New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-18


| touched the dial, and at the same moment
the torpor fell from him. He bounded to
| his feet as if galvanized, and clutched the
| dial with all his might and main, the sensa-
ton being one as if the dial was stuck to
his finger, and could never be torn from it.
Flushed in the face, painting and tortured
| in the body, as if a million of needles and
| pins were pricking him, he staggered about
| the room, making spasmodic ATTEMPTS to
hook the catch of the chain to the diaI's
ring, and pausing in his efforts to thunp
| his hand on his breast which heaved as If
it were going to burst. At length he sue
| ceeded, and then of a sudden an inetfdble
sensation of comfort stole over him. He
| still, with smile over his face, threw his
| head back, and closed his eyes from the
exquisite rapture of what he felt. "Oh,
| this is heaven" he mUrmured.
"Ah~ shouted the stranger eXultingly,
''yOu have prevailed. The secret Of men 5
minds, wealth, power, dignity, are all with
! in our reach. We have grasped omnipO-
tence !"
II feel as if had wings = sighed Patrick
ecstatically. Air air! could Hvw
"The whole world is before Us, cried the
stranger Come T. and the two rushed to-
gether out Of the house.
III.
How he had got there he could not tell:
but Patrick found himself in the most
crowded centre of London, with his new
friend on his arm. Carriages flashed by in
hundreds, men streamed along the pave
ment5, the trade, fashion and wealth Of the
greatest and prOudest city in the world
passed before his eyes in an ever changing
and eternal panorama. He did not speak,
but felt exultatiOn thrilling in all his veins.
He looked up, and at a distance before him
saw a mighty and well-knOwn building re-
iecting its spires and towers in the Thames
stminster," he murmured, "Westmin-
ster, which has given laws to half the
world"
Eyes, and we can try our power here
answered his companion, who, like himself
looked full Of excited joy. eve may as
well spend day in experimenting our tails
man; tomorrow we will begin to make it
serve our interests
Patrick had not yet tried the efficacy of
his dial. He now drew it from his pocket
and glanced about him for somebody on
whom he could test it. There was standing
on the opposite side of the street, and lust
in front Of a butchers shop, a chubby DO
liceman, with the most honest face in the
world, all beef and truthtulnesa Patrick
moved the small hand of his dial toward
this excellent officer, so as to make him do
the one thing of all others that he he'd least
meant to do. The policeman gave a start.
and, without moments hesitation, faced
round, strobe up to the butchers shop, IN
hooked leg of mutton, and walked off
with it.
The butcher, perceiving the theft, rushed
to the doorstep, with the blood to his face,
and prepared to shout "stOp thiefw but
Patrick, directing the small hand anew,
caused him, too, to do just the one thing
which was most contrary to his nature. A
II 81, II, r
sang out: You're very welcome to that
leg, policeman. It's not often l give any
one something, the sensation IL be a new
one"
Patrick felt curious to know more of this
gentleman, who confessed to so ungenerOus
a disposition; and he turned the large hand
towards him, so as to induce him to proceed !
with his avOwaIs, The butcher lapsed |
''Ah, yes!' he beloved at the top of his |
voice, and with a most splendid disregard |
Of the crowd which began to gather; ''you |
may well walk off with that leg; and, if |
you were to take every blessed scrap of !
meat that's in the shop. you'd still not have
got hundredth, ay, nor a thOusandth Of |
what Eve come dishonesty by in the course
If my precious business. 1t I'D make YOU
stare, and no mistake if you was to hear Of
he extra pounds of meat that I've set down
% my rich customers, and of the Jumps of
Done and gristle that I've put into the scales
Il weighing the meat for the POOR and of
he diseased CarCasses I've bought under
land for few shilliGgs, and sold in Joints
or twice the number Of pounds. Why, Just
zee that leg Of beef a-hangin' up there It's
vi that remains Of a tainted old COW, that
wouldn't have fed on myself if YOU was
o have paid me its weight in gold for it,
" ell, doctors 1t bit with an acid which
ny neighbor, the chemist knows of, and
way it goes at a shilling the pound to Gus
Omers, who don't much notice that the
ats too yellow and the lean too dark, and
i've themselves indigestion fit to fill hos
,ital with"
Patrick laughed; but fearing the honest
butcher might 90 to lengths which would
Opelessly ruin his good name, he turned
he dial toward a sleek grocer who was
landing on his doorstep. and eniOying his J
confession with a smile of the
urest delight The grocer Immediately
ressed his hand to his forehead, and +
elped:
"That what he's saying is all very well:
ut just come and listen to me, whom an
lder of my church, and found twenty
eOple guilty Of thieving at the last SEES
ions, where l was juryman. BLESSED if
ont think sometimes that there's not an a.
rtfcle in my shop but what has some poi
1nous stuff in it; and if you'd Just look un-
er my scales there, you'd find bit of ba-
On fat of two ounces weight, which allows |
le 70 give so much short to every customer
serve. If one Of EN- finds it out, aDol-
gize, put it down to an accident. and alls |
lid. But dang ME when | read in nv |
aper OF a mOTnlD' that somebody's been | !
mt to jail for obtaining money under false
| can't help tbinkin'. suppOsin' it 8
ere called false pretences to sell a parcel !
birch tWigs as tea; what cell in Millbank
lOuld be stewin' in by this time 2" !
"And me, and me p shouted a white
nOcked milkman, whose hilarity had been
70 uproriOus not to excite Patrick's sus-
ciOn. Lets say, now, sick child gets Y
ilk ordered it; pure milk, says the doctor, {
no thinks cows grow about like black |
srries. So We serves the mother milk ike
lat IN these ere cans, and then she won |
ers why the child dies But don't wonder. J
IT does my master, LOr bless you" {
"Well; I'll tell you what" broke out S
Orthy bystander with a winebasllet on his {
ouIders, and speaking in the hottest wrath.
Il could have the handIin' of Won. I'd /
st. have you all tied up and treated to the T
t-O'-nlne- tails until 'af London card You t
reechin'. Yes, bothered if | wouldn't" /
lded he, as the other spectators, heartily c
proving his words, ChOrused land sarve | T
N right, too! let's punch their 'eads for h
M! But here the larger hand of Patrick's a
atch having sought out the man with the t
Lsket, this champion of the weak cOntin-
ID pensivelY, And yet | don't know why {
should talk of havin' You logged. when L
N Just carryin here six bottles Of logwood v
cOction to a young lady whose life g
ight be saved, they say, if she took 0
od port wine to pick her strength
}. The family amt rich, and 't's.aH q
ey've been able to do by pinchin' I