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T. k t COJOUSalOXER, B. M. R. R. .loyl Lxxeour. Xzb&acxa
! "The Goodman and Goodwife."
From the German of Goethe.
falls St. Martin's feast,The goodwife loves her man !
She stirs a pudding with fresh yeast.And bakes it in a pan.
Retired at night from care and strife ;
A wild wind sweeps the moor.The goodinan eays to his goodwife,
" You bolt the door secure 1"
"The wind blows round my head and earsHalf chilled I sought repose :
The door may clatter a hundred yearsThe bolt I will not close."
At which a wager now is laid,v- - In whispers face to face,
That which of them the first word said.Should shove the bolt in place.
Two travelers come at dead of night.They know not where they flee.
The fire is out, there is no light,They nothing hear or see.
A charmed spot you have inferredFor trying patience sore.
Yet is there heard no mortal word.The cause lay in the door.
They ate the pudding on the shelf,The darkness ijuite concealing ;
The goodwife mutters to herself.No audible sound revealing.
At this one traveler sighed within,"How parched my throat and dry ;
The open cupboard smells of gin.Perhaps it may be nigh."
"A flask of gin I surely find.How fortunate are we
I drink your health aud you drink mine,And soon we'll happy be."
The goodman sprang so briskly forth.All raging fierce within
"Will pay most dearly for Its worthWhoever takes my gin !"
The wife sprang up at what she heardThe bouncing srii'gs sprang she
"You goodinan spoke the first word.You bolt the door for me."
Racine, Wis., July 10, 1877.
IN HIS OWN TOILS.
Sleep is th ligation of sense, but the libraryof reason. We are somewhat more Mian ourselves in our sleep, and the slumber of the bodyseems to be but the walking ot the soul. Ltteii- -gio Medici.
Tom and I were only brothers. Ourparents having died while we werequite young, left us little besides theirblessing, and alone, and almost friendless, we had struggled on togetherthrough misfortune and adversity,looking forward hopefully to a happyand successful future, Our lonelyplace in the world has strengthened anearly affection, and at the time of.which I write the feeling had becomea closer and warmer sentiment thanthat commonly existing between bro-
thers. Indeed, we loved each othervery dearly. I tell you this to showyou now great was my sorrow anaanxiety when, one day in the latterpart of June, 1870, Tom was broughtto bed with a serious attack of typhoidfever. Being a medical student, I wasconstantly noting little symptoms thatwould have escaped a layman's eye, andhourly vacillating between hope andfear. In fact, I made myself very miserable for days at a time, when therewas really no necessity for it.
For three long weeks, day and night,I watched at his bedside, and when, atthe end of that time, the physicianspronounced him out of danger, theystrongly advised me to go into thecountry for a few weeks' rest. IndeedI was thoroughly worn out mentallyand physically, and, when Tom joinedj i j a : 4.1 l.l I
iue uuciuis in me iciiuesniwii siiuumgo out of town to recuperate my visvitoe, I reluctantly consented to leavehim.
I sought the country, and one fineafternoon in the latter part of July Ifound myself at Lake Mahopac, havingarrived the day before. A short twenty-fo- ur hours had made me feel almostmyself again, - although my nervoussystem had by no means regained its
face of the lake and the rich masses ofverdure overhanging the shores of itstwo islands, I ventured forth in a littlerow boat, taking a fishing pole andsome bait with me. Having puneuslowly out and passed behind HoundIsland, I headed in again, and anchored at a little distance from Grand Island. Casting my line. I lit my pipeand patiently waited for a bite. Theday was war. and the wind fastasleep, miles away. A halt hour dron-ed itself away and not a bite not evena nibble. Wonderfully lazy and somewhat disgusted with my luck, I stretched myself out on the cushioned seatand began to muse on the subject offish and fishermen.Suddenly there came a crashing sound
from the shore of Grand Island, a loudcry, and then a thud, as if some heavybody had fallen. I looked m that di-
rection whence the sound had come,and saw a large object, apparently thebody of a man, lying on the shinglybeach, where it seemed to have fallenfrom a jutting mass of rocks abovesurprised and alarmed, I seized theoars and pulled to the spot where theobject lay. My fears were well ground-ed, for, to my horror.I found an oldmanthere, bloody, find groaning with pain.When I asked him where he thoughthe was hurt, he pointed to his headand leg. With true "surgical instinct,"I was about to rip up the leg of hispantaloons, to see if there were anybroken bones, when he motioned me tostop, and said :
"Don't, please don't touch it. Takeme home."
"I'll arrange the boat first, and makeit a little more comfortable," I said,starting toward it.
