HER INMOST MIND.
“When I was a young mm,” began
Mr. Arkin, “I was an enthusiastic stu-
dent of natural science; chemistry, phy-
sics, astronomy, zoology, botany, all
came in for their share of attention. But
the subject which interested me most of
all was the anatomy and physiology of
the human brain and nervous system.
In my travels in the East I had seen a
good deal of opium eating and smoking,
the use of Indian hemp and other nar-
cotics, and being thus led to study the
action of drugs upon nervous tissue I
discovered some things of which the
scientists of the day know nothing, nor
never will if they continue to work in
their present superficial fashion.
“One day I received from a friend in
Zanzibar a little package of roots which
he said weie used by the medicine men
there, and were supposed to have won-
derful properties. I made a decoction of
some of th em. and, after tes sing it to as-
certain that it was not poisonous, I took
a small dose.
‘ At the end of an hour I could per-
ceive no effect, and had about concluded
the thing was a ‘fake’ when the young
man whom I employed to assist me in
my experiments entered the room.
‘ ‘Well,’ I understood him to say, ‘I
suppose the fool has been messing some
more with his filthy roots.’
" ‘Sir,’ I exclaimed, 'how dare you?‘
"My assistant looked at me with as-
tonished expression.
“ ‘I didn’t say anything. sir.’ he re-
plied, and then, though his lips were
shut tight, I seemed to hear him add:
‘Is he drunk or crazy?’ I stood bewild-
ered for a moment and then the truth
flashed upon me—the drug had in some
way rendered my brain responsive to
the thought of another without the med-
iation of the senses.
“For several days I went about read-
ing the thoughts in people’s minds. and
then the revealation of the general base-
ness of humanity became so terrible that
I resolved never to touch the drug
again." Mr. Arkin here paused.
“And dil you never?” I asked, “find
any exception. any true, noble 'soul,
amid all the babble of base ones? ’
‘ “Neypr.” he replied. "What was not
evil was petty and trivial."
“Yes,” said I, “such certainly do ex-
ist. I will be sworn that I know a per-
son with a mind so pure you might
search it with an intellectual micro-
scope without finding one trace of any-
thing ignoble, of anything but what is
true, beautiful and good."
My friend gave me an understanding
"1 )0k and said, with a smile. .
“Happy the man who can believe that.
I envy him from the bottom of my
heart.”
“If you do not believe it." I replied,
provoked,‘ then take some of your mis—
eiable drug and 03111 1 vith me.
let y on see for yon1self.”
"No,” he said, “I vowed never to
touch it again, and I never will, but if
you would like to try—why I have no
objection to lending you a little.”
I signified my desire to do so, and he
went to his room, returning presently
with a little w'al, half filled with a ruby
liquid.
“Take three drops of that in a glass of
water,” he said, “about half an hour be-
fore you meet this person. But before I
give it to you I want you to promise me
two things—first, that if as I expect you
find this person unworthy you will not
in your despair do anything desperate;
and, second, that you will return that
vial and report the result of the experi-
ment.”
I readily acceded to these requests and
we parted. he to take his afternoon nap
and I to Sil‘Jll on the beach.
After supper I went to my room, took
the required dose and in half an hour
sallied forth to find Miss Atwood. I
made up my mind whatever occurred not
to betray my new power. but I nearly
broke my resolution the first person I
met. This was one Bink‘s. a fellow who
had been in the habit of borrowing
small sums of money. He greeted me
with a smile and a "How d’ye do?" but
he thought: -
“Here comes that blooming jay,
Brown. IVonder if he's good for another
tenner?"
“No, sir,’ ’I said, drawing myself up
and looking at him fiercely. ‘ That
blooming jay, Brown, is not good for an-
other tenner nor for another cent.”
