The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, October 31, 1882, Image 3
Keep the Hcacon Light in Trim.
*‘Do year light*, sir, never go out ?” I said
To the keeper of Calais light;
“ Do you never forget to trim your lamps,
My friend, for a single night ?”
Never!—Impossible 1” cried the man;
“For to me would be all the shame
And his bright eyes flashed as he looked aloft
At the steady lambent flame.
“ If I should neglect my duty, ma’am,
Weeks hence would go forth the cry—
* A keeper at Calais forgot his trust,
And a crew went down to die!’
“ It seems sometimes as if the eyes
Of the world were fixed on me,
As the myriad stars of the firmament
Look down on the cruel sea.
“So I’ll never forget to light my lamp,
That it’s radiance far and wide
May warn ‘poor Jack’ of the hidden rocks
That lurk ’neath the restless tide.”
I thought, as I went my homeward way,
Oh ! would we were all as true
And faithful in trimming the beacon lights
Of home, as we journey through.
Ah ! then we should never, never hear
The voice of the drowning shout:
“ We looked for the sign of the tower of
home,
We looked ! but the light was out 1”
A LITTLE COWARD.
That was what Miss Merivale had
called her that morning when site
trembled and turned pale because the
black mare reared with her. She
begged Sir Robert to take her off, and
stood in ignominious safety while
Agatha Merivale mounted Stella and
rode off triumphantly down the avenue.
She was a coward. She did not deny
It, and was sometimes very much
ashame^AV But no one had seemed
tiuttiujPHintil Agatha Merivale came,
rer bold, dark eyes and her dash-
fg ways, her riding and hunting ; and
everybody admired Agatha so much,
even Sir Robert!
She almost hated Agatha ! You
see, until Agatha came they had been
so happy at De Rossett. Little orphan
Madelaine Leigh had never been so
happy in her life as here at the hall,
with sweet Lady de Rossett, who was
her guardian, and her son. Sir Robert.
They were so kind and good to her.
They petted her and loved her so. And
now Agatha had come, and for two
weeks had monopolized Sir Robert, and
kept the house in a turmoil of gayety,
and laughed at Lina, and made her
life wretched.
Lina’s maid reported that everybody
said Sir Robert was to marry Miss
Merivale. Lina made a stern resolve
that she would run away from the hall
when that event took place. Run
away ! She would run away now!
Not far though—she was too much of
a coward to venture far into the world
alone; but she would go away across
the fields to “Aunt Margaret’s,” as she
called Lady de Rossett’s widowed sis
ter-in-law, who lived in a quite com
fortable house a mile awav from the
hall.
Mrs. Harrington was an invalid, par
alyzed and confined to her bed. She
was rather a grim old lady, and most
■were inclined to shun her; but sweet,
bright little Lina had won her way
into the old lady’s heart, and was al
ways welcome at the lodge.
Yes, she would run away to Aunt
Margaret’s, and perhaps, when she was
missed, Sir Robert might feel a mo
ment’s uneasiness about her. Seizing
her hat and a light shawl she flew off
“A thousand pounds and all the
old woman’s jewelry and plate!”
said a man’s voice, in a husky under
tone.
“ Yes,” was the reply in a woman’s
voice—the voice, Lina knew, of Hark
ins, Mrs. Harrington’s model, soft-
voiced, lady-like nurse—“and there
won’t be any trouble about it, because
I have let the women go away to stay
all night and sent the gardener on a
fool's errand to misses’ brother’s twen
ty miles off.”
“ But this girl that came to-night—
what about her?” asked the man.
“ Oli, she will go to her room pres
ently, and stay there if she is wise.
She’d be no hindrance anyway—a silly,
timid little tiling. But it’s as well to
let her get out of the way,” said Park
ins, coolly.
“ But see here, Molly, why not do it
now? Then we’ll have more time to
get away before daylight,” said the
man.
“I tell you it is not safe before 11
o’clock,” Parkins said, positively. “Peo
ple may come in. Sir Robert don’t like
her out of his sight for long, and that
idiotic young Marsden may come moon
ing in. Wait till half-past 11, and the
west door here will be open. And,
Jim, look here, when you get this
swag you are to take me with you—
your wife, mind.”
The voices grew fainter. Evidently
the speakers were moving away from
the house. But Lina had heard enough.
Sick with terror she leaned against the
pantry wall a moment and tried to
think. What did it all mean? Rob
bery, murder ! And no help near. Her
first instinct was to fly out of the house
and across the field to the hall. But
her absence would be instantly dis
covered, she knew, and then poor
Aunt Margaret would be alone with
those wretches. No, she must not go
—but to stand here idle would be no
good. She flew along the halls and up
stairs, Leo pacing by her side. At
Aunt Margaret’s door she paused, and
a sudden thought came to her. She
would send Leo home for help.
