The Delaware ledger., 1883-09-22
SPARROW ROOST Z ROAnS.

The summer sun had set The twilight hour of |
evening had come and gone. In the Great Beyond |
In the heavens above could be seen in brilliant
splenpor million stars. Night had enshrouded the
settlement and all Sparrow Roost was abed and
asleep the night clerk at hotel Opededock and
the beloved mother.in-law of Capt. Yandit. The
policeman had returned for his usual repose in the
select chamber of commodiOus store box. The
popular druggist D. Wellscut had closed his COM
pounding establishment and with his fond wife and
heirs, Of the Wellscut laboratory had sought the
peaceful rest which awaits only the weary, while
beneath his downy pillow in safe cOncealment, was
a Sparrow Roost stocking, full of duess. The red
haired merchant, Corporal Foughtwell had counted
his gold and his gain and his brain In dreamland
wandered down the winding cellsr stairs into the
region Of aged and infm eow-grease he was heard
to excaim 'hark-ness to me Butter, hark-ness.
have something would say.
Ere sink unto my pillows,
DO not, do not walk away"
The politician whale lad swallowed his partys
candidate and had retired 10 his couch digest the
morsel
The swallowed candidate feared the pill visited
stomach Of his abiding place and prayed aloud as he
foot-sore and head-sore rolled into bed for a safe
deliverLnee from the belly of whale.
Simultaneous with the boisterous sueezing and
dyspeptic belching Of Mrs Goolrayen, the orna-
mental mothe--in-aw Of Capt. Nandit, came the
boof-sounds Of a rapidly approaching horseman;
nearer and nearer came the sound and rs he ap-
preached the Psaniel homestead the guardian angel,
of sleep whirh had been keeping vigil over the
blessed Inconsistencies Of the tranquel Mrs.
Psanel was seen to vanish through the open tran
som, and she awoke, "Jeoyania" said She the night
is wild and turbulent, | hear strange and most
unnatural sounds from without. "My dear"
replied "be calm It's that 10 ?, NJ dOse Of clam frit
teTs frOlicing around In the latitude OF your ivei
pad aud just as these unfeeling remarks fed from
my tongue, cry Of distress from the street grated
harShly on my ear. "Francesia" said l what 1
that" "Jeoyania said She ''be calm, 1t must be on
of those 10 r. NJ. frolicsome clans" Springing iron
mg bed l threw the window to the ceiling, and in
masculine voice said "well, what do you want VIII
are you, and from whence did you come" Said he
If am messenger from the happy land of Gobble
Heights halfway settlement between FrOg-tow
nd Carries run. My name is Joshua Greenwalt
and am in search Of DR.. Psaniel, and continuin
he said, "a man has been found in lone cabin ia
up on the Heights dying, the good people have sci
me for you and for humanity sake, come quickl
To which / replied, depart in peace I'll be there
"Jeoyanian suggested the righteous Mrs. Psani
would noib well for you to take the cheese kn
with YOU, for said She "you may find it necessar
to kill the patient In order to heal him"
Assembled In a cherrless cabin | found the goo
better and best people of GObbler Heights surroun
ing the withered form Of a once gay and handsOu
young man. The announcement that Or. Psani
from Sparrow Roost had arrived caused the goo
better and best to make room for my entry. Knee
ing by the side Of his cot and taking the loI
hand Of the dying wreck, proceeded to 4 sclentii
examination of his condition Alas poor fellow! Il
pulsations of his heart were but faint; the tran
hxed eyes Of my patient, glared like the demons
eternal night; this once flowing locks were a di
heveled mass; his once beuming cuunlenance "
distorted and GRIM his withered, colOrlsSs Ii
adhered to his teeth, with an external adhesion h
arms and muscles resembltd q fallen tower
strength; his breast like the neglected receptacle
unknown dead in village church yard, was sunk'
and hallow; the hGsh of his limbs had long sin
fed the hunger OF the canker mOrphia, and he I
there dying in great agony, victim Of the pros
tuition Of fhyperdemic Injections Of morphine. AT
had made u thorough examination oflny patent
answered the good, better and hest that the ca
was utterly hopeless, and that death from mOrph
deleriuip, must shortly ensue and as / was in {
act of departing from the scene Of death, 70
wife said to me abr do you mean to say that the
is no possible cure for this IOOruniurtunate yicti
while there is life is there rot hope Icpli
"MRdam, there Is no possible cure in this world q
not . glimer, or even spark Of hope has he Of hudi
10 the next world as cool and comfortable ahidi
pace as Is GObber Heights II is awful to thi
about hut il is nevertheless terrible truth q
continuing said, "the good old parsOn Of Sparr
Roost, delivered on sabbath ast most eXCall
rmOn upon this fast growing evil. lie saId
TIE course Of his remarks, that he fully G
yincsd that the prostitution OF the "hypeTdel
hector was the unpardOnahle sin," mentioned
the great and good Book to which Mrs Psal
nil Ia Wats4ln IL OIL
that Il made brother Thompson Fryhiar jump Fl
nnder his wig. The inquriug fond wife tur
from Ine, her innocent eyes bathcd in tears and
sIul breathing a prayer for the restoration Of
husband, uncle and cousin and at least q dozen of
ntighhors from the icy grasp 0l this death deal
monster
Upuu my return to sparrow lsOOsl came IN
tact with Captain Nandit and Mrs GOOlraycu
mOtheT-in-law who were returning ttOm their u
morning walk lovingly aTm-in-arm. Mrs. Go,
ven Informed me that there were several Of ~
n, ,rpha fellers" in Elktun, and that they carried
tsquirtin thing" in their trousers pnckca the
rs n,Tbacker or kOTn sav, after which she impa
the further Information that she would "cUwh
theCaptainif II he ever attempted the use OF III,
strument | bade them adieu, and arrived al
Boost IN timefn breakfast with Mrs. Psaniel an'
kst ofthe family.
Js0yanla O. Psanial NJ. D.
OF the Roc