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Show OGDF.K DAILY COMMERCIAL: THE TV Ar 1 tt H 7 CMiURf IN THE STREETS ut seaads is tise ciry rid Ibow. Ui im ttiUrat WU u4 eaS fettjow street Si earebtMia. utl U mxow wMxn aaadevs t ru &4 uy EMrtgage were do ce a certain late, the doctor being um of tba fit ptrjj ul kr ay auL (uu Uf Let Uieia tBitbl and leap, Liks wca. aea tberp. of Um avceiuf tlma. Turutilo World. Ia ths aoamling tuu STORY OF DR. HOFF About forty years ago, before tba Great Western railway, now the Grand Trunk, wa completed, while workmen were busy turning the sods, delving and piling the rirgin soil to receive the Iron raiL an J their upholding sleepers, whereon the noisy 8 team monster which were to supersede the slow going stage-ooachwere to wend their sinoky way, there lived on the confines of a steep and picturesque gorge over which surveyor' plana designed the railway to pass, a certain individual whom we will call Dr. ea Hoff. CO It was a beautiful spot, the home of this medico of long ago. Perched up on the hillside, surrounded by forest trees, save where the hand of man had tnade a clearing; backed by moea covered bowlders, relics of a day when a noble lake, which might be seen from an eminence, had surged and totted its uneasy, foam flecked breast far beyond its present boundaries in stormy weather, or slept in painted azure rest fulness under summer suns. The home of Dr. Huff was indeed a f pot calculated to draw forth man's lest feelings to a great Creator. Far below, at the foot of the tree lined gorge, a brook trinkled and murmured over its stony bed in the dense shade of the forest kings, here and there breaking from their leafy shadows to revel in the sunlight which forced its way where some great monarch had fallen either through old age or the fury of the storm, for the ax of the woodman had not then violated that exquisite corner of creation. bp o 4- -j CD O There in the bosky shade the brook rippled along, trout nnd minnow sporting unmolested. Wild birds quenched their thirst and bathed in its shady depths, while the timid deer stole through the forest to drink of its cool waters. Peace and silence reigned in the beautiful gorge, on the edge of which dwelt the object of this simple sketch; peace among God's creatures; silence, save for the song of birds, the harmony of the breezes through the forest trees. But peace and harmony do not seem to have reigned in the home of the dweller on the verge of that !rge, so beautiful, so Idealized by nature. It was a stormy spirit which had taken np abode in the dwelling on the summit. Dr. Uoff was passionate and quarrelsome. People shook their heads and spoke with pity of the sharer of his lot, the delicate young bride he had brought from far over the sea to bear the loneliness and hardship of a life in a new country. She was fair to 6ee, this young English lady of gentle birth and rearing, ill fitted to rough it in company with the passionate, high tempered man in whose hands she had placed her life. To be sure the settlers in the vicinity were glad to obtain Dr. IIofTs professional advice Doctors were not as and attendance. frequently met with in those days as in the present ones. In sparsely settled country districts a doctor was a real godsend; his life was no sinecure either. There were long distances to go over unbroken, rough roads. Fees were very sinall, often hard to collect; professional services were very frequently paid in kind, not in money. These facts frequently angered Dr. Hoff and raised up his passionate temper. If he worked he wanted his fees, that was quite natural. lie did not wait with patience, like so many of his professional contemporaries learned to wait, o , ,j O O bf) rhiefy concerned. There came a day peaceful. ekI-lesummer day el Ut close at which &.la Beaver announced Lis intention of fiaibng the doctor and paying a small a very small sum oa account. Bo Bearer went Lia way cp the hill to the coxy homestead overlook! tie forge just aa the vetting ana ca&t it roby and golden ray over the spot to beautified and idealised by nit or glon-fyin- g that already exquirite corner of creation as only drowsy sunbeam eta glorify nature's own handiwork. Up the hill went S:is Leaver, bet never again to the knowledge of maa did he retrace his steps. W era there high words? No one knew. Perhaps the great eagle who net was perched far over the topmost rocks on the opposite side of the gorge could have told, or the crows a they winged their diuky flight past the lonely homestead. No man but those two was near to hear what pa&ed between debtor and