The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-11-10
JOSEPHUS.
KATRINA Is CONQUERED.

| KATRINA Is CONQUERED.
A FER hastv examination Of the body
stretched at mll length upon the floor, Joe
concluded that the young stranger wal
dead. His skill in making diagnosis had
been derived from considerable experience
Of railroad accidents. Many a"Aattep
out" brakeman and engineer had come
under his observation associated with les.
manifestation OF copious bleeding than the
present case, and he decided that if men
died from bleeding Of the lower limbs, how
much more necessary was il that this man
should be dead from bleeding which had
evidently come from the mouth and nose
His first impulse was to wake up his moth.
er, but the second thought sent him run.
ming for doctor. That gentleman appeared
in less than quarter of an hour and de.
cided at ONCE that the patient was not dead
but that he had ruptured an import an
blood vessel, and must necessarily die before
morning unless the bleeding were stopped
Joe volunteered to act as nurse and give uT
his bed, and the surgeon hurried out to pro-
cure ice or ice water. The sick man was
stripped and lald OIL the bed, the natural
pnleness of bis face rendered ghsstly by
contrast with the dark red stains which
streaked his forehead and cheeks and the
crimson foam which gurgled from bis
lips. Presently the surgeon arrived with q
lump of ice in a towel and, having broken
off small piece, placed 1t between the
patients teeth. Gradually the watchers
saw it dissolye and they could notice that
the cold seemed to stimulate the tagging
vitality. After time the first piece of ice
disappeared and the patient made feeble
signs for mere. Encouraged by this pre-
liminary success the doctor departed for
the night and Joe made all arrangements
to act as nurse to the best of his ability.
Slowly and dismally enough passed the
long, weary watches ofthat new experience.
Atinteryals Joe heard sounds which seemed
to him like the death rattle which the
"mortal millions" regard with such unhal-
lowed terror. He conjured up paralyzing
visions of being alone with corpse after
the spirit had returned to God who made
it," He held notions of the soul as ma.
terial and lucid as those expounded at Bos.
ton by Mr.. Joseph Cook, the great modern
Defender Of Faith.
This wonderfully scientific exposition at
tempted to prove that the soul did not alb
solutely separate from the body until Eat
least four minutes" after the heart had
beaten, like a mufiled drum, its last great
funeral march. joe Nordhoif had never
heard OF his great namesake Joseph Cook ,
but he quite expected to see sudden i'll
Elimination Of his little bed room as the di-
vine essence, representing the immortal
portion of his poor German relatiye, took
unto itself the spirit wings Of Immortality
and rushed through time and space TO the
golden streets and waving palms of the
promised land.
But no such apocOlyptic vision awaited
him. Now and hen sign was made for
water or ice and, after intermitting atten-
tions and attacks Of drowsiness, as the
earliest rays of dawn came streaming
through the valley Joe saw with most un.
felgned satisfaction that the poor sufferer
was sleeping heavily.
With an easy conscience Joe abandoned
himself TRANQUILITY to the great god of
sleep. But the blood stains on the carpet
sent Mrs. Nordhoff to her sons room the
very moment she came down stairs to pre-
pare her husbands morning meal. She
saw the strange man in Joe's old place, and
her son evidently exhausted, stretched out
on a rocking chair, with bis feet fiRlyl
planted upon the side wall. II did hoI tabe
much time to rouse her son And ga no
facts Of the story, but the ncidents con-
nected Herewith did not gain >full posses
sion OF her intellect until she had fortified
that great possession with the morning
coffee which exercises so soothing and bens-
hcient an influence upon the average man
aud woman. During break fast, and while
the wanderer was still fast asleep; she heard
the story told over again and to .orroborate
his own beliefs Joe produced the letters of
the previous evening. The former Katrina
recognized at once as her sisters hand
writing and when eventually she examined
the features OF the sleeper she saw not alone
the face Of her family and the fac smile of
her sister IN other days, but she saw re
yived, in one clear line engraving before
her mental eye, the life with all its thous.
and associations Of that old German home
life, melowed now by distance, but eonse.
Grated by all the co cooperating faces Of hope,
memory aud tradition.
II Wilhelm could have observed the
mingled pain aud pathos on the face Of this
gray haired woman as she turned TO leave
the room there would have been necessary
no special training in physiognomy to know
that the bonds Of German home life are not
broken by the distance which separates the
valley Of the Lehigh river from the glory
Of the Rhine.
(7o Be ooHtinueS.)
FALKLAND.