The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-02-28

though she uan aIitf. ir ;. b. e OlteI
disappointed 81 she aittl, trembling a
little, as she saw the furnace and its frame
werk Of friedrich heIving up and down,
and the strong Old Dd' N masonry OF thelI
stable-wan quiyeriuss some force was
lifting It's founda tiOn. All thought OF
boiling her tea-kettle, over that angry fire,
or near those dangerods gases, n she called
them, was banished from her mind.
Something unusnal, n the experiment
Saul, watched, was AlnnifeSt even to her
woman s perception.
No wonder, As she looked timidly at
him and noticed his usually firmer lips
twitching with his excitement, that she in
stinctiveiy stretched cp. her hand again, TO
phil him from tie furnace.
"Oh husband come away from it /
am sure it viii BURST"
Saul's gray eyes turn Il upon her serious
Is, and he motion I'd with one hand, that shi
should move fur hcr of, while, with tha
other hand, he pressed hard upon the valve
which regulated his iOier, 80 u to increase,
instead Of diminishing, the power Of that
new force he was testing.
The caldrOn rocked; the furnace rOared:
the old wall shook, as If II would rise and
throw the tiled roof away from those Oaken
rafters which upheld it. That marble man
ger, in which Saul had built his ire-bricks,
By bedding them in its cavity, with plaster
OF Paris. now bulged out Of it's setting IN
the wall, Is if lever were applied be-
hind it.
Susie could not repress a sharp cry, as
she saw her daring husband shut on the
fierce heat, under his regulator. But
Saul's voice was calm, as he spoke to
her
Fear nothing, wife!" said the Inventor.
Il have barred the lid so that it cannot be
forced up The power - now working be-
wv, as | want it to work Sec, Susie it
Is steady power: could move this house
t. Harlem with it, I'm sure, with proper
cutoff, Or"
The man, in his pride of discovery, flung
his clenched hand up, and stood, like Orf
delying all conseq ucnces.
''Or, can let It's force on, and move this
island Of Manhattan
Susie Macy, only daughter Of a brave
New England sire, was a courag Aaus d little
woman a. re ordinarily nee Huh. But
when she heard those GOLD words on her
husbands lips, and marked that reddish
light IN lis blue-gTay eyes, her heart stood
ST; for the dread that, perhaps, his mind
might be giving way, came over her like
GILL. She felt reassured, however, immedi-
ately; for he continued, with less vehe-
nieuce:--
Susie. darling. please God our days of
p0FerN viii soon be over. Go, my wife,
ana kHetl down by our Ded. Pray Tor
your husband, while I watch this POWER"
His eyes no longer burned with that red
glare. Transient fervor of ina gination was
succeeded by steady purpose Of thought.
Saul Macy was Il practical man; and never
1ancieI there could be poetry in either Susie
OF himself; nor WAS either Of them aware
Of that deep and natural sentiment, sur
passing ali written poetry, which they i'm
printed next moment on each others lips;
lie wife 5 arms about her husbands neck,
rir faithful hearts beating together.
Susie turned from the seven-fOld Ltated
:urHace and that surging wall which held
III. and went quickly toward their bed, in
an opposite angle Of the wide room, which
had only small apartment partitioned off;
a nursery room il had been, that Saul CON
sJrucJed ten years before, and which had
been their young daughters chamber until
she Jeff home.
Their Led stood against the partition,
which only rose about eight feet; and at
the bedside Susie kaelt, and began to pray,
while saul watched his power. She prayed
the prayer she had prayed, morning and
night from her babyhood; but, in the midst
of it, thunder seemed to shake the heavens
about her. and darkness fell around. Her
prayer was ended.