creditor that summer' day so long parsed by. Inquiries ensued as a matter of course. Search parties were orgauized. Impaction of the doctor' prvmiw brought to light that his gig wa stained with blood, bis horse bearing the appearance of having been hardly driven the night before, but Dr. Hoil accounted for these susA picions facts with complete coolness. long drive, an amputation after a severe accident. Further inquiry elicited that there had been an accident at a distance, that the doctor had been there, that he had performed just the operation that he claimed to have performed. No evidence. So Silas Beaver's disappearance remains to this day a mystery. It may be that the iron track of the great railway rested on their 6leeper above the murdered man's hidden remains, for what so easy as to hide the likely victim of paion under the great banks of upraised soil? It may be that amid some tangle of wood and vine, rock and fern, the missing man was laid away, hidden forever from earthly eyea. Time went on; suspicion slept, watchfulness abated, but never again did the feet of Silas Beaver cross the threshold of his own door. Then one uight there was a lurid glare lighting the tree tops of the gorge. A farmhouse, bams and all their contents were one great pitiful bonfire. Oh, for the toil of weeks, of months, the slow gathering of harvest, the pinching and saving to obtain btock! Only a blackened ruin, a hopeless prospect! The victim had been at enmity with Dr. Hoff. It was he who had been foremost iu the search for the missing man Beaver. The doctor had been heard to threaten him repeatedly. So Dr. Hoff wjis arrested and lodged in jail, but before the day of trial came he escaped, and the neighborhood knew him no a ts stream and tiey aaeat. Aad l&of stutjaef aboat. la tie Joyous hmu la u teaic- - tiota. Bat taat crawl aad barbeicrs id. aad object to Lta din; Cry eat at tlx aaari aa TLey ouoijuaia, iay croak and scold. At ttta cLUd aba play ia tLa Kw-t- t'l Tay (mkn Every out knew every SM'a bnsin ia the fteighborhood; U was eonuntoa talk that pay metis oa on-S- u Tbef tastfaia streets ia tM la tt Mt. Mm baa I tripped ever Tjc Vuf abrafcea Aad s.y siaas vrcr Jacks mxA Jl&ac But 1 al ea say sad fcoedad st aul. U Wak of a cbud at ti aaavtaat at fur n eI.y. FKIDAY. AUGUST 28. 1891. until harvest it might be more than one harvest was in; until Tom Jones' colt was sold or John Smith's steers were a yoke of oxen until the brindle cow's calf wa3 a heifer of profitable age to sell. No, he fretted and fumed, threatened Tom Jones and cursed John Smith, demanding payment for his services in no moderate language, making himself disliked and mistrusted, although a necessity throughout the surrounding country. Only one child had come to cheer the lonely lot of the doctor's wife; only one, and it had not come to stay. The dearest spot on earth in the great wide new country to the lonely little English wife of Dr. Hoff was the quiet corner in the clearing where her darling slept. There she took her loneliness, her griefs, her troubles to the grave of her baby, whose tiny face had rested on her breast, whose helplessness had appealed to her love and care. Many a night, driven from the house by the furious, jealous temper of one who should have been kindest, the poor girl, for she was but a girl, passed long, lonely hours by her child's grave exposed to the dew of the starry nights, the rain of the stormy ones, an innocent victim of passions unrestrained. Now a certain hardworking farmer, in whose family sickness had seemed to run riot for a long period, lay heavily under the ban of debt and the doctor's displeasure. In vain the man we will call him Silas Beaver for he is said to have been an industrious hard working man, though unfortunate promised the doctor to pay at least a part of the account owing. Time went on, but no money was forthcoming. In vain the doctor fumed and fussed, raged and demanded his dues; then he threatened, wildly, passionately, in the presence of others. The doctor was known to require more. Silent and deserted Btood the house on the edge of the gorge, until one night, when the storm raged and the lightning flashed and glistened in the leaden skies, the flame shot up from its lonely timbers and vied with the flashes of its kindler, the electric :bolt When morning came the sun rose over a heap of charred ruins, and forest birds piped a requiem over the scorched trees and tlowers. He who lived in the homestead on the verge of the gorge had been stormy and passionate; fit ending to his dwelling to perish by the fury and the passion of the