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Show THE WORLD AMERICAN FORK, UTAH, FRIDA V, APRIL VOL. IV. FRIEND HARBERTON. Stuart Boyd.) (J, ol-- l course mail, L dont of be- lieve in spirits or nonsense of that sort. Yet something that never quite once understood happened to me. Y ou all know about that kind of thing, and perhaps you ean explain it. After I left Oxford without honors 1 spent a lot of time loafing at e home. part of the country; nothing much to shout, and mother, an Invalid, couldnt stir out of her room. I didn't mean deliberately to deceive her, but what life is there for a healthy young man, stuck down there, hanging round a sick room from one month to another? He must come to the surface to breathe, whether the air be wholesome or not. At first, when X cut out for a day or two, I would call It business. But the mater knew old Findlay had always managed the Investments, and the money, and all that So when 1 took a run up to town and didnt return at night I had to invent a friend and pretend I had put up with him. That came as easy as lying always does; only mother, who had little to Interest her. Insisted on hearing all the particulars. How my friend looked, what he said, and the rest I got into a lot of tight places at the start, till I thought of a man I had known two years before and kept to a description of him. Harberton was his name. He was cruising on the Mediterranean for his health when I was on the Sayonara, with the Blakes. He was a queer chap, believed in occultism and rot of that sort; and we all laughed at him for it We never thought him ill, merely lazy. One moonless night, after dining on his yacht, we lounged on deck, with those myriads of stars making us feel 1 Dead-aliv- Jolly small. "Harberton lay on a steamer chair he used to pass the night there gazing t the sky with his lnscrutlble eyes. We had all been laughing and chaffing when he came on deck, but somehow the Immensity of it all had sobered us, and we were quiet and solemn, when Harberton,. pointing heavenwards, said To In his languid, affected drawl: morrow I shall know what these have to tell. We believed it to be merely one of his poses; but In the morning we were horribly startled by the news that he was dead. He had died, lying there In his chair, during the night "Well, Harberton's name occurred to me when I was forced to Invent a YOU HAVE COME, story to satisfy mother, and, though I couldn't write a story to save my life, whenever I began jawing about him, everything came quite pat. Often 1 blessed his memory when I could go off for a few days, have a good time, and return to find mother quite pleased. minutely the mater knew him by heart, as it were, and would have dp- levied a fraud at a glance. Besides, I have never seen any one who at all resembled him. 1 told her that 1 hud Lean from him that he was coming. I dreaded she would ask to see his letter, but it chanced to be one of her bad days, and she didn't. Next moruing ho was to arrive. 1 meant to fake up a telegram somehow, giving an excuse for his absence when 1 went to the station on pretense of meeting him. My mother wag strangely well that morning. Her customary lassitude and pain bad vanished. She was reclining on a couch drawn close to the open window. Her cheeks were almost rosy, and there was a lace arrangement over her white hair that made her look prettier than I had ever seen her. She was all impatience to see Harberton, and hurried Tne off to the station half an hour too soon. It was a lovely June day, and our h to the railway lay private through shady ways; but I was wretched and ashamed, wishing the thing over. The remembrance of the sparkle In mothers eyes, even of the effort she had made to appear In full toillette disturbed me. Of her health, the doctor had spoken gravely on the night before. With a heart affection such as hers, might not the shock of Harberbe too much for ton's her? I suppose one ought to believe in Nemesis, or Retribution, or that sort of thing. I don't, much, but I confess that summer morning I came nearer suffering for my sins than I bad ever done before or have ever done since. Now you needn't believe what follows unless you like. I often doubt it myself. I knew something vas to happen as I heard the sound of the coming engine; and, as I watched the train sweep round the curve of the line, I wanted badly to run away, but couldnt Of course, there are seldom many passengers for Glemsford; this time there was but one. I caught a glimpse of his face at the window of a carriage where he sat alone, and my heart seemed to stop beating. A moment later he stood before me. It was Harberton. He was exactly as I remembered him. There was nothing in his appearance or manner to account for the dread In me. We exchanged greetings, but no word passed between us. We traversed the leafy lanes as In a dream; but they and myself were visionary he alone was real. And all the time the memory of the telegram I had omitted to send kept recurring to my brain. "I knew it could not be Harberton, yet felt convinced it was none other. Dull wonder whether or not mother would see as I did ran through