The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-09
58."
Why 1t Caused a Panic in a Ger.
man Dead House"

Il will tell YOU of the case of which
| spoke, provided you will hold your
tongue about it." said the doctor,
drawing his visiting book from his
pocket, and settling himself with the
air of a professional story teller. The
lady who was the patient in the case is
still alive and one of the loveliest wom-
en- i'll the city. 1t would never do for
Al indiscretion of mine to be the means
of enlightening her as to the facts
which, up to this time. we have care
fully kept from her"
The speaker was one Of q party of
hur gentlemen gathered about a law
ishly spread table in a private room of
the Vier Janreszeiten, Munich. Tall,
broad-shouldcrod, and with one of
those huge heads so characteristicallv
German in type, Cornelius Schorn,
Surgeon-in-Ch Chief Of the Royal Oh
stetrical Clinic, would have been a
noticeable figure in any assemblage.
Superbly furnished, brilliant with
light. and fragrant with the delicate
arom OF Bordeaux and Burgundy, the
room was q picture of cheerful and
conyivial comfort. Outside the drawn
curtains a wild night was closing
around the city; the keen and cutting
wind, driving straight from the Ba-
varlan Alps, swept through the narrow
streets with the fury of an enraged
lion. All the afternoon the storm had
been bowling and s~hrieking. At the
corners of Schloss Square, where the
blasts were strongest, hats and cap
whirled from the heads of the people
as they struggled up the deep incline,
and. dancing merrily to the grim mel
Ody Of the gale, escaped from sight.
Needless of the increasing uproar out
Of doors the gentlemen so pleasantly en-
gagged with the delicacies before them
eagerly assepted to the Doctors wish
for silence.
Gathering more closely about the
table they awaited patiently the dis
closure, certain to be an interesting
one unless Scborn's representation as q
.raconteur was greatly overrated.
Three years ago. he began, worn
out by the years work, a brief let-up
was absolutely necessary if l wished to
avoid changing places with my pa
After completing preparations
10 join a party of friends on a hunting
expedition into the Austrian Tyrol, l
was sitting in my Office on the morn
ing of the Goth Of August, waiting
until it was time to take the
train. Always the servant of the peo-
pie, a doctor never knows that antici.
Dated vacations can be realized until
under way; therefore, I was
not at all surprised when the bell
furiOusly and a messenger en-
cred with a summons to the bedside Of
m old friend at Berg, dying of con-
sumption. Hastily telegraphing tho
party to 60 on without me, / jumped
INTO the carriage, and in an hours
lime stepped from the train at Berg.
1T was very late in the evening be-
ore I returned to Munich, the clocks
n the neighborhood striking twelve as
he schneN-aug pulled into the depot,
night, a fearfully close and sultry
ne, promised to end later on in one
I those summer tempests, brief in
..uration, but frequently of a terribly
destructive character. The stencil
rought out by the heaviness of the at
nosphere from the cutters and filthy
horoughfares of that part of the city
as the old town was overpow-
ring. Far advanced in the arts and
c~iences, Munich is a city which has
ct much to learn of sanitary princi-
los The ride before me was q long
ne. Throwing myself back upon the
seat l closed my eyes, and be-
re I knew it had dropped into a doze.
slept perhaps twenty minutes or
ore with that heavy, dreamless slum-
II always the result of fatigue and
usual emotion. I doubt whether I
.ould have awakened at all had not
c abrupt bouncing and swaying Of
g carriage checked and suddenly
used me to consciousness. In the
of the night I distinguished
@ figure Of a man, gesticulating Wild
for us to stop, and evidently in a
NE of intense excitement, Without
aiting for me to question him he
sped out the intelligence between his
bored breaths that something was
rong al the Sendlingerther's dead
use (the new Gottsaker recently fin.
led in the outskirts OF the town..
" For Gods sake! Herr Doctor
led the man as he saw us driving off,
D as if the devil were after you
Sparks Of fire fairly rained from
. iron heels Of the fying horses and