storm. Over the By the hand of the axman shorn of its pristine beauty, on its tracks of steel, supported by their mighty trestles, hour by hour pass the trains with slackened speed and panting breath of steam in curb. Down below, deprived of the grateful shade of its verdant friends, the forest trees, the little brook ripples and gurgles bravely in the garish sunlight Alas! no wary trout sport in its once cool, dark depths. No timid deer bend their graceful heads to drink of its waters, but few birds quench their thirst in its now lukewarm shallow ripples. The beautiful gorge, the cool, deep brook are things of the past. Like the homestead which once overlooked them and its passionate tempered dweller, like the great eagle which built its nest on the crags near by, like the deer and the myriad forest birds, it remains but a memory, a reminiscence of long ago, told in an hour of retrospection by the "oldest inhabitant" Does any one ask what befel the poor young wife of Dr. Hoff? This is what the "oldest inhabitant" told to satisfy the visitor's curiosity on that point: It was supposed by many people that it was Mrs. Hoff who aided the doctor in his escape from jail; however that may be, she disappeared at the same time he did. The lonely little grave in the corner of the clearing no longer had a mourner; never again did posies of fen and flower deck its tiny upraised mound. Then there came a day when sorrow and indignation mingled in the hearts of those who had known and loved the gentle English lady who had led such a sad life in the homestead by the gorge. A certain Dr. Hoff, who had lived for some years in Canada, but who had lately returned to England, was on trial for his life for the murder of his wife, near London, so the papers recorded. Later on was sent the news far across the water that Dr. Hoff had expiated his abominable crime on the scaffold. Fidele H. Holland in Toronto gorge now. Globe. Making Use of Her Huftband. An old lady in a Mississippi river town was a practically philosophic soul and was satisfied with things as they existed. Her old man was drowned in the river, and his body was not recovered for a long while, when it was discovered by some boatmen. "One of them went to her and said: "Madam, we've found the body of your husband and taken it out of the river, and it's chock full of eels. What shall we do with it?" "Well," said the old lady, "I reckon you had better secure the eels and set it again," Chicago Herald. Am Armg 4 Aata. SCecttiy, deadly axi irrvsistiUy a Wi The Uk Jodge Baooo Las Lad before Lia ia tbea baualijes, out dt th forest, ddwm, tb Bloomabury county eoert aa action into, acrut aal cp the ditch, throagfc of aa naosnal character, the subject of th botna (wood ctockadet, acruis torn dispctebeirgaaarrncialleg. Tnecaa aqnare, and into every nook and cranny for the plainn? was that the defendant conceivable they swarmad. The fint Hi. Dearaess. a railway clerk, was supboUos (they generally cans at nighi) plied by thesra with aa artificial leg, wocli be a yell from aom of tba the price at which wa twenty-fiv- e Eien, "Look octi Slaiar There would pounds, ooe-ha- lf of which wa paid be bo more sleep that night when the limb wa delivered. At After experience gained we foani it the time the order wa given the dethe best phut to dear ont of oar houses, fendant was suffering a great deal ia rush into the qnar and boild ring of consequence cf hi baring for a long re aroend c. To pet oa one' clothe worn a boy' kg. was to get bitten by dosens all over one' It wa alleged that the b--g was a bad body nnles the garments had been first fit, and for that reason he refused to pay thoroughly smoked over a fire. Every for it On cross-eianation the plainnow and then yells and curses told bow a tiff denied guaranteed that the baring laxy on had got caught in hi bunk. leg would last for seven years. The orThe wall of the nuts, the roofs and floor dinary life of a leg with ordinary wear were simply one seething mas of strugand tear would be some years, but how gling ant. many they could not say. Defendant They were after the cockroaches, mice who appeared in court wearing the leg, and insects that bad taken np their abode which he offered throsgh hi counsel to in the rocta. Now and then squeaks of remove for his honor' inspection, an young mice told their story. As fast as offer which wa not accepted, said the ihe ant found their load, generally a limb was of no use to him, a it hurt cockroach, they would make off down him very much, but he was obliged to the hill in long lines. Luckily they never continue wearing it because