The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-05-23
HALF AN HOUR 10 LIVE.

,ceiYed a note from my old friend,
Tommy Cameron, of Clinton. He
begged me to come and stay with him
for a month
Cameron met me at the station, and
nfter an hours drive through most
bcautifulAcountry we reached Clinton.
Here Surprise awaited me, for two
young ladies came forward TO greet
aus; they were the Misses Cameron, and
kept house for their brother.
got on fairly well during the first
week, as / kept with Cameron most of
dhc time.
Whether he gave me away or not l
cannot say, but they seemed to know l
was stunning them, and they tried
every Golge-'as only women know how
TO draw me out
l struggled hard against what now
considered my natural self, but it was
too strong for me- One by one all the
theories and arguments had fed on
disappeared, melted by the sunny eyes
of these girls.
As / said, there were two of them,
AIadge and Floss. Madge was the
younger and prettier; she represented
the musical and artistic instincts;
Floss, on the other hand, was the man
ager; she had the brains of the estab-
lishment.
She was very nice, but she went in
for such awful things; she had some
favorite toads in the conservatory, and
she would go rambling about the coun-
try and bring home all sorts of ani-
mails, insects and other unthinkable
things-snd cut them upi-imagine a
girl doing thatl
The other one, as l said, was not so
heavy, and went In for art; and, as you
know, / have little learning in that
direction myself. 1t was natural,
therefore, that when she told nse.ehc
was going to paint q little river scene
near the house l should esk ii might
DO OF use. l obtained permission 10
wait on her and we started the picture.
In this pleasant way the days passed
gntil Camcron's return-he was away
the second week-when, of course,
there were innovations. We would
have a days fishing, and then day of
shooting, or a long tramp over the
hills
When ont on one of these early morn
ing tramps we met a young fellow
whom Tommy introduced as Arthur
Clisby. friend of his.
He was the son of large ship Owner
Of Dundee and was the family failure
his chief failure, as far rs | could
va1ier, being that he couldn't knuclllc
under%
lie hid been student at Glasgow
university and had promised 10 CONF
III well, but his individuality-Wiich
always c,Ine to the top at tdic most
awkward noments-assertsN itself.
As a result he left Glasgow and soon
after had quarrel with his father,
aud, having decided that they could moi
ret on together, they agreed 10 differ
a5i,T rart. lie had come out hero into
the wilds to live and devoted his time
10 abstract scientific problems, chiefly
IN the electrical line
Dinner time came and with it our
guest, but instead of the jolly good fei-
low of the morning he was LOW qu,tf
appressigely so; never speaking unless
directly addressed, and only then an
swering with few quiet. dircct words
A few days after, having nothing par
tdcsslar in view, 1 determined to avail
myself of his invitation, and set OF il
the direction of the ''IIermitaGc."
The house was an ulpretentions con-
cer1. but was eloquent OF the iEdiNiG-
ualitv of its master. The top floor ha'i
been turned into one large room, anG
this he used as laboratory; it was
n literal armory of scientific apparatus.
After time the talk yccrea round
to electrical executions, and he said:
"You may remember, perhaps, the
first man they executed in this way II
New York state, and what fearful |
hash they made of it? was there and
saw it nil; it was simply awful. Re
voltingl
..Thc doctors, bah! they're fools. |
They thought they understood it all.
and applied the death current at what |
they considered were the nerve ccr-
tiers, the top of the head and the base OF
the spine
"If they had only used their COM
mon sense and powers of observation,
they would at once have found that
in 90 cases in every 100 OF tie fatal
accidents in New York alone. the fatal
shock was received through the hands
for the hands and arms being muscular.
nrc full of blood, and, therefore, good
81 set to work to devise an appliance
that would administer the death pen
alty with the minimum amount OF tor
ture, both bodily and mental, to the
criminal. We will now take look at
a apparatus itself"
We left the house, and he led the way
ncross the open until we stopped at a
loor- lie entered, and after cropping
f,z,.r1 5laa eyvifcl. and