The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-06-28

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"yat dat you say?" she inquired, in an
eager. nervous tone.
THAT is fearful black eye your husband
has given you" repeated.
Vat you ken? Vat you do?" she ask
ed. half in anger and half with the air of an
injured individual. -.
began to be more than half afraid that
the consequent symptoms which generally
follow the prosecution of husband were
about to exhibit themselves full out as the
doctors say when children have the meas
les nicely" The poor woman was fast
forgetting the cowardly blows she had re
ceived, and was already thinking more Of
the good nothing fellow on his way to
prison than of herself But her features
her dress, and the neat arrangement of her
hair, proclaimed her to be respectable
though very poor. So thought | would
attack her responsibility as forlorn hope
trusting that it might prove to be weak and
assailable point.
:" 1t will be dreadful thing for respect
able woman like you to have to go about in
that disigured state" artfully put in, and
speaking very slowly and distinctly, 80 that
she might understand me.
yah" she replied = but vas can do -
/ chuckled quietly over what | thought to
be the coming success Ofmy diplomacy, and
assured her, in convincing tones, that took
so much interest in her sad case that, if she
would place herself in my charge and come
with me, she should be subjected to a pro-
cess by which all traces of the ugly marks
on her face should be quickly removed, and
that thus she would be freed from any I'M
pleasant remarks and impertinent inquiries
from her neighbors.
How wrong | was! How thoroughly ]
had mistaken my subject" The woman
cast one terrified glance at me. threw her
thick wooden shawl over her baby ejacula-
ted q Der Teufel." and fed down the steps
into the street like startled deer. / am
morally certain that she either took me for
his Satanic majesty or an alchemist, an as
trologer or sorcerer, or some bedeveld
representative of humanity. She did not
even once look behind her, and she was
soon lost to view. There stood at the
top of the steps not knowing whether to
laugh or feel disconsOlate. | did neither.
whistled. That prolonged whistle did more
for me than all my diplomacy had done. By
causing them to laugh, it drew my atten-
ton to two women who had been standing
by my side and quietly listening all the
while to what had passed between the
Dutch woman and myself. I was almost
startled out Of my sense of propriety. had
thought that the accommodating judge
had locked every man, woman and child,
with disfgured face; and yet, standing
there. face to face with me, was a subject
equally as good for my purpose as the one
who had SO unceremoniously slipped through
my fingers. She had splendidly decorated
eye, and how missed her l do not know.
| dashed in medals res, and asked her how
she had managed to get of. She told me
that it was her first visit to the Tombs
from that ,card, and that, escaping recog-
milton, the Judge had let her off on the prom
Use of reformation.
"And | do hope, Mary, you'll keep your
promise" put in her companion, who, as
afterward learned. was her elder sister.
Say, what's that you was saying to that
woman about taking out black-e eyes in.
quired Mary, with marked interest. You
see I've got pretty un, and it'll be worse
tomorrow. | don't live down in this ward
and | don't want to 60 home with such a
knuckle kiss as this"
] had long aud confidential converse.
ton with Mary and her sister the result
of which was the transfer of fifty cents from
my pocket to Mary's, and an arrangement
that we should meet again at eleven o'clock
NOT in the same spot, Mary strongly OBJ,
iected to that-on the angular piece oil
sidewalk at the junction of the Bowery and
East Broadway, in Chatham Square. The
fifty cents was to pay for Mary's breakfast
The recess" lit is astonishing how
quickly one picks up police court technical
phrases) was to give me chance to take
my daily cold bath, get some breakfast, and
read the newspapers.
Now, the readers of APPLETON S JOURNAL
will naturally ask, /" What is the meaning
of all this ?" Well, | have straightfor.
ward answer to their inquiry. The other
day was strolling along the Bowery, when
a printed slip was thrust into my hand by a
half-clad, shivering, blue-nosed man, who
looked as though he would like to drink a
pint of rum, and sit on Morning glory u
cooking-stove till it boiled, in order to warm
himself. 1t had plea heading, which
read
"WHY WEAR A BLACK EYE?"
This was a totally novel idea to me- The
only black-eyes that l remember to have
worn were worn out twenty years ago; the
last one after my last school-boy fight. ]
read on The advertisement went on to
say that .-of. No Bowery, was ready
and wiling, for stipulated sum, to remove
all traces of" falls. tumbles, blows, personal
encounters" surely they must include
blows ,. natural imperfections, skin-b lotch
es, scars, burns, scalds," by purely harm.
less process" and without pain or incou,
venience." ~
"What benefacter to suffering human.
ty must that man beip mentally exclaim.
Attic bottom of the slipI read, Discol.
Grafton around the eye effectuaIly concealed
in artistic style, for five dollars n ~
am naturally of an inquisitive tempera-
ment, and, | confess, my curiosity was great
ly excited by this remarkable advertisement
had heard of Madame Rachel and her
"beautiful forever business but had also
heard that she had been, even if she is not
now, imprisoned in Newgate as common
impostor. had also heard-but, oh, "tell
it not in Gath that some of the young
beauties OF New York are not unbelievers
as TO the merits Of pigments and cosmetics
But here was q gentleman who struck bold
ly; who not only openly advertised his oc-
cupation, but advertised what he did was
done " in artistic styie.n My desire to test
his artistic ability was irrepressible but. as
| did not ieel inclined to run my eye against
post. or to get some one to put my head
in "a friendly 'chancery' suit in order to
test it personally, thought would pay a
substitute to do duty for me. and the most
likely place from which to enlist substitute