His jaw dropped; he stared at 111e, and
I left him under the impression that he
had inadvertently spoken his thoughts
aloud. '
I found Miss Atwood sitting by her-
self in a cane backed settee 011 the ver-
anda. looking out over the water. The
last glow of the fading sunset gleamed
ove1 the t1anq11il sea. In its magic
light Miss Atwood’. face seemed to me
of almost supernatural beauty, and I
approached her with a feeling akin to
awe.
This was quite dispelled, however, by
her thinking as I came up: ‘ Oh, good!
here comes Charlie!”
“Good evening, Miss Atwood,” said I.
“Good evening, Mr. Brown,” she re-
plied, moving over a little on the seat,
"won’t you sit down?”
I seated myself beside her, and point-
lilg to the western sky, said:
“See what a beautiful fairyland na-
tuie has painted f01 us in yonder clouds.
it looks to me lik e another and vastel
ocean dotted with golden aisles, and on
one of them is a palace all of ruby and
opal. Would it not be lovely if we
could live in such a mansion?”
“011. wouldn t it,” she c1ied with that
dr'eamy, poetic expi ession on hei face
which had so oft en charmed me. But to
my utte1 astonishment, she was not
thinking of the clouds at all, but was
speculating as to whether my rathercon-
spicuous watch chain was genuine or
plated. .
I thought with chagrin of the various
other times I had uttered similar senti-
mental remarks, aiad wondered if they
hid all had the same reception. But I
resolved not to judge too hastily and be-
g m again:
. The season hereis fast diawing to a
, , .: lose. \Ii as Atwood, ” I said, "soon all
I will '
our lazy dream life here will be broken
up, and each must return to take his
part in the busy life of the world.”
“Yes,” she said, “isn’t it sad to think
that the happy days are nearly over, that
the friends who have met here and learn-
ed to love one another must separate, to
be lost forever in the dreary rush of
every day life?”
“But in our case there is an alterna-
tive,” I replied. “If we only wish to, we
can make our pleasant summer here but
the stepping stone to a lifelong happi-
ness.”
“How do you mean?” asked she in an
undertone, and looking down in feigned
embarrassment. As a matter of fact,
however, she wondered if it was getting
dark enough so that she could let me
kiss her, should I manifest any tendency
in that direction. As may be imagined,
I was not overpleased with the result
of my experiment so far, but still, I rea-
soned, it was only natural that a lover
should overestimate the intellectual
qualities of the girl he loved, and as far
as I could see she really cared for me, so
I said, with perhaps a little less emotion
than the occasion demanded, for a gam-
bler who knows the dice are loaded can’t
work up much excitement:
“Miss Atwood, Lucy dear. you know
that I love you.” I spoke with greater
certainty 011 this point than lovers are
wont to do. "I have loved you since the
first day we met in the park. Will you
join your lot with mine, Lucy?" I leaned
over and took her hand without waiting
for an answer.
“Oh, this is so sudden, Mr. Brown,”
she replied, affecting great embarrass-
ment, but leaving her hand in mine,
“you must give me time to considerJ’ .
This hypocrisy irritated me.
“Oh, come,” I said, "y u have thought
of this before: I know you have.” and
considerflg that it was dark- enough, I
put my £11111 over her shoulder. drew her
to me and kissed her.
"No,” I replied, “you can’t get away
until you’ve said ‘yes.’ ”
“Well, then,” she said in a mock
plaintive voice, “if that's the case I
must comply, you wicked man——
Syes.’ 7!
I prepared myself for the feeling of
tender joy which was to diffuse itself
through her mind at this happy con-
summation, but here is what she
thought:
“Well, it's all settled now. I wish,
though, it had been \Villie; he has twice
as much money.”
Little she thought how fatal that was!
Pushing her rudely from me I exclaimed
angrily:
“Indeed! Would you like me to tell
him of your regarl?"
“Why, what’s the matter?" she stam-
mered. “Tell who—'-what?"
“Tell Willie, whoever he is, of your
great affection for his money bags.”
