Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-01-21
APPARATUS So"
why u Caused q rsuio In q Ger
man "Dead-House.'

II will tell you Of the case Of which
i 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- in the city. 1t would never do for
an indiscretion Of mine 10 DC the means
of cnlightening her as 10 the facts
which. up to this time, we have care
fully kept from her"
The speaker was one Of q party OF
four gentlemen gathered about law
ishly spread table in private room OF
the Vier Jahreszeiten. Munich. Tall.
broad.shouldered. and with one OF
those huge heads so Enthusiastically
German in type, Cornelius Schorn,
Surgcon-in-Chief OF the Royal Oh.
stetrical Clinic. would have been u
noticeable figure in any asscmblage.
Superbly furnished. brilliant with
light. and fragrant with the delicate
aroma of Bordeaux and Burgundy, the
room was picture Of cheerful and
conyivial comfort. Outside the drawn
curtains q wild night was closing
around the city; the keen and cutting
wind, driving straight from the la.
varian Alps, swept through the narrow
streets with the fury Of an enraged
lion. All the afternoon the storm had
been bowling and shrieking. At the
corners of Schloss Square, where the
blasts were strongest, hats aud caps
whirlcd from the heads Of tine people
rs they struggled up the deep incline.
md, 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 assented to tho Doctor, yish
for silence.
Gathering more closely about tho
table they awaited patiently the lis
closure. certain 10 be an interesting
one unless Schorn's representation as a
raconteur was greatly oyerrated.
Three years ago." he began, worn
out by the years work. a brief let.up
wa, absolutely necessary III wished TO
avoid changing places with my pa.
iicnts. After completing preparations
10 join party of friends on hunting
expedition into the Austrian Tyrol.
was sitting in my office on the morn
ing of the Goth of August, waiting
simply until it was time to take the
train. Always the servant Of the peo-
pie. doctor never knows that antici-
Yatcd vacations can be realized until
actually under way; therefore. | was
not at all surprised when the bell
pcalcd furiously and messenger en-
tered with summons to the bedside of
an old friend at Berg, dying OF con-
sumption. Hastily telegraphing the
party to 60 on without me, l jumped
into the carriage. and in an hours
timc stepped from the train at Berg.
ut was very late in the evening be-
fore returned to Munich. the clocks
in the neighborhood striking twelve as
che schpeU-sug pulled into the depot.
The night, a fearfully close and sultry
one, promised TO end later on in one
OF those summer tempests, brief in
duration. but frequently Of "a terribly
destructive character. The stencil
brought out by the heavincss of the at.
mOsphere from the cutters and filthy
thoroughfares of that part of the city
known as the old town was overpow-
ering. Far advanced in the arts and
sciences. Munich is q city which has
Yet much TO learn Of sanitary princi-
piles. The ride before me was long
one. Throwing myself back upon the
drosky's seat closed my eyes, and be-
fore knew ithad dropped into doze.
/ slept perhaps twenty minutes or
more with that heavy. dreamless slum-
Der always the result of fatigue and
unusual emotion. i doubt whether l
should have awakened at all had not
the abrupt bouncing and swaying of
the carriage checked and suddenly
reused me to consciousness. In the
obscurity Of the night distinguished
the figure Of a man. gesticulating wild.
Nv for us to stop. and evidently in a
state Of intense excitement. Without
waiting for me to question him he
gasped out the intelligence between his
laborcd brcaths that something was
wrong at the Sendlingerther's dead
house (the new Gottsaker recently fin
ished in the outskirts Of the town..
".For Gods sake! Herr Doctor.
cried the man as he saw us driving OH.
go as IL the devil were after you.
"Sparks Of fire fairly rained from
the iron heels of the flying horses and
the laundering Of the hoofs ON the
hollow planking Of the bridge sounded
In the silence OF the night like the tread
Of an army under quick movement.
With the lights OF Munich once behind
rs, twas not long. with n clear high
way. before we were standing at the
Sedlingcrther's gateway. rising the
grimmest Of sentinels in front @; this
citadel held by death. The scene upon
which 1 entered. piloted BY the guard
watching for my arrival. beggars de-
scription. The hall before the dead
house doors was literally packed with
cemetery attendants, white - ashss