The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-29
APPARATUS So.
Inter Ocean German Translation.l

self with the air of professional stay
teller "The lady who was the patient in
the case is still alive and one Of the lowell.
est women in the city. It would neyer do
for an indiscretion of mine to be the means
Of enlightening her as to the fact which,
up TO this time. we have carefully kept
from her."
The speaker was one Of party Of four
gentlemen gathered about lavishly spread
teLie in private room of the Vier Jahres-
zsiten, Munich. Tall, broad shouldered,
and with one of those hugh heads so charac-
teristically German in type, Cornelius
Schorn, surgeon-in-chief Of the royal obstet-
rieal clinic, would have been noticeable
figure in any assem- l0ge.
Superbly furnished. brilliant with light,
and fragrant vita the delicate aroma OF
Der leaGx and Bergundy, the room was a
p,ctura o. cheerful and convivial comfort.
Out he Ire drawn curtains wild night was
clio "a around the city; thu keen and cut
ting sind, driving straight from the b.
variaa Alps, swept through the narrow
streets wit tina fury OF an enragod lion.
All t.e afternoon the storm had been howl
ing ami shrieking. At the corners OF the
square, where the blasts were strongest,
hate AMI caps were whirIed from the heads
of the people as they struggled up the steep
incline. and, dancing merrily to the grim
melody OF the gale, escaped from sight.
Heediess OF tho increasing uproar out Of
doors TIE gentlemen pleasantly engaged
with the deiicacies bsfore them eagerly as
sentel 10 the doctors wish for silence
Gathering more closely about the table
they awaited patiently the disclosure, GER
tain & lie an interesting one unless Schorn's
reputation Il raconteur wa7 greatly cV-r-
ratai.
IT. Re. years ago." LIE began, sworn ont
by the years work. brief let-up was abso-
Iutely uece ssary if l wished to avoid chang
ing places with nay patients After COM
p,ettn- preparations to join q party OF
fTien4@ L buating expedition into the
Auztrsa1 Tyrol, was sitting in the of
On gs.a morning OF the 18th of August, wait
ing simply until il was time to take the
train. Always the servant Of the people,
doctor never knows that anticipated va
cations be realized until actually
under way; therefore, l was not at
sill surprised when the hell pealed
furiously and messenger entered
with a summons to the bedside of an old
friend at Berg, dying of consumption. Ha
tly telegraphing the party to go on without
me, jumped into the carriage. and in az
hours time stepped from the train at Berg.
at was very late in the evening before
returned to Munich the clocks IN the neigh
borhocd striking IL as the schneli-zug pulled
into the depot. The night, fearfuily close
and sultry one, promised to end later On in
one of those summer temps3ts, brief in
duration, but frequently Of a terribly de-.
structive character The stencil brought
cut by the hsavnesS Of the atmosphere from
tho cutters and filthy thoroughfaras of that
part OF tho city known as the old
town was overpowering. Far advanced in
the arts and sciences, Munich is a
city which has yet much to learn of
sanitary principles. The ride before me
was long one. Throwing myself back
upon the drosky's seat Closed my
eyes, and before knew it had dropped into
doze. l slept perhaps twenty minutes or
mora with that heavy, dreamless slumber
always the result Of fatigue and unusual
emotion. doubt whether I should have
awakened at all had not the abrupt bouac-
ing and swaying OF the carriage. checked
suddenly, raised me to consciousness. In
the obscurty Of the night / distinguished
the figure of man, gesticulRting violently
for Us to STOP aud evidently in a state of
intense excitement Without waiting for
mo to question him he gaspad out tho intel
lgence between his labored bTeaths that
something was wrong at the Sending
erther's 'dead-house' (the new Gottsaker
recently finished in the outskirts Of the
town.
For Gods sake, Herr Doctor crieI tae
man, as he saw Us driving off, go as if 5h9
devil was after you
"rhe pace at which we Travelled the Maxi
milianstrasse would assuredly have di>tanced
any devil of my acquaintance added the
doctor, with q smile. sparks of fire fairly
rained from the iron heels of the flying
horses, and the laundering OF the hoofs on
the hollow planIing Of the bridge sounded
in the silence of the night like the tread of
an army under quick movement. With
tie lights OF Munich ouce behind Us, it was
not long, with clear highway before we
were standing at the Sendlingerthar's gate
way, rising the grimmest Of sentinels in
front of this citadel hell by death. The
scene upon which L entered, piloted by the
guard watching for my arrival, beggars
description The hall Before the dead
hou doors was literally packed with cem-
etery attendants, white as ashes with ter
ror and all talking ut once l gathered
from their conflicting statements that a
devil OF disembOdied soul was loose
in tho buliing and ringing the alarm 1t
Is bound to b, SO, Herr Doctor persisted
the attendant on night duty at the time; it
is bound t. be so, for No. s. is as dead as
ever she was; l saw her myself; but the
signal is down, and va oil heard the bell
ring You might as well reason with the
waves of the sea as to attempt to dissipate
the INFORM superstition OF the lower Ger
man classes. l did not even attempt to
disturb it. II they choose to believe that
souls walkei ami huttered airily back and
forth between the gloomy walls of this
their temporary prison. no words OF mino
could have effect.
"Finiing me determined to face the
worst, whatever it might be, the door was
reluctantly opened AMI l was admitted.
Tbs huge and dismal apartment was
but dimiy lighted by scattered gas jet I.
Blown by the ftful breez,s COM
ing through the open windows, the
fickering light from the burners wavered
~ shifting light and shadow across
the pinched and Hvid features, lending an
appearance of motion to the drawn lips and
sghtless eye. To one unaccustomed to the
aspect Of the dead, tho heavy lids seem
really to stir, to struggle against the
lethargy laid upon them by the grimmest
foe of mankind. have never known the
time when theso rooms erected for the
lying in state of the dead before burial,