The Daily Tombstone., 1885-10-29
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Washington Star.

Washington Star.
 He wa, walking through the halls ! If the treasury in dazod sort oi way. H. passed down toward the appoint; mcnt room, lc.itatcd a moment, then leaned oyer the iron railing that guard- thc window at the end Of thc long corridor and looked sadly through to the tops @, the green trees toward the White House. Then ho wandered back down the corridor and looked as if he were lost lie went upstairs and then down, until, as ii impclled against his vii! ne stood in front oi certain door. lie took hold ci the handle in quite 9 natural way, as if be were in the habit oi going in ;berc, and started to open the door. Then, as f he had suddenly thought Of something, h;s hand dropped at h;s side, look oi utter dejcc;;on came over Ii, face. and he hurried away.
 I;i7 heads been chopped off" the Star man heard some one say. He was here for over twenty years and can't get used 10 i,"
 How docs a man feel with his hcad off," thought the scribe. think ing, ci course, Of the official head, and he followed the man.
 " 4 feels, when the axe Ialis.' said !ho victim. "as it some one had hit you in tha head with 3 baseball bat and knocked you over into q tank of ice water. Then, for while, you don't know anything Then it looks as fl rour desk Was dancing away i:a." ycu across tha room. The cell ing looks a- il i Were d long ways off the windows lo.!, long and narrow; tho ico pitcher looks big, and every body else in thc room looks pale. and when you start L. -o out of the door yoU run into it. When you get into tine corri Tor it looks q, ii you had never bcam there before. You don't know what has happened, but you feel as if there were something swelling ahJu, ypu, aud the whole world looks strange When you get into the street, there seems to bc an unusual noise, and everybody looks frightened, as if something were about to happen, and the streets book SO long and wide, and the horses and people look small, All th" while you feel that something about you Is swelling. You move IF, ,cEanic4lly toward your home. Everything looks strange. You feel ao ii you were lifted up off the ground and tine whole town were spinning around like top under you Mean while, the swelling feeling gets worse Nou think it's your head, but you ain't quite certain. You think your head has turned into balloon, for which you: hodv's too much ballast, and il i> picking you up and dropping you ,iurI again, >Jii of bouncing yu,t along. \ you get near home you begin to feel afraid. You 90 half way around ti,c square and make fer the lack alley 2at" to avoid tho children you think are playing in front. The .wc!ling goes on until you get inside th" house Then there l. sort of cx- pln,ion; something colapscs III you, and you find i. in your heart. Then you know, all of sudden, what has happened. You are out of employ ment and have family to support. First. you want to do something; then you don't know what to do. Everything looks aw:Uily black and desperate. Y"U start Out again tp collect your thoughts and leol, atout you. In consciously you wander down the street. looking for something to turn up. auj before you know it you are walking through the corridors of the Luil&inG you have just been kicked out oi. You feel as if you ought to be very polite to tiic colored messcn- gers you meet in the halls. As ob- jocta begin to get familiar again, you are seized with a desire to know how t happened. Then you get mad, as ii ycfl had been outraged. Then you want to get back. But you can't You know that, but you try it all the same. l. k hard to break off habit Of twenty years"
 County Court.
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