"No, no," he cried. "I live up there,"pointing to the woods behind us. "Can'tyou carry me r" I looked at blm. in.
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amazement, for the clerk at the hoteltold me that the islands were uniuhab-ite- d.
"Some poor devil," I thought, whois hiding from justice, or some one,perhaps who, tired of the world andits ways, lives here by himself,"
Whichever it may be, the man seem-ed badly hurt and in need of immediate attention. More than that. I felt astrange interest in him, and was cur-ious to see where he lived and whatmanner of a man he was. Despite allmy care in lifting him, he groand withthe pain. lie was heavy, and seemedto grow heavier with every step I tookup)the steep ascent.. Guided by a sort ofpath, I labored on. About half way up1 was obliged to stop and rest. In apeevish, querulous tone, he begged meto go on. Once More I started. Heseemed to be made of lead. Happening to look quickly into his face, I wassurprised to see that he was smiling.Perhaps it was for joy at the prospectof soon reaching home. Still I did notlike it. There was something sneering nd malignant about it somethingcunning and devilish. At best hisface was anything but prepossessing.He was apparently about sixtv-fiv- e
years of age. His hair originally white.was now dirty and bloodstained. Hisskin was dirty and wrinkled. Little ferrety eyes, with a greenish tinge of color; long, sharp nose, and a very largemouth contained a few scattered teetliworn to the gums and blackened, compietecl tne picture, liis nanus wereyellow, wrinkled and dirty. The tinger-nai- ls were talon-lik- e. His whole'muke up," in fact, was by no meansagreeable, and I began to regret chatI had aided him. And yet how couldI have refused to help a fellow beingso seriously injured? I wa suddenlyroused by his sharp voice: "Stop. Nowturn to your left."
Ihis 1 did, when to ray utter amazement, the green-leav- e I trees had vanished, and in their place stood baretrunks and leafless branches. All about
on the ground were mvriads of faded leaves. Just bevond was a clearing with not a blade of grass to beseen. The baie. dry ground looked asthough it had been singed. In thecentre of the clearing stood an old,half-ruine- d castle, moss-chinke- d andivied. Turret and battlement; courtyard, huge gates, and a heavy, cumbersome uraw-orulg- e were all there. Icould not doubt my senses; it was real.I had stopped in my wonder and per-
plexity, and was gazing with open-mouth- ed
astonishment at the old pilewhen I was suddenly made aware ofthe presence of the old man by a sharppinch on my arm, and the words'why don't you go on!" impatiently.
Is that your home?" I asked, stillstaring in a mechanical sort of way.
"Of course it is. Why don't you goon, and not stana staring iiKe a iooi t
'They told me at the hotel," said Imoving forward, "that this islandhadn't a dwelling on it, and was en-
tirely uninhabited. I can't reconcilewhat I heard with what I now see."
'They seem to have been mistakeneh?" said he, with one of his develishlaughs.This time I was not mistaken. There
wa3 some hidden meaning in the laugh. J
Whatever it was. it gave me a verypositive dislike to the old man. Hav-ing reached the shore of the moat. Iasked him how we were to get across.for an answer he blew a shrill noteupon a key of curious shape, and, assuddenly as if they had been waitingfor us, two men in the garb of monksappeared on the other side. They letdown the drawbridge with much clanking of chains and creaking of hinges.Its rheumatic joints seemed to cry outwith the pain the motion occasionedthem.
Carrying my burden as carefully aspossible, I passed over the bridge andthrough the gate into the court yard.Once inside, the monkish creaturesstood blinking at me. Becoming un-
comfortable under their stare, and afinally getting irritated, I said: "Whydon't one of you gapping fools tellwhere to take this person ; he is ser-
iously injured?""Hurt! injured! Ha, ha. hi, hi," and
they capered round me, laughing in ashrill, discordent voices. I looked tomy burden for an explanatin of thisidiotic procedure, when, to my amaze-ment, he slid from my arms and in ajiffy was laughing and dancing aboutme with the others. He whose leg Isupposed was broken, whose head Ithought gashed, and whom I thoughtto weak to walk, was capering aboutme, varying his antics with an occa-
sional somersault. In a moment thetruth flashed upon me. I could accountfor his request that I should not ex-
amine his leg, and his. cunning, devil-ish smile. I had been led into a trapin a very ingenious manner. Theirpurpose I could not conjecture ; prob-ably robbery, possibly murder. I re-
solved to make my escape, if it waspossible. Turning suddenly I rushedthrough the gate, when, to my dismay,I found the drawbridge up. And yetthese cursed people were at my heels,shrieking, laughing, deriding me, tear-
ing my clothes, pulling my hair, andcleverly dodging every blow I aimedat them.