“Where is the spoon, child? How
long you staid. Good heavens ! what
is the matter?” cried the old lady, as
she saw the girl’s white, terrified face.
Lina began some evasive answer, but
instantly remembered that Aunt Mar
garet must be told the whole story or
nothing could be done to save her.
She did tell it, and Aunt Margaret
listened in silent consternation, and
then burst out impetuously with :
“ Good heavens, child ! Why didn’t
you run right home?”
“ Because I knew Parkins would be
up here in a few minutes and find I
was gone, and then—”
“ Ah, well. So you stayed to save
the old woman if you could. What are
you doing, child? Why don’t you lock
h e door and pile things against it ?
Good God, if I was just able to rise out
of this bed!”
But Lina did not speak for a moment.
She had found a pencil and paper and
was rapidly writing a few words.
When she had finished—
“ Now,” she said, “ when Parkins
comes tell her I am to sleep on her
couch here in your room, and she must
go somewhere else. I will be back in
a moment. Leo ?”
Out of the room she darted, and
down to the hall door, which she un
barred and passed through. Then,
kneeling in the shadow of a pillar on
the portico, she tied the note tightly
in her handkerchief round Leo’s
neck.
might wonder about and not get home
until it was too late.
Too late! Lina shuddered and
sobbed again as she thought what that
might mean. Oh, it was hard to think
of dying so helplessly, so horribly, with
help so near.
The long minutes crept on and no
sound came until 11 o’clock had
passed. The little clock softly chimed
the half hour. Then, in a few mo
ments, came a sound of stealing foot
steps in the passage and the knob of
the door was softly turned.
Breathless silence in the room. Then
a gentle tap at the door. Lina clasped
Aunt Margaret’s hand convulsively,
and the old lady spoke.
“ Who is that ?” she asked, steadily.
“It is me, Parkins, ma’am. Will
you ask Miss Leigli if she will kindly
open the door? 1 have the toothache,
and want some laudanum.”
“ What a fiend it is !” whispered
Aunt Margaret. Then aloud: “ Go
downstairs and get something. Parkins.
I cannot trouble Miss Leigh.”
Lina hoped that Parkins would
urge the point a little. Anything to
prolong the parley and gain time.
But a whisper in the passage fol
lowed, and then a man’s voice :
“Ladies, there’s no use making a
row. Just open the door peacefully
and you shan’t be hurt. We’ll break
it down if you don’t.”
“ What do you want ?” Lina asked,
hoping to gain a little time. A new
and gruff voice answered, insolently:
“You know well enough what we
want, miss. We wants the thousand
pounds and the diamonds and we
mean to have them. So don’t be a
fool, but just open the door peacefully
or you’ll be sorry.”
Lina sprang to her feet and seized
the pistol. A fiood of color rushed to
her cheek and brow. She had been in
sulted and threatened, and indignation
overpowered terror. She went toward
the door and called out, quickly and
clearly:
“You’re not coming in. I have
sent for help, and Sir Robert and his
men will be here directly. I am
armed; and if you break the door
down I will shoot you like a dog.”
A moment’s silence followed, then a
coarse laugh, and—
“ All gammon. She hadn't no one
to send. Break the door down,” in
Parkins’ voice; and heavy blows began
to fall upon the door. It trembled
and cracked beneath the battery. A
panel broke, a man’s hand was thrust
in; the whole door seemed about to
fall when—bang! bang! came two re
ports from Lena’s pistol, and a couple
of bullets crashed through the panels
and the besiegers paused abruptly.
“ Go away instantly,” called the girl’s
clear voice, “or I will fire again.”
“ One more rush, mate, and we are
in,” yelled the gruff voice outside.
What followed the wild tumult and
confusion; the crash of breaking pan
els and bolts, the fall of the door and
the furniture Lina had piled against
it, shot after shot from Lina’s pistol, a
yell of pain and rage from both of
them. The door was down. One of
the men was in the room. Lina had
fired her last shot, and, running to the
bed, snatched Aunt Margaret’s pistol
and turned to face the enemy. Sud
denly came a wild shriek from Park
ins. Then a voice calling “ Lina, Lina I
I am coming,” and Sir Robert de Ros
sett hurled himself bodily upon the
ruffian outside the door, prostrated him,
and sprang into the room over his
body, and this is what he saw: Made
line Leigh, the “little coward,” with
A STRANGE OCCUPATION.
