New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-10-22

WHICH udu lOuS ldUOTeu III VAIL, anu CVuA
say to myself, when / sat down in my cas-
chair in the evening and Int my pipe: Now
Justus Weissenbart, thou hast done all tina
the earthly and corporal part OF thee de
mands for its sustenance; hencefOrth tho
art free to serve the cause Of science, and, j
may be. even to add q little grain Of know
ledge to the SUN of human learning. wen
to work with all earnestncss. ! fillet
my house with rare plants. rare fossils. rar,
minerals. / paid high for curiosities O
every kind. Once paid handful Of ,ha
lers for the carcass Of . donkey, which ex
hibited a singular malfOrmation of til,
, r,,.inal column. Its dissection led me to one
Of the mos. Interesting discoveries which
have ever made. All, mein Herr! you, who
| are a man Of amusement and adventure
can not fatbom the delight felt in cutting
| up that glorious donkey! But once before
in my whole life did / experience the same
pleasure, and that was when l was called
| IN, little While after first came here, tc
treat patient whose case exhibited some
very unusual and perplexing symptoms.
examined him. reflected, the truth flashed
upon 'ue. ! flung my hat on the ground
and. embracing the sick man with raptare
cried out: Il congratulate you. my friend
you have received disease which has been
unknown for the last six centuries ~
The idea Of such consolation administered
to an invalid was too much for my gravity.
In spite Of all my efforts to compose myself
l laughed till | was fairly exhausted. and
Herr Weissenbart very good -hOmorelly
joined IL the merriment, though evidently
without the least suspicion Of having given
any cause for il.
well. mein leiber herr" he continued,
You will doubtless have remarked it as a
singular law of nature that whenever a man
lives all by himself, in particularly old
and shabby looking house, he invariably &C.
quires the reputation OF being immensely
rich. Perhaps my paying SO high for fos-
slis and skeletons gave some color to the
myth in my case: but at any rate I was
soon known in Heidelberg as the rich Pro
fessor Weissenbart, and my friends began
to warn me that if did not take care
might some day chance to get robbed.
Now. al that time had but one servant,
who had been with me many years. and " as
beginning to get old and feeble Every one
said that he was not enough to take care of
the house himself, and that I'd better have
younger man to help him; but dldn' like
to vex poor old Johann by seeming to think
him past work, SO just let things 90 on as
they were. He was a capital servant, and
and did his work well as man could do; but
he had one failing. Every now and then,
when the chance offered, he would"-a sig.
u,
If lifting glass to his lips, completed the
sentence.
Hin! rather bad fault in man upon
whom the safety Of the house depended"
observed l.
80 thought" answered the professor:
land more than once doubted whether it
might not be as well to take my friends ad-
vice after all, and engage a second servant.
But kept putting it of, and putting it of.
1ot I Coz l.
as YOU shall hear,
"One night had sent Johann out to do
some marketing. and was expecting him
back every minute. As rule, whenever
tie went abroad he took the house KEY TOT
which l had a duplicate) along with Linn:
50 that nobody could get in till he came
back, unless l chose to let them. He was
very punctual on the whole; but this time
en-htteen-twenty minutes passed, and |
there was no sign Of him. began to fear !
that he might have taken glass too much, |
as he sometimes did, and was just thinking
,f going to look after him, when all at once
heard. far down below. a noise as if the |
louse door had been suddenly opened anc |
shut again, and then a step coming up the |
'tairs right toward my door. have quick |
.ar of my own, and it struck me directly
hat the tread was trIner and heavier than |
lid Johann's. l guessed at once that there
Eau ocoA AouI pay somewhere anu 1Or
moment thought Of locking my door and
'alling for help through the window: but.
N second thought, decided that it would
'e better to let the intruder whoever he
night be- come right up to me, and to see
What he really wanted
looked at the professor with involuntary
admiration. To hear this little, delicate.
Notwithstanding old gentleman talking
o cooliy OF deliberately allowing robber
perhaps more than one) to march right into
lis room at night, without stirring a step to
better to see what he wanted'-had a
eally heroic favor about it: and bent
agerly forward TO hear the sequel Of the
overture
The door opened pursued my friend.
and in came a tall. burly fellow, with
lack mask on his face and pistol in his
and: The moment he was in he locked the
COR behind him. put the key in his pocket,
nd came forward TO the table where was
ltting.
Now. my old 'un,'' said he, with a
buckle, we've got the house all to our
elves. Your servant is lying fast asleep
nder the clubroom table at the Thirsty
OK. Drugged beers fine thing to make
man sleep sound, and he won't wake much
efOre to morrow morning. In the mean
me, out with your money, or you're dead
lan."
HE cooked the pistol as he spoke, and
'veled it at my forehead.
'You will think. mein herr. that must
ave been frightened: but. strange as it
Jay seem, was not. Had met this man
| the street, or out in the open country, he
Ould have been on his own ground. but
ere. within the walls of my laboratory. he
as on mine. He came to me in the Suise
new experiment, and l felt him in ny
over: Before ne had done speaking. /
Id tried him in my own mind, condemned
III and sentenced him to DEATH
Soft and pleasant as the old mans voice ,
st then, and an ominOus compression Of {
e small, delicate mouth which showed
e, tor the first time, what this quiet, good
'mOred scholar might be capable OF doing |
truth, the cruelty OF passion or revenge
as nothing to that of science. Parrha- |
Ii. crucitying his slave in order to gain
ore vivid idea Of the sufferings which he
inted. Michael Angelo studying with
oil, analytical keenness the loathsome
nuti@ OF the plague hospital, Dr. LIE Gait
eping horses and dogs alive for weeks I
der his scalpel, only to intlict upon them t
ore varied and complicated tOrtures- !
CD examples are terribly suggestive, and G
'ouid not help thinking that, had been &
rObber, should have been very 10th to
trust myself to the tender mercies of my I
end, the professor, supposing his power =
destruction to be commensurate with his '
H. After pause, he resumed: /
''Well. cant resist you,' said l to the s.
bier, assuming look of terror such as Il
d not worn since went up for my first d
ANIMATION rs a candidate at Jena. III t,
'e you all l have, and when you have G.
Ken it, hope youth be satisfied, and do I
) no further injury n
''Oh, Ill be satisfied when touch the "
,ney. never fear. old hoy, ansu..od | n