There remained but one thing forme to do. I must cross the moat. I !
B:if- -tUUlU O J.UJ a a UkJivv w w - 0fled again! As far as I could see, themuddy bottom of the moat swarmedw itu lizards and snakes, the latter with
vibrile heads, shooting out their forkedtongues. Still my tormentors continued their cruel sport. Thought sweptalong like a river. I could let thedrawbridge down, if these devils couldonly be made to scand back. I seizeu a nuge sticK, and rusued uponthem. They laughed at me. Iwould be revenged. They shouldmock me no longer. I aimed a fierceDiow at my deceiver. .Midway in airthe stick crumbled to pieces. It wasrotten. Dropping the fragment frommy hand, I rushed to the bridge, fol-
lowed by those devils, still howling andshrieking. I grasped the huge chain,and then with a cry of pain snatchedmy hands away. It was red hot. Ihad burned myself badly.
"Surely this must be Perdition!" Icried and was greeted with more oftheir derisive laughter. I turned uponthem, and said, "What is it you wishI am your prisoner, and at your mer-cy.
"Mercy, our mercy," they jeered. Oh,if I had only Drought my pistol withme. It lay on the bureau in my roomat the hotel.
"Hi! there! Stop that, you fools.Bring him in!" The voice came fromit window in the castle. I could notsee the face. These men on the firstsound of that voice, crouched likewhipped dogs. They pointed to theKreat door of the castle, snarling andlooking hate at me, and, following closeupon my heels bade me enter.
Up the stairs I went, feeling as Ipassed through the door, that I hadlooked for the List time on earthand sky. They hurried me along j
a small dark passage r.o the rightfor a short distance, when suddenlymv feet felt nothing, and I fell down,down.down.it semM thousands offeet. Suddenly I struck somethingsoft, and fell flat upon an immense pileof feathers. The little old man whohad decoyed me to the castle, and manyothers looking just like him, pulled mequickly from where I had fallen, andlurried rne out into the cpntfr of theipartnient. It was a large, window- -
apartment, lit by some fragrantpreparation burning in skull.--, onledges about the room. The floor,walls and ceiling wr re composed ofrock and clay. In the enter of theroom was a large tub, ai-ou- t winchwere arranged brushes of every shapeand size.These greyheaded demons stripped me
Df my clothes, and raised me upon theirshoulders, tossed me into the huge tub.
t was half-fille- d with a smouing liquid. Oh! how hot it was! In a fewminutes they dragged me out, stoodme upon some feathers, and, dippingfrom the tub with their huge whitewash brushes, gave coat after coat ofthe hot fluid. Taking ine betweenthem, they swung me into t he air. Ibegan to dry. I felt my arms and legsstraightening out, and getting stiff andmmovaole; so. too, my neck and body.
I tried to speak to cry out. It wasuseless. I only muttered somethingunintelligible. I could not close myeyes, and they began to pain me ex--ceedingly. When I was perfectly dryand incapable of the least movementone of them painted on my chest, inred, No. 8,5.5j-G78-
, 3d series. Whenthis had dried they put me in a dumb-waiter or elevator, just large enoughfor one, and shot me upward with suchveloc ity that I could hardly, hold mybreath. Suddenly it stopped with ajerk tliiit vibrated through every partof my body. It was a pleasure, thatpain, for it was a certain sign of vital-ity. I no longer doubled that I wasalive. A door opeued and two oldmen (they all looked and dressed alike)caught me up between them and car-
ried me into a brilliantly lighted hall.There were rows of seals, bench abovebench, all occupied by men wearingblack skull-cap- s. Upon the front ofeach was tastefully worked in red silkthe heart and its great vessels. Upon
raised seat, fronting all these bench-es, (which were arranged in a semicir-cle) sat a man of large and command-ing stature, though old and wrinkled.He had a long, grey beard, and locksof white hair stragling from beneath
skull-ca- p of brilliant scarlet. Hestruck me as being the one who hadcalled to my captors from the window.Banged about the room were a numberof men as stiff and immovable as my-
self. But they seemed to be dead. Athrill of horror ran through me. Theystood me up against a table in the cen-
ter of the amphitheater, facing theman on the raised seat.
I wondered what end there was tobo to these proceedings. All my fearseemed to have passed away, and I wasposessed with an eager curiosity toknow who the strange men were, andwhy I had been brought there.
