dry
air beneath the clouds, it jh entirely
i absorbed before falling half the dis-
tance to the ground, it. is a singular
sight to witness a heavy downpour of
lain, not a drop of which touches the
; Kround. These strange rainstorms oc-
cur In regions where the shade tem-
: perature often ranges as high us U'S
: degrees Fahrenheit.
Ktect | uh
A peculiar result of a stroke of light-
ning was noted near Dijon. France in
the summer of 189;:. a flash of light-
ning was seen to strike a ti.--li pond,
and an investigation made immediate-
ly after the ntorm had subsided proved
that every fish in the little lake had
been killed. This is one of the very
few recorded Instances of Homing
striking fresh water.
Coleridge, the poet, was an ..wkward
! horseman. Once riding along ihe turn- j
iiike road in the county of Durham lie \
| was accosted by a man who had been I
j watching the rider. "1 say, young j
i man, did you meet a tailor oa the
j road?" "Yea," replied the poet, whose
i middle name was Taylor; "I did; and
, he told me if I went a little farther I
i should meet a goose,"
• I *11 uclua tloni.
1'rofessor Scripture has lately re-
corded some cu.'Iour results obtained
In a series of experiments which are
intended to show that, hallucinations
can ba measured. First with regard
to hearing. I lie person experimented
with was placed in a quiet room and
was told that a telegraph sounder
there whenever it clicked would b«
A Profitul le KurthqitHWe.
lCurthqnakeg occasionally profit maju
Kind as in the case, of Ouzoun-Ada, a
port of the Caspian, which is the
starting point of the Trans-Casplaa
Hallway of Samarkand. The port of
the town was visited bv an earthquake
about a year ago, and since then it
has been found open to steamers which
could not enter it before, owing to the
shallow water.
Women of every rank go bareheaded
In Mexico.
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