The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-05-02

ram IN his eyes, made memory draw back
| from her car windows.
/ ''I'll rig up another furnace instead Of a
| billiard table :" said the man of money,
| wiping his tears away "And I'l in
/ vestigate my new power under better con-
/ ditions-if Susie don't object ~
But Susie did object, with tears and en-
| treaties. And Susie, after expending her
/ tender ammunition, yielded, as she always
| yielded, when Saul seemed disappointed;
| surrendering not only her arms, but her
| loving viii, with one stipulation
ssOh, you'll be careful 20
| ''Susie, there isn't the slightest danger
I shall have the mason-work and iron fix
/ lures set under my own eyes, and
"Oh, Saul!-that iron box is there yet,
you know :" lt
- And I'll let it stay there ~ said her
| husband. ETheres nothing in it-though
it does appear to attract outsiders !" he
added, with smile, which Susie answered
with sigh"
"Oh, | can't bear to think of that dread
| full robber % she said-f'I do hope he'n
never come back to trouble US !"
II guess your fathers burglar-alarm has
frightened the fellow off for good, Sue!"
said Saul Macy; with laugh 50 lightsome
that it cheered up his thoughtful mate.
And when Susie saw how her husbands
spirits rose, and his health improved, as
the work of building a furnace in the stable
went on, she began to say to herself, in her
way of child-like trust 'fGod is good to us !
It's all for the best ~
Before the end of November a red-coal fire
glared brightly in Saul Macy's stable, and
another intense flame glowed under a
boiler which the inventor had designed
himself. Upon the wall, at either side fit,
were ranged glittering cups and crucibles
and retorts, of red brass, or fre-proof earth,
ready for fresh experiments.
The imam of power was in his element
| again. Moss Cohen and Captain Hooper,
| smoking their cigars, in capacious arm
chairs, listened to learned discourses on the
| properties of gases, and watched their
chemical combinations in Saul Macy's
'1witch kettle"
More than once, in the first week of
! December, those gossips were moved to
wise coneeits in contemplating the manifest
presence of some "oeeult foree1 as Macy
called it, agltating his ''witch KETTLE"
until it rocked and made the strong mason
work under it quiyer, with obvious power
bearing upon its cemented and riveted
permitted his invisible power'' to escape
through q novel cutoff he had contrived,
and bear suddenly upon metal disc, which
it set Whirling so swiftly that it tipped over
wooden stand to which it was affixed;
whereupon Moss Cohen declared that the
'fspirits'' were after Saul, and Captain
Hooper wanted to call in the women-folks,
to make circle for stable tipping"
regularly.
But the swomen- folks" apart from Susie,
resisted all temptations to witness such
"spirit knockings, - and Susie Macy herself
always kept watch on Saurs face, SIS he
watched his boiler, for such vessel had
nearly been a"yessel Of wrath" to them,
she remembered; and her mind was never
inn wi l1f min x,aF
So the time passed; and Saul had O pc
cuiiar engine made, to connect with his
boiler-pipe. BY the middle of December
he was able to let his 'powcr" on; bat its
first force upset the engine, and broke q
necessary cog-whcel; so that the macblniSt
had to take It in hand again.
Saul Macy, as Moss Cohsn said, grew
ga cubit taller" after that December ex-
pertinent; and Saul himself remarked that
he could count on his ''power" HOW, as
sssure thing" and his heart s'felt 50 light"
he could 'almost walk on eggs" Susie
slyly interposed hope that her husband 3
"head" would not get Eight also.
Amelia Macy was attending to her own
"inyisible power" all those weeks. Edward
| had been promised 'sleave of absence at
| Christmas, and, as the army had gone into
winter quarters, our cavalry captain, ,"risen
from the ranks" was sending orders upon
orders to his corporal" more frequently
than he received orders to 'boot and
saddles" until at last, Christmas Eve came,
and Edward was looked for that day.
There was to be Christmas dinner OF great
moment; and Martha, the t'new girl, and
a good girl, was full of its preliminaries.
Moss Cohen though Hebrew of the Heb
rews," was expecting to pull "a wish-bone"
with Fanny at that Christmas banqueting;
for, as the old jew loosely remarked, he
could see no difference between easter"
and 'sPaesaeh''-if they came on the same
day; and "a Christmas goose is no pig to
bite me!'' he added.
But Saul Macy anticipated such Christi
mas gift, himself, as no man ever hoped
for after more persistent work and waiting.
/ He confidently relied upon a deyelopment
of his invisible power in regulated force;
and at noon, on that December day, he set
his guage, adjusted his valve, and sat down
to note effects until thecrowning moment.