Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-12-01
The EshPenOTOgist.
BY II. r. ADDISON.


get all other worldly circumstances all other sub
J"cts, save the one engrossng topic on which he was
engaged His eye, wildly diated saw no other
object save the bright imagery created bv his fertile.
Drain Ills voice was impassloncd his every pulse
peat hiPh. The professor, at the time speak d.
was just two and thirty, and ranked himself as the
very leader Of Gall ard Spurzhcin's cnrrrctc dis
cplcs. On the subjects Gfph.enolog, he was dis
courslng when entered the dining-ruom of Baron
! Hartman.
IL was fine summer evening. Strawberries and
other fruits decorated the board The wcl-iced Jo-
hannlSberg, the ccar-cooled Iaiiltc stood tempt
| ilgly on u table, around which dozen y0uug men
with the worthy Baron and the Professor SIT.
ItapPearcd that, in the heighth of his enthusiasm,
Ley uen hal, to please the company, examined their
heads, aad with many wise loo pressed the bumps
witch he declared to be the unelrng indications of
ne human character and passions. some unlurtu-
nate wight IN the company, however, had evidently
shocked the examiner by Il demonstration Of wicked
proPcnscs, for he strenuouSy refused on this oc-
cas- on to pronounce upon the several organs, dcca
nng he might give offence, he "m!ght b. wrong
indeed, II might appear nyidlous: in short, after
making several similar cNctiSrS the professor sat
down in medtatlye silence nor could he again be
brought to speak, save and except upon the general
merits OF the system, subject Oh which he never
failed to enlarge
The conversation had now taken new channel
= 0tcGGlui aiIdcr hud been committed IN the uripl-
bOrhood Of the Black Forest \ vodnr rlrl had
coped from her parents some weeks before The
companion of her iigIt, was supposed to be u Young
man who had been staying III tie ncghbJ!hood,
ne bad disappeared at the same time. She had
just been iound SaFag"ly murdered while the sup
posed partner OF her quit had ic-aPPearcd and de-
cItFcd that he had "!tA difficulty escaped from The
hands OF bandltti, who had, without amy apparent
motive, seized and imprisoned hln. 70 progc ihjs
hc showed several severe wounds which he had Ic-
cciycd in successful STRUGGLE with two OF thr .n,r
IN his "ndcayor to lbc5a,,. himself This >Io.,
however appeared 50 implobab!e that no belief ,ya.
attached 10 il, aud the Young man was hurried to
prison, there to abide his trit.
Thr story had been repeated with painful mi
nu,cnc., by 'aii lio.lrnon handsorl. yo,ur man
who hal lately arrived 1t Baden whose mild and
gcuticmanly manners had already won for him ne
golden opinion Of al the society assembled there.
40 one was more pleased wilh him th;.n the Old
Baron. Ii @as even believed that hr ranked 50
high n thc - d old mans opinion, that it Was m
molrd he had proposed p"d Was actually &ccc;.tcd
by GAIA Hartman, Ni,h The lu Sanction OF her ia
tncr.
ASA narrat,r f. " c9i,l ,,cal lin .s,..,.d
dr.ript.ous lent fife to his stories and wac.i he
chose Oh thc present ocr;..onJ he could harrow
up The leive. Of even the m st ,at,.ctic b. Gcpct-
lug he.rl.s IN tucr most CHARM ., most ipplj REQ
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