I was soon enlightened. He of thescarlet cap addressed me:
"Your name?""Edward Baker" after a sharp vocal
struggle."Your age?""Twenty-four.- "
"Occupation?""Medical student."A chorous of groans greeted my last
reply."Young man," said he of scarlet cap,
"it is my duty and pleasure to explainto you fully who we are, and why youhave been brought here. We are theBpirits. the souls if you choose, of deadanimals clothed in human flesh An- -
.imals that have been cruelly drugged
V. A 1 9 A. A ....aiiu vuicuereu to inrow lignt uponvarious piijsiological phenomena. " Weare, or rather were, dogs, cats, sheep,horses, cows, rabits, frogs , toads, andfish, that have been ruthlessly tormented and butchered by the so-call- ed menof science, often without any definiteobject in view ; often to simply demonstrate to a class of country bumkiasaspiring to the title of Doclor in Medicine, a point in physiology that couldhave been equally well explained without such sacrifice. We have been cutburned, subjected to violent shocks ofelectricity; starved to death to provethat butter and sugar will not sustainlife for a lengthened period. We havehad tubes sewn into our Btomach, andour gastric juoe drained off to give tothe physiological chemist to analyze itWe have had our intestines tied, and
jour Kiuneys extirpated, to make orbreak the wild ancy of an empty theorist, and then been killed to show themanner in which Rochelle salts actedWe had our nerves cut out by theinch to demonstratethe reproductionof nerve tissue. Our legs have boenbeen broken and allowed to unite atall sorts of angles to show the natureof the bonytructure and the manner inwhich fractures united. In fact, doctors, Medical students and men of science, have taken from us the life Godgaveus,and, when not doing that, havetaken away the pleasure of li ving.whichis life itself. It is bad enough to hackand mutilate the dead, fashioned inthe image of their niliker, but worse,to torment and kill poor animals thatcannot help themselves. You hurt us.did you not hear us cry out.
Within the past year, you too, havebeen our persecutor and destroyer, andit is given us to retaliate upon you.Upon those whom we obtain we tryall manner of physiological experi-ments, being guided in our cruelty bythe old law 'an eye for an eye and atooth for a tooth." The rabbit whosekidneys you removed not long' sinceand who died in the most intense agony, is here. He shall name the kindof experiment we will try upon youRjil.bit step forward and name hisfate.
I was bonified beyond measure.could not speak. I could not beg.Now I iaw it all but too late.
An old greybeard came forward andhanded a paper to him of the scarletcap. Having read it carefully he addressed the assembly with: 'Brethemit is the will of our friend and fellowsufferer, so mercilessly butchered bythi3 human being, that both his legsbe broken at the thighs and that he bethen poisoned with etrichnia, in orderthat we may try our new antidote up-on him. Nicotia, the native principalof tobacco, as you know is a deadlypoison, and heretofore found no placein the catalogue of useful drugs. Aphysician in Germany has lately beenusing it as an efficient antidote instrychnia poisoning. We can test thetruth of his statements by a carefulexperiment on this young man, andwith both pleasure and profit to ourselves.
Honored President and brethem,"said an old man rising from nis seat,I am the dog into whose stomach this
mortal put a silver tube, by cuttingthrough ray abdominal walls. He letit remain there for months, drainingaway my gastric juice, day by day,starving or over-feedi- ng me at hispleasure. I speak of these things notto show you what I have suffered, butto let you see that I am not ..biased inwhat I am about to say by any desireto mitigate this man's sufferings. Thesuccess or our antidote experimentwill, in a great measure, depend upona perfectly fresh and quiesent state ofthe system. Breaking his legs willgive rise to a certain amount of nervous shock and after-feve- r, and willrender the experimen, if not a failurecertainly less satisfactory and conclu-sive. Therefore, I suggest that weproceed first with the poisoning, andbreak the legs afterward.
Victim as I was, doomed to mostcertain death, I could not but admirethe thouroughly scientific manner inwhich the old man (or dog) had spok-
en. The vote of the assembly beingcalled for, they unanimously agreedwith the last speaker. It was decidedthen to poison me with strychnine.Great God! it was too much; it wastoo hard. I would spit the medicinein their faces. I would starve to deathrather than satisfy the fiends. Oh if Ihad never studied medicine, or if I hadonly staid away from that cursed lake!But no, it wa3 too late too late. Myeyes were dry,-glaze- and burning, likecoals of fire. Perhaps they wouldthrow pepper in them and collect thetears for analysis. Thus ran mythoughts.
The President motioned to an oldman, who proved to be the druggist.He came forward and held a glass tomy lips. I struggled to turn my headaside. It was useless. He poured theliquid into my mouth and tilted my
head back, trying to make me swallowit. With a fierce effort I spat it out,full in his face. Ah! ha! I had theadvantage of them. They could notmake me swallow it.
