Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-19
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"Who wrote that stutf?' he asked.
"You did, sir"
"Oh, nOnsensel l never knew any one
/ with crystal breast"
"Why, it means the ocean"
''PshaW! The ocean is water, not
/ crystal, and it hasn't any breast at all. If
! there's any more such stuff there, | want
you to take it down to the Kitchen, apply
a lighted match to it, and convert it into
| oxide of poetry"
You mean to burn itY gasped the
| landlady.
81 do" was the reply.
! In utter astOnishment the good woman
| gathered together his once loved volumes
of poetry and bore them away. The brain
fever had done it's fatal work. Poetry
! was dead IN Alfred Swinburne Cottle, and
in its stead there was a great hunger and
thirst after chemistry. Day by day the
appetite grew upon him. He watched
the simplest chemical processes Of nature
with intense interest, and yearned to un-
! derstand them. He cared naught for
! poetry; he hated the very sound of
rhyme. His first movement. when he was
able to leave the house, was to go straight
to Prof. Nitrogencs Pennyweignt.
sir said he, al am 0Xidizing with
| desire to know chemistry. ] have an atm
ity for it. | am not boy, but know
how to be student. win you accept
me as pupilp
"Win IY was the reply; "should so
noble an ambition as yours remain unsat-
shedg No; from this moment consider
yourself my special care"
And 50 Alfred Swinhurne COttle, once
a poet and dreamer, was plunged bead
| long into a seethng vortex of NCI aud
Co. For year he was hardly ever heard
of in Noesis. Few persons saw him as he
rapidly passed between his lodgings and
| Prof. Penny weights private laboratory.
| with pale face, unkempt hair, and stained
| hands. Several times he met Hypatia
but he bowed and passed on, and she, per
| celving his strange appearance and de-
| meanor, shook her head and maTVcled
| greatly as to what had come over him.
| Rejected young men in NeOsis never acted
strangely; they always acted reasonably,
| aud il any one could not get the girl who
was his first choice he tried to get her
| who was his second. AS tor Cottle, be
looked upon Hypatia with utter lndifer-
| ence. He could not even realize that he
had once telt a sentiment toward her.
More than that, so great was the change
| in hIm. he could not remember what SEN
timeut was. Love was to him a myth,
and Hypatia simply a woman. People
told him that she was the greatest cook
Of her age. lie was glad to hear
it. He, too, intended to do some
thing wulch should make him great, but
it would be a chemical greatness.
At the end of his year Of hard study he
was perfect master of the science OF
chemistry. Nothing appeared too diff
cult for him to master at a glance. Prof.
| Penny weighC declared that such powers
of acquisition had never been seen before.
lie vowed that Alfred Swinhurne COttle
now knew more about chemistry than
any man in Noesis. Upon the heels of
this remarkable statement followed the
announcement that he had discovered a
method OF making a beautiful emer-
aid cOloring for wall paper out OF the chic
rOphyl of plants, thus doing away with
the dangerous cOlOrs manufactured on
metallic base. The discovery was hailed
with joy, because the Neosans knew that
green was healthful color for the eyes
to rest upon, and had been deferred from
using wall paper Of that tint only by the
knowledge that poisonous particles eX-
istetfrin it. C0ttle Sprang into fame ut
single bound. By the advice of Prof.
Penny weight he announced that he would
lecture in the town hall on the uses OF the
cOlnring matter OF plants. An immense
audience greeted him. His lecture was
listened 10 with breathless interest, and
his experiments were applauded He
drew mathematical diagrams on the
blackboard to please the faculty OF the
| III 5CuOOls anu n6 HiOO0CEQ q bNhAAbI vi
green light from chlOrOphane to amuse
the children.
Hypatia was there, of course. In the
midst of mis- discourse a great idea came
to her. This man had once asked her to
be his wife, and she had refused. But
how he bad changed Was it too late
nOwY She would make the attempt. She
felt that they would be mated now, for he
was worthy of the hand Of the best woman
! In NanEfa a fha laptnra oba
suaded her aunt and uncle, with whom
she lived, TO wait for the lecturer. She
met him as he left the building and ad-
dressed him:
Are you in great hurry. Mr.. Cottle2 p
"NOt very great. Miss Green"
"Will you walk home with US and drink
a cup of my best teap
"YOur tea, believe, is made on purely
scientific principles, is it notY"
"Oh, certainly"
"Then will partake OF It."
Alfred Swinburne COttle had fallen into
the trap; from that day forward he was
haunted by Hypatia Green. Did he 90 10
lecture In the hall, she was waiting for
him when he was through ii he detected
the presence of ozone in the atmosphere
and went forth 10 inhale It, she was by bis
side. Hypatia would have repealed with
scOrn any insinuation that there was
plotting in this. She felt drawn 10 COttle
by an Irresistible impulse. The impulse
grew till IL became a liked tendency of
her mind toward his, aud that was what
in Noesis cOrresponded to love.
This constant companiOnship between
the two continued for a month. The eli
max came one day when the leaves were
inst beginning 10 turn. They were walk
ing together just beyond the outskirts OF
the town. Cottle bad gone IN search Of
certain herb, and Hypatia, as usual, had
goLe ia search Of COttle.
do you KNOW" she said, "that / be-
lIeve my cooking is far from being per-
fectW
~ am not surprised at that" he an
swered, calmly. "Science can go "A long
distance"
THAT is IL exactly. My cooking is, so
far as it goes, scientific, but my science
does not 20 far enough. l-l-thlnk that
chemistry would be Of great assistance TO
cooking"
Hypatia's eyes sought the ground. Cot
tie looked around quickly at her.
"Hypata," be said. ''yOu are n woman
of ideas Food prepared on strict chem
zeal principles would be thoroughly nutri-
tiOus and wholesome
"Well,v continued Hypata, without
raising her eyes, ~ have the cooking. and
-and-yOu-you have the chemistry.
"And you want me % teach you chem
istryy Noble grip