my mind; but I was in reality too stupefied to be capable of anything like consecutive thought "The path we trod lay through the orchard into the rose garden, whereon the low windows of my mother's summer parlor opened. As we entered the garden she saw ns saw him! and waved her thin hand in welcome. And Harberton, or what I took to be Harberton, who till then had done nothing but make me dread his presence, waved in return courteously, almost gayly. "I can tell you how that day passed. It seemed like a long drawn out nightmare. I kept saying to myself: 'I am asleep. I shall awake soon. Harberton sat In my mother's cool, darkened room, talking of me, as I gathered, while pacing restlessly within and without, or smoking In a chair outside the window. She seemed to speak anxiously a tout my future I suppose, like most only sons reared by mothers, I had been rather wild and be appeared to reasure her. She was quite soothed and happy in his company. I moved about; I would go to the stables to speak to the men or wander aimlessly about, but there was ever that awful sense of all being an illusion. ! fancied I must be inad, and I feared the sound of my own voice. It was a perfect day, still and balmy the air being heavy with the of the roses but to me It seemed endless. Still It came to a close at last. In the gloaming Harberton bade mother farewell. She tleased him as they parted. I standing dumbly by, and he holding her hand said, gently, with his old, suft drawl: 'I shall return soon.' "Harberton left as he came, through the byways carpeted with moss, and overhung with briar roses, sti'l holding no speorh with me, who followed dog like. Midway down the Inns the evening haze caught radiance from s shaft of the sunset, and into the glory of It he passed alone. For a moment I dared not enter. When I did he was j foot-pat- ce half-paralyz- ed "This went on for awhile, till mother began to bother me with a request to ask 'my friend' to visit us at Framp-to- n Glcmsford. I tried hard to get her off the notion; I said that he was busy or 111; that entertaining guests would hurt her; and all manner of things. set upon it But she seemed else. The doctor said talked nothing It was a sick fancy, that in her weak state any craving must be humored. Thus cornered. 1 wrote a letter urging My dear Harberton' I hadnt the remotest idea what his Christian name was to come to us. even for a day. Mother insisted on adding a line she who had not penned a word for months begging him to come that site might have an opportunity of thanking him for his friendliness towards her son! I did feel mean when 1 took the invitation Into another room and burnt It. "I would have given anything to have been able to produce an impostor. gone. Well. In a short time But Msrhcrton had been described so fra-gran- ee 1 laugh at the occurrence as absurd. Mother seemed to feel happy in some sort of delusion. I didn't care to ridicule. She never asked me to send for Harberton again. She always said: When H is time he will come. "She got more fragile daily. One night she looked so ethereal that, fearing to leave her, I sent the nurse to tod. and staid in her room. All wsj hushed, and 1 must have dozed off, to be roused liy mother's voice, saying Oh, you have coma fur glad.y: me. That is so good of you. "The light of the harvest moon filled the room, eclipsing the feeble glow; of the night light. "Mother had raised herself to a sitting position aud was looking up eagerly, joyfully, her thin hands extended. Bending over her, I saw distinctly the figure of Harberton. Starting forward, I rushed towards her, but before I could reach her Bide she had sunk back inert, llartorton had vanished, and the moonlight revealed only her dead face lying peacefully smiling on the pillows. "That's a lot of years ago now, bu; I've never been able to reduce it to common-sensCan you, old chap? Black and White. POST-MORTE- NO. 20. Hi. 1S1I7 ACTS. M SOME REMARKABLE INCIDENTS RELATED BY HISTORY. Thief llrailliwi liixly Cut I'p Caper Mrel That IUr Keen to la by the Aurirnt I tiuier uf t III Irrat-rtei- i bro-uiclc-- a. HE remarkable exmade periment upon ilie head of the decapitated A blie Iiruuoau in France is by no without mvuns iho says precedent, Philadelphia Times. It la impossible to lead much in history without comacross curious stories of apparent ing sensation and thought after execution. Some of them go buck to such remote periods that they are in general regarded as deserving to be placed in a category with the wondrous discoveries of Marco Polo and Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, but subsequent explorers have verified many things In the narratives ELIZABETH CREATOREX DEAD. of those two which, at one time, were First Woman uf America to Win Inter- considered impossibilities, and science national Honors In Art. may yet demonstrate beyond contradicMrs. Elizabeth Greatorex, who died tion the possibility of many startling a few weeks ago In Paris, was the first events narrated as having occurred at of the women artists in America to executions. The fact remains that for win international recognition and was centuries thg