People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-05-18
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had | escaped a crime.
1t was, ] Thoughts. natural enough.
that he should try to take tha life Of
a man who had in cold blood almost
taken his, and | bore him no malice.
and possibly thought that it would
have been nobody's loss, nor mine
either, if he had.
And then my thoughts turned to
Judith. and Of how. through the
long night. life must have beckoned
her with alluring finger, bidding her
turn away from death and with
Stephen to fulfill her allotted span,
and to find peace, ay, and even hap
plness, as time slowly blotted out the
past. But alas for Judith. she was
no time server, no trader in love, but
one who threw down her one queen
ly gift in all its integrity and had no
power 10 take from or add to it more.
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CHAPTER XVI ~
Icould not face the house and my
triumphant prisoner, and remained
abroad till saw DR.. Grips rotund
person climbing the path, far more
rapidly, too, than usual. as thought.
Even at the distance | was, per-
ceived beaming cheerfulnesS in his
broad face that distinctly irritated
me.
at is all very we'll for you," l
growled to myself. who have been
doing your duty nobly all night. and
since slept like top for some hours,
and eaten good breakfast, but I've
done none of these things, and been
made fool of into the bargain.
When few hundred yards distant,
he spied me, and brandi8hed in the
air something that looked yellow or
pink, shouting out "Hurrah,n at the
same time. as loudly as his scarcity
o. breath would permit.
Il wondered what he found to
hurrah at, as | advanced to meet
him, but my ill-humor gave way to
rapture as he shouted out. judith
is saved, man, saved! Read this, and
this and he thrust several tel
egraphic sheets into my hand.
There's a good fellow for you, :"
he said, "Only got my letter at s,
answer here by 9, and a boy has
walked two miles with. it from the
Geographic Office. Evidently deeply
interested, and thinks me fool, OF
course, but hOw's poor devil in the
desert to keep up with all the new
discoveries in town. .'. t...
The message-it was a long one
ran thus:
I'm 1915, at the forty-eighth an
ndal meeting of the German society Of
naturahstS and physicians, which
was held at Graft, DR.. Knapp, prac-
Using in Syria introduced two male
arsenic eaters to the assembly. One
of these men consumed in their
presence above six grains of
white arsenic-that is, enough
to poison three men - without
suffering the slightest incon.
venience; he stated he had been az
customed to this sort of thing for
years, and that it was a practice
common among ox-herds and shep.
herds in Syria. One peculiarly Of
arsenic eating is this, that, when Il
man has once begun to indulge in it.
he must continue to indulge, for, if
he ceases, the arsenic in his system
pOisons him, or, as it is popularity
expressed, the last dose kills him.
Indeed, the arsenic eater must not
only continue in his indulgence, he
must also increase the quantity Of
the drug, so that it is extremely diff.
fcult to stop the habit, for, as sud.
den cessation causes death. the
gradual cessation produces such a
terrible heart-gnawing, that it may
probably be said that no genuine
arsenic eater ever ceased to eat arse
mic while life lasted. The fact is
unprecedented in the annals of toxic.
ology; and though incredible, it is
true that our bodies, which may be
annihilated with two grains of a
white powder, may be so far changed
as to require, nay, even crave for. a
dose of this same poison. In Syria
this arsenic poison goes by the name
of Henri. Full medical report fol.
lows by post"
fro BE CONTINUED