The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-16

we're washed ashore excepting those of
the Egyptians. And the colored man
firmly believed that they had power to
convey themselves to place of safety,
and were all still alive.
But there he was, among the few
saved, the sole representative of the
company. He was able to save much of
the property, the sarcophagus among
the rest. AS far as he could, he fol-
lowed the occupation of the former
owners for few months, and then he
joined the circus company as an outside
show.
When the Major heard all these
things, he was obliged to tell us what
he could remember, to connect the
stories and to prove that he had played
Pharaoh for twenty years.
He said, what we know, that he found
the Egyptians so learned and agreeable,
he became very intimate with them.
They treated him with the most fiatter-
ing attention. But at last he perceived
that the Egyptian lady was evidently
deeply in love with him. Her calm
face flushed at his coming her breath
ing grew quick and irregular when he
sat beside her and her wonderful eyes
seemed to draw him toward her with an
irresistible influence. He immediately
ceased his visits. But one unlucky day
he went to them for information upon a
subject on which he was to lecture be-
fore his class. He only found the sor-
ceress at home. She received him in a
small studio, filled with the relics of an
cient Egypt. She was calm and stern,
as at their first meeting. One subject
under discussion was the comparative
size of different races, at different ages.
An empty sarcophagus stood i'll the mid
die of the room, and he was tempted
to compare his size, fully six feet, with
that of a Pharaoh, by placing himself III
his coffin. Unfortunate victim to science.
He no sooner had thus placed himself,
than he became benumbed and helpless,
through some power dropping from the
fingers and shooting from The eyes of the
Egyptian woman. He remembered nc
more.
He believed that he had been mag.
netized, and only released from the
thralldom by the fire at Barnum's.
But now look at his surroundings
Suspicious friends outside of his house.
Inside, doting, feeble old lady for q
wife. A daughter looking and feeling
older than himself. And he strong,
energetic, able minded man. He tried
to get back his professorship, but OF
course he could not. He had fortune
sufficient for his wants but he could
not be satisfied without work.
At last he accepted clerkship in al
insurance Office. He found there work
which was not too arduous, and pleas
ant companionship.
He lived very quietly, his wife being
feeble in health. 1t was curious sight
TO see them together. She had beer
very much of an invalid. But she tool
a new lease of life when her husband
came back to her.
The most sincere affection existed be
! tween them. She was lively in CONVEX
sation, and loving and yielding in dis
position. He was always gravely pc
lite and deferential-appearing pleased
with her gayety, but never what you
could call gay himself Their inter
course, as noticed by their friends, was
not like that between mother and son
though a stranger would have though
that to be the relationship. 1t was {
new revelation of affection, and charmed
all those who were allowed to come
within its influence.
/ must not omit to mention the cir
cumstance of my marriage, which tool
place six or eight months after thu
Majors return. 1t was merely adding
one TO the family circle for my wifi,
and took charge of the establishment
and we all lived together. 1t was
most happy arrangement
We were together for five years, whel
one morning the feeble cries of m,
mother in-law brought us to her bed
side. We found her weeping and faint
ing over the dead body of her beloved
husband How grand he looked
He died of disease of the heart, which
the physician said was caused undoubt
edly by the wonderful cessation of life
which must have destroyed its power.
Our dear mother begged that tn
body might not be removed from he
side. She was so feeble, and so earnes
in her request, that would not allow i
TO be denied. And for twelve hour
they lay side by side, and then her spiri
quietly departed, and she lay cold AM
white and lovely beside her dark-hairet
husband. They were buried in Green
wood Cemetery in one wide grave. An'
one wide stone marks the spot
sculptured cross over her name, and
marble crown over that of the man VIII
bore his singular trials with such no
BILE dignity.