impression has prevailed the only woman honored by member- among certain scientists that the brain ship in the Artists' fund. She was also still retains Its capacity for thought, the first woman to receive the compli- and even action, for some moments ment of election as associate of the Na- after its separation from the body, and tional academy, says the Boston Even- some of them have made experiments ing Transcript. She was born In 1819 in upon the heads of decapitated criminals Manor Hamilton, Ireland, and was the even more than an hour after execudaughter of a clergyman, the Rev. tion, and have met with a certain James Calcott Pratt She came to New measure or success which partially corYork city in 1840 and nine years later roborated their theories. became the wife of Henry Wellington The curious in such matters will find Greatorex, an English musician. After that historians relate a remarkable Inher marriage she studied painting in stance of speech after execution which Paria and Munich. She visited Eng-- ! recalls the story of the head of the land in 1857, and in the '60 a and early poet musician, Orpheus, which was said 70s was In Germany and Italy, and j to have still murmured the name of his produced the book of sketches and beloved Eurydlce after It was thrown etchings known as The Homes of into the waters of Hebrus. This summer sketches In stance occurred In the thirteenth Etchings In Nuremberg" tury, when Conradin of Swabia and and "Old New York from the Battery Frederick of Baden were executed on to Bloomingdale, the letter press of the market place In Naples. These two these volumes being written by her sis- young princes had Invaded the kingter, Mrs. Matilda P. Despard. Eighteen dom with an army in defense of of her sketches were exhibited in the rights as heir to his father. art collection at the centennial expo- Having been defeated and captured by sition in Philadelphia. A large pen the forces of Charles of Anjou, they drawing Mrs. Greatorex made of were held by him prisoners for a year Durer's home in Nuremberg Is pre- and then condemned to execution served in the Vatican in Rome. In the Bartoned has given a glowing de-centennial year she also produced the of the death scene, drawn .. , , , scription ree . e p from accounts, the cen- contemporary p 8 Urch' th!;ter of the market place covered with Church North Du each palnle.1 vp,m thft k,nK ,n distant on panels taken from It. Paul and ecutlon of hi wll,. t0 fcee the the Dutch church In Fulton street, New York city. Mrs. Greatorex waa an honorary member of the Sorosis, lu daughters, Kathleen Honors and Elea-- spectators were electrified to hear the of nor, both artists repute in Paris, quivering lips call twice upon the survive her. Virgin: "Maria, Maria!" Conradin .was moved by it to forget momentarily Up l'erl Ills IotHtoe. his own coining death. Lifting the head There are probably 150 schools for he klsHed it tenderly and pressed It to rooking In Germany and Austria, the h8 breast, while he deplored aloud that best of which are at Vienna, Berlin the youthful prince Frederick had not and Leipsic. A man who wishes tc yet reached his eighteenth year become a chef must begin at the very should have been brought to bis death bottom of the ladder at peeling pota- through devotion to himself. toes and work up, round by round, to One of the most remarkable records the top, says the New York World. A In all history of action after execution course of schooling as strict as that la contained in the police archives of school in counthis of any polytechnic This is the case the Austrian try must be followed for four years be- of the bandit capital. who, with Schaumburg, fore the student can get a diploma. four companions, was condemned to exhibitions arc Every year eompetitive death in 1G80 for sundry adventures given in which as many as 200 rbefi those of Fra Diavolo. Accordrivaling who was chef take part. The employed this to seemingly impossible chronat the white house by Grover Cleve- ing the finding he was to be the chief, icle, land, and who, it is rumored, may be first to demanded one last favor suffer, again, has a gold medal which was pre- of the was that This judge. presiding sented to him by the Empress Fredershould be placed In his companions ick for excellence in cooking, a silver several feet apart. This medal given by the king of Saxony, a a straight line, be then begged been granted, having diploma from the queen of Austria and that he their reprieve attempt might numerous other marks of approbation manner: If. after his In the foiolwlng and honor won in competitive contests his fallen should walk body had head in cooking. It is not to be wondered In turn, he prayed comrade each past at that European cooks command exthat the judge should grant an traordinary salaries in this country. That officer, who no doubt this quiii' an impossible feat, thought Million Tons of Steel, Hftv the proposition and the exeto During the last twenty years the agreed The robber's body cution proceeded. railways of the world have absorlted tin headsman, before bent straightened of or tous :.i).iiini,mi0 almost hall steel, up