he had no touched oar granaries; they seemed to other. He was not a man who could afford a prefer animal food. Toward morning there would only be a few thousand lost new leg every year, and he bought thi ones, aiuihtseiy tearing about, apparently offending limb on the representation looking for the main body which had that he would be able to wear it with comfort for seven years. Plaintiffs had just decamped. Usually these raids on us were made altered it once or twice, but still it was after a rainstorm; many of them came very uncomfortable, and he now asked Into the fort already staggering under to be allowed to give the plaintiffs back loads; these appeared to wander about their leg and to have his thirteen pounds till the other were ready. Next day returned. His honor thought the leg not a cockroach could be found in the was a good fit and gave judgment for the place, so that the anU did us a service plaintiffs for the amount claimed, with in ridding us of these pests. The rata costs. Pall Mall Gazette. had decamped also, and did not return for some days. Nineteenth Century. About Snutroka. causes of sunstroke probable Among Ths "Llchtnlng Armter." are the presence of stagnant atmosphere, To the uninitiated it is a great puxzle excess in diet, as tending to retard tissue how the dangers of lightning are arpulmonary oppression by clothchanges, rested where there are so many conwith consequent malaeration, great ing ductors of electricity as there are in a physical exhaustion with cardiac fatigue telegraph office. More than 2,000 wires and the consumption, even in moderate enter the big Western Cnion building in amount, of alcoholic liquors during hot New York city, and from one to a thouweather. The habitual wearing of somesand in other offices of that company what loose jiorous clothing, by encouragthroughout the Uuited States. Each tf ing perspiration and assisting the rethese wires run more or less directly to moval of its products, will also contribthe desks of the operators. This being ute toward the reduction of materially danthe case, how do they guard against the general temperature. ger from lightning during times of great in view the exIt is needful to electrical disturbances? Even when less treme sensitivenesskeep of the cerebro spinal electric attractions are wanting most nerve centers, especially those of the people confess to a certain feeling of medulla. The means by which protecwhen the elements rage and tion can best be accomplished call for a wake up terrifying flashes of forked brief notice. these may be menAmong fury. But science has provided nn an- tioned the adoption of the familiar white swer to the question asked ubove, as veil behind and over the head, the inwell as to almost all other puzzles which of a wet white linen cloth terposition stand in the way of human progress. between head and hat and the effectual Every wire as it euters a building ventilation of the latter. London Lana long, cet passes through the bottor of narrow board, and then again through A Deer In a City's Streets. it at the top. This board is the "lightOn a recent afternoon a large deer enning arrester." If the current is heavy the first effect of the board is to deprive tered the city and made its way through it of much of its force. Should the first Main street Men tried to capture it, contact with the "arrester" fail to elim- but without success. Finally it was inate the lightning of its fatal powers it headed off in front of tha postoffice. The passes on to the top of the board and animal paused a moiaent and then touches a spring which communicates jumped over the railing of the bridge with a "drop," instantly shutting off all into Kenduskeag river. Tho deer swam connection with the operating room. gracefully np stream, With several parThe spring is called the "plush magnet," ties in boats and canoes in hot pursuit and beyond it no overcharge of light- They came np with the animal in a short ning, whether proceeding from a storm time and one party captured it It was or from contact with other wires, can thought at first that it had escaped from some deer park, but it was found to be a possibly go. St Louis Republic wild animal, and had been seen on the Dog Help Kocli Other to a Drink. outskirts of the city earlier in the day. The fountain on the Clark Btreet side Bangor Cor. Boston Herald. of the county building was the scene of a very funny incident the other afterc. The Profits of noon. Two dogs, water spaniels, were The grand total realized for the nine trotting north when they came to this days' sale of the Cavendish-Bentinc- k 