“I don’t understand,” said she, tremu-
lously, which was true enough. Then
the same thing occurred to her that did
to Binks—she supposed that she had
unconsciously spoken her thoughts
aloud.
“What did I say?” she asked.
“Oh,you didn’t say anything, confound
it,” I replied, “you only thought.”
“How do you know what I thought?”
she asked, in indignant astonishment.
“Oh, never mind,"I replied. “Good-
by.” I rose and started to leave her,
but she walked quickly up to me, took
hold of my coat lapel and cried in a half
whisper full of wrath:
“Sir, 110w dare you trifle with my af-
fections this way?"
The mass of furious thoughts which
raged in her mind at this moment. was a
revelation to me! It was worth all the
pain of my discomfiture.
“Don’t get excited,” I said, soothing-
ly; “excitement dilates the blood vessels
of the face and spoils the complexion.
As to that breach of promise suit you
were just now thinking about, let me,
from my legal knowledge, advise you
not to try it; you ' haven’t sufficient
grounds,”
She started back in terror.
“Can you read the inmost working of
my heart?" she cried.
“Perhaps," I replied; “at any rate I
can see into the cavity where the heart
ought to be.”
I left her and hurried to my room, giv-
ing a wide berth to every one I met on
the way. I could not sleep, but sat
up all night smoking and pondering over
my strange experiment.
As soon as it began to get light I left
my chamber and went out on the little
balcony where we had been playing
chess the day before. 011 the way I
passed close by a servant, and was hap-
py to find the effects of the drug had
completely passed away. Whether he
thought 1;.1.1 an ass or was grateful for
the variou; silver coins I had given him
as fees rein uined as much a mystery to
me as ev 01..
The ai1 e si le was still. The waves
came in on t. 1e beac 1 with the precision
of clockwork, and reared, curled over
and fell with a deep musical swishing
sound, and the roseate hues of the dawn
sparkled below in the dew laden lawns
of the park.
A strange feeling came over me that
all I saw and heard was a stupendous
dream of which I was an insignificant
part. Ihalf expected to see the scene
before me suddenly roll up like a theater
cu1 tain to disclose some m01e 1eal world
back of it.
Presently I was roused from my re-
verie by some one coming up behind me
and turning I saw my friend Mr. Ar-
kin.
“Well,” he said, “what luck?”
I told him the result of the experiment
and returned him the vial.
“Life is a failure,” I said.
“No,” he replied, “I don't think it is.
When inquisitive people like you and I
'go to prying into secrets not intended
for us, it is our own foolishness and not
nature we have to blame for the result.
The longerI live the more I become con-
vinced that life is symbolical; that its
worth lies not in what it is in itself but
in what it signifies to us and that the man
who expects more is as foolish as he who
should tear a. rent in a beautiful painting
and then complain of the dingy Wall be-
hind it. ”—Exchange.
ident who is at least ’70 years of age.
A NEW SHIP OF STATE.
Thou. too, sail on with speedy gait,
Sail on. O sloop. and never wait,
America, with all her fears
And all her hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate.
\Ve know what master laid th :7 keel.
W’hat workman wrought thy ribs of steel.
What polished bronze thy sides will plate.
What deep fin keel will keep the straight
What care was put on mast and ropes.
(The boom came from far Rockies’ ” slopes).l
What anvils rang, what hammers beat,
In what a forge and what a heat :
Were shaped the anchors of thy hopes.
W'e know why centerboards are past,
Why English cutters may be fast.
And this we know, and will repeat,
That we their cutters always beat.
0, sloop, sail forth, thy race to run.
Sail forth not fear the starting gun.
Fear not each lsudden sound or shock.
’Tis of the wave and not the rook,
‘Tis but the flapping of a sail.
And not a rent made by the gale.
Valkyries come. Valkyries go,
The new boat Ailsa is not slow.
Fyfes and VVatsons may look wise,
But Herreshoi’fs will cause surprise.
The Stars and Stripes will proudly float
O’er thee, thou new and speedy boat.