The enraged druggist struck me inthe face, and, glaring angrily at me, re-
plenished the glass. He held my noseand tried to make me swallow the curs-
ed fluid Again I spat it out. A mur-
mur of surprise and dissatisfactionent roucd-Tbe- y wcwbafled! Perd.
tionj That crafty scientific dog rosoagain to speak. "Honorable President,I suggest that it bo given to Lim bythe hypodermic syringe."
Great Heavens! 1 had not thoughtof that. Surely I could no longer helpmyself. It was useless to fight againstmy fate. The druggist brought a lit-tle syringe about three inched In length.As a nozzle it had a golden needlo per-forated. Putting the hollow needle in-
to a fresh solution of strychnine hedrew the syringe full, and, piercing thoskin of my arm with the golden needle,pushed in the injection. I was furiouswith pain and rage ; yet I oould notmove. Tho mysterious varnish or gluekept mo immovable. I struggled inmy mind, but no movement of mylimbs answered tho effort of my will.The sensation was something terrible.God pity the paralyzed 1
The solution of strychnine musthave been a very powerful one, for ina lew moments I felt it tinglingthrough my veins. My head began toache and throb ; my bones seemed tobe grinding against each other; mybreath came quick, my heart seemedin a vise; spots danced before my eyes ;a sudden tremor shook my frame; thena convulsive agony, and tho glue, fellscaling to the floor. With chatteringteeth I prayed for death, but theylaughed at and mocked me. The lightsin the room became blurred and misty,and seemed to be dancing about madly ;the faces of the old men began to growmore and more distant, and my body.but a moment before stiff and immov-able, was twisted about and distortedwith the most hideous conyulsions.Then a blank.
When I regained consciousness therowas the taste of nicotine in my mouth.my limbs were, oh, so sore, and my headseemed throbbing responses to a triphammer. Then I heard voices. Atfirst they sounded distant and unintelligible. Then they became more dis-tinct, and I could understand what wassaid.
"A wonderful success," said one."Excellent," said another."Didn't enjoy it much," said a third,
chuckling."He will appreciate how we felt when
the doctors and physiologists were tor-turing us," remarked a fourth.
"I hope the fool isn't dead," charita-bly remarked one of them, "for we pro-
pose to experiment upon the circula-tion during hanging, after we breakhis legs."
Great God! were they not satisfied?Had I not suffered enough already? Itseemed not. I was suddenly arousedby some one's running a heated needlointo my flesh.
"Now, brethren," said the president,"let us proceed at once to the second experiment." They carried me to a table,upon the edge of which were set twoheavy, flat steel rings. My legs werodrawn through them, and the bandsscrewed tight. A man grasped eachleg, and gave a sudden side-wis- e jerk.There was a loud snap, and my limbshung down limp and useless.
The pain was severe, but not so greatas I expected it would be. Hut soon.the position in which the leg3 hung,caused the sharp end of the brokenbones to cut through the muscles. Igroaned. The pain became Intense ; Icould stand it no longer, and fainted.
When I came to my senses I was laidout upon another table. Those Internal scientists were attaching a sphyg-mogra- ph
to each wrist to register thofrequency and "measure of each pulsobeat on a slip of paper. They alsostrapped oa my chest an apparatus fornoting the force and frequency of myheart-beat- s and the number of my respirations.
I felt resigned. I had given up allhope of life, and was glad to die, itmattered little how. They were evi-
dently going to hang me. They raisedme to a sitting posture, put tho noosoabout my neck, and began to pull upslowly. Their science far outweighedtheir humanity.
I felt that I was strangling. Mywindpipe was in a vise. I could notbreathe. I felt my face swelling andmy eyes starting from their sockets. Itried to struggle but could not. Theyhad probably give me some paralyzingdrug, for struggling would have interfered with their experiment. My facoburned, my head seemed about to split ;my ears rang, and spots and flashes offire danced before my eyes. It was allover ; the end had come.
No! no! I suddenly gained the use ofmy hands. In a moment my fingerswere twisted in the rope. I loosed thenoose and tore It from my neck. Myeyes opened.
I was lying down and in a boat. Ihad been fast asleep and dreaming.The cord about my neck was my fish-lin- e,
and at the other end was a threopound bass, pulling for dear life. Thotaste of nicotine was from my pipe,the amber mouth-piec- e of which I stillheld clutched in my teeth.
Looking at my watch I found that Jhad been asleep about twenty minutes.I looked toward Grand Island. There,
it was as green and quiet as ever.But, heavens! what a dream. From
that day to this I have never experi-mented on an animal.
My human conscience, in a dream,had retaliated upon my Jnhuman sci-
ence, and yet my conscience, while Iwas operating on animals, had neverfound fault with toy act.