9 place and stopped for a drink. They collection of art furniture was were both thirsty, but neither was tall 9s. The high prices of this sale were enough to reach the trough, and they extraordinary. The prime cost has been talked the matter over as dogs will, and exceeded by nearly cent per cent, and wondered why they had not been treated in many instances even larger profits with as much consideration as had the have been obtained. Generally speakhorses. Presently they solved the probing the prices realized show a return of lem. 5 per cent, compound interest on the One of them ranged himself under the original outlay. London Times. edge of the trough, and the other, restBarred Out a Balloon Wedding. ing his fore feet upon his companion's back, was able to reach into the pool and The committee of arrangements of the 6lake his thirst When he had finished New England fair met at he hopped down, seemed to say the waoffice and decided not to ter was good, and then in turn ranged have a marriage ceremony in the balhimself under the edge of the fountain loon, as was suggested, as to their minds and the other reached up for the drink it would be too sensational. It was dehe had earned. When he was satisfied cided, however, to give the patrons of they trotted away together, as well con- the fair all the ballooning th' v crave, tented as any man could be who had and there will be ascensions wi .h paramet a problem and vanquished it Chi- chute leaps three days of the fair. Worcester (Mass.) Spy. cago Herald. nwr o o Li o cr o 3 sssaal 05 CD 2- - ;i ii ! t E3 I Brlc-a-Itra- r 69,-04- Secretar-Chamberlain'- Fan In Japan. One of the necessities of life cr cs s CfQ ' An Instantaneous Map of the Sky. The latest thing in instantaneous phoconsists of the fan, of which there are tography is the suggestion of aJEuropean two kinds the folding and the academy of science that an international fan. Paper enters largely into conference be held to make arrangetheir composition. Bamboo forms a ma- ments for the elaboration of a phototerial very handy for the framework of graphic map of the heavens, to be simulthe cheaper kinds. The paper is either taneously executed at ten or twelve obdecorated with paintings in all the dif- servatories, widely scattered over the ferent styles of Japanese art, or else face of the globe. St. Louis Republic. brightly colored and sprinkled over with ilver and gold leaves. These fans are Baron de Gondoriz, the Brazilian India manufactured of all possible qualities rubber merchant, who is to corand prices, the richest and largest being ner the entire rubber trying of the output used for ceremonial dances, where they Amazon region, is an energetic man of form accessories of great importance. Portuguese birth, forty-on- e years old. The place most noted for its produc- He is of short and very figure, portly tion in fans is Nagoya, and superior ones with light complexion and red hair. inferior the while at are made Kiyoto, In Russia there is a grave deficit in descriptions come from Fushimi and Tokio. Several millions of fans are ex- the wheat crop. The peasants are starvported annually from Japan to America ing, and there is small hope of relief. and Europe. Paper MilL In India there is serious anxiety; a famine prevails over a considerable portion When Sl'k Wat Costly. of the country. When silk was first worn in England noble two mantles on the shoulders of An excellent drink for warm weather ladies belonging to Elizabeth's court at- is made of lemonade to which a half tracted more attention than even the teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda has queen. The manufacture of goods from been added. The soda alters the taste raw silk began in England in 1G04, and very little, but it makes the liquid foamy was brought to perfection by the Hugue- and delicious. Even at that time, not refugees in was silk costly, a pair of A bill posting machine, which sticks very however, stockings costing in our money a little bills on walls, even as high as fifty feet, over 100, a cloak a little less than $1,000. without the use of ladder or pastepot, is Among the &,02 dresses left by Eliza- doing successful work in Paris. Theatbeth at her death only twelve were of rical people are delighted with it silk, and Leicester, more than his knightA story comes from Myerstown, Pa., hood, prided himself on a pair of silk breeches which he had imported from of a fireman whose celluloid collar ignited Italy at an expense of over if.lOO. St while he was at a fire and burned his face quite severely. Louis Globe Democrat in Japan non-foldi- o CD i |