New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-24

From The Loadon Giole
To tie stranger there Is hardly man passing
along the boulevard with multI-co.Jrep fosette n
his buti0u-hoe receiving the situations ui thoso
who gather diurualy n the Gales, "nO Ads NOT
some story or legend attached 10 LIS Name. mere
L. NJ D. quondam friend ana companion OF VI.
de \ ilemessant, VINO welded the pen OF barDun
with the grace and deAterIty OF the hero OF beau
marchais. lie could tell Low he MAD. "a fortune
some wears ago by discovering one OF those ierfh-
gluous and chalYbeaie springs whose water II rec
commended by the faculty IN proportion To the
difficulty experienced by the lattnt IN 50 allowing
tue draught The sprlne was wei pu1ed I'D Tue
daily press. IL formed the subject OF papers read
before the Faculty Of Medicine ANA the academy
OF sciences. and peuOllcal notes were cent lloil
fine wooden shauty. " hich had been gulacd ~
tho name Of Casino. NJ D. had "A great sue cess :;
he SOD Als land To speculative builders, hotels
were run up. and proper Casino was Duilt.
local paper called La >ds0R. wa, started 10 clltVen
tin. stay ut visitors. ami tue place appeared likely
to become quite rs iaanionaDie as bAtn m tIe '9l
O the Prince Regent D. Ned DID, h"n' thtl the
Emperor might Doe persuaded % Visit uis ihiid'u-
Ions sprnL. and ID, crOuy, de uieMt,-aui, PROM
IsrG 20 do ilis best 20 make the new wells take.
Unfortunately. D. was economically disposed.
He was Ia want Of resident Physician aut OF an
editor OF la 80 s0R. lie tAOu-lt there could 9e No
harm in fixing his choice on q man who collG III
bo,h functions. and among the applicants VINO
answered LIS advcrtl-r meht he picked or gem
tleuau whose uatura. giis emIuenty nited hilA lor
the position. Dr. y Transformed 'Ic tOcal
iourllaI irro n scientific and literary review. Ills
clipping, from different journals we're gffa.If APP
p.ecatcl ami be wa Oo>rt up 20 ny a1l a, 1T
the most bitter of encmic, lac do'tpr vowed nc
would be- reVanged. while bis patron dec AIRED he
would ruin hlu. The paper could moi Zee le.t ana
the doctor bad 10 remain two days Ia iis editorial
chair pending the arm il ot ms successor from
Parl-. The morning Of the departure ol tue ioctOr
the subSer beers % Ia HHs)R were tAunacletF.cA AZ
fine announcement IN the leading column ol tue
paper that 4 celebrated sayant ald Archaeology q
had been staying for month ~ the wells. ana had
made some very lnterrstIhg uiacot eI4es;
Among them was that Of IN ancient place OF burial
OF the early Gaul- which he Ma ntalned, With a
mas, of argumens in support of his statement 10
have been exclusively reserved for tie Drulds IL
was said that the sdyant In question vas drawing
no a memoir FOR the Academy. detailing TIE dis-Oy-
cries which had rewarded hls researches He
asserted that the cemetery which had disappeared
in couIsr of time had been watered Tor some
centuries past iy the tiny trlck.lug stream men
was drunk with such gu~tO by certain people, ny
pOchOudrIacs tor the most part. VINO lnt1iheh th@I
fhcv had liver complaint. and further, That the
ueculiar aybeatc pros critics OF ihe vel were 70
he attr buted 10 the water having filtered through
the bones OF those who had been buried I'D Gle Gene
terry The doctor. mo had mtue many IrcnUs
during his literary career, vas able 10 obtain lne
insertion of q similar paragraph IN d!Leleut DINER
PAPERS and the fate OF the new spring was -edled.
Patients. hypochOnIrac or not could not near tnS
idea that they Were drinking water Inferred
standing the contradictions given the place VI
D. had invented was gradually deserted l1psiuS
into state OF bankruptcy which affected tue 4arge
fortune Of " D., but sun icit MN chOls ga 10
live on lie has forgiven tuc doctor. and tells tie
story of the collapse Of his spring on the aieAtero
persuasion OF those vhO ind him al the clte WAen
The hour of the abslntAe Grinker has sounded.