after the head had fallen and walked the total product. up to each of the oilier bandits conit finally fell. The A newly patented car brake consists secutively before to the haste made kaiser, notify judge of a steel shoe fastened to the car was pleased . above the wheel so that the weight ol, and his imperial majesty of and the confirm clemency t0 pronii. the car help, to apply the brake to the the story placed on record In to have wheel e. ; j Con-radl- ns i f. . ; - lr ,l 1 The total Income of the London hoa I was able to pltal is close upon 600,000 a year. am-nesi- ? arhlvpB- y. - In the present century an interesting case of apparent sensation and intellN geuce after execution has been recorded by M. l'ettlgaud as having occurred at Saigon, In Anam, where be witnessed tiic execution of several pirates. His Interest aud sympathy were excited by the tine physique aud manly bearing of the leader of the condemned men, who muni Tested no fear and met his dot uth with the greatest courage aud euoolucss. The culprits were made to kneel ou the sand before ILe executioner, who, with one expert blow, separated the heads from the bodies. The head uf t lie chief fell almost at the feet of M. lettlgaud, the severed neck resting squarely upon the sand, thus arresting the How of blood from the arteries, lie was horrified to find that the eyea looked up at him with an air of perfect consciousness and Intelligence. In order to test the reality of this appearance M. l'ettigaud moved to one side and found that the eyes folowed his movements. As a further test he then resumed his first position and the eyes turned slightly, but before regaining their first direction an expression of agony passed over the face, such as might have been produced by suffocation. and the head rolled over on the sand with every appearance of death. From fifteen to twenty seconds bad elapsed during these observations. It was possibly this story which Induced De La horde of Paris to make certain experiments upon the severed head of a murderer more than an hour after execution. In this case blood was Injected Into the arteries sn dby means bf an opening In the skull it could be seen to circulate. The eyelids opened and upon the placing of a light before them the pupils of the eyes grew smaller. Possibly had the experiments been made Immediately after execution the results might have been much more curious. in aa sa dress to new xorx oreeaerw, Mr. James Hilton said: Since the West has become largely populated there Is a constant decrease of cheap grazing land, and the cost of producing beef must be greater. The question then presents Itself to the ' eastern farmer whether under favora- -; hie conditions nearness to market, abundance of cheap food, adaptability to the business, etc. be may not un- -, dertake this part of the cattle Industry with success. The farmers of the East being unable to compete with the cattlemen of the plains have somewhat The WeBt neglected beef breeding. has not been slow to recognize the adthe vantages of dairying, and highest quoted market price for butter la for that made at Elgin, III., Bnd the eastern dalryniun finds hla province invaded. The time has arrived for the eastern farmer to produce cattle for beef, and the first requisite Is the selection of the best stork. The princis. pal beef breeds are Shorthorns. Polled Angus and Devons. Shorthorns and Devons have also proved excellent for dairy purposes. At the worlds fair the Shorthorns held their own among the dairy breeds, and though the Devons were not Included in that test some have produced aa high as twenty pounds of butter per week. It Is foolish to claim that we can combine the best beef and dairy qualities In the same animal; but the 'Shorthorns and Devons are equal to 'any when bred for beef. The animal of individual merit has greater value las a breeder when supported by a famous ancestry, and the chances of 'breeding true to type are far better 'than those of obscure pedigree. There d are many animals which possess ao real merit In themselves; 'as a choice between pedigree and individual merit, it is safer to choose the latl'. Feeding and breeding are the Not how factors of improvement animal ran live, hut the many years how many tons of feed can he convert Into meat In one year, gives value to calf The well-fe- d the .'with rations, and with comfort aud kind treatment, will make le althy und rapid growth. Two centuries ago the average weight of steers in the English market was 370 pounds. Now the cross-bre- d 'yoarilng will weigh neurly double that To fatten quickly and cheaply the eastern farmer must resort to Boiling at least in part. During winter, with 'good clover hay and a grain ration of wheat bran, corn meal and oil meal, steady growth can be nrnde. An occasional feed of good corn ensilage or roots will be found beneficial. In summer beRt results can bo obtained by keeping in a cool, dark, stable, away from beat and flies, during the day and pcrinlt-In- g to run out at night, if pastured at to-d- ay Here-ford- ; well-bre- I meat-produce- r. well-balanc- flve-year-o- lil well-balanc- ed well-ventilat- ed all" |