Sail on, nor fail to breast th’e sea;
Our hearts and hopes are all with thee.
Our hearts. our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith triumphant o’er our fears,
Are all with thee, are all with thee.
—Philadelphia Press.
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Having Fought and Breached, Dr. Stevens
Is Studying Law at Seventy.
There are many queer people in at-
tendance at the Kansas State University
at Lawrence, Kan., but probably the
most interesting of these is a law stu-
He
is Dr. Martin Van Buren Stevens. This
is his second year at the university, and
he expects to graduate this spring and
become a full fledged lawyer.
The doctor’s life has been one of much
education. Wilkesbarre, Pa... was the
place of his birth. He married at 20 a.
pretty Pennsylvania Ce1 111.111 giil. Soon
after this he enlisted in Company D,
Fifth New Hampshire, and went to the
war.
The old gentleman has received the
degree of Bachelor of Arts at Oberlin
College, in Ohio, and that of Doctor of
Medicine at the Adelbert College, at
Cleveland, 0., 1871. His first wife hav-
ing died, he married again, this time
selecting a Michigan girl, a niece of
“Fighting Jim” Richardson. At one
time he studied theology and preached
for awhile, but gave it up, and studied
phrenology under Fowler, of New York.
In a cozy little house on the side of the
hill this queer old man lives alone. He
keeps everything about the place scrupu-
lously clean. One warm meal a day he
considers sufficient; the ot1 1-1e1 two he
carries to school with him in a small
shoe box. Very little meat passes his
lips, in fact, he might almost be calleda
vegetarian. “People eat entirely too
much,” he says.
Last year he was somewhat conspicu-
0113 on account of the number of badges
and emblems he wore on the front of his
coat. They were the badges of the G.
A. R., Christian Endeavor Society,
Phrenological Society, the Y. M. C. A.,
a medical society and C. L. S. C. An-
other of his peculiarities is that he car-
ries a watch which is fully four inches
in diameter. He winds it with a pair of
six-inch nippers.
Dr. Stevens has been in every State
and Territory of the United States.
Every summer he goes out on a lectur-
ing tour, and tells the people all about
phrenology, physiology and physiog-
nomy.
The Dicker “'35 Too Long.
This tell-tale tale tells of 110w a Box-
bury, Mass, grocer grievously ofifended
a customer; also, of how the customer
wounded the sensitive feelings of the
grocer and of the circumstances which
led to this most unhappy estrangement.
The customer was “every inch a lady;”
the grocer, though he never wore a
stovepipe hat, was in other essentials a
gentleman.
They met at the grocer’s counter, and
this is the convei sati‘on that placed be«
tween thema g1 eat, yawning chasm:
“Are those eggs f1 esh‘3 ’ she asked.
“Yes marm,” replied the grocer.
“You are quite 8111 e?”
“No doubt about“ 11., marm.”
“Now, if ther'e IS any doubt about it
I shouldn’t care to buy any.”
"You can depend on it, marm. I
wouldn’t say they were fresh if they
wasn’t.”
“There were thi ee rotten ones in those
I bought the other day.”
“You we 1 ’t find none of these that
way.’
“Now, you say you am positive these
are peifectly v ’1 1‘esh3”
“That 3 what I said, marm.”
“You’ll take back the bad ones if I
find any, won’t you?”
“You’ve got to take them just as they
come.”
“You’ll warrant that them the
ones among them, won’t you?’
“No, I won’t. I warranted them when
you came in, but they’ve grown old since
then. You can’t expect eggs to last for-
ever, marm. and another thing—”
But the slamming of the door as the
lady flounced out lost to the world the
verbal pearls that continued to come
from between the grocer’s celluloid filled
teeth.
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are {not the mark of weakness. but of
power. They speak more eloquently
than ten thousand. tongues. They are
messengeis of overwhelming grief, oi
deep cont1 ition and of unspeakable love. ”
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