A New York •‘Professor” Who Renews L«j
Noses, Ears, Eyelashes. Etc.
On Fourteenth street, not far fr<
Broadway, New York, is a cert;
show window, in front of which
less than ten thousand people
every day. The window is rath
larger than usual, projects outward Un
bay form, and is lined inside wiith
plate-glass mirrors. Suspended in the
center of the window by fine, almost
invisible wires, are two cork legs
which, operated by clock-work, maVe
in an up-and-down motion as in walk
ing. On shelves of thick glass, sup
ported by depending wires, is the
curious collection that attracts the
thousands of passers-by. Noses, eyes,
ears, joints and limbs, all arranged in
a certain kind of order. Above th(
shelves is this strange announcemenl
in gilt letters:
: Legs, Arms, Noses, Eyelashes, Etc., :
; Made and Renewed. 1
: Prof. R. W. Weigiiton, Proprietor. :
Pushing through tlie crowd that was
collected around, says a correspondent,
I entered and asked for Professor
Weighton.
A gentleman behind the glass case
removed an enormous jewelers’ mag
nifying glass that was screwed in his
right eye, scanned me carefully, and
not detecting the absence of a nose, or
ear, or arm, or leg, finally said :
“ I am Professor ’Weighton—wliat
can I do for you, sir ?”
“ I wish to know, professor, by what
process you renew legs, eyebrows and
noses. It seems to me a rather odd
and difficult profession.”
“ It is difficult—you are perfectly
right as to that—but I cannot agree
with you that the business is at all odd.
It is the simplest thing in the worli.
Look, for instance, at this nose I am
perfecting,” he continued, pointing to
the curious-looking thing he had beel
eyeing through the magnifying glass.
“ This nose is almost in a state of con-
pletion, yet I’ll venture to say yo’j
couldn’t tell me what sort of a nose |
will be, Grecian, Roman or retrousse .1
I admitted that I would not ha>\
known it was a nose if he had n« I
kindly informed me.
The professor smiled proudly.
“I thought so,” he said. “By ti
morrow morning this will- be one t
the prettiest Grecian noses you
saw. See what a handsome flesh
I am giving it. It is for a lady t
Fifty-second street.”
“ How on earth did a lady lose h
nose ?”
“ It was a curious accident, whi»
almost rendered her inconsolable. I’.,
father is a well-known scientist s.-
inventor. While watching an intere:
ing experiment in his laboratory a ft/
weeks ago she stooped over to exami
the eccentric of a cog-wheel. Beir
short-sighted she incautiously bent 1
low. The wheel was revolving rapi'
—a siz and a whiz ! and the nose fr
the bridge down was shaved clean t
The family physician was sent for a
wanted to make a nose from the an
but, aside from the pain of that,,
tion, the uncertainty of turning out*|
well-shaped nose raised objections,
I was ordered to prepare a wa.t sulfT-
Uite.”
“Do you mean by ‘natural
substitution ’ a real nose of flesh
asked.
“ Certainly. The skin is remo*'C.
from a certain portion of the arm, *6
proper preparations made, and the
then bound tightly
DOWN WITH HIGH PRICES AND POOR SHOES.
THE SENSATION OF THE SEASON.
WM. MULHERIN & GO.,
At 722 and 913 BROAD STREET,
.A-u.gusta, Georgia.
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and it will be strange if you cannot bo pleased among such a variety. We offer:
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Infants’ lace shoes, better grade....
Infants’ kid and pebble bat’d shoes
Children’s pebble shoes, heels...
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Misses’ I kid buttoned shoes.
Misses’ pebble lace shoes....
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Ladies’ kid sandal slippers.
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$1 00
Also Zeigler Bros., Evitt Bros., and Miles A Son’s, and the most desirable lines Ladies’,
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In onr Wholesale Department, which wo offer at less than New York Jobbers’ prices.
Close buyers of these goods will make a mistake if they fail to examine our stock.
WM. MULHERIN & GO.
5
722 and 013 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. Clothing Department, 14 Jones Street.
McCORD, DILL A CO
DEALERS IN FIRST-CLASS
, SHOES, HATS ANO TRUNKS.
A FULL LINE OF
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always on hand at the Lowest Cash Prices.
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GREAT ATTRACTIONS
—AT—
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lor Gents and Ladies: Gents’ Underwear, consisting of Collars^
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from best makers, at
ROCK BOTTOM
Besides a line ot Ready-Made Clothing, which I take pi]
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Allk Mv entire stock is new and fresh from the hands of the md
wish to make money by saving it, will best consult their interes^
these things.
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MAIN STREET, - -
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w.
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