The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-06-29


housemaid presented herself.
please, sir said she, ''the men are here
again for the couch an they want to know,
SIR, if the hearthrug in the back parlor is tC
be changed as we'll They've broken leg
of the easy chair sir, an they told me as it
want their loss, for
Send 'em away yelled Dixon. I'm
not in. Go, go Tell en- that
What's up now, Steve?' | calmly in
quired.
"Oh, the fact is, the fact is" he repeat
ed, with a pronounced stutter but come
out into the street with me, and III
tell you. My temper is rather short, |
know"
On the topmost step, upon opening the
front door. we came face to face with an old
lady and her servant girl. The former, who
had pair of clogs in one hand, and thick
cotton umbrella in the other, was in the act
of crowding those articles into one grasp so
that she might be at liberty to grapple with
the door-bell.
II beg your pardon, she began, her rosy
features relaxing into broad smile, but |
suppose you've bin took in. Yes, of course
an does he do 'cm well 2"
What do you mean, my good woman
It's all mistake" said Stephen, hurried
! ly.
ooh, cannot want to look at EN-. That
is for younger folks than me. | recon ~
said the old lady, and her smile was delight
! ful to see But what has he charged you
if | may be so bold?'
who charged us?' venturcd to ask
getting an nkling OF what it all meant.
''Ihe Photographer, | mean" said the
NlI +h,
hanging out; but Mary says, she added
turning to the grim'ing girl behind, she
seed the studio ut the topof the house, from
the street corner.
Stephen Dixon leaped down the steps,
nluttering deeply in his throat, but without
staying to explain anything. | informed
the good old soul of her mistake and then
haStencd after my queer relative by mar
riage, who was proceeding down the street
at a speed which might have indicated that
he was walking for wager.
In answer to my question why he was out
Of hnmor, Stephen hesitatinglyL replied,
keeping his face turned away. "Ncll is the
ing little vexcd. She is 50 hard to please
about the furniture, and is now sending the
old away and having somc fresh. You must,
about it, and all the more so because your
mother called this morning when the mon
We're there removing some articles, and L.
out Of consideration for Nell, let her go
away under the impression that it was me
who was doing it.
II could not avoid ndulging in loug,
if not a loud whistle at Stephen $ audac-
ity. "
"Hoorayl that chaps, a-bein sold up
agen. They re taken the things off now
round the coruer," shouted one Of a couple
of dirty, ragged urchins.
An the noble Capting wi him him is
goin' to be bail for ront They're agoin, to
the landlord to beg off for week, yelled
the other urchin.
Dixon made a pause, and whirled round
as if meditating dash after his tormentors;
but on further thought he pretended not to
have heard them, and stared most attentive
ly at passing omnibus. Then with Il low
ering frown on his not very handsome face,
he went ON.
We rambled along through street after
street apparently aimlessy but gradually |
brought my companion to the goal | had in
tended. 1t was news ROOM and had no
difficulty in decoying him inside Once
there, | adroitly managed under pretense Of
seeking for a particular journal, to drag
sheet after sheet Of prin before his vacant
gaze, till | saw his attention was arrested by
an inner page Of my friend the editor
newspaper, which had huge blot Of ink
iudlclously spotted Oh it, 50 rs very eticctuai
ly to draw his attention to a particular para
graph. watched him settle on it like a
bee upon a flower, and could tell from the
widening of his eyes and the conyulsive
start he gave, that all was going on we'll
The paragraph read:
DEATH FROM PLANTS AND TREES 1t
is well known fact that during the night
time plants and trees give out carbonic gas
which constitutes in their vincinty most
poisonous atmosphere for all varieties Of an
lmal life. Many persons have doubtless
been sacrificed in this way, owing to the fact
Of Towering plants being kept in bedrooms.
But recently discoveries OF an alarming kind |
have been made, which 90 to show that
subter eXhaation than carbopic gas is given
off from shrubs, &c, perhaps more especial !
ly from fruit bearing trees At present 10
name has been given to this awful agent, |
but its startling effects have been accurately |
described. 1t preys upon the brain and the
principle, just as other gas does |
upon the merely vital forces and gradually |
induces new kind OF insanity, which is
certain, after specific stage has been reach
ed, to develop itself with most startling IA
pidity, and is sure to terminate fatally. The
first symptom is restlessness shown by the
unhappy victim; indeed, the tastes Of the
person becomes quite vltiated, and he is
lmpos! ib!e to please is always anxious to
change what is about him, SO as to have his
attention occupied and distracted by new
sights. That is most terrible premontory
and signals, when it has once be-
come chronic the approach of highly criti-
cal stage Of men attribute the alarming pro-
gress of insanity in modern times to the
foolish practice which has grown up, of hav-
ing conservatorics attached to drawing looms
and the introduction Of herbariums, &c,
INTO sitting OF course, no one has
as yet, been so stark mad as to think of ma
king an orchard of his house by growing |
fruits in it; such a wish would indicate that
insanity already existed from some previous
inducing cause"
| observed poor Dixon, as he progressed
in his reading, to change color rapidly, be-
coming red and white alternately, until his
settled into a dusky sallow, in
licative of real genuine fright. Turning to
a mutual acquaintance Of ours seated at the
same table, | got up whispered discussion
with him on second paragraph in the same
newpaper, carefully talking just loud enough
or the words to reach Dixon's ears as soon
Is he should be disengaged. This other
purported to be surmised report
If commission de t,natico inq,eirendo.
II think it was stretching matters rather